HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 71, 26 March 1940, Page 8

HITHER AND THITHER

Farewell and Presentation. Miss Margaret Harrison, who for | the past 12 years has been a member of the town clerk’s staff of the Wanganui City Council, was farewelled recently. Miss Harrison, who is shortly to be married, was presented with a silver tea service from members of the combined staffs. Propaganda Devices in the East. That the dropping of leaflets from aeroplanes was a device adopted in the East as well as in the West was reported at the Canterbury Travel Club’s reception recently by Mr Howard Knight, who has been engaged in mission work in China for the last eight years, states the Christchurch Press. When travelling from his station on the Tibetan frontier to Hongkong he saw aeroplanes dropping leaflets over the war-racked country. These leaflets announced that Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese generalissimo, had divorced her husband and fled to America, taking with her a generous supply of Government money,. Mr. Knight did not say how many Chinese believed this story. He also saw wooden locomotives made to resemble railway locomotives, in the hope that many valuable Japanese bombs would be wasted On the dummies while the real rolling stock was kept in comparatively safe places. On his journey to the coast, Mr. Knight saw an amazing number of women soldiers going to the war zone.