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Thongkong Telegraph,
Tuesday, December 31, 1940,
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015
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PLEDGE & A WARNING
PRESIDENT Roosevelt has struck another mighty blow for, The anti-Totalitarianism cause. He has told the three Axis Powers Germany, Italy and Japan-in firm unequivocal terms, that the United States is prepared to go any lengths, should the necessity arise, to prevent world domination by these aggressor nations. In the meantime, he has promised Britain and her Empire, now _engaged ·_in_a_life_and_death. struggle with a common enemy, expanded aid to the limit, short of war.
The cabled reports of the President's speech do not pro- vide details of the proposed increased aid, but they are not difficult to guess. The Marquis
THEIR JOB IS BEING
www
BOMBED
HAVE just been listening at
I headquarters of Coastal Com-
mand,
the almost RAF, to Incredible story of the most bombed men in Britain,
These men lead yes more amazing than any others in all the activities that combine to give Britain's Air Force that well-proven superiority, man for man, machine for machine, over the numerically stronger enemy.
They are the “Three Men in a Boat" - ile yellow armoured.target molor- boat-who provida our bombera with the nearest thing to a real, live human tar- get to be found anywhere.
Some would spectacularly call them the "Bulcide Squad."""But these men laugh at that description of such a taken-for-granted, everyday job.
You meet them all round the consta of Briinin-wherever there is a sen LIN gel range for our bombers.
Their boats, painted yellow, so as to stand out well as targets, as they are smaller than any biosille craft our bombers have to hit, take up their posi- tions on the ranges when the daily prae- tice times come round.
The three men are snug inside, under three and a half tone of armour. Colos
But, zal weight for so tiny a craft. even so, they wear crash-helmets and car-protectors,
The armour covers the wheel house, engine room and hull. The rest of the boat la packed with a secret buoyant material to render it unsinkable,
*
Not one lins ever yet been sunk. But zeveral have been overturned by the force of the bombs.
The three men, specially trained to escape from their target in such emer- gencies, get clear till the craft rights itself, or is righted.
Then back they climb again, and carry on as usual.
The bomba welgh cloven pounds each. But despite their smallness they are sufletently powerful when they register a direct hit to dent the thick armour plate of this powerfully pro tected man-controlled target and to give the crew inside an uncomfortable crack. The percentage of hits is just as un- comfortably high, and has gone up enormously since the outbreak of war, But the practice bombers don't have it all their own way. The three men in the little yellow boat give them a run for their money.
They streak along at twenty knots, turning, dig-zagging, watching the bomber's.course and dodging it; pre- tending to be a hostile motor torpedo- boat, the smallest and nimblest objec tive our aircraft ever have to hit
Securing a direct hit on a crash-diving U-boat, caught by surprise, is in com- parison chlid's play."
Many a bomb-aimer who has sent a U-boat to its doom has a friendly thought in the moment of success for the fearless and hard-bitten three men in a boat who gave hum practice,
Tiseirs is not a single act of courage. It is just a routine incident in the daily round. One rions of them ever zinkes A Nong about.
Co much so that not one person I've met han ever heard of these allent heroes who pit their speed and armour against the precision bomb-aimers of the N.A.F.
There are many such crews and such boats They belong to the Marine Craft Section of the RAF. and aro operated by Coastal Command,
The crews receive the ordinary pay of their ranks. Their extraordinary job is contributing immensely to the deadly akill of British bombers.
And those bombers are now finding their mark in relentless and incessant rakls on enemy objectives from Bergen to Brest and from Gib, to the Red Seal
C, B,
of Lothian, before his untimely Fine Reduced
By £14,500
n
death, made it clear to Mr Roosevelt that Britain would need financial assistance in the not distant future; there is little
A fine of £15,000 and £25 costs doubt that this will be forth-which had been imposed by Sir coming. Secondly, the Presi-Robert Dummelt at Bow Street dent has made it known that he Police Court was reduced to is closely studying ways and fine of £500, and no order was means of speeding up aeroplane made as to costs, by the London supplies to Britain, and one Sessions Appeals Committee suggestion, which apparently is recently. being seriously contemplated, is that for pooling the resources of the American motor industry to provide for 500 planes a day, Thirdly there is the proposal, now being fully discussed in Washington, to hand over to magistrate's decision, said that just Mr L. A. Byrne, supporting the Britain, Danish and Norwegian before war broke out Argent! went merchant ships tied up in to Belgium. He resigned from the American ports. Fourthly the directorship of an English company. President is studying the 27 and in subsequent correspondence possibility of making available disclosed that he had been in posses- to the British navy additional slon of the gold. destroyers for convoy work.
forward to the new year with re-
The applicant was Leon Pendelt Argenti, a company director, and he had been convicted of failing to offer two bars of gold and 400 sovereigns, valued together at £7,200, for sale to
the Treasury..
December 31, 1940,
15
1405
HITLER,“am practhing again... There will be plenty of work for paper-hangers after the wär.....”
YEARS FOR SINGING
The third chapter in an interesting eye-wit- ness narrative of how the Nazis occupied a part of the United Kingdom-the Channel Islands, Told by A native to
THE
DUDLEY BARKER
"GOD SAVE
KING"
THE
of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Later on, as the nights grow longer, those hours were extended.
Machine-Gun
keep that. Harold threw our gun on the plic, and went out quickly. "I happened to have quite a bit of food stored away in my house, and I dreided to risk not handing it over. I was lucky, and they did not starch the house, as they did some others."
In Their Boat and the food was very useful Inter
"All clocks had to be altered on.
told I must go to the Channel Islands
WHE
HE Germans wasted no time by an hour, to fit in with Ger- "I went down to work a bit early in establishing their hold on man time, by which everything that afternoon, for I did not know what would happen. I was stopped Guernsey.
on the island was run from then at the entrance to White Rock and onwards. They occupied the island on "No fishermen were allowed Hotel for a pass. Sunday, June 30, without many to leave the port, but three "And that was the first time I saw of the islanders knowing they weeks later that was altered, the German Kommandant who had were there.
shown Into his office, and But on Monday, and they were allowed to go out been put in charge of the island. the first full day of their occupa to a limit of two miles from the there behind the desk sat a short dark thick-set German officer with tion, they saw to it that the shore...
one or two fishermen broke hair and very lively, piercing eyes old. He wore a uniform something As Fred Hockey said-Fred across their bows as a warning, between brown and khaki in colour Hockey, the harbour signaller and then a launch went out to and a peaked cap with white braid and the eagle's wings on it. He also from St Peter Port who later bring them back.
"Afterwards, their boats were wore the Iron Cross. escaped to England to tell this
hauled up on the beach for the Kommandant story they made a thorough
duration of the war. job of it, once they started.
whole island knew all about it. that rule, and they got a shot should say he was about 42 year
"What is more, if three or
France.
Was Polite
"Its name was Dr Lane, and I "Everybody who could hurried more fishermen went out in one down to St Peter Port that boat, they had to take a German must say that, all the time-I-was-07- sentry with them, and he Hat the island, he behaved like a gentin- morning to see what was hap with a machine-gun across his man,
"After a time, indeed, the Guer- pening,” he said, “and we found knees.
sey people's fear was that he might that the Germans had taken "Other regulations published be replaced by some other German over all the chief hotels. on that first day said that all Kommandant. He had an assistunt motor transport was stopped, at first, a Dr Maus, who also behaved "They set up. their head-except for absolute necessities, well, and he was then tranferred to quarters in the Royal and the The chief tradesmen, for "We got quite used, in time, to Channel Islands hotels.
instance, ware allowed to use seeing the Kommandant driving "The officers were quartered vans for deliveries. All petrol about the island.
had to be handed to the Ger- "He was always driven by a local policeman in the police car, which in the Old Government House
mans at once.
had a swastika flag put on its bonnet, Hotel, and the N.C.0,'s in
but
Kommandant went he was accompanied by a German were billeted
soldier as bodyguard, with two re- in unoccupied
In Groups
volvers strapped to his belt. louses all over the island. Nóng
Orst met him, on that "There was to be no talking Monday afternoon, he was perfectly
"When
families. was billeted on the
Island in groups, and severe penalties polite to me. He spoke excellent would be impossed for that. English. He asked me what my job Newspapers
"NOBODY WAS ALLOWED was, and took down particulars of TO BUY ANOTHER MAN A me. Then I was handed a pass,
White flock.
Moore's Hotel. Private soldiers No Talking
wherever
the
In
Taken
From Island
Given Away DRINK IN A PUB. EVERY erman, that would let me on to "Altoghther there were about OWN. ALL SALE OF SPIRITS Food
MAN HAD TO PAY FOR HIS 1,000 German troops. on the WAS BANNED, AND THE island, and a few sallors came SPIRITS WERE TO BE HAND. later to take over the harbour. ED OVER TO THE GERMANS.
"The first thing we knew that
"The German sentry passed me "All larders had to be declared through with it at once that evening. Monday morning was that the of stores of sugar, tea, bacon Not that had anything to do, for island's two newspapers, the and any tinned food. It had to the harbour was still emply, and no 'Press' and the 'Star,' were being be handed over to the Germans ships came.
distributed free.
"None came, Indeed, until the fol- at the Channel Islands Hotel. lowing week, when the first German "They kept that up for three "Rationing, RB under the boats started to arrive from France. days, and their front pages were British rule, was continued (it
"There was one, the Holland. covered with the new German was soon
which was still plying regularly made much more'
back and forwards when I left, wo were allowed bringing troops guns and ammu- nition from France, and taking back all the things the islanders were forced to surrender the food stocks, the spirits, and so on. Even cases of tomatoes." "But I don't ́
regulations for Guernsey. Later severe), and He returned to this country on June on, the papers started carrying only one small piece of soap a
a German lesson every day, week.
On behalf of Argenti, Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., said that a most un- fortunate miscarriage of justice had
Thus the British nation can look taken place, for which no one was nowed hope. President Roosevelt Englishman, and the applicant was to blame. Argenti's father was an yesterday let the world know that educated at Marlborough and Ox- Dritain's fight was America's Bight, ford. and though he pledged the "nation that no American soldiers would be #ent to Europe, he pointedly referred to the fact that the US, fleet was
In the Pacific, inferring that it would
oggression In the Far East.
the part of the American President
to support, both morally and physic- ally, the cause of democracy, and it can be regarded as a solemn worn-
though I don't think many of "All business was to carry on the islanders took the trouble to as usual, and any shops that had learn it,
shut were compelled to re-open.
added Fred "that the Ger- opinion of
papers, and started to read the tions, but those were the princi- mans got to "I got a copy of the first day's "There were a lot more regula. Hockey with a
very high regulations. There were a lot pal ones, I finished reading Guernsey tomatoce. Both these boys of them, but the principal ones them, and then I thought I had working tell you that, when the Ger- of mine, George and florold, were in the glomhouses. And were theso:
better send my son Harold down they can "All weapons-guns, ammuni- to the Royal with our shotgun, mana came in and ordered too many tion, even daggers and bayonets
boxes to be prepared net quite the a certain -had to be handed in at once Given Back
time, they didn't always best quality, tomatoes there aref" to the Royal Hotel,
His Sword "And the packing" said George dreamily, "was not always first- "He found two German sentries closo market standard. You'd be tldo, with fixed bayonets. An surprised at the number of boxes 1 officer sat in a room inside, with a saw with the juice streaming out of pile of weapons of all kinds that the the bottom, aven before they left tho “Islanders had brought-in,
+
"IT WAS FORBIDDEN TO
be prepared to uct against further tag to the Axis alliance, iter and (SING 'GOD SAVE THE KING.
his partners would do well to note Mr Roosevelt's speech, in fact, Mr Roosevelt's
renunciation
of
was a highly stimulating new year appeasement until aggressive Totall❤ message. While tree of threats, it tarianlam has been obliterated from revented a clear determination, on the world.
THE PENALTY FOR DOING HAT WAS 15 YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE.
"Nobody was to be outside his home at night between the hours
MOR=NCUND."
"One man even brought an old THURSDAY! “THRY -- THREATEN sword, but he was told he could ME WITH REVOLVERS.”