THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 27, 1940
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R.A.F. HERO AVENGES HIS BROTHER'S DEATH
WHILE MOURNING ONE of their R.A.F. sons, killed in action, a mother and father found some consolation in the news that another R.A.F. son had become a flying hero and had avenged his brother's death.
He is Squadron-Leader Walter Philip Sutcliffe, of Brampton, Cumberland, who has been awarded the D.F.C.
All three grown-up children of Mr. and Mrs. Sutcliffe have given themselves to the service of their country.
"CAMOUFLAGE”—“I thought that would make it a bit bright, Sir."
Intransigeant.
Big-Scale Walker
Every week for more than fifty
The son who was killed was Andrew, a leading aircraftman. A sister, Eli- nor, is serving in the A.T.S.
Squadron-Leader Sutcliffe said nothing to his family about his D.F.C.
"This is the first we have heard of Walter's bravery," Mrs. Sutcliffe
"Le Canard Enchalne”
J. Prus.
Paris
"If they had the same gauge, they would deliver us oil, if they had
any locomotives.
said to a reporter, when told of the Said He Was
award. "Of course, we're proud-
but we're proud of all our family Parachutist for the way they are doing their bit."
Another example of this modesty is Pilot-Officer William Cordil McArthur, aged twenty-eight.
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Going Back A Bit
Mc-
Canning-street,
For telling a woman that he was a
Kenneth German parachutist,
labourer, Dougall, Dundee, was fined 10s. 6d.
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To Save Their
Chairman at the South-Eastern Shoes Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal: To what Church do you belong? Applicant: Anglo-Saxon.
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years Alfred Shuttleworth, a clock and Not A Word
watch repairer, of Huntingdon-road, Coventry, walked 100 miles or more in the course of his work.
He has just died; aged seventy, and in his working life walked over 260,- 000 miles from job to job.
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Nazi Salute in Court
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Search For
Parachutist
Soldiers armed with rifles and police officers searched Stanmore Common, Middlesex, after a message had been received that an enemy parachutist had come down.
After an hour the search was aban- doned.
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Germany Seizes all
An urgent appeal has been issued Steel Goods
to workers in German factories and while offices to wear felt slippers working. Leather footwear
will be permitted only in the streets.
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been Troops Guarding
Mrs. Cecilia McArthur, his wife, did not know her husband had awarded the D.F.M. till 2 reporter called at her home in York-road, Driffield, Yorks, and told her.
"That is great news," she said. "William went off this morning without saying a word about it. That is just like him. I am happy,
and proud of him."
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Rector Sent
After being found not guilty of using insulting words and behaviour while selling "Action", the Fascist paper, a sixteen-year-old girl clicked her heels and gave the Nazi salute in front of the magistrates at Lambeth Juvenile To Gaol
Court.
Sir Vivian Henderson, chairman, blushed as he said. "That won't have any effect on us, you know."
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Swat For Victory is Cabbage Grower's Plan
After the "Dig for Victory" cam- paign, "Swat for Victory."
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B.B.C.
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Broadcasting House in London is being guarded day and night by troops. Soldiers were on duty there recently
for the first time.
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Twenty-Five
Years Late
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The steel shortage in Germany is so serious that all semi-finished and fully manufactured goods, which consist solely or in part of iron and steel, are being confiscated by the authorities under a new order.
This practically whole
means
that the German industry has been brought to a standstill with the ex- ception of factories making ambulan- ces and other war products.
Payments for confiscated metal and other goods will be made only after
the war.
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Disaffection
Charge
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The Rev. Fred Crosby, fifty-nine,
A postcard saying, “I am, still wait- Rector of Loughton, near
A Dutchman was remanded in cus- Wolverton, ing to hear from you," posted in Po- .tody for fourteen days at Gravesend Bucks, was sentenced to three months' zarevac, Serbia, by a British Red accused of trying to cause disaffection imprisonment at Stony Stratford for Cross nurse in 1915, has just been de- among the Forces of H.M. Allies, improperly assaulting two Loughton livered to her sister, Mrs. E. M. Allen, He is Johan Mogers, twenty-one, boys under the age of sixteen.
34. Clock House-road, Backenham, wireless operator in the steamer Charges of a similar nature alleged Kent.
Alphacca. to have occurred between July, 1936, and August, 1939, in respect of four Objectors Want other boys were withdrawn.
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The suggestion comes from Mr. H. Rude To Street Rogers, of Barleythorpe, Oakham, Rutland. He wants to send children
chasing the, yellow-white butterflies Sentry
whose caterpillars make cabbages look like lace curtains.
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Soldiers' Pay
Two conscientious objector em- ployees of Colne (Lancs) Council have offered to have their pay reduced A warning that people interfering to 25. a day, the same as a soldier's. His idea is that gardeners should with sentries are liable to a £100 fine
The Town Clerk has received a let have a whip-round for prize money and three months' imprisonment was ter from the objectors-T. Brooks and and send it to the local schools for given by Brigadier-General F. Tow- P. L., Hartley-saying they did not distribution among the children hand- sey, chairman of the Colchester ma- want to enjoy the advantages of being ing in the biggest catches of cabbage gistrates.
in civilian employment. butterflies.
They asked for 2s. a day, plus board and lodging, equivalent to a soldier's keep.
Mr. Hartley told a reporter: "Sever-
Two men, summoned on that charge, Already in Mr. Rogers's district 150 were said to have been rude to a street raiders have been accounted for. A sentry. They said they were drunk. female butterfly lays about a thou- The military authorities did not press sand eggs in a season SO you imagine how many pounds of cabbage The men were fined £1 for being dis- been called up, and we did not want have been saved.
orderly.
to make anything at their expense."
Through an interpreter, Mogers told the court he was not a Nazi and did not do any wrong,
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A.R.P. For King Tut
Tut-ankh Amen's priceless solid gold coffin, after being displayed in the Cairo Museum for sixteen years, was carried into a secret bomb-proof-vault. cotton-wool on a bler of plain wooden Glittering in the sun and resting in
planks, it was borne on the shoulders of eight Arabs. The only guard was a solitary policeman.-Reuter.
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can the case, and the bench dismissed it. al members of the town hall staff have American's Honeymoon
in Prohibited: Area
Cost £5
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George Francis Glover, a U. S. citi- zen, said to be living. In Half Moon- street, W. who was fined £5 at Havant for entering Hayling Island, a prohibited area near Portsmouth, told the magistrates he had gone there for his honeymoon.
It was pointed out to Glover that, though he was regarded as a friendly alien, if he decided to live in Peters- fleld, a town about twelve miles away, he would still have to obey the cur few and be in by eight o'clock at night.
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