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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1941.

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UNITED STATES STARTS NEW AID TO BRITAIN

First War Material On The Way

SOME OF THE DEFENCE MATERIAL TO BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE UNITED STATES TO BRITAIN HAS ALREADY START- ED FOR ITS DESTINATION.

Mr. Henry Stimson, Secretary for War, an- nouncing this in Washington yesterday, said he did not give details as he thought prema- ture disclosure would be unfair to Britain.

President Roosevelt will tell the American people over a radio network this evening how he will use the great powers entrusted to him under the Lease and Lerd Act.

"PERFECT WOMAN" RULES A SHELTER

The President will be speak- ing at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association.

Other guests will be the British; Ambassador, Lord Hallax, Mr. Wendell Willkie, members of the Cabinet and the Corps.

Diplomatic

Inere has been no decision as

POLAND FIGHTS ON, Polish troops, cooperating with the British forces, have shared the fighting and victories in the Western Desert, Photo shows a Polish column-note mule drawn anti-tank

guns.

NAZI COLONIAL PLAN IN NORWAY

regards transferring additional NAZI PLANS TO TREAT Norway as a

naval craft to Britain,

President Roosevelt at his press conference yesterday.

were inaccurate,

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Food Supplies

REBUILDING "TEST

CASE"-COVENTRY

Coventry will be a "test case." 30 far as the difficulties which will arise in rebuilding bombed areas are concerned.

declared German colony are confirmed by reports re-

Reports ceived from Oslo, the Norwegian telegraph the rebuilding of the city with

craft

Mrs. Maggie Pritchard,jo transferring 100 naval a labourer's wife, was so lavish in her praise when she telephoned about the

CONSIDERATION HAD "perfect woman" she had BEEN GIVEN TO TYPES OR

NUMBERS OF SHIPS, THOUGH; found, that reporter THAT

DID NOT MEAN THAT went to investigate.

SOME WAR VESSELS MIGHT | ΝΟΥ BE TRANSFERRED IN

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The paragon is Nurse Rose, FUTURE. christened Victorine and inevi tably renamed Mary.

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She looks after the people who use а shelter below St. Anne's Church, Seaton Place, in the borough of St. Pancras London.

Life in the shelter miserable.

had been

It was freezing cold in the re- fuge and the shelterers never had Anything to eat in the evenings except cold food. Nurse Rose came, and soon there were warm stoves, a kitchen and hot drinks for everyone.

Nurse Rose inspires confidence and affection. Five-foot-nothing, and with what the fashion adver- tisements

term il "mutron's figure." she is kind and gentle and yet ready for any emergency.

A couple of nights ago she heaved out single-handed half- a-dozen muscular. drunken rowdies who ware disturbing the peace of the thalter and molesting women sleepers,

"Maggie has been much too kind," said Nurse Rose. "The real 'key' woman here is Dr. Eleanor Thistlethwaite, my chief, who. has just been appointed 'Shelter Doc-

tor.

you.

"Now there's a woman for Working sixteen hours a day, and. often longer. She gets things done,

It's perfectly

true that the folk here were almost freezing

to death, Mrs. Pritchard's only baby was taken to hospital three

is still there.

The President indicated that the Government intended to proceed cautiously over the ques- tion of supplying food to Gerinan- occupied European countries.

If the United States provided food there should be a certainty that none could go outside the country being helped.

agency in London declared yesterday.

Norwegian waterpower is to be exploited by a new organisation called the Norwegian Electric De- velopment Corporation, set up by Terboven, the Nazi Commissioner.

A new town is to be established near the Great Aura waterfall. and six to seven thousand people are to be compulsorily removed there from Christiansund,

Norwegians arc distrustful, fearing the Germans will exploit the waterpower for their

industries,

war

Some few of Quisling's party suspect that this control, coupled

They should be clear on the with the hold over Norway's re- facts concerning the food situa-maining shipping, will ruinously tion in Eurone before reaching affect the country's economy.—— conclusions.--Reuter.

Reuter.

CLOTHES LOCKED UP, GIRL FLED DOWN LADDER

A GIRL whose father kept her indoors and lock- ed up her clothes to prevent her meeting a soldier escaped by climbing out of her bedroom window by means of a ladder.

This was stated at Clerkenwell (London) Police Court, when the girl, Elsie Fisher, eighteen, of Chapel Street, Bolton Old Road, Atherton, Lancs, who wore trousers, pleaded guilty to travelling on the railway without paying her fare.

Detective-Sergeant Tester said the girl was found on an express train at Euston without a ticket.

She had only a few shillings, and said she had run away from home. She was daughter of a Mr. Wil- liam Fisher.

She had been keeping com- | pany with a soldier, but he was regarded by hor father as an undesirable friend.

weeks ago with bronchitis and ing the soldier, Mr. Fisher kept To prevent the girl from meet-

her indoors, and locked up her clothes.

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"Common sense... that's all there is to it. And don't wait for red tape to be untangled, or you'll never get anywhere,

"These people deserve the best. I only try to see that they get it' within the limited means at my disposal."

"On Saturday night she had a few words with her father, and told him she would leave home,"

the officer continued,

· Fled During Night "Next morning it was found that she had climbed out of her

bedroom window by means of a ladder.

"What are we to do with you

now?" Mr. W. J. H. Brodrick, the magistrate, asked the girl.

"I don't know, sir." she replied. Miss Hamilton-Hunter, the court, missionary, said she would the like to get in touch with girl's people to see whether they would like to have her back.

Hamilton-Hunter reported that After a talk with the girl, Miss

she refused to go home.

The girl was remanded in cus-

tody.

ATTACHE'S MISHAP

The suggestion was made by the Minister of Works and Build- ings, Lord Reith, when he discuss-

its re-development committtee.

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