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Captain's Heroism

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy bugler told recently of the kerointi of

Captain V. C. P. Smalley, master of the Ener Yorkshire, as his ship went down following U-boat attack.

The bugler, John Alexander Tay: Inr. was reunited with his widowed!

nother at his Liverpool home.

ניי

the The

was on the bridge with captain, Lio quartermosters, commodore and my mute,' sald Taylor.

The captain told us to get in the boats, and then he turned to us and said, 'Cet n boat and I will join you

soon as possible.'

"I don't think he had any intention

of joining us." said Taylor.

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DANCER WHO JUST COULD

NOT STAY STILL"

ALTHOUGH the War Office announcement of the scheme to double the Auxiliary Territorial Service was only made 24 hours before, hundreds of applications for enrolment were received at the Central London Recruiting Depot by first post the next day.

Mons begon.

the women

Before the stuff could begin sorting callers. Bui by 10.30 them the rush of personal applica- were arriving at the rate of one a minute and extra Lenches and tables were brought in to accommodate Girls taking a few minutes off them while they listenest to the from their work, married women sergeant's "law talk." with their shopping basketa, particaj from the suburbs caino

As they were leaving the, women along to Great Scolland Yard.raw a group of giris enrolled some Each was given a form to be filled time ago whiting with their luggage In a home,

to go to the training depot. They watched them move off with not a Those selected will later be asked little envy.

trooping

to attend for a personal interview! and medical examination.

Survivors of tlie Yorkshire were Sergeant's 'Don't Worry Ladies' picked up by the United States vessel

Independence Hall.

The recruiting sergeant was care-

OBITUARY

But Captain Smalley has been re-ful to impress on them that enrol Well-known Hongkong

ported "missing."

ment will mean submission to mili-

Resident Dies

Mr. Walter H

died at the

"One of the most tragic things Itary instead of civil law, remember," added Bugler Taylo

was the sight of a mother and tweed, with a grin. "Things that might

"But don't worry, ladies," he add- daughters clinging to one another set you live years under civil law Canossa Hospital at 7.30 pan. yester- the deck as the boat went down.

fine in the day from pneumonia. They seemned tao stunned nad shocked mean only a five-hob to move."

AIR PERIL AT SEA SLIGHT

By A Naval Correspondent SUGGESTIONS that seaborne trade will soon be endangered by nitacks from long-distance aircraft should not be taken too seriously.

Apart from the question of fuel endurance, it is difficult for aircraft to find a convoy in the brand Atlon- tic, especially if there is any low cloud or mist.

For many days convoys have been consing in regularly and without any, 4011 of troubic, except that a mer chantman was damaged by a mine, She was brought safely into purt, and her cargo has since been du charged without harm.

Anay.

ONE of the first to arrive was Miss Gertrude Shefeld, who saw four years' service is a V.A.D. in the

last war.

1 ree ex-Service women can Jol up to the are of 50, so I am hoping they will take me on again," she said. With Dance Girls In Gormany

Only 30 years of age. Mr. Hung. who was Munoger of the Chinese rection of the Hongkong, Canton and Manager of the Sun Wo Steamship Meno Steamship Company. and

daughter of Sir Robert Kotewall, and Company, Itaves a widow, win is a

o small children, John, aged one year, ond Wendy, eged three, Mr. ung also leaves a mother, two sis- ters, one of whom married Itobert Ho Tung, Jnr., and two brothers.

Educated at Hongkong University

She is Miss Maude McNaughton, the business world and at the same Hung rapidly established himself in of Brockley.

time maintained a keen interest in sport, particularly cricket and tennis. The funeral will leave the Conosen

Next to Miss Sheffield was a girl, [was, at the time of the Munich crisis,

vas with a dancing troupe in Ger-and taking a B.A, degree in 1933. Mr.

any.

"It exactly a year aro to-day alice I got back from that trip," she said. "Since then I've been working in a cigarette kiosk, but Just can't sit still say longer and watch all the men and women going past in uniform."

Another young woman explained

The appearance of a surface raider that she wished to join up because on the South American trade route her husband is a regular soldier and was a fairly regular feature of if he is going to France she wants strategical exercises set at the Royal to go too.

Naval Staff College before the war.

a long e In no Instance was guaranteed to such a raider.

Recruiting began at 8.30 a.m. the first half-hour there

In

were 20

Hospital at 4 p.m. to-day, direct for the Chinese Christian Cemetery, Pokfulum..

Mrs. Kipling 'Dies

Burwash, Sussex, Dec. 19, The death has occurred of Mrs.

Rudyard Kipling in her 74th year.

Mrs. Kipling had been in indiffer- ent health since the dealh of her husband, the famous author, in 1930,

-United Press,

December 20, 1939

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