NATHE: CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1940
LEFT LIFE SAVINGS BEHIND
A woman who carried the life savings of her husband and her self in a handbag wherever she went left the bag behind when she rushest from a market place to take cover during a raid wur- ning.
She has now recovered them under remaricable circumstances; Hére is the story:
BABY BURNT TO DEATH
A four-months-old child, Les- lle Thomas Monks, was fatally burnt in a push-cart in which he was sleeping in the backyard of a residential in: Botapy Road, Sydney. Detectives have been unable to discover what caused the fire
BRITISH KING'S
DEFENCE SECRETS
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FATHER HAD AN A IDEA
Fage 13
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King George V helped to defeat the Germans in 1918.
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In a heavy artillery school in the Northern Command a litu tenant-colonel of the Royal-En- gineers told how on August 8. At 10 am the baby's mother,
Hon, Mr. J. J. Paterson, Miniature photographic dupli-1918, King George the Fifth came
Deputy Chairınan, Mrs. Rose Victoria Monks, wheel-cates of the whole of Britain's to a 14-inch naval gun position on 3.8. Boundeld, Esq. S. Morrison, a
An East Dereham (Norfolk) and the bade of thout a defence se documents; have now orders for
ed him in the push cart about a defence secrets and other impor-a railway near Arras, and gave. Compton, Esq. Hon, Mr. T. E. Peary,
to
greengrocer, Mr. Robert Ellis, was sidential which years ago was a been sent amazed to find a handbag contain-hotel, until the child fell asleep. throughout the country. 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, Eas: 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."
Shields
C. C. Roberta, Bagi, Dodwell, Hon. Mr. Aika, 0. Mirtin, Esq.,
Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn, Chief Manager.
the first shot to be Hon. Mr. 8. H. secret bideouts fired on Douai railway junction.
After the shot King George told mand of the battery that he had the lieutenant-colonel, in com- just come from the Fourth Army, which was Jaunching its attack Bangko on Amiens.
night work by highly skilled and This is the result of day. and trusted photographic experts who, in secret laboratories, have photo graphed the records in such tiny form that they can be carried. about in a suitcase.
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"You can be perfecly sure that Bombay the Germans will have to rush Canton Several sets of prints of each their reinforcements from Ypres. Chefoo of 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 Foveo Dairen who occupies a room at the place
be destroyed during, air raids fire on the railway junction?" Haiphong went into the yard to place a
others will still be" ávalláble. "We dropped 120 tons of high Hankow bath towel on the line. "I found
"The work has taken many explosives on the railway junc-follo "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. ed in flames, and shouting to its trusted men could be put on to the told me
"Afterwards English lady Current Accounts.opened in Loca3. that there were 400 Currency and Fixed Deposita received. mother, I lifted him from the cart, job. and rushed him to the laundry millions of pounds to have been train on our first day's firing."
Hitler would have given casualties in a German
for one year or shorter periods in Loosă" troop
and other currencies on tema which tubs a few feet away. Soapy able to spend five minutes in the] shop to
will be quoted on application. water was in the troughs, and laboratories."
The gun, nicknamed the "Boche plunged the child under the water
Buster," and sister gun, known
documents to be in action against the Hun should be made was put forward again. before the war, but at that time.
When Mr. Ellis restored the money to Mr. and Mrs. Edwards they were so grateful that they offered him £150 reward, but he would accept only £5. Mrs. Edwards said that when she was shopping in the market place a raid warning was given and, rushing from a take cover, she left the handbag
behind.
I was afraid to bank the money," she added, "and even when I went into the raid shel- ter in my garden I took it with ine. When I went back for it after the 'All Clear' had sounded and found it was gone I nearly went
mad."
POULTRY-KEEPERS' GRIEVANCES
an
until the flames were extinguish-miniatures of
A suggestion that photographic as the "Scene Shifter," are soon
ed"
By child's body was badly burnt, and though he was rushed by am- bulance to the
this time, however, the
Children's Hos- pital. he died four hours later. Mr. Roche was scorched about the arms. and his shirt slecves' 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 in 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 producers' prices down below the actual costs of production.
keepers.
the
it was thought not to be necessary,
NO JINGOISM
IN BRITAIN
SUSPECT SHOT
After Secret Service and C.I.D.
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officers had chased a suspected SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
Chief Manager.
spy from Guildford, through · Lon- don and Northampton to Shrews-Hong Kong, 1st March, 1837. bury, he was killed in a field on the point of capture.
The Rev. Walter H. Armstrong, a Norwich Methodist and first Moderator of the newly formed Free Church Federal Council, be- lieves that the war should, silen- sons who have been telling us ce for ever "all these silly per- that it does not matter what we arst stated.
"believe,"
"It is merely adding insult to injury to the producer," states the letter, "for the Ministry of Food, "Costs have increased by at Delivering his inaugural. ad- in 3 time when the marketing least 80 per cent, The position is dress to the Council in London he costs of eggs to the consumer rapidly deteriorating and the in-aeclared that the war was the should be kept down to the ab-dustry is facing a grave crisis?
fruit of Nazi, and: Fascist creeds forced into the minds of youth jo□omo for years past. The atrocious cruelties were the logical, out- comes of the beliefs imposed.
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He was John Vincent Cain, à 33-year-old, lance-corporal in a London regiment, who, it alleged, had a criminal record. circumstances of Cain's death. It There is deep mystery in the
he took his own life, as was at has not been established whether
Inquiries showed; it was alleged, and as there was reason to belleve that Cain was a known criminal, Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman; he was carrying out espionage the Li Koon Churi, Esq., F. K. Kwok, Esq., officers who had picked up his shek, Esq. Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong Wong Yun Tong, Esq., Chan - Ching trail first at Guildford chased Chu Son, Esq. Kan Ying Fo, Esq. apo Cain to London and thence to Fung Fing Wah, Eaq Northampton.
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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 and almost Great secrecy was observed at Caloutta overwhelming burden that lies the preliminary inquest on Calni, Hankow heavily upon him. As far as we and neither Press nor public were Honolulu can, we would help him in the allowed for attend;
•Robe bcaring of the burden,” he said. For the last fortnight special onders
branch cfficers have been inves- "From him we hear no glortigating Cain's movements and fication of war as we have done connections during the past few
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