THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1940
News Snack Bar
SANDWICH BOARDS
TO HELP WOOING
WEARING EVENING DRESS and a black velvet coat, with a button-hole of an orchid, a lily and a white harebell, an Oxford undergraduate walked through the centre of the city escorted by two sandwichmen.
The sandwichmen carried boards with the slogans: "Rita is not fair to David” and “Do not be Rita's dupe."
The undergraduate, Mr. David Burdett, of Queen's College, had brought propaganda into love. Having failed to advance his cause with Miss Rita Harvey, barmaid at a local hotel, in private, he had brought it before the public.
But Miss Harvey was not impressed, He will have time to think because "This young fellow has been nothing it is understood that he has been but a nuisance since Christmas when "gated.”
I came here," she said.
David led the procession, swelled to
some size by sporting onlookers, to the Baby's Bottle Was Used
hotel where Miss Harvey works.
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There was a cheer from the crowd
as he posted his sandwichmen and 4,000 Years Ago
began to read an ode composed for
the occasion.
A baby's bottle, estimated to have
Miss Harvey did not appear and on been made at least 4,000 years ago,
SMALL HEUTRAL.
"Detroit News"
Europe's Man on Horseback.
the advice of friends David tried sing- has been unearthed in a cave in Cen- Has It Gone Off Yet? ing the ode. This was more effective, tral Italy-Reuter.
Miss Harvey was seen for a few sec- onds but then disappeared.
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This seemed to end the entertain- Prams Must ment and the crowd began to break
up as David led his followers back to Have Lights his lodgings.
"IT'S SICKENING"
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Prams must have rear lights in the black-out. This was the decision at
Reporting that a mine had been driven ashore on an isolated part of the Scottish coast, a Shetland fisher- man wrote to the coast guard authori- ties: "No need to hurry; I have an- chored the mine securely by one of its horna"
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Reprieve For Mother
The Home Secretary has recom- mended a repriévé, for Mrs. Georgina Cashmere, aged forty-one, of Prescot=' road, Liverpool, who, at Manchester Assizes on April 30 was sentenced to death for the murder of her two-year- old daughter on April 13,
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Miss Harvey commented: "I like Walsall when four offenders were each 30 Beers-A Great Dane! Golfers Ready For Nazis
my job here very much but he has ordered to pay 4s, costs. spoiled it. I shall be engaged to a The Chief Constable said that under
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Some Swansea golfers turned up at their golf course not with their usual clubs, but with rifles.
The idea, they said, was to put in
deal with any German troops who might try to land by parachute.
They were members of the Swan- sea Bay Club, 7
boy in the B.E.F.
A Danish sailor has been sentenced he the Traffic Act it was not necessary to comes home on his first leave. We have a rear light on a pram, but it to ten days' imprisonment by a Copen- are to be married next year.
was compulsory under the Lighting hagen court for having drunk thirty "It has been absolutely sickening. Order.
bottles of Pilsener beer, states tho. I am very annoyed that so much trou- It was stated that the prams con- German - controlled Cophenhagen some rifle training so that they could ble has been caused. I don't know cerned were out at 10.35 pm, and one wireless. what my people will think of this.” was struck by a car.
David also had his say. He told a reporter:
"We made a date, but she did not Let Out of Gaol Seven turn up, so I took her a chain of daisies. Eventually, we made another -appointment which she also failed to keep, and I took her a chain of dan- delions.
"I AM MADLY IN LOVE"
"She told me that there had been some mistake. But when she did not keep another appointment we made, I decided upon the action I have taken to-day.
"I am madly in love with her, and I must have time to think before I
decide what to do next... shall either, get an intermediary to act for me or I shall write to her."
Minutes For His Wedding
A man was allowed out of gaol for seven minutes to get married.
The bridegroom, Henry John Mc- Carthy, twenty-seven, an Irishman, was sentenced at Guernsey Royal Court to four months' imprisonment for an offence against a girl under six- teen.
The girl, a Miss Torode, now over sixteen, was the bride.
The court where McCarthy was tried, the gaol and the register office where the marriage took place are in one block of buildings.
This was the first sentence passed since the announcement by the Ger- mans of more severe penalties for drunkenness in Denmark.-Reuter.
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Tea-leaf Cigarettes
"I know what it is to smoke a mix- ture of tea leaves and dock leaves, and can strongly recommend that mixture to anybody who is hard up.” -
That is what Mr. George Tomlinson, M.P. for Farnworth, and president of the National Association of Education Committees, told the N.ALG.Ó. con- ference at Whalley Abbey, Clitherge.
Mr. Tomlinson was once a farm labourer. At twenty-one, as a mar- ried man with one child, he earned one guinea a week.
Here you are, Major. I want you to meet Lil.
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Bridal Car-A Tram!
Owing to shortage of petrol, newly- weds in Kassel, Germany, have been unable to hire bridal cars, says "Der Angriff."
The "Mayor `and corporation" have therefore decided to have special trams decorated with beautiful flowers and. ribbons, and conductors in gala uni- forms," specially for the use of young couples.
Drawing Pin Killed Her
A. drawing-pin caused the death of a Manchester widow who lived alone. The pin, which had been used to fasten the curtains to complete the blackout, punctured the lead gas pipo in the wall. The gas escaped slowly and the woman died, as she lay in bed, from carbon monoxide poisoning.
This was related at yesterday's in- quest on Mrs. Polly Lloyd, aged sixty- six, of Crab-lane, Blackley, Manches- ter, when a verdict of Accidental death. was recorded.
Caught A Thief
Unawares
Seeing, à man getting on a bus at Gerrards Cross, Bucks, Police-Ser- geant Robbie asked him who he was and what he was doing.
To the officer's surprise the man said he had just taken 30s. from a local garage, and he handed this money to the sergeant.
The story was told at Beaconsfield Police Court, when Harold Goff, twenty-eight, unemployed, of Orchard- oad, Hayes, Middlesex, was sent to prison for two months for stealing the money.