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RADIO FIFTY OF 99 DEAD IN THETIS WORE A Look Through DAVIS ESCAPE APPARATUS
ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc,) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Herbert and Bernhard Ruff
From the Studio
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.c's, and on Short Wave from 1-2.13 p.m. tind B-11 pm on 9.52 m.c's, per second. 12.13 p.m. Short Service of Inter- cession.
12.39 Haydn Symphony No. ("Farewell") in F Sharp Minor.
12.55
A Schubert Song.
45
1.0 Local Time Slgni and Wes- ther Report.
1.03 Lucienne Bover (Vocal) and the Orchestra Mascolle.
1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wea- ther Forecast and Announcements,
1.45 Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and the Savoy Hotel Orphany.
2.15
5.45
Close down.
Studio-Children's Hour. 0.45 Closing focal Stock tions.
Quola-
6.47 Compositions of Bichard Straps
7.20 Violin,Solo by Emil Tel- manvi
7.30 London Belay-The News. 7.50 Studio-Short Lalk on the forthcoming Hongkong Dog Show.
9.0 Local Time Slgoal; Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Studio-Two Plans Reclial
by Herbert & Hernhard Ruff (from
the Gloucester Hotel),
8.23
8.35
Al Bollington at the Organ.
Songs by Tino Rossi (Tenor).
8.15 Studio-Talk on "Erzic.”
9.05 Sea Shantles
9.15 London Relay-News Sam- mary.
9.30. "Old and New"-A Potpourri
Melodies of Popular
arranged by Herman Finck.
Herman Finck and His Orchestra.
9.45 Favourite Ballads.
Wrecked Twice Saved By Breeches Buoy
WAR OFFICE SOLVES ADMIRALTY POSERS
From CUY RAMSEY
THE Intelligence Department of the War Office has an In- telligence Department of its own.
In the busement of the great building opposite the Horse Guards in Whitehall five men are kept busy all day, digging in- formation out of 150,000 books, pamphlets, tables compiled for
10.04 Eric Coates-Springtime 50 countries in as many languages.
Sulle,
Light Symphony Orchestra con-
ducted by The Composer.
10.17 Mendelssohn-Quartet in Hitler Plans
Major, Op. 44, No. 1.
Stradivarius String Quartet.
10.42 Leopold, Stokowski and the Philharmonie Symphony Orchestra. "Carmen"-Prelude to Act (Bizel)-Entr'acte, Act 4;
and'
"Samson
Delilah"Bacchapale (Saint- Soens); "Damnation of Faust"
(Berlioz,, Rakoczy March
Op. 24); Hungarian Dance No. 1.
11.0. Close down.
5,000,000 Army
By The Spring
The department is actually the War Oflice library, but not only the War Oflice consults it.. The Air Ministry sends across [often, and even the Admiralty
demands information.
Armada Report There are reports about the Ar-
The library increares at the rate Int 200 books a month. The oldest | volume is one by Peter Whitehorne, printed in 1753. "For Soldtours in Conduct of and the the Battleray AMSTERDAM. GERMANY expects. to have atinyles.". 6,000,000 trained and partially- TRIBUTE TO TWEEDSMUIR trained men under arms by the
Ottawa, Feb. 14. spring, it is learned from a re-mada attempt to invade Britain and Long lines of women and children liable neutral authority in Ber- the preparations in Britain to meet stretched across the snowcovered in to-day.
sum of twelvepence way slopes of Parliament Hill to-day wall- ed patiently despite the cold to fle This force represents an army of allocated to "Soldlours to have them sume 240 divisions under the pre-the more willinge, to make the more past Lord. Tweedsmuir's coffin.
Lit.
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called-as
General
one,
The crowd was so great that the sent system of organisation and is hoste."
One ship of the British Fleet was Senate Chamber, where the body has to be backed, it is understood, by a been lying in State since its arrival further 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 men named the Narque Buggans! Another differently from Montreal, was left open called up as soon as training camps, was
this day-Dread- throughout the evening and by mid- instructors and weapons are avail-spelled, is to
ughtc. night 14,000 people hind led pastable.
Wolfe's hand-written .itcuter.
Neutral observers in Berlin belleve; it will not be possible to equip the orders, referring to the various re- cach by the name of its cecond batch of men, who will begiments for the most part getting on for mid-colonel, are still to be seen.
Most of the military records have die nge.
been sent to the Record Onlee In Doubling His Army
Chancery Lane, and no military order may be seen until it is at least 60 years old.
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They have reason to belleve, how
and ever, that most of the light medium weapons and tanks for the to wlll be 240 divisions referred available as soon as the troops have been trained.
"Not Too Easy"
-Inquiry Disclsures
WHEN the inquiry into the loss of the submarine Thetis in Liverpool Bay last June was resumed in London it was disclosed that 50 of the 99 dead wore the Davis escape apparatus when the bodies were recovered.
Photograph taken inside the submarine after she had [been raised were examined by the Tribunal, of which Mr.
Justice Bucknil is president.
Sir Donald Somervell, K.C., the Attorney-General (for the Admiralty), said the condition of the escape, chamber when the vessel was found was that one of the doors he thought the after door-was open, and one of the main valves into the escape cham- ber was also open.
,
"The effect of that was that, as the vessel was foundering, water could enter from the sea," he added.
shut.
was
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 15, 1890. Laily des Voeux will be at home on Monday afternoon, the 17th inst., from f to o'clock.
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 15, 1015. It appears that Count Bernstorff, in the course of his interview with Bir. Bryan. Intimated that Germany would parily reneind her "war zone doereo” helmina's carto of foodstuffs being
Mr. Bryan insisted upon the Wit- delivered at Hamburg. Falling this, he threatened "further frightfulness" and the direction of such "frightfulness" is indiented by a Copenhagen despatch to the effect that Germany contemplates af floating gigantie broadcasting
nines.
The Amerlenh Ambassador at Berlin, interviewed by the National Zeltung" dwelt upon the sanity of a German❤ American war, which, bo nald, would be. fatal to Germany economically, in view of the German millions Investad in. American undertakings. But the Am- Chief Petty-Officer Rowkins said that both doors of the es-
basandor added, the language of the cupe chamber were open, as the bodies were taken out that way. German pross increased the difficulty of solving a difficult problem and the Vessel
found
was there
possibility of serious conflict would in- Mr. Justice Bucknill: Has
any the
the sea Into the sub-tantly arise if an American ship wore leak been detected in the plates of access from this compartment-otherwise it must marine and into any compartments nunk.
In contemplating the wonderful have got in through the escape cham- which had not got their bulkheads ber?
loyalty which has been shown by the Why Stern Sank
Overaca Deminions in the present great Sir Donald Sumervell: I think It
erlain, the part which Australia has is clear from the evidence that when
Mr. Justice Bucknill: That might layed stands forth with much promin- explain why her stern sunk so sud-oner. She has, to the deep atlafaction annaclated with of her people, been denly.
magnificent work at sea, but above all Sir Donald: It might.
eine the manner in which she ban come Rowkins, questioned by Mr. Regi- forward with soldiers to swell our Ex- nald Paget (one of the counsel for peditionary Force on the Continent fille all Britishers with intense admiration. the relatives of William Henry she has already provided a contingent Smith,, an apprentice who lost his of 20,000 men han now offered another life), kuid that out of the 99 bodies batch of 10,000 and will train an addi- recovered, 50 were wearing the tianal 4,000 mon every month a re- Davis escape apparatus.
inforcements.
Pacugers and crew of the torpedoed Dutch freighter Tajandeon were rescued for the second time in a few hours when they were brought ashore by breeches buoy from the Belgian ship -Lanie Shled, which went aground on the South Coast yesterday. They had been plcked up by the Louls Shied after their ship had sunk during the previous night; These pictures show (top) the Belgian ship aground with the rescue apparatus zigged, and Inbove) a Dutch officer helned on to the cliff too
Speeding Up Letters To War Prisoners
COMPLAINTS have been made that British airmen who are prisoners of war in Germany have been receiving letters written to them from home.
Responsible departments have been approached, and the delivery of letters is to be speeded up.
Sergeant George Springett, R.A.F., a prisoner, stated he had received only one letter in 59 days.
Had Written Each Weck bog, borrow or steal method. That Mr. Wilfred Yorke Baldry, the!
Yet his friend, Miss Audrey Con- method is about played out now." librarian, has been in the library for stable, of Suwiry, Hunts, had written Sergeant Spring then referred to once every week since Sergeant lack of letters and parcels from About 50 divisions, however, will 35 years. He said to me:
"We have to know roughly ile Springeti was captured.
home. "It wasn't for the officers be needed to watch Germany's fron
book. As there tiers and keep order in the provinces contents of every
She asked why her letters have we should be sunk completely," he says, with reference to lack of gifts which she has conquered. Poland are just on 10,000 books on the last
from England. alone will take about 10 divisions war alone, it is not too easy a job." been delayed,
Investigations were made and an Although the work has increased
The French receive parcels and for is purpose.
since the war it in official of the Red Cross War-Time When the 210 divisions are com-in hundredfold
Organisation for Prisoners told the letters from home every day. We army will have to increase the sta.
get two exciting moments each day plete the German
possible is any use untill he has News Chronicle that Misa Constable's when the mall comes in, but as there Hitler been almost doubled, for entered the war about 2.900,000 men, been here for a couple of years." I complaint was justified.
This resulted in representations to never anything for me 1 just go
on hoping for the next mail." Neutral observers have little doubt was told,
ensure speeding-up. that he intends to attempt n huge!
Sergeant Springelt and his col- offensive on land in the spring,
leagues will be glad of that.
war. Germany 13,000,000
During the Imat mobilised in all more than
men.
Asama Maru Coming
Here are extracts from Sergeant Springett's letter to Miss Constable: "I received your letter dated the 12th, on November 25, and that is'
Vatican's Secret Book
10 YEARS AGO
Fab. 10, 1930. The opening of the investigation of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S.
Mr. Pagel: What I was going to suggest happened was that as soon as it became clear that there would not be time to evacuate the men in rotallon owing to their becoming ex- House of Representatives Into the ques
marked by haunted, it might have been decided on of Prohibition, was
warm applause when the chairman, a use all the engine room as a large escupe
that by well-known "Wet", declared that Pro- flooding the whole compartment the hibition had been tested for ten yours
with no antisfactory results. men in that compartment would bel
10
able to le out?
chamber 50
The prophets have all been confound- Rowkins replied that if they were ed by the appointment of Sir William Governar, of Hongkong in going to do that and the valves hnd Peel n
been opened for them to do it, all succession to Hir Cecil Clement,
The actual appaintment, however, the men would have been wearing
the goes to an officer who has had a long The escrpe appartus. When
In Malaya, hatch-of-the-after-cape chamber and distinguished career
was opened in his presence in dry where he has spent the whole-of-hin colonial service extending over a period dock ut Holyhead it opened proper at 32 years. At the moment, Bir Wil-
ly.
Panic Theory
Mr. Justice Bucknil asked Now- kins if he could throw any light on why the after escape hatch was not used after Mr. Shaw and Leading Stoker Arnold had escaped.
Ban Peel in Home on leave, and It, IN therefore not possible to say whan he will como to Ilongkong, but we can be- peak for him in advance a very cordial welcome when he lands to assume the Governorship.
5 YEARS AGO
Feb. 15, 1935. Baron von Neurath this afternoon Rowkins replied that sometimes during the flooding of the escape banded the British and French A- could not basadors the Germon answer to the' chamber a man felt he stand the pressure. "A man panics, Franco-British proposals for & Europe
na friendly oficially described and somebody then may have opened air accord. The German note was semi- the door on the forward side to allow favourable towards the principle of bun to get out,” he added. "The general discussion along the linos sug man on the after side would only gested. know that the man Was
panicking."
and
The note stated that Germany wha
After Rowkins had advanced in willing to negotiate; indeed, was will- technical language a second theory tag to place her air force at the pro- the judge, said: "You mean they did pased Fact's disposal. This offer, it is not turn same handle sufciently to explained in reliable sources, was made tb since the London Agreement assumed enable men inside to open the hatch the existence of such a fores. The note and I believe that theory is borne expressed the German Government's out by the position of that turning willingness for negotiation of an arms handle as subsequently found-so convention, at least in principle, and en had gone into the chamber, welcomed the offer to abolish Part V that tried to open the hatch, found they of the Vorsallies Trenty, which would could not open it, and then opened remove the stigma of inferiority so the forward door, thereby letting keenly felt in Germany. the water pour into the submarine? Is that right?"
Rawkins: Yes.
selt
AS
escape an
Interviewed in the prison cell, Bruno Jauptmann, sentenced to dis by cloc trocution for the murder of the Linda bergh baby in less than a month's time, declared to-day that he was ready "to da like a man."
Engine Room Escapo Bid? The Judge Finding they could not open the hatch of the chamber they
S.M.R. OPENS HERE decided to use the engine room. it- chamber, and
A cocktail party was held at the Hotel yesterding by tho escape through the hatch, through which the bodles were subsequently Hongkong brought; and to try to do that they South Manchuria Railway Company, tried to food the engine room by Limitet, to mark the opening of the opening this door and the sea valve.Company's offices in Hongkong, at It is suggested to me that the ex-1A, Chater Road. About 300 guests haust in the engine room was also were presented. They were received found open.
by Mr. Akira Watanabe.
knowledge 3A 10 the functions of
these levers."
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also
Commander R. M. Edwards, R.N., Submarine Assistant to the Director of Naval Equipment, said that in his opinton the bow cap on No. 5 tube
Enamelled Test Cock was not open when the vessel left
Commander Edwards Liverpool, ROME,Valiean relations with Asked how ho, thought it came to questioned about his earlier evidence tuff I have received since I have been the outside world from December 1,
be open later, Commander Edwards that the aperture of the test cock is replied:
"No. 5 tube door had been found to War Prisonor Camps
1938, to December 15, 1930, are re- The N.Y.K. liner Asama Mnru from in Germany,
"In my view, in the ten minutes be enamelled over with bitumartic "Beg, Borrow Or Staal"
corded in a Yellow 'Book, which han Allegations that ardent Nazis in which the 21 Germans now interned
the Thetis am allowed to write three been issued secretly by the Vatican prior to the accident, after power enamel.
had been put off, someone inadver He agreed that war prisoner camps in Britain are in Hongkong were removed after she forming groups under a Gauleiter,
tently moved the bow-cop operating passed the Aboratty everséets be- and aro bullying less enthusiastic was stopped by a British cruiser off letters and three postcards a month, this week.
Mr. Q. H H Streatfield (for the fellow-Germans, are being officially he coast of Japan, is coming to but I can receive as many as I ke Even diplomatic missions accrever towards the open position and fore she went out for her test.
Hongkong.
Thank Mias Berridge for me for diied to the Vatican have not re- Investigated.
The liner's commander at the time the parcel she is sending me, and eclved the Yellow Book, which is perhaps realising that he had moved
Ad- This is part of the War Omlee of the incident, Captain Watanabe, ask her to put in plenty of cigarettes said to be a lengthy document in it, but not reallaing what he had Walles Dove Bitunoaste Company,
to a similar position of the inspect it on behalf of the Inquiry into war prisoner campahan been replaced by Capt. T. Fujila.and chocolate, because when I was which various phases of relations done by moving it, he moved it back(ltd): Had not anybody cause to
1 bod no money, and as between the Reich and the Holy Scengaln
other levers on the panel. It might miralty should have been In- generally, an inquiry that was set up She has, been held over in Japan for taken
bu some man who had no technical spected subsequent to being painted, because of successive escapes by 15 days. She will all the same day haven't heard from home yet I have are vividly portrayed by means of
had to get all my cigarettes, by the jofficial documents. Germans-from the camps.
us she arrives for Manila.
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