1939-12-18 — Page 11

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 18, 1939.

P.&O.S.N.Co. Explosion In Liner

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"Told" In Tea Cup

WE'LL COP IT"- I DID SO

AN explosion on the Royal Mail Line motorship Loch- goil when off the English coast was foretold in ten- leaves before she sailed.

The Lochgoil, of 9,402 tons, was outward bound with cargo. Before she left port the crew spent a few hours at a sailors' rest.

One sallor, who had just finished a cup of tea, noticed the peculiar picture formed by the tea-leaves.

His mates crowded round and saw what appeared to be a sinking ship, a feboat going to her rescue, and someone signalling from shore.

"You can take it from me," said the man with the cup, "we are going to cop i before we have been out many days."

CAPTAIN INJURED

A day after leaving port on ex- plosion occurred which injured the; master, Captain W. C. Tarrant, and i five of his erow.

Deck-hand William Zimmerman, of London, who had just taken over the wheel, sald the explosion came from the bows.

The ship was badly damaged, but she was successfully benched.

Her cargo was taken off, and she

is to be repaired and refontes,

by

Five Lascar sehmen were injured Anchor an explosion in the Brocklebank Iner Marawart, near! the Welsh coast.

Arabs and Lasears formed the majority of the crew of 91.

Mohamed Jama, a deckhand, who was in his bunk when the explosion Dccurred, said:

"The doors crashed in and the

on to deck, and water was already pouring in.

The Swiss

Swiss "Harry,

don't miss

PARIS.

Here are two stories about Switzerland and Germany.

1.

Guards on the Swiss-Ger- man border are not friendly. One morning the Swiss found in the road a "present from the Germaus" a pile of offal mark- ed "with our compliments."

Next morning the Germans real pile found in their roað of batter, A note said:"Each side clves what it can spare."

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2. Before the war Switzer- Iand tried in vain to buy fighter planes from Britain. Franes and Italy, and at last tried Germany. "Certainly," sald the Germans, "we'll give you forty Messer schmitts but we don'i want money for them."

So the Swiss paid on delivery -In Swiss cheese.

the

Scen after war began Swiss wanted more fighters. Britain, France and Italy again could not oblige. Germaný nguin could.

toro

"Yes," said the Germans, "we" shall send you forly Messerschmitte But this tinio we must get our cheese in aú- vance and you may have to walt some tine for the planes."

CHALK WITH CARE

By LINDON LAING

lights went out. There was a rush POETS are invited by the Preussische Zeitung to chalk up on the walls of Germany diatribes against Great Britain.

RADIO BLOWN AWAY The radio was blown away. "As the ship took a heavy list the skipper, Captain Richardson, ordered

us to take to the boats.

"There was no panic, but some of the crew were praying.

"We reached shore in the ship's boats."

The Marawari was taken in tow by tugs, and the European oMeers were landed.

The liner was bound from Belfast to Newport, Monmouth. In ballast.

It is not known whether she was struck by a mine or attacked.

Twenty of the crew were lunded at Port Talbot, and the remainder at Swansea.

They Don't Want Mr.

Hitler

Town That Fears A Hitler Guarantee

Frontier.

The following "poem" is said to have caused great satisfaction when it appeared

on a wall in Berlin-

"Swirt до Д stron!!

chamuls

young

We will be, at need, beside the

Thames."

they've given me

a ship

""

FARNHAM COMMON

(Bucks). VILLAGERS of Farnham Common fear that never again will they hear "Tom Bowling" sung by bluff, jovial Captain E. C. Kennedy, ngent of the South Bucks Conservative and Unionist Association.

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That was his favourite song at the concerts he loved to organise. To- night, in the cosy bar of the Emperor of india, they drank a silent toast to the immortal memory of "The Cap- tain."

They had read with sadness how out-gunned and out-manoeuvred, he had fought his merchant cruiser Rawalpindi against hopeless odds when the German pocket battleship Deutschland loomed up in the north- ern mists of Iceland.

And they had drawn their binck- out curtains hours before, the winter dusk in tribute to the neighbour who had come among them ten years ago, who knew them all by their Chris- tian names, who talked runner-boons and cabbages to them over the fence and revelled in rural joys after hav ing retired to live ashore.

'He Was A Man'

We went this afternoon on a pil- grimage to Captain Kennedy's house,

Lytchetts, which has stood furnished. Harry Looker, the captain's gardener led the way.

"Io was a man, was the captain," said Harry.

but empty, since he went to the war,

ing the Inwn one day a few weeks "He called me when I was weed

ago. He was nigh jumping for joy.

"Harry my, man, they've given me a ship, ho said. It will be my third campaign." He'd been In the Boxer rebellion in Chine, and

in the great war before he settled down here for the rest of his life

as he thought.

"So off he went to the station In his old seven h.p. car, and off went THEN the same writer goes on to the missus and her two daughters tell of another ortist, one A. Mas- they're twelve and thirteen-to Scot- salski, who in 1936 drew what was fund to be near him when he came considered an unflattering portrait of ashore." Their son, nineteen, is a Hitler heneath which he wrote a midshipman. rhyme. Massalski denied responsibility but he was sentenced to two and "a half years' imprisonment. When this term expired the authorities "found cause to take him into pro- tective custody, where he stayed until September....

Over a truckle bed, in the cap- tain's room framed behind gloss, was a tattered piece of bunting. An inscription in faded ink show- ed it was part of the flag which had covered dying Nelson in thes Victory on Trafalgar Day. Framed on another wall "He then attempted to blame sume diagram showing the positions of the one else for the whole affair and British and German Fleets on has now been sentenced to a fur-November 21, 1918 the day of the ther six months' imprisonment for great surrender on the high seas. false denunciation."

Readers of the Preussische Zeitung will, of course, take the hint and be careful what they chalk up on the walls of Germany.

'Der Tag'

Wos a

Grand Fleet, had been present that Captain Kennedy, serving in the

day. "Der Tag," he had inscribed EUPEN, Belgian-German

the diagram, little knowing that. THE Boersen Zeitung discusses the twenty-one years later, almost to the This is certainly the most in- teresting town in Belgium for its dificulties of judges who must often day, he was destined to meet again news about Germany, Eupen is not decide whether a robbery has been the German naval power.

I only less than 10 miles from Aix-la- committed in a black-out (in which

said a "Daily Express" Staff Chapelle, but still has regular com-case the penalty is death) or not in streeeat sadly down the village a black-out in which case the Reporter. I thought of the blozing runications with that town.

penalty may be only a few months" Rawalpindi, her ensign still flying.

of Although there are many youngt imprisonment).

the old 7 h.p. car in front of the Germans in Eupen and the surround-The editor concludes that as it is Jasmine-covered porch waliing to ing district with strong Nazi sym- war time the judge should always take an old sea dog to the war, to pathies, very few have tried in give the black-out the benefit of the strains of "Tom Bowling" in the voluntzer for military service in the doubt.

village hull. Germany.

"And now he's gone' aloft.”

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"Their hearts may be In Germany THE Hamburger Fremdenblatt has bul their stomachs are in Belgium," a scheme for making things easier was how a Belglan official described for housewives who have to go out their attitude,

to work.

Eupen is the main city of that small region annexed by Prussia in 1815 and restored 10 Belgium under the Treaty of Veraniilen,

mun

roots there,

"Buy an apron for ydur husband and give him a little surprise when he gels home," is its advice.

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As the town grew during the Ger

AUNT ANNIE, who conducts the of its nectipation a number

correspondence column in the Boer- inhabitants came from Prussia, nalasen Zeltung, regrets that she gets so bly offelals. So Germany has strong many gloomy letters nowadays. She The last elections gave to the Bel-Rays that she looks in vain through gin-minded lists a majority of 62 her mall hag for a ray of happiness. She goes on to advise her woman renders how best to turn the con- versation politely from the ever lasting topics of rationing and re- strictions.

per cent.

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About the military value of the Belgian army. the opinions of the Germans of Eupen differ. Some say, looking westwards towards the hills marking the main position of the Belgian Army of Liege, that there is comparison between 1914 and 1939 and that the region could hold big surprises for any German_forces, Others, puffed up by the German victory in Poland alem that the Belstian army would have the fate of the Polish In much less time.

But the idea generally prevailing is that Hitler, to avold the Liege and Namur fortifications, will try to rench central Belgium by vlointing Advertisers are

Dutch neutrality.

practically a "no-man's lond,"

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NOTICE

TO

ADVERTISERS

JAPANESE BUDGET

Yen

1,274,780,000 For

The Army

Qx-

Tokyo, Dec. 17. The estimates for the Army for the 1040-41 scal year total Yen 1,274,780,000 including Yen 101,510,- 000 of ordinary expediture and Yen 1,093,200,000 of extraordinary penditure.

Appropriations for new under- takings include Yen : 376,630,000 for improvements in armaments, Yen 401,810,000 for replenishments In Air Corps and air defences, Yen 20,000,000 for inprovements in equip. ments, and Yen 11,050,000 for other purposes, totaling Yen 800,120,000,- Doniel.

Manchukuo Budget

Hanking, Dec. 17. The Munchukuo Govemment on

Budget totals, Yuân 570,000,000 both

Belgians in Eupen fear the blunt requested to submit Monday announced its Budget for occupation of that region, which is copy for display adver- the 1840-41 fiscal year. The General tween the Siegfried Line and the tising not later than in revenue and expenditure and the Liege fortresses.

Every time filler rupeats his guar-2 p.m. on the day before 2,000,000,000 both in revento and antee to Belgium, their fear grows, publication. maintaining that a Hiller, guarantee has always heralded an invasion.

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· Extraordinary. Budget totals Yuan

expenditure....The net increase in the total amounts to Yuan 000,005,000— Domel

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Extremely popular not only with his Indian asso- ciates but with other com- munities and well known as an all-round sportsman, Mr: M. el Arculli was married to Miss Jenny Hamet at the Mosque in Shelley Street yesterday. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hamet.

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FOLLOWING the wedding, the ception held at the Indian Re- creation Club, Sookunpoo, where they received a large group of winning combination, SÅR

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ap one of the best pitchers in the Hongkong The bridegroom has featured pro-diamond. He pitched for Union

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