1940-12-12 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1940. MUTT AND JEFFTS

MY DEAR FELLOWS, MUST YOU STAND AROUND DOING NOTHING?

CANT YOU INTEREST YOURSELVES IN.

SOMETHING?

IN (WHAT?}

HERE! AS A PROFESSOR OF. BIOLOGY LET MË SHOW YOU.

SOMETHING INTERESTING!

IN THIS PACKAGE. I HAVE

A VERY FINE SPECIMEN

OF A DISSECTED

FROG! I'LL SHOW

IT TO

Your

FROG? LOOKS LIKE A HAM SANDWICH. TO ME!

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By BUD FISHER

NOW THAT'S STRANGE!

I THOUGHT I ATE

MY LUNCH!

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 Portsea Hall, Edgware Road, Lon- don, W., an air raid shelter is an emblem of romance.

RABBIT SKINS HELPING

The rabbit is helping Britain to pay for the war,

REYNOLD'S FINED FOR MISTAKE

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- creased its exports of rabbit newspaper under the De- Mr. Stanley Ellis, whose, home skins to the U.S.A by thirty-eight fence Regulations result- was in Brokesley Street, Bow, times in one month. In July it went "down West" to see a bit of increased its exports by twenty-ed in London yesterday in the managing editor and

life.

While in an hotel at Marble

seven times.

Arch a warning was sounded and 000000000********* publisher of "Reynold's

guests were directed to the hotel's air raid shelter..

There Mr. Ellis met his wifeed the reception at the

W., but they had no sooner finish- bride- to-be. It was love at first sight. groom's house than the sirens They got talking.

again sounded.

Three weeks later he pro- posed to her in the same air raid shelter. With the roar of guns ringing in her cars she 'ao- copted.

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

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

News" being fined £30 each and instructed to pay £10 each for costs.

Allegation was that the news- paper published matter which might have been useful to the

..

An article concerning the de- fence of certain parts of the Em- pire wab published fully in some editions of the newspaper, Ignoring deletions made by the "official censor.

"And now," said · Mr. Ellis'enemy. "we're spanding 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 built in the garden as a to- gether."

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It took one minute for a bar-

TONY'S DANCE STUDIOrister to tell a judge in the King's 618, China Bldg., 6th Flr., Bench Division that a case had been settled on the terms that -"- (Opp:- King's Theatre) ·

there should be judgment for the plaintiff for £1,111 15. 11d,

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD ..

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HORIZONTAL

1 Barrior of

bushes

4 City in

Nebraska.

11 More alert

12- Full, of liquid.

14 Eire

15 Parsonage

17 To existi

18 Bitter vetch

19 Burrows ↑

20 Large: snake 21-To-act

22 Under-gate 23 Low, mur»,

muring

* Bound** 24.To make

"more""endury.

fable Y 20 Happiness 27,Greek god

28 Aquatic

mammal” *29 Máidèna

31. Sang

3418 Tool Maskance 33. M-bred: 36 Japanese

mensuro- 37 Sortie 38 Movable.

barriers

30 Twenty hun-

dred weight

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measure

41 Poorest

42. Faahton

43 To contend

$45 Absconds

47. Relleves

48 Ranked.

VERTICAL

1 To un

Goddess of

discord

3 Clamour

4 Earth ...goddess

Weasel-like animals.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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ON DA18

CLEMENS ATENREE

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BEANHABER MALT" BENAS SINIA

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6 Proprietor

7: Bulkiness

8:Goddess of

mlachiet

9 Pronoun.

10 Bowers

11 Troublesome

plants..

13 Period of time (pl.) 10. Soon, 19 Small

particles 20 Constructed 22 European.

blackbird 23 Intends. 25 Soon to * occur

28. Grizzlies 28 Briefer 29,Ambitions

~30;To kindle:

31 Cries of

- dovo

32 Eaten away

33 Supa **

33 Penetrates. 33 Pigeon. 30.To drink

axcessively

41 Archale: to

supposo V

42 Bright baying 44 Bun god

40. Note of scalo

The magistrate trying the case agreed that a mistake had been made and that there was no in- tentional anti-British action.- Reuter.

'NO' TO

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