1941-09-22 — Page 37

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941. MUTT AND JEFF

PEELIN POTATOES FOR AN ARMY IS NO CINCH!

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NOW LOOK, SARGE, IF ALL THE POTATOES WERE COOKED WITH THEIR JACKETS ON THEN EACH SOLDIER COULD PEEL HIS OWN POTATO! WHATCHA THINK OF THE

IDEA?

WELL, THEN HOW'S ABOUT GIVING THE MEN A TREAT TONIGHT?:- BAKED POTATOES WITH THE JACKETS,

ONE

Page

Rv BUD FISHER

-O.K. I'LL PEEL P'TATERS!

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PETAIN BACKS UP THE NAZIS

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MARSHAL PETAIN, IN THREE MINUTE BROADCAST YESTERDAY AFTER- NOON FROM VICHY, FORMAL- LY CONDEMNED RECENT AT-

ORGANISING THE EYES

OF THE ARMY

ONE OF THE WAR'S most vital tasks is TACKS ON GERMAN OCCUPA- that of the "eyes of the Army"—the Coopera- TION-SOLDIERS AS "CRIMIN-

BE tion Command, whose squadrons' watch the

AL ACTS"

"ASCRIBED

AGENTS."

WHICH MUST

TO FOREIGN battlefront.

He said his Government would

means He made a special {1}}-

der

hunt down the guilty by all Pilots are men trained in the art of re- peal to all Frenchmen in the oc- connaissance. Upon their zeal and initiative cupied zone to help safeguard or in the air may well depend the fate of "If these criminal gestures con- armies on the ground, for it is upon the ac- innocent prop e. Your primary Curacy and speed of aerial reconnaissance that the decisions of army chiefs are often made.

tinue, repression will risk affecting!

duty is to safeguard the unity of France," he added. Reuter,

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JAPANESE ENVOYS

Should a British offensive be in, reiving messages from Arniy progress or the enemy threaten-H.Q. seeking information

which THE JAPANESE FOREIGN ing an attack. Army Cooperation | aerial reconnaissance alone can OFFICE ON SATURDAY AN-squadrons wil be 1 t instant provide. NOUNCED TWO DIPLOMATIC | readiness on airfields close to the APPOINTMENTS.

army formations to which they are

Mr. Masatoshi Akiyama has a tached. Pilots will be standing been named Japanese Minister to by the aircraft waiting for orders. Nicaragua.

Mr. Denjiro Kato is appointed consul-general at Vienna and at; the same time First Secretary of the Japanese Legation in Slova- kia.-Reuter.

What Army Wants

Suddenly a pilot will be sum- Air Liaison officers-Army offi- moned. The alr liaison officers cers who form a link between will explain the mission, explain perhaps what the Army wants, Ariny comnianders operation squadrons-will be re- the enemy lines or whether

whether tanks are moving behind

and Air Co

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HORIZONTAL 1 Clue

4 Likeness

9 Cravat

12' Trouble

13 Artificial

waterway

14 Measure of

length

-15. English.......... .-dramatist 17 French.

dramatist

10 Presenter

21 Hard-shelled #fruit&N 22,To retain $24 To take

from ille gally

20 List 29 Missile, Lowerpon

31 Humorist

33. Protube Vanco

34 River in

It'd Italy, J

35. Inlet.

37 Light brown

39. Hebrow g

months

40, Greek letter

42 Title of

respect,

44 To fall into Pidisuse

40 Norse galley.

40 Marriago

́ ́ portion":"

50 Metropolis

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51 Youth

53 Graph

.55 Author of

"Faust"

58 Author of

"Emperor Jones"

B1 To consume

62 Musical

instrument 64.To. stare at fő. Bitter: vetch “

68 Composed:

*61 English

...river

VERTICAL

1 Dervish's

сар

2 Aruincial

language

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3 To meditate

4 Religious

representa-

..tion

5 Lord's estate 6. Article

7: Pikelike fish @ Dash

Sea demigod

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

VIAPPAN DIA HUE

ER VARADARIDA

CARCADLAR

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10 Electrified particle

11 Holland

commune

10 Deep sleep 18 Mongrel 20 Line

22 Greek letter

23 Eaten away 23 Seized with the teeth

27. To warið

thoroughly.

28 Monastery 30 Archaic, to

Suppose

32 Hindu

cymbals

3d Assistance [38 Mathur-of-

pearl 41. Alts.

43 Fabulous

bird

BVEN ITOVENTE Had compas-

HISERS ANGER.

FALLB

CARA

KNAIMPOT

HASELAMER HCE LINATONE ERA

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49 Young hog 02 Arüblan kall- thg Vessel

34 Former Eng- Blish queen

65 Teamsters Pivory celda:

to Rowing

implement. 57. To blunder

BD Calistic

substanco 60 Sheltered 03 To leave

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re-

inforcements of troops are mass- ing near a certain village.

The pilot will make the neces- reconnaissance. watching

sary the skies for hostile aircraft.

If the mission is urgent he may send information by wireless or drop a written message as soon 05 he returns to the landing ground.

Part of the mission may be to take aerial photographs of a par- ticular position pinpoint on his Then he will keep the air- craft steady while the camera does the job.

map.

The squadron's photographic stuff will stage the camera, pro- cess the negatives and deliver the prints without delay to the air liaison officer, so that he can either report direct to Army H.Q. or send the photography to H.Q. for examination there.

Strategic Study

Another type of reconnaissance may also be required - strategi- cal reconnaissance.

This reconnaissance is not over or near the scene of fighting but well behind the batle front,

Pilots are rigorously trained for this class of work and become ex- tremely

reporting proficient in by wireless to the artillery com- mander where shells are falling.. If they are exploding short hé will notify the gunners. If they are too far ahead: he will direct fire to the objective till the shells find the mark and the battery is destroyed.

It is a perilous task for, the pilot, A.A. fire may harass him enemy fighters-pursue him.

But.the-work must be done and no Army Cooperation pilot wants to return to base before his re connaissance, mission is accom-

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