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Tuesday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 7, 1939.

He Saved A Girl & Walked Away

SEVENTBEN-YEAR-OLD Ellen Hough, of

Grenfleld-street,

Battersca, S.Wnlece of Frank Hough, the boxer-does not know the man who saved her life recently.

She was on her way to work and, slipped as she tried to board & Water- lug train, at Clapham Junelion. The train started, and she Uragged along between running-board

and platform.

WOR

Stage

A man in the carriage pulled the To

communication cord and went to help

her.

Smiles

To Hide Grief

Because ot als quickness tho BRAVE smiles kept back the

Curaped with bruises and shock.

tears of 11 small girls 88

The rescuer went away without they danced through a recent

giving his namo

Child Dies In A.R.P. Trench

EDINBURGH,

A five-year-old girl was killed and a boy of the same ago seriously in- Jared in the collapse of an A. french in Roseburn Park, Edinburgh,

recently.

The children; Clare Jamieson and Allon Trotter, who lived next door, were burled under piles of earth and sheets of corrugated iron.

Mr. G. Stirling said thi he saw) the children playing near the trench and shouted to them to keep away. "When I looked again," he said, "they had disappeared. Soon, after- wards I heard screams, ran to the trench and saw they had been buried. "I tried frantically to dig out die little girl but the weight of the earth imprisoned her.”

Another girl, Marjory Mitcham, fell into the trench, but she managed to scramble clear,

One of the rescuers said that large number of children were in the park at the time.

They were laughing and shouting As they played on their way hotne,' he said.

"Then suddenly, the laughter changed to screams,

performance of "Cinderella" at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool,

They had come to Idolise 12-year- old Joyce Morris. She was eo Jolly, 50 sweet-tempered, so helpful to them.

And now she was dead.

The curtain was about to rise when the news renched them.

Tears fell. The 11 children were not alone in their grief. Senior members of the company, too, had. loved Joyce.

The tears were dried and teeth met on lips slem their return as the call to the stage came. For, as it is written in "Pagilace!":

"

"The people pay thee, and want their taugh you itnow. ... On with the show,

*

Joyce, who Ilved at Kenton (Mid- dicsex), was appearing in her first pantomime.

that she had been given

Such was the promise the rhowed a small speaking part.

The site Ins taken Ill. She failed to appear at the theatre the Inext day, and later was rushed to

hospital.

BRIDE HAD 6

WEDDING RINGS

Magdalena Naudzius, 80-year-- old member of the Lithuanian colony in Ayrshire, was married at Annbank recently to Jonas Krusin- kis, 65-years-did Lš!uanian min- er. of Massblown, Ayrshire.

The bride has been married Iwier before, now wears six wed- ding rings, as it is the custom of

The above photograph was taken at a recent Hongkong Rifle Associa tion Shoot,King's Studio.

Mothers Protest To Director Of Education

ANGRY mothers of 120 children, protesting recently Lithuanians to give two wedding against an order to transfer their children from one school

rings at the ceremony.

The ceremony, was conducted by Father Juesan Gutauskas, -Lithuanian priest for Scotland.

A throut affection was diagnosed. Doctors used oxygen in a day ond|660 night fight to save her.

They fulled.

k

"The tage has probably lost a fine "Ambulance men gave oxygen to artist," a theatre official sale.

the little girl but they could not re- vive her."

"Divorce Mill”·

Reno, Nev.

"Smith" Was

His Password

to another, mobbed and surrounded an Education Direc- tor in a school, and he was obliged to make his exit by way of a back door.

The mothers, and the children, went to the William Crane Schools, Apsley Estate, Nottingham, and told Miss Christopher, the headmistress, that they would not allow the children to be transferred to new schools at Bilborough because this meant a 25-minute walk. When he was fined £5 for stealing

Miss Christopher invited the a watch and a pair of women's shoes Namee (24). labourer, of Godstone the change was inevitable, and Road. Purley, told the Croydon Bench added: "The only thing to do is recently:

to give way."

Ham And-Downfall by means of a trich. Michel Ms-mothers into the school hall, said

MODESTO, Cal.

Robert Funk, who was so fond of

"I went into shops and asked for The Nevada Commission for the ham and eggs that, with two com- 1930 Golden Cate International Ex-panions, he stole a case of eggs and parcels for Smith. People did not position at San Francisco has reject was trying to catch a ply to supply ask me whether I was Smith, but of the hum, when arrested, will have just handed me parcels. I did not ed the suggestion that-as part

only Reno "divorce ham and eyes

when they know what the parcels contained Nevada's display, a

i had no diffeulty mill" be installed and kept in con-happen to be on the prison menu. until I got home.

He was sentenced to San Quentin, the first time, and that encouraged stant operation throughout the ex-

penitentiary.

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mothers,

"No!" shouted the never!"

NOISY SCENES. Then the Director of Education, aty. F. Stephensen, tried to address the women, but, as stated, he had to teave-not by the front door.

Though there were nolsy scenes there was no disturbance.

to

transferred UC

Royal Cars Set Road Problem

It a Royal car is approaching in one direction and a fire engine from another at a speed at which it ap- pears likely that they will collide, which driver should the constable on point duty signal to stop?

This question arises from a recent Incident in London, when the Duke of Kent's

car and

Bre-engine narrowly missed calliding at a cross- roads rivers of Royal cars are so Euston Station.

The

At another indignation meeting of parents outside the school gates a spokesman was loudly cheered when accustomed to having a clear road on he sald; "We are going to stand arm what is known as the "Royal route" and on no account will we allow our that they do not anticipate anything children

in but all-clear signals from police on

point duty. Bilborough."

Fire-engine drivers similarly ex- The women have decided to make part to be given a clear road. subscriptions to engage a solicitor to Steps are now being taken to warn challenge the decision of the Eduro-all fire-engine drivers of the ilkeli- lion Committee, and a further meet-hood of Royal cars being on various ing ofmothers has been called for routes at certe'n limes.

Detectives Search McMahon's Home

FOUR detectives, led by Inspector Hatton, of the Special Branch at Scotland-yard, visited the Paddington home of George Andrew McMahon, who figured in the revolver incident on Constitution Hill two years ago when King Edward the Eighth was riding past.

Blood "Bank” Plan

For London

They stopped McMahon on the pavement in Gloucester-terrace, W., and told him: "We have a warrant to search your house."

He went back there with them. Mrs. McMahon was peeling potatoes

a central in the kitchen. The gas oven and The organisation of "blood bank" at which a group of even the refuse bin were searched, hospitals could deposit for storage but nothing was found.

Mr. McMahon said: "I am telling "bottled" blood given by donors for

my M.P. about us. I suppose that emergency transfusions is recombecause I am Irish they think I have mended by three London doctors

who, during the September

crisis something to do with the bomb out-

made preparations to conserve sup- rages. I certainly have not."

plies of blood.

The doctors Dr. C. R. Boland, Film Man's Quest

senior assistant medical officer at

For Pigmies

Mile End Hospital, Dr. N. S. Craig, medical sperintendent of the hospital, and Dr. A. L. Jacobs, senior assistant Mr. A. L. Fisher, the photographer medical officer at the hospital-out-of Mount Everest, han begun a three- line their suggestion in the current months journey along the 3,500-mile issue of the "Lancet,"

Belgian Congo River to film the Pointing out that reports from the country for the Llego Exhibition In Moscow Institute of Haematology, May.

from transfusion services in the He Bow direct fo Stanleyville, 'Spanish Civil War, and from Conti- and with M. Andre Cauvin, a Belgian nental and American clinics "leave Government representative, he will Hitle doubt that preserved blood is set out on a lonely trek through highly satisfactory therapeutically,"

jungle and pigmy territory the doctors describe a method of col-

Mrs. Fisher said:

husband lecting and storing blood that reduces will take 3,000 of Alm, showing the risk of contamination to 11 wild Hfe and the development of 'in-'

minimum,

Or 30 transfusions of adult and dustry. He hopes to get shots of placental blood which had been pre- pigmies and big game. served by this method for periods up

The Alm, part of it in colour, wil

to six weeks, the doctors record that be shown in England later in the

in only four cases did the patients year." react adversely, to the treatment.

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Is That The Way To Treat A Sweetheart F.T.

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Why Doesn't Somebody Tell Me These Things. F.T.

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