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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941.

PENANG NOW A FORTRESS OF NORTH MALAYA

(By A "Straits Times" Representative)

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THE MIGHT OF Singapore has so completely dominated an assessment of British strength and power in Malaysia that there has been a tendency to overlook the fact that since the war Penang, too, has become a fortress.

During the last war, when the German raider Emden entered Penang waters, after preying on British shipping in the Indian Ocean, she was un- opposed by shore batteries, for Penang possessed no fortifications other than the ancient battlements and cannon of Fort Cornwallis.

SAVED BY PAL---DID NOT KNOW

To-day a very different re- ception would greet an enemy.

Large modern guns command the soa approaches to the so- cond most important anchorage In Malaya, the island beaches are ringed with wing covered by deadly machine-gun nests and a group of now R.A.F. stations in northern Malaya could launch powerful ale support. Penang does not possess a great naval base or wharves and dock- yards comparable with those of Singapore, but the Settlement's Two men shook hands anchorage is of first-class import- over a glass of wine and ance for the control of the Straits of Malacca and for contact with bade each other bon voy-India and Burma.

age. Both were bound for

West Africa.

the R.A.F.,

Increased Importance

With the development of

the

One, on officer in was to take a Sunderland flying-possibility of an attack on Malaya boat to its station. The other, D from the north, the strategic im-

GERMAN FLAGS

HALF MAST FOR

BIG LOSSES

According to a mes- sage received in Lon- don from a neutral source, flags are re- ported to have been lowered to half-mast recently in Constance and other towns in Baden owing to the al- leged losses of the Baden Army Corps on the Eastern tront.

SHE WAITS

A SECOND

TIME

mining engineer, was going by seaportance of Penang has increas- Day followed day, and

to take up a new appointment.

and ed very considerably

the

A few days later the airman, fullest recognition has been given no news came to young on an extended patrol over the to this in the defence work which Mrs. Benson of her hus-

from the

three band, reported missing

Atlantic, spotted a ship's lifeboat has been going on in the north- illed with men. The sea was too lern Settlement for some rough for him to attempt a rescue, years. so a wireless message was sent for the assistance of a patrol boat and the airman then returned to hls base.

later the airman Some time called at a hotel in Freetown and there saw his mining friend clad in odd clothing.

“Don't Mention It"

"What are you doing in that got-up?" he asked.

"I have just been torpedoed, and spent three days in an open boat." was the reply. "If we had not been spotted by a chap in an aeroplane we should have been dead by now. Thanks to him, we are safe and watt.” "Don't mention it. Np trouble ut all,” retorted the airman.

"Do you mean to say you were asked the chap in the 'plane?" the engineer in amazement.

The airman grinned. "Yes, I was the airman, and what a plece of luck that I should have spotted you in that boat."

DRINK LESS IF SEATED

Sitting slows drinking, says Mr. W. A. Goddard, who manages the liquor trade at Carlisle under the direct control of the Home Office::

the

Troops garrisoned in the island fighting with the Rifle and those

mainland Brigade near Amiens. are a familiar sight in Penang's Fler baby boy was born and was streets, but there is little outward christened Ronald. He was six last his evidence of

old comprehensive months

when at

that her hus- scheme of coastal and beach de mother learned fence which has been developed. band had been taken prisoner by

In the island one meets all the Germans. types of Malayan terrain from the precipitous slopes of the jungle- clad Crag to low-lying padifields, mangrove swamp and the most beautiful beaches in the whole Peninsula,

some of

Here and there an inquisitive eye detects hidden posts that cover barbed wire, but for the most part positions have been ортом. so skilfully alted and flaged that they fit perfectly Into the landscape and many go undetected at only a few

Her man came safely home to her when the war was over -twenty-two years ago.

Mrs. Benson, grey-haired, mid- dle-aged now, sits in her home in Mayfield Road, Swaythling, Southampton, waiting again for news.

Her son Ronald fought with the Royal Marines in the gallant rearguard action of Crete. He was one of the 2,000 who stayed to the end; he is posted missing." And as she waits Mrs. Benson prays one day he will come home From sea and air there is little from the war as his father came to be seen of the powerful new home.

com- coastal defence guns that mand the sea approaches. and which are capable of dealing with

yards range.

even the heaviest warships. SKY JOY

I visited one of these batteries in the company of a brigadier; who conducted British and Ameri can journalists round the fortress, and Indian troops manning this. position gave a lasting impression

!

Behind these guns and the..

along the Island's roads, while troops have

RIDE

A young married wo-

of skill and smartness In their man was taken for a joy, gun drill..

ride in one of Britain's formidable beach defences are latest warplanes by a Pol- highly mobile reserves for use ish pilot who has been been specially court-martialled and pun-- trained to 'operate" along the ished for the escapade. network of narrow paths that covers the hilly centre as the She is Mrs. Stanley Choling, 31, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gravell, Ye Olde Crowne Hotel, Casketgate Lincoln,

leland.

Equally impressive defences have been developed in the flat lands of Province Wellesley, full use having been made of rivers, Mr. Goddard said that in an streams and sawah for the crea- effort to reduce drunkenness the tion of anti-tank areas. State officials provided the maximum seating capacity in ali the model taverns,

"Our experience proves", ho cald, "that people; - drink -more slowly when they are sitting down than when they are stand:

The Carlisle › experiment has yielded substantial profits to the Government, but, said Mr. God- dard, "Nobody in the organisation Has any direct financial induce mont to increase the sale of drink. Lemon Barley Water, Our managers are paid a

axed salary"

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LIEUTENANT FREED

BY HOME OFFICE

She la better known in the town as Mies - Marguerite: Gravelt In this name she has appeared in many productions. of the local amateur dramatic anclety.

At her father's hotel, where she serves behind the counter, she i known as Our Margie.

do!

Her flight, which lasted fifteen minutes, was made from emergency landing ground. '

Miss Gravell was questioned by Air Force officials:.

The whole thing was just a mad lark, she told the "Dally

Mirror,"

LIEUTENANT FRANCIS CHRISTOPHER FANE, RN. OF TULBECK MANOR, NEAR LIN

"It never entered my head that COLN, DETAINED UNDER THE it was wrong. I am sorry it ended DEFENCE REGULATIONS FOR THIRTEEN MONTHS, HAS BEEN so rottenly for my friend RELEASED BY THE HOME SECRETARY.-

CHEMICAL WORKS FRENCH BAN GIRLS' In the King's Bench Mr. Edward

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of an indecent in the Service in which he had fire damage, according to Mosco

served.. character "Associated Press.

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