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Washington, Apr. 28.
General Breton Somervell's sudden death at the age of 62 during February robbed him of the final satisfaction" of seeing a legendary project of his prove its worth.
It was General Somervell who braved public scoffing and stern opposition to press for the erec- tion of the world's largest office building, the Pen- tagon, in 1943.
The Pentagon, a five-sided building of steel and concrete covering 34 acres, has often been called "Somervell's Folly."
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and to vindicate General Somer- vell's judgment in terms of cold cash.
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2. An "arious wonian, ob- viously about to become д mother, appealed to a guard in a corridor to help her to find an exit. When the guard childeri her for entering the bulking in
her
condition, the woman Ermly i assured the guard that she was not a prospective mother when she entered.
More important, however,
3. An insurance agent moved General Somer- his offices into fact that DR. SCHOLLS Yost Comfort Sex the
vacant base- the military ment room, «Mezzanine) { vell's Vee Telephone Holke
de that
using the services Hongkong provides the expert atten- | minds of the United States tim your feet deeg by London should be together under one
of the secretary and the tele- phone, typewriter, desk and root, no matter how large that stationery. It was two усту you wish to roof might be, is authoritatively keep will look better and laut junger said to have paid important concerning his right to be there. before someone challenged him neay bound. Wesle 10
in terms of efficient dividends bookbinding. "S. C. M "Prat."
steering of the nation's defence efforts.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the Sixty-Sixth Ordinary Share- Yearly Meeting of bolders will be held the offices of the Company, No. 9 Ice House Street, Fourth Floor, Hongkong, on Thurs- day, 5th May 1955, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Statement of Accounts and tht Report of the Direc-
FORESAW BENEFITS
Although General Somer-
veli apparently foresaw these benefits accruing from the monster building, he often amused during his lifetime by the host of legends spawned by the tmmensity of the Pentagon. These legends have received such common coinage over the years that even many Washingtonians are now apt to confusé fact, fiction and telling half-truth. when
visitors about the Pentagon, The size of the Pentagon pro- For tors for the year ended 31st duces its own problems. December 1954, and to trans-instance, the Wall Street Journal act the ordinary business of reported recently the Company.
that in a
"clean-up" workers happened into an "odd nook and were surprised to find 5,552 new type-
been mislaid some years have"
Visitors to the Pentagon
The TRANSFER BOOKS of writers which apparently had the Company will be closed from Thursday, 21st April 1956 until Thursday, 6th May 1956, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directora,
Shewan Tomes & Co., Ltd,
R. V. LEDERHOFER,
Director, General Managers. Hongkong. 15th Apr., 1955.
to be supplied with special maps of the building as they enter and venture into its depths.
SOME LEGENDS
Here arc some or be legends about the Pentagon which are at present in circulation:
1. A messenger entered the Fentagon to deliver a telegram to an office deep in the bowels of the building and emerged
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Roman Statues Unearthed
Fifteen classical statues-- most of them copies of the works of famous Greek sculptures have been discovered among the ruins of Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli, Rome. They have been unearthed by Professor Salvatori Aurigemma who has SAVES, HIKING
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which, ported
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"Your nation's top secrets are in that building, folks, and we must not pry, mus: we?"—
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Pictured here is one of the assistant archaeologists who is measuring a statue of Mars wearing a Corinthian helmet, this is believed to be one of the most important of the statues discovered.-Express Photo.
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Alleged Baby Smuggling
London, Apr, 23.
Col Marotta. "Lipton,
· Labour Opposition Member of Parliament, said tedar
people
In the Homia of Cannes
responsible were "very... · alarmed”
number bables being Mammuggled out of this couns try, by devious means to Azmerica,”
adopted
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reply thai - he did not share
the view that there is a constant stream of babies going from this COLLITY to America.” France-FreMS,
SHOOTING
RECORDS
CLAIMED
Capetown, Apr. 28. Two soldier. marksmen, a major and a staff-sergeant,! shot out a sporting duel in Capetown. They were the only cool and unruffled men present as, matching shot for shot, they established two new world rifie shooting recorda.
Danish Resistance
Thesis Wins Doctor's Degree
Copenhagen, Apr. 28.
Herr Joergen Haestrup, a schoolmaster at Odense, on the Danish island of Fyn, and birth- place of Hans Andersen, has just won his doctor's degree with a thesis on the wartime Resistance Movement and it has become a best seller in Den- mark.!
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During the German occupation between 1940 and 1945 Herr Haestrup was a member of the movement and after the war it occurred to himi that someone ought to write a history of its stirring activities.
mental thesis entitled "Contact
with England 1940-43.”
1948
His endeavour atted in with structions to the resistance his ambition to
secure a
movements in Europe. doctorate of philosophy. So So successful has his thesis in with the help of his friends in book form turned out that Dr the movement and of the Danish Haestrup has decided to write authorities, he wrote a monu- two further volumes which will bring his history up to the liberation on May 5, 1943. His Arst book ends with August 29, NO HESITATION
a fateful date in the Hils examiners thought 10 Danish occupation as it was
the highly of his effort” that. day when the harassed Danish they had no hesitation in Government resigned in protest awarding him the degree of
ugainst the ceaseless German de- doctor of Aarhus University. mands, The .work has now been. Dr Haestrup made it clear published in book form and that resistance really owed. Its runs to 327 fullsize pages. The duel was shot at the Bell- has had
Inception to the decision of the an enthusiastic press British Cabinet in the darkest ville Range by Major T. J. Nel, and quickly became a best days of the war after the fall of the South African Armoured seller.
of France in 1940. Corps, and Staff Sergeant G. Van
On the day when the thes's In his Zyl, of the South African Marine Corps, both members of the Cape had to be presented and formally Operations Command Garrison Rife Club.
defended at the university, the describes In the first round of the dual, crowds which flocked to hear place in London long before Major Nel and Staff Sergeant him were so great that the police people in Denmark were aware Van Zyl both scored 149 out of a had to be called out to regulate that British aid would be forth. possible 150 without sighters, thus setting up what is claimed to be a world record.
CONSECUTIVE BULLS Majer Nel had 30 consecutive bulls and Staff Sergeant Van Zyl 29 consecutive bulls.
taking them.
At 200 yards they both scored 49, and at 500 and 800 yards they both scored possibles.
To break the tie they had three more shots, but both again scored bulls, thus scoring 164 out of a possible 165.
accourt of Special Executive he events which took
coming. He shows that resis The thesis is
contemporary tance was planned in all the history and many of the men occupied countries, including and women mentioned in its Poland and Yugoslavia, pages were in the audience to The book explains the hear their activities discussed by operation by radio between Den- the candidate and his examintus. | mark and England and
Com
the
In order to limit the scope of elaborate organisation set up for his thesis Dr Hacsaup con communication through neutral, centrated on its organisation in although sympathetic Sweden. England and its agents in Denmark,
The controlling group was known as Special Operation's under working Counting their first three shots Executive
at each distance, both men scor- General Sir Colin Gübbing and td 104 out of a possible 105 had its headquarters in London.
HOURLY INSTRUCTIONS without dighters, thus establish-
From the offices of SOE, was called, the group radiated almost hourly in-
ing what is claimed to world recard Chiou Special..
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THE START Co-operation between SOE and the
Danish rezistanco movement started when the first two Dunes jumped with parachutes from a Royal Air Force bomber. One of them killed, but the other, a radio had been operator who frained in England, landed safely.
Another Danish radio operator devoloped a form of portable transmitter which became model for other resistance movements.
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Although many mistakes were made. tha movement grew in numbers and showed"in-"
audacity. creasing
Sabotage orders from London were swift- ly carried out and the results reported back immediately
London.
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The resistance movement was with the often it loggerheads intelligence department of the. » Danish
Ministry
af Defenca which, saya the doctor, some→
showed itself timer
somewhat
lukewarm
about sabotage, mainly because it was more
in passing military tation to England.
Through this department it was possible to inform London of every ship in Danish waters. including the movements of U-boats-information which was of the utmost value. Sometimes the arrival of a ship in a Danish port was known in London tem mimites later.
The resistance movement had at first to overcome the apathy and fears of the Danish popula tion which thought that active opposition to the Germans coulă. only make things more uncome. fortable.
this reason For resistance activities were early on confined to action against notorious Danish! collaborators.
HEAVY PRICE,.: Denmark's resistance 'fighters paid a heavy price for their temerity, Some 113 were executed by sentence of German courts martial, 837 lost their lives in the course of sabotage actions and 540 died as the result of imprisonment in German
concentration
Only a handful of soldiers were killed when the Germans occupied the country in 1940, but about 1,500 Danish semners died while transporting supplies for the alles. China
Mail Special.
ENGLAND TO
SINGAPORE
BY ROAD
Singapore, Apr. 28, Singapore will be the goal of a six-man team of advenÍMICAS daivers who will take "the most road: "Torte in the world starting in the United
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