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THE CHINA MAIL, `APRIL 25, 1941

TOLD TO RUN, FACED

DEATH

WORKING FOR three hours, though seri-|

ously injured, to save several people trapped TROOPS'

in a tunnel, which collapsed under a heavy bomb, has won a George Medal for a doctor, one of fourteen more civilian heroes to re- ceive the award.

He ignored warnings that more of the tunnel was falling, and stayed with a partly- buried man.

WHITE FEATHERS

The "white feather

of the last war

Two women are also awarded the medal in the latest list published in the "London maniacs Gazette."

Dr Malcolm Mansell, Medical (surgery, attended en sitaltes at the Oficer at Wood Green, London, ; winks, in the nearby streets and N. arrived within a few minutes at a pubbe shelter

it

are busy again in this one —and in an unexpected quarter.

short dis- British soldiers garrisoned

infuriated by of the bombing of the tunnel and tanre away throughout an anten-Iceland are

campaign. on agnating in Brif.am Save A d mediately led the resete work

He was lying full length on the Twire she was flung across the puling cowardice and shin

the Brst tune "SS" to the men on guard m P heap. bying to release a partly-surgery by blast.

sland of re Par Nor.ja bumed man when the look-out being intred internally and the But second time being knocked - mn shouted. "Run for it the doctor stayed

* There was large fall

clay. and he was

ار

1:

CONSCIOUS.

After recovering

!'.

The campaign has gone so far that men of the Iceland force are consciousnesse, receiving white feathers by post

They are also being accused o a struck by a large puree full in the although in pain, he carried on

Miss Grace Rattenbury, back

in ad- being evacuees, and of living

ense while people a Patly butted.

a member of the security and to be dition to being had

dragged out

leet - foremost, but W VS is organiser of the Invalid home are suffering from Ehiz con.

ditions. after resting for few minutes. Children's Aid Association

Here is a van in a She drove a WV.S

extract from a letter and though seriously gured and

to his parents in London by in severe pain, he earned on with "shuttle" service from a wharf to a

feeding centre i sapper In first line rest and

the Royal Engineers in the work

Woman and child leeland had been moved from the danger |

Dr Manson, middle aged, won until the lat the MC

the last 111

War

Arm Broken, Worked

un

Soon Found Out

"I hear there is a lot of trouble going on at home m regard to the troops in Iceland. Some soldie. who have just come here cheered when they landed.

J

The rond was extremely dan- gerous owing to fire. bomb craters and a delayed action.

Three Metropolitan policemen, Lesie Jack who burrowed under bunb wreek Arling Sub-OMeer Hall, of Barking. Es ex, Fire Bri- age to bring out casualties receive

Medal They are "When we asked them why, they gade, was on his way to a fien; the George

trailer Special Constable Frederick Char- told us they had heard at home. with a lorry and 19-cwł

Alrond, Special Constable that we are having the time of can ptump during a severe day raid it tes

ht they soon found out the truth.

"Think of the chaps at an out- post miles from anywhere and no news, surrounded with lava rock

Look mountains.

what a and lovely time they are having!

September, when the lorry was Graham Deacon, and P.-C. Stan-ives.

ley Wilham Jolinson

blown up by a bunb.

His arm was fractured, but he disconnected the trailer pup from the overturned lorry and, i with one arm useless, hauled it three-quarters of a mile to a blaz- ing building with another fireman to help hu177,

He said nothing of his injury. and for

hours played water on to the flames.

It

SIX

WIN

FORD VICTORY

A 1941 Ford Super Deluxe that announced

sedam swept to a decisive victory he had been awarded the M.B.E.

class in this year's a Coven-in its price The two women are

Gi more-Grand Canyon economy try nurse and a W V.S. worker in !London, Another. organiser of classic in the United States.

Not only did the new Ford's Coventry W.V.S., Mrs. Pearl Mar- guerite Hyde. is made a member mark of 23.05 of the civil division of the Order U.S. gallon (27.64 miles per Im- perial gallon) enable it easily to of the British Empire.

win the Class "B" championship. but it also surpassed the record of many ears equipped with over- drive.

Bombs All Round

The nurse. Miss Marjorie Eileen of a works charge

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"A couple of chaps have receiv- ed white feathers. Some who have gone home have been insulted by being called evacuees."

The insinuations against Iceland troops have indignation

soldiers' Sun." the paper.

the aroused the of ***** Midnight

own news-

Duty To Obey

entitled "White

Trailing far behind the Ford in its price class, according to official American Automobile Association

#gures. contest

production averaged 21.71 miles per U.S.job' here.

In an article

it says: Feather?"

"Some members of H.M. Forces

have in Iceland

been stung to the quick by idle insinuations.

"Unthinking rumour has drawTE the contrast between

the a scornful perils of Great Britain and was a second safety of Iceland, the 'up and at the 'bobby's car, which 'em' in Libya and

vo.ume

are malicious very marrow of enemy

"Such rumours

gallon (26.03 miles per Imperial gallon) in the long, gruelling 595- and the

propaganda. mile course.

"A soldier's first duty is to obey. It was the fourth consecutive year that Ford has proved victor He is prepared equally to rush in- over other leading volume pro-to the cannon's mouth at Bardia duction cars in its price class. or nurse patience in Iceland."

Virtually the entire run, which

was closely supervised from start "DEAR

QUEEN-

to Hnish by A.A.A. officials, was completed under adverse weather conditions. Strong winds, parti- cularly on the three high moun- tain passes crossed during the 14-

The Queen has received a letter consecutive hour run, buffeted the

New York show In addition, ice.

from entries.

ordinary

Mrs. John F. Joyce. and slush

encountered as housewife. the cars headed into the last 100 who lives in the homely residen- mi es of the course.

tial quarter called the Bronx.

were

to

an

Mis. Joyce is the woman who won the raffle for the gold-&- sent 1) cigarette-case entire enamel

Despite these handicaps maximum economy, the Ford re- fueled only once on the trip.

BLOWS, NOT FINANCE,

America by the Queen,

Her husband is Irish. He, the

nil son, are their 22-year-old keenly pro-British.

my

Her letter to the Queen says:- "When I saw your Majesties a the World's Fair, I never dreamed I would sometime have in possession a

present selected by your Majesty personally. Every- one who saw you here in America We in America Germany loved you.

WILL CRACK HITLER

"Do not think that

-

will breakt on some financial are deeply touched by the gallant rock," said Captain Colin Coote, fight your people are making. foreign correspondent, in a B.B.C, "I remain, with greatest respect,

"Gladys W. Joyce." broadcast last night.

Mrs. Joyce had three dollar She "knew" "Germany's trouble will not tickets in the raffle.

going to win it, having be to find money, but to find she was

5-leaf clover some time supplies. When her military found a machine cracks, all will crack, before and given it away quickly, But the military machine will apparently a lucky thing to do. - The cigarette-case travelled have to crack first,"

from Washington to New York by Captain Coote sald that Hitler armoured car. Mrs. Joyce at first introduced "war finance" in-kept it under her pillow; then in a cluding barter five years before haibox. then behind the kitchen Etarting the war. Now he had stove; has now lent it for exhibi- added loot to barter.

tion; refuses to sell-it.

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