THE CHINA MAIL, JANUÁRY 4, 1941
IMPERIAL ARMY
IN
SUDAN LAND OF BABEL Skirmishes And Ambushes Sap Italian Morale
Many Stories Of Heroism
THAI BORDER INCIDENTS CONTINUE
on
Fresh incidents the frontier between Indo-China and Thai- land are reported in a Havas
de- agency spatch from Hanoi yesterday.
The incidents, which are described as "not serious," took place at various points along the bor- der following encoun- ters between patrols.
-Reuter.
GUARDING HEALTH IN ASIA
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in the Sudan)
ONCE AGAIN, AFTER over 40 years, the military railway built by Kitchener for the re- conquest of the Sudan, is choked with war material, and the sons and grandsons of both British officers and Dervish chiefs who fought as mortal foes in 1897 are fighting now.
This time, however, they are ranged side 1,200-mile by side along a wild straggling front from the Red Sea to the shores of Lake Rudolph.
So many languages are spoken among this great Imperial army assembled in the bush country that it is becoming known as the "land of Babel."
Arabs, Ethiopians, South Afri-man and white, elephant and lon and cans. Rhodesians. Sudanese, Som-alike, fall victims to bomb alis, Frenchmen and Britons lie by machine-gun. day within their deep dug shelters but by night they creep forth and by sharp skirmishes and ambushes are sapping Italian morale.
Strange Story
Behind brief official announce- ments that "patrol activity
Con-
nues on the Sudan front" lies a strange story of modern warfare
the wilds of Africa, where black many parts of the Pacific regions.
There are many stories of her- oism in these distant outposts.
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On one occasion a solitary Su- danese police officer, seeing Ital.an patrol approaching, took up a position behind a sandhill in- stead of retreating.
he Armed only with a rifle killed three Italians and four Eritreans before being killed by their machine-gun fire.
Abyssinian's Trek
Health in tropical Asia is finding a new guardian in Australia upon whom tropical medicine is be-
Commonwealth serum Jabora- An Abyssinian from Somaliland coming more dependent. tories began in 1938 to accumulate walked across the desert and
The Commonwealth is now
essential stocks now almost un-mountains of Abyssinia to the Su- supplying serums, vaccines, anti- obtainable since they are procur-dan frontier carrying a gun which from the Italians toxins and other products essen-able only from Continental coun- he had stolen tial to health in India, Malaya. tries controlled by Germany. after hey had captured it in Bri-
tish Somaliland. Burma, the Netherlands Indies and Reuter.
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Not only are the Italians har- assed by land. The RA.F. is hammering daily at Italian posi- tions, and penetrate more deeply into Abyssinia.
part
French pilots are taking with them in these operations.- Reuter.
Civilian
V.C. For Lincoln Man
A civilian armament in- structor at an R.A.F. Training School has been awarded the George Cross (the civilian Victoria Cross) for acts of ex- ceptional coolness and' courage on several occa- sions.
He is Leonard Harrison, of Louth (Lincolnshire), who served in the R.A.F. for 12 years.
Early last year a ship arrived in port with an unexploded Ger- man bomb wedged half
deck. through the main
way.. The
bomb was fitted with a fuse of a then unknown type and Harrison assisted in rendering it harmless.
STOP PRESS
The Controller of Food has delegated all his powers re- lating to rice to Mr. Frederick Charles Barry.
P. J. MacKellar, former manager of the travel depart- ment of the American Ex- press, was yesterday senten-
by ced to five
years hard Judge P. Grant Jones in the British Supreme Court in Shanghai on a charge of em- bezzling sums of money from the American Express over a period of a year.
The trial occupied four and a half days and required four months investigation before i could commence.
MacKellar was originally employed as a clerk and was rapidly promoted to manager of the travel department. After a period of little over a year in this position the auditor of the company dis- covered errors in the accounts and MacKellar was arrested. ---Reuter.
The following appointments etc. are gazetted:
Mr. G. S. Kennedy-Skipton to be Cadet Officer, Class 1. Mr. L. J. Davies nominated as a Member of the Court of the University of Hong Kong. Messrs. H. B. L. Dowbiggin and M. P. Talati, nominated as Members of the Court of the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Chung Yce-pui to be a public vaccinator. Mr. W. W. Hoffmann
Vice- to act as Consul of the United States of America at H.K. Mr. Giro Matsumoto recognised a Vice-Consul for Japan at H.K.
as
SERIOUS ATTACK OPENS ON BESIEGED BARDIA
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More Marked
A month later he again gave simliar. assistance: In rendering safe unexploded German bombs.|
There are no signs as yet that Through his own initiative and the Italians have received any private study, Harrison, who was reinforcements. On the contrary, Born in Devonport, has become British mastery of the air grows an authority on the fuse and more marked daily, exploder systems in German Our Increasing air power will
fall with a heavy hand on Ger bombs-Reuter,
many and Italy before Spring and this will undoubtedly alter the
The prefix "special" to" telegrama ir whole strategia outlook in! Bri- used by the “Sunday. Herald's and tain's favour--Reuter. “China Mail” to indicate naws which is strictly copyright under the provis along, of the Telecommunications Or dinance, 1994, and may not be reprint. ed under any ciróumstances, either wholly or in part, without prior ar- [Fangement,
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amend
An Ordinance to the Places of Public Enter- tainment Ordinance is gazet- ted this morning.
The object of the proposed new section in the Places of Public Entertainment Re- gulation Ordinance is to put end to a ticket-selling racket which has grown into an intolerable nuisance,
an
Briefly, the trouble is that touts, acting for individuals or gangs who have bought quan- tities of tickets in advance, stand about in the streets ad- joining and the entrance halls of and approaches to, cine- mas,
theatres and sports grounds, sometimes even ob- structing the entrances, box- offices or turnstiles, impor- to tuning would-be entrants buy their tickets from them, and often representing that all other seats are fully book- ed.
Not only have complaints against this nuisance been received from entertainment organisers and the public, but there is cause to believe that the operations of gangs or roughs, interested in the sale at their own, prices of these tickets, have result- ed in several assaults members of the public and even in a street murder out- side a theatre.
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The customary six-month- ly statement on the Exchange Fund position shows
that since June 30, 1940, the Fund purchased further small quantity of silver subsidiary coins to be refined and mar- keted. No sales of silver were effected during this period.
The Fund operated in the local exchange market as found necessary.
the
to
on:
On 30th June, 1940, Certificates of Indebtedness outstanding amounted $177,031,630 which is equiva- lent to £11,064,477 @ Îs/3d. the middle market rate that day; the total assets of the Fund amounted to £12,- 597,727 of which 71.80 per cent. was held in gilt edged sterling securities, 28.10 per cent. on deposit in London at call or short notice and 0.10 per cent, in silver.
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