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FOR

Saint.

(By A LONDON CORRESPONDENT) DOWN IN THE EAST END they call him the Men raise their hats to this tall and thin figure striding through the streets like a friendly hurricane, his monk's gown blown out behind him, and an old and tattered raincoat on his shoulders.

From Whitehall went high officials, headed by bulky Robert Boothby, Under-Secretary of State to the Ministry of Food, to pay tribute to this man whose work in the civilian front line has inspired the people of the East End.

Here is the story of the Saint. otherwise Father John Groser, as I heard it from the people among whom he works.

Their faith in him is touching. Over They told me with tears in their Lon-eyes that hardly has the sound of a falling bomb passed into the sky

HE WENT

TO WAR

than Father Groser is on his way AT 13

DATE & TIME to the scene.

OUTWARD MAILB

TUESDAY

Stralis and Rangson

Sulgon

Canton

WEDNESDAY

Manila, Rabaul, Australia Zealand via Brisbane.

and

12:30 pm

2.30 p in

7.00 p.m.

New

G.P.D. & K.P.O.

Par.

Reg.

Ord

Straits and Rangoon

(18) 5.00 p.m. (18) 5.00 p.m. (19) 8.30 a.. Noon.

If there are trapped men and women to be rescued, his scrawny

Thirteen-year-old

Anastasius

frame is to be seen among the Charlambopoulos, decorated front- debris, his strong arms tearing at line soldier of Greece, is in Athens stones and wood, while his voice on leave. cheers trapped and rescuers alike.

They Wait For Him

Sald one man: "It never seems to matter where the bomb falls, our Saint gets there with the first of the rescuers.

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu. "Pan-Ameri US.A. and Europe via can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser Saint, and the poor

K.P.O.

vices."

Reg..

Ord.

G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord. Haiphong

5.00 p.m 5.30 p.m

6.00 p. 7.00 p.m. 7.00 p.m.

FRIDAY

8.30 a.m. 3.30 p.m.

Manila, Batavia and Sou¬

rabaya Straits, Rangoon & Calcutta. Manila, Batavia, Mauritius, Lourenco Marques, East & South Africa via Durban.. 3,30 p.m. Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with the "British Overseas Airways."

K.P.O.

Reg.

Ord.

G.P.Q.

Reg. Ord. Canton

SATURDAY

K.P.O. & Q.P.O.

1.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

4.00 p.m.

4.30 p.m. 7.00 p.m.

"You feel he is waiting round the corner for it to fall." But Father Groser is a practical who spend their nights in the air raid shel- ters wait impatiently for his com- ing.

In the early days of the bomb- Ing he was shocked by the fact that so many of the poor went to the shelters hungry and left even more hungry.

When Charlambopoulos, senior, was called to the front recently. young Anastasius decided the family would be insufficiently re- presented in the battle against the Italians.

blankets

So he hid himself in going to the front line in a lorry,

He was detected at Koritza,

The authorities managed eventually to persuade Anasta- sula to return to his family.

But they awarded him an honorary corporal's stripe and gave him the privilege of wear. ing a medal for his exploits. Anastasius, interviewed with his three brothers at home, said flrm- ly: "I intend to remain here for

holiday His church had little money, a

and return to the and he had lesa. Ha bullled, he fighting line early next month." implored, he cajoled, striking at officials and private bodies alike until mobile canteens to «ult his needs were secured.

Now every evening with a band of willing helpers he takes his canteens from shelter to shelter, giving food and drink.

CHILDREN GUNNED

A Nazi bomber dived from low Feeds Them All clouds over a south-east England village and bombed and machine- Tea is a penny a cup, sand-

gunned children as they were leav- Air Mali by Sea to Singapore to connect wiches a penny each, if you haveing school.

It was an indefensible outrage, with the "British Overseas Airways". the money. If you haven't-well,

Father Groser says: "Help your but only one man, a cyclist, was 9.00 a.m. self. I'll get the money some- slightly wounded. 9.30 a.m.how."

The attack was made on the He feeds them all-Christians, play-ground as the children were Jews, Chinese, Moslems-with-

dispersing and on a country lane out thought of creed or race.

along which some scholars and He la there when they go to

their mothers were dotted. the shelter and there when they

Bullets spattered along the road come out to give them his bless- ing for their souls and his food as the women and children were called back to school by teachers for their bodies.

or tock shelter under trees and in ditches.

10.30 a..

Reg. Ord. Straits, Ceylon, India. East

and South Africa Shanghai, Japan. Honolulu, U.S.A.. Canada, Central and South America and United-Kingdom via San Fran- cisco. (No Parcels for United King- dom).

Noto: All Mails for United Kingdom will be forwarded with or without superscription.

Parcels Reg.

Ord.

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

3.00 p.m.

He found an empty church hall, and in the night the homeless who have left the ruins of stone and

4.45 p.m. mortar trek there. He feeds them.

5.30 p.m.

Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu,clothes them, shelters them until

U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri-the can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser-charge. vices".

K.P.O.

Reg.,

Ord.

G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord.

5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.

5.00 pm. 3.30 p.m.

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sion.

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10.15 p.m.-Danda Müslo,

11.00 p.m.-Close down.

The bombs fell wide and did little damage.

Barbara Carr, an apparently un-

local authorities can take ruffled 14-year-old schoolgirl, said "I was just crossing the play- a friend when we Next to his church stood one ground with

zoom from the built by people. of a different heard the 'plane creed. A bomb wrecked It. To clouds. A moment later we heard ita minister went Father Grospr. the rat-tat-tat of machine-gun saying: "Take my church. We'll fire, Bullets hit the ground very make one do for both."

That is the story of Father Groser. Do you wonder that they call him the Saint?

near us."

Eye-witnesses were convinced that the machine-gunning of the children was deliberate...

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