1941-02-08 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

I WANT TO BUY SOMETHIN DIFFERENT FER MY HUSBAND, EVERY YEAR I BUYS HIM A SET OF LONG UNDERWEAR!

TOYS

WELL-ER, HOW ABOUT A`NICE SUIT OF PYJAMAS?

PYJAMAS? WHAT'S PYJAMAS?

THOSE ÅRE NIGHT CLOTHES! WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY HIM A SUIT!

†SHOULD SAY NOT! HE AIN'T

NO SOCIAL BOUNDER!

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By BUD FISHER

WHEN NIGHT TIME ́COMES HE GOES"

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Pilots and crew find all manner of means of passing the time when they are waiting to go on operations The usual games are popular cards, darts, chess, uny SO 071 Some write letters, some react

One bomber pilot, seeking.

NOTE TO MOTHER QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

"PLEASE DON'T GRIEVE FOR ME. Remember

variation, went off to the nearest | I died for a cause we all believe in." town and returned with an as- sortment of wool, some knitting

A Surrey mother, whose son was the youngest

needles and book of instructions operating sergeant pilot in the R.A.F., read this in

Three weeks later he had just turned the heel of his first suck, the others taking a hand from time to fame. The result was a bit rough, but as e suck it quite recogiusable

WIN

a letter her boy left in case he did not return from

a hazardous flight over Germany. He did not return.

Sergeant-Pilot Renald

Drst

the Lewis, was picked to go on

Italian trip through the Alps the night Italy declared war.

The other day the plot return-of Summer Road, Thames Ditton, ed from a tip over enemy terri- who was only sixteen when he tory. The latélligence Officer was joined the R.A.F., was killed in busy taking the report of another action

inonth before his crew and there was a light delay. eighteenth birthday. Out came the knitting. The pilot had carried it with him over Ger- many. He sat there, in his leather flying jacket and boots, Industri- ously making his steady way to- wards the toe.

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He had made many flights over Germany and one over the Alps to Italy,

His mother, Mrs. Margot Lewis,

says in a letter:

"I have just read with pride

an account of an unknown mo.

ther and her warrior son. Only we mothers of the boys of the R.A.F. know the full meaning

of the words 'failed to return."

"I have my son's last letter and his photo in flying kit be. side me as I write, and he just looks a typical example of Eng. lish boyhood ready to do any deed, great or small, to help.

Oxygen Failed

"Well, he did so much. although he was so young,

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

Even

he

"His oxygen failed him on the journey, and he had frostbilten Ongers as he said, 'just enough to earn him four days' sick leave," "*

When Sergeant-Pilot Lewis visited his old school-he was an elementary schoolboy-he talked to the boys and kept them so in- terested that it

was well after their time to leave when they went home. They have asked for his photograph to enlarge and hang in the school.

His wing commander praised

his good work in ! letter to Mrs. Lewis, and said how much all the officers and men of his squadron missed him.

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HORIZONTAL

1 Tropical fruit

4 To shear

8 Coucht

11 Corn bread

12 Nimbus

13 Female ruft

14 Conjunction

15 Article

17 Beautiful

'19' To haul

21 Worm

23 Inlet

24 Indication

•26; Posed"..

28 Asterisk

31 Colloquial:

angry.

33 To promise

33 Dried grass

36 Conterning

38 Flaunted

41. Pronoun

Ma To tako

illegally from

de To catch

...:45 Férmenting-

- vat

47 Edge

49 Convened

si Auroral

54 Tibetan gazalle

68 Body of Water'

60 Small

59 Desert in

Africa

#2 Devoured

84 Note of scale.

65 Music: high

64 Goddess of

discord

68 Latin poet

70. Dance step

71 To cloy

72 Born

VERTICAL

9 Lamprey

1 Public

assembly

2 Preposition

3 To acquire

4 Game of skill

5 French article

6 Sick.

7 Indigent

8 Pause

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

RANAS DAD ERR UNDTERAN TAILS LAWLES3

MTOTABERNI BARZZEDŹRBUCET NEŹLERERŹSZAR

TATEŹLANB1%CA ERMEKETTERAR

10 Tunisian ruler

11 Game played

on horseback

10 Pronoun

10 Potency

20 Jewel

22 Wild men

25 To slumber

27 Bushy clump

22, Dutch weight

| 30 Cereal grass

32 Gentle blow

34 Damp:

38° Globe...

37. Because

39 Sheep 40.Owing

43 Receding baya

· 40 At present.--

148, Extinct bird:

'50 To tantalise

62 Eagle's nest 63 To require 55 Gad of war. 87 By MON

RUNADEDZRERAD59 To weaken

AIETENURBVEDB

PER DEGUSON

BO, Wing

of Constellation

63 Vast, ago

67. Pronoun

69. Brother of Odin

BOMBER'S UNUSUAL

FEAT

HOW

AN

BOMBER R.A.F. SUCCESSFULLY SHOT DOWN AN ENEMY FIGHTER BY NIGHT—AN UNUSUAL FEAT~ 18 DESCRIBED BY THE SER. GEANT AIR GUNNER.

"We were on our way back from bombing Hamburg. Two anti-air- craft shells had hit us, but the aircraft was still in good shape. Over Bremerhaven the search- lights caught us but there was no attempt to renew the anti-air- craft fire. Very soon we saw why they were letting us alone.

"An Me. 109 was coming for us from behind the searchlight beam, I and when I saw it there was only us.

a hundred yards between There was a burst of machine-gun fire and quite a number of bullets hit us.

"I fired both guns and caught the Me. just as it did a steep bank right over our wing-my pilot told me afterwards that he saw it flash past our nose with flames pouring from it. A few seconds later I saw the Me. again. It was plung- ing straight down. Hitting the ground it exploded at once,

NURSE KILLED IN HOSPITAL

A nurse was killed in a large hospital, one of the buildings. hit when a raider dropped two salvos of bombs on a town in the home counties.

One of the private houses de- stroyed was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Brush, who were buried in the debris.

When rescue parties got them out, Mrs. Brush was dead, Her husband was taken to hospital.

When a bomb. hit a house in an outlying district, Mrs. Hall was killed, but her husband, Mr. J.. Hall, who was apparently sleeping in the next room, escaped unin- jured.

His bedroom was tilted outwards and he was able to climb down over the debris.

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