THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1941.
TWO RECORDS May Wife
Wife Stay INAZIS EXECUTE BETTERED AT With Tommy? 80,000 SERBS
EUROPEAN "Y"
Swimming an excellent race, E.
A. Roberts caused the upset of the
evening at the Y.M.C.A. Swim-
ming Championships last night
when he clocked 78 2/5 secs. for the 100 Yards back-stroke event
(By A London Reporter)
IT HAS BEEN an anxious week for soldiers' wives who are living in or near their husbands' billets.
Newspapers in different parts of the country to beat the holder, B. Wilson, by published early in the week a statement that 2 secs., and set up a new "Y" rewives of officers and men of an
divi- army cord for the event, the previous best being Wilson's 80
TURKEY HEARS
Serbian
Guerilla warfare by Irregular Chetniks continues In Serbia, Bosnia and parts of Mace- donia despite countless execu- tions, Imprisonments and German warnings that 100 Serbs will be killed for every German or Croat shot by Chetniks, according to information reaching foreign
military circles in Ankara, 27sion in the South of England are affected by an
year which, incidentally, the latter order which has been issued that soldier-husbands equalled last night.
may no longer share a billet with their wives.
The 220 Yards free-style pro- vaded A. F. May will a win over 1. Benn in 2 mins. 46 378 secs, to equal thị "Y" record set by H. G. Lange in 1933.
DRAW FOR ANNUAL BOWLS TOURNEY
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The latest incident, according to A. H Compton, Eng. K. Morrleon, Eng the reports, concerned a band of J. Darios, Eng., Hon. Mr. T. E. Poroby more than 200 Serbian soldierson. Mr. 8. II, Dodwell, Bon. Mr. A. L. Shieldəq led by Chetnik officers that des- Hon. Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn, cended upon Belanovica, Serbia,
Chief Manager. "This report started 80 many fifty kilometres (a kilometre is [inquiries," I was told at Southern 621 of a metre) northwest I
Command, "that
issued a Kragujevac, seized more than a Bangkok statement.
ton of foodstuffs and ammunition | Batavia from warehouses and escaped into Bommy the Bosnian Mountains without Centoo a single casually.
This attack was
staged during Colombe
Daltro The inter-departmental lawn!
the past month, it is reported, and Foochow bowls competition for the Gos-
was executed during the space of He phong combe-O'Sullivan Cup this year
a few hours during which the Bokow
Harbin has drawn 16 entries and at
The statement issued from the Serbian soldiers annihilated the Dolo meeting at Police Recreation Club Public Relations Officer of the guards posted about the food Elast night it was decided that the Southern Command said that the warehouses and killed several
first round would be played on practice of wives of officers and German sentries near by.
R. Larsen and N. Mecqueen fail- ed to turn up for the boys' 50 Yards free-style, in Chich G. Saunders, swimming tuTux;1:ç“1, covered the distance in 28 secs. to clip 2 2/5 secs. off the record set by himself last year.
Results were as follows:
100 YARDS BACK.STROKE:-1,
A Roberts, 78 25 secs. 2, 0, S. WH son 80 2.5
secs. 3. F. Wills.
1, A F. " L A
220 YARDS FREE STYLE May, 2 mRNA, 46 35 BOCS. Benn. 2 #11619. 48.35 secs.; 3. D. Hut. chinson,
BOVS
50 YAROS FREE STYLE: G. Saunders, 28 secs,
To-morrow's Events
The
championships will be continued
8 p.11. to-morrow af when the following will be the programine:
Men's 50 Yards Free-Style Final:-
F Goldman, I Hutchinson, ** A Roberts and G
W
Saunders
100 Yards Breast.Stroke Final:
5. Gegg, W. B. Ure and D. Hut- chinson
S
50 Varda Back-Stroka Final: -- A Wilson. W. 5. Gegg. F. Willis and E A. Roberts
1
The fact is that no specific or- der can be traced, and the posi- tion is exactly the same as it has been ever since Dunkirk.”
"Frowned Upon"
Sunday, September 14.
men living permanently in de- The draw Was made at
the fence areus near operational meeting and resulted as follows: troops is frowned upon. PWD. "A" v Police “B”; HarbouT It added that the practice of Department 、 Small Units. Educa- wives living in requisitioned bil- fion Department “A”
le ing quarters is forbidden, be- V Police "A"; P.W.D), By Post Office: Police "D" v P.W.D. "C". Prison Department "B" P.W.D "D". Prison Department "A" v Educa- tion Department "B"; Prison De- partment "C" v Police "C".
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cause this would mean that the wivca would be living at the expense of the ratepayers.
It is an old argument. It rag- ed in Kipling's day, and Kip ling wrote a poem about it. "We draw a distinction," I was to'd, between operational troops and static formations like, kily, the Artillery School or
the Small Arms School,
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SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES are sub- !
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TRUSTEE and EXECUTUR busine graphs illustrating the bodies of undertaken,
men and women hanged at Pan- chevo, opposite Belgrade on the Danube, and elsewhere in connec- tion with the Serbian guerilla warfare and sabotage.
Eye witness reports from Serbs reaching Turkey, from the photo-
Hong Kong. 26th February, 1941. HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
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V. M. GRAYBURN, Alexander, American and sometimes for other ranks to killed by hanging.
Chief Manager, north and south champion, leads set up house."
Hong Kong, 1st March, 1837. the field of 150 players who, sur-
Stewart
Mon's 440 Yards Free-Style Finat:-vivors of the original entry of A. F. May. L. A. Benn, D. Butchinson.
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In most cases the victims were hanged by short
ropes thrown over tree trunks and looped about nearly 700, ure playing for 64
the necks of the Serbians, after The War Office seems to take a match play stage places in the American Amateur Golf Cham-
tolerant attitude to the question, which the Germans forced their
"Generally speaking."
prisoners to mount a small pile pionship. Alexander (67) and
is of bricks-then kick the bricks Johnny Burke (88) were the only Office official told me, "there players to break 72, which is the, nothing to prevent a wife taking away. The Serbs died by strangi- a room in the house where her ing. sometimes after an hour or par for the course.
more. More than 200 Serbs, in- Paid-up Capitul Ellsworth Vines, famous tennis husband is billeted, provided there player, Otto Greiner, Ted Bishop is a spare room that has not been cluding an Orthodox priest, were Reserve Fund each returned
Marvinquisitioned and provided it is hanged in this manner in Vrsatz, Reserve Liability of Pro- 72 and
not a defence arca.
it was reported. Another Serbian Ward (Championship favourite),
Orthodox priest and fifteen fol- "In some cases when a man is In the only match payed in the Johnny Goodman (former cham- European Y.M.C.A.
Invitation Dion) and Glenn Oatman 73. and going through a course of train- lowers were reported hanged at
GUNNERS WIN AT WATER-POLO
Water-polo Tournament last night. Richard Chapman, title holder,ng that requires intense inental
at Army Pool, 8th Coastal Regi- was among several ment Royal Artillery beat Middle-round in 74.-Reuter. sex Regiment "B" 5--2.
McNulty, Calthrop (2), Guy and Rause scored. for the winners, while Pearnek and Radly netted for Middlesex "B".
To-night's Games
Following is European Y.M.C.A. Invitation Water-porn Tournament programme for to-day:
Al Navy Pol
36th Battery, R.A ኒ By Battery, RA
15 pm) At Y.M.C A. Poo
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Royal Navy "B"
Middlesex "A"
Middlesex "R
(633 p.mt
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17:
(7:30
RA
who went
SUSPECTED DESERTER
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Suspected deserter from the Suffolk Regiment, Bertram Les- lie Smith,
Panchevo.
Resistance, nevertheless, contin- (and physical concentration it may
and there is be inadvisable for him to attempt ues, it is reported, to lead a domestic existence, and fighting all night long in Belgrade. Banja Luka in Bosnia and in la commanding offleer may dis-
Montenegro--especially in the courage the idea."
Clearly there is an mense nu vicinity of Berani and in South-
villages man's land between the two off- en Serbian cial points of view, a no man's, munities, the reports stated. land dotted with troop concentra- tions which are neither in defence nor are they "s'atic" train- ing schools.
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