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"First let it be said that there need be no starvation," writes "The Economist," "even in a Europe cut off from overseas supplies.
On a three year average from 1916 to 1938 the Continent was entirely self-sufficient in potatoes and virtually so in rye, barley, oats, beans and sugar.
ENGLAND THE SOLE
Against a production figure of BULWARK
some 42 million tons of wheat,
19 million tons of maize and a
million tons of rice, import figures!
ENGLAND
IS THE SOLE
CURATE
NOW A PRISONER
The sacrifice of an Army Chaplain is told in the Chelmsford Diocesan
It says:-
Chronicle.
"The Rev. J. F. O. Bown, formerly curate of Prittlewell, serving as Army Chaplain with the B. E. F., was taken prisoner by the Germans.
"During the Flan- ders retreat he would not leave wounded men too. ill to be re- moved, so he was taken with them."
BRITAIN'S THANKS TO PORTUGAL
were about 2 million tons of rice. BULWARK OF CIVILISATION, The following message
Uniformly bad harvests,
due
OF QUEBEC,
THE PREMIER
ADELARD MR.
GODBOUT, has been sent to the Min- to the hard winter,, calling. of agricultural labourers to the coTOLD THE PROVINCIAL LE-ister of Marine in Lisbon
lours and the actual destruction
GISLATURE.
of warfare, will have increased The Legislature rejected a mo- by the First Lord of the Europe's dependence upon out-tion opposing
the Mobilisation Admiralty: side supplies but there are large Act of the Dominion Parliament
"On behalf of the Board of Ad- the reserves to draw on.
after Mr. Godbout had told
men of miralty and the officers Livestock can be killed off, House, amid cheers:
and the Royal Navy I wish to express agony tinned foods and Germany's own "With France in
sole bulwark of warm appreciation of the chival- stocks consumed.
England the
Gov-rous action of the Portuguese des- civilisation, the Canadian ernment would have failed in its troyer Dao in making repeated 'sacred duty if it had not called and successful searches for sur- upon every Canadian to serve the vivors of the British Fame." al-cause."
Nazi Boast
covers
The Nazi leaders boast that, the Reich figure all but Europe's normal deficit and though the peoples of the Con- tinent must inevitably
go short of tropical foods and certain lux- uries and suffer from a deficiency starva- of fats, the forecast of tion is not warranted by actual quantities of food likely to available.
be
The problem, in short, is one
distribution
of
supply.
not of actual
the
NAVY IS
The British Fame, outward bound in, ballast and sailing in- dépendently, was torpedoed with- out warning off the Azores on the morning of August 12.
The Portuguese. destroyer Dao
out an extensive
SHIELD FOR carried vivers but the first search
PALESTINE
for survivors
failed to locate the boats.
Later one lifeboat containing 15 men from the British Fame ar- They re- General Gifford, General Officer rived at the Azores. ・・ Commanding British troops inported the captain had been tak- Palestine, said in a radio address en prisoner by the U-Boat and It has long been one of the that he was completely confident three men had been killed by the the torpedo. The main points of Nazi propaganda of a British victory "even when explosion of
"of the that her food position was per- we are fighting alone."
remaining 30 members fectly assured and
British 'We still possess, a tremendous crew had been seen in two life-
really boats. blockade thoroughly broken. Yet weapon, which no nation there was evidence
severe understands-sea power," he said. The Portuguese destroyer Dao shortage in German occupied "It is still a shield for Palestine." thereupon carried out a further countries, Stringent rationing The General called for unity, search and located and rescued was already in forcé in Holland steadfastness and courage.-As-the 30 missing men from the Bri- which, for example, lost to Ger-j
'tish Fame.--British Wireless: many 90 per cent of her butter reserves in one week, Belgium;
of
and Denmark, whose pigs and poultry are being compulsorily
to
slaughtered and despatched Germany, and Norway, and fur-| ther rationing is about to be in troduced in unoccupied France.
Before And After
-
out
"The Economist" points that although the British blockade, is far from broken it yet cannot be held responsible for any food shortage in Europe. Prior to the
occupation of Norway and the Low Countries, the British block- ade, which had
flow of foodstuffs into these
sociated Press.
DUTCH PEOPLE
GIVEN ANOTHER WARNING
GERMAN DISSATISFACTION with the be-
haviour of the Dutch people is reflected in a pro-
been then in clamation issued at The Hague yesterday by Gen- operation over six months, had in no way interfered with the eral Christiansen, commanding the occupying countries. Only did food shortage forces, a few hours after a British 'plane had land- arise there when they fell under ed in Holland and all 12 occupants got away without trality was still operative the leaving a trace behind them.
German control. Where neu-
blockade did not interfere with
no it is but rather Ger- many's violation of these various| states' neutrality which has led
supplies of food.
"Clearly, therefore, action of ours
The proclamation reminds the Dutch people of the previous warning on July 5, notwithstand- ing which "acts of sabotage have been committed."
AUSTRALIA READY FOR be PROTEGES
WILL AUSTRALIA ··
After stating that not only. In-' local dividuals, but the whole communilty would be punished for sabotage, the proclamation orders SOON the people to report the landing
to the present situation,
The Nazis must take full moral responsibility for cutting off the peoples they have conquered from sources of world supply and at the obligation fully recognised in OF GOVERNMENT PROTEGES of objects from 'planes.
VULNERABLE PARTS tering enemy soldiers.
It is disclosed that a German well being of territories they have MORE
British Wireless, OF BRITAIN. occupied."
Numbering 470, the children military court lately sentenced
Reuter. were selected from grant in aid several saboteurs. schools in all parts of England,
the same time they must fulfi WELCOME HER FIRST BATCH of enemy 'planes and the dropping international law of securing the TO BE EVACUATED FROM THE It threatens penalties for shel-
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All donations will be acknowledged in the ARMS FOR BALLOON Scotland and Wales. Ages range spirit, a...
columns of The S. C. M. Post.
MEN
from five to 10 years and they "The majority tell me they are left their homes for the port of never coming back to England.. the strictest They say they are going to Aus-. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secret-embarkation in
tralia. to make a lot of - money:: ary for Air, in a written Commons secrecy, *-*
The headmaster of one school and then after the war they are reply to Mr. Cocks (Lab., Brox- towe) suid: "Steps are being taken in charge of the party told a re-going to send for mum and dad to provide balloon barrage squads porter before they sailed that the to come out, and join them." Land: observation posts with arma.youngsters have the real ploneer Reuter.
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 19, 1940 ́
PRIVATE SHOT UP CELLAR FOE IN MERVILLE
TWO MEN HAD BEEN wounded trying to dis- lodge the enemy from a cellar. But Private' David Callaghan, of the King's Own Regiment, was deter- mined to get them out. He seized a Bren gun.
Followed by another soldier carrying spare magazines, he dashed down the cellar steps sending a hail of bullets in front of him by firing the gun from his hip. He caught the enemy by surprise. After he killed two, seven more surrendered. this exploit at Merville, North France, Private Cal- laghan has been awarded the Military Medal.
The Distinguished Conduct Medal has been won by Signal- man Harold Wheetwright, of the Royal Signals, who found an un- exploded bomb lying on the road near a railway junction.
At great risk to his life ne carried the bomb some distance and put it in a waterlogged
ditch.
Later, near Armentieres, he was bombed heavily. But with
his
DOCTORS
For
TO ADVISE
LOVERS
Two American doctors
nose and cars bleeding from con- are setting up a "mar-
cussion,
patches.
he delivered his dis-
To Chest In Sea
iage clinic" to give advic to couples who intend to marry.
Major Gilbert Sydney Jones,
The best guarantee of a happy T.D., of the Lincoln Regiment, marriage is that the couple's par- stood up to his chest in water ents shall be happily wed, these helping exhausted soldiers into
two specialists say. boats at Dunkirk under heavy! shell fire."
are
The two marriage doctors Dr. Ernest W. Burgess and Dr. These soldiers in sodden Leonard S. Cottrell, who are con- uniform and with equipment and vinced that the probabilities of arms might otherwise have wedded happiness can be deter- mined by means of scientific scor- Major Jones has been awarded ing, not unlike the principles used
in intelligence tests.
drowned.
the D.S.O.
Second Lieutenant E. F. Gar- lane, of the Yorks and Lancs Regiment, who receives the Military Cross, entered a bomb- ed and blazing house while a raid was at its height at Watou, Flanders.
He carried a comrade to safe- ty.
Then he returned and rescued
salesman.
state.
PAUSE
FOR A HERO
A twenty-year-old Londoner, Private William Champion, volunteered, during the B.E.F. retreat, to stay behind and blow up a bridge across which the Germans were advancing. He' did so and was killed. ›
Two hundred dri- and vers, porters others at the Willow- walk, S.E., depot of Pickfords, Ltd., where Champion was ployed as a van guard, stopped work for two minutes in his memory.
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