THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1941.
CAUTION ON YOU SAVED US. PILOTS AIRMEN THREW
STOCK MARKET
The London Stock Exchange is very cautious, and apart from a little Jowering fir gilt-edged securities, price changes are few and business idle.
Industrials rufed fairly Mendy
and oils and home rails are also about unchanged while amongst The Kaflins, non-producers are neegsionally offered
Spanish four percent bonds declined from 42 to 38% whale Japanese ant Greek stocks are also dull but Egyptian unißed are higher Wall Street was dull Reuter.
LOCAL SHARES
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1340 - Bank of East Asia $70 b.
INSURANCES Indo-Chinas (Prof ) $80 b.
SHIPPING
Indo-Chinas (Pref ) $80 b LANDS, HOTELS & BLOGS. Humphreys $6.70 sa ILK. Realties $3 s.
PUBLIC UTILITIES HK. Tramways $161¢ HK. Electrics Ex. RIS $26 .. H K Electrics Rights $145 Macao Electrics (d) $17 D.
X D.
STORES. &C. W. Powell, Ltd $1% sa
LAST DAY'S SALES
$425
25 Union Ins
50 H.K Fire Ins
100 Humphreys
$187 $6.70
553 Wm. Powells 17 $1
QUEEN'S GOWN GIFT
The Queen has given Canada one of her favourite gowns as 24 "lasting memento" of her Cana- clian tour.
It is the gown she wore in the Senate Chamber at Ottawa.
Pratres Aker, wife or the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of Canada, has officially presented at to the public archives, where it will be on view.
The gown is made of shimmer- ing white satin with a
large crinoline skirt heavily encrusted with pearls, gold paillettes and sparkling diamantes. It is ('ITI -
broidered in a Persian pattern on a background of tiny gold lace Similar embroidery ts vorked into the court tram.- Reuter.
TELL GIRLS
“TELL US ABOUT your jumps,” shouted excit- ed girl parachute-makers when five R.A.F. fighter pilots visited their factory. So the airmen, all of whom had saved their lives by parachute and had come to say “Thank you” to the men and women who make them, jumped on a table and told thrilling stories of air battle and escape.
All wore the golden caterpillar brooch of the Caterpillar Club, membership of which is confined to those who have saved their lives by baling out. They came from two fighter squadrons which have shot down 226 enemy planes.
A squadron-leader. besides |joyed making a jump, also escaped from around.
myself
Just
Swimming
a Hurricane by lifting the halch "A little beat came out from a and climbing out when his mach- | ship.
heard
someon say.
ne was already 30ft. under water Gawd, he's a Jerry' I shouted on its way to the bottom of the "No, plejse. I'm not; I'm English. North Sea.
As the girls called "Tell us what it's like," a tall, twenty-six-year » old squadron-leader said
Light Commander exte
"One night last year I told my
should be to have to bale out thought I should
the not have *guls
JUAN
"Next morning three of us were Over the North Sea. 1 Dornier 5,00ft. above nie I had to creep up behind him. He start- ed banging away at me. I gave him a 'good sqm.rt
was it
"Then suddenly there tremendous explosion just in from of my tuTTILIY I felt to see if a' was still there
Not Used To It
Pint Of Rum
"They picked me up. Then
began to feel frightened I knewi There were a lot of mines in the North Sea
WHISKY OUT
Everything-even their iron rations-was thrown. overboard by a crew of an R.A.F. 'plane which was hit by anti-aircraft fire while raiding Brindisi, the Italian Adriatic embarka- tion port.
Telling in Athens of the plane's | nightmare journey to safety, the twenty-year-old pilot smiled as he recalled;....
"The rear gunner gave n grimace as we threw out a full bottle of whisky."
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