1940-12-14 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 14, 1940.

MU'IT AND JEFF

ཨཐཱནོ ཝེ ཀཱ ཝཱ

THE OLD PROFESSOR

SURE LIVES UP TO

HIS NAME! HE'S ABOUT AS ABSENT- -MINDED AS THEY

COME!

GOSH, WHAT HAPPENED PROFESSOR?

Library, Supreme Court

REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COME OVER MY. DEAR LITTLE WIFE!

X

I CAME DOWN TO

BREAKFAST

AND-

Page 5 By BUD FISHER

HE KISSED HIS EGG AND CRACKED ME ON. THE HEAD WITH HIS

SPOON!

BATTERED TANKS ARE NOW "GOOD AS NEW

was

emphasised that

research department had

A large works in the Mid-casualty. He lands which

formerly the the home of a popular, one of a number

which have been the Ministry of re-conditioning other armoured cics,

PREACHERS' UNION IS PLANNED

racing car, is been specially successful during

of factories the past twelve taken over by was now possible to make a use-isters of all denominations months, and it A Trade Union for min- Supply for the ful job with welding where pre- and paid church workers

is being planned.

of

tanks and viously it would not have been fighting vehi- | effective..

A number of vehicles

were

"After tanks have been recon- ditioned in one of these factories

tested under severe Service con- they are to all intents and pur- ditions in the presence of officials poses as good as new," he said. of the Ministry and Press re- presentatives.

They underwent their trials with complete success. They were driven over ditches, scrubs, and steep hills, one of which had a gradient of nearly one in one. In every' case the ob.. stacles were easily overcome.

proportion of the

A large "casualties" have with the BEF.

CHRISTMAS CABLES

It will be on constituted Trade Union lines, so that it may become affiliated to the Trades Union Con- gress.

The Rev. Robert Doble, vicar of St. Saviour's, Forest Hill, S.E.. who proposes the formation of the Union, said that he had been in touch with trade union authorities which it should be built so that its regarding the proper. basis members could work with other trade unionists towards a common objective.

Cable and Wireless inform us seen service that in order to ensure delivery of Christmas Greeting Telegrams Every tank when it arrives at on Christmas Day the works is stripped of its thou-should be made by senders to file every effort sands of parts, and if any their messages in Hong Kong as damaged ones are repairable the soon as possible, before Decem-est greatest care is taken to ensure ber 20 if possible. that this is done,

a

ve-

A reporter was shown hicle brought in for repairs, It was so severely damaged that it was regarded as a total wreck.

It has now been amazingly transformed and is ready for further service.

Owing to wartime restrictions, greeting telegrams can be sent only to places in the British Em- pire, including, of course, Aus- tralia, where there are now so many Hong Kong families, The rate to all parts of the Empire 18 $4 for 12 words. Messages to a tank regiment since 1910 was and from members of the Forces particularly proud of the achieve are accepted at the rate of $2 for ment of the factory with this 16 words, the address being free.

An officer who has been with

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instrument.

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11 Foot apparel

12 Depends 14 Part of **to be" 15 To compel 17 Whirlpool 18 Goddess of

the harvest. 20 To escape. 22 Norse

23 Poverty

goddess

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Jehovah

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Ancient

European country.

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force Clonely-woven silk fabric Moslem

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porpoise

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officer

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calcium

on

that we have an identity of inter- "Our idea," he said, "is to show

with the workers.

Low-Paid Curates

"In addition, the need for a pro- lective organisation for ministers is very real, particularly in the case of curates and others whose rate of pay is so small as to com- pell them to come within the scope of health and unemploy- ment insurance....

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