1941-02-26 — Page 21

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TERRORISTS AMOK IN SHANGHAI

POLITICAL TERRORISTS ran amok in Shanghai yesterday as three Japanese and one Chinese were shot in the course of three attacks.

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is spen as one of the major ob- stocles in the way of errating real brotherhood between th ma-

tous.

Both in 131itain and the United States of America. a movement tus started for bringing about the political union of the English- The first attack was staged by two Chin-speaking peoples. One name sug- gested for the proposed super- States of Brit- ese gunmen at 2 p.m. in Hongkew, when Pri-State is United

America. vate Toda, of the Medical Corps, was shot The sun gives 400,000 times as

nuch light as the moon. and killed instantly, while Corporal Ishii was seriously wounded in the chest.

GIFTS FOR AIRCRAFT

Gifts for aircraft purchase from hula and South Africa are among the acknowledred by the Min,s- fest Anteraft Production.

The peuple of OrLisa, India, have sent £5,000 mereasing their total gifts to £20,000.

Frem Transkeran Territory, Cape Province, South Africa, comes a further gift of £3,200,

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One of the two gunmen wounded and captured. by Ja- patiese naval sentries,

Six hours later, in the same dis- trict, a long Chinese gunman fred two shots at a Japanese naval of fleer, who is believed to have been wounded

A third attack was staged at 9 p.m. In the western area when another lone Chinese gunman critically wounded Wang Yung stated to be an official of the Japanese-sponsored City Gov- crament Police.

Barricades were established late The Norwegian Planes Fund last night by Japanese bluejackets formed by Norwegians in South near the scene of the Hongkew Africa and South Africans of shootings, disrupting all traffic. Norwegian descent has reached All bridges. however, are total of £14,000, which is to be open, though vehicular and pede- forwarded to Lord Beaverbrook,striais traffic is being held up by - British Wireless

I searchers. Reuter.

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12 To be mistaken

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15 Tibetan

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10 Clown

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20 French soldier

21 Silent

23 Imitation

30 Argument

27 Constellation

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39 Forco

40 War god

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VERTICAL

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50 Tangle

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1 Norse god

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31 Girl's name

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41 Gay frolic

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45 Removes

47 Cereal grass

40 Mother of

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The world's first mechanical dog. Sparky, was holding up the crowds at the New York World's Fair recently. He wagged his tail, trotted backwards and forwards, sat down, sat up, begged, growled, barked, but never ate of drank a thing. Sparko is aluminium coat- od, has a fistful of electric wires for a brain, and more than half a mile in his nervous system

Large Chinese moth have a wingspan of bine inches.

A flash of lightning may be as hef as one ten-millionth of a

second.

Palots of bembing planes who have to bale out at altitudes of thirty-five thousand feet can be saved from dying of lack of oxy- gen on the way down to the grottd by a new America de- vice. The apparatus is a pocket- sized tube containing just enough exygen to keep pilot alive until he reaches an altitude low enough to breathe 13.

World's Largest Bell

Bell-bottom trousers are Worth by sulors because they can easily 1 rolled up When the seaman wades it water or scrubs t ducks.

The world's largest bell is the 198-ten Great Beil in Moscow's Kremlin, Although it was manu factured for the belfry in Evan the Great Cathedral it has never been raised from the ground outside the cathedral. When you see a film villain hurled through a window, do not fear that he may have injured himself from jagged glass; the property man prepared the glass- like pane from sugar.

You are insulting a person in a manner neither you nor he real- ise when you call him a card. The word is a shortening of the word "cadaver," meaning a dead body....

"Daisy" is a corruption of the words "day's eye" a name given to the flower because it partially closes at night..

Apart from general physical at- To the eye sight of air force pilots must be first class with cor- rect colour vision and muscle balance, Indentification, of signals depends on colour vision, while ocular balance

safe is vital to landings.

In a Midland city a new sy- stem of black-out traffic control has been introduced. Officers with the illuminated word "Police" plainly visible on their helmets,

of control the busiest crassings the city. Current for illuminating the, helmet sign is supplied by a small dry battery that is compact- ly carried in the officers' poc- kets.

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