1941-04-09 — Page 29

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1941.

R.A.F. MAN'S SONS SEEK TWO

HOBBY IS LIONS

Folding his circus suit, Eddie Campbell, of Glas- gow, put on his R.A.F. blue tunic and went back to the leisurely business of war after ten days' leave

with spent mostly

his "playmates". two full- grown lions and two lion- esses whose training he has made his hobby.

Eddie gave a "command pet

formance for a BBC

HERO WAS ON

DAYS FOR MOTHER LEAVE

IN RUINED HOME

(By A Special Correspondent)

THREE SONS, leaving their wives and children in different parts of the country, rushed to their mother's house in Bristol when they heard it had been demolished by a bomb.

For two days, unaided, they tore frantically anong the wreckage looking for her. Then they discovered her body.

PUP SAVED

Paginace Edgar Doggett, thirty-three, an ambulative driver, of Long Ash- ྃ་

Somerset reached hus mother's home and found it had i been flattened

and myself last night. wires a peter, and made a radio record which wall be broadlea

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Auburn-haired, smiling Eddie

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But the biggest interest

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his peace-time he was lum

Not Forgotten

When he was called up he wa asked his profe

"Journalist." said Eddie.

"Any secondary occupation " asked the sergeant.

"Yes, sir, lion taming." Eddie without a smile.

"Now.

then.

is

said

none of that funny talk. said the sergeant.

ton.

darkness,

Ho searched in the but could find no one Then, with his heart by vaking, he returned to his job

He was back at daybreak with les brother Leslie, twenty-seven, an aeroplane worker, and they

wired to the third brother. Leo

nard, thirty-one, at Plymouth

MISTRESS

AGED SEVEN

Six-foot Seaman Stan- ley Henry Batchelor, pos- of a rich tenor

sessor

voice,

was to marry

a twenty-four - year - old North Country girl.

He got special leave from Chat- ham and went off gaily to London humming "There'll always be au England." The song, he told his friends always inspired him, and it was his ambition to sing it over the radio.