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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1941.
AMERICAN WIFE BOYS OF
NOT WILLING TO
RETURN TO BOMBS
NAZI BOMBING has put a British matrimonial problem in front of Judge Isidor Wasservogel in New York Supreme Court, and the crux is this: Is it a wife's duty to remain on duty with her husband, even in danger?
Mr. F. Hugh Treherne-Thomas, a manager at the Swansea works of Richard Thomas and Co., the big steel and tinplate manufacturers, wants his American wife to return from New York, with their two children, to their home near Swansea.
Judge Wasservogel reserved his decision recently on a suit for Jegal separation brought by Mrs. Treherne-Thomas.
The wife claims that her hus- band's letters, accusing her of not doing her duty, are "cruel, inhu- man treatment."
"State Of Excitement”
She declared in the particulars of her suit that Nazi bombings have placed the "people of Great Britain in a state of excitement. tension, and apprehension."
AWARD FOR V.C. OF LAST WAR
Commanded "Q"
Ship.
A naval officer who won the V.C. in the last war is among recipients of the
There was, she said, "great danger, risk, and hazard of the life, welfare, and happiness of R.N.R. Officers' Decora- the children.”
tion, announced in the "London Gazette."
Their home at Killay. near Swansea, was continuously threa- tened by bombing, she added.
One of the letters said to have been sent by her husband read:
"Home No Longer"
"My home is home no longer, and never will be until you return and we can live happily together, like 48,000,000 other people, more especially with all the favours of wealth and luck that have been showered on us in providing beautiful home and all the chances of a happy family life."
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The husband's attorney pleaded for dismissal on the grounds that the New York courts have jurisdiction.
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Mr. Treherne-Thoinas denied his wife's allegations,
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She refused to come home, he said, despite an agreement return promptly, after leaving England last June.
war
He is Cmdr. Harold Auten. In the
he commanded last H.M.S. Stock Force. one of the "Q" ships which combated U-boats.
Decorations are announced to six officers of the aircraft carrier Illustrious which fought off Ger- man dive bombers in the Mediter- hit in January, though ranean seven times. The awards are:
D.S.O.: Lt. Cmdr. C. L. G.
Evans.
Bar to D.S.C.: Actg. Lt. W. L. Le Cocq Barnes, Sub-Lts. (A.) I. 1. Lowe and S. G. Orr, R.N.V.R. Acte. Sub-Lt. (A.) G. A. Hogg, R.N.V.R.
Other appointments and awards include:
For good services in operations off the coast of British Somali- land: O.B.E.: Lt. T. K. Morrison, H.M.A.S. Hobart,
E.
For courage and skill in a suc-
15 GET
£5 A WEEK
Wiltshire boys of 15 who have only recently left school are being paid £5 a week by firms con- tracting to do urgent war work for the Government. Mr. M. C. Ingram, headmaster
of a Church of England school in the country, gave actual examples of wages being paid.
"Elias Andoniades, a Greek boy of 15, came to London just before the war, and was evacuated here," Mr. Ingram told me. "He learned English quickly, and left school last Christmas. He went to work immediately at an aerodrome, and has shown me pay packets con- taining from £4 5s to £4 15s 5d for a week's work. He spends his time loading and unloading lorries."
Another of Mr. Ingram's ex- pupils, Stanley Harris, left school He last July. He is not yet 15. went to work on camouflage nets
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Mr. showed for hangars,
£3 85, Ingram pay packets of
£3 10s, and £3 12s.
Then he went to work at the aerodrome and made the same Other amount
Andonjades. HS boys from the
school are getting similar
this money at aerodrome.
same
Bad Effect On The Boys
"The effect on some of the boys is very bad Indeed," the head- master said. "These lads are earn- ing a man's wages of Is 2d an our and double for overte, They work or aturday afternoon" nd and Sundays,
take one day off in mid-week whenever they feel like it.”
W. E. Chivers and Sons, a build- ing firm working for the Govern- ment, are employing boys at one aerodrome.
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"I cannot tell you offhand even roughly how many boys employ," Mr. Harry Chivers said. Nei- The numbers fluctuate so. ther can I tell you what the boys earn. They get trade ion rates, of course. But they e paid ai about 20 different rates."
An instance of the way the money goes was given by the proprietor of a Wiltshire hotel, firm contract- who said that a ing for the Government asked
him to
three single rooms for one night a week for their chiefs.
reserve
When he explained that .he
Yesterday I visited the home Fairwood Lodge, a picturesque old cessful attack on an Italian sub-could not do this in advance and marine: Bar to D.S.C. Cmdr. R. that they would have to take a the three Havock, chance, they engaged Courage, H.M.S. D.S.C. Lt. Cmdr. L. R. K. Tyr- rooms with full board and kept whitt. Hasty; Lt. G. M. Chenevix- them for five months. Trench, Hasty: Mr. F. L. Millns, Gunner (T.), Havock.
house, with its own home farm, about five miles from Swansea, writes a London reporter.
I found that only a few chance bombs have fallen in the district.
Evacuees There
Children evacuated from Eng- land are Hving there, under the care of Mr. Treherne-Thomas's mother, who keeps house for him.
Mr. Treherne-Thomas who one of the divisional heads of the Swansea Special Constabulary, has done conspicuous service dur- ing recent air raids.
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Fought Bomber Fire
The George Medal has been award to Actg. Sgt. S. Boys, who took a R.A.F. station fire tender to a bomber which had crashed in flames and extin- gulshed the fire, though the loaded with machine was
"They paid a bill of about £60 a month," he said, "for dinner, bed and breakfast once a week for three men rather than tele- phone for accommodation, which they could always have found somewhere in the neighbourhood."
CHOCS FOR CHILDREN M.P. Children will hail Mr. Robert The King has approved the fol-Gibson, Labour M.P. for Greenock,
bombs and enemy aircraft were overhead.
He has been much upset by his lowing awards for gallantry and as their friend.
wife's action.
"I am sorry that I cannot make any statement," to me. "I am amazed that such
he
an action has been led, and shall fight it.”
Bald
devotion to duty in air operations, squadron numbers of the re- paren- cipients being given in
thesis:
1 D.F.C.-Wg.-Cmdr. W. P. J. A close friend of the family told Thomson (38), Sqdn.-Ldr. R. J. Gosnell (38), Lt. Cmdr. W. E. me: "Last year, because of the in- Waters, R. N. (812). Flt.-Lts. C. vasion threat, Mr. Treherne- G. S. Robbinson (14), G. H. Thomas sent his wife and two
Fly Offrs. children Rhoda.
Steege, R.A.A.F. (3), aged 13. and David Hugh, aged six to Canada. F. C. Barrett, R.A.FVR. (70), M. "Mrs. Treherne-Thomas was be- Bryan-Smith, R.A.F.V.R. (38), L. fore. her marriage Miss Margaret B. Buckhanan (211) and K. C. V.
D. Dundas (211), Sub-Lt. Wherry, daughter of Mr. William David. R.N., Pilot Offrs, L. H. Wherry, of New York.".
Day (38) and R. W. Pearson'(811). D.F.M.-Flt. Sgts. L. A. J. Patey (14) and A. F. Plant (38), Sgts. H. Morton (228) and E. W. Rosam, R.A.F.V.R
DEFENDS SHELTER
MORALS
No information has reached the Home Office suggesting that shelters are being used for im- motal purposes during All, clear periods, the Under-Secretary stated in the Commons. When Public Morality Council state- ments were referred to he re- marked: "This matter has been greatly exaggerated,”
THE KING'S® SYMPATHY
GEN. BLAMEY IS MAN AND A HALF
E.
"A MAN AND VAZHALF” WHOSE VIEW 18 "WE CANNOT EXPECT TO WIN THIS WAR UNLESS WE CARRY THE FIGHT TO THE ENEMY," IS DEPUTY. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FOR THE WHOLE OF THE MIDDLE BASTIAN
He is L'eutenant-General Sir The King and Queen have: sent Thomas Blamey, commanding the their sympathy to Mr. and Mrs:| Australian forces in the Middle J. Honth, of Worthing, whose son, East, and he is deputy to General Lieutenant John Jamoa, Honth, of Sir Archibald Wavell, head of our the Fleet Air Arm, has been kill-Armies in the Middle East. ed in action. He was one of two,General Blamey. 87, is thickt pilots on the cruiser Southampton sot of middle height, and sparing. for the royal tour of Canado.
of words.
He is to ask the Food Ministry to modify priority group distribu- tion of chocolate, so as to ensure a ¡ration of a 2d. block of chocolate a week for each child under four- teen.
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