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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 4, 1941. MUTT AND JEFF

YOU LEARNED

SOMETHING? I'LL TELLYA

WHAT?

AS SOON AS THE CLOCK STRIKES TEN!

IT IS NOW TWELVE OCLOCK

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

IN EGYPT!

BONG BONG BONG

IMAGINE!

BONG

BONG

BONG

BONG

BANG

BONG

YOU'RE CRAZY! AND IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT CLOCK)

IS WRONG!

~OH, THERE'S NOTHIN' WRONG WITH THAT CLOCK!

EXCEPT THAT IT RUNS. AN HOUR FAST AND WHEN THE LITTLE HAND IS ON SIX AND THE BIG HAND

IS ON TWELVE IT STRIKES #TEN WHICH MEANSITS:

FIVE OCLOCK!,

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Bv BUD FISHER

BONG!

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German Strength On Bessarabian

FAREWELL GIFTS

Front

THE GERMAN FORCES on the Russo- Rumanian frontier consist of 19 infantry divi- sions, three cavalry divisions and a consider- Guests at the farewell able number of mechanised units, besides 25 party given by the Chin- ese Ambassador in Bri-Rumanian divisions, according to informa- tain before his return tion reaching London, writes Reuter's diplo- home to become China's matic correspondent. Foreign Minister, saw two of his latest gifts.

These reports describe the Rumanians as disturbed by the entry of Hungary into the war, believing that in the event of a German victory, the vital Rumanian claims concern- before ing Transylvania would be ignored.

They are signed photographs of the King and Queen in large silver frames, carrying the Royal monograms.

the Am-

When a reporter saw bassador he had him hundreds of messages

his

in admirers from

many

was Britain. Dr. Quo Tai-Chi sitting in the only room in the upper parts of the building which Nazi bombs have left undamaged.

Russians reserves

Bucharest reports

declare that? found guilty will be executed neither

Communists Jews nor

with their familjes. were responsible for the shooting According to reliable informa-

in Rumania tion from Lwow, the of German soldiers

Polish have mobilised but former members of the Iron

between the ages of 20 and 40. Guard wanting revenge for Ger- many's 50-called treachery last These have been incorporated in

the January, when

Germans Soviet units since the beginning the Rumanian Premier, of June. While the human population of helped

world the

is estimated at General Antonescu, to suppress 1,849,500 000, the rat population is the Iron Guard revolt.

10,000,000,000--five estimated at rats to every person.

Government The Rumanian announced henceforth that those

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Soviet Precaution

Before the German invasion of Russia began, the Soviet authori- ties removed a large number of Ukrainians systematically from the border districts, evidently fearing the effects of German in- trigues among the Ukrainians.

It is reported that the leaders of the Ukrainian Petlura Party were recently summoned to Ber- lin where Rosenberg. chief Nazl philosopher. presided over special conference discussing Russian problems.-Reuter.

TABLECLOTH OF £1 NOTES

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Ivy Veysi (21); of Pye Nest Drive, Halifax, gave her husband £100 so that he could realise his dream of making a tablecloth of £1 notes for his Turkish parents in London.

Then a bride of a month, she told her husband it was a gift from a rich uncle who was in a Sheffield hospital.

This story was told at Halifax recently when Mrs. Veysi was sent to prison for six months on charges of stealing £110 from her employer, a sub-postmaster and newsagent...

She asked for other cases in- into volving £19 to be taken' consideration."

All the stolen money had been recovered,

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