1941-03-29 — Page 8

'WHEN YOU WORE A TULIP AND I WORE

"Delicious"

the best HOME-MADE CAKES

Try it once

and you will

try it always.

Also Cigarettes, Chewing Gum, Chocolates, Candies and Cookies.

Buy them at:-

YEE SANG FAT'S

King's Theatre Bldg.

Tel. 21355.

SHOWING TO-DAY

THE

AT KING'S

BIG RED ROSE" "GOODBYE BROADWAY,

... DOWN THE STREET THAT GIVES TRE WORLD ITS GREATEST SONGS!

ALICE FAYE

The singing star of "Alex- ander's Ragtime Band”! The torchy, glamorous star of "Down Argentine Way”! The comio who's just come into his own! A great cust of

entertainment-makers!

厅

BETTY GRABLE

TIN PAN

THE

ALLEY

MUSICAL OF OUR EXCITING TIMES!

K-K· K · KATY"

Jack OAKIE John PAYNE

ALLEN JENKINS · ESTHER RALSTON - NICHOLAS BROTHERS - BEN CARTER. Directed by Walter Lang Associate Producer Kenneth Maogowan • Borsen Play by Robert Ellis and Helen Login

Based on a story by Pamela Harris

A 20th Century-Fox Pilotuse

ALSO Latest 20th Century Fox WAR NEWSREELS-

SEE

JUST RECEIVED BY CLIPPER

HEL

Latest pictures of the North African campaign, Haile Selassie raises his standard on

own soil. Britain seeking to maintain sea lanes, intro- duces the corvette:

Pictures just released of Wendell Wilkie dur- ing his interview with King George intimate study of personalities,

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·Queen Elizabeth examines some wartime gifts of useful articles from U.S. and expresses her country's gratitude,

Prime Minister Churchill inspects the Ports- mouth naval base; «

America's latest Flying Fortresses.

Rushed by clipper plane, latest films show the British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal,”. helped bomb Genoa.

which

Prime Minister Churchill inspects shipyard. King George decorates heroes of the 'R. A. F. Etc., Etc., Etc.

FRANCE

"YOU SAY THE SWEETEST THINGS (BABY)

"THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1941.

HEARD DEATH BUT STAYED TO SAVE NURSE

GERMAN BOMBS rained on the South-Eastern !

Hospital, New Cross. One of them fell on a block THE JOKE WAS

of kitchens, killing four nurses, and hurled another,

injured, through the collapsing floor into a passage ON THE ITALIAN

below, where she was pinioned by a block of masonry across her legs.

Down into the debris went a porter, Albert Ernest Dolphin, and other rescue workers. A few minutes later a wall was heard to crack, and the workers were ordered out just as it began to col- lapse.

But Dolphin refused to go. He crouched over the trapped girl. And there, later, his body was found. The nurse was alive.

The story of Dolphin's sacrifice and the announcement of the posthumous award to him of the George Cross are given in the "London Gazette" with dozens of other stories of heroism by mem- bers of the Civil Defence ser- vices

Sacrificed Life To

Warn Others

DOCTORS OF

HAPPINESS

Americans are giving a

Another George Cross. also posthumous, goes to Leonard John Miles, a warden, of Ilford, tal health who walked into certain danger

lot of thought to the men- of British

to give warning to people unaware evacuee children, as well of an impending explosion in their homes.

ds their physical well- being.

The Child Study Association of America is sending trained psy- chologists out to smooth any dif- lerences which may arise betweer evacuees and their hosts.

Even when he was waiting for an ambulance to take him away, he refused first ald, tell. ing his colleagues first to at- tend to * blazing gas-main, Chief Fire Officer S. A. Phil- lips, of Eastbourne, becomes an OB.E., and four members of a rescue party there. A. E. Black- Hosts have received leaflets mer, E. H. May. F. C. F. Stevens, which ask E. L. Turney,

Medals.

receive

a lot of questions.

George | Among them are:-

'An unexploded bomb jay within 200ft. of where they were striving to rescue seven people trapped when three houses were bombed and smashed.

"Your visiting child: Is he homesick? Is he jealous of your children? Is he worrying? Is he is he hampered by his accent?

The critical of your food? .. Family Guldance and Consulta- tion Service will be glad to help you."

They had to tunnel through a cellar wall, through a refrigera- | tor, through another wall of 12in. thick concrete, while there was

In response to an S O S from constant danger of falling debris.

ley cold chilled them; gas, bub worried sponsor an expert hurries bling through water, reeked until to the home to offer his advice. they were overcome with faint- ness and sickness.

But they fourad the will to re- turn, and the strength to lift, by hand, timber which six jacks had failed to move. Five of the seven victims were saved.

A PROMISING

BOY IS DAD

He found that among the en-

bursts of

Loud ironical cheering greeted the Italian Consul ot Beirut (Syria) when he left a cinema, says the Independent French Agency.

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Looking round to as- certain the cause of the crowd's merri- the Consul's ment, chauffeur found fas- tened on the Consul's back a large photo- graph showing a Bri- tish airman with a Greek componion standing in front of the wreckage of an Italian 'plane.

The spirit of com- radeship between the British forces and the Greeks is everywhere evident, says "Elef-

theron Vima." When Italian raiders injured civilians in Larissa, British troops took the severely wounded to hospital and gave first-aid to the others.

-Reuter.

PASTOR

HALL

Sit. We venture to write to call attention to the film "Pastor Hall"

to be given next week at the Lee

in aid of the war orphanages of the North West on Wednesday April 2nd, 1941.

A young N, C. O. instructor at a Theatre, and particularly to the While bombs were dropping, technical training school of the premiere performance to be given Warden E. F. Ballinger, of Bar-R.A.F. took over a class of new nes, worked to his thighs in water recruits. from a burst water main, war- ning people to evacuate their basements. He and another war- den worked in a flooded bomb- crater to free a man pinned by timber and likely to drown.

He, too, receives the George Medal.

Hitler

Dash Into Flaming Ruins Of Hospital Stoker J. R. Roley, of Green, won his George Medal by following into flaming debris a nurse who dropped from the beam to which she had been hanging in the Park Hospital. He rescued her and went back for her colleague,

To add to his difficulties. both women were ill — It was the nurses' sick room that was hit - and shell-splinters were falling.

Deputy Leader of the Wìmble- don Rescue Party, F. J. Gradden, heard from a demolished mansion faint cries.

trants was his father.

The son

thinks his father "quite promising."

The

is

We have had, the privilege,. of witnessing a preview of "Pastor |Hall" and were moved beyond words by its vigorous presentation- of the issue for which we are now fighting. We would urge every. Honourable. Director of man and woman, 'who believes in Medical Services gratefully ac democracy, to see this film, and, knowledges the receipt of a gift particularly, if there are any who of 185 pairs of clogs for the Po doubt the justice of the cause of Leung Kuk children in Ma Tau Britain at this time, let them go Chung Camp from the Yee Fung and see for themsleves "that evil Tam Tsan, Chairman of Benevolent Society through Mr. | thing” which we are figh'ng.

the So-

R. O. HALL J. L. WILSON. ciety in question.

LOVE AFFAIRS ARE SCANDAL TALK NOW

A WHISPERING campaign against Mussolini is growing in Italy. In drawing rooms and cafès, stories are being told of the Duce's private life. Or, to be more accurate, his private lives.

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He forced a way through the debris sawing, tugging, strug- gling at full length. It took him two and a half hours to get 20 feet, only to find the victim inex- tricably pinned.

He stayed with hor, guiding his He is keeping more than a'] ~ has forced his unwelcome,at- colleagues, breathing air impreg-dozen mistresses in elaborate. tentions on the wives and daug“. nated with gas for three and a villas outside” “Rome;^ with the hters of foreign diplomata and half hours."

*4" secret. ·Government funds on : other visitors to: Rome, i Gradden, for his six-hour or- which he draws without question. American and other journalists, deal, which resulted in saving the woman's life, receives the George they they should be taxed so that

People are now asking why who have lifted the vell from these intrigues in their dispatches Medal

Mussolini can keep Countess This to their newspapers, have.prompt- and Signorita Thất in luxury, Jy been given their passports

and told to leave the country, NO LOSS TO JUSTICE ・・・ The stories do not deal only The Italians, despite the extent many of to which they have fallen under Nazi Minister of Justice, Franz | them of high and noble breeding.¦ Fascist influence, are still good Guertner, has died. He had been They tell, too, of the way In Catholics, and family life is still out of work for a long time.

which, from time to time, te to them their dearest possession.

with Italian women