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As the U.S.S. Destroyer Monaghan steamed away from Port Everglades, Florida, last month, President Roosevelt (arrow, and closeup) waved a cheery good-bye to the delegation who bade him bon voyage and "good fishing." The Pre- sident's annual fishing trip in southern waters was delayed by the food crisis which struck 14 States.

THREE VESSELS ENDANGERED

S.O.S. MESSAGES

IN ATLANTIC

LETTER TO LOCAL RESIDENT

(Continued from Page 1)

&

Until we rounded the Horn 1

was on

US. FLEET ON MANOEUVRES

Six Weeks' Exercises In Pacific

New York, To-day.

watch, living just like a

San Pedro, To-day. We were short of water a The United States battle-fleet The St Quentin has effected re-man-

its bit, so that it meant about a quart of 150 warships of all types. pairs and is proceeding on

The a day for washing... My hands, from battleships to submarines, voyage without assistance. Pilsudski,

the grown horny with much pulling sailed from here yesterday for after reaching Ivanhoe, sent a wireless message of ropes, were ingrained with most six weeks' manoeuvres in the to say that she is proceeding; and of the contents of the paint locker. Pacific, accompanied by 450 the Ivanhoe considers that she can My seaboots were rotting on to my planes in aircraft-carriers and Cary await the salvage tug which is on feet. I had forgotten how many warships.

It is explained that the pre- The layers of, sweaters I wore and -- the way to her assistance Rushpool is also safe and is pro-well, my eyes were wild. But my sent exercises were drawn up

God I was enjoying myself! by the Navy Department ceeding to Liverpool-Reuter.

was on the part watch and the year ago and do not relate to EARLIER REPORT that Chief, the young devil, encouraged the present international situa An earlier message said two British and one Norwegian me to be as bad and brazen and tion. Reuter. freighters were reported to be in grubby as I could. Sometimes, in

free watch, I spent an hour or two A.0.B.C. LIQUIDATOR PASSES distress in the North Atlantic.

Yesterday morning the British entertaining the skipper with lurid

Shanghai, To-day.—A_message freshly from Philadelphia reports the way from Newport to St. John's black fingernails in his with a crew of 25, reported that shaven face. Like a wise man he death of Mr. F. L. Hough, who her radio room was flooded and waited his opportunity and at last acted as liquidator recently in the American Oriental Banking her steering gear damaged. The fell into his clutches!

"We didn't have a sight for 15 Corporation crash.-Reuter. S.O.S. was picked up by the liners Bremen and Washington, which days before reaching the Horn'a longitude. It grew colder and were racing to the assistance of

colder, and the sun's zenith must the distressed ship.

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have been scarcely a quarter above microscopes. Every hypocrisy The British freighter Rushpool. the horizon. On the midnight wilte. On a fine night with the making from, New Orleans to! watch the Chief thought his face wind fair you cannot be on deck Liverpool with a crew of 35, rewas going to freeze off, and the for five hours with a man who ported that she was in distress

behold the sun kas read Neitsche and also fought 400 miles from the position of the and a stilly calm....

next morning

St. Quentin. The nature of thei trouble with the Rushpool was up- known.

in the Finnish manner with knives and not talk about everything "SHE'S A DARLING**. under the heavens. The most pri- "It would be hard for

the you to jvate opinions are aired in The Norwegian freighter Ivan-believe how much I have come to shadow of squared yards.. Then hoe, while on her way to "Van-venerate and to love Herzogin.the skipper, who is very anxious ¡couver, lost her propeller while She is not only beautiful but so to keep everyone in good health, proceeding to the assistance of big and strong and grand. She enquires about the state of one's the British ships already in dis-behaves so nobly in a hard blow, tummy every week or so. On ¡tress. The Polish liner Pilsudski when all her stays are a-quiver such foundations is our intimacy was answering the Ivanhoe's call and the gale is whistling in every built.. for help.

(Continued from Page 1)

OFFICIAL VERSIÓN

Berlin:

ment

and it is declared that the treatment of raw

"This life seems to have every {tangled rope. She is so graceful,

so true, such an aristocrat. When ingredient that makes a real life. DR. SCHACHT AND THE NAZIS (we were hove-to in the South Some wiseacres prophesied that I Pacise at 4 am with practically should be sick of the sea after 50 every sail in ribbons and sens days. Instead I wish that we sweeping under and sometimes over were back in the Spencer Gulf and her, the skipper put me alone at had every arduous and every easy An official announce the wheel to free another man for day to live over again. When I was made last

night the work in the rigging. Cold am a millionairess I shall bay 2 and grey and bitter and forlorn Herzogin and sail up and down material thought was, I felt an exultant between the Horn and the South foreign exchange

neces heart beating under my hand. The Indian Ocean among the sitates co-operation between themates had lost their voices with squalls, the furry of sleet, the different State, Reich and Nashouting, but the Chief whispered howl of gales and the grey backs tional-Socialist Party Organisa- as he looked at the compass: Nojof the great westerly seas..... tions, the Fuehrer and Beich other ship could have stood it," and Chancellor has commissioned the the scipper a little later, when we Prussian Premier to examine all were gulping down hot coffee on questions and issue the necessary top of the gin that had been issued "We ought to be up in Fabrouth

and

decrees,

WEATHER REPORT

to all hands to keep us going.

cabin.

into my

STUDYING EACH OTHER

Brow

PEOPLE QUITE DIFFERENT

in 10 or 15 days' time. If I have

Practically everyone

ope

All State and National Socialist looked up suddenly and said with enough money I am going on to Party authorities have therefore great conviction: 'She's a darting.Mariehamn in the Aland Islands, to carry out the instructions issued "And so she is, even though Herzogin's home port. The island- to them by Field Marshal Goering, some bugs have just found their era live in the tradition of 300 who can call on the competent Beich way

hitherto sanitary years ago. Minister to support him. or if

in the ship comes from the islands, necessary to act as his deputy,-!

and they are quite different to any Trans-Ocean Service.

people I have ever met. In way very modern, enlightened and "It will be terrible to leave her so on in another way they and the sea and the sky, this possess all the solid qualities of Pressure is highest in a ridge world of the last three months. Teutonic humanity before the in- extending across Mongolia and And I shall miss all the laughter dustrial age. The skipper's father, Manchuria and is relatively low and the joking, too, and the grandfather and great-grandfather south-west China Aifamiliarity, of everyone. You'll were all sea captains, and in his is capable of shallow depression is moving hardly believe me when I say that village every man eastward ZCTOSS the Eastern I don't know my own mother as helping to build a ship. Much the Sea South and south-east well as I do the alipper and the same tale is true of the mates... Printed and Published for the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd, winds, moderate; clondy gen-Chief. The space is so small, the "This is the first letter I have by DAVID CHRISTIAN WILSON, Manager, at 3A Wyndham Street, erally, was the forecast for to-amusements so few and the vicis-written for three months, so the Victoria, Hong Kong.

day, as issued by the Rog al Ob-situdes so many that we all must phrases go somewhat haltingly, servatory this morning.

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