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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 14, 1941.
ON "BEAT" IN WAR COCKPIT
Varied Duties of
A Kent P. C. "Your policemen are wonderful" can justifiably be said by any visitor to Kent who has had the op-| portunity of observing, as I have, the work of the Kent Constabulary in the countryside during the aerial blitzkrieg, writes a correspondent.
DOCTOR IN CRYPT
BRITISH CHILDREN AT
HOME IN CANADA SCENE
THE BRITISH CHILDREN who have been evacuated to Canada are rapidly becoming accus- tomed to the Canadian way of life and customs. Most of them are in homes where there are other children of about the same age.
They are being dressed the same way, eat the same food, go to the same schools, play the same games and talk about the same things as their
foster-brothers and sisters.
They have learned to play ter approaches. Many spent the children's summer in the country and are as Canadian baseball, Tavourite summer game, and are tanned as nuts. jooking forward to learning how to ski in the winter.
Few Federal projects that have ever been discontinued have oc- this casioned the widespread disap- has been man!- pointment that
from coast to roast fested Canada over the sudden cessation of the influx of British children of ocean owing to the dangers travel,
I know one constable, a Lon- doner, whose beat takes in four Already some of the children parishes many miles in extent, it
who came to Canada early summer cannot be distinguished has been in the very "Cockpit of
Canadian children except England" since the air blitzkrieg | from began. On its flelds have fallen when they talk, when their En- them a score of Nazi bombers and Mes-glish accent easily gives serschmidt fighters.
this And Cockney P.-c. has been "in at the death" of every one of them.
When he sees a Nazi aircraft begin its headlong plunge to des- truction after a battle with a Hur- ricane or a Spitfire, off he races, on his motorcycle and with un- erring accuracy "ferrets" his way through the maze of Kentish lanes, to reach the spot and make pri- soners of any survivors.
In his kitchen "headquarters" this constable and his young wife regularly entertain" any number from one to four Nazi airmen until the military arrive to take them
away.
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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.