THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 29, 1939′
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HUNTED SUBMARINE DEFIES FLEETS: EAGLE JOINS BRITISH NAVY
London, December 8.
NOW SERVING with the British Navy are two Polish submarines, the Orzel (Eagle, in English) and the Wilk, which slipped out of the Baltic while German and Russian warships were hunting them. The Wilk reached England without incident.
The Eagle's escape is described by General Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister, as "one of the epic deeds of our time." Judge for yourself . . .
Soon after the Germans in- vaded Poland the Eagle put out from Gdynia, her base, to avold being "bottled up" by Nazi war- ships.
Then her troubles began. First her commander fell ill. Then she had
engine trouble. The Eagle put into
Tallinn, port of neutral Estonia.
The commander was taken to hos- The submarine was interned. pital. All her maps and charts were taken way. The crew were exhausted after a fight of several days to keep the damaged motors going. There was little food on board.
It seemed that the wings of the Eagle were effectively clipped. one man, First Officer aged 24, saw a hope of escape.
GUARDS OVERPOWERED Four hours after the submarine
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marine and in # few minutes the Eagle was moving out to sea.
Estoni- Coast artillery opened fire. an warships shelled her. She dived without being hit, and eluded them all.
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At midnight, three days later, the captured guards were put into dinghy near the Swedish coast.
At the Christmas Party given at the Royal Naval Hospital on Monday.
Government Will Pay
It is announced that men on ser- vice with the Forces, summoned to attend courts in connection with their civil liabilities will in future be given conveyance at the public expense.
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Now the hunt for the Eagle was оп In earnest. Both the Nazis and the Russians were keen to catch her, for she was the pride of the Polish submarine service. As her maps and charts taken the task seemed easy. All that young Grudzinski had to guide him The existence of foot and mouth was a book with listed navigating disease has been confirmed among cat- But lights in the Baltic. But he was de- tle at Thorganby, Lines. Grudzinski,termined to get to England and to A Ministry of Agriculture order
fight with the British Navy.
prohibits the movement-except by By day the Eagle dare not surface. licence-of all cattle, sheep, pigs, goats 'Planes as well as warships were and deer within approximately fifteen secking her. The submarine turned miles of the infected premises. and doubled on her tracks like Д hare.
"Ah! That's why he'll never go about without his mask-box."---- "L'Oeuvre," Paria.
had been interned the crew had the motors in order again.
The temporary telephone line con- necting the submarine with guard headquarters was cut.
Suddenly the men of the Eagle at- tacked the guards, There was shooting. Those guards who were not put out of action were seized, bound, and bundled into the sub-
Then the food By this time the Skaggerak and a her.
began to give out. Eagle was in the new danger faced
GOULD NOT SUBMERGE
The channel she was following was too shallow to allow her to dive, so for most of the time she had to keep only half-submerged.
Then one night three German de- stroyers loomed up out of the dark- ness,
First
Offcer Grudzinski took 蟲 chance. He stopped the Eagle, Near the point where she lay charted.
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rock is
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Samson-Aged 103
Jerry O'Keefe, an Irish Samson who believed that his strength resided in his long hair, has died in hospital at Condobolin, New South Wales, at the age of 103. Jerry's long hair was red, and came down to his shoulders and beyond. He let the barber trim very slightly once a year.
Hated Modern Girls
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Dr. Leonard Williams, former Har- ley-street specialist and outspoken medical writer, bitter opponent of the modern sports girl and her teach- The German vesels, if they sighted ers, has died at the age of seventy- her, must have mistaken the sub- marine for this rock. They passed and disappeared.
It was three weeks after leaving Gdynia that the Eagle put into a British port.
General Sikorski has decorated her young First Officer and every man of her crew.
Picture takan prior to the start of the Christmas party at the Royal Hava).{
seven.
Bad For The
Art Thieves
Following the return of the "bor- rowed" Watteau masterpiece "L'Indif- had ferent," which
been missing from the Louvre for two months, work is to be begun on the installation in the galleries of an electrical system of alarms.
Owing to its size and rambling con-
Louvre has struction, the
always found safeguarding its treasures dif- Gallery is cult. London's National believed to be the most completely protected building of its kind.
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Germany Listen's - In
There are now 11,420,000 wireless sets in Germany-excluding Austria and the Sudetenland-an increase of about 7,000,000 since 1933, when Herr Hitler assumed power. Approximately 8,000,000 of them are capable of re- ceiving foreign broadcasts.-
Britain has 8,587,790 wireless sets for population of about thirty million. fewer people than Germany.
In a speech at Margate a few years ago Dr. Williams caused a sensation when he attacked school games taught by "embittered, sexless hoydens" who make gentle and feminine schoolgirls... ... .... harsh and bellicose.
Of neglectful mothers he said: "When hens are kept without mang- anese they lose all maternal instinct. It might be a good thing to try the effect of manganese on some human mothers to see if it would induce them to forsake the cocktail bar and the bridge table for the nursery."
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This Freedom
Germans who accept the invitation of Bradford-born Herr Bohle, head of the Organisation of Germans Abroad, to return to the Third Reich, are first
• WOULD POOL KAPOL
"These nervous neutrale." “Daily News,” Chicago.
"acclimatised" in special "Homes for In Memory
Returned Wanderers.”
Since January, 1937, over 70,000 Name Wrong
Germans have gone back to take up residence in the, Reich, the majority of them from Holland, the United States, and Brazil.
Since January, 1938, .over 2,000 have gone back from Britain, the rate ... sharply increasing since last Septem-
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In the special homes they receive n. course of the "New Germany,” have physical training, and can relax in almost luxurious surroundings.
are hanging
Walsall civic bigwigs. their heads in shame.
Yesterday they unveiled a tablet to the late Alderman J. A. Leckie, public figure there for twenty-one years and M. P. for seven years-and they got the name wrong!.
When the-novar->was · removed ́from the tablet the name “John Alaxanplar. Lackia", was revealed. Mr. Leckie wasn't John Alexander, We say: We have a system some- but Joseph Alexander. But the show thing like this in Britain, Prisoners went on,
"Tucing a long-term÷of "pesial bervitude They are, going to have thej tabli
are at times "broken in Brit, in one recast and the new one will be er