1941-09-27 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 27, 1941.

AND JEFF

BE PUT ON

SENTRY DUTY

WELL-ER- DO YOU KNOW "ANYTHING

ABOUT SENTRY

FOR A CHANGE? DUTY: I'M ALWAYS

··DOIN' K.P...

HECK, ANYBODY. CAN MARCH UP AND DOWN WITH

A 'RIFLE ON. HIS SHOULDER!

YES, BUT SUPPOSE

You SAW A SUSPICIOUS LOOKING CHARACTER AROUND- WHAT WOULD YOU!-

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I'D SHOUT

SUPPOSE HE STARTED TO

HALT RUN WHAT

WHO GOES THERE?

WOULD YOU DO?

I'D SHOOT AT HIM! BOOM!

CORRECT!

BUT SUPPOSE HE SHOT AT YOU?

Page

By BUD FISHER

OH THEN

ID RUN!

1 DAY MORE WITHOUT PIT BLAST

SMOKE, SHE GETS £100

TWENTY-ONE to-morrow, Joan Winifred Tay- lor has one day more to go without a drink or cigarette to get £100 from her father.

VESSEL'S CARGO OF COURAGE

A vessel lies in a British port alter kumuing one of the war's most valuable cargoes.

Its crew consisted of 250 Bri- tish sailors from torpedoed ships and Vichy internment camps, and some Vichy French who have joined the Allied: cause,

Their one aim,

many of them: told the "Daily Mirror," was "tu get back into the scrap again."

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KILLS 15

After an all-day search lin terrific heat rescuers

by night had failed to

account for only one man Fifty War Sayings Certificates following an explosion in

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

Showing To-day At 2.30, 5.30, 7.45 & 9,45 P.M. FLYING HIGH-DIVING TO NEW THRILLS

NEVER SUCH A PICTURE!

and the balance in each is the re- the mountainside Rhigos Robert TAYLOR

ward Mr. Ernest Taylor, of Wol- Colliery between the

singham, County Durham, will pay

over to his elder daughter for ful-Aberdare and Neath filling her promise not to smoke Valleys, Glamorgan.

or drink until she comes of age.

He will do the same for his The bodies of 14 others re- younger daughter, Vivienne.. If

covered during the day included she, too. "fullflls the contract."

a father and son, and it is feared "The iden came to me ten years that the missing man was also ago." Mr. Taylor told the "Daily dead. Mirror", "when Betty Nuttall's All were killed instantly by the father paid her £100 for doing blast of the explosion, which oc the same thing.

inside the curred about a mile. workings.

"Joan may try a cigarette at home on her birthday, but she does not want to start drinking. I do not drink-but I smoke a plpo.

"I don't like to see girls smok- ing in public.

"It's too carly yet to say whether Vivienne will want to smoke and drink when she is 21-she is only 16 now."

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A few minutes after the muf- flod roar of the explosion had been heard over a mile away, 15 an evacuee boy of nearly who had started work only few hours before, staggered daz- from the ed but uninjured pit.

with Rescue' parties,

doctors and. ambulances, had to negotiate a narrow twisting road to reach the mouth of the drift high up on the side of the mountain.

Bailors and dock workers have named the vessel "the ship with the cargo of courage.”

men in the ship Many of the have had remarkabe escapes from death. One of them was Dr. A. K Kerr, of St. Ives, u niddle-aged and the others were moved to an Internment camp made of mud huts. Hecause three men tried to

Working by moonlight, they pedoed, the crew spent ten days escape, they were handcuffed dur-gave first aid on the ground until in Ilfeboata unde; terrible condi... Mg the journey.

an improvised hospital was set up tions of heat and water shortage

There the doctor, ignoring his at a near-by farm. before reaching Dakarą

own weakness, helped companions After a period in hospital, he, who were ill.

Dunkirk survivor.

After his vessel has been tor-

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Falls Hinder Rescue Rescuers were hindered by falls as they fought their way thr- ough terrific heat to the scene of. the accident.

Thirty-six men were working In the drift at the time, and one of those who escaped is a brother of one of the dead, who Include three boys.

So violent was the explosion that falls were caused in other. parts of the colliery and all the

affected pit ponies iri the were killed. ·

area

A brief statement issued by the owners said that the cause of the explosion is unknown and 'inves- tigations are being made.

TITLED WIFE IS RELEASED

LADY HOWARD OF EFFING- HAM, HUNGARIAN-BORN WIFE OF THE HEIR TO THE EARL OF EFFINGHAM HAS BEEN RES LEASED FROM DETENTION BY ORDER. OF THE HOME SECRE- TARY..

"Last February she was arrested at her lat in London and detained by Scotland Yard under Defence Regulation 188,250.

Kwas, released during the week-end, Lady: Howard; told the "pally Mirrot." "After a few more days in London. I am going to see my father-in-law. in the country.

"I was treated well and have no, complaints about my deten-, tion,"

USE THE FAMOUS

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