THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 20, 1941
MUTT AND JEFF
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WHERE'S YOUR
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SEE I USE TO BE A PLUMBER!
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OFFICER!
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By BUD FISHER
8-5
GUARD HOUSE
TWINS A PROBLEM
FOR W.A.A.F.
TIRED OF BEING MISTAKEN FOR EACH OTHER MAY AND JUNE SAUNDERS. 20. OF STIR- CHLEY, BIRMINGHAM, BLUE- EYED CANADIAN TWINS, WENT TO JOIN THE WAAF
They are identical, even
to
She Ignored Wound To Aid Others
WHEN, ONLY a few minutes after having her But at the recruiting office their ankle broken by bomb blast, Dr. Hannah Billig left likeness started a11 argument
a Wapping air raid shelter, the regular occupants among the staff who were enroll-
thought she was on her way to hospital. “Be care- ing them
ful," they called out. “It sounds heavy outside.”
And heavy it was. Bombs were falling all around, yet Dr. Hannah the regulars call her "I am the elder by fifteen minu- "Lady Billig"-carried on-not to hospital but to give treatment to victims of the bomb which had broken her ankle.
a tooth missing in the right side of the mouth,
tes, May told the "Daily Mirror."* "We have never been separated.
"We have been working in a Bournville, factory together
at
For four hours she worked dealing with her patients," taking "I was eʻten tuled off for what no notice of the pain of her ankle my sister had done.
or the bombs which fell within 20 yards of her. Then, her work in- ished, she went to hospital.
"The only difference between us is that June has a boy and Is have not.
"He is a sailor, and is the only one who can distinguish us, but then he can only tell us by our walk and then he has to be behind us.
For the first time the shelter regulars learned of "Lady Bil- lig's" herolam when the "Lan don Gazette" announced that shc had been awarded the George Medal.
"We shall probably be separated Tyne, and Dr. In the Service."
The twins have both joined as clerks.
Two other doctors, Captain Hugh Miller, of Hebburn-on- Alison Jean Mc- Nairn, also receive the George Medal for raid heroism.
Dr. Miller crawled through tunnel to aid people who had been
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carnivore.
14 Colour
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10 Tilled and
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Island A mountain
18 Malay gibbon
20 House plant.
22 Level
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dovice
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18 Feebler
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implement.
51 High priest
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2 Title of
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3 Emperor of
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trapped when a Yorkshire town was bombed.
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Heroic Nurse
The Gazette also announced the award of the George Medal
10 Probationer Nurse Joan Naderson, of Knightsbridge Emergency Hos- pital. Glasgow, one of # team summoned to render medical aid to injured men trapped in a base- ment shelter.
"Nurse Naderson crawled under debris to administer morphine and stimulants to the casualties and did this throughout the night, although the building was in a dangerous state and bombs falling close by." stated the Gazette.
to
"On one occasion she had be held by the feet while she made her
through way
the
wreckage."
Fire-watcher Edward Saunders, of Stanley Street, Hull won British Empire Medal for pre- venting a serious fire.
the
He stood on a tank of varnish. chopped his way through to the roof above and knocked an incen- diary bomb to the ground.
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PARENTS WED AGAIN
Jacqueline King, 12, will be bridesmaid when her mother and father re- marry after being divorc- ed two years ago.
Her mother Mollie Hallewell, well-known pantomime principal boy, at present appearing in a Chester revue, well re-marry Mr. Charles Henry King, personal manager to Evelyn Laye, who will be one of the guests,"
Miss Laya's · husband, Mr. Frank Lawton will be, best man, at..the wedding at Chester.ongd "We were divorced two years ago," Miss Hallewell told the "Daily Mirror," "but had been living apart for ten years.
Last month Charles wrote to tell me that he intended join ing the-Forces, -and suggesting a meeting. He came to see me at Worcester and after a happy re- union we agreed to make it up and re-marry".
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