DONALD DOCK
NOTHIN' LIKE
HAVING THE GOOD
OLD MORNING SUN
STREAMING IN
ON YA!
STRANGE, DRAMATIC
STORY OF THE
First
Officer
DOGGONE SHUTTERS WOULD
STICK!
Killed On The
Western Front
By O. D. GALLAGHER
Sunday Express Correspondent with the B.E.F. LIEUTENANT P. A. C. EVERITT, Royal Nor- folk Regiment, first British officer killed on the Western Front, only son of Lady Everitt, of Shering- ham, Norfolk, and the late Sir Clement Everitt, died in making a courageous charge down a hill in front of the enemy lines to attack two enemy machine-gun posts.
Heavy bullets cracked around him as he leaned over the snow down the hill in the carly part of Inst month. He had covered thirty yards when he was caught by the enemy's cross fire, which was aimed low. He fell forward, the lower part of his body badly wounded and his legs shattered.
Behind him were a patrol and the crest towards the enemy. He was
fine man."
a man who must be unnamed.
They dropped face down in the
And now I will add my end to the snow, and wriggled into shallow de-ly, Before Lieutenant Everitt led
pressions to hide from the enemy who
raked the aren with
machine-guns,
ut his last reconnaitring patrol he their met the unnamed man in their front
line billet.
They heard. Lieutenant Everitt try to call to them. The sergeant be- lleved he said. "I'm shot..." Thy unnamed man lifted his head to see) where the offer lay as the bullets thumped into the ground around him.
HE SHOUTED: "EVERITT! EVERITT! CAN YOU MOVE" SILENCE. THEN MORE BUL- LETS. "EVERITT! COME BACK, I BAY!"
The lleutenant did not answer. The unnamed man and the patrul lay under incessant fire for [about] Afteen minutes.
The longer they waited, the greater became the danger.
Asked Advice
But none of the patrol-the un- the named man, the N.C.Os, and privates--wanted to leave the officer. The soldiers called to the unnamed man, whose hiding place was more advinced than theirs and therefore nearer to the lieutenant. They asked him if he could see anything.
He lifted his head again and drew more fire. But he kept his head up and surveyed the place. Bullets pass ed so close to his head that they sounded like the crack of a whip.
The patrol asked his advice.
THE IF HE SURVIVED THIRTY YARDS RUN THROUGH CONCENTRATED MACHINE GUN FIRE,
AND
REACHED THE LIEUTENANT, HE COULD DO NO MORE THAN DIE BESIDE HIM.
"What about coming along with x?" asked the officer,
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 25, 1940.
By Walt Disney
BOMBS ON A SAND CITY
THIS remarkable photograph was taken from a Japanese plane shortly
"All right, if you wish," the un-after it had bombed a caravan hall- ing centre in the famous Ordus amed man replied.
Désert in Mongella.
Columins of Hand rise high into
He was not ordered out. He was not asked to volunteer. He went out with Lieutenant Everki because the sky ns the bombs explode.- "He was one of iny friends."
Man's
Domei.
Every-Day
"Violence' Blamed
For Upset
World
NEW YORK-An apple-checked, white-haired old man of!
86 who used to go about snatching "vile cigars" from the mouths
of astonished people sat back in his arm chair to-day and re- marked that the "brutalisation now rampant throughout the world stems directly from man's violence upon himself and upon the harmless, little animals.'
'The
Woman,
He was Dr. Charles Cain Pease,;
he said, turned anti-vivisectionist and founder of "uglist with sorrow." the Non-Smoker's Protective League,
who was celebrating his 85th birth-
That recollection let him to com
day in the quiet of his mid-townment on the frightful state of the penthouse.
world to-day.”
shull have
"That violence," he sak, "is at So long as the human mind gives The unnamed man was of average the root of the world's evils. That assent to violence, we build and strength: Lieutenant Eves the truth from which there is no violence in all its farms, rill weighed about fourteen stone.
cagaping." The unnamed man made the most difficult decision of his life.
He ordered the soldiers to stay in their positions, while he made n cir cuitous crawl back to them. led the
He took command and party back to the British position in the Maginat Line.
You may remember the German end of this story. They broadcast that they had captured a British off- (Lieutenant Everilt), who gravely woundel.
cer
was
"The world to-day is deplorable. in his own words, he is just as
respect for people's active to-day in the fight against There is no meat, tobacco, whisky, wines, coffee, rights; no respect for human lives. tea, cocon, condiments and capital it is lamentable; it is past under- punishment as he was 50 years ago landing-except on the basis when he banded together a few degeneracy." hundred similarly-minded people in-
to his national society.
No Surrender to Age
ul
Of the twD warg in Europe, Je said with some spirit:
"The aggression over there is no betler fun the pression of He is disappointed with the out-common highwayman,” rome of his crusade but not yet de-
He says
he will o
Offore Bible as Proof
The best efforts of a number of feated.
on
German specialists, they said, falled nightly against the eating of moat He quoted the Bible ot
great to show
to save his life.
and "other evils" until he is "sum-
from memory fength and The British end of the story was moned to John the many dear ones that animals, birds and fowl respond told to me by the unnamed man who await me."
to love. He is thirty-one, has been married
Despite his years he is the en-
"Now if love were manifested to and vitality, a seven years, and in the father of s bodiment of health six-months-old girl.
condition he attributes to his over every living thing, there would be
Но
that
M.
About 50 years ago, he recalled,
Ho sild: "Lieutenant Everitt wassion to meat and stimulants. He is in the world no savage or men." so brave, it was crazy. As we retired and lives with an old servant proached the crest in front of the enemy lines I suggested we should chauffeur-cook in 'n penthouse a woman discussed with him the looks down on the late Charles brotherhood of an-" "subjdet In eau, which I am greatly interested, since crawl, so as not to be a target.
Schwab's Riverside Drive chateau. I have no prejudices of race, nation His methods, however, are less
She observed that "the "He had come out to make cer-zealous than they were 50 years ago or coleur." tain observations and he wanted to when smoking still was a furtive time would come when the llon will see as clearly as possible. The fring practice on the part of women and lie down with the man.'” began, and He immediately ran down burs were firmly closed against them.
Wanted To See
PARADE POSTPONED
To this devouring thought, Now, when he meets a particularly answered 'never until mankind sets ferocious smoker, he accosta lima better example to the lion." "
To the contention of some of his gently and attempts to dissuade him
that Ilquor, ment and from the habit. Frequently, he says, listeners
nicotine are "stimulating," be re-
he succeeds.
Rain Prevents St. John
Hin chief delestation to-day-plies: Ambulance Rehearsal
apart from his abhorrence of wor "Of course they are. But that call simulating is the Arranged for yesterday morning, as what he terms the "slaughter of which you reticaraal parade by the St. John kindly animals." Once at a dinner, algn of the harm you are doing your- Ambulance Brigade in preparation he recalled, when a woman asked self. It is only the vital force rush-1 for the forthcoming annual inspee-if he did not eat chicken, lie replied:ing up to discharge the poison of the tion; had to be postponed on account! of the weather.
This was the second potsponement,! a practice parade on March 17 having to be cancelled, also because of the weather, It is understood the on nudi inspection will be held in the first week In April.
Pictures Chickens' Plight
so-called stimulants."
A few months ago, a woman told him there could be no real strength, "Those dear chickens. How they for mon or woman without the cat-
scream and struggle in their pitifuling of meat. He replied to her, he attempts to escape the hands of said, and with "a touch of sarcasm I their assassins. If it were right to couldn't resist": kill them, that horrible expression of terror would not be there.”
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DEFECTS IN NEW GERMAN WARSHIPS
ACCORDING to reliable re- ports from Germany, the number of workers now employed at German naval dockyards is greater than during 1914-18. Figures given are 34,000 at Wilhelmshaven and 40,000 nt
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It is said that trouble has been caused through' too light a specf- fleation being accepted for the construction of the halls of do- stroyers.
Perishable Alloys
The only two genuine battleships
Kiel, says a naval correspondent so far completed, the Gneisenau and of "The Daily Telegraph." Scharnhorst, are alleged to possess
Within a year or two of Hitler's exceptionally satisfactory anti-air- jadvent to power he numbers at each craft batteries.
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of these buses rose from an average Very elaborate arrangements for of little over 1,000 to about 12,000 connecting the Bun ntations and
working in three shifts of 4,000 cach
other points with the control post- This total has since been approxi- tions exist in these two ships. In mately tripled, though some of the
me nare still engaged en work which the event of a gun being knocked out In only indirectly connected with automatic advice of the fact is in- armaments.
stantly conveyed.
Though nominally a 48-hour week is worked, the usual working week in practice is one of 00 hours. With three the object of attaining this shifts are worked wherever possible."
Owing to the shortage of cer taln raw materials, resulting in the use of substitútes, alloys of lighter material bave replaced brass for all purposes in warships.
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