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Captain's Heroism
the herols or
15-YEAR-OLD: boy bugler told recently of Captain V. C. I. Smalley, master of the liner Yorkshire, as his ship went down following U-boat attack.
The bugler, Jolm Alexander Tay- Jor, was reunited with his widowed mother at his Liverpool home.
"I was on the bridge with the raptain, two quartermasters, the commodare and my mate," zaid Taylor.
"The captain told us to get in the boats, and then he turned to us and said, 'Get a boat and I will join you as soon as possible.
"I don't think he had any intention
Joining us.” said Taylor."
Survivors of the Yorkshire were
pleked up by the United States vessel Independence Ball.
DANCER WHO “JUST COULD
NOT STAY STILL"
ALTHOUGH the War Office announcement of the scheme to double the Auxiliary Territorial Service was only made 24 hours before, hundreds of applications for enrolment were received at the Central London Recruiting Depot by first post the next day.
women
Before the staff could begin sorting) cullers. But by 10.30 the them the rush of personal appllen were arriving at the rate of one a itions begun,
minute and extra benches and tables were brought in to accommodate them while they listened to the sergeant's "low talk."
Girls taking a few minutes off from their work, married women with their shopping baskets, parties from the suburbs came trooping As they were leaving the women along to Great Scotland Yard. saw a group of girls enrolled some Ench was given a form to be filled time ago waiting with their luggage In at home.
to go to the training depot. They
Hlle envy.
These selected will later be asked Watched them move off with not a to attend for a personal interview] and medical examination,
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Sergeant's "Don't Worry Ladies OBITUARY
The recruiting sergeant was enre-
But Captain Smalley has been re-ful to impress on them that enrol Well-known Hongkong
ported "missing."
iment will mean submission to mili-
"One of the most tragic things I tary instead of civil law. re:nember." artcled Bugler Tayla,
was the night of a mother and tweed, with a grin. "Things that might
"But don't worry, ladies," he adet daughters clinging to one another on The deck as the boat went down. Bet you live years under civil law fine in the They seemed too stunned and shocker mean only a five-bob
Army."
to move"
AIR PERIL AT SEA SLIGHT
By A Naval Correspondent
SUGGESTIONS that senborne trade will soon be endangeredt by attacks from long-distance aircraft should not be taken too seriously.
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ONE of the first to arrive was Ass, Gertrude Sheffield. who saw four years service as a V.A.D. in the
last war.
ree ex-Service womens can join up to the age of 59, so I am hoping they will take ine on again,” she said. With Dance Girls In Germany
Next 10. Miss Sheffield was a girl, įwhs, at the time of the Munich erida, var with dancing troupe in Ces many.
Apart from the question of fuel endurance, it is difficult for alreraft She is Miss Maude McNaughton to find a convoy in the broad Atlan- of Brockley. tie, especially if there is any bar cloud or mist.
For many days convoys have beenj ving regularly and without any! sort of trouble, except that a mer- chantar was damaged by a mine. She was brought safely into port, and her cargo has since been clis- charged without harm.
Resident Dies
Mr. Walter Hung died at the Canossa Hospital at 7.30 p.m. yester- day from pricumonia.
and
Only 30 years of age, Mr.
Hung. who was Manager of the Chinese section of the Hongkong, Canton and
Company, Macno Steamship Manager of the Sun Wo Steamship Company, leaves a widow, who is u daughter of Sir Robert Kolewall, and two small children, John, aged ore year, and Wendy, aged three. Mr. Hunt also leaves a mother, two sis-
ferg, one of whom married Itobert Ho Tung Jnr., and two brothers.
and taking a B.A. degree in 1933, Mr. Educated at Hongkong University
ung rapidly established himself in the business world and at the same time maintained a keen Interest in "I's exactly a year aga to-day | sport, particularly cricket and tennis. since I got barks from that trip.")
The funeral will leave the Canossa she said.
then Pvr beenHospital at 4 p.m. to-day, direct for working in a cigarette kiosk, but I
the Chinese Christian Cemetery. Just can't sit still any longer and | Pokľúlum., watch all the men and women køing rast in uniform."
Another young woman explated
The appearance of a surface raider that he wished tu join up because)
Mrs. Kipling Dies
Burwash. Sussex, Dec. 10.
The denti has occurred of Mrs.
on the South American trade route bee in bard is a regular soklier and Rudyard Kipling in her 74th year. WIN ** fairly regular feature of it he is gone to France she wants atenlogical exercises set at the Royalj to je tuo, Naval Staff College before the war.
In no instance was long life Recruiting beam at 938 a.m. garanteed to such a raider.
the first balf-hour there were
Mrs. Kialing had been in indiffer- eat health since the death of her
In husband, the famous author, in 1936. 20-United Press.
December 20, 1939.
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