1940-10-18 — Page 53

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 18, 1940 Bringing Up Father

BY GOLLY- IT IS HOT ENOUGH TODAY-1 WISH. I KNEW AN ESKIMO WHO HAS AN ICE

PLANT NEAR THE POLE-I'D GO THERE-

WHAT IN THE WORLD KIN. MAKE MAGGIE FEEL SO HAPPY ON A SWELTERIN' DAY

LIKE THIS?

WHAT DO YOU THINK MY, BROTHER DANNY GOT A JOB TODAY

DID THE HEAT GIT. HIM?

Page 5 By George MacManus:

YOU SAID IT-.HE IS SELLING ELECTRIC STOVES HE'S BRING- ING ONE OVER TO DEMONSTRATE IT- WE MUST BUY THE FIRST ONE FROM HIM-)

Cope. King Festoría Spoďkiste, Inc. World righia seserved.

CANTON CONSULAR CHANGES

Mr. L. A. Scopes, British Vice- Consul in Canton, has been trans- ferred to Saigon and will be

leaving with Mrs.

Scopes and

and their infant daughter as soon as transportation is avail- able. He will be replaced by Mr. P. D. Coates, who is already in the consulate in Shameen, while Mr. C. W. Martin is arriv- ing shortly to replace Mr. Coates.

Mr. E. E. Rice, of the United States Consulate-General in Canton, has been transferred to Foochow and will be replaced by Mr. Ludden, who arrived with Mrs. Ludden in the U.S.S. Mindanao. Mr. Rice left Canton in the warship. Reuter.

NORTH STATION INCIDENT

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LONDON SCHOOL

CHILDREN: HALF MILLION LEAVE

Nearly half a mil- lion school-children- 489,000-or

about

56 per cent of the whole school-children of the London evacua- tion area, have left the capital. This was revealed by Mr. Mal- colm Macdonald, Minister of Health, in a statement in the Commons yesterday.

-Reuter..

OFFER TO QUEEN'S ATHEATRE

DE GAULLE HONGKONG DAILY AT 230 515-720 9:30 PM TEL 31453

An offer to provide am- bulances and volunteer drivers to serve with the French Army has been re- ceived at headquarters of the Free French Forces in London from the American Field Service in New York, stated a com- munique issued by Gen- eral de Gaulle's headquar- ters yesterday.

A letter to General de Gaulle states that the volunteer ambu- lance drivers of the American Field Service, who served with the French Army in France and who

1000000000 0000000 returned to the United States, are

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again anxious to serve with the French and are ready to volunteer for service if opportunity arises. General de Gaulle's communi- que states he has gladly accepted this generous offer from and there is no doubt that, in the OVER 346,700 SPECIAL DOL-ear future, American ambulance According to Japanese reports LAR SWEEPSTAKE TICKETS units will be serving with in Shanghai last night, an attempt ON THE KWANGTUNG HANDI- Free French Forces either in the to ussassinate Liang Hung-chih, CAP AT THE NINTH EXTRA Free French Empire or in Eng- Chairman of the former "Nanking RACE MEETING TO BE HELD land. — Reuter. Reformed Government," was TO-MORROW, HAVE BEEN made on Wednesday morning at the North Station.

SOLD.

The first prize is now valued at over $148,000 the second at over Two hand-grenades, it is said, $42,000; and third at over $21,000. were discovered by the police in The Jockey Club's net receipts the station a few hours before; from the sweepstake will be don- Liang boarded a train for Nan-ated to British war funds, and to king. No arrests have been the British Fund for the Relief of made. Our Own Correspondent. Distress in China.

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-9 Aphorism

12 Sand mound

13 Seed plant

.14 Constellation

15 To make

beloved

17 Mulberry

18 Free

10. Accurato 21 To wear away 23 Midwestern

state

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20 Wind

Instruments

20 To breathe

convulsively

31 Fucl

34 Note of acale

35 Made fun of

30 To exist

30 English river.

41 Born

*42 To" assign

44 Eleven

40 Adventure

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31. To carry

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oleum

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50 Evil

60 Toothed wheel

02 Accomplished

63 Insect

64 Island of the

Hebrides

05 To ignore

1 European fish

2 Heavenly body

3 Poetic:

Hindustan

*4 Botled

To raise up the shoulders 6 Symbol for

tellurium

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money

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9 Malayan

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with effort 16 Ascended 20 Simplest

22 Artificial

language 23-Additional 24 Alpine goat 25 Symbol for

cobalt 20-To bow 30 To censure 32 In bed

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37 Relles

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SEAMEN'S WELFARE BOARD

the

The new Seamen's Welfare Board, set up by the Minister of Labour to advise on all questions concerning the welfare of British, Allied and foreign seamen in Bri-: tish ports and British crews in oversea ports, met for the first time in London yesterday, Mem- bers of the Board, include repre- sentatives of shipowners and sea- men's organisations. It was de- cided to set up or

reconstitute local welfare committees. in Bris- tol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leith, London, Moyseyside and New- castle. British Wireless.

SOVIET ESTIMATE OF AIR WAR

AIR SUPREMACY BELONGS TO NEITHER BRITAIN NOR GERMANY, SAYS "RED STAR." OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOVIET ARMY, IN A COMPARI- SON BETWEEN THE TWO AIR FORCES.

The paper continues:

"British aviation is not crushed and is even spreading its activ- ity."-Reuter.

WEYGAND'S POWER

IN AFRICA

General Weygand, High Com- missioner for French Africa, bas been authorised to expel from territory under his charge until the end of hostilities, all persons deemed dangerous to public sc- curity, states the Havas agenty in a Vichy despatch quoted by Reuter.

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