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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1940
Richard Greene, Alice Faye and Fred MacMurray, who Share top billing with Brenda Joyce In Darryl F. Zanuck's pro- duction of "Little Old New York," which opens to-day at the King's Theatre. Greene, who portrays Robert Fulton In the spectacular 20th Century Fox picture, holds the model for the first steamboat, the Clermont. Henry King directed the film.
RADIO BOYS DIE ---SAVED 31
ROTHSCHILD WITH 1/4D.
Among refugees who arrived at San Sebastian, 'the i Spanish coast resort just over the frontier from France, was M. Eugene Rothschild, a member of the bank- ing family. He had only five centimes (less than a farth- ing).
£50,000 SHELTER IN OLD TUBE
Britain's
biggest air- raid shelter is now open to the public.
Adapted at a cost of £50,000 from the Borough Tube Tunnel, built in 1892,
the shelter has eight entrances.
The tunnel varies in depth from 50ft. to 70ft., and the part to be used as a shelter extends from about 2,250ft. from Borough
of the Thames.
TWO BOY RADIO operators gave their lives to save the crew of the cargo steamer Empire Toucan, Station northwards to the bank sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic.
"We are just trying to make sure our SOS is be- ing heard. Give our love to the boys," said one of them, Max Gerrard, aged eighteen, of London, to an officer who to them the ship was being abandoned.
"We will be seeing you soon- we hope," added Gerrard. He and his companion-his sixteen-year- old junior operator, named Camp- bell, of Blackburn-went down
SENTRY KILLED ON
with the ship as a U-boat shell HS FIRST GUARD
hit the radio cabin.
But their message was picked
up by a ship which rescued their for the first time on the
An hour after mounting guard: thirty-one mates.
L.M.S. They were landed in England killed by a train.
Railway, Harry Davison, 48, was and an officer told a reporter.
At the inquest at St Pancras it
It is estimated that about 11,280 persons, for whom other public shelters are not provided, would be in the streets at one time from the tunnel entrances, and the shelter would be used for them.
within a distance of 300 yards
Three hundred yards is con- sidered a reasonable walking distance for people to take cover after an air raid warning.
*Important Southwark Council documents will be kept in the shelter, which is bombproof,
M.P.'S "MORE USE IN ARMY"
"I was the last to see Gerrard
Mr. Tom Cassells, Labour M.P. and Campbell alive. They were was stated that,, instead of stay-for Dumbartonshire, said in Lon- sitting calmly in their cabin smoking at one end of the bridge,don that he was joining the Army ing cigarettes as I ran past the path about 2ft. wide at the side serve the country
Davison had walked álong a voluntarily as he felt he could more usefully of the track, which, was cut in in the Army than in Parliament.
Mr. Cassells who is thirty-seven, The fireman of the train told the secretary of the Scottish said he would not like to Labour Party in November, 1938,
door.
His Second Rescue two by wires.
by,"
next General Election.
"I shouted that the order had walk along it when a train went that he intended to retire at the been given to abandon ship but Gerrard just smiled and said: 'We are just trying to make sure we are being heard.'
"I had only just got into the lifeboat when the aubmarine fired another shell and that must have killed them both."
'One of the .crew, John. Buckley, of Poplar, was a sur- vivor of the Beaverburn, which was torpedoed In February. This was his first trip since then. A sixty-eight-year-old seaman, Jack McGee, of Belfast, was in charge of a boat which brought
fourteen survivors to safety.
He was on constant watch. Now he is in hospital suffering from in-
juries to the feet.
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BOMBED AND MACHINE-gunned as they drove across France for two weeks, sleeping a few hours each night in barns or their own cars, the Hadfield- Spears' Ambulance Unit, commanded by novelist Mary Borden, arrived in London recently. Rosaleen Forbes, its "baby", said: "Really, it was all great fun."
Dark-eyed Rosaleen was only Epping, Essex, managed to save nineteen when she went to France her clarinet.
with fourteen other mechanised And the girls' neat khaki uni-. |transport_girls to drive with the forms with bright blue shoulder unit. She had her twentieth straps were immaculate. One was birthday in a village in Lorraine, worried about a grease atuin on Iten miles behind the Maginot Line, her skirt.
When things began to look bad on June 9, the unit, consisting of] When King Zog of Albania ar- feleven British nurses, twelve cars rived in Britain and was waiting driven by the M.T.C. girls, and in the Customs House for lug-five lorries, packed up and headed gage to be examined, his baby son for Central France, under con- walked across to a wounded sol- stant bombing.
When they first left the train they saluted the officers. Then suddenly soldiers became wo men-they pushed back khaki / caps, flung arms round necks and kissed each other.
The unit went from Bordeaux
dier lying on a stretcher, put Romalcon said. “We were one to another French port, and were This arms round him and kissed
him.
The King, with Queen Geraldine, had crossed from France with a royal party of thirty and £12,000 worth jewels and valuables.
King Zog told a reporter:-
of
"I should like this messago.
jump ahead of the Germans all eventually taken off by a British the time. We had terrible ship.
patrol trouble-never knew, Cool ain't she pretty!" said a when we were running out of burly porter as "baby" Rosaleen It, If we should get more. Once rushed to greet her mother. when a village near us was heavily bombed, we drove near-
ly twelve hours without А broak:"
to be given to the British pub-; Miss Borden gald: “Every time
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WARTIME FILM “SHORTS"
I and all Albanians have we stopped to look after wound- Five-minute "shorts" covering our hearts with Britain in 'hered we had to gat going again. But food rationing, home defencó, air great struggle.".
we didn't lose a single person, and raid precautions and similar war- "I know she will succeed, be- no one got hurt, which, consider-time subjects will soon be a cause justice is on her side. The ing the bombing and shelling, was feature at 4,000 cinemas through-. Queen and myself are thankful" wonderful."
out Britain.
to be in England, where we know The girls lost nearly all their Members of the Cinematograph we have so many true friends:" clothes. The cars they drove were Exhibitors' Association have of- The Queen's sisters were with their own property; they lost fered to show such official films the party.
these, too. But Esba Bell, of free of charge,