THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1941.
Stories Of
Thrilling Heroism By Ship
Remarkable
Feats
Of
Navigation
THRILLING STORIES OF HEROISM AND ENDURANCE FOR DAYS IN OPEN BOATS BY OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AFTER THEIR SHIPS HAD BEEN TOR- PEDOED, BOMBED BY ENEMY AIRCRAFT OR ATTACKED BY MERCANTILE RAIDERS, ARE TOLD IN A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE "LONDON GAZETTE” ISSUED LAST NIGHT.
One group of exhausted men spent 15 days afloat before being picked up, another 10 days, and another six. All ran short of food and remarkable feats of navigation were performed.
Throughout the official narratives run heart-
FIVE YEAR breaking instances of sig
PLAN FOR BUILDING.
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nals of distress not seen by passing ships.
One able-seaman, Sydney Herbert Light, who is awarded the George Medal, saved not only a boatload of men from
his
but
own torpedded ship took in tow and rescued a boatload of survivors from an. other sunken vessel.
When Light reached the second
damage caused to build-beat in the high seas the occupants
were about to give up the strug-
saged the exhausted men
"and bound those suffering from ex-
ings up to date would ex-gle. Light climbed aboard, mas- ceed or even reach one year's full building capa-posure with strips of blanket. city of Britain.”
Ten Terrible Days
This statement was made yes-¦ Ten terrible days of privation, terday by the famous economist, exhaustion and danger passed be- Mr. J. M. Keynes, who added: "fore a British ship Saw their should say that the buildings of fare, and thanks to Light's "cour- this country ar to-day worth
age, leadership, self-sacrifice and more than they were in 1938.
stout heart," all were rescued. "Damane of this kind is an
In peacetime Light sails his opportunity. It is only when it
own yacht and is a skier. gets beyond a certain point that it becomes à disaster.
"What has happened hitherto is{ opportunity and it can go much further before it becomes a real disaster."
MR. KEYNES ADVOCATED A FIVE OR TEN-YEAR PRO- GRAMME FAR EXCEEDING RE- PAIR OR DAMAGE-REUTER.
ABYSSINIANS FIGHTING FOR AN IDEAL
The fervent faith
Meanwhile Captain Thomas Kippins, Light's skipper, took charge of another boat contain. Ing 26 men, whom be brought to safety after 15 days. In heavy seas the boat. was almost overtuined. Men who fell overboard were rescued.
The mast, sails
and several
ours were lost and several pass- ing ships missed their signals. Nevertheless, despite
weakness,
cold and hardship, the boat reach-
ed safety.
Captain Kippins O.B.E. Reuter.
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BEVIN PLAN FOR INDIANS
TECHNICIANS BOMBAY YESTERDAY FOR
the Abyssinian irregulars THE FIRST BATCH OF IN- who are playing an in- DIAN
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BULGARIAN PRO-NAZI RESIGNS
M. Bagrionoff, Bul- garian Minister of Agriculture, known for his Nazi sympa- thies, resigned yester- day morning, accord- ing to a Sofia tele- gram to the official German news agency,
King Boris accepted the resignation and his post has been taken over by M. Filoff, the Prime Minister.-Reuter.
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LIGHTNING TRIP
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MR. WILLKIE
IMMEDIATELY AFTER returning from his lightning trip to Ireland, Mr. Wendell Willkie had tea with the King and Queen.
Mr. Willkie told Reuter that he had a three-hour conversation with Mr. Eamonn de Valera, during one of which he was alone with the Eire Premier.
He said that they had had a frank and free discussion and he "gut the information he wanted." He also saw several members of the Eire Cabinet.
Referring to the general con- clusions he reached in travel- ling about England, Mr. Willkie said: "I think the people of these islands are almost mira- culously fortunate In their teadership.
Common Aim
5FT.,
BUT
SHE BEATS
BOMBS
.
. Bombs were dropping and five "Anyone who believes the peo- ple are not united is labouring fires burning around her home in under a delusion. I doubt whe- the heart of a Midlands city when she is ther in history any man has been little Mrs. Ivy Gilber more ideally suited to his task only about 5ft. tall ran for a Horia Sima, the Iron than Mr. Churchill with his ladder, carried it to her neigh- Guard leader, is the first qualities of inspirational leader-bour's house, climbed into a bed- named in a list of those ship great comprehension, daunt room, and amid smoke and flames
less courage and long experience. put out an incendiary bomb. blamed for deaths and
But this is only one example of material damage result-
the courage of Mrs. Gilbert. ing from the recent re-
She has carried to safety a crip- bellion in a semi-official diverse political and economic pled girl whose home was bomb- Statement published in beliefs and I have never seen a ed, and helped to put out fires in
more co-ordinated or more co- houses and factories. Bucharest yesterday. hesive group in pursuit of
common aim."
Mr. Willkloreiterated ^ his opinion of Britain's miraculous
In one of leadership
the supreme and critical moments of history.
The statement continues that
"I talked to every member of a Government
of comprised
a
"I don't know what we should have done without our İvy,” Bald Mrs. J. Walton, a neigh- bour.
"We saw her scale the ladder
alone and get into the burning bedroom. The tenants 'were in”. their air raid shelter and knew nothing about it until after the raid...If it hadn't been for Ivy the house would have been burn- ed down."
Others mentioned are the form- er Minister of Interior, General. a further instance of a common feeling of comradeship.
Petrovicescu, the former chief of) The irregulars are fully equip He added the Government's police, Alexander Ghika, "and ped with uniform and operate un- scheme to train 15,000 Indian other ambitious men of lesser im- der European officers. They in technicians by March, 1942, was portance.” clude a nephew of Haile Selas- well under way. Technical train-
The other conclusions, he said, sie and others who had positionsing institutions in the provinces
documents "prove the rebellion he was keeping for the United and wealth formerly but are now were rapidly being inspected and
was premeditated and long pre- States. He declined to talk about quite happy to accept a pay of developed.
pared and that the aim was to the Irish bases and disclosed he 25/- to 40/- a month.
Instructors were being secured
utillas arme and ammunition ob- had not been invited to Germany. Their attitude is entirely un-in which the home Government tained from police stations and - mercenary and they are willing was niso
Bevin helping, the
gendarmerie throughout the to pay
who la thirty, for extra equipment Scheme being part of this help. country on the pretext they ware
Mra, Gilbert, themselves.
While the Indian
WEB scheme ald needed by the legionary polica."
an A.R.P. warden, but They are constant readers of the not contemplate training skilled Of. 44 persons tried by a mili
overwork compelled her to give Bible and are fighting for the ideal] technicians in thousands,
the tary court on charges of having
up her post some months ago. of freeing their country.
Bevin Scheme almed at more taken part in the rebellion 36 have Their attitude may be summed: intensive training.
"I've seen her on the point of been given prison sentences rang- up by a 61-year-old irregular who .... Arrangements for selecting a ing from three months to five and he described himself as "very collapse through working for us fought at Adowa, who said: "We second batch of 50 were in hand. Years, and fines ranging from 2,000 fascinated" by relations between In air-raids. While we've been will hoist our flag again with the If the experiment succeeded to 100,000 lei, Eight were ac- Government labour and indus-out in the roada fighting fires. help of God."--Reuter.
others would follow. — Reuter.
quitted--Reuter:",
Very Fascinated Referring to, his tour of the north-west industrial area' in England Mr. Willkie said he had collected a great deal of informa- tion about production methods,
tity. Reuter.
|among falling bombs."
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