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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1931.

THE LIFEBOAT

VILLAGE EPICS OF SACRIFICE.

By

P. H. J.

Since the Times, in September, or twenty, and until the lifeboat 1838 nearly a hundred years returns there is only one topic age, reported the story of the and one concerted thought in the wreck of the Forfarshire there village. The women whose men have been thousands of rescues are in that boat go quietly about effected by lifeboats and fishing their tasks, but their eyes con- craft, all of them epics of self-stantly seek the sea; those old sacrifice; none of them either fashioned pictures, so full of pa- less or greater than the exploit thos, that artists, used to paint of Grace Darling, whose rescue of waiting women were painted of part of the Forfarshire's crew in hours like this or while the became famed throughout our memory of such hours was still islands and the girl herself hon- warm in their hearts. oured even to the time of her death, when the beautiful monu- ment of her recumbent figure, with an our clasped across her breast, was set up over her grave in the little churchyard near Bamborough, writes P.H.J. in the Manchester Guardian.

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THE

CHINA

MAIL.

BRITAIN'S OFFER TO WATCHING HIS TOMB

FOKKER.

War Memoirs Story

of £2,000,000.

FACTORY "SMUGGLED" OUT OF GERMANY.

Sometimes the lonelier women cannot bear the waiting and seek a neighbour's house, and friends hearten them by kindly words the weather is quietening, the seas are not as heavy as when the boat was out last time, any little thing will serve, but it is not until that unmistakable purring of the lifeboat's engine is heard returning that the strained look vanishes, and then the topic

Trainloads of 'Planes, changes swiftly.. Are the crew Then it was that his agile brain saved? Has the trip been in conceived the idea of smuggling vain? The most bitter thing our his assets, in the shape of aero village knows is when the life-planes, motors, and materials bont returns empty or brings into Holland. back only the dead,

MADE.

"I Like to See It Is Done Well."

SEPTUAGENARIAN'S HOBBY.

Bournemouth, Oct. 9. Mr. Henry Thomas Baker, of Stafford Road, Bournemouth, who is 77 years old, spends many hours of his spare time watching grave and memorial being con- structed in Bournemouth cemetery.

his own:

It is now nearly finished, and

THE OLD-TIME BORSTAL.

"Thank God It Has Changed."

PRISONER'S STORY FROM THE DOCK.

"I once stood before you an innocent boy, but you sent me, for my own good, to Borstal, which was not a house of re- form, but a house of corrup- tion at that time. Thank God it has changed." ·

Yelland: I bear you no malice for that.

How the contents of an entire aeroplane factory were smuggled from Germany into Holland after the war perhaps the biggest and most successful smuggling feat ever accomplished is but one of the many astonishing re- velations in a book, published by is an imposing structure of red

The above was part of an im- Anthony Fokker,

the Dutch and grey polished Peterhead passioned appeal for leniency acroplane designer.

granite, which has cost him about made to the Liverpool Recorder, It is also alleged in this auto- £1,500. Situated at the entrance Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K.C., ät biography ("Flying Dutchman," to the cemetery, it towers above Liverpool Quarter Sessions re- Routledge, 12s. 6d.) that Fokker the war memorial just inside the cently by a man who has to go was offered £2,000,000 by the gate. He designed the memorial back to prison to serve the un- British authorities during the himself, and is proud of the fact expired portion of a sentence of war if he would return to Holland that it will be the best in the penal servitude. from Germany and build aircraft cemetery.

Harry Yelland, 81, a tailor, of for us. But the German Secret "I had great difficulty," he said, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to ob- Service, he declares, saw to it "in persuading the authorities Laining £7 by worthless cheques. that the offer never reached him, to let me have this space, which was He mid that the Recorder had Fokker was working in Ger- formerly a flower bed, but when sent him down" three times.. many during the war, but at the told them I would put up the beat The Recorder: Yes, we have Armistice, when conditions there monument in the cemetery, they let met before. were, chaotic, his position was me buy the site." difficult. The Allies had forbid- Occasionally Mr. Baker brings his den further aeroplane construc-wife to the cemetery to see the pro- "I Met a Good' Girl." tion, and specifically ordered that greas of the monument. It is in Prisoner then made the state- ull Fokker machines should be the style of a pagoda, and the in- ment already quoted, and went destroyed.

"scription on the plinth bears his on:-- own and Mrs. Baker's names, The "I came out of Borstal · and date of his birth is there, but not went straight for ten months. I that of Mrs. Baker's birth, which met a good girl and gave up all in the evening until ten o'clock,

he does not wish to be added until my pals, but some kind "friend" and the village was a place of

in the police told her I was an anxious waiting. The crew is

Director of Cemeteries.

ex-Borstal boy. made up from the village fisher

"Life did not matter to me The more you live with them cials' 'sceing' Customs agents on ful mood when asked about his vitude, and out of 600 men I saw Mr. Baker was in quite a cheer after that. I went to penal ser men, most of them with wives and families dependent on them, the more the quiet acceptance of both sides of the border, and interest in his own monument. there 400 were ex-Borstal pals. many of them with a few grey the inevitability of risking their satisfying others wholesale." he "When I have anything done," he I contracted consumption there hairs in beard and hair, all of lives for others

is borne upon writes, "he succeeded in trans-said, "I like to see It Is done well." and have been five weeks in pri them born and bred to the sen your soul. That dropping offerring across the border six The und aware of the risks on a coast tasks and racing to be first at sixty-car trainloads of contra- 21⁄2 ton slab of, granite, over the what mental and physical tor- workmen were placing son waiting trial. No one knows with as deadly a record as any, the lifeboat house catches some band aeroplanes and

motors, bricklined grave, and there was certure in these islands, When the warm thread of imagination; valued at millions of guilders.

I have suffered. I have rocket-signal goes up every heart they may be running to meet

"Theoretically, this enormous his manner as he watched the opera-second chance is not given me, tainly no suggestion of morbidity in asked God to take me away if a in the village gives a leap, every death, they are certainly running amount of equipment had been tion." task is set aside, and faces peer to play a game of chance with it. destroyed by the Allies Commis

because life will not be worth through the windows women's Now, and then you may see

asioners, charged with the duty ed with cemeteries for many years.

He stated he had been connect living." faces. The men, wherever they woman running, too, carrying a of obliterating the Fokker aero. He opened the Wood Grange Park Prison said that he had not been The medical officer at Walton are or whatever doing, drop the warm garment for her man, who plane from the face of the earth. Cemetery, Romford, and ask and begin to run towards has not been in his house when By other means I transported chairman of directors of the com- tuberculosis in Yelland, but he is now able to find symptoms of activo the lifeboat.house, which is athe call came and had no time to large quantities of money..

return for any garment other

pany owning it. Hendon, and the Greenford Park bind him over to prevent him go-

He also opened was a sick man. up the Hendon Park Cemetery, Yelland asked the Recorder toll. Cemtery, near Ealing, and is a ing back to penal servitude. director of both the companies.

There in a quieter heroism of women that rarely creeps into the stories which loom large in our morning papers after some gallant rescue. Recently our own lifeboat was out from five

from view.

"Bribing German railroad off-

Contrary to every

·

expecta-

than what he stands up in, and tion, we moved the contents of he may have been working an entire factory, one of the "light." There may be hours of largest aeroplane factories in bitter cold and drenching geas.

Germany, from one country to another in about six weeks."

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Award Offer "Sidetracked." He is convinced that the £2,000,000 award by our authori- ties was offered, although it

them.

her death.

WHOOPEE GIRLS.

Final Programme at the King's.

At the King's to-night, Nellio

The Recorder: Any sentence pass cannot prevent that, but, In your own interest only, I sen- tence you to one month's impri- sonment. I have always been (convinced you could make good

if you tried."

COURT HAD TO WAIT.

Magistrates Trapped In Room.

Four Ruabon magistrates were

little distance from the village; the tiny quay empties of blue jerseyed figures that have been standing in the lee of the cot tages, watching the storm, for,

If the call comes in the night even on the worst day, the men find some "lew" corner and watch many of the men may be at sea, the great rollers sweeping into as has happened, and then the bay. Within a few minutes, scratch crew races for the boat often in what seems a miracul and anxiety is higher; our own ously short time, we hear the boat, in the past, has put to sea purring of the engine; the boat with farmers and labourers never reached him.

"As I was a neutral, selling that seems so large in. its house, amongst her crew, But the cox

the Germans, as but so small and lone in the great and second cox are her brains; planes to scas, drives past the village and they know every rock and reef neutral Americans before 1917 all those watching eyes, and and dangerous current, and to sold munitions impartially to all Farren and her Whoopee Girls speeds away until it disappears watch them peering through the purchasera, the British hoped will present their last programime flying scud of blown water, giv- that I would return to Holland in Hong Kong, and have arranged Waiting.

ing a quiet order now and then and possibly build 'planes for an exceptionally spectacular wind, After that waiting, and in to which the buat responds like the offer never reached me. The numbers that have been arranged for nearly half an hour recently ." he says. "But up to the season. Among the accidentally imprisoned in a room; quiries from any coastguard who an orchestra to a master con- may be passing. In time we ductor, is to feel a pride that German Secret Service, which is something new to Hong Kong, while the court waited. learn where the endangered ship such men are neighbours and kept me under minute surveil- with the ensemble dancing in the They had retired to their room

lance, sidetracked it." 18; it may be three miles away friends.

dark attired in snappy dresses to consider a decision, and when Fokker, who is now at the head trimmed with phosphorus, which they attempted to open the door to: a huge American aircraft creates a most unusual effect. return to the court they found that firm, gives many interesting Other numbers include a tricky they were locked in glimpses of Germany at war. skeleton dance and a mack on- He deals at length with his in-semble.

The Deputy-Chief Constable, two police sergeants, and a number of vention of the synchronised ma-

The Olympic Trio, which has police, constables tried a variety of 4' 9"Bchine-gun, which transformed proved a feature of the shows, keys, in unsuccessful attempts to

the war in the air, and declares will also be seen in some specta- open the door.

They pushed and: that the Germans were slow to culur numbers, including one of nulled and rattled in vain, and still perceive its valde. At last he the best items in their repertoire, the court wafted. was told that the only certain The Black Tango," which test of the gun was to shoot an marked by dizzy aerial work.

is Then Sergent Edwards sent for a acroplane down himself".

ladder and made an entry through The Company is to give its final a window. He tried to unlock thei performance at the King's on door from the inside and failed, and, Saturday night.

the room had another prisoner,

At last, two hurly constables were: told to burst open the door. They braced themselves,' turned 'their shoulders to the door, charged, and- the door awung open, and the magistrates were thus released.

WATER RETURN.

Most Reservoirs on Island Below Level.

Kowloon,

Kowloon Main

1930 Kowloon Main .... 2'8"A Kowloon Eyewash Shek Lai Pui

Reservoir

0' 1"B Shing Mun Recep-

tion

0' 3"B 0' 4B Storage in millions and decimali of gallons.

1980 381.92

1931

L.

0' 7"B

Shing

Mun Recep-

tion

115.76

$1.37

L.

2'

B

The level and storage of water in the reservoirs on November 1, 1931,

were as under:-

City and Hill District.

1920

1081

5′ 1′′B 11' 3"B

Tytum Byewash 13" 12' 2"1

Tytam Tuk

Tytam

Tytam Intermediate

Wong Nel Chung

Pokfulum

Aberdeen Upper

Aberdeen Lower

L

Kowloon Byewash Shek al Pui

Reservoir

32.27

of

“HOLLYWOOD HI-LIGHTS.”

1931 352.50 107.45

"The suggestion was made that I, a foreigner and a civilian, 118.70 should go to the front, find a

French or British flyer, and de monstrate by actually bringing down an enemy "plana, that my gun was practical.

My pro- tests were useless. I found my- Rex Storey and Rose Lee self bundled to the front." aniversal favourites. They have But when he got up into the become very popular in the East. Estimated population 177,460 291,900 air he found that he had no This year finds them presenting new

1' 0"B

Total ** 528.25 605.02 10'10" 10' 4"B

Consumption of water in Kowloon 11'8" 10' I"B

in millions and decimals of gallon 14' "B

02 during the month of October, 1931.

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[Note: B. denotes "Below Over | Consumption flow"; A. denotes "Above Overflow";

L. denotes "Level with Overflow.") Consumption per

Storage in millions and decimals

Tytam

of gallons.

1080 342.52

Tytam Byowash

Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk

Wong Nei Chung.

Jokfülum

Aberdeen Upper

Aberdeen Lower

Tota!

6.20 7.90

1030 156.68

28.0

1981 159.67

17.0

+

дго

stomach for killing. He refused comedies and especially appealing head per day ***

to go on, but a German ace, went is the work of Rose Lee in her Constant supply in all districts dur-

up and brought down an Allied | original singing specialities. ing October, 1930 and 1931.

The reports of the Government Bac-plane, thus immediately demon- teriologist and Analyst show that the strating the efficiency of the gun. quality of the water is satisfactory.

1931 295.90

105.90

195.90 3,880.52 1,849,24 Total rainfall recorded by Royal 17.71 18.18 Observatory from January 1, 1930, 40.78 44.12 90.16; January 1, 1991, 74.87.

108.24 79.34

1,989.72. 2,098.68

Conermption of water in the City And Hill District in millions and də- cimals of gallons during the mouth of October, 1981..

Consumption

1080 1981 363.68 381,018 Estimated population 447,180 381,260 Copsumption per

head per day

20.2 82.3.

S.P.C.A.

Further List of Subscribers.

The Honorary Treasurer desires to acknowledge with thanks the Irudes 07.08 milion gallons receipt of the following dona

Mainland Includes 83.05 million gallons tions:

* from.

from Mainland je

Consiant supply throughout the City Hill and High Level Districts during the whole month of October, 1080 and 1931,

Previously acknowledged "Bess and Nigger

“JOHN PEEL DAY."

Village Commemoration of Famous Huntsman.

“John Peel Day" at; Caldbeck, the

VELVET GLOVE AT ELLIS ISLANDd by this duo of comica are falled Cumberland fellside village, which

Ex-Immigrant Chief.

As a comedian of exceptional- merit. Rex Storey, holds his own and the clever comedy skits present-

with laughs and funny situations.

was the birthplace and home of the The "Hollywood Hi-Lights" com- mence to-morrow at the Star Thea-immortal hunter, was held on Octo

ber. 22. The Blencathra | Fór- Washington, Oct. 9.

tre, Plans are open at Moutries and the Star Theatre and early re-hill pack, met on the village green,

Hounds, the well-known Cumberland Aliens going to Ellis Island need servations are recommended. Popu and two hound. trails and ainging have no fear now. Their treat Inr prices $3, $2, and, $1. ment is to be humanised, announces

competitions were included in the Mr. Edward Corgi, the new Cam-

programme, At the dinner rout missioner of Immigration at Ellis The King and Queen sent a tele-Herdwick matton was served. Old- Island:

gram to Mr. and Mrẻ. Edward Mat-fashioned, country dances-and | a'] Mr. Corsi probably has a closer thews, of Newport, Isle of Wight, on few modern ones were also j sympathy with the, aliens detained their diamond wedding. on Ellis Island than previous com

feature of the evening programme."

missioners, for he himself was an

Mme. Batheller, owner of a farm On horseback. Signor Mussolini, $3,874 immigrant at the tender age of in the village of Genlis, near Dijon, the Italian Fremler, held a review 60 three when his parents brought, him who is the mother of sixteen chil-recently of 40,000 youth belonging from Italy to the United Stater dren, has been awarded the Legion to Tascist Youth organisations from $3,024 | British United Press.

of Honour.

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