1940-08-03 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 3, 1940

BLOCKADE WARFARE INSTEAD OF AN INVASION? HE SAW

not

MAJOR ELIOT, writing in the New York "Herald-Tribune" yesterday, says he does expect a German invasion of England warns the United States that the war is blockade warfare.

and

now

In the event of there being no invasion of Britain, he says, Britain is likely to win.

The writer thinks Hitler's dis- comflture is causing the current peace feelers from Nazi-controlled! Sources and peace is entirely un- obtainable from the British on

HAW HAW'S

any terms Germany can offer. ARMS

"The Germans haven't display- ed any ability seriously to inter- fere with British convoys. The German air force hasn't over- whelmed the British air force.

Germans Cut Off

WORKS PLOT LESSON

Scene: A big munition factory

in the Midlands.

some angry, some anxious, all "jumpy."

"There is no question the Ger- mans are completely cut off from the receipt of any supplies what- ever by sea and by their own acts they have made it certain there will be no supply through neutral countries save what little can filter in through Spain whose non-belligerence is uncertain - of tenure and which is in any case the factory. now to be strictly rationed.

"The sympathies of Americas and the loyal co- which was engineered by Hitler's operation of tho Dominions fifth column.

HITLER

Schoolboys and the parents at

the annual speech day at Work-

shop College learned that a popu-

lar master, now a prisoner of war,

|had been questioned by Hitler..

The master, Second-Lieutenant. |W. A. Laing, who joined up at the captured in Norway.

Thought the headmaster, the Rev. B. C. Malony would not disclose all his news of Mr. Laing, told the scholars and visitors he knew Hitler would not. "gat any change" out of Mr. Laing when he asked him questions.

Second-Lieutenant Laing who is twenty-eight, had been at the

college for several years.

.......** BOY,

MORE CANADIANS

IN ENGLAND

The safe arrival in England of "another large contingent of the Canadian active service force" was an- nounced by the De 'fence Minister, Co- lonel Ralston, in the House of Commons in Ottawa yesterday. The contingent in- cludes, part of the Second Division under Major-General Odlum and certain auxiliary units, he added. Reuter.

BALKAN MUDDLE SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SETTLEMENT

WHILE THE FIRST step for the opening Characters: All the workers, of direct negotiations concerning Hungarian

and Bulgarian claims on Rumania is expect ed from the Rumanian Government within a the the innocent victims of the plot, few days, the opinion is gaining ground in well-informed circles in Budapest that the afford Britain the certainty that This spread the story among supplies will be Forthcoming 5,000 workers that Haw Haw had negotiations are likely to be long and

Plot: To reduce production at

The workers, of course,

were

for her and in great measure; broadcast from. Bremen that the denied to her enemies.

factory would be bombed in a few difficult. "The Royal Navy appears ade-days. There was the usual re- quate to the task of getting sup-ference to show local knowledge. plies safely back to port the This time it was: "Don't trouble to ⚫ results

finish the new will be cumulative,

paint shed "As the German reserves be-won't need it." gin to run out they can't be re-l THEY WERE DUPED placed while Britain's can." Reuter.

DEADLOCK REACHED?

16, SAVED NAZI AIRMAN

A Fisherman, aged sixteen, stepped ashore on the Kent coast with a pair of suspenders in one hand and some flatfish in the other, while in the boat were two injured German airmen.

The suspenders were given to young Ken Ross, of the fishing boat Golden Spray, by one of the Germans as a souvenir of the rescue.

Ken had helped to dress the Jairmen's wounds after their Hein- kel bomber, with a crew of five, had been shot down.

He tore his underclothing in strips to make bandages for them.

ALL HE POSSESSED

As one of the airmen lay bleed- ing from machine-gune bullet wounds in the wheelhouse of the little boat he said to Ken in En- glish:

"Thank you, boy," Then he handed him the suspenders, the When the men told them that only things he possessed · apart from shirt, trousers and socks.

Ken, his skipper and mate, who dragged the wounded men into their boat, had no ideal they were German.

It was only as the two men gasped out guttural words of thanks that they realised it.

THRILLING AIR FIGHT

There was no trace of the plane which they had seen crash into the sea seven miles away after a thrilling battle with several Spit-

res

The German. pilot officer, wounded in head and with a'

on gun bulet his una, gasped out as he and his sixteen-

stone mechanic were picked up: "Another three minutes and we

would have been gone."

He and the mechanic were the only survivors of the bomber's

crew of five.

"Three of us got out of the plane but one. has gone," the pilot said. "The other two were trapped, and could not get out. Are you English sailors?" When the men told them that they were he said. "We are good

It is felt among Hungarians that Ger-

's encouragement to the Bucharest Goy-Germans." many's you

ernment to make their own arrangements whom operations have been per-

Last night the Germans, on

formed, were lying in a serious

coastal town.

The result, of course, was to with Hungary and Bulgaria means that a condition at a hospital in a Kent.

quick decision is improbable.

cause a small drop in production Just what Hitler wanted.

After preliminary meetings be

Ministers of tween the Foreign

Now hundreds of workers in this factory have joined the Anti- Haw Haw League. They realise the three countries there are cer- at last how the story of the broad-tain to be proposals and counter- cast Haw Haw never made duped proposals needing detailed dis- them into letting down our men cussion.

The shells they did not pro- duce that day may have been the cause of someone you love being put in danger of death.

THE NEWSPAPER "YENI-in France. SABAH" IN ISTANBUL YES- TERDAY DECLARED THE AXIS POWERS ARE ENDEAV- OURING TO HIDE THEIR PRE- SENT HESITATION BY CLAIMS THAT THEY ARE MAKING PROGRESS BUT IT IS EVIDENT THEY DEADLOCK.

personal the matter becomes. PLOT DOOMED

It is thought therefore that

no result should be expected before the middle of September at the earliest.

NAVAL HEROES IN AWARDS LIST

THE RESCUE OF wounded men from a war-

Look at it lige that and see how Hungarian Indignation ship's bomb-room filled with fumes and smoke as The Budapest newspapers yes- the result of an explosion, at the risk of further ex- terday indignantly commented on plosions which might have blown them to pieces, HAVE REACHED A The fifth column plot, however, the Rumanian manoeuvres" to

is lommed Everywhere men and]

The Germans have shot their women are rushing to register as escape the concessions which are earned awards announced in the London “Gazette"

Their means do not allow members of the Anti-Haw Haw now believed in Budapest to be last night.-- them to make further headway. League Belingham, S.E., branch Meanwhile, the continual post- Undoubtedly they will yet en- of the British Legion has joined ponement of the offensive against

bolt.

inevitable.

The Officership of the Order of the British Em-

deavour to overcome the power as one body, so have the cast of Britain has provoked the realisa-pire goes to Lt.-Comm. Viscount Mandeville, and the and determination of the British, "New Faces" at the Comedyy tion in Hungary that the war is Medal of the Order to Sub-Lt. Alexander Mitchell for the day they cease to attack Theatre, London, all pledging likely to be much longer than from fear of reverses, all their themselves not to listen to the Wats prestige would be undermined Traitor of Bremen and to track bound to and the terror inspired by thejevery rumour to its source. German Colossus in Europe would vanish.

Nevertheless Germany hesitates to attempt, the Channel crossing and in the meantime British pre- parations are proceeding apace. -Reuter,

BABY BORN DURING AIR RAID

NO TIME

FOR LAYING BLAME

ever supposed, and this is Hodge.

affect the position in Viscount Mandeville, although South-Eastern Europe. Reuter. injured, . showed "outstanding courage and enterprise" in search-

Hodge rescued several badly

WAR FUND RAFFLE |ing for wounded.

Marine Hero

was

heavy

16, WORKS 83 HOURS! WEEK

In the presence yesterday of injured men, one of whom Mrs. H. F. Phillips and Mr. A. K. crushed under two very Dimond, ticket No. 260 was drawn bombs which could not be mov-

ed single-handed. in the raffle for an evening-cum- hostess gown designed by Madame Sophic Costides and presented by Eunice, Peninsula Hotel Arcade,

Though only just sixteen, Pat Hodge obtained help, drag-barr, of Sion-lane, Clifton, Bris- in aid of the Ambulance Fund of

ged the wounded man clear. the B.W.O.F. The raffle realised

and oant him up. Hodge did tol thinks nothing of putting in an. $152.00, and the holder of the

eighty-three-hour week so long as not go on deck until he had This is no time to search for lucky ticket is Mr. Jack Macgie-

satisfied himself that nobody it will help to win the war. " said Mr. scapegoats,"

Herbert gor, who is at present in Shang-

He is one of thousands of, boys' was left alive below. Morrison (Minister ́ ́of Supply) hai.

The Medal of the British Em- cheerfully working twelve hourse in a speech in London.

ta a day or more, seven days a week, DURING AN AIR RAID "Perhaps when we contrasted

pire-Order is also awarded. Marine James Muro Hall, who to turn out the aeroplanes Bri-- ALARM THE MATERNITY UNIT the spirit and quality of the grent|

tain must, have without delay. swam through water covered OF A HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL effort Britain was making with]

with burning oil to a blazing ship WORKED CALMLY IN AN UN-past mistakes which made it nec-| DERGROUND WARD. BEFORE cessary, and put such hazards.in "Secondly, to demand a scalp loaded with petrol, enabling

ALL CLEAR SOUNDED, the path of full success, we might every time we have evidence of chain to be fastened to the stern towed of the ship which was THE PATIENT HAD GIVEN be tempted to indulge in re- mistakes or setbacks is to create clear of jetty, which was already

for incipient panle, "and to threaten catching Are.

stability of mind both among gov-

THE

crimination,

search orto

demnation resources of mind and epirit which we must hus. band for the task in hand.

GENUINE UNITY

and There were oil tanks

Reuter.

ALIENS, NOT AGENTS

a

a

Pat is employed by an engineer- ing firm engaged on Government

outside His home he looked as work. As he sprang off his bicycle bright as though he had just come from a day's outing.

He seemed surprised also at the

unusual.

L

"I work eighty-three hours · a week, not eighty-four," he told a reporter, "any my job is roughly that of a precision worker. I istart at 7.30 in the morning and

BIRTH TO A DAUGHTER.-

Anti-aircraft fire could be heard scapegoats. in the underground ward, but no "I have myself in the past been ernors and governed. Modifien- one was upset. Mother and baby an outspoken critic theings done tlons and. reinforcements of the large stock of petrol nearby.idea that he was doing anything are doing well. ·

and things left undone," he said. Government there may need to The father, Mr. W. J. Dawson, a "I-reserve-the-right-to-be-an-out-be-fron time to time, but what we Jabourer, 'sold: While my daughter spoken critic again at an appro-canot afford is a political crisis. was being born. I am my elder prlate time, but this is not the every, other week. child who is 'eighteen months old, time..

"Then, thirdly we want above were sharing an air raid shelter in "I say to you emphatically that all things at the present time to The War Department yesterday get home about 7.30 in the even- a neighmour's garden.

to look back now is a weakness build up and to foster a spirit of stated in Washington that the per-ing. But before beginning work. I "We have not yet decided on a which we cannot allow ourselves. genuine. unity, a community of sons detained in the Panama Can-do-a newspaper round. I am up.

"I say this for three reasons. thought and feeling-frmo which al Zone-were aliens, and not for at six The backward look is 'n waste none are excluded but cowards, eign agents, as announced by Mr. Just a plain statement of a of energy. It means that we are slackers and traitors...

Henry L. Stimson, the Secretary thirteen-hour day, but it embodies "expending on'wangor, and con- ""Work Up, to' War Speed,"

the working spirit of England;... Tor War-Reuter.

name for the baby, but we are considering giving her a name as- sociated with A.R.P. If we can hit on something appropriate.".

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