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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 11, 1940.
KAISER'S ARMY MEN
MARCH IN KHAKI NOW ALHAMBRA
LET HIM NOT
BOAST...
. PARIS. HITLER'S boasts of how kc will dominato Europe he made them to a Nazi Gaulaiter (dis- trict leaders)--are told in a Havas despatch from the Ger- man frontier,
The Gauleiter, who attended the Berlin conference last month when Iler gave the order to attack Britain, according to this message, wrote down these sentences spoken by Hitter:
"Now I shall conquer France and Britain. After this victory I shall drive Russia back beyond the Urals, and then I lil build a German Relch finer and greater than it has ever been in history."
Lel not him that girdeth on his harness baast himself as he that putteth oft-1 Kings 20, XI.
ANOTHER RAIDER "SCUTTLED"
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By LOUISE MORGAN
SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN. TO-DAY I have seen, swinging smartly along a coun- try lane, the first "refugee regiment" to march on British soil.
Their colonel bears a name illustrious in British his- tory. Their marching song is "Tipperary." Their corporals have risen fom their own ranks.
The spectacle of soldiers marching is such a common one now- adays that fewer than half a dozen people must have watched them go by; but I was deeply moved because I felt I was seeing a legend of British Army men of the future coming to life-the legend forged in the fires of persecution
Three hundred passed, and others would have been there had other unorms arrived in time.
Pride and an almost fanatical de termination were written on their faces.
Most of them are in their twenties raw recruits who have everything to learn. But some fought on the German ilde in the last war, and the extet precision of their bearing was eloquent of the military traditions of the Kaker's Army.
Their evidence, given
Messages For Enemy
Countries
PEOPLE with civilian rela- tives living in belligeront coun- recently tries
may send them short before Tribunals in different centres messages about family affairs. throughout the country, bas lent
This has been arranged ba- dramatis corroboration to the Govern
ment White Paper. This "regiment" tween the International Red wil be the source of some of the Cross Committee at Geneva and most polnunt human narratives of the British, French and German Ithe war when its story can anally be
written.
Branded Bodics
--BACK TO PORT Passage Through
Danish Waters I caught aroiles of recognition, for
censors.
The scherne, which applies also to territories occupied by a belligerent State, Is Already operating in the London and Outer London areas.
Arrangements will be made as soon as possible in the provinces.
Messages, to be treated like tele- grams, will be received at Clilzens' Advice Bureaux at a charge of 7d. eath.
The German "pocket battle-I had made friends with a number of these soldiers on Innding stages or ship" Deutschland, it is believed, at the hostels, training centres and is now in a German naval port. farms up and down the country dur- She reached home by passing ing the past twelve months. through Danish waters,
Thele khakl uniforms are new and
They must be limited to 20 words The Deutschland had not been cover bodies branded with the, tor-
and can be accepted only if they deal' reported since, in company with tures of concentration camps. another enemy warship,
Typical of the story they had told with purely family news and are sent
to relatives. sank the British
Messages can be accepted In Eng- auxiliary me was that of a Mannhern archi
lect, who was a commissioned offelish. French or German, cruiser Rawalpindi to the south-in the Kaiser's Army,“ east of Iceland on Nov. 23,
she
He met by chance in London a She must have felt German waters British Army captain who had taken OVLJ two colis ago, as she sank shelter in the same shell-hole in Nu- the British .. Stonegate in the North Man's Land during the Battle of the,, Atlantic, 500 miles from the coast of Somme, Florida, on Oct. 5. Between then and
Maurice Tate As Witness
Both were seriously wounded and Oct. 15 she sank a Norwegian steamer could barely crawl. ile was worse Maurice Tate, the former Sussex
and cap. the Lorentz W. Hansen,
off this 1," said the refugee, but he and England cricketer, gave evidence tured the American ship City of
subsequently re-ave me a drink before I lost can at Lewes Assizes recently in an ac- Flint, which was
We had not seen each tion by a bay whose skull was frac- lensed on entering a Norwegian port.sciousness.
other since that moment, but we tured during a school game. This is not a very wonderful re- cord for a ship specially designed for recognised each other at once."
£3,750,800 to build. Undoubtedly
commerce destruction and costing. The men are rejoicing in the fact
the German authorities had hoped that the British military outfit is not that she wound do more havoc, but ersalz. This is the first time in years the dispositions of the Royal Navy many of them have had real wool have prevented this:
un their backs and real leather on their feet.
Helped By Darkness
Not For The Front
The boy, John Allred Terence Bar- foot, 11, of Staford-road, Seaford, sued the East Sussex County Council. It had been alleged that in a game at Seaford Boys' School between the school XI. and 17 juniors the master in charge placed Barfoot at allly mid- on, described by counsel as the most dangerous place in the field.
Barfoot gave evidence that he was That the Deutschland should have succeeded in getting buck is not sur- Their personnel is typical of the used to fielding in the deep feld and prising when it is realised that in the thousands of refugees to whom this had never fielded close to the buts- "I didn't ke fielding there," waters around Iceland there are not country has given asylum from Naziman. more than four hours of daylight in terror. They represent practically he said. "A ball just missed my head the 24 at this time of year. With every known trade and profesion-befure, the... necldent happened, some luck in the shape of fog there bakers, bankers, lawyers, bricklayers, is little to prevent ship creeping musiclans, professor, sculptors, cob- oplaton that it was "suicide" to place
Joiners, long the Norwegian coast without blers,
jewellers. doctors, inexperienced boys within 10 yards being observed.
woodcarvers, foresters, labourers and of the wickel. With 15 or 10 boys
felding it was more dangerous.. Meanwhile it is learnt that the others.
"I have retreated many times when vessel, Windhuk, All have been given full exemption I have
he said.
German merchant
his evidence gave
1,012 ans, quipped as a sea ralder, under the Aliens Tribunals ng bear good und n bowler has not a very
which left Portuguese West Africa the stump "Friendly Allen" on their suddenly on Nov. 20, hus arrived at papers.
fying the Japanese Santos, Brazil. Bag. After her arrival the Gerinun
The master in charge of the game, I Mr. G. T. Stevenson, denied that Bar-
At present, due to difficulties of lan-foot was in a position which could bu as allly mid-on. In the described flag was hoisted and the name "Santos guage, they are being trained under
the boy was not in any danger. Maru" on the ship's bows painted Eritish officers us a unit, but later position in which he placed Burfool, they will join up In the usual way.
Mr. Justice Humphreys reserved out.
Because of the danger of rapture
judgment. and its inevitable consequences they will not be sent to the front line.
FUTURE OF
SHANGHAI Link With
Shanghai, Jan. 10.
On the eve of his departure from Nurse Cavell
Shanghal, the retiring British Consul-
General, Sir Herbert Phillips, made
a speech as the guest of honour at a
STATED to be the son of a
gathering of the British Chumber of man who was shot by the Ger- Commerce.
mans as a spy in the last war,
It is not unreasonable to hope Julien Joseph. Verbeeck (38) that China, if only peace can be was at
Sessions Middlesex
in
restored to the Far East, will share sentenced to 12 months' in-
the business prosperity
which neutrals enjoy at a time when their prisonment.
belligerent neighbours are devoting
M, May, who defended him, said:
a large part or their productiveVerbeeck's father was one of the
capacity to The manufacture of
weapons of war, and by that she will combination which was in communi- go far to repair the ravages of the cation with Nurse Cavell. His fo tra
brothers, who fought against the last two years," said Sir Herbert. Germans, were killed, and he was
Sir Robert Colder-Marshall, Chair-
left at the age of 13 to support his man of the Chamber of Commerce, mother. and Mr. H. G. Woodhead, Chairman
"He was brought up with a hatred of the China Association, paid high
and he came to this tributes to Sir Herbert Phillips, after of Germans, which the latter, who is retiring from | country." the Consular Service, said that while
WILE
China the outlook in
Verbeeck, was accused with three Bill obscure it was not by any means other men of attempting to steal fron which the without hope. The effects of the a safe in a house from European war on China, particularly occupants had been evacuated. on the position of British trade In
China, had still to make themselves James Cardash (35) and Ernest fully felt. He said he was optimllic Smith (32), whom the chairman de-) that the general situation in Shang-scribed as the ringleaders, were sen« ' hai would take tum for the bolter tenend to two years' hard Inbour, and rather than work.'
Thomba Nelson (30) to six months.
Sir Herbert declared, "It is with great regret that I leave, when much
atil remains to be accomplished and return of the northern district to the when important neg◊ilations and the control of the Municipal Council disposal of questions vital to the will not much longer bo delayed. future of the International Setilo-
ment in Shanghal are in progress.
", at any rate, pm mufficiently
to oplinistic "You are all aware that the present conditions here are more likely to think that political negotiations for a esttlement of the dificult problem of the Western Dist vided the various parties concerned improve than deteriorato niways pro- trict, which I hope may shortly bear are determined to show goodwill and frult, are in progress.......
have a genuine desire to promote
"There 14, moreover, reason to hope international-friendship in this great "that ́a' solution of the question of the city.”~United Prets.
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