THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1941.
George Washington enters Williamsburg at the head of his ragged Continental Army in 1781, en route to Yorktown to put The finishing touches to Cornwalls and so end the war
on Vir. ginia toil. A scene from "The Howards of Virginia," coming to the King's Theatre on Friday.
TONY, 14, IS HERO OF ESSEX GUNNING
AT FOURTEEN, sturdy Anthony Gerard Phizacklea, youngest of six brothers, who live on an Essex farm, is a veteran of scores of adventures. "Wherever Anthony is, you can be sure something is bound to happen," is how his mother put it.
And Anthony's adventures have left him cool in an emergency. Ready to testify to that are the
scores of passengers in a train which was machine- gunned by a Heinkel 111 bomber recently.
Anthony he let saloool vight months ago to beip hr father, Mr Matthew Phizacklea, down
the turn was in the stables har- Bessing Blusstam. The foutren- year-old farm hos-of-all-work when the bother wooped duwn, Then boobs began to fall all
round
First thing I did, Anothony said, "was to som and turn her loose.
unharness
Bios. Then
I heard burcts of machine-gun fire and guessed that the train was being attacked "
Five times the plane poured a hmil of machine-pun bullets into the carriages. Aiter each attack it banked low over the farm to return. As it passed it ruined bul- lets down.
Dash Through Snow
"I knew that I was nearest to the train and that it was up to
He to help," Ahony continued, *I ran across field, throuch snow to the train.
"The driver had stopped it and the uninjured passengers were sheltering in a wood. One of them shouted to me to fetch help.
I dashed back to the farmhouse, got my cycle and rode hell for leather to a first. ald post, three quarters of а mile away.
"It was hard going because of the snow drifts, but I did not have time to think about that. I got the ambulance sail and cycled back as quickly as I could to see if there was anything more I could do. Several passengers were wound 'd, some of them mortally."
Arriving at the scene. Anthony helped to lift the wounded in the carriage to waiting ambulances.
A pianist whom he wrapped
In blankets had the fingers of one hand shot away.
"But he was laughing and Joking the whole time,” cald Anthony. Finally the wounded were got to hospital. But Anthony found still more work to do.
"Two policemen told me that they wanted to find out how many bombs were in the wood," he said. "I searched with them and be- sides craters, we found two bombs which had not gone off.
Unconscious Five Days
"There will always be some- thing happening where Anthony
i
CONCHIE-OBJECTED
TO UNDRESSING
"SALOME" JOINS
THE A.T.S.
"Salome" has volun- teered for the A.T.S. She wants to drive a Service | car. She is Miss Maud Allan, the dancer, famous for her Salome dance of 30 years ago.
Miss Alan Toured every country with her exotic dance
and Then came tragedy. Three years ago she broke her back.
Now she is it again-- and wants to help in the war effort.
When the A.T.S. received an application from the wou d-be car-driver named "Miss Maud Allan, dancer.” they wandered whether it could posibly be the Maud Allan,
To-day she lives in three tiny apartments among
150 empty. echoing rooms of her bomb-shot- tered Regent's Park mansion, her sole companion her dug Perky.
Picking my Way past bomb craters and debris that pitted the hort cart.age drive, 1 called on her.
Cellar Shelter
The side door was so warped by bomb blast that at Miss Allan's request I had to burst it in
"When the raids are on I just go down in the wine vault and cnjny a perfect illusion of safety."
Though her Salome dance shocked the Edwardianis it way performed in draperies which any modern girl might consider heavy clothing.
In 1938 she severely injured her Spize 18 at motor acendent in Cali- formne
TOFFEE CARROTS!
TOFFE CARROTS PLEASE." CHILDREN OF SHEPHERD'S BUSH (LONDON) CALL OUT IN THE SWEETSHOP OF MR | HAROLD CARTER, ERCON-
WALD STREET. SWEETER THAN APPLES- AND CHEAPER -TOFFE CARROTS ARE TAK- ING THE PLACE OF THE ABSENT SWEETS.
Behind his shop.
Mr. Carter
QUOTING THE SCRIPTURES THAT IT WAS IMPROPER TO BE SEEN NAKED, A CONSCIEN- TIOUS OBJECTOR, RONALD JOHN BROWN. OF MANOR FARM, CORSCOMBE. DORSET, spends his time busily dipping REFUSED TO STRIP AT A homegrown carrots in a saucepan MEDICAL EXAMINATION.
of toffee. He is usually sold out before the toffee has hardened on them.
Summoned at Bristol Police Churt for falling to subut him- self for medical examination when liable for national service, he was flued 10. The chairman told him he would be taken by a poleman,
to have his examination.
There are very few sweets these days," he told the "Daily Mirror," and they are pretty dear to buy with pennies. But carrots are cheap. and Lord Woolon urges us to eat them, so I de- cided to minke sweels of "Woolton's
Brown told the Court "I con- Wonders.." sider it wrong to be stripped and On short sticks. Mr. Carter's I gave my reimuns to the medical, toffee carrots sell at halfpenny or examiners,"
penny according to size.
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BIG DECREASE IN CAR THEFTS
WHEN THE REPORT of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, Sir Philip Game, is issued shortly it will show that there was a considerable decrease in the number of thefts of motorcars dur-
ing 1940, compared with the previous year.
In 1939 all records were broken. The petrol restriction, too, is A total of 10,121 motorcars were another factor which has pre- stolen in the Metropolitan police venter people taking other per- sons cars for any but short jour-
arca.
Of this number all but 146 neys. were recovered. In many cases, There has never been a big It is considered, the car was market in Britain for stolen cars- taken by thieves who wanted to the need for a complete registra- use It for a smash-and-grabtion book makes their resale too raid or other robbery, and then risky. abandon it, or by a youth want- ing a joy. ride, probably to Im- , press come girl.
Speedy Check
Half-way through 1940 the order
The fact that second-hand cars are now fetching big prices has led to a few more thefts in recent weeks, but it is not ex pected that there will be any rerlous epidemic of car steal. Ing.
One of the most recent cases was in Lee Green, where thieves broke, open a number of Jork-un garages and carefully selected three or four cars best suited to their miroose.
is," said his mother. "When he was made for the immobilisation was eight he broke an arm In of unattended cars, and this two places.
quickly put a check on those who "A year later, while ayoling, "borrow" them for a few hours. he was involved in a collision with a car." One Wheel nearly come home and help his father on passed over his head, his jaw the farm. He was near Coven- was broken and he had head, try the night it was blitzed. Next It has been suggested that some and back Injuries.
day he set off home alone."!
stolen cars ..are. taken. 80 "He was unconscious for Ave But there were bombs on the their commonente can he sold as daya
line and he could not complete his spares. but. Sentland Yard, hava Early in the war I decided to train journey. There was a party no evidence that thefts for this evacuate with him to the Mid- of soldlers. He hitch-hiked part purpose are being carried out on lands. The Anthony wanted to of the way."
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