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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
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MARCH 27,
1940.
By Walt Disney
WELL, DID THE
POOR LITTLE FELLA
FALL OUT OF
HIS NEST?
CHEEP- CHEEP
THERE YOU ARE--SAFE
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CHEEP!
CHEEP... CHEEP...
CHEEP!
News ANZACS MOVE INTO TENT 1915,
from
the
Empire
1940,
ہو
BULLETS:
CITIES IN THE DESERT
These
names stir Eden Flew to Welcome
memories
Gabo Tepe
Bauchop's Hill
Table The Farm
Top
Chunuk
Beir
Fishermans
livi
Lone
Tine
Balleship Hill
Scrubby
Knoll
Pine
Ridge
Wine Glass Ridge
Gun Ridge
Anderson's Knoll
AUSTRALJAN and New Zealand troops won the admiration of the world including that of their hard-lighting enemy, the Turk-by their exploits in the Gallipoli campaign.
NAMES of the places shown in the map above-of the Anzacs' sector on tho Peninsula-will
bring back to many men of the 1940 contingent memories of their exploits twenty-five years ago.
ZEST in baffle was the mark of the men who fought their way from Anzar Cove; over Mac- lagan's Ridge; from Ocean Beach up to Table Top.
AFTER the withdrawal from the
Peninsula they won honours.In. Palestine and the Western Front.
CROWNING achievement, how- ever, was their holding, for three months, of their 1-mile line above Anzac Cove-in the words of the official war his- Lorian-They made this ap- parently hopeless position lin- pregible, a story that will Ilve for ever,"
"The Boys" to Egypt
SUEZ,
THE first of the Anzacs are here in Suez and, sixty miles up the canal, at Ishrailin
In the biggest troop convoy ever to put to sea they voyaged 10,000 miles from New Zealand and Australia, and they landed, singing and shouting their war cries, in Egypt,
Mr. Anthony Eden, Duminions Secretary, after a secret flight from England, took a launch out to the troopships lying anchored off Suez, carrying in his pocket a message from the King."
It read:-
of
an enemy-held beach to create a diversion,
war-
"I knew well that the splendid tradition established by the emer
He won his V.C. on the Somme. forces New Zealand will
The Australian commander be
veteran of the worthily upheld by you, who have other left
for the Lieut.-Ceneral Sir Thomas Dlamey. your homes to fight
Ue (cause that
whole Empire hasi
General Blamey was seven lines innde its own.
mentioned in despatches during his "Now that you have entered the service in France in 1918. Ir. 1910 field of active service, i send you a he was chief of staff of the Austra
Force. He is now warm welcome, together with an Imperial best wi
wishes for your welfare." fifty-six. Many of his senior officers Men swarmed in the rigging of are old comrades-in-arms.
In the ranks, too, you come on the ship and clustered round the
Men like lifeboats aboard the "Bugship" of scores of original Anzacs. the convoy-once
very. my
a luxury liner-to Paddy Bourke, or Jack Orr, two of
I hear Mr. Eden and senior offteers of the oldest men in the contingent.
the Empire's Middle Eastern Army
welené them ashore.
"In crossing the seas you boys
Bantams
They are both fifty-five, both five-
foot "bantams." Both landed here have sent the bravest and most to fight in the last war. Both were couraging message it is in a nation's power to send.. Britain thanks you," Mr. Eden told them.
Then lank New Zealander huuled him down from the hatch on which he was speaking with the words, "Come down here,, pal, we want to get a picture of you." Mixers
wounded, and now they have come back to fight as they did before-is sergeants this time.
Nurses came, too. Trim, serious, grey-coated girls in their twenties and thirties. They had little to do.
A squadron of British warships brought the troopships across three oceans, oul of summer into winter, without a single serious incident.
For five weeks they stole, blacked- out by night, toward the Red Sea without the Nazis getting an iden of their position.
Even rumour-ridden Egypt was taken by surprise as troop-train after troop-train passed by on the way to the desert camps.
Canal Drive
For an hour Mr. Elco, General Wavell, and Britain's Ambassador to Egypt, Sir Miles Lumpson, noved among the crowd signing autographs and handing round cigarettes.
It is exactly twenty-live years
these
sokliers or since Egypt sow- baltie
fathers, for
most of rather, their 011
these men are sons of the original
Advance parties have prepared Anzacs-nuggety, close-knit figures, vast tent cities. As the troops move They, seem a bit quieter in manner in they find that the sund has than their fathers, but they are just sprouted water taps, Macadam roads, as tough.
petrol dumps and rudio ulations have Ocers and men wear hats like a
been bullt. Boy Scout's, and carry a 50lb. kit tant
take
them through any weather-the desert heat or the Leaving the New Zealanders after storms up north.
lunch, Mr. Eden motored up the #ll stake whatever military recanal boeit to Ismallin to board the putation 1 have on these lads." Australian troopships. Major-General Freyberg, the New "Hullo, Tony." the inen roared as Zealanders
commander-in-be clambered aboard. chief, taid ane.
There was another huge cheer That reputation is formidable. when the men, heard that their Freyberg, six-foot champion myim-arrival had been announced in Aus mer, got a D.S.O. at Gullipoli by tralia, Their wives and families swimming ashore naked, his body didn't know where they had been painted black, to light flares on sent. They had had
their husbands,
fathers and sweet- hearts for a month,
Till last night the men them- selves had no idea where they were bound for," Brigadier Allen sald. They started sweepstakes about it -some even bought Canada And Finland in the 'sweep!
CLINICAL MEETING
A clinical meeting of the Hongkong British and China branch of the Medical Association will be held at
the 9 p.m. to-day at
Queen Mary Hospital,
Australia
STOPS MID-AIR
GIRL IN
V.C.
PANIC
no news
of
"But now we know what we're in for, and we expect a fight."
BLAZE Brigadier W. Darby
MELBOURNE.
FLYING six thousand feet above South Australia to-day cloven passengers in the air-liner Bungana felt a shock to the machine and, looking through their observation windows, saw Dames burst from one of the engines,
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Then, along the central gangway moved calmly among us, helping walked the plane's young air hostess, to fasten our safety belts." calmly telling them to keep in their
sents, but to buckle their safety belts.
New O. C. Salvation
Army In H.K.
General Carpenter of The Salva- tion Army, has decided to appoint Brigadier Wm. Darby as Oficer Commanding The Salvation Ariny In us South China and Hongkong. The Brigadier takes over this Command from Colonel V. E. Rolte,
who went Exports Take Lead
home on leave last year.
car and who AUSTRALIA'S Overseas trade will be taking up another appoint- made tremendous strides during the The plane, on
ment most probably in England. tho Melbourne-seven months ended January 31. Adelaide run; had been struck in the
Brigadier and Mrs. Darby are not Exports increased by £3,800,000 starboard propeller by a giant wedge-
with the same period of having spent
In compared
Dny
new to China, both tailed.engle. N
1930-39, and an unfavourable balance country, the major portion of the spent nearly 21 years in this Captain Croucher, her pilot, of £330,000 was converted to a skilfully alde-slipping the machine favourable balance of £3,300,000 time being served in North China. to keep, the Games away from the an aggregate Improvement of nearly The Brigadier came South four and fuselage, brought the plane down £4,000,000.
to within a hundred feet of the ground before the blazing engine fell ofl.
Way to Victory
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The newspaper has ́al- ways refused such adver- tisements, but it now ex- plains that "the population policy of National-Socialism has always promoted efforts leading to marriages,”
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Woman at Eastleigh, Hants, Police Court: "This is the sort of man my husband is. When some one knocks at our door I have to ask him: 'Will you hide or put on your collar and tie'"?
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NORA BROUCHER, twenty- five-year-old wife and mother, stood crying in Stockport (Che. |shire) Police Court. She was accused of trying to murder her baby, aged three months.
Her husband, William Henry Broucher, walked to the front of the court and sald, "Please may I speak? It's all my fault."
He said he had quarrelled with his wife about the baby, "I have -treated tier," he went on, "and I bm going to make a fresh start.
"Thin
case has taught me a lesson. I want us to start the New Year together.
Told His Wife
"Please give us a chance." He said he had always' told his wife that, the baby was not his. He quarrelled with her before leaving for work one morning. Then he felt "something was going to happen,'
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he asked to be let olf work early. The prosecution said that when Mr. Broucher got home he found his wife, distracted, nursing her baby ond muttering "I didn't mean it." She told her mother-in-law that she tried to strangle the baby.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Pastor Refuses To Bless Hitler
CAPETOWN. NAZI sympathisers in the Orange Free State have found "Niemoeller"-Pastor WII- helm Luckhoff, of the Lutheran Church in Bloemfontein,
Luckhoff, censured because he re- fused to pray for God's blessing on Hiller, resigned.
"I have been fighting the Nazi spirit in Bloemfontein ever since I realised that Nazism and Christianity are in direct condict," he said.
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"To have asked' God's blessing for Hitler would have been mockery.
After the Church. Council's vote of censure, threatening letters most of them, anonymous-poured into Pas- tor Luckhoff's home.
He was warned that his life would be in danger unless he quit the Free State.
Martin Niemceller, former U- boat commander, pastor of tho Lutheran Church at Dahlem, Ber- iin, was hounded from his pulpit- and thrown into Jall by the Nazis because he drew attention to the clash of Nazism and Christianity. Nazi Judges could find him guilty of no crime, but he was returned to a concentration camp as "pall- tically unreliable."
Devotion
"I gather from the very best sources that Mr. Elliot (Minister of Health) has haggla once a week,
"From what I have seon of it I should think that eating haggis once a week really
the depth of national
evotion."-Professor From: derlek Langmead, at.a.London lun- cheon recently.
(Hagple originally
of
French, consists'
""minced heart, lungs, liver, suet, onions and oafmical bolled in
sheep's stomach. Served - with tohisky.]
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