NANCY
D'. OLD RAIN: MACHINE AIN'T CLICKIN' RIGHT
`LATELY!
I GUESS IT'S,
LOST #TS POWER: AT
LAST
October 7, 1940,
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie
Bushmiller
OOPS!
HAIL STONES!
0000
Boys Tell How They Sang in Lifeboats 300 CHILDREN SAVED WHEN GERMANS
TORPEDO
BRITISH
EVACUEE
THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BRITISH CHILD EVACUEES,
GRACIE | BOUND FOR CANADA, WERE ABOARD A LINER TORPEDOED İN
FIELDS'
REPLY
TO M.P.'s CRITICISM
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.
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 Л half minutes of being roused, the 320 children were standing coolly at their lifeboat stations exactly as they had practised it six times "Everything I have-and since the voyage began. the same applies to my hus- Some were in pyjamas, some hall-
[clothed, others wearing only ព band is the British Govern- overcoat under their life jackets. But ment's whenever they want they faced the worst peril of their
lives with
it." declared Miss Gracie Dunkirk.
Fields in Toronto, when she was interviewed in connec- tion with what she termed the "uproar" over her affairs.
a
the spirit of the men of
the lifebosta they runged
They Bank. As they stepped into!
Roll Out the Barrel,"
And they carried out
darkness.
orders to
Yet none of them is over 15 yeura old. Mony are Rearer five
'Salt Of Earth'
Best description of their courage
"There Www no
not 1
Referring to a question in the House of Commons, she said that cornea
from Mr. C. I. Hindley. the amount she took out of the Gosport headmaster, under whoir country Was £8,000, and care they were travelling.
When he landed, with 74 of the minimum of jewellery.
children at a Scottish port, he said: "The uproar is a complete mystery "The way those children behaved to me." Mies Fields added. I am proved that they were the salt of the working every day for the Govern-earth. meni under the direction of Mr. Bost!
crying, Dean, and am not making a cent for whimper. There was a bit of sickness myself in wor services,
in the boats, because the acu Was “All my assets are in England. roughish, but those who were not ili don't see why I should be persecuted sang 'Roll Out the Barrel as they had like this. Let the Government look never sung it before, up their files. They will soon And out I haven't taken everything out of the country. This isn't the first time the matter has been brought up in Parliament.
"I have been working horder in the past few months than I have ever
i
"Some admitted that they sung it
so loud that they could not hear the others being ill.
"One eight-years-old in my boat said: "We don't want litter to think he can bent us that easy,'
"Our boot was finally brought
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,
Aiready birth statistics are known for London and 126 towns, and despite the move- ment of thousands of people: from town to country the birth- rate shows no decline,
In Country Areas number of residents has been vastly In the country arebs, where the
Increased by
from the births towns, a big increase in expected, making the general rale for the whole country sour.
movement
Women Set Them All To Salvaging
An idea by Mrs, Mary Rhodes, of Davyhill Estate, Walkerville, this increase started badly.
The six months which have seen Newcastle-on-Tyne, has set
everyone on the estate on For four successive
the January the number
hunt for "any old Iron,"
births.
weeks
ot denths
in
One day Mrs. Rhodes, deciding to
done before, and it has not been for jalongside a ship, and, with a banana England and Wales outnumbered the do her bit for victory, started tier
myself.....
basket slung from the derricks, we
"I am getting sick and tired of sent the children up three at a time.
councit
Then the Increase in the number own private salvage dump. So the BIL It's all so unpleasant. My home The ship had limited accommoda- of babies began. Now more than trim back garden of her is in England. I intend going back.tion, and suddenly having to take on 6,500 are born in Britain every week. house in three days took on the guise I can't understand why I should be many extra men, women,
of a junk yard. persecuted
children, taxed resources.
Water Rationed
and
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 Was until a few weeks
ago, tor Mr. Lawrence has just returned to Lon- don after un exciting trip through the Day of Biscay to Liverpool.
He has lived in Spain for 36 years. He says that the people in Bilbao are starving.
Bad Black Bread Oil is unobtainable, wheat has been commandeered,
and an ounce of sugar, and the black He spent three weeks trying to bread is ao deleterious that there are epidemics of skin troubles and boils.
These the doctors cannot trent ben
cause there is nothing else but this black bread for the population to eat.
Spain's New Tourists
Reason is that everything in Spain in being openly shipped via Italy in Germany.
The Nazis have inken the whole of the Spanish harvest-all their sugar, all
their off
oli and petrol, even their Japanese rise,
Meanwhile thousands of German soldiers in uniform and with rifles, Nazl officers with swords and platola have streamed Into Bilbao from frontier town of Irun,'
They say they are "tourista” coming from occupied France to look at the country.
every
German submarines arrive evening at Bilbao and Viro and slip away the next morning after filling up with oil and food.
What petrol is left can be bought by the population at £1 5s, a gallon. "General" Franco is faced with the cholec of surrounding himself with pro-German
an Phalangists who are New Record "I seem to have annoyed a lot of
Ola bicycles, tin baths, bottles, bed-violent Anglophobes or quifting The new statisties are also *-
office. people by marrying on Italian. I
A high record for stends, fenders, and, in fact, every "With the food we had brought in pected to show
Mr. Lawrence ELYS was all right before the war, 1
that for #1 haven't earned
the lifeboats we managed to give the marriages, which means that a con- type of salvage littered the lawn.
her. month before his departure the cafes Boys on the estate helped peory for myself
Water had to be tinued rise in the number of births
They "scrounge" every bit of old were filled with swaggering German since the war started. I'm disgusted youngsters food.
can almost certainly be expected. with the whole thing. It's fair. rationed strictly and washing Was
Not long ago doctors, politicians,
iron they set their eyes on. In officers in uniform who openly sald I've turned down several attractive barred"
and sociologists were forecasting
three days there were two ions of that any provisions sent Spain It, and along came a special cor- would go straight to Germany, poration lorry to cart it away to
the city's main salvage dump.
Rival Dumps
Thinner Tickets On Buses And Trams
offers to do this work. I don't blame When the ship was struck it was dangerous decline in Britain's popula Canada or Canadian people for this found that holds were filling. The tion if the falling birth-rate was not unpleasantness. They've been won-children were ordered to take to the checked. derful to me."
boats. After about four boats were A Harley-street specialist said Monty Banke "Bitter" away, the ship censed 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 This was unsuccessful. Then a third who is Miss Oracle Fields, and him-hold began to fili, and the order is a wartime state of affairs. It is on the estate. The slogan for the 480 tons of paper · saved. self, was made by Monty Banks, the toke to the boats, was given again.
toa hopeful sign, but no more. film director.
"The decline in the number of girl "Just because I'm en Italian," he Everyone got away safely except the babies is the root of this tremendous said, "they are trying to make things purser, who was fatally injured when problem. disagreeable for Miss Fields. I wish he missed a step entering the boat. they would stop. She has been giv The boats kept together by torch ing generously of her time and signalling until rescue ships (one a talents. If they bother us any more, warship) picked them up. I'm going to telephone her to come home, and live like a normal person."when they were landed.
Mr. Banks added that Miss Fields
After Victory
Convicts Of Britain Are On War Work
Used bus tickels collected in June weighed seven and a half tons, t
Know the joy
of good health
Now rival dumps have sprung -up)
people of the dumps is, "The more we get, the better." Already the boys
By using thinner tickets on buses, and girls on the estate have started trams, trolley buses and Green Line rival scrounging gangs.
coaches, the London Passenger Mrs. Rhodes sald: "I thought Transport Board will-save: from 450 "In 1920, the first year of real was a good way of doing my bit to to 480 tons of paper pulp a year. peace after the last war, this country help beat Hitler. Every estate should · Another fifty-ave tons will be machine had its highest number of births have its permanent dump, collection saved by using paper with a The children were still singing ever recorded-907,974.
of salvage to go on all the time not Anish instead of a water, Anish, and "The same thing is likely to happen just in special "efforts,
a further 70 tons will be saved by Boy's Story
again when peace comes; but it will "I am trying to keep my dump indicating the fare stages by number was now in Canada giving concerts This is what 12-years-old Douglas not be enough,
going for the duration,"
Instead of by name. for war relief funds.
Greer, of Newcastle, told a reporter: "Children are our most priceless "I am not a British citizen and it "My lifeboat swung against the side possessions. Next to "victory" they the war was my own money," he said. "Any of the ship. I saw the hole made by should come first. After way, we followed the umant procedure the torpedo it was five yards wide. population will be one of the fore- when we come 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 then being hauled to sail for Canada again. They all Mr. 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.
They only took the little children landed gave the boys and girls food, Hotels in the port at which they tuntrue. 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 Awiched from England..
We bigger boys and some girls they were sent off to big centra Thousands of prisoners" in Captain Crookahunk stated in the climbed up a rope-ladder. Wo had before going home.
British gaols are doing war work. House of Commons that in October, to hold on tight because the ship was
But many of them have already Mr. Banks appiled independently fox rockding a lot."
declared that they will want to go modern machinery to eliminate the Workshops have been atted with the transfer of roughly: £20,000 to One party was welcomed at the away. America.
docks by Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, The oficial statement by the Re-low methods which made production Mr. Banks's nationality was at that Under-Secretory for the Dominions, ception Board reports:
task. time very obscure, but it was decided and chairman of the Children's Over-
The chief escort was the head-A great deal of the bedding is to threat him as a resident in this seas Reception Board, who happened master of a school, and included needed for the rapidly increasing country lable to murrender to the to be on a short hollday near the port among the rest were seven teachers, Army is being made Inside prison State any dollar surplus arising from at which the children landed.
the master of a "well-known college walls. his business.
He spent all day with them, and in in the south of England, a masseur
Bolsters and pillow-slips are ŝurzied 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 Board, he said:
ness, a chaplain, 'a hostel warden, a Prisoners are also doing ironwork carry on his busines as uifim pro- "There was not even a bruse school matron, a Salvation Army and carpentry to meet Servier ducer, in the expectation that con-among them. It was an intervention captain and two Quakers.
quirements.agama H
■iderable dollar earnings would be of Providence. God is surely looking
They are producing, brushes This company of children was surrendered for our benefit.
after my children, M WEMA Adrawn almost entirely from Statenid-
various kinds at the rate of a mil- These expectations not having been the sallors and others who had ed schools in London, Manchester. realised, the decision was not justified inoked after them at the time of the Birmingham, Yorkshire, Northumber The Navy and Merchant by events, but he remained liable to behaviour and reported that they incoln, Cambridge Aldershot, are also making contain
mishap were enthusiastic about their land, Cardin New-castic-onlyne, rope fenders from them "becount for his dollars
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