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By Lichty Flattened
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SAILOR AT SEA HAS SWIMMING LESSONS BY
By LOUISE MORGAN
WRITTEN somewhere on the High Seas between Hongkong and Loudon, a letter has come to the College of the Sea, Endsleigh Street, Bloomsbury, from a sailor who cannot swim.
He is an apprentice in a tanker, aged 19. and all his efforts to learn have been in vain, he laments.
The Bo'sun has classes in needle-month's extension for his geometry work and cooking, but not, unforiun- pupers.
in
boy in .ately
A messroom swimming. Would
tramp College be so kind as to teach swim-steamer asked that the smudges in his ming by correspondence? And could essay in the Literary Criticism course the lessons begin soon, in case the be exctised on the grounds that his
U-bont? Sincerely toll lamp had been dunnel.
tanker meets D yours,,
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From an A.B. who has been taking a German course on board a trader running between Hongkong and Cal-
a request cutta #
was received
this
A FLATTENED bullet is being kept by a Royal Air Force gunner- 1 remind him of his daring raid on the German warships, caught by surprise at Hellgoland,
That bullet nearly took his Bfe. All that saved him from it was the buckle of his parachute.
The gunner was in the plane that became isulated and was singled out for attack by a Messerschmitt fighter, the only German machine to take the ate.
In the middle of the machine-gun duel the gunner was hit and hurled back in his sent.
Then as his hands fumbled to find his wound, something cilaked on the Hone of the cockpit. I was the bullet, flattened by hitting his para- chute buckle.
He seized his gun again and open- ed fire. With smoke and flames spurting from lis fuselage the Messerschmitt dived down towards
the sea.
Down.. Down.. Down..
CROSSES FOR THEIR SONS
RUDOLF HESS, Hitler's e- puly. broadcast recently lo German maibers, This is what he told Shen:-
"Crosses of honour are belog given to-day to our others with many children.
"The number of those killed. wounded and missing is stati conpared with the success, for it was a million-strong army of Polish soldiers which England sent to lavade Germany.
"Yet we know that the fact that losses were so fery will not lessen the anguish of the fam!- Hes of those who fell.
"Many a mother whose sou dled has given also Jer, hus- band.
"Every mother who is in mourning should remember the German mothers in the Pelish territories whose children had to suffer so much."
Once Our
Enemy Now Firm Friend
LONDON.
DURING the Boer War a young man named Denys Reitz took up arms Only one of the British bombers against the British. For three years that took part in the raid was dam- he fought against what he believed ared-hit in the tall by anti-aircraft fire-but the skilt of its pilot brought was their intulerable aggression and horne only a quarter of an hour at the end, when his side was de- after the others had lauded.
feated, went into exile rather than live under the Union Jack.
Recently 11 jovial
anchor.
Radio orders cracked out from the
Went hurtling down through bursting
A Look Through The Telegraph”.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 27, 1889. One third of the deaths in the! French Army are attributed to typholdi fever.
-RADIO-
ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.) and 3149 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) "The Heart of England" VocalViolins In Vienna (Strauss-
Dale), I Miss You In The Morning (Leslie-Burke), AI Bowlly with Orchestra. Instru. -Xylophonin (Green), Lady of Madrid (Damerell and Others), Joe Green (Xylophone and Cotorimba)
and Milt Herth
B:B.C. Recording Radio Programine Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 84 k.e's The first international match played and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 p.m. in this colony for many yourK wasland 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per (Organ), Vocal-There's A Luli In
►
commenced yesterday, Scollonil oppor-second.
13 a combination hailing from other parts of the empire. The World had
My Life (from Wake Up and Live'),
12.16 p.m. Short Service of Inter-It's Swell Of You (from Wake Up
a fairly representative and good alcossion. round feam, although no doubt it could! have been materially strengthened; Scotland, on the other hage, whilst ad- miltedly strong in batting, was cons sidered to
12.30, Sydney Gustard at the Organ. 12.43 Songs by King Grosby with Orchestral Accompaniment, be weak both in fielding and change bowling.
10 Local Time Signal and Weather
The scores were: The World:--First junings 120: Second lenga 104, Seat-Report. bond-Pink Innings 1331" Sveond wings 44.
25 YEARS AGO
in.
1.03 The 1.8.C. Dance Orchestra.
and Live'), Ruth Elting, Plano Charlle Kunz Piano Medley No. D. 8, In: The greatest mistake of my ikej Let us be sweethearts over again; Ten pretty girls; Meon al scat No more you: Wake up and Live. Charle
Kunz
Saxophone-My Kinglan for a Kiss (from 'Hearts
Divided'), I have Lost My Heart In 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea-Cinema Organ-Irving Berlin Me- Budapest (Mihaly). Raymond Baird.
|ther Forecast and Announcements.
Dec. 27. 1615. 1.45 Mozart-Concerto In D Major The Admienity announces that seven ("Cormation"). Wanda Landowska (*naval senglunes, nt daylight on Christ-{Pinno) with Chamber Orchestra
mas Day, attacked German warships conducted by Walter Goalr, lying in the Schilling ronds, utt Cux-| haven. They were escorted by light Veruler and a destroyer firce, with
submarizes,
2.15 Close down.
6,0 An hour of Dance Music.
Two German Zeppelins, four
70 Closing local Stock Quotations. planes and several submarines allucked) 701 B.B.C. Recording—"The Heart the British squadron, whereupon of England. A Programme from novel combat ensued, of not modern the Midlands arranged and produced cruiser against the enemy's nireraft and mutuorines.
by Robin Whitworth.
Is The Kaiser Mud! By Jean Fimat. Appbaring daily in the "Telegraph**
10 YEARS AGO
7.80 London Belay Tho News. 80 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
mories, Intro: What'll I do; Blue Sklen; Always; How deep is the Ocean; Say it with music; You forgot song is ended, Al Bollington. to remember; Say it isn't so; The
10.15 Dance Music.
11,0 Close down..
OBITUARY
Former Mexican Consul
In Hongkong
8,03 Classical Request Programme. The Barber Of Seville" Överture
The death of Mr. Jose Filomeno Philarmonic-Sympliony Eca da Silva occurred at the Kow-
·02 years of nge.
Det. 27, 1925, (Rossi), The visit to Hangkon of Mr. F. Oreliestra of New York cond. by loon Hospital on Monday. He was Philips Oppenheim, the well-known Toscanini, Questa Ο Quella iction writer, who is noget those ("Rigoletto" Verdi). Tito Schipa mucking a world tour on the pleasure (Tenor), Overture "Merry Wives of Mr. da Silva Was at one time yacht, Stella Polaris, has been some-Windsor (Nicolai), The B.B.C. Consul for Mexico here, and monsger what marred by the bas of a consider-Symphony Orchestra conducted by of the North China Insurance Co. Sir Adrian Bouit. Musetta's Waltz He is survived by four daughters, Song ("La Boheme"-Puccini), Grace two sons and two brothers, and his Moore (Soprano). Parpetual motion, widow. little NO featured inan told representatives of Hcope of the effective ply of unmetal Op. 11 (Paganini), Dance Of The
able sun of money.
The form of government under which Pickwickton-langkong labours provides
The funeral took place yesterday
the British, Dominion and neutral pinion that we cannot but regret any Goblins, Op. 25 (Bazzini), Yehudi
Government artinn. which seems to Menuhin (Violin). Hungarian at the Catholic Cemetery, Revs Fr.
Britain's Generosity
It was in perfect weather that the bombers set out on the raid, and they reached Heligoland abou! 11.45 in the morning.
and fellow South | treat ta of small account the efforts of Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt), Philadelphia | L. Rossi officiating. Riding high in the blus, they gazed Press why he down on the two small islands where Africans would fight with the Allies those who gratuitously give much time Symphony Orchestra conducted by
The chief mourners were his sons, His name was and service to work connected with the Leopold Stokowski. two Nazi cruisers and several smaller the Hon. Denys Reitz, Minister of administrative life of the Colony.
against Certnany,
Spanish Dance Messrs, A. P. da Silva and H. de Süva, (Granados, arr. Casals); craft, probably minelayers, were at Native Affairs for the Union of South
Vito and hu brother Mr. F. da Silva, Thos 5 YEARS AGO
(Spanish Dance) Op. 64, No. 5 who attended the service were Mesors. "Africa.
Dec. 2, 1934 (Popper), Pablo Casals (Celin) MM-de-Soares. L.-A-de-Boaren 11.-
Barretto, F. J. Remedio, A. B. Sava- The frontiers of the nu will be Mouvements Perpetuels (Poulenc); Notto, F. 11. Barnes, A. V. Harros, C. cload at midnight and from that time Elude (Stravinsky), Beno Molsel- Bilva, A.Xavier, F. Roza-Pereira, D. onwards the only permont who will be witsch. (Plano). Onaway! Awakei Montale, J. Lima, C. Pinna, A. LUZ allowed to enter the area will be those Beloved
("Hiawatha"-Coleridge. Alves, A. A. dos Rereadian. C. F. in panaston of permits, properly
Remedios, H. Figueiredo, M. A. Oliviera, Tudor The Taylor),
Davies (Tenor. C. Asumpcao, Z. Reed, Dennir Sliva, E. lined by authoritative pro frontier will be closed until Janurary London Bridge March (Eric Contes). Remedios, Dr. E. Soure and pers.
New Light Symphony Orchestru
A bouquet from "Borrowfl wife The Governing Commission ancond, by Joseph Lewis.
Augunia and children, was interred with nounces that it is inking this action 005 Studio Comments on Recent the casket Wreaths were from Lutelila with a view to excluding undesirable Events. elements which might cause trouble 15 London Relay--News, Sum and Laba, Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo B. during the plebiscite, before or after
Meanwhile, conditions
romain mary,
0.25 Variety with Sidney Torch. Castro Bar. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Marshall quiet. There have been no indlentions
and family, Leonor and family, Capt. that there will be need for interven. Al Bowlly, Ruth Etting and Others. O'Farrell and family. Dr. K, el Arenili, tion of the foreign troops
duty Cinema Organi on
Want To Be A, B, da Silva and family and the here.
Snappy-Medley, Sidney Torch, Trojans Saftball Team
squadron leader, and the bombers anti-aircraft shells. Two Circuits
Then, coming out of the dive, the pilots bombed systematically.
One reports that three of his bombs "straddled" a warship, and he was quite confident that he registered a hit. This was confirmed by the
following aircraft.
Another pilot dropped a bomb directly on a warship, and another close to a ship and must have caused reported that one of his bombs fell considerable damage.
A parcel contaling swimming charts and special instructions
The RA.F. men circled the main dispatched from Bloomsbury to the week please from now on to send island twice before they made off. tariker's next port of all, with him the French course lastend. friendly letter expressing the hope
And a
fireman on a Booth liner that the ship would not meet aplying between Liverpool and U-boat, but that if she did the ap-thousand miles up the Amazon as prentice would have first learned to for ten monthly lessons on how to swim.
play the piano accordien, as the crew EXCUSE ME PLEASE
[nced cheering up.
LIBRARIES FOR WARSHIP
The war has brought all sorts of
The College is enrrying on with Its problems to the College of the Sea, and furnished new excuses to such of norinal service in spite of the irregu- Its sailor-pupils as tend to be slack larity of ships' movements due to the! with their homework.
war.
sweepers, destroyers and other war vessels.
"We gave the British a good run for their money," he said, but hav ing beaten us they treated us with splendid gunerosity. They returned Our country to us, and within the British Commonwealth of Nations we now enjoy an even greater mea- stire of liberty than we possessed under our own Republics.
"In addition, we enjoy a grenter security, for we in South Africa are under no illusion about what would happen to us were Germany to win this war
20.
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the
"Le Journal" to-day slates that Herr! There was some measure of Irraso-
Hitler will publicly retract the passag lution among some of the Dutch-in his watobiography "Mein Kampf" In speaking citizens of the Union at the which he declares that Germany must
added, but crush France as a step to prove outbreak of war, he
resumption of diplomatic prompt thanks to the
of way to action General Smuts they were now large-nettons for solution of the present France-lerin illeurmament impaso, ife wil make his retraction after thai y rallying
Suur plebiscite, the papel says.
Mr. Anthony Eden, Dominions More than 20,000 books and magn- Minister, introduced the other repre- zines has already been sent. They sentatives of the Empire countries returned, but can be who have been touring France and handed on from ship to ship until Britain and exchanging views and information with the British Govern- ment.
need not be
worn cut.
Fifty-five public radians have! volunteered to do the collecting. It also co-operating with the During my visit to the College Adoption Society in 3,000 books arrived from various mine i parts of the country. arending out war librarles to
An apprentice In a convoy ship wrote that he was no busy all day British Ship
that he would like signalling
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ROBBERS ATTACK JUNK
!
One man was wounded and sent to hospital as a result of an attack by armed robbers on junk No. 3040W while I was cast of the Nine Pins, Chinese Territory, on Christmas day,
NANNING RAIDS
Shanghal, Dec. 20. A Japanese spokesman admitted to-day that Chinese planes WUTO active In the vicinity of Nunning ou December 23.
The spokesman said eight Chinese planes attempted a rald near Chu- lang, in the vicinity of Nanning, dy-l Ing at 3,000 feet. Owing to the high altitude the bombs fell in an open Acid and there were no casualties.
At 7 p.m. the same day six Chi-
bombed the Japanese nese planes
A report of the incident was made positions at Kiutang, but the bombs Chan Lin-h, 22, fell wide of the mark and no damage to the Police by master of the junk, He aald on De-iwas done. Three of the Chinese cember 24 he left Lin Shan forplanes were shot down.
to Ilangkong. At 0.30 am. when erall was 10 miles cast of the Nino;
The following day Japanese planesi
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fins, a large Ashing Junk approached staged a mass rak on Kwellin and and opened fire when 200 yarda Llichow and destroyed the Chinese)
way. One of the cargo owners, basts. Sung Ting-chung, was wounded on
On Sunday Japanese planes bomb- the left leg.
ed in the vicinity of Nanning, center- i Armed with revolvers, three rob-ing their attack on Changhu, where; hers boarded the cargo boat and or- they sighted a group of 2,000 Chinese dered its crew and passengers into a troops, which Japanese troops and hoid. After four hours' sailing, Chan air units completely annihilated. sald, ho could hear his cargo being Last night Japanese planes bombed transferred to
Tolbero' boat the Chinese nerodromes at Shillong, When this was completed the robbers despite resistance from muti-aircraft left.
Rum and Chinese planes. Four of the Chinese pinnes were shot down during the air duel. All the Japan- ese planes returned to their basce
the
A mixed cargo of preserved vege- tables, fresh vegetables, ginger, dried partidges, ducks, squalls, and chle kens, wore stolen. Money was also, stolen, -a-total-Joxe of $1,170,-
One Japanese member of the crew was seriously injured-United Pres.
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