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OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

THREE LITTLE STORIES OF BRITISH GALLANTRY: CIVILIANS AS HEROES

WALK DOWN A SHOPPING STREET IN BRITAIN. ENGAGE A PORTER AT A RAILWAY STATION, OR ASK A TELEPHONE GIRL FOR A NUMBER, AND ITS AS LIKELY AS NOT YOU WILL RUB SHOULDERS WITH OR TALK TO A HERO VR HEROINE..

Here are three title s'ories of ordinary peuple whose everyday Jobs might easily bring you into contact with the real Hve stuff of beroism

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Then she cleared enough space many hers, volunteered to be on white), to carry on with her work ARJ messenger. During a recent until sti With reheved In the raid, he was in the Report Centre morning Thus did she enable the when Q high explosive fell near. vital telephone selvære to cuantinuc The blast muried him right out of to function without Interruptor the Luliding He at once scrambled ARTHUR STILLWELL. aged 52.

hmself

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up and went back Into the Centre is another man with an ordinary li ask anything was wanted job who has prived Bring the Rescue Squad from the her. He a signalman on the depot," was the answer, and lock Southern Railway and his spare j sharp lad, it's urgent'

time is in the Home Guard and a The nearest depot was a quar First Aid ambulance squad as well! ter of a mile away and he could it was, however. In his capacity as not get at his bleycle because of signalman that he performed his The crash He commenced to run. dees 1 daring. One night dozens Almost immediately he fell into a of bombs, incendiaries and high! bomb crater in the ky blackness explosives, fell round

his cabin

It was rapidly filing with water They blew in the glass. iited the trom burst water main nearby root and threw Stillwel abou Splashing and spluttering be, among the levers Several of the struggled out and ran on.

boints were of the delayed action

He reached the depot, collected type The Rescue Squad, and led them back to the Report Centre by an other route to avoid the crater He was officially comuneodtd for! zallantry

naw just

and they remained where they were to make trouble. One had fallen on the track making a hole which underintned the metais The same night a little distance of a lucky bit had blown in A

British designers have beeu ynek to appreciate the pos sibilities of linking

up with the V-for-Victory" campaign. The picture shows a model by Erie Hart, Ltd.. of London-a house with prominent V's un The collar points and the merse code

dot-dot dot-dash ustd

decorative motit topically suggestive of a medal ribbon The blouse is made in

H popular woight all-wool material, with Traubenised col- lar and cuffs, and has been particularly well received.

"VICTORY" ROLL IN HAIRSTYLES

GENERAL

SHIP'S OFFICER MARRIED AT THE REGISTRY

BUTTON

CHAU

At the Registry. Supreme Court, yesterday. with Mr. T. S. Whyte- Smith officiaung. Miss Mary Chou. residing at No. 220 Nathan Road, ground floor, was married to Mr Rene August Button. mercantile marine office, of 8.8. St. Vincent i de Paul

Other weddings that took place yesterday with Mr. J Reynold: Deputy Registrar, officiating

were

Mr Menashe Greenfeld. Aler enant of No 216 Prince Edward Road, and Miss Llly Duru sten grapher of No 34 Hillwood Road

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i MI Tham Kah-wal. merchant. residing at the St. Francis Hotel. and Miss Cheong Sam-wat. also residing at the some address.

Mr Fung Ying-sum. representa tive, The New Astatic Chemical Works Ltd residing at No. 291 Hennessy Road, fret Noor. and Miss Au Lal-long, of No. 14 Taap Cheong Street. third floor:

Mr. 1p Chuen-hau, clerk, of No. 76 Electric Road, first floor, and Miss Kam Pa-king, student of the saine address

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The following forthcoming mar rtages have been announced:

Walter Henry Blount, corporal, Royal Corps of Signals, of Victoria Barracks, and Miss Lily Lee. of No 97 Gloucester Road Brst door.

Then there the girl tele tunnel and the breakdown train

1 phonist, WENDY HOLLVER. a was needed there at once. complete i typical pretty London girl, who with cranes and lifting tackle. THIS VICTORY BUSINESS

the George Medal. There was only me way for it O EVEN won

SPREADING ΤΟ HAIR- She felt her duty to volunteer, get to the damaged tunnel over STYLES! Singapore hairdressers for AR P. work and become athe unexploded bomb hole.

lare being asked by their ellents to telephonist BL 3 Report Cer:ur In spite of bruises sustained in style the "Victory Roll," a coiffure along with nve other girls

the signal box Sulwell offered to with upswept curls in front and One night the Centre received a take the train past the danger the back hair dressed to two l direct litt and was demolished let "You ran only die once," he from the ears and meeting on the No 287 Des Three a1 the girls were killer laughed "Al right mate. I'm with nape of the neck to form a "V": first floor nuinght and a fourth was planed you." answered Driver Nansen and writes Lorraine under tous of wreckage and Fireman Miller. Two guards. Herne Sunday Tribune. severely injuren. Nevertheless the and Beresford, offered to go too Centre continued to send ou and

They got on to the breakdown receive urgent telephone messages train and set it in motion With For the rest of the night, thanks nerves. 결국 teratom they came

at

Streeter

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Mr Chot Ki-sham, merchant of Voeux Road West.

and Miss Tang Wal-

It the hun. of No 488 Bonham Road.

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TO BE IN SWIM

Mr Mok K-mlug. merchant, of "One or two people used to wear

Nr: 124 Peking Road. and Miss tuels Hair

this way

Betere the Chik

Ya yli. FÍ The same

Victory campaign started" a hair address,

to Wendy's courage Her rom, next nearer to the bomb crater. As the dresses told me, "But to de one in which the three girls front wheels crossed the edge the yere killed. was wrecked and she's

bent aminuly bul they, herself was pluned down by d held Pive seconds and It was over:

ris and injured,

they were safely on the other side Struggling clear and in ante of and approaching the tunnel. After nasty ek wound, she managed that Stillwel; went back to

reach tha telephone aim to post in the wrecked cabin

DUFF COOPER REPLIES

TO HUSBANDS

his

now 11's

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becoming quile a fashirai

Hudson Au dyestuff tech "To be in the swim these days nicfan of No 171 Sat You Street you need to talk Victory and look ground Beor and Miss Catmmy Victory Rather hard on the meu Lam. re No 4 Mosque Street. who can't resort to these methous, ground floor: no matter how patriotic they may teel,"

Mr

Do Tin wireless operator Victory accessories. D'ris bells of N 406 King's Road and Miss B.W.O.F. ACCOUNT and even handbags, are enjoying Chan Kit-tong. of No 4 Welling.

at the moment but the fon Street, first floor: hairstyle 18 the very

FOR AUGUST

B Yogue Victory

The Receipts and Payments Ar- latest rout of the BWOF, Hongkong. for the month of August is as fol

An answer to the cable sent by lows.m

as

SLOW ROLL Incidentally the "Victory Roll to the RAP means the slow rai

Mr. Willam Chan Man-yiu, tea cher, of No. 130 Lockhart Road. second floor, and Miss Fung Kwok- yer, of No. 476 Queen's Road West, first floor:

NO W V Taylor. Hon. Secretary RECEIPTS To Bulaner £15 into which a victorious pilot puts of the Evacuation Representation and $18,563.86; To Donations and his aircraft when he comes with Committer ou Friday 1241

Subs.riptions, $8.254.94; To Bules in sight of his home station. been received from Mr. A Duft Badges. Posta! Labels, etc., $17. Cooper who promised to give Im mediate attention to the resolution passed at the mass meeting re- rently.

Mr. Kwan Tang-yin, bank clerk, and

It is to be hoped that the hair of No. 137 Thomson Road.

30 Total 15 and $26.836 12. foll will not be as unpopular with Mias Wong Cheuk-kwan. of No 7 to Dr. Barnardo's Home $183 Roll was

PAYMENTS By Remittance Indigent husbands as the Victory O'Brien Road

in the last war with

NEWSETTES

that be

$4: By Purchases Fly Swats, squadron commanders, The reply received by Mr. Taylor Packing. Transport, Frelgin, etc.. the last

Metal Ladles, etc. $2,818.00. By Pilots returning to their base in yesterday morning was as follows: $332.33: By Office Expenses Sa ́ary slow roll

ww sometimes gave a The Kiangs Food Contro Your cable to Mr. Duff Cooper

after some of their Bureau has of the 26th received and is rec. $381 92, By Expenditure, $4.- away

and wages Pestage.

announced Travelllug, struls and wires had been shot ginning October 1, rice will be ra ceiving immediate attention. Sign-926.09; By Petty Cash, $100.28; By quence the aircraft broke up and

combat and in conse-tioned in Taiho city as a measure ed Private Secretary."

Balance, 15 and $21.800 75 Total, as there were then no parachutes | £15 and $20.838.12

in planes the pilots were killed

GOVERNOR VISITS

POLICE H.Q.

to stabilise its price

A party of 15 overseas Chinese from French Indo-China left

SUBSCRIPTIONS MRS. CHURCHILL Kwelang on Sunday by plane for

The following is the latest list

Changling

on

an Investigation

The Premier' wife is not a tour in Free China of subscriptions to the 6.W.OF.-practical gardener, although she

Previously Acknowledged. $740,- enjoys country Bte when shr Central Police

ills Excellency the Governor. Sir Mark Young, accompanied by Capt. & H Batty-Smith, A. D. C., paid a visit to Headquarters yesterday morning and inspected the police station and administrative offices.

His Excellency was received by the Commissioner of Pollee, Hon. Mr. Pennefather-Evans. and Mr. W. R. Scott. Director of Criminal Investigation.

948.90 and £115.

Mr. & Mrs. T. A Monthly $5 D C

250. C 80; RE

1s At the

request o tne British able to leave London at the week-Service Association Conference in

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Broadfool ends. Then it is usually only for London the International Broad- MADAME-MAISKY

Edmonston a few hours,

5€ urgen - to England.

But Mrs. Churchill casting Station (XOOX-Y) 1s Monthly.

J Powell has t very wise gardener. Very sponsoring a series of broadcasts The number of distinguished (Monthly)

Omcers (9 often she will months

They are relayed visitors to the British countryside 30/9/41). 225, 'structions to him by post. Or by the British Broadcasting Coms rapidly growing. London sees Ladles Section Hongkong

Golf they seem to her to be urgent at pany.

little of Madame Ivan Malsky Club Autumn Meeting 640; S.W.P. the time of despatch

these days. The small, slim, fair-

up

Perry (Monthly), 25: Anonymous, On second thoughts. she admits, British residente in Shanghai haired wife of the Soviet Ambas-

Chaochow Devastated (Monthly)

(Monthly), 20: A Whittaker they do not seem invariably sensi are excited over the news that Mr.sador and Doyenne" of the Dip- By War And Floods Hardvilliers-Sept.. 500.

Material damages to the amount

at $400,000,000 have been sustain

ed in

Chauchow and Its Aur-

result of

$742,698,00

5: Messra Francois ble. And this is where Mrs. Alrred Duk-Cooper, representative lomatic Corps, is now staying in

Total Churchill's gardener shows his of the British Cabinet in the Far the country with friends.

wisdom. When he receives In-East, will take a trip to Shanghat, LOVE OF GARDENINO structions from his mistress and according to a Shanghai dispatch, Madame Malaky combines musi- disapproves of them, he assures hien adds that several prominent ea and literary talents with her that the letter never arrived.

Britons have jointly sent a tele-love of gardening. Just now bowls WOULD BE A NURSE

gram to Mr. Duft-Cooper welcom- of sweet-smelling cottage-garden roses stand on tables in the - bassy lobby. They were arranged

DEANNA HELPS WAR EFFORT

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rounding districts as a repeated Japanese attacks and Deanna Durbin finds times

By the way. Mra. Churchill sava jing him. floods, necording to reports re-help Britain's

she would be a nurse If she had war effort in the ceived by the Chaochow Guud in intervals of growing up and mak-to choose a job in this war. It

The Japanese have arrested Le by her on her last visit and they Hongkong.

ing new films. Some time ago

was probably her deep interest in Lune-cnow a clerk of the Ming brighten the rather sombre The area of devastation. 14 19 this young Hollywood star pre-

the nursing profession which gave Bung Industrial Co., Ltd., and a trance through which armies of stated, is unprecedently large and sented us with six mobile canteen complete success to her speech former staff member of the Taing- arcretaries and visitors hurry von- countless number of people are unita which included a combina-at Colworth House the other day. tao Municipal Government. Both tinun)ly. In 22 pitiable plight. urgently tion field kitchen and hospital un oratory, but what she says is cria controlled area.

Mr. Church lays no claim to were taken to Hongkew, Japanese

The reasons for Wang Yu-shan and Cheng Pai- polut and her quiet their arrest were not announced. shi, sectional chiefs of the Chang- to the National Relief, of Com the advisory board of the Greek charm of manner makes an im-

teh District Government respec- mieston and Chaochow people War Relief Association, and only mediate appent to her audience

The Gold Mining Administration tively, Chang Chang-pu, Halung under the Ministry of Econemle Chiu and Teng Plog, officers, were Affairs and the Klange Provin- found guilty of corruption in con- vesting $1,000 000 for the exploita-were executed on Saturday morn- vlal Government are jointly in nexion with ceriser'ption. They tion of a gold mine in an undle-ing by order of the military su-

thorities.

needing help.

Appeals for aid have been sent)

large trailers

Recently she accepted a seat on

abroad. It is understood that the the other day she found a new Commission has allocated $20,000, way of helping Britain

and to the

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for emergency relief and more Deanna collected all the lovely and sent then to the British War funds will be appropriated in the frocks. voluminous skirts and coats Relief Brelety in New York. These near future.

which she wore in "Spring Parade" clothes wore auctioned at á sale. closed place in Kiangel.

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