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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1941. YOUNGEST PRISONER OF WAR.

THEY CALL HIM

'THE ADMIRAL'

(By A Special Correspondent)

AT SCHOOL they called Leslie McDermott following places in China is temporarily Brown the "Admiral." "To go to sea was his great ambition. At fifteen he was a cadet in the Glasgow

suspended:-Yunnan, Szechuan,

chow, Hunan, Fukien (except Amoy & Kulangsu), Kwangsi (except Wuchow &

Yunghaien), North & East of Kwang | liner Kemmendine.

Mùng.

Small Packet Post to all countries la suspended,

INWARD MAILS

TUESDAY

Straits and Air Mail by 'British Over-

Singapore.

Creaton

She vanished on a voyage from Cape Town to Rangoon last August. Now "Admiral" Brown is. known to be a captive of the Nazis the youngest British prisoner of war in Germany.

His mother, overjoyed that he is alive, has taken from a ward- he used to

seas Airways Service" by Sen from robe the warm cont

wear on the bridge.

She has hung it proudly on the side of the dining-room mantel- piece in her home al Kingsacre Road, King's Park, Glasgow.

Swatow.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY Australia ad Manila.

FRIDAY United Rangdum and Manda United Kingdom and Straits

Cauton USA

SATURDAY

Manila (San Francisco, date 8th Februaryi

SUNDAY

Direct Serv renget San Frageneo date. Bad March

'Mrs. Brown, in her suburban home, told 10 of the long months of anxiety for the safety of her son since she had received his last letter, dated June 28, from Cape Town,

Her Thanks-Offering Then she heard on the radio that he was sate.

Later she got a postcard from Air Mat by "Patr-Amrican Airways him from a German prison camp

"When Leshe left on what was the last voyage of the Kennen- dine, he knew he was going to a hot climate," said Mrs Brown.

"So he left behind all his heavy clothes, including his bralge coat, of which he was very proud.

FOR

Canton

DATE & TIME

OUTWARD MAILS

TUESDAY

7 00

WEDNESDAY

Hollow

Haiphon

Maulla,

Zealand v ED

Rabaul. Australia

Brisbane K.P.O. & G.P.O.

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10 30 a.

and New

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Ord

(4) 5:00 p (5) 8:45 am. (5) 9.30 4.741

Manila, Batavia, Manrilus, Lourenco Marques, East & South Africa via Durban

THURSDAY

Straits and Calcutta,

Parvels Letters

"At nights, when I listened to the German broadcasts and I did not hear my boy's mentioned among the prisoners

1 sor:etimes felt

01

war.

name

de

pressed.

"I took out his bridge coat and wept over it.

"Leslie was born on April 1, but It has proved no Fools' Day for hum, but extremely lucky.

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HE DREW BY SEA:

FINED

Alleged to have tried to sketch a harbour and other defence works near Ramsgate, Kent, and to have used a car without a permit on a road within five miles of the coast, an R. A. F. squadron-leader was fined £15 under the defence regulations.

With him was the American wife of a Dutchman. She was fined £5 for using a car on the road.

Costs of £9 15s. were divided between them. The magistrates ordered that the sketch should be erused but that the airman should be given back his canvas.

Squadron-Leader Murray Arm- strong Payn, of Heronden House, Eastry, Kent, and Mrs. Mary Wen- dell Van Der Woude, of the same address, were accused at Wingham "He realised his greatest am-

Police Court, near Canterbury, bition when he went to sea."

Mr. Eric Weale, prosecuting As a thanke-offering for the solicitor, said they were seen by a safety of her son Mrs. Brownlance-corporal on October 27 on has given £5 to the Red Cross. the foreshore of Sandwich Bay. Leslie has a brother in the

Squadron-Leader Payn opened RA.F., who wrote often to his the sunshine rouf of the car

and mother during her months of an- began sketching with a brush, his USA. xiety that he was sure that Leslie canvas resting on the car roof.

was safe.

nin

11.00 am. Naon.

Јарал, Shanghai,

Honolulu, Canada, Central and South America and United-Kingdom via San Fran- clace. (No Parcels for United King

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Air Mall by Air to Rangoon to connect with the "British Overseas Airways."

K.P.O.

March 7 March 19 April 2

Reg Ord.

4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m

Q.P.O.

Reg. Ord,

SATURDAY

No trace has been found of th 7,769-ton Kemmendine,

which was carrying 147 people, including thirty-eight passengers.

Like many experts, Mrs. Brown believes that the liner was the victim of a surface raider which took her son to Germany.

SAFE IN PIT PROP SHELTER

"Childish"

There was an air raid in pro- gress and German 'planes over- head, but Payn did not stop.

"He is charged with attempt- ing to sketch, because the sketch is incomplete, and as it stands contains nothing which would the give any information enemy," said Mr. Wcale. "Payn did not assist intters when interrogated. He was child; ish to an extreme and gave no as- sistance in the

would way one expect from ú man in his posi- tion."

to

Pil props supporting a ceiling to Mr. Bentley H. Waddy, defend- make an indoor shelter saved the ing, said there was no dispute that lives of four people during 4.00 p.m.

the the offences were committed, 4.30 p.m. London raid.

After the death of Payn's father A bomb fell in waste land he and his brothers had as their twelve yards from a two-storey home, the home of Mrs. Van Der block of flats. One side of the Woude, in Eastry. building was ripped away and the

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

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

March 30 March 30 April 20

Reg. Ord. Straits

March 11

March 26 April 12

4.00 p.m. 4.30

p.m.

5.30

p.m.

Her husband was president of roof shattered, but the floor and the Shell Union in America. She celling between the upper

and had lived in England since 1926 lower flats, supported by the pit- and her son was about to go into props, remained intact.

the Guards.

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