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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 24, 1940
Vichy's Ingenuous Faith In Value Of Nazi Promise
M. BAUDOUIN'S INGENUOUS faith in Nazi] *99*00 promises is remarked in authoritative circles in Lon- don, commenting on inaccuracies in his broadcast statements on Thursday night.
It is stated in official quarters that there is no truth in the allegation made by Marshal Petain's Foreign Minister that definite proposals were made] from Vichy on August 2 concerning food supplies.
In fact, it is stated, no official proposals on this subject have reached the British Government from Vichy since the departure of the French Embassy from Lon- don.
M. Baudouin's more general statement that the British Gov- ernment is preventing the arriv- al of certain surpluses from French overseas possessions causes no surprise in London, in view of
A.R.P.
WOMEN AS
MIDWIVES
the policy of the accumulation of With the dull thuds of surpluses clearly explained by the bombs dropping in the distance and anti-aircraft
Prime Minister in his speech on Wednesday.
It is noted that the only guar guns
antee that M. Baudouin is about
thundering over-
to produce against the misap-head, two women ambul-! propriation of such surpluses ance attendants acted as by Germany is the promise the Nazi Government.
of
midwives in a public air
:
CANADIAN
FREIGHTER SUNK
The "New York Maritime Register" stated yesterday that the Canadian cargo steamer "Geraldine Mary" (7,244 tons) has been sunk "by enemy action" off the coast of Ireland. Three lives were lost.
-Reuter.
SCHOOLGIRL AND
.No Independent Frenchman raid shelter in a north- YOUTH SHOT DEAD
would take such promises ser-
iously and M. Baudouin's ingen-east town to a twenty- uous faith betrays once again the two-year-old woman when
extent to which the Vichy Gov-
the mouthpiece of Berlin-Reuter.
A fourteen-year-old schoolgirl and a farmhand, aged nineteen,
ernment is compelled to act as she gave birth to a boy. were found shot dead at Wood-
The mother is Mrs. Josephine [ham Ferrers. Chelmsford. Fishburn, and she and her baby. are in hospital, both reported to be "doing fine."
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LOUISE CAMPBELL
RICHARD DENNING.
ROBERT PAIGE
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JOE'S ON THE POLICE FORCE NOW—AND HOW!
JOE BROWN
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MARY CARLISLE
Britain's army
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form provides the heroes and] heroines of a new film, "Behind the Guns.".
were
They were Ann Muirhead, who lived with her parents at the local post office, and John Cottis, of Elmroyd. They had known each other since early childhood but are believed to have quarrelled recently,
to The girl was on her way deliver newspapers at a farm There were four families- about fifteen people. In the
when a shot was fired and she eheltor, a basement in a
fell dead. Shortly afterwards of houses
shot through Cottis was found strengthened as a
the head in a field at the back public shelter-when the baby of his home. A shotgun
The attendants, who amateur midwives, are Mrs. E. Taylor aged thirty-six, mother of four children, and Miss Hilda Delafield, aged thirty-one.
was born.
row
was
Mrs. Fishburn, who has a boy lying beside him.. aged three, had been in the shel- Ann attended Chelmsford High The film, which was inspired ter about two hours, with her School for Girls. by Mr. Herbert Morrison's "Gojmother, Mrs. Annie Smith, when To It" broadcast, was shown to she became ill. Mrs. Smith dash- the Press.
women,
Did Their Work Well
Jed into the street and called an did their job well. We are Mr. Morrison, Minister of A.R.P. warden. He summoned grateful to them. My daughter Supply, said in his broadcast an ambulance staffed by two was a brick, too, speech:
"Mother and baby remained in "The drive behind the work
the shelter for another half an must increase; its pace must
hour till the All Clear was sound- [** quicken; its scope must extend.
ed then were taken to hospital: More shells, more tanks, more
A small corner of the shelter Mrs. Taylor and Miss Delafield guns."
was screened off with coats, and dismissed their work by saying, This film shows how Britain Ms. Fishburn was placed on a "Well, it was hardly what we ex- has answered that call.
pected to do as first-aid workers
100-ton
stretcher.
In terrific heat, shots were "Those two women worked as in an air raid, but we are glad taken to show
ingots efficiently as any midwife," said the mother and baby are doing forged into big guns. The white-Mrs. Smith to a reporter. "They well."
hot masses are shown squeezed down by huge presses, turned on giant lathes and polished to a flawless finish.
Other processes in arms pro- duction shown in the film are riveting of toughened armour-
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Complaint of the welfare rangements for soldiers at four London stations-Euston, King's Cross, St. Pancras and Liverpoo! Street-was made in the Com-
mons.
Mr. D. Robertson (Con.. Strea- tham) said: "Night after night and day after day thousands of soldiers are lying on the plat- forms and in. the mail vans, and there is no adequate rest room accommodation for them. Cater- ing facilities are forced out into the extremities of the station."
Mr. Richard Law, Financial Secretary to: the: War Office, re- plied that efforts were being made to improve the accommodation.
|BATTERED DOORS TO GET INTO RAID SHELTER
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the air raid alarm arc likely to be mentioned in Parlia- ment
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