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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1940.

London

Month's

AIDED A CONVICT, FREED

Mrs. Lilian Goldstein, who was

convicted at the Old Bailey of harbouring a gaol-breaker, Ruby

Sparks, heard the Recorder, Sir

Gerald Dodson, cancel her six months' sentence.

Binding her over, the Recorder! said: "I have given a good deal

After A

Raids

THE NAZIS ARE naturally trying to cheer up their people with descriptions of a London in ruins, and the German radio yesterday quoted an un-named American journalist having told a Lisbon newspaper that he returning to the United States because condi- tions in London had become unbearable.

was

Actually, this paper interviewed five American journalists, including Vincent Sheean and H. R. Knickerbocker.

London nothing.".

has been

"little.or

The paper says that all these of thought to your case, because five, though of different tempera-

war- It is true, he said, that docks one feels that in doing what you ment and from different

fact they and warehouses have been bomb-' of the did, although it was breaking the zones, agree on one law, you followed a natural.wo-believe fully in an English vic-ed, but the great bulk

damage has been to non-military. manly Instinct in trying to succour

objectives. - and protect this man, with whom you had intimate relations over a period of years.

does

"The justice of the case require me sending you to prison. "Make the best use of this chance, because, although you have broken the law and asalat ed this man, perhaps unwitting ly, and because you were .com. pelled to do so, you obstructed the police and gave a lot of trouble.

"Some Hope For You"

"Now you can break away from your past'association and there may be some hope for you in the future."

Mrs. Goldstein, who is thirty- seven and lived at Wembley Park Drive, was brought from Holloway Prison, where she had begun to serve the sentence, and wore the

same smart clothes as at her trial.

The Recorder bound her over in her

for: own recognisances three years on condition that she should obey the probation officer; Miss Russet Green.

Mrs. Goldstein made no com- ment as she left the dock..

A.R.P. STEEL TOO DEAR

The Ministry of Supply should ensure that the prices paid for steel supplies are fair and reason- able. This is suggested in the se- cond report of the Committee of Public Accounts.

The suggestion arises from ex- of the method of or- amination

shelters and dering Anderson materials for strengthening base- ments,

It was decided, to dispense with competition in placing the order for from twa to two and a half million shelters, A 'first order for 100,000 tons of corrugated sheets was placed with the British. Iron and Steel Corporation.

The order was later extended to a total cost of £19,000,000 of which £16,100,000 was for shel- ters,

The committee says it is not satisfied that the machinery es tablished by the Iron and Steel Federation for regulating the general price level of the main products of the steel industry was necessarily the most appro. priate."

The committee records "their emphatic opinion" that no indus- try should be exempt from, an obligation to submit its cost to investigation by Government nee countants for the purpose of de- termining the; prices to be paid

tory.

All the journalists; especially those from London, say that Eng- land is proving she can resist all air attacks and enemy raiders are meeting with ever-increasing Bri- tish determination.

The Verdict

Yesterday, at the invitation of the Government, provincial jour The English are doing excel-nalists foured London, from the lently, the paper quotes the jour-docklands to Buckingham Palace, nalists as saying, and may soon and their verdict was unanimous establish air superiority.

about the damage bad enough In London yesterday, the in places but on the whole. "not commentator of the Mutual nearly as bad as we thought." Broadcasting Service told his They agreed that London is American listeners that Lon-keeping business going as usual. don's spirit is as good as ever and is almost unaffected from the and so far military damage to military point of view.-Reuter. :

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