1941-04-07 — Page 29

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1941.

ONE FAMILY:

14 FIGHTERS

DROVE PETROL TO FIRE

Have you heard about With six big fires blaz-

the Fighting Pearsons? ing along her route and SETTLEMENT

fourteen

There are them in one family.

of incendiary bombs falling

continually, Fire

Joseph William Pearson was

born at Bow, London, E. He was a house-painter. Forty years ago he went to the Isle of Wight and brought up a family of nine sons and three daughters.

Pa and Ma Pearson and their twelve children are all doing their bit in this war. Pa had already done his bit in the last war,

In August, 1914. he was the

the first man in the village of Bin- stead, neur Ryde, to enlist.

He won the D.C'.M. in the second attack at Gaza in September, 1917,

Here's The Roll Call

If the Pearson family were pul on parade together the roll call would sound something like this: Pa Pearson, D.C.M. --Un muni- tions.

Ma Pearson. months-old twin

from London.

Mothering nine- boys, evacuate d

Albert Pearson, Royal Navy. serving on H.M.S. King George V

Joseph Pearson, Army pen- sioner, corporal in the Home Guard

Horace Pearson, Royal Navy Lawrence Pearson, Pioneer Corps.

Sydney Pearson, Royal Air Force.

George Pearson, Royal Artillery Stanley Pearson, Royal Artillery. Douglas Pearson, Royal Tank Corps.

Harry Pearson, Royal Tank Corps.

Gladys Pearson, W.VS Kathleen Pearson, on munitions. Elsie (now Mrs

Bundelf) mothering # family evacuated from Jersey.

Joseph William, the former house-painter from Bow, would not be at all popular with Hitler, the former house-painter Austria,

LOCAL SHARES

BANKS Hong Kong Bank $1355 b. Bank of East Asia $71 b.

INSURANCES

Canton Ins. $225 b.

Union ins. $430 b.

H.K. Fire Ins. $187 b.

SHIPPING

from

Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $80 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.

H.K. and K. Wharves $88 b. H.K. Docks (Old) $16 b., $16 sa. Providents $5.40 b.

LANDS, HOTELS & BLOGS. H.K., and S. Hotels X.D. $3.10 s H.K Lands $33 b. Humphreys $6.80 b.

PUBLIC UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $16 b. Yaumati Ferries $234 b. China Lights (Old) $0.20 b. China Lights (New) $1% b. Elec. (0'd) X. Rts. $26.15

$26 s.. $26.30 sa. Elec. Rts. $15 b. Macao Electrics (Old) $18 Macao Electrics (New) $17 Telephones (Old) $23.60 b. Telephones (New) $01⁄4 b.

INDUSTRIALS Cements $18 b.. $18 sa. II.K. Ropes $71⁄2 b.

STORES, ETC. Dairy Farms $174 b. Watsons $10 b., $10 sa. MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments $62 b.

LAST DAY'S SALES 300 Docks @ $16. 1,000 Hotels

$3.10

500 Cements @ $18

1.000 Watsons $10

b.

а London

Service girl, aged IN DUKE'S

twenty-one, drove a pe- trol-laden lorry from fire to fire to refuel the fire- pumps.

LIBEL ACTION

the

In

SAINTS WIN SOFTBALL

SHIELD

winning the

Ying Kwok Shield the St. Joseph's outfit

played superb bail to beat Recreio Aces in the final game of the sea- son yesterday,

The losers were sadly off form with the bat and were throughout the game hitting directly to the opposing fielders.

The Saints d d not have too easy a time against the hurling of Ger- In an action for libel brought by And in between calls she sat the Duke of Westminster against Gosano who was not quite so

effective as calmly knitting.

the proprietors of

usual but managed. **Daily For her courage during Lon-Mirror" before Mr. Justice Wrot-however, to connect for seven hits which gave them their winning don's fire blitz Miss Gillian Tan-tesley in the King's Bench Divi- ner has now been awarded the sion, it was announced that a set-tally of three runs.

tlement had been reached. George Medal.

"High explosives and incendi- aries were dropping all the time," she told a reporter.

"Get To The Fires

"But I didn't

petrol

think about the

Mr. Valentine Holmes, for the Duke, said that the libel occurred in a paragraph under the heading "Cassandra," and the sub-heading "Fragrant Fragments."

of-

poor

cannot