HAIL SMILING MORNI
"
** 1 feel so fit this morning. I could tackle a very fierce man- eating tiger. “Try tackling some of those esti- mates, you should have finished
· yesterday,
** Now, David. No binemess. It is a very beautiful morning. Let us cast aside our mundane rasks and hearken to the pipes of Pan. If i were a poet, David. . .”
You're not. You're a very busy consulting engineer." “Come, come, Mr. Scrooge. Is there no spark of sentiment in that flinty old heart ? "
"Flinty old fiddlesticks. Look here, David, what is biting you today ? "
Try
“Well, —er as a matter of fact I went to a party last night. The foaming beakers were knocked Hack with speed, and precision. I had a whale of a time.”
H'm--you look fresh enough
anyway.
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"That is the climax of my story. Somebody gave me the up about Gimlets. You know — Rose's" Lime Juice being a therapeutic agent anticipating bangovers— and so on. And it works ! ”
**H*m. Must make a note of that
Rose's Lime Juice. Confound! : I've written it on the plans for tha neto reservoir !"
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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940.
THE ARMY WANTS TO GET AT THE ENEMYER
“THE ARMY IS ANXIOUS to get at the enemy and all forces of the Crown are on their toes," de- clared Lord Croft, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office, in a statement on the subject of invasion made in the House of Lords.
"We believe-no. German will pass any defence work or block except over the dead bodies of the garrison.
"It is the one ambition of all ranks to prevent the soil of Great Britain being fouled by any enemy footprint, and, if by sheer weight of numbers he manages to disembark on the beaches, to counter- attack immediately with the knowledge that a crushing stream of regular troops is speeding up to the assault.
.
"While the offensive spirit. is, form of weapon to resist and slay naturally inculcated in all ranks, any German. If anyone desires because that is the tradition of to be in the position to defend his the British fighting Services, we country, there is nothing to pre- intend to meet the attackers with vent bis doing so now so that he the soundest principles of war. may share the glory of that "The enemy. may attack not defence, come it next week, to- once, but frequently; not at one,morrow or next month. but many points; and our inten- "Let them all go into the force] tion and hope is to defeat his who will. Go now, train now, dig invasion at sea, or even before he now; and with the Army be ready embarks. If not there, then in to fight." the process of landing. (Cheers). """The enemy will be utterly regardless of loss, and one must expect him to press every attack' home. Let us make no mistake]
he seeks not a demonstration but the destruction of our people.
TROOPS POUR INTO
If He Gains Footing EGYPT
"Should he succeed in gaining
a foothold anywhere we intend to
strike him with the full weight;
ALL P.L.A. SERVICES MAINTAINED
All services of the Port of London are being maintained.
An official of the Port of London Au- thority told Reuter "While damage by fire at the docks is considerable, the dis- charging and loading berths are intact and all services of the port will be maintained. Though some ware- houses have been damaged, losses of foodstuffs are re- latively small. Reuter.
0000000
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RESCUE İLAUNCHES
Convoys of ships bring:NOW ARMED
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BECAUSE OF REPEATED AT-
of our forces, but, broadly speaking men and war material ing, in invasion by sea we hope from England, Rhodesia, TACKS BEING MADE ON THEM the Royal Navy may intercept India and Australia arriv. BY GERMAN AIRCRAFT, EVEN his invading armada and cause
transports.
WHEN THEY PUT TO SEA TO
great destruction to his ships and ed in Egyptian ports yes-iSAVE GERMAN AIRMEN FROM
"We believe that our Air Force terday.
| PURPOSES.
DROWNING, R.A.F. RESCUE inay also engage him long before Large liners transported many! ARMAMENT FOR DEFENSIVE „ĮLAUNCHES NOW CARRY LIGHT he reaches our shores, bringing! thousands of technicians, infan- further great loss to the invader.try, hospital staffs and RA.F There is, however, a very widel pilots, with quantities of muni- stretch of ocean and
tions and tanks. ports from which the enemy can sally, from the north of Norway to the southern Atlantic ports of France.
numerous
We hope
to get early -In- formation of his intentions, but in this uncertain world, and under cover of dark nights, sea mist and fog, we must be ready for any emergency. For that reason it is essential that every possible, larding-place should be covered by fire-power.
Recently an R.A.F. launch which was sent during an air battle nine This convoy was met by other miles off Brighton to pick up sur- convoys with Australian
vivors who might escape by para- chute was attacked by two, Junk- planters from Ceylon till the ers which dived a thousand feet harbour was a solid
and raked it with machine-gun shipping.
and cannon fire.
force squadrons, Indians
air and
mass of
Many. disembarked and trains. The crew used rifles and ma-
loaded ̈ ̄with ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ soldiers. for Cairo, Palestine and where.
left else-
chine-gups themselves so effec-
tively that a second attack by the Junkers was thwarted and the
Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Wilson, enemy, beaten off-British Wire- commander of the British forces less.
in Egypt, and the British Minis- tor, greeted the troops on .ar- rival, in port and a special mes- Nothing Left To Chance
sage from General Wavell, Bri- tish G.O.C. In the Middle East, "Nothing must
left to chance, and it is therefore of the
was posted in each ship. During the voyage no submarine greatest importance that the and no enemy aircraft was seen. L.D.V.s should recruit to the full in all coast towns and villages and organise to proceed at 'speed to their posts."
The backbone of this force was the veteran army of the last war, nearly all trained in the use of rifle, machine-gun and bomb. „No] finer material could be found within that form of defence and counter-offence.
-Reuter.
LA FRANCE
LIBRE
PRESIDENT KALLIO
According to the Swiss rádið ot yesterday, President. Kallio Finland has died. Reuter.
It was stated in Helsinki that President 'Kallia's illness has. reached a serious but not critical at stage. A communique' issued noon yesterday says the President passed a difficult: night-Reuter.
M. Louis Biau, pioneer in the U.S. LINER BURNT organisation of "Free Frenchmen": They would be Lombarded in Hong Kong, announces that, in The United States liner Algon- from sea and air and subject to order to avoid any misunderstand-quin, 7,229 tons, which caught fire other forms of surprise attack, ing, there will be recognised as at her New York pler two hours but these men who would help to members of the association created before she was due to sail for defend our shores defeated deci- for helping General de Gaulle's Miami, Florida, and Houston, sively the Germans in 1918. Legion" only those Frenchmen Texas, sank after tons of water "I am convinced that they will who register at the temporary of- Had been poured into her holds. not fail in this task," he declared. fice of "La France Libre" and The ship settled on the roof of "They will undoubtedly inflict wearing the emblem.
the Holland motor car tunnel link- great casualties on any force Registrations will be made at ing--Manhattan with New Jersey, attempting to disembark.
National Bank Building (fourth This gave rise to fears that the any floor) and will close on September tunnel might be flooded owing to
the pressure.
"If the enemy. succeed where in crossing our front line, 15. in the spirit of gay offensive ad- venture, our, counter-attacks un- doubtedly will be brought to bear] at once, and will give full expres- sios to the British spirit of get- ting close to the enemy.
*From evidence in the recent campaigns, ¡lam absolutely cer- tain that British "men can, and will, dominate and master the machine. That demands cour --nge vand-"- new ideas, but that virtue, we possess in high-mea-
sure..
Record Number
SAVED HIS LIFE—
LOST HIS LOVE
ON HER 22ND BIRTHDAY, Baroness von Mauchenheim sought and won a divorce from the husband whom her pleas had saved from deporta. tion to Germany - where execution awaited him.
It was in 1936 that the couple she told the court that the baron fled to Detrolt, overstayed their had told her he was tired of "We are absorbing a record, visa, and were ordered to be working for his living in a De- number, of men into the Army.deported...
My troft motor-car factory,» SA ISAN Anyone – between 18 and, 65 ‹ not Then Baron Karl revealed that He wanted, a..wife with wealth liable to early call up in the if the 'Nazis got him he was liable and social position. AMMA national..services is eligible for to execution... His wife pleaded He said, he no longer, loved her, the L.D.V. Every unreserved, fit that they should be allowed to said, the baroness, and even hired man can go into that force to-day, stay, and President Roosevelt a man to negotiate marriage for
"Very soon every man in that gave permission.
[him with any American woman. `- pimelty,wisho had #220,000 or morE EDER
ja will have some effective in Pleading) (#extreme
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940.
ITALIAN AIR FORCE FAILS SO FAR
I AM WRITING this first despatch of the war
CAPTURED
NAZI, HAD
from the Sudan at a moment when there is a short, HER HAND
tense lull in hostilities. The rains have begun, cables Alan Moorehead from Khartoum.
On either side the White and Blue Niles are racing down in a convulsive brown tide to flood the river valley for a thousand miles into Egypt."
Night raids and skirmishes go on along the Abyssinian border, and the British and Italian armies are taking position over an area nearly as big as Europe.
THE STRONG
Honours seem to be equally divided. Kassala in the north; and Moyale in the south, havej fallen to the Italians. The R.A.F. has bombed and battered every major airport in Italian Africa:
-
East
There is restlessness among the native tribes, who are beginning to realise that this white men's) quarrel, begun 5,000 miles away! in Europe, is shortly going to change the map of Africa.
FORCE RAIDS
MALTA
It was announced in that a strong
Where Winston Fought Malta
KISSED
Two
German: airmen who landed by parachute in the West country when] their 'planes were brought} down in air battles were [captured by girls;
In each case the enemy airmen were given refreshments.
A maid was just leaving al dugout shelter when the airman landed almost beside her."
She asked him if he was hurt. He answered "no" shakily.
The maid took him indoors and gave him a drink of whisky. He could not drink it at first but she put her hand behind his head and forced it down his throat.
He murmured his thanks in broken English and in German; and kissed her hand. By signs: he told her that he was 18.
That roughly is the position as formation of enemy air-F. E. B.
This story was told by Capt.
Guise, platoon
com-
it was explained to me when my craft raided the island at mander of the Home. Guard, who train steamed in to Khartoum across the desert after a four-day midday yesterday and were quickly on the spot. journey from the Mediterranean. dropped a number of Landed On Lawn
A small fire
I followed the route Winston bombs, causing slight| Churchill took with another damage to naval property. parachuted on to the lawn of a In the afternogni a Nazi airman British Army over forty years ago. Actually we steamed along
at a store was house and a 14-year-old girl ranj tracks Kitchener laid down for quickly extinguished. A few to him and asked if he was all his expedition, travelled aboard Civilian houses were demolished right. the same line of steamers that and five minor civilian casualties When he answered in German brought his guns and ammuni- reported.
she called her father, a school- master, to whom the German sur-
tion up the two-day stretch of One enemy machine was the Nile from Assuan to Wadi brought down and probably rendered his revolver. Before
second as well, though this is not confirmed. -'Reuter.
Halfa.
And now I can see across the White Nile, the mud roofs of Omdurman, where Churchill as a young cavalry lieutenant swept through the Dervish lines in the
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DYNAMITE FIND
famous charge of the 21st Lancers. 350 or one month, by Mr. H. G. Chan Mau-wai, 34, was fined The Premier, if he sees this message, will want to remember Sheldon this morning, for unlaw- names like Murat Well, Abu- ful possession of 91 sticks of Hammed, Eerber, Atbara, Mek-dynamite and 31 detonators.
mora. of them.
They have-changed-little, the same great pelicans flapping in squadrons across the Nile, the "dom" palms heavy with dates, the green islands and blue-black) desert rocks, the
solid, crushing heat.
He was in action at most
same
Taking A Beating
At every point along
Journey outposts told
the
me of
futile, haphazard · bombing by from
· the Italians
operating
Massawa in Eritrea and scat- tered Abyssinian airports. The
The dynamite was found on his junk during a routine search on Saturday evening...
.
K.C.R. RESUMING SERVICES
on
It is officially announced that the landslide
the railway near Taipo Bridge has been cleared and that normal train services will be resumed, as from to-morrow.
PEIPING. FIGHTING
being taken away by the military he was given refreshments, for which he expressed thanks in broken English.