1941-04-22 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1941

THE NORTH SHOWS BRITAIN TO

ITS USUAL FIGHTING SPIRIT

THE KING AND QUEEN came to Manchester to inspeet air-raid damage and took away with them a stirring picture of the North's fighting spirit.

Standing before the remains of her home a woman of 69 said to the Queen: "The old devil has not done for me yet, and he won't either.”

Other instances of Nor-

thern grit were supplied MY MONTHS

by the

woman warden

if

who, asked by the King IN ARMY-

she was out during the j

Blitz, replied: "Yes, and if

they give us some more 1 BLIND MAN

still be there." and by the

girl ambulance driver. Ronald Mitchell is re- who told the Queen, "Igistered in Dundee as a would not have missed it blind person. Yet he was for worlds."

Dews

Though the Royal visti had been kept a secret the spread in magical fashion, Bunt; Was straped Ver Luned houses, cheering, singing crowds fucked to line the roads and their Majesties received Lancashire welcome.

tractive

blue.

drove

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"gradely

GET 15,000 'PLANES

the

Official sources revealed in Washington that lend-lease programme now calls for the produc- tion of 15,000 'planes, 330 merchant ships and about 5,000 tanks for the Brit- ish. Great Britain, offi- cials said, has expressed hope that the U.S. will be able to complete this pro- gramme by July, 1942.

The programme, which also pro- vides for large quantities of or- dinance and food, will be financed by the $7,000,000,000 war-aid ap- propriation

Most of the planes will be tac- tical craft, predominantly bon- bers. Approximately 13.000 of them wil be for the RAF. The remainder will be for the Fleet AIF AUD

Most of the tanks will be me- dium types, virtually the same as those being produced for the US Army.

called up from the Royal Dundee Institution the Blind--and spent five structed in this country for months in the Army.

The merchant hips, officials in- fordicated, will be similar in design to the 66 vessels now being con-

the

"1hked it it was first-rate," be sand at the instution. "} got plenty of drill, as a private in the RAMC, and some lectures. I was tol I was Al except for my

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The King wire Field-Marshal'sį eyesight. uniorm and the Queen an at- į "I was wearing glasses, and can ensemble in Air Force only read large print by holding a

book close to They

my eyes, but straight to sec

thought I could show my patrio- bomb damage mean a local fac-

tism by registering. tory. As Urey walked through the ruins of little houses the peo- ple in undamaged works crowded te tre escapes, cheering and way- Ing.

Responding with a wave, the Queen smilingly asked some of the women "Do you think We are going to win?" The answer Was prompt and emphatle, "You bet

are."

we

The Queen Wears

After scrambling in unprotected; shoes about the muddy site, the Queen made i quick change on rejoining her car She shipped, on a pair of bueters

war was

The suggestion that the Wo- men's Voluntary Services should be retained after the made by the Queen in conversa-

Mrs tion with

Rothwell, CA organiser of the W V.S.

"I hope the WVS. will go on afterwards,” said her Majesty, for They are doing splendid work, and in housing and other! Things there is so much to he done,"

Their

the Majesties entered burnt-out section.

Mat- of the

Yet

"

When daylight faded. and during the night, he had to be led about by a soldier friend. His sight departed with the sun. light.

The friend had to be there, too, on dark mornings so that Ronald could find his way 10 breakfast.

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Mr W. Hooby, manager of the blind stitution, came back trum a holiday, discovered that Romold had gone, and reported to the authorities.

The blind man who became a soldier got his discharge

but! only after five months.

Said Mr. Hooby: "How Ronald managed to stay in the Army so Jong is a complete mystery to me. One cannot but admire his spirit, ter he is able to become totally blind in a few years.

"We have had defficulty before in keeping some of our blind men trom registering for service."

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British.

A large number of aircraft en- gines and a sizeable order of ma - chine tools also will be produced for the British.

According to onc defense of ficial, the British are placing more and more emphasis on fin. ished products from the U.S. rather than on raw materia s. Germany, he said, is still far ahead of Britain in producing for war and "the British needs are terrific." The Germans, he added. have very effectively mobilised

the resources of occupied coun- tries.

BRITISH SKINS FOR WAR EFFORT

British moleskins are the best in the world, but until lately they have been regarded as the Cin- de las of the fur trade, wiites C'orisance.

Now there is an opportunity to turn them to profitable aresunt.

The Fur Trade Export Group. who are supported by the Board of Trade, want ten million English and Scottish moleskins between now and March.

The skins will help to provide foreign exchange to pay for war supplies, and to develup markets which should be of great value to farmers and the fur trade when the war is over.

It takes from 400 to 600 mole- skins to make a full-length coat. In the last war, when supplies

chester Royal Exchange. Crowds SIR WALTER CURRIE from abroad fell off, the trapping

outside, bursting through the police cordon, invaded the floor just in time to see the King and Queen

book, sign the visitors' which had been recovered fromL the fire baked but intact.

As they left, the Queen observ- ed. "I hope to come back to see

at again in happier days."

Their Majesties.

DIES AT 84

The death is announced of Sir He Walter L. R. Currie, Bart. was 84, and succeeded his brother, Sir Frederick Reeve Currie,

in

1930.

Sir

and

collecting of moleskins in Great Britain became a lucrative useful contribu- industry, and a tion to our export trade.

Later, when supplies from the Continent increased, the trapping of English and Scottish moles dwindled, and many farmers paid

have the animals destroyed. Now the farmers are asked to cooperate in providing the skins, for which promising markets are

being developed.

Waller's only daughter.

to complimented | Lady Goring, wife of Captain Sir the authorities on the rapid pro- ¦ Forster Goring, died a fortnight

made in Kress

clearing away ago at a Berkshire nursing home, damage and said they had been Sir Walter is succeeded by his greatly moved by the way the sun, Walter M. C. Currie. city had come through its ordeal.

WOODEN SHOES FOR "GOOD OLD ENGLAND!"

PARISIANS

Dress styles inspired by Hunga- rian paesants and Spanish dancers catight the eye of a large throng of visitors at Maggy Rouff's where standing room only was the order of the day. Spectators consisted almost entirely of private clien- tele, including some visiting Ger-

mans.

SAYS SHOT-DOWN NAZI

THE GERMAN PILOT of a Junkers 88 bomber shot down with a blazing wing on marshland near Great Yarmouth said to his captors: "We are in good old England at last It is like coming home.”

The tall, well-built pilot, and Spanish evening dresses were shown in printed crepes with wide his crew of three had their hands skirts flounced with black lace in the air. They had just handed and big black lace sleeves. Full over their revolvers to Mr. Harry shirred peasant skirts of checked Thain, drainage engineer, and his silks were topped with black vel- friend, Mr. Robert Sadler, market vet boleros worn over balloon-gardener, of Somerton. sleeved sheer white blouses.

Day dresses featured peasant blouses and reflected the Spanish influence in boleros and toreador -sashes,

FATSHAN SAILING The 8.8. Fatshan which sailed for Canton on Saturday morning. will be making the return voyage on Thursday.

A few

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The 353-ton trawler had damage or casualtics. Describing the capture of the Farmer Frank bomber's crew, Starling, who drove up in his trac- for with a fire-pump in tow, said: "They all looked jolly pleased to be in Good old England." One had and another's a damaged knee, forehead and scalp were badly singed.

yards away was the rubber boat they had dragged from their machine. For a moment or two they semed to have a no- tion of escaping across the cold, "But the pilot was smiling and He grey water of the North Sea handing round cigarettes. until Thain and Sadler ran across spoke excellent English, and scem- the fields.

ed to know this part of the coun- announced try well. And the sea didn't look that the bomber was shot down at all cheerful this morning by H.M. trawler Galvani (Tem- | least of all to four men in a rub- proary Skipper M. P. Pack). ber boat."

The Admiralty

*Couldn't keep my eye

on the ball to-day!'