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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

TOGOLAND BY

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.

It

Within a few days of the outbreak of war he bluffed the Germans out of the key positions in Togoland. 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,

"When I heard that my plan had praises had been so tardily Bung, I inquired for him near Market Har- succeeded and that the Germans had borough, where, until recently, he has even been bluffed into leaving their my entire ridden hard to hounds year after rifles behind, I shipped

a few year, but it was in soporific clutches force of 1,000 natives and of an armchair in the Bath Club that French, police and white volunteers, I finally ran him to earth.

from Acera to Lome.

"We pushed up country from Lome, "Fog kept me here his words came to me through the haze of after-scrapping all the time.

blutted vacated

luncheon tobacco smoke. "Lucky to again, and our opponentA eatch me. Let's

somewhere Kamena, thus leaving their vitally fresher." We did, and as we walked important radio station in our hands.

he told me....

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

sence.

■

"I realised that speed was essen- tial, to I cabled the Colonal Office that I was going to act. Togoland being a neighbour to the Gold Coast and a German possession, I knew I had to do something about it.

FORCE OF 1,000

Kamena was in nightly touch with Berlin, even in those days.

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

This is how Sir Reginald Hosking, who was at the Colonial Office during the war, told the story at the Ash- ridge Fellowship recently.

PRINCESS WEDS WRESTLER-DCJpite 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 office, London, after the ceremony. She gave her name as Valeria Brooke,

Rich Boy Finds Life As Hobo Too Tough

son

New York.

I searched through the advertise- ments, and I walked for miles and miles.

JANUARY 11, 1938.

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BLUFF

AROUND THE EMPIRE

AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA

Sydney.

The Federal Government has de- cided to abandon Rabaul

as the capital of the mandated territory of New Gulnja.

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

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

The future capital has not yet been definitely decided upon. It is believe, however, that it will be Salamonua.

Afiflude to Anglo-U.S. Talks- Lord Gowrie declared, in his speech at the opening of Parliament, that the Australian Government would welcome a cordial understanding be- tween Great Eritain and the United States. Australia was prepared to play her part in the conclusion of a 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 Ja Victoria Mr. Dunston, Premier of Victoria, pro- poses, with Socialist support, to sub- mit the Legislative Council Reform Bill to a referendum in February or March should the Council full to ac- cept it.

Infantile

Paralysis.—The thou

Alfred Knopf, junior son of a prominent and wealthy New York publisher, sat in Salt Lake City "One day we received a ende mes-

Police Station recently, his feet bare and grimy, his age from a young subaltern in the Cameroons, who had under his co-

shirt and trousers torn. mand two men and a boy, announ- eing that he was going to take Togo-

Knopf disappeared recently. land.

| sandth case and the 57th death In the "While we were preparing a suit-Police of eight Slates, urged by his

infantile paralysis outbreak in Vic- "I gave orders at once to a Cap-able cable to send him another cable parents who feared that their

"In all the seven days I slept in a toria have just been reported, The lain Barker and a Mr. Newlands, who arrived saying that he had made a might have been kidnapped, searched

bed only once. Truck drivers were epidemic started at the end of June. was attached to the political brunch reconaissance of the enemy's position for him.

has invited next. Late one night detectives found the kindest people at all to me. For The State Government of the Colonial Service, to go to Lome, and intended to attack. The the German port, and currying a morning another message arrived say-him at Salt Lake City, and took him the most part people seemed to be a Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Austra

Then Knopf sent a telegram bunch of snobs,

in white flag to enter the town and telling that he had attacked and that all to jail.

nurse, whose method of treat- “Why did I run out to his father asking for money,

my ment the Germans that large forces wire was well,

was tried by the L.C.C.. in advancing on the town from several

Knopf said that he had tried the family's got money? I wanted to do July, to visit Victoria and give her

directions,

advice, life of a vagrant and hobo for a something myself." week. He found it tough.

Knopf few back to New York alater in the day.

INDIA

"By this time we called him Gen- eral Togo."

"They did this. There was a heat- Lord Davidson said that the young ed discussion during the night be-afileer's telegram was, "Togoland sur tween the Germans, but at last they rendered to me 8 am."

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CHILD'S LIFE VALUED

BY A POEM

SERIOUS SITUATION

IN CAWNPORE

Calcutta,

The labour unrest fostered in the tast few months by agitators la Cawnpore, United Provinces, threa-i | fens to reach crista. The mill- Mr. 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 to.the father and twin sister of a child street accident victim for the loss of the normal expecta tion of her life.

workers,

During the whole of this year the cotton mills have been in a ferment, strike following strike without any shadow of justification.

The secretary of the Mażdur Subha and 13 other persons were to-day The child, Hilda Peggy Trubyfield, prohibited by the District Magistrate aged eight, was run over in a Chelten- | from pubilshing pamphlets or inaking i ham street last February by a Great] speeches for two months, Western Railway Company dray. The

| jutige quoted:

"A little worit, a little play

To keep us going-

And so, good day.

"A Httle warmth, a little light

Of love's bestowing

And so, good night.

"A little fun to match the sorrow

Of each day's

Sh Harry Baig, the Governor of the United Provinces, is now in Cawnpore endeavouring to prevent [an ugly situation becoining worse,

Calculla's Vulnerability—"I do not desire to be alarmist, but I must remind you that Calcutta, which was a safe and prosperous eity in the last war, will in the next be vulner- Inble to enemy action", said Mr. G. Claims were made by the father, ernment of Bengal,

12. Hogg, Chief Secretary to the Gov- proposing the Thomas Charles Trubyfield, and the toast of the Imperial Forces at the twin sister, Joyce Muriel Trubyfield, St. Andrew's Day dinner.

going-

And so, good morrow.”

of Swinton Road, Cheltenham. Joyce

sought damages for the shock suffered. SOUTH AFRICA

at seeing Hilda killed.

ON THEIR WAY HOME

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

'DICK WHITTINGTON'

OF THE RAND

Cape Town,

Mr. Charles Wolters, known as the

which was emerging from a yard and Dick Whittington of the Rand," who crossing the pavement.

Union

The railway company denied that has been Mayor of Johannesburg and their driver Was negligent, and Was City Councillor for 20 years, pleaded that there

has died at the age of 71, was contributory negligence on the part of the child. Ile was born in England, and Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord found arrived in Johannesburg penniless that the only effective negligence was in the days of the pioneers. Ic that of the driver of the dray.

stacled os a vegetable seller, and He said the claim for the loss of Inter became a director of the city's! the normal expectation of life pre- Iargest brickmaking firm. sented a difeult problem. The period Arrest of Natives. The by which her ille had been shortened Commissioner of Police has issued a was the difference between her age circular to all police officers to use nt death and the normal span of life less force when, arresting natives. of such a

Earl Howe's Low-Earl 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 Rand. It contained his look on the optimistle side.

driving licences, passport, and return What had really to be valued was ateamer ticket. life as a whole, with all its various Named After Lord Nuffield—A Incidents, and apparently with certain new township at Springs on the strict restrictions.

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 aliment

A

Rand has been named after. Lord Nuffield.

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What was life going to be worth to State cinema and a State school of arts are the features of the healthy young woman as the child dine

the present might have become, earning her own education policy of living with dependent parents to Government of Burma. whom she would be discharging her The policy includes a State trans- duty, and with some prospects

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