Page
WATSON'S
“THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941.
Axis Ship Losses In
ORANGE SQUASH Tunisia Reported
URANCE SQU
Made From Fresh Juicy Oranges.
PREPARED BY A SPECIAL PROCESS WHICH ENSURES
FULL VITAMIN CONTENT. FRUIT CELLS UNDAMAGED FLAVOUR FROM BOTH PULP AND RIND UNIMPAIRED.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED
Manufacturers, of High Ciago Acrated. Waters & Cordials.
ESTD: 1841.
The Sign of Perfect Drycleaning
ZORIC
GLEANING SYS
FOR ALL TYPES OF GLOTHING AND HOUSEHOLD FABRICS
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
Head Office and Works, Tel. 57082.
Hong Kong Depot, Tel. 21279. Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Flr.,
Tel. 28938.
BREWERY
UB
You
Peak Depot. Tel. 29352. Kowloon Depot, Tel, 58545.
too need.
U.B.STOUT
Heavy By Sailor
(By W. E. Lucas)
AN ACTUAL PICTURE OF the destruction of Axis shipping off the coast of French, Tunisia is given by a French sailor who was a member of the crew, of a naval patrol vessel between Bizerta, and Sfax on the African coast and has recently arrived in the United States. to join, the forces, of Gen. Charles de Gaulle,
For some months British Admiralty communi- cations have laconically mentioned the sinking of Axis transports and freighters trying to run the blockade between Sicily and Tripoli and using the coast of French Tunisia as a safety channel, Al- though some have got through, the description of this hundred miles of coast line, from Cape Bon to Sfax, as a cemetery of ships shows how many have failed.
war.
100000000000
ODD FACT
Strange as if may seem, the hottest place on earth is named, Greenland Ranch. It is in Death Valley, California, and the temperature has been known to reach 134 degrees in the shade
BOOKS BY
THE OUNCE
Close Inshore, he reports, in freighters of every size and men shallow water so that their mastsof and the tops of their funnels break island of Kuria a convoy of six Publishers! Scheme
At one point off the the surface there are scores of merchant ships had been sunk as Italian ships, sailing schooners,well as two escorting destroyers.
FIVE RAIDERS TRAPPED
Radiolocation,
Britain's new
Looking down through the clear
Standard books in Mediterranean waters he could see which the number of the havoc which had been caused
by what must have been an affWords will be strictly mea and sea attack. Equipment of sured in ounces may be every sort was. scattered. about.
Italian. Convoy · ·
the ocean floor, tanks, aeró en- appearing before long gines, drums of oil, trucks, motor- They will represent the cycles, heavy, and light guns DI all kinds.
publishers' solution of the problem of reconciling rising book sales with the device for the destruction, of night bombers, cost the Germans there was an Italian convoy con-
A few miles south of this scene increasing shortage of five bombers when they made a sisting of four freighters and one paper. short, sharp raid on the South-destroyer which had been sunk, ampton and South-East Coast.
Meanwhile, the plan which the The hulls of the freighters were technical advisory committee
of. Two. churches, two banks, riddled with shell, holes, and the Publishers several schools, licensed premises, well directed hit must have land- considering
Association is
one. that: premises, and mányed on the destroyer's magazine stipulates that private houses were destroyed or since the front part of the ship must contain
each book damaged.
6,000 words for had been blown away. A number of people lost their About a mile distant the mast A rather lower ratio may be de- every ounce of its bound weight. lives, and many others were taken of a British destroyer appeared creed for educational, to hospital.
above the surface of the sea. But and juvenile books, in which pro- technical One night Aghter pilot. shot she must have been abandoned in vision must be made for illustra- down two German bombers. He good order as there was so sign tions or diagrams. got the second after he had of any loss of life. landed to reload.
business
BRITONS READY FOR ORDEAL
Sunk And Damaged·
In the French harbour of Sfax
is
The scheme does not touch the question of prices. The new "words per ounce! book would not only
provide
Im-
several other Italian freighters more books from the same tonnage were lying sunk or damaged as a of paper, but would also save. result of the R.A.F. bombing at-storage space and provide the tacks on that port. Four other reader with a light, easily handled · ships, carrying large consignments volumé. of war material for Libya, were
"What we shall have to sheltering there afraid of continu-press on the public," said a lead- ing their journey to Tripoli. Ing publisher recently, "is that,
The French sailor estimated to buy a book consuming a large that the total loss of heavy equip quantity of paper will be -un- Preaching his first sermon since ment along this hundred mile patriptic." his return from a tour of Britain stretch of coast line was very the Rev. Dr. John Sutherland considerable. There were be- Bonnell, who fought in the last tween 40 and 50 ships alt fully war, said in New York that no-loaded with military stores either thing he saw of the soldiers. then sunk or abandoned in shallow could equal the amazing courage water: of British civilians now,
They were standing up un- complainingly, he said, through an ordeal worse than, that faced. by American soldiers In France.
"Having personally inspected | what is going on. in the shipyards and factories of Britain, having seen the defences of the British Isles, I am confident that when the final ordeal comes these people will give a good account of themselves," he declared.
and
ANCESTORS OF PRIME
MINISTER FOUGHT GREAT BRITAIN
The Syracuse Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution has decided that the British Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, is eligible for membership because two of his American ancestors fought, against Britain,
Mr. Churchill's, mother, the Inte Lady Randolph Churchill, yas an American.
She was the daughter of Leonard Jerome, of Nosshu County, Florida; ong-time part- owner of the Now York Times,
As Jennie Jerome, the late Lady Churchill was a noted Amorlean
R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD. | beauty...
Mr. Churchill was a newspaper correspondent in the Spanish❤- American War,
•
"DEATH OR
GLORY BOYS"
who
"Death or glory boys" they are called locally, these troops man the 6-inch guns on the fringe, of the East Coast and keep cease- less watch and ward on the sea which might at any moment reveal German ships steaming to the attack
They man. Britain's front line. And a curious front line If is. T saw one gun in a cottage garden with its muzzle showing above, a privet hedge, Another is on what holidaymakers once called un esplanade. A third peeps. out of a wood, and o fourth, is in the
pen draped with cumouflage.
Men are constantly on the alert, owpeping the nose with binoculars by day and with soarchlights and night glasses at night. Within half a minute: of the sounding of the alarm shoy must be manning, the, gynes On the beaches in front of them. there stretches a continuous fant barrier,
Every officer takop, bie plaas. with his men In bayonet-train- ing,, allí havo: thole dally despa of P.T), parry. 100lb. shiplis 20 yards, and practice: grappling with paratroopa In order to got tough.
THE
GEAN
ACCIDENT &
GUARANTEE CORPORATION,
LIMITED
INSURANCE OF
CASH IN TRANSIT
In the custody of Travellers, Agents, Collectors, Cochlors, Messengers and other. Officers,
*
Chief Agents
GILMAN & Co., Ltd.
JA, DES VŒUR RD., G. TEL. #9##7