THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1941.
DANISH LEGATION STILL CARRIES ON IN LONDON
A LEGATION WHO HAVE BEEN CUT OFF FROM ALL CONTACT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THEIR COUNTRY CONTINUES TO FUNCTION IN LONDON.
They are the Danish Legation in Pont Street, S.W. Ever since the German invasion of Denmark last April the Minister, Count Edouard Reventlow, and his staff have been unable to communicate with their Government.
They know little or nothing of what is happening in their country except what they hear from the German-controlled radio. They cannot telephone to Copenhagen, | and the only news they receive from their homes are brief mes- sizes which en be sent through the Red Cross.
Yet the legation are carrying
BUS FATALITY
Accused of driving bus No. 781 wallout due care and vation,
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REGISTRY WEDDINGS
The following couples were married to-day at the Supreme Court Registry before Mr. Rey- nolds, Deputy-Registrar of M- riuges:
Mr. Lai Man-kwong, mission- ary, and Miss Chan Wai-lin, mis- sionary, Cheung Châu,
Mr. Tung Tsung-kai, clerk, and Miss Hung San-ming. ol. No. 238 Juffe Rond.
merchant,
Mr. Lee Shih-yao, and Miss Choi Puo-kuen, teacher, of No. 2 St. Stephens Lane.
Mr. Ng Lai-Fu, merchant, and Miss Poon Lan-yuk, teacher. No. 61 Pokfulam Road.
Mr.
student,
Lam Hon-hung, and Chan Hang-Kuen, student, ot No. 94 Yu Kuk Street.
OFFICE BOYS FINED
Two offee boys, employed by the Great Northern Telegraph | Company, were each ned $20, or three weeks' hard labour, by Mr. G T Lowry, at the Central Magistrary this morning, for the theit of stationery
on, because they are recognised Wong Pur, 33, sitter employed by duplicating paper, and other print- by the Foreign Office as "in charge of that are not
Germany.
all
Danish interests
the Kowloon Motor
Bus
Accused stole four rolls
Com-king paper from the office store,
.1. Detective Sergean:
Mac. under control of pay, was fined $50 by Mr
Macnamara at Kowloon this. Donald prosecuted.
A Few Went Home
Two or three members of the! staff have made their way back to Denmark by a circuitous route, but
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morning
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Defendant was alleged to havel driven to ta when turning into Yen Chau Street Trom Castle i Peak Road at 7.30 pm on March
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HEMINGWAYS
CONTINUE TRIP
all the others, including the Minis-33, knocking down two person, Mr Ernest Hemingway, accom- ter, have remalned at their posts. *
Most of their work consists looking after the 400 or 500 Danished 69, who died later
hospital,
seamen who are now sailing under the Allied flag.
Many of these Danes, some ol whom spenk no English, eiten call at the Legation between voyages
The Legation also maitilam cen- tact with the Danish authorities.
Greenland and The Faroe Islands and the Danish Consulaters in all parts of the British Empire
Although the Legation Can no Sanger be supplied with funds from Delmark, then upkeep pements to dafleulty There are big Danish funds in London, and substantial sum are received tor the charter 1 the Danb verse! now under
the control of the Minstry of Ship-
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20 WORTGU,
both paned by his wife, left Kweilin fl the for Chungking by air at 5 p.m
yesterday, Central News,
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A picture of King Christian hangs in the entrance hall of the Legation. A sad. subdued at- mosphere pervades the big building. Nearly all of the staff have homes in Denmark from which they are now cut off.
Little News
Count Reventlow, who spent the Rest war in London as a counselor at the Legation, is separated from his two son and his 20-year-old daughter, who is lady-in-waiting to Crown Princess Ingrid,
Others on the staff have vive. and children in Denmark Every now and again it telegram, a post-card or a brief let.er from home comes through the Red Cross, but the men and women at the Legation know little of how the lives of their families have beef changed by the German occupa-
tion.
They do not see 2 Danish newspaper until il 13 weeks or months old. They know nothing of life in Denmark other than as it is presented to the world by the German invaders.
TEA SENT HIM BACK TO GAOL
A fifty-five
-
year
W
old
Dartmoor convict who.es- caped had only seven and a half hours of freedom.
Like many other prisoners who have made a break, he made the fatal mistake of going to nearby farmhouse in search of a cup of tea.
The prisoner, Gordon Horsfall, escaped from a working party in the prison outbuildings. He was serving a six years' sentence for housebreaking, and, having-earned his full remission would have been. at liberty soar.
Mr. and Mrs. Rundleston were sitting down to tea when they heard a knock at the door, and found Horsfall on the threshold, While Mr. Rüridleston was pouring him n'cup of tea, Mrs. Rundleston signalled warders, who were less than 200 yards away. There was no struggle, and Horsfall went back quietly.
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