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STALIN :-"Never mind, my sons. You have died to bring the blessings of Peace to the obstinate Finns.”
Hongkong Telegraph. One
Thursday, April 4, 1940.
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THE prex "Apecial to the Telegraph is used by the "liangkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1936, Burb news, kn bears the Indiestión "Up" is recolved in Bungkang on the date of publication by the United Press Aupelations, who re- serve all rights and forbla republication. olther wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
Patriotically Slim
A CARTOONIST in a Canadian paper shows a lady of ample or super-putsize proportions before the mirror, anxiously asking her maid, "Do you think I'll ever come in style again?" Tactfully the maid does not answer; for, indeed, now that war has come, with its rationing the outsize figure seems doomed to fall still more out of favour.
It will not be a penal offence to be stout, for many of the stout ones have placed it on record
has
(The Russian casualty lists were issued by M. Molotoff last week).
man
in
ten A Look Through
war
gone to
this island
from
"Sure by Tummel and Loch Rannoch
and Lochaber i will go,
wiles;
Bu heather tracks wi' heaven in their if it's thinkin' in your inner heart,
braggart's in my step, You've never smelt the tangle o' the
Isles."
S
Every time a British
fighting ship meets with disaster there are mourn- ers in Lewis.....
And there are only 770 square miles of Lewis, which lies in the Outer Hebrides.
No other part of the Empire has had a larger proportion of casualties in the fighting at sea___than___. this "Island of Sorrows."
TORNOWAY, Isle of Lewis... The steamer that carried me up through the turbulent waters of the Minch into this northerly port of the Hebrides was Scottish
with big-boned crowded that their Goering-like propor: the Royal Navy,
Gaelic-speaking-men from tions are a perpetual mystery to them in that they eat less than people only half their size. Experts may say there is a glandular explanation. In any
Lewis loomed through the moonlight JOHN HERRIES case, it has been recognised for the sitors began to crowd the fore-
a long time that the reasonably lean man or woman generally hay the best of it, at a longevity table or any other.
The leading British medical weekly comments that though Britons shall have to eat less of the rationed foods, that will be no dietetic tragedy. Meat has not yet come within the restric-
They were all homing to Lewis on leave.
slipped past the As the steamer
Bepats of promontory called The
of Hom and the stark contours
deck.
This
the
arrowhead of blunt
a big training Hebrides Ls like school for the Royal Navy.
No other part of the Empire has
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It is noteworthy that those animal sidelines which, almost contemptuously, are described as offals, receive much more praise from the dieticians than meat itself. Offals, moreover, are not to be rationed. As for sugar, most Engilsh people can keep their consumption of it down without the slightest detriment to health. Those who need more Wo employ experienced Specialists to under- will be able to get it in the con-
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The comparatively small allow- ance of butter is widely gretted. According to report, Germans are at the present moment getting slightly more butter than the Briton. But then Germans get no milk, except on a doctor's certificate. The abundance of the British milk supply is amplo compensa- tion for the restriction of butter.
"Lewis
This blunt arrow- head of the Hebrides in like a big training school for the Navy."
wus
The Telegraph,
50 YEARS AGO
April 4, 10090. The following reliable information re- garding the waist measurements of some of the leading London actresses wilf Interest our numerous fady readers: Ellen Torry. 2 inches; Mary Anderson. 20 inches; Mrs. Bernard Beale, 27 inches the sthya); Dorothy Dene 23 inchen: Ales Rorke, inclien; Kate Vaughan, 214 Inches the smallest).
London contains at the present time close upon one hundred thousand pau- pers, exclusive of vagrants and lunation.
The visit of the Royal party, to Canion was not marked by anything special. Tho usual ions were visited and receptions held. They returned yesterday morning but did not innd, embarking directly on the launch Victoria and steaming over to the Ancona, which had dressed ship for the occaalon. There they said good- bye to I. E. the Administrator and the few others who were in attendance and at 12.13 the Ancona left her buoy for the north. No salutes were fired it being. Good Friday but the yards of the war- slips were manned and the ensign dipped. 25 YEARS AGO
April 4-1915.-- His Majesty the King has directed that, from to-morrow, no wincs, spirita ur beer shall be consumed in any of illa Majesty's: houses.
Yesterday, a Taube was brought down. near Boissons, making, the tiled ona in 24 hours. The Allies' aircraft dropped 83 shells on Vigneulles Station,
Reuter's
*
on
lavana correspondent states Six weeks ago John Macdonald, that a white pugilist, named Jeno Wi- sent such a large proportion of its struck Lewis such
staggering driver of the Sheshader bus, was lard, beat Jack Johnson, for the heavy- weight championship of the world, in the that the whole world was working in a naval dockyard for 20th round, young men into fighting ships; cer- blow
from Lewis. Had been there since winly no other part of the Empire moved by it. has produced a finer type of navul
On the last night of 1918, the naval the outbreak of war. Suddenly, and rating.
vessel Iolaire was
Our sporivioving readers will hear with carrying more mysteriously he was ordered back.
Middlesex cricketer. AND no other part of the than 200. Lewis naval ratings back He puzzled about it all the way to Broddart, fret of the death of Mr. A. F.
Empire, it has to be added, to their villages and their nets.
Stornoway.
whom the term world-renowned is cer- Their relatives and friends walled "Lewis This blunt arrowhead of thinly not inapplicable. Next to "Dr. W. has suffered so severely from mines
for them on the pier at Stornoway, the Hebrides is like a big training G. he was probably the most popular of British cricketers-and he could lay claim. and torpedous.
to having made the biggest score Already many of the homes of its it was good to have the boys home school for the Navy."
The explanation was simple. The record. This was on August 4: 1806, when. Cend Mille Fallte! "A hundred people of Sheshader had signed a playing for Hampstead against the Stoles.
made 405 telegrams from the Admiralty which
thousand welcomes)"
petition bring down the blinds of sorrow.
to bring him back to his bus. Somebody on the bridge of the It had been standing idle all the time time one of our Oghting
10 YEARS AGO Every
the crowded foluire made disaster with
An error of he ships meets
away
The community were judgment. The
ship struck
April 4, 1930. are flashed to Lewis.
the completely isolated. Their key man messages
the Navy. Nobody else Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd, this Presiding at the annual meeting of the When the Rawalpindi was sunk rocky shoulder of The, Beasts of was with she carried twoive Lewis men. Eight Holm and silpped back into the deep could drive his bus.
morning, Mr. J. Scott Haratan sinted that of them were lost and the other four sea
long scrolls of these Lewin there was under consideration an aug Two hundred men were drowned, petitions follow the Navy to far ports during the coming summer and the estab
mented bus service to Repulse Bay beach are now prisoners of war in Germany.
When the Exmouth went down six Some of the victims of the mid- Macolm Maclennan, who pilots the inhment of a pavillon offering dressing Lewis men and one
from night tragedy were caat up almost Arnol bus, was called up and sent room and refreshment facilities at rates Harris lost their lives.
at their own doors. It was us if the to Capetown, South Africa, when within the scope of those of moderate One of the Lewis men was John sea had struck at these brave Island war broke out. It was no use. A His sister had era in their hour of Jubilation to petition found him. Back to Lewis Morrison of Melbost.
he came.
The flower sellers who were recently married Malcolm Graham, who was humble them for ever. lost in the James Ladford.
Young LEWIS men have been to yesterday with
I saw him leaving Stornoway moved to On Lan Street from the foot they had af Wyndham Birect, where load of croftern. pied their business for 50 yents, are sgain" from carllest childhood to He had shed his wilform, but he is to mint their pitch. handling boats in dangerous waters.
A man of importance again, and was this hereditary background
Business at On Lan Street has been Arnol is no longer cut off from the very bad. and, we learn that a new site canbled young Malcolm
has been decided on, as a further experi- outside. Morrison, hero of the Arlington
ment this being at the junction
of
mon
brother within a month, Mrs. Graham lost husband and
sea goes on.
from Vist.
The
these bus
means.
•
So it goes a lengthening list of It Lowia lessen as the struggle on the which
When the Lochavon was torpedoed, Court, to bring his boatload of STORNOWAY depends to a D'Agullar and Welington Birest. she carried a deck crow of sixteen, exhausted shipmates back to lawis
great extent for locall Ten of them were men of Lewis and after steering by the wind through gossip and war news on three of the remaining six were six wintry days and nights.
drivers.
The changing silhouette has cast lis Gaelic-speaking lads
Malcolm Morrison deserved the When the Admiralty send a tele-Pro150! Every one or the new gowns haw maglo shadow on intimato apparel. Barra and Lochcarron.
congratulations the Admiralty gave gram to Fortnuguran or any other has its counterpart in lingerie. There aro The Courageous and the Royal him, for his exploit epitomised the fishing village on the coast of Lewis, princess slips and fitted panties. Empire Ouk and the gallant little ships that toughness and courage of the breed the news it brings is carried back and silpe with flounces in dainty face,
combination and circular sela, step-ins- were mauled by the cornered Grat to which he belongs.
to Stornoway by the bus driver, Spec huve all, added to the proud I said that some of the men who
Moreover, the dressmaker touch gives Six thousand men of Lewis served its delicacy to much of the new lingerie, grief of Lewis.'
left Lewin to join the Novy at the in the Great War. But only about Tucks, fine handwork, lace and embroid
ery all decorate il Low-watated No wonder the folk of this comreak of this war have been sent 4.400 are serving in this one. are out, princess lines and wrap-around
-barren inland follow the
And this is why.
are in. Siips do not bell the waist-Line To man constal defence progress of Germany's murderous
guns? At the end of the Great War 3,000 Dut si it so that the sown that goes over. No-to man the feet of small mator- young Lewis men emigrated because very chic woman now has a lingerie set them has the advantage of sveltnes. The sea warfare with troubled eyes.
Eighteen, hundred of their stat- buses which cruise the narrow and there were no prospects for them at for each ensemble and dress. wart young fishermen and crofters tortuous roads of the island. went into the Navy when war broke There are scores of these mallor- They were allowed to go to for
5 YEARS AGO out such a paralysing exodus that driven vehicles plying the rocky places and the country lost the some of them had to be brought back, back-rands of Lewis. They are of vigour of their blood and the leady
April 4, 1935. Mr. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Author of In every part of the seven seas, vital importance to the life of the warmth of their patriotism. wherever the ships keep watch, island. They link Its scattered fish-
the famous Tarzan stories, married Mrs. Florence Dearholt who was the wife of
Ab hotelt, wealthy industrielst Mrs. Denrhalt divorerd husband must we recently. Mr. Burroughs was divorced by
liomc.
Never
these men of Lewin will be found, Ing hamlets with Stornoway carrying, I must never happen again.
One armed merchant cruiser has passengers, goods and news. They forly Lewis men aboard.
ngan
*p*
ure as vital to Lewis as the Dover break faith with this Island of Sor-his wife some time aga on grounds of At the end of the lost war the sea Patrol is to England.
rown.
extreme, cruelty.