THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1941.
DOCTOR TOLD DYING BOY
CG
'GET UP" Sudden
A DOCTOR WHO TOLD a boy dying of con- sumption to “get up and go out," was censured re- cently by Nottinghamshire Insurance Committee.
But they refused to reveal his name. Several members pressed for this disclosure, and the public will want to know why their demand was refused.
Though the Committee
that the doctor-
found
Failed to attend the boy with
reasonable promptness;
Failed to examine him; and Had "ittle regard for his res- ponsibilities towards his insured patients";
this was the penalty they consid- ered adequate:
The doctor had £25 deducted from his remuneration and was ordered to pay 15s. 6d. the fac of another doctor called in.
Temperature 101
a
£40,000 OFFERED
FOR WINES
·
One of London's gayest war-tim e restaurants, bombed in a recent raid. will not be reopened.
This decision was taken at a meeting of debenture holders and others financially interested in it. The principal director was killed
According to a report from sub-committee, the doctor called two days late and did not exam- ine the boy, after he had been told that his temperature varied | outright. from 100 to 101.2 degrees, but said: "Young fellows like you go
to bed for nothing. You want to get up and go out."
Death Of Warder
The many friends of Prison Officer Dedear, Stanley Prison, will be shocked to learn of his death which occurred at Stanley during the night,
P. O. Dedear, who up to a late hour last evening appeared to be in normal health, passed away in
his sleep.
He returned to the Colony only two months ago from Sydney where he had spent nine months' sick leave, and the deepest sym- the extended to pathy will be
son widow, two daughters and a who are in Australia.
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who Was P. O. Dedear, years of age, joined the Prison staff in 1921 after having served with Royal Artillery in the Great War,
The staff have received two weeks' salary in lieu of notice. The meeting considered bids boxing, as a welterweight, in the
He used to do a good deal
of
He prescribed medicine, gave | amounting to £30,000 and old City Hall and was a Corporal
a certificate showing the cause £40,000 for the stocks of wines. in the Stanley Platoon, H.K.V.D.Ç. of incapacity as general debil. ity, and said he would not call again.
Servant Blamed
Another doctor found the boy gravely ill. The boy died some days later.
The first doctor said that his failure to call was due to the negligence of a servant. Some members of the commit- tee unsuccessfully pressed for his name to be disclosed.
LOOTING DUTCH GOLD
The funeral will take place this When the final list of casual-evening, passing the Monument at ties was compiled it was found 5 p.m. that among the dead was a con- stable of the Metropolitan Police. It was stated that he attended the restaurant in plaio clothes that night "in the course of his official duties."
GIRL, 16, BOY 12, LIVED IN SHELTER
Sir
DIED ON DAY HIS TOWER FELL
George Wyatt Truscott, Palace chairman of the Crystal Trustees, died recently, the day 260ft North Tower of the Palace was felled.
the
Sir George, who was 83, work- anded for the City
for of London nearly 60 years. In 1908-9 he was Lord Mayor, being one of youngest occupants of that office, and he was several times acting Lord Mayor.
A sixteen-years-old girl her twelve-year-old brother lived for five months in a public shelter while their father was in lodgings, This was s'ated in Birmingham Juvenile Court.
said Inspector Goddard
mother died
the
was
the Viscount
He was only 25 when he became "Holland's Quisling their
that a member of the Court of Com- some time mon Council, and he succeeded had lived his father as Alderman at 38. No. 2," Rost van Tonnin- ago and their father
On his 80th birthday he with them in the shelter before gen, has been appointed going into lodgings.
made an honorary Freeman of London, an honour conferred on director-general of the Netherland Central Bank.ed school and the girl was put Corporation-the
The boy was sent to an approv-only one other member of
late It is a curious fact that Rost back for a medical examination. Wakefield in 1935. van Tonningen was the League of Nations Financial Commis- sioner for the Austrian State Bank at the time that Seyss-Inquart, now Reich Commissioner for the occupied areas, was intriguing against the Austrian Government. Another Austrian, Fischboek, then Seyss-Inquart's legal advi
is
Financial the German Commissioner for the occupied
ser,
area.
The looting of Holland's riches by the Germans will be further facilitated by this appointment.
UNIVERSITY MEN MUST
JOIN TRAINING UNITS
Conditions under which University students,
Between last July and October student teachers and industrial apprentices may over £3,000,000 in gold, surren- dered by Dutch holders to the be dealt with in relation to service in the Forces Central Bank, disappeared. By last February 10, £8,000,000 in have now been decided by the Government. Men gold had vanished. from the Central Bank...
under 20, the age group into which students natur under the mysterious head of ally fall, will be registered as soon as they become
- An increase of £15,000,00,
+
"various accounts of the Central 19. Bank seems to suggest that credits of the bank have been ex- Registration will proceed by plete one year's study. They are so that those to be recommended for a univer- changed for worthless German half-year classes, i.o.u's.
who have reached 19 by the first city course only if they show ex- half of this year will register ceptional intellectual ability or about July, and those who be- capacity for leadership, come 19 during the last six months of 1941 will register University students must make about January,
satisfactory progress in their stud- tes: and must join a senior Train- Apart from medical and dental ing Corps or an Air Training students who are reserved at all Corps, unless they are members ages, all students who wish to go of the Home Guard, the Royal on to a University must first obtain Observer Corps or the Civil De the approval of a Joint Refence services... cruiting Board, composed of University and military authorit- Hes.
CHINA'S CABINET MEETS
The latest developments in the European situation were discuss ed at a meeting in Chungking yesterday of the Executive: Yuan, Dr Wang Chung-hul, Minister of Foreign Affairs, reported on Must Show Ability the situation following the out-
Student teachers will be reserv-
ed during the completion of their course subject to the following nd conditions:
"...”
If they entered a training col- lege in the autumn ten P1040;
"break of the Ruino-German-war Men intending to follow a scien- had not reached 18 years on
while the War Minister General Ho Ying-chin, reported on the tific or technical course will then October 1, 1940, and are due to military situation in China, receive deferment from service, take their final examination in In view of the importance of Those taking other courses will be March, 1942, or enter, a training. the discussions. the meeting was required to enlist in one of the college in the autumn term, 1941, attended by all Cabinet Ministers. Services, but will be placed on and have not reached 18 by
the Reserve and allowed to com- October, Router
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