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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 13, 1940.

STRAINS ITS LOOKING FOR OF ITALIANS

DURING THE WHOLE voyage of 2,000

miles, in the course of which 'planes from the RHUBARB aircraft carrier Ark Royal bombed Cagliari,

Sardinia (as reported yesterday), the Fleet "EARTHBOUND" did not see a single Italian surface craft or

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AVIVA CISCO KID"

make contact with any submarines.

TO MAKE WEAPONS

A yorkshire larmar, Mr. Selwyn Wade, thinks he can help to beat

This is disclosed by a correspondent who was on board one of the cruisers when the Hitler with rhubarb. Fleet carried out its "sweep" of the Central Mediterranean.

'A TOKEN OF FREEDOM'

Children bound for the United Sates will receive copies of a book specially produced to com- memorate their departure from this country,

The first indication of Italian activity came on the afternoon before Cagliari was bombed.

Experiments which he initiated have led scientists to believe that rhubarb will produce a substance of great value to munitions mak- ing..

The experiments have been An enemy 'plane came over: carried out at A northern uni- British fighters were already inversity which is. on war research" the air and returned soon after. †work. wards to flash the signal "Sha- dower shot down."

The bombers left the Ark Royal in darkness and returned to land safely before dawn.

Another Italian scouting 'plane- was then seen and this, too, was shot down.

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A professor there caid: "The nature of the experiments must remain secret. It would, be useful to the enemy to know what we are aiming at. I think I cần say that we hope to get valuable results.'!--

It is "A Token of Freedom," a

Mr. Wade, who lives at Oul- short version of Sir Bruce Ri-. Then two large ovations of ton, near. Leeds, has been farm- chmond's anthology, "The Pattern enemy bombers came over. Theng rhubarb-100 acres of it-all of Freedom," and the Americans correspondent says be counted 24.his working life. in-Britain Outpost of the Commit-in formations of six, at a height

"I remembered," he said, "that tee to Defend America by Aiding of about 16,000 feet.

before aniline dyes were develop- the Allies has undertaken to pre-

Every ship in the Fleet rated rhubarb was used in the sent a copy to each child either as he embarks or after he arrives at his war-time home.

dyeing, industry.

That gave me the idea of putting it to other industrial use.

ed into action and the sky was splotched with the bursts of anti-aircraft shells. No adult may buy or beg one; Salvoes of bombs came whistle but parents may subscribe to-ing down and crashed amid.col-. | vards the cost of production and umns of water. No damage was to the professor. Later he wrote postage. To prevent any illicit done: and there were no casual-that he had, gut from it a certain material which might be of great cwnership, the child's name und | ties.

41 scnt quantities of

rhubarb

age will be inscribed on a book- The "cruise" was continued for use in munitions work plate which proclaims that the same hours within easy range of Then he suggested that the.. book was given to its youthful Italian planes or surface' call, fibre of rhubarb night serve as a owner "by someone' who loved but neither then nor the next night; substitute for wood pulp in paper-. these words and knew what they was there any attack, and the next making. Experiments on that mans and knew why I must morning the Fleet came safely into line are now being carried out cherish them and hold them sacred harbour. Reuter

by another research body:" so long as I live." Above, the figure of Britannia is shown handing over a boy and girl to the care of Liberty.

The Foreward

The foreword tells the "child" that he is going "for a little while to a country where every child learns by heart at least one of the things in this book: the words of Lincoln at Gettysburg." In "a

board competition on

the first ship to take. children to the States under the auspices of the Ameri- can Evacuation Committee, 0 thirteen-year-old girl won her first American dollar for the besì recitation of the address.

The stirring words of Peri-

cles to "the Athenians, part of the Magna Carta, quotations. from Dante, Shakespeare, Mil- ton, Blake, Pitt, Wordsworth, and others—all of thèm varia- tions on the idea of freedom- fill the sixty pages.

Specimen coples of "The Token of Freedom" may be viewed at a

number of bookshops throughout. | England and Scotland and at thej headquarters of the Americans- in-Britain Outpost. at. 29, Gordon Square, London, W.C., but they are Not to be Taken Away.

SCILLY ISLESMEN TO

"STAY PUT"

The 1,700 Scilly Islanders have decided to stay on, however often Hitler sends his machine-gunning bombers..

the

Major A. A.. Dorrien-Smith, owner of Tresco Island, chairman. of the Council of the Isles of Scilly and unofficial "dictator" of islands, sald this to reporters.

Although, explosive and incen- diary, bombs. have been dropped on all five inhabited islands there have been few casualties.

"The moral of the islanders lo excellent; they all lent a hand pitting out fires, and they are determined to let nothing scare. thom," he said.

"A few women with very young children have gore to stay, with friends on the mainland, but there in no question of voluntary evacuation on any scale."

The islands are 25 miles from Land's End,

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