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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1941:

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TWO MEN SENTENCED at West Ham to six

months' imprisonment each were left alone for a KING'S VISIT

moment. They seized their chance, climbed out of the building through a bomb-hole in the roof, stole a car, and got away. At night Scotland Yard de- tectives braved an air raid to search London for them.

Albert Norman Nelson, aged 17, a seaman, of Surrey Street, Plaistow, E., and George Bush, aged 21, a labourer, of Palmerston Road, Forest Gate, E., were sentenced for theft.

The men were led out

TO AMERICAN

DESTROYER

The King was piped aboard one of the Amer- Ican destroyers taken over

of court after sentence ONION COST by Britain when he visit-

had been passed.

They were taken down a cor-i dor which separates two courts Here their escort left them

Then came the dash for tree. dom.

Stole Car

The men saw a bomb. hole in the corridor roof, wormed their

and got out way through.

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to the roof of the building. They dropped down on by a wall, tan along and jumped into the town hall yard.

Usually there are workmen in the yard, but, luckily for the prisoners, IL was lunch Line and, there were few people about.

There were, however, many

cars

The men scrambled into a large black saloon car belonging to the superintendent of the Highways Department and drove out of the yard.

Then they

turned into West Ham-lane and disappeared.

Description of the men has been circulated to all police sta-

tions.

HERO'S FIGHTING

FAMILY

£10

ed Devonport dockyard yesterday.

an

of old

these naval

It was the first time the King A seven-ounce onion was on the had been aboard one solicitors' table at Stratford Police warships and, as Court. It had been sold for four-offerr, he was very interested in pence, but by the time it was re- her equipment and armament, inoved the cost to the greengrocers This destroyer is manned was over £10.

tirely by Canadians.

Mark Van Praag. greengrover, Gale Street, Dagenham, was

For sunimoned

selling the wholesale at 137 ex- onion cessive price, and Myer of the Van Praag, his brother, same address, was summoned for buying it at an excessive price, and for retailing it at price above the maximum.

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Mark Van Praag was stated to have sold some onions to Myer at 31⁄2d each. His brother sold them at 4d each. The maximum price was 41⁄2d per lb., and as the onions weighed about 7oz, each, the retail price was in excess of the maxi-

mum.

en-

The King inspected the ship's company drawn up on deck and later he w&G received aboard the flotilla leader by the cap- tain and inspected officers and ratings who a few hours be- fore had been at action stations ready to engage any enemy ship.

On the quayside the King de- corated a Polish naval officer, Captain Hulewicz, with the D.S.O. amid the cheers of British, Free French and Polish officers ratings.

and

Meanwhile the Queen chat- ted with wounded officers and sallors at the Naval Hospital. Escorted by Lady Astor, de- putising for her husband, the Lord Mayor, who is ill with in- King and Queen fiuenza, the toured the bombed areas of

Mark Van Praag was fined £5, with 10s 6d costs, and his brother £2 on each summons, with 10s 6d costs and 5s witness fee. The Plymouth.---Reuter. onion went back to the shopping bag of the woman who had paid 4d for it.

At the same court another Squadron-Leader F. R. Heath, greengrocer, Louis Marks, Porters whose family has been represent- | Avenue, Dagenham, was fined 40s ed in every war since the Sikh and £1 is costs for imposing a campaign of 1845, was the first condition on the sale of onions by Australian to fall in action while selling a pound of them together

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pound of turnips at 4d lb.

Tel. 31141.

"STAY-AT-HOME WIFE'

"missed all the fun

(THINKS)

JACK WILL BE SO DISAPPOINTED

WHEN I TELL HIM THAT I DON'T

FEEL LIKE GOING TO THE

RACES TO-DAY

AT THE DOCTOR'S

SIX WEEKS LATER

IN YOUR GASE ALSC THIS HAS LED TO AN EXCESS OF ACID WASTE PRODUCTS IN THE BLOUD. RECENT TESTS HAVE PROVED

THAT HURLICKS) AT BEOTINE:

IS WHAT

YOU NEED.

HORLICKS REGULARLY SOON GAVE HER NEW - VITALITY

JACK DEAR

~ DO YOU MIND GOING ALONE?

I FEEL

"DONE UP"

WHAT, AGAIN DARLING. IT IS TIME YOU SAW

A DOCTOR ABOUT THIS

TIREDNESS.

NEXT RACE MEETING.

JACK DEAR THAT'S 'THE THIRD WINNER WE'VE PICKED THIS AFTERNOON,

CLEVER OF YOU DARLING!

YOU'RE A DIFFERENT PERSON' SINCE. TAKING.

HORLICKS

DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR. NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED?

AT THE DOCTOR'S

EVEN

...! WAKE TIRED

YOUR TROUBLE IS NIGHT

STARVATION. YOU SEE, WHILE YOU SLEEP, YOUR, HEART, LUNGS AND OTHER AUTOMATIC

PROCESSES CONTINUE USING UP ENERGY.

DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE HORLICKS

IN HOSPITAL TESTS

RE

ECENTLY tests were made in a great hospital on men and women who com plained of always feeling tired.

It was found that these people had an excess of acid waste products in their blood during sleep.

This acid waste kept the brain and nerves on edge all night even though the rest of the body was sound asleep.

But when Horlicks was given to- these people lost thing at night, this excess acid waste, was completely neutralised. They wake refreshed, with increased energy-and- vitality,

Take HORLICKS

THE NYOW WFLL SLEEP SOUNDLY- WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY

a

DAWN OF VICTORY

can

distinguish

"We the dawn of victory," de- clared Queen Wilhelmina, broadcasting yesterday to the Dutch people.

Speaking of Dutchmen who had sacrificed their lives in the de- fence of freedom, Her Majesty said that thanks to them "the tree of our freedom will flower again.

"Already spiritual theirs and ours, for

victory is

the tyrant

has not been able to conquer our love of liberty. Great times lle in front of us." Reuter.

DRUGGED, STRANGLED

HER LOVER

A pretty, twenty-year-old wife who held an executive position at Harvard University killed her married lover "because," she said, "I couldn't have him, and I coul- dn't live without him."

The woman, Helen Steadman, wife of a business executive, ask- ed her lover, Robert Emery, to call on her.

She shared with him a glass of milk in which she had put twenty-six crushed sleeping tab. lets. When he fell asleep she twisted a card round his neck till he was strangled and then fell unconscious from the drug herself.

Helen left her husband last June, when she met Eme.y and fell in love with him at first sight. Both the woman. and her dead lover were parents,

NATHAN ROAD. ROBBERY

was Clothing valued at $105 stolen from the residence of Mr. H. S. Martin, No. 233, Nathan Road, during Wednesday night.