1940-09-28 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 28, 1940 ·

MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT, WHATS THAT?

THAT FOR?

THAT'S A

I CAN'T THINK WHAT ITS FOR RIGHT NOW, BUT IT'LL COME TO ME IN A MINUTE!

By BUD FISHER

OH YEH! NOW

I REMEMBER! IT'S A WARNING THAT YOU'RE COMIN' TO A

TUNNEL!

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ARMY AGE MEN BUS TRIP

GONE TO US.

SIR JOHN ANDERSON, Home Secretary and

COST MOTHER

Minister of Home Security, has been asked to in £10

Because her son travelled from

vestigate a number of recent instances of men near- ing military age who have been able to secure per- Cardiff to Swansea by bus instead mits to travel to the U.S.A. "to promote the export trade."

of by train, as instructed by the police, and kept a Court waiting, The Minister has been supplied, The Ministry of Home a woman had to forfelt. £10 at with the names of six mer, all Security are also investigating Swansea Assizes. under forty, who during the last 'Instances of women smuggling, few months have left Britain. All Jewellery out of the country. // have previously been engaged in One woman was the wife of one son Street, Barry Dock, had been Mrs. Elizabeth Abel, of Thomp- the fashion business and are "men of the men whose name has al-bound over in £25 for the ap- of money."

ready been put before the "Minis- Five other names of men near-try as having left England on the Charles Abel, a young seaman, but

[pearance

her son, Henry ing military age who contemplate pretext of "furthering the export when the Court resumed the son leaving England for the States trade." and Canada in the near future The wife supplied herself with the bus. have been supplied to Sir Johna fur coat with extra large but-i

for his investigation:

tons. Secreted inside the buttons!

A London travel agency nas were diamonds and rings.

: been named as helping all these

: men obtain their exit permits.

A well-known. Lendon fashion

shop-owner told a reporter:

. "It seems: strange that the war should have given these men the sudden urge for exporting, urge, which makes it necessary for

an

WEEK IN GAOL, APPEALS

of

was 20 minutes late. He blamed

Found Guilty..

When the Court: rose, Mr. Jus- ticé Macnaghten told the mother} Ithat it was a serious matter to keep the Court waiting, and de- £15 of the re- fcided to remit

cognisances, ordering her to ́for- feit the balance of £10.

The son was found "Guilty" of

After a week in Shrewsbury them to visit the countries they Prison the Rev. Trevor Bowen, of have decided to favour with their Kington, Herefordshire, appeared an indecent offence, and was sent productions.

before Kington Bench to appeal to Borstal for three years. against his conviction on a charge

•

Jewellery Smuggled

"Many of these men made quite

sure before the war to establish

of causing disaffection amongst soldiers.

He had been sentenced to three, months' imprisonment.

good bank balances in the U.S. · Bowen was bound over in the "One man got out to the U.S. on sum of £10 to appear before the

CONCRETE

an export licence just to sell appeal committee at Herefordshire STATEMENT

shirts, stockings and ties there." Quarter Sessions.

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HORIZONTAL

1. Male swan

4 At no time

§ Chinese

· pagoda,

12 Confusion

13 To anoint

14 Swiss canton

15 Rodent

17 Moorish, drum

19 Fish sauce ·

21 Printer's

measure

:22 To huri

23 Ethiopian titla'

27 Trig

31 Moslem name

32 Diluted:

34 Japanese!

measure

35 Wing

38: Wire mensur

37 Preposition

38 Two-edged

41 Unit:

42. Placed on a

mound

43 To bitg

*44 To aid "

45 Teutonie deity.

47 Food-fish

49 Ankle

53 .To appoint

67 Indehiscent

fruit

:30:Toˇnècuntom"

00 Flat-bladed.

-implement.

61 Animal's foot

62 The nostrils

33 Insect:;

SAVERTICAL

1 Vehicle

2 Room In

harem

3 To cut short

4 To fasten

'To hold in

· mind

:6 Brother of

Odin

7 High note 58 Network *9 Large

-receptacle 10 Brazilan

mataw

11 Ta bo alck

YESTERDAY'S,SOLUTION.

LEC RENO

FROM

HOWA

EARREN COUNTER

ERSEVE

REEBOATŹA PEN AO BARZONI

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POOLZAREZZO

BXA

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10 Club

18 To reduce to

nothing

20 Feline". 22 Gem weight 23 To place

in rows 24. Note of scale 26 Signal-

'telegraph

-28 Habylonian

delty

29 Ta expinte 30 Dogma:

32 High j

... mountain

33 Nothing

33 Officers'

assistants

39 Byınbol.for.

Meerlum.

The step outside · headquarters | at a Fighter Command station in the south of England became worn, and it was decided to put Ja new concrete stop in its place, Workmen came along and made Boards new.step of cement.

a

were placed over the soft step to prevent anyone putting their feet on it before it set hord:

Next morning the new step had "set". The boards were taken away. Whereupon the following Inscription was found cut into the surface in letters 3-Inches long.

"This is ONE step that · Hitler won't, take."

No one has suggested that the Inscription should be removed.:

BURIED RADIUM IN USE AGAIN

It has been found possible to

relax the war-time precautions Imposed on the storage of radium. Immediately after hostilitles be- gan all the radium possessed by the King's Fund radium service was hidden in deep holes which had been bored in the ground to meet such an emergency.

Serious dangers had to be faced from bomb explosions, involving not only the safety of the sup- plies, but that of the public. Adequate safeguards have how- ever, since been arranged which permit the withdrawal of some lof the radium and its use for

curative purposes,

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