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A HA'PORTH OF TAR

"Steward, there's tat on my dinner | wow the Irish Sweep. All the other jacket."

gentlemen are confined to their bunks, Sir. They say it was the lobster mayonnaisa.“

FL

Yassir. Off the rigging, Sir. We told you it was wet, Sir, but you wouldn't sake no rotire. Up you went like a two-year-old."

"I see. And what did I do next?" "You sang rome songs, Sir. Greatly appreciated they war. Soms of the troni asked me if you'd be so good as to write out the words."

*1'll have to think about that, Steward. So altogether it was a pretty matey night ? ***

"There's been nothing like it on the South China Sea, Sir, since the Purtar

FOR

"Lobster grandmother! Why didn't they stick to gin and Rote's as I did ? I haven't got a hangover.”

"You're not the first gentleman l'pa heard say that about Rose's Lime Juice. Not by a long chalk.”

"Good. And now I think I'cord do with an eye-openice - a nice stiff gin and Rose's. I suppose the sun is over the yardarm?".

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 21, 1940.

SPECTACULAR RAID PLAGUE MAKES

ON CAP GRIS-NEZ

THE R.A.F; STAGED A TERRIFIC AN DẠ | SPECTACULAR ATTACK ON THE FRENCH COAST SHORTLY AFTER DUSK LAST NIGHT.

The bombing was so violent that the ground on the English side of the Channel quivered as salvoes of bombs were dropped.

The bombing appeared to be concentrated on German long-range gun emplacements near Cap Gris Nez.

ARMISTICE

MISSION IN

MYSTERY

Although a low. mist hung over. the set the flashes of exploding bombs, estimated by watchers to be at the rate of 100 a minute, could be seen on the Kent coast.

Searchlights played confused-- ly as they tried to pick out the -British-bombers. A

Flaming onions and streams of anti-aircraft shells poured into the air from the German ground defences until the air appeared to. be sprinkled with tinsel-Reuter.

HSINKING A DEAD CITY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Hsinking, capital of Manchukuo, is prac- tically a dead city as the bubonic plague continues, unabated: People are not allow ed to go out of doors without their nose and mouth covered, and all places of en- tertainment “have been closed. Havás. 00000

ZIONISTS

PLEDGE AID

AIR CRASH TRIBUTE TO TO BRITAIN

The Vichy Government |

Sir, the sun is permanently over the announced yesterday that yardarm in the South China Sea."

three French and four German-members of the Armistice Control Com- mission were killed in an air disaster on October 10.

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Mr. Winston Churchill The 'plane in which they were is astounding his Cabinet travelling crashed in the Mediter-

colleagues by his in. Six German non-commissioned exhaustible energy and officers and men also perished. Some of the bodies have been freshness of mind. ⠀

ranean.

washed ashore. Reuter..

The announcement says the 'plane was undoubtedly caught in a storm." Search by French and German planes failed to locate any wreckage--Reuter,

PILOTS VISIT SPITFIRE FACTORY

Makers of British fighters met men who flew them when ten workers from a Spitfire, factory visited a fighter station recently, it was stated in London yester day.

They watched machines being flown under war conditions and

about saw them thrown

high in the sky above them. One sald to a pilot: "We are very proud to see what our workmanship will stand up to."

The visitors showed an expert interest in the repair shops where planes which have battle scars are being overhauled.

Telling a North of England audience this on Saturday: Lord Lloyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said he had never seen the Prime Minister in better heart than. he is these days,

"We all feel better about the war than we did. We have been through great calamities. and catastrophes. Yet here we are to- day with the Army and Navy 'in- the greatest fettle.-Reuter.

TWO WOMEN SENT TO HOSPITAL

young

Mak Sung-cheong, a married woman, of No. 25, Nel

·last son Street, was admitted night to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment. It is alleged that she attempted to commit suicide

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THE ZIONIST FEDERATION OF GREAT BRITAIN 'HELD ITS ANNUAL::.- CONFERENCESA IN LONDON YESTERDAY: A -The President said that the Colonial Secretary knew that the Jews in Palestine might be confl- dently relied on to do the'r-utmost to defend all the vital British in-

terests of which Palestine is the

nerve-centre.

"We have reason to believe that at long last the war efforts of the Jews in Palestine will bó utlilsed,” hp bald...

He paid a tribute to. Mr. Chur- chill and his great and inspiring personality. Reuter,

Criticising the Petain Govern- ment for their treatment of Jews Mr. Goodman said it was the overwhelming tragedy of France. Nothing'stood more to its diay ar would manifest so credit pathetically- Ita debasement as the policy of making the Jews the scapegoat for the military defeat of France; in whose de- fance 60,000 Jews of various nationalities had fought.-

The conference pledged full support of the war and called on the British Government to raise a Jewish army under the British flag and to mobilise all the re- sources of Palestine for the war effort.Reuter.

.

GESTAPO CHIEF IN

by taking caustic soda. MADRID

was

Another woman, Anna Leung, of Ngal Chuen Wel Road, treated at the Kowloon Hospital for lysol poisoning.

WEATHER REPORT

SENOR BUNER, SPAIN'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER, HAD A CONVERSATION WITH HIMM-| LER,

PO GERMAN BECRET LICE CHIEF, WHO ARRIVED IN MADRID YESTERDAY, STATES LYONS RADIO "BENOR BUNER THEN - AC- It was interesting to see how that the anti-cyclone is centred COMPANIED HIMMLER TO THE these factory workers, whose over Mongolia and Manchuria; it PALACE WHERE THE GESTA- skill has created the finest has increased moderately in in- PO CHIEF WAS RECEIVED BY gfhter" In the world, were tensity and covers the whole of GENERAL FRANCO AND HAD cager to discuss with the pilots the merits of the machine.

... At lunch?¡n the officer's mos3-

The Royal Observatory reports

China..

A CONVERSATION The depression is probably | AN HOUR-REUTER, Thanking the C.. O. for the situated 300 miles south-west of way they had been entertained Tokyo' moving north-eastward. one worker said: "Now we know the way you do your jobs If hope your pilots will come and see how we do ours.".

Full of enthusiasm these fac- tory workers returned to their benches to tell their comrades what they had seen and to join with them in the keen, desire to increase the output.-British Wireless.

NEW DELHI CONFERENCE

GEN. WEYGAND AT

RABAT

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA, MAIL").

General Weygand arrived by air at Rabat (Morocco) yesterday and was welcomed by General Nogues, Resident - General. Havas.

MERCHANT:

LASTING

EMBASSY MOVE REPORT RIDICULED

THE

BERLIN RADIO HAS BEEN CLAIMING THAT THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN LONDON HAS MOVED TO AN- OTHER CITY, A T

An Embassy official yesterday said that this was "nonsense."

"We are still doing business at the old stand!” he said. Reu- ter.

TRIED IT ON A WARDER

ROBBED IN BUS

While travelling in a bus in Queen's Road. Centrál yesterday, n. 60-year-old merchant, Yip Pak-ching, of No. 02, Queen's Lam Shun, 20, was charged. be- Road Central, had his wallet fore Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K. C. containing $1,080 stolen:

this morning, with stenting....... $10 from Mr. J. E. Burns, of Stanley Prison; yesterday, i

Mr. Burns was in Luard Road

The Australian delegation to the Eastern Group Conference led by Sir Walter Massy-Greene, ar- rived in Calcutta by alr yester day and will leave to-day for New Delhi where the conference, which: was called to co-ordinate war supplies in the Empire, opens on Mr. C. Strange, of Wongnel- when he felt omsons touch. hit Some members of the British chung Road, has reported that j.hippocket. He caught tiold" "ol Ministry of Supply mission head- a thief, entered his residence be the hand, but deferitiant broke ed by Sir Alexander Roger also tween 2 am and 11am. yes- away. He was chased and caught. arrived in New Dell yesterday. terday and "stole a wrist-watch, Defendant was sentenced to six

Reuter.

valued at $75.

Jarno il montha's hard "Iabbury:

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