1941-09-29 — Page 5

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

ICE CREAM

•ON IT?

ON,LOOK!

A CUTE

· LITTLE:

I'LL BET YOU TWO TO ONE HE

WHO

EATS SOME OF MY

BEEF A LA MODE

MADE THIS

MUTT MADE

FLY!

BEFORE HE

STEW?

EATS YOURS!

Page

By BUD FISHER

YOU CAN HAVE IT) I DON'T HAVE TO

EAT ITS SLONG!

WONG LANE IS

· GOING HOME

d

Wong

THE SOUL OF Wong Lane was sad was a kindly little Chinese laundrythan. 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-Taist-Dom

fore the present war Wong took

First Exhumation

150-MILE HIKE TO MOTHER

For five days two Lon- don evacuees, Phyllis, 13. and Fred Eide, 9, lived on

water while they hitch- green apples and brook

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

Sze Wong Lane, the widow, who spoke no English, petitioned that all his family to China for a holi- her husband's body should be ex-

The children were billeted at day. He was proud of his ances-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.

tors.

With Ancestors

And so in secret, Manxland's flirt exhumation was carried out. A Liverpool undertaker's Bɛsictant,.who is also a plumber, soldered, the_coffin into a metal shest, and Weng Lane began the first part of his journey home 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 tast Sun- day," Phyllis told the "Daily Mirror."

Then, on February 9 this year, Wong died. He was buried in Manx Ball, and many people- not only the Chinese community ----mizood the 'kindly little man. But the soul of Wong Lanc

grieved for according to Chinese ; tradition, their dead must lio with | the bodies of their ancestors if the pedo hitting the ship, the coffin is chance it, but my brother Leslie, soul of the departed is to rest in to be buried temporarily 60ft. eternal peace.

down in the catacombs at Liver-who is 11 and lived elsewhere in pocl till after the war. Then the the same village, said he was coffin will resume its voyage to happy and would not go.. China.

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.

Because of the danger of a tor-

"My brother Fred said he would

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

thirty miles to Exeter,

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

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

ute from this.

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

"We had nothing to eat the first cwo days, and on the third day we * stole sonr apples from an

orchard.

"We reached Taunton at lost by walking, and a lit in a lorry, and slept just outside' the town in. adid.

"There's Mother!!!

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

• "The motorist asked it Oxford' would do? We said that was 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 ing down the steet."

"The motorist, who was going to Queen's - College, Oxford, drew up to Mrs. Eide and said, "Here's "your; children," and, left,

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