BOY EVACUEE
Didn't Know Mother
War Words (1) Poilu
"YOU'RE not my mummy!" cried five-years-old Derek Dur. rows, of Lealand-road, Totten ham, London, when, after saving for weeks so that she could visit her three evacuated children, his mother stretched out her arms to him in the Lincolnshire village where he is staying.
Mrs. Burrows said: "My husband is sixty-nine and only draws a pension. I work as a charwoman. I denied myself things so that I could pay the nino shillings fare and take my children some winter clothing.
'You're Not Mummy' "My two eldest boys, Bob, aged seven, and Sam, twelve. gave me # warm welcome. Derek came running out with them, but stopped shyly when he saw me, 'Come on, Derek,' Sam shouted to him, here's! niummy.' He didn't move.
"He looked at me and said, *You're not my mummy.
"I'm going to bring my chil dren back. I would sooner my baby were with me in all sorts of air raids than that he wouldn't know me when I go to see him
This slang term for the Fronch infantryman came into wee' in the last war.
(pronounced
"Poilu" "pwalu") is a French adjoe. tive dorived from the Latin "pilus.". It means" "hairy or unshaven," as men were apt the to be after days in trenches. As a noun, it means "strong or brave man," It might, perhaps, be translated by the modern "tough guy"!!
The word was first used in English in 1915 by Georgo Adam, the "Times" war cor respondent,
"Cossacks Could Hold Caucasus"
RUSSIAN troop moves in Baku and in the Cau- casian frontier region bring from the Nazi Press sugges- ` tions that Stalin contem- plates military operations towards Indin and the Near East,
General Lazar Bitcherakhov, the man who successfully de- fended Baku in the great war, and kept its oil wells from the German Army, told the Daily
DESERTERS Express Faris correspondent:
IN COURT Lascars Held In Glasgow
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 231935
THE
ADMIRAL GREETS
HIS MEN
'BULLDOG ARTHUR LEADS Elocution ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR
PRINCETOWN (Devon). "BULLDOG ARTHUR," thirty-seven- year-old East End gunman, leader of Dart moor's biggest jail-break, in 1924, made his second escape from the prison at dawn to-day.
With two other convicts, Charles Bishop, forty-five-year-old Folkestone housebreaker, and forty-year-old Thomas Edwards, of Stoke-on- Trent, "Bulldog"-his name is Arthur Cox-18 believed to have got away from the cookhouse by in ladder they had made and hidden near the
prison wall, ready. for instant assembly.
Wartime restrictions on the sounding of sirens meant that the men had escaped into the country- side and it had not been possible to give the alarm. The convicts, it is thought, mode off in the mist in the direction of Dartment,
the main on
Exeter- Plymouth road, They took with them over the 2001. walls all the food they could carry from the cookhouse.
Admiral Sir W. James, Commaú- der-in-Chief at Portsmouth, wel- coming men of the Clyde Naval Reserve when' they reported for duly д Porty- mouth Barracks.
THE EX-KAISER
BUILDS HIMSELF
A RAID SHELTER
DOORN (Helland),
When the war broke out he gave an order for English newspapers, and he reads them from front to back, missing nothing.
EX-KAISER WILHELM 11, who sent bombing planes and Zeppelins over England in the last war, has just finished supervising workmen in the job of turning the cellars of his "The Soviet Army could not get Dutch home into an air raid shelter, through Persia. Give me a good
The arches have been reinforced horse, five young English intelligence
concrete and piled up officers, ten et my old Cossacks and with thick 150 Kurds, and I could guarantee to with sandbags, hold any invasion for a time."
There is ample room for all his When the revolution dame, General stal of sixty, and, in addition, forty Bilcherakhov, then a thirty-five-year-inhabitants of the village of Doorn
Russian will be admitted if necessary. FOURTEEN Lascar seamen,old Cossack, was the only
But if there should be an air raid, who appeared in Glasgow J. P. general who held his men und fought Court and admitted deserting on beside the Allies until the armis- the staff and villagers must remem
ber the deference due to an ex-War tice.
Lord.
their ship, were ordered to be transported to an English port to rejoin the vessel. All fourteen appeared in Court carrying their gasmasks.
The seamen plended guilty to a charge that on October 11, 1939, at Glasgow, being seamen lawfully engaged they deserted from the Bri- tish steamship Clan Lamont, owned by the Clan Line Steamers, Ltd., 100 Hope Street, Ginsgow, then lying in Queen's Dock, contrary to the Mer- chant Shipping Act, 1894.
men. mostly
delended Baku with eight British armoured cars, British money grants and 30.000 Caucasians like himself. He held it for three and a half months against three Turitian army corps, backed by a German division.
Sudeten Germans Indict Hitler
A declaration against "Fascist In the safety of the cellar shel-plans of conquest" has been lasued by the Executive of the Sudeten two high German Social Democrats ter have been placed Imperial chairs, side by side. They
Some 3,000 leading members of ure for the ex-Kaiser and his wife.
the Party are now in exile, and their Members of the sinft, and vll-
maniicato recalls a similar one Jagers, musl sit like school children issued by the exited German Social on rows of forms.
Democrats.
For this and his other services to
The ex-Kalser has tightened-up "This war is Hitler's work," de- General Dunsterville in Persia and Mesopotamia, Bitelerakhov was given direction. There is long delay now the C.B. and D.S.O.
In getting nioney from his German festo. "Danzig and the Corridor are
mere pretexta." He now lives in a smail Montmartre possessions. hotel. It is a room over a cabaret.
household expenditure in every clures the Sudeten German mani-
Ho Studios Maps
Through an interpreter, the Lascars
Still young at 59, the general be- admitted deserting the ship. They loves that he could be of use to the Only the smallest orders on which explained that they had been taken Allies again, especially in Persia. the household can manage are being: -to-London,-and-thero they were "As-a-soldier-who-has-studied given to the butcher and baker, and promised that they would be taken tactics all his life, I say that Hitler guests are no longer"Invited to the back to India. Instead of that, they will not move west. The next move house. were sent on board the Clan Lamont is his, It will be east. It will be
and taken to Glasgow. There they the end of him," he said.
einls, who had promised they would
had seen one of the Company's off-
be transferred, but after walling and
waiting they had gone ashore,
They said they would not go back
to the Clan Lamont as the serang
JAPANESE MINISTER
Tokyo, Nov. 22.
Mr. Shigeru Kuriyamo, the Japan-
(the Lascar bosun) had been taking ese Ambassador to Belgium, has been
their money. The serang was now concurrently appointed Minister to
Very sporing use is made of Wil- helm's car to save petrol,
He no longer goes wood-chopping en the estate with his adjutant, Major Isemann, because the major has gone to serve with the German Army.
Five other members of the staff at Doorn have been called to work in the German Legation at The Hague.
on board the ship in an English port. Luxembourg, the Foreign Office an- Wilhelm spends hours every day
studying war maps,
NAZI SHIPS READY TO AID RAIDERS?
The J. P. Fiscal, Mr. E. M. Gal-nounced to-day.-Domel. loway, asked for an order, and pointed out that the men would be ken! back to their ship whether they liked it or not. He also asked the Court to forfeit the accuseda' wageE, carmed or to be carned, up to the nemount of the Court expenses, and the cost of transporting them to the port In England. Their present wagen would not meet that cost,
Mr. J. G. Gordon, the presiding J.P., granted the necessary order.
MYSTERY OF RED ADMIRAL
MFEDOR RASKOLNIKOV, one-time commander of the
THOUGH all attempts have so far failed to authenticate the presence of U-boats in Mexican waters, sufficient circumstantial evidence has been gathered to leave no doubt that one or more are ready to begin operations against shipping in the Carribean, says the Mexican City correspondent of the "New York Times" (quoted by Press Association from New York).
Reports that U-boats are re-taken to prevent the Columbus from ceiving aid from German ships receiving radio instructions from the German Admiralty. The captain has, in Mexican ports has caused the confiscated all private radio sets, and Mexican Government and other does not allow newspapers aboard. authorities to keep a close watch indicating that he wishes to keep the what L on the German liner Columbus grew in Ignorance about
Two boats in the water alongside
Soviet Baltic Fleet, died in a 732,565 tona) and other vessels happening in the world. Riviera nursing home recently belonging to Germany or nationa in mysterious circumstances, says a "Reuter" message from presumably sympathetic to Ger- Columbus might be used at night
many.
to take provisions out to sca. Nice...
Even stranger are the actions of He had been outlawed by the
No fact, has yet been discovered the 400-ton German tanker Emmy U.S.S.R. Supreme Court, when pointing directly to breaches of Friederich, now anchored at the port last April, as Soviet Minister to Mexican ports, but, several suspicious Cruz. She has not only been loading Mexican neutrality by ships in of Tumpico, 240 miles north of Vera Bulgaria, he refused to answer indications have recently been oli, but she began loading live stock,
a call to return to Russia.
Friends Executod
He thought it wiser to take refuge
brought to light.
LARGE STORES ON BOARD
in France, remembering that most of The case
and has taken on board 12 live cow's and 25 hoga.
This, says the New York Times of the Columbus has correspondent, is inexplicable, ex- his friends, who included M. Kara-attracted the most attention. It is cept by supposing that the animals
useless for tho significant that the which it would be Consul-General Columbus left her moorings before Emmy Friedrich's crew to slaughter,
hone, Ambassador to Ankara, and M. considered Antonov-Ovazanko,
at Barcelona, were shot in Moscow Vera Cruz to anchor in the Bay of an they have no refrigerating facili without trial, obras Anton Lizardo,, which is extremely ties will later be delivered to Ger-
In the past few months Raskolni- isolated; and not easy to observe. man craft at sea.
kov had bitterly attacked Stalin, and
She is riding low in, the water,
When all the above facts are it was after an open letter which he indicating that she has taken aboard
considered, the correspondent adds, gave to the Rusalan Language Presh larger quantities of stores and all
the concluilon is inevkablo that af that he suddenly fell 11.
Icast some Germán ähips in Mexican than la, generally belleved.
water are aiding or proparing to Though the crew is being kept on・ald U-boatszanak short rations, stores are being loaded. Up to now all efforts to catch them
(of the (20 men aboard.. Lang"] Mexican neutrality have been fruilt- The crew is confined aboard- loss, damvis de buenotavrupa nobody, "being" allowed nahoro-sugs ? Mexican Tomélais : havo/said that | genting, that something le happening-they are ready to intervene as soon which the captain wishes concooled.: - | susiliere is positive eviduïce of such, -The ship's seriala havo: besen, dlls=| violation, and to take 'menzures of the mantled, but no steps --have, bean[utmost saverity, 3.
ETROPOLE
H
ROOM BATH quantiles sufficient for the reads in the act of dagrantly violating
$6,
CENTRAL
CLEAN
COMFORTABLE
Police, including special constables, are searching the moors, but the men were still free late last night.
"Bulldog Arthur," the most power- ful man in the jail, was sent to four years' penal servitude for breaking and entering only few months after he had been released on two ycara' Hcket-of-leave from a pre- vious sentence of ten years. He has spent half his life in prison.
The 1924 jail-break he organised took months "to plan.
Ten men escaped. Under threat of their guards' fire the rest gave in.
"Bulldog" was the last of the ten to surrender. He fought off armed searchers with granite boulders.
Since the arrival of 300 prisoners from Chelmsford, Pentonvllie and Maidstone Jails, there has been con- siderable unrest at Dartmoor.
Supreme War Leader
GENERAL GAMELIN Supremo Allied War commander on the Western Front,
CARGO FOR SHANGHAI
Coaching
Hongkong-born Resident Starts Classes
Behind a small advertisement of- fering lessons in clocution, correction of accent and other assistance in speaking English lies the interesting story of a Hongkong boy.
The tutor is Mr. Henry Peterson, Hongkong born, who returned to the Colmy last year after spending 28 years in England. Ho served in the Great War,' afler 'which' he went to Oxford and gained a distinction in the Honour School of English Litera- ture (ex-Servicemen's shortened {course);",
Coming down from Oxford Mr. Peterson combined, journalism with film work, acting. on the screen as well as being engaged on the exocu- tive side. His best part was as the villain opposite Jack Hulbert in "Jack Ohoy."
Early in his film career he studled for two years', under, Miss Elsie Fogerty, CBE, LRAM, Principal of the Central British School of DramZA in London, who is acknowledged as one of the greatest teachers of voice production arid élocution in the Eng- 1ish language....
Since the War, Mr. Peterson has trained many pupils. Discussing the reasons why the average Chinese jupeaks English badly, he told a reporter that it was malaly a matter of training: most lingual difficulties can be overcome.
TRAFFIC MISHAPS
Sixty-three Accidents During Past Week
During the week ending at 8 am. on Saturday, there were altogether 03 traffe accidents in the Colony, ns a result of which 12 persons were in- injured.
India-Japan Ship To Make Special Call One man escaped from a working
first call at Shanghal party last week, but he was cap- several years will be made by a
Of the persons injured, 10 were tured within ten minutes, and the Jardine ship trading between Cat-pedestrians, who were either walling news did not leak out. Another man culta and Japan when she leaves or running across the road and were escaped a few days ago and broke
Her
eighty windows in the prison before Hongkong on her next trip north. he was captured.
struck by vehicles.
The ship's regular itinerary is One tram passenger and one bus There was a great commation in direct to Japan, to which country passenger were injured while alight- Princetown when the new prisoners she usually carries a heavy cargo ing from the moving vehicles.
Of the 63 accidonis, 28 vere kept the village awake shouting from India. On this occasion, how- throughout a whole night. The new ever, she is carrying Instead a big collisions between vehicles; 25 were
vehicles collisions between
and deputy-governor, Mr. Henderson, recargo of coal for Shanghai..
pedestrians: 12 accidents were due to eently governor of the prison camp
It is learnt that the Strdhana, too, olher causes. in Yorkshire, was greeted by the convicts on his first day with a de- apart from cargo for Japan, was!
Involved The Type of Vehicles luge of water.
carrying a heavy shipment of ecal, for Shanghai. This coal was one were: Private motor car 30: Mater paying liem lost when the Sirdhana lorry 20; Motor bus 0; Public motor was sunk by a mine explosion at the car 13; Motor cycle 3: Tramear 7: entrance to Singapore Harbour on Tricycle 2: Bicycle 3; Ricksha 1,
Hand truck 1, November 13.
Since war began twenty-three men have escapes from jails or while being transferred. A number them are still free.
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