THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
PIES
SELF-SERVICE
CAKES
RESTAURANT
WAIT ON! YOURSELF
AND
SAVE'
STRANGER, YOU HAVE- A FUNNY WAY OF EATING YOUR CHICKÈM
SANDWICH! DON'T YOU LIKE THE BREAD?
SURE!
Filmney.
WELL, THEN INSTEAD OF NIBBLING AT THE
CHICKEN WHY DON'T
YOU EAT THE WHOLE SANDWICH?
OM, I COULDN'T! IT DOESN'T
BELONG TO ME!
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SANDWICHES
Easter Monday
Spent As Normal QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
Bank Holiday
ALTHOUGH THERE WAS no let up in war pro-
duction anywhere and armaments factories belched PASTOR ON
forth smoke as usual, those workers and Servicemen off duty celebrated Easter Bank Holiday in some- thing approaching peacetime style yesterday.
London's West End from an early hour was crowded with holiday-makers, many from provincial - centres, and theatres and cinemas did a tremen-
dous business.
SOCIETA
By 11 a.m. it was impossible toj seat in the principali inemas except a handful at top{ lees, and queues formed outside! awaiting later performances,
Feature of the day was the large number of Allied soldiers and airmen in the uniforms of Poland. Free France. Czecho slovakia and others on Icave from
their posts in defence artas and
seeing the sights London with British
friends, many
were in uniform.
of
whom
CHARGES OF THEFT
A pastor was accused at Liver- pool of stealing £63 he had col- Dected to provide a canleen and
comforts for soldiers.
of
Against the Rev. James Fitz gerald Crawford, aged thirty-four, also of Broadgreen-road, minster
The United Presbyterian Church of heland. Halls-lane, Liverpool. were five charges of false pre- tences and theft.
At Nottingham, the Easter Race Meeting attracted a record crowd, He was accused of having ob- tained by fraud a cheque for £130 and hundreds had to be turned
from Alfred Cyril William Thrush away, missing the stirring Victory and cheques for £20 from Clif- in the Southern Plate Seaford Briggs.
Hassan, a celt now fancied as the Derby winner and tramed by the Duchess of
wife Norfolk, young of Britain's preauer Duke
of girl ter
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Mr. H. R. Balmer, prosecut ing, said the complaint in the first casC was а fellow clergy-
man
It was alleged that Crawford But the £130 cheque by saying
hus annual returns to hu. church were due and he could not for- ward them unless he could certify he had £200 in his bank.
He was raid to have got other cheques by saying he wanted the muney to buy food for his canteen
until the grant from the
the War
Army
charity
came
through."
Actually, the prosecution alleg- ed, there was no such giant.
Mr. Balmer Bald Crawford opened the "Broadgreen Can. teen and Comforts Fund" for soldiers in June, created a committee, and received £105. The prosecution alleged that he stole £63, Crawford was remanded on bail.
BOY ACCUSED OF LOOTING TOYS
A thirteen-year-old boy who was stated not to have attended school for a year was at East London Juvenile Court accused with two others, aged twelve and ten, one his brother, of stealing toys worth 5s, from a war-damn- aged warehouse,
An L.C.C. official said that the thirteen-year-old boy was eva- cuated in September, 1939, but returned home last Christmas. Since then he had not attended school, his father saying that he had kept the boy at hame because the mother was ill.
The Chairman (Colonel Henri- ques) told the father: This is ab- solutely scandalous. You would not dare make this excuse in peacetime.
The case was adjoined for 24 week.
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