THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1940
30 SURVIVORS OUT OF GARRISON OF 4,000
London, June 5.
GIVEN AN HOUR to surrender, the British detachment sent from England to hold Calais "to the end" kept at bay the German hordes for four days before silence fell upon the citadel.
Three thousand strong, and fighting side by side with 1,000 Frenchmen, they carried out their orders to the letter.
NEW ARRESTS IN FASCIST ROUND-UP
LONDON, JUNE 5. THREE MORE PERSONS HAVE BEEN DETAINED BY THE CAN- TERBURY POLICE IN TWO RAIDS
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
ROUND-UP OF FASCISTS.
At a house in Artillery-street de- tectives seized documents and took into detention Harold Elvey, 30, a bus driver, who is connected with the local branch of the Fascists.
From premises in St. Dunstan's street a soldier and a woman were taken to the police-station.
Three young men, said to be officials of the Gillingham group of the British Union, have been taken to Brixton gaol.
A dozen members of the British Union, Including several women, were detained at Folkestone to-day. The police visited a newsagent's shop, seized coples of Action, the Fascist paper, and took the pro-
away.
priator, Mr. F. Moore,
Further detentions in the South of
England include four
men.
Southampton
Thirty unwounded survivors were brought off by the Navy-and so far as is known the rest fought grimly to the death.
London Territorials were among these heroes-Queen Victoria Rifles, it was disclosed in Parliament yesterday by the Prime Minister-a regiment with an unbroken record of feats of valour from 1803.
The Rifle Brigade and the 60th Rifles! (K.R.R.C.), famous units in the Re- gular Army, and a battalion of Brit- ish tanks completed the detachment.
Originally sent to Calais to hold it and at the same time maintain com- munication with the B.E.F., they found the latter task impossible in the face of the great onrush of the German mechanised forces.
But they held on to Calais. That was their mission-to hold the citadel, or die in the attempt.
So for four days they fought with- out cessation, repulsing the strongest German attacks, despite continuous bombardment from the air and by land artillery.
SHOT OFFICER'S NAME IS SECRET
London, June 6.
The name and unit of an Army officer who was found shot in a troop train at Oxford Station. were kept secret at the Inquest at Oxford to-day, when a verdict was recorded of Suicide while the balance of his mind was dis.. turbad.
Later it was stated that he was Captain William G. Richards, agod 25.
CIVILIAN BOMBINGS
"HORRIBLE”
Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan, said German bombardments of civilian refugees in Northern France are "utterly horrible."
Miss Morgan, organizer of the Friends of France Committee, was forced out of the North by German bombardments while her unit, ac- companied by cars of the American Volunteers' Ambulance Corps, was trying to rescue civilians,
One of the most startling things that the women drivers discovered was a German pilot who had been shot down while wearing a British Royal Air Force uniform.
"HITLER WILL BE DEFEATED"
New York, June 6.
A belief that Germany will be de- feated, in spite of her "astounding" early successes, is expressed by Fritz Thyssen, the German iron magnate who financed Hitler at the start of the Nazi regime; in a message cabled to an American magazine..
"Never
50 recklessly was a war -started and with less industrial pre- paration," he declares, and predicts the downfall of Hitler "once the Ger- man people understand how they have been betrayed."
“LOST” SHIP SAFELY IN PORT
London, June 5. The Admiralty announces that the paddle-minesweeper Medway Queen, which was stated in the communique of yesterday as "believed lost," has now arrived safely in port. The armed boarding vessel Mona's Isle, reported sunk, should read Mona's Queen.
GERMAN NURSES GIVE UP POSTS
Two resident German refugee nurses have relinquished their posts at Bethnal Green Hospital, Cambridge Heath-road, E. They have been given One accommodation in Hampstead. of the nurses was educated at Berlin University.
"LOWER THAN DOG" NAZI SAID
Montevideo (Uruguay), June 4. Prince Stephan Zu Schaumberg Lippe arrived here to-day in a Brazili- an steamer bound for Buenos Aires, where he is to bo Counsellor to the German Legation.
On board the ship he asked a liftboy if he could speak German. When the boy said "No." the Prince replied "You had better learn; you are going to need it."
A prominent German here twice this week tried to enter a cafe with a dachshund. When he was told dogs were not allowed he replied: "Within three weeks you Uruguayans will be lower than this dog."
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