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MAILS

CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS

On Monday, the 27th January, the General Post Office and all Branch closed. will be entirely Post Offices There will be no collection from the -pillar-boxes and no delivery by Post-

men.

the

On Tuesday, the 28th January, General Post Office and Kowloon Cen- tral Post Office will bo opon from

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 23, 1941

ONE MAN HELD UP

WAVE OF FIRE, SAVED COMRADES

MORE THAN 100 Bristol auxiliary firemen have played the principal part in fighting one of the big- Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 gest fires this country has ever known.

a.m. to noon, Sheungwan Branch Pos:

a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices

will be entirely closed.

one

There will be one collection from the

and as on Sundays pillar-boxe delivery of registered and correspondence at $1 a.m. on Tuesday, 28th January.

There will also he опе

the

ordinary

delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 a.m. on 28th January from Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taipe and Un Long. The Money Order Office will be an tirely closed during the holidays.

Many of the men had never seen a real fire, yet they tackled the blaze as though it were a parade ground drill. ·

them have

due

That so many of escaped with their lives partly to the hero.sm of one man, a raging who alone kep.. back fire which threatened to devour his colleagues.

Sergeant W. V. Philpott, of Bristol, who was in charge of

Small Packet Post to all countries is the whole fire-fighting force, told

suspended.

INWARD MAILS

THURSDAY

Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways Direct Service... San Francisco date, 15th January

Australia and Manila,

Sandakan

Java and Manila

Swalow

SATURDAY

TUESDAY

United Kingdom and Strails, Calcutta and Straits

USA.. Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San Franciscu date, 10th January),

FOR

a reporter: "We were just be- ginning to control the fire when

NURSE LOWERED

TO

suddenly the water failed us. MERCY

"There was just enough water remaining for one branch hose and the man who was handling

it stood alone as his mates ran

for their lives.

"Somehow, with his one hose,

TASK

Amid falling bombs and

he kept back the fire which was shrapnel, a hospital nurse bearing down on him until we-clad only in a coat and could bring up more water. "If it had not been for

the other men might not have

got away."

Altogether five firemen were

killed, two seriously injured and thirty slightly injured, while

him, pyjamas-was twice low- ered head first by police into a gap in wreckage to give morphia injections to women patients. The wo- men were trapped when a high explosive bomb de- molished part of a hospi- tal in Kent.

several men suffered shock and burns.

"The heat was terrific and the DATE & TIME smoke was so thick that it over- cast everything with a cloud, turning it into night," said Ser- geant Philpot.

OUTWARD MAILS

THURSDAY

Air Mail by Sea to Singapore to connect with the "British Overseas Airways".

Reg.

Ord.

Brg..

Ord.

K.P.O.

Q.P.O.

5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.

5.00 p.m 0,00 p.m.

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu. U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Amert- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser- vices."

K.P.O.

Reg., Ord.

Reg.

G.P.O.

Ord.

Saigon Straits

5.00 p.m. 5,30 p.m

5.00 p.m. 7,00 p.11

7.00 p.m.

7.00 p.m.

FRIDAY

Doctors, nurses, police and A.R.P. squads rushed to the scene after the bomb had dropped to find that part of the building had collapsed.

Nothing could conquer the spirit of the men, who sang and joked as they worked. Sir Geoffrey Peto. Regional Cominissioner. for the South-

Sister Gantry was lowered into West, told the men when they

the wreckage, where she crawled returned to Bristol: "I think Hit- ler ought to know the extraordin-in and out with a bowl contain- giving ing hypodermic syringes, ary spirit you have shown."

the trapped women injections to ease their pain.

COULDN'T FLY-SAVED 'PLANE

Although his flying experience was practically nil, a

She contiued her work of mercy until daylight, and though later advised to take some sleep, she in returned to ner normal duty the maternity ward.

Several patients were killed in: the raid. A number of patients were also seriously injured, and they were removed to other hos- pitals.

"It was nothing-just my job," twenty-Sister Gantry said,

Straits and Rangoon Sandakan, Madang, Sala-

place of his dead pilot and flew maua, Rabaul and Tulagi Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect a bomber 250 miles back to the

with the "British Overseas Airways". base.

12.30 p.m. two-year-old navigator took the "Everyone else did as much.

K.P.O.

1.30 p.m.

Reg.

Ord.

4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord,

4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m. United

Manila and Parcels only for

Kingdom.

K.P.O.

Parcels Ord.

Parcels Ord.

Q.P.O.

SATURDAY

own

He said he found it easy un. til the time came to land, when, In his

words, "he began to sweat." But that didn't pre- vent him from making a real- ly perfect landing.

He is Ian Blair, of St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, who has been 5.00 p.m. awarded the D.F.M., it is, revealed 5.30 p.m. in Cairo.

5.00 p.m.

1

The bomber in which Blair was 7.00 p.m. navigator, was attacked by two Italian: fighters. A bullet went through the glass panel, killing the pilot and going out 12.30 p.m. other side. Air Mail by sen to Singapure to connect

Blair saw the pilot's head go with the "British Overseas Airways." forward and the bomber started

Straits

Reg. Ord.

K.P.O. A G.P.O.

on

What else could they do?'

There were tears in her eyes. "I must go and see one of my nurses," she said. "They tell me, she has just died."

The dead nurse was Miss Mol- ly Moore. She was a patient herself at the time the ward was bombed.

Trapped beneath her bed and fallen masonry for seven hours, she comforted her fellow suf- ferers all the time.

"She died serving her profes- sion," said Sister Gantry.

The other nurse to be killed was Miss Violet Sinclair. She

was the tending patients when the

dropped.

bomb

and safety belt and lifted him

from his seat.

11.00 a.m. to dive. 11.30a.m. Blair rushed to the control col- Then the air gunner went back umn and, helped by the air gun-to watch for Italian fighters and ner, removed the pilot's harness Blair set out for his base.

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