1939-11-21 — Page 29

Tuesday

NOW BE CALM, DEAR-OH, MR. SPUTTER--- I TOLD HER YOU WOULDN'T MIND SO

PLEASE BE NICE

ABOUT IT!

I MAILED OUT ALL

MY PARTY INVITATIONS

TODAY--- THIRTY

OF 'EM?

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HEH, HEH-- YOU MUST HAVE GONE BROKE BUYING ALL THOSE STAMPS:

By

OH NO--

Ernie

I GOT THEM ALL OUT OF HERE!

November 21, 1939.

Bushmiller

WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED?

HE JUST KEELED OVER!

NANCY

WHAT ? --

NANCY IS

GOING TO

HAVE A PARTY

HERE?

WOIND

LIMITED

BREWERY

UB SHANGHAI

WAVE OF HORROR

SWEEPS BRITAIN

Continued From Pago/1

I right eye a urge black mass, and staring stolidly from the ollier one. "Save Me, Jesus" }

Captain, a Steward and two seamen,

The Second Mate sukd: "When the bout enpalzed the second me. We were so wenk we could not get in

gain.

"Thirteen, of us, managed to eling! to the sides; and we were in the Extracts from the most heart- | Water five hours. rending stories:

Englishman pushes his three-heard the airplane. It sighted us, "We had given up hope when we year-old daughter in a wooden box flew over and then faced bark for. as be swims in the key sea for help. nearly an hour. The daughter, anperturbed and enjoying her ride, remarks: *"Are WO going to Trinidad in thin, daddy?"*

Shirley Anne Benson, three-year- ald, habbies Incessantly: "Have Me, Jesus! Don't throw me into the water again, daddy!"

Another Victim

APECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

"I am very hazy of what happened after that because, like all the others,| I was all in.

"I cannot remember the rescur vessel coming alotuside about two | hours after the airplane had sighted us. The Bo'sun let go the bart and dive just as the rescue ship reached

Two brides-to-be, Misses Laura Martin and Gladys Roberts, lost theirs. That made, with the four drown- trousseaux,

ed earlier, five dead of the 17 who set COLL,"

Ironic Dutch Comment LONDON, Nov. 20 (UF). The AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21 (Heuter). Indiscriminate Nazi warfare on theAn ironte comment on the sinking Fligh Seas hus claimed another of Dutch ships by U-boots and mines a that "Holland has lost as many lives To-day 22 survivors of the British in this war as have been lost on the steamer Arlington Court (4,015 tons) | Whole of the Western Front." arrived at a British pari.

The managing director of the Royal

viction.

A reseite ship has carried out a Dutch Steamship Company, owners fruitless search for a second lifeboat.of the Simon Bolivar, to-day said: from the Arlington Court with an "Holland feels nothing but the deep- additional cleven members of the est gratitude to Britain for the lov

ing enre extended those who were rescued."

crew.

The survivors were picked up by the Dutch steamer Algenib,

The Chief Engineer died before the rescuers arrived. He was burled

Res,

Mines Off Jutland COPENHAGEN, Nov. 21 (Reuter). at-Several floating mines have been sighted off the north of Jutland, and

Survivors' Stories SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Nov, 20 (UP),--Twelve members of the crew of the Nor- wegian tanker Arne Kjode, which was sunk by a submarine, arrived at

STAMP

Steel Forts Bar Invaders-So Peasants Carry On

BRITISH TROOPS DIG IN ON WESTERN FRONT

By WEBB MILLER

United Press War Correspondent with the British Army

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. THOUSANDS OF BRITISH TROOPS-HOW MANY THOUSANDS IS SECRET-TO-DAY OCCUPY VITAL SECTIONS OF THE VAST FRENCH LINE OF FORTIFICATIONS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE CHANNEL AND SWITZERLAND.

I entered at various points the extreme Front Line positions occupied for the mo- ment by British troops. At intervals of a few hundred yards I saw massive steel and concrete forts of a defensive strength such as existed at only a few points during the last war around Verdun.

A number of points occupied by the British consisted of mammoth pillboxes con- structed of concrete and of a strength never approached during the last war. With recollections of what ingenious defences against an happened at Verdun it was

a warning has been issued to ship difficult to. conceive this line ping by the Danish Ministry of Ship-of fortifications being pass- plng.

Commenting

the on

by Nazi

varler.

New Ship To Be Launched

Lady Northcote Will Perform Ceremony

THE 1,000-ton vessel Viti, built for the use of the Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific will be launched this evening by Lady Northcote at the Taikoo Dock-

in-yard.

Again to-day we passed miles of drub, olive-coloured and business- like-looking British columns, and at no time during the day did

БСС П

single horse used for Army transport artil-thing in a modern army travels on

sinkings of merchantmen numerous ed by any army, no matter mines, a leading Danish newspaper what the weight of its says: "It is no longer a matter of lery. drifting mines, but of mines which have been laid in secret. Though we have only the British version of the sinking, for Britain to lay mines on her own trade routes would be sui-

an East coast port to-day.

They revealed that airplanes hod) sighted them after they had drifted 53 hours in an open. boat, which twice capsized.

They lost all their food when the bont capsized the first time and for cidal." two days the 17 men comprising the In Oslo to-day the Norwegian original party subsisted on a few Journal says that It was time steps drops of water. On the third day were taken to clarify the problem of the boat capsized again, drowning the the secret Nazi mine laying.

Sequel To Border Conflict

Chinese Officer Is

Charged In Hongkong

The Optimist

At various points in the front positions British soldiers were digging more defensive positions and gun emplace- ments. Within a few yards of these warlike activities, -French-peasants-continued to- harvest their sugar beets and late forage crops, while the British strung broad belts of barbed wire through their

fields.

At one place I saw an optimistie peasant, ploughing for next year's crop while the British were digging zig-zag trenches across his field. At

THE recent invasion of Shataukok by the Japanese had another a farmer continued to build sequel at the Criminal Sessions this morning, when an officer of the his house within a dozen yards of Chinese Self-defence Corps was charged before the Chief Justice, an anti-aircraft_emplacement which Sir Atholl MacGregor with unlawful possession of two revolvers, was in course of construction. one automatic pistol and 18 rounds of ammunition.

Difficult

The officer was Suet Lol, 30, Defence Corps. When the Jupaneseį As a typical instance, I entered a and he pleaded not guilty to the invaded the place I had no way to huge sleet and concrete fort with.

escape but to cross British terriwells and roof twelve feet thick. charge, saying that he had the tory. I did not know that I had to Less than a hundred yards in front right to carry arms in Chinese get a permit for the arms. If I had ran anti-tank obstacles. It WDS territory, and that if he had known I would not have brought difficult to imagine a tank, no matter known of the laws of Hongkong them along with me. Possession of what its size, negotiating this barrier. he would not have brought them arms in Chinese territory is very And through the periscope projecting common. I did not know it was so through the roof of this particular into British territory.

airlet in British territory."

fort could see other forts of equal According to Mr. J. B. Prentis,

strength which covered the entire area Assistant Crown Solleitor, Suet was

for thousands of yards. arrested on October 21 while riding

Summing up, His Lordship sold there had been no suggestion that Suet

were

a bicycle along the main road at Sha would use or misuse the arms. In in front of these posillons toukok. He was stopped by a British territory, though if it had strong barriers of barbed wire. Chinese detective and at the back of been known that at the time he had Newly-dug communication trenches the bicycle was found a parcel con-been approached to sell them to led from the buck positions to the

guerillas the position of the Colony strong points. taining the arms.

When formally charged, Suet said as a neutral might be embarrassing. An obliging British N.C.O.. showed he was going to sell the arms, and But that was not the charge against us the armament of this particular at the Magistraey he made a state- him. In view of the fact that the fort, and how this or that type of ment to the effect that the revolvers Police did not seem to take a serious gun covered certain fields. Just in and pistol were the property of view, the case could have been dealt front of his position a culvert was the Chinese Self-Defence Corps with by the Magistrate instead of already mined, and could be destroy-

keeping the man for four weeks to ed by touching a button. except one which belonged to him,

Ho odded that when the Japanese) await trial. Invaded Shataukok he come necess the border with the arms and later was approached by four guerillas to dispose of them.

After the Jury bad returned a ver- diet of guilty without retiring, His Lordship advised Suet to bear in mind the strictness of the British law in regard to possession of arms should Evidence of arrest was given by be cross the border next time. Det-Sergt. Chung Wai, who added

Straightforward Actions

that he knew Suat had been a com- mander of a squad of the Self-Defenes Corpa In Shalaukok.

Ono Month's Imprisonment

Zig-Zagged

The comununication trencher zig- ragged through the back gardens of peasants, where children played and women were still hanging out the washing.

The British 'N.C.D. in charge of this little garrison pointed out

the

"I think," he said, "Justice would metal container which held ratlons be done if, benring in mind the fact for several weeks in case he and his Sergeant L C. Penpell sold that you have already been four men were cut off. He proudly polat- throughout Suet had acted in a weeks in prison, I sentence you to one ed to the supply of ammunition, and straightforward” manner and had month's imprisonment to date from seemed confident that he and his men glvon every assistance to the Police. Inst Friday."*.

could hold out for weeks.

Straw was strewn un the concrete floor as bedding.

After Sergeant G. Peridins, Police The arms were ordered to be con- armourer, had stated that the armsjfscated.

were in food working order, The following comprised the Jury: By a simple movement he could the statement given in the Court Messrs. G. Gerrard (Foreman), J. E operate a steel flap, erect the peri- below by Cheng Shing-san, a farmer, ]). Walker, J. W. Lee, Ho Kal-rusy, scope, and obtain a clear view of the who could not attend Court because Iu Tak-lom, Sou Yen-chang and entire countryside.

of illness, was read out. Cheng said H. A. da Roza.

he knew Suet had been employed as an officer in the Poilco and Bolt-

Defence Corps at Shataukok.

One day, four guerillas approached Suet to sell them the arms, but the sale was not carried through because He wanted $90 for each of them,

Accused's Statement

In a statement from the dock, Suet said: "I had the right to carry fire arms In Shalauskok when I was com mander of a' squad of the Self-

On our way to the front we passed through towns where, as an officer described

a week out There was not a cat

But to-day many had

Reduced Activity returned and busy markets were in

progress in the town squares, doing

On Saar Front n big trade with the Tommies.

PARIS, 20 (Reuter) —A comumuni-

que issued to-day states that there

Ingenious

Even in the comparatively narrow was reduced activity on the Front.sector we visited an immense amount

There were a few.patrols and some of human labour has been expanded. artillery fro.

in contriving the most effective - and

single soldier un foot--every-

rubber tyres at thirty to forty miles an hour.

An amazing feature of modern warfare is the way in which troops are concealed. Except for Lic neecssary transport on the roads, and the troops digging defensive works, you can pass through the countryside and never realise that tens or hundreds of thousands of men-ure-hilfeted-there--- Even the" sleet helmets are camouflaged.

Journalists in cars are Instructed to proceed at intervals of a few hun-

The vessel is being built to the order and special requirements of the Government of Fiji as an administra- tive vessel for patrol duties between the islands of Fiji and the British Istunds in the Western Pacific. Her principal dimensions are length 170 feet, breadth 31 ft. @ Ins. and depth' 13 feet.

Special Fittings

When on commission the Viti will be used for administrative cruises. She is fitted with large capacity oil fuel bunkers, fresh water storage tanks and refrigerated provision chambers

for undertaking these lengthy cruises. Two heavy der- ricks of ten tons lifting capacity have been-provided for attending buoys, beacons and lighthouses,

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During to-day's journey we passed through areas which I had known during the last war where not house remained intact, and where the earth, as far as the eye could see, we pilled, rim to rim, with shell holes, To-day crops were being har- vasted there by patient slow-moving pensants.

HOWEVER MELANCHOLY ONE'S THOUGHTS IN SUCKI CIRCUM- STANCES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID BEING IMPRESSED BY THE INDOMITABLE TENACITY OF THE FRENCH PEASANT WHO GOES ON PLOUGHING FOR NEXT YEAK'S CROP WITHIN A FEW YARDS OF WAR.

TYTAM VILLAGE ROBBERY

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U.S. Parley In Shanghai

the United States Ambassador, M Nelson T. Johnson upon his arriva aboard the President Coolidgc.

They escorted him to die US.E Augusta where a conference is bein held to-night because Admiral Har and Mr. Gauss are leaving soon 1ơ Manua.

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