THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1940- -
LEFT LIFE
SAVINGS BEHIND
BABY BURNT TO DEATH
A woman who carried the life A four-months'-old child, Les- savings of her husband and, her- lie Thomas Monks, was fatally self a handbag wherever she burnt in a push-cart in which he went left the bag behind when was sleeping in the backyard of a she rushed from a market place! wesidential in Botany Road, to take cover during a raid war- Sydney. Detectives have been ning.
unable to discover what caused the fire.
She has now recovered them under remarkable circumstances, Here is the story:--
An East Dereham (Norfolk) greengrocer, Mr. Robert Ellis, was mazed to find a handbag contain- ing 300 £1 notes wrapped in sacks, which had been on his stall in Dereham Market.
He took the money to Dereham Police Station, where he learned that it was the life savings of Mr, and Mrs. James Edwards, of Webster's Cottages, Yaxham Road, East Dereham.
"I then covered the baby with a blanket and placed a mosquito net over the push cart so that he could sleep in the sun," said Mrs. Monks. When I left. there was no sign of fire. and I went to my room upstairs."
BRITISH DEFENCE
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KING'S FATHER HAD AN IDEA
The King and Queen recently heard how a suggestion made by King George V helped to defeat the Germans in 1918,
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In a heavy artillery school in the Northern Command a lieu- tenant-colonel of the Royal En- gineers told how on August 0. At 10 a.m. the baby's mother, Miniature photographic dupli-1918, King George the Fifth came Mrs. Rose Victoria Monks, wheel-cates of the whole of Britain's to a 14-inch naval gun position on ed him in the push cart about a defence secrets and other impor-a railway near Arras and gave small yard at the back of the re- tánt State documents have now orders for the first shot to be sidential which years ago was a been scnt to secret hideouts fired on Douai railway junction. hotel, until the child fell asleep. throughout the country,
After the shot King George told This is the result of day and the lieutenant-colonel in com- night work by highly skilled and mand of the battery that he had trusted photographic experts who, just come from the Fourth Army, in secret laboratories, have photo-which was launching its attack Bangkok graphed the records in such tiny on Amiens. form that they can about in a suitcase.
be carried
Kowloon "You can be perfecly sure that Bombay the Germans will have to rush Cauton Several sets of prints of each their reinforcements from Ypres Chefoo
the documents have been through Douai," said King George Colombo Half an hour later, John Roche,
made so that if one set should V. Why not keep up a harassing Foelor When Mr. Eills restored the who occupies a room at the place
be destroyed during air raids fire on the railway junction?" Haiphong money to Mr. and Mrs. Edwards went into the yard to place
others will still be avaliable, "We dropped 120 tons of high they were so grateful that they bath towel on the line. "I found
"The work has taken many explosives on the railway junc-Dolla offered him £150 reward, but "The baby seemed to be envelop- "as only our experts and the most
the push-cart blazing." he said. weeks," an official told the press, tion," the colonel told the King. he would accept only £5,
"Afterwards an English lady Jirs. Edwards said that whened in flames, and shouting to its
that there were 400 she was shopping in the market mother, I lifted him from the cart, trusted men could be put on to the told me
job. Hitler would have given casualties in a German troop place a raid warning was given and rushed him to the laundry millions of pounds to have been train on our first day's firing." and. rushing from a shop
tubs a few feet away. Soapy able to spend five minutes in the The gun, nicknamed the "Boche take cover, she left the handbag, water was in the troughs, and I laboratories."
Buster," and sister gun, known plunged the child under the water A suggestion that photographic as the "Scene Shifter," until the flames were extinguish-miniatures
of the documents to be in action against the Hun should be made was put forward again. before the war, but at that time
to
behind.
"I
afraid was
to bank the money," she added, "and even when I went into the raid shel-
ter in my garden I took it with me. When I went back for it after the 'All Clear' had sounded and found it was gone I nearly went
mad."
POULTRY-KEEPERS' GRIEVANCES
ed"
By
this time.
a
however, the
of
child's body was badly burnt, and it was thought not to be necessary. though he was rushed bulance to the
by am- pital, he died four
Children's Hos- hours later. Mr. Roche was scorched about the arms. and his shirt sleeves were set alight.
Detective Sergeant Walker, De- tectives Fergusson and Hill, and Sergeant Walker, of Redfern, are investigating the cause of the
fire.
A further diminution int the supply of home produced eggs is forecast by the National Poultry Council in a letter to the Ministry solute minimum, to guarantee the of Food, in which it complains of profits for intermediary traders, "niggardly treatment", of poultry, and, at the same time, to keep the keepers.
producers' prices down below the actual costs of production..
"It is merely adding insult to injury to the producer," states the letter, "for the Ministry of Food,
"Costs have increased by at in a time when the marketing least 80 per cent, The position is costs of eggs to
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NO JINGOISM
IN BRITAIN
The Rev. Walter H. Armstrong, a Norwich Methodist and first Moderator of the newly formed lieves that the war should silen- Free Church Federal Council, be-
these silly per- that it does not matter what we sons who have been telling us
believe."
ce for ever "all
Delivering his inaugural ad- dress to the Council in London he aeclared that the war was the fruit of Nazi and Fascist creeds forced into the minds of youth
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He was John Vincent Cain, a 33-year-old lance-corporal in London regiment, who, it was alleged, had a criminal record.
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Here they missed him by only a few minutes. Right along the road that led to Holyhead the "In my judgment, the over- chase went on till, near Shrews- whelming body of Free Church-bury, Cain took to a field, where men stand-by the Prime Minis-later he was found - shot................... ter in the gigantic
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