1941-09-22 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF

PEELIN' POTATOES FOR AN ARMY IS NO CINCH!

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

IDEA?

WELL, THEN HOW'S ABOUT GIVING THE MEN A TREAT TONIGHT?4- BAKED POTATOES WITH THE JACKETS,

ON!

Ubrary Supreme Cereal

Page

RU RÜD FISHER

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

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MESS SERGEANT

FATHER AND BABY VANISH

Police and search parties are

Scouring

Durham villages and

Words for Frank Henry Varden, 37. and his son William, 24, who

Jesmond Newcastle-on-Tyne, for

ORGANISING THE EYES

OF THE ARMY

ONE OF THE WAR'S most vital tasks is left their home in Forsythe Roud, that of the "eyes of the Army"—the Coopera- walk and have not been seen tion Command, whose squadrons watch the ATES Vanden fold the "Daily battlefront. APETOR "My husband is highly

:ince

Strung

must Something

happened in his mind.

have

dated Monday, being Chester-le-

he and Billy were spending their

Pilots are men trained in the art of re-

"I have had a letter from hi connaissance. Upon their zeal and initiative Street postmark, in which he said in the air may well depend the fate of last day together and that I would armies on the ground, for it is upon the ac- We were happy and buth ador-curacy and speed of aerial reconnaissance that the decisions of army chiefs are often made.

n ver see them again.”

ed the baby."

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JAPANESE ENVOYS

THE

Army which alone can

What Army Wants

from messe res Should a British offensive be infreiving progress or the enemy threaten-H.Q. seeking nformation JAPANESE FOREIGN ing an attack, Ariny Cooperation | aerial reconnaissance OFFICE ON SATURDAY AN-quadrums wil be at instant provide. NOUNCED TWO DIPLOMATIC | readiness on airfields close to the APPOINTMENTS.

army formations to which they are Pilots will be standing

Mr.

Blastrushi

Akiyama has attached. bern named Japanese Minister to Nicaragua.

Mr. Denjiro Kato is appointed consul-general at Vienna and at

by the aircraft waiting for orders.

Suddenly a pilot will be sum- The air liaison officers

Air Liaison officers Army offi-moned.

who form a link between will explain the mission, explain and Air Co perhaps what the Army wants, operation squadrons-will be re-whether tanks are moving behind

the same time First Secretary of cers the Japanese Legation in Slova- Army commanders kia.-Reuter.

OUR 10-MINUTE

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HORIZONTAL

1 Cluc

4 Likeness

D Cravat

12 Trouble

13 Artificial

waterway

14 Measure of

length

15 Engush

dramatist

17 French

dramatist

19 Presanter

21 Hard-shelled.

22 To retain 24.To tako

from tile

gally 20 List

20 Missile

Weapon

31 Humorist:

34 River:

Italy

35 Inlet

37: Light brown

39 Hebrew

-monit

40 Greek letter,

42 Title of de respecti

44 To tall into

disuse 40 Norse galley,

48 Marriage.

un portion

50 Metropolls.

2

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13 18

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51 Youth

$3 Graph

65 Author of

"Faust"

58 Author of

"Emperor Jones"

01 To consume

€2 Musical

instrument

64 To store at

65 Bitter vetch

66 Composed

07 English:

river.

VERTICAL

1 Dervish's

cap

2 Artificial

language

3 To meditate

1 Religious

represchta-

Mon

5 Lord's estate

6 Article

7 Pikelike fish

.8 Dash.

9 Sea demigod

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

SWEETBİQİRİY

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血

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TOHENTE BZANGER

ALAI POTVM

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10 Electrified particle

11 Holland

commune

18 Deep sleep

18. Mongrel

20 Line

22 Greek letter 23 Eaten away 25 Seized with the teeth

27 To warm

thoroughly

28 Monastery

30 Archaic: to

suppose... 32 Hindu

cymbals

36 Assistance 30 Mother-of-

pearl

41 Alts

43 Fabulou

bird

45 Hnd cothpas-

nion for

47 Feling

4 Young-hög

52 Arabian sall-

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Wish queen BS Teamsters ddlery 2

50 Rowing

Implement

57 To blunder

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substance,

60 Sheltered.

63 To leave

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the enemy lines or whether inforcements of troops are mass- ing near a certain village,

The pilot will make the neces- watching sary reconnaissance, the skies for hostile aircraft.

AS

If the mission is urgent he may send information by wireless or drop a writ'en message as soon landing he returns to the ground,

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

camera

The squadron's photographic staff will stage the camera, pro- and deliver cess the negatives

the prints without delay to the air liaison officer, so that he can either report direct to Army H.Q. or send the photographs 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 battle front.

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

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

for the

It is a perilous task 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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