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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1938.

TOGOLAND BY BLUFF

CAPTURED

Two Men And A White Flag: 'Gen. Togo' Talks

By JOHN RICKMAN --

Twenty-three years after he planned and carried out one of the most audacious campaigns of the Great War, Lieut.-Col. Frederick Carkeet Bryant "General Togo" to 1914 War Office chiefs-received, recently the first public tribute to his coup.

Within a few days of the outbreak of war he bluffed the Germans out of the key positions in Togoland.. It was a master stroke which resulted in the fall of Kamena, then the second biggest wireless station in the world.

The story was first told recently by Major-General Sir Reginald Hoskins and Lord Davidson at the Ashridge Fellowship reunion at the Bonar Law College, Berk- hamsted, Hertfordshire,

Determined to find this man whose left the town in the early hours. praises had been so tardily aung. I "When I heard that my plan had inquired for him near Market Har-succeeded and that the Germans had borough, where, until recently, he hus even been bluffed into leaving their my entire ridden hard to hounds yeur after rifles behind, I shipped

and a few year, but

was in soporifle clutches force of 1,000 natives of an armchair in the Bath Club that French, police and white volunteers,

from Acern to Lome. I finally ran him to earth,

"Fog kept me here"-his words came to me through the haze of after luncheon tobacco smoke. "Lucky to catch me. Let's 110 somewhere fresher. We did, and as we walked he told me...

"I was in Kumasi at the begin- ning of August 14. Both my chier and the second in command were in England, and I, a caplain in the Gold Coast Frontier Force, was senior officer in their ab- sence.

I

bluffed vacated

"We pushed up country from Lome, scrapping all the time. again, and our opponents Kamena, thus leaving their vitally important radio station in our hands. Kamena was in nightly touch with Berlin, even in those days.

"And that, sald 'General Togo," "is all I can say about that. Never talk about it as a rule."

This is how Sir Reginald Hoskins, who was at the Colonial Ofice during the war, told the story at the Ash-

recently

"I realised that speed was essen-ridge Fellowship dial, so I cabled the Colonal Office that

"One day we received a code mes-

I was going to act. Togoland being sage from a young subaltern in the neighbour to the Gold Coast and a Cameroons, who had under his com- German possession, I knew I had to mand two men and a boy, announ- do something about it.

·

PRINCESS WEDS WRESTLER--Despite her father's threat to disinherit her, Princess Baba, youngest daughter of the British Rajah of Sarawak, in northern Borneo, was married to Bob Gregory, claimant of the European heavyweight wrestling title. Above, they leave the Marylebone registry offico, London, after the ceremony. She gave her name as Valeria Brooke.

Finds Life

Tough

Rich Boy

As Hobo Too

New York.

Alfred Knopf, junior son of a prominent and wealthy New York publisher, sat in Salt Lake City Police Station recently, his feet bare and grimy, his shirt and trousers torn. eing that he was going to take Togo-

Knopf disappeared recently. land.

"While we were preparing a sult-Polleci of eight States, urged by his I gave orders it once to a Cap-able cable to send him another cable parents who feared that their son might have been kidnapped, searched

FORCE OF 1,000

tain Barker and a Mr. Newlands, who arrived saying that he had made a for him.

found

was attached to the political branch reconaissance of the enemy's position of the Colonial Service, to go to Lome, and intended to attack. The next Late one night detectives the German port, and carrying a morning another message arrived say-him at Salt Lake City, and took him white far to enter the town and telling that he had attacked and that all to jail. Then Knopf sent

to his father asking for money. the Germans that large forces were was well. advancing on the town from several "By this time we called him Gen- ! Knopf sald that he had tried the

eral Togo,"

directions.

"They did this. There was a heat-

Lord, Davidson said that the young ed discussion during the night be-officer's telegram was, "Togoland sur- tween the Germans, but nt list they rendered to me 8 am."

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telegram

life of a vagrant and hobe for a week. He found 1 tough,

"I hitch-hiked through balf

a

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Born 1820—still going strong

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AROUND THE EMPIRE

AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA

Sydney.

The Federal Government has de- cided to abandon Rabnul us the capital of the mandated territory of New Guinea,

The decision, which was announced to-day in the speech of Lord Gowrie, the Governor-General, at the open- Ing of the new Parliaipent, has been taken because of the danger from volcanic eruptions.

Rabaul, the chief town of New Britain Island, was visited by n dis- astrous eruption in May. An expert on volcanoes, from the Dutch East Indies, has reported that the town will be always liable to a recurrence.

The future capital has nol yet been definitely deelded upon. It is belloved, however, that it will be Salamunun.

Allitude to Anglo-U.8. Talks. Lord Gowrie declared, in his speech' at the opening of Parliament, that the Australian Government would welcome a cordial understanding be- tween Great Britain and the United States. Australia was prepared to play her part in the conclusion of satisfactory understanding provided Australian Interests were adequately safeguarded.

£8,000,000 Loan-The new inter- nal public works loan of £8,000,000, the issue of which was announced by Mr. R. G. Casey, Commonwealth Treasurer, yesterday, has been well received,

Referendum In Victoria Mr.: Dunstan,, Premier of Victoria, pro- poses, with Socialist support, to sub- mit the Legislative Council Reform Bill to referendum in February or March should the Counell fail to ac- cept I

Infantile Paralysis. The thou- sandth case and the 57th death in the infan!!le paralysis outbreak in Vic- "In all the seven days 1 stèpt in a toria have just been reported. The bed only once. Truck drivers were epidemic started at the end of June. the kindest people of all to me. For The State Government has invited the most part people seemed to be Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Austra bunch of snghs.

Hon nurse, whose method of treat- "Why did I run qut when my ment was tried by the L.C.C. in I wanted to do July, to visit Victorin and give her family's got money? something myself."

advice.

Knopf flew back

to New

York

INDIA

later in the day."

CHILD'S LIFE

Mr.

VALUED

BY A POEM

SERIOUS SITUATION

IN CAWNPORE

Calcutta.

The Inbour unrest fostered in the past few months by agitators in Cawnpore, United Provinces, thren- tens to reachi crisis. The mill- Justice Greaves-Lord owners have withdrawn recognition quoted verses on life (Du of the Mazdur Sabha organisation, Maurier 1834-1896)-in- the which purports to represent the mill- King's-Bench-Division-recently; when awarding £1,500 damages During the whole of this year the to the father and twin sister of cotton mills have been in a ferment, strike following strike without any a child street accident victim for shadow of justification. the loss of the normal expecta- tion of her life.

workers.___

The secretary of the Mazdur Sabha and 13 other persons were to-day The child. Hilda Peggy Trubyfeld, | prohibited by the District Magistrate nged eight, was run over in a Chelten=| from publishing pamphlets or making ham street last February by a Great] speeches for two months. Western Railway Company.dray. The judge quoted:

"A little work, a little play To keep us going-

And so, good day.

"A little warmth, a little light

Of love's bestowing. And no, good night.

Sir Harry Haig, the Governor of the United Provinces, is now In Cawnpore endeavouring to prevent Jan ugly situation becoming worse.

Calcutta's Vulnerability—“I do not desire to bé alarmlst, but I must remind you that Calcutta, which was afe and prosperous city in the "A little fun to match the zorrow last war, will in the next be vulner-

Of each day's

going

able to enemy action", said Mr. "G. And 50, 80

good me

morrow."

P Hogg, Chief Secretary to the Gov- Claims were made by the father, ernment of Bengal, proposing the Thomas Charles Trubyfeld, and the toast of the Imperial Forces at the twin sister, Joyce Muriel Trubyfield, St. Andrew's Day dinner,

of Swinton Road, Cheltenham. Joyce'

sought damages for the shock suffered. | SOUTH AFRICA

at seeing Hlida killed.

ON THEIR WAY HOME

'DICK WHITTINGTON'

OF THE RAND

The children were on their way home in Swinton Road when Hilda collided with the horse and dray,

Cape Town. which was emerging from a yard and "plck Whittington of the Rand," who Mr. Charles Walters, known as the crossing the pavement.

The railway

company denied that has been Mayor of Johannesburg and their driver was negligent, and was a City Councilor for 30 years, pleaded that there was contributory has died at the age of 71.

He

i nogligence on the part of the child,

Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord

was born in England, and found arrived in Johannesburg penalless that the only effective negligence was in the that of the driver of the dra

the

days of the ploneers. He

started as a vegetable seller, and He said the claim for the loss of later became a director of the city's

normal expectation of life pre-largest brickmanking firm.

sented a

Union

a difcult problem. The perlod Arrest of Natives. The by which her life had been shortened Commissioner of Police has Issued a was the difference between her age circular to all police officers to use at death and the normal span of lite less force when arresting natives. of such a girl.

Earl Howe's Loss--Ear! Howe, the

Everybody had a sort of general racing motorist, who arrived in Cape notion

of The likelihood of life, and Town on Friday, lost a parcel on his everybody was a little inclined to way to the fland. It contained his look on the optimistic side.

driving licences, passport, and return What had really to be valued was steamer ticket. He os a whole, with all its various Named After Lord Nusseld—A incidents, and apparently with certain new township at Springs

on the strict restrictions.

Rand has been named after Lord Numeld.

TERRORS OF CHILD LIFE

In regard to a very young infant,

the question of probability had to be taken very seriously into account, because any infant had to meet all the terrors of child life and such allment.

STATE CINEMA FOR BURMA

Calcutta.

A State broadcasting station, a

What was life going to be worth to Stato cinema and a State school of

features of policy of the present

the

a healthy young woman as the child fine arts are the might have become, earning her own education

living

with dependent parents to Government of Burma. whom she would be discharging her! The polley includes a State trans

burcati 10 create cheap,

abundant ¡popular, and

| duty, and, with ! samo prospects of iation

Burmese

| marriage?

Stay, of execution, was granted, literature on subjects of mass in- prading notice of appeal.

terest and importance.--Rester.

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