1941-06-20 — Page 7

Friday,

NANCY

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

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 20, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

OW!OW!

Jd. 28151.

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Peruvian Calls

Child Mother

Son Her Brother

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

asked whether

Lina was delivered by, Caes arean operation on May 14, 1939.1 When Lina at the age of five years and oight months. The little boy is Gerardo Alejandro is her son się re- anaemic, and lately has been sub ject to illness. Although he has

piles: grown considerably and can walk alone, he speaks little.

Lina and her child live with The authorities, who

Jast year the girl's parents,

contract between Lina's peasant volded a farmers in the town of Anta- father and representatives of U.S. chana. Their economie situa-exhibition of Lina in theatres, carnt- theatrical impresarios, maintain that tion is distressing.

"No, he is the son of papa and

mamma,'

She says that she has her own

baby, and then lifts a large doll.

The boy weighed 5:94 pounds when vals or circuses would have an ad- delivered. Linn- then regarded - him verse effect upon the child's, mental as a "crying doll,"

Lina Is Bright

Jose Tomas Escalante, the lawyer development and might prove in- who represented the Medings in the jurious to her son's health, court battle which resulted in return. of the children to the care of Lina's parents after they long had been held, 13 government

wards, gives the family 23 cents a day for food for the two children.

Future Uncertain

.

Lina is a bright child, and aside from her motherhood, a normal one. She has red cheeks and clear eyes,

12,000 Miles To Join Up-Refused

and travelled 12,000

Mr Norman Downie, of Chorlton- and is healthy. She plays children's cum-Hardy, who gave up a good job games and enjoys reading and writ-in Shanghai The future of Lina and her son sing and drawing with coloured pen-miles home to join up. When he went to Manchester recruiting een- Escrdente is

tre he was told that as an industrial

uncertaiu. Tomas

cils,

believed to have plans for their Lina cares for her son as a little chemist he was in a very reserved future appearance abroad, but the girl would for her small brother. occupation and could not be accepted. government refuses to let them leave The boy plays spathetically with his He is now back in the laboratory, but the country.

| mother,"

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'RAY FOR QUEEN! Dowager Queen Mary is not ofton scan in pictures now. But here the is being given rousing cheers by soldier patients in a Gloucestor convalescont home, which sho 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 Androw 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 appiled for a fleet assignment, but he was 69, 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 between 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"-Filghi Lieut Robert Henry

destroyer Captain under Sir Wal-Mcintosh is 46.

ter's command in 1920, welcorned?

He has been flying for a quarter

him to the Mediterranean Fleet, where he will serve on a liaison of of a century and earned his nick- Acer,

name because of his ability to win through the worst weather condi- tions.

Joined In 80's

Sir Walter entered the navy in ways, he set up a record by covering In 1920, flying for Imperial Air- the eighties, when the examiners the 600 miles from Berlin to London demanded asound knowledge of in 4 hours. sall-handling rather than familiari-

ty 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, Ho 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 light cruiser squadron of the Grand sea of sharks.

Fleet.

In 1914 he became a dispatch rider

While

he WOB Commander-in- in France, In 1017 he joined the Chief of the North America and RFC. and in 1918- became D West Indies Station, 1026-28, Sir lieutenant in the RAF. Walter was given the rank of Ad- miral. In the year preceding his retirement he served as first and principal naval aide to King George

V

The Air Force Cross is awarded for acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty while lying, though not In active operations against the enemy,

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 M.P., Sir Herbert Williams, Conservative Member for South Croydon, is indignant, and is asking Captain Margossen, Secretary for War, for an explanation.

He is raising t the matter in the "I therefore wrote to the soldier, House as soon ta Parliament re- asking for the extra facts. Pasembles.

The soldier's colonel":

got to know

of the latter because the censor at Inverness intercepted it; arid · sent

on to hlre

Williams

"The soldier," Sir Herbert anid, "lives in my constituency of Croydon..

"He wrote to qne of his friends in Croydon, making certain allegations about an undesirable state of affairs [In the service.

me

"It was his letter back to me, giving me this information, which was stopped by the censor and handed on to his colonel.

The friend in Croydon then told me he had received a letter from the soldier, stating that he had been given

10 days C.B. for writing to me." Sir Herbert is insisting on a full Investigation.

He believes that war-time soldiers That friend passed the letter to time soldiers, and should be allowed are on a different footing from peace- to write to their II.Ps they wish. Letter Stopped

And on this

specific case he wants "took the matter up with the to know why the soldier was punlah- War Office, and the War Offen asked ed, and why a fatter addressed to a me to obtain more precise informa Member of Parliament should have tion:

been stopped by the Censor olde

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