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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1, 1940. MUTT AND JEFF

MUTT, IN SICK AND TIRED OF LEADING THIS KIND OF A LIFE WITH YOU! LOOK WHERE I AM.TODAY!

BROKE!

I'M NOT GONNA STAND FOR YOUR. SCHEMES, ANY LONGER! I MIGHT HAVE BEEN A GREAT MAN TODAY IF I HADN'T LISTENED TO YOU I'M TIRED OF BEING A

SAPHEAD!

I'M THROUGH! GET ME? FROM

NOW ON YOU AND I ARE-

GR:

JUST LIKE THAT!: THAT'S ME ON THE BOTTOM!

Page

By BUD FISHER

(YEH, THAT'S YOU ON

THE BOTTOM!"

AW, MUTT, I WAS ONLY KIDDIN'!

8-19

As Easy As Falling Off A Bicycle

SIR HUGH DOWDING AWARDED G.C.B.

The Air Ministry an- nounced last night that His Majesty the King has appointed Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to be Knight Grand Cross of the Military Divi- sion of the Order of the Bath.-Reuter.

STOCK EXCHANGE "STEADY, QUIET"

was

THE R.A.F. MEN who man the bombers that daily deal out destruction to military ob- jectives in Germany are getting a little bored with the monotony or so it would appear from several modest interviews yesterday !.

"The first time we got the order to bomb Berlin we were thrilled," said a Pilot-Officer. "Now it's just another trip.

"It's not a comfortable journey | a motor-cycle, complained that because of the distance."

there was "no excitement at all!"

Occasionally, the German anti- aircraft batteries keep firing at them and the weather is not al- ways pleasant.

“But we cruise around till we hit the targets, which are easy to find," he said.

Once, an enemy fighter came within 70 yards of his 'plane. He with held his firo to see what the German would do. ́it. sheered, off.

A Squadron-Leader said:- "Although we've not been very "There's really nothing to the lucky so far as the weather over Berlin trip", said a. Sergeant-Berlin is concerned, there are so Pilot. "It's as eary as riding a many land-marks we have blcycle."

difficulty finding our objectives.

по

'The London Stock Exchange Another Sergeant-Pilot said "Targets we have been sent out generally steady yesterday that at times the Nazi anti-aircraft to bomb have been bombed, I can though trading was quiet. Gilt-gunners kept firing away at them assure you!" Reuter. edged fluctuated narrowly, and both. on the outward and the industrials', gains and losses were homeward journeys, "but it doesn't about equal. Kaffirs were sub- bother us now, we're used to it.”

jected to small profit-taking. A Pilot-Officer who, before the JAPAN BLAMES Wall Street was steady-Reuter. war, used to do circus tricks on

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HORIZONTAL

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colns

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blackbird

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15 Vigorous 17 Non-metallic

element

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centre

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the food of 21 Solar disk

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20 Gannet

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written

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measuro

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coln

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38 Sacred, song

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VERTICAL

1 Pain

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fabric

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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10 Outbreak

11 Sea eagles

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seaport

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to the Scan- dinavian countries 23 Buckets 24 Cruze 25 Swiss canton 27 Mendow 29 Japanese. pagoda...

30. To append:' 35 Less well off

30 Lake-trout: 37 Law: delay. [38 To "Walk.

awkwardly 40 Avarico 42-Sounds

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ROOSEVELT

DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT!

A TOKYO MESSAGE SAYS THAT THE "JAPAN TIMES," A N ENGLISH - LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER WHICH FRE QUENTLY REFLECTS THE OF- FICIAL JAPANESE VIEW, YESTERDAY BITTERLY AT- TACKED PRESIDENT ROOSE-

VELT'S POLICY IN THE FAR

EAST.

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The U.S. Government, says the paper, "forced" Japan to join the Axis by a series of "stealthy in- cidents."

Japan, Germany and Italy could have carried on without special alliance if the "provocativeness of the United States, had not been past all bearing." Reuter.

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They then climbed to a great height and released their bombs over wasteland and into the sea.

Ten people were "slightly In- jured but there was no material damage. Reuter

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