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ROYAL NAVY
CAPTAIN FOR AUSTRALIA
Captain W. R. Fatterson, C.V.O.,
JAPANESE BRUTALITY
Told By Merchant Who Was War Refugee
who is being lent to the Australian SOLDIERS MAKE DEMAND FOR
Navy, has left for Sydney, and will join the cruiser Canberra as Flag- Captain and Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral W. N. Custance, who
13 to succeed
VALUABLES
Mr. Huang Wen-chen, about 30 years old. was a merchant in Rear-Admiral Waha, a town in Anhwel, where he and his father opened a rice His family con- R. H. O. Lane-Poole in command shop the business of which was fairly prosperous.
of the Australian Squadron insisted of nine members including himself, his father aged 61, his Apell
mother aged 43, his two younger brothers-one 11 and the other 14 years old-his 9-year-old sister, his 26-year-old wife and his two
COMMAND OF THE ZULU Commander J. S. Crawford, late
bables
for the Naval Equipment Depart- According to Mr. Huang, his father was very benevolent and iment. Admiralty, is to assume beloved by all in the locality; his mother was kind and everybody command of the Zulu, one of the loved her company: his wife was mild and served him to the best new Tribal class destroyers, fitting of her ability. Only peace and happiness prevailed in his family. lout at the works of Alexander but under the flag of the Island Empire his peaceful and happy Stephen and Sons, Govan, and due home was wrecked. Interviewed at his refugee camp in Hankow, Mr. for completion in April.
Huang related a story of his horrible experiences at the hands of
The retirement is announced at Japanese invaders his own resuest of Lieutenant-
His story, as told to the Chinese thing. and he did not stop doing Commander W. C. T. Eyres, with People's Foreign Relations Associa that until at last one of his two the runk of commander, from Feb-tlon, Hankow, is as follows
followers took out a white paper | ruary 17.
"My home was at Wuhu which on which those same old words fell into the hands of Japanese had been written. invaders on December 19. After "It was handed over to my they had forced their entry into father. Moving his hand in the the town. they carried on wanton same manner as before, my father
WARRANT WARDMASTERS The following sick berth petty officers and chief petty officers qualled at the professional
#
SWORD DRAWN
jexamination for the rank of war- destruction with the result that signified that he did not possess
rant wardmaster held at the RN. the most prosperous centres at those valuable things. Hospital, Haslar, on January 20Shihlichang" Street and Chunz R. B. Gibson, S. T. Clabby, A. Eghan Road were reduced to ashes. Askew. S. H. Cooper, H. C, Daven- port L. C..Cook, and R. E. Pryce.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS
"Carrying their bayoneted rides "Becoming furious at once. the drew out his and axes, various small groups of Japanese officer Japanese soldiers conducted a sword which he pierced past the the The following appointments are house-to-house search. The first neck of my father and at made by the Admiralty:-
thing they would do. after they same time he pointed at the char Lts.-R. J. H. Couch. to Esk had got into a house was toacters on the white paper, presum- A. L. Kirkus, to Galatea (Feb. 14);
examine high and low all the ably demanding that the articles J. R. F. Fearfield, to Arrow (Feb. cases and carried before them all as written therein must be hand- 18); Sir Standish O'G. Roche, Bthings on which they could layed over. to Acheron; A. L. S. Hogg, to Drake hands." for R.N.B. (Feb. 21) C. E, J Streatfeild. to Coventry (Feb. 23);
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"My father could do nothing at "But, their primary object was a the time and only said that his
T. M. Dorrlen Smith, to Wolfound search for pretty or young women. jonly table clock had already been (Feb. 28); F. A. L. H. Watson, to Girls aged above 13 and women given to five Japanese soldiers who Leda (March 9); D. 8. Tibbits, to below 50 would hardly escape the came earlier. Hardly had those ordeal of 'criminal assault of the words been expressed than the Douglas (March 19).
sword was pierced through the left Surg. Lt.-E. B. Martin, M.R. Japanese, invaders.
"On the 11th the weather was jarm of my father. Blood was C.S.. L.R.C.P., Pembroke for to
fine, but an atmosphere of terror gushing out. With the palm of R.N.B. (Feb. 15).
prevailed throughout the town. his right hand my father pressed Everybody was panic-stricken and hard on the wound. He fell to the
ground and groaned painfully. contented himself or herself by
"At that time I felt myself as if staying at home.
"Suddenly a knock of the door in a hot frying pan. My brothers broke the silence, and, hearing and sister threw themselves by the this, all the members of my family side of my father and 'burst into trembling with fear. My weeping. To further their cruel deed, that Japanese officer fired brothers and sister hastened to hide in a dark room.three shots at my groaning father Mds, (E)-G., F. A. Trewby, J. while my father stood motionless with his revelver, and my father
breathed his last, Sidgwick, and M. J. Brougham, to and his face grew pale.
PROMOTIONS Lt.Cdr. (Retd.).-A. E H Came- rori, to rank of Cdr. Retd.) (seny. Feb: 15). Lt. S. M. Richardson. to ranx": of L.-Cdr. (seny. Feb. 16).
Lts. (Retd.).-C. W. Beere, A. J. Schlegell, to rark of Lt.-Cdr. were (Retd.) (seny. respectively Feb. 8 mother, and 16).
frank of Act. Sub-Lt. (E) (seny. "He dared not open the door, but
"My heart felt as if it had been
only the beginning of the tragica- episode.
Sept. 1, 1937), and to rank of Sub-presently the uninvited visitors tom to pieces. My blood boiled up Lt. (E) (seny. Jan. 1); J. E. Mor-broke in by chopping it off with and I wanted to Aght the slayer. com, H. W. D. Addington. H. Seeds, axes. There, were five Japanese but I was only held back by the P. V. Bouquet, J. D. Robins, to invaders who were wearing full absence of a weapon. That was rank of Sub-Lt. (E) (seny. Jan. 1, Juniforms and helmets as well. 1938); J. W. Chase, J. R. Broad- "AS soon as they had entered hurst, G. F. Hawkes, to rank of the house they began to search us,
SINISTER SMILE Sub-Lt. (E) (seny, Sept. 1. 1937) and after that one of them pro- "Without senses of a human be- P G Pedrick, K. W. Spooner, to cuced a white sheet of paper on ing, those three Japanese creatures ank of Sub-Lt. (E) (seny. Nov. which he wrote 'Gold rings and smiled sinisterly. The Japanese 1937): R. H. Woodifield, to rank gold watches' in Chinese. Realiz-officer made for the room in which
RETIRMENT
Lt. (E).-S. J. Tavener, M... placed on the Retd. List (Feb. 21).
THE ARMY
DISSATISFACTION
Instantly. my
wife screamned
the
of Sub-Lt. (E) (seny, Jan. 1). ing the idea, my father could only my wife was hiding herself. The Payг. Mids.-A. K. D. Edmonds, offer them a table 'clock which object was clear and I need not N. R. Beach, W. 'H. Field, E. R. they smilingly look and went off. tell you plainly. Wheeler, R. M. Levett, J. D. Cox. J. V. A. Musters. J. Hutton-Atten-
"Not long after they had gone, for help and hearing this I rushed borough, T. B. N. Caws, A. C. Reynolds, A. L. S. Allen. D. C. again came several Japanese in- into the room, but I was forced to Woolf, to rank of Act. Päyr. Sub-vaders who also wrote Gold rings fall back in face of a rifle. Mak- and gold watches" on white paper ing a desperate effort to free 'her- Lt. (seny. Jan. 1).
and handed it over to my father, self, my wife escaped from who then signified by moving his window and jumped into the river, hand that he had not possessed at the bank of which my house those articles. At Just they was situated. marched off with great dissatis- "The brutal Japanese Ared two faction, as seen from their faces.shots into the river and the corpse At about 3 p.m. of the same of my wife was seen floating on day there came another three the surface of the water which Japanese invaders, and the first was stained with blood. Alas, my one walking in appeared to be an wife bade good-bye to me!
dressed in full "Being not satisfied with his The War Ome announces that officer. He was the King has approved the exten-uniform; his eyes were fierce and blood-thirsty action, that barbaric
had
two a shart Jap ended the life of my sion for a further year of the murderous:
a babies also. Losing no time, I Rev. E H. Thorold, CB., C.B.E. moustache; he was carrying MA., DD... K.H.C., as Chaplain-sword. The other two following made my escape. My mother, bro- General to the Forces. The nor-behind were most probably his thers and sister were walling over the corpse of my father and I do mal tenure of Dr. Thorold's ap-attendants. pointment would have expired on "Facing us, the Japanese officer not know what happened to them September 30, 1938.
tried to get something out from afterwards. Such horrible experi- nis pocket, but after some length fences shall never, never leave my of time he did not fetch out any memory!"
CHAPLAIN-GENERAL TO THE FORCES
he
THE MALAYA GARRISON The general impression gained at the recent combined exercise at Singapore is, that the defences are
Group Captain G. B. Dacre, REJUVENATION OF A very strong, perhaps the most powerful in the world, but that D.8.0., will command at Thorney one additional battery position is Island, needed. Another lesson is that the
ROYAL AIR FORCE
R.A.F. APPOINTMENT
PANDIT
The 77-year-old Pandit Malavia, Group Captain J.. H. Herring. Infantry should be increased, and D.S.O., M.C., is to command at who was President of the Indian National Congress in 1909, and has It is understood that another bat-Stradishall.
been a member of the Indian talion will be added and a Singa- formed.
Legislative Assembly since 1924, pore Infantry Brigade
specially prepared There will also be a carrison at
The following appointments in has entered Penang as well as the battalion in the Royal Air Force are notified:-chamber on the banks of the Gan- ges for rejuvenation, treatment by Taiping.
GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH
Sannyasi, who'is reported to be 172 Squadron Leaders.-E. A. C. years old. Britton D.FC., to Supecial Duty The chamber has no light and List, seconded for duty with the no direct ventilation. Only rarely COMMAND OF NEW STATIONS British Military Mission, Egypt with his sons does the pandit Commanding officers are ap (Jan. 17); J. C A. Johnson, to take any food, this being only milk Folated to the new air stations at Headquarters, R.AF., Iraq, Dhib- and the rejuvenation medicine Stradishall, near Newmarket, and ban, for duty an Air Liaison Omicer secretly and elaborately prepared Thorney Island, Hants, which will (Jan. 28); G. F. Macpherson, to by the holy man. It is claimed come into general use this month Headquarters, R.A.F. Mediter-that after 10 days' treatment the in the Bomber and Coastal Com-ranean, Malta, for Air Staff duties pandit la 20 years younger in every mands Jespectively,
(Jan. 24).
way.
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