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TODAY--
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WHO'S YELLER?
WHO'S YELLER?
WHO'S YELLER?
Radiolocation: U.S. Recruiting Office
A new uniformed civilian corps is to be formed to work on radiolocation, the detection device which warns us of Nazi planes and ships far beyond our shores. It is to be called the Civillan Technical Corps, and its members will be drawn not from Britain but from the Dominions and the United States,
Already recruiting offers have been opened in New York to dical with the thousands of volunteers expected.
Members of the corps will be enrolled for three years and pay will be similar to that of trades- men in the Canadian Air Force..
Men resident in Britain of mill- -tary age, who have suitable qualifea- tions is ratllo mechanics, can apply to the RAF. section of the nearest combinet recruiting centre for en- Istment to the ILA.F. itself,
Men over military age should apply to the local employment exchange for employment on the manufacturing side of the industry, also in need of sultable qualified mechanics.
Free Training ·
The corps will work at the "base hospitala" nnd "cosunity clearing
stations" of radiolocation.
The men will be fed and billeted by the services.
Doys and girls fresh from school will also be able to serve radioloca- tion.
More than a thousand boys and girls are wanted.
But girls of 16 and 17 will be accepted only if they can be trained and employed locally.
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The boys, and, girls over 18, will have free training and technical colleges.
Gliders For
Commerce After War
U.S. Navy Personnel Growing
Aug. *23
WASHINGTON, (UP).The United States Navy, growing steadily in ac cordance with policy of rearmament, is rapidly the national
approaching the 300,000 mark in personnel.
As of June 10, 1941, its manpower was 204,798, of which 24.433 were officers of the Regular Army and Naval Reserve who have been called back to active duty, and 239,722 en- Ilsted men.
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
FIGHT PARENA
WHO'S
YELLER?
Since then the Navy has continued the programme of inducting to enlist men in accordance with: 12,000 to 15,000 recruits a month for
from
end of this month an indefinite period so that by the Is estimated it will reach about 300,000.
down" of the personnel into various As of June 10, 2011, the "break- classifications was as follows:
U.S. Navy Commissioned line officers 7,712. Commissioned staff officers
2,117, Warrant officers 1,008.
975,
Retired on Active Duty Commissioned line omcers Commissioned Blaff omcers 228, Warrant officers 82.
U.S. Naval Reserve an Active Duty Commissioned line officers 0,820, Commissioned staff officers 2,402 Warrant officers 09.
Enlisted aren
Nurses
U.S. Navy 203,725, U.S. naval re- tired on active duty 766, U.S. naval Elmira, New York, Aug. 23.—reserve 35,231. (UP)-ÜVII Aeronautics Ad- ministrator, Brig. Gen. Donald 121, H. Conolly, predicts that gliders, used commercially, may absorb the "vast reservoirs" of pilots! and planes which will be releas- ed when the current war emer- gency is over.
August 27, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
I AM!
JULY-O
FIGHT ARENA
ERNIE ČUSHMILLER.
UFS
NAZI HATE-This graphle picture shows Nazi vengeance in Yugoslavia on victims who dared oppose the "New Order." Pictura is reported to have been smuggled out of Yugo- slavia, carried to Jerusalem and then to U.S. Men and women victims were treated alike. Naxi officor at right makes sure that these victims hanged in a cemetery are past rescue,
QUEEN WHO GAVE UP
THRONE FOR A KISS
Natalie of Serbia, once a queen and once a beggar, wife of a king who lost his throne and mother of a king who was murdered by the chiefs of his own army, died in Paris recently. She died in a convent at the age of 83, lonely, almost friendless, completely poor.
But her picture shows that at the time of her marriage at the age of 16 to Milan, future King of Serbia she was a beautiful dark-haired girl. That was in 1875. The marriage was not U.S. Navy 322, U.S. Naval reserve happy. When their son Alexander was born Milan began a series of intrigues that scandalised even the casy-going Belgrade court. There were scenes of jeal-¡gedy, too. He married Mme. ousy, many of them in public. Praga, daughter of an engineer. Climax came when Milan struck Draga was hated by Serbla. his queen in Belgrade Cathe-ot a window of Belgrade Palace. Natalie saw their bodies flung out -dral.
As the congregation passed closed the reign of the Obrenovitch of army ofẞcers out the queen was expected to house, and set up a new dynasty, kiss each woman. She refused That was in 1903. to acknowledge one of her hus-the
Since then Natalie has lived for
Dunera
RSM Goes
To Jail
band's friends.
when a group
SENTRY SANG OPERA -So Britons.
Escaped
Conolly said there were "un-j limited commercial possibilities for gliders," and declared that it was quite likely that there would be "glider trains for
most part in France. First, transportation delivery of first Major C. A. Bowles, of the Planter her"
Acting
Biarritz where she held an almost Regimental Sergreant- Twice the king shouted: "Kiss reyal court, until class mail and air express.".
Two British officers escaped her money ran ..then he struck her. The out. Then Cores, was recently sentenced to be king's Ministers had to part the
Paris.
from an Italian prison camp in Addressing an audience at the reduced to the twelfth National Soaring and Gild without hard labour for 12 months, ended.
The sisters of Notre Dame de Libyn while the sentry was ranks, imprisoned struggling pair. Thus the marriage Sion gave her D room. ing contest, honouring Earl Southee, and to be dismissed the Service for
Another singing opera. friendless soul become her "lody in former local contest
Tragic Story manager, he his part in the ss. Dunera seandal.
waiting."
For 32 days they trekked said the Civil Aeronautics Durenu lins
Natalie was 28, and still a beauti-, Wha the decision of "given serious consideration to the court-martial
the woman. Two years later Milan, her "Your Majesty." But "Her Ma- and walking at night.
To humour her the nuns called across the desert, hiding all day problem of how to use the reservoir connected with "the alleged ill-treat-whole of Europe, abdicated in favour tin
which heard charges driven out by the hostility of the Jesty" eventually had of planes and plots which will exist ment of alien internees being taken of Alexander, his son. In 1901 he boulevards of l'arts.
take out a Then, slipping through the cup to collect nlms on when the emergency passes.
to Australla in the Dunern,
Italian lines, they found safety "Glider trains may be used so that The court also ordered Sergi. Alexander's story is
So she existed, a forgotten queen, inside the British lines round power-planes would not have to stop Arthur Helliwell, of
one of tra- for nearly 40 years. the Pioneer
Tobruk,
This
at every airport to deliver less than Corps, to be severely reprimanded. full cargoes of freight and mail, he, Bowles had pleaded guilty to giv-
allder
said, emphasising that the Adminis-geants and attempting to induce an- ing 10s. cach to a number of ser- 1ration has a "definite interest" in! gliders.
other sergeant to nccept 10s. "We
definite interest in the have n
26 Years' Service programme. We experi- Other charges which the court mented with
it a couple of years considered were of stealing and re- ago and have been talking about it ceiving, and, at a prisoner of war ever since. The apparent Inck of in- camp in Britain, being in possession terest has been due to, the fact that of articles which he knew to belong gliding programmes have been to interned aliens. locked upon as part of a training of Sergeant-Major powered-plane pilots,
served "In our civilian pilot training pro years, winning the Military
with the Royal Dragoons for 20 gramme, we are not spending money, as well as four Service meduls, re- Medal on anything for which the Army and tired on pension, and rejoined the Navy counut see a particular use; but Army when war broke out. the experience of Germans in using Ifelliwell, whe bad been found not
Bowles
the glider in the invasion of Crele, guilty of assaulting two allens, was shows possible fields for gliding it- reprimanded for disobeying a superi- self alone and
not as part of a or omcer's order to provide an power-plane training programme." with blankets and water,
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Long Hours Hampering Women's
War Effort
Too long hours worked by many women in our war factories are holding up the war effort. This was the opinion of delegates at a recent session of the General and. Municipal Workers' Congress.
as low as during the
Avoiding Chaos
Mrs D. M. Elliott, Chief Woman, wages were Ollicer of the Union, said hours had Great War, been reduced in some factories but many still thought long hours meant increased production.
Produc-when
The Ministry of Aircraft tion was one of those responsible.
She told of women now working 11 hours a. day exclusive of meal tines.
In the emergency after Dunkirk
women willingly worked 12;|
The two men were a captain from Fitzhead, West Somerset, and a cap- lain from Winchester.
They had served together in In- din. When they met as prisoners at Derna they soon made a plan for escaping.
Bully Beef
"There was a good deal of con- fusion in the camp while Italian war the prisoners," one of them said. correspondents were photographing
"We took advantage of it. We waterbottles, and hid them in a pinched some bully, beef, also some
building. wrecked from dusk to 11.30 pin.
The sentry was singing Italian operatic songs, we nipped out through the wire, and not a soul noticed."
The Union had taken to the Arbi- The two men nearly walked into tration Tribunal an employer, who, German A.A. gun post, but at that. the women were organised, moment a British planó caused an was found to be paying adults only alarm and distracted the Germans' 218. a week.
attention.
Miss A. Horaf ((Lancashire} _at- All next day the Britons hid in the Inched employers, who, to evade pay-middle of a dried-up water course, ing women men's rates work, "broke down jobs."
while German planes zoomed just on men's whi
over their heads. Then they started 14 and even 18 hours a day, but astary, moved a resolution approving
Mr. Charles Dukes, general secre- their long trek over, the desert. sustained palley this was wrong. the Labour Party plans for post-war Once had had
Arabs gave them food and water, They could not in that way keep reconstruction.
some coffee and cigars. up efficiency or production.
many
Hours Shortened
It declared that as our interests. After 32 days they wormed their were merged to defeat the enemy, way through the Italian lines and 80 that spirit should animate the rested in No Man's Land until dawn. Miss Elliott moved a resolution, Planning for after the war.
The Tow which was passed, urging that in interests must be given a prominent which one should go forward on the He said that control of financial Then they tossed n coin to declde the interests of maximum production place.
and the health of women the work-
risky.
ing week be reduced to six days and in and after the Great War led to
The failure to plan constructively lines. the length of the shift shortened,
chups In: 1920, the
ernah of 1020,
laskof entering the British
The Somerset man won, Creep- ins forward hé, encountered an
Fifth Colunist Indian patrol, which took him for
She insisted on the importance of and the economic blizzard of 1831. adequate, wage rates
*Business As usual would not do. To return to the old way of "beggar The officer chatted to him in Hin- my neighbour" would mean dragging dustani and ask for an officer of the whole world, down,
There
their regiment whom he had known must be International ma- In India chinery to help deal with the pro-
The long working week, she said, camouflaged the low wage rale..
This also was on obstacle to get ting hours reduced to an efficient lovel.
There were still patches where blomka
Both the escaped officers were then escorted into Tobruk,
BABY IN A LIFEBOAT
FOR 13 DAYS
Survivors of Robin Moor
Thirty-five more survivors of steamer Robin Moor reached Cape Town recently in a the torpedoed U.S. British warship. Among them were women and a two- year-old boy-and they had spent 13 days in the lifeboats,
All who were on board the Robin Moor are now accounted for.
Curly-haired Robin McCullough, two-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Robert W. McCullough, who were noug The American passengers, stood the ordeal well.
He was the only one who seemed to like the hard-tock rations, and in in Cape Town hotel he was still clutching a dried biscuit, saying: "Robin want tack. Robin want tack."
Asked if he liked the boat, he sold he did-and the pretty fishes.
Hir father explained that the "pretty fishes" were sharks, which followed the boat for four or Ove days,
The only Ume Robin erted was when he was bored-when the "prel- ty fisher" moved away.
His father sald he was awakened
by the
i
BOMBER FUND Acknowledgments
Yesterday's Bomber Fund collections were headed by a splendid contribution of $1,000 from the Chinese Star of the cont. of the total proceeds from the re Gloucester Hotel representing 23 per cent concert given by the Staff. Pro- reeds from the sale of Union Jack badger realised $200.22; while the eleventh dona tor at fo was received from 19 Family The Saturday Right Victory in 115.07. The Parisian Grill sent in its Collection at the Hongkong Hotel brought sixth donation, The Fund her now reach- da total of $2,504,284.70, the following Baturday Night's Victory Collec- being the latest st
tion, flongkong Hotel Domb... $110.07 The Family (eleventh donation) TO
Chinese Staff, Gloucester
Charity Concert
Hotel,
Parisian Grill Shell (dxth dona-
tion)
"Sea Foam
A Democratic Chinees ("V" Cam-
palgi 100 labels
Mr. L. D. Walch' ("*7***
100 labels)
100 tabela) ...........
Cappal
Campaign
submarine's light flashing Lucille & Co*** in his cabin. He dressed and went Au Peule Louvre ("V" Campaign on deck for the novelty of seeing a 100 labels), syn submarine, which the passengers ber G. Hell (per Birs Hogg) lleved was asking for provisions.
Potato Peel Ration
"For a minute we stood still, like Morons, and then rushed to get a few things and climb into the life- boats," "went on Mr McCullough. "The submarine gave Gur
bont what it described as three-days' ra- Lions--four Ins
of potato peel, bread, four tins of Danish butter, and one tin of French biscuits,
"In addition the boat had its own hard fuck and 15 gallons of water, The water was rationed-one glass. each a day, half In the morning and half at night."
Omcers of the Robin Moor told how they warned the crew of the submarine; "You will be sorry if you carry out your threat to sink our ship.
Chief Officer Melvin Mundy said he pleaded with the commander of the submarine, which he said was without question German," to spare he Robin Moor.
"I told him we had nothing but ordinary merchandise for South African ports-merchandise such as pleasure cars-but he would not lls- ten to me."
Amung the survivors British citizens,
were two
Sale of Union Jack badges, links, etc. per Ye Olde Printeric, Ltd. as follows: Per Miss G, Mac- Nidor 409, Miss Sophie Ellia $150, Mise Sybil Swift $40, Mr A. C. Tribble 10: Tola 205. L cost of badges, links, etc. 804.78. Net total to the Bomber Fund
2:00
500.22
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Omelal Summary, issued yesterday, Is:
Buyers
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 100 H.K. Govt. 3 Loon (1930) 08.50 H.K: Govt. 3 Loan (1940) 98.50 I.K. Banks $1.420 Canton Ins, $225 Union Ins. $420 Providents $0.10 Lights "N" $1.30 Electrics "C" X. Ris $21.30 Electrics Rts $10.00 Telephones "O" $23 Sellers
Hotels $3.00
Sales
ILK. Govt. 4% Loan 101 Lights "O" $6.03 Electrics Rts $11 Ropes $9
Dairy Farms $18.80 Trams $17.05/.10
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