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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1941.

MAILS THEY CALL HIM

THE SAINT

The Money Order Office Public Counter will be open from 10.00 a.m, to noon only on 18th and 19th February, 1941.

(By A LONDON CORRESPONDENT) DOWN IN THE EAST END they call him the Tho Printed Matter Service to the Saint. Men raise their hats to this tall and thin following places in China is temporarily

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.

Buspended:-Yunnan, Szechuan, Kwel- chow, Hunan, Fuklan (except Amoy & Kulangau), Kwangsi (except Wuchow & Yunghsion), North & East of Kwang-

tung.

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

INWARD MAILB

TUESDAY United Kingdom, Straits, and Air Mail

by British Overseas Airways Ser-

vice by sen from Singapore,

WEDNESDAY

Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways

Direct Service"-San Francisco date, 12th February.

THURSDAY

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. Straits and Air Mull by "British Over-They told me with tears in their seas Airways Service" (except Lon-eyes that hardly has the sound of

don) by sea from Singapore. Calcutta and Straits.

кон

a failing bomb passed into the sky than Father Groser is on his way

DATE & TIME to the scene.

OUTWARD MAILB

TUESDAY

Straits and Rangoon

Saigon

Canton

WEDNESDAY

Australia Manila. Rabaul.

Zealand vin Brisbane.

G.P.O. & X.P.O.

Par

Reg.

Ord

Straits and Rangoon

12:30 pm

2:30 pm. 7.00 ..

and New

(18) 5.00 p.m (10) 3.000 p.m. (10) 8.30 am. Noon.

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

vices."

K.P.O.

Ref..

Ord,

G.P.0.

Reg.

Ord. Haiphong

5.00 p.m 5.30 p.m.

HE WENT

TO WAR

AT 13

If there are trapped men and women to be rescued, his scrawny Thirteen-year-old Anastasius frame is to be seen anong 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

Said one man: "It never seems to matter where the bomb falls, our Saint gets there with the

first of the rescuera.

"You feel he is waiting round the corner for it to fall."

But Father Groser is a practical Saint, and the poor who spend their nights in the air raid shel- ters wait impatiently for his com- ing.

In the early days of the bomb- 6.00 p. ing he was shocked by the fact 7,00 p.m. that so many of the poor went to 7.00 p.m. the shelters hungry and left even

more hungry.

8.30 a.m. 3.30 p.m.

FRIDAY Manila. Batavia and Sou-

rabaya Struits, 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.

4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

G.P.O.

Reg. Ord,

4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

Canton

SATURDAY

7.00 p.m.

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

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

9.00 a.m. 9.30 a..

Reg. Ord. Straits, Ceylon, India. East

and South Africa

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

Note:-All Mails for United Kingdom will be forwarded with от without superscription.

Parcels Reg.

Ord.

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

3.00 p.m. 4.45 p.m. 5.30 p.m.

His church had little money, and he had less. He bullied, he Implored, he cajoled, striking at officials and private bodies alike until mobile canteens to suit 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.

Feeds Them All

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.

So he hid himself in blankets going to the front line in a lorry. He was detected at Koritza,

The authorities

managed eventually to persuade Anasta- suls 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 firm- ly: "I intend to remain here for a holiday and return to the fighting line early next month."

CHILDREN

GUNNED

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

sand-

gunned children as they were leav- wiches a penny each, if you haveing school. the money. If you haven't--well,

It was an indefensible outrage, Father Groser says: "Help your but only one self. I'll get the money some- slightly wounded.

man, a cyclist, was

how."

The attack was made on the He feeds them all-Christians, play-ground as the children were Jows, Chinese, Moslems-with-dispersing and on a country lane out thought of creed or race.

He is there when they go to the shelter and there when they come out to give them his bless-

ing for their souls and his food

for their bodies.

He found an emply church hull, and in the night the homeless who have left the ruins of stone and mortar trek there. He feeds them,

their mothers were dotted. along which some scholars and

-

Bullets spattered along the road called back to school by teachers as the women and children were

or took shelter under trees and in

dítches.

The bombs fell wide and did little damage.

Barbara Carr, an apparently un-

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

U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- | the local authorities can take ruffled 14-year-old schoolgirl, said can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser- | charge. vices".

K.P.O.

Reg., Ord.

G.P.O.

Reg.

Ord.

0.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.

5.00 pm. 3.30 p.m. * Superscribed Correspondence Only.

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སT was just crossing the play- Next to his church stood one ground with a friend when we built by people' of a different heard the 'plane zoom from the creed. A bomb wrecked it. To clouds. A moment later we heard Its minister went Father Groppr. the rat-tat-tat of machine-gun caying: "Take my church. We'll fire. Bullets hit the ground very make one do for both."

near us."

That is the story of Father Eye-witnesses were convinced Groser. Do you wonder that they that the machine-gunining of the call him the Saint?

children was deliberate.

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