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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1940
U.S. ENVOY'S WARTIME HEROES OF HUGE CROWD
JOURNEY
THE EAST COAST
CHUNGKING, YESTERDAY, THE UNITED STATES AMBAS- SADOR TO CHINA, MR. NELSON out. T. JOHNSON, ARRIVED AT HAI-night ashorel" PHONG TO DAY EN ROUTE TO
CHUNGKING, ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THE AMERICAN EMBASSY HERE
THIS AFTERNOON.
Mr. Johnson is coming to Chung- king via Yunnaniu. It is learned that he intends to proceed by tran. from Hanoi to Yunnanfu via the French-owned Yunnan railway but the date of departure has not yet been fixed.
Meanwhile, it is reported that Jap anese aircraft again bombed the Yun- railway yesterday but little damage was done. Reuter.
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LATE ROBT. SMILLIE
AT LEITH
(SPECIÁL TO "CHINA MAIL") "Yes. We are having an evening the maths master's ruler when I
it You know what
London, To-day. 19, first chance to meet the Rev. G. W.
Bringing back Nightingale, the energetic missionary
over 400 British and men So he sits in the club with his chaplain of this port and Lowestoft, Merchant Marine officers missus, takes a glass, listens to the one time energetic maths master in a found on board the German steamer the Altmark, the British destroyer Cos- rumpus of the Saturday night hop, school where the pupil Pudney and labouriously rolls a cigarette says) stupidly grinned bravado in the sack returned to Leith and was cheer- ed by huge crowds who gathered at his huge hand-a difficult job one arm in a sting.
the dock.
in
with face of a ruler.
This is a "first night ashore" with a difference for Chris Harris,, one- time diver, now acting quarter mas- ter in Trinity House vessels. He came ashore from the Trinity House ship that was machine-gunned bomb-blasted by the Nazis, and this is his first night out of hospital, with the family, among friends.
and
A quietly-celebrated first night for une of many of our seamen who have lived through a Nazi attack on
Nightingale represents the mission to seamen; and throughout this water- front, wherever I went with him, it was an unaffected "Hullo, old boy" to everyone, whatever the uniform.
THE PADRE 18 JACK OF ALL TRADEB
Lieutenant-Colonel® Colville, Parila- mentary Secretary for Scotland wel- comed the freed seamen.
Those who fell ill owing to lack of food and water and harsh treatment on board the Altmark were imme- The mission runs a launch in thediately sent to Edinburgh in ambul-
Havas. river, and the padre, expert in engines ances. — and navigation, constantly visits the
and
shipping, supplying woollies J.R. YOUNG
to supply portable books, trying
dart-boards an gramophones and
(de-
TO BE TRIED
unarmed ship, going about its peace- mand vastly exceeds supply), dealing TO
able routine of relieving lightships.
A bit of shrapnel still in his left shoulder keeps his arm in a sling, but amount Chris says only that small that man can say whose shipmates have been killed and wounded; and the band plays, the glasses clink, and the "Saturday regular" at Great Yarmouth Labour Club almost drowns
however, about His hobby (of strong hands silk mats and
London, Yesterday. Robert Smillie, former leader of the Scottish miners and the sound- er of the miners' Traue Union move- ment in Scotland, who died yester-, his words. day at the age of 82, was generation one of the most promin- ent figures in the coal-ming indus- try.
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He was President of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain irom 1912 to 121 and later, 1or six years, a Labour Member of Parun-
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ment.
His entire life was devoted to the betterment of miners' conditions and this singleness or purpose influenced his decision in lv17 to decine the offer of the post of Food Controller, --British Wheless.
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Rheumatism is due to poisons in the blood, and as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills rapidly create fresh supplies of new, good, red blood, rich in oxygen and iron, it is just this factor that nas made their reputation as a successful treat- ment for rheumatism, lumbago, scia- tica, and kindred ailments.
It is his hobby, which he gets fierce. all things those huge could do) is making wool rugs.
and needles my "And I've lost frames and everything. Used to keep me busy at home and affoat in my spare time, that did."
He shrugs his uninjured shoulder and has a comment on the Nazis which won't do for Monday morning. Chris has worked as a diver every- where around the coast in peace-time "distributing" wrecks for Trinity House. His father was in it before him; his son is in it now. Both sent Inquiring telegrams when the of the piracy was received.
"Well, I must go back and talk to the wife. First night ashore, you know.
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WARM WELCOME FOR ALL STRANGERS
news
The Labour Club is a social centre for members (men and women) of 29 trade unions and friends, the presi- dent, W. C. Godbold, tells ine. Satur- day and Monday nights they keep the home fires burning with tremendous gusto to the tune of a five-piece band.
"And
here," says a full-blown serjeant-major who is a Labour secre- tary in civilian life many miles from here, "is a welcome for strangers and men in camp which is a credit to the Labour movement and to Yarmouth."
with laundry, acting as postman.
To the mission every kind of sailor- man drops in; and in these days we have to be discreet about their yarns, which warm the heart and sometimes make the hair stand on end.
But of knitting let it be said that I hear Nightingale refuse no single one of the many requests, except that of a brazen little Yarmouth boy who came in to demand a knitted Bala- from the padre clava, and received the kind of look which the backward mathematician Pudney remembers well and "Come back when you go to sea."
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More knitting than I have ever seen, finally, at Gorleston, which is the re- ceiving centre for the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. Mr. H. Barnard, who is in charge, receives knitted things the lonely for shermen even from island of Tristan da Cunha, and dis- them throughout British tributes fleets.
Not only knitwear but every kind of useful article for fishing families even a folding pram, which I notice in a corner of the storehouse.
LIFEBOATMEN'S NINE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Tokyo, To-day. Mr. James Russell Young, corres- pondent of the International News Service, who has been detained at the Marunouchi police station since January 21, will be tried within the next few days.
Young has been accused of sending biased anti-Japanese information and publishing anti-Japanese articles in the Japanese press,
The Military Code will be applied to his case but it is not known whe- ther he will be deported from Japan.
Havas.
CHURCHILL EXPECTED TO MAKE STATEMENT
London, To-day. Mr. Winston Churchill is expected to make a statement in the Commons on the Altmark incident. —
Reuter.
A British soldier on board a Star Ferry threw a life-buoy into the har- bour at 1.15 a.m. yesterday, according to the Police last to a report_made
Costa.
CALLS IN A WEEK Down the quay is a small, pleasant inn with a big man and a big bulldog night by Ferry Inspector S. D. da in front of a small hot, home fire. The can be spun whole tale of the sea
fire, for the burly
| around this home
and blue-jerseyed landlord who puts down his copy of "Moby Dick" to greet us is Joe Johnson, coxswain of the Gorleston lifeboat, who is always signals and who ready for distress
as nine calls sometimes has as many to sea in a week.
Unemployment on the East Coast even affects lifeboatmen. Most of the Gorleston crew ployed; but in winter they get 19s. every time the boat Is launched by day, 30s. by night. They earn these days of piracy.
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But knitting is the subject which keeps creeping into my notebook this week-end on the East Coast, which can be a draughty place out of the sunbathing season.....
On the quayside at Great Yarmouth
with
a
Here odd material omission
an
strikes me.
Into all these East Coast ports
have come men not only drenched and machine-gunned,
for itself. From chemists everywhere. schoolboy's anguish at the thought of'half drowned, but
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scalded, with limbs fractured, with every kind of injury men and nature
can inflict.
or-
Yet I notice nothing but an dinary first-aid box carried by the nine sturdy men of Gorleston in their
boat-no stretcher, no blankets-and
rescued crew, exposed and scalded, returning wrapped only in the knitted Jerseys, scarves and gloves leat them by the lifeboatmen.
In these days of symbolic red her- rings I am ashamed not to have made the acquaintance of a real one before.
Kippering and bloatering being in abeyance in these parts it is "reds" which are being smoked in the smoke- house of George Reynolds at Lowes-
George toft.
"nurses" herrings through all the stages they pass to make them "reds" kippers or bloaters. The latter sweat over а hard-wood fire. Kippers and reds over fires of sak dust and oak turnings.
I have bought "reds" for the war- time larder, because they last a year or two as they are, packed in their boxes. Come what may, we shall now rely on red herrings.
No amount of fishing can cure the anxiety on the five-mile front of Great Yarmouth where hotel and boarding- house keepers usually receive their August bookings in January.
TWENTY YEARS REGULAR,.
BUT BILENT NOW
"I don't see any prospect of a sea- son," says Mr. F. H. Emms, Secre- tary of the Hotel Association.
"Whenever people hear of things happening 'on the East Coast' on the wireless they think of Yarmouth, it seems to me," says Mrs. Haigh, the jolly landlady of the boarding-house, Sunnyside.
"
"I've had people ́ ́returning here every year for 20 years; but now I wonder if they realise they can be as safe here as in London or the Mid- |_ lands. I haven't heard from them...
-It is the off-season now. But spring Is coming and those precious three months during which all these people make their year's ́livelihood,
Some of them are hoping for relief in rates; but, the five-mile "entertain- ment front generally is looking anxi-
·Dus.