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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1940 ́
SERGEANT AT 19, AND WINS
D. C. M.
AT THE HEIGHT of the Battle of Flanders a twenty-year-old sergeant - at nineteen he was. congratulated on being the youngest sergeant in the Brigade of Guards left his own platoon and rallied troops retiring further along a canal.
He restored a very difficult position, says the official account of his gallantry, for which he is awarded the D.C.M.
The sergeant-Henry
James
Mitchell, Grenadier Guards,-whose TIME TO
home is at Wychbold, near Droit-] wich, Worcs-commanded a pla- toon at the extreme left of the
brigade sector near Furnes. BREAK OUR
He saw troops retiring from! the canal, bank on his left after
being heavily shelled with the loss POWER!
of all their officers.
GERMAN WITHOUT PORT-
Sergeant Mitchell left his pla- RUDOLPH HESS, toon, Intercepted the troops. MINISTER
THE ENTIRE EM-
and, "by his determination and FOLIO, DECLARED IN BERLIN.
REICH IS CON- powers of leadership," led them THAT THE back to their position. --
VINCED "THE MOMENT IS AT Walking along the canal bank HAND TO BREAK ENGLAND'S regardless of enemy fire, he POWER EVEN TO THE RUINA- took charge, gave out ammuni- TION OF tion and collected wounded. ¡PIRE."
Hess, who is high in the official And in a cottage in the hamlet family of Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Wychbold, his mother, Mrs. Emily Mitchell, wife of a farm asserted that Germany will "aght.
for the peace which the ruling' Tabourer, proudly read a letter English plutocratic clique so de- from her only child.
Father Hero Too
cisively rejected`. Never in history was а more generous to a land (peace) offer made which is in its worst situation]
beginning."-Associated
"It would be the greatest mo- since its ment of my life to see my boy Press. decorated by the King, but how can I go to Buckingham Palace?" Mrs. Mitchell asked a reporter.
"Why, I have never been to London in my life.
"I am only a country woman, and should feel out of place among all those people up there."
Besides, I would-not-know-
what kind of hat to wear,
PERIL IN
THE PACIFIC
Senator Rufus C. Holman, Re-
"My husband was twice men-publican of Oregon, told the
EVACUATION DENIAL
Statements have ap- peared suggesting that active measures are being taken for the evacuation of a part of the civil po-
of pulation
Ports- mouth, Gosport and Southampton.
The Regional Com- missioner for the Southern Region wishes it to be known that. these state- ments are entirely without foundation. Apart from the evacuation of chil- dren, no evacuation movement from these towns is contemplat- ed.
THE DEAD HAND
Warning to Ministers
tioned in dispatches in the last senate in Washington during against allowing “the
war.
debate on the military conscrip-dead hand of an effete "Just before our boy went into tion bill that he had "learned
action he wrote to his father: from authoritative military sour- Civil Service" to impede You know I will do my best, dad, ces of the imminent peril of an the war effort was and will not let you down."
"He is engaged.”
Saved His Guns
invasion of Alaska and the Pacific.
ex-
area and the endangering of the pressed by Mr. Alfred Ed- entire Pacific slope.". He interwards, M.P. for Middles-
jected the statement without! Lrough East.
amplification.
Among other awards announced Off the floor of the senate later Speaking in Hyde Park, Lon- is that of the M.C. to Second- Senator Hotman said he did not don, under the auspices of the | Lieutenant' A. C. Geddes, second envision an immediate attack Ministry of Information, he said: son of Sir Auckland Geddés, for- against Alaska or the Pacific "The Labour Party has put mer President of the Board of, coást. He told newsmen "the Trade and one-time British Am-number one threat to our peacement.
some big men into the Govern- We expect them to do bassador to the United States. and safely is Japan and not Ger- a big job. They cannot break His battery commander killed many." He explained that Japan down the tradition of genera❤ beside him and he himself had not given China notice of her tions in a few weeks, but we wounded, Lieutenant Geddes war-like intentions and he thought expect them to do so in a few took charge and saved his guns it unlikely that the United States months. under heavy shell fire.
would receive notice if Alaska were attacked.
WORKLESS FLAT WARSHIPS FOR
MENACE HITLER
OF THOUSANDS
SOVET NAVY
"There must be no biving way to the dead hand of (an effète Civil Bervice. Herbert Morrison has given to "the country. an Inspiring slogan, 'Go To It.'
The Russians are building new “If they begin to excuse the and on faults of Civil Servants and to warships flat-bottomed the same principle as motor tor-whitewash inefficient permanent pedo-boats, states a Moscow officials, the workers will pretty them the slogan, message to Gothenburg, Sweden. soon, hand
'Come Off· It.!!!.
WORLD"NORKLESS FRENCHMEN STRIKES BANNED BY
OF
ARE ALREADY PROVIDING A FORMIDABLE. PROBLEM FOR İTHE NAZIS IN FRANCE.
GOVERNOR
'S. AFRICA SIEZES RIFLES
The military governor of Al- Reports coming via Berlin itself exandria has banned all strikes.
The South African Govern- state that there are 1,200,000
to seize all A thousand tram workers, who ment has decided unemployed in Paris alone, and were on strike, were expected to rifles of military pattern, it was that the demobilisation of the return to work, says Associated announced in Capetown. millions in the French Army will Press.. make the problem · much more serious.
This situation arises at a time when much of French Industry
is ruined, and farming interrupt- |ed-and when all Europe faces a
hungry winter.
Already in Paris well-dressed people are stopping strangers and asking for money for food.
German criminal law, with the death penalty for possession of arms and radio sets, has been applied to Paris.
GIFT FROM HITLER TO US
sociated Press,
-As-
LEAGUE STAFF WORKED
FOR PEACE---FLEE FROM WAR
BRITISH MEMBERS of the League of Nations staff at Geneva have arrived in London, the peace they had worked for now only a dream.
Only sixty men and women, some British, some Swiss, are left in. Geneva to work in the great building which once housed 500.
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replied that he is unable to ac- British manufacturers fought in Germans arrived... vain for years for an import duty They reached - Bordeaux in an cept the See. on these Belgian exports products air raid, and left: Bayonne, in of cheap labour.
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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1940
FIGHT OF B.E.F.'s "LOST DIVISION" ON SOMME
A STIRRING TALE of heroism in_the_face of overwhelming odds lies behind the capture of the “lost British division" at St. Valery-en-Caux, on the southern shore of the Somme estuary.
When the German advance drove south-west and cut off the main British Expeditionary Force in the north, the French High Command decided to transfer the division from the south to help in de- fending the new line running from the Somme to Switzerland.
The division was rushed across, France and put into the line at the mouth of the Somme.
Its task was to hold positions! south of the river from the sea toj
a point east of Abbeville.
Owing to the urgent need of macsing French troops else. where, the division was obliged 10 hold
front twenty-four a
HITLER'S
HOMAGE TO
NAPOLEON
miles long, whereas normally it Hitler, would-be Napoleon of would only hold six miles of the twentieth century, paid hom- line. So extended was this lineage to Napoleon in secret, it is; that there were necessarily quite revealed. considerable gaps between the Touring Paris incognito, he different posts and strong points, spent some time at Napoleon's When the division took up its tomb in the Invalides. position, the Germans held some Sandbags were specially bridgeheads across the Somme, moved so that he could gaze at notably at St. Valery and at Ab-the last resting place of the man beville,
who came so near to crushing Despite the comparative weak-Britain 125 years ago but failed.
re-
Alice Faye, Fred MacMur- ray and Richard Greene in Darryl F. Zanuck's production of "Little Old New York," the colourful story of an era that had no equal. The 20th Century-Fox picture is cur. rently showing at the King's Theatre.
ness of the force along the front, Continuing his Napoleonic tour, CHAMBERLAIN MUST
the
Madeleine, the
the division planned to attack the he visited Abbeville bridgehead in conjunc- church the Emperor ordered to be tion with French tanks the day built as a temple of victory to after they took up positions.
the immortalise
Grand Army which smashed Europe-for a
GO VOTE
This attack was launched at time. 3.30 in the morning before day- Hitler "did" the city thorough- |ments associated with the Cham- break with great dash and de- ly. termination, but unfortunately the division met the first of its series of misfortunes.
Complete removal of the elé-
berlain Government. from impor- He smiled when he saw the tant offices in this country was swastika flying from the top of demanded in a resolution passed the Eiffel Tower..
by sixty-one votes to forty-five
The Germans, preparing for! Just like a peacetime tourist, at a delegate conference of the their own attack on the follow he climbed to the top. But he National Union of Scottish Mine- ing-day;-had-brought-up-masses went there not to see-the-view.workers-in-Glasgow, of men, machine-guns, artillery but to gloat over the city he had The conference called for R and armoured motor-cycle forma-conquered.
special emergency meeting of the ticns.
T.U.C. Scottish
to determine policy arising from the new war situation caused by the capitula- tion of France.
Murderous Fire
French tanks rumbled ahead into the enemy lines, but the Ger- man infantry, in accordance with their anti-tank training, laid low)
He visited, too, the French hall of war trophies and inspected the Louvre and Notre Dame.,
CLEAR ROADS IN RAIDS
Clear roads in raids was urged in
Reed, Conservative M.P. for
U.S.A. ‘ANDERSON'.
SHELTER
in the dim light until they had the Commons by Sir Stanley passed.
Scots battalions followed the Aylesbury, He wants a ban The first American bomb-proof tanks confidently and were sud-placed on the-use-of-the-roads air-raid shelter, intended for mass denly met with a murderous fire, by anyone except the military production, has been exhibited while the French tanks were at-and auxiliary services during air by a firm at Quincy, Massa- lacked by anti-tank guns in the raids, the landing of troops from chusetts. German rear.
aeroplanes and any form of in- It is to be placed on the market
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Despite the storm of machinevasion. gun fire and heavy trench mor- tar bombardment, the men at some points gained their ob- jectives, although suffering very heavy losses. In this action the Camerons and the Seaforths especially distinguished them- selves for fearless tenacity, But the most supreme courage! could not stand against the tre- mendous fire power of the enemy, which was later supported by in-) tense aerial low dive bombing attacks.
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WAR CORRESPONDENT
DEAR EDITOR: Just to give you an idea of Although an almost incredible what your correspondent is up against in a country such opposition, only certain ob- like Switzerland where they take their fifth columns jectives could be reached, and the and spies seriously, listen to this.
small salient in front of the bridgehead was not wiped out.
Rescue Armada
"
The other day the newspapers, tell me if the Germans were dead carried a warning to all good or not. I asked for the number Swiss (there are about 4,000,000 of the military commander at of them) to watch out for stran-Yverdon. He said he couldn't An armada of pleasure craft, gers who call up on the telephone possibly tell me that it was ob- manned for the most part by civi" and ask for information. The viously military information. lian volunteers under young naval general staff said they might be Finally he suggested I call the officers, sailed from a British port spies.
long distance operator. She said through a hell of shells and bombs Both the general staff and I she had orders pot to tell any in a vain bid to rescue the troops knew they didn't mean me-but strange man any military number.
encircled at St. Valery.
the Swiss didn't
They reported that the French Next day a German bombing coast was "literally ablaze."
plane started home from France
O.C.'s Silence
A curtain of fire from coastal|across Swiss territory, A Swiss! A minute later she called me batteries and planes kept them Oghting plane shot it down near back and gave me the chief from getting nearer than four Yverdon.
operator. I explained the whole
those who had put to sea rowing boats.
He
or five miles of St. Valery. Most A general staff communique told thing and she gave me the mill of the 'soldiers rescued. were me that much. Naturally I want tary commander of Bern.
Inled to know more. I telephoned wouldn't even tell me his name: the Yverdon police. I explained but suggested I call general staff He said he said who I was and asked if the Ger-headquarters. one volunteer, The miracle of mans had been killed.
wouldn't tell me the number, but he'd get the operator, to give it to me.
"It was bloody murder,"
Dunkirk was not to be repeated.!
a
St. Valery has high cliffs, not beach like Dunkirk, there was n
Not Known
There somebody, who wouldn't-
heavy fog, the sea was rough, and "I don't know you," said the give me his right name either, said the Germans ready.
gendarme. I explained: He said he knew what. had happened to he still didn't know me, and I was the plane's crew, but couldn't tell }forced to admit he was right. 1 me, because he wasn't allowed
had never been to Yverdon. He to say anything more
than the CIVILIANS said he couldn't tell me anything official communique said. And
I asked who could. He said he that was that. wants couldn't even tell me that, homea
“ARMAAL,"
If the Government civilians to stay in their
· during an invasion, · · they give them arms.
Mr. Seymour ---- Cocks... Broxtowe), suggested this Parliament,
́I asked if he knew anybody who
must could introduce us. He didn't and
Sincerely,
Your correspondent.
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