1941-09-25 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.

Radiating glee, gleesome Ginger Rogers does this kettle- drum stunt in practice for a lively apienda In her now ro- mantic comedy "Tom, Dlok and Harry," with George Mur. phy, Alan Marshal and Burgess Meredith. Coming to the King's next week.

BRITAIN SAVES 3,000 IN SHIP OF HOPE

(By David Walker)

A FAMOUS LINER has brought safely to Bri- tain the strangest passenger list it ever carried.

It held 3,000 men, women and children of seventeen nationalities who, having suffered from Nazism abroad, will now find refuge in Britain.

When I joined the liner she was 100 known as the "Hellspip." Every inch of space 'was made use of. Our party from Belgrade found itself flung into hainmocks or sleeping on floors.

Our experiences in Yugoslavia and Italy were nothing to the tale these men and women had to tell.

Boys Shot

There was a Belgian boy who, with five companions, had escaped on foot from Holland. They walked by night, were hunted through occupied terri. tory, fired on by frontier guards, and given food by friends; but of the six who started, he alone Is alive.

Two were killed by Germans in France, and three by a Span- ish frontier. patrol in the Pyrenees.

There were British Merchant seamen who had been in German prison ships caught by British naval units; there were Tommies and Anzacs from North Africa. who had and Free Frenchmen, risked their lives to get away from Nazism.

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Saved By Navy

There were

Pollsh

airmen

who had escaped from prison

in occupied territory, Dutch.

SERGEANT IN R.A.F. POSTER

IS MISSING

A young R.A.F. ser- geant-observer, whose portrait looks down from the hoardings in a war-time appeal, has been posted missing, believed killed. His name is Ernest John Holland.

His pointing finger gave emphasis to his "You can "message:

help to build me

plane.

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CRASHED AIR CREW 11 DAYS ADRIFT

Two airmen gave their lives in an unsuccessful effort to save four other R.A.F. men drifting in a dinghy after a forced landing in the Mediter-

ranean.

Three hours later the men in the boat were picked up after being at sea for eleven days.

ra-

The survivors, a pilot-officer and three sergeants, are cuperating in hospital.

In their boat they had only one and half pints of water, nine biscuits, 15 pieces of chewing gum, and some chocolate.

They rationed the water in two teaspoonfuls twice daily. On the ninth day they were seen by an R.A.F. flyingboat, but out to rescue "destroyer

sent

them was unsuccessful.

On the eleventh morning they saw on the horizon four British acstroyers.

Two of the airmen on board the dinghy plunged overboard and set out on a four-mile swim. They were never seen again, Eventually the ships vanished out of sight.

It was largely due to the efforts of two Dornier aeroplanes at one me part of the Yugoslav Fleet Arm, and now

attached to an R.A.F. squadron that they were brought to safety, for three hours later the aeroplanes sighted the dinghy.

A destroyer was summoned and vicked up the exhausted men.

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SANG TO DOLL AMID RUINS

Eileen Algar, 8, sang to her doll to keep up her spirits when she was buried in the ruins of her home in a raid on an East Anglian coast town.

The sound of her voice guided rescue squads to where she and her parents lay under tons o debris. She was rescued with bruises and a cut leg.

Her first question was if her parents and lttle friend werc saved,

When they were dug out hours later, her parents were dead. An uncle was dug out alive.

Taken to a rescue centre, Elleen said to the matron. “I am all right now aren't I? I was in hospital- I once and I did not die then so shall be all right now." 000004] “I cannot remember what 1 "she told the "Daily Mirror." sang,'

"The doll I was singing to was in a cot at the end of the bed, but I am afraid she is buried and could not get out."

LOST TIME, SAYS M.P.

Danish and Norweglan sailors, "I don't care what the

an Englishman from Portugal, Prime Minister says, it is WOMAN

and one Chinese, who thought

Hitler "a velly bad man,"

At my

perfectly obvious

that

table was a French there is loss of time, lab-ROCKED A

marine engineer who had had our and money going on,

four months in a Spanish prison.

after getting out of France. The particularly in munition TIME-BOMB

Spanlards hnd knocked

teeth out. He wore twelve de- corations..

all his works.

Time is being squandered."

Mr. C. T Culverwell, Conser-

"People seem to have

Nearby sat an Englishman invative M.P. for Bristol W said no idea of the potential Arab robes with a turban the this and he had in mind Mr. danger of time-bombs,” only clothes he had left after im- Churchill's recent complaint that remarked a chief con- prisonment in Merocco.

he was concerned at the effects produced abroad" by the criticism stable at a South-West made in the recent two-day de- (E

(England police court.

Among the wounded in hos pital, I found a boy with one

bate on production."

"Apt To Slack Off!!

He also said:

"The Government is apt to slack off and not do all that. It might,'*-*

He said a policeman actually -saw a woman walk up to a time, bomb, which was lying on the pavement, put her foot on it and rock it, g

leg. Torpedoed without warn ing, he had spent ten days at gea on a raft, and a shark had got him as he trailed his lega

dhe

| In water. Hundreds came aboard half-

Another woman, Hettie Mary starved and penniless.e

Symons was aned £1 for defying, We were bombed once, and had two submarine attacks, but the Mr. Culverwell's criticism of the a policeman and risking a time Government's mining policy fol- bomb to enter a cordoned area to Navy saw us through. MANAGE

As we steamed into n British lows recent charges in the House feed her cate -port, our famous ship was re- of Commons on aircraft produc- The chief constable said no one. cognised and cheers ashore were tion. Pero wished to be unkind to animals, vi Mr. Churchill promised to ini- This woman, however, not only quickly answered by our pas sengers, many of them seeing "ortlate a third day's debate on pro- risked her life by going into the the first time the country for duction, during which he would area, but those of others who had which they will fight.

make a comprehensive statement;, to go in after herwi

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