THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 13, 1940.
BABY'S HOT LITTLE HEAD
IS A DANGER SIGNAL"
READY FOR "DEMOBBING"
A corespondent recently visited
When your baby's head feels n department of the Army's or- hot to your hand you must do something. And do it quickly. Kanisation which is always looking Read the case of 5 year old Jolin forwarding to demobilisation. It is Talbot of Halifax, England, whose one of the 30 Record Offices which mother writes as follows:
keep filed a detailed dossier of everything a soldier does, and everything that happens to him, from the day he joins the Army to the day he leaves it..
"I am convinced that Baby's Own Tablets warded off a fever or other serious illness in its first stage, states Mrs. Talbot. "John
was taken ill suddenly with fever ishness, he vomited food and was very restless and cried all night. 1 had heard of the good effect of
"Domobilisation," the colonel in Baby's Own Tablets, and gave charge said to him, "will show these tablets to him; they acted whether we have done our job casily on the bowels, after which well. It is the winding-up he went quietly to sleep. Upon our dealings with a soldier. His waking he took food and menaed i proper receipt of gratuity, pen- rapidly."
sion and medals depends on the Baby's Own Tablets are sweet-accuracy of the record we have tasting, easy to take, absolutely kept." harmless. Quickly reduce simple
of
fever. Equally good for constipa- The particular Record Office, tion,
diarrhoea. one of the largest in the country, Indigestion, worms, colds. teething troubles is the "Somerset House" of
the and ohter minor ailments of child-Field Branch of the Royal Artil- hood. Keep Baby's Own Tabletsry. Its lists include more than handy in the home; sickness so 900 John Smiths, and 11 clerks often strikes in the night. From are engaged solely in keeping their all chemists.
pay accounts.
CARELESSNESS SOMEWHERE!
£
A brutal Foreign Legion sergeant lies with a bayonet through his heart because he tried to wrest a valuable gem from one of the gallant brothers Geste. Gary Cooper and Ray * Milland, as "Beau" and "John Geste" dispose of the sergeant.
(Brian Donlevy) In this scene from the new "Beau Geste," which Paramount will present shortly at the Queen's and Al- hambra Theatres."
Outwardly, there is nothing to distinguish this from a busy com- mercial office, except that the de-sick or wounded men. Our job partmental heads are in uniform even includes forwarding a sol- and many of the 2,000 clerks are dier's letters." A.T.S. girls
Dunkirk Inquiries
"Simplify and humanise' are A wrongly marked card in the match between J. McKelvie | our watchwords." said the colonal,
Dunkirk provided, this Record (Kowloon) and J. C. Chalmers explaining something of the or- (Hong Kong) resulted in Hongganisation. "We are
developing Office, like most others, with one Kong being announced the win-into something like a Public Re- of the busiest periods in its his- lations Department. It is to us that tory. Thousands of inquiries were all inquiries come from soldiers' relatives: problems of pay and al-received from anxious relatives. lowances, inquiries about missing,
ners
of the Aitkenhead Shield match, at K:P.G.C. on Saturday, by one shot.
What actually happened
was that McKelvie beat Chalmers 21-18 and not vice versa, as first stated. This now gives Kowloon victory by five shots. As a result spoons which should have gone to ting telegrams from the Inter- of Saturday's error, 48 Hong Kong Kowloon players.
players were presented
with
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"Quite a number of 'missing" men were traced by a circular letter which I sent to next-of- kin. Coming back from Dunkirk, their first thought had been to get in touch with their fami lies. Some of them forgot that their units wanted news of them, too."
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"A large number of our mened here. then posted missing häve since bcen traced as prisoners of war." the colonel said. "We are still get-
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