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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1941

"GREATHEART" SAILS AGAIN FROM LISBON

(By A Lisbon Correspondent)

THE GOOD SHIP Greatheart has sailed again, packed with refugees who are travelling from peace into war. Greatheart is the name by which she is known in Lisbon. This ship, which periodically takes a complement of a hundred passengers from neutral Portugal to Britain, is really nameless.

The title under which she sailed in days of peaceful pleasure cruises, has been painted out with dull, grey war paint. Now she steams into the battle seas to bring home civilians who know they sail as Nazi targets.

On board the Great- heart go remnants of the British colonies in Europe, families who have lived as exiles most of their lives.

Men who escaped From con- centration camps, bound for the battlefields of Britain.

Famul who prefer to sail from this land of unrationed plenty to the ration curds of their home- land.

Children whose English mo. thers $till talk to them in

French, and to whom this war tline voyage will mean almost

a change in

nationality-Mor

POLYGAMY

WAS RIGHT.

SHE SAYS

1

Modern marriage is a

U.S. GANG STEALS

TOMMY GUNS

FROM BRITAIN

Gangsters stole ten sub-machine guns which were lying on a heavily guarded New York dockside for shipment to Britain.

Scores of detectives gre searching the city's underworld for the guns,

which were packed in crates and must have been carri- ed bodily to a waiting lorry.

much worse arrangement CANADA

HAS ARMY

OF GHOSTS

than the polygamy once practised by the Mor- they have never known the mons, says Miss Maurine] England which is their heritage. Whipple, American au- "Banshee" Calls thor, who is a member of Mrs. Robinson travels with her the Church of the Latter

Michael and Day Saints, as the Mor-white-clad son and daughter, Joan. All three stayed behind,

mons call themselves. packed up their Paris home and struggled from Franes alone, be- cause Mi Rubinson had to leave for an important war job in Brit- ain at the first hint of collapse in France.

There are people

like sixty- year-old Tom Watson, who is i leaving a life's savings in a Paris | bank and is going back to see what he can do to help win the

War.

"To understand what I mean you have to look back to the be- ginnings of polygamy," she said. "The Mormons didn't have more than one wife just for the fun of it like some people do to-day,

Economic Experiment

"The women outnumbered the i men by four to one because of plagues and wars. Brigham Young (the Mormon leader) was faced with the problem of having dozens of useless old maids, and to polygamy as an he turned of "Goodi

economic experiment, not as a sex

Accustomed to more cheerful farewells, I watched the ship be. fore she slid into the darkness recently. There were no cheers-- just whispers

Tucks which went round the little groups who waited to see her off.

Girls walked up the gang way with gas masks on their shoul- ders. A cailor uncovered the

gun.

Then the ship the sea

to

sensation,

Hoved toward

ly

"Don't think I advocate poly

There is no necessity for gamy.

Swooping oul of the snow, figures glided past without a sound, visible for only a few seconds against enlourless background before being lost to sight. These were Canada's army ski instructors on the march.

and They came

went like ghosts, Only the dark streaks of their slung rifles and mit- tened hands broke the symmetry as they moved and manoeuvred over billa and among the leafless trees. Fourteen degrees below zero, thick but crisp with the snow were the conditions found favour- able by the future instructors of Canada's ski troops during the three-weeks' course at O tawa.

Their syllabus contained such strange drills as the "bear walk"

skia reclining on

and using toboggan to coast

them as a

down hills.

it to-day. But while it had its faults it wasn't the evil, unlaw ful arrangement that it has been held up to be all these years. "Marriage to-day is taken light

skis Such an attitude would

by the Mur-

Still no cheers-just hands rais-considered sinful

farewell ed in

the civilian mans," troopers the banshees have culted

home to fight.

OUTED HIS WIFE FOR EX-FIANCEE

A wife who allowed her hus- band to bring his former fiancee to their home was granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court because of the husband's misconduct with the girl.

be

An officer said it was not the Taim to develop finished ski troops but to teach troops to move on

50 they

may be able to operate and not become ammobi-- lised by snow.

TWO MONTHS OF BLITZ.

AND STILL WANT MORE

FOR THE FIRST TIME Glasgow has the op- portunity of learning the truth about London's blitzkrieg from the lips of Glasgow men who have for weeks shared the perils of Londoners.

Petitioner was Mrs. Victoria May Foxwell, of Rutts Terrace, Back home again after two) New Cross. Lordon, S.E., and the months spent in London assisting husband. William John Reginald the staff of the Metropolitan Foxwell did not defend the suit. Water Board to repair bomb dam- Mrs. Foxwell's cuse was that age, fourteen employees of Glas- after the marriage her husband re- gow Corporation Water Depart- ceived letters from the girl, who ment are full of stories of their ultimately came to live with them. I great experience and of praise for

After six weeks husband and the people of London. wile quarrelled about it. Mr. "Our most exciting job," said Foxwell told his wife she could go, and Mrs. Foxwell went.

That was in 1929, and the hus- band was still living with his for mer Nancee.

TAPPED PHONE TO

AID PILOT

one of them, James Lee, of John- street, "was when we were called upon to repair a group of pipes in

where a crater

an unexploded time bomb was lying.

"I do not think it will go off,' said the R.E. officer in charge. As for us, we did not even stop to think. Never in the history of pipe repair was a job completed with such speşdi

Building Fall·

which the disposal squads could not reach.

"If I get the chance to go back down South I shall do so will- Ingly. If the women of London can carry on the way that they do, then I for one shall do every- thing in my power to help them."

But The Beer—

Another of the squad young "Andy" Mitchell. scarcely yet believe that home again, and expect every minute to hear exploding bombs and crashing anti-aircraft shells. These noises formed a continuous background to our work in the capital," he said.

was

"I can I am

"It would be impossible to de- scribe how marvellous the Lon- don people are," he added. "The way in which they carry on is almost incredible. If we get the chance to go back there is not one

A pilot who ran out of petrol and made a forced. landing-in... a remote Somerset meadow was able to take off again on an im- "One danger, which we faced portant flight to headquarters in daily was having to work in the less than twenty minutes through shadows of partially demolished of our party who will not jump the resource of a GP.O. linesman buildings which came crashing at it.” who climbed a telegraph pole and tapped the wire with his portable telephone, AMON

down around us when a bomb exploded as far as half a mile JAPAN away. Elde The linesman checked the pilot's Identity before agreeing to call ald

"The most spectacular alght was to see huge tenements bo - ing blown-up by, time-bombs

The Glasgow men had only one complaint. It was voiced by Mar- shal Burke, one of their members. "They simply do not know how to make good beer in the South," he remarked,

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