1941-04-22 — Page 5

By BUD FISHER

I DON'T KNOW YET, MA'AM!

I ONLY CAME

HERE YESTERDAY!

OH!

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The Great DICTATOR

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OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 To dislike

intensely

5 Drunkard

8 Lyric poems

12 Eire

13 Before

14 List

15 Confederate

general

10 Woody plant 17 Mohammedan

priest

18 Living room

20 Persian

priestly caste

22 Barren

24 To burn

эт то Брагkle 30 Fecble-

minded

31 Vast. age 32 Period

.34 Rowing

Implement 35 Ponders

-38 Thin muslin

41 Wading bird

42 Needy

43 Yucatan

Indian

*.45 Planet

40 Prohibits $1 Sheet of

glass

53 Eggs

34 Great Lake

55 Thus

50 Measures of

length

57 To rip

60 Holland

Commune

59 Wings

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6 Crude inetal

VERTICAL

1 Cry for

7 To abound

8 Beginning

assistance

2 'Plane

surface

3 Row

4 Half an em

5 Pressed

together

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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ARIES

NIECE

9 Sovereign

authority

10 Greek letter 11 Man's nick-

лате

10 Law: wrong

10 Buddhist

pillar

21 King of Judah

23 To sag

25 Happy

20 Weird

27 Jewels

28 Lazy fellow

20 Sleeplessness 33 To boat

thoroughly

38 Rubber 37 Firmament 30 To pierce 40 Constellation 44 Part of a

church

40 Christmas

carol

47 Part of the eye 48 To satisfy

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49 Wager

50 Part of "to be"

62 To abet

50 Note of scale

(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL")

The United States and Canada have reached an agreement to exchange defence articles to speed hemisphere defence and aid Britain, says a joint statement issued by Pre- sident Roosevelt and Mr. Mackenzie King, Canad- ian Premier.

Under the framework of that Lease and Lend Act, the United Citater will make available Englami "component parts for the use of equipment and mumtions which Canada is protein Beam" which England will im mediately relay to Canada

During the coming year Canada will endeavour to supply the US with $300.000 000 worth tence materials "urgently requir ed by the Unded States for the own purposes."

Reaction To Greek War

Mr. Henry Margen'han and Mr.I Harry Hopkins attended the Roo- seven-King conference

IT IS UNOFFICIALLY PRE- DICTED IN WASHINGTON THAT THE BRITISH BALKAN SETBACKS WILL BRING A SPEEDY INCREASE OF AMERI- CAN AID TO BRITAIN

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It is understood that various i sources confidently assured Pre-i sident Roosevelt two weeks ago that the combined British, Greek and Yugoslav armies were more than sufficient to check the Ital- ians and Germans for at least four months.

It is emphasised, however, that the United States Government is still confident of the ultimate suç, cess and survival of the British Empire, which, it is pointed out, is intact though battered.- Inter- national News Service.

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HORSE, DIED

While injecting

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tetanus toxin

a horse, a laboratory assis- tant accidentally split the index finger of his left hand, and died five days later.

During the injection the needle slipped, and while replacing this the man's finger was injured.

This was stated at a Tunbridge Wells inquest on Alfred Leslie Lay, aged thirty-four, of Fair- lawne Stables, Shipbourne, Kent, employed at the Wellcome Re- search Laboratories,

A verdict of Death by misadven. ture was recorded.

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