1941-09-26 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941 MUTT AND JEFF

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INDIA'S GROWING AIR POWER NOW APPARENT

RUSSIANS TRAIN FOR

SIGNIFICANT SIGNS of India's growing air power are now apparent. The trickle of imported British and American warplanes reaching the country is giving signs of deve- loping into an ever-increasing stream, while

BRITISH TANKS another indication is the growing efficiency

It is understood that the Russians are estab-

lishing schools for the training of crews for Bri- tish tanks, and probably Russian military experts will visit Britain for tank instruction.

and

of the assemblage plant in south India, which is getting into its stride.

So promising is India's position in fact that an immediate problem is the production of trained personnel in sufficient numbers to meet the anticipated flow of machines which will soon be available.

SENTENCED TO DEATH

Tank production this week will create a record and it is Govern ment's intention

record that the production should be maintained.

The volume

tanks of munitions to be sent to Rusa|a| during the winter and spring of

Gentilhomme, for- next year will be a high per

mer Commander-in-Chief of the centage of British production. Efforts are being made to speed French forces in Somaliland, who up transport so that British sup- is now with the Free French, was plies to Russia will arrive in the sentenced to death in his absence by a court martial at Gannat yes- shortest possible time.

General de

Railways and roads in the Mid-terday. dle East are being developed in] order to take increased supplies The court also ordered confisca- from Britain to Russia.-Reuter. tion of his property.

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plece.

4 Insignificant

trifle

8 Cry of sheep

11 Impolitoes

12 Egg-shaped

13. Archaic

gantiquity.

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18 What for?..........

17. To clog with

mud

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31 Inlet,

33 NothingD

35 Carpet

30 Symbol for.

trons

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41 To depart

42 Sprite

44 Ostrichilko"; gbirde:

43 To silence.

47 Ardour 19. Vast age 51-Healthy 04. Brazilian

coin

68 To, rend 64 To fagien

69 European

fiatfish

02 Herd of

whales

04 Note of scale

65 Philippine

Island ward division

66 To carry or

Ga Roman poet

70 Moisture: 71 Enclosed

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VERTICAL

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4 Lobby

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7 Masculine

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION:

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EMUTRAILEARA

DANTON NORNIN

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HANGEMENT ARDERIE

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KINDWAHA POUT AT ARES MM SIKOA, LoİLİDİY

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10 Humorist 11. Law.

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dess of ponce 22 Sluggishness 25 Poetic: it; is 27 Swine

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32 Eroded..

34 Support

36 Charge

37 Cloth

measure

39 Rice paste 40 College

cheer,

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Driver 52 To confiue 53 Wife of Geralist 53 Stato 67 Colloquial father 69 Gamin GO Indian

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Roddess

69 Brether of:

Reuter learns that existing faci- Ilties are adequate to cope with the further expansion of the In- dian Air Force, which will short- ly take place.

be In future all recruits will

commissions for the granted duration of the war immediate - ly they have completed training. Under the former system those who could not be immediately ab- sorbed were returned to civil life until their services were required.

To Give Impetus

This assurance of a commission, as opposed to civil life, for an in- definite period, is expected to give a great impetus in the number of applications from all over India to join the Air Force.

Further notable evidence of India's growing wings was pro- vided this month when for three weeka large-scale aerial tactical exercises were held by the Indian Air Force.

Observers expressed the great- est satisfaction in the performance of the Indian pilots, whose skill in handling their aircraft in the most advanced manoeuvres caused gen- eral admiration.-Reuter.

NURSE SEES PATIENT FALL TO DEATH

Looking through a spy-hole, a nurse at St. Mary's Hospital, Pad- dington, saw Mrs. Mary Geraldine Mozley, 64, wife of Canoni Joan Kenneth Mozley, of St. Paul's Cathedral, climb out of a second- floor ward window and, fall to her death

The nurse said at the Hammer- smith inquest recently: "I called. her name, but she took no notice.. and when I got in she was hang- ing on the ledge by her hands. I caught hold of her left shoulder, but she let go her hold and fell into the area below"

Canon Mozley described how his wife had worried after "a ter rible night in the Cathedral crypt during a severe raid on London. Sulcide while the balance of her mind was disturbed was the Everdict.

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