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"Told" In Tea Cup
"WE'LL COP IT". DID SO
AN explosion on the Royal Mail Line motorship Loch- goil when off the English const was foretold in tea- leaves before she sailed.
The Lochgoll, of 9,462 tone, was outward bound with cargo. Before she left port the crew spent
a few hours at a sailors' rest,
One anilor, who had just Bnished 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 ifeboat 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 Cx- plosion occurred which Injured the master, Captain W. C. Tarrant, und five of his crew,
Deck-hand William Zimmerman, of London, who had just taken over the) wheel, said the explosion came from j the bows.
The ship was badly damaged, but she was successfully beached.
Her cargo was taken oll, and she is to be repaired and refloated,
Five Lascar scamen were injured Anchor by an explosion Ja the Brocklebank liner Murawart, near the Welsh coast.
Arabs and Luscars formed the majority of the crew of 91.
Molinmed Jumu, a deckhand, who was in his bunk when the explosion occurred, said:
"The doors crashed in and the
on to deck, and water was already pouring in.
The Swiss don't miss
PARIS.
Here are two stories about Switzerland and Germany.
I. Guards on the Swiss-Ger- man border are not friendly, One morning the Swiss found in the road a "present from the Gerina"a pile of offat mark. ed with our compliments."
Next morning the Germans found in thele road a great ple of butter. A note said: "Each side given what it can-spare.”
2. Before the war Switzer- land tried in vain to buy fighter planes from Britain, France and Italy, and at lási tried Germany. "Certainly," said the Gerinang, "we'll give you forty Messer- schmitts-but
we don't money for them."
So the Swiss pald on delivery -In Swiss cheese.
want
Soon after war began the Swiss wanted more Üghters. Britain, France and Italy again could not obfige. Germany again could.
more
"Yes," said the Germans, "we Bhall Kend you forix
But this time Messerschmitta we must gel our cheese in ad- Yance and you may have to wall some time for the plaries."
CHALK WITH CARE
By LINDON LAING
lights went out. There was a rush POETS are invited by the Preussische Zeitung to chalk up on the walls of Germany diatribes against Great Britain.
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 bants.
"There was no punic, but some of the crew were praying.
"We reached shore in the ship's boats.*
The Marawari was taken in tow by tugs, and the European officers were landed.
The liner was bound from Belfost to Newport, Monmouth, in ballast.
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 Swansea.
They Don't Want Mr.
Hitler
Town That Fears A Hitler Guarantee
EUPEN, Belgian-German
Frontier.
The following "poem" is said to have caused great satisfaction when it appeared on a wall in Berlin:- "Swift
chamois
us 11 strong young
We will be, at need, beside the
Thames."
*
"Harry,
they've given me
a ship
༡༡
FARNHAM COMMON
(Bucks). 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 10 loved to organise. To- night, in a cosy bar of the Emperor of India, they drank a silent toast to the tumorial memory of "The Cap- tain."
They had read with sadness how out-gunned and out-manoeuvred, he had fought his merchant cruiser Rawalpindi against hopeless odds when the German pocket battleship Deutschland loomed up in the north- ern mista 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, i who knew them all by their Chris- tian names, who talked runner-beans and cabbages to them over the fence and revelled in rurni joys after hav- ing relired to live ushore.
'He Was A Man'
We went this afternoon on a pil- grimage to Captain Kennedy's house. Lytchetts, which has stood furnished, but empty, since he went to the war, Harry Looker, the captain's gardener led the way.
said Harry.
ago.
"He was a man, was the cuplain," "He called me when I was weed- ing the lawn one day a few weeks
He was nigh jumping for joy, Ilarry my man, they've given me a ship, he said. It will be my third campaign.” He'd been in the Buxer 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 hip, car, and off went THEN the same writer goes on to the missus and her two daughters tell of another artist, one A. Mas- they're twelve and thirteen-to Scot- salsk!, who in 1836 drew what was land to be near him when he came considered an unflattering portrait of ashore." Their son, nineteen, is Hitler beneath which he wrote amidshipman. rhyme.
Massalski dented responsibility but he was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisoninent. When this term expired the authorities "found cause to take him into pro- tective custody, where he stayed until September.
a
Över a truckle bed, in the cup- „Lain's....room. framed_behind___ glass, was a tattered piece of bunting. An inscription in faded ink show- ed it was part of the flag which had covered dying Nelson in the Victory on Trafalgar Day. Framed on another wall Was "He then attempted to blaine some diagram showing the positions of the one else for the whole affair and British and German Fleets on bas now been sentenced to a fur- November 21, 1918-the day of the ther six months' imprisonment for great surrender on the hight sens. fake denunciation." Readers of the Preussische Zeitung will, of course, take the hint and be careful what they chalk up on the walls of Germany.
THE Boersen Zeltung discusses the This is certainly the most indimculties of judges who must often teresting lown in Belgium for its news about Germany. Eupen is not decide whether a robbery has been only less than 10 miles from Aix-la- committed in a black-out (in which Chapelle, but still has regular com- the penalty is deali) or not in
a black-out in which
case the penalty may be only a few months imprisonment).
munications with that town.
Although there Are many young Germans in Eupen and the surround- Ing district with strong Nazi sym- puthles, very few have tried to volunteer for military service Germany.
in
Their hearts may be in Germany! but their stor achs are in Belgium," was how a Belgian official described their attitude.
Eupen is the main city of thai small region annexed by Prussia la 1810 and restored to Belgium under the Treaty of Versailles.
roats there.
'Der Tag'
Grand Fleet, had been present that Captain Kennedy, serving in the
day. "Der Tag," he had inscribed the diagnon, little knowing that, twenty-one years later, almost to the day, he was destined to meet again the German naval power.
I went sadly down the village street, said a "Daily Express" Staff Reporter. I thought of the blazing Rawalpindi, her ensign still flying. of the old 7 h.p. car in front of the The editor concludes that as it is Jasmine-covered porch waiting to war time the judge should always take an old sea dog to the war, to give the black-out the benent of the strains of "Tom Bowling" in the the doubt.
village hall.
*
THE Hamburger Fremdenblatt has scheme for making things easier for housewives who have to go out: to work.
"Buy an apron for your husband and give him a little surprise when he gets home," is its.advice.
"And now he's gone aloft.”
JAPANESE BUDGET
Yen
As the town grew during the Ger- AUNT ANNIE, who conducts the man occupation a number of its Inhabitants came from Prussia, nota correspondence column in the Boer- bly officials. So Germany has strong sen Zeitung, regrets that she gets so many gloomy letters nowadays. She The last elections gave to the Bel.ays that she looks in vain through Hinn-minded lists a majority of 52 her mail bag for a ray of happiness.
She goes on to advise her woman the
readers how best to turn the con- versation politely from the ever Insting, topies of rationing and re- strictions.
per cent.
About the milltary 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 no comparison between 1014 and 1039 and that the reglan could hokl bla surprises for any German forces. Others, pulled up by the German victory in Poland, firm that the Belgian army would have the fate of ihn Polish in much less time.
But the idea generally prevalling in that Hitler, to avoid the Liege and Namur fortidentions, will try to
1,274,780,000 For
The Army
Tokyo, Dec. 17. The estimates for the Army for 1040-41 Oscal year total Yen 1,274,780,000 including Yen 101,510.- 000 of ordinary expediture and Yen 1,093,200,000 of extraordinary penditure.
ex-
Appropriations for new under- wwwwww | takings include Yen 275,050,000 for improvements: In: armament, Yen 401,010,000 ̈ for replenishments In Air Corps and bir defences, Yen 20,000,000 for inprovements in equip. ments, and Yen 11,650,800 for other purposes, totaling Yen 809,120,000, Domici,
NOTICE
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reach central Belgium by violating Advertisers re Dutch neutrailty.
Belginns in Eupen fear the blunt requested to submit occupation of that region, which in, practically a "no-man's land, bee copy for display advor the Siegfried Line and the tising not later then 2 p.m. on the day before antee to Belgium, their fear grows, publication. maintaining that a Hitler guarantee has always heralded an invasion. "
tween Liege fortresses.
Every time Hiller repeats his gunt-
Manchukuo Budget
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Monday announced its Budget for the 1040-41 fiscal year. The General Budget totals Yuan 570,000,000 both
revenue and expenditure and the Extraordinary Budget tatais Yuan
2,000,000,000 both in revenue and expenditure. The net increase in the tatal nineunts to Yuan 600,000,000.- Domet.
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Indians in the first division. kong Ball Club softball team,
Mr. Arcull has also taken up base- of which the bride and groom are ball and is regarded no one of the members.
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Hongkong The bridegroom has featured pre-diamond. He pitched for Union champions minently in sporting circles and was Brewers, last season's once the captain of the Indian jand never lost a game. Recreation Club's B Division tennis!
Mr. Arcul was educated at the team. In 1934 when the Indian Ella Kadoorle Indian School and at where he was won the Junior Lawn Bowle League Queen's College Mr. Arculll was a member of the champion, athlete in 1932 and 1033.
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