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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 3, 1941

MUTT AND JEFF

I'M EXPECTING AN IMPORTANT LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALL TODAY AND I CAN'T AFFORD

TO MISS IT!

THERE SHE RINGS AGAIN:

I WISH SHE WOULDN'T INTERRUPT

ME!

RING-G BUZZ-

RING

JEFF WHO WAS THAT ON THE

'PHONE?

I DUNNO! SOME DIZZY DAME WAS TRYIN' TO

KID ME!

WHAT DID SHE SAY?

SHE SAID IT'S A LONG DISTANCE FROM HOLLYWOOD

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By BUD FISHER

·AND I SAID I KNEW IT

AND HUNG UP!

Crete Struggle Might Have Been Different If--

COMMENTING ON CRETE before the GOLDEN

announcement

DAYS OF

of the evacuation, the "Gothenburg Handelstidning" said that the "British have no longer any prospects of driv- TRAWLING ing the Germans from Crete. It is only a question of time when the last British soldier must choose between death and surrender.

The fight to the last man. from

The wan

bases for

ti

A golden shower has fallen on "Trawler Town," in a port "somewhere

! If the British had not England." Fishermen are the Binish standpoint, will be well been forced to depend on distant earning so much money defended as it holds up the enemy

that they scarcely know #1 British breathing struggle and gives the

It certainly causes the Ger- would have had another result | what to do with it. Wages have not increased very

***.

mans great material and human Jesses but it puts the brave British to a hard test.

"Now it can be said that if the British lose the fight it is be cause they did not understand the importance of holding the flying base9.

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reinforcements,

mist be supposed.

Will the German offensive con- tinue without respite as on the

Dunkuk"

Somme and Aisne last year after | much, but the demand for fish has enormously alter- British find themselves, ed the value

of their

The for the continuation of the opera-

bons in the eastern Mediterran-shares in the catch.

better position Much call

can, in a much than the AXIS DOwers.

The Deck hands,

lowest-pairi members of a trawler's crew, are

In Better Position depend on Vichy's attitude, but, averaging £10 to £12 "all found" after President Roosevelt's speech, for a 10 days trip. Sometimes The Germans in Crete have Pelam should show himself more, they make

than toughest reserved.

heretofore". the hardest and pposition since the beginning of Reuter,

met

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HORIZONTAL

1 To observe

4 18 mistaken

8 Eagles.

12 Light brown

13 Scottish

Highlander

14 To harvest

15 Upper limb

16 Cleverness

18 Happiness

20 Footless

animal

21 Part of

infinitive

22 Music: high

23 Small part

27 To raise with

a lever

29 Pronoun'.

-30 Different

31 Sloth

32 To Bevor'

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34 Chinese.lo measura 35,Obvious

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3B Cushion

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64 Female sheep 55 Greek letter

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67 Ethiopian

chieftain

VERTICAL

1 To pierce

2 Nobleman

3 Hostility

1 Shield

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To entertain

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8 Learned

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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coin

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demon

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25 Membrane

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can rodent

28 Stream

20 Pronoun 30 Preposition

32 Choral ...

composition

33 Container 36 Babylonian“

→ deity

37 Basket

30 Alloy of tin and lead

40 Malaysian

vessel *41 To"depart

43 Mulberry

44 Ordered

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£40.

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Skippers and mates may make A more than a Cabinet Minister. trawler's mate in

court CESC as said to be earning £5 a day. and a trawler owner confided to ine that skippers and mates who do not make £20 a week are "not trying.

Record Catches

one

Hi sea After nine days

brought ship

home

catch which sold for £ 4,824 the most valuable catch ever made i home waters.

A few weeks ago a big teeland trawler, fishing in more distant grounds, unloaded a record catch of 30,000 stones which realised

£19.000.

Dutch, Belgian, French, Polish, Danish, Norwegian and Iceland Bshermen are all sharing in the The Icelands golden harvest. seem almost overwhelmed by their sudden wealth, and many stories are told of their prolific spending. Many of the local trawlermen have bought and refurnished their hemes. The fishermen are gener- us spenders. ous givers as well Into a barrow at the dock gates A week for the hey put £ 100

£11,000 goes into

Between Cross.

Red

and £12,000

war savings.

week

CAPTAIN CHATTEY GETS TWO YEARS

Sentence of two years Impri- Eonment was passed by the Chlef Walter Justice this morning on Harold Powiesland Chattey, cap- tain in the Middlesex Regiment, charges of inde- on alternative cancy.

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