THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 3, 1941.
CHUNGKING BREAK INTO BOMBED
OFFICIAL CHANGES
At the final general meeting in Chungking
AIR GIRLS
CELL, SAVE GET M.M. PRISONER
yesterday of the Č.E.C. WITH PICKS, bars and sledge hammers, a Plenary Session, the fol- police superintendent and a prison officer toiled for lowing decisions affecting three and a half hours, breaking through the wall personnel changes were of a cell to rescue a prisoner trapped in the bombing reached:
of Walton Prison, Liverpool.
Dr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Am- bassador to Great Britain, is to
Their effort was not in vain they dug the man And these be Minister of Foreign Affairs, out exhausted, but not seriously hurt. succeeding Dr. Wang Chung-hu, were the conditions in which they worked: who becomes Secretary-General of the Supreme National Defence Council.
General Chang Chun, Chairman of the Szechwan Provincial Gov- ernment, who has been concur- rently Secretary-General of the Council, is relieved of the latter post.
Mr. Liu Wei-tze, Vice-Minister of Railways, is appointed Minis- ter of Overseas Affairs, replacing General Wu Te-chen who is to be Secretary-General of the Centrall Party Headquarters, succeeding Mr. Yeh Chu--tsung, resigned owing to 11-health.
Tai Huai-sheng are
German 'planes were over- head.
They had only pocket lamps to light the darkness.
The air was poisoned by es- caping gas,
Water from broken mains was flooding the wreckage.
Walls and roof of the whole
SQUADRON'S PROUD RECORD
A
Bomber squadron | may endure many chan-
always! prison wing were in danger of ges, but it will collapse.
keep an essential unity; the trials and successes of its individuals are merged in the history of the squadron as a whole.
For their heroism, it was an-
Messrs. Chen Ching-yun and nounced, Superintendent Edward appointed Nichols, of Liverpool Police, and of Overseas Af-Prison-Officer John Joseph were
awarded the George Medal.
Vice-Ministers
fairs.
Mr. Tseng Yang-fu is relieved of his post as Acting Vice-Minis- The only me hod of rescue was wall. ter of the Organisation Depart-to break through the cell ment of the Central Party Head-The rescuers did it, working, the quarters and is succeeded by Mr.jficial record says. "in the worst
imaginable conditions." Chang Chung
A Ministry of Foreign Trade For his part in the rescue Fre- and a Food Control Ministry is to derick Albert Bowyer, chef of be created under the Exécutiveficer of the prison, is awarded the Yuan.
O.B.E. Medal.
STAG HUNT: M.P.'S QUESTION
The London Gazette announces the award of nine other George Medals, eleven o her Medals of the Civil Division of the O.B.E. and nineteen commendations.
Mr. Campbell Joseph Kelly, O.BE., who also holds the Military Cross and Military Medal, re. ceives the G.M.
He is control officer of the Coventry Works Air Defence De- partment, and on the night of an intensive raid gave inspiring lea-
A stag hunt at Carnforth, Lancs, will be mentioned in the House of Commons when Mr. J. R. Leslie (Soc., Sedgefield) asked the Minister of Agriculutre if his at-dership to his men. tention has been called to a case
O'her George Medals go to:- of cruelty following the hunt.
Mr. Leslie asks whether, to put
George Railton Liverpool, who saved two women, He got onc "a stop to this practice whereby
out by sawing through a coal animals endure torture, the Min-
kit. cupboard and the leg of a ister "will take action under the
chen dresser just before the Emergency Powers Defence Act to
debris collapsed. authorise persons to enter upon land and to take steps
Frederick for
Shimmings, Henry the killing and removal of deer, Twickenham A.R.P.. who when hares, and rabbits, thereby serv-three of his men were gassed, en- ing a useful purpose by adding to tered a tunnel of debris to reach a
trapped woman. the food supply of the nation."
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What follows, a typical record of one such squadron, may seem a disconnected series of incidents, to the will not seem so but it
squadron itself; each succeeding trial overcome, or task well per- formed, becomes part of the cor- porate experience of all its mem- bers.
1910.
Two members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force have been awarded the Military Medal for gallant conduct.
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