1941-08-21 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1941.

3 MUTT AND JEFF

TAXIDERMIST

ALL KINDS OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS

STUFFED

THEIR

PETS!

Library, Supreme

I FOUND THE POOR THING ON. ITS BACK WITH ITS FEET UP- QUIVERING! IT DIED, BOO-HOO!

CAN YOU STUFF IT SO IT WILL LOOK VERY

NATURAL?

SURE! IS IT AN ANIMAL OR A BIRD?

IT DIED ON ME!]

OH, I FEEL SO SAD! I CAN HARDLY TALK!

DON'T TAKE IT SO HARD, MY FRIEND! LOTS OF PEOPLE LOSE.

Bv BUD

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FISHER

FLEA!

TEACHING. RUSSIAN PEOPLE TO MEET GAS WARFARE

A CAMPAIGN is now in progress to inform the Soviet people how to deal with gas and other chemi- cal warfare. As in Britain in the early days of the war, many decontamination squads are holding tests.

KIEL

SINGLE RAIDER OVER EAST ANGLIA

After another day undisturbed by enemy air activity over Bri- tain, a single raider dropped a high explo- sive bomb at an East Anglican town last night. No casualties were reported.---Reu- ter.

BOMBED DANCE LED

Trained speakers and heads of A.R.P. house committees can be seen in numerous little court- yards in Moscow, lecturing inhabitants in blocks and flats on how to protect themselves against gas.

Leaders and other atricles in the press urge the need for the people to take their own measures 01 defence. They warn that the enemy is prepared to resort to aly measure to ensure victory.

In an article

yesterday "Pravda" the Major-General the Technical Troops, Melhikov, writes: "Not long ago the whole world learned with hatred that Nazism

secretly preparing was a new crime the extensive use of a poisonous substance in die war eainst the Soviet Union, Fighter and Coastal Commands

attacked

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aware that the

An Air Ministry communique states: Command attacked Kiel and other, "Aircraft of the Bomber

objectives in North-West Germany last night

in very bad weather. Bursts were seen on the target but clouds often made observation of results difcuit.

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From these operations, two air- craft of the Bomber Command are missing."--British Wireless.

North, pleaded not guilty at a Yorkshire Court-Mar- tial to improperly allow- ating women to remain in

enemy is proposing to apply a combination of poisonous sub- stances with asphyxia ing. smarting and blistering effects. "Chemical attacks, however. only present danger when there is no knowledge of methods defence," and he goes on to urge the formation of special anti- | Baghdad

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mental policeman; refus- ing the latter admission to a sergeants' mess where the women had been taken; making a false accusation to the effect that the policeman was drunk, and attempting to procure an Army motor- driver to make wrongful use of Government trans- port.

Accused was an Army dance committee president and organis- ing M.C.

at a camp

gymnasium dance ending at midnight-to which civilians were invited.

It was alleged he tried to in- duce an M.T. driver, in the early morning, to drive some people, in- cluding women,, back into town after being told it was "against orders."

Women By Fire

The driver had been detalled with his truck to bring beer and other "atuff to the dance and take the remains back to the sergeante mess.

Accused was seen by. Lance Corporal. J. Thomas, of the camp police. He was told that all civi¬ lians were forbidden to remain in the camp after a quarter of an hour of the dance finishing..

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Later, it was stated, Thomas was rushed out of the hut after he had seen several women sitting by the fire, taken under open arrest to the guardroom and accused of being drunk by Williams, who diá not press the charge when the re- gimental sergeant-major and the medical officer could not be found. Thomas, declaring he had only had tea to drink on that day, said he was on a midnight patrol of the comp

Accused declared that when some women 'guests were strand- ed they were waiting for a tax! when the incident happened. Thomas was, arrested, because he was insulting, improperly dress- ed, in a drunken state, and had entered the sergeants mess with- out removing his cap or "armlet | badgereed

The hearing was adjourned.

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