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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 19, 1940.
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3. Lamps are delightful presents for the house. The cheery glow of a taste- fully chosen lamp will be a constant reminder of the thoughtful, giver. We have a score of interesting new models in stock.
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1940
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DEFEATISM RIFE
IN GERMANY
/
HEAD LIBRARIAN SLEEPS WITH
His 500,000 Books
IN the quiet of St James's-square there sits a man who, bombed out of his own home in the suburbs of London, has the | harassing job of preserving intact the 500,000 books in the world's
most famous subscription library-the London Library.
Mr C. J. Purnell, librarian, has been there for 35 years. He was deputy-librarian when, in the last war, an A.A. shell crashed into the building-and fell on the one spot where it could do. virtually no damage.
Mr Purnell rose from his desk and fetched the old-shell out of
ú cupboard when 1 called on him, writes a London correspon- dent. Meanwhile he went on telling me how, when finally he had to leave his own house, he and his wife came to live in a flat behind the London Library.
Many of the 500,000 books in the Hurary" nre Irreplaceable. About 150
"Death Or Blindness'
Baby Dies
TWO years ago the parents
of the rarest have been sent to a sofe of five-weeks-old Helaine Colan, place. But Ground the hundreds of
thousands which remain-beautiful, of Chicago, were faced with the expensive, rare books-the bombs tall | problem of choosing between nightly.
her life or her sight..
On The Job
They left the choice to a jury Mr Purnell now steeps on the of 12 doctors, who decided to premises. Two members of his staff
are always on duty in the building save her life at the risk of her They take it in turns to guard from sight. tre by night the books which they cherish by day.
A £200,000 X-ray maching—the largest in the world-was used for The library needs all the care an operation on her eyes, which they gave it. On two nights were affected by a growth. shower of incendiary bombs feli dan- gerousty near, One fell on the roof of the flat which Mr Purnell and his lists wife occupy,
But despite the efforts of special- and scientists Heluino" went lind. She had lost her first battle.
Support
Every morning the staff gather up the pieces of shrapnel and shell splinters which have fallen on the roof. One freak splinter dived into In bay, bounced off a sill, and crushed decision of saving her life.
through a window. It did no dam- age. I was shown the largest missile which has hit the library during this war-a sturdy piece of steel which become embedded in the roof.
People from all over the world wrote to the parents supporting the
Bright Idea
Helen Keller, famous in American literary circles in spite of her handi- he child has every right to a of being "The fighting chance.
Blindness in
blind and deal, wrote:
not the greatest cyil-only a physical handicap which Helaine's mind can overcone,"
Parents Planned
tiny
A PICTURE of a weary nation in Germany is painted by Richard Boyer, correspondent of the New York newspaper "P.M.," One excellent notion Mr Purnell in the first of a series of articles entitled "Victorious Germany has had he has covered the glass Land of Gloem," which he has written since returning from Ger-skylights over the central stack of
books with a number of sheet steel Plans were made for Helaine's many.
shelves which were not being used.future. But gradually the "At the crest of the wave of German success on June 28, It is a clever device to protect siop flicker of life went out, arrived in Munich. Instead of celebrating, the people were un-ing skylights.
The child for whom millions of mothers had prayed had lost ber last mistakably and and quiet, and weary of the victory bells which
battle. rung from noon and acquired the sound of a funeral dirge when one looked at the pinched and tired faces of the Germans.
"There were no cheers' when
the troops passed by. When I expressed surprise at this, one German impatiently said, 'We celebrated once in 1914.''
I found that the Nazis take it for granted that Germany will invade Russia in 1941, and also that high officials believe that war with the United States is inevitable.
"I found food 80 deBelent In
Chief Petty
Officer And
Tobacco
Frederick Stanley Toms, of
Mr Purnell smiled when I asked him if he did not feel 1 shade |harassed under the weight of his newest responsibilities. "It's no good, |worrying about it," is all he said.
He should know, When a bombi demolished a well hundreds of "fect) away from his home, a 7lb. chunk of brickwork soared over a house and crashed through his roof. He was standing in a bedroom-watch- ing the fun-and it fell within a fool of him.
100 Years Old
German Propaganda In U.S.
Mr Wright Patman, Democra- tic representative for Texas, kas
is
is
asked the Dies Committee which Investigating un-American
tivitles of Cari Byoir, who is There is plenty of optimism about alleged to be the highest-paid the future of the library, Mr Pur-
The library which he guards quality and quantity," continues Mr Moor View, Honery, Plymstock, unique. Next year it will be 100 activities to inquire into the ac- Boyer, "that army doctors declare retired from the Navy after years old. that new recruits show signs of twenty-two years' service with weakness until they are built up by an exemplary record.
army diet.
In 1
her grandson, aged 211 And he told
me, too, of the subscriber living in Mr Patman, according to a Cyprus who wrote in June asking for New York message, says that Abooks. His letter arrived in Sep- Byoir, who is a lieutenant-
tember when the books
were colonel in the reserve, received promptly dispatched!
He bought a £300 car. month ago he was driving it near his house when two men hailed him.
any
Greatest Air V.C. Of Last War
£27,000 in the past 18 mouths.
Byoir compiled booklets for the Nazi Government, and shortly after he became associated with that Government Nazi propaganda came over by every, boat, it was alleged.
Hired By Nazis
"The most surprising development He was given a chief pettyneil told me of an old lady who had German propagandist la Ameri- in Germany is the dead-listlessness officer's-pension, and they were just laken-out-a-life-subscription-for C which is spreading like a plague and glad to make him a storekeeper Infecting increasing numbers
with
in the naval barracks. defestism. If the contagion is not Julied Germany Itself, even in vic- tory, may go the way of France.
For ten days before leaving Ber- sal In bomb-proof shelters. Never have. I seen a people with less
What happened then was described clan, with more real depression of by Mr. B. M. Stephenson at Plympton spirit. It was not fear, but some-(Devon) Police Court recently when thing deeper, which is what gave Frederick Stanley Toms stood in the the mild bombings of Berlin an im-
dock
The two men, he said, were portance out of all proportion to the
Customs
Epecial damage done.
officers, of the Inquiry staff from London. They Fear Winter
They asked Toms if he had "Sometimes I would say to them: goods on which the proper duty had "Cheer up, the war will soon be not been paid, and he said he had. aver,' and they would reply: 'Oh, no. They found packages containing Navy America and we will have another tobacco and periques (tobacco made terrible winter."
up like a sausago and wrapped in hessian).
| BISHOP, V.C., D.S.0, M.C. House Searched
D.F.C., greatest fighter pilot have seized books and papers at the Tlic officers told him they proposed that the last war produced, now New York offices of the Trans-ocean to search his house and he raised no
a director of Canada's great Air The child for whom millions objection. They found more tobacco there.
Force training scheme, has ar News Service, which was described In a shed fited up as a 'tobacco rived in England at the invita-as a German propaganda bureau. Dr. factory
were *
a bench showing signation of the Air Ministry.
Zapp, a leading official of this or of many culting operations, four-
ganisation, has been ordered to pro- Ho said that R.A.F. officers duce the books to the committee teen
partly-made
-mado periques, a damp- ing board saturated with nicotine, with brillant records have been forthwith. and other th
things,
drafted to Canada, where they are teaching fighter-pilots-to-be the latest tactics of aerial war- fare, learned in the great battlə of Britain.
Your
Then..I'd say to them: papers say you are defcaling Britain," to which they replied contemptu- ously, 'Oh, the papers.
"When I left Germany It was like leaving a
prison. Many Germans called and asked me to perform small services for them when I got out- side. They begged for food, for stamps. One woman said: "Take me with you. Hide me in your trunk, do anything.
"Hitler Is Worried”
Another examination of the car die "More than once Germans sald, closed under the back seat a concealed referring to Hitler's last speech: tray, emply but for a
scrap of loos 'He's worried, you can tell that by tobacco stem. Toms denied he had the way he spoke,"
"Oficial Germany is also worried, over carried tobacco in it
This car has now been seized, and They predicted that the war would will be retained by the Customs," be over in three weeks. This phase said Mr Stephenson. proved a boomerang and now the The officers also examined a car кате officials aro explaining that Toms had previously owned They Germany is fighting the world's found that a box, which was in the strongest
gest Empire, necessitating a hard struggle.
garage showed algus of having been carried under its bonnet.
"I know these are serious charges, but I can substantiate them," con- tinued Mr Patman. “Byotŕ WEB hired by Germany to distributo Nazi
AIR MARSHAL BILLY propaganda."..
Until a few hours' before he took off for his fight to England, Air Marshal Bishop was inspecting pilots, observers and air gunners who will soon be taking part in the fight against Germany.
ficers
Investigator of the Dios Committee
of
Bomb Cured Paralysed Woman
un-·
The expanded Royal Canadian Air Miss Lily Townsend, an "For the Arst time Germana hestan This is a very serious case," said Force now numbers about 25,000 of-employed milliner, of Randolph to feel that Hitler has slipped up. Mr Stephenson, as Toms was taking wers and men, Eventually the total Gardens, Maida Vale, paralysed Every day of British, `r, gita causes more Germans to say:' 'It will
tobre
never be over. Weʻshall have a ter-paying out of the position to get be used for the defence of Canada: her left arm last February by a
rible winter-no food or heal," and bombing every night.".
of his
dockyard without duty Toms pleaded guilty. His counsel said he had already been punished by the loss of his job and his car.
But he was fined £22
on
many others will go to Britain.
Short Training
fall. Now she has been cured by
a bomb.
To help Westminster, Hospital, Billy Bishop wald: "The training where she was treated, she sells. Thanks: For The Buggy'. Customs charges, and a further 25 [sible later to shorten it more, w/ Townsend was. pinning a flag on a the itself has been short. It may be pos-ags in the streets. Recently, Miss will be able to provide the pilots girl's costume when a bomb fell near and the crews-I might say an inex her and threw her violently to the haustible supply of them.
pround in Westminster "They are grand type of your Hospital, she found on regaining her
Back again. magnificent. They are keen,
Ride 11.
man,
un, a summóns för being in unlawful Latest in sit-down strikes (from possession of Government stores. America, of course): Mrs Nellie Kaminsky, of Philadelphia, parked WAR OFFICE COLLECTS herself in her husband's car and would not get out ull he
they are mad on Aging-sounds senses that she could move her left had 4,600. MOTOR-CYCLES
of thean, all bursting for crack at me the hospital weld: promised, to pay her £2 101, a week.
In three weeks, 4,000 solo motor-HIller She took her six-month-old son
represents or anybody who
An official at Hope "Surgeons have come to the con- John along with her. Neighbours cycles and 600 combination machines him."
In the last war Billy Bishop made clunion that the paralysis was due to fed her, resisted attempts to move asked for by the War Offee have
been supplied and aré all at work on Me name a byword by his brilliant an adhesion, and that in her fail and daring exploits, Oficially he is when the bomb burst, she - uncon- She stayed there for three days, national defence, She won. 'But her husband is un- Half the number came from privato acknowledged, to have brought, down sciously used her paralysed, arm to smoloyed, and still im't sure that owners and the others from trade 70 German planes more than was wave herself and, so cured ; the 2. Ins he'll keep it up.
{stocks,
"credited to any other pilot.
the car.