1940-07-09 — Page 8

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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1940

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Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service assist In the loading and checking of gooda at this Royal Ordnance Depot, which is a distributing centro to the smaller depots situated In the various Commands-Photo shows: A.T.S. girls checking motor-cycles in the huge storage shed. (Copyright, Fox).-

FAMOUS MEN LOST IN

ITALY PURSUING

ARANDORA STAR WILL-O'-THE-WISP

It was disclosed in London last night that 143 Germans and 470 Italians went down when the Arandora Star was torpedoed.

A number of Ita- Tians who are famous London restauran- teurs are reported among the missing. They include the manager of the Ritz Hotel the manager of the Hungaria Res- taurant and ban- queting manager of the Savoy Hotel. Reuter:

CANADA'S

ITALIAN ADMIRALS, TOLD by Mussolini at the

time of the Abyssinian war that they might. have to fight Britain, replied, "you are sending us to our deaths."

This story is told by an Am- erican naval expert, Mr. Fletchier «

Pratt, in "Sea Power and To-day's THEY

War," published by Methuen.

HE WAS SCARED

The formidable Fleet which; Britain put into the Mediter- ranean at the time scared Mussolini and revolutionised 'his whole naval 'policy, says. Mr.

Pratt.

SHOULD LIVE IN H. K.

Italy began feverishly to build heavily armoured battleships to Because of red tape, ninteeen counter Britain's strength.

families living in the heart of But this plan is doomed to fai-Ilford, one of London's thickly |lure. Apart from the inferior congested boroughs," cannot get

morale of Italian seamen, there are air raid' shelters. these major weaknesses!

Their houses have Italy can never outbülld Bri-

no gardens, tain or win real naval mastery a quarter of a mile away.

and the nearest public shelter is

In the Eastern Mediterranean;

Italy lacks cotton, necessary made to the local council

Repeated demands have been for a raw material

for high explo shelter to be erected on waste alves.

water

Italian bases lack water. and ground a few yards away. Men supplies can only be maintained of the families on active service have offered-to. erect a', 'shelter by obviously vulnerable

while on leave. ships..

"My husband is in the R.A.F., but his chief worry is us at home," says Mrs. L. Earle, of St. Mary's Cottages, Clements-lane;

A council official said: "We realise the dilemma these people are in, but we must wait for Home. Cffice sanction."

NEW FINANCE SCHOOLBOYS MINISTER

The Canadian Premier,||

PLAY THE GOOD

Mr. Mackenzie King, an- SAMARITAN

nounced in Ottawa yes-

COOLIDGE STABBING

terday the appointment when he returned to his house of Mr. James Ilsley, who is from a convalescent home, a Wheatley Hill, Sunderland, minér at present Minister of Re- found his garden dug and a fine venue, to succeed Colonel crop of vegetables growing. Tragedy marked the Manila Another Wheatley Hill resident, voyage of the President Coolidge Ralston as Finance Min- an enthusiastic" gardener until it was revealed by police in ister.

he was paralysed, got up from a Manila: Albert, Derks, a Negro Colonel Ralston will be sworn in sick bed to find his garden all' a- crewman, allegedly stabbed to ļas Defence Minister next. Friday. growing, too.

death an American fireman, whose Servicemen returning on leave name was not given out by the Several other changes have also find their gardens are not the wild secret service. been made in the Canadian Cabinet, which has been enlarged, waste they imagined them to be. The incident took place The Good Bamaritans arelin Hong Kong Ship's as well as reorganised.

́eighty local schoolboys. They officials telephoned the secret are tackling the gardens of sick service division... and turn- and aged people and Service-ed over the alleged criminal. for mari. So enthusiastic are they confinement until the ship sails for that they work all through their Hong Kong again, where he may holidays.

face court action. :" One of them, a boy of eleven, 'Derks: told detectives that the who was National Defence Minis has put in twenty-three hours in fireman usually called him "dirt" ter in the last Conservative. Goy-seventeen days, mainly helping to instead of his true name, and he ernment-Reuter."

dig out a cart-load of bricks from resented the insult. In a brawl he a heart-breaking council plot. got hold of his knife and stabbed. The boys will not accept pay-the American but with not “the ment for their work. But there's slightest intention of killing him, a feeling that when the Wheatley police quoted him as saying. Servicemen come home they won't express their gratitude only in words...

The opposition leader, Mr. Han- son, has accepted an offer from the Premier to join the Cabinet's war committee äs associate mem-

ber. A similar invitation has been extended to Mr. Grote Stirling,

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MISSING SHANGHAI GIRL FOUND

Miss Elizabeth Smoleft, an 18- A telegram of greetings to the Praising the fighting qualities year old Canadian girl, who was Polish Brigade now serving in of the Polish troops, Sir Archibald reported missing from her home Palestine has been sent by Lleut-Wavell's message says: "I greet at:204 Yu Yuen Road since 5:30 Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, Com-the, Polish Brigade and am proud pm. last Tuesday, was found at mander-in-Chief,.......... Near, East. to have them under my com-about 10.30 a.m. on Friday, wan- These troops are those which, as¦mand.”—Reuter.

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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1940

BAITAIN READY FOR HITLER Nine Divisions Now Fully Re-Organised

IT WAS STATED AUTHORITATIVELY IN LONDON YESTERDAY THAT THE NINE DIVISIONS RECENTLY BROUGHT BACK FROM DUNKIRK HAVE NOW BEEN REORGANISED AND BROUGHT UP TO FULL STRENGTH. THEY HAVE HAD FULL DRAFTS OF OFFI- CERS AND N.C.O.'S AND ARE BEING SUPPLIED WITH EQUIP- MENT. These nine British divisions are now at the disposal of the Com- mander-in-Chief for the Battle of Britain. In addition, all divi- isions at home are now up to strength and at the disposal of the

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Commander-in-Chief.

The intake of men for home defence in June and

July was many times greater than that in May. It is stated that holding battalions (units from which replacements are made) have been in- creased to a total many times more than they were a few months ago.

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That has been done by taking] in new battalions and the process is now proceeding at full speed.

The intake. of men is now 7,000 a day. This number has been maintained over a period of seven weeks.

The number of Local Defence Volunteers has just passed the

BELGIAN

THE VICHY RIDDLE STILL UNSOLVED

Reuter's SABOTAGE

of

The German controlled Brussels disclosed yesterday that ! 1,000,000 mark. This force is radio

expected to

been a number prove extremely there have valuable and will relieve the cases of sabotage to telegraph and field

of a number of army

telephone communication in Bel- duties so as to increase Its mobility.

gium.

The broadcast threatened severe

During the past fortnight an punishment which would be ex- Immense amount of work has

tended to the general inhabitants

been done preparing defences in if the perpetrators cannot be all parts of the country.

Powerful Force

The Army is in excellent health and the military experts are con- vinced it will be able to destroy any enemy attempting to invade the country.

Among the troops standing shoulder to shoulder with the Bri-- tish Army are Australians, Cana- dians, and New Zealanders and a considerable contingent of French under General de Gaulle, an im- portant Polish contingent and a large number of Czechs and Nor- wegians. Reuter.

} An Armed Camp

The British Isles resemble an armed camp with a big army ready to withstand the shock, mo- mentarily expected, of German invasion.

The following formations are now on a war footing: nine divi- sions of the former B.EF. the Metropolitan Army, Local De- fence Volunteers and various con- tingents of Empire and Allied forces.

found.-Reuter.

It is revealed by diplomatic correspondent that the French Embassy in London is still with- out instructions from Vichy to break off diplomatic relations with the British Gov- ernment.