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HOLIDAY NOTICE

CHINESE

LUNAR NEW YEAR JANUARY 27th, 28th & 29th, 1941

WE BEG TO ADVISE OUR PATRONS THAT THE BUSINESS HOURS DURING THE HOLI- DAYS OF OUR RETAIL DEPARTMENT HAVE BEEN ARRANGED AS FOLLOWS:-

26th, 8.30 o.

a.m. to 3.00 p.m. 27th, Entirely Closed.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 28th, 8.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Wednesday, 29th, 8.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

BUSINESS OF ALL DEPARTMENTS WILL BE RESUMED AS USUAL ON THURSDAY, THE

30TH JANUARY, 1941.

THE ASIA COY.

RETAIL DEPT.

OI-KWAN BUILDING, DES VOEUX ROAD, CTL.

TELEPHONE NO. 20416.

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 24, 1941.

HUNS RAID AS COVENTRY DEAD

ARE BURIED

(By A Special Correspondent)

A GERMAN 'PLANE droned overhead

and a thousand the guns were in action... people beneath bowed their heads in prayer. While the rattle in the sky went on they filed, a sad proces- sion of mothers, fathers, sweethearts, and children, along an eighty-yard trench--the mass their 172 loved ones who died in the Tragedy of Cov- entry.

grave of

Even in their deepest sorrow Hitler would not leave them alone. But none of them raised their eyes to this grim reminder of the Hun's massacre. They were too stunned with grief.

One by one the mourners said their last good- byes. One by one they placed their flowers and wreaths at the edge of the muddy trench in which | were laid the simple wooden coffins, line after line.

Union Jacks draped the graves

which set the seal to the chapter of the city's darkest hour. Long before the gates of the cemetery

opened they

were

It is the symbol for heroism. And many of these folk were heroic.

Women and children as well as men had sacrificed their lives | crowded the street outside. Half for the sake of others.

a dozen times the men raised their hats and women bowed their heads as huge lorries lumbered through, and beneath the green tarpaulin covers they glimpsed the coffiny of their dear ones.

There was Sergeant Lionel Sectt, of the Home Guard. He died saving eight of his men.

His bride of eight months, a tragic little woman in the deepest black, was at the head of the line

Owed Lives To Him

She was followed by a squad of Home Guardsmen, some of whom owed their lives to her hushand. For a moment the widow and her husband's com- rades stood silently by the open grave. One of the Home Guards. men slipped his arm through hers and led her away. "You are a real soldier's wife,” he told

her.

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Coventry's grey haired Mayor Alderman J. H. Moseley, ex- locomotive driver who had held office only ten days before raid, walked among them mur- muring words of sympathy and

comfort.

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"I am as heartbroken as you," he said

When the gates were opened to the mourners, the purple-robed Bishop of Coventry, Dr. Mervyn sad faced them with a Haigh, smile and led them by the little hill to the corner of the burial Arst ground which is Britain's civilian war cemetery.

Sobbing Women

Then came a young airman carrying a cross of blue violets he had made himself. His dance had gone.

A baby girl in the arms of

On the clay mound in front of her father,

man, the grave were grouped the digni- A.F.S.

carnations taries of the city. There was Cap- placed a posy of which bore a card, "To Mum-tain Strickland, M.P., the Provost, leading clergy und townspeople, and with them the Earl of Dudley. In the few moments before the Burial Service was begun the cobs of the women and intimate words of comfort of the men could be heard. But then as the Bishop stepped forward silence settled,

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A middle-aged couple grip

hand ping each other by the stooped to arrange a wreath of chrysanthemums: "A last mark of love to Harry, aged fifteen. from his broken-hearted mother and daddy."

And so they passed along the graveside.

Through the driving rain of the early morning these tragic people had moved through Coventry's torn and jagged streetz.

"Heartbroken!'

With a firm yet tender voice the Bishop said:

"Citizens of Coventry. No one can voice the sorrow which you share to-day. First remember that the eyes of millions of peo- ple are on us at this time.

"I wish I could show you some Many of them had walked five of the letters and messages I have or six miles because of the still received from people all over the infrequent transport, to wait at world expressing their regret, the cemetery gates for the simsympathy and admiration.

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BELGIUM PRO-BRITISH

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mes, are to be broad- cast twice daily to Latin-America from the Belgian Congo's official wireless sta- tion at Leopoldville.

The Belgian Lega- tion at Mexico City reiterates that despite Belgium's surrender the Belgian colonies will continue the war at the side of Britain. -Associated Press.

'DEAD' SON SENDS MOTHER LETTERS

A WOMAN IN LOS ANGELES WEEK GETS LETTERS EACH FROM HER SON, WHO HAS BEEN DEAD SIX YEARS.

She is Mrs. Anna Colombo, who was so ill that her doctors decided she would not survive the shock of her son's death.

So they decided to keep the news from her. Her other child- ren have therefore been writing her letters signed "Russ"-who was a radio and film star-and telling her how well he is doing on Broadway.

CORPORAL TO PAY LESS

The Court of Appeal has re- duced from £ 1,629 to £1,129 damages awarded by Mr. Justice Cassels, at Maidstone Assizes, to Miss Barbara Cecilia Bensted, of Townwall Street, Dover, against Lance-Corporal Lomax, stationed at Dover, for injuries she received when she was shot while Lomax was showing her the workings of a Bren gun.

RESTS WITH US WHETHER THEY

OUR SHALL BREAK SPIRIT. "This raid has brought us to- gether in a common bond.

"We are now better friends and neighbours than we were. Let us love and even live in the strength of this new faith. Let us go out and try to live unembittered lives. "My heart goes out to you, lost one of you who has every someone you love and think you cannot live without.

"God bless you-l mean that. God help us to stand together by our city, by our King and. country, at this great crisis."

VICE SQUAD HUNT MEN WHO STRIPPED GIRL

BRIGHTON'S VICE Squad has launched a big "clean up" of the town which, many allege, has been inundated since the beginning of the war with out-of-work crooks.

Head of the squad is burly Police Inspector Wil- fred Chick, one of the most feared of Brighton's younger crime spotters.

Working with him is a posse of When he woke up at home next half a dozen younger officers all morning he discovered he had with

special knowledge of the been robbed. town's underworld.

Sea Front Guard

Girl Stripped

He went back to the club to Emplain, but was beaten up and thrown outside.

A few days ago outside Brighton dance hall a young girl

Watch is being kept by them on certain clubs and other pre- mises. In the locality, while the sea front is to have an increased police guard after evening black-pounced on by a number outs.

'The Vice Squad has been set up following almost daily com plaints from all parts of the town, Recently a young soldier mot a blonde girl on the sea front. He went with her to a local club

of men and stripped practically naked. An A.R.P. worker who - went to her: aid was robbed.j

In neither of these cases could the police find witnesses for the prosecution. They were afraid, so It is thought to come forward with their names.