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BLINDED, BUT HE Chinese Tour

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SAVED HIS MEN

Despite wounds which lost him his eyes, a French sergeant stoically led his men on to their objective in a raid on a mine- studded wood in the Saar Valley.

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The story he told me is one of the most graphić I have heard since I came to the front, writes the Daily Mirror correspondent with the French Army.

It illustrates the superb bravery of the French and the fiendish

WHAT THE ingenuity displayed by

TROOPS ARE EATING

NO MORE "PLUM

AND APPLE"

"Naffy" Is now sending out many thousands of tons of goods a week to the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the British Empire in the War.

"Naffy" is

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the fighting man's name for the N.AA.FI 0 Navy.

mine-setters

Gerthan

OSBERT SITWELL

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IN THE EAST

Escape with me! An Oriental Sketchbook. By Osbert Sitwell. Macmillan. 12s. 6d.

Mr. Sitwell explains that his latest attack"of Wanderlust was not solely due to a love of wandering but largely to a desire to escape from Europe, and, more especially, "to

GENERAL

NEWSETTES

Firing practice will be carried out today between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 12 Noon. Firing Areas D and E will be affected.

His Excellency the Governor has made the following appointments under Regulation 5 (1) of the Colonial Defence Regulations:- To be Censor (in the place of The order by the Governor-in-Cifford George Soll)-Duncan Council declaring Shanghai to be John Sloss: To be дл Assistant a place at which cholera prevailed, Gensor - William Fald, M. Se has been rescinded.

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It is notified in the Government Messrs. Lammert Brothers have Gazette that, Willam Noble' has been appointed liquidators of the been permitted to quit the Hong- affairs 0: Mr. Springweller," kong Defence Reserve. William

It began with a visit to Cambodia formerly of 245. Prince Edward Vincent Ahern has been posted

see China and the wonderful beau- ty of the system of life it incorpor-:} Not only ure the felds and ated before this should perish." His woods mined and the wires set so mood was "escapist." and his jour that they will operate machine-ney in the nature of an artistic es- guns against the advancing troops.capade. but even in farmhouses fountain pens or pocketbooks left "abandon-and to the ruins of Angkor, "chter ed" on a table or window-ledge or in a drawer are used as mine re- cases and can be set off at a touch The gallant sergeant and his men were in charge of mine-clear- 1ng operations in a field through which French Infantry were

advancing.

wonder of the world," the mysteries buried in the tropical jungle. of whose building and history te

ELUSIVE BEAUTY

Mr. Sitwell's Impressions of these majestlë monuments of antiquity, and of the 60 square miles of ruins that centre around Angkor, are re- MEN HURLED INTO AIR

corded with the sensibility of an The mines they found were Army and Air Force Institutes-cylindrical

artist. especially his description boxes--"fron Lower "Servant of Those Who Serve" pots" with fuses. They contained

of the Bayon which, in his opinion. excels Angkor Vat in beauty, with as its proud motto proclaims. At pounds of explosives and bullets. the London warehouses, which

la quality more unearthly in its con- The Germans had burled the ception. and possessing the same mines in several lines and cam- elusive ground. It is catering for all the foged them with zrass and dead between the lines of a great poem.

beauty that

autumn leaves.

"City beyond city. temple" beyond temple. ruins

the stretch into forest and produces in the heart lot the onlooker an overwhelming

sense of age and past glory."

Cover

sonte twenty acres of

tastes of the troops.

'. Jam, no longer "plum and appel," can be bought in many varieties from apricot to strawberry.

and

Peanuts

toffee, chewing gum and hum- bugs. and dozens of kinds ol biscuits are on the ment; and Service shoppers can buy #H kinds of buttons. belts. jig- şaw puzzles, · mouth-organs, ~ even birdseed.

In its stoves "Nafty" is smoking nearly 8,000 tons of bacon a week and more than 100 varieties of cakes, pattles and so forth. are being baked,

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Suddenly there was a series

of explosions. They came from the ground Men who had stumbled on mines were hurled into the air in a dense cloud of black smoke and

hail of shrapnel.

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often. Ees

ALLEY OF SWEET RAIN

Road, Kowloon.

The Day of Prayer and Gifts was observed at the St. Andrew's Church on Saturday, when shippers

Wor-

to the Key-Posts Group and Harold Hector Andrews and. Albert Arthur Elms to the Combatant Group.

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visited. the church throughout the day. The Rev. J. further the Rating

The draft of a Bill to amend Ordinance,

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R. Higgs officiated at the services. 1901, is published in the Gazette. It is explained that the object of The Colonial Secretary. Hon. the amendments to the principal Mr. NL Smith, has been appoint- Ordinance effected by this Bill is ed Chairman, of the Licensing to make the rating year coincide Board for a further period of with the new financial year. three years with effect from Nov. 26, 1939.

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The Vigle Light has been ex- tinguished and all merchant vessels

Twelve

of tuberculosis, are forbidden to enter Kamranh Ave of dysentery, two of diphtheria Bay by night, and one case each of scarlet The visibility of the Phuoc Mai fever and chicken pox were re- Light has temporarily been re- ported to the health authorities (duced to about half. on Friday.

As from December 1. 1939, and until further notice, the passage

His Excellency the Governor, through the Fa Tau Mun Pass will under instructions from the Sebe prohibited to all craft. ̈

From Cambodia. Mr. Sitwell pur-cretary of State for the Colonies. sued his contemplative way to Pe-

has been pleased to recognise Mr. Every man was wounded in the king, arriving in North China at the Harry A. Keller provisionally and enest and face, and the Infantry-season of the New Year festival, pending the issue of His Majesty's men who were leaning forward as still observed, despite official re-

Exequatur. as Honorary Consul for they searched the wood were gulations. In accordance with the

Switzerland at Hongkong. blinded.

SLASHED WITH SHRAPNEL One man. then a second and third, were hurled into the air. One was suffocated. Others lay

Some 20,000 lbs. of tea week is being sent out. specially blend-1 ed to salt the water of various dis- prostrated, slashed with shrapnel. tricts, and this apart from teaj Then men' agvanced with for Messing purposes which is outstretched hands feeling the issued by the R.A.S.C.

cround for the fuses of the mines. It was the courageous sergeant who got the idea. He always volunteered for dangerous mis-

£10,-

Last year's turnover was 000,000 and out of its pooled re- sources "Naffy." today one.. of: the biggest supply services in the whole world, is giving and shows to men and in camp

abroad.

or 'on

active

BRASSO

sions,

lunar calendar. After a week of hotel life at Peking he took up his

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It is notified in an Order pub- shed in the Government Gazette that the order relating to fees chargeable by the Custodian of Enemy Property dated July 28, 1916. and appearing on page 828 of Volume 11 of the Regulations of

amended by the substitution in the Afth line thereof for the words "one per cent of the words "two 'per cent."

abode in a Chinese house of the A CHAMPION OF Hongkong (1937 edition) is hereby

Tartar City. In the Alley of Sweet, Rain

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There he remained, absorbing the atmosphere of antiquity, until the beginning of the hot season,,,by which time he had come to know, and to love, the Forbidden City.

SENSUAL ANGLES

HUNGARY

Lord Rothermere's Aim

KUNMING PAPER

·TO REMOVE

KUNMING, Nov. 25 (Central)-- Last July, Viscount Rotherinere His approach to China's ancient notified the President of the Re- The Yih Shih Pao, a Chinese daily, capital is. as he admits, from the vision League of Hungary that he will be removed to Chungking. visual and sensual angles, rather cou d.no longer be associated with The paper, formerly published in than that of knowledge-his under-ts propaganda, in view of

the Tientsin, was removed to Kupming standing is of the eye and his im- newly established relations be a year ago. pressions are occasionally so domin- tween Great Britain and Rumania. ated by his acute sense of colour

Recently appeared "his own - and poetic feeling that the object count of the 18-year campaign or individual seen is idealized.

from which patriotic motives have The merit of a description lies in obliged him to retire ("My Cam-

concerts Arming himself with a long piece women or wood he set out to explode service several mines to prepare a safe

passage for his men.

His method was to find a mine and then,, fattening himself on the ground. explode it from the as- tance of the wooden baton h the mind of him to whom it is carried,

addressed rather than in the eye of

METAL ROLISH GIVES BRILLIANCE AND SPARKLE TO "METALWARE

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paign for Hungary," Eyre and Spottiswoode, 58).

It is romantic and a sign!-

article in June, 1927, was seized upon by the entire Hungarian nation as evidence that at last they had found a champion to help them redress the wrongs of the Treaty of Trianon,

It was in this way that the its composer, and not everyone ficant story. A single newspaper sergeant, in his own words, "en- certainly not every foreign resident abled my section to reach, Its in North China-will share his objective."

enthusiasm for the "beautiful and romantic", landscapes of that bleak reg'on, or disposed to agree that Chinese children are the most beautiful in the world, and that all old people in China have happy. faces.

AIR SERVICE RESUMPTION

CHUNGKING, Nov. 25 (Central) -Ar service between Chungking! But, even while they demur. they and Kwelyang. capital of Kwei- will thank him for reminding them chow, which has been suspended of many other things whose beauty for some time, will be resumed on is apt to be forgotten or taken for Monday, it is leamed from the Eur- granted, overlaid by the dull uses of the daily round-The Times.

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RAISED POPULARITY Actualy, the article, as Lord Rothermere admits, "aroused no special interest" in England; but Hungarian enthusiasm sustained, and subsequent cam- palgning, in which the aid of the Duce was enlisted; raised his popularity still higher.

was!

When his son, the Hon. Esmana Harmsworth, visited Hungary he was greeted with amazing demon- strations. The climax of his own popularity came when serious attempts were made to persilade him to become a candidate for the Hungarian thròne.”

In the end it was not a news- paper agitation, but something more sinister, which restored to Hungary the territory which she had lost to Czechoslovakia. But Lord Rothermere's work was not forgotten, and he describes the delirious welcome he received when he visited the restored areas as Hungary's guest last Novèmbër.

EX-STOKER IS POLICE CHIEF

Henry Thomas Wiliama Was A naval - stoker aboard Admiral Beatty's flagship the Lion when she was heavily sheiled in various North Sea engagements during the last war.

Now, at the age of 42, he is an inspector of Barnsley. Yorks police.

As soon as the Home Office give their approval he will be chlet constable of Barnsley at a salary rising from 2800 a year, with emoluments that may bring it up to about £1,000 a year.

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