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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 15, 1941. -

NEW REGISTER OF BRITISH WOMEN FOR WAR WORK

(By Our Industrial Correspondent)

SOME 400,000 WOMEN of the 1920 class re-

PENELOPE

gistered under the Registration for Employment LEFT WITH

Order. A similar number is expected to be produced from the 1919 class.

Many of the 1920's are now receiving invitations to attend local Employment Exchanges for inter- views, and soon large numbers will be entered on a National Work Register of all those available for work of national importance.

Those put on this list

will be informed that IS STAR

they

are available "for

work of national import- AT 2-1/2

ance, or of greater im-

portance than that

on

Britain's

latest film

which they are already discovery is Elizabeth engaged."

#

++

Pengelly, who

has been

THE BOYS

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Penelope Durrell, months, was the youngest to be evacuated Briton from Greece.

She had had many hardships before her parens got her on A ship which carried a number of civilians, mainly Britons, who the were being evacuated with British Forces.

The soldiers christened Pene- lope Pinkie. She and her par- ents had spent three days and nigh's in a smail open boat not seasick or afraid. Even when the battleship's shells at raiders guns spat A.A.

This notice will add: "Arrange- blitzed out of her home she went on sucking her thumbs. ments will be made in due course

to 'fame. She lives near Penelope is the daughter of Mr. work for you. If to find such

and Mrs. Laurence George Dur- rell. find such work London.

The father is a novelist meanwhile you yourself, and t is not merely of

Elizabeth is aged only two and has lived in Greece for the Mrs. Durrell was character, temporary

she past five years. please

years and five months, but

pl inform this office at unce

has the assurance of a child twice) formerly Miss Nancy Myers,

Gainsborough, Lines, Most women will be given time her age and prattles with ease.

Aussies and New home

Tommies, received A to consider what they prefer to When her

helped the nurses AL their way direct hit tran German bomb Zealanders Many will find do.

and other babies on! into the uniformed

as she tend her services. and crumbled round her

One Tommy became which for some time to come lay in her

vot. Elizabeth didn't board. 15,000 women a month will be even cry. She just waited calm- "O.C. babies' bottles."

ly for someone to free her.

nreded.

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Women who have no employ- ment will be first dealt with by Interviewing officers of their own

Those with no particular) domestic responsibility and those in only part-time employment will follow.

sex.

A Scot dried nappies in the

The story of her heroismiler-room, handing them to a reached the assistant director, tockney private, who carried them of the new Fleet Air Arm film. t. the nurses. "Ships With Wings."

He had been look ng for น

little boy to take the part of tim GIRL ON

Order Of Interviewing | suitable.

xtar Jane Baxter's child, but had not been able to find unle The boys were all camera. too shy in front of the

give Elizabeth a

Women will not be taken away He decided to

CHARGE OF

from useful employment, whether, test. And Elizabeth got the job. ATTEMPT

this is in the nature of running!

or helping to run

billeting munition

Her golden hair

had

to

be

a household, cropped for the part, but she workers

looking after evacuee children,

or didn't mind.

Elizabeth's salary has been put Contrary to some reports, into National Savings Certificates

move.

wives of men in the Forces who are looking after their homes will not be expected to Mothers with young children will ateo be exempt after they have registered. Women who have a conscien- making or tious objection to handling munitions will not directed to do such work, but will be offered employment on some other essential service.

be

INJURED, BUT SAVED

SHIP

When his ship

There will be the widest inter- badly damaged, Captain pretation of the "useful employ-William Charles Tarrant.! ment" in which women will be

vants will not

TO MURDER

"I can tell

WHITE

Page

HORSE

blindfold

... it's equal to a fine liqueur”

Sole Agents for South China: JARDINE MATHESON AND COMPANY LTD

Charges of attempting BAGGAGE TRANSFERS

to murder her father and of robbing him with vio-

lence six days after she

a

had married were made at Watlington, Oxford, against a woman and her was aircraftman husband.

Bald by The daughter was

made have the police to statement that she knocked her the head, sidoping father over

and but he got up soreaming rushed past her. According to the statement, her

doing

they husband was not in the room at decided to take a hundred-to- the time.

The couple

Aircraftman one chance of saving the ship.

Owen Davies and Kitty Davies, They rowed back. Their efforts were successful, of Watlington, and the attack was

to have occurred and they managed to

the alleged

allowed to remain. Domestic ser- R.N., reluctantly agreed'

necessarily be called on for some time to take to his crew and himself

is taking to the boats.

on war work, and so far as possible women who have replac- ed men in shops, offices, or any other form of work will be left there.

The first of the interviews of men of 41 who registered recent ly are also taking place now.

HOSPITALS ARE NOT UNSAFE

ALTHOUGH MANY HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY BOMBS, HOSPITALS ARE NOT UNSAFE PLACES DURING AIR RAIDS AND PEOPLE DO NOT RUN A SPECIAL RISK BY ENTERING THEM.

This was revealed by the Minis-1 ter of Health.

In the: 400 hospitals and in-

stitutions of all kinds' in Grea-

But after

80.

get

are

on

The prosecutor said Mrs. Davies

ship safely back to port. It was March 28. not till then that Captain Tarrant mentioned he was hurt, and

it acted as housekeeper to her fa-

was found that he had fractured ther, Owen Henry Figg, until six

a hip bone.

weeks before the attack. He took the money to bed with him.

coffin

The story is recalled by death of Captain Tarrant at his home in Havant Hampshire When he was burled the was covered with the flag of the Line, Royal Mail

which the captain served in peace time.

MILLION

A DAY ON

BUILDING

ter London, casualties among Britain recently em-

patients totalled only, 430, of

slightly.

The couple were sent for trial.

ARMISTICE SIGNED

conven-

The Syrian armistice tion was officially signed and rati fled at Acre early this morning by General Sir Henry Maitland. Wilson and General de Verdillac. -Reuter.

6D. FOR RETURNING

$47

A full-time warden who found £47 in notes in a Muswell Hill

whom 236, were killed and 195 barked on a £1,000,000-a-(London), street and took them injured, the majority only day building programme to the police, has been rewarded Because of the very elaborate This was revealed by the by the owner with 6d. precauations we have taken to Minister of Works and

meet conditions of heavy raid-

ing" said the Minister, the risk Buildings in London.

Is less than outside hospitals."

NO PRISONER EXCHANGES

The Dominions Secretary told the House of Lords that the refu- sal of the German Government to agree to grant anfe conduct to any class of prisoner had made It necessary to abandon for the tline, being any scheme of ex- change of prisoners.

of what the Industry could meet," said the Minister.

vast discussion But, after He said his Ministry was now and negotiation, we have `BOG- carrying out over £1,000,000 of ured a reduction to the real worken week. It had an office capacity of the country—about

*£350.000,000 a year.". staff of 9,000, half of them tech- nical and a field force of 2.0000,On planning" and reconstruc

One of its achievements had tion of town and country after been the substitution. for the ald the war, the Minister said priority svatem of a system of "There must be co-ordination labour allocation to departments, between living and working and moving and playing, instead of the haphazard d'sorder and in- convenience of our lives, the had monstrous and obscene mutila- reached a "peak far in excess tions of the countryside.":

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