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THE prefix "pectal to the Telegraph is card by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the proviilent of the Telecommuni- callons Ordinance, 1930. Such new bours the indication "U" in vezivad la Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication,
Kerangement
BEATEN AND discreditED
with the
To H.M.S. Ajax, that bold, daring, courageous man-o-war once again goes the honours of
Air
DANGER
Force. She was awarded the phone and the other clutching Medal of the Order of the her papers! British Empire for her bravery
When women were first in-
in extricating a pilot from his vited to volunteer for duty aa crashed aircraft. Having pulled Air Raid Wardens, there was him from the plane, she throw considerable criticism from cer- herself over him to protect him tain sections of the public. from the explosion of a 120lb Many people felt that it was "A man's job". To-day they bomb.
Such an act thrills the ima- are thankful it is a woman's gination with its spectacular too.
Pearson
· Misa
dis- Eighty thousand women war- courage. misses it as a spontaneous im- dens in various parts of Great over before she had Britain have proved their gal puise.. ilme to think. She says the lantry and usefulness in action really brave women are those in a manner which has made members of Britain's Civil De- a profound impression. Actual fence who go calmly out on duty experience of raids has given every time the sirens blow an many instances in which a wo- man's warm-hearted sympathy air rald warning.
These women know the risks and understanding in difficult they run. They are abundantly situations have been invaluable.
When buildings illustrated to them throughout the highly specialised training mollshed a man's strength is to extricate the they undergo to enable them to necessary reduce these risks for other casualties. It isn't as useful in calming distracted relatives who propie.
arc
de-
Upon their courage and un- must wait patiently while their Or in wavering devotion to duty the loved ones are released. safety of the civil population of that more painful duty, consol- Britain depends. Every day ing those whose relatives have and night in every part of the been maimed or killed.
Hysterin seldom occurs. country they wait ready for in-
can deal stant service. They would de- When it does a man
A woman's tact ride the suggestion that they easily with it. were heroines and deprecute the as easily prevents it happening. This is one of the reasons why fact that they are brave!
Here and there a spectacular women wardens are in such de story of this bravery emerges mand for duty in shelters dur- onc child to stir the imagination and ing air raids. If warm the heart. Mostly their should start crying its distress
knitting,
to pass
or
comment on. a woman.
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Election
MANILA, Oct. 12 (UP).-The next elections for local officials-provincial governors, town mayors, etc. will be held in December, and Manuel Luis Quezon's omnipotent Nacionalista party is now con- fronted by fights within itself. Party leaders are busy ironing out disputes to avoid possible dangerous splits.
2
race
in
wardens or- either wholly at in park without previo part in this great war drama would soon be taken up by
passes unnoticed in the surge of others. So the
Or be- ganise games, singing and com-
While it confronts no real of a strong Nacionalista bloc has quick moving events.
south coast opposition on a national scale, put a candidate against Sena. comes engulfed in the monotony petitions. One
town has a woman warden who
+4 of routine work. THE British Navy has struck There is nothing, for instance, tells children's stories so well the Nacionalista party still has
The race for the Pangnainan's de that she has to be lent from one two wings, in many provinces, particularly thrilling
another. Wardens and candidates of these factions governorship promises to be one another blow; not decisive, per manding much in the way of district to
are now vying for nomination of the most interesting in the |haps, from the strictly material gallantry, in standing by a wait in another town have formed a
amuse their as official standard-bearers of province's history. point of view, but highly im- ing ambulance. It must be concert party to
as they wait for the the party.
Cipriano Primicias, former cleaned-kept in perfect run- charges
member of the defunct House portant in its moral effect uponning order. Long hours must "All Clear."
Indicating the extent of face of Representatives, has been the enemy. This war has al-pass in which the driver has
tional rivalries, the provinces nominated by a convention of with ready proved one thing; that nothing more dramatic
the time than That impulse which makes of Cagayan, Cebu, and Albay delegates from his faction. whenever British naval units which
or reading. every woman rush to help those have already been proclaimed sewing
Another Nacionalista, Dr. San- are given a chance of closing Then, without warning, there is in distress cannot be better
nominated by a convention of enemy, they are an instant in which the world served than by this hazardous "free zones" by the standing tlego Estrada, was previously town mayors and councillors as superior in every phase of fight- about her shakes and crumbles duty called into being by the committee of the party.
This means that the Naclona- official candidate and has the with the roar of an exploding barbarism of modern warfare.
It has been found that in action lista factions there will be backing of majority of the pro- ing.
bomb.
Women act instantaneously......... without the slightest regard of allowed to fight it out at the vince's national assemblymen. polls-there will be no official Primicias was reported deter- First-aid training has equip risk to their own safety.
"Divinely foolhardy" was a man candidates chosen in convention. mined to go ahead with the ped her to deal with casualties.
fight despite his opponent's ap parently stronger following. a fight well fought and a victory She knows every house as well warden's
colleague's recent exploit. It hap- Bohol may also be declared a every road in her district pened during the bombing of Ply-free zone. In these free zones, well deserved. It was the Ajax as
The gubernatorial to circumvent mouth. who played such an important well enough
"The warden was on patrol when there is no danger of any of Camarines Norte is attracting. gunfire broke out overhead and a position party men winning any- wide attention in view of the part in the defeat of Germany's craters or debris however dark
fact that an opposition party, "unbeatable" pocket battleship or foggy it may be.
Her mind can instantly work bomb fell wrecking an adjacent block thing.
of houses. She should have taken
Young Philippines, has put up Admiral Graf Spee off Montevi-out an alternative route should shelter until the raider had passed.
a candidate, Wenceslao Q. Vin- deo in December last; it was the roads be blocked so that her instead, she picked herself up from
zons, young attorney and pre- Ajax which this week sent two cases can be got to hospital with the ground to which she had been
sident of the party. Vinzons is
against Italian destroyers to the bottom the least delay,
running
incumbent. Officially, the raid should be tants of the Mediterranean and crip-
subsided.
clonalista leaders predicted that. No less inspiring was the actioner Joso Yulo. ambulance for the scene of the
The situation in this province Lukban would be re-elected de final destruction was merely a damage. It frequently is-and of a Nottingham woman. Incendi- ary bombs had fired a group of matter of hours. This is another one started. En route houses in her district. She set to was considered so serious that spite, Vinzon's reported growing proud enough record for any there is little to protect her work to procure a pump, water and it was believed Commonwealth strength. warship after twelve months from flying shrapnel, splinters all possible assistance. No sooner
was work started on the fire than President Quezon may intervene or machine gun bullets. of war and
The standing committee of the few oppor-
Fifty thousand women drive high explosive bombs began coming to avoid discontent among im-
down. These did not perturb her. portant party men.
Nacionalista party has proclaimed tunities of coming to grips with ambulances in Britain to-day. From the top of her ladder she con-
two officials candidates for One of the two Nacionalista only the opposition.
They do not think of these tinued to spray her neighbour's
for Tarlac and Under Secretary of Apart from the achievement things as risks. Merely as in- blazing root as calmly as though she factions in Occidental Negros is governor, namely, Eduardo Cojuangco led by Speaker Yulo himself; Labour Vicente de la Cruz for Leylo. the other is handed by Secretary of the Ajax, the most significant cidents which might be en- wero watering the garden.
in the execution of
Members of the committee boliové.. countered feature about this latest Medi- the job! When war broke out One could multiply these of Interior Rafael Alunan and the December elections, although terranean naval action was the a schoolmistress in a large West gross exaggeration of the Italian of England town thought she stories many times. They make Assemblymen Pedro Hernaez. only for local officials, will retet
Quezon administration. a saga in this horrific warfare Both factions have a candidate the people's attitude toward the clatne. Clearly hoping to trap could help the Fire Service by that it will be good to remem- for governor.
A convention
Aside from being careful. In de has been
ciding inter-faction disputes, the the British Commander-in-Chief doing office work during the ber out of so much the world
scheduled for Occidental Negros, committee is carefully selecting can- into making a hurried state- evenings. For months she an will want to forget.
swered the telephone and typed
There are stories of the bravery but the Alunan faction wants didates in each province in order to ment on the action before pre-
messages. A few nights ago of civilians, too. Like the one of the province declared a free maintain not only party solidarity
old ladies Southern cise and accurate information her prostic job flamed to the two ey were bombed literally out of zone, contending that the Yule but also party prestige. was available, the Italian propa- stuff of which glory is made. ganda department blared out to
the
thrown by blast and was in bombed house extricating the inhabi
Disputes within the party are particularly bitter in Occidental
pled another so badly that her over before she starts up her bris had before the dust from de- Negros, home province of Speak- Governor Miguel 'Lukban, Na-
bed, being thrown from one side of faction's candidate would surely. the room to the other when a bomb bo nominated in a convention.
entire front of their cut off the
the world the "news" of a "great She was alone on duty. High house. As one had a weak heart a Representative of the Alunan Monarchists Busy
what
THE French monarchicts are get- naval victory" For 88 hours explosive bombs began to fall doctor lost no time in going to see faction: have asked National
reached. the British Admiralty remained on her district. She heard the how they were. He found them at Assembly Floor Leader Quintin ting busy again. One of them, the
morning, serving teas as silent, but it was not the silence explosions growing rapidly two in the it had been four in the Paredes, acting president of the Corto de Lusignan, has of the damned, but the proper nearer. Knowing that her post ternoon, to the family next door, party in Yalo's absence, that London, where he is putting over
French monarchy, caution of those who appreciate was adjoining one of the tar who had also called to see how they Occidental Negros be declared a propaganda for the restoration of the free zone and indicated, they He claims that the stock of the that the truth, even if it cannot gets, she calmly phoned for am were progressing,
bulances and demolition squads. This determination to Lake be revealed until sometime after as it became evident these comes without allowing it to disturb would take the matter to Quezon pretender Comte de Paris; who has the serene pattern of living is evi-himesif if their request should now returned to France from Brazil. Karakayop has risen considerably and ho hopes
that, just as the debacle of 1870 over the lies have been told, is still would be necessary. Her only dent all over Britain. Men, women be denied. the best guarantee of winning complaint was that the blast and children busy theruselves in the In Tayabas, home province of threw the Empire and produced a may overthrow the Republle" and public confidence, both at home made it difficult to keep her matter of fact fashion of their every-
sent". with one hand on the day lives in a world that at any mo- Quezon, Governor Casiano San Republic, so the present catastrophe
ment may come toppling about their doval has suddenly withdrawn produce a Monarchy, and abroad. The British Ad-
'ente. When It does it" can't be from the gubernatorial race in
Ancient Kinga helped. Till it does why worry? is miralty relied on the official re-
The Comie de Lusignan hau royal their attituds towards it all favour of Gregorio Sena, a pro-a. De
heir study odventure have al-vincial board member. blood in his own veines His name ways been the salt of the Britisher's It was reported Sandoval with- wake was made King of Cyprinift jexistencal The patriotism and courage of their ancestors is world drew because Quezon had a Ue Ume of the Crusade, and his lukewarm attitude toward his emily reigned there for a conder
abletima; aspiration for re-election Itrie talman arm canhill at was understood Tayabas may seen en churches in Cymrur and, al be declared a free zone because where in the Near EUG
port of the Commander-in-Chief, basing official reports on indis- not the wild imaginations of a putable evidence in preferee propaganda office, and the truth to wishful thinking and extrava- of that
val igagement is now gant imaginings,
only
A double blow has been struckeryone in Great Britain to-day at: Italy, her ships have been in ready to deal the same way with defeated and her propagandists history. In the making. discredited adve
¿Particularis the women!
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