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CIVILIAN V.C. FOR CORPORAL OF THE PIONEERS

THE MAGNIFICENT courage of soldiers of the Pioneer Corps is told in a “Gazette” notice announcing the award of the George Cross to Corporal J. Scully and the George Medal to Licut. C. Chittenden.

When houses were demolished by enemy action a rescue party under the direction of Lieut. Chittenden went to the incident and search was made for trapped people.

Corporal Scully located a man and woman and with great dif- ficulty managed to penetrate the debris

they and get to where were buried. Chittenden follow- ed him.

Wood was obtained to use as props to shore up the debris but: there was no means of cutting it into proper lengths. A rescue party then arrived with tools to cut some wood into more suitable lengths for shoring.

All available help was muG- tered and the men worked tro.

mendously hard in efforts to

DRIFTING MINES

**000**

HEADS AND

TAILS WIN

Complications have arisen in the Lincoln- shire war against rats.

Some London au- thorities are paying twopence each for rats' tails and others the same amount for rats' bodies.

Thus, bodies of rats, minus tails, may

WARNING be sold to one coun-

The Naval Authorities have repeated the warn- ing that moored mines may be adrift as the re-

clear away the wreckage. sult of typhoon weather.

plode.

Scully remained with the trap-

Whilst adrift these mines are ped persons and prevented

any safe,

but if they drift ashore more debris falling on them. A

among rocks and are pounded on long plank was inserted to take the coast, they are liable to ex- most of the weight but มะ a result of further falls the orops

Any person seeing a mine ashore began to sway out of position.

(or drifting near the shore) should | ▶0 There was then #1 very real

at once telephone the nearest danger of a mass of debris slid- Police Station, giving the locality ing down and burying the injur-and the exact position of the mine. ed persons.

with reference to a house, pier or beach.

Realising this. Scully placed his back under a plank to try and prevent the props from giving way completely. He steadied them for a time but gradually the weight increased until the props slinded.

This left Scully holding one end of a plank and Chittenden sup- porting the other.

A Naval party will then be sent to render the mine harmless, but until that has been done all per- sons should keep clear of an area within a quarter of a mile of the mine, any dwellings within this area being evacuated temporarily.

Could Have EscapedNORWAY'S

Scully could have got away at this stage but he knew that it he did so the debris would fall and probably kill the trapped persons so he stayed under the plank.

Gradually the weight increased and forced Scully down until he lay across the trapped man who supported Scully's head to pre- vent him from being suffocated

hy having his head pressed into the debris.

to

He managed to keep Scully's

YOUNG

AIR FORCE

Over ninety per cent. of young pilots of the Nor- wegian Air Force are out of Norway and are again actively aiding the Allies.

cil, and the tails pro- duced to another au- second thority for a payment.

Market Rasen de- mands to see the bodies, but Caistor, eight miles away pays for tails.

SOVIET

PARLEY

WITH THE POLISH

A further meeting was held between Russian and Polish representatives last Saturday to discuss rela- two tions between the countries.

that

head clear but he was fast becom-

Crown Prince Olaf of Norway

THE DISCUSSIONS WERC ing exhausted, Despite this he

disclosed this at a luncheon in DESCRIBED IN LONDON LAST kept up his spirits and continued

London in honour of Norway,

IMPORT- NIGHT AS "A VERY talk encouragingly to the

The Norwegian Air Force, he ANT AND ENCOURAGING women. The man was unconscious nearly all the time.

added, was restarted in Canada DEVELOPMENT." Scully remained in this post-with a basis of 20 plots in June tlon throughout the night until, last year. more than seven hours later, a rescue party was able to extrl- cato him and the casualties, When they first entered the house Cittenden and Scully knew there was a grave risk of serious injury or death as high walls nearby appeared about To collapse at any moment.

Had this collapse occurred they would have been buried under many tons of debris.

Scully risked his life to save the two people and though the position looked hopeless, Chitten- British den stayed with him. Wireless.

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Prince Olaf emphasised that the vast majority of Norwegian people were not cooperating with the Nazis and did not wish to enter the so-called new order of Europe about which they had been told so much by Germany.

The people of Norway had al- ready lived a year under this new order and they did not like It.- British Wireless,

RUNAWAY CAR

An unusual traffic accident was reported to the police by Dr. Lam King-cheong, of

No. Prince Edward Road.

223,

It was added, however, much remained to be done.

An important phase of the negotiations centres Оп Polish soldiers now in Russian hands, says a diplomatic correspondent.

An Interesting suggestion has been made that they should be re-formed and re-equipped and, acting under the command of the Polish Government, re-

the sume their fight against common enemy.

Mr. Anthony Eden saw M. Zaleski, the Polish Foreign Minister, at the Foreign last night when relations were among discussed.--Reuter.

Office Russo-Polish

matters

JEWISH CONFIDENCE

Dr. Lam stated that 11

p.m. on Monday he parked his car, No. 2199, in front of No. 112, Austin Rond with the hand brakes on. Half an hour later,

A public declaration of faith Individual cavalry and the he returned and discovered that on behalf of the Jewish people by Royal Armoured Corps Regiment the car had run down Austin the Chief Rabbi of the British will in future be mentioned when Road and collided with the hill- Empire, the Very Rev. Dr. Hertz, advisable in the same way as side. The car was badly dam was made yesterday when infantry regiments, the War aged. Secretary intimated in a Commons reply.

Capt. Margesson said he was most anxious to make public the names of individual regiments in such a way that they could be readily identided by relatives. of men serving, wherever this was possible without prejudice to current future operations. British Wireless.

Six junk people were fined $75, each or two months' hard labour, by Mr. D. J. N. Anderson this morning, for approaching within 30 yards of a ship flying the immigration flag.

WOMAN "DOCTOR

SUMMONED

said:"

I solemnly declare my un- shakeable faith In British Victory bringing freedom to all peoples of this earthingaskhan

I proudly range. myself with all who join in the defence of Palestine, the Holy Land of three barbaric faiths, against the paganism of the Nazis." British Wireless d

For unlawfully practicing medicine and surgery at No. 86. Ngatsinwal Road, Kowloon City, a Chinese woman, Cheung Chi- yuk, residing at No. 1, Sterling HANDBAG LOST Road, was summoned before. Mr. H. C. Macnamara at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

No plea was taken, the caso being adjourned to: Saturday.

Mr. E. S. C. Brooke will appear for defendant,

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(Captain C. M. M. "Man," of Middlesex Regiment, made a re-, port to the police last night stat- ing his wife had lost a handbag, at 8p.m. last night, whilst travel- ling from Kowloon to Hong Kong.

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