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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 20, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

I JUST CAN'T GET UP THESE MORNINGS, EITHER!

WE OUGHTA RUN A STRING FROM MY

HOUSE TO

YOURS--

-AN' WE'LL BOTH} TIE ONE END TO OUR TOES- AND D' FOIST ONE UP YANKS

:D STRING!

NEXT A.M.

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ow!OW!

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Child

Mother Brother

Peruvian Calls Son Her

Mother's Day this year found Lána Medina, the world's youngest mother, less then eight years old, still playing with dolls and regarding her two-year-old son, Gerardo Alejandro, as a baby brother, writes Ricardo Leon from Lima, Peru.

Lina was delivered by Caes arcan operation on May 14, 1939, at the age of five years and eight months. The little boy is anaemic, and lately has been sub jeet to illness. Although he has grown considerably and can walk alone, he speaks little.

Lina and her child live withi The authorities, who last year the girl's parents, peasant volded

contract between Lina's farmers in the town of Anta-father and representatives of U.S. chann. Their economic situn-exhibition of Lina in theatres, carni- theatrical impresarios, maintain that tion is distressing.

Jose Tomas Escolante, the lawyer who represented the Medinas in the court battle which resulted in return of the children to the care of Lina's parents after they long ind been held] 48 government wards, gives the family 23 cents a day for food for the two children.

Future Uncertain

*

When. Lina 1 asked whether Gerardo Alejandro is her son she re- plies:

"No, he in the son of papa and mumma."

She says that he has her own baby, and then lifts a large doll.

The boy weighed 5.04 pounds when vals or circuses would have an ad-delivered. Lina then regarded hin Verse effect upon the child's mental as a "crying doll." furious to her son's health. development and night prove in-

Lina Is Bright front her motherhood,

Lina is a bright child, and anide She has red cheeks and clear eyes, normal one. and is healthy. She plays children's games and enjoys reading and writ

12,000 Miles To Join Up-Refused

The future of Lina and her son, long and drawing with coloured pen-went to a Manchester recruiting cen-

cils,

cum-Hardy, who gave up a good job Mr Norman Downie, of Chorlton-

miles home to join up. When he In Shanghai ond travelled 12,000

tre he was told that as an industrial Lina cares for her ton as a little chemist he was in a very reserved future appearance abroad, but the girl would for har small brother. occupation and could not be accepted. government refuses to let them leave The boy plays apathetically with his He is now back in the laboratory, but- the country.

i mother.

lin London.

Escalante

Uncertain. Tomas believed to have plans for their

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'RAY FOR QUEEN-Dowager Queen Mary is not often soon.in pictures now. But hore she is being given rousing cheers by soldier patients in a Gloucester convalescent homo, which the visited.

Retired Admiral Back To The Sea Again

Grey-haired Sir Walter Henry Cowan, who joined the Royal Navy in the days when sails, instead of turbines, drove the fighting ships; is again serving at sea with Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean Flect.

Sir Walter, who retired with the rank of Admiral in 1931, had some difficulty persuading the Admiralty to allow him to return to the quar- terdeck. When war broke out he applied for a feet assignment, but he was 00, and the Admiralty blunt- ly replied: "No, too old,"

Sir Walter wouldn't listen to that answer. He kept insisting and was finally assigned to the fleet.

'All Weather"

Mac Decorated

25 Years Flying "ALL-WEATHER" MAC-the man who carried peace couriers, botween

Sir Walter, who once gave orders (London, and Paris after the last to Admiral Cunningham, now takes war's Armistice has been awarded them from his one-time subordinate. the Air Force Cross

The Commander-in-Chief, who was

"Mac"Fight Lieut Robert Henry

a destroyer Captain under Sir Wal-Mcintosh-is 40. ler's command in 1936, welcomed him to the Mediterranean Fleet, where he will serve as a liaison of

flcer.

Joined In 80

ile has been flying for a quarter of a century and earned his nick- name because of his ability to win through the worst weather condi- Itions..

Sir Walter entered the navy in ways, he set up a record by covering In 1920, ying for Imperial Air- the eighties,, when the examiners the 600 miles from Berlin to Landon demanded a sound knowledge of in 4 hours.

sail-handling rather than famillari-

Ity with steam engines.

Apprenticed

His adventures began when he

He served in the Eastern Mediter-was apprenticed to the Merchant ranean in campaigns at the turn of Service at 14.

the century. He held Captain's Soon

afterwards he won the

rank during the World War. From Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane 1917 to 1920 he commanded the first Society for rescuing a man from a

cruiser

squadron of the Grand sea of sharks. Fleet

While he

In 1914 he became a dispatch rider was Commander-in-in France, in 1017 he joined the Chia of the North America and RFC, West Indies Station, 1920-28, Sir lieutenant in the RAF.

and in 1010 became " Walter was given the rank of Ad- The Air Force Cross is awarded for nots of valour, courago or devotion to duty while, Blying, though not in active operations against the enemy.

miral. In the year preceding his retirement he served as first and principal naval aide to King George

V

Wrote To His

Got 10 Days

M.P.- C.B.

A SOLDIER stationed in Scotland has been sentenced to

10 days C.B. for writing to his M.P:/

The MP., Sir Herbert Williams, Conservative Member for South Croydon, is. Indignant, and is asking Captain Margesson, Secretary for War, för an explanation.

Ho is raising the matter in the,

*

"I therefore wrote to the soldier,

for the extra facts.

House as soon ad Parliament. To ask it was his letter back to me,

Bscibles.

The soldier's colonel got to know]

gluing me this information, which

of the letter because the censor at was stopped by the censor and Inverness intercepted it and Bent

it on to him.

soldier," Sir Herbert

my

handed on to his colonel.

The friend in Croydon then told, Williama me

ho had received a letter from the of soldier,

"that he had been given 10 days C.B. for writing to me.

Sir Herbert is insisting on a ful investigation.,

Crous tituency;"

"He wrote to one of his friends in Croydon, making certain allegations about an undesirable state of affaire in the service,

me

That friend passed the letter to

Base Letter Stopped

He believes that war-time soldiers time soldiers, and should be allowed are on a different footing from peace- to write to their M.Ps. If they wish. And on this specific case; he wants

took the matter: up with the to know why the soldier was punish- War Office, and the War Office, asked ed, and why a latter;addressed to a me to obtain more precise, informar Bentof Farlament should have

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