1941-09-29 — Page 21

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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941.

MUTT AND JEFF ---!

WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WHAT IS IT? IT'S BEEF A LA MODE!

WHERES THE VICE CREAM

ON IT?

LOOK!

I'LL BET YOU

TWO TO ONE HE

WHO

A CUTE LITTLE 7 FLY

LEATS SOME OF MY

MUTT

MADE

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MADE

THIS:

BEFORE HE L'EATS YOURS!

STEW

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v BUD FISHER

YOU CAN HAVE IT! I DON'T HAVE TO.

EAT IT S'LONG!!

WONG LANE IS GOING HOME

THE SOUL OF Wong Lane was sad Wong was a kindly little Chinese laundryman. He settled in the Isle of Man many years ago, when he saw the promise of quick prosperity in the thousands of holidaymakers who went there each summer.

Wong prospered. He made the long journey to the Land of the Lotus Flower and brought back a bride.

Wong had numerous children, And he was very happy. Just be- fore the present war. Wong-look all his family to China for a holl- day. He was proud of his ances- tors.

With Ancestors

Then, on February 9 this year, Wong died. He was buried in Manx soil, and many people| not only the Chinese community -mised the kindly little man. But the soul of Wong Lane

grieved, for according to Chinese tradition, their dead must lie with the bodies of their ancestors if the soul of the departed is to rest in eternal peace.

So the Manx Consistory Court held. two, special sittings to con- sider a precedent for the remark- able case of Wong Lane, the de- parted laundryman.

First Exhumation

150-MILE HIKE TO MOTHER

For five days two Lon- don evacuees, Phyllis, 13. and Fred Eide, 9, lived on green apples and brook water while they hitch-

hiked from Devon to their parents evacuated to Ox- ford.

Sze Wong Lane, the widow, who spoke no English, petitioned that her husband's body should be ex-

The children were billeted at humed so that Wong Lane could Kingsteignton. When they reach- go back to the land of almonded Oxford they saw their mother. blossoms and be at peace with his in a street. fathers.

And so in secret, Manxland's first, exhumation

wap carried out. A Liverpool undertaker's assistant, who laʻalso a plumber, soldered the coffin into a matalj shell, and Wong Lane began the first part of his journey.home to China.

Because of the danger of a tor- pedo hitting the ship, the coffin is to be buried temporarily 601L. down in the catacombs at Liver- pool till after the war. Then the coffin" will resume its voyage to China,

"The idea to run away to Oxford, where my mother and father are evacuated came to me while I was in church for “early morning service fast Sun- day," Phyllis told the "Daily Mirror."

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"My brother Fred said he would chance it, but my brother Leslie, who is 11 and lived elsewhere in the same village, said he was happy and would not go.

"Fred and I went straight away The soul of Wong Lane is happy after church and walked nearly again.

thirty miles to Exeter.

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"We slept like tops under haystack and next morning reached Tiverton,

"We found a map on the road. side near Exeter and planned our

vute from this......

"On the second night we slept under a hedge and then walked .o Bampton.

"We had nothing to eat the first, two days, and on the third day we stole some apples from

rchard.

"We reached Taunton at last by! walking and a bit in a lorry and slept just outside the town in a field.

"There's Mother!'

"After four days we arrived at Shepton Mallet, where we asked a motorist. for a lift.

"The motorist asked if Oxford would do? We said that wàs where we wanted to go, and we went.

"Along the Abingdon Road at Oxford, Fred cried out, "There's mother, and mother it was, walk-

ng down the steet.

"The motorist, who was going „to @Queen's College, Oxford, drew up to Mro. Eldo, and said, "Here's your children, and left ua??

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