NANCY
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CORVETTE DEFIES RAIDER
Here is a Dayld and Goliath story from the sea-a story which overwhelmed the First Lord of the Admiralty und which will thrill you.
It's a story of EL small corvette, rolling along the ocean. Muflled men on the bridge saw a German raider against the horizon.
In the Admirally, hundreds of milies away, his chort brave sign reached them from the corvette:— "ENEMY RANDER. AM ENGAG- ING.
That's it.
In his room Mr A. V. Alexander plcked up the brief signal-one of the many be uces every day. He described his reactions:
"Anyone who knows what mayal ships are, and what is the size of a corvette compared with an enemy raider, will realise the courage of that signal," he said.
"It Just overwhelmed me. 11 brought tears to my eyes. It also made
me feel very thankful that there was a big sister close by,"
Germany's Blockade Worries
Transport Is The
Real Difficulty
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 9, 1941
By Ernie Bushmiller
AUNT FRITZI-- MAY I CLIP.
SOME OF THE-
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YES, NANCY
This year's medical graduates of the University of Hongkong are seen in the above photograph. Seated in centre
is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Gordon King, and beside him are (left) Prof. P. 'B. Wilkinson and (right) Prof.
R. C. Robertson. (Photo A. Fong).
Melbourne
Man's Miraculous
Escape from Greek Front
In a clumsy oaken craft of 50 tons, with sails and an auxiliary engine, Major Eugene Gorman, the Melbourne barrister and Comforts Fund Commissioner, escaped from Greece during the evacuation after a series of extraordinary adventures.
19 Men, One To Plan New
SANG IN BOMBED HOSTEL
--Brave Nurses
When a shower of fire bombs fell on their South London hostel during a recent roid nurses climbed on to the roof and sang. "Keep the Home Fires oman Burning as they fought the
Woman Britain
flames.
Carrying six Australian sol- Our blockade of Germany diers and 56 Greek refugees the and the R.A.F. bombings, it is little trading vessel, called a learned in London, are seriously kayak, sailed safely into an hampering the Nazis' war island harbour behind eight
As soon as the incendiaries had potentials. Problems of distri-warships of the Mediterranean
been pat out the girls went off on bution and transport are giving Fleet on the morning of April
their cycles as the rald continued to the enemy more worry than 28, writes John Hetterington,
tend the sick.and injured patients. actual shortage.
the "Sydney Sun" War corres-
"Florence Nightingales on These Nineteen men and one woman were named by Lord Reith, In most cases where one would pondent in the Middle East.
cycleathe District Nurses-have Minister of Works and Buildings, as members of a consulta- just been look for shortage as a result of the
commended for their Gorman rounded off the trip by tive panel who will help him to plan the New Britain. blockade, the Germans are still live borrowing a truck on the Island and
heroic work by Queen Mary. Ing on stocks, which they already distributing cocoa, tinned fruit, 3,600 the commliice set up under the chairmanship of Mr Juice Uthwatt on are carrying on."
Lord Reith stated that he expected to receive shortly a report from
"It is really wonderful how you she wrote in a Uns of tobacco and other comforts to Labour is also providing difficu-thousands of AIF, evacuees on the the best methods_of_slopping_speculation_in_site_values_in_bombed areas. letter to Miss Mercy Wilmshurst, ties, in spite of the large numbers island.
Rénerar superintendent of the The new panel will give expert The central authority would lay Queen's Institute of District Nursing. of foreign workers Imported.
He was able to do this because he advice to this committee which is down the broad outlines of its plans, Į The Germon technical Press shows had brought away in the kayak pracnow working out detalls for the and hand them
* Amid Debris over 10 regional anxiety regarding ferro alloys, und
leally all the Comforts Fund stores machinery of replanning.
"During the Plymouth raids our authorities, announcements of synthetic rubber
in Greece-about 14 tons-includ-
nurses went out looking for, thele The panel includes ten architects substitutes are made periodically,
Below the regions there would be slek patients. They searched wreck- Nickel colns have been called in ing £100 worth of cutlery that had, and town planning experts, beaded
been purchased for the Australian by Professor L. Patrick Abercromble on for the collaboration of the age, and sometimes managed to get In Italy and occupied countries.
Just
"smallest effjelent planning units." people out alive." Miss Wilmshurst town appointed Wooden Shoes
planning whose ground knowledge would en-told the press. adviser to the LC.C.) and Mr W. H.able them to all in the detail. Shortage of textiles is affecting Gorman hired the kayak in ex- Ansell, president of the Royal In- Test surveys for the reconstruction
German chiefly the
civilian con pectation that Greece would be stitute of
of British Architects; Sir
of Birmingham, Coventry and Bristol sumer.
few days before Britain Waller Citrine, Lord Balfour of Bur- have already proved, in Lord Reith's began to withdraw her forces.
tel. Dr. L. Dudley Stamp, leigh;
director He loaded his personal belongings the Land Utilisation Survey: Sir boundaries will have to be dis- * view, that pre-war administrative and stores into her during April 22 Montague
Barlow.
chairman of the and boarded her late the same night Royal Commission on the Distribu- regarded. Present town and coun-are just part of their job now. No with five non-commissioned officers tion of the Industrial Population, and ry planning laws will have to go bomb would stop them from visiting.
back into the melting pot. employed on canteen and Comforts four other members of the samo Fund duties.
Commission; together with represen- tatives of local authorities such as
and Lancashire, Gloucestershire
The French have been robbed of their textile stocks, and are now be→ ing forced to collaborate in the establishment of synthetic textile industries.
Hunger for leather is indicated by the fact that wooden shoes are of cially encouraged in Germany.
Tin and packing material sub- stitutes have been introduced, but against keeping food too long in the substitute packing.
There in a serious shortage of fats,
German housewives are warned
POLES READY TO MEET NAZIS IN MIDDLE EAST
Soldiers' Club which was to have opened in Athens.
evacuated
Cabaret Dangers The Australians found a number
of refugees already on board-Greek soldiers, four women cabaret per-
formers and a barman from a leading
hotel, all desperately eager to lenye
They fires with debris wood, to sterilise their Instruments, and Dies continued thidir rounds some- times working without gas, light, or water.
"But to all our women, rafd risks
their patients."
Leeds and Liverpool. Swedish Overseas Trade Kept
The Woman Member The woman member is Mrs Llone! Hichens, a member of the Royal Greece.
Commission on Distribution of in- The kayak reached the island of dustrial Population, Siphnos early next morning and put Lord Reith said he envisaged a into a mall core well away from central planning authority empower- the main hackour, the passengers go-ed to take bold, comprehensive deci ing ashore in two dinghies and hid-alons on utilisation of land, location ing in caves while enemy aircraft of population in relation to industry, scouted overhead.
creation of national parks, trunk They
had not been ashore tong roads, etc. when an enemy.
blanc flew over and
a 3,000-ton refugee ship, sanka In the main harbour.
After many months of hard mill- tary training in Palestine and Egypt, a Polish group, equipped with the latest British weapons and ammuni-
Passengers who escaped ashore tion, is set and anxious to meet the from the bombed ship, including a Nazix on the battlefield again. company of Grtek machine-gunnera "We are grimly determined to fight asked Gorman to take them in the torry is won kayak and he agreed to take 12 be-1
to the last man until and freedom
Enemy aircraft had sunk seven ships there in 11 days, and a 6,000- tonner that came in soon after the
Up Despite Heavy Handicaps
NEW YORK.-Although Britain now permits five Swedish ships a month to pass through the blockade, numerous difficulties still stand in the way of Swedish overseas trade.
On
Latest estimates of Swedish shipping losses announced by Swedish sources here, show a total of 85 vessels aggregating more than 200,000 tons have been sunk. About 500 officers and men have been fatalities.
In addition, while no general per-¡
the Swedish February 25
·loaded with kayak's arrival was bombed and mit is needed, each shipment must motorship Gilmaran
be covered with special naval cer-16,000 sunk within a few hours.
tons of important freight, A Miracle
tificate or "havicert," thus involving chiefly cotton and tin plate, arrived Four or five survivors from the sometimes as many as 500 separate direct from Galveston.
licenses for a single cargo ship. Exports to the United States were bombed ship were added to the This entalla an enormous amount of recpened with the arrival in New Boat Fired On
kayak's already over-inrge company,
"York on April 3 of the Swedish Gorman put some aboard and was and when she was again preparing preliminary negotiations before
freighter Siegeholm from Gollen- waiting on ahore for a dinghy to pick to sail that night adverse winds de-ship can sail.
Under
the British blockade agree-burg. him up when Greek machine-gun-veloped and the captain decided itment, which says that one of the Since March 4, however, it. 1s
to sea. dangerous to put Thus
Sweden must known that at least four Swedish returned Ave ships going to passengers
come from a British port, it is stipu-freighters have been sunk. for another da
day's wait. to 13 rot into it and compelled the ashohere was only one good thingated that n
n corresponding number about It," said Gorman. "A Greek of ships of equal tonnage be allowed
declared cause the kayak would not hold any General Kopanaki, commander-in- morc. Chief of the Polish troops in Egypt.
The Polish
brigade,
1940, is largely composed in April
and men who fought their way
camps
leep snow across the Taurus
Recruite nte still
German prison through
the world, rowers to pull to die kayak, leaving Fin from many parts of the Many Polish pliols are also report- Gorman still ed in the Near East. Poles helped
ners fired across the boat and order was ed it to pull towards them. Twelve
ing
As the Greeks
shore
with a
10 prepare defences in the Western the non.commkzleached the vessel
establishing are now
Desert and
a rifle, a revolver lines of communication and building rounds of
R.A.F. COURAGE RECOGNISED
ammunition,
tho
Leffler caught four mountain goals to leave westward so that the Swe- Divorce For Officer
Once In Colony
and officers aboard,
cooked them. Wo were this tonnage inside the blockade and
ravenous for -five
for fresh meat and fore remains at the same level. forced
Shipments Get Through the caresses to bits and ate thei
A decree nisi was granted by the tank traps, wire, entanglements and Greeks to surrender their arma and
Nevertheless, shipments are gel-President, Lord Merriman, in the like tigers." other defences.
The koyak sailed at dark, but soon ting through to Sweden from the Divorce Court recently to Colonel turned them towards the shore,
A second dinghy began to take off on into heavy zens. The captain United States. On March 18 the Thomas John Robert Langmaid, of Gorman, and it also was fired on, and was in despair, and sald the kayak 4,000-ton motor freighter Vasaholm Hallaham, Bussox, on the ground of ngain the gunners climbed into it, could not make headways only of the Swedish-American-Mexico the adultery of Mrs Helen Rose but by a ruse he cluded them and course was to head westward to the Line entered Gothenburg, Sweden, Langmaid
with tho co-respondent reached the kayak in darkness, only island of
of Cytherea,
with a mixed cargo direct from New Colonel Hugh. Alexander Urquhart, "It looked like flie end of the chap- York.
The suit was not defended. Eagles' feathers, sent to England by to discover that she could not put
On March 4, the 7,800-ton steamer the Indian Council Fire, an Indian to sea because of a broken ulr-com-ter until a miracle happened," sald
The husband's case was that when society of Chicago, for presentation to pressor.
Gorman. The wind changed to Tynningee owned by the Rex Com-he returned to his wife in 1931,
In India members of the RA.F, have been
and monint another day ashore in favourable quarter, and the kayak, pany of Stockholm, arrived from after several years This awarded to a small group of pilota caves while Use compressor was re-using Fer salls and engine, can be the United States with foodstuffs. It Hongkong, she admitted she was in- who have specially distinguished paired, but finally the got away and fore the wind all night, making about also carried delayed Christmas prgterested in Colonel Urquhart, and themselves in air fighting piguinst the made the Taland of Melos, where a eight or nine knots, and reaching sonts and food, gifts to private later she and the co-respondent oc- enemy. In Indian symbollam, an column of smoke revealed another the stand for which she had sat individuals, such as dried fruits and cupled a flat together in Pambridge
Out" eagle's, feather is a tokens of courage. | bombed refugee ship.
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