THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1941
Ulmere, Sipreme Court
"Fictionally Fantastic” British Escape From Greece Thrilling Stories Of Evacuation: Gallant Greek Policeman
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent, Evacuated With The British
Forces From Greece)
HOW THOUSANDS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS LAY ON GREEK BEACHES FOR 24 HOURS, SURROUNDED BY THE GERMANS, AND YET ESCAPED – HOW A GREEK POLICEMAN SAVED A FURTHER BATCH OF TROOPS - HOW A BRITISH › COLONEL CAPTURED BY PARACHUTISTS ESCAPED-AND REACHED A BRITISH DESTROYER THESE AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER INDIVIDUAL STORIES MAKE THE EVACUATION FROM GREECE APPEAR FICTIONALLY FAN- TASTIC.
A thousand troops under a British briga- dier reached the coast in the neighbourhood of Farina, according to plan, where they awaited naval craft for 24 hours.
The Germans were now on their trail and actually reached the coast on both sides of them as well as occupying the roadway to the west.
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The Germans had tanks lined up but did not press forward to the coast. Enemy air- craft roared overhead all day but failed to spot the Britishers.
After lying hidden in and cornfields all day a destroyer looned up and took them uff in safety.
bushes
"Had German patrols advanced along the roadway we dared not have fired," one of the escaped soldiers told me, “because it would
NIGHTSOIL COOLIES PARADE
Some 300 members of Luen Yip Guild
have givOR away our positions, the
party of garrotters waiting along
but we had arranged u privale (night-soil coolie organi the roadside in dispatch any Gersation) paraded through
mans approaching.”
A Gallant Greek
the streets yesterday afternoon and "parked"
Anolber party of Britishers themselves outside the General Post Office while
reached a village on the Pole- ponese coast with German #1
them only half a mile away, and |
chased forces Youring behind a deputation proceeded were saved by a galant Greek inside the building with a pedireman, who directed the Ger-petition for the Adminis- mans to the right while the Bri-trative Assistant of the
Another extraordinary escape Urban Council
tish had taken the left.
was
The
U.S. TO FREEZE ALL FOREIGN CREDITS?
The
question of freezing all foreign assets in the United States is under con- sideration, Secretary of State Cordull Hull stated at
his press conference yesterday. This would be done if it was deemed feasible and odvis- able, he said, but did not indicate that tion was imminent.- Reuter.
OC-
ON
WATCH LOOTERS
After
the fire-watchers, the
AN INCENDIARY BOMB GRAB—Mr; G. Garrard of Shep- hords Bush has invented an Incendiary "Bomb Grab" which he has' patented. The Bomb Grab weight teh pounds and can be, used by housewives with the same simplicity as a carpet sweep- or. It is made of cheet metal lined with asbestos and can be produced at reasonable cost. It has been creen and approved by the A.R.P. Photo shows Mrs. Garrard, wife of the inventor; demonstrating the Bomb Grab. (Copyright, Fox).
Man Who Wrote
To Premier
(By A Special Correspondent)
was that of a colonel who, with a sinal detachment of men,
reason for Government”, motoring post-haste from Athens decision to take over control of
YOU HAVE LISTENED to many radio broad along the coastal road through night-soil removal in the Colony tooler-watchers, Megara to Corinth.
was once again explained to them
casters on war problems-Cabinet Ministers, higher HE SUDDENLY FOUND And they were again advised to
Anger has been aroused every-
Civil Servants, "distinguished persons” of all depart ROAD BLOCK WHICH HE EX- register with the Urban Council where by despicable thefts from ments. Soon you will hear an honest-to-goodness PECTED TO BE MANNED BY for employment which will be bomb-ruined homes, and the GREEK SOLDIERS, BUT TO HIS considered in the event of vacan- police, overburdened with addi- British workman in a talk on the air, giving the SURPRISE A GERMAN LIEU- cles since most of the coolies need-tional duties since war broke out, | reactions of the average London worker. TENANT, IN CHARGE OF EIGHT ed for the work had already been have found it difficult to deal with PARACHUTISTS, LEAPT ON recruited,
HIS RUNNING BOARD
DRAWN REVOLVER.
WITH
Escape Into Woods
The German requested the co- lonel to drive back to Athens while the Germans followed commandeered Greek cars.
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SAYS SHELTERS ARE CRUMBLING
Some of the brick surface shel- several ters put up after raids began were he so hurriedly built and the ma- the terial and building were so poor
that the shelters down, Lord. Horder declared.
are now falling
It was pitch dark and no soon- er had the colonel got miles down the road than stopped the car and, with driver, dived into the..woods..
After walking several miles.he found another. prearranged beach around Megara, where a British destroyer - took him, and his com- panion off-Reuter.
SHANGHAI UTILITY INCREASES
(SPECIAL TOMCHINA MAIL?) - Shanghai utility companies plan "another rate increase shortly
The bricks wore flaking, and
the situation.
He is Mr. Leslie Merrion, Enfield, foreman brick- The Mayor of Deptford, Coun. layer for the London Co-operative Society.
It came
some
clilor C. G. Blanchard, has in- stituted a new method of trap-
about this way. For branch of the
I ping the looter. He has appeal- cd to people living next door,
time Leslie Merrion has part-time warden. or near, to bombed houses to listened to various talks keep a watch for unauthorised
persons moving about bombed
property.
Soldiers Are Victims The looter-watchers are asked to challenge trespassers or to get
a penknife could be put through in touch with the police. both mortar and, bricks. There was no doubt that the "We have had a large number shelters did offer protection be of complaints about petty thiev cause during the bad blitz these ing." said the Mayor, "People who stood up. well and there was a have been bombed out return to relatively small number of cas- salvage some of their possessions galties despite the poor, work- and find the looter has been there. manship.
But he thought these should be, taken down because of the moral effect on the pepple, and they should be replaced with` The China General Omnibus: Co., | newer models fitted with bunka, 'has already filed an application to Lord Horder hod just made a raise fares, while the tram, water tour of shelters in the Midlands, and gas companies are planning He said he had found no such similar steps.
thing as an ideal public air-raid At the annual meeting of the shelter. Omnibus Co, the chairman stress- Bath from the point of view of ed. Increasing costs and labour health and safety the best thing troubles resulting in a loss of re- was to disperse people, and this venue of over $200,000.--Interna- could best be done by the provi- fiorial News-Service.
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among
"Soldiers have been the victims..and their letters to me stato in no uncertain way what they, would, like to do to the thieve
"Neighbours who undertake to watch will not be expected to keep regular hours of duty. But it is hoped they will keep a look-out at intervals.
"The looters will think twice if they know that people are watch ing them in a systematic way,!!---|
on the
air, and thought to himself what a need there was for someone to speak from a worker's point of view. He wrote to Mr. Churchill as an ex-member of his own Union and told him so.
Busy Man..
N.F.B.T.O., and
When I met him he had just sent his script for Broadcasting House's scrutiny. He wrote it in the time he usually reserves for extra jobs, just before going work at four o'clock” in the morn- ing, after which his wife ran her eye over it and passed it.
to
"With the best will in the world these people in exalted positions cannot. know just what the aver- age worker is thinking and feeling and how he is reacting to the war,
Result, Leslie Merrion has been asked by the B.B.C. to speak in a series, which Includes Ernest Bevin and George Gibson. The talk will be relayed to Australia. he told me,"
I found Mr. Merrion at work! on'a damaged shelter ;in... North')...... London, I was lucky to catch him, for he must be in the running for the position of busiest man in London.
Here are a few of the jobs he covers in his spare time, Secretary of the Tottenham Branch of the A.U.B.T.W. their representative on the Military Hardship. Tri- bunal, member of the Court of Referees and of the Local Em- ployment Committee -at! Enfield; and member of Enfield Trades Council, representative to the local
Square Deal Plea
"As a working Trade Unionist, a warden, and as a man whose work takes him from one district to another I have a good chance of knowing.
"I am asking for reassurance. not merely that the people, will get a square deal, but that they will get a square deal now. Given - that assurance, I am convinced that our morale is invincible, and
Hitler has got to be benten!'!.. There are many humorous lit the stories in Baru Merrion's script