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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 23, 1940.
Invaders Will Have to Fight Every Foot of the Way It's cool inside THE BEACH RESORTS OF BRITAIN Manhattan
HAVE BEEN
TURNED
SENTRIES AND LOOK-OUTS STAND GUARD ALONG THE
COAST OF BRITAIN READY TO SOUND THE CALL FOR THE
STERNEST BATTLE OF THE BEACHES IN HISTORY.
Should an invading German force come out of the morning North Sea mist and,
cutting through the protective screen of the British Navy and R.A.F., succeed in making landings, they will come face to face with regiments of an Army ordered to fight to the last man.
INTO FORTS
P.C. (In Army)
To Pay
Cook Breach Damages
SIX FEET THREE ex-P.C. William Whitfield, now
SHIRTS
Manhattan cool shirts are a chal- lenge to hot weather. Thin and porous in construction, weighing next to nothing. Manhattan cool.
a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards, acted as his own shirts have real style and sturdi- counsel when Eileen Elizabeth Barratt, a twenty-nine-ness. They'll improve your ap- year-old cook, of Caledonian-road, King's Cross, N.. sued
pearance, do wonders for your comfort, and keep you in good
humour.
Some of them were toughened for such a battle by Dunkirk. A major in a famous Scots unit which saw service in the Battle of France, sald at Π brigade headquarters, tucked away in the quiet countryside where they await the threatened Battle of Britain:
Ruthless Purging Of Idle him in the High Court for breach of promise.
"There is no question of our re-
L. D. V. Commanders
The sergeant, now a military policeman in a midland town, took a day off to come to Lon- don to defend himself in Mr.
THE War Office will be ruthless in insisting on the Justice Singleton's court.
tiring to a second line of defence replacement of idle and inefficient L.D.V, commanders.
For this reason these men have
only an endemic Interest
goes on in readiness for
In what the Nuzi
Lord Croft, War Under-Secre- Whattary, gave this warning in the rest of the 2,500,000-strong ArmyHouse of Lords.
hordes beyond the beaches.
the
and Home Guned are doing is not From the Inmaguration of the force. their concern. They are there for one purpose-to do or die.
Modern Martello Tower Here are other features of the story of how all the Services of the Crown -Navy, Army, Air Force, L.D.V, and the unknown warriors--will help to repel any land, sea and air invasion LAND-Flotillas of speedbonis, fol- of flat-bottomed lawed by waves craft from which Hitler may attempt to land his hordes will get a hot re- ception.
They will have to cut through
and thick curtain of heavy
light gundre. The system of pill-boxes and other strong points from which this fire will be directed has turned the whole courtline into a modern ised version of the Martello tower defence adopted to meet the threat of invasion by another dictator---Napu- Jeon
Behind the grim lines of khaki beach defendera, "ktops," strategic. ally placed to hold up any light tanks landed, were more impreD- rive than anything of the same
nature seen in France.
R.A.F. I Confident HEA: The Navy is at the "ernity arbore as well as afont.
Recruits waiting to go to their first ships have turned their first home port into a fortress.
Men on destroyers and other sur face craft in harbour await eagerly the order to turn from the work of convoy, on which they are engaged chiefly at the moment. Subinarine crews hope they won't be left out of the fun.
Com- Pilots of the Fighter AIR: mand awalt all-comers in the air with
tremendous optimism about the out come of any major clash with the German Air Force. This opinion of their record of successes in justified
One fair-haired younk Bring- officer
German first fought who fighters and bombers over the French battlefeld backed it up with an ernphatic assertion based on recent
he said the lessons of the Bghting on the Continent had been studled
Every single company systent throughout the country bad got means of communication already set up as an alternative to the telephone. The feeding of the volunteers in of Invasion would be undertaken
The providing atl try the War Ofen. great-coats was under considerations
Effective Armi There was no machinery whatever for the formation of such exert the Lord Lieutenants and the Territorial Army Associations, which! were moɛr ur less in stasperise
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HONGKONG POVERTY
Outspoken Talk To Y.M.C.A. Group
The Rev. J. 1. Higgs spoke on the poverty problem in ilongkong to the Europeno YM.C.A. Discussion Group Fast night He said he would call the address "Christianity and the Poverty Problem in Hongkong“ beenuse he saw one in the light of the other and to him it was a religious problem.
The speaker made the following
Yet within a month after the Brat
The conscience of the appeal, 500,000 had been enrolled, "uggestions,
must be roused And and today the gure was well over feummunity
Feducated, There should be far control of the greuter Government say that the essen- Ni
in the Colony. tial and vulnerably points throughout capitalistic system the whole country would be fully at the Government begin by clear- ing up is own houNT. Letralke munned by armed men
Be could now
to the not too distant future, each is own past would have effective weajama; wagle
coolies wages to a living
He understood that Governi
to hold up, and, if necessary, destroyment roolira rerrived 30 cents a day. That wurn should be doubled im- any vehicles which try to rush 11.
mediately No employer in the city should be allowed by law to employ a colle under 50 cents a day. The contract system should be abolished or there should be a large measure ni Government control.
Hause rents should Have a fr
Lord Nathan, in a maiden speech which was weft received, spoke of the necessity of co-ordinating the dis psters
riding aspect of the work with Theat oi 1 Ministry
Home Security
J
If motor-cara, motor-cycles
and
pedat cyetes were to be immobilized, more adequate relation to the wnges
Miss Barratt, dressed in black, was and costa. awarded £10 domages
She told the judge that she met Whit- Deld in 1930 at a Wellington Bar- racks dance. They become engaged the following year.
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Whilfeld Juined Kettering Police
THE legless pilot of a Hurrl- Force, told her he would not be able to marry for three years, and cane who shot a Dornler 17 into nsked her to wait. She said she the sea during one of the raids would, but last July Whitfield sent on Britain is thirty-year-old her a letter breading off the en- Squadron-Leader Douglas Bader. Kagement.
Stocky, dark-haired, he faced a a ler and an Sergeant Whitfeld, standing at brilliant carcer as
when he
twenty-one the solicitors' table, asked the girl athlete If there had not been an agreement years old.
He was one of our must daring between them that if either of them
stunt aces. Al Hendon Air Display met anybody they liked better they in 1931 he and Flight-Lieutenant i could break off the engagement.
Miss Barratt emphatically denied this, and added: "I would never have become engaged on that con-
tition."
Mr. Justice Singletom said he was satisfied there was no contract break off the engagement.
CABINET CRISIS IN EGYPT
there might be a dificulty at the of the people and their capacity to Four Ministers
crucial moment to obtain them for pay Purposes of report.
Steel Helmets
Resign
to
M. Day thrilled the crowds with their
11 aerobatics
two synchronised
toster Gamecociu.
He played Rugby for the R.A.F., the Combined Services, and Surrey. An International cap was with his grasp. He captained Cranwell R.A.F College at cricket, played squash for the R.A.F. boxed, and was promising cross-country runner.
Butip December 1931 a Bristol Bull-dog he was flying crashed from u slow roll at Woodley airfield, Read- ing. The engine was torn out by the Import
The rest of the plane run on for a hundred yards, then crumbled into a ball Douglas Bader, woke up in hospital minus both legs.
Danced Again
From that duy he set himself the einingly impossible task of flying: gain for the R.A.F. He made up his mind ihini his artliketal legs were tube nu handicup to him. He re- fused ever to use a stick.
played
even
Wood Supply Monopoly 1 stand to be currected here, but
He had his car athipted and carned (understand it is true that post of
Ilving as representative of an ol in this Colony Mr. R. Law, War Parliamentary the wood
is in the
Caire, Sept. 22.
Nying company to pay for fresh Secretary, announced in the Houre hands of monopolists and cheaper Owing to divergence of opinion lessons. Within nine months he was of Commons that arrangement were wood cannot be imported. Then wo
concerning the Italian invasion, there in the air again a fully qualified civil the Colony is being WIN a sudden Cabinet crisis last pijot. being made for the issue of a steel wunder why helmet to every member of the Local denuded of its trees," he said.
he Once again
danced. night, resulting in the resignation of The Defence Volunteers
enlightened people of the four ministers, who are prominent squash, tennis, cricket. These issues were now beginning, community shauki give far more supmembers of the Saudist Party-the learned golf, a game he had never and the rate of delivery would greatly poit than they do to the Hongkong Party which, under Dr. Aly Maher played before. increase in the near future
Eugenies League; here was one of Tauha, fnvours an iinmediate declari- In the meantime he kept his hand The most important things in the solu- Uon of war.
In by flying as many different types on of the whole problem.
of plane as he could, and on the out- know that world economie con- King Farouk signed a decree a break of war he re-enlisted with the ditions and the war will be given as pointing four new ministers. It is R.A.F. They offered him a tuxl-
that the reconstructed | Bying job, but he insisted to an excuse for doing nothing" con-understood A Stamford (Lincolnshire) house- Unued Mr. Higes. *I wonder though Cabinet desires to wall further de-medical board that he was it for wife suved 30a. towards holidays, whether the real truth has not got velopments before taking anal normal duties. Supreme confidence in the superior Bul other things grew more impor-sutne relation to the spiritual disease decision.
"He kept at them until they passed | were sent to ¡of selfishness and that to tackle Urat quality of their aircraft (and a grow-tant-so the savings ing belief that the Germans are be- help pay for another airplane for both in ourselves and outside is not The ministers who resigned were "When they posted him to a fighter
the first step towards the solution AL
chgagements with Nazi formations
attacking convoys.
"They're still an the run," he de- clared.
Ready For Tanks
Her Holiday Money
Helps To Buy Plane
ginning to feel the strain of the loss: Britain.
of so many of their best-trained pilots; and crews sustained the faith of the Lion, R.A.F.
Preparations have been made for the protection of airfield which Hit- ler may expect to seize with droves of parachutists
From excellently-concealed post- tions in the heart of a generously- covered heathland, sturdy young men from the North Country can rapidly and effectively clear those air felds with heavy
blows, They
know to look after tanks, if need be.
hearto
One does not envy Hitler's army It ever attempt to march through Britain to-day-more especially if the weather is bad,
st
Steps laken to defend "every vil- lage, every town and every city," in accordance with the Prime Minister's assurance, represent, an impressive record of high-speed endeavour.
The Coast Has Changed Maybe it's the seaside boarding house where you spent your holidays last sumuner, but since it became part of Britain's front line you would not recognise it.
-
Nokrashl Pasba, Minister Finance, Mahmud Pusha
the
Film Q friend of the family salt.
the
of squadron he was the happiest man in The Minister of Aircraft Produe-of this mighty problem.”
Ghaleb. the world." Lord Beaverbrook, has
He has already had one miner £24- Finally he said that it must not be Minister of Communications, Ibrahim knowledged the gift with gratitude. assured that nothing was being done, Bey Abdel Hadi, Minister of Com-accident. His two metal legs were
Aly Pusha badly bent. An artificer on There were those in the Government merce, and Mohammed and outside who have made this one Allouba, Minister with Portfolio.
airfield straightened them and half; the of, the chief concerns of their life.
I was only that they needed more Hamid Soliman,
The new appointments are.Abdel an hour later he was in the air.
Douglas Bader is the son of Mrs. formerly Minister support from the coinmunity,
without Portfolio, who is now Minister Hobbes, wife of the Rector of Sprot- In 1937 he of Finance; Abdel Megund Ibrahim, married Miss Olive Thelma Exley
borough, near Doncaster. ulso Minister without Portfolio, who Edwards, whose father holds a post becomes Minister of Supplies; Salid at the Atr Mintstry. Somy, former Minister of Supplies,
That Dornier 17 who is now Minister of Commerce Squadron-Leader Bader's life ambi- and Hussela Sirry Pasha, Minister of tion. It has taken him exactly nine Public Works, who also assumes the
year to bring it down. Ministry of Communications. Reuter,
before they ever reach way streets of London,
No Hope Of Success Comparing our home front with the defences the BEF. had to hold in France and Belgium, I am convinced that the enemy has no chance of carrying out a successful invanton, writes a correspondent why has tour- ed the defences.
Home Manager Passes Away
Buried Yesterday
He may land, certainly, either on the shores or by parachute or zero- plane, but his men will fall under The funeral took place at the the wide net of fire which has been Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley, set up waiting for him at every yesterday of the late Mr. Hugh Wait, vulnerable point-at aerodromes, at manager of the Sailors' Home und Weak points on the beaches where Seamen's Institute, who died in the Home on natural conditions aid an invader, War Memorial Nursing and in the maze of hidden gun nesta Saturday, The Rev. C. Brown and camouflaged traps which stud{officiated. the countryside.
Widely known in shipping circles The veterans of the B.EF, form a and along the China coast, where he valuable backbone to our front line was very popular, Mr. Watt was 50 He came to Hongkong Army. I met some of the men who years of age.
the other side.
Admiral Dies As Son Is Honoured
hns crowned
WAR CUTS DIVORCES BY HALF
WAR is mending broken romances and bringing vence→→ to the home.
the big guns posted at both ends of our ves digging," one told me. Bitchle (representing the Secretaricament that his only son, Acting | the number of new petitions that the
the promenade commands the beaches
for many iniles.
The upstairs rooms are all full
but the visitors are in khaki.
referred to the fact that whereas
"Good. As Holiday"
*
many years.
had come through the Flanders cam-about 16 years ago and shortly after- The front parlour overlooking the paign. They agreed that life on the wards became manager of the Saliors'
ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD seu front has been stripped of its home front is "A1" compared with Home and Seamen's Institute. He
was formerly with the Missions to HENRY PEIRSE, who received since war began the number of This is proved by the fact that sofas and easy chairs to become a divisional G.II.Q.. the front garden real soldiering instead of spending
"We get a chance of doing some Seamen. He was unmarried.
Among those present at the funeral the K.C.B. in 1914, died in Bath divorces awalting judgment has is a machine-gun neat, which, with
were Messrs. I V. Wilkinson, Aa few hours before the announce shrunk by more than 50 per cent.
So rapid has been the decline in in France the B.B.F. dug all its own and Accountants, Lowe, Bingham and trenches and built all its pillboxes, Matthews), F. W. Simpson, J. Hill, Air Marshal R. E. C. Peirse, had Michat mas Term list, usually the at home the Army has the big ad- G. W. Coyah, G. Buchanan, W. E received a similar award in the year's heaviest, is Ughter than for
Kirby, W. B. Jenkins, Dr. E. W. Soldier with steel helmets. Ha vantage of unlimited civillan Inbour, Kirk, Rey, C. Strong, Warrant OMeer/ Birthday Honours list.
One result is that the time taken or tommy guns take the place of
W. V. Field, H.K.N.V.F, Messrs. O, R. Sir Richard, aged seventy-nine, to get a divorce heard from the date the seaside, alif on, the steps" af "When we get time off, It's Just Owen, P. B. Wilson, H. Stainfield, F was at the bombardment of Alex on which it is sat down will soon Besview, Mon Repos or Highcliffe uns good as having a seaside holiday, Linennen, M. R. Deb, T. McMahon, andila in 1882. His son is Vice-chler have shrunk from between nine and In the big luxury hotels, shuttered only without the missus and kids," he Mrs. V. Spink, representatives of the of the Air Staff
12 months to about the same number and sandbagged, the week-end_mil-added.
Royal Navy, and Staff of the Sailors'
of weeks. lionaires have been replaced by Along the fringe of the sands Home and Seamen's Institute.
Not ono civil decoration is be-** Quarrels Made Up : : officers. The de-luxe suites bare of hundreds of men were working, lay-imodore) Omeers and Men of the contains more than 3,000 names.
Floral fributes were sent by Com-stowed in the Honours list, which A lawyer with a divorce practice their former comfort, are their billets, ing barbed wire.
Bald: the sumptuous dining halls, with From the shore the land sloped mittee of the Sallors' Home and Royal Navy, Chairman and Coth-
All the honours are given to mem-
"Great national crises invariably their gilt mirrors and glittering chan- upwards to" a wooded hill, which Seamen's Institute, Chinese Staff of hers of the three fighting services.
have this result, Husbands and dellers, covered over, are now either merged into the cliffs further along the Sailors' Home
wives seem to get together in a new and Seamen's iness or "operations room.
coast. Thanks. to expert Institute, Lowe, Bingham and Mat-
A list of civil honours may be spirit and decide to forget their camouflage, it was Impossible to thews, Crow of M/L Dayspring, Rev, issued at some more appropriate differences. detect our defences, but, I knew, T. Waldegrave, Rev. and Mrs. C. time, it is stated
The early part of the last war that artillery, of all calibres were in Brown, Rev. and Mrs. C. Strong, Mr.
had the same effect. position amongst the copses trained and Mr. G. W. Coysh, Fred (Stanley are Admiral Sir Charles Morton Divorce work increases after a war
Among the high officers honoured "But there is i tinually-a reaction, Police Station), Charlie, Queenie, Many people have left their homes Tony and David, E, S. Williams, Forbes, Commander of the Home A year ago petitions were being the blitskrieg over Britain begins in these forward, areas-but those David E. Ellis, Joy Min and Joy Joy Fleet, who receives the G.C.B.; and made at the average rate of 21 a day. The lesson of defence in depth has who remain show a good spirit and Friends in the Water Police Station, Major-General H. R. Pownall In-To-day the rate is barely 12. Lately been learned from France and use are doing their best for the Bghting A Lam and family, Wong Siu and pector-General of Local Defence in the Poor Persons Department many Germans will have to fight all the men
Wong. Tim.
petitions have been withdrawn:
. i..
Nosis of pillboxes Inve" been 、built, anti-tank and A.A. batteries Installed, ble howitzers dragged in- to position and barbed wire placed in codicise cells along the coastline,
“all at the réady, for sera hour when
on the shore.
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