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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1941.

DOCTOR TOLD DYING BOY

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"GET UP" LOOTING

A DOCTOR WHO TOLD a boy dying of con- sumption to "get up and go out," was censured re- cently by Nottinghamshire Insurance Committee.

But they refused to reveal his name. Several members pressed for this disclosure, and the public will want to know why their demand was refused,

Though the Committee found) that the doctor-

Pailed to attend the boy with

reasonable promptnes#;

Failed to examine him; and Had "little regard for his res ponsibilities towards his Insured patients";

this was the penalty they consid- ered adequate:

The doctor had 25 deducted from his remuneration and was ordered to pay 156. 6d. the fee of another doctor called in.

Temperature 101

*

£40,000 OFFERED

FOR WINES

DUTCH GOLD

"Holland's Quisling No. 2," Rost van Tonnin- gen, has been appointed director-general of the Netherland Central Bank.

It is a curious fact that Rost van Tonningen was the League of Nations Financial Commis- sioner for the Austrian State Bank at the time that Seyss-Inquart, now Reich Commissioner for the occupied areas, was intriguing against the Austrian Government. Another Austrian, Fischboek, then Seyss-Inquart's legal advi- is the German Financial Commissioner for the occupied

arca.

The looting of Holland's riches by the Germans will be further facilitated by this appointment.

One of London's gayest ser, war-time restaurants, bombed in a recent raid. will not be reopened. According to a report from

This decision was taken at a sub-committee, the doctor called meeting of debenture holders and two days late and did not exam-others financially interested in it. ine the boy, after he had been The principal director was killed told that his temperature varied outright.

100 to

101.2 degrees, but from said: "Young fellows like you go │* to bed for nothing. You want to get up and go out."

He prescribed medicine, gave a certificate showing the cause of incapacity as general debil- ity, and said he would not call again.

Servant Blamed

Another doctor found the boy gravely ill. The boy died some days later.

The first doctor said that his failure to call was due to the negligence of a servant. Some members of the commit- tee unsuccessfully pressed for his name to be disclosed.

POLICE TO LOSE "LOYALTY" SIGN

The orange flash worn by those South African policemen who, at the outbreak of war, took an oath to serve anywhere in Africa is to be abolished.

This decision has been taken by the Government after a finding by the Rand Riots Commission that there was a good deal of hostility by both public and soldiers to policemen not wearing the flash.

The Minister of Justice recent- ly told Parliament that of 7,532 policemen of all ranks in the Union, 4,467 had qualified to wear the orange flash..

The flash is regarded as a test of loyalty to the Government of Gen. Smuts. It will continue; to b¬ worn by the Army, and Air Force.

PRISONERS' NEWS POOL

RELATIVES OF THE 210 PRI-

ERS OF WAR FROM STOKE-

in

the

Between last July and October over £3,000,000 in gold, surren- dered by Dutch holders to the By Central Bank, disappeared. last February 10, £8,000,000

had gold

vanished from Central Bank,

An

of increase

£15,000,00, under the mysterious head "various accounts" of the Central

seems to

that suggest credits of the bank have been ex- worthless German

The staff have received two of notice. weeks' salary in lieu The meeting considered bids amounting to £30,000 and

£40,000 for the stocks of wines. Bank,

When the final list of casual-changed for ties was compiled it was foundi.o.u.'s. that among the dead was a con- stable of the Metropolitan Police. It was stated that he attended the restaurant in plain clothes that night "in the course of his official duties."

GIRL, 16, BOY 12, LIVED IN SHELTER

Sir

DIED ON DAY HIS TOWER FELL

of

George Wyatt Truscott, Palace chairman of the Crystal Trustees, died recently, the day the 280ft North Tower of the Palace was felled.

Sir George, who was 83, work- and led for the City of London

for

A sixteen-years-old girl her twelve-year-old brother lived nearly 60 years. In 1908-9 he was the for five months in a public shelter Lord Mayor, being one of while their father was in lodgings. youngest occupants of that office, This was s'ated in Birmingham and he was several times acting Juvenile Court.

Lord Mayor.

He was only 25 when he became Inspector Goddard said that a member of the Court of Com- their mother died

some time mon Council, and he succeeded

lived his father as Alderman at 38. ago and their father had with them in the shelter before going into lodgings.

On his 80th birthday he was made an honorary Freeman of London, an honour conferred on the The boy was sent to an approv-only one other member of ed school and the girl was put Corporation-the late Viscount back for a medical examination. Wakefield in 1935.

UNIVERSITY MEN MUST JOIN TRAINING UNITS

Conditions under which University students, student teachers and industrial apprentices may be dealt with in relation to service in the Forces ON-TRENT HAVE FORMED AN have now been decided by the Government. Men ASSOCIATION TO POOL NEWS FROM THE MEN'S LETTERS under 20, the age group into which students natur- The scheme, instigated by Mrally fall, will be registered as soon as they become

Hugh Irving, a pottery manufac-

turer, whose son is a prison fu 19. Germany, is sponsored by the

!:

Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, Registration will proceed by plete one year's study. They are Mr. A. E. Hewitt, who was who have reached 19 by the first city, course only if they show e

half-year classes, so that those to be recommended for a univer- half of this year will register ceptional intellectual ability or about July, and those who be- capacity for leadership,

the last six

prisoner in the last war.

Mr. Irving and the members of his family have opened a fund with £100.

BROTHER AND SISTER GASSED IN A CAR

brother and sister who were bombed out of their home in August were found gassed in car at a relative's house in Long- hill Road Catford, London-

ANNO will register University students. must make

come ... months about January,

satisfactory progress in their stud ies and must: Join a senior Train Apart from medical and dental ing Corps or an Air Training students who are reserved at all Corps, unless they are members ages, all students who wish to go of the Home Guard, the Royal on to a University must first obtain Observer Corps or the Civil De- the approval of a Joint Refence services. cruiting Board,

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composed of University and military authorit- Student teachers will be reserv- ed during the completion of their course subject to the following conditions: AR

Must Show Ability

If they entered a training col- lege in the autumn- term, 1040,

They were John Richard · Ala- buster, thirty-eight, an architect. and Hilda May Alabaster, twenty- “nine.......... At the Lewisham inquest in

Men In ending to follow a scien-had not reached 181⁄2 years on was stated that the woman's tifle or technical course, will then October 1, 1040, and are due to worry about her health was shar- receive deferment from service, take their final examination in ed by her brother”-

Those taking other courses will be March, 1942, or enter, a training required to enlist in one of the college in the autumn term, 1041, dis- Services, but will be placed on and have not reached, 18 by

the Reserve and allowed to com-October.

Verdict: Suicide. while the balance of their minds was turbed.

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