THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1938.
Honours For Naval Men In Last Year's Yangtse Incidents Captain G.E.M. O'Donnell Awarded D.S.O.
Rear-Admiral Holt Mentioned In Despatches
London, To-day.
Mention in despatches for Rear-Admiral R. V. Holt, Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse, and honours awarded other officers for gallantry during operations on the Yangtse last December, were notified in the “London Gazette” last night. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order is awarded to Captain G. E. M. O'Donnell, who was present in H.M.S. Ladybird during the Japanese bombing attack on British shipping at Wuhu on Dec. 5.
R.A.F. ACTION AGAINST ARABS
KWEILIN AGAIN
BOMBED
Kweilin, To-day.
JERUSALEM, TO-DAY. ROYAL AIR FORCE PLANES
Kweilin, the scenic provincial INFLICTED VERY HEAVY| capital of Kwangsi, experienced an- İCASUALTIES ON AN ARAB other severe air raid yesterday
WE morning. AN EN-
Twenty-one Japanese planes
GANG ON WHOM 11 KILLED IN GAGEMENT WITH BRITISH dropped about 70 bombs, including TROOPS YESTERDAY.
many incendiaries, in the south- Two village headmen were mur-western part of the city. Several dered south of Haifa last night.
large fires were started.
Civilians in the area had taken
a
A daylight curfew, beginning at
11.30 am, is being imposed in Jaffa shelter outside the city and only owing to incident yesterday when about fifty casualties resulted.
bomb was thrown into the yard Central News. of the central police station, where a police-transport van was parked.
-Reuter.
Though painfully wounded in tion with Mr. Hurst, raised a Major R. D. Walker, M.C., has the right hand, Captain O'Donnell scratch crew to man the tug resumed duty as Manager and Chief took the wheel when the helmsman "Chanyung," thereby being instru- Engineer, Kowloon-Canton Railway,] was injured.
mental in rescuing the crew of the British Section. Shortly afterwards he landed"Tuckwo." among hostile soldiery and· · pro- C.E.R.A. HONOURED clear the forecastle," relying on ceeded to Japanese headquarters to The British Empire Order Medal the capstan to stop when the an- protest, his action being in time to is awarded to Chief Engineroom chor came home,. prevent more than one round being Artificer Arthur Brook, who during P. O. Hawkins, however, remain- fired at H.M.S. Bee.
the Japanese attack on H.M.S.'ed to shut off the steam when the The same honour is conferred on Ladybird and H.M.S. Bee on cable started coming in. His ac- Lieut-Commander H. D. Barlow, December 12 displayed courage, tion was most meritorious. commander of H.M.S. Ladybird.
ABLE, COOL AND FEARLESS [ing high speed at short notice On Dec. 5 he was slightly wound-while the ship was under heavy ed but acted with promptitude and fire. in the most trying conditions used The same medal is awarded to his ship and the tug "Chanyung" to Petty Officer G. D. Hawkins. the best advantage in attempting] to save life and property.
initiative and resource in obtain-
TO AID OF PANAY Finally, in Rear-Admiral R. V. Holt's citation "Learning of the sinking of the United States gun- boat 'Panay,' he went to her assistance.
H.M.S. During the attack on
"During December 18 and 14, Ladybird on December 12, the ma- Rear-Admiral Holt personally con- In command of "Ladybird" dur-jority of ratings were under some ducted the search for the Panay's ing the attack on the ship and of sort of cover, but P. O. Hawkins survivors, on many occasions ex on the forecastle and fully posing himself to personal danger. H.M.S. Bee · at Wuhu on Dec. 12,
"His actions throughout were Lt.-Comm. Barlow drew fire from exposed.
The gunboat's commander order- gallant, forceful and successful." Japanese shore batteries and han- dled his ship ably, coolly and fear-ed "full steam on the capstan and Reuter.
lessly, disregarding his own safe- ty and being concerned only with the safety of the ship and the ship's company.
CRICKET'S COMMANDER Officer of the British Empire is conferred on Lt.-Comm. J. I. Mur- ray Ashby, commander of HMS, Cricket on December 12 during the
Japanese bombing attack on the shipping concentration at Hsiasan- shan.
H.M.S. Cricket and H.M.S. Scarab opened fire, and the action, which required considerable moral cour- age on
was
NEW YORK SPY TRIAL SENTENCES
New York, To-day.
The judge presiding over the Nazi spy trial declared yesterday "The trial went to the very edge of too great indulgence."
the part of Lt.-Comm. Had defendants been apprehended in Germany
Ashby, largely contributed to the safety of the shipping and avoid- ance of further loss of life.
Lt. Comm. Ashby acted through- out in a-cool and seamanlike man- with disregard of personal
ner
their fate would have been much more fearful, but as it was, the agents of a totalitarian state received mercy from a democracy.
He added "We don't have sawdust, sprinkled in our prison yards."
safety.
D.S.C. FOR PILOT The Admiralty pilot, Mr. J. W. headsman's axe in Nazi Germany). Hurst is awarded the Distinguish- ed Service Cross.
(Apparently referring to use of the POLAND'S TRADE
The judge referred to spying as TALKS WITH SOVIET
During the bombing of British one of the most contemptible crimes, and referred to the "ineptitude" of shipping at Wuhu on December 5, Mr. Hurst took control of the tug the American law-enforcing agen- “Chanyung,” displaying remarkable cies in allowing some of the defen- powers of command over the panic-dants to estape. atricken native crew.
Warsaw, To-day. Negotiations will start in Mos- cow next week on the question, of the planned extension of trade be- tween Poland and the Soviet.
By seamanlike “and fearless The judge expressed deepest The "Express Poranny" holds handling of the tug he made pos- sympathy with Mrs. Hofmann, one that expansion of trade between Po- sible the rescue of the ship's com- of the defendants, who was abandon-land and the Soviet is well within pany of the Jardine steamered by her government in Berlin. ... the bounds of possibility - seeing “Tuckwo" from à difficult and dan- The spy trial ended yesterday, that Poland is in need of iron ore gerous altuation.
when Mrs. Johanna Hofmann was and other raw materials from the The Distinguished Service Medal sentenced to four years, Voss to alx Soviety Union, whereas the Soviet
·Is arded to the officers" steward, years, and Glaser and Rumrich to is in need of domestic requirements. Yueng Chang-ket, who in conjunctwo years imprisonment.-Router. Trans-Ocean.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the follow- ing promotion in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps with effect 14th November, 1988: Private Jose Maria Machado Alves to be Second Lieutenant.
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