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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 10, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF.

LISTEN, I'VE BEEN IN THE ARMY BEFORE! I KNOW THE ROPES! JUST DO AS I DO AND YOU'LL HAVE AN :

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ANY OF YOU BOYS

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SHORTHAND?

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IN THE MESS QUARTERS! THE COOK WILL TELL You

WHAT TO

DO!

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By BUD FISHER

MESSA QUARTERS

GAPERS

HE PULLED THE "KING'S QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

HIS WEIGHT

A conscientious objec- tor who was granted total exemption from military service joined the Mer- chant Navy-and died a hero.

He was Arnold Baker, of Boj- ion, Lanes, and tribute was paid

to him at Manchester conscien- tious objectors tribunal. When

Baker was given exemption there in 1939 Judge Burgis said that the tribunal was satisfed he would pull his weight.

The chief officer of Baker's ship wrote saying that Baker showed "wonderful · courage and bearing in the face of death without a thought for himself "

the

He voluntarily took over wheel under heavy fire with only the briefest instruction. When the steering was wrecked he asked to be given something else to do instead of making for his boat.

"He entirely fulfilled his pro. mies to pull his weight, and died В wonderful example of:

the officer wrote.

POISONER" IS DEAD

AND THIS IS a record of the work he has done

to bring murderers to justice. His real name was Sir William Willcox. His nickname was given him because he gave evidence at so many trials.

No more will sealed glass jars be brought to his laboratory, holding grim relics which were made by him to speak their tale of a man's burst of insane anger, or a woman's jealousy.

No more will defending counsel, For three weeks Willcox had vainly seek to break down that headed the band of scientists in patient composure

to shat whose laboratories the fate of a poisoner's victim was confirmed. He revealed that an unusual drug hyoscine, then almost unknown had been found in the

of body show Belle Elmore,

ter that cold record of scientific fact by a less scientific, a more theatrical attack.

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And never again will a guilty man-steeling himself confidence before a hundred criti- cal eyes-hear. with a shudder. First, the sex of the dreadful the quiet, dispassionate senten- remains had to be decided, then ees which have so often brought the manner of death. The find- an edifice of pitiable lies crashing ings led to Crippen's dramatic ar- to ruin.

rest--and to the gallows.

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A cat was recruited by Dr. Crippen heard his doom spoken Willcox to help him in his tests. British courage and bravery," in the quiet tones of this man who He showed more consideration for

was to become Sir William Will- cox. And, better than most, the it than Crippen did for a human

and being,

"Crippen”—as the Judge Burgis said Baker's con- little doctor must have realised duct was the clearest justification the significance of what the mild, animal was nicknamed by irrever- ! of the privilege granted to con-apparently ineffectual witness was ent medical students-lived to

full old age. scientious objectors.

saying.

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Sir William, who had been medical adviser to the Home Office from 1919 until his death pro- about poisons baby knew more than any other man, and gave evi- dence in so many trials that he was nicknamed **The King's Poisoner."

But his interests ranged over a wider field, and rheumatic suffer- ers owe a lot to the brilliant team Mary's Hos- of doctors of St. pital which he led. For twelve years they worked to establish as a fact that rheumatism is duc primarily to a germ.

They failed to identify the germ, but their research opened the way for American scientists, who tracked it down.

And Britain's armament drive would be lagging behind but for Sir William's discovery in the last war of the source of a my- sterious illness which attacked | aeroplane shedworkers.

He found that a poisonous, gas given off in the manufacturing process, was heavier than -ai- and put an end to the complaint by suggesting that the sheds should be ventilated from the bottom instead of the topaz,

No man could speak with great- er authority when he said that secret poisoning--though still flourishing in such countries a Egypt, India and the West Indies

was rare in England.

The careful investigation. the Home Office and other author- ities of all suspected cases rend- ers the risk involved so great," he declared, "that few dare embark on the nefarious and risky scam- paign of secret, poisoning.ldblu

Those words might well be his own epitaph,

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