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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 26, 1940.
Library, Supre
SEA
PICTURES
The dramatic pic tures on this pago, ox- clusive to "The Talc- graph," highlight three moods of the sea as man encounters it,
There is a vast diffor- once between the sea in the beautiful action study at the right and the bullet-torn sea of the Dunkirk evacua- tion, soon on the last picture on the page.
Yet mon who were peaceful yachting en- thusiasts a few months before took part in the grimmest hours, sea- warfare has over known. Several died in holping evacuate Bri- tish troops from Flan- ders.
The other pictures show the men to whom the sea is al- ways grim British lifeboat crows. To them too the war has brought new dangers, new labours,
But that same sea is the one thing Hitler'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 ever taken, won a major prize in an American photographic 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 h we rescued more lives during the last nine months than during any similar period in history. Submarine and mine warfure 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, British lifeboats, often manned by fishermen, stand by to save life at sea. Their heroism and
dovation to duty.
British troops lined up on the beach at Dunkirk were swept by Nazi, machine-gumises moyac
those in the top picture, helped in the miracle evacuation." Several gave their lives.