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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 10, 1941

"PETER

PAN” MAYOR

Once a week the Mayor of Gateshead, Alderman P. S. Hancock, “becomes a child" and writes a long letter to the twenty chil- dren he has "adopted" and who have been sent overseas from his town.

He gives them the latest news of their pals at school.

"I can imagine just how lonely those kiddies feel in a strange land." Alderman Hancock (old the "Daily Mirror."

man.

"Writing in a grown-up nor would be no UGO to many of them, so I think out all the old words I used as a kiddie, and then write as one child to another in simple phrases they can understand. That 16 the hardest part of the job.

Teachers give me news of the absent kiddies' friends and I pass it on. 1 spend many hours euch week writing. In fact, I am up until nearly

two o'clock in the

morning

"I always write personally and use the Mayor's official paper. The

crest on the

the children.

Britain's newest and mightiest battleship, King Geoge V, which was engaged against the Bla

This picture shows the marck, has a formidable armament including quadruple 14" gun turrets. four glant guns of one of these turrets, with secondary armament, 6.25" guns in the background.

(Copyright, Fox). Men under the guns are preparing a towing cable during "general drill."

SERBIAN

Suficial paper. The S

"All of them have written back, even the youngest, telling me how glad and excited they are to receive my letters.

"fam beginning to feel

as

though the children are my own. The parents have all thanked me for the interest I have taken in them.

PRISONERS

CLEARING

SINK BOMBER

DOWNS

BRITISH ALLIGATORS'

Colourful language is

ATTACKER

used to describe war news CAPITAL

Travellers from grade,

terate.

One night a heavy to the 8,000,000 or So bomber was making its Bel- South African natives, the bomb-ravaged majority of whom are illi- way along the coast of | France after attacking the Capital of Yugoslavia, re- port 6,000 fatalities occur- The Department of Native naval base at Brest when

the news in red there and that the Affairs now issues

a Messerschmidt 110 came the several · languages of the Pilot Officer Jack Cald-City is returning to nor-

up from below. er of the Canadian Air mal.

PILOT TOLD QUEEN A MILITARY SECRET

Bantu peoples.