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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 7, 1940

Inspired by his sweetheart and wife (Andrea Leeds), Ste- phen C. Foster (Don Amecho), the great American troubadour, writes "Jeanle with the Light Brown Hair" in this scene from "Swahee River," 20th Century-Fox Technicolour film now at the King's Theatre.

GERMAN WOMAN SPY JAILED FOR TEN

YEARS

AN A.F.S: MAN and a Tank Corps corporal help- ed to smash a spy ring at Portsmouth, and at the Old Bailey, they saw the ring-leader, Mrs. Marie Louisa Augusta Ingram, sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for Official Secrets Act offences.

Mrs. Ingram was born in Germany, and is mar ried to an R.A.F. sergeant. She is a member of the

British Union (Fascists).

When arrested she was working? as a servant in a naval comman❤ der's flat in Portsmouth. The com-' mander is attached to the secret mines department in the royal dockyard.

Mrs: Ingram's chief lieutenant in the plot to get hold of secrets' and hinder National Defence work was William Swift, aged fifty- seven,

ex-Portsmouth" dockyard

worker. He was sentenced to four- teen years penal servitude,

`Held His Hand

POLISH

PILOT RAMS A

BOMBER

CRY OF LYNCHING

GREETS FASCIST

Cries of "Lynch him” and "Let us have him for. ten minutes" were said to have been heard after the arrest of a young Fascist who appeared on remand at Thames Police Court.

The accused, Ernest William Smith (25), of Brightlingsea Buildings, Limehouse, who was shid to have registered as a con- scientious objector, was sentenced to three months' hard labour for Insulting behaviour at Salmon Lane, Limehouse...

Police-constable Davenicy said The saw Smith pasting on a wall a bill headed "Action," and bearing the names of eight men who had been charged with conspiring to Javoid military service..

by a

Smith was surrounded hostile crowd of about 200 people and three men caught hold of him.

Woman's Shout

that a

Describing the cries, the police constable added woman shouted, "Don't put him behind iron bars, put the Iron bars through him."..

"Not

Smith, who pleaded guilty" said he was only arguing with 'men · in the crowd, and there was no trouble until the police arrived.

Mr. Harris (the Magistrate): You have a certificate registering you provisionally and as a con- scientious

other objector. In words, you are prepared to dodge military service if you can pass the tribunal? I am only a conscien- Hous objector on certain grounds. tam prepared to defend my coun- try if it is attacked. I don't believe in dying abroad in a foreign quarrel.

FINGERPRINTS ON CARDS REJECTED

A suggestion that fingerprints should be placed on the back of |identity cards was turned down in the House of Commons by Mr. Malcolm MacDonald,Minister of Health.

He said he was considering methods of extending the placing of photographs on special cards to make Identification easier than'at present.

He added that it would be im- possible to issue to the whole

VA POLISH AIRMAN WITH Population identity cards bearing HIS MACHINE ON FIRE, RE-the holder's photograph, but the Archibald Watts, forty-one-ALISING THAT HE WOTIT Tissue of such cards in special cases for special OUT OF THE was being extended year-old Portsmouth B.U.F. leader,QUICKLY. BE was found not guilty. By order of COMBAT, FLUNG HIS MA-needs.

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taken to the cells below.

GERMAN BOMBER AND RAM- Superintendent Turner,

of MED IT, HE ESCAPED BY Portsmouth C.I.D.; could have PARACHUTE,!! rounded up the gang several days before he did; but was told by Scotland Yard to hold his hand so that a general round-up of Fas- cists could be made at the same time.

This story was told at a Polish] reception in London.

· GERMANS ADMIT ACTS OF SABOTAGE

There has been sabotage to tele- graph and telephone communica- In the fight, the airman had tions in Belgium, according to the previously shot down two Nazi German-controlled Brussels radio, fighters.

A warning was broadcast threa- The Pole, squaring up his actening severe punishment... Cecil Rashleigh, now an A.F.S. count with Hitler", it was stated. The penalties would be extend- man, was working as a painter at "had not forgotten the German ed to the inhabitants of the dis- the Naval commander's flat when invasion of his country when his tricts in which the sabotage. oc- he met: Mrs." Ingram..

family had been driven from curred if those responsible could When she said, she was "a their home and his baby girl had not be found, the announcer said,

Reuter patsionate admirer" of Germany died from exposure."

he told the police...

That was the first step towards!

breaking the gang.

Acting under police orders Rashleigh. told Mrs. Ingram hé would join the local branch of the B.U.F. Later he agreed to join the L.D.V.:

The Tank Corps corporal, Cor- poral Joseph Barron; played Ris part next.

Police Listened

He agreed that Rashleigh should tell Mrs. Ingram that he knew a Tank Corps corporal who was dis- gruntled: with Army life, and would help her to get blue prints of British tanks.runti

Corporal Barron was introduced: to Mrs. Ingram-but she did not know that Superintendent' Turner was watching and listening."

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When enough evidence had been collected the gang was arrested. | Mre.Ingram's R.A.F."husband: they married when he was a British military policeman in Germany-was in court yester dny when she was sentenced. They glanced unsmiling at anch other as sho' loft the dock.

Gangsters, gunmen, con (man, þype," lamsters and just plain Before Mrs. Ingram went to ordinary crooks will be wise to give. Universal City, California, work in the naval commander's 'a wide børth because Charlie McCarthy has promised to, make' flat she had been employed in the life tough for the lawless. Edgar Bergen's witty wooden won- homes of naval officers of high derboy. Is shown above, with Bergen, being: aworn in an: Unis rank, including admirals.Hervorsal City's 'Chief of Detectivor by Mayor. Mischa-Auer. Thoma eighteen-year-old son is now in appointment followed" McCarthy'a olevan sleuthing in his new. one of HMM, training ships, ploture, "Charile McCarthy): Detective."

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 7, 1940

SHE HAS THE

FIRST

V.C.

'A HERO'S WIDOW, pale and dressed in black, met the King in a private room at Buckingham Palace to receive the first V.C. of the war.

She was Mrs. Warburton-Lee, whose husband, Captain Bernard Warburton-Lee, of H.M.S: Hardy, lost his life after he had led five destroyers against a superior force in the first Battle of Narvik.

It was Mrs. Warburton-Lee's own wish that the presentation of the decoration posthumously. awarded—should be as quiet and simple as possible,

With her fourteen-year-old son, Phillip, she was driven to the Palace by her brother, Colonel' Swinton, of the Scots Guards.

It was a sad but proud mo- ment for this hero's wife and; son. And the King spent soms;

NAZIS IN

BELGIUM

time sympathising with them. ACCUSE

Mrs. Swinton, wife of Colonel! Swinton, told a reporter: "She has gone straight back to the

M.P.'S

Behind the disguise is the well-known face of Charlie': McCarthy, and beside Mc- Carthy is Edgar Bergen in this scene from their latest, starring picture, Universal'o "Charlie McCarthy, Detec- tive.". Made up for his night, club entertainer role in which he bursts into song for the first time with a little ditty called: "I'm Charlie McCarthy, Detective," Charlie continues as a real sleuth throughout the picture, eventually 801- ving the murder.

country with her san. She want. ed as little fuss as possible."

A demand that charges should Another medal posthumously

be preferred against members of awarded was given by the King M. Pierlot's Government "who to Miss McCabe a sister of a hero have sought asylum abroad." the of civilian life, in private.

presidents of the Belgian Cham- and other par- liamentarians, has been made Council of the Party, meeting by the Belgian Rexist (Fascist) .In Brussels. a Brussels dispatch!

the de- Party, says

Those against whom to the official Italian agency. mand is directed are accused of!

The demand is stated to be, "insults against the Sovereign contained in an "order of the pronounced abroad and publicly."| day" adopted by the General-Reuter,

Mr. John McCabe was awarded ber and Senate the O.B.E. after losing his life through exemplary devotion to duty when an explosion took place in a factory.

At the open-air investiture the King, wearing the uniform of Ad- miral of the Fleet, decorated heroes of the three Fighting Ser- vices for gallantry in Norway and with the B.E.F. in France.

Captain's Shipmates Three shipmates of Captain Warburton-Lee, V.C., were among

them.

Paymaster: Lieutenant Geof- frey: Stanning, who took over command of the Hardy, though wounded, received the D.S.O.

With his foot heavily band-

aged, Lieutenant. Stanning hobbled up to the dals where the King was standing, and afterwards."limped" (away on

*crutches.

Lieutenant George Heppell re- ceived the D.S.O. and Lieutenant- Commander Russell Gordon- Smith the D.S.C.

Altogether there were 120 de-

corations.

Among the R.A.F. heroes were Flight-Lieutenant Maurice Ste- phens, who was given the D.F.C. and bar at the same time.

He is one of three brothers serving with the R.A.F. One of them, Flying-Officer John Step- hens, who is reported missing, re- ceived the D.F.C. in February..

NAZIS OUT -OF HYMN

THINKING THINGS OVER IN THE LIGHT OF THE “NAZI SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT WOMEN. AND CHILDREN IN BELGIUM, ALDERMAN ERNEST HARRISON, GRIMSBY CHURCH ORGANIST, HAS RE-WRITTEN. ONE VERSE OF A VESPER HYMN HE COMPOSED DURING THE LAST, WAR.

When it is sung at a special ser- vice to be held soon at. Grimsby Parish Church, One line which Mr. Harrisonwishes he had never written will be left out. A verse

the original hymn was: Grant to victor, and

quished,

van

When their earthly conflicts

* cease,*

Grown of blessings, loving

26. Father. pre Heaven's own peace,

It is the first line that has trou- bled his conscience since Hitler came out into the open with his anti-God campaign of murder. So when the hymn is sung again the first line will be

Grant to all our Falth's de-

fenders.ha

No one will quarrel with that-- unless a few cranks still think the "victor" of the thousands of pray- Ing refugoca ground to bits? by Nazi tanks may yet repent as in sesi