THE OLD
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MAGAZINE
May 1, 1940..
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THE ADMIRALTY CHANGES THE C. in (.
The NEW
YOU wouldn't THEY couldn't
TAKE HIM
STOP HIM in
for an ADMIRAL the LAST
S
IR PERCY NOBLE is the senior representa- tive in China of all the British defence forces. When there is trouble, it falls on his shoulders.
There has been trouble, on and off, ever since he took command.
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If you had met him in Lon- don on his way from his house in Chester-square to his deak at the Admiralty-he was Fourth Sea Lord before he left for China-wearing a lounge suit and a bowler hat like any other Londoner on his way to work, you probably wouldn't have taken him for an admiral at all.
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He hasn't the bluff manner the large frame which most people associate with high naval rank.
If you had spoken to him you might have thought he was an Ambassador on leave, or a high officini al Buckingham Palace.
This, in fact, he might easily have become. It was known Urat he was a friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, and played squash with him.
It was expected that the Prince would give him an appointment b his household when he came to the throne.
But when Edward VIII. came to the throne, Percy Noble was engaged on work of the greatest national Importance →→ supervising the Navy's supplies t time of naval expansion.
He was created a K.C.B. In Edward VIII's only Birthday Honours.
When you speak to Perey Noble your first impression is one of sympathy and discre- tion. He might almost be the family doctor or the family "lawyer.
The Impression of power comes later-and very subtly.
One of the Jobs he had as A captain was to command the Naval Training Establishment at Shotley.
A guest asked him: "What do you to if you have trouble with uf talk to them."
of the boys?"
"And if you still have trouble?” "Well, if that happened, 1 sup-
I should have to
pose
stick."
usc
the
When the Admiralty sent him
to China they knew that they were giving him their roughest furrow to plough.
The
job needs a man who is a diplomatist as well as a leader; a man who can persuade us well as command. And IL needs
strategist-a man who can think nhead and make plans on a large scale,
One of Percy Noble's carlier jobs was Director of the Operations Section at the Admiralty, In this
INANITY FARE
COSTS
Said the Viscount Halifax
These armaments are a bally
fax,
But one can't reach parity By Faith, Hope and Charity.
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SIR PERCY NOBLE
#LED
capacity he had to prepare plans of operations in case of war for the entire British: Ficet.
The Hongkong coinmand called for
man with many varled qualifientions.
In Sir Percy Noble R got him.
VICE-ADMIRAL
GEOFFREY LAY-
TON, who becomes the new Commander-in-Chief in the Far East, probably doesn't remember ex- Leading Stoker Francis George Stubbington.
George lives in Shakespeare Rond, Portsmouth, these days.
He remembers Rear-Admiral Layton.
For ex-Stoker Stubbington
under served
the Rear- Admiral, (he was a Comman- der then) in the submarine E-13.
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The E-13 was nosing her way Into the Baltic on the night August 18, 1915, when bolli Lend- ing Stoker Stubbington and Com- inander Layton experienced the their inost memorable incident two live.
For E-13 went ground near the Danish Island of Sultholm, between Malmo and Copenhagen.
As they tried to free their cratt,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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By Lichty
"If anybody calls, tell 'em we'll send something on account
to-morrow!"
Beauty Routine
FROM the point of view of beauty treatments, the woman with a house has the same start off as the film star with medielne bails, a gymnasium, and eighty feet of private swimming pool.
Every time you stretch to make the beds, aloop to pick up your husband's pyjamas, and sweep the floor, you get a beauty course for the figure that you would pay pounds for in a beauty salon. That is, if you do these things the right way.
It is the wrong way that makes you tired, the right way will set you up and make you supple. How do you make the beds, for instance? The woight In your bent knees, your back humped as you lean neross the bed and pull for tear fe? That's wrong; try the right way a few times and feel the difference, Btand with one foot forward and relax the other knee. Give the diaphragm a long stretch across the bed while you keep your tutamy in and your back straight. The weight doesn't go in your knees, but on the forward foot. And you won't get a pain in the back.
STAND EASY
How do you wash and wipe up? Feet apart, weight on ano hip, tummy re laxed, lead humped? It's tirent that way. To-day stand straight, chest up, shout- ders relaxed and square. If your sink is too low, bend forward from the waist, not from the shoulders, and put your weight ovenly on bath feet.
Think how you fron, weight all on one foot again, shoulders rounded over the board. You get much more, 1tred and are just asking for round shoulders. Stand straight, feet together and lead up unless you're very short-sighted you don't have to peer at what you are ironing. If your board is too low, sit down to iron. In fact, except for very heavy things you can sit down, anyway.
Every time you walk upstairs do it an up-toe. When you reach for some- thing on a high shelt do an upward. stretch exercise-toes together and lift frointia diaphragm-you won't find it any more tiring and it wilt do you good.
R-E-L-A-X
AND If you do get tired after Ironing or scrubbing, see that the red muscles get relaxed when you have finished. When you stop ironing, for instance, relax your arma end shake them vigor- busly In turn, Thon loosen each tog and shake the slackened one, supporting
yourself on the back of a chair. Shake your fingers and hands and make greni circles with each arm to loosen up the shoulders.
If you are doing sitting-down work. make sure you are sitting properly. While sewing or writing or peeling vego- tables, alt up straight, legs" relaxed and summy in "Slumping over your work ny hurt your spine and compress the organa in your túmmy.
And when your work is over, for the day, make time to rest for few mo- ments with your feet higher then your tead.
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WAR
the crew of E-13 wondered what daylight would bring.
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THEY soon found out. And both Geoffrey Layton and Francis Stubbington .re- member with a vividness that will never be erased.
Layton WO9 thirty-two then Stubbington was a year older.
When Rear-Admiral Layton was in Hongkong before as Flag
·Captain in HM.8. Suffolk he never mentioned hku amazing ex- perlence.
Ex-Leading Stoker Stubbington, happily, proves more talkative, and he recently told the graphic
story.
"Three Danish worships-small craft they were-anchored near us. Aud up came German destroyer. Well, that's that, we thought. We took it for granted 'we should be rescued and interned," he said.
"That was what any reasonable inati would
have thought. We were a helpless vessel in neutral waters.
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"Suddenly two
German destroyers turned up. One of them hoisted a signal-and before we had time to read it he opened fire on us.
came right
to in point blank range. We got a taste of his con- centrated Bre. Pretty
soon
there were
tounderl men
lying cul
'our deck
It
aver over
Was bolling
hot on account
of the fires the
German
shells
the submarine.
ADMIRAL
Commander Layton shouted.
started inside
LAYTON
'Every man for himself.
away from these swine."
Get
"So we jumped into the water." "What happened then is still a nightmare to me. The Germans began using shrapnel and machine- guns. They fired at us water,
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"I HEARD my shipmates shout as they were hit. It was hell.
"The Germans were murdering us. They were like madinen,
"But while the shooting was still going on, one of the Danish ships steamed right in between us and the German destroyer. They nade themselves a serees to save us from the shrapnel and machine- gun bullets.
"The Germans didn't dare 10 fire on a neutral ship. So they steained away.
Those
"They
Danes had some pluck. lowered their boats and
rescued us.
There were just fifteen of us left-out of thirty,
"I never forget the bravery of that Danish cornmander und his crow nor how kind the Danish
while we people were
were in- terned."
✩ * The THAT is the story Francis Stubbington told.. The Offi- cial History of the last war tells the sequel. This is what the History says:
"The vessel was shelled at short range by three German destroyers in deflance of a Danish torpedo boat which had arrived to safe- guard Denmark's neutrality.
"Fifteen officers and men of the E-13 were killed,
"Commander
Layton and other survivors were interned in the naval barracks near Copenhagen. After three weeks, Cominander Layton withdrew his parole, notifying the Danish authorities, who took extra precau- tions.
in
One night he left's dammy his bed and, while a brother officer created a diversion, he managed to escape from the ballding, passing many sentries. He had secured s a Danish sallor's suit and in that disguise swam along the shore till he reached the city.
"There he landed, took off his clothes and wrung them out in 18 degrees of frost, dressed again and crossed to Norway in the ferry,
"In the guise of an American marine overseer he inade his way to Bergen, whence he sailed to England, reaching London four days after leaving Copenhagen."
STAMP TOPICS
Nicaragua-In May, 1030, Fresi- dent A. Somoza of Nicaragua visited the United States, and in commemoration of that visit Nicaragua has issued a series of nirmal stamps. Five values are for Interior use and seven values are for International airmail. The 12 stamps come in three designs and in various colours,
Somoza
One design pictures President A. before the American Senate, May, 1930. After the in- scription are the words "Buenos Vecinos" or "Good Neighbours." The second design pictures the
D. C
with
Capitul at Washa's plcture in
President A.
an oval frame at the upper right and the inscription "Commemorn- tion of the visit of President A. Somoza to Washington, May, 1930.". The third design pictures the Golden Gate International Exposi- tion theme, Sun Tower, on the New York World's Falc
left. the theme. Perisphere and Trylon, on the right, and President Somoza's portrait in an oval frame, in the centre. Below is tire inscription "Commemorating the visit of Pre- sident A. Somoza to the United States of Amerien."
The values of the Interior Air- mail set are the 4e., red brown (Senate); B., black brown (Capi- tol): 16c., turquoise green (Sen- ate); 20c., red violet (Capital), and 32c., vermlilon (Fair Themes), The International Airmail set includes the
deep blue (Sen-
nic); 30c., black (Senate); 50c., carmine rose (Capitol); 60c., green (Fair Themes); 65c., violet black (Senate); 00, olive (Senate); and 1-cordoba, violet (Fair Themes).
Albania-Four
Albanian stamps have been received, each of a different design and colour. The I glad (gray blue), plctures native costume. Albanian in
un
new
The 2 q. (dark olive),, pictures a male in another type of native costume. The 3 q. (brown), pic- tures an Albanian woman in native dress, and the 50 g. (dark violet), pictures a second Albanian woman in a different type of native dress. Belgium-A new value of the King Leopold III design has been Issued to meet a postal need. The value is the 2Fr.50 and the colour is in black.
Philippine Islands—A sei of three stamps has been issued in connection with President Que- zon's inauguration. They are the
Bc. Bc. (deep orange), (green), and 12c. (purple), and are all of one design showing a Government ocial administering the oath of office to President Quezon.
Portugal-A set of eight values hos been Issued honouring the Portuguese Legion. The stamps are of one design which shows the Legion emblem and the inscrip- The Lion "Legion Portuguesa." values and colours are: centavos (ochre); 10c. (purple); 13c. (blue)25c (brown) 40c-(darie- green), 80c. (light green); i escudo (scarlet), and 18.75 (blue).
Spain-In honour of the recent visit of Count Cluno, of Italy. Spain has overprinted six values of the Franco stamps. The over- prints are in gold, silver or black, and the Insertion reads, "Malaga saluda Conde Clano, 17-7-39."
United States
The 208th birthday of the First President of the United States re- calls that his portrait by Stuart appears on the 10c. value of the first stamps of the United States, issued in 1847. In the next series of stamps, issued in 1861,
1851, various portraits of George Washington appeared on Ave différent values of the series. The must interest- ing set of stamps appearing during recent years which pictures Wa- shington's various portraits is the special commemorative set, Issued in 1932, in co-operation with the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington.
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The 2-cent stamp of the issue of 1922-23 shows the portrait Washington, from Houdon's bust, and if one should turn this stamp with the nose of the profile fac- ing down there appears the profile of one of the "Wizemen who came from the East," his nose being formed by the car of the portrait, his profile facing to the right.
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