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TO MAKE A FUEHRER'S HOLIDAY
THE STORY OF THE
Heroine
of Swallow
Cottage
By REGINALD FOSTER
WHEN the telephone rings in the rescues, framed diplomas "in recog-
not
To the Lifeboat Service, six months of war have brought the labours and perits ·f six years of peace.
Many deserved tributes have been paid to the heroism of the lifeboatmen. Now, in this arti- cle, we pay tribute to the women of the Lifeboat Service - the wives who must stay at home and walt....
Rotterdam: The First Full Story
ROTTERDAM, May 14.
LJ81-DAVON,
Rotterdam was coyoted by in Im- menie pali of binck, as four master- butes, containing members of the British and French colonies, crept slowly along the road to the look of Moulana yesterday afternoon. Heinkels had just bombed the big all depot Me Vlladingen, 10 milles Further down the river, and the smoke from the burning tanks wa spreading right seross the sky, like A threatening thunder-cloud. Under It, the three evil shapes etrefed again and again over the almost defeno less city, deliberately selecting their targets. One of these WAN the LAMITY A. Dents, which was 10 have taken the refugees down the river, Crash=cr&sh=crash-crash, wint the bombs among the quays and warehouses of the
tay. One of where the steamer them misted her by only 30 yards, but the Admiralty had already de- cided that she should not be need on account of the danger of minns in the river. She had been scuttled; and the party went instead by hus to the Hook where they were taken off, together with the staff of the British Legation at The Itagua and other refugees, by two Belilah des-
The Dulch Army has been fighting a gallant and dogged battle in and round Rotterdam against an Inaidt- que enemy, who find extablished himar hy stealth right in the mid- die of the town. They have been sorely handicapped by lack of anti-aircrafè guns and tanks. They ∙have had nothing but machine- un..with... which to fight the German bombers. The ILAP, have lent repeated and exective aid, bat the relief has only been temperary, Artin and again "the Honkols and Junkers have been able to select thet: targets unscathed, or recon- noltre the ground position and drop reinforcements or "supplies, for the Garman machine-gun next. Tanks and armoured-cara wore the weapon obviously required for house-to- house fighting, but those which the Dutch possess have been required elsewhere, and they have had to expel the invaders from their midst by corally blasting him out of the howies in which be had ensconced hintself. Thiša · has been effectively done, but the business centre of Rotterdam HRE been completely wrecked.
When the Germans first descended on totterdam`· early on Friday marning tho advance guard, which was landed from the ying-boats at the las bildgos and in treop= cartiers on the Waalhaven airport. found Immediate Resistance from number of German residente, who had been concentrated during the night on the Noorderelland, the Island in the hiass over which the two great girder-bridges run. The amees of the Rhea Company, a big German tug-bont firm, steņi to havB been their headquarters. How many they numbered it is impossible to say, but of the 1,000. Germana 20-
aldens in Botterdam the Dutch were only able to arrest some 700. The rest are unaccounted for, and it is fair to assume that a good many of them were waiting fi the hea office with arme and Ammunition 500 Germans An Hour ready. This Histo army was further reinforced throughout Priday by more men landed from troop-carry- ing direrate at the Waalhaven. Until the ILA.F. raided the airport on Friday afternoon and put it partly out of service it was estimated that they were being landed there at the rate of 500 men an hour.
Starting from the Noorderland And the two bridges, force occupied the whole of the south bank of the river, and obtained a footing on the north bank as well. The Dulch falled to loosen their hold appreciably. In the course of Friday night, the Germans, aided no doubt by Dutch sympathisers in the town, altered into the houses of the Old Town, a close-packed district of business after intersected
set/ canals, which strutches back from "the"river "BANK' Como 300 yards. Throughout the night. Bursis of machine-gun fire alternated with the crash of trench-mortar shells as the Dulch fought this new threat. The morning found the Germans in/ping desperately. Farther to the east they were established in the Maas raway station.
A Beleaguered City Their plan had obviously Seen to reire the administrative centre of Rotterdam, with the Town Hall and the Post Once, in the course of Saturday. The Dutch felt the threat and hartly threw a trenches and barricades in the main streets. Rotterdam became * beleaguered city. In the course of the moming the tension grow, when two heavy machine-guns enddenly started eri- Alading the Coolsingel, Rotterdam's main central boulevard, on which both the Town Hall and the Port Once are situated, from a house at its head. At the same time salping broke out in a dozen places site. where in the lown.
the light of experience, the Colony's cosy little parlour at Swallow nition of his gallantry, endurance and proposed War Tux contribution ap- Cottage it is a signal for the beginn. perfect seamanship." bears ridiculously inadequate. Evening of twelve, twenty, perhaps forty- Somewhere in Swallow Cottage is if $10,000,000 is derived from one eight anxious hours for Mrs. Blogg. a proud collection of medals awarded which show what wor means to the
homes of lifeboatmen. For Swallow Cottage is the home to Mr. Blogg, but they were year's taxation It will be suffelent, at the current rate of war expendi- of Mr. Henry Blogg, only possessor brought out for me to sec. Some-
This is a typical Ave-days' log in ture, to finance the war for only half of the "double lifeboat V.C.," and times Mrs. Blogg will bring them out busy week: an hour.
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efforts, therefore, the most famous lifeboatman in for a visitor-but if her husband is Tuesday...Out 11.18 n.m.
Back 4.30 a.m. Wednesday. should be turned in other directions. Britain.
there he tells her not to bother. It seems fullle te argue in the cor
Instead, Mrs. Blogg said as much Wednesday Out 5.57 pm. That is not his opinion, of course.
Back 12.30 a.m. Thursday. respondence columns of the local He would say, perhaps, that he just as she dare before her hero-husband.
Thursday..Out 19.45 a.m. newspapers whether women
in happens to be the coxswain of the
Back 10.30 pm. Hongkong should knit pair of Cromer lifeboat. And that happens socks when what is really required to the bustest lifeboat in the country One of the chief concerns of the Friday....Out 4.45 p.m.
Back 4.30 a.m. Saturday. from this Colony, and from every at the moment.
feboatman's wife is the health of Saturday..Out 7.20 p.m. Colony in the Empire, is an effort If you walked down Corner-street, ker husband.
Back midnight. "Henry often returns home soaked on a scale that will place upon our Cromer, on your way to the seafront, shoulders sacrifices proportionate to you would not notice Swallow Cot to the skin, cold and exhausted," Mrs. these
borne by our kin In the
tage, for there is nothing about its Blogg told me, us she set the tea. Motherland. Even so, we are not humble exterior to hold your atten-
Twice I have had to nurse him I quoted this In Swallow Cottage. called upon to face the even lon
-through-serious illnesses."
There-bave-been-several apells greater sacrifice of life itself which But take one glimpse inside, as I That explains why she shows like that, including one of 42 con- our folks at home must face in the have done, and you realise that it is anxiety when he happens to have a tinuous hours, when I had to stand imminent future.
no ordinary seaside home.
cough an anxiety which he dis- by with the soup," admitted Mrs. We have in Hongkong semi-
misses with some scorn.
Blogg, her eyes twinkling defiance as skilled labour that can turn out war...
"When he is called out I sit up she made this revelation. materials on a tremendous scale i As I arrived the homely smell of on the sofa, just knitting and waiting "Sometimes he has been sa busy it is organised. If we can turn out tes greeted me. Mr. Blogg was and wondering what is happening that a week or two has gone by be 10,000 ton ships there is no reason busy,
out there at sea-and wondering fore he has had time to make his why we cannot furn-out other war
when he will be back for his soup. Mr. Blogg int back in the arm-
report to Mr. Baldwin, the lifeboat requisites. If we can manufacture chair at home for a change,
"Do you know sometimes he has secretary," she added. masks for sole in China we can
Brightly polished brass fireirons come home and stood on that step [When he does he dictates them in manufacture them as gifts to the gleamed on the hearth. Round the and had another call before he's had simple unadorned phrases-"and
Funnelled leaven out all the best bils," Mr. people who need them in England. som, on the sideboard, on the walls, time to take off his wet boots." If we can weave cloth there is no and on the table, were mementoes of Mr. Blogg gave a grunt of dis- Baldwin told me later.] reason why we cannot make uni-
I think I heard him a hundred wild nights; pictures of approval. ferme. Many of our factories to-ships and wrecks, photographs of mutter that "women always talk too words the trawler," he reported of doy' are catering for orders from Japan, the Philippines and other parts of the Far East. Production lottery as a method of raising money shoukl, as in England, be for the for various causes, and the Irish
way
much."
We then turned round to
a recent service. But he did not say that the trawler was at that moment; being bombed and that one bomb fell "Sometimes," went on Mrs. Blogg, dangerously closely to the lifeboat. sole purpose of prosecuting the war. Sweep, Golden Casket in Queens Ignoring the reproach, "I want to put At a recent launel 11 of the crew We can manufacture a variety of land and N.S.W. State Lottery-all him something in a flask, and some were members of the Blogg family: articles in Hongkong, and thus roof which have placed hospitals in thing to eat, but he's all for getting H. Blogg, J.
3. 3., H. T., J. W., H. W., lieve factories in England for some their respective States on a basis off and won't stop.
Jun.. w. w.. and R. R. C., F, J. JR. and G. Cox. other purpose.
unequalled in any part of the world "Sometimes he's hardly got off to Davis, If a dockyard 'or a factory in --have been
quoted 0.5 exampler. sicep before being called out again, father and son. The brothers Wil- are half- Hongkong could turn out one single A lottery may be the hand-maldens for meals, it is often a case of liam and John Davies tank 1 probably would be more of the Devil, but we could envisage breakfast, dinner, tea and supper all brothers of Henry Blogg. William useful than the enlistment for ser- the proceeds from one sweep pur-la
one."
-has four sons and John three. Cousin vices in the trenches in France of a chasing a purrult plane and saving Offering a cigarette, I tried to H. W. Davies la mechanic and only hundred men.
the lives of many innocent people al question Mr. Blogg ngain.
full-time paid member of the crew. Turn now to the financial aspect. home who otherwise would become "All very wall for soothing the
These are anxious days and nights The
wor
has been in progress for vlelims of the Devil's more potent nerves, so they say, but I've never for the women who wait at home. nine months. During that time our assistant In Germany.
found_the_need for it," he said. For Coxswain Blogg will tell you he is sole contributions towards its pro- We mention a lottery by way of the rest, he merely rubbed his eyes a fisherman first and
lifeboatman dozens and said, "I don't know... I can't after. But Mrs. Blogg will tell you secution (outside of provision for our suggestion. There must be own safety) has been nil. It has of means to which we in Hongkong remember."
his heart is
Ilfeboat. really in the taken us nine months to get the War can fun to raise money to heel are volume, a history of the Cromer life afternoon, in times of peace, when The I pointed to a handsomely-bound Except sometimes on n Saturday Taxation proposals under way and Motherland. What we It will be Impossible for any taxes suggestions from the people them- boat.
you can hear the velce that has roared collected from this source to be re- solves; more so, however, we need "I've never really read it he said. over angry seas roaring over Cromer mitted until the war is in its second someons in authority to take note of "Since the war,"
*** Mrs. Blogg told football ground, encouraging the for the B.W.O.F, the the suggestions and to act on them me, "they have. been called out to
Local
team. Hongkong public has voluntarily when they are feasible. The majority search for aeroplanes, bombed and
"Why"
revealed Mrs," "Blogg. donated just over half-a-mlilion of the people in Hongkong are suf-machine-gunned vessels, mined vos- "rather than eat the meal I've pre- dollars-about £30,000—in nine fering from a feeling of impotency, sols and bombed light vessels, as well pared, he'd rush off to football as months.
They want to help, but they don't assisips in trouble in the ordinary if he were answering a call to sea." The proposal has often been made know how. Cannot someone give way."!
But Mr. Blogg --just shrugged his that Hongkong should turn to the them a lead?
I had previously found records shoulders.
year.
need
The two machine-gun- ON the Couldings were silenced by shall from an anti-tank gun. They proved to be manned by two members of the Dutch-National-Socialist- Party:" "Can you conceive the state br mind of such men," majd a Dutch ameer to me, "who would are on their own countrymen?" From that point the Dutch went steadily and ruthssly to work with mortars, anti-tank guns, and other light arti- lery, demolishing every. house i which salpers were found.
By the late afternoon, they had gained the upper hand on the right bank, and even on the Noorderki Jand the Germans were alienced. They began setting are themselvSE to positions which they could not hold, such as the great three
Jiner statendam. tha second largest ship of the Holland- Amaries ine.
That night (Saturday) Rotterdam WAS EN We-inspiring sight. The whole of the Old Town was ablare, Including all the banks and busines omces. the river front. The MarE Station, too, was burning, and the close-packed shipping amices on the western hair of the island. CLE Ling Hames leaped my from the doomed Statesdam. The rest of the towa far as quiet ke K STEVOYKIÄ. but roofs, church-spires, and the newstyle skyscrapers were lit up with an unearthly glow.
Two Liners Ablaze During Sunday, the Dutch con- tinued to make · progress, and by a yesterday morning all resistance had been exunguished on the right ban and on the island, but the German wore stl holding the greater-part of the loft bank, and the bridge which laks it with the island. Firen threatened to engulf the whole of the left bank. The blase had sprend from the statendam to another Holland America ship which lay next to her, and when we left yesterday evening, the Veendam, another fine liner, was on Are
The Germans were now counter- attacking with bombs from their Airerst How far thny will be effective will probably depend on how far ritish and French aircraft tan support the Dutch defence. The Germans in this sector have n artillery. Aircraft are taking lie. place. The moral of the Dutch troops in Rotterdam la excotlan They looked as if they could taka A lot of punishment; but they ; need auppert, especially in heavier - Wes- pone and aircraft.