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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1940.

She writes books in praise of spineterhood; he is a

doctor who hates all career women. But in Columbia's "The Doctor Takes A Wife." co-stars Loretta Young and Ray Milland are forced to pretend they are married and, eventually, they dis cover that the title of her book, "Marriage Ain't Measles," is singularly apt! Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick, Edmund Gwenn and Georges Metaxa are others in the cast of the King's Theatre attraction.

GIRL BURIED FOUR DAYS, FOUND ALIVE

A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl buried beneath the debris of three houses demolished by a high- explosive bomb in South-West London was dis- covered four days later to be alive.

The girl, Mildred Castillo, is the daughter of a doctor who was out on an air-raid case when the bomb razed his house to the ground. When he re- turned home and saw his house wrecked he collaps- ed and has since died.

PEERESS ESTATE

DIRECTOR

CHILD BURIED IN DEBRIS

THOUGHT IT WAS A GAME

At 9.40 at night, in South-East London, Mr. Rogers, his wife and sis- ter were playing cards while their children, Gor- don, aged 5, and June, aged 2, were sleeping.

"Suddenly there was a terrific crash." Mr. Rogers told a reper- ter. "We shielded our heads with our hands, and when I looked up I saw that the back of the shel- ter had been flung 50 yards away, and that 1 was sitting on the edge of a huge crater.

Nowhere To Be Seen

"My wife, sister and Gordon ran out of the front entrance, but June, the baby, was nowhere to be seen.”

With his bare hands Mr. Rogers dug into the earth and 'debris, when suddenly he heard ย laugh.

"It was June, buried fivo feet underground, with a tump of concrete on top of her," Mr. Rogers added. "When

Look

her out, she just said. 'Don't play so rough, daddy.' She thought it was all a game, and still does."*

For the rest of the night the family slept in 1 neighbour's shelter, except for Mr. Rogers' sister, who was taken to hospital with slight injuries.

Killed While Asleep Nearby two people who were asleep in their bedrooms were killed by another bomb.

Another bomb hit a costumier's shop in the same district for the second time in two days. No one was injured.

WOMEN FEARED DRUNK TOMMY

Four days afterwards, George

How a soldier got drunk and Woodward, leader of a rescue and

then began demolition squad which had been

stopping passers-by demanding to see their identity removing bricks and timber from

cards, was described at Bristol the mass of debris, heard cries. Viscountess Wimborne is to be when Henry John Egan was fined He and two others of the the permanent government direc-55. for being drunk and disor- squad volunteered to tunnel tor of Ashby St. Ledger's Estate derly. through the wreckage. Through Company, which, states Jordan a small crack they sine Mildred. and Sons, has been registered with a nominal capital of £50,000 in £1 shares, "to acquire the estate and interest in certain lands in Northants belonging to the Vis-

Handed Her Tea

Tlay talked to her and passed he cups of ten while working countess." frantically under a heap of rub- bie that at any moment might have collapsed on them.

If way evening before they car- ried Mildred to a waiting ambu- fance, alive, and, in the words of the doctor in charge, "in very good condition." She was taken

to hospital.

The bomb, which fell on a row of houses, cut three of them out as cleanly as if they had been carved away with a giant knife.

The bodies of victims were re- moved earlier. All hope of finding anyone alive had given up.

Light Still On

been

Yet in Mildred's miracle cellar an electric light bulb still burned, On the one wall still standing three wall mirrors, unscathed, con be seen from the street. Two fixture hanging cupboards, doors torn away, expose to view a woman's Wardrobe and Army officer's uniforms,

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There is scarcely a speck dust on the woman's dresses, and the buttons of the uniforms shine as brightly as if they had just been polished,

BOMB GIVES FREE

LUNCH TO HOMELESS

THOUSANDS OF ...POOR, HOMELESS AIR-RAID VICTIMS HAD A FREE - LUNCH IN AN EAST LONDON AREA THANKS TO A BUMB WHICH DAMAGED THE ELECTRIC POWER PLANT OF A LARGE MEAT FACTORY.

With the plant out of order; the factory manager found he had five tons of meat lying spare.

He sought, and was granted, permission of the Ministry of Food to use it, together with a the firm's large stock of vegetables. And so glant... cauldrons of stews were made for the victims of Nazi frightfulness.

A police officer said Egan was armed with a rifle, bayonet, and ten clips of ammunition, and had frightened a number of women by his strange manner.

A policeman grappled with Egan and disarmed him by force.