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Wednesday.
·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 17, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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-ERNIE Z (ATAMK),
"ONLY SCROUNGERS" LEFT FOR P.A.C.
MR. FREDERICK JOHN WELLMAN, a Brighton | magistrate and member of the Public Assistance Com-: mittee, has resigned from the Relief Committee of which he had been chairman for the past 15 years.
Some months ago he protested al "Only the scroungers, racing touti, the appointment of Councillor B betting men, hawkers, and rag and Chinchen, propaganda secretary of bone dealers will be left. I cannot the loend Labour Party, to the comm-
waste my tune on that sort of person." mittee, on the ground that he was Ineligible, having once been in re- celpt of relief.
PRESENTATION MADE
His objection was overruled.
Mr. C. J. Tecchi was the recipient Recently Mr. Chinction was put a token of esteem from his collen- pointed to a vacancy on the Reliefes in the Public Works Department Committee, and Mr. Wellman on Monday. A gathering was held promptly resigned.
in the offices of the Department, presided over by Mr. C. W. E. Bishop, Chief Constructional Engineer, to murk Mr. Taechl's retirement, at the age of 60, from his post of Inspector of Works,
"More than half the people with whom the P.A.C. have to deal, the aged poor, will soon be taken over by the State," he said.
ENGLISHWOMAN GOES
TO NORWAY
BACK
KING'S BIRTHDAY
Reply to Colony's Message Received
To Find Her Child
AFTER escaping from Oslo when the Germans occu- pied the city, a young English mother returned and faced the Nazis alone-to rescue her child.
The Ofeer Administering the Government cabled Hongkong's con; The story of her search for! where she was able to buy a man's gratulations last month un the occa-her child was told in a message machine. nion of the official celebration of the from Charlottenberg, on the birthday of HM the King, and the Swedish frontier.
She had not gone far when the from the Secretary of State for the following reply has been received
fugitive crowds came under machine- gun fire from enemy planes. Colonies, dated June 15:
The woman, who declined to give her name, had been sepa-
I have the honour to inform you rated from her baby, and joining that your telegram No. 321 of the fugitivos from Oslo, set out 10th of June has been laid before His Majesty the King who desires carrying all that was left of her that
of his sincere possessions in a rucksack. an expression thanks for the message
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Now she is resting in safety at a Charlottenberg hotel.
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A FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR- OLD wife and mother of six children said af Tottenham recently that her husband in- sisted she, should wear two red flannel petticoats and two of every other garment and a long skirt.
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