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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1941.
ROAD
DEATH OF A.T.S. COOK
Soldier Charged
With Murder
21,
1
Corps
of
William Thomas Flack, private in the Royal Signals, was
at Chichester re- manded, charged with the murder on the Chichester to Funtington road of Mrs. Lilian Margaret Welch, of the A.T.S.
Supt. Savage stated that Flack
was arrested recently. A number
of enquiries were made, and the
matter was in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Asked if he had any objection
TOWN MAKES DUST ON
ITS OWN NEWS REEL
(By A Special Correspondent)
OUT OF ITS POPULATION of 9,678 the little Lincolnshire town of Louth has 9,677 film actors. Odd man out is Mr. E. B. Rawlings, and he'd be in the picture, too, if he wasn't the cameraman.
For Louth has the distinction of its own ex- to a remand, Flack replied, "No clusive news reels, bringing it in pictures all the
news of its own little world.
reason at all, sir."
Evidence, including that of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, given at the inquest on Mrs. Welch, pointed to
Trouble is that there isn't much of the stuff on which news reels are made in Louth. The last big happening there was down by a heavy motor vehicle the Flood-the town's own particular flood, which
An open verdict was was front page news twenty-one years ago.
the fact that she had been
and killed.
returned.
run
Mrs. Welch was the wife of n gardener who lived a few miles from Chichester, and on the
night of the tragedy she was cycl- ing home alone from her work as
an A.T.S. cook at a barracks.
PUT UP HIS COLLARS
George Taylor, a partner in the film of W. and G. Taylor, tailors, of Trinity Street, Cambridge, wasį fined £1 with three guineus costs at Cambridge for selling two collars at 1s. 6d, each, instead of
1s. 3d.
His commentary But Mr. G. H. Hallam and Mr. laugh.
varies Rawlings of the Playhouse with each performance. When he audience somebody Cinema, make what they can of spots in the Mayor's Day, the presence of who is also on the news reel, he celebrities in the town and freak makes good-natured
ย
crack about him.
weather scenes.
in
War Weapons Weeks has just come to their ald to provide them with real, livé, uncensored news.
Hallam shares Portly Mr. the camera work and provides the running commentary.
When a little comedy is dicated, he usually has to come an actor and supply custard pie humour. But Mr. Hallam
HONG KONG HOTEL
MAC'S CAFE
be- the
CARPET AS CLUE
Three men and a woman"up- peared at Greenwich police court on charges relating to a post office safe robbery at Algernon Road, Lewisham.
19, labourer. Lewisham,
Joseph Collyer, Mercy-terrace,
and
Frank Edwin Tolhurst, 18, rail-
Harvard way employee,
Road,