THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1940
FRONT LINE OF OVER
1,000 MILES
FIREMEN'S Story Of Kenya and
Sudan Operations
RECORD YEAR
London's 'Fire Brigade answer- ed a record number of calls last year. There was n big increase in false alarms.
The total of 12,002 calls res-
ponded to was the largest in any
year in the history of the bri- gade.
This figure included 771 calls
for special services (such as the rescue of persons in perilous, posi- tions), and 4.022 false alarms, of which 2,127 were compared with 1,980 in 1938.
TALKS TO
SOLDIERS,
ARRESTS
Charged under the Emergency Powers Defence Regulations, two Preston (Lancashire) men, Lle- wellyn Cadwallader (51), of Brook:Struet, and Thomas George Jackson (22), of Frank Street;
week, at Preston.
Prosecuting, Mr.
H. Fazacker-
THE BRITISH and Sudanese troops in were remanded in custody for a Africa are up against the problem of manning one of the longest front lines known in mili- ley said the police had a mass of tary history, says Richard Dimblebey, BBC material which required Investi Observer, in a despatch from Khartoum,
gation.
On Friday night, continued Mr:[ Fazackerley, Hetective officers
The line covers 1,000 miles of difficult kept the accused under observa-
rooms at Preston Railway Sta
tion with soldiers.
in malicious, as country from Eritrea via Abyssinia to Kenya. tion different refreshment "The number of malicious At this point, the East African troops take tion, and saw them in conversa- over, guarding the line along Italian Somali- Detective-sergeant Wilson ar-
calls," it is stated, "has con- tinually increased
last few years particularly by during the
telephone.
land to the coast.
rested the men for trying to per-
refrain from doing their duty.
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to members of diplo- matic missions accre- dited to the 'Holy See as due to the Pope's desire to enable diplo. mats of countries not having relations with Italy to move about. Italian territory. The action was taken with the consent of the Ita- llian authorities.
Havas.
It is not a "fighting line“ along the whole suade members of the Forces to o protection distance, of course, but there are several dän-
"Every fire call is attended by appliances from at least two sta- tions, and the fire available for the areas served
FASCIST BADGES
from these stations is therefore re-ger spots. The great length of the line is just When charged, Jackson said:
as big a problem to the enemy as it is to us.
duced unnecessarily whenever a false call is given."
"Yes, it is my duty to prevent the war against the workers of the world."
post of two men had accounted At Jackson's house police found
for 30 of the other side.
photographs of Hitler and Mosley The Kassala action has been and a Fascist Union card in the] claimed by the Italians as a great name of Jackson.
JAPANESE
OIL IMPORT
in
the
The brigade attended 6,309 Ares (28 classed as serious), compared Furthermore, the. Italians have with 7,060 (36 serious) in 1938. levy troops, poorly trained and in The total monetary
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} loss at fires some cases of dubious' loyalty. attended by the brigade is esti- Our officers, on the other hand,
Ten Japanese petroleum im- mated at £985,445, compared with have the highest opinion of their victory, but their casualties put At Cadwallader's house, Fascist porting firms will shortly. form
£566,170 in 1938.
men, and an example of this is the action in quite another light. badges were discovered under-an organisation' capitalised at five TRAPPED BY FLAMES given by a British officer who has 'The Italians bombarded the neath the top of the kitchen million yen aiming to secure con- Sixty-six lives were lost due-just returned from Kassala, town for some time with artillery table.
trol of Japanese oil imports ing the year Through various)
TWO FOR THIRTY
and then attacked with 3,000 Cadwallader told the Court: "jorder to causes connected with fire, com-
encourage oil-imports When we retreated from that troops, supported by aircraft, am not a member of the British from countries other than pared with 94 lives lost during town, two of the Sudanese troops tanks, armoured cars and cavalry. Union of Fascists." 1928. This marked decrease is a-discovered they had
United States, according to the left sume-
We had 100 Sudanese officers Cadwallader later declared: ""Japan Times." Chairman will tributed to the evacuation of elderly people and young chil-The Italians arrived.
thing behind and went back for it. and inen to carry out the with-am not anti-British.
drawal.
the Army 13 years." dren, the two classes which nor-¦
Instead of trying to make But whereas the Italians lost mally figure prominently in the
their escape, the two men gave 1500 dead, eight tanks and 20 other annual return.
fight to the enemy. When they vehicles derelict, our losses were Fifteen of the losses of life in
little only half a dozen and no vehicles. 1939 were due to people being
ITALIAN REINFORCEMENTS trapped in burning buildings.
The Italians have now found it! Fifty-one deaths (mostly involv"with concern," that of the re-necessary to consolidate their ing persons over 60 years of age) maining 44 deaths due to personal position, and reinforcements havej were the result of personal ac-accidents. clothing coming into brought the garrison's strength up cidents.
contact with candles and domestic to 10,000. They have also torn Giving these figures, the L.C.C.[ares or gas appliances accounted up the railway on both sides of Fire Brigade Committee note, 'for no less than 26,
were finally killed,
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the town to isolate themselves and have ringed Kassala with barbed wire and other defences.
Despite this, three days ago a small group of British armoured cars got to within half a mile of the town-in daylight-and ma-
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I served in be the President of the Nippon Oil Company.-Havas.
CRUSADE TO RID
THE WORLD
OF A
SCOURGE"
chine-gunned it leisurely chiefly been built up on șervice -
for the benefit of a newsreel cameraman!-Reuter.
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-General Lord Gort
"THE STRENGTH of Britain in the past has service to God, our coun- try and our fellow men,” declared Lord Gort broad- casting during the B.B.C. Evening Service last night,
SILVER GREYHOUNDS the anniversary of the outbreak of the last war.
OF THE R.A.F.
Without this conception of service, he added, no great nation could endure. Unless a country based A Royal Air Force Officer is its life on religious faith it could not endure, and to- cross-channel day it was evident we are engaged not solely in a
a
sometimes seen walking down the gangway of steamer before disembarkation has begun, with a military red-cap fight for Democracy but over and above that in a policeman escorting him and his bags. Or he may be observed crusade for the maintenance of those religious prin- being shown very special
sideration by the station-master ciples which we are taught as children by our of some foreign railway station, mothers.
or by a. Sea. Transport Officer.
have seen during the past
is a godless months I know the younger gen-
That R.AF. officer is almost-cer- "The Nazis, too, have a kind I tainly one of the Royal Air Force of religion, but it Dispatch Couriers-the 'Silver religion based on material power. Greyhounds' of the Air Force. and it lacks a moral basis.
The Royal Air Force Dispatch) Couriers came into being a few months, ago. Their job is to carry priority official dispatch bags, by any alternative means of travel when weather or other reasons prevent the ordinary air dispatch letter service of the Air Force
| from,being used, .⠀⠀..
There are four couriers; officers specially selected for their stamina
"It is wholly ruthless In conception and sets no store on
eration are brinful of courage and ready to sacrifice. all for the great cause for which we are
human life. We will admit iti {fighting."
Lord Gort concluded: "Strong
achieves temporary advances but it kills the souls of the people, of the very soldiers on therefore in support of our faith whom their victory ultimately and of that armour of God of depends."
which St. Paul speaks in the
Were the Nazi creed to triumph; lesson we have just heard, we and their familiarity, with the the four characteristics of the dedicate ourselves anew to this continent. They are the most soul of Britain, powerfully sponsored members of faith, our love of freedom, our of a scourge.
our religious crusade which shall rid the world the travelling public, and they sense of tolerance and our res carry the highest possible govern-pect for individual rights ment credentials.
On the
average they travel would all perish. about 7,000 miles a month, and their motto is "J'y vais” (I um going there). They are individual-
Brimful Of Courage
-
ly known to railway and depart these ideals should survive.
Our goal was to ensure that
mental officials on both sides of
the Channel, and never complete
a. travelling form or make' appli-
cation for any concession. They
Lord Gort added: “From what{
are, given precedence because, of at an advanced air station in their mission, which may include France read in the... Courier's
"In this spirit let us all go forward together." Reuter.
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QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY
the charge of important dispatches movement onder_the_magic words HER MAJESTY THE - QUEEN from any Government depart-"you are to render all available CELEBRATED HER 40TH
help,
BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY.
ment.
Priority Service."
•
Occasionally the R.A.F. Couriers He commandeered a motor car. do unexpected things. When the from
its
astonished occupant, There was an'informal family?" Prime Minister was at the front found out the Prime Minister's party with the King and Prin- recently important papers had to exact whereabouts, and had the cesses in the country but, owing be conveyed to him urgently, They Courier and his dispatches de- to the war, the usual official cele- leht Whitehall at 9 a.m.
livered to the Prime Minister by brations were not observed. Two hours later the duty officer twelve noon.
'Reuter.