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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1940.

YAUMATI DAYTIME BOMB ON

KIDNAPPING BY GUNMEN FOILED

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Mr. Fung, owner of the Tai Tung Restaurant in Des Voeux Road Central and the Tai Ping Restaur- ant in Yaumati, was crossing the harbour from Hong Kong to Kowloon in a Yaumati ferry launch at 8 a.m. yesterday when he observed three men 'following him.

CHINA'S AIR SUCCESSES

He boarded a bus at the Jordan) Road wharf and alighting at the junction of Pakhoi Street near the Tai Ping Restaurant he saw the same three men loitering near the entrance to the restaurant.

Two of the men suddenly whip- ped out two revolvers and at- tempted to drag Mr. Fung to a I waiting car.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL”). Mr. Eung struggled and broke

away running into the Restaurant. ON THE OCCASION OF AIR[The men realising their plans FORCE DAY, THE CHUNGKING|frustrated, ran to the waiting car AUTHORITIES HAVE RELEAS-and escaped. ED A MESSAGE ADDRESSED TO ALL CHINESE

PEOPLE

STRESSING THE DEVELOP-| MAN HAD

MENT OF CHINESE AIR FORCE.

HEROISM.

According to official figures 8-18 TEAR GAS

Japanese planes have been down-

ed, 1,148 Japanese airmen killed

and 40 Japanese warships sunk SUPPLY

by the Chinese airforce.

The message appeals to Chin-

ese youth to be prepared physical- A wallet containing tear-gas

ly and morally and to contribute

G

to the development of the air in-alleged to have been found in dustry...

suitcase under the bed of a man The Government also appealed said to have professed sympathy to all Chinese to extend financial with the Germans, led to a charge contributions to the. development at Acton, London. of aviation.

Havas.

U.S. TRADE IN ASIA

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL").

BED DIDN'T SCARE HER

An example to all was set by an eighty- one-year-old woman during a recent air raid.

It is vouched for by the head of an air raid precautions organisa- tion at an East Coast town. The woman was. lying in bed when on incendiary bomb crashed through the roof of her house, fall- ing on to her bed- stead.

She folded bedclothes over

immediately

the bomb, went down- stairs and called а warden.

The warden exting- uished the bomb with sand and came down- stairs to find the old woman playing Pati- ence with cards on the kitchen table.

She later made up another bed and went to sleep as if nothing had happened.

LIFE IN THE WAR CAPITALS

The New York "Post"

Frederick Rodsch twenty-six, described as an engineer and al British subject of First Avenue, yesterday devoted a full Acton, was remanded on a charge

of having in his possession, with page to reports of their out authority, fourteen cartridges daily lives by the news- containing "noxious liquid or other paper's correspondents in

thing."

Detective Sergeant Beynon London, Berlin and Rome.

said in the room he found a Bri--The London correspondent tish passport, a notebook with a headlined: Life for Britons runs dock sketch, a sheath knife, and along calmly, war or no war. SHANGHAI BUSINESS QUAR-

correspondence in English and Black-outs, balloons, late buses, TERS STRESS THE FACT THAT

Gorman.

fair raids; all are part of normalcy, UNITED STATES TRADE WITH CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES mitted that a pistol to

Roesch, the sergeant said, ad-now.

fire the TOGETHER DURING THE FIRST cartridges which had been found Sleep, soap, butter and news are The Berlin correspondent said: SIX MONTHS OF 1940 SUR-and sent to New Scotland Yard scarce in the Reich's capital. was one he had thrown away. Taxi, shoe leather and .cigarette TIVE FIGURES ARE U.S. $191 amining the cartridges, his

As he (the sergeant) was ex- problems, let alone air raids,

eyes plague correspondent. MILLION AND 173 MILLION. began to smart, and he asked

Before the outbreak of the Sino-Roesch if he had any tear-gas in Four meatless days keep Italians The Rome correspondent says: Japanese hostilities, Japan-Ameri- the room. He replied: "Yes, the reminded can trade was three times more things you have there are tear-war.

that they voluminous than Sing-American gas cartridges."

Reuter..

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PASSED JAPANESE AMERI- CAN TRADE WHOSE RESPEC-

trade.

he

The sergeant added that Roesch The first two and a half made a statement in which years of the Sino-Japan- said:

ese

have

war Increased Japan's share in American trade but since for I intended moving. I

"You are lucky you came to-day, the beginning of the current year given up my job. My sympathies and for the past six months Ju-)

are entirely with the German pan's trade with the United States

people." has diminished. Havas.

INDIAN CONSTABLE ON MURDER CHARGE

Man

SPARROW TRAPPER

CAUGHT

are in the

JAPANESE STAGE SHAM BATTLE

Marking the third anniversary of the Shanghai hostilities, units of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Party staged a sham battle yesterday morning in the Chapel area, in Japanese con- trolled territory in the northern

Pleading guilty to possession section of the International Settle- An Indian constable,

of seven wild sparrows in Mament, where bloody fighting took. tauwel Road yesterday, So Dong, place three years ago. Singh, attached to Taipo Police 26. was fined $10 or two weeks' Barbed wire, sandbags, Station, charged with the mur hard labour by Mr. E. Himsworth chine-guns and tanks ..lent realism to the manoeuvres. The

der of a fellow constable Nazar

Singh, attached to Yaumati Po-at Kowloon this morning, Lice Station, on August @-at-the The sparrows were covered in Japanese forces paraded latter's, station, was further regum and a stick with gum and wards-Reuter. manded one week by Mr. Q. Aa tin of gum were also found in the basket, showing how accus- ed had caught the birds.

A. Macfayden at Kowloon this morning.

Mr. M. A. da Silva will appear for the defence and

ma-

after-

SERVANT'S SIT-DOWN

Inspector CATHOLIC SERVICE STRIKE IN BATHROOM

A. E. Carey for the prosecution,

· SCOTLAND -YARD

HOLDS DUTCH ARMY OFFICER

OF ORDINATION

There will be an

After a wages dispute with her mistress a sixteen-year-old girl ordination servant staged a sit-down strike ceremony in the Catholic Cathe-in the bathroom. dral, Caine Road, at 7 o'clock The police had to be called to to-morrow morning when nine remove her. An officer of the Dutch Army deacons will be raised to the At Lambeth · Juvenile Court has been detained in London by priesthood. Of these, four are the girl was sent to a remand home the Special Branch of Scotland members of the Hong Kong for fourteen days as being in Yard.

Vicarate, all Chinese, and Ave 145 in the morning, This officer had previously been are Salesians, of whom one is She had been found walking questioned in Holland, but there Chinese. The ordination cete the Embankment, London, at was not then considered to bo mony will be performed by 1.45 in the mining. sufficient material to warrant Bishop Valtorta, Vicar Apostolic girl said she came from nction being taken. ^\

of Hong Kong.

Wales: ~

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1940

RISKED HIS LIFE FOR TANK'S 'BATTLE FLAG

FLYING A BRASSIERE as a battle pennant, a British tank went into action. After routing enemy tanks, it was hit by an incendiary shell. The radio man risked his life to save the brassiere it had once belonged to a girl friend.

That is one story told by survivors of the gallant band who were ready to die at Calais so that their comrades might win out.

1 talked with some of them in the quiet of the English country- side, writes a reporter. They told their stories simply. The words came slowly-except when they talked of going back. Then: “It'll be different next time."

Trooper J. Cook, of Peter- borough, Northants, tank radio operatur told me:

"When we set out to meet the enemy I tied the brassiere on the avrial. It seemed to be in keeping with the mood of the men.

Didn't Give A Damn

"They just did not give a damn for anything. They were singing and laughing and any-

a motor-coach trip setting out."

GET D.F.C.

--AND ON

WITH THE

DAY'S WORK

Just before they took]

body would have thought it was off to give battle to Nazi It was another member of the raiders on Monday, two crew who told me that Cook had R.A.F. pilots—a Cana- risked his life to save the bras- siere, after their tank had been dian and a South African learned that they had

set on fire.

"We had stopped a few enemy; tanks when there was a crash been awarded the D.F.C. and a hiss," he said. "An incen- The Canadian then shot down diary shell whizzed through two more enemy 'planes, bringing Cook's legs.

his bag up to six, and the South African also brought his bag to six.

"He looked a bit surprised, He was not hurt, but Gunner Studley was injured in the arm.

Snatched Brassiere

"The next second the tank was filled with a brilliant blue dame. It was impossible to see anything, and it got damned hot. The com- mander told the driver to reverse and then gave orders to abandon the tank.

Describing the fight later, the Canadian said that the three Hurricanes he was leading attack- ed nine Messerschmidts.

He saw the South African pilot shoot 'one German down. and the other pilot then sert a second, down towards the sea. They did not see this one actual. ly crash, so have not claimed it. Oil from another Messerschmidt "Cook suddenly leapt on the covered the Canadian's entire tank and snatched the brassiere 'plane as he followed it down and from the aerial. How he escaped saw it crash into the sea. being hit was a marvel."

SUDDEN DEATH IN PILKEM STREET

He climbed up to 15,000 feet and saw a Messerschmidt chas- ing a Hurricane.

He

dived on its tail. It promptly climbed up 5,000 feet: and the Canadian followed. He -put-one- burst-of-machine-gun

fire into it and that was enough.) The body of Theodore Jose

The Messerschmidt blew up in Thomas, 52-year-old Eurasian, mid-air, and the R.A.F. pilot was removed to the Kowloon Pub-watched the pieces fall down into lic Mortuary last evening.

the sea far below.-Reuter.

The man was reported to have collapsed and died in the top floor of No. 21, Piikem Street, Yaumati, at 3 p.m.

The official quotation in Lon- don for the Swiss frane was rals- The police are making investi- ed yesterday from 17.70/17.80 to gations.

17.65/17.75 to the Pound.-Reuter.

SHANGHAI BOY WAR PRISONER IN GERMANY

A VIVID PICTURE of life as a war prisoner in Germany is portrayed in a letter just received in Shanghai from Flying Officer Colin Peach of the R.A.F. whose friends would be glad to learn that he is a prisoner in Germany, although his name ap- peared in the casualty list recently.

'The author of the missive is, dry and bracing. doing well, but deplores the res- "We have had a lot of sunshine! trictions in correspondence, being and I spend a lot of my time read- allowed to write no more thanjing and sunbathing, have quite a three letters each month.

tan by now. We have a pretty Extracts from his letter follow: good bunch of chaps-and lots of "I presume that by now you have books, food is good, but of course I have had an official notification of my not luxurious, however being a prisoner of war, not really no doubt it will do one good. We! so bad as it seems, as a chap re-go to bed at 9.30 and rise at seven, macked to me on being arrested, so you' can imagine we

lead a 'for you the war is over.'

pretty healthy life.

"At present we are allowed to Sorry For The Bother write three letters and four cards

per month, so have not a lot to "Let's hope it is over for every-spare. My beard is coming on fine one soon. A recent R.A.F. arrival and is almost red colour, so Dad's informs me that I was posted as colouring comes out somewhere. I prisoner of war in the casualty have had my 'head shaved, so lists, so guess you received a tele- appear quite a villainous person gram settling the question of myjat present.

TRANSYLVANIA NEGOTIATIONS OPENING

It was learned in Budapest yesterday that negotiations be- tween Hungary and Rumania over Transylvania begin this week at Sinaia.

greatest re-

The

serve is being main- tained in the Hun- garian capital regard- ing details of the con- versations.Reuter.

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