THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1941. MUTT AND JEFF
THAT'S THE REASON YOU DIDN'T GET ANY OFFERS OF MARRIAGE! THE AD YOU PUT IN THE PAPER WAS WEAK! YOU DIDN'T OFFER
MUCH!
YOU GOTTA OFFER SOMETHING THAT WILL INTEREST THEM AND YOU HAVE TO STATE EXACTLY THE KIND OF WOMAN YOU'D
LIKE TO MARRY!
HEY, MUTT! LISTEN! HOW'S THIS SOUND?
MILLIONAIRE, YOUNG, GOOD-LOOKING, WISHES TO MARRY A WOMAN
LIKE THE GIRL IN THE BOOK, "FRILLY MILLIE!"
YEH, THAT'S
CITY
BETTER!
Book SHOP
By BUD FISHER
NEXT DAY
LADIES,PLEASE! I'M
ALL SOLD OUT ON
"FRILLY MILLIE!"
BOOKS
HUNT FOR SPIES APPEAL TO
IN ANTIPODES
It is proposed to make Sydney
the whole country, to
INDIANS
Commenting on the re- cent developments in the Near East, Sir Sultan Australia and New Zea-
the centre of naval intelligence Ahmad, former land are engaged in a spy work tor
acting hunt. Possible sources of pool information 011 counter-member of the Viceroy's espionage work and to work out Executive Council, said information to the Axis
a generally satisfactory standard powers are being plugged.f what will justify the interning that the action of Raschid in Iraq, backed by It began with the rescue of 500 enemy aliens who have so far Ali
and children who been allowed to remain at liberty. German funds, has creat-
men, women had been taken by Nazi raiders ;
IT seven British and Allied vessels and lett on the tiny isle of Emirau in the Bismarck Archi- pelago north of Austraha,
When these people reached Aus tralia they gave a good deal of
ed BEESWAX
SAUSAGES
many complications for India.
He supported the suggestion for a conference of Provincial information about the raders, Soldiers who ate sausages which Premiers, made by Sir Sikandar Hyatkhan, Premier of Punjab, and about their treatment, about the had been cooked by mistake on
Fazlul Hug, Premier of Bengal, way in which the Germans hvid beeswax did not complain, though and urged Gandhi to call off the on the Nazi ships. Some of them when they dipped their bread in had stories of how the Cleans the "gravy" they said the favour rivil disobedience campaign. boasted of having advence dor- was "unusual,"
Emphasising that time is the mation about the departure of It canie about in this way: Post vessels and their position at sea. Office engineers, when repairing most important factor in the pre- The New Zealand Government switchboard cables, immerse the sent situation, he appealed to the who'e Country to share with has appointed a commission which ends in hot beeswax. A tank of sits in secret to study the question this beeswax was left in a build-America and Britain and other of leakages of information.
1117 subsequently occupied by uni's of the Commonwealth in the Moreover in
effort to save humanity and total destruction by brute force. -- has been begun to improve co- When the engineers returned to
Reuter, ordination between the intelli-¦ do further repairs, the beeswax gence departments of the three was melted, and there floater to fighting services and the evil, the top foreign objects which on authority, to make available more examination proved to be well-
Australia a
move soldiers.
money for naval intelligence work cooked portions of sausages. LOUVAIN
It was found that the
army
at principal ports and to set less rigid standards of proof for cook had mistaken the beeswax suspected "Arth columnists" | for dripping, cooked the sausages rounded up by Federal agents. in it--and had no complaints.
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Amalekite king
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Projects for rebuilding the fam- ous Library of Louvain, destroy- th. ed by German shebire for second time within a quarter of a century, are already in hand the university authorities.
by
In the war of 1914, this historic library was completely destroyed. Three years after the war ended, its ruins the library arose from largely due to gifts from America.
It was rebuilt on plans drawn up by Whitney Warren, an American architect. Its shelves were filled with books contributed by large numbers of foreign universities,
To-day the library has agnin been largely destroyed and only a part of the works it contained has The reading room been saved. reserved for university students has been completely destroyed, and the only recourse for students researches wishing to engage in
of a literary or scientific nature is to go to the Royal Library Brussels.
in
To rebuild the library a sum run- ning into many millions of francs will be necessary. Some gifts have already come in, but so long Ger- as Belgium remains under man tutelage there are necessar- ily difficulties in the way of
this great undertaking.
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The Maharajah of Kashmir, who already has four units of the State forces serving outside the State, has offered a Afth unit for service, says Reuter from Simla.
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