1939-11-23 — Page 14

BOY EVACUEE

Didn't Know Mother

War Words (1)` Poilu

"YOU'RE not my mummy!" cried five-years-old Derek Bur- rows, of Lenland-road, Totten- ham, London, when, after saving for weeks so that she could visit her three evacuated children, his mother stretched out her arms to him in the Lincolnshire village where he is staying..

Mrs. Burrowa said: "My husband is sixty-nine and only draws a pension. I work as a charwoman. I denied myself things so that I could pay the ning shillings fare and take my. children some winter clothing.

warm

'You're Not Mummy' "My two eldest boys, Bob, aged seven, and Sam, twelve. gave me 2L

welcome. Derek came running out with them, but stopped shyly when he saw me. 'Come on, Derek," Sam shouted to him, 'here's mummy. He didn't move.

"He looked at me and suit, 'You're not my mummy.'

"I'm going to bring my chil- dren back. I would sooner my baby were with me in all sorts of air raids than that he wouldn't know me when I go to see him."

DESERTERS IN COURT

Lascars Held In Glasgow

FOURTEEN Luscar scamen, who appeared in Glasgow J. P. Court and admitted deserting their ship, were ordered to be transported to an English port to rejoin the vessel. All fourteen appeared in Court carrying their gasmasks.

pleaded guilty to a The scamen charge that on October 11, 1938, at Glasgow, beint seamen lawfully

This slang torm for tho French infantryman camo into use in the last war.

"Poitu* (pronounced "pwalu") is a French adjcc- tive derived from the Latin "pilus." It moans "hairy or unshaven," as man waro apt to bo after days in the trenches. As a noun, it means "strong or bravo man." might, perhaps, be translated by the modern "tough guy"!

The word was first used in English in 1915 by Georgo Adam, the "Times" war cor- respondent.

"Cossacks Could Hold Caucasus"

RUSSIAN troop moves

in Baku, and in the Cau- casian frontier region bring from the Nazi Press sugges- flons that Stalin contem- plates military operationA towards India and the Near East.

General Lazar Bitcherakhov, the man who successfully de- fended Baku in the great war, and kept its oil wells from the German Army, told the Daily Express Paris correspondent:

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 23, 1939.

THE

ADMIRAL GREETS

HIS MEN

'BULLDOG ARTHUR' LEADS Elocution ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR

PRINCETOWN (Devon). "BULLDOG ARTHUR,” thirty-seven- year-old East End gunman, leader of Dart- moor's biggest jail-break, in 1924, made his second escape from the prison at dawn [to-day.

With two other convicts, Charles Bishop, forty-five-year-old Folkestone housebreaker, and forty-year-old Thomas Edwards, of Stoke-on- Trent, "Bulldog'-his name is Arthur Cox-is believed to have got away from the cookhouse by In ladder they had made and hidden near the prison wail, ready for instant assembly.

Wartime restrictions on the sounding of sirens meant that the men had escaped into the country- alde and it had not been possible to give the alarm.

Admiral Sir W. Jamen, Comman- der-in-Chief at Portsmouth, wel- 'coming men of the Clyde Naval Renerve when they reported for. duty at Porig- mouth Barracks.

THE EX-KAISER

BUILDS

HIMSELF

A RAID SHELTER

DOORN (Holland).

EX-KAISER WILHELM il, who sent bombing planes and Zeppelins over England in the last war, has just finished supervising workmen in the job of turning the cellars of his Dutch home into an air raid shelter,

The arches have been reinforced When the war broke out he gave concrete and piled up an order for English newspapers, and he reads them from front to back, missing nothing.

"The Soviet Army could not get through Persia. Give me a good horse, five young English intelligence officers, len of my old Cossacks and with thick 150 Kurds, and I coutil guarantee toy with sandbags, hold any invasion for a time."

There is fumple room for all his When the revolution carne, General staff of six, and, in addition, forty Bitellerakhov, then a thirty-five-year- inhabitants of the village of Doorn

id Cossack, was the only Russian will be omitted if necessary. general who held his men and fought on beside the Allies until the armis-

tlee.

Baku ile defendet

men

with eight

British armoured cars, Brilish money rants and 30.900

Mostly Caucasus life himself. He held it for three and a half months against tores Turkish army corps, backed by a German division.

But if there should be an air raid,

the staff and villagers must remem

ber the deference due to an ex-Wor Lord.

Sudeten Germans Indict Hitler

declaration

against

"Fascist of conquest" has been sued German Social Defnocrats.

In the safety of the cellar shel-plans ter have been placed two high imperial chaira, side by side, They are for the ex-Kaiser and his wife Members of the staff, and vil- lagers, must sit like school children

an rows of forms.

household

The convicts, it is thought, made! off in the mist in the direction of

Durinect, on the main Exeter- Plymouth road. They took with them! over the 20ft walls all the food they could carry from the cookhouse.

Police, including special constables, ore searching the insors, but the men were still free late last night.

"Bulldog Arthur," the most power- fat man in the Jail, was sent to four years' penal servitude for breaking and entering only n few months after he had been released on two years' ticket-of-leave from a pre- vious sentence of ten years. He has spent half his life in prison.

The 1024 jail-break he organised took months to plan.

Supreme War Leader

GENERAL GAMELIN

Supremo Allied War commander on the Western Front.

Ten men esenped. Under threat KANTIES COLMARINER of their guards are the rest gavel

in.

"Bulldog" was the last of the ten to surrender. He fought off enned searchers with granite boulders.

Since the arrival of 300 prisoners from Chelmsford, Pentonville and Maidstone Jails, there has been con- siderable unrest'at Dartmoor.

CARGO FOR SHANGHAI

India-Japan Ship To Make Special Call

Her

Coaching

Hongkong-born Resident- Starts Classes

Beltind a small advertisement of- fering lessons in clocution; correction of accent and other assistance in speaking English Hich the interesting. story of a Hongkong boy.

The tutor is Mr. Henry Peterson, Hongkong born, who returned to the Colony last year after spending 28 years in England. He served in the Great War, after which he went to Oxford and gained a distinction in the Honour School of English Litera ture (ex-Servicemen's shortened course).

+...

Coming down from Oxford Mr. Petersun combined journalism with film work, acting on the screen as well as being engaged on the execu- tive side. His best part was as the villain oppositd. Jock Hulbert in "Jack Choy

Early in his flim career he studied for two years under Miss Elsic Fogerty, C.D.E, LÁM, Principal of the Central--British School of Drama in London, who is acknowledged as one of, the greatest teachers of volce iproduction and elocution in the Eng-

ish language.

Since the War, Mr. Pelerson has trained many pupils. Discussng the reasons why the average Chinese speaks. Engilsh badly, he told a reporter that it was mainly a matter of training: most lingual difficulties can be overcome.

TRAFFIC MISHAPS

Sixty-three Accidents During Past Wock

During the week ending at 8 a.m. on Saturday, there were altogether 63 trame accidents in the Colony, Ry result of which 12 persons were in- injured,

One man escaped from a working)

first call at Shunghat purty last week, but he was cap several years will be made by n Of the persuns injured, tured within ten minutes, and the Jardine ship trading between Cal-pedestrians, who were eliher walking

news did not lealc out. Another man

struck by vehicles.

10 werc

ezile few days ago and broke cutta and Japan when she leaves or running across the road and were eighty windows in the prison before Hongkong on her next trip north. he was captured.

The ship's regular inerary is One tram passenger and one bus

There was a great commotion in direct to Japan, to which country passenger were injured while alight-- Princetown when the new prisoners she usually carries a heavy cargoing from the moving vehicles.

Of the 63 neeldents, 28 "were kept the village vake shouting from Indin. On this occasion, how by the Executive of the Sudeten throughout whole night. The new ever, she is carrying instead a big colistons between vehleles; 25 were

collisions between deputy-governor, Mr. Henderson, re- cargo of coal for Shanghai,

and vehicles vertly governor of the prison chimp

pedestrians; 12 accidents were due to in Yorkshire. was greeted by the

It is learnt that the Sirdhann, too, other causes. convicta on his first day with a de- apart from cargo for Japan, was Juge of water.

Involved carrying a heavy shipment of coal, The Type of Vehlelen

were: Private motor ene 30; Molar for Shanghai. This coul was one paying item lost when the Sirdhana forry 20: Motor bus 9; Public motor was sunk by a mine explosion at the cur 13; Motor cycle 3; Tramcar. 7;: entrance to Singapore Harbour on Tricycle 2; Blcyclo 3; Ricksha 1;

Hand truck 1.

Some 3,000 leading members of the Party are now in exile, and their manifesto recalls д similar one issued by the exiled German Social Deinocrats.

For this and his other services to

The ex-Kalser has tightened-up "This war is Hitler's work," de- engaged they desertert from the Bri- General Dunsterville In Persia and

expenditure. In

every clares the Sudeten German mani- tish steamship Clan Lamont, owned Mesopotamia, Bitcherakhov was given direction. There is long delay now teste. "Danzig and the Corridor aro by the Clan Line Stenmers, Ltd., 100 | the C.B. and D.S.O.

in getting money from his German Hope Street, Glasgow, then Jying In

mere pretexts,"

Queen's Dock, contrary to the Mer-hotel. It is a room over a cabaret,

He now lives in a small Montmartre possession:. chant Shipping; Act, 1894.

He Studies Maps Only the smallest orders on which

Through an interpreter, the Lasers Sul young at 59, the general be- admitted deserting the ship. They lieves that he could be of use to the explained that they had been inken Allies again, especially in Persla. the household can mannge are being to London, and there they wero "As a soldier who has studied given to the butcher and baker, and back to India. Instead of that, they will not move west. The next move house. promised that they would be taken acties all his Bre, Tsay that Hitler guests-are-no-longer-Invited to the were sent on board the Clan Lamont is his. It will be cust. and taken to Glasgow. There they the end of him," he said.

had seen one of the Company's fl- cials, who had promised they would be transferred, bu after waiting and

waiting they had gone ashore,

It will be

JAPANESE MINISTER

Tokyo, Nov. 22. Mr. Shigeru Kuriyama, the Japun-

Very sparing use is made of Wil heim's car to save petrol.

He no longer goes wood-chopping on the estate with his adjutant, Major semnnr, because the major has gone to serve with the German Army.

Five other members of the staff at Doom have been called to work in their money. The serang was now concurrently appointed Minister to the German Legation at The Hague.

They said they would not go back

to the Clan Lamont as the serung

(the Lascar bosun) had been takingese Ambassador to Belgium, has been

on board the ship in an English port. Luxembourg, the Foreign Office un-

Wilhelm spends hours every day studying war maps.

NAZI SHIPS READY

The J. P. Fiscal, Mr. E. M. Gal-nounced to-day.-Donaci. loway, asked for an order, and pointed out that the men would be sent back to their ship whether they Ifked it or not. He also asked the Court to forfeit the aceuacda' wogea, earned or to be earned, up to the amount of the Court expenses. and the cost of transporting them ja the port in England. Their present wnger would not meet that cost.

TO AID RAIDERS?

THOUGH all attempts have so far falled to authenticate the

Mr. J. G. Gordon, the presiding presence of U-boats in Mexican waters, sufficient circumstantial

J.Pranted the necessary order,

MYSTERY

OF RED

ADMIRAL

MFEDOR RASKOLNIKOV, one-time commander of the

evidence has been gathered to leave no doubt that one or more are ready to begin operations against shipping in the Carribean, says the Mexican City correspondent of the "New York Times" (quoted by Press Association from New York).

Reports that U-boats are re-taken to prevent the Columbus from celving aid from German ships receiving radio instructions from the German Admiralty. The captain hos in Mexican ports has caused the confiscated all private radio sets, und Mexican Government and other does not allow newspapers aboard, authorities to keep a close watch indicating that he wishes to keep the on the German liner Columbus crew in ignorance about what is

Soviet Ballic Fleet, died in a 782.666 tons) and other vessels happening in the world

Riviera nursing home recently

belonging to Germany or nations

in mysterious circumstances, says a "Reuter" message from presumably sympathetic to Ger- Nice.

many.

Two boats in the water alongside the Columbus might be used at night

to talte provisions out to sea.

Even stranger are the actions of

He had been outlawed by the No fact ips yet been discovered the 400-ton German tanker Emmy to breaches of Friederich, now anchored at the port U.S.S.R. Supreme Court, when pointing directly last April, as Soviet Minister to Mexican neutrality by ships in of Tamples, 240 miles north of Vera Muxlean ports, but several suspicious Cruz. She has not only been loading have recently been oli, but she begon loading live stock, and has taken on board 12 live cows brought to light,

and 25 hogs.

Bulgaria, he refused to answer indications

call to return to Russia.

Friends Executed

He thought it wiser to take refuge

Antonov-Qvscanko,

without trial.

LARGE STORES ON BOARD

This, says the New York Times

in France, remembering that most of The case of the Columbus has correspondent, is inexplicable, ex- his friends, who included M. Karn-attracted the most attention. It is cept by supposing that the animals- hane, Ambassador to Ankara, and M. eonsidered significant that the which It would be useless for the Consul-General Columbus left her moorings before Emmy Friedrich's crew to slaughter, at Barcelona, were shot in Moscow Vera Cruz to anchor in the Bay of as they have no refrigerating facili

Anton Lizardo, which extremely lea-will later be delivered to Ger-

man craft at sca.

When all the above facts are considered, the correspondeni odds, the conclusion is inevitable that al least some Gorman ships in Mexican water are aiding or preparing to ald U-boats, mathA

In the past few months Ruskelni-isolated, and not easy to observe.

kov hud bitterly attacked Stalin, and.

I win after an open letter which ho

She is riding low in the water, Indicating that she has taken aboard

gave to the Russian Language Press larger quantities of storen, and oll

that lie suddenly fell

METROPOLE

then is ger erally believed. ***

Though, the crow is being kept on short rations, storos are being loaded

ROOM BATH quantities sumcient for the needs in the act of fingrantly

$6.

CENTRAL

CLEAN

COMFORTABLÉ

Up to now all efforts to catch them viointing of the 020, men aboard..

Mexican neutrality have been fruit- The crow is emfined aboard-less, IN SEL nobody, being allowed, ashore-sug- Mexican officials haveanid that; gesting that something is happening they are ready to interveno au soon (which the caplain wishes concealed, ‹-jun inere:la: positive evidence of such

· The ship's gerlals have been dis- | Violation; and to take measures of the mantled, but no steps have been utmost (severity.

Since war began twenty-three men have escaped from jails or while being transferred. A number of them are still free.

November 13.

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