THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1940,
WILL HELP AT SCENE
OF RAID
A man with a blue and white checkered armlet posted near a blue and willte checkered flag will be seen near air raid damage in residential areas of the Mid
⚫ lands in the future.
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care
These new officers will take of residents affected by bombing raids. They will ar- range for the immediate well- being of residents and will have homeless people taken to billets.
After bombing raide in which houses have been destroyed or damaged, one of the most trou ble-some problems is the after- care of residents who are dazed and shocked and require prompt -and sympathetic treatment.
A special officer will establish
a temporary post on the scene.
He will also keep the central ,authority informed,
prepare. in- formation for the relieving and operating officers and other of- ficials and ensure that when the Women's Voluntary Services gr- rive, they will be given facilities to provide hot drinks and assistance.
For
other
PALESTINE TO BAGHDAD BY TAXI
LOCAL SHARES
*BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1340
$1340/50 sa,
INSURANCES
Union Ins. $305 ́sa. -
ETC.
ANITA ENGLE, A lively, blackhaired Canadian DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, girl has recently arrived in England after a hazar- dous journey which lasted two months. Her object? To be near her fiance, who is in the Gunners.
She did not come from Canada. She was much nearer her destination-in Palestine, from which she could in normal times travel to London by air in three days.
She went to Palestine in Fe- through places that tourists would But we were bruary, in charge of 25 Czech, give a lot to see. Austrian and German Jewish in no mood for sightseeing just
then." children.
All was quiet, out there. "The Sea of Galilee," she said, "is the most peaceful spot I have ever seen." But she began to worry about her Gunner. And then she started her great trek.
Taxi To Baghdad First, with six others, she took a taxi to Baghdad, and then to Basra..
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Next step on the journey wag two weeks' grilling in a ship on the Persian Gulf. "All the pas- myself were on sengers except the way to America," said Miss under- "They couldn't Engle. stand why I wanted to go to England."
Then came a wait at Bombay for a British ship homeward bound from Australia with cargo of food.
Christened Crossing
Line
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"We were driven,” she said, "by Mahomet, a magnificont Cir.
casslan who looked like movie star. For hundreds of miles he drove, day and night,
"Of the 1,500 people on board," without reet,
said Miss Engle, "two hundred ."This
wild drive took us were civilian passengers. Three were young babies: they were christened as we crossed the Line. One elderly woman was going to England from Ceylon 'for her health,' she told me.
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"Several elderly couples were going home because they could not bear to be out of the war:
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"One mother, the wife of Camel Corps officer from British: Somaliland, had gone to Aden for the birth of her baby.
"There she had been bombed by the Italians when the child was only a few days old. But the baby had slept through it all."
“Man From Moonstone",
"They were amazingly cheerful, although from the Cape the boats were swung out and we wore our life-jackets all the time."
Among the naval ratings who travelled in that boat was a bit of a hero. He was "the Man from the Moonstone:"
The trawler Moonstone, it will be remembered, attacked 'and captured a
big Italian submarine in the Gulf of Aden
fact June. a
The Man from the Moonstone, whose name was "Slinger" Wood, brought home an Italian diving suit for himself and silk under- wear for his wife,
"A fine type of British sailor," said Miss Engle, tall, tow-haired, blue-eyed and weather-beaten,"
All on board that liner pictur- ed an England shattered by bombs, starved by blockade, Most of them were desperately anx.ous about the possible fate of families and friends.
"We Were Wrong” ·
"We saw how wrong we were even before we reached port,' Miss Engle said.
bour.
H.K. and K. Wharves $91 b. H.K. Docks (Old) $17.95 sa. H.K. Docks (New) $171⁄4 b. Providents $51⁄2 b., $5755 sa.. LANDS, HOTELS & BLDG8: H.K. and S. Hotels $3%1⁄2 b.. Humphreys $7.40 b. H.K. Realties $3.65 b., $3% sa.
PUBLIC UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $17:35 b. Star Ferrics $5911⁄2 b. China Lights (Old) $7.30′ sa,,
C.D.
H.K. Electrics (Old) $39.80 b.,'
$401⁄2 s., $40 sa. HK, Electrics (New) $39 b. Sandakan Lights $11.20 b; Telephones (Old) $251⁄4 'b.' Telophones (New) $10.10 sa.
INDUSTRIALS * Cements $18.40 b., $181⁄2 sa.
HK, Ropes $6.90 b ̧
Dairy Farms $18
b.
STORES, &c.
Watsons $101⁄2 b., $10%1⁄2/55 sa.
MISCELLANEOUS
Entertainments $6.80 b. Constructions (Old) $1.60 b. Vibro Piling $7.80 s. Marsmans Inv. (H.K.) s/− 2/6 b,
LAST DAY'S SALES
6 HK. Banks @ $1340 23 Union Ins. @ $395 100 Docks (Old) @ $17.95 1,000 Providents @ $5% 1,550 Providents @ $5.55. 500 Realties @ $3.75 100 Trams @ $17.45- 1,000 Lights (Old) @ $7.30 1,716 Watsons @ $101⁄2 300 Watsons @ $10.55 500 Electrics (Old) @ $40 462 Telephones (New) @ $10.10
MAN SAID TO HAVE
SECRET PLAN
A remand in custody for a week was ordered at Warrington, Lancs, when Thomas Duffy, a labourer lodging in a local hostel, was charged with having in his pos- session a certain secret document
a plan containing information which might be useful to an enemy