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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 15, 1941.

TOLD OF THIS

MILLIONAIRE'S WE WERE NOT

58 DAYS'

VOYAGE OF HELL

STARVING AND EXHAUSTED, an American millionaire and six other men have just reached the Bahamas after a fifty-eight days' "hell voyage" across the Atlantic in a yacht,

For seven weeks they had to rely on sails. Their engine and their radio had been smashed by a storm. Part of the time they drifted helplessly in a gale which ripped their sails. At one stage they were re- duced to eating pancakes made of nothing more than flour and water fried in engine oil.

stopped

Au Itan submarine the yacht, turned its guns on her,: and then let her go.

"He did not say why.

"Next day We were stopped by an Italian submarine, which came within twenty yards and as though turned guns on deciding whether we should be destroyed or Falmouth

A. 13. The millionaire is Mr. Clarke, who bought the 145-tun yachi Noroit from Earl Beatty.

from Не salled against the advice of friends and experts after failing to obtain other means of transport to the

United States.

scratch His

of three

Crew

consisted three

and Britons One Danes.

of the Bri- tons was Norman Harry Middle- ton. He was on holiday at Dart- mouth when he met Clarke, who invited him to join the crew.

"I deeply regret the wild excur- sion," said Middleton. "We were nine days out when we struck terrific gales which wiped out the radio and engines and ripped the sails.

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Demonstrations have taken place in front of Buckingham Palace by people demanding that the war should be ended, according to Rome wireless, which adds that police had to disperse the crowd.

R.A.F SPEEDS UP GERMAN TRAINS

Reports in various neutral news- papers show that one result of the R.A.F. raids on Germany has been to increase the speed of the trains. though not the convenience of the passengers.

train receives When a moving from a signal-box information that a warning has been given it is not allowed to stop again until it has passed through the area to which the warning applies.

past carried Passengers are

intermediate destinations, their while those waiting to catch it are sent down to shelter, the stations being cleared of all but a skeleton fur staff.

reduce speed now in trouble when an "Alert" is sounded in the The men are with the Bahamas immigration neighbourhood. authorities.

The only other enemy craft we encountered were two German near Brest. motor torpedo-boats

our American They scrutinised flag closely.

"I haven't had any food days."

Clarke wants to leave the yacht and go to Miami, U.S.A.. but the authorities insist that he can't unless he first deposits his crew's fares to England.

hotel pro- Middleton, former prietor, was promoter for

Jimmy boxer British famous

the

"We drifted for three weeks be-wilde, once fly-weight champion fore landing at Madeira.

"No one really know naviga- of the world. tion, and we went miles off our eGuise

Changed Yacht's Name "Our food soon ran out and had to fry flour and water pan- cakes in engine oil,

"Half way through the voyage Clarke sent a man over the side to change the name of a yacht; from Norot to Marie.

SABOTAGE BY DANES

So much sabotage has been done factories by Danish workers to since the occupation of the coun- try that the Germans have had to take strong measures against them states the Copenhagen radio.

A new large factory near Hol- beek will be closed at once it the sabotage does not stop it is stated.

GIRL IS FREED FROM PRISON

MISS EDITH KAHLER, twenty-six, step- daughter of Mr. Richard Weininger, has been re- leased after spending seven weeks and three days in Holloway Prison.

She was detained about the same time as her stepfather, who was arrested while at the flat of Mr. Robert Boothby, M.P., and who is still in Brixton Prison.

"Lave not the least idea why been evacuated to our home, Row- I was arrested," Miss Kahler told, fold Grange, Billingshurst, Sussex.

am equally "One day I saw an article about "and I a reporter, ignorant of the reason for my re- Lady Peel's Anglo-French Soli- and that they lease. I am very glad to be free darity Committee,

were needing people who could again.

speak French, English and Ger-

"Before the Treaty of Versailles set the Czechs free 1 was an Aus- trian citizen of Bohemian nation- ality.

а

"After the Treaty I became Czechoslovak, but I have been domiciled in England for the past five years, living here without a break since the end of June, 1936.

Barred As Alien

"As soon as war broke out I of- fered my services to every branch of women's war services.

"The Land Army welcomed me with open arms because I am skilled poulty farmer, and I was offered six Jobs in three days.

"When I took one I received a letter of apology, saying that be- cause I was an allen I could not be taken. A

"Then I enlisted. In the Czecho- Blovak Legion which had just been formed.

man.

"I organised a depot for sending clothes to refugees in France and later for distributing clothing to those who had escaped over here.

"It was while I was at Lady Peel's that I was arrested.

"I cannot complain about my treatment in Holloway Prison, al- though it was a prison and not an internment camp.

"They were all very decent, fair and correct there, but the food was indescribable.”

THEY REPAID THE

·R.A.F.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has made an award of £24 to its crew and launchers at Sheringham, Norfolk, for rescuing five British airmen.

The. Sheringham lifeboatmen "I offered to do anything but were making a very good return nurse or cook, because I cannot do for an R.A.F. kindness when they Last spring either. They could not find me a saved the airman, job, so I concentrated on looking the Coastal Command gave them after twelve children who had "days out” at aerodromes.

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