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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 16, 1940
Rosemary Lane's first loan-out assignment after two years Important under contract to Warner's provides her with an
A May. singing-romantic role in "The Boys from Syracuse." fair Production (to be released by Universal), the film is based Miss Lana is seen on the Broadway musical comedy success. opposite Allan Jones, who plays a dual role and who has rom- antic moments as well with Irene Harvey, his real-life wife.
AIR RAIDS
RAIDS AND HOUSEWIVES
HOUSEWIVES ARE playing a key part in the
coastal town air battles. All those interviewed re-
LONDON GETS DOWN TO IT
The speed with which factories in the London area which have been bombed by German air- craft have reorganised production was illustrat- ed in a speech at Lincoln yesterday by Sir Cecil Weir, Executive Member of the Export Council; Board. of Trade.
Speaking of a London tour where he visited plants some of which hrad been struck as
frequently
as eight times by every type of bomb, Sir Cecil Weir said: "One would have expected disorganisa- tion, chaos, confusion. Instead one found an extraordinary degree of normal production and in one of the worst cases, the drop in pro- duction, a large part of which was than going for export, was less thirty per cent. and the manag- ing director assured me that, within another week or two, they would be fully up to usual out- put.
Another manufacturer show- ed me photographs of his dam- aged factory which had been struck in a vital spot by a 1,500 Ib. bomb. In another, a vital spot had been blasted by a landmine.
When he looked at the damage the day after the attack, his fore- man said: "How long do you think it will be before we can get going", and he said, optimistical-
was
In actual fact, the plant operating within 24 hours. I lost thirty per cent, production in the first week, twenty per cent, in the
cently said it was their duty to remain to cook and ly, about a month. scrub and care for their husbands and children and their neighbours whose homes were blown up in the daily air raids. They are most resentful of the pub-second and in the third was pro- lished stories suggesting that they are leaving towns pushing prams loaded with possessions.
ducing the full output which was much more than we manufactured in pre-war days. British Wire-
less.
or to cover the shrapnel holes in
British women are as unafraid as the men. "We are in the front line, too," they said. For the nightly raids they move the children's beds into the the walls. air-raid shelters, where the children spend the en- tire night undisturbed. During the whistling of the bombs, the swooping 'planes, and the rattling ma- chine-guns women in the shelters look as calm as if they were at a tea party.
take cover,
Got the ring OTMAN
Page
tion of yours last night. Oh my
to squeeze it into that wretched · topper.".
"The ring ?. Oh. Wait a minute.poor head. I'm sure I won't be able. Ring. Here it is, No. Confound it. Where is it. Could have sworn it was in this pocket."
"You will find it nestling coyly in the bottom right-hand waistcoat pocket."
"Oh yes. Of course. So it is. Ha! Ha! Funny if I lost it. Yes. I say
let's go over this business once more. Now what do I do when...
"My dear Feter, look at your tië. Pull yourself together. Remember, I'm the man who's going to be married, not you.”
"Oh. Are you? I mean yes-of course. Fact is, old boy, I'm ir 1 rather weak state. That celeb.-
FOR
"If you'd only takch my advice last night and stuck to gin and Rose's..."...
"Roses ? Oh yes. For the brides- maids. I thought you said they were to be carnations." "
"Rose's Lime Juice, blockhead ! Prevents hangovers. Therapeutic action. I wish I'd rammed a quart of it down your silly throat. Next time I get married, Peter, remember-you stick to gin and Rose's the night before.' "Oh yes. Thanks for the tip. I will.
I say
Charles-where did I put that ring 7. I could have
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When a bomb fell in the five yard space between two Ander- son shelters, a young mother said, "I was a bit frightened for my ten months' old baby. He cried for #9#*#*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* five minutes, but was unhurt. We the wonder what happened to chickens in the run where the bomb fell as we have not found Asked whether even a feather."
During the worst raid on one | woman from beneath a copper coastal town, when several were where she was beginning to do the she intended to repair some shat- killed, police patrolled streets with week's washing. All neighbour-tered windows, a fat, jolly house- loud-speakers, asking shoppers to ing houses an hour afterwards wife who helped to dig out the looked like a scene from the film, victims, said, "I believe it is the Dover housewives caught in the "Gulliver's Travels," with every landlord's responsibility, but if he streets during six daily raids re-man sitting on a windowsill nail- takes as long as he did to repair duced their wasted hours by forming linoleum or three-ply to re- one tile, we won't have windows ing a shopping club. When the place the missing tiles or glass, until the war is over.” all-clear siren sounds one dashes
to the greengrocer, another buys
meat, a third attends to the gro- ceries, then they pool all provi- sions. When the police pointed out the machine-gun bullets fall- ing thickly during the Messer- schmidts attack on the barrage balloons they completely failed to persuade the women to go indoors. who were restive after hours of sheltering. "I must go, the din- ner is spoiling", was the general comment.
Getting Wise To It Women have learnt to distin- guish between the noises of ma- chine-gun, cannon, and anti-air-
-bomb. Everyone takes the children'
VICHY EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH THAILAND
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
WITH REGARD TO the series of notes received craft fire. They are not anxious by the French Government from Thailand, authori-. when the dull crump indicates a tative circles in Vichy assert that those pertaining everywhere with them lest they to territorial claims have been categorically rejected. are caught in the streets and pre- vented from getting home. Mo- thers and children look bored and All have achieved a jolly philo- sophy. The wife of a postman in a small town outside Dover, ar- rived in Dover in the middle of an
unanxious.
.
The other notes received: referred to the rati fication of the non-aggression 'pact signed between the two countries four months ago, and recent inci- dents along the border between Thailand and Indo- China.
any
air raid.. "I came here to visit The French Government ission will not be empowered to my sister, who came to spend aready to proceed immediately with examine holiday with her parents right in the exchango of the instruments questions. the middle of the blitzkreig." It of the ratification of the non- is a favourite Joke to point to the aggression pact. French coast, there's Germany.".
The Bangkok Government has
other territorial
Joint Committee The Thal Government request- not yet racalved these instrued the formation of a joint com- ments and. It is proposed to send mittee to investigate frontier-in- a copy from France by tele-cidents which resulted in the death of Luo Tian, a subject whom the The French Government has Thai Government claimed was..a also agreed to a proposal for a Thailander....: Joint Franco/Thal "commission to France agreed to the suggestion undertake the repartitioning af and proposed that a committee bo several islands on the Mekong empowered to investigate other. A housewife sheltering in a cel-River, which forms part of the frontier Incidents which took placa
The occupants of an entire street of tileless and windowless houses are laughing because an air raid worker was just going to bed at mid-morning after night duty, when a bomb dropped next door.
A Cheerful Lot
gram.
Tar with her baby heard the ex-frontier between the two coun-along the Thal/Indo-China border, during the past few weeks. --- plosion, ran out to extricate the tries,
victims, and helped to dig out it is stressed that the commia | Ilavas.
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