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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1941.
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closed.
COULD
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FIREMEN ON LOOT CHARGES
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS On Monday, the 27th January, the General Post Office and all Branch Post Offices will be entirely There will be no collection from the Buried up to his neck in debris No fewer than 20 charges
shelter Anderson no delivery by Post-after an
looting from bombed premises are which he and his paren s and his included in the 56 cases down for Old Bailey Sca-
pillar-boxes and
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On Tuesday, the 28th January, the General Post Office and Kowloon Cen. two-year-old sister had taken re-hearing at the tral Post Office will be open from 8 fuge had been wrecked by a bomb. a.m. to noon. Sheungwan Branch Post nine-year-old Ronnie Troman, of Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 N.-W. London, sang while rescuers Ten of the persons accused of
these offences are a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices dug away at the wreckage. will be entirely closed.
auxiliary firemen, There will be one collection from the plilar-boxes AS on Sundays and delivery of registered and ordinary correspondence at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 28th January.
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As they reached him Ronnie said to them: "I am not going to cry 'cos I'm a cub and I can take it." His cubmaster had once told the wolf cub pack that if anything happened to any of them they should' remember that they were cubs and set a good example by being brave.
Ronnie and
his parents were rescued, all injured, and taken to Small Packet Post to all countries is hospital. His baby sister was
killed.
There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 a.m. on 28th January from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taipo and Un kong
The Money Order Omce will be en- tirely
closed during the holidays.
Suspended.
INWARD MAILS
SATURDAY
Swatow
SUNDAY
Canton
TUESDAY
United Kingdom and Straits. Calcutta and Straits
Canton
THURSDAY
Jimmy Nichols, a Scout and friend of Ronnie, lold a reporter: "A R. P. workers say Ronnie deserves a medal."
"All the time he and the fami ly were trapped
ming to himself.
thought of
described
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There are two cases of mur- der. Ida Ethel Rodway, 2 61. year-old machinist, committed from North London, is accused of the murder of Joseph William Rodway; and James Miller (45), a polisher, committed from Old Street, is charged with the mur- der of Elizabeth Miller.
5 GERMAN AIRMEN ASHORE
Five German airmen came as-
he was hum.bore during the night in a rubber He must have boat between two East Angliun
const villages. cubmaster's our worde about being brave.
Some were arrested by the mili "We of the Troop are proud of tary, the others gave themselves this young Cub."
up.
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HORIZONTAL
1 King of Israel $ Levantine
sailing vessel 8 Preposition 12 Largo sea 15 Before 16 Apothegm 17 To attempt 18 Symbol for
sodium
19 Burden 20 Per
22 Chopping tool
23 Minus
24 Musical
character
26 Leaty-
stemmed plant
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Rangoon and Calcutta
• Superscribed Correspondence Only.
RADIO
12.30 p.m.-Schumann-Trio in O Minar, Op. 63...Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, 1.03 p.m.-Rale da Costa at the Piano. 1.13 p.m.-Billy Cotton and His Band.
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5.45 p.m.--Indian Programme,
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9.00 p.m.-London Relay The News A
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9.30 p.m.-Rachmaninoff-Concerto No.
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1st Mov: Allegro; 2nd Mov: Inter-
mezzo-Adagio; 3rd Mov: Finalo- Allegro....Vladimir Horowitz (Plä- no) and The London Symphony Orchestra...
10.05 p.m.-Local sports results, 10.06 p.m.-Bizet's "Carmen". Abt. 1. Singers in order of appearance: Ines Alfrant Tallini; Astrid Baracchi; Aurellano Pertile; Bruno Carmassi; Aurora Buades and Chorus of Em Scala, Milan., with the Milan Sym- phony Orchestra conducted by Loren- zo Molnjoll.
11.00 p.m.--Londen Relay =** Talk: -“In” || My Opinion”
11.15 p.m.--Variety, and Dance: Muela. 12.00' midnight.-Close down.
29 Girl's name 32 Poker stake 33 Worthless leaving
34 Allowance for waste
35 Pike-like fish
38 Is likely to 37 Core
38 Hair-line
40 House plant 41 Note of scale 42 Bone
43 List
*44 Symbol for
cerium
40 Subject
50 Atmosphere 51 Dutch cheese 53 Doctrine 54 Singing voice 55 To bind 56 Music: as written
57 Avers
* VERTICAL
1 So be it
2 Wife of Zeus
3 Fruit drinks
4 Prefix: two
5 Connection
6 Goddess of
discord
7 Back
# Preposition
9 To yield
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10 Ancient Irish
capital
11 Varicoloured
quartz
13 Aromatic plant 14 Easy gait
19 Bacteriologist's
wire
21 Archaic: the 23 Metric
measure
24 Colloquial:
portion
25 Wild
20. Ancient pistol 27 Large South American snake
28 Arid
30 Truth
31 Siamese coin
33 Lout
34 To inform 38 Haze 37 Sound
39 Artificial Janguage
40 Mark of
punctuation
41 To fast 43 Remainder 45 God of love
47 Short sleep
49 Pronoun
50 Wing-lice part
52 Pronoun 54 While
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