IN HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
Dr. William Rudolf Kusel, aged forty-nine, accused in London of using insulting words and behavi- our in a churchyard, was stated to have nearly caused a stampede in a crypt used as an air raid shel- ter.
A nurse said that 150 people were in a crypt wêhn Incendjary bomba fell on the church. The roof of the church caught fire. but there W TE no immediate danger.
Dr. Kuset entered the crypt from the street. She asked him who he was. He replied: "I am a doctor," and he told her to shut up.
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The doctor called to the peo- | Chefno
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Mony of the during the summer and have been more fortunate than those except when they talk, when their En-arrived later in that they
been able to gradually acclimatise glish accent easily gives them
themselves to the Canadian weu- According to the police, the fire. put out. The docor, her, now growing colder as win-was soon ter approaches. Many spent the waving his arms, shouted: "This is summer in the country and are as all I well get for doing my secured for One Year or sharter tanned as nuts.
best." He refused to go away and Few Federal projects that have was arrested. ever been discontinued have oc-
widespread disap-| The doctor told the Court the casioned the
has been marii-nurse struck him on the shoul- pointment that Lested from coast to coast Inder and said: "Who are you?" He
The British children at first had some difficulty with the slang ex- pressions of the Canadians, but are tw becoming almost as ex- pert in using them as the Cana- dian children are. They no longer say "those boys," but "those guys". They do not say "I don't believe
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you when they doubt anything | Canada over the sudden cessation did not use insulting words or be-Hong Kong 13th December, 1940.
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on December 30. According to Sub-Inspector F J. Clarke, defendant was driving carefully investigated beforehan
at 36 m.p.h.
Defendant told the Court that at he was master of the circus Causeway Bay, and wits in hurry to get to his destination.
that little practical necessity for these inspections exists. There have been no cases as yet of any children having landed into un- desirable surroundings.
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The magistrate, saying that most Out of well in excess of 100,000 |probably the doctor rather lost his offers of homes for little British head, dismissed the case under the
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state, the supply of children has been sufficient to actually accept less than 7,500.
Of this total, only between 1,500 and 1,600 have reached the Do- minion under the auspices of the United Kingdom and Canada, The balance have arrived as a re- sult of private arrangements be- tween their parents and indivi- dual Canadian families.
It is characteristic of the spirit that has enveloped the whole movement that the young eva- cuces, even in the official langu- age used in Government' admill- stration, are referred to as "guest children," not as refugees.
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Nearly blinded by bomb splinters that had injured his face, forty-year-old David Bissett; a Scottish labourer, crawled on his hands and knees through the gas-filled ruins of a canteen in a bombed Mid- lands factory, and rescued waitress who lay uncon- scious and blinded for life by the blast.
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Struggling for breath and al- most unable to Lee, he carried | Paid-up Capital ... her downstairs, passing many Reserve Fund dead and Injured, and stumbled Reserve Liability of Pro with her 150 yards across field to the bungalow where sho Ilved.
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He laid her on a couch, went out into the field again, and was on the point of collapse when he, toc, was rescued.
All his teeth were broken, his glasses had been smashed, and he losing blood from face wounds. His left arm, toc, was injured.
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The woman, thirty-six-year- old Miss Doris Tindall, is in hos- pital, blind and dangerously ill as the result of severe, face burns,
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Mies Bissett — Jock to his awnpore Alinden friends-visited. Doris in hospital, Dalombo but she was too ill to talk to him. Del
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CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened ano "Any man would have done what I did," Jock told a reporter.FIXED DEPOSITS Tceived fo: Ont "A plane roared overhead, and Year or shorter periods in Leral or Other Currencies at rates which will bombs: dropped immediately out-be quoted en applications and to side. The whole canteen collapsed, BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened.”ki and the place was like an in- Local Currency and Sterling with on. Terna
terest allowed cat rates, obtainable” on White haired Mrs Sarah Tin-application dall, mother of the rescued wo- The Bank's, Head Omice in London man sobbed as she said
undertakes Executor, and Truster-bus). neas, and claima" recovery of British "Doris will never see again, but income Tax overpaid, on terms which the owes her life to Jock. He was may be ascertained vatana... of vine drénched, with, Blood, when?" hà| Articles, and uradchen- Anfried her in.. and avas reeling
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