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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH October 7, 1540
By Ernie Bushmiller
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Boys Tell How They Sang in Lifeboats 300 CHILDREN SAVED WHEN GERMANS
TORPEDO
GRACIE FIELDS' REPLY TO M.P.'s CRITICISM
"Everything I have and the same applies to my hus- band-is the British Govern- ment's whenever they want it," declared Miss Gracie Fields in Toronto, when she was interviewed in connec- tion with what she termed the "uproar" aver her affairs.
BRITISH
EVACUEE
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BRITISH CHILD EVACUEES, BOUND FOR CANADA, WERE ABOARD A LINER TORPEDOED IN THE ATLANTIC BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE,
They were asleep when the U-boat struck, but everyone was saved, it was an- nounced. Most of them are home with their parents. They landed at a Scottish port.
Nearly 500 other passengers and crew were also rescued.
A
The liner, blacked-out and silent, but for the throb of her engines, was pushing her way through rough seas as the torpedo hit her.
Within three and half minutes of being roused, the 320 children were standing coolly at their lifeboat stations exactly as they had practised it six times since the voyage began.
lives
Some were in pyjamas, some half- clothed, others wearing only an overcoat under their life jackets. Bui they faced the worst peril of their
with Dunkirk.
They sung. As they stepped into the lifeboats they roared "Rolf Out the Barrel,“
urders 10
the spirit of the men ut
And they carried out darkness.
Yet none of them is over 10 years fold. Many are nearer five
'Salt Of Earth'
Referring to a question in the
Best descripilun of their courage House of Commons, she said that comes from Mr. C. H. Hindley. whose the amount she took out of the Gomport 'headmaster, under country w.as £8,000, and care they were travelling. minimum of jewellery,
When he landed, with 74 of the children at a Scottish port, he said:
The way those children behaved
a
"The uproar is a complete mystery
There
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Birth-Rate Is Expected To Rise
6,500 War Babies In Britain Every Week Marriages, Too
A BIG leap in Britain's birth-rate is expected to be announced shortly. Sociologists are waiting eagerly for the figures showing births, marriages, and deaths in Britain during this year's first six months-six months of war.
move-
Already birth statistics are known for London and 126 towns, and despite the ment of thousands of people from town to country the birth- rate shows no decline.
"
Women Set Them All To Salvaging
SHIP
Spain Is Feeling The Pinch
Food Goes To Germany
Mr. Thomas Edward Lawrence is a master of languages in Bil- (bao, Spain.
Or, rather, that is what he WAR unil a few weeks
ago, for Mr. Lawrence has just returned Lon-
don after an exciting trip through the Bay of Biscay to Liverpool.
He has lived in Spain for 30 years.
He anya that the people In Bilbao are starving.
Bad Blach Bread Oil is unobtainable, wheat has been commandeered.
He spent three
weeks trying to
and an ounce of sugar, and the black bread is so deleterious that there are pics of skin troubles and boils,
These the doctors cannot treat be- cause there is nothing else but this black bread for the population to eat. Spain's New Tourists' Reason is that everything in Spain Is being openly shipped via Italy to Germany.
The Nazis have taken the whole of the Spanish harvest-all their sugar, all their ofl and petrol, even their Japanese rise.
Meanwhile thousands of German | soldiers in uniform and with riles. Nazi ofBeers with swords and pistols have streamed Into Bilbao from the frontler town of Irun.
from occupied France to look at the
They say they are "tourists" coming
to me," Miss Fields added. I am proved that they were the salt of the working every day for the Govern-earth. ment under the direction of Mr. Basil
no crying, not W*p's Dean, and am not making a cent for whimper. There was a bit of sickness myself in war services.
In the bants, because the BCD was
In Country Arona "All my assets are in England. roughish, but those who were not ill don't see why I should be persecuted sang 'Roll Out the Barrel as they had number of residents has been vastly In the country" areas, where the like this. Let the Government look never sung it before.
increased by movement from the up their dics. They will soon find "Some admitted that they sang towns, a big increase In births is out I haven't taken everything out of so loud that they could not hear the expected, making the
An idea by Mrs. Mary Rhodes, general rate the country. This isn't the first time others being ill.
for the whole country sour
of Davyhill Estate, Walkerville, country the matter has been brought up in
The six months which have seen Newcastle-on-Tyne, Parliament.
has this increase started baily.
Bet "I have been working harder in the
For four successive
everyone on the estate on the past few months than I have ever "Our boat was. Anally brought January the number
nhunt for "any old iron." of deaths done before, and it has not been for alongside a ship, and, with a banana England and Wales outnumbered the myself.
basket slung from the derricks, we births. I am
am getting sick and tired of it sent the children up three at a time. Then the increase in the number all. It's all go unpicasont. My home *The ship had limited accommoda- (of babies began. Now more than is in England. I intend going back. tion, and suddenly having to take on 8,500 are born in Britain every week. I can't understand why I should be many extra men, women. and persecuted.
"I seem to have annoyed a lot of people by marrying an Italian. It was all right before the war.
"One eight-years-old In my boal said: 'We don't want Hiller to think he con beat un that easy!
children, taxed resourecs.
Water Rationed "With the food we had brought in haven't earned a penny for myself the lifeboats we managed to give the since the war started. I'm disgusted youngsters food. with the whole thing. It's not fair. rationed strictly and I've turned down several attractive barred"
derful to me."
Water had to be washing Was
weeks
in
every
German submarines arrive evening at Bilbao and Vigo” and alip away_the_next morning after filling up with oil and food.
are
One day Mr. Rhodes, deciding to do her bli for victory, started her
What petrol is left can be bought own private salvage dump. So the by the population at £1 56. a gallon. trim back garden of her council
General France is faced with the house in three days took on the guise choice of surrounding himself with of a junk yard.
pro-German Phalangists who New Record
Anglophobes Ola bicycles, tin baths, bottles, bed-violent
от quitting The new statistics are also *x-
office. steada, fenders, and, In fact, every a high record for
Mr. Lawrence says that for pected to show
on the estate helped her month before his departure the cafes Boy on marriages, which means that a con- type of salvage littered the lawn.
They "scrounge"" every bit at old were filled with swaggering. German iron they wel their eyes on. In officers in uniform who openly sald three days there were two tom of that any provisions sent to Spain it, and along came` a special || cor-
would go straight to Germany. poration förry `lo cart, it away `to the city's main salvage dump,
Rival Dampr
tinued rise in the number of births
can almost certainly be expected.
Not long ago doctors, politicians, and sociologists were forecasting á offers to do this work. I don't blame found that holds were aliing. The ton if the falling birth-rate was not
When the ship was struck it was dangerous decline in Britain's popula Canada or Canadian. people, for this unpleasantness. They've been won-chlidren were ordered to take to the checked.
boats. After about four boats were A Harley-street specialist said Monty
Banks "Bitter"
away, the ship ceased settling and an "The problem is by no means solved. Bitter comment regarding his wife, attempt was made to recall the boats. The increase in marriages and births Now rival dumps have sprung up who is Miss Gracie Fields, and him- hold began to fill, and the order to a hopeful sign, but no more.
This was unsuccessful. Then a third is a wartime state of affairs. It is on the estate. The slogan for the self, was made by Monty Banks, the take to the boats was given again.
people of the dumps is, "The more The decline in the number of girl we get, the better." Already the boys film director.
"Just because I'm an Italian," he Everyone got away safely except the babies is the root of this tremendous and girls on the estate have started sald, "they are trying to make things he missed a step entering the boat.
purser, who was
rival scrounging gangs atally injured when problem. disagreeable for Miss Fields, I wish
After Victory
Mrs. Rhodes said: " ⚫ thought it they would stop. She has been giv-mailing until rescue ships (one a peace after the last war, this country help beat Hlter. Every estate should The boats kept together by torch "In 1920, the first year of real was a good way of doing my bit to ing generously of her time and
warship) picked them up.
had its highest number of births have its permanent dump, collection The children were still singing ever recorded-967,974.
of salvage to go on all the time not "The same thing is likely to happen Just in special efforts as Boy's Story
again when peace comes; but it will "I am trying to keep my dump what 12-years-old Douglas not be enough.
going for the duration." Greer, of
• Newcastle, told a reporter:] "Children are our most priceless "I am not a British citizen and it
swung against the side possessions. Next to victory they was my own money," he said. "Any of the ship. I saw the hole made by should come first. After the wor way, we followed the usual procedure the torpedo It was five yards wide. population will be one of the fore- when we came from England, making "When we were picked up, it was most problems to be tackled." the regular application for permission funny to see the big fruit baskets to take our money with us."
coming down and
talents. If they bother us any more,
I'm going to telephone her to come when they were landed. home and live like'a normal person.** Mr. Banks added that Miss Fields
was now in Canada giving concerts This
for war relief funds.
then being hauled to call for Canada again. They all A. Banks said that the statement up into the dark. They had to go a say they want to take it. made in the House of Commons was long way.
Hotels in the port at which they They only took the little children landed gave the boys and girls food. untrue. As an American citizen, he could take as much money as he and some seasick ones in the baskets. Local people gave them clothes and wished from England, age
"We bigger boys and some girls they were sent off to a big centre Captain Crookshank stated in the climbed up a rope-ladder. We had before going home. House of Commons that in October, to hold on tight because the ship was
But many of them have already Mr. Banks applied independently for rocking a lot."
declared that they still want to the transfer o
One party was welcomed at the way.fficial statement by the Re- of roughly £20,000 to Amerien,
docks by Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, The Banka's nationality was at that Under-Secretary for the Dominions, ception Board reports: time very obscure, but, it was decided and chairman of the Children's Over-
The chief escort was the head-
· Mr.
Convicts Of Britain Are On War Work
Thousands of prisoners in British guols are doing war work. modern machinery to eliminate the Workshops have been fitted with
slow methods which made production a task.T
A great deal of the bedding is needed for the rapidly increasing inside prison
to threat him as a resident in this($Cas Reception Board, who happened master of a 'school, and included Army is bell" RASTAND
country, liable to surrender to the to be on a short holiday near the port among the rest were seven teachers, State any dollar surplus arising from at which the children landed.
the master of a well-known college his business, MS DAT
He spent all day with them, and in in the south of England, a masseur
Bolsters and pillow-slips are turned **His application was allowed on a message to the Overseas Reception from a children's hospital, a deacon out in vast numbers
business grounds, to enable him" to
ress, a chaplain, a hostel warden, and carpentry to meet Service
Prisoners
so doing Ironwork are also carry on his business as a dim pro-
a bruise school metron, a Salvation Army
are, producing brushes
on Board. howitan
There
ducer,th the expectation that can among them. It was an intervention coptain and two Quakers Me Color Colom -
kinds at the rate of a mil-
lion a year
The Navy and Merchant Service
siderable dollar earnings would be after my children drawn almost entirely from Stateald- of Providence. God is surely looking This company of children was surrendered for, our benefit
Thom bxpectations not having bem "he sailors and others who had ed schools in London, Manchester. ronused, the decision was not justified looked after them at the time of the Birmingham, Yorkshire, Northumber by events, but he remained liable to behaviour, and reported that they incoln, Cambridge, Aldershot, are also making costal
mishap were enthusiastic about their land, Cardin New-castle-or Hyne, rope tenders from them. Prisd account for his dollar balances, A bore themselves like guardsmen an Newark, Enfield, ale rof
promi
DI
allocat
Pht other substances, and Bristol, Southampton, Chelmikfordi, palate, i
Dundee
Ser an account. He
ved from Mr. Banks parader,
Hout doing so, and
Nodiving, any!
y
Can Sail
all Again Newport Mr. Shakespear children will be)
Thinner Tickets On Buses And Trams 480 tons of paper saved
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"Another
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by using peper with a machine
a further 70 tons will be saved by indicating the fare stages by number instead, or by name.
Used bus tickets collected, in June weighed seven, önd`a’bált tons.
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