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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.

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

"

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

SPA AT PIECE CALLO|W| EXCITE AN ARIBE UFAH RE TSAR

AUTO

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FLATTEN DAL ESAT BE PLAG SEN ET EROS INTO

MAR

COZZATE

EA LAIO BET ORAN IFE TE

WA

BORIE GOSPEL MBLEBS EER ARE

@ 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

·44 To' transmit 47 Aviator. 40 To fade away 31 You and me 63 Hebrew letter

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,

VIOLENT

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.

were

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