1939-03-18 — Page 6

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 18, 1939;

GIRL WITH £50,000 ON HER

HEAD VISITS LONDON

MISS Yang Hui-ming, China's Joan of Arc, a girl the Japanese would give £50,000 for dead or alive, was in London recently, and had a meal in a West End restaurant-her only protection the knowledge that she was in Britain and within shouting distance of the near- est policeman.

Her name means "the wise one,

the brave one."

She was a Boy Scout organiser in Unborn Baby Hurt:

Shunghal when the war broke out. Dressed as a boy, hair cropped, she has been a continuous worry to the Japanese.

As a spy her information has saved the lives of thousands of Chinese noldlers, Time and again the bas

ments.

Parents Get £100

STRUCK and injured by a

falling ladder, a Liver-

silpped into Japanese territory and pool woman gave premature come back with nows of troop move-birth to a child the next day, It was Miss Yang Hul-ming who The baby lived only 24 Established contact with a Chinese hours. duomed battalion-men who in 1937

made a fortress of a warehouse car Shanghai, and though surrounded And eut off held up the Japanese ad-

varce for days,

zaved the baltation dag. She brought it out, wrapped round her waist through the Japanese ranks.

Six months ago she went to Ameri- ea as a delegate to the International Youth Congress. She is in London on her way back to China.

Miss Yang Hul-ming's father, a rich Chinese merchant, her mother, her six sisters, and two brothers have vaulshed in the war. She bas no iclatives left in the world.

At twenty-three she is living for only one thing-the defeat of the Japanese,

She said: " shall see what worki there is for me to do when i return. I am not troubled about the price on my head. The poorest Chinese pea- sant would not betray me."

Recently the woman and her husband, Mr. George Davies, of Corndale-road," Mossley Hill, claiming as administra- tors of a child that was un- born at the time of the acei- dent, received £100 damages. The claim was brought against the

Gaumont British Picture Corpuru- tion, Ltd., at Liverpool Assizes.

it was stated that a ladder resting!

against a Gatumont cinema fell on Mr. Davies as she was walking along a road last May.

An original claim by the wife for damages for personal injuries was disposed of for £288 and costs, and a second claim by her husband was disposed of before it reached the Court.

Navy Takes Over A Gaumont British prid

New Tanker

The Cairndale, an oil tanker buift to the order of the Shell group of companies at Harland and Wolf's Belfast shipyard, has been completed

Board of and transferred to the Trade branch of the Admiralty for service as an R.N. fleet auxiliary.

The child's natural birth should have accurred a month after the acci- dent.

£100 into henring of the court before the third claim, and the parents agreed In accept 1,

PICNIC BEFORE

FUNERALS

Sydney, Australia.

How Hille attention the public ever▼ gives to the working hours of under-

Here is one of the last pictures taken of Pope Pius XI.. It shows him, suffering from inroads of his illness, indomitably stamling erect to greet 25 Cardinals who visited him at Vatican City at Christmas. Assuming this position was in defiance of advice by his physicians. The Puntiff continuously gave of his strength to carry on the Church's work.

Sea Delivers Letters For

Keeper

EONARD HART, keeper on the Hanors lighthouse, off Guera-

sey, uses the sea as a postman.

When he wants to send a letter home to his father, Mr. F. Hart, of Woodlands, Combe Marth, North Devon, he puts them in watertight tins.

She is the third of three antiurakers became apparent when The vessels ordered by the Shell group. Undertakers' Assistants and Cemetery Her sister ships, the Donax and the Employes Union of New South Wales Dromus, were completed last year ut felt itself impelled to post the follow- He then throws them into the sea when the tide is running in such a Belfast.

The Calrndale hus a deadweight colice: "We would very muchimanner as to cast the tins up on the English coast.

appreciate it if the public generally

The tins are always picked up on the South Devon coast. People capacity of approximately 12,000 would refrain from holding funerals tons, and ls Btted with the latest on this day, to cible the employes who find them drop the stamped letters into the post for delivery in the

to attend the plenie."

ordinary way. Diesel engines.

The Shekorespondent

A stock individual who never has any trouble over Beer because he insists on H.B., but, we must admit, he has a packet, : of trouble over other matters.

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Representatives :

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