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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 29, 1941.
BRIDGE WOUNDED, SAVES FOUR
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A DOUBLE ERROR
By The Four Aces "Please tell us who was to blame for this catastrophe," writes E.A.M. of New York City.
the bigger booby."
"If both of
ARMY GIRLS
By A Special Correspondent
WOUNDED AND half stunned by two bombs which fell twenty yards away, a Home Guard ran to a blazing Army lorry, rescued a F.A.N.Y, driver and smothered her burning clothes with his bare hands. Then he helped to save three A.T.S. girls trap-
us were at fault, tell us who was ped in the back of the lorry. An enemy' 'plane circled, but he continued rescue work until he collapsed.
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"The Annual General Meeting will take place at 8 p.m., on Thursday, 30th January, 1941.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
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This hero of the Home Guard is Section - Commander Richard Stanley George Worster aged thirty-two, of Rochester, Kent.
His gallantry was revealed in an Order issued by Zone Com. mander Brigadier General H. S. Franklin.
The
expressed his
general "high appreciation."
Worster is a Government clerk, married, with one small daughter. one of the first Home
tle was
Guards in the country.
He was on duty at 9.30 p.m.
when the bombs dropped. He was
knocked down and half-stumed, but he jumped up and dashed to the blazing lorry. The driver was
trapped m her seat, She had a broken arm and her clothing was 1 en fire.
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MYSTERY
OF CAROL'S
WEDDING
Search of Somerset House registers revealed
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(Released by The Net Byndicate, Inc When it comes to shopping at this time of the year foot. ball players find their field tactics come, in mighty handy.
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record of ex-King RAID
Carol's reported marriage to Magda Lupescu, red- haired Jewess, who shared his previous life of exile, and was the power behind the throne when he be-
"Any Englishman-' Pass
the Blackwood Con- North's bids of five and six diamonds
forced
were
was
re-
sponses. showing one Ace and one King respectively. After the hand South over,
that maintained his bids [ four and five no-trump had made him 'captain of the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN | hand.' Therefore, he claimed, that the ANNUAL ORDINARY North should have allowed six no- GENERAL MEETING of Share- trump to stand,
LIMITED.
on
VOTRE VALUE ON PROCE AVERAGE HAINE sti
At the risk of his life he lifted her out, put out the flames with his bare hands, and helped carry her to cover.
to
An enemy 'plane was circling overhead. There was heavy gun- Are and the blaze of the lorry lit the whole scene.
But Worster came back again to help rescue three A.T.8. girls who were inside the lorry-thon went back once more to help carry in the bodies of a soldier and a Home Guard colleague,
He collapsed. He had a shrao- nel wound on the hand, and was temporarily paralysed down one aide.
Three other A.T.S. girls were found dead in the lorry.
"But for his gallantry and pre- sence of mind, the death roll of five would have been considerably larger."
Said Worster to a friend "Any Englishman would have done the
ders will be HELD at the Hong Kung Hotel, Hong Kong,
"North insisted that South's bid TUESDAY, the 11th. February, of five no-trump was a Grand 1941. at 11.30 A.M, for the Slam invitation; and the bid of purpose of receiving the Report seven hearts was a gamble that the of the Directors together with a diamond void and undisclosed | statement of accounts for the heart support would supply whot- same." year ended 31st. December, 1940. ever tricks South needed. How
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the about it, Aces?" Cmpany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 1st. February to TUESDAY, 11th. February, both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Fong Kong, 21st January, 1941.
COLLIES TO LEAD THE BLIND
We think both are at fault, but that South was more to blame than North. The minute South found To replace Alsatians, Border out that an Ace was missing (be-collies and golden retrievers
are cause of the five-diamond respon-being tried out as guide dogs for se), he should have
says gone sightless pedestrians,
the right to six no-trump. Such Journal of the National Institute a bid would smack so much of for the Blind. finality, that North would be ob- It takes three months to train liged to pass. The five-no-trump a guide dog and three weeks to bid, as North correctly pointed accustom a blind person to out, conveyed the meaning that dog. By a new method of teach- Business Houses
hereby South might bid a Grand Slam ifing the period is being reduced. werned that all payments in con- | North could show enough Kings. nection with the 1941 edition of But North still was wrong to bid
WARNING
are
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THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.
RAPION No.11 ERAPION No. 2 ERAPION N3
trump suit even if South held the Ace of hearts. As a matter of fact, South's heart holding might have been headed by both Ace and King, and a trump trick would still. have to be lost.
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were
Yesterday you
Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with neither side vulnerable you held:
You
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A 8 3
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The bidding:
Schenken Pass Pass (?)
Jacoby 14
Mater Pass
You haven't enough spades to ANSWER: Bid two diamonds,
jump to three spades, and your hand is too strong for a raise to two spades..
Score 100% for two diamonds: 50% for three spades; 20% for two spades.
Question No. 625 To-day you hold the samé hand and the bidding continues:
You Schöhlen Jacoby
PARK Pasa
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Maier Page Pass
What do you bid?, (Answer
tomorrow.).
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came King of Rumania.
Carol, now In Spain with Mme. Lupescu, was stated to have announced that they were married in London “some years ago."
VICTIMS
While bombs were falling on a town in Kent, eighteen-year-old Donald Louis Jones-youngest air
raid warden in his centre--coolly crawled under tons of wreckage to rescue two trapped civilians.
He knew that at any moment he might be crushed to death, but he did not hesitate.
He reached the two victims and
But a New York corespon.tound they were pinned down by dent cabled a report that they two heavy joists which had fallen married recently to enable them from the floor above.
States to-
to enter the Whited gether.
At Somerset examined
House a reporter entries of marriages that have taken place during the past twenty years.
Neither ex-King Carol's name, nor Mme. Lupescu's, was among them.
Asked To Go
An official said: "There are no circumstances in which a marri- age could take place in England and Wales without registration,
"A man might marry under a nane other than his real one, but the assumed name would have to be one by which he was well known.
"Even then he might find it a rather dieult thing to do."
Ex-King Carol Aa's often been in Engländ. He was here In 1928, as Prince, and Mme. Lupescd was with him then.
They stayed for about three weeks. then the Government asked him to go.
He was here again in 1936, 1937 and 1938.
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There ho stayed
four for hours, protecting with his body the heads and faces of the trap- ped people from debris dislodg- ed during the rescue operations, All that time Warden Jones knew that the heavy building material above them might ool- lapse.
Throughout those four hours he constantly encouraged the two victims and gave directions to the rescue party,
Later it was announced that the youth's heroism has earned him the O.B.E. Medal (Civil Division). He is the first air-raid warden to be so honoured.
"It was mainly owing to his courage and endurance that the victims were eventually released,” states the "London Gazette."
Jones, who is a troop leader in the Boy Scouts, was at work last night at an aircraft factory where he le apprenticed-turn- Ing dut bombers for the R.A.F. So secret is the work that no one could visit him to tell him what had happened.
His widowed mother, Mrs. Freda Jones, told a reporter: "He came home after the raid and told the practically nothing about it. But i found out that they had to scrape the dirt off him and bath him, be- fore they could even recognise him. He has made A.R.P. work his hobby, and as a part-time warden he is, of course, unpaid."
GUARDS SHOW OF MOBILITY
Senior officers of the Tactical School were present at a field de- monstration by a battalion of the Guards, designed to show in all. its completeness the latest infan- try equipment and also the new mobility of a battalion employed as a "Forward Body."
The appearance alike and the performance were impressive,
During the rapid construction, of the new defences last summer much of the, camouflaging that was done was well-meant rather than expert. Since then the army has called on the services of fam- ous architects and scene-painters, who work in collaboration with the R.A.F.
It was interesting in one area to find Mr. Oliver Messel in uniform, with two pips on his shoulder, and applying to the English landscape the talent and enthusiasm he gave In other days to a Cochrane revue, Elsewhere Capf. Baxter, formerly
the Glynde stage-manager
new
bourne Opera, is finding scope on a stage many miles wide.,
Somewhere on the const the orchitect of the London Clinic, Maj. Biddulph Pinchurd, has de figned the new for