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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

Library, Bitcumpa

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By BUD FISHER

WHAT CHA DOIN,

I'M PAINTING

A TARGET!

WHAT FOR?

FOR TARGET PRACTICE! I'M GONNA DO SOME

SHOOTING!

MUTT?

CAN I

WATCH?

YEH, BUT STAY OUT OF THE WAY! GO SOMEPLACE

WHERE I WON'T HIT

You!

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AXIS AT WORK IN BANGKOK

Japanese, Italians and Ger. JLADS, within! any oby 10ths! legitimate busaties. bit call- ing themselves "business men, are arriving 11 Bangkok, the Capital of Thailand (Sam), in in ereas ng numbers according to a traveller arrived recently in Singa-

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INDIAN CAPTURE OF POSITIONS

AT AMBA ALAGI

HOW INDIAN TROOPS at dawn on May

The Japanese predominate 10 successfully attacked and captured fur- the coflus, he sud, and many other heights east of the enemy positions at Amba Alagi, in Abyssinia, is told in a vivid account received in Simla yesterday from an

them are opellatit um focked hop- to justly then presentee

Non-Axx shops

water in the vicinity of Bangkol. Indian Army eye-witness.

Trequently have report 4 sighting fleat.ng mes 1 undet! magan, the traveller continued, but the mines were mostly types pre dating the present wal

The first two hills were taken without much resistance but after the capture of the Thailand, which is in a simula third hill a heavy counter-attack was launch- reorientation of the latter's foreign ed, and our positions were fiercely bombard- poley which resulted in the Gered by light mountain artillery and mortars.

po ition to Yugoslavia before the

man invasion, aparently is deter-] muned to play ball with Japan and!

pract ce

{ו}!!

The Ind-ans' experience of wat desperat enemy the other members of the Axi fare on the North-West

counter-attack. Frontier when a sepoy stood right regardless of the consequence to stond them in good stead and they the het independence

Hurling hand-grenades held their ground, An ant-anevalt unit of an in-

into the advancing Italians The country is extrvordinarily | dian reg.ment went through es

Continuous thunderstorms and diflicult and remarkable work heavy ans have fative farget

failed entirely [JH] was done 1 Indian soldier, Suwapore

is to lamp vecently with the mule eluunas.

men's spirits and a and uf

stream T radio-controlted)

prisoners, including One outstanding plane, which constituted the first

exploit many officers is being evacuated among many was a intimatum to the mabile that surh

bayonet to the rear. -- Reuter. charge led by an Indian officer. eragt war. included in the air force

An enemy machine-gun stationed here.

post To-day's target singled him out but he miracul. partetice was synplomatic of the

ously escaped the stream of concentration in Singapere on de- bullets and silenced the post. fence training for any eventuality Another instance was during a

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HORIZONTAL,

To leap

4 Short for

"Elizabeth"

8 Greek letter

12 Wing

13 Aloud

14 God of love

15 Nothing

10 To listen

secretly

10 Poetic; grief

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22 Insect

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29 Humorist

30 Underground

creature

'31 King of Bashan

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34 Exists

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Si Man's name

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call

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garden

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55 Singing voice

56 Tall grass

57 Female sheep

VERTICAL

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in S. Africa

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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LIGHTS TRACED BY COMPASS

SPECIAL OBSERVER SEC- TIONS TO DETECT PREMISES FROM WHICH LIGHT SHOWS DURING THE BLACK-OUT ¦ HAVE BEEN FORMED BY A NUMBER OF PROVINCIAL POLICE FORCES.

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Members. who are posted buts at vantage points about the towns are equipped with power- ful night glasses, maps and com- passes.

When a light is seen a ('00) - pass bearing is taken and police headquarters are notified by tele- phone of the location of the pre- mises concerned.

Several offenders have already been convicted as a result of the activities of the observers.

BRITISH WOMAN IN

DEATH CELL PROMISE

The Australian Red Cross an- nounced that it had been advised that Miss Winifred Harle, Aus- tralian woman under sentence of death in occupied France, was be- ing kept in a comfortable cel and that the Germans had promised that the sentence would not be carried out precipitately, says Associated Press.

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desert

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30 Acquired

32 Game of skill

33 Lettuce genus 36 Earth goddess 37 To trick 38 To struggle 40 To change

41 Butterfly

43 Land measure 44 To care for. 45 Stomach of

Penn animal:

40 To abominate 47 Egge

40 Swordsman's

staka.".

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30 By birth

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stated last November that the American authorities in Parls had persuaded the Germans reconsider the case

of Miss Harle, who was sentenced on charges of disseminating Brl- tish speeches and news in occupied France.

Miss Florence Frickard was re- ported to have been sentenced to death on similar charges.

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