1940-01-05 — Page 13

¦ THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 5, 1940

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A DONKEY DIED- CRACK SOLDIERS LIVED

A dying donkey saved the lives of a company belonging to one of France's crack regiments.

The French infantrymen were advancing across a field towards a river. Beyond the river there was a steep slope. Halfway up it a railway and a narrow road ran parallel.

As the men were coming across the field an old grey don- key was drawing a cart containing two men along the road. Suddenly there was a tremendous explosion. The cart sailed into the air and over a house.

"Pala."—"Boston Evening Transcript."

Nazis Need Trucks

Shortage of trucks has upset Nazi plans to get supplies from Russia, ac- cording to the commercial correspon- dent of the Swiss newspaper "Neue Zeitung."

Delivery of 1,000,000 tons of fodder required 100,000 trucks, he says.

pieces.

Two men were blown to The donkey was injured. Freed from the cart, he ran towards the river to ease his wounds.

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Before he reached the water he rolled over exhausted. As he tried to get up there was another terrific explosion, He had ex- ploded a second land mine.

Warned by these

two explosions, the French company spread out across the field and tested every inch of the way carefully,

There were no more mines.

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1939 Soldier

Is "Gangster"

"Cross between a gangster, a poach- er and a policeman" that is the type for Britain's modern infantryman. At least, this definition of the character- istics required won full marks for cadet in a recent O.T.C. examination.

Trained N.C.O. instructors for the infantry will be doubled soon after Christmas.

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And, because the infantryman's pro- fession to-day is so much more scien- tific than it was even in the last war... Russia and Germany have inform- a high standard of quality is being ed each other that they are short of aimed at among these instructors. the necessary rolling stock and each asks the other to provide the trucks.

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Winston May

Take 10,000 Fish

First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, has offered to billet 10,000 fish at his country home, Chart- well, Westerham, Kent, for the dura- tion. He has about 40,000 of his own.

Fish breeding is his hobby.

In the grounds of his home ha has seven huge lakes and ponds full of all kinds of fish. He spends much of his spare time with them -calls soma of them by name, feeds and tends them himself. When war broke out he offered to billet the pets of fish-expert Stanley Plater, adviser to Harrods' livestock department, who owns more than 10,000 valuable specimens.

Mr. Plater told the press:—--- "If things get bad at home I'm go- ing to have all of them transported to Mr. Churchill's country place in spe cial travelling tanks. The tropical fish will probably be put up in the green- houses. There is plenty of room for the others in the lakes.

Mr. Churchill takes a great inter- est in his fish, and sometimes wades about his lakes for hours on end.

“But he never catchès his pots." If he sees a fish out of water he will go to no' and of trouble to put It back. With submarinos-wall, you know bo la with them.

Old-time N.C.O. of the fast war, who have rejoined, find they have a lot to learn before they are qualified to teach modern recruite.

Happy kiddies at the Police Children's Sports pose for grapher.

British Press

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Jack Payne Divorced

Mrs. Doris Aileen Payną, wife -of Jack Payne, dance band lender, was granted a decree nisi, with costs, in the Divorce Court, London.

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"Strict orders prohibiting the Eng- lish public from criticising the British Government and their policy have been issued in London," according to Goring's "National Zeitung,"

The Press, says the paper arc No Red Indians not allowed to comment on the Govern- ment's actions or to answer questions continually asked "by the bewildered Englishmen who do not understand the meaning of this strange war.”

A despatch in an adjoining column gives British Press criticism of a num- ber of new Government measures.

Petrol Soaked

Woman Ablaze

Scotland Yard is investigating the death of a woman who was found "blazing like a bonfire" on some waste ground only a few yards from a tram terminus at Knee Hill, Abbey Wood

(Kent).

Her clothes had been saturated with petrol or paraffin and set "alight."

burns.

She died in hospital from Her features were unrecognisable.

Scotland Yard issued this description yesterday:-Aged forty to forty-five, height 5ft 8in., blue eyes, dark hair, wearing navy blue skirt, maroon car- digan, fawn stockings and black shoes. woman had a long mauve

The problem of the Army instructor The

is to make alert backwoodsmen out of 'heather-mixture coat, and there was townsmen.

Looksja“bit comp

K.C.C. Cf

a black shopping bag nearby.

Left In 5 Years

"Within five years down 11 mót be a full-blooded Bad adian bat” That is the opinion of Flying Cloud +F, B. Zahn), a Redskin interpreter.

The Red Men of North: Americy, he says, are intermarrying with the pale- faces so fast that soon they will all be Just plain Americans.

The idea of the Red Man as a Blood- thirsty savage could not be further from the truth, says Flying Clout.

"The Indian was a pagan and not:a "The Indian was a savage," he says. piker in war when compared with the white man, the cruellest of all peoples. We did a lot of scalping. But what was that compared with the way the white men skinned us?”

MILITARY

AYD

CASH ON THE BARREL HEAD

NSAN

"The first time he tried to caen it,

·New York "World Telegram.”

Red Tape Is Holding

Up The Underwear

Red tape is holding up a £3,000 ex- port order for underwear because it won't release £25 worth of shoulder straps to hold up the underwear, *~cording to the "Drapers' Record."

Britisir ribbon makers, fully booked -with orders, cannot accept contracts

for delivery under several weeks.

"To permit.£25 of imports (incid= entally yielding a duty) for the pur- pose of doing £3,000 of export trada seems a highly sound proposition,” says the "Drapers' Record.”

“There are, of course, millions of yards ‘of unrequired red tax which, could, as a last resort, be vend to hold; up the underwear, Ind, they are already doing so.”