THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1941.
TORPEDOED SEVEN TIMES BUT HE WON'T SINK
SEVEN TIMES TORPEDOED - but you can't send a good man down. This sums up the adven- tures and the spirit of veteran ship's fireman Walter Kent, fifty-seven, who was among survivors of sunk merchant ships who landed at a Scottish port.
With him were two lads of sixteen, who de- clared, with Walter Kent: "Of course we are going back to sea. The Germans can't stop us."
Mr. Kent's home Is in Percy | Road, Nor hampton. He was four times torpedoed in the last war, so that his "score" in this war is three.
on," he
"I'm going to carry said, "I have been lucky, as each time I have escaped serious in- jury, On this occasion, however, I got a bit of a shock, a knock on the foot.
MEN NOT
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Men are not the sterner sex where blood trans- fusions are concerned they are much more
"My only serious injury at sea happened shortly after the Ar. mistice in the last war, when nervous about it than fell down the hold and broke my leg."
Mr. Kent's ship carried a crew of forty. All were saved.
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A deck boy of sixteen, G. Crow- ther, of Goole, Yorkshire, survivor of the same ship, had been sunk once before. That was at Dunkirk.
"At Dunkirk," he said, "my ship was mined. That gave me
a bit of a scare, but soon got over that,
"Nothing the Germans can do is going to keep me off the sea. I have been eighteen months in the Merchant Service, but it has always been my ambition to get into the Navy. I hope it will not be long until I am there."
Captain's Sacrifice
A cabin boy aged sixteen from another ship is D. K. Kennedy, of Glamorgan, He was making his second voyage.
"Of course I'm going back to
our
women, according to Cap- tain H. E. Cooper, Mid- land Regional organiser of the Blood Transfusion Service.
"I seldom hear
of a woman
fainting at the hospital," Captain Cooper told a reporter, "but it is fairly common with men.”
man
Captain Cooper told of a of eighty-three who visited the transfusion centre in Birmingham and offered to become a donor.
He did so because the thought
a nurse would be sent to look after him. He had to be told politely that the centre did not supply nurses for volunteers.
"We have a woman of seven- ty, who has given her blood twice in a year, and a Geventy-three.
man of
"Many people about sixty actu- ally worry us to have blood taken from them, as they say it makes them feel so much younger and healthler.
"I have
suggested that working on dangerous jobs in this was torpedo-country such as those in the A.F.S., although in-
sea," he said.
"Sixteen of
he crew," added," are missing, including the master, Captain Nicholls, Devon man,
"When our ship
captain,
od the
jured, supervised
8
the lowering
of the lifeboats and then re- turned to the bridge to collect the ship's papers.
"The ship went down before he could get back to the boats. "Captain Nicholls was later picked up from the sea. He was dying."
Able Seaman Thornton Thomus, of Cothill Road, Llfracombe, added that when Captain Nicholls was dying he tried to give a last mes- sage to his wife.
"I know Mrs. Nicholls" he said, "and 1 am taking the cap- tain's ring. money and private papers to her."
"When the ship sank.", Thomas continued. "I managed to clamber on to a raft,"
Captain Trail, of Aberdeen, master of another hip, pald a tribute to the quick work of
rescue.
OUTNUMBER AXIS IN AIR IN 1942
men
Shirley Templc's latest pic- ture is "Young People," the rollicking 20th Century-Fox hit which comes to the King's Theatre. "Young People" stars Jack Dakie and Charlotte Greenwood with Shirley in a picture packed with laughs and Bongs.
DUTCH CAPTAIN
WAS HERO
Captain Arie Karlsdorp, a Dutch sea captain, played an heroic part in the rescue of 320 British re- fugee children and 300 other pas- sengers from the torpedoed finer Volendam, in the
Atlantic, some months ago.
The skipper, now at St. John, New Brunswick, has heard from London that he has been awarded the Bronze Cross of the Nether- lands Government.
should have the number of their blood
group tattooed on their body to save time in finding it should they require an immediate transfusion."
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IN RUMANIAN RIOTS ANDREWS
(From A Special Correspondent)
I BELIEVE THAT this is the first eye-witness account to reach the outside world of the Iron Guard horror in Rumania. It was necessary for me to come to Sofia to send out details of the revolt, be- cause the Bucharest censorship refused to pass any- thing but milk-and-water versions of the insurrec- tion,
firmed the statement,, that there were dozens of cases of sadistic mutilations.
The tale is one of unrelieved horror-a record of fiendish brutality without precedent in the his- tory of Rumania and history of any other country.
Between 4,000 and 6,000 per Bons were killed in Bucharest alone, while the death toll for Rumania as a whole was some- where between 9,000 and 12,000 These are conservative esti Britain will achieve air equality mates based on conversations with the Axis in 1942. The au-, with competent military and thority for this is Mr. T. P. Wright, police officials and surgeons who one of the United States leading have no reason to exaggerate the aircraft production, engineers, magnitude of the slaughter.
Writing In "Avlation,” - ha
Of the 4,000 or more lives lost estimates that by the middle of in Bucharest approximately 2,000 1942 Britain would have out- were rebel Guards, 600 soldiers stripped the combined air pow- and 1,400 civilians, er of the Axis Powers-with about 55,000 'planes. Mr. Wright's estimates of our strength are
AXIS · BRITAIN
JANUARY, 1941 41,000 25.000
U.S.
MID 1941 46,000. 32,000 €
JANUARY, 1942-
6,000
10,000
49,000 *** 45,000
16,000
EVENE MID 1942 49,000 55,000 PLAAS END: 1942
28,000
48,000
· Women Burned Alive
At least 1,000 of the latter were Jews who were murdered by one Iron Guard army, while another battled with the khaki- clad Rumanian army in the con- tre of the city.
Perhaps the most horrifying single episode of the pogrom was the "kosher" butchering of more than 200 Jews in a municipal slaughter-house. The Jews; who had been rounded up after veral hours of Iron Guard raids, were put into trucks and carried off to the slaughter-house.
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There Greenshirts forced them to undress and led them to chop- throats in a horrible parody ping blocks where they cut their ot the traditional Jewish methods of slaughtering fowls and livestock.
Tiring of this sport after. * few acore, had been thus de- spatched, 40 to 50 årmed legion, arlas, mad with haze, beheaded the reit with axes and knives.. The chly other episode" com-
Dozens of Jews--women and children, as well as men-were literally burned alive. I am not speaking of those, burned to death in hundreds of buildings to which 'parable with the slaughter-house rébel Guards set fire, but only inassiero, in point of mumbers The
United States," says Mr.of those who were beaten gén- only, was the mass execution in Wright, would have‹ parity with selesa in the streets, robbed, then a field near Jilava příson of 180 the Axis 'in the air by the close | doused., with petrol and set on Jewish leaders who had been im- of 1942, even though the country | fire.
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prisoned in the office of the have told: Jewish” community at Caleadu-
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