Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH June 25, 1940.
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HOW PARACHUTISTS TRAIN & WORK They study the country on models & even learn the language Taught how to fall safely
Nudist
Pictures
Quarrel: Divorce
A HUSBAND who was said to have climbed out of a window at his home and hung on to the sill by his fingers was divorced by his wife recently.
A decrco nisi was granted to Mrs. Matilda Violet Estelle Cooper, of Erlanger-road, New Cross, S.E., on grounds of cruelty.
Blacked Eyes
The husband, Mr. George William Cooper, who is now in the Army, denied the charges.
Mr. Justice Henn-Collins snid that In February, 1938, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper quarrelled, and the husband struck his wife on the lead Dild blacked her eyes.
She left him the next day with the determination not to return. Was that state of mind to be accounted for by one quarrel and one assault?
If Mrs. Cooper's story was untrue;
it must be an extraordinarily vivid combination of lies, which would tako same time to concoct and cla- borate.
Was the wife's mind so ingenious that she could invent a story that her
A Police Innovation.-A Now-
refusal to look at nudist pictures was castle police constable on patrol the origin of a quarrel with her hus- duty with rifle. band.
Not Imagination
Mr. Couper had said that there was no question of nudist literature be- ing in the home. The judge said be could not conceive that anyone would|
an incident as the origin tum unless it was true.
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Was Mrs. Cooper likely to have la- vented the tale. that her husband | climbed out of a window and hig by his hands?
The story might have been exag- gerated, but the judge was convinced that it was not a fight of imagination by the wife, and that it had some foundation.
Lyceum Will Open Again
THE Lyceum Theatre in the Strand, honoured home of British melo- drama, is to reopen in the autumn. It will then have shut over a year.
Show partners Tom Ar- nold and Harry Foster have taken a lease on the old house for "a number of years" and they will spend the summer putting back the seats, and rede- corating.
Re-opening will be "in keeping with the best traditions of this famous house."
Lyceum comes back on London's show list be. cause the L.C.C. has der cided to postpone the £9,. 000,000 Waterloo Bridge roundabout scheme until the war is over.
Would Not Reveal
Man's Name
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Talk of Strike
Girls
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and find their
By W. NECKER.
WHEN, before the war, I wrote in my book, “Nazi Germany Can't Win," that preparations had been made in Germany for a landing from the air in England, critics said the stunt was ridiculous,
To-day, after the landing of parachute troops in Norway, Holland and Belgium, it no longer seems quite so ridiculous and we shall have to face the possibility of such attempts.
The German Army is equipped for all invasions of this kind, and the German Admiral Gadow wrote in 1939: "The pos- sibility of such an invasion has already passed out of the realm of academic dis- cussion and become a matter of practical tactics."
TRAINING SINCE 1935 Germany has been training parachute troops since 1935. Immediately after the Nazis came to power in 1983, they formed in Berlin from reliable members of their "Fifth Column" in the Berlin Police, a corps called "The Wecké police formation for special duties" (Wecke was a Nazi and a major in the police).
This formation was used to attack the opponents of the re- gime with every means in its power. Among its duties was the observation of "suspect" quarters of Berlin from the air.
Fifteen raids on a vast scale, in
districts which entire
of Berlin were cordoned off, were carried out as early as March and Aprli, 1933. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands thrown into prison concentration camps.
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Folding bicycle.
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Gas mask.
3.
Binoculara.
4.
Radio set.
5.
6.
Water bottle. Tent.
7. Machine-gun,
way about
The model is six to ten square yards in size, and contains in mininture everything that can be seen on the landscape below from the air--roads, trees, houses, canals. The parachutist is therefore soon able to find his bearings, knows where he is and what direction he bus to take. Nothing is unfamiliar to him.
Gun drama in
police station
Soldier and girl, 23, shot
At the beginning of 1935 the Nuzis coat went a stage further and incorporat bears the word "Inspector" ed a parachute battalion in the forma twenty - three-year-old Idation, which was by now a regiment
A YOUNG SOLDIER, WHO Gamble, Manchester hus girl, of the army, later called the General
Goering Regiment.
The most important task is the des- IS ALLEGED TO HAVE TURN- must leave it behind when
truction of railways and of obstacles ED A REVOLVER ON HIM Fittest Troops she goes to work.
The Nazis admit having been hindering the advance of the main Men protested when Miss Gamble greatly impressed by the example of body, There are also entire units SELF IN A POLICE STATION,
destruction,"
with AND A GIRL, ARE IN ROCH equipped and Miss Hilda Stone, both bus con- Russia, but claim that they have de- for ductresses,
were appointed inspeveloped training and tactics of their explosives. They make directly for DALE INFIRMARY SUFFER- their objective and are protected ING FROM GUNSHOT tors.
Mr. Stuart Pilcher, general mana- The General Goering Regiment is whilst doing so by other armed units. WOUNDS. ger, agreed that they should act as to-day employed for the defence of the actual-ghting -is-not-tho-The soldiers Private-Geoffrey welfare supervisors over the
w-Hitler and Goering and their head-concern,
Advanced Guard quarters. Out of the parachute bat-
men.
ger.
The women workers held more
own.
Wilson (23), of Otley-road Harro- gate, and the girl ty Gwladys Mar- But the women staged quick talion, however, a separate regiment One can be certain that models of garet Brown (23), of Coniclough-tone, strike, and agreed to start work only has been formed, the "Number 1 the Dutch dykes are to be found in Burnicy. after it had been arranged for their Parachute Troop Regiment," with a the school for parachute troops at Late one night, recently, Wilson deputation to see the general mana- training school at Stendal, between Stendal.
entered Whitworth police station and Berlin and Hanover.
How many parachute troops does shouted: "Come outside and have Germany's Attest
troops
look were Germany possess? After a period of
at a girl in a car." He then, it is alleged, produced trained as parachute jumpers, In five years training, there must be that she has a whole
a revolver. A shot rang out, and addition to the actual Infantrymen assumed
he fell with a wound in the chest. there are also signallers, whose task, division-that, is, three regiments of
In a car along the road the police Immediately on landing, is to establish parachute troops.
found Miss Brown, also with n wound one of radio communication with the main them. Other girls all wore their body of the army and the individual
in the chest, formations lauded from the air.
Learning To Jump arc parachute There
protest meetings. They are threat ening to stop again. Miss Stone, wearing a fur coat and a coloured dress, attended
uniforms.
were landed in
In Noway they small numbers, so that the division
are landed from transport
The couple are reported to be in a very serious condition.
£75 Picture Slashed
must still be more or less intact. Miss Gamble, attractive ex-shoe
The parachutists are, however, only sales girl, said at her home in Simis-
the advance guard of the actual aerial. suppers Infantry. ler-street, Moston, Manchester: ་་་ have been ordered not to work in machine-gun sections and artillery-
These my uniform for the time being men.
How are the parachute troops planes at Fairfields captured by the None of the girls mentions the trou- ble to me and I'm quite happy at my trained? They first practise on the parachute troops. This procedue has ground with ingeniously constructed has already been carried out in Poland mother said: "She will not apparatus, learning to jump and to and Norway. During the siege of Modlin, for example, several machine- have to inspect the passengers' tic- land.
After that the actual jump is carri-un coinpanies were landed to reln- When she boards a bus she will help girls with their accounts, ed out under the supervision of two force the beslegers.
Double Trip Other conductresses complain that instructors. The first shows how the their welfare supervisors should be jump is carried out and the second The Nazis have taken a leaf out of observes it from the plane, Men on the boot of the Italians, who, during airfield watch the jump from the occupation of Albania, transport- below and make suggestions if any ed an entire regiment of infantry inly been slashed by a knife or razor, mistake has been made. Finally, the ninety minutes, their planes making was entitled "English Girl." and was valued at 75 guineas in the catalo- whole exercise at every stago is dis- a double trip across the Adriatic,
the school.
However large or small the units guc. may be, they have one main purpose
kets.
older trained women.
the
Republicann handing Perils
Policy
Philadelphia, June 24.
AFTER slashing one of the Bilbo'a one- paintings in Jack man exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery, London, a man ran into the street and escaped.
The plcture, which had apparent-
Jack Bilbo was formerly a mom- to cause confusion, nervousness and ber of Al Capone's bodyguard. He fold of his adventures in his tension in enemy territory. A body has
DIET FOR FINICKY CHILDREN
The most important thing is the landing. When a parachutist lands, he frequently sprains or breaks a of troops which does not know book, "Carrrying a Gun for Al Ca- limb, and la, of course, out of action. whether at any moment the enemy pane." He has therefore to learn very is going to appear in its rear in un- The sub-committee drafting the thoroughly how to reach the earth itnown strength is held up in A WOMAN who appeared platform for the Republican National uninjured.
operations. It does not whether
know at London Bankruptcy Court Convention has tentatively, agreed He has to learn how to use the it can still obtain munitions and food recently was questioned about on its foreign policy and defence wind so that he shall not be dragged supplies or
or reinforcements by rail. a visit abroad to obtain finan-planks. It is understood they call niong by the still open parachuto and That is why even
even small parachute cial help from a man.
for peace, preparedness, and non-how to roll with nglily over one units are dangerous. intervention in European affairs,
It is essential
In combating para shoulder so as to get to his feet safely.
It im't always naughtiness that She would not publicly reveal his]
The parachutist is trained in the use chute troops to be prepared for action
makes children go off their food, The foreign policy plank is in of the special arms of the country at a second's notice. Motorised units. tended merely to put the Party on in which he is to land.
Itinera to attack the parachute troops must
often "Nerviness," "be She is Miss Edna Stella White, who record as opposed to Intervention
For getting
tired digestion and the need for must away, light, collapsible be standing by, They ran the Saracen's Head Hotel, and seeks to avoid the controversial
the stimulus of a new, palatable Chelmsford.
"chort of war ald to the de bicycles are carried;sometimes even equipped not only with machine-guns,
casily digested food. Mortgagees had foreclosed on the mo
mocracies. The
motor-cycles to transport machine but also with heavy arms, trenel detalls, which
guns. The rest of man's equip-mortars and grenade-throwers. Most hotel, and Miss White agreed that must change with the rapid development consists of sub-machine gun, a effective are. light rapid tanks, and she owned £1,888, and had rio as-ments abroad, will be left in the pistol, and daggers. All arms, Infantry transport wagons capable of sets.
hands of the chosen candidate. uniforms and equipment are kept us going across country. She said that when pressed hy The Wendell Willklo boom won light as possible,
Thoir. Tosk creditors last July, she went abroad new recruits as candidates ralded
The Rehearsal to see a friend who would help her each other's delegates and did their
The prospecle for landing in Britain financially,
Men are instructed in the languages are, of course, not favourable. "I prefer not to divulge his name." who number about 709 of the 1.000 not complete their special training.
utmost to entice unpledged delegates, of various countries. But that does Britain is not the main battlefield and the parachute troops would be wiped she added.
| attending. It is Indicated that Con-
Just as, during the last war, Ger- out, since they cannot be supported But at the request of the Regis-ncetleutn 10 delegates will support man storm stroops behind the lines by following troops. They are, how- trar, Miss White wrote down the Mr. Wilde. A spokesman said Mas-constructed exact models of the ever,, prepared for this reason, nome.
Asked to give the address of the that about 24 would support him."".
sta sachusetts 34 were unpledged, but Jenemy trenches and
· Practised ́an count on their being ann
In the view of Admirai. assault on them so to-day are the friend, he replied: "I no longer exist."
parachute troops rehearsed in their their task would be to cut railway. Aldes of Senator Taft and Mr. duties. A dummy is made of the communications to the ports to ham Miss White admitted that she held Thomas Dewey conceded that Will objective that is to be destroyed, the per the sending of reinforcements for parties at the hotel, but not at her kin men were active among their building that is to be captured, or the the Fleet or the Front in France. expense.
delegates, but insisted that the raids district in which the parachutist is to We may, therefore, have to reckon The examination was cinsed,,
had been ineffective-United Press. Išnu ̄la reproduced in sond models," with such tactics.
"to
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Very Dark Blooze
"Kindly rest on your oars, Timothy, That contraption is getting you nowhere. And it squeaks. And the Eton Boating Song is not in the key of D."
"What's up, Puter? Got a head?"
"Like a gasometer. Very pain- ful. And that noise you're making goes through it like a prçumatic drill.”
"Wan't I on the warpath by your side? And look at me — 110 more hangover than an imocent little child."
"Well, it's not natural. It just
proves that the Devil looks after his own."
"I look after myself, old son. Last night took a sizeable swig of Rose's Line Juice before hitting the hay. That's how to kill off the aftermath of alcolist,"
"You wouldn't lead me up the garden, Timothy ???
“Peter, you wrong nie. I've seen the light and I'm passing on the tip."
"Then, if you will kindly step nshore, we will seek out a vendor of Rose's. It's time I fell into povu imbits."
The
Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic
Competition
June - September, 1940.
Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.
For the best and second-best antrios.
Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK Co. $250 CASH PRIZES $250
SECTION. ONE General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes:
Architecture: Street Scenes, etc,{ 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION TWO Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. 1st. Silver Cup, 2nd. $30: 3rd, $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION THREE
First Prizes in each of the four Sections.
Still Life and Table Top Studies. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION FOUR
(Craftsmen's Section)
The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who will be required to make a declaration to this offect. Each entry must have pasted on the back a special_entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors.
1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th, $12.50.
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RULES
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The Competition is confined ex- clusively to amateur photo- graphers.
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for non-delivery of, lom of, or damage to entries.
SECTION
NAME
ADDRESS
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than one Bection.
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