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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1941.
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in "New Moon." now thowing at Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.
29 BRITONS DIE IN ITALY
Twenty-nine, deaths have occurred among the British communi- ties in the concentra- tion comps and in- ternee centres in Italy, Rome radio announc- ed.
This is considered a low figure in view of the fact that the aver age age of the 2,300 British subjects in Ita- ly is fifty-six General health, said the on nouncer has been good Reuter.
DYING,
HAS WROTE TO
THE WORLD
HEARD OF MR. TOMPKINS!
(By A Special Correspondent)
A CLOCK IN ATHENS WAS THIRTY SECONDS SLOW IN THE EARLY HOURS AND FOR FIVE MINUTES THE FACT WAS BROADCAST TO THE WORLD.
MOTHER
As he lay dying
GA RAF
This letter to las moder My Dearest Mother DV tame you receive the
will no doubt know the news.
hut
I want you to keep you chars sup and keep smiling
You know, dear, that a war rou- no, be fought without the loss of lives, but these lives are never | given in vain
that They are given so
Britain shall still remain the first land in
the whole world, and, come what may, nothing can alter the dignily and love for peace and security
So remember, darling. 1 along
Listeners on the Ankara wavelength must have that is a Britisher's heritage. got a shock at 1.10 a.m. when a voice was suddenly with others died so that our lov heard shouting, "Tompkins, Tompkins, TOMPKINS,et mes shall be safe and secure we have just discovered that your clock is thirty for all time, and, in years to come. seconds slow. Are you listening? Do you know love most. your clock is thirty seconds slow?" Evidently Tompkins
was
not listening, for CAN SEND
minute after minute An- |kara called him to no
avail.
Then
Ankara switched "Are you listening. New
York!"
called the announcer "We have
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clock in Athens is thirty seconds | CABLED BY CODE TO MEM- słow and we can't make hiBERS OF THE FORCES SERV- bear." This was repeated an ING IN THE NEAR FAST. agonused tones for about a ute.
-
The story behind all the fuss about the clock in Athens Was this. National Broadcasting Com- pany of New York at 115 every morning relays the American re- ports on international affairs by its correspondents in different capitais. This can only be done without overlapping by timing in seconds.
In Blissful Ignorance
Stating this the Postmaster- General in London said that among telegrams sent to soldiers the same phrases kept recurring.
"So a code has been prepared by which these phrases can be sign- alled very briefly, thus enabling many more telegrains to go over.
"Here is one: 'Kisses," the next is 'Love and klases,' and the next, 'Fondest love."
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The powerful Ankara radio is the control station for the Bal-dress kans and uses the ten minutes! before broadcasting starts to check up with its correspon dents. Tompking. who was first on the air, had evidently left for the microphone before the fault in his clock was discover- ed and was in blissful ignor
ance,
Later, the Ankara announcer having gay en a detailed aroun of the Turkish-Bulgarian Part and said "Good-bye” to America, we jammedarely switched off the air by N.B.C. His next words were in an aggrieved tone: "Tompkins your clock WAS thirty seconds slow and you didn't listen to me.
Poor Tompkins!
"U.S. NOW FACING
SOCIAL WAR"
others will die for the ones they
Well, darling,
with my
dying breath. I'll pray that our sacrifice was not in vain and I'll say: God bless you, dearest of all mothers
Your loving son,
ALF
Alf was Sergeant Allied Har- rison son of Mrs. Harrison, of Ed- win Street, Nottingham.
TROUSERS FOR GIRLS O.K'D
Bruce ap-
Admiral Sir Heni proves of
women war workers wearing trousers.
He told a conference of British Legion women from the Metro- politan area in London:
"War always affects women's fashions. In the last war one thing which was very noticeable way that women's skirts were shorten- ed many inches.
"In this war again many WO- inen have discarded skirts alto- gether and are wearing trousers. - I quite agree with that change be- cause the work
they are called upon to do is dangerous work, where draperies would be abso- tutely suicidal."
ARMY HAS A
PUZZLE CORNER
(By A Special Correspondent)
A SOLDIER with an injured right hand and a furrowed brow marched into the Services informa- tion office in Trafalgar Square.
"Excuse me, sir," he said to the officer on duty. "I've hurt my right hand and can't salute. Am I allowed to salute with the left hand?"
Not often during the long hours in which the office is open do they get entertaining questions like that. Most of the inquiries re- late to routine Service matters or to transport difficulties,
But now and again the unusual
Virginio Gayda asserted in an editorial that American aid to Great Britain has threatened to walks into the offices--such as a start a social war in the United. soldier who had escaped from the States. The Fascist editor and Nazis. writer said that strikes in the Unit- ed States were "disorganising war production and delaying deliveries of supplies urgently awaited by England."-Associated Press.
a
The bureau sent him to the War Office and he was there for
week, answering questions → about what he had seen! Frequent visitors to the informa- tion office are worried wives-and some angry wives-in, search of lost husbands.
The information office knows all the answers,
By the way, their answer to the For some reason, he had been | saluting problem was: "Under no sent straight on leave when he circumstances! Give a smart cyes reached England, and he came to right or eyes left, and if you are s ask whether anybody would be pulled up explain the circum- interested in his experiences.
stances."