THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1941.
R.A.F. MAN'S SONS SEEK TWO
HOBBY IS LIONS
Folding his circus suit, Eddie Campbell, of Glas- gow, put on his R.A.F. blue tunic and went back to the leisurely business of war after ten days' leave
with spent mostly
his "playmates". two full- grown lions and two lion- esses whose training he has made his hobby.
Eddie gave a "command pet
formance for a BBC
HERO WAS ON
DAYS FOR MOTHER LEAVE
IN RUINED HOME
(By A Special Correspondent)
THREE SONS, leaving their wives and children in different parts of the country, rushed to their mother's house in Bristol when they heard it had been demolished by a bomb.
For two days, unaided, they tore frantically anong the wreckage looking for her. Then they discovered her body.
PUP SAVED
Paginace Edgar Doggett, thirty-three, an ambulative driver, of Long Ash- ྃ་
Somerset reached hus mother's home and found it had i been flattened
and myself last night. wires a peter, and made a radio record which wall be broadlea
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Auburn-haired, smiling Eddie
u newspaper reporter by preste
But the biggest interest
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Not Forgotten
When he was called up he wa asked his profe
"Journalist." said Eddie.
"Any secondary occupation " asked the sergeant.
"Yes, sir, lion taming." Eddie without a smile.
"Now.
then.
is
said
none of that funny talk. said the sergeant.
ton.
darkness,
Ho searched in the but could find no one Then, with his heart by vaking, he returned to his job
He was back at daybreak with les brother Leslie, twenty-seven, an aeroplane worker, and they
wired to the third brother. Leo
nard, thirty-one, at Plymouth
MISTRESS
AGED SEVEN
Six-foot Seaman Stan- ley Henry Batchelor, pos- of a rich tenor
sessor
voice,
was to marry
a twenty-four - year - old North Country girl.
He got special leave from Chat- ham and went off gaily to London humming "There'll always be au England." The song, he told his friends always inspired him, and it was his ambition to sing it over the radio.