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· THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1941.
THREE BURIED ALIVE FOR DAYS
RESCUE SQUADS BATTLED TO FREE A
8
HE DEFIED
THUGS BUT
LITTLE GIRL, BELIEVED TO BE STILL ALIVE THEY GOT
AFTER BEING TRAPPED FOR NEARLY EIGHT DAYS IN A BOMBED TENEMENT IN GLASGOW.
They were told of her plight by John Cormack, aged twenty-two. They had just rescued him--- they found another man alive during the day-- from wreckage which crashed on them during the Clydeside blitz.
The first thing Cor- mack asked for was a cup of tea. Then he told the rescuers that a girl had been lying not far from him. He believed she was still alive.
THE VEIL
IN A TREE
George Beckham and his young She had spoken to him about wife, Sylvia, were waiting for a a day before,
tram when a bomb burst at their Cormack told also of other
feet. They were killed at once. people being entombed farther Sylvia's veil was caught high up back in the wreckage.
in a tree.
He was found in bed, which | saved him from dying of cold. ¦ Ele muked a cigarette as he was taken to hospital seriously jured.
113-
About
the the
time same other rescued man died in hospital.
A few moments earlier they had said good-bye to George's parents. The blitz was on, but "It seems all right now we'll! risk it." said the husband,
They ran for a trum, but miss- He was Frederick Clark, aged, ed it. Before the next came the thirty-two.
"I'm All Right"
None suspected that anyone, remained
tons! alive under the of debris until, three hours be- fore his rescue, moans were heard among the ruins.
squad Clark
Then, as the rescue tunnelled towards him. kept saying, "I'm all right," and gave them instructions.
Clark's first words to man or woman in 180 hours came when} Woman doctor crawled into al hole and gave him an injection.
She said, "That wasn't bad.; was it?" To her amazement he opened his eyes and said, "No. not so bad."
bomb fell.
Private George Beckham had leave to visit his sick children. He and his wife were to go the next day. The railway voucher, for the journey was found in the husband's pocket. Gene and Carol Beckham, aged three and two, do not know why their parents never come. They will forget their disappointment in the care of friends,
ART EXHIBITION
An Exhibition of Chinese pic- tures by Prof. Chao Hao-kung, 1.0 Chan-huan and Mr. Mr
will be held at
HIM
One of the "few New York shopkeepers who dared defy the city's gun- men has been murdered after his third victory against them.
Michael
Seventy-two-year-old Flanagan was found dead in his apartment, his head sinashed and his hands. and feet bound by strips of cloth.
Most shopkeepers immediately hand over their money when held up by bandits. Flanagan who had a grocery store, never did.
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The first time they tried to terrorise him he smashed bottle, on the gunman's head. The second time he drew a gun and frightened the bandit away. The third time he struck down the bandit and called the police.
The criminal underworld, afraid of losing its "prestige" planned shopkeepers. Flanagan's death. Gangsters ran
among
up
a fire escape, entered a bed- room window, and murdered the ad man who had dared to defy them.
WHEN KING GEORGE RAN ERRANDS
"It never did me
any
When they were about to lift him the rescuers found his foot, Huang Po-ych,
Hotel Cecil, 3rd Floor, from to good to be a Prince, I can pinned
After another hour of des day unti Monday, from 10 am tell you, and many was to 8 pan, Prof. Chao, former Pro- the time I wished I hadn't
perate work the sweating men completed their task. encour. aged by remarks from that he was "feeling fine."
Clark
fessor of
Chinese Paintings
at !
the National University of Dr. been. . The other boys : Sun Yet-sen, is famous for his!
Once Clark heard a an ex- pictures of flowers and birds; M made a point of taking it press doubt if he would survive Lo is most skilful in landscapes out of us on the grounds
Northern "No, I'm not away I'm all right.", after the style of the
School; and Mr. Huong is an ex-|
that they'd never be able he commented.
A medical officer said: "It is pert in portraying Buddhist deil- to do it later on.' very extraordinary to find anyone's alive
after being buried
the
The Exhibition is open to over seven days without water. Four public and no admission will to live days is considered almost charged. the limit for a person to live without liquid food."
G.O.C.'S SON WINS D.S.O.
17
These words, spoken by King be George V., are quoted in the per- Mr. sonal memoir of him by John Gore.
CUT DOWN SMOKING
The account
the of
young Prince's days in the yacht Bri- tannia, of how he was made to fight bigger boys and run errands
lend them them, and
his
it
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APPEALS HAVE BEEN MADE for IN SOME NORTHERN TOWNS scanty pocket-money, makes FOR. WOMEN TO LIMIT THEIR easy to see why he became, luter, SMOKING, TO LEAVE MORE se democratic a King. FOR SOLDIERS AND MUNI- TION WORKERS,
He took good-temperedly, what Supplies are short and shops hard knocks came his way, and Squadron-Leader James
are selling out so quickly that never dreamed of trying to hide his runk. And in the Richmond Gordon-Fin- men in munition factories, mills behind
and warehouses cannot get clga- course of time he had his full re- countless the love of of layson, D.F.C.,
rettes when they leave their jobs ward, in
I millions of his subjects. Lieutenan-General Sir in the evening.
son
Robert Gordon-Finlay- son, G.O.C., Western Com- mand, is honoured in an awards list.
He gets the D.S.O. for his lea- dership, skill, courage and deter- mination while commanding No. 211 Squadron, Middle East.
He has completed more than 100 operational sorties both by day and night. Most of them under exceptionally difficuit conditions.
Pilot-Omcer Harold Paterson, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, No. 214 Squadron, gets the D.F.C. It was he who earlier this month attack- ed a German cruiser of the Hipper class at Brest, diving to 1,000 feet In the face of heavy opposition from ground defences to release several very heavy bombs.
Although his bomber. was severely damaged and difficult to handle he brought it back anfolyam
His father Ilves at Greenock. Captain Servans Fuan Breda Theron, South African Air Force, No. 3 Squadron, get the D‚F.C. for services in East Africa:
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