1940-12-12 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1940.

MUTT AND JEFF

MY DEAR FELLOWS, MUST YOU! (STAND AROUND DOING NOTHING

CANT YOU INTEREST YOURSELVES IN SOMETHING?

IN

WHAT?

HERE! AS A PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING INTERESTING!

(IN THIS PACKAGE I HAVE A VERY FINE SPECIMEN

OF A DISSECTED

FROG! I'LL SHOW

IT TO

YOU!

FROG? LOOKS LIKE A HAM SANDWICH, TO ME!

Page

By BUD FISHER

NOW THAT'S STRANGE!

1.THOUGHT I ATE

MY LUNCH!

10-30

RAID SIREN THEIR LOVE SONG

For most people an air raid shelter is a reminder of war, but to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ellis, of Portsen Hall, Edgware Road, Lon- don, W., an air raid shelter is an emblem of romance.

Mr. Stanley Ellis, whose home Street, Bow, was in Brokesley

RABBIT SKINS HELPING

The rabbit is helping Britain to pay for the war.

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Sir Cecil Weir, of the Board of Trade, said that, before the war, the U.S.A. depended to a lage ex- tent upon French and Belgian.rab- First prosecution of a bit skins. In June. Britain in-

of rabbit newspaper under the De- creased its exports skins to the U.S.A. by thirty-eight fence Regulations result- times in one month. In July it increased its exports by twenty-ed in London yesterday in seven times."

the managing editor and 00000000000 ******* | publisher of "Reynold's W., but they had no sooner finish-News" being fined £30 There Mr. Ellis met his wifeed the reception at the bride- each and instructed to to-be. It was love at first sight. groom's house than the sirens They got talking.

again sounded.

life,

went "down West" to see a bit of While in an hotel at Marble Arch a warning was sounded and guests were directed to the hotel's air raid shelter.

Three weeks later he pro- posed to her in the same air raid shelter. With the roar of guns ringing in her ears sho ac- cepted.

They were married at the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London,

They spent their wedding night in the cellars underneath the house.

"And now," said Mr. Els "we're spending most of our honeymoon in air raid shelters. "Still, we're not complaining. As a matter of fact, when peace comes I think I shall have an air raid shelter buill in the garden as a

gether."

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OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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pay £10 each for costs.

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the: might have been useful to enemy...

An article concerning the de.. fance of certain parts of the Em-

was pire

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