1940-10-28 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 28,· 1940.

MUTT AND JEFF

SIR, I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING, IL INVENTED WHICH YOU COULD SELL IN THE STORE - WOULD YOU CARE TO SEE IT?

WHAT

IS IT?

9-14

I CALL IT, THE WONDER WASHER.

T INVENTED IT MYSELF IN MY M SPARE TIME!

IT LOOKS LIKE- A WASHBOARD

TO ME!

IT IS, BUT IT'S.

DIFFERENT!· WASH-DAYS IN THE FUTURE WILL BE DAYS OF PLEASURE INSTEAD OF TOIL!

NO LONGER NEED OUR. WOMEN BREAK THEIR BACKS BENDING OVER A WASHBOARD LIKE- THIS, RUBBING!

Page 5 By BUD FISHER

NOW THE WASHBOARD DOES THE RUBBING!"

Treasury Calls In Canadian Shares

A LARGE GROUP of Canadian securities run- ing into many millions sterling have been trans- erred to the Treasury by Orders made under the Defence Regulations in London yesterday.

AUSTIN ROAD

ROBBERIES QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

Mrs. Bruce, residing on the first floor of No. 180, Austin Road, has reported that between 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. yesterday, a thief entered her flat and stole a watch valued at $15, from her bedroom. Mrs. Cassels, of the same address, re- ports that during the same per-

value of $145 were stolen from her room.

Two Orders affect Grand Trunk Perpetual 4 period, money and jewellery to the ent. Consolidated debenture stock, a sterling issue, If which there is about £24,500,000 outstanding and n which interest is guaranteed by the Government If Canada, while a third Order deals with some 60 ssues of Canadian railways and Canadian com- anies, payable solely or optionally in Canadian dol-

ars.

These securities have been vest-part of the money involved will

in the Treasury with a view to be transferred to war bonds. beir realisation in Canada in uch a manner that sales in Cana- Jan markets will be orderly and ubject to careful regulation in gard both to amount and time.

The securities were vested in the Treasury on Saturday and first payments on them will be

Defence Bond Issue

Mr. Hammond, of No. 128, Aus- tin Road, informed the Police last night that clothing and money, to the value of $150, had been stolen from his residence.

SOLICITOR ADMITTED

At the Supreme Court this morning, Mr. Kan Yuet-keung, son of Mr. Kan Tong-po, manager of In order to facilitate arrange- the Bank of East Asia, was ad- ments for subscription of this mitted as a solicitor and provic? money the Bank of England will by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl accept subscriptions for National MacGeorgor, on the application of War Bonds of £100 or any larger the Attorney General, The Hon.. sum in multiples of one penny, Mr. C. G., Alabaster. and the Post Office: will accept Mr. Kan Yuet-keung was subscriptions of £25 and upwards' educated at the Diocesan Boys Owners of securities affected are

(subject to a maximum of School and obtained his B. A. de- sked to deliver them forthwith £1,000).

gree at the Hong Kong University the Bank of England. Poyment For Defence Bonds subscription On graduation, he went to Eng- ill be made in sterling in Lon-must be for £5 or multiples on after delivery is completed. thereof and no person may at any

made on Nov. 25.

land and was articled to Messrs. Gibson and Weldon and passed time hold Defence Bonds exceed his law examinations. there. He

is hoped that a substantialing £1,000,-Router.

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OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1-Regulation:

4. Nutriment

8 Room in a

harem

11 Wing ****

2 Jason's ship

13. To allot

15* Answer.

17 To bow

10:European

20, Number

DE Male -- awan

22 Garland a

23 Body of Jand

surrounded bywater:

25, Beetle

Loaned

AT Fish caga

Faint

20 Body, of-

Rwater.

30 Exclamation.

of sorrow

31 Postpone

ment

33 Mulberry

35 Crów*B-ery

38-Narrativo

wu poems,

37 Contorted 38'Malo deer 40 Marsh 41 ́Observes Globa 49.Negligent #1 Top

45 Japanese.

measure

40 Assistance

47 To blend

50 Short jacket

52. Ardor

54:Vast age 55 Historical

· period

50 Point of

time

57 Earth

VERTICAL

1 Malay

gibbon

2 Beverage

3 To weave in-

to a network

4 Card game

5. Worthless

: leaving

6 King of

Bashan

7 Giver 8 Strange

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

Dlololala

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WAN

BLACŹNIR/

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48. 49

9 To act

10 Foreign

14 To prepare

for publica- tion

10 To be

obliged to 18-Siberian river

21 Intricate

22 Meadow

33 War god 24 Kind of bean 25 God of the

underworld

20 Sheltered

28 Moisture

29 Pigpen

31 Tatter

22 Man's name

33 Part of

A to be

-34-The Jily

35 Vehicle

37 Splits

30 Painful

80 Hackneyed

40 Became dull

31 Iniquity

43 Chinese

Gnicaturo

44 How t

48 Literary

scraps

47 Tangle

Card Game

49. Conclusion

61 Either

13 Noto of scale)

returned to Hong Kong in March.

KENYA PATROL IN SKIRMISH

One of our patrols was attack- ed by superior enemy forces near the Ethiopian border, 70 miles east of Lake Rudolf, said a com- munique issued in Nairobi yester- day.

The patrol withdrew succses- fully without loss from their post, inflicting casualties on the enemy. -Reuter.

CONSPIRACY CHARGE

Leung Choi, 32, Kwan Fai, 19, and Ko Choi, 34, were charged before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett this morning, with conspiracy to steal telephone cable from Pokfulam, the property of the Military Au- thorities..

Defendants were remanded for 48 hours for further enquiries.

VOLUNTEER TRAINING

It is announced that, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, units of H.K.V.D.C. detailed to parade will do so in spite of the Black-out. Nos. 2 and 6. Conipanies, and and Training Cadre will, however, not parade on either of these. nights.

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