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OH; HELLO
JOE ---
WHAT'S
NEW 7
REALLY?
ID), EME DO Uhland fro tere
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
YOU SAY JOE PHONED
YOU ?--- WHAT
DID HE SAY?
OH, NOTHING IMPORTANT,
DEAR!
August 5, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
T. P
HIS WIFE'S AWAY ON
A TRIP---HE'S "PAINTING"
HIS HOUSE-AND-
HE WANTS MR.
SPUTTER TO
GO BOWLING.
TONIGHT!
-ERNIE
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THEY, did justice to glasses of
beer.
ATS, tirls who arrived were as "cléery "as"the Bghting force.
GRIMY and tired, but he found time to write home.
Prunella: A 9 lb. Son
PRUNELLA STACK. Bri- tain's "perfect girl," who_mar- ried Lord David Douglas-Hamil, ton, has given birth to a "per- fect son."
Troops had a smile and a wave for everyone as they passed through London, Right: Tea for more than “two,” and
it was welcome, too. Some had not had any for days.
HEROIC LAST STAND AT ST. VALERY
Parson With 6 Sons
In Forces Says
B.E.F. Men Sang Amid "I'd gladly
Blazing Barricades
SURROUNDED, THEY
USED
BAYONETS
FROM 'EYE-WITNESS'
With the British Army in France
THE LAST STAND OF A BRITISH REGIMENT AT THE LITTLE HARBOUR TOWN OF ST. VALERY- EN-CAUX IS AN EPIC OF HEROISM UNEQUALLED BY ANYTHING IN THE LAST WAR.
Completely surrounded by the enemy they fought all night at barricades in the midst of the blazing town, af- ter driving the enemy back at the point of the bayonet.
The full account of these last hours was given to me to-day by a French G.H.Q. liaison officer whom I found in hospital, gaunt-faced and his hair now streaked with grey. His praise for the British troops was beyond words.
This is the story in his own words:
"This men had fought their way back magnificently to the coast. At Inst we reached St. Valery, French and British generals gathered at a conference.
"I was asked to pass certain instructions to the French ar- tillery. On my way a Germani aeroplane circled over the town three times making observations. Then it began.
There was heavy bombing and (in the fight of the flaming buildings. many parts of the town. began to The moment the shelling stopped blaze fiercely.
Thidy Charge
there
"Then, to my surprise, was heavy machine-gun fire, and British troops began to run up the street with fixed bayonets. The
into the town.
amort
they were at the barricades."
"Next morning we went off to the) beach under heavy machine gun fire. The nearest boats were at Veu-les- Roses, some miles away.
Along The Beach
-THE- DOCTOR'S BILLS
now
GOEBBELS has ready in the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin signs and bill-boards for erection on the expected German en- try into London.
No further details are at present available..
Special schools have been started by the Nazis for in- -struction--in-English-and. Russian idioms and the languages of British, French and Belgian colonies In "Africa
Reports from Milan say Italy's entrance into the war is meeting with pas- sive resistance among the people, and even soldiers have expressed their sym- pathy for France.
Italian troops are be- lieved to be of an inferior class, and form a weak link which will finally decide the outcome in favour of the Allies.
Japanese War Gift
of
The Singapore office of the Shinwa "Along this beach I saw another Rubber Company, proprietors Germans were beginning to come example of supreme coolness by the Malayu's best-khown Japanese-owned British To make more rapid pro- rubber estate, have given £1,200 to "The battle became terrifle, with press, a whole platoon walked along the. Malnya, patriotle fund with the
line, appr fierce machine-gun and shell fire the beach in a widely-spaced approval of the directors of the com
the blazing buildings. 1 side by side, instead in Ale, just pany In
of
In Tokio, Joined some Englishmen on the cast as if they were on parade. side of the harbour and fred at the "I reached the boals, stripped off manager says: "We owe a debt of swom, eventually gratitude to Great Britain for being Germons only a few hundred yards my clothes and
being taken on a trawler. Men permitted to carry on business' under were pouring to the beach. What her protection, and the least we can happened to them I do not know. do is to respond when the need is
"WHAT I ONLY DO KNOW 18 made known.
away.
"Then things suddenly quietened down. The British had driven the Germans from the West Cuff.
A night fell the battle began again. The British were magni- Doent. They manned the · barricades "He is a very fine hoy, weighing set up in the streets. First the enemy shelled and then machine-
nine pounds," told at Ferne, Shatles-] -*
gunned. bury, Dorset, where Prunella ... D staying with her brother-in-law, the Duke of Hamilton.
Lord David is a pilot offer in the RAF. He was given special leave to be near his wife..
Prutiella was determined to have the perfect child,,
"I BAW one sergeant making his men laugh and leading them in songs! as they took cover against the shells
An accompanying letter from the
THAT YOUR BRITISH TROOPS) "Our enterprise, fur from being FOUGIIT AND FOUGHT AND hindered by war conditions; is making NEVER GAVE IN.”
good progress."
Dead Duke was Noted
Art
Collector
The Duke of Rutland has died at his sent, Belvoir Castle, Grantham
(Lines) nged fifty-three..
He was taken ii) eight days ago. Death was due to pneumonia.
dream of a lifetime, about twelve years' ngo„by inking up residence! at Haddon Hall,"hona of Dorothy -century Vernon, the, sixteenth beauty who cloved with one of his INTERNET, And he restored the old 111037, the Monners' family made coronation, history, when the Duke and Duchess of Rutland and four or
PRIEST SAFE IN ̈ DENMARK - She kept up her work with the Women's Leigue of Health and Father Martindale, famous Mayfair Beauty, and carried on with her priest lecturing In Denmark at the The duke was one of the world's dally exercises.
The botime of the German invasion, for leading authorities on some aspects She paid special attention to diet, whose safety there has been anxiety of medieval art, and was a member Fruit and vegetables were her staple is safe and well in the German Jesult of the Royal Commission on historical
Granby, College Copenhagen. He was stay manuscripts, Lord
age their children took active parts in the fod. She ate little meat.
ing at the college, where he is now twenty, his eldest son, is an officer caremony the duke carrying the Prunella le 26, She married Lord virtually a prisoner, and will be un- the Guards.
Sceptre with the Cross for the Queen. David Douglas-Hamilton in October able to communicate, with anybody Head of the ancient family ofThe Duke succeeded his father in 1938.
the duke realised the) the tide in 1925. 5-qutside.
Manners,
kill 12 Germans"
"IF Hitler lands troops in this country and I can kill twelve of them, I should die happily."
So says the fighting rural Dean of Lewes (Sussex), the Rev. E. Griffiths.
Mr. Griffiths has six sona serv- ing in the Forces and has him- self joined the Local Defence Volunteers,
Mr. Grimths, who was an Army choplain in the last war, has been severely criticise:t by some local resi dents for becoming a parashot.
Just To Make Sure! "He is by virtue of his office a non-combatant and would probably cry Sacrilege' if the Germans bombed his altar," said one critic.
"The fighting person, however, Ir not perturbed by these criticisms. His answer is:
"IF
HITTLER WINS THIS WAR HE WILL HAVE NO USE FOR MY PROFESSION. THEREFORE MY FIRST TASK IS TO MAKE BURE HE DOES NOT WIN. SHALL SHOULDER A GUN.” Three of Mr. Griffiths's sons are in
the IAF.
One of them piloted a Wellington bomber during the evacuation of Dunkirk, His muschine, was struck by a shell, but he brought it safely. home.
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