THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1939
JAP. WAR OFFICE PROTEST
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Tokyo, To-day.
30,000 POLES TRAIN IN EXILE
Poland's red and white flag] flutters above a wind-swept corner of France where thousands of Poles are under-
It is understood that Gen-going training to fight Ger- eral Hata, the War Minister, many on the Western Front. is protesting to the Cabinet against the 25 per cent. cut in the war budget as decided by the Finance Ministry.
It is expected that the War Office may demand the restoration of the main suppressed military credits, pointing out that the Finance Minis- try's action hinders the completion of the China campaign, and endangers the fulfilment of the four-year re- armament plan approved last Spring by the Diet.
This plan aims to carry out ac celerated mechanisation of the of the air. Manchuria)
army, reinforcement force (especially in and the general improvement of armaments.
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The War Office demands 6,000,000 yen, representing
increase about 2,000,000 yen as compared with the current budget.
The Finance Ministry grants them only 4,400,000 yen, representing an in- crease of only 300,000 yen. Havas.
Rugged Polish recruits, mostly gium, drop from trains in to a certain miners from Northern France and Bel- town daily to start their military train- ing with machine-gun and other units.
They are given light-coloured khaki uniforms similar to the French ones.
It is estimated that there are now more than 30,000 recruits, but their commander, General Ladislaw Sikors- ki, who is also Premier of the exiled 200,000 troops from the United States Polish Government, hopes to recruit
and Canada, where there are large Polish colonies.
EX-AMBASSADOR JOINS UP When the general, who is fifty-five, is not visiting the camp, he lives in a cheap hotel room.
"Poland cannot afford more than that now," he says.
Among the recruits is Joseph Lipski, former Polish Ambassador to Germany. He was among the first to volunteer in the new
army being formed French soil.
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Polish leaders say they have already recruited two divisions of 15,000 men, and are now engaged in forming three more of the same strength.-Associated Press.
I SAW A SHIP BLOWN UP
On the South-East Coast, Nov. 24. I saw the trawler-minesweeper Aragonite (315 tons) blown up by a mine off this coast last night. I watch- ed, too, as tugs raced desperately the ship. One of them took off the crew of fifteen. Four ratings were injured.
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As I returned in a motorboat from the Italian steamer Fianona, damag- ed by a mine on Tuesday night, I saw a column of spray jump from the Aragonite as she sped along.
The trawler seemed almost to jump out of the water with the shock, then settle down aft.
TWO TUGS RACE
The crew rushed on deck and waved to two tugs attending another ship barely 400 yards away.
At first my boatman said he did not think it was a mine.
"It's just
a trawler blowing off steam," he said.
Then we saw the two tugs racing through the water to the rescue.
The first immediately went along- side. The crew of the Aragonite scrambled aboard as best they could.
BED SCENE TO BE
DELICATE"
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There was a stir recently in the Lord Chamberlain's office-evacuated to "somewhere in the country." One of the censors, reading through a new play submitted to the department, had discovered that à BED figured in one of the scenes.
They phoned Mr. Brandreth, mana- ger of the Richmond Theatre, at which the comedy. "The Best Trian- gles"-in contrast to the "Best Circles" -was to be produced next week.
"We cannot allow this play to go on," they told Mr. Brandreth.
"But we've fixed a West End cast, ordered the printing and made all arrangements to put the show on," the manager replied.
"We're sorry, but it can't go on," the censor said.
But Mr. Charles Landstone, the author of the play came to the rescue. He visited the Lord Chamberlain's dffice and asked them to reconsider their decision,
After a conference, they agreed to pass the play, on condition that the bedroom. scene was played "with de- Heacy."
Gently they lifted in their injured companions.
Meanwhile, as darkness began to fall, the other tug made fast to the Aragonite and began to tow her towards the shore.
While the first raced with the in- jured to the pierhead, signalling for a doctor, the second tug opened out her engines in a desperate effort to save the trawler.
By the light of lanterns they brought the injured ashore and took them to hospital.
The Aragonite slowly settled down and sank.
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