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'WE'LL COP IT"
DID SO
AN explosion on the Royal Mail Line motorship Loch- goil when off the English coast was foretold in ten- leaves before she sailed.
The Lochgoil, of 9,462 tons, was outward bound with cargo. Before she left port the crew spent a few hours at a sailors' rest.
One sailor, who had just Bulshed a cup of tea, noticed the peculiar picture formed by the tea-leaves,
His mates crowded round and saw what appeared to be a sinking ship, a lifeboat going to her rescue, and someone signalling from shore.
"You can take it from me," said the man with the cup, "we are going to cop it before we have been out' many days."
CAPTAIN INJURED
A day after leaving port an ex- plosion occurred which injured the master, Captain W. C. Turrant, and live of his crew.
Deck-hand Willam Zimmerman, of London, who had just taken over the wheel, said the explosion came from the bows.
The ship was badly damaged, but she was successfully heuched.
Her cargo was taken oil, and she is to be repaired and refloated,
Five Lascar seamen wero injured by an explosion in the Anchor Brucklebank liner Morawart. near the Welsh coast.
Arabs and Lascars formed the majority of the crew of 91.
Mohamed Jama, a deckhand, who was in his bunk when the explosion occurred, anid:
"The doors crashed in and the There was a rush lights went out, on to deck, and water was already pouring in.
RADIO BLOWN AWAY "The radio was blown away. "As the ship took a heavy list the skipper, Captain Richardson, ordered us to take to the boats,
"There was no panic, but some of the crew were praying.
"We reached shore in the abip's boals."
The Marowari was taken in tow by lugs, and the European officers .were landed.
The iner was bound from Belfast to Newport, Monmouth, in ballust.
It is not known whether she was struck by a mine or attacked.
Twenty of the crew were landed at Port Talbot, and the remainder at Swansco.
They Don't Want Mr. Hitler
The Swiss don't miss
PARIS.
Here are two stories about Switzerland and Germany.
1. Guards on the Swiss-Ger mak border are not friendly. One morning the Swiss Lounel in the road a "present from the Germans pile of offat mark- ed "with our complimenta."
Next morning the Germaus found in their road a great plle of butter. A note said: "Each side gives what it can spare."
2. Before the war Switzer- Land tried In vain to buy fighter planes frem Britain, Franer and Italy, and at Inst tried Germany. "Certainly," sald the Germans, "we'll give you forty Messer- bellus--but we don't want money for them.'
So the Swiss paid on delivery -in Swiss cheese.
wur beran Lie Scen after
Aighters. Swiss wanted Britain, France and Kaly agalo could not oblige, Germany again rovid.
re
"Yes," sald the Germans, "we shall send you forty mure Messerschmitts. But this time we must get our cheese in ad- vance and you may have to Walt some time for the planes."
CHALK WITH CARE
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By LINDON LAING, POETS are invited by the Preussische Zeitung to chalk up on the walls of Germany diatribes against Great Britain.
The following "poem" is said to
have caused great satisfaction when it appeared on a wall in Berlin:-
strong young!
*Swift 15 11
chamola We will be, at need, beside the
Thames."
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"Harry, they've given me
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VILLAGERS of Farnham Common fear that never again will they hear "Tom Bowling" sung by bluff, jovial Captain E. C. Kennedy, agent of the South Bucks Conservative and Unionist Association.
That was his favourite song at the concerts he loved to organise. To- night, in the cosy bar of the Emperor. of ladla, they drank a silent toast to the immortal memory of "The Cup- tain."
They had read with sadness how out-gunned and out-manoeuvred, he had fought his merebant cruiser Rawalpindi against hopeless odds when the German packet battleship Deutschland loomed up in the north- ern mists off Iceland.
And they had drawn their black- out curtains hours before the winter dusk in tribute to the neighbour who had come among them ten years ago, who knew them all by their Chris- tlan names, who talked runner-beans and cabbages to them over the fence and revelled in rural joys after bav- ing retired to live ashore..
'He Was A Man'
We went this afternoon on a pil grimage to Captain Kennedy's house.
but empty, since he went to the war.
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INDIAN MARRIAGE
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Extremely popular not only with his Indian asso- ciates but with other com. munities and well known as an all-round sportsman, Mr.- M. el Arculli was married to Miss Jenny Hamet at the Mosque in Shelley. Street yesterday. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hamet,
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Lytchetts, which has stood furnished,OLLOWING the wedding, they us in any case whatever,
couple entertained at a re- larry Looker, the captain's gardener ception held at the Indian Re- creation Club, Sookunpoo, where led the way.
"He was a man, was the captain," they received a large group of winning said Harry.
members.
combination,
Ás, a
Mr. Arculli has also taken up base- best pitchers in the Hongkong for Unien The bridegroom has featured pro-diamond. He pitched
last season's champions minently in sporting circles and was Brewers,
the captain of the Indian and never lost a game. Recreation Club's B Division tennis Mr. Arculli was educated at the team. In 1934 when the Indian Ellis Kadoorle Indian School and at where he was won the Junior Lawn Bowls League Queen's College Mr. Arculli was a member of the champion athlete in 1932 and 1033.
once
"He called me when I was weed- well wishers including the men's cricketer ho is very well known ing the lawn one day a few weeks and women's teams of the Hong- and at present he is playing for the
Indians in the first divialan. jogo. He was nigh jumping for joy,kong Ball Club softball team,
"Harry my man, they've given of which the bride and groom are ball and is regarded as one of the me n. ship, he said. 'It will be my third campaign. He'd been in the Boxer rebellion in China, and in the great war before he settled down here for the rest of his life as he thought. "So off he went to the station in his old seven h.p. car, and off went THEN the same writer goes on to the missus and her two daughters tell of another artist, one A. Mas-hey're twelve and thirteen-to Scot- salski, who in 1936 drew what was lund to be near him when he came considered an unflattering portrait of ashore," Their son, nineteen, is a
midshipman Hitler beneath which he wrote a rhyme.
Over a truckle bed, in the cap- Massalskidenied-responsibility, but |~~tain's room-framed-behind-ginas,
he was sentenced to two and a half years. Imprisonment. When this term expired the authorities "found cause to take him into pro- tective custody, where he stayed until September.
was a tallered piece of bunting. An inscription in faded ink show- ed it was part of the flog which had covered dying Nelson in the Victory on Trafalgar Day. Framed on another wall Wis "He then attempted to blame some dlugram showing the positions of the
and one else for the whole affair and British
German Fleets has now been sentenced to a fur-November 21, 1918-the day of the ther six months' imprisonment for great surrender on the high sear.
Town That Fears A false denunciation.
Hitler Guarantee
EUPEN, Belgian-German
Readers of the Preussische Zeitung will, of course, take the hint and be careful what they chalk up on the walls of Germany.
committed
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went
'Der Tag'
Captain Kennedy, serving in the Grand Fleet, had been present that day. "Der Tag," he had inscribed the diagram, little knowing that, Frontier, THE Boersen Zeltung discusses the twenty-one years later, almost to the This is certainly the most in- teresting town in Belgium for its dimculties at judges who must often day, he was destined to meet again news about Germany. Eupen is not decide whether a robbery has been the German naval power.
In a bluck-out (in which
sadly down the village only less than 10 miles from Aix-la-case the penalty is death) or not in street, said a "Daily Express" Staff Chapelle, but still has regular com a black-out (in which case the Reporter. I thought of the blazing munications with that town.
penalty may be only a few months' Rawalpindi, her, ensign atil nying, of the old 7 hp. enr in front of the Although there are many young) imprisonment).
concludes that as it is Jasmine-covered porch waiting to Germans in Eupen and the surround- The editor
war time the judge should always take an old sea dog to the war, to ing district with strong Nazi sym-
tried to give the black-out the benefit of the strains of "Tom Bowling" in the pathies, very few have
the doubl.
vilinge hall. volunteer for military service in
"And now he's gone aloft!" Germany.
"Their hearts may be in Germany
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THE Hamburger Fremdenblatt bos
but their stomachs are in Belgium," a scheme for making things easter) was how a Belgian offelni described for housewives who have to go out their attitude..
Eupen is the main city of that suli region annexed by Prussia in 1813 and restored to Belgium under the Treaty of Versailles.
As the town grow during the Ger- of its occupation a number
man
inhabitants came from Prussia, nota- bly officials. So Germany has strong
roots there.
to work.
"Buy an apron for your husband and give him a little surprise when he gets home," in its advice.
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AUNT ANNIE, who conducts the
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Tokyo, Dec. 17.. The last elections gave to the Bel- her mail bag for a ray of happiness. The estimates for the. Army for gian-minded lists a majority of 52 She goes on to advise her woman the 1940-41 fiscal year total Yen per cent.
renders how best to turn the con- | 1,274,780,000 including Yen 181,510,- versation politely from the ever-000 of ordinary expediture and Yen lasting toples of rationing and re-1,003,200,000 of extraordinary ex- strictions.
About the military value of the Belgian army, the opinions of the Germans of Eupen differ. Some say, looking westwards towards the hills marking the main position of the Belgian Army of Liege, that there is 1014 and no comparison between 1030 and that the region could hold big surprises for any German forces. Others, puffed up by the German victory In Poland, affirm that the Belgian army would have the fate of the Polish in much less time.
But the iden generally prevailing is that Hitler, to avold the Liege and Namur, fortifications, will try to
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