THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940
NEW HEBRIDES THROWS IN LOT WITH DE GAULLE
FOOD A
NEW HEBRIDES is the first part of the French Colonial Empire to range itself on the side of all Free Frenchmen under General de PROBLEM
Gaulle.
General de Gaulle yesterday received at IN
his London headquarters a telegram from M.Į
Sautot, French Resident-Commissioner of GERMANY New Hebrides, reporting the solemn declara-j
tion of the administration to "range them- Germany's selves proudly under your flag."
GERMAN CONTROL OF WAR PATENTS
A Federal Grand Jury in New York has uncovered consider- able evidence tending to show that patents vital to American war industries are con- trolled by Germany, stated Mr. Thurman Arnold, Assistant At- torney-General,
on
arrival in New York from Washington yes- terday. Reuter.
SURPRISED BY D.S.O. AWARD
Liutenant-Colonel T. F. Given,
The
economic situation
is grave. To save her Armies from disease she is having to feed victims from whom she had ex- pected supplies.
So
telegram adds:
"The
"Although the achievements of French population of New
the German military machine Hebrides places itself with con-
the fidence and respect under Your have astonished the world,
weakening of her Excellency's authority and de-progressive clares its wish to respond to this internal economy has moved
swiftly that an acute danger ex- appeal by sending you all its
ists from within," writes Freder- members capable of bearing armis.lick J. Haskin in the Washington
"The French population begs you to accept this solemn de- claration as a binding under- taking to fight with you until final victory. "Long
France!
"Star."
of
"Vitally important reports have been received from Wash- ington on economic, if not mil- itary matters, which show a si- live immortal
tuation of rapidly increasing Long live England!"
seriousness," he continues. General de Gaulle replied ask-
"For example, reports from the ing the Commissioner to "convey
United States Department all men prepared to bear arms and offering themselves for Agriculture Attaches in Germany active service my assurance that reveal that some of the Nazi in- I will call upon them when the vasions had disappointing results. The Danish grain crop, so heav- time comes."
ily depended upon by the Ger- mans, proved decidedly poor.
"By this time, it is said, half
to
Deep Significance
Ger-
·The view is expressed in Lon-of Denmark's three million hogs don that though New Hebrides is which have been sent to
been killed, while probably one of the smallest parts many have
her of the Empire, the declaration is from 15 to 20 per cent. of
cattle have been slaughtered for of deep significance.
German consumption.
German prisoners captured by the British troops in France. (Copyright, Fox).
HUGE U.S. DEFICIT REVEALED
Owing to increased defence expenditures the United States now faces Government ex- penditure of $12,000,- 000,000 for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1941. The deficit is estimated at $5,791,- 000,000.
Mr. Henry Morgen- thau, Secretary of Treasury, gave these figures to the Con- gress committee in Washington yester- day.-Reuter.
"The Low Countries' spirited DESMONDE
GETS ARMY CALL-UP
It is also not without eco- nomic importance. Every year resistance resulted in the laying the administration exports
waste of large areas of farm land. many million tons of
copra,
"The situation is reported to cotton, cocoa and coffee which will now be available to Great be so serious that instead of re- ceiving extensive contributions of Britain and her allies. Inspired by the example of New food supplies from Holland and Hebrides, the adjoining island of Belgium, the Germans may have New Caledonia shows every sign to send in food. of shortly declaring itself for
Reuter, General de Gaulle.
Colonel A. Cazenove, of the Cold- stream Guards.
All took part in the evacuation
Colonel Harrison won his D.S.O. for his magnificent work when the
WORKS 21 HOUR DAY
There's only 5ft. 4in. of Roger Harrison, Goudhurst, Kent, cow-. man. But when it comes to help- ing his country to victory he's. 8ft. something in energy and en- durance.
seven
Seventeen hours a day, days a week, seeing that a daily milk yield of seventy gallons from a herd of twenty-four cows reaches the nation's dairy. That's Bri- his labour contribution to tain's war effort.
a
And it isn't all. Roger is crack shot, and on three nights a week falls in with the loral L.D.V. squad and does a four- hour spell of duty-which leaves him only three hours for sleep on those three daily rounds!
Roger, thirty-one,, stocky fair- haired Cumberland dalesman. thinks there's nothing remarkable about it.
"What about her?" he asks, nodding towards his buxom, hap- py-faced wife Daisy. "She does twelve hours a day on the farm. Runs the home as well.
"And there are five youngsters to fend for."
Daisy, thirty-four, a Kentish woman, laughs and says: "Oh; it's all in a day's work, There was another cowman, but he went-so we just carried on."." When many people are just thinking of getting up, Roger and Daisy have been hard at work for several hours.
Children Help
An hour later Daisy is working in the cowshed with him, help- ing among other things to oper- ate the milking machines,
The Hurrison children lend a hand, too. Jock, ten, and freck.... led, and an expert milker, helps with the feeding.
Roger his real name is Her- bert, but there are four other "The Nazis don't dare to Dark-haired Desmonde Pauline Herberts in the family-is up at permit the population to starve, Davies, twenty-one-year-old wife 4.30 a.m. as otherwise they might have, of a soldier, of Nesta Road, Car- because of the fear of outbreaks diff, was called up to fight, of disease.
"Any outbreak might prove
"By this morning's post," she as dangerous to the German told an interviewer, "I received a of the East Yorkshire Regiment, of Dunkirk.
army of occupation as to the letter telling me to register for got a surprise the D.S.O. from
natives themselves.
service with the armed forces. the hands of the King.
"Hitler was depending on grain He knew nothing about the Royal Engineers went into action from Russia, but now reports "My husband is in the Army. award till his Commanding Officer as infantry north of Dunkirk and come through that Russia's crop and has been abroad since the told him it was to be published held a vital part of the line against will be only one-third of previous war. We were married two
superior forces, in the day's divisional orders.
although they years.
years ago and, as I receive an Three others who received the received fairly heavy casualties. "The outbreak of foot-and-allowance, I thought the notice D.S.O. from the King, who was Many of the officers and men
me to do mouth disease has occurred in meant they expected making a sixty-mile tour of the to whom the King spoke wore;
Germany under war conditions some national service in return Southern Command,, were Lieu-Military Crosses and Medals won
and it is not proving practical for it. . tenant-Colonel Desmond Harrison, by gallantry in the evacuation.
to isolate the areas affected. The King was impressed, of the Royal Engineers, Lieuten- ant-Colonel Knox, of the Royal said, by the men's excellent health Ulster Rifles 'and Lieutenant-and spirits.
William Gargan, John Hubbard and Adolphe Menjou aro big advertising executives but they take back seats when their wives, played by Joyce Compton, Carole Landle and Mary A- tor, come around during the hilarious action of Hal Roach's "Turnabout," coming to the King's Theatro to-morrow.
he
"Omcials in Washington who "Me! Why I'd run a mile from have studied the reports are a bomb.
agreed that Germany cannot con- D
tinue for many weeks without ef- "I took the notice to the fecting so sweeping a victory that women's department of the la-j she could draw immediate sup-bour exchange. They were puzzl- plies from half the world."-Reu-ed, and passed me on to the men's department. There they told me it was a matter for the recruiting office.
ter.
LUGGAGE IN BROWN PAPER
When Karl Anderson
was
Name Blamed
Jean, thirteen and bonny, helps with the housework and cooks well, too.
Yvonne, eleven, and winsome Jean's six-year-old Freda assistants.
Even toddler Bertie, one year and nine months old, tries his hand at milking.
are
FACTORY 'GO TO IT'' CONTEST
This is the story of a job that became a "Go to It" contest.. "I went to the recruiting office. A long culvert carrying gas from They seemed to think I had a producer to several furnaces turned up in place of a brother. used for treating big gun barrels charged before a Special Court in The mistake seems to have arisen in a Ministry of Supply ordnance because my name, Desmonde, is factory had to be removed and re- Dublin, under the Emergency
placed. Powers Act, with "coming from so much like a boy's. Rotterdam and unlawfully landing "The recruiting officer told me would need to be out of use for The furnaces, it was estimated, at a place other than an approved to come back on Monday, and seaport or airport," his sole lug bring my marriage certificate. gage was alleged to have been a brown-paper parcel.
three weeks.
Then along came the call for speeding up production. "I was named Desmonde by my In it was £215 in English money father. He was in the Merchant (and 1,910 United States dollars.
The Job Involved a "heavy
The man was arrested on June ship was torpedoed during the follow up with positioning the new Navy, and lost his life when his gang" to remove the old culvert, and, assisted by millwrights, to 13. He told the guards that he last war."
was a British citizen, born in
Sweden.
He went to Rotterdam carly in¦ 1930,
HAD 3,000 DOLLARS
A week before the Germans in: vaded Holland, he withdrew
all
N.Z. TROOPS TAKE OVER FASCIST H.Q.
steel casing ready to be bricklined by a'squad of bricklayers, potat
The men worked: 12 hours a cach day, seven days a week, group determined to prove that it
could go faster than the other.**
At the end, in the words of the
his money, over 3,000 dollars, from A new club for the New Zea-heavy gang foreman, "the brickies the bank, and left Rotterdam o land forces was opened in the swore they would catch us up, 'and May 28. He was able to get on Charing Cross Road yesterday, tried hard to do it, but they never board an English boat, and was The club was formerly headquar-did."
landed in Dingle Bay, Co. Kerry, ters of the Italian Fascists in Bri- They finished that job all square Jon the right of Juño 12.
toin-Reuter.
In two weeks.