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November 4, 1940-
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MUSLIMS CELEBRATE
Ramadan Festival Observed
The Muslim festival of Ramadan was celebrated by the Prison staff at Stanley on Saturday, when prayers were offered at the. Mosque.
Addressing Major J. L. Willcocks, Commissioner of Prisons, and others present after the religious ceremony, Chief Indian Warder Rahimat Khan said that the festival marked the close of a a month of fasting which is in- cumbent on every Muslim. In this month no food or drink of any de- cription is consumed from dawa to sunset. In this manner power of con- trol is exercised to defeat evil and pave the way to a heavenly-life.
in all parts of the world to-day, the speaker continued, Muslims are gathered together to the memory of the divine messenger, the Holy Pro- phet Mohammad. "Notwithstanding the unrest and suffering In
these
troubled days, the religion of Islam all binds us together. The
He reason for this is that Islam is pre-eminently n religion of peace--that belog the actual meaning of the word Islam. Therefore no question of enmity or warfare can exist between individuat members of Islam; and the indepen dent existence of cach and every creature is thereby justified and aggression condeinned."
"Since our last meeting much grief has been caused in this
world
and
been
many innocent nations have overpowered. Islam enjoins 15 its members to defend justice and to rally to the call of their governments.
As
a part of their duty Muslims are sacrificing their lives by enlisting in the armies of the British Empire with their brethren in the Near East, not only to
halt but also to defeat the nggressors and beat then back to the
Mualinis annihilated their enemies in
the historic Battle of Badr during our Prophet's lifetime. For those of us who are not able to partake actively I would request their wholehearted Support
by other means such as con- tributing to the туде efforts for quick and successful issue. I there- fore request you all to join with me to pray to Almighty Allah for the -safely-and-victory-of-the-British-Em--
pire.
Commissioner's Address
ARMY!
BERAMES
UFS
CAN'T DOWN THE JACK — Symbol of British dogged dotermination to win war and break Nazi domination is this Union Jack, flying at rear of backyard garden in London after Hitler's air bomb- ors had reduced East End house to debris.
How
Pilots See
Combat
With German Luftwaffe
EXPT.
CAR RACE TRACK ON
The K.C.C. presents Someone at the Door
a play of
MIRTH!
MYSTERY!!
MURDER!!!
on FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY, 15th, 16th and 17th Novembor at 9.15 p.m.
THE ROOF In aid of the South China Morning
Fiat Factory
You take a twopenny ride-on a Fiat-made tramcar from your hotel in the centre of Turin, in Northern Italy, to reach the Fiat airplane, tank, and armoured car factories which the R.A.F. have been bombing.
Turin sprawls on a plain at the foot of the Italian Alps. The river Po runs through the aren, So the Flat factories make an unmistakable tar- get.
Before the war, the old Flat face tory was turning out motor cars and alr-engines. Now It has swung over to airplanes and tanks. Another Fial fuctory, 21⁄2 miles from the old one, was completed just before the war began. Here they make airplanes and armoured cats.
The old factory had a race-track a mile long on its root, which was ap proached by a spiral road built against the factory. Here, every day, the latest modele aped around, were
and passed out.
timed, adjusted, or was?) about 1-3
The factory
Bled
ralle long, 200 yards wide, and six or seven floors high. Cars were assem- in different stages on each floor. The new factory is six times the arra. All the floors are spread out un the
They call it a “bun- Halow
ground The aty."
of this design is primarl-
ly to defcut bombs. A direct hit on the old factory would cause a col- lapse: the theory was that in the new one the damage would be confined to the immediate area of the hit.
Apparently plastering" with mix-
diary bombs was not seriously anti- cipated.
"YOU descend on him, and after a few aerobatics one of you goes down. Uped heavy high-explosive and Incen- to now it has been the other fellow in my case."
The speaker touched wood and smiled. He was Squadron-Leader J. A. Leat- thart-who comes from Cheshire-describing his experiences in dog-fights with the
enemy.
ANNUAL SPEECH DAY
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"My own impression of a dog-fight," he said, "is that the first thing you know is on Thursday at 5 p.m. in the School a noise rather like a typewriter-but much more deadly.
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Addressing the Chief India Warder and the Muslim members of the Prison staff, Major Willcocks said. To-day is the third year in which it has been my privilege to be present In your Mosque at your fes- tival of Id-ul-Fitr. In the first year
I kindly disposed persons we were nt Nicat tapi be, in the second this collect eggs, frult or cigarettes the from neighbours and take them
future lay
We
n.
before as
To-day
us sombre
"The noise is probably a Mes- serschmitt 109 Aring from be hind. You shake him off, climb |-high,~and~then spiral down till you see a nice juicy-looking Ger- man fighter, then-rat-tat-tal.
Squadron-Leader Leathart that the bombing of Britain made British airmen even more de- termined in their battles with the enemy, Their blood is up. Hate for Huns "The fellows in my squadron,” he
said bad
said, "find something stirring inside them when they see bombs dropped
on our own country,
and it makes
just begun unto hospital where men of the them fight like the very deuce.
I think, we
can
to see the light and to feel that Forces are under treatment they Muslims and Christians alike, canjare liable to six months' impri go forward alde by side in the cause sonment and a £100 fine. of Justice and humanity against the powers of evil and the legions of the goliess.
pre-
"Since Dover we have felt a new sort of hate against the Huns." Ife spoke highly of the Spitfire. His squadron has flown Spitfires for This was made clear in a case at two years and Gloucester Police Court, when Doro- cases of engine trouble.
has had only three
thy Entwistle, of Estcourt-road, As an illustration of the modest You have sold that Islam is
Gloucester, was summoned for pro- claims by the R.A.F. he told of one eminently a religion of peace and that licence authorising her to do
moting
collection without having a occasion when they had terrific dog- by Islam the independent existence of
50, fights with a host of the enemy over ench and every creature is justified aged ten going from house to house
A police officer said he saw a girl Dunkirk. and aggression condemned. And it
"We claimed only eight," he said, is for that independent existence and eltes for wounded soldiers.
with a box collecting eggs and cigar- "but I could have sworn I saw eight freedom to live our lives as we feel
He found that her name was Gloria going down simultaneously. they should be lived that the British Entwistle and interviewed her
calculated that we shot uti Empire is fighting to-day.
mo- least twenty-four machines and most) Our her, who admitted allowing her of them were undoubtedly very badly wish to force their way of daughter and son, aged nine, to cot damaged and possibly would not enemies life upon us all; to compel us by their lect eggs, cigarettes and periodicals brute strength and savagery to for soldiers. foranke our gods, but we will not have it.
taken the goods collected England does not interfere with the to the City General Hospital and had religions of the peoples who form her receipts from the secretary, great Empire-she respects them. On behalf of Mrs. Entwistle it.
The building of this Mosque is suffi- clent proof of that. And you your- self have given the answer when you sald just now; "I therefore request you all to join with me to pray to Almighty Allalt for the safely and victory of the British Empire."
talk together, brother
She had
Straining The Act
Was
claimed that the Act was passed to prevent bogus collections for charities, and it was straining
the Act to the last to apply it to such a case.
The magistrates said a technical offence had been committed, and a nominal fine of 5s, was Imposed.
The
Deb sald that this celebration was
have been able to get back-but only
eight could be confirmed.
"Much More. Fun" "It is much more fun for us fight- ing over our own land.
"When the squadron returns to the aerodrome after tackling the hosta of Germans over the Channel they usually arrive one or two at a time.
"If a fellow has shot down a
we usually know it before he lands.
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Their First Shot At The Enemy Got Plane
"One Messerschmitt” reads an inscription on the butt large number of German machines, of a Lewis gun in a south-east coast defence post. The. Although it is contrary to regula-gun team, three young building operatives from London tlons, he often does an upward roll and Chertsey, are now known to their pals as "The Three of something of that kind over the Messerschmitteers."
aerodrome.
"It gets very hot in the cockpit,
:
tated.
Our poet Kipling has written of this in these words: "That ye may tions, were present and spoke on the
to brother's significance of the occasion. face-Thus for the good of your Speaking on behalf of the President and you begin to long for a glass of they shot down a Messerschmitt poral was going ights and then hesi In a sky battle the other day "For a second we thought the cor- peoples-thus for "Pride of
the Race. Also, we will make promise. of the Hindu Association, Mr. M. R. beer. So long us the blood endures, I shall
"When you have dispersed, the as it was swooping on a Spitfire. as he swung his sights and then hesi~ due to take place last Wednesday, enemy, and with luck brought down It was the first time they had know your good is mine: ye shall but had to be postponed owing to many of them, it is grand to find been able to get their sights on
that feel that my strength is yours: In the black-out falling on that day, the day of Armageddon, at the last for the first time this year, all the sparkling glass of beer walling an enemy target. great night of all That our House Indians, Irrespective of class stand together and the pillars do not creed, joined to celebrate the festival,
which proved that there was har
fall."
or
you."
Dewali Festival Party mony and friendship among them. No Torches Allowed of ringay, and H. b. Sewell, of
thanked the gathering for their
Members of the various Indian presence and co-operation at the communities in the Colony gathered party.
at the Gloucester Hoel yesterday
at a len parly to celebrate. the After Mr. Vaswani had addressed Dewall Festival holiday in response the gathering, Mr. K. B. Vaidya spoke
ECT.
"We shouled "Bhool and that second's hesitation seemed like a lifetime. But he know what he was doing. He was as cool ass Three months ago, two of the team,
cucumber, He made absolutely Sappers, W. A. Stevens, twenty-one,
aure, and then squeezed the irig- Chertsey, were working as carpenter
"We saw the stream of bullets tear gunner. Lance Corporal F. Sharping right across the alde of the fuselage. ton, twenty-six, West Ham brick-And did we cheer.
"He must have got the pilot, for layer, has been in the Army a little
the plane suddenly went out of con- #shouted Shoot"
trol, and crashed.
"Olt, boy!
It was like shelling
Two other machino-gun posla
and electrical engineer. The No. 4 During Raids
It was just the thing we had been pens.""
London, Sept. 0, The Ministry of Home Security linstonger. to invitations by the committees of on behalf of the President of the ordered that torches must be extin- alc reid the Hindu Association, the Sindi Indian Association. He said it was kuished immediately the Merchants' Association, and the In-unique occasion in that all Indians Lirens sound. At no time during the dian Association of Hongkong and of various communities turned out black-out may they be used unless waiting for for weeks, one of the South Chins, Messra, J. Kirpalani, in full force whereas in previous dimmed by a thicknesses of tasue gunners said. "We had to be slick. manned by men of the same unit A. Vaswani and H. Ruttonico, the years only the Hindus celebrated the paper or the equivalent and they The Messerschmitt was on us in a claim similar "kills," but these, were respective presidents of the associa-' day,”
must always be directed downwards. Nash.
not confirmed.
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