THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.
BOYS PLAYED FOOTBALL WITH A "LIVE" BOMB
across an
THREE SMALL London boys came unexploded German bomb and trundled it around the streets in a push chair for their pals to see.
The boys, Stanley Green, aged ten, Norman Clark, aged nine, and John Green, aged seven, of Montague Crescent, Edmonton, were searching for wood on a bombed site, when they discovered the bomb in the wreckage of a chicken run.
Dragged into the street]
and on to the push chair NAZIS'
by the boys. the bomb be-
gan its travels through ARMY OF
streets crowded with shop-
pers.
For a quarter of a mede the boys;
par hed at bump y
12 1
SLAVES
down the kerba to them Postres A slave armiy of well
callogg their Trend. Foggeflact
they went along to how vd then, over 1,000.000 foreign workers is now labouring
lind **
On teacht Fredian they Upped
st curele ly on to a heap of any in Germany to keep the
in the back garden, then took it industrial machine Fun- mates thes theef auton
One of the boys wanted to ning. play football with st, but no matter how hard they kicked
bren
REVENGE
When young James Newman left the orphanage at Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S., twelve years ago he vowed that one day he would be revenged on those who had made him unhappy there.
Now, masked, he has held up the orphanage staff and osked for his old principal. Told the man had long retired, the bandit took the staff's money.
When captured he said: "I meant to kill that principal."
THE MAN ALONE
For nearly seventy years John Clarke had been alone. He carried himself
An official German report sales proudly, though he had no thin the tot d of nudistood work-relatives, no friends.
aloite 2, 670,000 The num1- agricultural Jaboters,
ber
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It wouldn't bounce proptily Afterwards they Ladis to houses show anyt at neighbours who told them to "gol chiefly depented, From Poland. as
So they di
not declused, but it must be at least as great.
awpy and play"
Area Cleared
1t præoners-of-war working on banging the bomb! farms and non-military produc- They ope enthusiastically on the pavement tion are added, the total of foreign when a Mr. Burgess, his suspicion. )] Inbour probably exceeds 2,000,000 suddenly aroused.
The Come on
He haul no ambition to live when he tell all, but doctors and nurces] his life when he a fought to save Was taken to a Swansen Imp tal John's recovery brought him
Into a new world, a world to which people
spoke to him,
where he round friendship and generosity.
His health improved so much scene and carried it off to his back Poland is the biggest recruiting that he started helping in the hus
Tay- garden.
field, though the total from that pstal lachen. He became a He called wardens and palice, country is not stated. The methodourite there. and the aren was evacuated until of recruiting in Poland is simply John has just died cheerful U an Army disposal squad rushed transportation at along and removed that thung."
"play- notice.
In Denmark
Although the boys were "told
few hours
the last. Six companions who are patients were with him. One told the Daily Mirror:"
and Norway the John found more happiness in off for playing with the bomb, fiction of free engagement is mam- his last days than he had ever they all agree There aon't noth- tained. The unemployed are told had, When he got better he did ing to those German things." jobs are waiting in Germany, and not want to return to civilan life that if they do not accept them he was afraid he would find the dole will be stopped,
himself alone."
PRISONERS' PENGUINS STOPPED
GERMAN CENSORS HAVE YUT A COMPLETE BAN ON PENGUIN BOOKS FOR BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR.
The reasons are not altogether clear, though they seem to have to do with the anti-Hitler tone some of the books Such books would not, of course, be permitted to go to the prisoner, in any case but advertisements of them appzar in others of the series which ar innocent of political meaning.
Ser these advert vinents, the Germans have apparently decided that it would be safe to stop the whole series, Thousands of the books are held up in Switzerland
He Held
Up
Weak Shelter
"I mention only one of the civil defence services to-night. namely the police, it is because many tributes have been puid already to the others. They have been in it everywhere all the
fine
Mr. Churchill in his broadcast.
TWENTY POLICE OFFICERS are among those honoured in the latest list of civil defence awards published in the “London Gazette.” Seven receive the George Medal and thirteen the Medal of the Order of the British Empire. There are thirty-six | George Medallists in the list, two of them women. Among the seven police George were in danger of being gassed. Medallists are:---
The two women George Medal- Police Constable William Henry lists are Miss Blek, an A.R.P. dis- of West Bromwich Allen, "G" Division, Metropolitan | patch rider. Mr. H. W. Ellis, sales manager
Miss was and
Evelyn Police. Such
Gertrude to the publishers, said: "We learn- ed of the ban from the British Red caused by a bomb that the rescue Thomas, matron of West Brom- District General Hos- Cross Society. We have a perinit squad thought any people trapped wich and
must be dead. Police-Constable pital, who told the "Dully Mirro,' to send books to prisoners. The
Allen was certain that he had "The medal should have been books are made up into special
staff. to my
It shall be heard a faint response to his shouls given parcels, which go first to the Bri-and he started to clear away the shared' between my nurses.” tish censors, It is a pity this has debris above the basement of " happened, because many of the
shop. books go to our men, but there is nothing we can do about it.
**I understand that prisoners have written to relatives saying that cop'es of these books have been destroyed by the Germans."
TRIED TO FIND PARENTS
devastation
He crawled Into a hole and found, beneath the wreckage, two elderly men and two young girle pinioned by debris. saved them.
Saved Eight People
Sergeant
He
Bomb Train Ablaze
George Medals also go to Ivor Thomas Davies, engine driver, and Frank Reginald Nowns, freman, G.W.R. Birkenhead,
in
When a large number of incen- diary bombs fell among a train- load of ammunition and trucks Frederick Maurice containing petrol tins, they Burgess, "J" Division, Metropoli- helped to put a stirrup pump or, a tan Police-Reached and saved burning wagon containing aerial eight people trapped in a
base-bombs.
A plea that he had been trying ment shelter and threatened by When the bombs were sumcient- water rushing from a broken ly cool, they levered them apart main.
and removed the incendiaries.
to find his parents who were in the Channel Isles when the Ger- man invasion took place was made for Sapper P. C. Hammond, twen- ty-nine, who at a Chatham court-- martial was charged with deser-. tion.
"
A
Part of the shelter, threatened William John Higgot, Leicester to collapse at any moment, and A.R.P., warden.--He entered the sergeant had to support it! mass of ruins immediately after a with his shoulders. When he was bomb had exploded and came out pulled to safety, the basement with two children, one under each It was stated that Hammond foll-ih.
arm. He returned, put out a fire, was given leave to go to the] - War Rezerve Police Constable then put out two more fires in Channel Isles. The Army saw Alfred John Völzoy, "F" Division, other bulldings.
Frederick James Skelton, com- nothing more of him until he was Metropolitan Police. Smallest of arrested in January working near three War Reserve policemen, he pany officer, London A.F.S.-He Southampton, ji.
entered the only opening in the was badly burned trying to res. The decision of the Court will debris of two demolished houses cue two trapped firemen when a be announced. !.
which buried many people who fire station was hit and set on fire.
"I can tell
WHITE
HORSE
blindfold
Page
... it's equal to a fine liqueur'
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