THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1941
Leading members of the super'ative cas of Darryl F. Zan. uck's production of "Brigham Young," by Louis Bromfield, at the King'e Theatre. Tyrone Power, rtar of the 20th Century Fox the leading film is shown at left with Linda Darnell, who has feminine role. Dean Jagger (right) portrays Brigham Young. Donlevy, At the top (left to right) are Jchn Carradine, Mary Actor, Jean Rogers and Jane Darwell.
Brian
CREW
SHELLED
FACE A 'HELL ON WATER'
AXIS OIL SUPPLIES ARE LOW
A U.S. Government petroleum expert, declar- ed that Axis oil supplies were so low that England might win the war with- out invading Europe by bombing Germany's "vital spot"-her synthe- tic oil plants and trans- portation lines.
Dr. Robert E. Wilson, head petroleum consultant of the Office of Production Management, made the assertion in a speech prepar- ed for delivery before the Am- crican Institute of Chemical En- gineers in Chicago,
Dr. Wilson said the German- Italian war effort was being fuel- ed with a total petroleum pro- duction, including imports und synthetic output "equal to only 5 per cent. of this country's pro- duction of crude."
The Washington man said it was hard to predict whether the shortage would hamper Axis military operations this summer, but listed several ways in which the Reich's oil shortage was "surely working against her for the lung pull."
"First, Italy, due only partly to lack of oil, will be more of a Nability than an asset to Hit- ler from now on.
"Second, Germany's discourag- Ing outlook as to oil supplies must require considerable diver- sion of attention and energy to increasing her supplies which she would prefer to use in other ways. Also, the shortage must interfere increasingly with both her indus- trial and agricultural production und eventually her military opera- tions.
AN EPIC WHICH PROVES that the men Eng- land sends down to the sea in ships have not lost their courage or their skill since Captain Bligh of the Bounty sailed 4,000 miles in an open boat is Invasion Not Necessary heing told in brief cabled messages dribbling into New York from the Island of Curupu, Brazil.
It was no mutiny that put eighty-two officers and men of a British ship in an open boat some- where in the Atlantic not so long ago. It was a German raider which came out of the night somewhere off the west coast of Africa and shelled the ship until she sank.
his of the ship,
The captain first officer, and eighty British and the last twelve days of the voy-
were on
"Third, while capture or con- trol of Iraq would to some extent hamper England's operations in the Eastern Mediterranean area, not be these oil supplies could gotlen into Germany or Italy in any appreciable volume unless the Axis gained effective control of the Mediterranean Sea.
"Fourth, if and when England can achieve sufficient air super- iority to permit long range and heavy daylight uttacks on Ger- plants and many's synthetic
Survivors can hardly talk of transportation fucilities, she will be striking at such a vital spot Indian members of the crew age. The raving was becoming that actual invasion might never managed to scramble into a life- louder all the time and the deaths be necessary in order for England boat built to carry nifty met
more frequent. Each man existed to win the war."
The United States has "plenty When dawn broke they
one piece of hard tack
and i
refinery of reserve crude and alone in the blue ocean. Not a one tablespoonful of water.
capacity to take care of all pre- ship was in sight.
The Indians began to go first.dictable defence needs" the ŌPM Forty of them died from heat, man said. thirst and madness. Then four scamen were lowered British overboard to the almost inaudible muttering of a funeral service intoned by the captain.
The German raider, not in terested in saving lives which she assumed would soon be lost, had vanished on other business.
Hope Awakens
Over the helm which he was grabbing the captain held a con- ference with all the seamen on board. He wanted to make for South America.
It was
of
I
and
about 1,600 miles open water, he explained, they might or might not sight a sail. It was a gamble.
Hope Realised
half
Then the thirty-seven dead men who remained to listen!
to their captain's orders suddenly came back to life.
"Land ahoy!" he cried. "It's the coast of Brazil," said the first officer. The captain col. lapred. "That close to safety," he said, a smile on his weather- beaten face. "That
to close safety." and
It
There were not enough pro- visions. There probably would not be enough fresh water. would be scorching hot, With only one sall to help, every man on board would have to
bend his back to the oars.
of
All voted support for their cap- tain. And so the voyage twenty-three days through a hell on water began.
For the first week all went well," although the captain put the entire crew on mere subsis- tence `rations.
Hope Fades
Then the sun began to take its toll. Men began to go crazy, from it, while o'hers tried to row or to sleep, they raved and screamed. One by one the crazed seamen died,
With great difficulty he turned his head towards his next in com- mand. "All's well," he whispered.
AND THEN HE DIED.
SALON IN SOFIA
NIECE OF
OSCAR
WILDE DEAD
Wilde,
Miss Dorothy aged 47, a niece of Oscar Wilde, was found dead in her bedroom in a block of luxury flats in Chesham- place, Belgrave-square.
A number of bottles containing paraldehyde, a drug for insomnia, were found in the bedroom,
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They did not-talk of politics have been dead some hours." But these si ters are Anglophiles. A close friend of Miss Wilde They speak English well said: For the past three years suffered from an Now the Sisters Estroff | Dorothy Had The others want on through | Tchomacoff are banished to Hun-incurable disease. She knew she stormy seas and becalmed sons, gary. They were permanent was under sentence of death.
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