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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 1940. MUTT AND JEFF

JEFF'S TAKING YOU SAY OUT A $50,000 THERE'S NO

·INSANITY IN YOUR FAMILY?

LIFE POLICY. HE'S BEING EXAMINED BY THE DOC!,

NO. SIR!

WASN'T YOUR UNCLE OH, SENT TO THE ASYLUM HIM! BECAUSE OF HIS DON'T

DELUSIONS PAY ANY

ATTENTION TO HIM! HE'S OFF HIS MUT!

LOOK! I'M

NOT SICK!

CAN YOU

DO THAT?

YES, I KNOW YOU'RE ALL RIGHT PHYSICALLY

BUT ARE YOU MENTALLY SOUND?

YOU MEAN

MY HEAD? LOOK!

KONK! KONK!

KONK!

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SPECIAL DELIVERY

PETAIN TO TAKE DOVER

NO MILITARY INITIATIVE

"IF MARSHAL PETAIN is determined to take no military initiative against anyone he is also de- termined to preserve for France what she has ac- quired from pain," declared General Bergeret, French Minister for Air, in a broadcast from Beirut reported by the French news agency yesterday.

RAIDS IN YUNNAN

General Bergeret said he would

PATROL NERVE CENTRE

From A Special Correspondent

Navy's "Stone Frigate"

By courtesy of the Of-

be able to report very favourably ficer Commanding I have

to Marshal Petain, following his

Syria and Lebanon.

Japanese aircraft raided Yung-inspection of the French air force had the unusual exper- ping. Paoshan and Koklu in Yun-in nan yesterday. Damage is un- derstood to be slight.

Kuuming was under air raid alarm from 8.45 a.m. to 3.05 p.m. -Central News.

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"Men of Syria and Lebanon. can assure you that in spite

of his preoccupations in Europe

the Marshal is not forgetting any territory where the French flag waves.

"You can have confidence

in

ience of boarding and in- specting H.M.S.

Lynx,

more familiarly known to naval men of the Dover

the Marshal and he has confidence Patrol as the Stone Fri- In you."-Reuter.

gate or Ship Ashore,

INDIAN GUARD

WOUNDED

An Indian Guard (No.

S66)

1 was received on the quarter- deck of this remarkable ship, which, commanded by a Royal Naval captain with a full

com-

was wounded in the left leg at pany of officers, has a ship's com- 8 a.m. yesterday by a bullet from

a revolver which discharged when pany which includes

the guard accidentally dropped it of very efficient Wrens. on the ground. The man was admitted to the Queen Mary Hos- pital. His condition is not serious,

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 Queen of the

fairles

4 Poisonous

snakes

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quadruped

12 Wing

13 Outer

garment

14 Man's name

15 Paid office

without em ployment

17. Girl

18 To rip

19 To awaken

21 To manipu-

∙late

23 To prepare

for publica. ..tion

24 Is mistaken 25 Archbishops 29 Fish caga 30 Salary 31-Thigh Joint 32 To attempt 34 Greek

** entrande ?

36 To surround 37.Fragment 40 Enemies :41 Intermittent

fever

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gist's wire 48 Card game 40 Thomas

Hardy

heroine

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distant

VERTICAL

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2 Moslem

name

3 Chaffed

4 Ancient Asi-

atic country

5 Tart

6 Golf term

7 Firmer

8 Ball

Sloth

-SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

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SULTAN KILTON

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numerous small leaves 11 South Afri-

can ox

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Asher

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disease 25 Building of ornamental character

28 Division of

ancient

Greece 27 European country

28 Argument 30 To walk

with diff culty 33 Painters' 'tands $4 Notice 30. Studied

assiduously „37 Marketplace.

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molding

Regrets

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Born? 44 Adol 45. Vast ngu

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The quarter deck, from which the officer commanding directs operations, receives other officers and metes uut justice to the men under his command, is actually a bleak stone-walled vault in a large stone underground building. The entire ship is indeed built of con- crete and stone.

Nevertheless the Lynx is very

unit with a vast much a naval ship's company on its books. She is parent ship to all H.M. vessels included in the famous and his- toric Dover Patrol.

The Lynx is responsible for everything affecting the well-be- ing and the fighting efficiency of the fighting ships of the Dover Patrol.

An Actual Ship

The Lynx succeeds a long line of naval craft, including sloops, brigs and a destroyer, which serv- ed in the last war. She is a craft on shore, but since in the tradi- tions of the Royal Navy there must be an actual ship for every ship's a sea-going name, there exists H.M.S. Lynx, which is a picket boat and operates about the har- bour as efficiently as any unlt in our great fleet.

1 visited the armourer's shops, the gunnery office, where there were Wrena at work, the regu- lating office, all underground, so that vital work of the base ohall Buffer, no disturbance from enemy action.

It will be realised that with everchanging dispositions of our own and enemy minefields safe, navigation on the English Channel is a ticklish, business these days. And so upon this office every ship entering or leaving the Dover base, depends for information“ which' will ensure it, a safe passage,

The mixed male and female staffs in this nerve centre of the ship is also responsible for clear to those of shen every change in the difficult road which lie among the Each ship master snust be 'diately advised of every

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