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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 28, 1941.
YEAR'S BIG HERO--DOES
KNOW
NOT
BRAVEST DEED OF 1940.
That's what they
thought of the heroism of Leading Seaman Harry HALF-PINT
Lucas. It was announced that he is to get the Stan- hope Gold Medal awarded annually by the Royal And he Humane Society for the bravest deed. doesn't know it yet because the society hasn't traced him.
Lucas and Stoker Thomas L. Phillips were 700 yards from the shore on a snowy winter night when
their motor-boat capsized.
Phillips was a poor swimmer, j
Lueus gave his inflatable lifebelt
to Phillips and gave him also an empty petrol drum to help him keep afloat.
CURFEW
Phillips was becoming hysteri- FOR
cal.
Lucas stayed with him about ten CHILDREN
mutes, helping lum and showing
ham how to keep up.
During that time
Lucas Aung A curfew for children and the
if all his clothes to give himself, causing of the school age to 16 are among suggestions put forward more freedom.
Then, after telling Phillips to! by chief Constables of provincial Keep kicking out with his legs to forces in their annual reports fo
the SPTIOUS shorewards Lucas, check
increase in urge himself swan ahead, encouraging Phillips| juvem ́e crime. with shouts.
When Lucas reached the shore there was no one about. It was latterly cold five degrees of frost
(Fahrenheit) and the ground was) covered with thick snow.
Lucas, cold naked and almost exhausted, ran across two fields in the snow to seek help. He cut his feet severely on barbed wire до he scrambled through hedges.
Found Unconscious
But he got through to a mili- tary post. There he gasped out his story to the military authori- ties.
Then he collapsed. And аб soon as he recovered conscious ness he insisted on reporting by telephone to his commander, A search party found Phillips unconscious on the beach and rushed him to hospital. He was in a serious condition, having been in the water one and a half hours. Lucas's heroic deed was per- formed off the Island of Gram, Sheerness, just after midnight on January 30 Just year.
For it Lucas was awarded thei Royal Humane Society's silver! medal last June.
He will be told of the gold medal award
soon as the
society can get in touch with him.
The Admiralty had recommend- ed him for recognition.
POST-WAR PLAN FOR EDUCATION
The new scheme for giving juvenile workers two hours મ week physical training during working hours, which was 211- nounced at the week-end by Mr. H. Ram botham. President of the Board of Education, is the pre- curor of on umbi ious post-war plan for post-school education,
At present the scheme will be entire y voluntary, and will be confined to physical training. It is understood that after the war, if the Board's plans mature, there will be compulsory part-time physical and general education for all boys and girls up to the age of 18.
Firms would have to release all│* juvenile workers for, perhaps, eight hours a week. The intcn- tion is to introduce this simul- taneously with the raising of the schoo'-leaving age to 15. Nearly 3,000,000 boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 19 will be covered by the war-time voluntary physical training scheme.
will
The Board of Education is ar- ranging with the Services for the release of trained instructors. Ar- rangements will largely be left to the local authorities, who work the scheme In conjunction with the youth service organisa- tions which look after the social and physical welfare of
young people,N
The Government decided against compulsion on the ground" that it would hit small firms, and that local authorities would be unable to supply enough instructors and accommodation. Present Indica- tions are that large numbers: "of employers will cooperate.
The black-out, lack of parental control due to war conditions, the temporary breakdown of the educational system at the begin- ning of the war, are said to be, mainly responsible for the in- crease.
MILK BOTTLES DISAPPEAR
Half-pint milk bott'es are now rationed, as fewer are being made. Milk distributors and roundsmen will both welcome their with- drawal.
An official of one of the big London mi k distributors said: --
"It is far less economic to sell milk in half-pint than in pint or quart bottles. It is hardly worth the roundsman's time to run up two or three flights of stairs to de- liver ba a pont.
"Sometimes we
lose money on the sale of half pints, for unlike most bottled goods especially proprietary medicines Water We arc not allowed to chargc a higher rate
smaller for the quantity. "Smull bottles mean a greater wastage of glass as well as time.
"As it is, we are facing a pro- blem in replacing bottles, for sup- plies in all sizes are being heavily curtailed.
"But there is no likelihood of going back to the old method of distribution direct from churn to
In one
area boys were respon - sible for no less than 55 per cent. of the offences committed by per-jug. sons of all ages.
Medical authorities would strongly oppose it."
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PALE ALE
OBTAINABLE AT ALL LEADING
COMPRADORES
GONE
ARE THE HORSE
AND CARRIAGE
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