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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1941.

ROAD

DEATH OF A.T.S. COOK

Soldier Charged

With Murder

21,

1

Corps

of

William Thomas Flack, private in the Royal Signals, was

at Chichester re- manded, charged with the murder on the Chichester to Funtington road of Mrs. Lilian Margaret Welch, of the A.T.S.

Supt. Savage stated that Flack

was arrested recently. A number

of enquiries were made, and the

matter was in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Asked if he had any objection

TOWN MAKES DUST ON

ITS OWN NEWS REEL

(By A Special Correspondent)

OUT OF ITS POPULATION of 9,678 the little Lincolnshire town of Louth has 9,677 film actors. Odd man out is Mr. E. B. Rawlings, and he'd be in the picture, too, if he wasn't the cameraman.

For Louth has the distinction of its own ex- to a remand, Flack replied, "No clusive news reels, bringing it in pictures all the

news of its own little world.

reason at all, sir."

Evidence, including that of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, given at the inquest on Mrs. Welch, pointed to

Trouble is that there isn't much of the stuff on which news reels are made in Louth. The last big happening there was down by a heavy motor vehicle the Flood-the town's own particular flood, which

An open verdict was was front page news twenty-one years ago.

the fact that she had been

and killed.

returned.

run

Mrs. Welch was the wife of n gardener who lived a few miles from Chichester, and on the

night of the tragedy she was cycl- ing home alone from her work as

an A.T.S. cook at a barracks.

PUT UP HIS COLLARS

George Taylor, a partner in the film of W. and G. Taylor, tailors, of Trinity Street, Cambridge, wasį fined £1 with three guineus costs at Cambridge for selling two collars at 1s. 6d, each, instead of

1s. 3d.

His commentary But Mr. G. H. Hallam and Mr. laugh.

varies Rawlings of the Playhouse with each performance. When he audience somebody Cinema, make what they can of spots in the Mayor's Day, the presence of who is also on the news reel, he celebrities in the town and freak makes good-natured

ย

crack about him.

weather scenes.

in

War Weapons Weeks has just come to their ald to provide them with real, livé, uncensored news.

Hallam shares Portly Mr. the camera work and provides the running commentary.

When a little comedy is dicated, he usually has to come an actor and supply custard pie humour. But Mr. Hallam

HONG KONG HOTEL

MAC'S CAFE

be- the

CARPET AS CLUE

Three men and a woman"up- peared at Greenwich police court on charges relating to a post office safe robbery at Algernon Road, Lewisham.

19, labourer. Lewisham,

Joseph Collyer, Mercy-terrace,

and

Frank Edwin Tolhurst, 18, rail-

Harvard way employee,

Road,