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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 1, 1940.
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If it's true two is company and three is a crowd what in the world can young lovers do about the taxi driver.
ENEMY OCCUPIED
TERRITORY
It is notified for general information that the following are to be regard- ed as areas in enemy occupation:- the The Kingdom of Norway with
northern exception of
provinces Troms, (Nordland,
Finmark and King- Svalbard (Spitzbergen), The dom of the Netherlands and The This Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. notification does not apply to Nether- lands dependencies.
EFFICIENCY MEDALS
His Excellency the Officer Adminis- tering the Government has been pleas-
to
the following ed
authorize H.K.V.D.C. awards:-
Efficiency Medal. Battery Sergeant Major Moses.
Lance Corporal
Douglas Whitley.
Thomas
4 YRS. FOR TORTURER
A woman who so beat and burned a girl aged four and a half that she dled, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude at Jedburgh. She was found guilty of culpable homicide. Esther Rutherford Scott, aged thirty-four, of Dovemount-place, Hawick, Roxburghshire, was charged with assaulting the child, of whom she had custody, by beating her with a leather belt on various occasions.
Between December 1, 1939, and January 10, 1940, it was alleged, "she repeatedly assaulted the little girl, burned her behind the right ear and on the chest with a heated poker, beat her on the face and body with a stick, and burned her on both buttocks, in consequence of which the child died." -
Medical evidence was that one of the buttock burns measured 7in, by 22in, and the other tin, by 4in., and that the only treatment applied was
which a piece of newspaper,
was still adhering when the body was ex- amined.
A suggestion that the burns might: have been caused by Immersion In a hot bath was ruled out by Pro- fessor Sidney Smith, of Edinburgh Univeralty, who said they must have been caused by contact with a dry, hot instrument. Four women were on the jury of seven.
The trial, before Lord Steven- son lasted two days.
PRISON FOR GIFTS THAT MAY HELP ENEMY
Risk of Imprisonment and fines will be run by those people who, by certain sub- Ernest terfuges, are sending parcels of food and
clothing to friends in enemy countries..
Sydney
HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS (Continued from Page 14) Gnr. H. M. Snow, 1st Bty.-27.5.40. Gnr, E. R. Childe, 2nd Bty.-28.5.40.
E. N, THURSBY, Captain,
Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps.
NOTICE... Sgts. Mess Committee Meeting: There will be a meeting of the Ser- geants' Mess Committee meeting Tuesday 11.6.40 at 5.30 p.m. in the Sergeants' Mess.
on
Affiliated Unit-Nursing Detachment,
H.K.V.D.C.
Lecture:
The next Home Nursing Lecture will be held on Friday June 7th at St. John's Cathedral Hall at 5.30 p.m. Practical Classes:
Practical classes are held each Mon- day 10.30 a.m.-Volunteer H.Q.; 5.45 p.m.-Military Hospital, Bowen Road. Transport will leave Vol. H.Q. punc- tually at 5,30 p.m. Uniform to be worn at lectures and all practical classes at the Military Hospital, A.R.P. Course:
Until further notice the A.R.P. course will be held at the A.R.P. Headquarters Happy Valley on Weds. at 5.45 p.m. Transport will leave Vol. H.Q. at 5.30 p.m.-
Strength-Increase:
Mrs. D. Barmett
21.6.40
Mrs. M. Wilkinson
21.5.40
Miss Y. G. Ruffo
22.5.40
Mrs. M. K. Sanh
31.5.40
Mrs. J. G. Green
81.5.40
Strength-Decrease::
(Left the Colony.) Miss N. Quin.
-1.5.40
Mrs. L. Gray
16.5.40.
Miss H. Ayock ·
17.5.40
25.5.40
Mrs. E. J. T. Warren Attachment:
The under-mentioned members were attached to the Military Hospital for training during the period shown:--
Mrs. M. Budden · 20.5.40~~27.5.40-$ Miss M. F. Cole 20.540-27.5.40 Mobile Members:
ret
More Mobile Members are needed. For full particulars apply to the As- sistant Commandant que
Sgd. Mrs. C. Apdis-Martin) –
Assist. Comdt”; Adjutant, H.K.V.D. Corps.
This is done by forwarding money to an agent or friend in a neutral country. A second letter is then sent to the agent ask ing him to buy certain things and forward them to an address in an enemy country,
Prosecutions will in future be instituted in the Cases of this kind, however innocent Intentions of the sender. A large number of cases are under observation,
This does not apply to those sending par- cels to prisoners of war, which is per- missible. But the other method has been alarming extent, and. the going on to an Government have decided it must be stop- ped at once.
MONEY DID NOT WORRY ARTIST
One of Britain's greatest living or-
for tists, whose pictures have sold hundreds of pounds-one fetched more than £1,000-has been granted a Civil List Pension of £170 because of his need.
un-
According to his closest friends, the man in question, Mr. Walter Richard Sickert, who is eighty, is "too worldly to worry about money values.” "I am not at all surprised to hear that my friend is in need again," Mr. Warren Dow, another well-known
artist, told a reporter.
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"Richard has had plenty of money. He has sold many of his works, but money was the last thing he thought about.
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Mr. Sickert resigned from the Royal Academy in 1935, a year after being protest against "the elected, as a Academy's attitude to that great ar- refused to tist Epstein when they
the support the plea for keeping Epstein statues in the Strand."
GIVEN A REVOLVER
Mrs. Catherine Carswell (granted author of note £150) is herself an Her husband was knocked down and killed by a car in the black-out January while returning from Home Office, where he worked.
in the
Mrs. Carswell's "Life of Robert Burns" caused a national contro.. versy. She was even sent a revol- ver with one round of ammunition with the request that she use it. Copley Mrs. Ethel
(Miss Ethel Gabain) who, with her husband, Mr. Joint John Copley, has received a grant of £150, is one of the three women war artists whose appoint- ments were announced on Wednes- day.
in-
and Switzerland with land, Belgium. structions that parcels of food and clothing be sent to people in Germany. Austria or Poland.
Much of this has been done by people who have left relatives in Germany and are But this anxious to provide for them: stream of money, food and clothes is clear- ly of material assistance to the enemy. Last week no fewer than 275 cases were stopped by the British authorities,
Fraudulent concerns have been set up in neutral countries to profit by this business, and intended recipients often receive noth-
Charitable institutions, for example, have been forwarding money to agents in Hol-ing.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT- COMPANY, LIMITED.
Notice is hereby given that MR. ROBERT TAYLOR has been appoint- ed Manager & Secretary of the above Company as from this date.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. SCOTT HARSTON,
Chairman. Hong Kong, 1st June, 1940.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received in- structions to sell. by Public Auction on TUESDAY, the 4th. JUNE, 1940 commencing at 10.a.m. at Godown No. 19 of The Hongkong & Godown Co., & Kowloon Wharf
Ltd., Kowloon
for account of concerned
•
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS
comprising:
Medicine, Gauze Bandages, Plaster, Cotton Wool, Toilet Paper, Aluminium Ware, Glass Tumblers, Wine Glasses, Butter Dishes, Fruit and Sweet Dishes, Ice Plates, Jars, Tomato Catsup, Green Peas, Sweet Corn, Measuring Tubes, Separatory Funnels, Porcelain Ware,
etc.,
Admission to the Godown will be by Pass only. These passes can be obtained from the Undersigned.
On view from Monday, the 3rd. June, 1940
Terms: Cash on delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers
Hong Kong, 1st June, 1940
received
The Undersigned have instructions to sell by Public Auction
on.
WEDNESDAY, the 5th. JUNE; 1940. commencing at 11.00 a.m. at their Sales Room, No. 6, Conduit Road, Ground Floor.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
On View from Tuesday the 4th. June 1940
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 1st June, 1940
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