THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13,1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
WHAT CHA
GOT THERE?
IT'S A HEADACHE MACHINE I INVENTED FOR
PEOPLE WHO GET
HEADACHES!
HOW DOES
IT WORK?
3-27
VERY SIMPLE! JUST STEP ON THIS BOARD!
STEP ON IT,
MUTT!
Ubrary, Supnentes Cont
OW!
YOU LITTLE ☆!!...) WHAT'S THE IDEA-) PULLING A TRICK LIKE THAT?
IT'S NOT A
TRICK, MUTT!
Page
Bv BUD FISHER
YOU GET SUCH A PAIN IN
YOUR FOOT You FORGET ABOUT THE PAIN IM
YOUR HEAD!
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EVIDENCES OF FIFTH COLUMN ACTIVITY IN IRAQ
A VIVID ACCOUNT of widespread Fifth Column activities by enemy agents in Iraq,
AMERICAN STEAMER SEIZED
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The Japanese mili- tory in Shanghai yes- terday seized оп American -owned coastal steamer, the Estelle, while the crew
unloading
cargo of cotton carri ed through the Japan- ese blockade.
were which led to the outbreak of hostilities be- tween the British and the Raschid Ali clique, was given yesterday by two Mexican artistes who have arrived in Bombay from Basra.
The artistes, who had been in Iraq six months, said they could detect no anti-British feeling among the people when they went to the country.
nationalties
Majority of the people of Trang Women of foreign hoked at the coup d'etat by, who passed off as artistes. b12t Rachid Ali with a good deal of ¦ who could neither sing nor dance Suspicion and uneasiness. They It was generally believed some could never expect the new re- lot them at least were engaged in gime actually to mvolve them an | political espionage. war with the British.
of
Baghdad Was
hotbed a espionage and enemy propa ganda, according to the artistes.
Casino Women
lu a certain casino in Barhdad there were a large number of
The Mexican artistes actually left Basra the day Raschid Ali's forces started hostilities at Habbaniyah.
They are firmly convinced that widesprend Fifth Column activity was mainly responsible for the present trouble in Iraq ter.
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HORIZONTAL
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time
4 Tu exist
fi To laik
foullshty
11 Short poem
13 To reprimand.
15 By
16 Egg-shaped
18 Paradise
19 To employ
21 Epic poeni
22 Toward
23 Asserted
20 Rodent
29 List
31 Deliberate
slight
33 Note of scale
34 King of
Bashan
35 To sink
38 Beverage
30 Land
measure
40 Pronoun b
41 Woody plant.
43 Hoar frost
45 Fooulke
bart 47-T6 agree 50 Colloquial:
father
52 Apportions
.53 Toper.
50 To leave out
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VERTICAL
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10 To obtain
Row-
with difficulty
58 Japanese
seuport
1 Son of Isaac
60 Six
2 Decays
12 Negative
3 Arttele
4 Oblique
61 Malayalan
garment
03 To save
65 To requite
66 Teutonic deity
67 Part of
**to be".
5 Public
warehouse
G GIL
7 Note of scale
8 To aid
▷ English
royal line
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
SİLİAJM)
HARF TO IN
APIECE
ALAI TERS PORRIDGE ADEEM NO
TO
ERA
POSED AR STR REEVE.
PERTE
ADARBO
ALL
1.
SIDE
SERIAL
REAR
HOA
14 Printer's
measure
17 Wearing
apparel
20 To devour
24 Final
25 Owing
27 First man 28 Ripped 29 To play
boisterously
30 Curved
molding
32 Stable
30 Part of a circle
37 Sclence of
the structure
of the earth
2 Man's name
44 Pronoun:
40 Pinnacle.
40 To gaze
-49: Glacial ridge:
51.On top of
54 Finished
55,Occasion
56 Bone:
ST. To disfigure
50-Paid notice
63 Symbol for
^-sodium!
64. Babylonian
delty
The US consulate is expected to protest to Tokyo. Interna tional News Service.
WAICHOW
CAPTURE
CLAIMED
ISPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}
The Japanese claim to have cut another route for supplies to the Chin- ese Government at Chungking.
Clams are made in an official Japanese announcement 11: Can- tore which says that Japanese
amy and navy forces yesterday afternoon almost simultaneously captured the towns of Wa chots and Poklo, both of which are to the south-east of Canton,
Walchow, which has 60,000 in- habitants, is at the ronfluence of the East and Mitangshui Rivers,
Poklo was tuken by the Japanese when they attacked Can- ton but was later abandoned Reuter as being unimportant. Special.
TERRORISTS
HANDED OVER
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The Shanghai Muni- Police yesterday cipal handed four Chinese ter- rorists and a woman into
the custody of the Japan- ese military.
The step followed the terrorists' confession that they had taken part in the bombings of the Nan-. king-sponsored Central Reserve Bank on February 28, when four bombs were hurled inside the bank was premises and a bodyguard shot dead.
Further investigations are pro- ceeding by the police in an effort to round up the others.-Interna- tional News Service.
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