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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 26, 1940.
SEA
PICTURES
The dramatic pic turos on this page, ex- clusive' to "The Tole- graph," highlight throo moods of the sea as man oncounters it.
There is a vast differ- ence between the soa in the beautiful action study at the right and the bullot-torn sea of the Dunkirk evacua- tion, seen on the last picture on the page,
Yet mon who wore peaceful yachting on- thusiasts a few months, before took part in the grimmest hours soa- warfare has ever known. Several died in helping evacuate Bri- 'tish troops from Flang
ders.
The other pictures show the men to whom the sea is al- ways grim British lifeboat crews. To them too the war has brought now dangers, now labours,
But that same sea is the one thing Hitlor's legions can not con- quer. It is the seas that will bring Britain final victory.
LEE RAIL AWASH-This magnificent yachting picture, one of the finest aver taken, won a major prize in an American photographie contest for Cameraman Morris Rosenfeld. The.
yacht is the "Typhoon," one of the famous craft of the wealthy New York Yacht Club,
LIFEBOATS CARRY ON
Britain's lifeboat crews have rescued more lives during the last nine months than during any similar period In history. Submarine and mine warfare has made their work arduous, dangerous. This is the crew of the Southend lifeboat station.
Coxwain Page of the Southend life- boat. Repeatedly since the war began, the lives of neutrals,
women
and children, have depended on the skill and courage of British lifeboat
Coxswains.
Fine, modern equipment is carried on all British lifeboats. All but a dozen boats on isolated shores are. new motor-driven.
This is a patent device for firing a lifeline to stricken-ship.
In all weathers, Brilish Ilfeboats, often manned by fishermen, stand by
life at sca Their Efolsm” and
devo
British troops lined up on the beach at Dunkirk wore swept by Nazi, ma
those in the top picture, helped in the miracle evacuation.