1941-04-15 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

PIES

SELF-SERVICE

CAKES

RESTAURANT

WAIT ON! YOURSELF

AND

SAVE'

STRANGER, YOU HAVE- A FUNNY WAY OF EATING YOUR CHICKÈM

SANDWICH! DON'T YOU LIKE THE BREAD?

SURE!

Filmney.

WELL, THEN INSTEAD OF NIBBLING AT THE

CHICKEN WHY DON'T

YOU EAT THE WHOLE SANDWICH?

OM, I COULDN'T! IT DOESN'T

BELONG TO ME!

Page 5 By BUD FISHER

SANDWICHES

Easter Monday

Spent As Normal QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

Bank Holiday

ALTHOUGH THERE WAS no let up in war pro-

duction anywhere and armaments factories belched PASTOR ON

forth smoke as usual, those workers and Servicemen off duty celebrated Easter Bank Holiday in some- thing approaching peacetime style yesterday.

London's West End from an early hour was crowded with holiday-makers, many from provincial - centres, and theatres and cinemas did a tremen-

dous business.

SOCIETA

By 11 a.m. it was impossible toj seat in the principali inemas except a handful at top{ lees, and queues formed outside! awaiting later performances,

Feature of the day was the large number of Allied soldiers and airmen in the uniforms of Poland. Free France. Czecho slovakia and others on Icave from

their posts in defence artas and

seeing the sights London with British

friends, many

were in uniform.

of

whom

CHARGES OF THEFT

A pastor was accused at Liver- pool of stealing £63 he had col- Dected to provide a canleen and

comforts for soldiers.

of

Against the Rev. James Fitz gerald Crawford, aged thirty-four, also of Broadgreen-road, minster

The United Presbyterian Church of heland. Halls-lane, Liverpool. were five charges of false pre- tences and theft.

At Nottingham, the Easter Race Meeting attracted a record crowd, He was accused of having ob- tained by fraud a cheque for £130 and hundreds had to be turned

from Alfred Cyril William Thrush away, missing the stirring Victory and cheques for £20 from Clif- in the Southern Plate Seaford Briggs.

Hassan, a celt now fancied as the Derby winner and tramed by the Duchess of

wife Norfolk, young of Britain's preauer Duke

of girl ter

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151 Back of the

I Chess piece

neck

1 Unusual

6 To decuimulate

11 Colloquial:

to steal

12 Huge men „ 14 Babylonian

deity

15 European

mountains 17 Additional

18 Clamour

20 Vegetable

23 Ilumorist

24 Poetic:

; enough

20 Prying tool

28 Symbol for

kodium

29 To save for

future use

31 To reveal...

93 Hindu deity

33 Cupola

36 Exture

39 Book of

Action

42 French

⚫ article

43 Silkworms

45 Network

46 Philippine ke

Island ward division

48 Chinese coin

50 To fall

behind

53 Prevaricated

55 Hebrew

Jetter

66 Coronets

39 Neither mas culine Be feminine

'01 Beast of

burden

62 Scandinavian

literary. works

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2 You and me

3 Greek letter

4 Cloth

nieasures

5 Asiatic

Country

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silver

7 Note of scale

8 Dutch weight

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11 Interprets

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10 Slip-knot

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22 City in

England

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27 Unverified

report

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inside out 32 Even

34 Line on which

something

rotates

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France

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FOLKTRO COEE Symbol for

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Mr. H. R. Balmer, prosecut ing, said the complaint in the first casC was а fellow clergy-

man

It was alleged that Crawford But the £130 cheque by saying

hus annual returns to hu. church were due and he could not for- ward them unless he could certify he had £200 in his bank.

He was raid to have got other cheques by saying he wanted the muney to buy food for his canteen

until the grant from the

the War

Army

charity

came

through."

Actually, the prosecution alleg- ed, there was no such giant.

Mr. Balmer Bald Crawford opened the "Broadgreen Can. teen and Comforts Fund" for soldiers in June, created a committee, and received £105. The prosecution alleged that he stole £63, Crawford was remanded on bail.

BOY ACCUSED OF LOOTING TOYS

A thirteen-year-old boy who was stated not to have attended school for a year was at East London Juvenile Court accused with two others, aged twelve and ten, one his brother, of stealing toys worth 5s, from a war-damn- aged warehouse,

An L.C.C. official said that the thirteen-year-old boy was eva- cuated in September, 1939, but returned home last Christmas. Since then he had not attended school, his father saying that he had kept the boy at hame because the mother was ill.

The Chairman (Colonel Henri- ques) told the father: This is ab- solutely scandalous. You would not dare make this excuse in peacetime.

The case was adjoined for 24 week.

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