THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 22, 1940 ́
EVACUATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE HEARING
FIVE
APPLICATIONS FOR EXEMPTION FROM EVACUATION, FIVE FOR PERMISSION TO RETURN TO THE COLONY AND ONE FOR PER- MISSION TO ENTER HONG KONG, WERE HEARD BY THE EVACUATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, COMPRISING MR. JUSTICE E. H. WILLIAMS, MAJOR R. E, MOODY, MR. C. BLAKER AND MR. C. B. BURGESS, IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER THIS MORNING.
LOCKHEED SETS
A RECORD
AN AMERICAN-BUILT LOCKHEED'. 'PLANE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE, HAS CREATED A RECORD BY
FLYING FROM PRETORIA TU NAIROBI, A DISTANCE OF SOME 2,000 MILES, IN 101⁄2 |HOURS.
This is the first t'me that any- one has flown from South Africa Kenya:between dawn and dusk.
Reuer.
Mrs. L. H. Coates was allowed Appearing for her mother, Mrs. exemption on grounds. that she A. G. Everett, Miss Everett ap- was attached to the Air Raid Pre-plied for permission for her to cautions Department, while Mrs. return to Hong Kong. Her moto A. Zaitseff was exempted from ther was a qualified A.R.P. War- evacuation subject to the sending den. She was granted permis- of her child out of the Colony, sion to return to the Colony but
this was revoked.
An application by Mrs. M. Ma- son for exemption was refused. "I shall write to the Governor to- day," remarked Mrs. Mason on leaving the Council Chamber,
Mrs. D. G. Frost who went to Shanghai with her two children on July 12, and returned with the children on August 12 under the impression that she had obtained exemption, this morning asked for an extension of time after her
application was rejected. The
Committee declined to grant an extension.
A.N.S. Training
Mrs. G. M: Stratton, who was
previously refused exemption, this morning said she had gone through several Auxiliary Nursing Ser- vice
lectures and was about to take an examination. She had been in Canton for 21 years and 'was now domiciled in Hong Kong.
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The application was rejected by the Committee.
MARRIED AND DIED ON 13TH
The father of an R.A.F. corpor-
with
his
al who was fatally injured when riding a motor-cycle wife on the pillion, said at the Cambridge inquest:
"He was married four months
Mr. J. F. Robinson, of Butter- field and Swire, applied for per- mission for Mrs. N. M. Elson to enter the Colony from Shanghai. Mrs. Elson, said Mr. Robinson, was needed by the company, to take charge of general supervision of catering, a position left unoccu- pied by the. evacuation of the wo- man who was formerly in charge-- ago to-day. His wife was born Mr. Robinson stated that the on the 13th, they were married company could not spare a man on the 13th, and the died on the to take charge and they had 13th." been unable to find a person
The inquest on the corporal, capable of doing the work. Mrs. Eric Stanicy Ginns (24), was ad- Elson has been with the com-journed. pany for 10 years, was experienc- ed in such work, and also had Experience in nursing. plication was granted.
The ap-
Business Reasons
His
Mr. G. A. Harriman appl'ed for She disclosed that some time permission for his wife to return ago, she received a form from the from Australia, He said he had Colonial Secretariat. She answer-been mobilised in the Naval Vo- ed the three questions on the lunteer Reserve and had no-one form and, signing It, sent it back to take care of his business. to the C.S.O. Later, it was den- | business was such that a res- ied that the form had been responsible person had to be in the ceived. The letter was not re-office. He had made preparations turned to her through the post. for the protection of his wife in Asked what the form contained, the form of a dug-out at his re- Mrs. Stratton said that the first sidence.
and
question asked her whether she Previously, when he went on was willing to serve in a certain business trips to Manila service. To this question she re-elsewhere, his wife took charge plied "Yes."
of the office.. The application was The second question asked granted. whether she had any children," Stating that his sister-in-law, and to this she answered "No." Mrs. I. K. S. Adam, was a pro- The third asked whether her fessional nurse, Mr. H. Broken- husband was willing for her to shire applied for permission for remain in the Colony.
her to return to Hong Kong. It' was granted.
Mr. Burgess, intervening, said that he had been working in Mr. B. J. Levkovich applied for connection with the evacuation, permission for his wife to return but had never heard of such to Hong Kong. She was a train- a form.
ed nurse. Her certificates
in she received
Hong Kong
Medical Services certificates.
were this
received the
Mrs. Stratton said: that was in Canton when the Ja-morning. The Committee indicat- "ed that the case would be re- panese bombed the city. have been through all that and considered when the Director of can stand up to anything and I have no children," she said. Remarking that the Committee saw no exceptional circumstances in her case, Mr. Williams, re- fused the application.
Application for permission for his wife to return, by Mr.. G. Gasper, mobilised in the Naval Volunteer Reserve, was refused.
SMASHING R-A-F. ATTACKS IN MIDDLE EAST
SMASHING R.A.F. attacks on Italy's Libyan naval base of Tobruk and aerodromes in Eritrea and Abyssinia from which Italian aircraft have attempt- ed without much success to menace British traffic were made before dawn on Sunday, it was announc- over Tobruk straddled the waterfront between the barracks and naval fuel tanks, causing one explosion of particular violence, the flash of which lit up the cabin of the raiding air- craft, in addition to other minor explosions.
Men in Cairo yesterday.