1941-06-18 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1941.

- MUTT AND JEFF

MY EYESIGHT IS GOOD AND I CAN BEE JUST AS WELL WITHOUT THESE

GLASSES!

WELL, NOT THAT. I WANT TO SELL YOU A PAIR BUT YOU DO LOOK MUCH BETTER IN GLASSES! MAKES

YOUR FACE THINNER!

THEY DO? WELL, I'LL TAKE THEM! HOW MUCH ARE THEY?

THEY ARE TEN DOLLARS,

MA'M!

THAT IS-ER- FOR THE FRAMES! THE LENSES WILL BE ANOTHER TEN DOLLARS-

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"Bv BUD FISHER®

EACH!

WARDEN'S DASH INTO Not So

FIRE INFERNO---2 DIE

AIR RAID WARDENS tried in vain to rescue a man and woman trapped in a London fire. People living near the White Hart, public-house, in Wind- mill Street, Tottenham Court Road, W.C., were awakened before eight by a woman's screams. They saw smoke belching from the storey above the public-house.

"A dark-haired woman was leaning out of a front window," said a neighbour. A man behind the woman was shouting to her to lean out of the window to get fresh air. Then both the man and woman disappeared."

Mr. John Mahoney and other; wardens at a nearby post, among them Mrs. S. White, ran out to give help.

his axe was burned through.

Licensee Dead

They reared a ladder against

By the time A.F.S. men reach- the front of the building to fetched the two people upstairs, they down the two people upstairs, but were dead. the ladder was too short.

Mr. Mahoney got in by smash- ing the windows in the club room on the first floor, but was driven back by the flames, which had destroyed the stairway, trapping the occupiers of the floor above.

They were Captain Walter Palmer, the licensee, and Mrs. Hilda Kuhn, Captain Palmer took the licence of the White Hart about seven months ago. Pre- viously he was at the Bird-in- Hand, Long Acre, W.C.

Mr. W. Murray, a warden at Mahoney's post, said: "Mahoney was fine. That fellow would go through the jaws of hell to do his

On his way back down the ladder he had to pass through a sheet of flames. His hands were blistered and the haft of job."

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 Strange

4 To rebound

To under- stand

12 Hawaiian

dish

13 To, diminish

14 Attempt

15 Printers

theasures

16 Glue

©:17 To mature

18 Lettuce E

genus

20 Lever

23 God of: love

24 Biblical

Chame

25 Card gama

29 Metal

29. Aksistance

30 Tapering

Misroof Vents

31 Bitter

33 River in

France

34 Cubla, mal

35 Abyss

38 African:

Sahtelope

39 Drunkard

· 40 Demonstra-

#tive prono

43 Also

44 Garland

48 Conscious

40 Kiwl

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52-Networks 53 Cebine

monkey..

54 Ovum 53 Lets fall

66 To: blunder

VERTICAL 1 To unclose

2 To put on

3. Disturbing

4 Head-

coverings 5 Arabian

garment 6.Grated

7. Aquatic

mammal

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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9 A pretense

10 Unit of work

11 Head organ 19 Bonc

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22 Latin con-

Junction.

23 Lasso 24 Pon-point 28 Place of

combat

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20 Part of "to be"

30 то роде

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33 Ialo

34 Symbol for

selenium

35 Vegetable

37 Low:note

(39)Drain

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plant

42 Receptions

44 Falsehood "ki. Wood of Pan *East:Indian *@treova!

DRENALAN tear

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implement 40 Melody

Lucky Now

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The increase of the value of benefices which were contracted to be received tax-free, is to be teracted by new proposals announced yesterday by the Chancellor of the Ex- choquer, Sir Kingsley Wood.

Certain lucky individuals, not- ably company directors and re- cipients of alimony who were being paid tax free, were re- ceiving on £5,000 tax free, for example. the equivalent of

£60,000.

The readjustment now planned will see that the burden of the Itax falls

on the payee instead of the payer.-Reuter.

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An illustration of the weight of direct taxation was given the Commons by the Chancellor of

the Exchequer moving the resolution to enable obligations to pay sums of money such as annuities free of income tax to be modified.

Sir Kingsley Wood pointed out that the obligation to pay 14/6d free of tax required а gross before the war of £1 whereas with existing taxation 29/- would now be required. British Wire- less.

JUNKERS REFUSE A FIGHT

Two Junkers 87 dive- bombers appeared at a town on the South Coast. They flew at a consider- able height along the front, possibly lorking for some objective to at- tack.

A Westland Lysander Army cooperation aircraft happened to be cruising in the same area. It is not a type well suited to making attacks on enemy dive-bombers, and it was at a tactical disad- vantage as it was much lower than the German 'planes,

climbed Nevertheless ▾ .it strongly and attempted to engage the two enemy aircraft. It got nearly within` range and began firing. The two bombers imme diately made off towards the coast of France.

An electric fuse-box caught fire in the Kowloon Godowns last night but was extinguished by the employees before the arrival. of the Fire Brigade,

Uso: the Famous " HUDSON LATHES

Apply!, TONY WONG, CHina, Bidi 6th. Fl., Room: 618 (Opp. King'").

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