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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
STUDEBAKER
IS FIRST!
Total sales of all makes
of cars in the U.S.A. for the
model year of 1939 shows
Evacuees keep
July 17, 1940.
CHINS UP AT MANILA
"Nothing larger than a on ahead, circle and turn lo our cabin trunk, Madamt stern once more, leaving behind Nothing larger than a cabin of churned-up fonin. Through them a perfect circular sweep STUDEtrunk, Madam! All food is the ugly menace of the jutting provided, Madam. Yes! mines these rowdy little craft Everything" These were escort their giant charge-a the cries of the patient, ur- chcer and a wave is given them bane officials.
each time they range alongside. Peninsula registration com- drop astern their mammoth, The impudent little vessels pleted, we filed in orderly and nursing. cheerful array into the buses which took us to the waiting de-
Empress. Husbands,
a gain in registrations of
41% whereas
BAKERS gain was 94%. Another proof of Stude- bakers outstanding popular- ity and outstanding values. Why not ask for a monstration to-day?
HONGKONG HOTEL
GARAGE
Stubbs Road
The
Gap Rock! A Destroyer, steaming) sweet seemingly flush with the grey waters. hearts, wives and children John Bull's own. A tiny thing die
now takes up the task of caring for!
crowded her spacious decks. was a cheerful
throng, though,
rin
onlooker
might have had
suspicion that Norah
the departees'1
demeanour had
It seems to choperon this mammoth
by
vessel from which
we gaze in thank-; ful pride, security and gratitude.
Whitestone Calmly the grey.
silent warship steams a l'on f seeming never to
the set purpose of relieving any vary her position by a foot. And Tel. 27778/9 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. vico versa!
of apron strings; the responsibility henceforward is hers alone.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wednesday, July 17, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015
THE prefix "special to the Telegraph" ird by the Hongkong Telegraph to instate news which is strictly copyright. under the provisions of the Telecommual- cation Didinance, 1936. Surb news as bears the thiration VP 1 received in tongkung on the date of pubileation by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid.rejblication. either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement,
DEATII
CAZER-Mrs, Abdul (aunt of Mr. S. Ismall of the Naval Dockyard) at her residence, 0 Sharp Street East, to-day, July 1, 1040. Funeral will puss the Monumenti
yours,
Among that varied crowd of some 1400 distracted people a tear-
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Doan
"See what I mean?
Then splash
with timber
ABNER
Marvelous springs!"
tables and such coffee a verllable..
the chip is vacnted, Clear-eyed, sent themselves nt long wooden tables billy-cock-hatted, genial, lanky U.S. (some of which are of mingnifkent Sunday 5 a.nt. The matulinal troops holat us and our baggage into polished timber) upon forms, Great ful face was rare. The bride of a chorus a phet of screaming fractious the trucks and way we go along gleaming beakers of drinking water, few weeks, the burdened mother of babex. Each tiny soul evidently had the grass and tree-lined avenues. sleaming tea or coffee stand upon the eight young children, the stim decided the night before the time of young girl of eighteen years leaving the morning hymn. Poor, wee fra- fooded suburbs lined
and foll through life-saver! A variety, of sauces and behind a frail and gentle uncle of ments, their tiny liver disrupted. No shops and the tarer and churning condiments, butter and other doinga eighty-two-aff smiled and chatted, fumfliar Amah, no
locited for bungalow, and so to Fort McKinley are within easy reach. Fresh Milks delivered parting consolations and walkee-walker, Mothers pacify in- Nothing, of frowning Mats is here for the children; finned for us. hopes of swift re-umion, made the fant wors
and comparative pesee Two-storied, timber houses, well very best of the inevitable.
again reigns aboard.
spaced, surrounded by restful grass- Saturday had been a perfect day land, grazing mates. A reception of gentle breezes; soft, mild sunshine, hostess helpfully, calmly bracer of the spirits after days of comer house and cot numbers. deep-blue, placid waters; a welcome sympathetically allots to cach new streaming, driving rotu,
*
☆
"All Ashorel All Visitors Ashore!" Words to thrill the least emotional of us! Anil away our men folk troop. A few cannot bear to watch them depart and turn sadly away, Others wave and cheer as for ond as long as a sign of The Man can be perceived,
put."
Inter-
*
and
A
☆
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
L
Once more the greeting rows dropped table gear of the little Sunday 6 6.m. in Manila Roads, and despite the heaving rain and of cots. New mattresses, new ones, who, standing in the queue, With a sigh we all turn to the intense as we survey our next tem- superfine wool, spotlessly clean tering cutlery, panníkins and turbid, muddy sch, our interest is sheets and a brown blanket or maintain a devil's tattoo of clat- new life which awaits us. Some porary homes. Slowly and inevita- divert fears fall, and sympathizers quickly bly we edge inside the breakwater and to-day at 5.30 p.m. Aged 12 matters of immediate and urgent and wall-wall and lofter are "de rigueur". Tactfully the
billies. melancholy bodings
inviting. Mosquito nets to under glooming skies. We linger
Attempts to eat food with a drop- moment. "Find your bunk, Essie minably for passport and medical regulations list us as "visitors" ped utensil bring forth the only of dear" "Come along, Italy as a Belligerent
we'll Ida,
inspections-milling crowds of anxi- claim our luggage!"
Guy, women and fractious, bewildered sop, to the ultra-sensitive, ficial frowns which I have encoun
tered Nol Unhygienic! Can't be Not a thing were the evacuees re- Hitle ones, with a sprinkling of older perhaps! Much has been written of the vul- quired to handle by themselves, brothers romping from deck to deck
done! The kindly doughboy fetches- nerability of Italy, Less has been Row, upon row of clean, white cots
-constitutionally unable to "stay
Breakfast 7.30, Dinner 11.30, Sup- another. said of its striking power. This is
Hed music
per & Each "visor" is presented room und lounges,
with a metal "billy" which is for the
Life for the inst few days has con because Italy lacks staying power. had two camp-beds; and nook or unsettled aboard. We eige into the property, and to be defended against luggage, el altra. The Y.M.C.A, has.
smoking and writing rooms. Same The shades of night find us still time being our personal and private sisted of house-to-house visitations Il Duce needs a short war,
to register for Australia, to claim Italians may be as brave as he asks them to
corner was fitted up for the night. ronds for another night glad to es- all comers with life and limb. On The business of moving into our cape the excitement and tension of the stroke of the hour, or before, a swimming bath. And we have seen. been thrown open to us, including be; they still will need food--not to
claims chased away melancholy. mention shoes-lo march on.
a landing at the end of a day. The clamouring crowd of virile Data from the United States Ad-
How we settled for the first stage very queerest of Sabbath Days we lads is well in the forefront, followed a picture show-"Irene"," of our enforced trek. The giant
ever expect to pass!
more sedately by the remainder of From the moment jutant General's office place Italy's moves calmly out. "Clang!" "Sup-
this gargantuan family.
I entered the Monday 6 a.m. Alert for all possi
Peninsula on Friday morning up to fighting-forces-al-about-2,250,000-ac-perl Twelve--foot tables, -covered" bilities and eventualities. The order
the present monicht when I sit in. A more or less orderly queue is here with a hundred cots below my with a fresh and clean composition, of the day (more or less official) is formed and as we pass along the line, eyes, i have heard not one impatient school forms alongside; steaming pots that disembarkation will commence each grabs two metal pannikins, exclamation from our benefactors
ten. White-conted, boys quickly at 8 am,
We wait ngain for pass- knife a fork and a spoon. Proceed- British, American or Filipino-and served an excellent meal-probably port the first any of us had enjoyed at w.
and medical verifications; we lng, we pass before six or seven the provocation, musi at times have Government expense.
"Unger") sur cooka who serve each outhold pan been intense, let's say (No! let Founded
by baggage
for our turn to with the steaming rations. A ladle disembark and be hoisted into one of of stew, perhaps, rice, potatoes, salad, the long line of waiting U.S. Army fruit (fresh, stewed or tinned) milk crew, the Nursing Corps, the British British officials, ship's officers and covered trucks on the quayside. pudding brend. Excellently cooked Navy, the U.S. Forces, The American Willing, organised, cheerful and and of supreme quality, piping hot. Red Cross, the Filipina Nation, the helpful US. troops and Filipino por- ters invade the Empress, gradually vender
The lucky recipients of this pro- U.S. Army Cooks and all other pro- the dining hall, tectors VIVENDO VI SALUTIAMO!!
tive soldiers, with trained reserves numbering more than 5,000,000. The figures would be indeed ominous if 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 has revolutionised military thinking, are recent estim- atcs placing. Italian air power at 4,000 to 6,500 planes. Another im- portant factor is Italy's Navy, which, while no match for the naval might of Britain, will doubtless be supple-
mented by nir power.
That Duce has, however, not
been
الم
optimissn about the
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Now with a whiz and roar, the little M. T. Bs pick us up; hurtle
pass into
The 'Spy' Was Only Me
results at his participation in To those unknown thousands
war is shown by his long hesitation to enter. Reports of hostile forces on the boundary between British controlled Kenyn and Italy's recent-
of counter-espionago amateurs all round our coast-I salute you.
by A. J. McWhinnie
trying to get into conversation with: Jaunty Jack Tars and merchant sea- men--and being rebuffed for their efforts.
SAILORS WON'T TALK
In one hotel, one night, a civiliar was talking about guns to a satior..
minutes later detectives were round.. at the hotel.
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 ly 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 Ethiopia Britain's scaport towns and Itself large discontented
The CLD man who pressed his husband's ship may be watching her fnctions docks, seeing warships and naval car to the hotel wall nearest then she gets her ticket through the are said to remain ready for organi- establishments, docks, tramps telephone box provided unexpected pigeon-hole window of the station The sallor lett the room. A few sation should support be available..
booking office. There are also wider aspects of and liners, you have marked me drama for the hotel guests. strategy to be considered. Italy's down as 'n possible spy.
As you watched him bending his destination on the ticket may give Unless she exercises caution the plunge follows shortly upon meet- ings between Russian and Italian
I am sorry you've been bulky figure to listen to me tele- diplomats as well as between those troubled. I congratulate you on wall his assistents were checking-up
phoning on the other side of that way the port from which the ship of Russia
und Britain. In some your efficiency. And if any on me in the hotel register. quarters It has been Russia was restraining Italy. Now actual anomy agent reads this The dramo came to a sudden end.
the question art
arises ag
assumed that
HEARD TALK OF GUNS
|valis.
I have heard of naval wives elude the watchful eyes of a possible travelling miles out of their way to
don," as my address. Easy explana- tions followed.
spy.
as to whether the he'll know you are taking no I had willien Daily Herald, Lon- Italian adventure has Soviet bless- ings, provided that adventure is not chances. in the Balkans. Yugoslavia han re- cently gained confidence from Rus- sian assurances. And his war declaration, I Thuce stresses Italy'a intention 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 Is preparing to do so.
The same close watch that is being kept at naval ports is in operation all round the industrial coast, There is not much of a welcome. If you are Ja stranger.
Once, years ago, as a reporter covering the waterfront and meet- ing in ships from the seven scos, I
Merseyside's dockland
At one naval port I went abourd found
Even now I don't know who in-warship nearing the end of a com-friendly area. There are those of you who heard formed the police. Maybe in the ptele rent. The decks were clutter- me at the port talking about war-hotel lounge there was a besuitfuled with miles of wire and cables,
I have just gone back there. No.. ships and naval dockyards. It was ch counter-spy.|.|
paint-pats and all the paraphernalia body wants to talk to strangers now.. night. I was telephoning In that
ot overalled men with a big job in There are no sightseeing sea-lovers: fragile box near the hotel lounge.
Perhaps it was a naval wife or hand.
along the docks. sweetheart. In every naval port the You could not know that I was womenfolk of the men who man with special privileged Admiralty Once, you could hear many an eple. Even though you may be armed Further inshore is Mariners' Walk.. dictating a news story over miles of our warships are constantly alert. 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. ly based on the time element. Italy reached the censor, he would stamp
did not know that when the story their men depend on their vigilance with any of the skilled civilian death duce are waiting to go away more than a one-sided conversation To-day, seamen who have faced: can afford only a short war.
With France overrun, the entire strategy of the war is now apparent-
Duce has come in with the desperit "passed for publication" without a There is a problem facing every workers in the naval dookyards. again. nio intention of helping Iitler to single deletion.
wife of a man at sea-a problem They do not even seem to talk to make it a short one. For that aim,
which the landlubber has probably each other."
But let any enemy agent try to Hitler evidently" - nedded · Duce.. But hearing a stranger talking
And out when they sall, the name But if Hitler could not do it alone, about warships undergoing refit, and
Great State secrets are in their of their ship and where she is bound never thought about. there is a question whether Mus dockyards under camouflage, one of
care. But at work or at home they for Mariners' Walk is no safe place solini's aid can turn the trick. A you went to another telephone and
dare not forget that enemy cars may matter of days should begin to tell informed the pollow of your sus-
for spies be listening. whether this world is still too big piclone. for the Blitzkrieg..
You thought I was a spy
WATCH OFFICERS' WIVES
The wife of 'va, nával officer may know that his ship is sailing from a
In sea-sprayed tavema round the There Is the "equivalent of distant home port. She wants to seaports I have watched people Marines Walk at all the big ports.
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