1941-03-21 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1941.

CHASED

YAVELLO TAKEN GERMANS

BY BRITISH FORCES

YAVELLO, IN SOUTHERN Abyssinia, has been taken by British regular troops, ac- cording to yesterday's official communique from British General Headquarters in Cairo, which adds that operations are proceeding in the Neghelli area.

British patrols have contacted the enemy in difficult mountainous country surround- ing Marda Pass, eight miles west of Jijiga, the capture of which, says the communique, was not difficult. Some prisoners were taken with the town.

"By the capture of this impor- Lant centre, arw roules have been pined up summing east to Ber- bera and west to Duredawa where the road meets through the rail- way from Djibouti."

Meanwhile the Italians Arc putting up a desperate resist ance at Keren, though reports reaching Calro indicate they Jack adequate air support.

position The

ter British Ta con un this area

Di

contumes to develop favourably. stati the CANETAS military spokesman

ight

In Contact

Jast

STALLS BAN

DISPLAY

OF NOVELS

Two big bookstall firms,; Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son and Messrs. Wyman's have decided to stop dis- playing copies of certain

In Abyssima, he said, patrist paper-covered editions of forces are maintaining pressure on | novels. Debra-Marcus, which is half sur- unded, while the Imperial forces who captured Jijiga are now contact with the enemy half way to Harar

Reuter.

ALLIED ENVOYS ¡MPRESS

CHS

They have done this following # request from the Bishop of London and his associates on the Public Morality Council.

The Council wants to stop the display and sale of the books.

It objects mainly to the some- what lurid covers on most of the books, which tend to give the in- pression that the stories deal too much with sex.

by

These novels are written American authors of the "nature in the raw school of fiction.

Crude, But–

The one which set the Public Morality Council in action was

called "No Orchids for Miss

Blandish,"

Its cover showed a

beautiful woman in the semi-

nude. "We

had letters have

from people all over the country about;

Lord Halifax, British Ambassador in Washing- ton, and Dr. van Kleffens,

utch Foreign Minister, į

given a tremendous these new paper-backed novels. tion when they at- which sell at a shilling each," Mr. the secretary of G. Tomlinson, cended a meeting of the

bought said "and we Council, National Press Club yes-copies and read them all.

"I must say that while they terday.

were crude, strong stuff, they Lord Halifax spoke for half an did not shock me so much as I hour and it is: tated that his sin-thought they might do. cerity and his firmness towards "Actually it was the covers to the Axı, created a good impres- which we objected most strongly.

"We wrote to Messrs. W. II.

Flof.

who also

Dr. van Kleffens,

Smith and Messrs. Wyman's, and Spoke confidentially, described these firms agreed to stop display- the Dutch Goverminent in Londoning the books."

H. Smith's said:

s the nerve centre of resistance A representative of Messrs. W. against German aggression, and stressed Government confidence in final victory-Reuter.

SLIGHTLY

DELAYED!

"We don't want to offend the 'he public, and if some people feel be gevers of the books are offen- sive then we try to meet their wishes.

Not Censors

"At the same time we did not set ourselves up as censors of HOW A BRITISH HEAVY public taste in literature, so we our bookstalls not to THE WAY TO have told

BOMBER ON

BOMB COLOGNE ON WEDNES- show the books any more, but to take orders for them if they are asked for."

A

DAY NIGHT DISPOSED OF MESSERSCHMIDT FIGHTER.

IS TOLD BY THE AIR MINIS.

TRY NEWS SERVICE.

The Messerschmidt Came in

A representative of Messrs. Rich and Cowan, who have brought out the latest book, called "He Won't Need It Now," with a red-headed

three times to attack the bomber; girl in green on the cover, laugh-

whose fire hit the fighter and probably destroyed it.

After this encounter the bom– ber went on to bomb Cologne. Reuter.

LARGE SUM RAISED BY POLICE

Sir,-May I, through the cour~

ed.

"After all," he said, "164,000 copies of 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish' were sold. 'He Won't Need It Now' is a jolly good story. "It is a bit red and raw, and it calls a spade a spade, but there is no harm in that."

HALFPENNY COSTS

£13

J. and F. Stone Lighting and tesy of your correspondence co-Radio, Ltd.. of Worship Street. fined £10 lumn thank all those who helped London, E.C., were either by their attendance or with three guineas costs at Wool- otherwise, to make the the Hong wich for selling a torch battery for Kong Police and Police Reserve one half penny more than Dance successful.

their specified price at raised Street, Woolwich, branch.

A sum of $3,700 was and this amount has been divid- ed equally between "The Lord. Mayor's Fund for Relief of Air Raid Distress" and "The British Fund for the Relief of Distress in China."

C. G. PERDUE, Acting Commissioner of Police.

the

Hare

3 DEBTORS CAN'T

READ

Three of five judgment debtors at Bow County Court, London, said they could not read, They repeated the bath after the usher.

OVER REICH

The pilot and air gun- er of a British . 'plane which shot down a Ger- man machine after

a

thirty-mile chase across enemy territory are among three airmen who have been decorated.

They are Pilot Officer John Dickinson, R.A.F. Volunteer Re. rerve, who receives the D.F.C., and Sergeant George Gastin Thompson (R.A.F.V.R., the air gunner), who is awarded the

D.F.M.

The D.F.C. has also been awarded to Flying Officer Philip Harold Watts,

Owing to bad weather, Dickin- son and Thompson were unable to find their target at Gelsenkir- chen, so they bumbed a factory near Recklinghausen,

On the eturn journey they spotted an illuminated dummy fare path, and Dickinson altered

for an

nerodrome. where course two enemy aircraft, showing navi- gation lights, were

sech.

After a thirty-mile chas: Pilot Officer Dickinson manoeu- vred his aircraft for Sergeant Thompson to engage and shoot down onc of the enemy ma chines.

Dickinson was born in 1920. His father lives at Ferryhi I, Durham. Thompson, whose wife lives at

was born in 1917 Gateshead, Watts's home is at Cranford, Mid- dlesex.

DEAD, WON SCOUT V.C.

A thirteen-year-old Boy Scout, who died after being rescued from his bombed home, has been awarded the Bronze Cross the Scout movement's highest order.

He was Ronald Eke, of the 1st

Green Ardicigh

{Hornchurch) Group, whore

parents were killed outright,

Fortitude

While he was being rescued he gave the AR.P. squad informa- tion about his own family and others in damaged houses.

He sent the squad to rescue them.

He maintained the same forti- tude in hospital.

"I can tell

WHITE

HORSE

blindfold

Page

it's equal to a fine liqueur"

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