1941-06-19 — Page 4

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AM-CONDITICHED THE APPEN

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IT'S FUNNY

John Barrymore

"THE GREAT PROFILE

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CECIL CONNINGHAM

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PART II

THE FIRST REBEL

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1941

SINO-BURMA

BORDER

DELIMITATION SUNDAY

DINNER IN

AN EXCHANGE OF NOTES between the Chin- THE RUINS

ese and British Governments on-the delimitation of: the Sino-Burma frontier, took place in Chungking at 5 p.m. yesterday.

One Note defines in detail the line which is to be the frontier between Yunnan and Burma and another Note defines the boundaries of the area on the Burma side of the frontier in which the Burman Government agrees to permit Chinese participation in any mining enterprise which may be undertaken by British concerns.

HOSPITAL ROMB RESCUES

!

Families Defy

Bombings

Families continue to live in badly bombed Lon- don houses: In the streets of one district where humble homes lay tum- bled in the dust or re-

In 1885, Britain annexed Upper mained standing but

Burma and by Article Three

of

the Convention relating to Burma battered, a wisp of smoke and Tibet, entered into between from a cracked chimney Britain and China in 1886, it was stack proclaimed that China and Burma be marked by Sunday dinner was being

cooked as usual.

agreed that the frontier between

In one such

visited, street

where

number a

families of lived till the Wednesday night's

a delimitation commission.

Negotiations opened in 1892 and a Convention was signed on Marchi 1, 1894 defining the Rescue work at

St. front er.

A subsequent agreement in great raid, some still carried on.

They had no gas, but, they sat Thomas's Hospital, Lon-1897 provided for certain medi- don, after the

fications but considerable difficul-down to a dinner of roast lamb, buildings

baked potatoes and greens, fol- Lies were experienced owing to

lowed by tea. were bombed, has been the inexactness of the terms used Mrs. Elizabeth Brewer said: "I recognised by the award in the Convention.

Three separute Boundary Com-cooked my dinner on the open of three George Medals missions failed to reach an agree-fire, which we lit with bits of wood salvaged from bombed to Dr. H. R. B. Norman,ment regarding a portion of the

houses." frontier or about 200 miles be- resident assistant physi-tween the R vers Namting and cian, Mr. Peter Maling, Nahka. medical student, and Mr. Mineral Deposits H. E. Frewer, assistant clerk of works.

•

The matter was in abeyance for over 30 years until, in 1934, it was taken up owing to differ- ence of opinion regarding right to investigate certain mineral deposits believed to exist in disputed area.

the

the

Her husband drove a railway engine through a raid and came home to find his home wrecked. But they stayed, and Cordelia, the eldest daughter, brought a bunch of daffodils to cheer the in which the whole family now lives and sleeps.

one room

Mrs. Brewer's immediate worry is washing: A brick has become wedged and she cannot get the copper fire going.

Two men were trapped and in- jured in a confusion of blazing

collapsing gas mains,

masonry and choking fumes when a bomb

Little Joe Brewer, who is six, destroyed the dispensary stores By an exchange of Notes in

estimated his loss of an ice cream and crashed into the basement.

Nanking in April 1935, China,

the falling on cornet, through Britain and India agreed to the muddy edge of a crater, as worse "Mr. Frewer," the official ac-

establishment of a Commission i than bombing. count states, "led the rescue party under the chairmanship of a By the shattered porch of the into this very dangerous area. Commissioner appointed by the

Brewers' house seven-year-old assisted by Mr.

which sub- Vera solemnly played shops by Maling, burrowed into the debris League of Nations

recom- herself. mitted a report on the and gave morphia injections LO

mendations.

The matter was again shelved when hostilities between China

out in and Japan broke Summer of 1937.

Dr. Norman,

the injured men. They ultimately extricated the casualties."

Dr. Norman's wife is a sister- in-law of Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary.

Rescuer Sprayed · Other George Medals go to: Harold Rogers, a Wallasey dock

crawled

gateman. who

under

burning

debris and rescued

2

child. He

then had himself

sprayed with

his clothing went back,

the

Will Not Leave

Further down the street was the Nethercot family, also re- The question became again duced to one habitable room, the acute when the Chinese Gov-small kitchen. Mr. Fred Nether- ernment decided to press on cot is a London 'bus driver, and with the construction of thenis wife only lately left hospital. Yunnan - Burma Railway be-

"We

are not going to leave would cause the easiest route

here," Mr.

Bald. Nethercot take the railway across the area "We'd only Just got straight in dispute.

from our last packet some months ago;' new ceilings, new wall-papers and everything - and here we go again.”

In these circumstances, aided water to prevent by the more friendly atmosphere China and catching fire and prevailing between

quickly assisted by A.F.S. Britain, a solution was men. Three women were taken found and this solution was em- from beneath a burning staircase! bodied in the Notes which were within a few exchanged in Chungking yester- which collapsed

day afternoon.--Reuter. minutes of the rescue.

Robert Vandehook, of the London A.F.S., who removed a bomb from the hall of his fire service station and covered it with sandbags.

Robert Batey and John Milne, Westminister air-raid wardens, who scaled dangerous wreckage

.

The England family still lives on the top floor of a block of L.C.C. flats which were badly hit the same Wednesday: "One side of the block

years stands open."

"We

"

been here eight we are not going, said Mr. Edward England, who has just been Invalided out of the

GEORGE CROSS TO Army. We are staying put, the

DEAD OFFICER

The posthumous award of the

way Mr. Churchill wants us to.. We have had as good a Sunday dinner to-day as we ever had in our lives."

As I left the flats I saw Union

Killed On Duty

of a house and, after a two-hours George Cross to Sec. Lt. (Actg. Jacks flying from battered win- search rescued a woman by means Capt.) Michael Floud Blaney, of dows, young men in uniform call- of knotted sheets, All the time the Royal Engineers, for "mosted for their sweethearts, and "two adjoining property was ablaze, conspicuous gallantry in carrying little girls in frilly frocks skip-

out hazardous work in a very ped in the debris. and more bombs fell close by.

19 brave manner,' was announced For 30 hours, Alexander Pren- in the London Gazette. tice, assistant superintendent at Lance.-Cpl. W. H. Styles, of the the Royal infirmary, Sheffield, R.A.S.C. who helped led incendiary bomb fighters on three people trapped in the cellar a Hazardous journey through a of a Chatham house which had false roof, tackled outbreaks of been demolished by a bomb, re- Are, and saved expensive new ceives the George Medal. machinery and electrical instal-Among lations.

to rescue The deaths of two women; kill- ed by enemy action while on duty are announced.

- Mrs. Greena Jefferies, only daughter of Major-Gen Sir. Guy those commended is Beatty, was killed while at her Fusilier William Richard Jones; post with a fire-fighting squad. Royal. Welch Fusiliers, for his She was the wife of Mr. T. C. (Civil part in the rescue of the pilot of Jefferies, an officer: cadet.

a burning. Nazi, bomber. near Horsham, Sussex for which three farm workers have already bear {commended,

He becomes an M.B.E Division) for "outstanding bravery and an intrepid spirit.”

Bombed German Cruisers

Pilot Of R. A. Esler, a Belfast man, has been awarded the D,F.C. for his part in an attack last month on the German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gnei- senau in Brest Harbour.

"Pilot"Off. "Esler, the observer of a plane, searched for some time In the darkness, in face of in- tense A.A. and searchlight activity. After dropping a stick of bombs, he made two more runs, obtaining proof that the ship? were there. * This officer has also obtained first-class bombing gar results on Venice Cologne, Bremen and Wilhelmshavan:.

STAR

TO-DAY ONLY Jeanette MacDonal

'Broadway Serenade: with W Ayres

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Mrs. Joan Forsyth wife Capt. H. W. Forsyth, Royal Scots and elder daughter of Sir Donald Kingdon, was also killed on duty.

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