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Thrilling Heroism By 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.
FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR BUILDING
"I don't believe air raid
Throughout the official narratives run heart- breaking instances of sig- nals of distress not seen by passing ships.
One abic-seaman, Sydney Herbert Light, who is awarded the George Medal, saved
A
not from
but
only boatload of men his own torpedoed ship
tow took in
and rescued 3 boatload of curvivors from an. other sunken vessel.
When Light reached the second i
damage caused to build-out in the high seas the occupants!
were about to give up the strug-
ings up to date would ex-gle Light climbed aboard, mas- men and ceed or even reach one siged the exhausted
bound those suffering from ex-
year's full building capa-posure with strips of blanket. city of Britain:”
an
Ten Terrible Days
This statement was made yes. Ten terrible days of privation. terday by the famous economist, exhaustion and danger passed he- Mr. J. M. Keynes, who added: "fore a British ship Saw their should say that the buildings are, and Chanks to Light's "eour- this country are to-day worth
age, leadership, self-sacrifice and more than they were in 1938.
stout heart," all were rescued. In peacetime Light sails own yacht and is a skier.
Meanwhile Captain Thomas Kippins, Light's skipper. took charge of another boat contain. ing 26 men, whom be brought to safety after 15 days.
"Damage of this kind is opportunity. It is only when it gets beyond a certain point that it becomes a disaster. "What has happened hitherto is] opportunity and it can go much further before it becomes a real disaster."
MR. KEYNES ADVOCATED A
TEN-YEAR FIVE OR
PRO- GRAMME FAR EXCEEDING RE- PAIR OR DAMAGE. REUTER.
ABYSSINIANS FIGHTING FOR AN IDEAL
The fervent faith of
his
In heavy seas the boat was almost overtumed. Men who fell overboard were rescued.
The mast, sails and several bars were lost and several pass-
ing ships missed their signals.
despite weakness, i
Nevertheless,
| cold and hardship. the boat_reach-|
ed safety.
Captain Kippins
O.B.E.
Reuter.
receives
BEVIN PLAN FOR INDIANS
the
the Abyssinian irregulars THE FIRST BATCH OF IN- TECHNICIANS LEFT who are playing an in- DIAN
BOMBAY YESTERDAY FOR 'creasingly important part THE UNITED KINGDOM UN- in regaining their coun- DER THE BEVIN SCHEME. try, is described in a Nairobi cable to-day.
Mr. M. S. A. Hydari said the
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1941.
Stories Of
Ship Survivors
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BULGARIAN PRO-NAZI RESIGNS
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M. Bogrianoff, Bul- garian Minister 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 been his post has taken over by M. the Prime Filoff, Minister.-Reuter.
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LIGHTNING TRIP TO EIRE BY
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 Trank and free discussion and he "got 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 eaid: "I think the people of these islands are almost mira-
fortunate In culously
their leadership. "Anyone who believes the peo- ple are not united is labouring I doubt whe- under a delusion. ther in history any man has been more ideally suited
ITALIANS
TAKE IT
LYING DOWN
of
The destruction to his task grounded Italian aircraft Horia Sima, the Iron than Mr. Churchill with his by the South African Air Guard leader, is the first qualities of inspirational leader-Force was described in an ship, great comprehension, 'daunt-
statement at named in a list of those less courage and long experience.| official
a
Common Aim ~
blamed for deaths and
Zaroba yesterday.
On Feb. 2 two fighters destroy- material damage result-
"I talked to every member of ed a grounded Caproni bomber ing from the recent re- Government comprised of at Afmadu. In Italian Somaliland. bellion in a semi-official diverse political and econoniic On Feb. 3 South African bom- statement published in beliefs and I have never seen a bers escorted by fighter's made a
mre co-ordinated
or more co-low; dive-bombing und, machine-
a hesive group in pursuit of Bucharest yesterday.
gunning attack at Gobwen vero- drome, in Kenya. The fighters Willkie reiterated hla Mr.
air machine-gunned grounded Opinion of Britain's miraculous craft while the bombers dropped leadership In one
the of
many heavy bombs and incendi supreme and critical moments
aries... of history.
quick and adequate response was
Others mentioned are the form-commun alm.” 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."
The other conclusions, he said, clude a nephew of Haile Selas- well under way. Technical train- The statement continues that sic and others who had positionsing institutions in the provinces documento "prove the rebellion he was keeping for the United and wealth formerly but are now were rapidly being inspected atid 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 utilise arms and ammunition ob- had not been invited to Germany. Their attitude is entirely ur in which the home Government tained from police stations.and
Very Fascinated also
gendarmerie helping, the Bevin
throughout the merconary and they are willing was
country on the pretext they wore for to pay
extra equipment Scheme being part of this help.
Referring to his tour of the themacivés.
While the Indian
needed by the legionary police." scheme did
area in north-west They are constant renders of the not contemplate training skilled Of 44 persons tried by a mill-industrial
in thousands, Bible and are fighting for the ideal | technicians
the tary court on charges of having England Mr.. Willkio said he had
་་
Three Savoia 79's., one Caproni destroyed. and one CR42 were All the South African 'planes re turned safely.-Reuter,
NEW HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER” Laszlo Bardossy, Hungarian Bevin Scheme aimed at more taken part in the rebellion 36 have collected a great deal of informa-Minister in Bucharest, has been of freeing their country.
Their attitude may be summed intensive training.
been given prison sentences ráng-tion about production; methods, appointed Foreign Minister in up by a 61-year-old irregular, who Arrangements for selecting a ing from three months to five and he described himself as "very succession: to Count Canky, says fought at Adowa who said: "We second batch of 50 were in hand, years, and fines ranging from. 2,000 fascinated" by relations between a Budapest despatch to the offi
experiment succeeded to 100,000 lei. Eight were...ac- Government, labour and indus,cial German- news agency quotes will hoist our flag again with the IT the
by Reuter try... -- Reuter. others would follow, Reuter, quitiadi-Reuter help of God."-Reuter,
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