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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1940

GIRL, 19, AIDS RAID VICTIMS

HOURS

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FOR THIRTEEN HOURS a Titian-haired girl of nineteen, a part-time A.R.P. volunteer, helped to save the lives of more than a dozen people injured in a raid. She had had no practical experience of first aid, but her work won the admiration of experts.

Miss Sonia Straw, of St. Michael's Road, Cater- ham Hill, Surrey, is one of the first three women to be awarded the George Medal. The two other heroines are Mrs. Dorothy Clarke and Mrs. Jane Bessie Hepburn, ambulance workers at Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Sonia Straw is a shorthand

typist. She works in a solicitor's

office.

Her first-aid training was not finished when she was called out

for duty.

SHIPYARD

LEARNING WILL

MAKE BETTER SOLDIERS

All Army units have been informed

by pamphlets of

plans for adult educa- tion for soldiers.

In every university area panels of lectur- ers have been formed. Local authorities with schools and halls and professional bodies

MOVES FOR which can give corres-

SPEED-UP

After skilfully dressing the wounds of people injured by bomba near her home, she went out into the darkness during a raid against the advice of fellow A.R.P. workers →→→→ to Shipyard employees are search for a woman mlesing playing a big part in see-

among wreckage.

She would not give up until the woman had been traced.

She's Qualified Now

Sonia has since qualified in

first-ald tests and is now a fully-fledged warden.

"I did no more than anyone

else would have done," she told a reporter.

"I came across several people

lying badly injured. With what-

ever I could And I bandaged

them up.

"I used to think I would be scared at the sight of blood, but all those feelings leave you when you see pain and dis

tress.

"

"Three. aoldicra brought water and bandages for me, and I soon had all the injured fairly comfortable. They were mainly women and children,

"After I had finished someone telephoned to say they could not trace their mother, who had been in the bombed part of flat.

Midnight Search

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"With another warden I helped search for her till after midnight. When we found her she was dead

under a bed."

Sonia was having a cup of tea when the sirens sounded, Im- mediately she rushed to her post. An injured woman with a wound in her head was her first patient. The woman was lying in a damaged Anderson shelter.

Sonia lives in digs at Cater- ham, goes to work at 9.30 every morning and finishes at six.

"Nothing Really”. "Then I go home for supper and off to the wardens' post,"

she said.

"Boy friends? I haven't any time. But should. Mr. Right

pondence courses will also help..

ac-

The Array itself will provide many lectur- ers and instructors.

scheme The knowledges that if .he has wider interests than the Army the good soldier will be: come an even better

one.

ing that ship-building will not be slowed down by enemy raids on Britain. Reports from all shipyard areas give many exam-1 ples of the way in which all concerned are strain- ing every nerve to see that production is maintained. amazing achievements of our ship- POLICE ALLEGE

When the full story can be told,

yards during the first year of war will be revealed.

It is likely that, in spite of many. difficulties, there will be an even greater shipbuilding speed-up in the coming months.

This will be due to a number of facts, the chief one being that many men who have been trained since war began will be able to take a big part in production.

has been considering the arrange- The shipbuilding industry, too,

ments to be made for continuing work after the air raid sirens have sounded.

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BOMBED,

SO KILLED

HER BLIND HUSBAND

Accused of murdering

Many spotters are being trained her blind husband, a wo- and have taken up their posts. man was alleged to have

The question of lighting during the black-out, with its allied pro- said she killed him be- blem of the need for making full cause they were bombed use of daylight is now under con- sideration.

out of their home and had nowhere to go.

Last winter local adjustments in working hours were made with

The woman, Mrs. Ida Ethel Rod- the latter object, and plans for the coming months are now under ree way, sixty-one, a boot machinist, of Kingshold Road, Hackney, was view, although the need may not at North London Police Court ac- be so urgent now that a system cused of the murder of her hus- of black-out lighting, officially ap-band, Joseph William Rodway, at proved, is in course of installation in yards all over the country.

FATHER

SOLD SON

come along, well, I'll give him Before Mr. E. Himsworth at my medal for a wedding pre- Kowloon this morning, three wo 'sent:

men and a man were charged "I didn't really expect any-with unlawfully transferring a thing for what I had done. It was baby boy for a valuable consider nothing really.· ́

"I was astonished when one of my office colleagues told me the news this morning.-

"I have not told my parents vet-I expect they will be excited when they hear."

atton.

The father, who was a street sleeper and who sold the boy, was bound over, the purchaser, a woman, was fined $40, while two go-betweens, were fined $10 each. It was stated that last Saturday, The unruffled bravery of Mrs. the mother found her boy and Clarke and Mrs. Hepburn in husband missing. Later, her hus- rescuing a man. injured in an band returned and told her that explosion won them the George he had sold the boy for $23. She Medal.

made a report to the police, who Mrs. Clarke is the wife of aarrested her husband, the pur- Home Guard, and Mrs. Hepburn chaser and two go-betweens.. of the local chemist..

Phone Warning

rang

TRESPASSER AT STANLEY FORT

their home..

A police officer alleged. Mrs. Rodway said:

"I was worried about my hus band He was blind. We were bombed out of our home and I had nowhere to go and nobody to help me. I was worried to death. I don't know what made me do it.".

"It appears to be a sad case," said the magistrate (Sir Basil "This woman Watson, K.C.)..

ought to be represented by a soll- citor at once. She will be re- manded in custody for a week, and I shall grant a certificate for legal aid,"

£100-A-WEEK- OWES £10

Teddy Joyce, the dance band. leader, was at Westminster Coun- ty Court ordered to pay £10 owing to a sound studio, within a month.

Miss Gwendoline Rogers said. that the summons was served at Chiswick Empire, where Mr. Joyce. was at the time topping the bill. with his band. ***

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They were breathless with excitement when their ́ ́A;R.P. chief; Colonel. Franklin them up to tell them the news.

Mrs. Hepburn was preparing Ip Ki-wal, 22, was charged. When he is working I should the midday meal in the kitchen with a breach of the Defence think his average earnings behind her husband's chemist's Regulations before Mr. K. M. A £100 a week," she added.. shop when the phone message Barnett this morning, trespass warned her that a rald was pro-ing at the Chung Hom Kol bable...

Fort, Stanley, yesterday.

"I went to the post dressed in It was alleged that defendant a costume...Mrs. Hepburn told a was seen near a magazine inside reporter "We have not got our the Fort.of three uniforms yet. I. mot Mrs. Clarke Sentence of: thero. She is the driver of our hard labour was imposed, converted Buick ambulance and I am the attendant,

Then after a distant explosion We got the call.

THIEF ENTERS STUBBS RD. HOUSE adv

Mr. CT. Larsen, Pastor of the months' Seventh Day Adventist Church,“: reported the theft of three.. Lam Wah, 24, was sentenced | blankets, valued at $43; from his to 28 days' hard labour, for residence, No. 40, Stubbs Roud, trespassing in the vicinity of between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. yester "Mount Davis Fort, Pokluam. day.