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THE CHINA 'MAIL, MAY 7, 1941.

10 WRENS 30 DO A

LISTED KILLED

Fair-haired

Vera

Co-well craved adventure and dreamed of some- thing more exciting than serving in a radio store at Ramsey, Isle of Man, So she joined the Wrens.

TOWN'S

ERRANDS

(By A Special Correspondent) EVERY DAY a squad of thirty cyclists speeds out from a town to nearby factories. The cyclists orders are out to collect orders from the workers Royal Naval Service) killed in for the butcher, the baker, the grocer.

Now her name has appeared in a list of ten Wrens (Women's

service.

The

nine others were:

Mrs.

MAY EVICT SHELTER CROWDS

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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

Authorised Capital

Issued and Fully Pald-up Reserve Funds:—

Sterling

Hong Kong Currency Re

serve

of Pro-

-$50,000,000 $20,000,000

..£8,500,00€

-$10,000,000

prietors

.$20,000,0ĢE

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson; Chairman.

The Ministry of Home Reservo Liability Security is considering seeking powers to turn people out of certain places where they ought not to congregate during an air ruid, and which are not under the control of the local authority, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry stated in

For this is how a Middlesex town solves the Rosa Armstrong, Miss Joyce M. Shopping problems of wives who are working. Ear- Bennett. Miss Mona V. Black, lier closing of shops makes it difficult, often impos-the House of Commons. Gregory, Miss Beryl M. North-sible, for workers to get their ration after the hard feld, Miss Hilda Pearson. Miss day's work is over.

Miss Winnie Blackett, Mrs. Nellie

Eleven

Miss

listed

as

Norah K. Reynolds, und Dorothy M. Wardell.

more are wounded or injured.

Their names appear in an Ad- miralty list of 1,008 naval casual- ties. No details are given of how the casualties occurred, but they

So the Women's Voluntary Services looks after the job for them. They send out the fly. ing-squad of cyclists, who jot down orders and collect ration books.

By the time the workers get are not connected with any parti- is done for them.

vital shopping back home, their cular ship or incident.

Vera Cowell joined the Wrens soon after her eighteenth birth- day. She looked smart, too, In the navy blue uniform.

She wrote telling her friend how happy she was. "I craved for adventure and i am sure getting it," she wrote.

Vera was stationed in the south of England at a place where air raids were frequent. One night a party of girls were at supper in their quarters when a bomb struck the building. Some of the occupants were killed outright.

Mother Is Proud

"I am proud to think that my daughter died in the service of her country," Mrs. Cowell told the "Dally Mirror". "Her father served in the last war and is doing his best as a coast watch. er this time."

Three Admirals are among officers killed. thirty-nine naval

They are Rear-Admiral J. C. Hamilton, who joined the Navy in 1895 and retired In 1932: Rear- Admiral E. J. G. MacKinnon, pre- missing: and viously reported Rear-Admiral

Tower, 1. B. B. D.S.C., who was killed in an air raid.

IDENTITY CARD RACKET

Scotland Yard are in- vestigating the activities of a London gang who are engaged in a traffic in! identity cards.

The cards are being sold In the West End to deserters and criminals.

Have you looked at your iden- Or is it lost, tity card recently? and you have not yet made the 'discovery?

By losing your identity card you are playing into the hands of this gang.

+

If the family's order is heavy, I a voluntary service of cara do livers the goods to the house. It makes all the difference to a wife who comes in tired from a factory bench.

They Help Wardens For instance, the W.V.S. has en- listed the aid of 600 wives whose household duties prevent them leaving

SAD CRAZY

GANG STAR JOKES ON

W. H. Lock, Esq., Deputy Chairman,

J. E. Bousfeld, Esq..

A. H. Compton, E.,

L. J. Durión. Emq.,

O. Miskin, Esq., E. B. Morrison, Esq. Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearos,

Mr. S. II. Dedwell, Hos. Mr. A. L. Shields,

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn

Chief Manager.

This was in reply

to Captain Borabes Cunningham Reid, who complain-Caton

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ed that large numbers of peopleChef were still using big shelters in spite of the warnings given by Foodbow Lord Horder's Committee.

"Last night," he said, "I saw hundreds of people scurrying into a shelter. An official told

more me they expected

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SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES of various

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TRUSTEE and EXECUTOR business

Hong Kong, 26th February, 1941.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.

"This enormous shelter is un- Clowning on the stage der a railway goods yard-a mili- at a London music hall, tary objective of the worst kind." comedian Charlie Naugh-| At another well-known station' undertaken. ton, of Crazy Gang fame, in the Metropolitan area with an important junction close by, he did not know that at his added, more bombs had fallen Sussex home a telegram than anywhere else in the district, their homes, but who had arrived with news wish to do something to help win

that his son, John, serving the war.

The organiser of the local with the Fleet Air Arm,

Mirror** told the "Daily "These women-there are two in was missing. every street--show a blue W.V.S. card in their windows and work in close cooperation with the air- raid wardens.

W.V.S.

'They see that every house. holder in the street has a buc. ket of water and a bag of sand on the doorstep. They find out where people sleep.

Do Soldiers' Mending "After an air-raid, the wardens And them very useful in tracing any missing people and checking up on damage.'

!

"The whole of this borough is air-ruid conscious," she said: proud y.

A few days ago a 1,500lb. bomb fell on that station. Under an arch 800 people were shelter. Ing, and 220 became casualties, sixty-one being killed outright. If the recommendation of the Horder Committee had been car-

The Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on application.

HONG KONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

V. M. GRAYBURN.

Chiet Manager,

FOR

THE

Not until he and Jimmy Gold returned to the country several days later did Naughton see the lied out, those sixty-one people Bong Kong. 1st March, 1937.

telegram.

"Heartbroken"

Now he and his wife are pray- ing that their son, who is in his late twenties, may be safe.

would have been alive.

THE MERCANTILE BANK

OF INDIA, LTD.

HEAD OFFICE:

Authorised Capital

£3,000,000

"John joined the Fleet Air Arm about six months ago, a friend, Gracechurch Street, London, E.CA told the "Daily Mirror." "His par- ents did not know until later that he had joined.

"He is F wonderful boy, and his parents are heartbroken."

was on the Charlie Naughton stage at Bristol, Few people in the Should a house he bembed, an crowded audience knew that be- empty house or other suitable hinds his laughing wise-cracks he building is found and furnished hid a deep sorrow.

victims. W.V.S. for the by the Clothes are provided for parents and children.

The W.V.S. also thought up a scheme for helping local troops. They do the soldiers' mending.

accounted for.

No record is kept of missing cards, the "Daily Mirror" was told at the Ministry of Health.

"Is it not possible to check up the ownership of cards at railway stations or other big termini," the "Daily Mirror" asked the Minis- try official,

"It might be," he replied. "The police or military ask for the cards where they have any sus picion.

"A number of prosecutions have taken place of people using cards not their own."

Five hundred thousand national registration cards have been lost since registration was introduced In October, 1939. Many thousands are still un- station.

Anyone finding a lost identity card should hand it in at a police

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LOCAL SHARES

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SHIPPING Indo-China (Pref.) $80 b. DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS, ETC.

H.K. Docks $15 sa, Providents $4.60 b. LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H.K. and S. Hotels $2.80 b.

PUBLIC UTILITIES H.K. Tramways $16 s. China Lights (Old)

$5.90 s.

$5.70 b..

H.K. Electrics Rights $134 5. Macao Electrics (Old) $17 b. Telephones (Old) $22 s

STORES, &c. Watsons $9% 5. Lane Crawfords $74 5. MISCELLANEOUS Entertainments $61⁄4 b.

LAST DAY'S BALES

50 Docks @ $15

Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital

Reserve Fund & Rest

BANKERS:

1.800.000 1,050,000 1.254.839

The Bank of England and Midland Bank, Ltd.

Kuala Lumpur Simi

AND

THE BANK OF EAST

ASIA, LTD.

Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve and Undivided

Profits

.$10,000,000.00

5.599,600.00

2,983,281.50

HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG 10. Des Voeux Road, Central,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:~ Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman; LI Koon Chun, Esq., P. K. Kwok, Esq., Wong Yun Tong, Esq., Chan Ching Shek, Esq.. Li Lan Sang, Esq., Wong Chu Bon, Esq. and Fung Ping Wah. Esq.

་

Kan Tong Po. Esq., Chief Manager. Hon. Mr. Li Tre Fong, Manager, **

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Kandy

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Kota Bharu

Shanghai

Galle

Flong Kong Howrah

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Singapore

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Ipoh

Trengganu

Amoy

Bentile

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Bombay

Angoraki

Shanghal

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and talphons

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HONG KONG BRANCH Every description of Bonking Exchange business transacted.

TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSHIP UNDERTAKEN, CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened 117 Local Currency and FIXED DEPOSITS received in Local Currency & STEN- LING on terms that may be ascertain- ed on application.

D. BENSON,

Manager.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Incorporated by Riyal Charter, 1853.

£9,000,000 ........ £3,000,000,

Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund Reserve Liability of Pro-

priotorra

£3,000,000

HEAD OFFICE. LONDON: 38, Bishopsgata, E.C.2 Sub-Agenolsa in London! 117/122, Leadenhall Street, E.C.3. West End Branchs 14/16, Cockspur Struet, 8.W.L. Manchester Bvanchi

13, Mosley Street, Manchester, 2.

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Batavia

Bombay

Calcotta

BRANCHESI

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Penang .Rangoon

Hollo

Salgo

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Karacal

Shanghai

: Klang

Bingapore

'filinwaz

Agencies Kobe

Olive Sirens Kuala Laanipur; Söurabaya”

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Talping

Teatsil

Cawnpore

Manila

„Tongelukki

Coba

Median

Dalomba Delhi

New York'

Peiping"

(Bhula) Tilagies Jokohams:

<aking)

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FOREIGN. EXCHANGE, and Gederal, Banking Business transacted,

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received. for. One Year or shorter period, in- Focal or Other Currencies at rates' which 'WED be, quoted en application.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, also ‘opened in Local Currency' and' Sterling with n terest allowed at rates obtainable on application. A MANDATOR

The Bank's. Head Once in London | unaortakes · Executor, and' Trustee, bust» nese, and claims recovery" of " British, Income Tax overpaid, on terin which may be ascertained, “at any of the Agencies and Branches

W. H‘EVANS THOMAS,

Manils Melbourne

Penang

San Francisco

Every description of Banking and Loans Exchange business transacted. granted on approved secrrilles.

Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits; received for one year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign Currencies от terma which will be quoted on application.

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let.

HAN TONG PO,

Chiet Manager.

THE WING ON BANK, LIMITED.

Head Office: Hong Kong. 26, Des Voeux Road, Central, Authorised Capital ........ $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS-- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every description of banking, business' transacted.

Current Accounts and Savings Accounts opéried. Fixed Deposita received at rates which will be quoted on application, bu

Safe Deposit Boxes for hire,

PHILIP GOCKCHIN,

Chief Manager.

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