1939-12-04 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4, 1939.

PETROL

COSTS

DOWN

JAUXHALL engines Ket 20%

more power out of every, drop

of petrol used. That is why recent R.A.C. official trials over 1000 miles of public ronds, produced these extraordinary results:-

25 h.p.

22:48 m p.g.

VAUXHALL

SEE & TRAY THE 10 & 12 M.P.

14 h.p.

30.31 m.p.g.

35 m.p.g.

12 h.p.

10 h.p.

43.4 m.p.g.

Compare these figures with those obtainable on cars of similar power. And then compare general per- formance. We will provide an ade quate trial run on any available Vauxhall model and prove its patrol economy.

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

Stubbs Road.

Tel. 27778-9.

Armistic Day in France, 1939. amid the graves which are a tragic reminder of Armistice 1918.

(Copyright, Fox).

BRITISH NEWSMAN'S ESCAPE

SAVED FROM THE GERMANS BY A DUTCH WOMAN

FROM RALPH IZZARD

Venlo (German-Dutch frontier). Surrounded by German soldiers in a Dutch inn standing in a lonely stretch of No-Man's-Land between Holland and Germany, I have just had as narrow an escape from cap- ture, and possibly death, as any writ- er of thriller stories could picture.

I owe my safety to the presence of mind of a Dutch servant-girl, who casually answered the question of the officer in command of a search party with the remark, "Oh! There's only two Americans inside."

My companion, Mr. McGroarty, of the United Press, and I approached the inn in a Dutch taxi, twisting and bumping along narrow tracks be- tween tilled fields and allotments, the main roads now being blocked by heavy cement barricades.

We struck the main road again at the Dutch outpost about half a mile from the frontier. Arriving at the. frontier station, we found the small Dutch Customs office on the right- hand side of the road. Slightly be- yond it to the left stands the inn and the German Customs house, from which the frontier barrier juts across the road.

The inn, although legally Dutch, actually stands in No-Man's-Land.

Our car drew up outside the inn, and I ordered the driver to turn it round at once.

We were drinking our beer when I glanced out of the window to- wards Germany. To my dismay, the frontier barrier was slowly lifting, and from underneath it appeared the bulky bonnet of a German Army lorry.

car.

At once the scene changed. The officer curtly summoned a number of men, and a party was detailed off to surround the inn. With an escort of three, the officer approached the inn door, where a girl was scrubbing the steps. To his inquiry, she an- swered, "Oh, there's only two Ameri- cans inside."

By this time, being a British citi- zen and a marked man as a public critic of the Nazi regime, my onc thought was escape. I passed through the door behind the counter to find myself in a narrow passage which proved a blind alley.

The one door off the passage opened to the men's cloakroom, and I was in two minds whether to des- troy my British passport and attempt to bluff out the situation as an American or to risk capture and to retain my passport.

I kept the passport. I again went to the saloon door, and through it I overheard the parley at the front- door which the hostess, by now hy- sterical, had joined.

McGroarty, with a-valid American passport, had less to fear, and be dodged back and forth between the passage and the saloon. Apparently the two women had disconcerted the officer, for he suddenly turned ab- ruptly on his heel, and calling off his men with a command that went from mouth to mouth round the house, he returned to the business of Allin the lorry.

A son of the house then let Mc- Groarty and myself out through. back-door, and we passed round t far side of the building to the car.

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AND 1,900 CAME BACK

London, Nov., 19.

In the first few days of the war nearly 2,000 prisoners in British gaols were set free.

MALAYS IN COURT

Two Malay seamen from the m.v. Ruys, Saing, 22, and Badoran, 21, were remanded by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen this morning when charged with possession of arms.

They were arrested by Det.-Sgt. J. Johnston in Temple Street yesterday morning with two daggers in their possession.

From the vehicle jumped a num- ber of soldiers and one officer. They were joined by other soldiers from

COOKING POT behind the customs house, I saw the officer give instructions to his men

Found guilty of the theft of an They were men who had three and they filed into the building and aluminium cooking pot, the proper-months or less to serve. Some of started removing property, which ty of the Military Authorities, Chan them had only been sent to prison in

Tak, 25, was sentenced to two the week before the war. months' hard labour by Mr. R. A. D. Their release was ordered primarily Forrest this morning.

to ease the strain on accommodation | Criminal Record Office of Scotland Defendant took the pot from the in prisons outside the danger areas to Yard, 1,900, or 95 per cent., of the At this point the officer, who was guard room at the old magazine, in which long-term men were being men who had been released wearing silver-braided dressing uni- | Queen's Road East, on Saturday taken.

back in prison or awaiting trial for form, and not war kit, noticed our I night.

new offences,

they piled on the lorry.

SAW OUR CAR

By yesterday, according to the

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were