THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1940.
News Snack Bar
THE £50,000 PLODDER TELLS HIS CHILDREN 'BE THRIFTY'
AS MR. WALTER ARCHIBALD William Dawn came towards the end of life “after long years of plodding work,” he thought of the five people who had meant most to him.
And so Mr. Dawn, chairman of the Rangoon (Burma) Electric Tramway and Supply Co., Ltd., made a will dis- posing of his estate in England valued at £55,525.
Camouflage.
"Marianne," - Paris.
Quis Custodiet
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They are saying in the City that many sandbag barricades are now so beautifully encased that they really ought to be protected by sandbags.
The Real Secret
Weapon?
To his wife, Mah Huín Bin, he left 1,000 rupees (about £75), the use for life of his home and effects in Upper Mainroad, Moulmein; Burma, and-- about £405 a year for life.
"Soendaganiese “Strix”'
Stockholm
"Perhaps it would be better to publish a list of the survivors.”
He left £500 to Robert, one of his R.A.F. Hero Promoted three sons, £500 to his daughter Frances, £250 on trust to another son, James, and several small bequests to charities and friends.
"THEIR BENEFIT"
To his children Richard, Robert and Frances he left the remainder of the
£55,000 (after £5,051 estate duty had been paid), enjoining them to-
"Make it their special duty to secure to their mother such ease and com- fort during her lifetime as may be
She's Speechless
Squadron-Leader Andrew Douglas Woman in the Divorce Court: "My Farquhar, the thirty-four-year-old husband did all the talking and said. Scottish stockbroker who has brought he had nothing to say." down four Heinkel bombers, has been appointed a Wing Commander.
His Father's
Kit Bag
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He Should
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Lord Haw Haw said in his English broadcast "Berlin has neither seen within their power, and if necessary When Colin Little, aged nineteen nor heard any British planes by day, to contribute to her support in re- joined the Royal Artillery at the Ter- or by night.” cognition of her tender care and love ritorial headquarters in Biggleswade, of them during childhood.
Beds, they issued him with a kit-bag. Watches For Exeter Men
re-
"I further earnestly enjoin my chil- dren-to-be-thrifty and to exercise care and intelligence in their management of their shares of my éstate membering always that my estate has been accumulated for their benefit only after long years of plodding work and often in the face of most discouraging circumstances."
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Telling The Germans
All Italian frontiers will be very soon extremely well fortified, said the Rome radio announcer in German,
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the Woman Spy To Die
A humorist in the shipping trade declares that he has discovered secret weapon with which Hitler is to destroy British sea trade and with it the British Empire. It is the Minis- try of Shipping.
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Town's Two Cars In Nearly Every Garage
The goal of the prosperity era in the
A German woman spy named Eu- genie Lupz has been sentenced death by the military court at Mar-
seilles.
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Her accomplice, a German named Kurt Augerer, who evaded arrest and escaped from France has also been sentenced to death, by default.
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United States-two cars in everyone's Norwegian Seamen
garage came near to fulfilment in
Newton, Mass, last year. The tax as In Britain Volunteer sessors' report shows that the city had 14,894 homes and 27,527 cars in 1939. -Reuter.
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Cow Pays Call In Flats
A cow walked upstairs in flats at Dene Side, Great Yarmouth. It was not slim enough, and it stuck on the first storey for twenty-five minutes.
A policeman tried to persuade it to. back down. It refused. Eventually it broke the banisters and dashed into the street, where it was caught.
SENKE
BORAD
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It was not new, and as he turned it outside in he saw-a-name-and-a-num-
Ten Sheffield (Yorks) men serving ber. The surname was his own.. in H.M.S. Exeter will each return from He found that he had been given the home leave with a gold watch and kit-bag his father carried through the chain in his pocket. last war.
His father, Mr. Herbert Little,
of
Biggleswade, handed back the kit-bag at Felixstowe în 1919.
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Wants Idle Castles
Used As Billets
Vacant castles and mansion-houses throughout Britain should be used as community homes for evacuees, says Provost the Rev. Neil McGill, of In---- verbervie, Kincardineshire.
Mr. McGill is a member of the Kin-
Landward cardineshire
Committee, who have decided to make a survey of Lauriston Castle, St. Cyrus, for this
purpose.
"It is time these castles and country seats were used on a commercial basis," he told a reporter. “Evacues could be comfortably housed and educated.
Yellow Jumper
River Riddle
They are the gifts of local cinema- goers. Patrons at one cinema decided to give the watches. Not to be out- done, those at another bought the chains.
"He bears the name of the great- eat families in the country.”
"Who is he?" "Smith."
"Marianne," Paris.
Wedding Ring Tight
Because the ring was too small to slip-on his bride's finger, a London bridegroom asked the registrar for the loan of a piece of soap.
'The registrar had no soap.
The bride finished the ceremony, with the ring only half on.
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Bucks police dragged the River Thames at Dorney, near Windsor, after a woman's clothes had been found on the bank. They included a yellow Search For jumper..
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London, April 16. One hundred and fifty Norwegian seamen, who are at present in New- castle, yesterday formed their volunteer unit in the hope that they will be able to join the British or The only clue on which the police. Norwegian forces. They sent a tele- have to work is the name "Hodsking" Five Patients gram to Mr. C. Jarman, national or on an undergarment. ganiser of the National Union of Sea- men, asking for his help, and he, it is stated, will get in touch with the Norwegian Legation or the Ministry of Shpping, so that the services of the men can be put to best use.
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Scotland Yard have been informed, Police have been asked to search for but the police are also considering five men and boy mental patients, whether a hoax has been staged.. aged between 16 and 27, who are miss- A man's clothing was found near the ing from the Manor Certified Institute, spot a week ago. His body was later Epsom, Surrey, recovered from the river.
Wardens Graded
Sutton and Cheam Borough Council. are grading their 1340 wardens. More than 400 who have undertaken an in- tensive course of training, in addition to passing an anti-gas' examination, have been awarded special First-Class Wardens" certificates.
V.C. Joins Up Again
Mr. Brett Mackay Cloutman, a Lan- don barrister, who won the last V.C. to be awarded before the Armistice In the last war, is to rejoin the Army at the age of forty-eight.