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3 SISTERS: NO TIME TO WED
So big and brave are the jobs of work the three Yates sisters of Birming- ham are doing that they think have no time to about marriage while the war is on. All three are A.R.P. wardens. Their post is at their own home in one of the most badly damaged areas in the city.
Romance must take a back seat while they are putting out incendiaries. helping the injured, sav- ing animals in the blitz.
twenty-texen, Eileen Winntred mine- Eileen are full- teen May and time paid wardens, but Wiilred, Who is "land up" with a fractured Toot is a volunteer.
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Mary twenty me
Once she rescued some horses from a fire, and during another raid whe trying to salvage goods from a burning building
fteor
foll collapsed and she
below. into a room
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"Between Us we have put out dozens of incendiaries." Mary told a reporter. "But it is only what thousands of other people are doing," she added modest. Ty.
"I am on permanent night duty and we are all on duty seven days of wrek
"Mother
volunteered to allow
1 tsp to be used as an ARP post, and there is a staff of nine wardens here.
"The Uitee of us are so busy with our work that we have had no temu to think about marriage. My Baner is in the R.AP Eileen 1 a
young man, but Winifred has no line for romance,“
"PAY BACK JERRY" IS WIFE'S AIM
Being bombed out of her home and not seeing her soldier husband for thir- teen months has made nineteen-year-old
Mrs. Florence Birch all the more determined to "have her own back" on Jerry.
So she cheerfully lives in a little church hall, sleeping and having her meals on the floor so that she can be near the aircraft factory where she works, helping to build our long range bombers that go to Berlin and Turin.
In this factory "Somewhere in England" a reporter talked to this as she bent brave young wife Over a hand presser muchine on which she presses out between six and seven thousand uranium brae- kets a day.
"I have worked here for four months," she said. "When i am
on night work and the alrens Bound 1 can carry on in the pltch dark, stilt making my brackets.
"I love the work, and it is the only way in which I can get my own back on the Jarrics.
"I start at eight in the morn-. ing and finish at five, and cycle to my home' -now a patch cf floor in a local church hall, but the vicar has made us very com- fortable there.
"I am one of a gang of girls who all share our earnings each week. We all turn out as much as we possibly çan,”
The reporter walked through miles of shops where thousands of men and women were work- ing nt full speed. The whole bomber is built here from the raw material to the time it is placed in the hands of the test pilot.
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1941
YKLIN
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SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu,
Tatuta Maru Nitta Maru
Tuesday, Tuesday,
6th May 20th May
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)
Hie Maru
Saturday,
3rd May
SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Hilo &
San Francisco. *Taketoyo Maru
Tuesday,
(starts from Kobe)
20th May
COLOMBO & MADRAS via Singapore
"Muroran
Nacu
Sunday. SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila
Suwa
Maru
SAIGON
*Matue Maru
Maru *Turuga
4th May
Monday.
28th Apr.
Friday. Thursday,
25th Apr. 8th May
BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo
*Genoa Maru "Okitu
Maru
Monday.
Sunday.
28th Apr. 11th Maf
RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
*Matuc
* Toba
Maru Maru
KOBE & YOKOHAMA
*Lima Maru
Tatuta
Maru
Kasima Maru
* Cargo only.
Friday. Monday.
25th Apr
28th Apr.
Monday. Tuesday, Thursday.
5th
May
6th
May
15th
May
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