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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 15, 1941.
MAILS TORPEDOED---SO
The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China is temporarily suspended:-Yunnan, Szechuen, Kwei- chow, Hunan, Fukien (except Amoy & Kulangsu), Kwangsi (except Wuchow & Yunghalon), North & East of Kwang- tung.
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Saigon
INWARD MAILS
SATURDAY
Java and Manila. Swalow
Canton Sandakan
MONDAY
TUESDAY
HE WANTS TO
JOIN THE NAVY
THE ROYAL NAVY will surely keep a place for Kenneth John Sparks, the thirteen-year-old Wem- bley boy rescued by a destroyer after eight days in an open boat when a German submarine torpedoed the City of Benares.
Kenneth is determined to join the Navy. He wanted to become a sailor ever before he sailed for Canada. Now it is the one thing he lives for.
"I had a grand time on thu Lon-destroyer that picked us up,” Ken-
neth said:
Straits and Air Mali by British Over.
seas Airways Service" (except don) by sea from Singapure, United Kingdom and Straits. United Kingdom and Straits.
WEDNESDAY
Air Mall by "Pan-American Airways Direct Service"--San Francisco date, 12th February
THURSDAY
Calcutta and Strails.
FRIDAY
Canton
Sandakan
FOR
"The crew showed me every- thing in it, but I don't particularly want to go on a destroyer.
Des-
DOCTOR'S
INFAMOUS
troyer or battleship, I don't care CONDUCT
which so long as I get Navy.
in the
to
1
DR. MARTIN HERHOLDT JACOBS, 46, WHOSE MARRI- AGE HAS BEEN DISSOLVED AND WHO IS NOW LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH AN- OTHER MAN'S WIFE. WAS
"I know I'm too young now join, but I am going to join some cadet unit to learn as much as Can."
The nearest naval cadet unit is at Hammersmith, too far away for Kenneth, so he is going to join FOUND GUILTY BY THE GEN- either the Air Force cadets or the ERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL OF A DATE & TIME Army cadets. But it is the Navy "INFAMOUS CONDUCT IN
he will join later.
PROFESSIONAL RESPECT," HIS His father said: "1 am told that NAME WAS ORDERED TO BE boys are not enlisted during war-ERASED FROM THE MEDICAL time, and I don't think they are REGISTER. HE WAS REGIS- OLD-STREET, AS OF taking boys of his age on naval TERED training ships.
OUTWARD MAILB
SATURDAY
Formosa and Datren
2:30 pm.
Air Mail by Sea to Singapore to connect with the "British Overseas Airways".
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p..
K.P.O.
Reg.
Ord,
G.P.O.
Reg. Ord.
MONDAY
10.30 a.m.
5.00 p.m 5.30 p.m
Haiphong
TUESDAY Manila Rabaul. Australia
Zealand via Brisbane
and
New
G.P.O. & X.P.O.
1. Connaught Road, C.
Par.
Reg.
Ord
(18) 5.00 p.m. (18) 5.00 p.m. (19) 8.30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
PRESIDENT
LINER
SAILINGS
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
6.S. PRESIDENT PIERCE
February
March 5 March 19
22
8.8. PRESIDENT TAFT
TO NEW YORK and BOSTON
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown
6.S. "PRESIDENT HAYES"
9.S. "PRESIDENT GRANT"
S.S. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"
TO MANILA
6.5. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
6.8. PRESIDENT PIERCE
March 23 March
23
222
April 20
February February
March
6.S. PRESIDENT TAFT
TO NEW YORK and BOSTON
via San Francisco, Los Angeles and Panama
→ 13 **
15
26
11
Swatow
1,00 p.m.
Air Mail for Masila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser vicca."*
K.P.O.
Reg..
Ord.
Q.P.O.
Rcg
Ord..
FRIDAY Manila, Batavia and Sou-
rabaya
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
5.00 p. 7.00 p.m.
8.30 a.m. Stralls. Rangoon & Calcutta. 3.30 p.m.
Manila, Batavia, Mauritius, Laurenco Marques, East & South Africa via Durban .. 3.30 p.m.
Honolulu, Shanghai, Japan,
U.S.A.. Canada, Central and South America and "United-Kingdom via San Fran cisco. (No Parcels for United King-
dom).
now."
E.C'. "I have done nothing to make The charge against him was that him change his mind or to encour-he committed adultery with Gladys age him.
It is entirely a matter Ethel Ivereigh, a married woman for his own choice.
of which adultery he was found "But he is so keen, it seems a guilty by a decree dissolving his pity he cannot be doing something own marriage in February, 1940–—–—
and that he stood in professional, Kenneth's greatest treasure is relationship with Mrs. Ivereigh or silver hunter watch. presented to him by the Mayor of Wembley. her family from about the begin- bears the inscription: "Presented ning of 1934 until November, 1934. to Kenneth Sparks by his neigh-
Mrs. Ivereigh's husband, it was divorce on re- bours in admiration of his daunt-stated, objected to
in ligious grounds. less courage when torpedoed s.s. City of Benares, September 17,} 1940."
HUSBAND VANISHED
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A husband who was stated by counsel to have disappeared twenty years ago was the respon- dent in an undefended case heard in the Divorce Court.
In a letter to the Council Mr. Jacobs wrote: "Mrs. Ivereigh had never been a patient of mine, and had twice left her husband, I have lived with her, and we are still living together most happily. "She has been given the only real affection she has ever had in her life, and she has given me the most blessed and harmonious years I have ever had in my adult life."
Doctor in His Shirt
During the General Medical Council's hearing of another case, a woman said that she saw Dr. Mrs. Constance Maude Howick,
registered as of of Adela Avenue, New Malden Henry McNeill, Surrey, was granted a decree nis Cedarne Road, S. W., wearing only on the ground that her husband,
a short shirt in his surgery at Pit- Mr. Stephen A. J. Howick, hadfield Street, Hoxton, N. deserted her.
The charge against Dr. McNeill The marriage took
was that on Aug. 26 and 27 he was place in 1918.
Mrs. Howick's case was that in so far under the influence of drink 1920 she and her husband went that he was incapable of properly to Bournemouth for
professional holiday, carrying out 2 and on September 5 he returned duties. home alone.
The Council found the facts al- He wrote her a letter dated leged against Dr. McNeill proved, 4.00 p.m. September 6, and she had not but to give him an opportunity to 5.00 p.m. heard of or from him since.
He reconsider his habits and his con- 5.30 p.m. left his employment and she was duct postponed judgment for 12
unable to trace him.
months.
Note: All Mails for United Kingdom will be forwarded with or without superscription.
Parcela Reg., Ord,
K.P.O.
G.P.O.
Parcels Reg.
Ord.
4.00 p.m. 5.00 p.m. 7.00 p.m.
Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with the "British Overseas Airways."
his
"S.S. "PRESIDENT. BUCHANAN”
*S.S. "PRESIDENT JOHNSON"
*S.8. "PRESIDENT FILLMORE"
* CARGO ONLY.
K.P.O.
Reg. Ord.
4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
March
April 13
May
27
8
Reg. Ord. Canton
4.00 p.m.
4.30 p.m.
7.00 p.m.
• Superscribed Correspondence Only.
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