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"YOUNG MR. LINCOLN "
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ALICE BRADY - MARJORIE WEAVER
ORIENTAL
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Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 13, 1940.
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KING'S DECORATIONS
FOR
R.A.F.
By RONALD WALKER :
News Chronicle Correspondent with the R.A.F.
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. WEARING the uniform of the R.A.F. and the wings which he gained at Cranwell during the last war, the King paid a hurried visit to the Royal Air Force in France to-day.
At one aerodrome he decorated a flying officer who learned to fly as a 6d.-a-week member of the L.P.T.B. Busmen's Flying Club, and a sergeant. These are the first awards to be made to the R.A.F. in the field..
The arrival of the King after his tour of the Army was kept secret. The party, which included Lord Gort and the Duke of Gloucester, travelled by train from Army headquarters.
The King spent the night in the train, which was parked in a siding not far from here. All roads and approaches to this point were barred and guarded by French sentries. British, soldiers were on sentry around the train.
BOMBER STATION CEREMONY · · Among the French population of this town the news had got about that an important person was expected.. They did not know that it was the King of England.
A bitterly cold wind lashed the stallon as the royal train pulled in ata.m. to-day. The King and his party, who were met by Air Viac- Marshal P. H. L. Playfair, left at once in a procession of cars to visit several war stations. In the district. These included a stores park, the operation room at a wing headquarters and an A.A. battery.
The decorations, were awarded at a bumber aerodrome.
Officers and airmen, their noses blue with cold, lined three sides of a cquare and waited for the King to arrive. He was greeted by the com- manding officer,
Apologised For Board
At once the King advanced to a steall table and slood rigidly while the emmunding officer recited the deeds of the officer and the sergeant.
Flying-OMeer R. C. Graveley, of Leytonstone, he decorated with the
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Gardiner,
her, of Dover, with the Medal of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire,
[The feats which earned them these awards have already been described.) Flying-Offeer Graveley apologised to the King for having a beard, ex- plaining that his wounds have not yet healed completely.
The King smiled his understanding and asked the officer if he had lost any confidence in his flying abilities. "No, sir," was the reply," "I have already reported for flying_dutles."
After taking further with both men the King shook their bands and wish-i ed them luck.
Self-consored
From here he went on to a small village to inspect airmen's billets. It had
apread among the incredulous residents that Le Roi Anglais was expected. They gathered excitedly at
the main cross-ronds and watched the just-minute preparations of the R.A.F.
men.
With five minutes to go the town crier arrived. He is an opportuniat. After banging on his drum and getting the necessary attention he announced that those people who had not paid their co-operative fire insurance due on December 1, would be dealt with severely,
When urged to announce the arrival of the King, he objected that he could not disclose a secret known only to himself and the Mayor.
Many of the airmen here are billeted in a factory. The King asked
HEROES
Tale Of
Two Bears
This new story may be true or It may be a plece of subile Oriental allegory, but it is sent by "Router" who had it from Tokyo:
Sano, a Japanese charcoal-burner,
was walking in the woods when he noticed a little bear perched in a tree.
It seemed a peaceable little beari --but it was a spy.
The spy-bear fetched a large bear, weighing at least 100lb., which at-
tacked Sano.
But Sano was (possibly his grandfather
vallant man Finn), and he was also a wrestler. Wis £ So he closed with the bear,
He put on a hammerlock grip.{ Time passed.
Ten hours later other villagers appeared and the helpless bear was duly stain. Thep Sano went home.
THIS BABY SUBMARINE
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IS FIGHTING RUSSIA
INLAND has the
FINL
smallest submarino in the World (above), which is husy in the waters of Lake Ladoga, the seventy-five-mila wide inland
The
Sea on the Russian border. vessel is less than 100 tons, and has a crow of thirteen. It in about as long as a cricket pitch and a half.
From CILES ROMILLY, Daily Expross Staff Reports, doscribing war from Norway's frontier.
BOY HERO FIGHTS LAST
BATTLE IN RAVINE
STOCKHOLM.-IN the Arctic night of Northern Finland masses of Russian troops were to-day breaking through the stub- born Finnish defence. This was revealed to me in a thrilling story telephoned by an eye-witness living In Svanvik, just inside the Norwegian frontier.
COLDEST WINTER
IN HOLLAND
of
He said: "To-day I saw Tullevi, Koivolaliti, Kervoranta and Salmi- Jarvi in flames and hundreds ploneer homes burning along the castern horizon, A reddish
glow spread for miles over the snow,
"It was a scene of strange un- reality. At regular intervals heard damp, dead explosions from AMSTERDAM. Feb. 12 (Reuter) nickel mining town of Kologjak!, Finnish troops, before their retreat, were blowing up the nickel mines and factories,"
them whether they were comfortable With further frost and snow, the and had enough blankets. "Yes, sir," present winter ranks as the coldest in replied a very nervous young Welsh-Holland's history, according to the
Dutch Weather Institute.
man.
In the kitchens the King was assured that the food was good. Siegfried Line Pictures
The record-breaking cold spells of 1855 and 1801 have been left well behind.
Waal 20 miles below
The River
My informant continued:
the
I saw columns of Finnish skiers re- trcaling southwards in the red glow... Occasionally, in the flaming sky,
As he walked out of the gaics, -a black cat strolled along a wooden Nimegen is ten inches higher than dark spots appeared. They were beam overhead. The King did not she has over been owing to dams Russlan bombers from Petsamo, see the cat but the airmen who cheer- caused by ice floes. Hence an in-scouting for the Finnish troops. ed him good-bye took it as a lucky creasingly serious food situation is
omen.
Back at headquarters where he Junched, with Air Vice-Marshal Play- fair, the King was most interested to see photographs of German terri- tory, taken by British fliers on recon- naissance and pictures developed from films found in German machines shot down.
He was delighted when Air Vice- Marshal Playfair presented him with on album of pictures specially selected from this collection.
Contraband System
Britain's Arrangement With Holland
London, Feb. 12.
The political correspondent of the Financial News understands, that negotiations between the Dutch trade delegation and the Ministry of Econ- omic Warfare in London proaching a satisfactory conclusion.
Their object is to secure a smoother working of the Contraband Control system.
are
ap-
It is understood that it is proposed, for the duration of the war, that imports to Holland from oversens shall become the monopoly of the Algemeene Nederlandscho Import Centrale, which
Government Department.
Consignments addressed to this monopoly agency are to be exempt from the necessity of examination at control. ports, But the system rationing will continud-Reuter.
of
An illustrated lecture on "Western Australia" will be given by Prof. W. Brown to-morrow at 6.30 p.m. In Room K of the Hongkong University. All interested are welcome.
developing.
LATE NEWS
In the afternoon a Finnish column reached a ravine several miles long; through which they had to pass.
Their commander detached wenty-year-old cadet and a sergeant, and put each in charge or a section and two machine-guns,
a
Their order was: "Stay here and cover our retreat and fight as long as possible."
Bombers Fly Ovar
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Five bombers flew over. After an hour of waiting they Enw grey shadows against the show. It was the Russian advance party. They let it pass.
Then came a grinding, trickling Gound, * Companies. of Russian aldlern wore advancing with new, light tanks specially adapted for advancing in the snow.
Their numbers grew and grew. Ath 100 yards the cadet gave orders to open fire. His machine-gun halted the Russian advance,
The Russians directed machine- gun fire and rifle fire at the main point of resistance. They sent their. ombers over again. One by one the Finnish machine-runs became silent. The grey masses of Russians ad- vanced endlessly, hemming in the Finnish defenders with their fire.
Wounded, his white overall blood- stained, the cadet gave a last order. "That will do. Save the machino- fung."
His comrades left him there to his Inst sleep in the Arctic night.
Baltic Military Chiefs Meet
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 12 (Router)- Interest was aroused here by the; visit of the Latvian Chief of Staff, General Berkis, to the Eathonian Chief of Staff, General Lakdoner,
A Tallinn correspondent of Stock- holm "Tidningen states that the vfelt is a sign of the determination of
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