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The_War
The General Ofleer Commanding made it quite clear in his recent speech before Legislative Council that the Motherland is at present in no need of additional man-power from the Colonies in order to pro- secute the war.
Events in Flanders have certainly. proved that it was not deficiency in respect that was responsible for dre serious reverse sustained by our
ked
but rather that our men were to fight without adequate equipment. There is no doubt but that
the
revelations in this respeel will lead to adequate steps being taken-to-rectify-the-position, as they were taken in 1915 after the munt- tions scandal expose by great London newspaper.
It appears, therefore, that the people of Hongkong can best serve the Cause not by offering themselves
un
THE
TO MAKE A FUEHRER'S HOLIDAY
STORY OF THE
Heroine
of Swallow
Cottage
By REGINALD FOSTER.
To the Lifeboat Service, six months of war have brought the labours and perils years of pence.
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Many deserved tribulce have been paid to the heroism of the feboatinen. Now, in this arti- ele, we pay tribute to the women of-the-Lifeboat-Service-the wives who must stay at home and wait....
Rotterdam: The First Full Story
ROTTERDAM, May 14, -
Rotterdam WAS Covered by an Am mense pall of black, as four motor buses, containing members of the British aid Fronth colonies, crapt slowly along the road to the 17ook afternoon. of Holland yesterday Liriakels had Just bombed the big ell depot at Visadingin, 10 milio further down the river, and the smoke from the burning tanks wAS spreading right across the sky, liko a threatening thunder-cloud. Under It, the three evil shapes circled again And Resita over the most defence- loss city, deliberately selecting their the targets. One of thin wax steamer St. Denis, which was to hare taken the fofugees down the river. Crashi÷¢¥mati÷crash-crash went the bombs among the quays and warehouses of the Jiol-haven, where the steamer lay. One of them missed her by only 50 yarĀS, but the Admiralty had already de- cided that she should bot bo ured on account of the danger; at mines in the river. She had been scuttled! and the party wont lastend by bus to the look where they were taken DA, together with the staff of the British Legation at The Hague and other refugees, by two Britlab des troyers.
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The Dutch Army hie boon nighting A gallant and dogged battle in and round Rotterdam against an insidi- ous enemy, who had established himself by stealth fight in the mid- als of the town. They have been- Lack of sorely handicapped by anti-aircraft guns and tanks. They have bad nothing but machine« fight the Kun wi German bombers. The RAP, hiwa lent repeated and effective aid, but tha reller has only been temporary. Again and again the Heinkels and Junkers have been able to select their targets unscathed, or recon. noltre the ground position and drop reinforcement or supplies for the German machine-gun nests. Tanki and armoured-cars wire the weapon obvious!equired for hanke-fo house Achting, but those which the Dutch possess have been required elsewhere, and they have bad to expel the invaders from their midst by literally blasting him out of th houses in which he and ensconced himself. This has been effectively done, but the business centre of Rotterdam has been completely wrecked.
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When the Germans first descended Friday Rotterdam early morning the advance roard, which was landed from the nying-boats at the Mass bridges and in troop- carriers on the "Waaliaven airport found Immedinis muistance from numbers of German residents, who had been concentrated during the the night on the Noorderolland, faland in the RTERS over which the The two front girder-bridges raz ofces of the then COO a big to have
German tug-boat firm, been their headquarters. How many they numbered it is impossible to my, but of the 3,000 dermans re sident Ira Rotterdam the Dutch wers only able to arrest some 700. The rest are unaccounted for, and it fair to assume that a good many of hex the them were wailing in offices with arms and ammunition 500 Germans An Hour ready. This little army was furtas! reinforced throughout Friday by more men landed from troop-carry. ing aircraft at the Waalhaven. Uni!! the RAP. ralded the airport CA Friday afternoon and put
out of service it was aimatedly they were being landed there at th tal of 500 mien an hour.
Starting from the Noorderefland And the two bridges this force occupied the whole of the south bank of the river, and obtained footing on the north hank as well The Dutch failed to lose their hold appreciably. In the course of Friday night, the Germans, aided no doubt by Butch sympathisers in the town, altered into thì hõuses of the 014. Town, a close packed district of businers once intersected with canals, which stretches back from the river bank some 200 yarde Throughout the night bursts of machine-gun fra alternated with the crash of french-mortar shells as the Butch fought this new threat
German The morning found the satpink desperately, Farther to the east they wore established in the Maas railway station.
but by offering their possessions. In WHEN the telephone rings in the rescues, framed diplomas "In recog- the light of experience, the Colony's cosy little parlour at Swallow nition of his gallantry, endurance and proposed War Tax contribution ap- Cottage it is a signal for the beginn- perfect scamanship.""
Somewhere. In Swallow Cottage is
A Beleaguered City... pears ridiculously inadequate. Evening of twelve, twenty, perhaps forty-
Their plan had obviously been to $10,000,000 is derived from one eight anxious hours for Mrs. Blogg, a proud collection of medals awarded which show what war means to the
not homes of lifeboatmen.
selzo the administrative centre of year's taxation it will be sufficient, For Swallow Cottage is the home to Mr. Blogg, but they were
Some- This is a typical five-days' log in
Rotterdam, with the Town Bali and course of at the current rate of war expenul- of Mr. Henry Blogg, only possessor brought out for me to see.
the Post Gh the Saturday. Dutch felt the threat Tuesday...Out 11.18 am. ture, to finance the war for only half of the "double lifeboat V.C.," and times Mrs. Blogg will bring them out a busy week;
and hastily throw up trenches and in for a visitor-but if her husband is hour.
the most famous lifeboatman
Back 4.30 a.. Wednesday. therefore, Our efforts,
barricades in the main streets. there he tells her not to bother.
Botterdam became a, boleaguered should be turned in other directions. Britain.
Instead, Mrs. Blogg sold as much Wednesday Out 5.57 p.m.
elty. In the course of the mgmtóg Back 12.30 am. Thursday.
the tension grow, whan two heavy as she dare before her hero-husband, Thursday. Out 10.45 am.
machine-gun suddenly started e- Back 10.30 p.m.
Blading the Coolsingel, totterdam's -
which main central boulevard, on Friday....Out 4.45 p.m.
the Port One of the chief concerns of the
both the Town Hall and Back 4.30 am. Saturday.
Once are situated, from a home at lifeboatman's wife is the health of Saturday..Out 7.20 p.m.
its head. At the same time sniping broke out in a doren places él her husband.
Back midnight.
where in the town.
the
It seems fuille to argue in the cor- That is not his opinion, of course. respondence columns of the local He would say, perhaps, that he just
whether women newspapers
In happens to be the coxswain of the pair of Cromer lifeboat. And that happens Hongkong should knit a socks when what is really required to the busiest lifeboat in the country from this Culony, and from every at the moment. Colony in the Empire. In an effort If you walked down Corner-street, on a scale that will place upon our Cronier, on your way to the seafront, shoulders sacrifices proportionate to you would not notice Swellow Cot those borne by Dur kin in the tage, for there is nothing about its Motherland, Even so, we are not humble exterior to hold your atten- called
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evention, face greater sacrifice of life itself which But take one glimpse inside, as I gur folles at home must face in the have done, and you realise that it is feminent future.
no ordinary seaside home.
upon
Wo have in Hongkong semi- skilled labour that curi tum out war materials on a tremendous scale i
ta organised. If we can turn out 10,000 ton ships there is no reason busy."
ten greeted
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"Henry often returns home soaked to the sitin, cold and exhausted," Mrs. Blogg told me,-as-sho set the ten..
"Twice I have had to nurse him I quoted this in Swallow Cottega.
There have been several apelly through serious illnesses,"
That explains why she shows like that, including one of 42 con- had to stand anxiety when he happens to have a tinuous hours, when Cough an anxiety which he dis- by with the soup," admitted Mrs. misses with some scorn.
Blog, her eyes twinkling defiance as "When he is called out I sit up she made this revelation.
"Sometimes he has been so busy
much."
I think
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two
* As I arrived the homely smell of on the sofa, just knitting and waiting at week or two has gone by be-
Mrs. Blogg was and wondering what is happening that mc.
out there at sea-and wondering fore he has had time to make his report to Mr. Baldwin, the lifebout why we cannot turn out other war Mr. Blogg sut back in the arm when he will be back for his soup.
"Do you know sometimes he has secretary," he added. requisites. If wo can manufacture | chair-at home for a change,
[When he does he dictates them in gas masks for sale in China we can
unadorned
hold, phrases"and Brightly polished brass freirons come home and stood on that step manufacture them as gifts to the leaned on the hearth, Round the and lind another call before he's had simple
leaves out all the best bits," Mr. people who need them in England.
room, on the sideboard, on the walls, time to take off his wet boots."
Mr. Blogg gave a grunt of dis- Bnidwin told me later.] if we can weave cloth there is no and on the table, were mementoes of
I heard him
We then turned round to- reason
why we cannot inalte uni-
a hundred wild nights; pictures of approval. forins. Many of our factories to ships and wrecks, photographs of mutter that "women always talk too wards the trawler," he reported of But he did not any a recent service. that the trawler was at that moment day are catering for orders from Jupan, the Philippines and other
being bombed and that one bomb fell parts of the Far East, Production lottery as a method of raising money should, as in England, be for the for various causes, and the Irish "Sometimes," went on Mrs. Blogg, dangerously closely to the lifelioat.
Al a recent Inunch 11 of the crew Casket in Queens-Ignoring the reproach, "I want to put sole purpose of prosecuting the war. Sweep, Golden We can manufacture variety of land and N.S.W. State Lottery-all him something in a dosk, and some were members of the Blogit family:
newstyle skyscrapera R. C., F., J. J., Jun., W. W., and R, articles in Hongkong, and thus re- of which have placed hospitals in thing to eat, but he's all for getting . Blogg, J. J., H. T., J. W., H. W., lieve factories in England for some their respective States on a basis off and won't stop.
unequalled in any part of the world "Sometimes he's hardly got off to Davis, completed by R. and G. Cox, other purpose.
The brothers Wi- If a dockyard oru factory In-lave, been quoted as examples.sleep before belog called out again. father and son. Hongkong could turn out one single A lottery may be the hand-maiden As for meals, it is often a case of liam and John Daviy are half- tank
it probably would be more of the Devil, but we could envisage breakfast, dinner, ten and supper all trothers of Henry Blogg. William has four sons and John three. Cousin useful than the enlistment for ser- the proceeds from one sweep pur- in one."
Offering a cigarette, I tried to . W. Davies is mechanic and only vices in the trenches in France of a chasing a pursuit plano and saving
-full-time pak member of the crew. hundred men.
the lives of many innocent people at question Mr. Bloke again.
"All very well for soothing the These are anxious days and nights Turn now to the financial aspect. home who otherwise would become The war has been in progress for victims of the Devil's more potent nerves, so they say, but I've never for the women who wait at home.
found the need for it," he said.For Coxswain Blogg will tell you he la nine months. During that time our asslslant in Gezinany." sole contributions towards its pro- We mention a lottery by way of the rest, he merely rubbed his eyes a fisherman first and lifeboatman . I can't ofter. But Mrs. Blogg will tell you secution (outside of provision for our suggestion. There must be dozens and said, "I don't know
kis heart in really in the lifeboat. own safety) has been nil. It has of means to which we in ilongkong remember,”
I pointed to a handsomely-bound Except sometimes on n Saturday laken us nine months to get the War can turn to raise money to help the Taxation proposals under way and Motherland. What wo need
are volume, a history of the Cromer life afternoon, in times of peace, when you can hear the velce that has roared
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Blogg
It will be impossible for any taxes suggestions from the people them-boat.
va never really read it," he said. over angry sean roaring over Cromer collected from this source to be re-selves; more so, however, we need milled unill be war is in its second someone in authority to lake note of "Since the war, Mr. Blogg told football ground, encouraging
As for the D.W.O.F the the suggestions and to act on them me, they have been called out to local team..... year.
"Why" Hongkong public bas voluntarily when they are feasible. The majority search for aeroplanes, bombed and donated
machine-gunned vessels, mined ves rallier than eat the meal. I've pre- just over half-a-million of the people fra Hongkong are dollars-about £38,000--in nine foring from a feeling of impotency.sels and borbod light vessels, as well pared, ho'd rush off to football, as months.
They want to help, but they don't | as-ships in trouble in the ordinary. If he were answering a call to s52." | But Mr. Blogg":"Just shrugged-his: The proposal has often been made know how. Cannot someone give way."
records shoulders, that Hongkong should turn to the them a lead?·
"I had previously found
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machine-guns on Coolsingel were silenced by shells from an anti-tank gun. They proved to be manned by two members of the Dutch National-Bocialist Party.
state if "Can you canteira the
Dutch mind of such men," said a omeer to me, "who would Are on their own countrymen7" From tut point, the Dutch went steadily and ruthtexty to work with martan, anti-tank guns, and other fight ari lery, demolishing dyary house in which snipers were found.
had By the late afternoon, they gained the upper kind on the right bank, and even on the Noorderdi-` land the Germans were... silmeed. They began setting fire themsolcan to positions which they could not
such as the great threa funnelled User Statendam. the second largest ship of the Holland- America iine,
That night (Saturday), Stolterdam "awe-inspiring ́ ́ sight. The Of the Old Town was sklava including all the banks and busines offices on the river front. The stia Station, too, was burning, and the close-packed shipping offices an the western half of"iḥs" taland. Crack- ling dame leaped up, from the doomed Elatendam. The rest of the town lay as, quiet as a graveyard, but roofs, church-spires, and the werd UE UP with an unearthly glow.
Two Liners Ablaxo During Sunday, the Dutch en- tinued to ruske progress, and by Yesterday morning all resistance had beon axungwithed on the right bak and on the island, but the GerMINE Wore still holding the greater pirt of the left hink", and the briire which Make it with the island, Wires threatened to engulf the whole of the left bĀNN.” The blaze had spread From the Stuisodam Holland-America ship which y next to her, and when we left yesterday evening, the Veendim,' Another ins Unit, war on Bra.
The Germans were now cowsiter» stacking with honde - From their aircraft. Now
will be 'affective will probably depend on How far British and Fremen airents can support the patch defense. Tha Germana-In: this sectors. Bat-ing "kruttery. "ALFETATS" Ren""taking" |
place. The moral of the butch, troepa⠀ In· Rotterdam la "exca Tiank. They locked as if they could takeS 'Zot of punishment; wit-ther ZING. " support, erpecialty: LAlbenging,WING
pana and Wivesite.