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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 13, 1940,

That

Premonition Reported Lost In

Woman Had Her Husband, Submarine, Was Safe: And He Is

LEADING-TORPEDOMAN ERNEST A. TIN- DALL, a Starfish survivor, has twice escaped death in a submarine. One he was in a vessel which came back to the surface only after 36 hours' manoeuvring.

His wife told how at her home in Bradford Street, Bolton, she fainted when the German radio gave out that he was safe.

Eric Boon

To Wed Actress

ERIC BOON, the light-weight j

The news came at the end of week during which she re- fused to give up hope.

it

"People.may laugh that I at- tach any importance to these things," she said, "but while in. bed during the Monday, night; bufore the submarine's loss was reported I thought I heard the front door open and close.

She Heard. the Door Open boxing champion of Britain, of letting himself in without disturb

"As my husband was in the habit has become engaged to Missing me when he came home on Jenve Wendy Elliott, blonde actress thought it might be him and hur- playing the lead in "No, No, tied downstairs, but everything was Nanette" at Norwich Theatre Royal as I had left it.

"Later the same night I saw the Boon, who was 20 last, December,

for military service on and I both thought it was my hus- bedroom registars

door open. My daughter band, but when we switched on the

Friday.

He will join the RAF. immedi-Hight there was nobody there. utely after his fight with Kid Berg t Earl's Court on February 20,

"Eric is a wonderful boy." Wendy sold. "I have known him only nine, weeks.

"'Obstacles"

There are one or two obstacles we have to overcome before our engage- ment is officially announced, as you may Imagine where a boxer is con- cerned.

"We can't marry before Eric joins

the R.AF.

"He has seen me on the stage this week, but had to rush back to Lon- don afterwards. 1 have never seen him in the ring.

"Another time I was walking down- stairs with my hand on the banister when I distinctly felt as someone had put a hand on my arm to give me courage.

"I cannot explain these things, and only know that they did happen."

Mr. Tindall, who is 45, was a Bol- lon G.P.O, yan driver. He served in the Navy during the last war, and was called up this time as a reservist. [Submarines Seahorse, Undine and Starfish failed to report after "par- ticularly hazardous service" in Heligoland Bight. Nazi radio has nightly named survivors, now pri- soners of war in Germany.]

THIS IS WHAT A MINE DOES

The remains of an East Coast pier, which was damaged by the ex- plosion of a drifting mine.

They Don't Want To Eat Heirloom

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson Windle, of South-lone, Holmfirth (Yorks), arc hoping their war-time food rations will never run out,

They don't want to have to eat their family heirloom-a bread bun baked fifty-three years ago.

Rich golden brown, and looking as though newly baked, the bread is kept wrapped in grease-proof paper in a tin box locked away in a

серь cupboard. It

Was

left to Mr. Windie by his mother, who bequeathed him all ne asked for the bread and a four-penny-plece.

The bun is a memento of a church bazaar held at Shepley, near Holm- fieth, in 1087.

Mr. Windle is thirty-nine, and a cloth-finisher at a Holmfirth mill He says three generations of children have wanted to cut the bun. He will leave it to his daughter, Barbara.

Mercy For Navy Hero

UNABLE to control hia tears, a man who fought by the alde of Jack Cornwell, the boy V.C., in the Battle of Jutland, pleaded_ guilty at Clerkenwell Police Court to a charge of stealing from a gas meter.

"I am not going to send a per- son with your good character to prison," said Mr. Walter Hedley, · K.C, the magistrate, who dismissed the charge under the Probation of Offenders Act.

Frederick Fisher, forty, a general orter of Cinrence-torrace, Rufford- street, Islington, admitted that he hud stolen £3 os id from the meter at his address.

A framed testimonial which Fisher received when he left the Post Office was shown to Mr. Hedley.

In reply to a question by Mr. Hed-- ley, Fisher said his rent was 12s 11d. a week,

"I want to find someone who will give me some work,” he declared,

"A Hard Case"

Detective Titmus stated that Fisher was married, with seven children. The youngest was aged three. The eldest, uged sixteen, was at work, carning 103. a week, and four were evacuated.

Fisher served in the Navy from 1915 to 1019, and in the battle of Julland he fought alde by side with Jack Cornwell on ILALB. Chester. He was awarded the General Ser- vice Medal and the Victory Medal.

After the war he was a postman for Geventeen' years, but was In- valided out of the Post Office as the result of cerebral haemorrhage.

Apart from a pension of 13s, a week from the Post Office, the earnings of his eldest child and some relief money from time to time, he had no source of income. The family wore In poor circumstances,

"it is 'n hard case,” he said. “There was no food in the house."

FIND BRITISH PARACHUTE

A British parachute recovered from the sea near the Dogger Bank was taken into Esbjerg by a Danish ish- ing-boat.

The parachute bore a British fac- tory label. It was examined at the Esbjerg navol station, which sent a report to the British "Legation in Copenhagen.

A Sneak Preview of Spring

“WELL. I HAD TO TIE UP'

A BUNDLE AND I HAD NO OMER STRING. YOU CAN

GET MORE.

WHERES YOUR

MOTHER?

GONE TO BED WITH A BAD HEADACHE

GOOD HEAVENS, FRED, WHAT DO YOU

WANT TO DO

WRECK THE HOUSE P

Ledger Bjaditais

WHEN A MAN GETS HOME AT NIGHT AND FINDS THE HOUSE TURNED INSIDE-OUT, IN PET CHAIR OCCUPIED BY LANDS AND THINGS, AND THE FAMILY ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE,

HE CAN BE ALMOST SURE SPRING IS IN THE AIR.

SHARE

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

By KEMP STARRETT

"NO NO NO NOT ZIJNIAS NEXT TO PANCIES/AND

ANOTHER THING WHETHER * YOU LIKE 'EM OR HOT, 1. WANT SOME PETUNIAS

THIS YEAR,

A SPRING COLD ISN'T SO BAD: IF ONE HAS PLENTY OF SUPPLIES

INCLUDING HOT PUNCH.... BESIDES, ONE CAN AVOID

SHAVING.

MY GOSH! WHAT D'YA WANT ME TO GET TH WINDOW-BOX READY NOW FOR? YOU CAN'T PLANT ANNIHING YET/

#NOW DON'T ARGUE./ SWEET-PEAS SHOULD BE

PLARTED

ON SAIST PATRICKS DAY. AND THIS

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ARGUING ABOUT WHERE THE PLANTS SHOULD GO UTH THE TEMPERATURE (OUTDOORS) AT 12° | IS A SURE SIGN OF

SPRING.