Rv RUD FISHER
WHAT DID SHE DO?
OH, SHE GOT
MAD AND
HUNG UP!
Greeks Rescue RAF Pilot
A battle between Greeks
and Italians, with a Bri- tish airman
as prize, is described in the Greek newspaper "Eleftheron" quoted on Athens radio last night.
THE NEWSPAPER SAYS THE AIRMAN BALED OUT AND
- LANDED SAFELY NEAR THE
ITALIAN
THE LINES
ITA- TAKE PREPARED TO
LIANS
TIM PRISONER BUT A BAND いだ GREEKS SPRANG FROM THEIR POSITIONS AND EN. GAGED THE ENEMY
A hand-to-hand battle ensued which ended with the defeat of the Italians,
The British airman was taken back in triumph to the Greek Hine, where his rescu was suit- ably celebrated Reuter.
MISSING 'PLANE
REPORTED SAFE
It is now known that an air- craft previously reported missing from last Saturday night's opera- tions by the Bomber Command has landed safely away from its base, says Reuter from London.
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U.S. NAVAL VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND
Two United States cruisers and four de- stroyers will arrive at Auckland (New Zea- land) to-day in the course of a training
cruise.
Announcing this in Wellington yesterday, the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Fraser, said the warships will leave again on Thursday.- Reuter.
BOY ARRESTED AS
PICKPOCKET
While watching a provession in Portland Street yesterday, Li Mun, hawker, had his pocket picked by a 16-year-old boy, who however, was arrested by a district watch-
man.
Betore Major A. N. Macfedyen at Kowloon this morning, the lad was sentenced to six months' hard labour and 12 strokes of the came
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HORIZONTAL
1 War-horse
6 To the left
11 Opera by Bizet
13 South-Ameri-
can beasts. of burden
14 Part of'"to be"
15 Consolidated
17 Symbol for
nickel
18 Butting animal
20 Retinue
21 To mature
22 Ancient
European
country
24 Newt
25 Solar disc
26 Wife of
Geraint
28 Chooses.
30 Man's name
32 Silkworm › '
33 Silvery
35 Mino entrance
37 Glacial snow
38 Dutch weight 40 Conceited
person
42 South-Ameri-
can language 43 Discharges 45. To petition
40 Note of scale
47 Permitted
49 Egyptian deity
50 Condiments
52 One who shoots
from.cover
54 Ancient charlot 55. Acts
VERTICAL
1 To frighten
2 Mexican
3 Teutonic deity
4 Ostrich-like
bird
5 Laira
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SATURDAY'S SOLUTION
SPA AT PIECE CALLO|W| EXCITE AN ARIBE UFAH RE TSAR
AUTO
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@ To the
sheltered side
7 Cushion
8 Sacred
Hindu word
@ Roams
10 Chinese money
12 British island in the Pacifie
13 Small
16 Wind
Instrument. 10 Goddess of
wisdom
21 Reaches 23 To burn 25 Sour Sub-
stances
27 Female deer
20 Perlod of time
31 Sluggish
gastropods
33 Trojan prince
34 Tropical
food-plant
30 Journeyed over
37 Scandinavian
39 Crics like a cat 41 Carries
43 Ran
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MINE
EXPLOSION QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
DAMAGE
were
Several houses damaged, walls being Cracked and windows shattered, in Shap Lung Village, about a mile and a half south-west of Sil ver Mine Bay (Lantau Is- land) last Wednesday night when a mine ploded on the beach.
ex-
There were, however, no cas- ualties.
According to a belated police report, two mines drifted from ! their moorings towards Lantan island at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.
One of the mines struck rocks off Shap Lung Village and ex- ploded.
The the mine, it is under- stood, has been rendered useless by a naval patrol,
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STORM IN DAKOTA
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
A
SCORES OF HOUSES WERE DEMOLISHED DURING VIOLENT STORM WHICH STRUCK THE NORTH-WEST OF THE UNITED STATES FROM NORTH DAKOTA TO MINNE- SOTA ON SATURDAY.
The number of casualties have not been ascertained so far.
The storm raged for Several hours causing considerable dam- age and reaching as far as Canadian border across Montana, -International News Service,
31 Frozen To Death
the
and
two
Thirty-one have been frozen to death in North Dakota and Minne- sota in the sudden blizzard hurricane which struck the States yesterday, says an Interna- tional News message from Grand- fort, North Dakota.
ANOTHER JAPANESE
RUMOUR
Authoritative Chinese quarters
in Chungking yesterday categori- cally denied the rumours circulat- ed by the Japanese Domel Agency to the effect that a Chinese air- craft factory in Yunnan had re- cently been removed to Burma which, the agency alleged, indi- cated the imminent conclusion of an Anglo-Chinese Military Al- liance. The rumours
de- scribed as being entirely baseless, -Central News.
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