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A HA'PORTH OF TAR
"Steward, there's tat on my dinner Jacket."
"Yessir. Off the rigging, Sir. We told you it was wet, Sir, but you wouldn's take no notice. Up you went like a two-year-old,""
"I sce. And what did I do next?"
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You sang some songs, Sir. Greatly appreciated they was. Some of the crew asked me if you'd be to good as to write out the words."
"I'll have to think about that, Steward. So altogether it was a petty matey night ? "
"There's been nothing like it on the South China Sea, Sir, since the Purser |
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won the Irish Sweep. All the other gentlemen are confined to their bunks, Sir. They say it was the lobster. mayonnaise.”
Lobster grandmother! Why didn't they stick to gin and Rose's as I did? I haven't got a hangover." "You're not the first gentleman I' heard say that abous Rose's Juice. Not by a long chalk."
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1940.'
GERMANS RULE BY
IN CHANNEL
THREAT
ISLANDS
THE DAY AFTER the Germans occupied Guernsey, Channel Islands, the people got their newspapers free. But on the front pages they were threatened with a bombing terror as punishment for "the least trouble.”
By order of the commandant of the German forces, the newspapers printed these orders:
All Inhabitants must be indoors by 11 p.m. and must not leave their homes before & a.mi.
We will respect the population} In Guernsey, but should anyone) attempt to cause the least trouble, serious measures will be taken and the town will be bombed,
INDIAN
LIBERALS'
REQUEST
All orders given by the mill- tary authority are to be strictly obeyed.
All spirits must be locked upTIONAL Immediately.
"Helpless"
THE COUNCIL OF THE NA- LIBERAL FEDERA- TION IN ALLAHABAD YESTER. DAY ADOPTED A RESOLUTION SUGGESTING CERTAIN CLARI-
FICATIONS AND MODIFICA The islanders were ordered to TIONS IN THE VICEROY'S OF- give up all firearms, sporting guns, FER IN ORDER TO EVOKE A air guns and daggers. They were WHOLE-HEARTED RESPONSE forbidden to move any boat with- FROM THE PEOPLE OF INDIA out permission. Sale of petrol was IN THE PROSECUTION OF THE forbidden, and cars could only be WAR. used for essential services.
The resolution states assurance The story of the invasion was is needed that the contemplated told by Guernsey men who free and equal partnership of In- escaped in a motor-boat the day dia will not be subject to quali- after the Germans took over. fications such as were suggested
They said that police and in Mr. Amery's speech of August. clvllians of Guernsey had to 8 and declares
definite that á stand by helpless and watch a time limit should be fixed for In- handful of German officers land dia's attainment of Dominion from, five 'planes.at the airport status.-Reuter.
as an advance guard:
Said "one of the men, Mr. P. J. Ollivier: "We were helpless be-| cause all our rifles had been con-j Ascated.
EDOUARD MICHELIN
PASSES
of!
Edouard Michelin, founder "The German officers made for the well-known firm of French the control tower on the airfield, Limeaction, and then proceeded to give
found it had been put out ofre manufacturers, died yester. day, says a Reuter message from Clermont-Ferrand, orders to the unarmed policemen.'
"Good. And now I think I could do with an eye-opener — a nice stiff gin and Rose's. I suppose the sun is over the yardarm ? ”
“Sir, the sun is permanently over the. yardarın in the South China Sea."
ACT NOW
In response to numerous requests The South China Morning Post, Limited, invites sub- scription to
ASSIST A FUND TO BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT
The whole of the money subscribed will be handed to The Government of Hong Kong for
transmission to
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT For the Purchase of Aeroplanes or such other Armaments as the British Government
may decide.
Donations will be received by The South China Morning Post. Cheques should be made payable to "War Fund-South China
Morning Post, Limited."
Bombing Threat
"They said troops would be brought later, and that if there' was any opposition, bombing would start,
"The five 'planes then made, off. But a few hours later huge Junkers aircraft arrived. German officers and soldiers-some of whom had motor-cycles-came outį from the airport.
the Bailiff.
THE WORLD'S WHISKY SAFE FOR 4 YEARS
Scotland has passed the word along that it has enough whisky in store to supply the world for the next four years..
This news, relayed to the United States Department of Com- merce, said that stocks were so large that despite higher production and ship- ping costs, the export price of whisky had not been increased.
also The report stated that Scotland was amassing whisky, particularly for the American, market, be- cause sales in Ameri- ca provide the dollars that can be used to. purchase aeroplanes and other war materi- al.-Associated Press.
W dmos
TRAA
TWO MEN COME "HOME
FROM
DEAD"
TWO SOLDIER SONS have come back from
the dead. One, "buried" with full military honours "Officers saw the Proctor and in the village churchyard walked into his mother's "Everyone on the island was home in Durham just after she had ordered more puzzled about what to do. But we flowers for his grave.
were helpless without arms.
"German troops marched The other, a Doncaster man, thought to have down the streets and comman- been killed in Flanders, came home to his mother, deered the past' offices, police
she died four days stations, railway stations and too. It was too great a shock
the harbour.
"The commander himself went;
to the radio station and smash-
later.
Trooper William Bolton, of leave home to wire her daughter- ed the transmitter in the pre- Melton Cottage, Langley Moor, in-law at Aldershot that she still sance of the wireless operators." County Durham, was reported to had no
Clearing Up The Damage
Mr. Ollivier said the Germans [gave orders to clear up the dam- age caused by Friday's air raid. He got the job of shifting bombed lorries off the streets."
But on Monday night, he and {twenty-five other men escaped. He
managed to get some petrol to run the party collected on the beach a
have died in a military hospital. walked in.
The War Office notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Bolton, and they had the body brought home for burial,
The Army sent a detachment; to attend the funeral, the coffin was draped
Union with the Jack, and hundreds of villagers British and members of the Legion were present. None knows now who was the
soldier buried in his name.
news of him when he
The shock for the mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Abson, of Young Street, Doncaster, much.
was too Four days later
she. was dead, but she died happy, for not only had her son re- turned, but she had the pride of knowing he had been award-
the ed
Military Medal for, heròlsm.
When war broke out Abson, a reservist, was living with his wife Bolton, a dispatch rider, paid at the Bungalows, Hatfield, near
dying visit to his home village Doncaster. For ten weeks his
I
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a motor-boat, and at nightfall all
and got aboard.
to leave a message for a pal's wife had been staying at Alder- Another man, Mr. A. Mann wife. It was she who told him shot and had heard nothing of
him. said: 'Nothing had been done at he was supposed to be dead. the airport to prevent the German So he went along to see his He was awarded the Military 'planes landing.
mother and gave her the great-Medal for repeatedly crossing "We were helpless. The L.D.V.s est shock but the happiest day in open land to attend to had been disbanded.
her life.
wounded under heavy fire 'on the "Posters had been displayed last Mrs. Bolton said: "The coffin Scheldt during May 21 and 22. week telling us not to evacuate, was sealed and we had no oppor- and that we were in no danger.tunity to see the body. We can't Then came the raid on Friday."
MORE “FITNESS" GROUNDS
nection with the "Fitness For
understand how the mistake oc- curred. All details such as regi- ment, record number and name were correct...
thall still put them
the
ARM ALL VETERANS
FROM 40 TO 55
"I had just ordered flowers for the grave for Bill's twenty- first birthday in a few days. I Mr. Seymour Cocks. (Soc., Brox- there in towe, Notts), while recognising memory of the unknown soldier that the requirements of the buried in the churchyard in my Army and the Local Defence Vo- son's 'name.”
lunteers must first be satisfied," is The authorities are taking steps to ask the War Secretary:
clear, up the mistake.
New centres announced in con-
Service" scheme
Alder- are at shot, Bognor, Brighton, Chiches- ter, Grimsby, Kingston, Jarrow, Leicester, Newport, Potters Bar, to
"Whether he will consider is- suing arms, as they become avail- tenham, Wembley, Harrow, South-
jable, to ex-Servicemen "between all, Ruislip, Northwood, Sunbury,
the ages,of, forty and fifty-five Feltham, Hampton, Teddington, The seventy-year-old mother and to the inhabitants of lonely
'and [Twickenham, Staines and Ash-jof Guardsman Reginald Abson, farmhouses
isolated resi of the Coldstreams, was about to'dences.".
All donations will be acknowledged in the Reading, Sheffield, Southgate, Tot-
columns of The S. C. M. Post.
gemmaford.
Shock Killed Her
.....
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1940.
PEER SAYS ARM PEOPLE
AT ONCE MORE FOOD
"THE GOVERNMENT should take action at
FROM
once to increase the offensive power and equipment DOMINIONS
of citizens of this country." This was moved by Lord Mottistone in the House of Lords.
He urged that "faint-hearted policy" should be:
BRITAIN IS TO GET MORE FOOD FROM THE DOMINIONS. The Ministry of Food has just
abandoned. "Let us engage the enemy wherever completed new contracts for but-
he is seen," he said.
LACE SAVES WINDOWS
Old lace curtains stuck
tection against splinters, it has proved in air raids Wales.
ter and cheese with Australia and New Zealand for the · 1940-1941
New problems should be met season. by new methods, and attempts In the Dominions, steps are be- should be made to free nearly the ing actively taken to make up for whole of our regular forces for losses of butter and cheese for- aggressive action elsewhere. ́ merly supplied by Europe and it Is expected that the quantities We should approach this pro-
produced will be much greater blem of the Invasion of Enghan those produced last season. land not with the Idea of idling behind tank traps and barbed wire, but in a fighting adven-] ture determined to apply com- monsense principles to the pro- blem which presented itself.
--Reuter.
BERMUDA
Point - Blank War AS U.S.
Lord Mottistone continually re-
on windows provide pro-minded the Government that glass turned down by the War Office, many of his suggestions would be
been but he insisted that this was a
point-blank war. over
Long-range shooting, whether from the air or otherwise, At one bungalow outside which proved useless compared a bomb exploded many windows point-blank shooting.
AIR BASE
At a special session of the Ber- muda House of Assembly, it was decided that the United States is to be allowed to use the Bermuda
had Great Sound for an air-base. It with is particularly valuable for a sea- plane base because it is well pro- so treated remained uncracked He suggested that a Canadian tected by many islands. and unbroken.
division should be selected to Lord Lloyd, the Colonial Secre- At a house which collapsed like engage the enemy if they should tary, has made it clear that there a pack of cards the stairs were land, because in a Canadian divi-is no question of Bermuda or any the only place left intact. To sion there were people with novel part of it being separated from the shelter beneath the stairs appears conceptions of warfare.
British Empire or of her people to be a good plan.
"What are our troops doing ceasing to be British subjects.
A piece of shrapnel which cut clean through a brick wall went through 3 wardrobe and the clothes inside and embedded it- self in a wall behind.
in full Army kit in this coun- Reuter, try in a friendly country. Many of them are loaded with more than five stone of equip- ment. The
H.K. AIR SERVICE
be
Fumes from exploding bombs)
never enemy should have created an impression among allowed to assemble on the many people that they are being beaches. So far as landing from gassed but the fumes soon pass the air was concerned, he said: away.
"Give to an Australian division the problem of solving this."
Most
bomb splinters which! have gone through windows have made marks at least 3ft. above the ground. While they can cut wrought-iron railings in two, no splinters so far have pierced a properly earthed-up Anderson shelter.
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TO SHIUKWAN PROPOSED
Lord Strabolgi, said what was missing was
A scheme to establish an air one supreme au-
and thority for the defence of the line between Hong Kong
under con- country in the case of invasion.Shiukwan has been There should be someone with sideration by the Chinese au- almost dictatorial power,
thorities for some time.
learned
"I hope no one will say," he This morning it was said, "that the Prime Minister is that the discussions have reached Two Raiders Down
the supreme commander. I am the final stages, and that the pro- not sure that we are getting full nosed air service between the The casualties in a daylight raid value from the Prime Minister by Colony and Shiukwan may be over North-East Scotland are now making him also Minister of De-inaugurated next month. officially given as twelve dead fence. I think he should be one The journey by air from Hong will not ex- All except three of the vicable Minister of Defence.
or the other. He is the only suit-Kong to Shiukwan
ceed one hour and the establish- tims were women and children.
а Lord Croft (Under Secretary, ment of such -service will Four of the children killed were War
Office) replying, said the greatly
postal . com-
and eighteen injured.
facilitate
playing in the street as the general desire was to get close to munications between the interior
bombs demolished a row of houses.
Two of the German raiders were shot down into the sea by Spitfire and Hurricane pilots.
One of the bombers blew up after a running fight which be gan more than five miles up and ended almost at sea level. After being attacked, in turn by formations of the fighters it crashed into the sea.
the enemy.
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of south-east China and the out- "The enemy will be utterly side world. regardless of loss, and we mustj expect him when he attacks.ta! press that attack home.
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SHATIN COLLISION
GOT TOO NEAR A
DOG FIGHT,
Cheung Wing-ngai was treated at the Queen Mary Hospital after being bitten by a dog, own- led by Mr. A. Carvalho, in Mr. L. F. da Souza driving in Gloucester Road yesterday. The The other bomber, a Heinkel Shatin yesterday, collided with dog was fighting III, was flying over two miles up car No. 4503, driven by Dr. Luk dog and when Cheung was walk- when three Spitfire pilots attack- Chun-shun. Both vehicles were ing near the dog bit him on the ed it and sent it down enveloped slightly damaged.
in black smoke.
Baby Born In Raid Sixteen bombs were dropped in one Welsh district by a raider.
One bursts 100 yards from an isolated house, and soven people, including five children, had to be treated for cuts from flying gluss and for shock. The rest fell in fields,
During this rald a Mrs. · Ford
FIRED
left leg.
with another
BRIDGE, SWAM
NOTICE