1941-04-12 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 12, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

THIS IS AWFUL! I CAN'T SLEEP MITZI SAYS SHE DOESN'T LOVE ME AND I CAN'T GET HER OFF MY

MIND!

WHY DON'T YOU GO SEE HER

NEXT MORNING

SO YOU SEE, MR. DINK,

FATHER! MAYBE EVER SINCE YOUR DAUGHTER,

HE CAN HELP.

You!

BROKE O-F WITH ME

I CAN'T SLEEP! NIGHT

AFTER NIGHT I LIE

AWAKE!

r

By BUD FISHER

NO, SIR!

You CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT?

NIGHT AFTER

SLEEP AWINK!

WELL, YOU'RE JUST THE MAN

NIGHT I DON'T || I'M LOOKING FOR!

DINK! CONSTRUC COMPANY

NIGHT WATCHMAN

Belgrade

Populace

Flees To The Hills

U.S. PACIFIC ACTIVITY

All

U.S. Army trans-

SURPRISED BY THE suddenness of the German attack, the populace of Belgrade fled to the hills, says the correspondent of the Vichy news agency in the first eye-witness ac- count of the bombing of the Yugoslav capital. Altogether 150 Dorniers and Junkers dive bombers launched the attack, at 7.15 in the morning.

The toll was heavy.

ports have been diverted PRISONERS

to move troops and sup-

plies between the Unites REACH

States and overseas pos- sessions and bases, it was disclosed by the War De- partment in Washington,

was also revealed that complete muhtary censorship has kven

all imposed at IND

Mr

ONUTSURUS

Rubert Patterson, Under

SOUTH AFRICA

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Joong who is th Teed to regit, vere

ow been sent m

Sanct to owentation the

Camp beg the duration of Nun war

Secretary for War. told C porters! Our greater activity in Hawalt. the Philippines, Canal Zone and the new Atlan tic bases requires the full use of transport service vessels." Twenty-SIX

arul patzenger cargo ships are involved and in addition the War Department has chartered 10 frighters. ---Reuter.

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than pinciple city severely hit and vie. The muami- poi buldangs caught fire and w! a pull of black smoke crept

the town

The exodus began as soon as the second wave of raiders ap- neared at 9 o'clock. The central electricity supply was destroyed, the

supply water

upset and mare tires broke out, notably in The industrial quarter. Fighters and anti-arrerait gun- Spot d put up vigorous

Between 11 am and i resistance

p there was a period of caln The departing pupulat.on ford an

uninterrupted stream m their way to the hills around the vity.

A new onslaught followed.

There who w

notably on the centre of the city. the prisoner

and not land were supreed to find me

a single pane of glass

of them were

was left intact. ttle more than bays, though there were some with

bbons of the Great War.

́OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 Supporting pin

4 To take as

one's own

9 Malt

beverage

12 Girl's name

13 Smooth

consonants

14 Fuci

15 Women

17 Narrows

10 Reward

'21 Sun god

22.To omit

25 Pole

27 To pierce 31,Conjunction

32 Observant

34 Chinese

measure

35 Tropical bird

30 American

author

37 Conjunction

38 Engaged

41 Swine

42 To allot

43 Weapon

* 44 Cushlong

45 Teutonie deity

47 Brim

49 Aperture

53 Continent

57 Constellation

58 Mends

GO Trap

01 Indiar pillar

62 Girl's name

63 To catch

VERTICAL

1 Nothing

2 Room

barein

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3 To wander

4 To the shel-

tered side

5 Forsaking

6 Preposition

7 Favourite

Former ruler

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9 Eon

10 Malay gibbon

11 Worm

16 Mischievous

chik

18 Gluc

20 Period

22 Vegetable dish

23 Cutting tool 24 European fish 26 Needy

20 Note of scale 29 To shun

30 Mountains 32 Literary

scraps

33 To bow

35 Troubled

39 Note. of scale

40 Billiard stick

41 Colloquial:

- father

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40 Was borne by

48 Sudden flow

40 Sticky

substance -

50 Man's name 51 Burmese

demon

63 Compact mass

54 To possess

Edible seed 50 To recede

50 Japanese

measure

Streets Destroyed

With one house in ten blazing, whole streets were soon destroyed. | More randers came over during the night. and the attack ended at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon.

By then only a few thousand inhabitants were left. They had hidden in shelters and cellars. As night came on again the fames leaped from house to house and none could put them out as the water supply had failed,

Picture Of Desolation

enormous

Later rain began to down the fires, leaving Belgrade a picture of desolation with craters in the middle of broad nutobuses overturned. houses left without fronts, and dead bodies strewn in the streets. sometimes covered by flowers and wreaths taken from flower shops.

avenues,

The Authorities mobilised men not serving with the forces to clear away the debris, and inter the dead, and men, women and children began 10 search what was left of their homes for what they could rescue and carry

way. Reuter.

NO BOMBS DURING DAYLIGHT

dropped

No bombs were Great Britain on Thursday though enemy aircraft were fairly active In the Straits of Dover and the English Channel, and some flew inland, says an Air Ministry com- munique, quoted by Reuter.

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