1940-01-26 — Page 29

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 26, 1940.

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The U.S. War Department has ordered the evacuation of American troops from the Mysang district in the island of Mindanao, despite the fact that the peaceful community is threatened with extinction by Alipang and his dreaded Maro bandits.

Four mon aro ordered to Mysang to assist Colonel Hatch in training the Philippines Con-" stabulary, which is to keep order in the district after the withdrawal of the troops. their arrival. Colonci Hatch is murdored by a Moro and Manning takes chargo,

Soon after But Manning,

too, is killed, leaving only Hartley, a strict disciplinarian, Larson, McCool and Canavan, the doc-

tor, to hold out against the

thousanda of Moros. Tho

Maros dam the water supply, no

a result of which cholera brenks out.

THE disease spread like wildfire.

Every available cot was set up in the hospital, and when that was full they used the church. Stretchers passed through the streets hourly, bearing the stricken, carrying out the dead.

Canavan gave the orders: no raw fruit or uncooked vegetables. No more boats

to unload their cargoes at

the dock. No more water from the well.

He went

to Hartley:

"We've got to have water. The whole village is pollut cd. You've got to send someone to dynamite the dam "

Hartley protested

-the

jungle would be sure death ́ ́.

to anybody.

"It's sure death here un- leas we get water," Canavan snapped.

Struggling against over- whelming odds Canavan

tried to bring the disense under control.

THE

REAL GLORY

A figure detached itself from the

He had left the sleeping Linda

Canavan reached a clearing along the edge of the river. Above him two buzzards circled heavily up from behind a boulder of rock,

Yelling, they rushed up the alde

A

obeyed. I'm going to the dam."

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Capt. Balfour Warns His Constituents LONDON, Jan. 25 (British Wire-

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STALIN WOULD LIKE

FORGET TANNENBERG

(Continued from Page 4.)

with a kisa. That was the hardest of the gully and started running for thing to do. Fighting the cholern the edge of the escarpment. alde by 'alde, he had learned the stuff The one in the lead, without a mo- she was made of, and he knew when ment's hesitation, flung himself over he went back home to hang out his the edge of the diff, and the second ahingle she must be by his side. fono followed, lifting both foot off the and when he amended his ground in a wild suleidal leap,

The fanatical screams of "Allah!" thought as be gazed around him at the trackless, forbidding Jungle. were swallowed up in a terrific ex- PARIS, Jan. 25 (UP).—Press re- There was no sign of Hartley or even plosion, as the dynamite boxes crash-ports confirm that Russia has made less)-In a speech to his constituents

important economic that he had passed this way. Evied on the rocks below.

to to-day, the Air Under-Secretary 'ex- concessions dently the Datu was leading him for The third cargadoro reeled back-Germany, even Involving mineral pressed the opinion that the progress ex-of the war wõizld call for an Increase off any track a searching party would wards as a bullet from Canavan's rights in Northern Russia, in fellow, to the waiting ambush. Pour pistol caught him in the back; his change for a Nazi promise of general in controls, and restrictions to ease

expenditure and half-blind Hartley would have to rely legs seemed paralyzed by the shot, stat consultations in regard to Findirceted in the clirection most favour

consumption were

able to war economy. Implicitly on his leadership, never but with his hands he clawed his land and Ule Balkans.

It is stated that consultations will Speaking of auspect the duplicity until he walked way to the edge of the cliff. Cana-

the aim of destroying (atraight into the trap.

van grabbed the dynamite box just be held this month in Moscow to dis- Nazism. Captain Balfournald: ** wild cuss Nazl-Soviet collaboration in the believe so lon as the Gorman people as he somersaulted with

face of the increased resistance of allow themselves to be dominated and scream into the abyss.

When Canavan turned with the neutrals.

ruled by the present leaders, then to The Spanish well was

box of dynamite, Hartley was stand-

long must we hold the German people Russia has informed Germany that to their share covered and a guard posted

ing apparently stunned by the ex-

of responsibility for it is necessary for reasons of prestige the war. On the other side he found strewn plosion. As Canavan came toward

So long as this continues, night and day with orders march! He took them to Hartley.

that Russia conclude the campaign in we must fight for a peace which is But Hartley was as implacable as shadows at the foot of the steps up the hillside like clues in a trea-him he realised the concussion had Finland betere attacking in any joint going to prevexit those two German to shoot down anyone at over. As long as he was in cam-the whip-like body of the Datt insure hunt, cartridge belts, in plates left him stone blind.

single operations in the Balkans or characteristics-bullying domination tempting to get water. mand, the War Department order his gaudy cont and tight striped and forks, a soldier's hat, a battered) "It's all right," he said quickly to elsewhere.

or supine weakness from being obeyed! He reminded trousors a strange, almeat carnival, harmonica, and finally, near some the unaceing face, "the Datu was The flames of the lime would be

allowed to threaten world peace in Canavan of a sick hord-bull, defying Agure in this setting of death and shrubbery, a knapsack with several leading you into an ambush. I have

future" kiln illuminated the night; the moment when his leadership sorrow and with the carnival mum- bottles of unopened beer.

the dynamite enough. Yabal" great bonfires in the street would be wrested from him. mer's mask carved in lines of ex-1 The bodies of the soldiers were "Yes, alt."

Canavan was opening the dyna- were continually fed by con- Revolt was in the air. It was a 4ggerated good fellowship, which further up where they had fought off teminated clothing and churning under the sick apathy of somehow convey a latent dreadful- the surprise attack, their backs to mito cease and stuffing his pockets with sticks. "Stay close to Captain You could heas. Canavan didn't like the man. the river. the plague-ridden town. household articles-the leap: ses it in the dark faces of the sol

"It is true," the Datu was saying Suddenly Canavan stopped rigid Bartley and see that his orders are ing, fantastic shadows seem-diers watching their women die...in mensured tones, "the people die with horror, Under a flat-branched

Alone?" Hartley asked, turning, tree spreading itself with the ed like the form of death it-McCool felt the need to fight rising unless the river runs again."

He sent out his orders on a in him like a favor. He faced Hart- A slight urgency came into his utilitarian precision of an umbrella, in the direction of his voice.

was a pale hand sprouting ke 11 self, unleased.

"No, I'll take my pal the Datu- ley across his desk, some stupen-voice and he leaned forward address-riant mushroom from the and.

(portable "wireless in a code so as a shield and guide.. Wait for me Is Japan's Reaction Hartley knew Canavan was dous effort of control making him ing the bowed figure of Hartley.

|dementary that they werḥ Almost recognisable under the here." right. He called Larsen, gave away on his feet and clench his fists "Give me men, Tuan, and I will lead manale of tortured dying, and thick The bound Datu seemed reluctant

To Wang's "Peace"

promptly read, and resolved in him a aquad of eight. men and at his elde.

them myself to the river hend to with honey, were the simple child to follow the path to the riverhead. SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"" Hindenburg's camp even before orders to dynamite the dam. what happened to Larsen. Captain?"

"Shouldn't someone go and see break up the damn..

like features of Larsen.

Canavan was alert for ambush. NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UP)—'Em-they got to the Russians for Miguel went with him to show he said in a tense voice.

Long afterwords, Canavan remem-

Canavan'a month went down in a Under an archi of knarled and twisted barrassed silence has been. Tokyo's whom they were intended. him the way. When he shook

bered the expression in his small thin hurd line which, for a moment, banyans the Moro stopped, sullen only reaction to the peace terms re- Even if the Germans had "Sorry, McCool, I can't spare any

was not atendly.

and scowling.

ported to have been signed by Mr. hands with Canavan and McCool more men. Suppose there was an eye-the diabolical intensity... his honest face was beaming attack on the post?"

He got no further, for down the Then he leaned over, look a bottle "Get on my friend-" Canavan Wang Ching-wel," says the New York merely played at fighting, the

Times.

Russlans would have lost Tan- Larsen's

With a scream and gave him a push. with delight: "Oh, boy. What "I wish to God there was so does street two soldiers moved slowly, a of beer from

rock ho stumbled forward and the earth

"Mr. Wang's pro-Japanese friends

nenberg. And for a long time orchide I'm going to get in that everybody else. We're all so ner- limp body between them, calling for cracked it open against the

collapsed under his feet. Face down in Shanghal explain the gentleman's the Germans did show all those jungle"

voua we're jumping at shadowal" the doctor. The slim outlines of the beside him.

With eyes level. on the face of his in a deep pit, Canavan saw the body agreement as 'unofficial, with the op- signs ́of hesitation and doubt "Hope it won't be Willes," McCool leaned over the desk, hia eyes body they carried made Canavan leap

that nearly 1,000 miles away McCool muttered as they watch-burning with a feverish light: "If down the steps and across to them friend, he drank a silent toast that of the Datu transfixed by a dozen proval of the Japanese Army

was also a pledgo

Then he spears.

Hartley waiting in the gully couldlian leaders want to rebuild friend- the Marne. the you don't send me to look for Lar in two striden:

"At a mument when Japan's civi-were losing them the battle of ed him disappear into

sen, sir-I'm going myself--with or "Miguel!" The closed eyes Hut-crashed the empty bottle against the

hear the roar of the dynamite ship with the United States, these jungle, .

without orders...."

tered: "Teniente." Canavan Jenn-rock.

Canavan began to elimb again charge, and then the faint stendier terms' remind us of the mentality of get to work icy were faced not When the Germans finally did -THE-fight McCool You're sicked-over-him:What happened?

for

military words, along the river bank. His eyes roar of the waters rushing into the Japan's against disease The Irishman rushed out without Miguel struggled

commanders. He caught sight of the snake-like move-Idry bed of the river and down the The absence of a Tokyo denial sug- by all army but by a rabble- went on. The answering. Just at the door he "Ambush--killed--everybody."

gests that the Army still controls the and a retreating rabble at that. into unconsciousness. As ment of men moving in single file on mountainside. river

Canavan lapsed bed staggered slightly

high rocky escarpment to his right. When Canavan rejoined Hartley Government's polley," found him a fow minutes later, face Canavan took him in his arms, he

With the exception of the XVth. stretched

"I circled Outdown on the floor of his bedroom, was conscious of the Datu peering He veered off in that direction, he was unusually grave.

Corps, which fought nobly and under the pit his cartridge belt hooked around his intently into the boy's face.

clambering frantically up the steep Alipang's campground and there

well, the Russian forces had lcs B su B,waist.

Miguel was tough. "Canavan rough grade, away from the river. was not a Moro in sight. We've cracked

and

WHEN lart. thought he could patch him up, but Sometimes he would lose sight of the rinyed right into Allpang's hands. MORE MEN BEING crumbled,

Afler desperate efforts to col- May as the

ley got the re for some reason he didn't say so, in slowly winding column, then it would All the time we've been marching

lect themselves and to escape dry skin of a snake. No water

to the Datu's inquiring reappear quite sharply against the Alipang and his men...” port of McCool's answer

finish the sentence.

"We've got to

from the marshes and forests, flowed, and Larsen did not re-

stare. collapse he seem- turn.

Something troubled Miguel the At last he was running parallel get back fast.' ed to take it like next morning as he tossed restlessly to it as it wound into an inolated Behind the wall of his blindness, next batch of men to be called up the Russians began to surrender a death blow. to and fro on his narrow hospital gully. He saw the Datu pacing Hartley's mind was working doubly for military service must register on in thousands. As prisoners,

February 17.

they at least hoped for a crust and muttered quickly in the lead, his eyes shift- quick: "Yabo," he shouted, "got

even a little drink- got McCool into cot. He mumbled

The order applies to men over 23 of bread, and bed with Linda's ceaselessly as he came out of the ing from side to side. He saw him your men cutting bamboo, I want

Enough rafts to carry the years of age but not yet 24, and those able water. turn when the groping Hartley, rafts. anesthetic.

who have reached 20 since the last By August 29, 1914, the whole Linda haunted the hospital help, and when she had fallen into

Canavan caught the word "Datu" stumbling and tripping behind him, whole troop we'll go by the river,

batch was called up.

At and the streets, overwhelmed by an exhausted skep sitting by his several times, then the boy would asked him a sharp and anxious ques- side, Canavan had carried her to her hapse into unconsciousness. Cana-

pitiable affair was all over.

Russians were Feast 125,000 the catastrophe. Canavan mak- own quarters in his arms.

Evidently Hartley had begun to

|taken prisoner, and the Germans ing his ceaseless rounds seemed Hartley was waiting for him in an leaned forward, tensely. "Come

on, Mikewhat about the Datu? question the circuitous way they

claimed 500 guns and immense hardly to see her. At last she the shadows of the veranda when he Try to remember."

were going to the river head. Help-

supplles; but no food. stood aquarely in his path, her camo out. He салю uncertainly

At the sound of the name, Mikeless in his growing blindness, Cana- face palo and strained, her across the porch, "Linda all right ?"

oponed his eyes wide la sudden van could see his hands fluttering hands, clasped tightly together. be asked vaguely.

"Just exhausted from forty-eight Datu-he with Alipang's men

terror, and grabbed Bill's arm: "The out in a futile Instinctive effort to insonse his position. Yabo was bo- hour duty," Canavan said briefly.

jambush-he kill Larsen.

hind him, his face drawn with "Sit down, Canavan- I want to

worry. talk to you."

CANAVAN And behind him were the three; raced back to Moro cargadores, carrying Hartley's quar-dynamite' boxes on their backs; one ters, but he was of them Canayan recogaled on the Contraband Control Get your special attention. no longer on the Juramentado ho had captured from porch or in hia Allpang's camp. Quietly, he clam-

The padro passed from house

to house administering extreme

unction and comforting the bereaved.

"I want to help," she said.

"This isn't your kind of sol- diering, Linda," "he said wearily, "It's just flth and slime and work that'll make you sick to your stomach."

"Tell me what to do.”

"I'm pretty busy."

+

Caravan had

HARTLEY put a hand on Cann. his arm.

van noticed again

bedroom.

He

sky,

tion.

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He did not

TO-MORROW THE ATTACK

13th Time Was Unlucky

Their 'Man

2

In his tired mind he suddenly

bered abreast of the column and LONDON, Jan. 26 (Reuter)—A Norwegian skipper, who saw her, at six, in a Top Ser-

the heavy Immo-

rushed norcas the jumped down from a boulder, direct-veteran geant's uniform;-his long son-

bility of the inn

ly in the Datu's path,

boasted that he had allpped through parade ground sitive lps relaxed in just the

like 11

"Why do you lead the mon this the contraband control in the Inst

now lu sirong to headquarters, but every window animal ataked was dark. In the ghost of a smile. “See that;

way, Datu, when the river head is war a dozen times, is

British

tribute to guardhouse he there?" he naked, pointing in the effectiveness of the

porta

the British control limo over there? Make a

the ground.

grabbed a Sergeant: Where's direction from which he had come.

this time. saturated solution, and wash "Canavan," he said without fur

"Canavau " Hartley, called

His ship was brought in by the every dish in ovory house in ther preliminary, "I'm going blind" Captain Hartley 7"

The Sergeant saluted: "He leave

the contraband control assisted by a sea- Mysang."

So that was it! That bolo cul half hour ago for jungle with com-tounded, stopping abruptly in

path.

plane which spotted his yeaŝol near "Yes, sir." Linda answered the nerve centre. Hatch know-ho

"That way dangerous," the Datu, the Arctic and which wirelessed a and for a fleeting second hopital, but I tore up the report after

ordered me home to the base hos Pany of men,"

"The Datu, was he with him?"

said sullenly.

patrol ship ahead to bring him in. "S1. Teniente. He go along." Imagined she was going to he was killed. I—I wanted to dio

"Yes, I know-1 just got a look spirit that he has been fairly and The captain acknowledges in good The river wound and turned innt Larsen. And I know who am-squarely treated: salute..

in harness. The army is my lifeterminably up into the hills. Con bushed him." One night Yabo walked into

Ivan thrashed through the vegetation,

LIKE light- Canavan's office with a dozon The blundering, lonely pride of the trying to and a trail.

ning the Datu's heart. Ho grim looking soldiers behind man tore at Bill's

He had taken the long chance of lim. "Captain," he said, "we couldn't help feeling sorry for him golling to Hartley and his men be- watch our women and children but it was a nice mess. "I nd' to fore they were betrayed into ambush: Alipang he do this to tell you," the hopeless voice went by the treacherous Datu, He had Larson acho, McCool nick, left the sick McCool in charge in the

die

on,

kris was out and

awung through the air,. but Canavan wnu

Effect Of Hinted U.S. Navy Cuts

quicker with hin WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (Reuter). gun, and it clat--The Naval authorities announce tered

to the that by limiting the financial nu-

us, and stay safe in the jungle. You're the only one left. We've got village whon. MeCool heard there We no longer afraid of enemy to send for the army.

was nobody else, through the fog of who do this coward thing-wo Canavan rose as though he would his fever, he raised his head from want to fight, we are ready, do hand to hand battle with Hart his pillow and galuted weakly: "An ground as the More caught at his thorisations recently granted under the Naval Expansion Programme to lay's despair, "Maybe you can wait order's an order, sir,” and by the wounded wrist,mlending

vessels which the Navy could bulld Canavan felt a thrill: go up his that Jong, but the cholern can't We time Canavan had on his cartridge. A screaming Moro command an In two years, the aim of $200,000,000- pindan he heard the Filipino's don't need the army-we need run bait, the Trishman was ranching for vanised the cargadores standing be- could be cut from the proposed $800,- words-nt_hat they were ready to ning wäter.

his shons

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Hindenbur's body at Tannen- The trouble is that children have a double job of work to do.berg lies close by the huge Ger- |man war memorial, which con- They are up energy in work and

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Of the night of August 28 ho was on horseback, vainly trying to ride forward through the mass of his soldiers, stumbling. backwards.

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