HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
WORKING TOGETHER:
The Office Worker Pulls His Weight In Britain's War Effort
The office worker is determined to beat Herr Hitler even if it means fighting him with batteries of typewriters and umbrellas," said MR. V. FEATHER: a London office worker, when he broadcast from London yesterday in the series Working Together."
overhead or not. The reason is that we have got to the stage where, the novelty has WOTN.
Mr. "Feather, who said that he was a Yorkshireman and that he lived just out of Lon-! don, described his daily trip
AFTER WORK to London by train. He point- ed out how sociable his rail-
Describing the home journey from the office, Mr. Feather sald way companions in the pre- that the main objective was to get sent days were and how home as quickly as possible, but friendly the conversation that many office workers abandoned took place.
their black coats to dan battle dress, and dropped their brief Cases to pick up their rifles and bayonets, All these workers were members of the Home Guard and M. Fea- ther mentioned one interesting as- pect of the war in which an insur ance clerk, for example. would
DIFFERENT TOPICS
Previously, he said, it took him as much as three months to make friends with anybody in the train In the early days of the war the conversation moved around mainly on business matters. A stock-broker have under his command a bank would, for instance, discuss a deal manager or a managing director. he did the day before.
All these members at the Home "Conversation today is on dif-Guard did their duty free, and it terent toples," said Mr. Feather. Was interesting to see a retired "The subject of growing potatoes major taking a refresher course in Of whether the soll should be bayonet fighting.
treated with potash of soda are: Many office workers who did not some of the toples.. The golf jknow how to handle a rifle had course has now taken second place now become crack shots. Other's to the garden, and the managing were Air Raid Wardens and Are director is not ashamed to explain fighters. Typists, after putting away how he has been using a spade in their note-books, become nurses or telephone operators at the fre stations.
his garden."
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Mr. Feather also referred to a conversation that took place in PULLING HIS WEIGHT connexion with bombing raids and Mr. Feather concluded by saying declared that the man who could how grateful the office workers produce a plece of shrapnel of a were for the merchant seamen and bomb was sure of a big audience in the Navy for keeping their com- the train. He knew one man who munications open while they, In carted about a very heavy piece of their offices, continie to make out a bomb and his story about it was invoices and documents necessary
to keep their trade going.
"The office worker of London is will not fall down on his job, which certainly pulling his weight and
of Britain as the bulwark of de ts to maintain the great radion
even heavieri
IN THE OFFICE Referring to the work in the office. Mr. Feather described ar- rangements made by each firm for their staff to move into air raid shelters,
"In the early days," said Mr. Feather. "as soon83 the stren sounded, everyone went to shelter. All offices have reinforced base- ments for that purpose and stocks of biscuits and canned food, most- ly from Australia, were laid in for an emergency, and even radio was installed, as it was expected that. we would have to be in the shel- ter for some time.
"After this has continued for a while, there was a spontan- eous move to suspend work only when enemy aircraft could be seen, and later some firms even decided to continue -work whether Nazi planes were
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mocracy," said Mr. Feather
"We did not seek this war. We wanted peace. But the sur- render of freedom and liberty is far too high a price to pay even for that. Une thing is that Nazism and Fascism must be beaten and when the bal ance is struck the world will find that free men and women can accomplish far more than Nazism or Fascism."
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ALLSOPP'S
Beer
The star dressing room of a famous London theatre is now the office of Mr. Cecil Madden, BBC producer of Overseas pro- grammes, who is here seen at work in the room which has in the past been used by sach stars as Marie Tempest. Lilian Braith- waite. Alice Delysia, James Welch, Cyril Maude and Ernest Theslger Light "entertainment programmes are now broadcast from the stage of this famous old theatre-now taken over by
the BBC for its greatly expanded Overseas Service.
Direct Hit On
Public Shelter In Raid On Bristol
MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND INJURED WHEN A PUBLIC SHELTER IN BRISTOL RECEIVED A DIRECT HIT during a raid which lasted for some hours on Sunday night, states a London message.
fire.
Damage was also caused by explosive bombs and by
A NEWSPAPER OFFICE was hit and although it suffered badly from the blast the paper was published as usual yesterday morning.
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BRITISH PILSENER BEER
U.K. MEDICAL SCHOLARS
WE BRITISH
SOLE
AGENTS:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD,
MEASURES FOR EXAMINATION OF OCEAN-GOING EXPORT CARGO AND PASSENGERS' LUGGAGE
A COPY OF THE NEW REGULATIONS, "TO BE ENFORCED ON APRIL 1 NEXT, for the examination of ocean-going" export cargo and outward passengers luggage, has been received from the Super- intendent of Imports and Exports.
In connexion with outward cargo,
"To Complete Education In America NEW YORK, Mar, 17 (Reuter)- British medical scholars will be complete their education here with
The foregoing orders do not `ap- the assistance of the Rockefeller Foundation -
Emigrant shipswill, in future, or measured by the Sworn Messur shift to the Emirat Anchorage, The Foundation announces that ers ashore to enable concurrent when ready to take on board her it has received the assent of 23 examination of contents by Be-deck passengers, where these pas- the leading Canadian and United Fenue Officers. Shippers must sengers will embark at a pre-ar-
Due to prompt action, all day night bringing the total to fires were quickly dealt with two states a London message. brought to the United States to
Another German bomber was also destroyed during the raid on Bris. |tol-(Special)
WEEK'S LOSSES For the week just ended
and did not provide targets for successive waves of bombers,
have been destroyed.
Orie enemy aircraft is known to
In Westminster yesterday morn-
all cargo for loading into ocean-ply to River steamers. going ships must be weighed and/
ing people were queuing up to have balance, in the loss of aircraft is 5States medical schools to accept give the Sworn Measurers at leastiranged time notified to the I. & E-
their gas masks tested with a form of tear gas. This practice will be carried out in a different area each
day.
to 1 in favour of Britain,
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them.
24 hours notice of the time and Department (anti-sabotage sub- adds that place their cargo will be ready for department)
The enemy lost 110 planes and
The announcement British cases were 22 with some of the task has been undertaken inspection. the pilots safe...
following a suggestion by Lord. Lothian, late British Ambassador, Just before his death.
Of the enemy planes destroyed. No damage was caused in the raids on the east coast of Scot-42 were shot down over Britain, 60 land and in other districts, where in Africa, two by the Navy and six bombs were dropped, not much over the Channel.
damage was done.
RAID ON MALTA
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and
the Harbour
· "Office"" SHIPPING ORDERS
No deck passenger is to be allowed" Shipping orders, in triplicale, for on board before the appointed all export ocean-going cargo, in time and only a limited number of cluding transhipment cargo, must boarding house runners, issued NEW POLICE FORCE be presented to the I. & E. Depart with a pass by the Steamer's ANOTHER DOWNED
A large formation of enemy
ment (anti-sabotage sub-depart- agents and IN SHANGHAI
distinguished by an Another enemy bomber was shot planes headed for Malta on Sun-
ment) before the loading on board armlet, will be permitted to board down off the South Coast on Saturday but turned away before they
SHANGHAI, Mar. 17 (Reuter) ship, at which office the shipping the ship and must leave "imme- reached the coast, states a London-Looking extremely smart in their orders will be stamped either (a) diately their work is finished. message. Single aircraft later dropped bombs which did
new uniforms the joint Sino-For- passed for free loading in the case damage. (Special)
eign Police Force began operating of exemption from examination), For ordinary deck passengers,
for (b) examined and passed. in the Badlands" this morning.
[luggage will be examined on board now recel is: 2.000 plants told pressmen that he was deter-signed by a responsible member of the Folice.
The Commissioner, Mr. C. C. Pan, A declaration on a special form by both the Revenue Officers and a month for her Air Force against mined to purge the area gradually the shipper's firm, or by the indivi- Germany's 2.500, states a message and hoped to turn the "Badlands" dual shipper, that the contents of from Sydney. By the end of the into "Goodlands." year America alone expects to pro- duce 2,000 planes a month,-- (Special)
ITALIAN INFANTRY MOWN DOWN BY ACCURATE GREEK ARTILLERY
LONDON, Mar. 17 (British Wireless)-Messages from war corres- pondents with the Greek Army on the Albanian front state that the Italian forces thrown into the offensive launched at Signor Musso- lini's orders six days age are put at 120,000 men operating
front of about 20 miles.
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Mussolini, the messages state, have lost several of his closest collaborators, including six members of the Fascist Grand Council. of whom some, like Professor Pelegrini, 'have been taken prisoner and others, like Barbelint, have been killed.
The Italian losses are estimat-;
Greek
ed at some 50,000 men killed, wounded or captured. The debacle NEW YORK, Mar. 17 (Reuter) is attributed by the correspondents President Roosevelt's speech is en-to the accuracy of the thusiastically received by the ma- artillery fire, the 'skill and ability jority of newspapers throughout of the machine-gunners and alert- the United States.
ness of the infantry as well as to
VICHY-BRITAIN
J.
RELATIONS
2,000 PLANES A MONTH With American assistance, Bri-
NAZI CONSULATE
RICE RATIONING
IN TOKYO
the packages are exactly as des- cribed and that they undertake to ship only such cargo as is described thereon, together with Examined Certificate issued by the examining Revenue Officer, have to be hand- TOKYO, Mar 17 (Reuter)-For ed in at the same time as the the first time since the outbreak shipping Orders. of the Sino-Japanese conflict in As to transhipment cargo, TANGIER, Mar. 17 (Reuter)-1937 rice rationing will be enforced through Bill of Ladmg, are to be The German Consulate is reopen in the Tokyo urbani prefecture. handled only by and landed only ing here today, reoccupying the The measure will come inte force into approved godowns of the building which was the German on April 1, Consulate before 1914..
IN TANGIER
This has been the official re-
sidence of the representative of the THAI GOVERNMENT Sultan of Morocco known as the
CONGRATULATED
on Co.
DECK FASSENGERS
The order concludes: "Once
& passenger has embarked en board
ship, he should
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not 'be allowed to go ashore again. Should passenger be found to be misi. ing before a ship sails, his lug- gage and cabin should be care- fully and thoroughly examined arid searched at once."
COLONEL DONOVAN RETURNING HOME Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and LISBON, March 17 (Reuter!-- Godown. Co., Holt's Wharf, China Before Colonel William Donovan, Provident, and the China Naviga- President Roosevelt's special en- Many newspapers openly suggest the lack of morale in the Italian No Question Of War
voy to Europe, left for home by. Steamship agents are required to felipper on Saturday, he had an -Comte de Brinon
forward to the anti-sabotage sub-interview with Sir Samuel Hoare, Dr. Noering is appointed the TOKYO, March 17 (Reuter) department of the I. & E. Depart- the British Ambassador to Spain, VICHY, Maṛ. it (Reuter)
Japanese reports trom Bangkok ment a separate list of all tran-who came to Lisbon a day or two statement that there
It is not explained what happen-state that the German Minister shipment cargo it is intended to ago by car from Madrid. question of declaring war on Bried to Herr Mendour nor whether there congratulated the Thai Goy load in any ocean-going steamer tain was
It is understood that they dis-.. madeby. Comte
recent ernment in the name of the Naz with particulars of origin and place cussed the question of supplies to Brinon, the Vichy Ambassador to Anglo-Spanish interim agreement Government on the recovery of her of storage and to present shipping Spain, Portugal and Unoccupied Occupied France, yesterday, when concerning Tangler.
lost territories.
that America is now at war and playing a positive role by encourag- Ing raids on Germany and by stl- fening Balkan resistance to the Axis.
The only criticism hitherto ap pears in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE which declares that Mr. Roosevelt
troops.
Whole italian regiments, it is stated, have been fang against positions held only by small Greek detachments, only to be mown down by shell fire when they were still 500 yards from their objective. What enthusiasm these
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Mendoub.
German Consul
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this conflicts with
de
the
un- he concluded a tour of the oe
is giving away with both hands fortunate troops had when they cupled regions. and receiving nothing in return, started soon evaporated. Their
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"There is no question of de- ITALIAN SOMALILAND:
The NEW YORK TIMES declares formations were broken up and claring war on Britain," he said, that America's decision marks a thrown into 3 state of con. real turning point of the war and fusion, the officers trying vainly but putting into practice. the of the destiny of free men every to restore some sort of order at policy of collaboration (with Ger- where.
revolver point.. "But few of them many), the
country must take
covery, and profit from the hard lessons we have had to learn."
The NEW YORK HERALD. Lived to return to the starting stringent measures to effect TRIBUNE says the call is for point..
genuine sacrlüce and everyone will be eager to respond.
EFFECTIVE REPLY
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HULL BAYE CONFAB
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Enemy Calculations Upset By Speed Of British Drive
CAIRO, March 17. (Reuter)--The rapidity and suddénness of the British Imperial advance, upsetting entirely the enemy's calculations, constitutes the main reason for the smashing vic- i tory in Italian Somaliland. "
VALONA BOMBED communique issued by the headquarters of the British Air Force in Greece states that sucbassador to Washington, had an M. Henry Haye, the Vichy Am- CHUNGKING, Mar. 17 (Reuter) R-A. F. bombers on enemy aero Secretary, Mr. Cordell Hull, on that the Italian General Officer of the
cessful attacks were made by
Information received from Caruthe British aerial and artillery at- hour's conversation with the State military nedaquarters, Indicates tacks, in addition to, the morale ---President Roosevelt's speech was drómes featured in banner headlines in all
at Berat and Valona
iatives being extremely yesterday.
the subject of food for France. vernacular newspapers this morn-
Commanding in Somaliland did low owing to poor food, bad equip. Ing.
At Berat a number of aircraft A message from Washington to not dream that the advance would ment and no pay..... on the ground were destroyed and the Vichy news agency announc-be made until after the rains, or
It
considered
orders for endorsement.
HEAVY BAGGAGE
t
France.
Colonel Donovan also conferred All heavy baggage of Canin pas with Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Sala sengers have to be sent in advance zar, the Portuguese Premier.
to the respective Godown Co.'s de
pota. The Revenue officers station- ed in Kowloon will inspect baggage
CZECH FREEDOM
Mr. Hugh Dalton, Minister of in the Godowng by appointment Economic Warfare told Czech sol- prior to loading on board ship. diers yesterday, according to a Passengers should give the keys to London
message, that Britain their forwarding agents, or the would always be their faithful Godown Co's, to permit of any ally.
package being opened for examina- "Your freedom shall be restored tion, as failure to do so may result and your right to live in the new in locked boxes being forcibly Europe.
opened.
In the case of ships alongside wharves in Hongkong or lying In the stream, PASSENGERS SHOULD SEND ALL HEAVY BAGGAGE TO QUEEN'S PIER, at a pre-arranged tinæ fixed and notified by the Steamer's
He congratulated Dr. Benes and Gen. Sikorski, on the intimate re- lations between the Czech and Polish Governments which he said would contribute to the nucleus of the new Europe (Special)
conclude Agents, where a Revenue Offi- music world of Chungking took
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Furthermore, much faith was an others damaged. A petrol dumping this says that Mr. Hull told three months later than it actually placed in the River Juba's natural effective reply, says the TAKUNG was set on fire, the resultant M. Haye that he is in contact was, PAO, to the rumours circulated blaze being visible for a distance with the British blockade authorl-
defences, which were from Japanese sourcer alleging of 50 miles.
appears that our motor almost insurmountuule tles on the question.
transport leaves the enemy gaping that Mr. Laughlin Currle, head of
Military quarters Direct hita on the runway were M.. Haye also said in the inter-at its quality and the equipment. There appears to be a very bitte?: the United States Economic Mis-scored at Valona and four air-view that the Vichy Government generally makes them envious," feeling between the Royalists and sion to China, upon his retum to craft on the ground were des- would certainly agree to American Washington from Chungking, urg-troyed and others probably dam-control of the distribution of food (Italian native troops) too has the majority of the regulars faking The behaviour of the Askarlathe Fascists, the former providing ed that no further assistance be aged,
which might be sent to Unoccu-been disappointing and can be atordera, trom the political soldiers' given to Phina.
tributed to the determination of placed in command by Fasciam
All our aircraft returned safely. pied France.
der will be sent to examine and pass it.
Cabin baggage, or hand lug- gage, will be searched on comi ing aboard by the ship's guards or personnel assisted by the Re- venne Officer on det”
An unprecedented event in the place. on March 12 when a chorus of 1,000 voices, representing 21. units and accum led by all mill- tary bands of the city presented Miprogrammerat, the Model Centre, The broadcast by the Cent