THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1941.
3 BRIDES:
ONE AWAITS HER LOVER **
A triple wedding be- tween three sisters and their sweethearts in the Forces was planned a year ago to take place recent ly.
The sisters and two soldier bridegrooms waited anxiously for the third man-twenty-four-years- old Leslie White, a sailor-al the brides home in Walton Road Rye Park near Hoddesdon, Herts
Leshe was promised leave marry twenty-four-years-old Vio let Ball, but he is at sea. Viole has not heard from him fortnight.
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"I'm afraid it will only be a double wedding," said Violet
but she is not giving up hope that her sweetheart may arrive time.
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Her wedding clothes are laid out ready and her bridesmaid. will be waiting, too, until sisters leave with their brides maids for the church,
"Leslie might come at the las: minute," explained twenty-one- years-old Phyllis, who is marry- ing Lance-Corporal Harry Grov- er, of the Hants Regiment.
Twenty-two-years-old Daphne has designed green taffeta forage vaps to match the dresses of her two bridesmaids. and decorated
them with the regimental badge of her husband, Private Stanley Hackett, of the Royal West Kent Reginient.
Her sisters suggested that Vio- let should be a brideantud it
she is not a bride. "But I could- n't bear that," she said. "J must wait for Leshe."
B.B.C. FADED THIS JOKE
ON GUARD-A striking picture of a member of the Balloon Barrage Unit on guard, showing barrage balloon in background. (Copyright, Fox).
NEWZEALAND SQUADRON READY FOR ACTION
THE FIRST ALL New Zealand fighter squadron to be formed in England under the Empire Train- ing Scheme has now completed its operational train- ing and will shortly be moved to a "front-line" sta- tion. The pilots will fly Spitfires bought by funds publicly subscribed in their native country.
With the exception of the squadron commander and the two flight commanders, who were in the R.A.F. before the war, they are all R.N.Z.A.F. men. Their average age is 22, although one of the ser- Clarkson Rose, the comedian, geant-pilots is a “veteran" of 30!
was faded out from the Happi- drome programme in the Forces broadcast one night.
tell
The 24-year old squadron com-, from New Zealand and the other mander, a native of Dannevirke, ja South African-who sailed is a product of Wanganui Colle-round the world in a small ketch
before
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He had just begun to story about a Nazi soldier when, ped" for cricket and football, and the war, taking 15 months to com-} his voice faded.
learned to fly at the Dannevirke plete the trip. Club, Hawke's Bay. In 1935. he Every pilot in the squadron is "The broadcast in question worked his way to England as a now eagerly awaiting temporarily differed from the ship's writer at a shilling a day when they go into action together agreed script, and was conse to join the R.A.F. A fighter pilot for the first time as a Dominion quently faded,"
the B.B.C. of great experience, he has serv-Squadron. told a reporter.
ed with Fighter Command's fam- Listeners heard Mr. Rose get ous Burma Hurricane squadron.) as far as: "Two Nazi soldiers' For a time he was a flight com- met, at the top of the Eiffel Tower mander in a Czech fighter squad-
in Paris and one said to theron which he left to take up the other: What are you doing up command he now holds.
here
Here's the rest of the story. "The other soldier replied: 'Oh, I've got the easiest job of
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Agencies and Branches. · up to inter- wooden boards are bare... But
W. H. EVANS THOMAS, cept a large party of Nazi bomb- against this severe background ers, heavily escorted by fighters, stand many choice antiques from heading for England. His flight English, Scottish, French and became mixed up with fifty Mc. Flemish homes sixteenth cen- 110s and he had his controls part-tury oak coffers, a walnutTM Wil- ly shot away by cannon fire. His Itam and Mary chest, a Dutch "The voluntary firewatching machine dived from.. 20,000. 5,000 feet before he could jerk French Buhl,
to marque:ry cabinet, some pieces of scheme has fallen down because and a dulcimer not enough M.Ps have. "come Two air raid wardens, open the jammed hood, and bale whose mellow tones may have forward, and now the Serjeant- suspended for criticising out. He came down near Saffron accompanied crinolined ladies in at-Arms ls. attempting to rescue work, were rein
compulsion." The other flight commander The officers take great care of
Mr. John McGovern, M.P. for. stated after an inquiry at served in France with a bomber these pieces, but soon they are to the t (Glasgow)l-who, Brighton recently.
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alian examples of the furniture bers, has refused to take part in a divisional warden, and Mr.
They are Mr. W. M. 'Mather, Ten other members of this first maker's art which conʻractors, to the House of Commonsfire transacted.."
watching, made this statement Percy Carter. They have resumed New Zealand fighter squadron the Services produce by the to a reporter, and added:*
have already met the Hun while thousand. Members of the Mess
If Cabinet Ministers will go They had complained because serving with other squadrons. Be may regret the change, but the on to the roof of the House and rescue work at one of four tween them they have destroyed CO will probably be glad to be do their share I might do so, ton houses wrecked in an air raid 7 enemy aircraft. The pilot with relieved of an extra responsibility.
“I am opposed to all forms of was suspended during a night. the highest individual score comes. Another mess, is converted
compulsory firewatching, but am Mrs. Violet Wallis, forty-three, from Cambridge, North Island, bed-sitting room in a hotel. As in favour of voluntary schemes and her daughter, Jean, six, were and was a motor salesman in it is a temperance hotel the at home, and would willingly rescued after being buried by New Zealand before volunteering. Mess establishes its own bar in a without payment, help in rescue wreckage for fifty-eight hours. His "bag" is three Me, 1098 all tiny room on the same landing, operations.” Three other children of Mrs, shot down over the South of Eng-find it has not aways been easy Wallls were killed. '
to explain to the ordinary hotel miles away from the camp, tuck Ang official” statement issued. One of the sergeant pilo's has gues's why they cannot buy,ned away in the mountains. fter the Inquiry said that the had his share of thrills of another, drink there, Folanger heavy snowa, blocked the.
livnilreind credit on kind; he was a member of a party | The officers of another station between mess and camp, the Migrred in sit.
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