TORPEDOED BOY SAVED STAMPS
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Derek Fairhurst, who lives in a London suburban town, made one condition when his parents proposed he and his sister Doreen, aged 10, should go to Canada
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It was that he should be allowed to take his stamp collec tion, containing 1,000 stamps of Europe as it was before Hitler. changed it,
that
His mother objected warm clothes were more im- portant, and as luggage was- strictly limited the collection must give way,
Derek argued that he had taken years to collect the stampa. With Europe at war, some of them were valuable and irreplaceable.
Is father persuaded Mrs. Fair-
FINDING
LOST MEN OF B.E.F.
IT was disclosed recently that
hurst, reluctantly, to let him put hafa large proportion of the 70,000 stumpa before warm clothes.
Derek was one of the children
British casualties in France are
saved from a ship which was attack-prisoners of war,
ed by a U-boat in the Atlantic.
All He Had
He and 200 other rescued children from London and the Home Counties arrived back'at Eusion.
And when his father met Derek and Dorten the boy had his precious stamp book with him, p
"It was the only thing I had time to nave" he said,
"When we felt the bump I Just grabbed it, and went to see my sister, safely out.
"Many other children were awful- ly sick in the small boat, for it tossed up and down so, but I wasn't. I'm a good sullor. The sailors suld 50.
home.
clutched my book all the way
"I think a lot of my stamps." This is Derek's secon! adventure at scil.
**Three years ago," and his father, "I took him out to see the Queen Mary after her record-breaking trip, "We got sluck on a sandbank in the Channel. The ship we were on was in some danger, and we signalled for help. But Derek enjoyed every minute of it."-
A
Soldier's Alleged Bigamy
The information was given at
a meeting at the London Man- afon House by Sir Philip Chet- wode, chairman of the Executive Gommittee of the Red Cross and St. John Joint War Organisa- tion.
The Red Cross, he said, is still tracing men who have been lost since the BEF. left France. Many of them are prisoners.
It was reported at the meeting that the Lord Mayor's Fund now stands at £3,073,000,
Lord life, deputy chairman of the Fund, said the cost of collection had heen under two per cent. Nearly one-third of the money came from overseas,
The penny-a-week scheme had collected no less than £200,000.
Weekly receipts now averaged £15,000. This meant that more than 3,500,000 working men and women were giving a penny, a weck their wages.
from
Sugar Chief Libelled By Broker
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Monday,
HONGKONG - TELEGRAPHU
December 16, 1940.
TAIN
INDIAN AIRMEN-Mon from India arrive in London to join the Royal Air Force as pilots to strafe Germany. They are greeted by a sorgeant of London police force in hearty handshake.
Finest
Generation Boys and Girls
Of
HITLER SACKS ARMY PRINCE His Fury With Bernhard
PRINCE ASCHWIN ZUR LIPPE-BIESTERFELD, brother of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, has been expelled from the German Army by the special order of Adolf Hitler.
He has been put under domi- clliary arrest at the family castle near Bomat, in Silesin,
None of his friends is allowed to see him-oven If the friend dared to
Incur the suspicion of the Gestapo by doing so. The motive for Hitler's order is his fury with Prince Bern-, hard, who, though born a German, has not in Nazi fashion betrayed the oath of loyalty to Helland which he awore when he became naturalised before his marriage to Princess Juliana.
Under Hitler's direct ordets n flood of scurrilous newspaper attacks was Jet loose against Prince Bernhard both in Germany and in the German- controlled Press
Now Hitler, unable to get at Prince Bernhard himself, has tried to punish his brother.
He was,
,degraded and put under
arrest as an officer who for his heroism as a lieutenant of motorised shock troops during the Polish cam- paign, was decorated with the Iron Cross.
Of Nazi Playing Cards Found
"IF anyone thinks our youth is decadent let him ask the opinion of any German who has met them. I do not think that ever in our history has this country produced such a fine genera- tion of boys and girls."
That tribute was paid by Mr. H. Ramsbotham, President of the Board of Education, at a meeting of the Manchester Youtli Committee.
The war, he said, made him proud of Britain's education efforts in the years preceding it.
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Libel damages of £550 costa
After announcing that expenditure awarded to Mr. on youth work in 1941 will be two William James Rook, Director of ar three times as much as for 1040, Battery Quarter-Master Sugar Purchases at the Ministry Mr. Ramsbotham stated that physical Sergent, Charles Harold Taylor, of Food, in the King's Bench training for young people is not to was accused at Birmingham Division.
be made compulsory. recently of committing higamy. three months after he had mur- ried his second wife.
Mr. Justice Atkinson declared that: "If and when I am satisfied," he the defendant, Mr. J. Leslie Fairric, said, "that adequate provision can a sugar broker, of Mincing-lane, EC., be made for pitysical training on a Mr. 14, P. Pugh, prosecuting, sald Rook and the Sugar Control.
was actuated by enmity against. Mr. nation-wide basis, then will come Taylor was divorced by his first wife, hearing had lasted 15 days.
The the time to consider the release of young people from their work for and married Mrs. Margaret Lillari Taylor, of Chelmsford Road, Ports-alleged libel contained in cables sent which they may take part in physical Mr. Rook claimed damages for one or more short periods a week in mouth, in July. Inst
to Mr. Falerie by Galban Lobu and training, with great benent to them- Miss Brenda Annic Weston nich she met Taylor at a dance in a mild-Co., a Cuban sugar exporting firm, to selves und to their emciency as
whom the defendant acted as agent. workers." "poisoned the minds" of the firm by He contended that Mr. Fairrie had
was favouring the firm of C. Czarni- untrue accusations that Mr. Rook
kow Ltd., of which he is chairman.
on
land town, and "married" him October 21. She regularly received
a week from him. 23.55, 01. a
Both women expressed their loyal ly to Taylor in the witness-box.
His wife said: "I am still fond of him, and will forgive him if he
"will" be true to me."
Miss Weston kald:
"He stands by me, and I stand by him.”
vice-
The Judge said-he-had-no-doubt that Mr. Fairrle wanted to force Mr. Rook to give orders to Galban Lobo. There was never the slightest foun- Taylor was sent for trial and was dation for any of the libels. allowed ball,
Earl Beatty To Command
"U.S." Ship
GOOD PRICES
FOR RAMS
At the annual sale held at Lanark recently excellent trade was expori- enced for Border Leicester ram lambs, when 283 head were disposed of at the splendid average price of £12. 6s. 11d. aplece, as against £10, 10s, 3d. last year. The top prices for lambs were £130 and £100,
Lord Mayor Of London Is Elected
GERMANS' WAR AIMS IF THEY
In Shelter
A PACK of Nazi playing cards was found in a North London panicked during a raid and after. shelter after a strange man had
warts vanished.
Despite the efforts of A shelter marshal, the man went on asserting that Britain had a hopeless cause and stood no chance against the German forces.
After the all-clear the marshal was tidying
the shelter when he came across a pack of German cards, with the Swastika on their backs.
They were on the bench where the man had been sitting, and had evi- dently fallen from his pocket.
It was suggested that the Nazis
lined in a memorandum publish.:
GERMAN war as
alms are out-may be using agents to spread panic
during raids. ed in the "New York Times."
It is stated that the Germans
GIFT FOR
on the defeat of Britain. admit their fulfilment depends SALVATION ARMY
The annual gift day in ald of the The plans provide for the an- and Girls, No. 2 Embankment Road, Salvation Army Home for Women nihilation of Switzerland, the will be held on December 20. Gifts in Netherlands, Norway,, Poland, money or kind will be gratefully re- the Baltic States, Rumania and ceived by the following: Jugoslavia.
Mrs
Pearson-Grant, Empress Lodge, Kowloon; Mrs Phillips No. 28 Belgium and France-will-bovate, No. 31 Harbour Vlow. Kowloon; Kadoorie Avenue, Kowloon: Mrs. partitioned.
Mrs Piercy, No. 409 The Peak; Mrs Norway will be joined with Sweden Blake, No. 15 Felix Villas, "under the present Swedish dynasty," Old City Hall, Queen's Road; Helena Pokfulam; Belgium will lose her Flemish urens to Germany and her Walloon Ferry Travel Bureau, Hongkong; Star May Institute, Garden Road; Star areas will go to France.
Ferry Office, Kowloon: and Major Brazier, Salvation Army Home, No. 2 France and Italy Embankment Road, Kowloon. all the ancient customs and
France, the newspaper continues, and white), dry vegetables,, soya
Suitable ceremonies were observed at the will cede Alsace bed apart of Lor beans,
gifts would be rice (red Guildhall recently when Sirraine to Germany and will give Italy dour, sugar, tes, Unned milk, soap, Balt vegetables, wood, charcoal, George Henry Wilkinson was Nice, Corsica, and Tunisia. elected Lord Mayor for the com- intends next spring to move into the mugs,
Germany, according to the story, buckets, brooms, brushes, enamel towels, blankets (red or brown), ing civic year.
Balkans to attack Russia.
enamel bowls, 14" calico, Dating from the time of Lord This means that the Ukraine, Po-brushes, cots, knitting wool, toys, flannelette, tah hair, keks, tooth- Mayor Whittington, the first of land, and the Baltic States will be
Christmas far
fare, crackers,
Despite the risk of air raids
the customs was the attendance absorbed by Germany, and Rumanin Laxols, books and games (Chinese
among Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria. any household requisites, etc. and Jugoslavia will be partitioned or English), gramophone and records,
600,000 UNEMPLOYED IN. PARIS
Licut.Commander Eari Beatty, N., son of the former
HIKED 183 MILES
at divine service in St. Lawrence First Sea Lord, it is understood,
Jewry of the Lord Mayor, will be appointed to command
TO A FIRE
Sheriffs, and Aldermen,
A special appeal is made to Chinese one of the fifty American des-
Because he wanted experience, ú Afterwards the liverymen met t
housewives to lend a helping hand to troyers sold to the British Navy, Manchester part-time auxiliary fire-the Guildhall, and at noon the Lord
along any commodities they can spare their less fortunate sisters, by sending Earl Beatty, who is thirty-five, re- man hitch-hiked 183 miles from Mayor (Sir William Coxen) took his signed his commission in the Leices- Manchester to London on his week's chair at the huslings in the ancient
that might be of use in the Home, tershire Yeomanry after the outbreak holiday and to obtain practice at real hall. The floor was strewn with It is officially estimated in Paris
whose inmates are mostly Chinese. of war to join the Navy.
fires. He joined up at a London fire sweet herbs, a practice of great anti-that there are 600,000 persons 1- ROAD ACCIDENTS Viscountess Beatty was formerly station and quickly got the experience quity which was originally a precau- employed there. an American, Mrs. Dorothy Sandes. he wanted.
tion
against plague.
Half of them are heling alued by After the usual ritual the election their former employers.
During August this year, 720 per- The of Sir George Wilkinson
re-sons were killed on the roads of was an-mainder have received a dole.cqui- Great Britain, compared with 018 nounced:
lavent to about 1/1,a day for during the corresponding month of bachelors' and
1/7 for married 1930. Of these, 205 were killed dur- couples, plus Bd. for each child. ing the black-out.
Gas-Proofing Of Raid Shelters To Go Ahead
Authorities responsible for public air raid shelters in Britain have been told to examine their arrangements for gas. proofing the shelters in accordance with schemes prepared some time ago.
Military authorities along the South Coast have for some time been instructing the forces in their command in gas pre- cautions in view of the possibilities at any time now' of an at- tempt at invasion by the enemy.
German-Japanese Plots For Sabotage Alleged
The New York newspaper "P.M." describes what it calls.
Ruthless Damage Addressing the liverymen, the Lord Mayor-Elect sald that there would be no pageantry and very little hospitality during his year of office. The City
was boln ruthlessly damaged, and the ilfe's work and fortunes of many of its citizens and the homes and total belongings of many of its workers were being de stroyed at one foul blow. Fence might not come in his year. of office, but our right would prevail and the widespread plots by Germany and Japan to foster sabotage in the City would rise again in all its digni- United States and to stir up trouble along the Mexican border. ty and glory.
First violence, it says, in Germany's undeclared war against Sir Robert Kindersley said that the the United States has been tontatively set, It is considered possible that and perhaps damp air raid shelters, the Germans may include the and various methods of keeping shol- Lord Mayor's fund for air-rald vic- tims had reached £700,000. In two
Plots are being developed in use of poison gas as part of the ters dry and warm have
weeks. preliminaries for an invasion.
The possibility that sub however, be combined with go Trentham were formally installed in The heating of shelters cannot, s. Alexander alle. Mr. George Percy Earlier in the day Alderman Frank marines might be used for such proofing beenuso of ventilation an attack from the Channel handculties, At the moment the once as sheriffs of the City for the not been overlooked.
Ministry of Home Security is more ensuing year. It-ig-bolleved that meteorological to hasten with the work of gas- concerned with urging the authorities investigations have been made by the proofing the shelters for the public. enemy of factors affecting the strafe-
Ways
of making Anderson and brick private shelters as gas-proof
investigated.
been
BROTHERS ARE INSEPARABLES
Directed By Consul the United States and Mexico by tion, adds the newspaper, is awaiting The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
and others, calling for action, arrests German and Japanese diplomats the sign for the start of wholesale
consul
which will probably involve á According to
to sources of the Do- Mexican revolution, incidents on on the West coast, sabotage plans are partment of Justice in Mexico and the Moxican United States under the general supervision of the frontier, destruction of United Herr Wiedmann.
German Consul In San Francisco, States warships by special bombs Assisting him is the German con have been described Two brothers Arthur and Stanley from Germany shipped by way the newspaper, who la alleged to have in Los Angeles, Herr Cyseling, anys With the approach of colder lasted from time to time.
various
alous official handbooks and leadets Vince of Fanleigh Road, Felixstowe, of Japan, and explosions in the been at a meeting where plans to weather there is some public concern
known to their friends as "the in- West Coast arsonals and aircraft dynamite the Hercules power plant were drawn up. The Federal Bureau disguised as pencils,
gle use of polson gas.
Risks Of Illness
The simplest form of gas curtain separables," and who fought side by
and ride in France, are prisoners of war factories, by German explosives was advised of this plan, the news
about the risks of illness through to a blanket soaked in water, having to spend whole nights in cold hung across the entrance.
[Iritha'some German' camp.
'paper: concludes,
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