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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 20, 1941

SOVIET ARMY SHOWS GREAT ELAN

skill

SOME INDICATION of the Red Army's s and adaptibility in the art of camouflage, organisa- tion of front-line transport and tactical al lity, in- cluding such audacious tricks as immediately. turn- ing captured batteries against the enemy, was given. at a press conference by Lieut. Gen. F. N. Mason MacFarlane, chief of the British military mission to Moscow, who has just returned from a visit to a salient where the Russians have been successfully counter-attacking the Germans.

The salient visited by General MacFarlane can be described only as being in the sector near Smo- lensk. This is his account, in his own words:

"I went up and saw a division still in the process of carrying

LOOKS FOR CHINESE

"COFFIN TREE"

SHORT CUT

TO A MEDAL

Bernard Cannon of Bolton, wanted to Join the Navy-But they wouldn't take him quickly enough, so he joined the RAF

Within ten weeks he was flying. Now it has been announced that he has been awarded the Distinguished Fly- ing Medal. He is a sergeant.

out a successful attack which had started more than twenty-four hours previously. The previous day it had advanced to a depth of about fifteen kilometres (more than nine miles) and the attack was still in progress.

Ist who has spent many years in "The division had captured sev-¦ China and has taken to Enginad hundreds of eral German field batteries. One from that country battery had

captured by varieties of flowers and plants, Russian tanks and infantry. Three spoke to the Singapore Rotary had been rammed and Club of his quest for the Chinese guns smashed by tanks. Only one intact "caffin tree." gun was left. In front of it was a His interest in Chinese coffins Russian tank with its turret blown was first aroused when, during a in, and the Russians had already visit to Canton he saw an unusual buried the crew of the tank right coffin in the Hall of the Dead. It

Mr. A. Kingdom Ward, a botan- WOMAN

been

beside it. It made a dramatic pie

ture--the solitary gun, the ruined tank, the row of neat graves.

LOVED A GOOD TIME

"A good time for her- was not until some 25 years later self was more important that he was taken to a remote to Sybil than anything site, reached only after a difficult

And I loved Journey, where grew the magni- else in life. ficent Chinese coffin tree, tower her so much. I just could

ing about other trees. The sight,

Captured Cannon Used

"The Russians were already said Mr. Kingdon Ward, was worth not bear the thought of and discom- somebody else making using the German guns against the the inconveniences enemy, ramming in captured forts he had experienced during shells. There was a good deal of

the journey. The wood from his love to her. But that is sporadic shelling by both sides all coffin tree went to make expen- what happened to-night

sive Chinese coffins.

the time, and it warmed up dur- ing the evening.

"As a reply to the rather as- tronomical German claims about the tanks and 'planes they have destroyed, I may say that I saw large numbers of Russian tanks in this area and saw more Russian aeroplanes in the skies than German.

In the West, he said, it was the again; and she said this cost of living which caused con- was going to happen

again in future.”

cern; in China it was the cost of dying.

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PILOT'S £1,000 THANK-OFFERING

have been This was said to

Donald written in h diary by Jack Chilvr 30, fitter, who at Hampshire Assizes was found guilty of stabbing his wife to death after a dance.

He was pronounced insane and ordered to be detained during his Majesty's pleasure.

"The men were looking very

An R.A.F. pilot officer has sent hard and fit, and obviously were a cheque for £1,000 to the Lord well fed. They had got their tails Mayor of London's National Air right up.

Every lot that I saw Raid Distress Fund "in gratitude

Dr. Roy Neville Craig, mental seemed to be what I should call for the miraculous escape of his a happy show. There were very | bomber crew in a recent raid on specialist, said: "In seventeen eighteen years, I don't think good relations all around and Hambur"." everywhere one

Altogether men and women in have come across a mental stress got the impres-

Services have contributed of greater degree.' sion of very deep-rooted univer- the sal hatred of what they called the £23,429 to the fund. Fascists.

"I was very struck with their horses, which are mostly used in transport. They are very little, hard, wiry horses, doing their stuff frightfully well and obviously well looked after.

"Then I must mention the smooth way in which all their rear organisations, such as supply. are going on. It was striking. A very good standard of driving and good traffic control were evident and there were very few -break- downs. In the evening soup kit- chens rolled up to the front, steaming, with dinner.

Army Girls Near Front

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NOWT ABOUT OWT

"We've nowt of owt worth owt" was displayed on a notice outside

Harrogate boot shop.

A

or I

Mr. Justice Charles, sum- ming up, sald It was clear that the wife had for years tortured her husband. Chilvers said his' wife stayed frequented .public out late and houses and dances.

CHINESE MARRIAGE

POSER IN MALAYA

AS A RESULT of many anxious inquiries as to "I saw several army girls in uniform, wearing boots, dark-blue whether Chinese marriages performed in Singapore skirts and the army blouse. They

were as far forward as advanced in the old-fashioned style without witnesses are re- divisional headquarters and were cognised by law in Malaya, the Chinese Consulate- doing all sorts of things, One was General in Singapore has approached the Chung- a medical, one was a telegraphist, another was a motor driver, king Foreign Office for direction and advice. another was a clerk with an air This action has been taken, duced was a plece of red paper force unit.

"The medical girl was one principally because of the decision with gold lettering. There were of a Singapore magistrate that and "withesses to the certificate, Chinese marriage performed in extraordinarily stout kid. Only the old style had. "not been strictly 20. She had spent the day. before under fire, helping the proved wounded get back.

saw forward, and she was an

and the complainant could not produce the man who perform red the marriage. The proof of marriage falled on the point of witnesses,

In the court case, a Chinese, The country is very striking-Chew Peng Hong, produced a rather like Salisbury Plain, only document as proof of his marriage An authority on Chinese marri- with very large patches of ten to a woman named Tang: Khlang ages declared in evidence that in foot-high scrub and a certain Eng. He stated they had been Chinese law marringes, must be amount of forest, The Russians married eight years. In March performed in public before two or are unusually good at conceal this year, he said, he went to more witnesses. A certificate of ment, You would go along a patch Johore and obtained work, When marriage without attestation by of scrub and just catch something he returned to Singapore five witnesses, the witness declared, did out of the cormer of your eye, then weeks later, he found his wife not constitute sufficient proof of find it full of men and stuff.com- and child living with another man, pletely hidden from view.

Tay Slak Khoon.

marriage.

Many Chinese marriages in Singapore have been performed "Once you": "get off the main road" vou are either driving in a

Not Satisfied

on a similar informal; basis, both partles applying their signatures blinding cloud of dust or when it rains, you are sliding about In Charged with enticing away the to a rectangular piece of red a good imitation of marmalade, woman, Tay Slak Khoon was paper with no witnesses to sup-

"From the monient I left Mos- acquitted without being called port the documented cow to the moment I got back upon to give his defence, they The Chinese Consulate General did not see a single slan of magistrate deciding it was und has asked the Chungking GovernTM refugees unywhere, and I imagine necessary to continue the case ment for instructions as to how they are told to stay on. After because he was not satisfied that such marriages, which are other the vivid memories of Belgium the marriage had been strictly wise perfectly proper

given the status and France, this was most hear- proved.

The marriage certificate pro- - according to Chinese tening"

can be legality

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