1941-05-07 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1941.

·MUTT AND JEFF

YA MEAN TO

SAY I'LL HAVE

TO LEAVE MY "UPPERS" HERE, DOC?

AND YOUR "LOWERS"!

BLEUH OGGITY IX' EEDST SEGGTY. SIGZ STREED!

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By BUD FISHER

MUST

BROTHER, CAN YOU

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BE A NUT!"

DIRECT US NIGGMY IX TO DAK ST?/{BOCKS DOB:

COME,

MARTHA!

VỊCH HUBH

Fisher

CLOSED

SAVED CHILD FROM HORSE

When a horse bolted, someone with one arm in a sling snatched a child from its path then jump- ed on the cart and

standstill after а mad dash.

'GROOM IS SHOT AS 100 WAIT IN CHURCH

(By A Special Correspondent)

WHILE A HUNDRED wedding guests were brought the horse to a waiting, a happy, excited bridegroom, ready to leave for the church, accidentally shot himself with his Army revolver. Everyone expected him to recover otherwise there might have been a wedding cere- mony at his bedside but he died.

And after calming the animal, handed the reins to a passer-by.

Central figure was A girl guide of seventeen-Winnie Johnson, of Garfield Street, New

Southjite, London, N., who is Gulde

now award the Girl silver cross.

She had her right arm in a sling i at the time because of a fail,

"I forgot all about my arm in the excitement," Winnie told the

"Dally mirror,"

She told no one of her adven- ture, but someone told the Girl Guides' Association,

Now Winnie is wondering whe- ther, after all, she ought not to tell Sergeant-Pilot Victor Swin. don, now serving with the R.A.F. in Egypt.

The bridegroom was Captain Peter Watkinson. aged twenty-seven, of the Loyal Regiment, only son of Dr. Watkinson, until recently of Tudor House, Hall Lane, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.

He was to have married Miss, he died at the Kent and Sussex Esme MacKenzie, daughter of Mrs., Hospital, Thunbridge Wells, Moore and stepdaughter of Major Arthur Leslie Moore, of the Old Vicarage, Ticehurst. Sussex.

The flowers which were in- tended for his wedding were placed over his grave at his funeral.

Twenty-year-old Miss Mac- Kenzio was leaving for

Captain Watkinson, who was on the church when news of the ac- special leave, was showing a re- volver to his host, Lieutenant- cident was phoned to her.

Colonel M. W. Halford, of Skin- They're engaged and lovers She raced to her bridegroom'sners Farm, Wadhurst, Sussex. shouldn't have any secrets should side, still wearing her bridal they?

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"He was excited and happy,"

Colonel Halford told me.

"We were ready to go to the churph and Peter was handling the revolver and discussing Ita mechanism when it went off. He co`lapsed,

"We got him to hospital and phoned Miss MacKenzie's home."

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guests

were in the church, waiting for the bride and bridegroom to ar- rive.

"I had just spoken to the organist when the bride's father told me:

"There has been an accident. Would you please tell the guests and ask them to wait a little while?'

"Everyone waited for about twenty minutes. Then the bride's father came back. The guests went away."

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had apparently been told by phone what had happened.

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"On the way to Farm she stopped at the church for a moment and then went to see Captain Watkinson.

"She was able to speak to him before he became unconscious," "It has been a terrible shock to Miss MacKenzie," said Mrs. "Ed- wards, wife of the vicar. "It was never expected that he would not recover otherwise there might Have been a wedding ceremony. at the hospital,"

Special prayers were offered for the captain's recove Miss MacKenzie could talk

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