1941-08-06 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 6, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

HELLO BOSS! I'M TONY! ARE YOU

I COME FOR DIS A

JOB, YES?

MARRIED?

6.20

OH, SURE!

I'M SORRY TONY.

TONY, HE'S MARRIED!

BUT WE WANT A SINGLE MAN!

SINGLE MAN? YESTERDAY I COME

13brand, Peptone Gourl

NO I'M SORRY!

IT MUST HAVE

Page

^ BV BUD FISHER

MISTAKE!! MISTAKE! WHAT'S A MATTER FOR YOU?

YOU SAY YOU WANT BEEN A MISTAKE! WHAT I'M GONNA DO?

MARRIED MAN!

1 MARRY JOSEPHINE –

LAST NIGHT!

OPERATOR GETME BLOOM, BLOOM BLDOM AND MCCARTHY - *DIVORCE LAWYERS!.

CAPTURE OF ASSAB DISCLOSURE

CAPTURE OF THE POST OF ASSAB, WHICH PROVED THE

OF THE ITALIAN EAST AFRI- CAN EMPIRE. WAS ACCOM- PLISHED BY INDIAN TROOPS. THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE

LISBON THE CITY OF WHISPERS

(By MARJORIE HIRD)

THE LIGHTS SHINE bright in Lisbon.

There

FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN is music and dancing in the cafes; a housewife needs no ration card when she goes out shopping; the siren never shatters our sleep, and the whistle of a bomb R.A.F. BY A WELL-PLANNED is something the Portuguese would not recognise.

But the shadow of war hangs over every man The attack, which was a com- and every woman, in the shape of a great, ugly sus- plete surprise. took place one picion. For the capital of Portugal is a city where morning in June and was pheno-trust has been banished until peace comes to Europe sustaining no casualties.

ATTACK, IT WAS REVEALED YESTERDAY.

menally successful, our

again.

One Italian was killed while My Hungarian host more than 1,000 Italians, with 35 across the table and whipered Germans, were captured.

hasty caution.

leaned, I had had two nights before with

a the "clever fellow." It was

harmless enough talk we had, but there was one serious note.

Large quantities of rifles. "Do you know that man sitting machine-guns and ammunition just behind you?” he asked. were also secured with little damage to the harbour installa

tions.

The town offered litle resis tance, the general attitude being one of resignation and relief that all was over.

It was a little Frenchman,

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That came when he warned me to beware of the Hungarian who was now entertaining me, "Mind your step when you're last-war veteran and a hero of with him," he had said. "He' this. Wounded at Dunkirk, he working for both sides in the sec- had been taken prisoner, shot his ret service." German captor and escaped to join cause with England.

"Clever fellow." confined my "One of the best men they

But for the element of surprise host. in the attack, it is considered that have got." Assab might have been a hard I thanked him for his warning, and remembered the conversation nut to crack.

Reuter.

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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12 To praise

13 Gülded

14 Level

15 Tavern

10 Fable-maker

18 Newt ***.

19 King of

Bashan

20 Let it stand.

21 Hawaiian

puffin

23 Note of scale 24: Large ladle

28 Palm genus

28 To play on

unskillfully

29 Worm

30 Males

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goddess 42 Persia 44 School! *45,Girl's"name"

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*** mother.

So there is a rule of thumb for us "belligerents" who live in this neutral country.

It is to mistrust everybody........ most of all the friendly neutral who offers his sympathy. Those four square-headed, gut- tural-voiced men dining over

mistake there now. No them. They are Germans. British, and we can at least be honest with each other.

about

I am

We exchange stiff bows and sometimes we discuss the weather and the casino.

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The neutrals have less tact-or more cunning.

They, and the men who may be anything-the expatriate French- men. Norwegians and Dutch - do not keep their conversations on the safe subjects which are all that the Germans and I ever mention, So the Germans and I mis- trust them all, and they are even suspicuous of each other.

There is the American boy who has just joined the De Gaulle; forces as a journalist. He came to buy me a farewell drink in a pair of trousers he had bought from a Dutchman we both knew.

"I thought you didn't trust him," I suggested, but he told me that his fears had been put at rest. The Dutchman was now with the R.A.F.

And when I mentioned this in- cident to Edmund, another Ameri- can in Lisbon, he gave me quizzcal smile.

"Funny," he mused, "but I don't quite like that journalist. He why may be on the level-but

is he rushing off to every war that happens?”

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We are all suspects "in this nerve war in a neutral Jänd.

Last night the Hungarian who. had been my host cut me dead, and a friend explained::

"He's just tipped me off; that there seems to be something phoney, about you," he grinned.

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