HAIL SMILING MORNI
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"I feel so fit this morning I could tackle a very fierce man- cating tiger."
Try tackling, some of those esti- trates you should have finished yesterday."
"Now, David. No bitterness. It is a very beautiful morning. Let 23 cast aside our mundane tasks and bearken to the pipes of Pan. If i were a poet, David...". "You're not. You're a very busy porulting engineer.”
"Care, 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?
FOR
"Well - er ---- as a matter of fact I went to a party last night. The foaming beakers were knocked back with speed and precision. I had a whale of a time.”
“H'm-you look fresh enough anyway.
"That is the climax of my story. Somebody gave me the tip about.. Gimlets. You know- Rose's Lime Juice being a therapeutic agent-anticipating hangovers- and so on. And it works 1".
“H'm. Must-make-a note of that -Rose's Lime Juice. Confound! I've written it on the plans for the neto reservoir ?»
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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 7, 1940.
Haxby Crew Tell Story Of Captivity
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THE TRICKS USED BY the German com- merce raider in the Atlantic to disguise its ap- pearance, including the use of a telescopic funnel and the frequent change of its flags and names, were described yesterday by mem- bers of the crew of the sunken British steamer Haxby,
They were landed at a Scottish port, near- ly six months since their vessel was sunk. The Haxby was attacked and sunk on April 24, and the captain and 23 men were later trans-
FAVOURITE SONG
German war prison- ers sent to an Ontario woodland camp from Britain are whistling "There'll Always Be An England" these days. But they do not know the words.
Camp guards ex- plained that the tune is popular with the or- chestras of excursion boats on a nearby lake. The prisoners fancied the tune and picked it up.
ferred by the raider to a captured Norwegian L DUCE
-vessel
HUNGARY EXPELS RUMANIANS
A party of 280 Ru- manian intellectuals from Hungarian-oc- cupied Transylvania, have arrived at Cur- tici, Rumania, in a goods train, says. the semi-official Buchar- est News Agency.
They declared that they had been ordered to leave without warn- ing by the Hungarian authorities.
The Hungarian Gov-` ernment, says a Buda- pest message, has been "compelled to take reprisals and ex- -pel certain... Ru- manians" because of
DRAMATIC RESCUE "the intransigent atti-
tude" of
Ru-
They were dramatically rescued; by the British submarine Truant (Lt. Commander-Hassard) which came to the surface off Cape Finisterre and ordered the prize ship to stop."
H.M.S. Truant took off the Bri- tish prisoners and some of the Norwegians and landed them, ut
Gibraltar.
INSPECTS
TROOPS
Troops of Italy's North- ern Army massed in the A member of the crew of the vast Plain of Parma were Häxby, said that her skipper. refused to obey the order to inspected yesterday by heave to given by the raider, Mussolini · who flew to which started, shelling.
The first *shell killed the Placenza for the purpose. Haxby's gunner and subsequent The infantry, artillery, engine- hits smashed the deckhouse ander corps and auxiliary services of the lifeboats.
the Littorio Division, which had They clung to the wreckage their baptism of fire in the and the Germans put out boats Spanish campaign, were drawn and took them on board.
up in serried array,
Standing on a platform......... Duce watched the famous rapid march": of the · Bersag- lieri; followed by a procession of armoured cars and motoris- ed batteries.
Dirty Ship
"The raider was a dirty-looking ship. For upwards of two months, we were prisoners. Then a Nor- weglan merchantman was taken and we were transferred to her.
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Mussolini, who earlier. in the "For a further two months, day. had inspected at Trieste the the prize ship stealthily made its motorised division which took way towards German territory. part in the fighting in the Alps "Our food consisted of black in June, took off later in his bread, potatoes, coffee and
a private plane for an
little butter, and by this time was destination-Reuter. telling on our health..
"We had almost, given. up when hope of being rescued the Truant unexpectedly ap- peared."
Hitler Crazy
unknown
NEW FLAG FOR NORWAY DECREED
Then seaman added that al-(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") though the crew of the German Norway is supposed to change raider gloated over them, " nother National Flag under orders all were Hitler's worshippers. issued by the Reich Commissioner, One of the hospital berth staff in Oslo.
Hitler stated openly that
was The "new flag" bears a yellow crazy and that many Germans did cross on a red field, instead of the ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪*******4 not want to fight.-Reuter.
present blue cross. Havos,
OF WOMEN ON RAFTmanians-Reuter.
DRIFTING HELPLESSLY on the grey waters of the Atlantic, two boatloads of people, survivors of a lost ship, suffered severely from thirst.
Suddenly a Sunderland flying boat searching for submarines while escorting a convoy, swooped down.
The crew had spotted two dots
the ocean.
The survivors signalled that they had food but no water. The flying boat crew. dropped their own fresh water supply and then went off to fetch -a-rescue ship to the scene.
A few days later, two women on a raft were sighted from the air and they also were saved.
Telling these stories yesterday
ROBBERY
OF TEMPLE KEEPER
WALKED INTO ARMS OF THE LAW
A WARRANT FOR THE AR- WAS REST OF A WOMAN EXECUTED THIS MORNING WHEN SHE WAS LEAVING KOWLOON COURT AFTER LIS- TENING TO A CASE:
were
some
URGENT
NEED
TO "HATCH" NEW TACTICS
THE URGENT NEED to "hatch" a new move against the British Empire is regarded by London leader writers as the fundamental cause of the meet- ing between "the major and minor dictators” of the Axis.
Something is needed to cover the failures of the Fuehrer and the impotence of Il Duce in the last two
Two fields of action, have, clear- ly been tempting the Dictators- the Balkans and Africa.
The three warrants were issued by Mr. E. Himsworth on Satur- day, Only the youths caught.
When the case came before the Magistrate
the this morning, woman stole into Court as a
· ALLEGED TO HAVE ROBBED spectator but she was
arrested in London, the Air Ministry
TEM-and taken to
Mongkok Police News Service states that nearly CHUI WING-SANG, 78,
of ships lost in PLE KEEPER, AND HIS WIFE, Station as soon as she left the 500 survivors the Atlantic had been saved in OF $570 AND A QUANTITY OF
premises..
The case was adjourned for a the last few months by the good JEWELLERY. LI YUN, 35, AND WERE
week. work of the Coastal Command AU PING-WUN, 29,
CHARGED WITH ARMED ROB-
Mr. Hin-shing Lo is appearing aircraft.
THE KUN YING for the prosecution. Sunderland flying boats - both RERY AT the Royal Air Force and the Royal TEMPLE, OFF SHA TIN PATH,
24 BEFORE he was sick and wanted "Australian Air Force and other ON SEPTEMBER
aircraft patrol far out into the MR. E. HIMSWORTH AT KOW-medicine. Chui did not open the months, writes the "Daily Telegraph."
door and second accused went Atlantic every day escorting con- LOON THIS. MORNING. Voys. Reuter,
Det.-Sgt. C. Dowman, prosecut-away. ing, said that second accused was an assistant to Chul, who lived
In either field. the Dictators alone in a hut about six yards
not may believe that they have the from the temple. His wife, and Later, the foki who has. two small sons lived in the tem-been arrested, knocked at Chul's power to deliver dangerous blows,
thing, ple together with three fokis, two door, saying the same of whom were second accused Chul gave him a package of me and another man who has not dicine through the peephole but
did not, open the door.
his When however he heard Charged with 'obtaining $30 by About a month ago, a woman, false pretences, from Li Kong-called Wong Sam-mul, "retired" wife call for him, he opened the sze, 23, widow, on August 8, and entered the temple, giving hut and was struck on the head. Choung Foo, 21, postman, was all her money and other valu-Chul gave them the keys placed on a $20 bond to be of ables to Chuí. safe custody. they ransacked the
Shortly after night on Before leaving, accused threa good behaviour for one year and ordered to re-pay the $30, by September 24, accused, with the tened Chul with death if he made Mr. E. Himsworth this morning. toki not arrested, tied up, the a report to the police.
A Chinese detective arrested After the death of the young women and boys, gagged them woman's husband, accused ob- and threatening them with first accused few days later in tained $30 trom her by promising | daggers, forced them to surrender, Hong Kong, while second accus- to erect a tombstone con the their jewellery. Second accused was arrested by a European grave. She paid him the money, ed, who directed the operations Sergeant in Tai 0.
FRAUD ON WIDOW
been arrested.
Struck Over Head
but he did not put up the stone. went to Chul's hut, saying that The case is proceed
and
its
success
HAIPHONG CARGO
TO BE RECALLED
Chinese merchants in Shangha announce that cargo valued tens of millions of dollars, strand ed in Indo-China as a result of the closing of the railroad to Kun ming, wil be brought back.
but the Empire cari deploy such strength in the defence of vital interests in the Near East and the Axis has small chance of winning a decisive there.
The "Nows. Chroniclb" says that if history docs not even tually reveal thatos Mussolint was told that a quick finlah to the war la now out of the have decided to send represents question and that he must lives to Haiphong and. Saigon t Increase his effort, "we shall be seek the services of the Chines
Government. prepared to eat our hats.”..............
The merchants are reported 1.
For the first time in, this war, It is also reported that regula disappointment rather than easy shipping services between Hon Jubilation must be the key-note | Kong, and Haiphong are being re of Friday's-meeting-Reuter, 'sumed on Tuesday, — Router.: