R.A.F. Men Buried in Germany
A German Naval Chaplain conducting the burial service at the grave at Wilhelmshaven of British airmon brought down dur- ing the raid at Kiel, The coffins were covered with British
flags.
Pipe all hands aft (Marines and all) to list to
the story of-
THE VEST-POCKET
U-BOAT
ONCE upon a time
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 23, 1939.
MAMAKKAAMANAAN
"Submarine on the Starboard Side!” Officer Bawls PREPARE FOR CHILLY NIGHTS & MORNINGS
STEAMER'S THRILLING U-BOAT ADVENTURE
"SUBMARINE on the starboard side!" bawled the third officer down the companion way of an unarmed British cargo steamer butting through Atlantic rollers with a cargo of bananas.
!
Those words so galvanised Captain Hugh Roberts and all the crew of the Mopan that they outwitted, out- navigated, and even outpaced the U-boat, getting three more knots out of their ten-years-old ship than the 132 that is the maximum of which she is officially capable.
The First Rowards
The story of their adventure was released by the Ministry of Information after the London Gazette had announced that the
BABY IN
2 PLANE CRASHES
A FIVE-MONTH-OLD baby
girl was among ten passengers
in an air liner which crashed recently as it landed at a British airport at the end of a journey from Malta.
The machine skidded when its wheels touched the grass. It shot into a ditch nose first.
The baby, Nicola Roper, daughter
DRESSING GOWNS
King has awarded the Order of the British Empire to Captain was flung from her cot, but was un-in the following colours:-ROSE. of Lieut-Commander Roper, R.N., Beautifully tailored--obtainable Roberts, and officially commended Mr. Smith, chief engineer of burt. Her mother, strapped in her
-sent, also escaped.
SAXE, RESEDA, PINK, BLUE & the Mopan, whose stokers did such magnificent work. These two Nicola escaped earlier in the jour- MAUVE and one other hero of September 6 share the distinction of carn-ncy when a wheel strut broke as the plane was taxi-ing across the land- ing the first honours of the war awarded to the Merchant Navy, ing ground at Tunts. This celdent delayed the passengers for tivo days, The Mopan, 1 Liverpool
steamer of 5,389 tons, belonging
to Elders and Fyffes, Ltd., was Reporter Tried Nazi Diet After 3 Days—
on her way home from Jamaica
Jon September 6-fourth day of
the war-when Captain Roberts left the bridge he had held since:
14 a.m. to have a quiet pipe in his [cabin.
Doctor Warned
After nine 66
It was just one o'clock. hours on the bridge with submarines about and a choppy sea running, à wan can do with a quiet pipe, Cap- tain Roberts was thinking as he was Istriking, second match-when the third leer bawled his news down |the companion way.
"Eat More Food"
By VICTOR SIMS
WHEN NEXT YOU HEAR THE NAZI BROADCASTER GIV. ING OUT THE OFFICIAL DIET FOR THE DAY THINK OF ME.
The match (cll to the Roor. A FOR I HAVE BEEN LIVING ON THAT DIET FOR THREE DAYS. whine and a roar as a shell exploded AND IT'S TOUGH
in the sen 100 yards away to port. I thought it could be done. I told the Editor so. And hu Moments later a second shell ex-(smiling, I thought) let me try. plosion to starboard.
Captain Roberts was back on the bridge by now, snapping out rapidi orders.
Shells were falling on either side Fragments
tel coming closer. were coming aboard.
First he made me call on Anthony Weymouth, the specialist, for a thorough medical test. That went off all right.
.
Then I had to arrange for the prescribed foodstuffs. This meant hunting the stores for wholemeal bread. bilberries, Ger- man sausage, and the rest of the Nazi hors d'oeuvre.
Here is my diet diary so for:
found that to drop suddenly from 2,000 calories to 450 is no joke. THURSDAY: Slice of plain wholemeal bread and small coffee in protein that its energy value is Another point: This diet is so low
Worse still is the with no milk or sugar, for breakfast; practically nil.
Captain Roberts, yelling to his men to take cover and sending to the en- Kine-room the previously agreed signal for extra-special speed, sent the ship on a zig-zag course into the small portion of hot-pul (minus fact that it contains no animal fat. No. That SEEMS to be the way to wind, porting and starboarding the meat) with pint of beer for lunch; start this story of the sea; but the time is now.
helm as each shell left the U-boat's one slice of wholemeal bread with gun
slice of German sausage and one) The story is told by Mr. John Tazewell Jones, an American busi
polato for supper. (I had to eat my ness run who has spent twenty-two The submarine was compelled to supper of 6.30, because that's the years in Brazil. He tells President follow into the wind, which meant time I get so hungry). I had a Roosevelt that the skipper of a Ger-she could use only her forward gun headache about 4 p.m., lasting until Instructions By Director Braz told him that:-
merchant vessel he met in But her tean, grey bulk, silthering in
and out of the waves, was getting bedtime. Felt heavy about the legs in the evening and did not sleep foo For Coming Week "Cermany has pocket submarines
well.
A. R. P. Orders
mun
[thaf “eno"be"planted in the ocean by
A. R. P. Orders by Wing-Commander Amerchant vessels like rows of corn.
J. 8. Steels-Perkins, ..., Director of Air Raid Precautions:
The following appointments are notified!
"The submarines weigh about
ncorer.
15 Knots Now
The Mopan's official-speed-of-1314 knots had been inercased within a FRIDAY: One slice of bread and {few minutes to 15 knots by Aremeni fat for breakfast. ま could have 100 shovelling coal on which they knew
for the AR.P. Estabilatunest in Kowloon tons each, and can be lowered over-' their lives and their ship's safety enten a dozen. For lunch Emali?
Mr. E. Husworth to be Divisional board with a crew of twelve, Warden. Shamshulpo, vier Ate. Hung Man:
Yong. who reverts to Deputy Divisional Warden at his own request:
Mr. 1. C. Laut to be District Warden, attached ເ Youmet! Divisional" Head- quarters.
Translers
"When the fact is exhausted the subinarines can be picked up again by the mother vessel”.
Mr. Yuen Man-chung (Deputy Divistann in London naval circles:-- Warden) Shamshulpa, relinquishes bis appointment on having moved his re:
on
portion of
sidence from Shamsulph to Mongkok, and singularly ineffective in any but the stokers were still working-and ding.
transfers to Mongkuk Division.
Change of Address
ennest waters. A ship
cucumber stuffed with night depend.
bread with a potato, and a mug af Such waves were by now washing beer. About 3 o'clock I felt as though over the U-boat's bows that she was having difficulty with the only gun my energy for the day had gone. My her legs were Uke lead. Couldn't "walt And this is the technical comment she could bring to bear
for my last mealso`nte it at 6 pm. would-be prey.
It took the form of a fruit pudding] ID0-ton submarine would be And the Mopan's Bremen and not much fruit and not much pud-i
with locking-like niggers. For the first Mr. Francis Wong from 10 Snu Chuk derrick
SATURDAY: One slice of whole- capable of ruising and two hours the submarine slowly
the Kop had meal bread and jam (no tutter) for Miss Wong Sau-yung. 200 Mru Tau insering such a heavy object would ained, but by now
breakfast. I thought I can't do any Chung Road, 2nd fir, Kowloon to ◄ Kwong be abnormal, Ars would attract censed to grow less. Yuen St. Jongkong:
work feeling like this. I might as Mr. 11. B. Everest, 45 Austin Road to speedy attention.
The Mupan's little engines of only well go to bed." I know I was look- Untechnical comment in the same 4 h.p. seemed to be trying to burst ing bad and that was the Editor's themselves. Her speed somehow view, too, and so he packed me off reached 1611⁄2 knota, and she began to back to Mr. Weymouth, who told me Mr.Idraw thead. Shells still fell thick to get a good meni and leave the Enround her, but their alm was grow-| Nazi diet to those poor fellows wha
Ing less accurate, It seemed "haven't any option. miruele tilat none had yet landed non-aboard.
Yuen Rd., Kowloon to Hongkong:
St.,
34, Shanghal St., 1st Floor. Youmett.
Mr. C. W. Bằng of 4 Wal Ching Youmati to 64. Johnston Road, Hongkong circles:-
Mr. Luk Chung-šeit. 14 Sung Street to Kang Wah & Co., 230 To Kwa Wan Road.
Leave of Absence
Nfs. B. C. Webster. Warder.
Division of Knutsford Hotel, will be on
leave for approximately nine mobtha
from November 25,
Soine one has been pulling Jones's leg
Note-In future, Shing Nam Hoad will Commonsense comment ka
be known as South Wali Road wherever naval circles:
TheWhat chapre that it would stand Lusitano. *Tisa
d pan. to. 4.45 pamaton Mondays
Their "Ordeal"
[P.S. I have thought of a cer- Just let tain plan to win the war.
the
the smell of a good old English
dinner drift
across
"I ever a vessel was saved by the Sunday
it occurs in connection with Warden ad- What about the British Navy? | : dresses:
A.R.r. Course-Club time of this class has been changed from about und tet Germany vessels play atout courage, skill, and presence of Siegfried Line{}
ömeer ond "and | bob-apple with toy, submarines? mind of her captain, Fridays, commencing on Friday the Not much
erew and the energy and efficiency of By Anthony Weymouth. her chief engineer and his man in de the engine-room and stokehold, it
One glance at Sims at
after his three was the Mopan," states the Ministry days' voluntary diet convinced me that the experiment had gone on long enough,
November 24,
AILY. Classes (In Chinese)-Shun Shau School, G1, Caine Rd. Tuesdayı and Fri- -days 4 pm, commencing November 28, Lecturer: Mr, Fung Yam-leung, LANKA.
Wah Yan College, Robinson Rd, Wednes days and Saturdays at 2 pan.,. commencing yesterday, Lecturer: Mf. E. 9. Leung, LARLY,B.
Refresher Courke
A short refresher course in English wi commence in December for, the beseft of those who have attended a full cours.
but who failed in the examination
JACKIE COOGAN of Information.
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་ ।: Captain Roberts said, his men be- haved "most admirably during their trying ordeni."
Now, you might think that anyone might be able to stadd up to three days under-nourishment, even octubi Captain Roberts and Mr. Smit starvation. (There's no doubt, of Betty Grable, the lm actress, share the distinction of being the first course, that this diet definitely comes divorced her husband, Jackle Coogan, merchant seamen honoured with Mr. Into the category of under-nourish-
J. G. M. Turner, wireless operator ofment.) granted on the steamer Manaar, who received
reach the required standard for Air Raid in Hollywood to-day. Warden or Instructor. The course will
be of threo weske' duration-consisting
of six lectures-including the examination,
was The divorce
But Sims nttempled to lead a and intending candidates are requested to grounds of extreme cruelty. Jackle the Empire' Gallantry Medal for his send in their names to the Headquarters, did not fight the case. They were heroism when his ship was torpedoed normal life, just as a German has toi
not later than November 27, 2
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