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SHANGHAI DISPUTE
TIMES SQUARE-Packed in tighter than proverbial sardines are thousands of persons watching election returns in Times Square, Now York. This view is looking north from Times building at 11:15 P. M. Stores and restaurants along famed boulevard had braced windows with studding to koop glass intact from surging crowds.
King's Address To Empire
Praises Courage Of
British Peoples
London, Dec. 20.
Pilot
Hit
➤
Survives By Enemy
Direct Shell
LONDON, Dec. 26 (British Wireless).--A thrilling story of
a parachute escape from a Spitfire was told by a Sergeant pllot who was a member of one of the first Bights to have shot down 100 aircraft operating from one station.
He sald: "We had attached
The dangers and difficulties con- a formation of Messerschmitt fronting Britain would be overcome 109's about lunchtime one day. with the help of God and the world | We peeled off down from about
place in
would be made a better
which to live when peace was re- stored, declared the King in a Christ- mas broadcast to the nation and Em- pire yesterday.
22,000 fect one after another and made our attacks. Then there was a dog fight and I was hit by a cannon shell as I was about to attack a Messerschmitt 109 about 1,000 feet below me.
of the
Missionary And Wife Killed
Japanese Bombing Of Mirs Bay Mr and Mrs F. W. Meyerholt, Swiss
"Immediately my Spitfire went into a steep dive. Flames appeared all rund, so I threw the hood back and kicked myself out machine. I had been hit in the emissionaries, and their Chinese cook and fainted almost immediately.
were killed, and the wife of the Chi- Falling Fast "I came to pretty soon afterwards se Fastor, the Rev. Yes, had both legs broken when Japanese planes and found that 1 was falling fast bombed the Swiss mission station at) I was very comfortable but at 14,000 Kucichung, eight miles from Shnyu- feet or so I pulled the parachute rip ehung, in the Mirs Bay district, at 1 cord. Then when coming
Mr Yee was out preaching at the slowly, I took my wireless lend Rm. on Monday.
shambles. which was still attached and tied it time of the raid, and when he return- light round my leg to staunch the ed found the station in a
The two houses in the compound had flow of blood.
"Then I realised that my tunic been destroyed, and in them he found was on fire, so I beat out the names the bodies of Mr and Mrs Meyerholt with my hands. 1 singed my mous-
his injured wife. Half of the und mission chapel had also been de- tache too.
molished. Protective Plane
Eight bombs had fallen in the
down
Japanese Dissatisfied
"At this time all of us are in the to take cover during a period of
With Council.
front llue." He praised the courage imminent local danger, banking ser-
he had seen demonstrated by people vices will still be provided and the
Shanghai, Dec. 20. on every side and the "splendid good doors of the banking premisen will. not be locked, though they may be The President of the Japanese fellowship" they were showing in ad- Ratepayers Association, Mr Yukichi versity. He spoke of a word of com- closed.
There may be cases and occasions, Hayashi, made a long statement 10-fort to members of familles separated sons taken aken however, where offices cannot be day demanding greater Japanese re by the war, the many
presentation on the Municipal Coun- from their homes, the many children opened to the public.
cil. He painted that although separated from parents and
friend Vital Records In explaining there arrangements there were 80,000 Japanese in the who would be lonely during the International Settlement and its Christmas season. Ite expressed the Mr Charles Didbury, chief general vicinity, there were only two Japanese hope that they would be more happy manager of the Westminster Bank, members on the Council. The Brilish in the year to come. emphasised that to safeguard vital had five members although there only It will remain neces- 7,000 British residents, so that the current recorda,
The King urged people to do their sary for a large proportion of the British were able to monopolise the best to help the fighting services win stoffs to take these records to a place Settlement's administration. He said the war. in the New Year it would of safety when the alert is sounded. the Japanese were not satisfied with be the task of all Britons throughout
of the Settlement's the Empire to
continue their Co- At many small branches, however, the unfair state
operation in the successful prosecu- there are no underground strong administration. rooms, and on occasions the, branches Mr Hayashi stressed that the de- tion of the war.
In the United States there were will be temporarily closed during mund for larger Japanese repre- ralds.
sentation was natural in view of the many staunch friends and organisa-
The Sino-Japanese conflict.
"A Spitfire from another squadron tions giving aavistance to Britain, His Progress
Majesty said. The world will be a
came round me and gave me pro-compound. Ing Japanese interests In
days tection
Mr and Mrs Meyerholt, who have and Christmas inseparably connected with better place
from machine-gunning by! were
He strategic considerations.
sald be happy unsin when Peace is res- enemy fighters, bui no enemy ap-three children in Basic, Switzerland, had-been-in China for many yeaTA, that without Japanese co-operation tored. "I wish alla merry Christ-seared.
and a happy the smooth execution of the Settle-nas
New
"thought, as I was coming down. They returned to Switzerland owing ment's administration could not be Reuter.
that I was going to hit telegraph to the lil-health of Mrs. Meyerholt a hoped for. Moreover, the Settle-
wires or high tension cables, but few years ago and returned to the Grave Crisis Surmounted missed them both and landed in an Colchung stations in September Last. last year and went to the ment's administration directly affect- against Japanese compaign Capt. A. M. Lyons, K.C., M.P.ed the
London, Dec. 25. Chungking.
The mission station was establish- aircraft crashed about three for East Leicester, said at Lei- Mr Hayashi recalled that the In his Christmas Day broadenst
In evening. His Majesty King miles from my home in Kent and ed ut Kueichung about 20 years ago. cester recently that he would failure of the Japanese to secure more this
when my parents came to see me oppose any attempt to stifle the seats in April was due to defects in George told the Empire: "We may hospital the following day, they told the election regulations by which look forward to the new year with free British Press from whatever British Arms divided and registered sober confidence. We have surmoun- me that they hod, watched me com-} source the attempt might come. the land, offices and buildings under ted a grave crisis. We do not under- ing down although at the time not
A free Press, a free and constant their control in the names of their rate the dangers and dificulties which knowing who I was. Parliament, freedom of thought and employees, thus being able to create expression, a ready, incorruptible ad- several thousands of votes just before ministration of justice, formed the the elections.-United Press. foundation on which British liberty
Press Must Not
Be Stifled
M.P.'s Declaration
so firmly stood.
"No Ministry of Information and
no bureaucratie institution," he said, Cripps's Nephew Back
"must be allowed to control the free,
fair criticism by which the Press of Britain forms D gulde and safety valve for all forms of free opinion of) a free people."
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From Internment
officers and men of the Among Leicestershire Regiment who have just arrived in England from the EVACUATION MEETING Swedish Internment camp at Follum The Evacuation Representation is Captain M: A. H. Crippe, nephew British Stafford Cripps, Committee is holding a meeting this of Sir evening at 6 p.m. In the Rose Room Ambassador to Moscow. of the Peninsula Hotel, at which the The party had many adventures on situation as it exists will be explain their journey through Norway to ton ed. There will also be a discussion Swedish border' and lived for days on па to what future action should be flour and water, often sleeping In taken.
the open in snow five feet deep.
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Year"
WHICH
confront us still, but we take cour age and comfort from the successes of our Bghting men and our Allies which were won at heavy odds on land, in the air and on the sea. The
planted on the path of victory and future will be hard, but our feet are with the help of God we shall make our way to justice and
peace." United Press.
Windsor Broadcast
DEATH ENDS
DOG'S VIGIL
A DOG'S 13-year wait for his master ended recently in Sydney, when Bluey, 15-year-old cattle New York, Dec. 25. dog, died in the grounds of St. The Duke of Windsor, speaking George Hospital. over the radio from Nassau, hailed
Blucy's master, a driver, died In the peace of the new world and the hospital in 1927, victim of a mo- proyed that the end of hostilities be tor accident. not too far distant and that Britain
The hospital authorities have for- will not again became entangled in gotten his name. But Bluey did not the strifes and quarrels of the old forget his master. world where the teachings of the Ever since his master's death he Church and the message of Christmas had waited at the hospital for him. has not been heeded.
Film Stars Cleared
A representative of Mr Martin Dies, chairman of the committee investigating un-American activities. has cleared the film stars, Franchot Tone, Francis Lederer, und Luise Rainer of accusations of Communist sympathy.
bative of Francis Lederer, Czecho-Slovakia, was widely, report- ed an his way to fight for his country Lulse when Munich was signed. Rainer was born in Vienna. She was granted a divorce from Clifford well-known American Ödets, the playwright, in Mav.
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The Effect of the Addition of
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Whole Milk
Iron Copper Parts Parts ver per million million
2.4 0.15
BOSCO
75
0.2
BOSCO-in-Milk (1 ten-
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8.0
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Married In America On Xmas Day
Crack riders of the dirt track Miss Tong Mel-1, second daugh- and the grass track, and road The dog slept under the out- ter of Dr Hollington K. Tong, Vice- racers are being trained to be "We in this colony are engaged in patients' department, where his mas-Minister of Publicity in Chungking, ready at all times to dart off at Manha, Rabaul, Australia and New Britain's conflet, but at the samuter was first adenilted, time we are confident in the strength Regularly, he would go to the en-Chen Yih in the United States on top speed to any point indicated. and character of our race and that trance of tie tuilding, peer in, and Christmas Day, according to a cable- their endurance and tenacity will then walk
Circus King Dies
play.
and Mrs Tong, was married to Mr
latter
Within seconds of an alarm, in the gram received by their friends here.event, for instanco, of attempled in- bring
this tragic war to
successful
Man Dog"
The couple will remain in the States vasion, they will roar into action to conclusion. Our admiration for the
deal with any enemy troops who may "Bluey won essentially a one-man for some time. gallantry of the fighting forces knows dog," the president of the RS.P.CA. Both bride and bridegroom are land by parachute or 'plane. no grounds, but our special sympathy (Mr M. A. Trail) sald.
graduates of the Missouri School of
Tested Recently goes out to all who have become The Medical Superintendent of St Journalism, from which the
If the road to the spot winds about innocent victims of modern warfore." George Hospital (Dr Geoffrey Fen- has also obtained a Master's degree,
United Press.
Lon) snid: "A hospital bed was The bride holds an MA, degree in too much, then the mobile units will bought last year with money volun- Political Science from Kansas Uni- take the direct route over moor and teered by the public to honour vernity.
fen. They are trained in "rough Bluey.
The bridegroom's father is Mr riding of the most gruelling type brass plaques bearing his Chen Ching-han, former editor-in-fields, muddy lanes, mountain. tracks, ward chief of the Shun Pao, a well-known and steep hills. name have been placed in a
At a recent lest in rough country of the hospital, and on a kennel at Chipesa vertiacular paper in Shang- the King Edward Dogs' Home, Moore hal, and at present manager of the in the Western Command, the riders Park.
Chung Shing Coal Mining Company, encountered hills, ditches and ponds and plenty of: mud. They swept "Bluey was a dusty-blue dog with
top speed, across the country at he died he Mr Edward H. Bostock, eighty-one-n stout spirit. Before
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
swaoping over hills and ploughing year-old circus king, has died in a was practically blind and dent."
A meeting of the Hongkong and through ponds, Glasgow nursing home,
China Branch of the British Medical The test was as exciting and spec- Association will be held at B.15 p.m. tacular as any tourist or track race. to-day, in the Urban Council Cham-There were one or two spills, but the failing ber, with Dr. P S. Selwyn-Clarke, riders were all experts in President. In the Chale.
without injury to themselves or their Dr. E. W. Kirk will read a paper powerful machines, and in avoiding entitled "Medical Practice in Hong-cousing danger to the men following. kong in 1940","
Controlled kids were all in the ever' a All members of the British Medicat game, and there was not Association are cordially invited to burned-out clutch when the test war | bo. present.
over.
Bostock and Wombwell's menagerie, which had been on the road for 120 years, was sold, to the Zoo ten years ago. Mr. Bostock, had worked among ;. the animals for sixty years, and often visited them at Whipsnade.
When he was - seventy-one', Mr Bostock married, Mrs Jean. Framb „Flint, daughter-in-law of the Scottish comicdian WF. Frame. They had bean' friends for thirty yeark,
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