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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 24, 1940

On a recent visit to Hollywood, Doris Duke Cromwell, to- bacco helress, got some first-hand information on how motion pictures are made. The cameraman snapped her picture with a few of the personalities on the set of Universal's "When The Daltons Rode.” Seen above are (left to right) director George Marshall, Kay Francis, Mrs. Cromwell and Randolph Scott.

INCENDIARY

START FIRES

BOMBS LARGE

FIVE CIVILIANS WERE killed and twenty injured in a widespread air raid on Britain. The five deaths occurred in a town in the south-west of England, where incendiary bombs started three big fires in the centre of the town. Several smaller fires were also started.

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London took cover and the sound of aeroplanes was heard. No casualties or damages were report- ed. Black-out offences were committed in districts experiencing their first raids. The offenders will be prosecuted.

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DARED DEATH AT BRIDGE

Demolition charges on two bridges at Tressin had to be fired simultaneous- ly by lighting a fuse to each, but one of them failed to light. It was then that Corporal Tom Car- ter, of the Royal En- gineers, displayed heroism which has gained him the D.C.M.

the Although he knew

first fuse was already burning he went forward, lit the other, and barely gained cover when the first bridge only thirty yards separated the two-blew up.

Carter's award is among se- venteen-two D.S.O.s, six M.C.s, thres D.C.M.s and six M.M.s — made by the B.E.F. Commander- in-Chief and announced by the War Office.

are

Recipients of the D.S.O. Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Bootle- Wilbraham, M.C., Coldstream Guards. and Major (Acting Lieu- tenant-Colonel) Donald Clunes Butterworth, North Stafford Re- giment.

Lieutenant - Colonel Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham showed con- spicuous coolness and deter- mination in handling his bat- talion throughout the withdrawal to the from the River Dyle Scheldt.

These are among the heroic acts which gained the M.C.

Rode Past Tanks

Second-Lieutenant (acting Cap-

tain), Alan Southworth, R.E., remained in an exposed position for thirty hours to hold two bridges as final demolitions until the cavalry had come in..

Second-Lieutenant Rhodri Mortimer Green (Foresters)....... volunteered to search for a bridge across the Escaut to save his carriers. He rode past two enemy tanks, was wounded, abandoned his wrecked machine and swam the river. Rescue of a wounded officer under heavy fire gained the D.C.M. "They had turned that room for Corporal John Wade. North into a refuge. But Mr, Good-Stafford Regiment, who "showed win thought the raid was over complete disregard for his per- and went into his front room. sonal safety."

The five dead in the south-west fifteen, was getting back into bed. town were:-

Her cheek was gashed, and sne Mrs. Knowles, aged forty-lhas gone to hospital. three and her nine-year-old. "Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin were daughter Rosina: Mary

Jane in the back of their house next Stinchcombe, aged sixty-seven; door with their two children, Mary Mr. Hubert Goodwin, and Mr. and James, aged two and four. Frederick Meek, aged sixty. five.

Mr. Goodwin leaves a widow and two young children.

-High explosive bombis damaged some small shops close to a hos- pital in the south-west town and wrecked streets in a quiet suburb.

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He was killed Instantly by fly" Other names in the awards list Ing glass.

are:

In an eastern district officials of M. C. Captain Peard Thorn- a small village were searching a ton Wood, R.E.; Lieutenant (Act- In Shelter Unhurt garden in which a bomb had ing Captain) Partick Holberton dropped, when a woman put her Man, Hampshire Regiment: Se- Three of the people were kill-head out of a window and asked. cond Lieutenant Geoffrey Ford, ed in a street of little grey two-"What are you looking for?" North Stafford Regiment: Second storied houses with red tiled roofs. She was astonished when she Lieutenant Douglas Alexander realised that she had slept Russell, North Stafford Regi- throught it all.

ment,

Mrs. Alice Bancroft, a widow aged fifty-six, whose only son Reginald, aged twenty-six, was People in the north-east heard D. C. M. Sergeant Robert seriously injured, lived next door heavy thuds and rushed to cellars Hodson. Slack, R. A.

and shelters before the warning!

to Mrs. Knowles.

"The tragedy of our street", was officially given. she told a reporter while stand-) ing among the ruins of her own chattered home, "is that we thought the 'All dear' had gone. We left the shelters in our gar dens and went back to our houses.'

A HAPPY BURIAL

M. M.- Lance-Sergeant Frank Thacker, R. A.; Gunner Stanley Gordon Rudback, R.A.; Guards- man William Hardy, Grenadier Guards; Guardsman Reginald Abson, Coldstream Guards; P.S.M. Federick Black. Foresters; Ser- Edmund geant Dennis Michael MacGillycuddy, Field Security

NEGLECTED. HER FOR POLO.

"I was making some tea in our WITH FLAGS FLYING AND Police. back room and my son was look-GAY FLOWERS DECORATING ing out of the front door when THE' WORKSHOPS, HUNDREDS there was a terrible explosion. OF FACTORY EMPLOYEES Reginald fell back with a large SANG "THERE'LL ALWAYS wound in his shoulder and his eye BE AN ENGLAND" AND "THE hurt.

MORE WE ARE TOGETHER” "Mrs. Knowles and her little WHEN

The Hon. Mrs, Pamela Catherine THEY ATTENDED

Mabel Rous of the White House, daughter were in the passage of THEIR EMPLOYER'S FUNERAL Gasterton, Carnforth, Lancs, was their house adjoining ours which SERVICE AT HIS FACTORY. was completely smashed.

granted a decree nisi against her There They were expressing the husband, the Hon. William Keith was not a whole piece except the wishes of Mr. Fred Jefferson, Rous, by Mr. Justice. Lawrence beds left standing, and they were chairman and managing director at Devon Assizes at Exeter. buried in the debris.

of Kenrick and Jefferson, Ltd., The families in the two houses business cquippers and printers, been. guilty of misconduct

She alleged her husband', had in the district which were hit had of West Bromwich, who died at desertion. Mrs. Rous was grant- astonishing escapes.

his home at Maidenhead, Berksied costs and the custody of the

at the age of sixty-three..

and

two children of the marriage...

Eight members of one family emerged unhurt from their Ani Mr. Jefferson left this request:- Mrs. Rous's case was that her derson shelter to find their

"It is my wish that no mourn-husband had spent a fortune on house completely wrecked. ing in any shape or manner shall yachts and polo ponics and ex- Next door Mr. and Mrs. S. J. be worn at any ceremony that pected her to live on practically. Winter, with their five-month-old takes place when I go to

the nothing. baby, heard their house crash 'Great Beyond. around them,

"I should like to think that]

my dear people put on their

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Clad in their night clothes they had taken refuge in cupboard beneath the stairs and. did not even suffer a 'scratch.

Killed By Glass

Mrs. Willcocks, who lives next door to the Goodwins on the op- posite side of the street, said: “We did not hear the warning, but the noise of a 'plane woke us. We thought it had gone over, und went [back to bed when suddenly the street was lit up with terrible ex- [plosions." My daughter Jonn, aged

MORE COMMUNAL MEALS

gayest colours, so that our slogan 'Let us bo gay always' can be carried out at all times. Mr. Boothby, Parliamentary 'I should like also to think that Secretary to the Ministry of Food my people were gathered to-in a written reply to Mr. Lind- gother and sing 'Land of Hope say (Nat. Lab., Kilmarnock) says and Glory and The More Wa the Minister welcomes the pro- Are Together' and decorate the vision of communal meals and home and office with flowers is facilitating allocation of. 'sup- and have the flags flyingplies.

not at half-mast but as high. The possibility of more · direct

action as they can be flown."

to establish communal The service was held in the feeding centres. is under urgent binding · department.

consideration, he says. “.

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 24, 1940-

WAR PENSION RATE HAS BEEN

RAISED

WAR PENSIONS FOR totally disabled soldiers are to be increased from 32s. 6d. to 34s. 2d., and the allowance for wives from 5s. to 8s. 4d., Sir Walter Womersley announced in the House of Commons.

In addition, 6s. 3d. will be paid for the first child and 5s. for each of all the other children. Previously, the first child got 5s., the second and third 3s. 4d. and the rest nothing.

There are other important changes, too. Par- ents in need can now be granted pensions according to what their son or sons might have been expected to contribute after the war.

This has already come into cf- feel. A large number of single men lost their lives when two warships were sunk. Some off their parents applied for pensions! but had to be refused.

Now these applications have been reviewed and pensions have,

SAW HER

HUSBAND

been granted in 470 cases. BLOWN UP

In more than 700 cases parents] had been informed that should! their circumstances come withini

the term "need," broadly inter- A mother of five young| preted, in the future allowances children waved to her will be paid them.

Parents of a married soldier can husband's ship as it en- on tered harbour. Soon he

receive. an allowance if it is shown they were dependent-

him to a substantial extent for a would be home again.

period before his death.

The new rates are not fixed for ever. If there is a rise in the cost of living they will be in- creased.

Start From June 1

Sir Walter said the new rates

Then, to her horror, she saw the ship blown up. Later shel learned that her husband was missing.

Peggy

Moran, Universal starlet, suns herself on the sands of the Pacific before starting her current film role in "The Mummy's Hand," horror mystery drama. Hav- ing played four leading" parts in rapid succession, the young actress enjoys a well earned vacation.

the harbour when it happened," she told a reporter.

"I was waving him home and suddenly there was an explosion and the ship was blown up. It was terrible.

"Later I learned that my hus- band was one of the eight missing]

Albert Roberts, of Great Yar-men." mouth, was a member of the crew

Roberts was thirty, and volun-]

of the mine sweeper Ocean Sun-teered when war broke out. His light, loss of which has just been five children are all under eight.

of pensions and other concessions announced.

would operate from the nearest pay day to June 1, and arrears would be adjusted as soon as pos- sible.

Waving Him Home

He had come unscathed through The conditions of the new war-the evacuation of Dunkirk. Mrs. rant would apply to cases in Mer-Roberts moved from Great Yar- cantile Marine in the same way mouth with her family to be near as in the Armed Forces.

her husband at another port.

When his ship was due in she always went to meet it.

the

Sir Walter said that under old warrant there had been a where

condition laid down that the wife of a disabled man was under forty, was able-bodied and had no children, her husband would not receive any allowance on her behalf.

"I took the view," he said, "that

if a man is disabled, he surely wants some-extra-attention.--Who is the best person to give him! that extra attention but his wife? "I followed the advice of my committee and put the matter

a husband should not be debar-

"The ship was abcut to enter

BUT YES, WE HAVE

NO COFFEE

available to Italians but is sup- Coffee is not now generally plied only to hospitals and the armed forces.

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