1941-05-15 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.

BOYS PLAYED FOOTBALL WITH A "LIVE"

BOMB

across an

THREE SMALL London boys came unexploded German bomb and trundled it around the streets in a push chair for their pals to see.

The boys, Stanley Green, aged ten, Norman Clark, aged nine, and John Green, aged seven, of Montague Crescent, Edmonton, were searching for wood on a bombed site, when they discovered the bomb in the wreckage of a chicken run.

Dragged into the street!

and on to the push chair NAZIS' by the boys, the bomb be-¦

gan its travels through ARMY OF

streets crowded with shop-

pers.

For a quarter of a tee the boys pushed 1. bumpin

down the kerbs to the

El up

hoturs. calling their fen together a they went along to

Tin

On Erching home

SLAVES

A slave armiy

of well how off the over 1,000,000 foreign they tied workers is now labouring

at carelessay on to a heap of a dee¦ in Germany to keep the In the back garden, the kit

auto the it net augue

опро

play

of the boys wanted football with it. but

P

matter how hard they kicked

at wouldn't bounce properly.

Afterwards they

house tu house

Jowing #t

industrial machine Fun- ning.

An oil German pod state thin the total of industrial wol. tas alone 1: 620,000. The al- neighbour, who told them la "B" chiefly deported from Poland, 1

of agrendimal L.bonner awgy and lays they ta

not diselused, but it must be at hot as great

Area Cleared

They were banging the bomb enthusiastically on the pavement when a Mr. Burgess, his suspicions! suddenly arouséd,

came a thef scene and carried it off to his back garden.

He called wardens and police, and the area was evacuited until an Army disposal squad rushed along and removed the "play- thing

If prisoners-of-war working en tion are added, the total of foreign farms and non-military produe-

Jabour probably exceeds 2,000,000.

REVENGE

When young James Newman left the orphanage at Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S., twelve years ago he vowed that one day he would be revenged those who had him unhappy

on

made there.

Now, masked, he has held up the orphanage staff and asked for his old principal. Told the man had long retired, the bandit took the staff's money.

When captured he said: "I meant to kill that principal."

THE MAN ALONE

For nearly seventy years | John Clarke had

been

alone. He carried himself proudly, though he had no relatives, no friends,

He had no abition to live when The rell all, but doctors and nurses tought to save his Me when he * was taken to a Swansen hosp tal

John's recovery brought him into a new world, a world in which people spoke to him, where he found friendship and generosity,

His health improved so much Poland is the biggest recruiting that he started helping in the hos- country is not stated. The methodourite there, field, though the total from that pital kitchen. He berame a fay- or recruiting in Poland is simply at transportation

a few hours

notice.

In Denmark

and Norway the|

John has just died cheerful to the last. Six companions who ate patients were with him. One told the "Daily Mirror"

"John found more happiness in

Although the boys were "told off" for playing with the bomb, action of free engupen.ent is main- hus last days than he had ever they all agree "There ain't noth- tained. The unemployed are tokt had. ing to the e German things."

When he got better he did jobs are waiting in Germany, and not want to return to civilian life that if they do not accept theml - he was afraid he would in the dole will be stopped

himself alone."

PRISONERS' PENGUINS STOPPED

GERMAN CENSORS HAVE

PUT A COMPLETE BAN ON PENGUIN BOOKS FOR BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR

(1

He Held Up Weak Shelter

"I mention only one of the civil defence services to-night, namely the police, it is because many tributes have been paid. already to the others They have been in it everywhere all the

Mr. Churchill in us broadenst.

time

The reasons are not altogether clear, though they seem to have to do with The anti-Hitler tone

TWENTY POLICE OFFICERS are among those some of the books. Such book. honoured in the latest list of civil defence awards would not, of course, be permitted to go to the prisoners many cas

published in the “London Gazette." Seven receive but advertisements of them appear the George Medal and thirteen the Medal of the in others of the series which are innocent of political meaning.

Order of the British Empire. There are thirty-six See ny these advertisements. the George Medallists in the list, two of them women. Germans have apparently decided that it would be safer to stop the

Among the seven police George were in danger of being gassed. whole series,

Medallists are:-- Thousands of the)

The two women George Medal- books are held up in Switzerland.

Police Constable William Henry lists are Miss Bick, an A.R.P. dis- Mr. H. W. Ellis, sales manager

Allen, "G" Division, Metropolitan patch rider. of West Bromwich to the publishers, said: "We learn-

Police. Such devastation was and Miss Evelyn Gertrude ed of the ban from the British Red caused by a bomb that the rescue Thomas, matron of West Brom- Cross Society. We have a permit squad thought any people trapped wich and District General to send books to prisoners.

must be dead. The

Police-Constable pital, who told the "Daily Mirror." books are made up into

Allen was certain that he special

had "The medal should have been parcels, which go first to the Bri-heard a faint response to his shouts given

to my staff. It shall tish censors. It is a pity this has and he started to clear away the 'shared between my nurses," happened, because many of

debris above the

the basement of a books go to our men, but there is shop.

nothing we can do about it.

prisoners

"I understand that have written to relatives saying, that cop'es of these books have been destroyed by the Germans."

TRIED TO FIND PARENTS

He crawled Into a hole and found, beneath the wreckage, two elderly men and two young girls pinioned by debris. He taved them.

Hos-

ba

Bomb Train Ablaze George Medals also go to Ivor Thomas Davies, engine driver, and Frank Rog!Bald Nowns, fireman, G.W.R. Birkenhead.

When a large number of incen- Saved Eight People diary bombs fell among a train- load of ammunition and trucks Sergeant Frederick Maurice containing petrol in tins, they Burgess, "J" Division, Metropoli- helped to put a stirrup pump or a tan Police.-Reached and saved burning wagon containing aerial eight people trapped in a base-bombs.

and threatened by

A plea that he had been tryingį ment shelter

Part of the shelter threatened

E

When the bombs were sufficient-

to find his parents who were the Channel Isles when the Ger- main..

in water rushing from a brokenly cool, they levered them apart man invasion took place was made

and removed the incendiarles. for Sapper P. C. Hammond, twen-

William John Higgot, Leicester to collapse at any moment, and A.R.P. ty-nine, who at a Chatham court-

warden. He entered a the sergeant had to support it mass of ruins immediately after a martial was charged with deser- with his shoulders. When he was bomb had exploded and came out tion;

pulled "to safety, the basement with two children, one under each It was stated that Hammond fall in.

·was given leave to go to the

arm. He returned, put out a fire, War Reserve Police-Constable then put out two more fires in Channel Isles. The Army saw Alfred. John Volzey, "T" Division, other buildings. nothing more of him until he was Metropolitan Police-Smallest of arrested in January, working near three War Reserve policemen, he pany officer, London A.F.S.-He Frederick James Skelton, com- Southampton,

The decision of the Court will debris of two demolished houses cue two trapped firemen when a entered the only opening in the was badly burned trying to 'res- be announced.

which burled many people who'fire station was hit and set on fire, 1

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