THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 11, 1941
FACTORY
MANAGER FINED
Remarking
that
he
D.F.C. FOR ATTACK ARMY
ON BATTLESHIPS
The D.F.C. has been awarded to Pilot-Officer Raymond Alexander regretted he was powerless Elser, of No. 149 Squad- to impose à heavier fine
ron, for gallantry in an than the maximum, which attack on the Scharn- appeared inadequate, to horst and Gneisenau at discourage the operation Brest. of unregistered factories In the darkness he was not able in the Colony, Mr. H. C. to identify the battleships, though he could pick out the position Macnamara this morning they were reported to be. fined the manager of the After searching for some time Tang Fan Kee Metalware searchlight activity,
$250 for, his pllot to run in Manufactory operating an unregistered from which height he dropped a factory at Mongkok.
Chinese Labour Inspector Ng Hung-su, prosecuting, stated that he had warned defendant several times to cease operation. Accus- ed, added the Inspector. was a persistent offender.
For a similar offence, the man- ager of the To Kee Knitting Fac- tory. No. 3, Yen Chau Street, was fined $100.
The manager of eight knitting factories in the Shamshulpo District were ordered to pay fines
to $200
for ranging from $20 employing woman workers dur- ing prohibited hours.
ELINOR, AT 76, WANTS TO AID WAR
At the age of 76, Mrs. Elinor Glyn--the roman- tic novelist, and the first the word woman to use
"It" for "glamour" is hoping to broadcast Brit- ish
the to propaganda women of the world.
Despite her years, Mrs. Glyn still retains much of the person - ality and beauty that made her and society famous as a writer
hostess.
anı
"Yes,
woman still the
red hair and with the flaming green eyes," she stated.
Mrs. Glyn had never pretended to be unconscious of her beauty, and it was obvious that to-day she still pays as much attention to her looks as a woman half her age.
Her Titian hair was carefully coiffeured and her lips and eyes were faultlessly made up.
"Do I look 76?" she asked me as she fingered a rope of pearls and adjusted a round her neck
the beautiful fur wray across shoulders of her fashionable grey dress.
"I feel I can do something to help win this war, and the only way, at my age, is to reach the largest possible audience through the wireless." she said.
In the last war Mrs. Glyn was one of the ablest of official oropa-
She had gandists.
an office in Paris, where she wrote propa- about the French for
in face of Intense
stick of bombs.
and
A.A. he directed at 8,500ft.,
He repeated this operation and 7,000f1. twice from 8,500ft. and got proof that the ships were there,
He has also obtain first-class bombing results on Venice, Colo- ne, Bremen and Wilmershaven.
Pilot-Officer Esler was born at 1917. He enlisted in the R.A.F. Belfast, where his father lives, in Volunteer Reserve in 1939.
LOCAL SHARES
BANKS
Bank of East Asia $71 b.
INSURANCES H.K. Fire Ins. $176 b.
SHIPPING Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $80 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWN8,
ETC.
H.K. and K. Wharves $87 b. H.K. Docks $15.20 b., $15.40
$15 sa
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TENNIS
DEFEAT
in
the
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ENDS IN DARKNESS