THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1941.
SHORT SHARP AIR FIGHT
An ME109 which dived
to attack the Dover bal. loon
******* CHAMBER POSSESSED BY "MATRIMONY MANIA"
Jack Barrasford, aged forty-five, man- ager of a Carlisle cine- ma, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to months' twenty-one barrage yesterday
imprisonment
for was itself dived on and at- tacked by a sergeant pilot. bigamously marrying
two girls. of the Fighter Command, states the Air Ministry news service.
The sergeant pilot was on patrol In his Spitfire.
Describing the attack he said: "I was just below the cloud when the ME109 swept down from above me on to a barrage balloon.
He saw me and climbed, so I chased bim and give him a thre or four seconds burst from
tern.
:
He turned on his back rapidly Posing height, Smoke was pour- ing from his when he disappeared into the clouds.'
Since he did пов LCC cuemy 'plane again the only claimed he damaged aircraft.
the pliot the
This sergeant pilot, whe eleven enemy planes to his cre- dit recently borrowed to: spin- dron leader's plane when his own Spitfire had been destroyed, went up in the borrowed plan
Hel shot doAAAA 201 MEP Brit. h Wireless.
MARRYS PEN FRIEND
One of England's youngest war brides was sixteen-year-old Ka- thleen Enid Adey of Stream Park, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, who was married by special licence at Dudley to
twenty-year-old bombardier she met friend.
الله
a pen-
Kathleen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Adey, was sixteen in September, when she left high school.
She first came to know the bom- bardier while at school last Janu- ary. He is Eric John Elms, second son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Elms, of Wilfred Road, Exeter, who joined the Royal Artillery in 1936. He was at Dunkirk.
While he was serving in France, Kathleen was asked to become a
pen-friend to him.
BURMA RD. RAIDS
Mr. Lauchlin Currie is to fly to Chengtu to-day or to-morrow and may tour part of the Burma Road, Japanese are bombing the road to impress the United States that China's export route is liable be closed, but so far DU BUT LOSS has been shown.
Despite the persistent raids on the Kungkuo bridg of the Burma Roud, truffle lies bean going 011 without interruption.
It was on Japanese reports that the Shanghai correspondent of the New York *Times" incorrectly stated that traffic on the Burma was at a standstill.-International News Agency.
CHINA PROVIDENT DIVIDEND
At the Board Meeting yester- day, it was decided, subject to au- dit, to make the following recom- mendations to the share-holders at the forthcoming Annual Gen- eral Meeting:-To Pay a Dividend of '50 cents per, share $221,100.50; To Pay a Bonus of 25 cents per share $110,553.25; To Pay a Bonus to Staff $25,000.00; To Transfer tu General Reserve $50,000.00; and To Carry Forward to count $60,490.19.
1941. Ac-
MADAME CHIANG IN CHUNGKING (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Madame Chiang Kai-shek re- turned to Chunking from Hong Kong yesterday morning after a sojourn in the British Colony for over three months. — Our Own Corresponent."
He
was stated to have been convicted of bigamy in 1936.
The Recorder (Sir Gerald Dodson) told Barrasford that he seemed to have an "inordinate appetite," for matrimony. "In- deed," he added, "ma- trimony has become a mania.'
"
CHUNGKING SNOW
After days of drought, snow be gan to fall in Chungking last night.
Central News.
MOVING TO HONG KONG
JA-
IT IS REPORTED THAT THE CHINESE CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE IN SHANGHAI, WHICH WAS RAIDED BY THE PANESE ON WEDNESDAY, WILL TRANSACT ALL ITS BUSINESS HEREAFTER IN HONG KONG, WHITHER ALL IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND ARCHIVES HAVE BEEN MOV - ED.
All cerifficales for Chinese- manufactured products which are absolutely required for shipments from Shanghai to Free China re- gions will be obinined in Hong Kong, it is added.
Chamber Meanwhile the new organised by the Nanking regime in Shanghai has begun operating. ― Reuter.
RED CROSS FUND
NOW £4,335,000
Including gifts of £800 from Lima and £750 from Chile the Duke of Glourester's Red Cross and St. Joan Fund for Wounded has
£4,225,000 Now reached British Wireless.
Col. de Wiart, V C., who com- manded the Allied Forres in Nor- way, is gazetted temporary major- general.
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