THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1941
MUTT AND JEFF
WELL, DID YOU LAND
A JOB YET?
THERE ARE NO
JOBS FOR MEN, MUTTI THEY'RE ONLY LOOKING FOR WOMEN! MAIDS, COOKS AND SUCH!
WELL, WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS- YOU WITHOUT WORK!
C'MERE!
WHAT ARE YA GONNA
DO?
I'M GONNA UNDRESS YOU!
HEY, MUTT! NIX! SUPPOSE A
WOMAN IS READING
THIS PICTURE?
Elbury, Bitp.gema Cov
STOP SQUAWKING!)
HOLD STILL!
By BUD FISHER
NOT BAD! NOT BAD AT ALL!
AW, MUTT!
NOW LOOK
WHAT YOU
DID!
Fisher
LEAPED
REDCAPS RAID AS TRAIN
SHELTERS
FOR SHIRKERS
POLICE AND military authorities are now making frequent searches of the tubes and other
helters for men trying to evade military service.
Deserters from the Services are also using the helters as a hideout. A raid by the military police. ed by a provost-marshal recently, meant the dis- overy of eight deserters. Some had shed ther uniforms, and were hiding away in civilian clothes.
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CRASHED
Passengers, looking out of the carriage windows of a stationary express 11 ar Brentwood, Essex, Saw a train speeding along the rails at the rear of their train.
Nothing could save a collision realsed the passengero and, flinging open the carriage doors. embank. they leapt on to the ment and to safety
But not all the pitssengers were
fortunat When the colleston! happened, six passengers. two of Therm WITTER were killed and hile, in .. Phat all over NOUS of the Mbtary twenty more people, including the youth or using the a deground Police came to the shelter They; there and frenian of the moving Shelter all be asked to produce spoke to a number of young twen twin, and the guard of the ex- thetary jeg: tation cards
"In one case they recognised a] pies, were injured pot fi ulen mun a bring an alleged dewater from the Army Every young man who could bot give a at taetory anwen was asked to produce hi mditary rega tration
and
In the end they are tod away quite a number of Young
Coloured Cuthberts
and the One man who d diding deserters
the delters de with by has ready been the police He was tant Ev
Among the Cuthberts seeking the shelters to hide in and avoid military service are a number
of coloured men from British overseas territory.
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The trains involved were the 1940 am to Southend-on-Sea and the it to Laverpool Street to
Norwich
The Southend train ran into the tear of the express at about 10.50;
between Fam
Harold Wood and Brentwood, stated the 1..N.ER.
od men have given fabe adta Usses looped Carrtage was set alight by
SELVICO.
when they tegi tered for military
he traced They cannot when medeni aut call-up notice are delivered.
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
The splintered wood of a tele-
the from the engine at the South- end tram),
Carrying a bucket of water.
a sailor passenger climbed up the side of the blazing carriage.
With the aid of officials, who! brought extinguishers from The the salter put out the fire wndespread Stopper
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HORIZONTAL
1 Crow-like
bird
4 Strongbox
8 To encounter
12 Maname
13 Chutel Norse
Rod
14 The killer whale
15 Posed
16 Riddle
18 Brook
20 Great Lake
21 Sun god
22 Peer Gynt's
mother
23 Heavenly
body
27 To reimburse
*- 20, Newt
30 Rock
31 Symbol for
gold
32 Music: high
33 Plaything
34 Symbol for
sodium
35 Fissure
37 To intimidate
38 Scarlet
30 Soapstone
40 Barrier
** 41 Pronoun
42 Prepositioni
44 Lock
47 Convert
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53 Diving bird 54 Groove
56 Belgian fiver
30 Dirk
37 River in
England
VERTICAL
1 Numbered
Mate
2 Sundarac tree
3 Soggy
4 Leg-covering
5 Flurry
Worthiest
7 To came into
operation
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9 To be faistaken 18 French cust 11 Scotch cap.
17 Svimbel for
mekel 19 Babylonian
deity
22 Toward the
stern
24 Preposition 25 English queen 20 Perused
27 Treaty
28 Emanation 20 Large deer
30 Pig
32 One who
charges with an offence
33 Mule cat
30 Mulberry
37 Deep volley
30 To hinder
40 Child's puppets
41 Colloquial:
'mother
Hebrew letter
44 Smooth
43 Hint 46 To despise
41 To peer
curiously
40 Law: things
49 Lyric poetn
50 Digit
Sailors, soldiers and airmen, who WPTE on the train, used axes to break away parts of the wreck- age in order to free passengers.
Women from houses close to the scene of the accident tore up blankets and sheets which were used for bandages.
Walters on the express train made and served tea to the In- jured.
Mrs. Rudd, who helped to take blankets to the injured people, found that her son was a passen- ger on one of the trains and was unhurt. He had been thrown un- derneath the seat of a compart- ment by the force of the collision.
"Three soldiers helped to get the guard free from the wreck. the son, Mr. M. G. Rudd, age. sald.
"The soldiers first went to the driver
train, of the Southend
but, with blood streaming from hio face, he refused help, say- ing. 'Never mind about me, look after the others."
Doctors, nurses and ambulances were rushed from Brentwood, and A.R.P. workers helped to attend to the injured.
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