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Wednesday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
STUDEBAKER
IS FIRST!
Total sales of all makes
of cars in the U.S.A. for the
model year of 1939 shows again in registrations of
41% whereas STUDE-
BAKERS gain was 94%.
Another proof of Stude bakers outstanding popular- ity and outstanding values. Why not, ask for a de- monstration to-day?
HONGKONG HOTEL
GARAGE
Stubbs Road
The
Tel, 27778/9
Evacuees keep
July 17, 1940.
CHINS UP AT MANILA
"Nothing larger than a on ahead, circle and turn to our cabin trunk, Madam I stern once more, leaving behind Nothing larger than a cabin them a perfect circular sweep of churned-up foam. Through trunk, Madam! All food is the ugly menace of the jutting provided, Madam. Yes! mince these rowdy little craft Everything!" These. were escort their giant charge-a the cries of the patient, ur- cheer and a wave is given them cach time they rangé alongside. bane officials.
The impudent little vessels Peninsula registration com- drop astern their mammoth pleted, wo fled in orderly and nursing.. cheerful array into the buses which took us to the waiting Empress. Husbands, sweet-
Gap Rock! A Destroyer, steaming! seemingly flush with the grey waters,} now takes up the task of caring for hearts, wiver and children John Bull's own. A tiny thing she crowded her spacious decks. It seems to choperon, this mammoth
wha a cheerful
throng, though
an onlooker
might have had
· by··
vessel from which
we gaze in thank-j ful pride, security antl gratitude.
a suspicion that Norah Whitestone Calmly the grey,
the · departees' demeanour had
fear-
silent warship! steams along. seeming never to
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abnor Doan
"See what I mean?
Marvelous springs!"
the set purpose of relieving any vary her position by a foot, And queasiness on the part of the when to her it seemed it she quietly men they left behind them-and drops astern. The Empress is free vice versa!
of apron strings; the responsibility The
is ship vacated. Clear-eyed, sent themselves at long wooden tables henceforward is hers alone. Among that varied crowd of
billy-guck-hatted, genlai, lanky US. (some of which are of magnificent Sunday 5 some 1400 distracted people a
1. The matulloul troops hoist us and our baggage Into polished timber) upon forms. Great fut face was rare. The bride of a chorus a paen of screaming fractious the trucks and away we go along gleaming beakers of drinking water, steaming tea or coffee stand upon the few weeks, the burdened mother of babes. Each tiny soul evidently had the grass and tree-lined avenues.
eight
tables--nnd such coffee a veritable stim decided the night before the time of young children, the
Then splash and jolt through young girl of eighteen years leaving the morning hymn. Pear, wee frag flooded suburbs ined with timber life-River! A variety of sauces and behind a frail and gentle uncle of tenis, their tiny lives disrupted. No shops and the rarer and chalar ordiments, butter and other doings
Amah, 110
are within easy reach. Fresh Milk eighty-two-all smiled and chatted, familiar
looked-for bungalow, and so to Fort McKinley, delivered parting consolations and Walkee-walkee. Mothers parity in Nothing of frowning Mars is here for the children: Unned for us. THE prede "Special to the Telegraph hopes of swift re-union, made the fant woes and comparative peace Two-storied, timber"
houses, well
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wodnesday, July 17, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 26015
JA used by the Hongkong Telegrapli to indicate news which ts strtetty copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance, 1016. Such new As bears an indiention is received In Ilongkong on the date of publication by The United Press Associations, who re- aerve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement
DEATH
GAZEE. Mrs. Abdul (nunt of Mr. S. Ismail of the Naval Dockyard) at her residence, Sharp Street Enst, to-day, July 17, 1940. Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at 5.30 p.m. Aged 72
years,
Italy as a Belligerent
very best of the inevitable.
again reigns aboard.
spaced, - surrounded by restful grass-
Saturday had been a perfect day land, grazing mules. A recepilon of gentle breezes; soil, mild sunshine, hostess helpfully, calmly and "All Ashore All Visitors Ashore!" bracer of the spirits after days of comer house and cot numbers.
deep-blue, placid waters; a welcome sympathetically allots to each new Words to thrill the least amotional,streaming, driving rain. of us! And away our menfolk troop.
A few connot bear to watch them depart and turn sudly away. Others wave and cheer as for and as long as a sign of The Man en be perceived.
☆ ✰
*
Sunday 6 aan. In Manila Roads,
turbid, muddy sen, our interest is
M
+
✰
*
And over this scene watchful eyes of our American friends scan, ever ready to help 'where needed. One inevitable job for them is the retrieving of the
Once more the greeting rows dropped table gear of the little and despite the heaving rain and of cots. New mattresses, new ones, who, standing in the queue,
With a sigh we all furn to the intense ns we survey our next tem Sheets and a brown blanket of maintain a devil's tattoo of claf- new life which awalts us. Some porary homes. Slowly and inevitn- Huperfine wool, spotlessly clean tering cutlery, pannikins and tears fall, and sympathizers quickly bly, we edge inside the breakwater and inviting. Mosquito nets
billies. divert melancholy bodings to under glooming skies. We linger are "de rigueur". Tactfully the
matters of Immediate and urgent
und.
Wall-walt and lolter inter-
#
Now we settled for the first stuge very queerest of Sabbath Days we laring crowd of virile young
Attempts to eat food with a drop-
moment. "Find your bunk, Mesin minably for passport and medical regulations list us as "visitors" pet utensil bring forth the only of- dear!" "Come along. Ida,
we'll inspections inflling crowds of anxi--a sop to the ultra-sensitive, fell frowns which I have encoun- claim our luggage!"*
ous women and fractious, bewildered
tered! No! Unhygienic! Can't be Not a thing were the evacuees re- brothers romping from deck to deck
little ones, with a sprinkling of older perhaps!
done! The kindly doughbay fetches Much has been written of the vul- quired tu handle by themselves. constitutionally unable to "stay
Breakfast 7.30, Dlover 11.30, Sups another, serability of Italy, Less has been
llow upon row of clean, white cots
per 5. Each "visitor" is presented sakl of its striking power. This smelting and writing rooms. Some
put." Allext
Lite for the last few days has con- music room and lounges,
with a metal “billy" which for the sisted of house-to-house visitations- because Italy lacks staying power.
The shades of night find us slit time being our personal and
private Il Duce needs a short war. Italians
had two camp-beds; and hook or unsettled aboard. We edge into the properly, and to be defended against to register for Australia. to claim corner was fitted up for the night. roads for another night gind to es- all comers with life and limb. Ongage, et altra. The YM.C.A. has may be as brave us he asks them to
The business of moving into our cape the excitement and tension of the stroke of the hour, or before, swimming bath. And we have seen been thrown open to us, including be; they still will need food--not to
claims chosed away melancholy," landing at the end of a day. The mention shoes-to march on.
Data from the United States Ad-
ever expect to pass! Jutant General's oflce place Italy's
Monday am. Mert for all possi- fighting forecs at about 2,250,000 ac- -livo-solelipes,--with-trained-reserves numbering more than 5,000,000, The fgures would be indeed ominous it the means of keeping these men in The field were proportionate. But they are not. For some time Italy has been forced to ration Important commodities.
More impressive, since the Nazis' use of aeroplanes hus revolutionised military thinking, are recent estim- ales placing Italian or power at 4,000 to 0,500 planes. Another Im- portant factor is Ituly's Navy, which, while no match for the naval night of Britain, will doubtless be supple- mented by air power.
That Duce has, however, not been
all optimism about
tlic
results of hta participation in war is shown by his long hesitation
ja well in the forefront, followed more sedately by the remainder of this gargantuan family.
picture show-"Irene",
From the moment I entered the Peninsula on Friday morning up to
here with a hundred cots below my
of our enforced trek. The giant noves calmly out. "Clang!" "Sup- per!" Twelve fout tables, covered bilities and eventualities. The order A more or less orderly queue is the present moment when I sit in with a fresh and clean composition, of the day (more or less official) is formed and as we buss, along the line, eyes,-1-have heard not one impatient- school forms alongside; steaming pots that dicembarkation will commence ench grabs two metal pannikins, exclamation from our benefactors- of tea. White-coated, boys quickly at 8 am.
m. We wait again for puss- knife a fork and a spoon, Proceed- served in excellent meal-probably
British, American or Filipino-and port and medical verifications; we ink, we pass before, six or seven the provocation must at times have the first any of us had enjoyed at w. (No! let's say "linger") sur- cooks who serve each uheld man been intense. Government expense.
rounded by baggage for our turn to with the steaming rations. A Indle
✩
Now with a whiz and roar the little M. T. By pick us up; hurtle
The
disembark and be hoisted into one of of stew, perhaps, rice, potatoes, sula:, British officials, ship's officers and the long line of waiting US Army fruit (fresh, stewed or thined), milk crew, the Nursing Corps, the British covered trucks on the quayside. pudding bread. Excellently cooked Navy, the U.S. Forces, The American Willing, organised, cheerful and end of supreme quality, piping hot, Red Cross, the Filipino Nation, the helpful U.S. troups and Filipino por- The lucky recipients of this pro- U.S. Army Cooks and all other pro- "ters invade the Empress, gradually vender para Into the dining hall, tectors VIVENDO VI SALUTIAMO!!
'Spy'
To those unknown thousands
of counter-espionage
to enter. Reports of hostile forces amateurs all round our coast-1
salute you.
on the boundary between British controlled Kenya and Italy's recent-
Was
Only
by A. J. McWhinnie
That is why, when the story was rush to the point of departure for "over, I found plain-clothes and a farewell meeting. She fears that
Me
trying to get into conversation with Jaunty Jack Tors and merchant sea- men--and being rebufted for their cfforts..
SAILORS WON'T TALK
In one hotel, one night, civilian
iy acquired Ethiopla must cause him More than once, on a tour of uniformed police Inside the hotel. people knowing the name of her concern, especially since in Ethiopin Britain's seaport towns and
The C.ID. man who pressed his husband's ship may be watching her itsell large discontented
factions docks, seeing warships and naval car to the hotel wall nearest the she gets her ticket through the was talking about guns to a sailor. are sad to remain ready for organi-establishments, docks, tramps telephone box provided unexpected pigeon-hole window of the station. The sailor left the room. A few sation should support be available.
booking office.
nutes later detectives were round at the hotel. There are also wider aspects of and liners, you have marked me drama for the hotel guests.
Unless she exercises caution the strategy to be considered. Italy's down as a possible spy.
As you watched him bending his
The same close watch that is being plunge follows shortly upon meet-
bulky Agure to listen to me tele destination on the ticket may give I am Ings between Russian and Italian
sorry you've been phoning on the other side of that away the port from which the ship kept at navel ports is in operation. all round the industrial const. There diplomats as well us between those troubled. I congratulate you on wall his assistants were checking-up sails.
is not much of a welcome if you are of Russia and Britain. In some your efficiency. And if any on me in the hotel register,
have heard of naval wives in stranger. quarters it has been assured that the question, arises as to whether the he'll know you, are taking not had written "Dally Herald,' Lonclude the watchful eyes of a possible covering the waterfront and meet- Russla was restraining Italy. Now actual enemy agent reads this
The drama came to a sudden end, traveling miles out of their way to
Once, years ago, as # reporter
Italian adventure has Soviet, bless- ings provided that adventure is not in the Balkans. Yugoslavia has re- cently gained confidence from Rus- stan assurances. And in his war Il Duce stresses Italy's not to draw other countries into the war, calling the attention of Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Egypt to this point. Turkey, how ever, says
It will stand by its pact with the Allies and apparently la preparing to
to do so.
chances.
HEARD, TALK OF CUNS
I
don," as my address. Easy explana-Y tions followed.
giri counter-spy.
ing in ships from the seven seas, I At one naval port i went abord, found Merseysida's dockland п Even now, I don't know who in- worship nearing the end of a com- friendly area. There are those of you who heard formed the police. Maybe in the plate rent. The decks were clutter.
I have just gone back there. No- me at one port talking about war-hotel lounge there was a beautifuled with miles of wire and cables, slips and naval dockyards. It was
paint-pots and all the paraphernalia body wants to talk to strangers now. night. I was telephoning in that
of overalled men with a big job in There are no sightseeing sen-lovers fragile box near the hotel lounge. Perhaps it was a naval wife or hand.
along the docks. sweetheart. In every naval port the)
Further inshore Is Mariners' Wolk. You could not know that I was womenfolk of the mon who man
Even Ulough you may be armed dictating a news story over miles of our warships are constantly alert.
with special privileged Admiralty Once, you could hear many an eple telephone wires to this office. You
They feel that the very lives of passes, you cannot have anything story of the sea round that quarter..
To-day, seamen who have faced did not know that when the story their men depend on their vigilance. with any of the skilled civilian death once are waiting to go away
With France overrun, the entire strategy
of war is now apparent ly based on the time element. Italy
reached the censor he would stamp can afford only a short war.. İl Duce has come in with the desper- it "passed for publication" without a ate intention of helping Hitler to alongle deletion. make it a short one. For that_alm, Hitler evidently needed Il Duce. But if Hitler could not do it alone, there is a question, whether Mus- solini's aid can turn the trick. A matter of daya ahuuld' begin to iell whether this world is still too big for the Blitzkrieg.
But hearing a stranger talking about warships undergoing refit, and dockyards under camouflage, one of you went to another. telephone and informed the police of your sus- picions.",
You thought I was a spy,
more than a one-sided conversation
There is a problem facing every workers in the naval dockyards. again. wife of a man at sea-a problem They do not even seem to talk to But let any enemy agent try to which the landlubber has probably each other.NA never thought about.
find out when they sall, the hame Great State accrets are, in their of, their ship and where she is bound care. But at work or at home they for Mariners Walk is no safe place dare not forget that enemy cars mny be listening.
for:oples,
WATCH OFFICERS' WIVES
The wife of 'n naval' ofteer may Band" know that: his ship-is sailing from a'} In sen-sprayed taverns round tha There is the equivalent of
distant home. port. She wants to seaports I have watched people Marines Walk at all the big parts."
J.