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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940

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TWO GIRLS WHO “joined" the British Army and carried off the disguise until their shapely legs. gave them away were rescued with the British troops and brought to England. One is English, the other Belgian. They owe their escape to three British soldiers Knocker,-Smudger-and Gary."

Knocker and Smudger lent the -girls-khaki greatcoats, which came down to their feet, and steel helmets. Then the three formed a cordon round the girls so that their disguise would not be pene- trated.

It was not until the little party was boarding a trawler at Dun- kirk that the two pairs of legs, too neat to be soldiers', were noticed descending the ladder on to the boat. But the captain would' not turn the girls away when he heard their story.

Elaine Madden, aged seventeen, whose English father, former gar- jener for the War Graves Com-

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A STORY OF HOW STU- THE DIOCESAN her grandparents, who owned an BOYS' SCHOOL hotel in the town.

INTERVENED IN A ROBBERY IN DUKE STREET ON AUGUST 24, 'WAS Their Homes Bombed

RELATED BEFORE MR. E. HIMSWORTH AT KOWLOON When the German

bombing MAGISTRACY THIS MORNING raids started the household evacu-WHEN LO PIU, 26, WAS ated, but Flaine and her nine- CHARGED WITH HIGHWAY}

een-year-old aunt, Simone Du-! ponselle, stayed behind to make The last-minute arrangements.

ROEBERY.

students were Ernest

They stayed too long. They had Liu, 16, and his brother Paul, 19, to run from their house as the

of No. 4, Duke Street, bombs dropped, and the streets ing, said that at 10 am.

Det.-Sgt. C. Dowman, prosecut- were set burning-

land.

on

[August 24, Mrs. Chan, of No. 12,

the neck outside. No. 10 house

Accused

Virginia Weidler in "Bad Little Angel," sbowing at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

UNIONIST

OFFICIAL DETAINED

They left for shelter in the Duke Street, was walking along Captain H. W. Lutt- country. They found it in Eng Duke Street towards her house man-Johnson, of Black- They walked till they found after having purchased

some bark House, Luncarty, shelter in a barn. There they cused followed her, struck her on near Perth, has been tak- flowers in Boundary Street. Ac- were found by the three soldiers: All five then made their way by and snatched a wrist watch from en from Scotland to Eng- cars, abandoned lorries, and on foot through the flooded fields. her. She struggled with him, and land for preventive deten-

Elaine, who is now at the home recovered the watch.

started to run but Ernest Lution under the defence re- of her aunt, Mrs. Stone, in Deer- hurst Road, Streatham, S.W., fin- who was standing, outside his gulations. gered the gold ring given to her house, heard the alarni and gave The round-up of -nfembers of Embankment Road the British Union of Fascists goes by her soldier flance as she told chase along

into Prince : Edward Road,

He was threatened by accused;} It was revealed that four. pro- Meanwhile, his brother, Paul minent Suffolk officials of the or- joined in and they struggled ganisation-Ronald Noah Creasy "It brought me luck," she whis- with accused, who was finally and George Frederick Hoggarth, pered. "We might have been brought down. burnt to death when we reached After evidence, accused Dunkirk. We drove through the committed for trial at the burning streets in a lorry.

Criminal Sessions.

her story.

Ring Brought Luck

We did not know the way to the docks. Suddenly we came Jupon a stream of soldiers waiting to embark. Our luck had held.” "Gary told us, 'Say you're the Dorgets, if challenged.

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both. of Eye, near Ipswich, and was Lawrence W. Harding and Ray- next mond Smith, both of Bury St.

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Cheshire police have detained four men members.

Following a search at his home, Norman Hollaway, twenty-nine, schoolteacher, of Borstal Road, Rochester, Kent, has been detain- for ed.

all Formerly first violinist in. a

"As we climbed down on to the Mr. J.-R. Leslie, M.P. trawler soldiers saw our legs and Sedgefield, Durham, wants shouted, "Look at the lady sol- motor traffic on main roads well-known Blackpool dance diers. We thought we were go-after midnight prohibited, except band, Frederick Rudolph Kruse, ing to be turned back. There by special permit. He will sug-fifty, of Rosebery. Avenue, South was nowhere for us to go; Dun-gest this in a question to the Shore, Blackpool, has been ar- Kirk was in flames; the country Home Secretary.

rested. flooded.

"The captain gave us his cabin when I said I was English."

Both girls have left their sol- dier flances behind. Elaine was" to have been married in a week's time.

"But I know I shall see him soon," she said, “when Belgium is free again."

Now Elaine and Simone want to get jobs, so that they can buy clothes.

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ILDV. ALL ROUND HIM

““I MUST HAND-IT to this town. My feet had scarcely touched the ground when I was surrounded by L.D.V. men," said an airman who jumped by parachute from a British bomber which crashed in Northumberland.

He landed near a main street, The twin-engined plane smashed into a row of colliery houses, setting fire to one home and killing à minor, his wife and a Bayanteen-year-old daughter

SAYS CLERGY SHOULD ENLIST

"Our priests of military a The bomber's air gunner and age class in the fighting forces should-be told to join up in their wireless operator, were also killed. like the French clergy, and show China's foreign trade The pilot and navigator escaped an example of patriotism to the sharply advanced during by parachute and landed safely nation-ho sheltering behind the July but Shanghai only benefitted slightly.

*Imports amounted to 84 million

Afterwards, experts spoke of clerical collar." the efficiency with which tho

A.R.P. service dealt with the That's what the "Rev. J. A. amergency...

Carter, vicar of Lillington, hear. The three civilians killed were: Leamington Spa, who served in fifty-three, the last war, writes in, his parish

gold units, an increase of 17 mil-Henry Cox, aged llon over the previous month. minor; his wife, Ellen, aged fifty- magazine. Shanghaf accounted for only five two, and their daughter, Giddys million of the increase while the William Cox, fifteen, a son, was import trade of other ports, soar-severely, burned, and is detained ed by 12 million.

In hospital. Two occuplers THE SAME THING Exports amounted to 170, mil-neighbouring houses, Mrs: Mather lion gold units, an increase of 4.7 and Mrs. Marian Hart, were also Pacifism and defeatism now go million, which is all the more re-treated for shock.

hand in hand, Mr. Matthew Mit- markable because during the The house occupied by the Cox chell, of Auchterarder, Perthshire, same period Shanghai suffered family was reduced to a mass of told the General Assembly of the drop in exports of 21 million gold charred rafters and piles of United Free Church in Edinburgh, units.

debris..

Exports via other ports In- creased by 26 million gold units.

Havay.

A young miner, Frederick Main, If over the Germans reached was badly burned as he rescued Britain, he said, they would turn the Injured bọy..

it into a shambles.