By BUD FISHER ·
NINE HUNDRED
AND NINETY-NINE, BLOP!
Fisher
CHINA CONFIDENT DOWN
OF AMERICAN
MOTIVES
"CHINESE AND AMERICAN RELATIONS ARE MOST FRIENDLY AND ABOVE ANY KIND OF SUSPICION OR MISTRUST.
WITH
THE DAWN
In the Battle of Britain last year rural England got used to seeing British airmen floating down by parachute after fighting and beating the Germans at great odds.
been
Now that the enemy has obliged to reduce his air offen sive, the sight is not so common. and it was therefore *1
ther tartled and suspicious farmer who regarded a dishevelled-look-
"We have implicit confidence in each other and in our cultural background which is essential to international understanding,' said Dr. Quo Tai-chi, Minister of Foreigning fighter pilot who knocked hi Affairs, in a speech at the Confucius' birth- day party given by the Chinese-American In- stitute of Cultural Relations last night.
on the
up at dawn une morning last anh.
took ap PX
of me for a pilot when back to his
"I am afraid he tremely poor view time." grinned The eventually he got base. "but after a while the situa - tion was grasped and the inevit- able cup of ten produced."
Dr Que stud that though con-, On March 15th. President Roose- vecations are going on in Wash-velt said, 'America will extend to ington between the United States China immediately all possible
The pilot had had some dim- As and Japan, not the slightest nu-aid.“ America does not enter into culty in leaving his aircraft, log caught prehension is entertained by the or take lightly any commitments." he jumped his
gave Chinese that China's interests will Mr. Owen Lattimore, personal; something but this luckily not be upheld on the fundumental ¦ adviser to Generalissimo Chiang way when he pushed,
been at principles of international policy. Kai-shek, dwelt
about "I must have impor-
feet when 1 tance of Sino-American cultural 1.500-2,000
got clear." he said. "My parachute, however, opened almost instantly and I felt a heavy jolt as it All- ed. This was followed by a ples- sant sensation.
and of quietness the feeling that I was not fali- ing."
Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, Ameri-relations. ran Ambassador to China, whn Other prominent guests includ- was present said: "Where America ed Mr. Kung Teh-cheng, 77th stands with reference to China and | lineal descendant of Confucius. the Far East is known to you all. Central News,
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HORIZONTAL
1 Saxon
chlef
6 Capital of
Egypt
11 Redeemer
12 To fasion
14 Epoch
15 Author of
"The Rights of Man'
17 Music: as written 18'Symbol for tantalum
10 Internal
glandular secretion
-21 Latin con-
Junction
22 Assyrian
delty (var.) 24 Hebrew
letter
25 Tangles
27 Hindu
weight.
28 Butterfly
29 Wriles
30 Detachment
to force men
into naval
service.
33 Reclined
34 Toward
35 English River"
37. To remove
30 Symbol for
gold
30 European
blackbird
41 Four
42 Compacted
in rows
45 Article
46 Ocena
40 Lour
deposit 49 Insect 50 Greece
52 To enter for
conquest
54 River in
France
55 Appears
VERTICAL
1 To vex
2 Eggs
3 Japanese
measure
4 Profound
sleep
5 Sandarac
tree
7 Solar disc
8 Pronoun
D Ethiopian
title
10 Groups of
eight
11 Bristle
13 Head-
coverings
18 Deception 19 Hastena
G Light Indian
craft
20 Altered
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
PACE
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CANADASTELLER
TRITER
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23 Calyx lenf
20 Wrath
28 Exists 29 Colloquial;
father.
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32 To depart 33 Embank-
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Cantelopes
'38 Ascended
NO
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WAR
IRIS
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vening
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dovice
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delty
47 Boverage
40. Dutch
weight
81 Chinese
measuro
53 Norse dellý
But the "pleasant sensation" was short lived for a little while later, as the pilot himself describ-| ed it, I landed with considerable force in a ploughed field-on my tail!"
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CHINESE AMOK
Allegedly using a chopper and
au axe, a Chinese was reported to have attacked three men and a boy who were sleeping in a hostel on the first floor of No. 14. Jubilee Street, at 4 a.m. to-day.
Two of the victims, ohe 43 years old, and a 12-year-old lad, have been admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital in a serious 1 15- dition. The other two Lien were only slightly wounded.
The assailant escaped and has not yet been traced.
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LIBYA GUNFIRE
A British Middle East communi- que issued from General Head- quarters, Cairo, yesterday states:
Libya: In the frontier area, as the result of activity of our pa- trols, the enemy opened up artil- lery fire. In the Tobruk area, no change.
Africa: Italian East
In the Worskefit area, a small detach- ment cooperating with Ethiopian patrols successfully attacked enemy, fort, capturing seven Ita- Bians and several machine-guns.-- Reuter.
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