1940-01-26 — Page 9

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 26, 1940.

The US. War Department has ordered the evacuation of American troops from tho Mysang district in the island of Mindanao, dospite the fact that the peaceful community is threatened with extinction by Allping and his dreaded Moro bandits..

Four men are ordered to Mysang to desist Colonel Hatch in training the Philippines Con- stabulary, which is to koop order in the district after the withdrawal of the troops. Soon after their arrival Colonel Hatch is murdered by a Moro and Manning takes charga. But 'Manning. too, is kiflod, loving only Hartley, a strict disciplinarian, Larion, McCool and Canavan, the doc- tor, to hold ouf "against the

thousands of Moros. The Moros: dam the water supply, as a result of which cholera broaka 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 frült or uncooked vegetables. No more boats to unload their cargoes at the dock. No more water from the well.

Не went to Hartley: "We've got to have water. The whole village is pollut- ed. 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- less we get water," Canavan snapped.

Struggling against over- whelming odds Canavan tried to bring the discase, under control.

The Spanish well was

covered and a guard posted

THE

REAL GLORY

Yelling, they rushed up the side of the gully and started running for the edge of the cocarpment.

The one in the lead, without a mo- ment's hesitation, flung himself over the edge of the cliff, and the second one followed, lifting both feet off the ground in a wild suicidal leap.

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Even if the Germans had merely played at fighting, the Russians would have lost Tan- It is stated that consultations will be held this month in aioscow to dis-nenberg. And for a long time cuss Nazi-Soviet collaboration in the the Germans did show all those face of the creuset resistance of signs of hesitation and doubt neutrals.

that nearly 1,000 miles away Russin lins Informed Germany that were losing them the battle of it is necessary for reasons of prestige the Marne. that Russia conclude the campaign in Finland before attacking in any joint When the Germans finally dil single operations in the Balkans or get to work they were faced not elsewhere.

by an army but by a rabblé-- The agreement resulted in German and a retreating rabble at that. troops occupying the corridor

of With the exception of the XVth. Polish Galicfa on Monday.

Corps, which fought nobly and well, the Russian forces had crumbled.

with sticks. "Stay close to Captain Embarrassed

"Alone? Hartley asked, turning in the direction of his voice.

"No, I'll take my pal the Datu- as a shield and guide. Wait for me here."

The bound Datu seemed reluctant

Canavan

Silence

Is Japan's Reaction To Wang's "Peace"

SPEDIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

After desperate efforts to col- lect themselves and to escupe from the marshes and forests, the Russians began to surrender in thousands. As prisoners, they at least hoped for a crust of bread, and even a little drink- able water,

He had left the sleeping Linda with a kiss. That was the hardest thing to do Fighting the cholera side by side, he had learned the stuff she was made of, and he knew when he went back home to hang out his

In Return For Nazi shingle she must be by his side. If

Military Aid

He sent out his orders on i and when he amended his thought as he gazed around him at The fanatical screams of "Allah!”

portable wireless in a code so SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" elementary that they were the trackless, forbidding jungle. were swallowed up in a terrific ex-

PARIS, Jan, 25 (UF).—Press re There was no sign of Hartley or even plosion, as the dynamite boxes crash-ports confirm that tussla has made promptly read and received in that he had passed this way. Evi-ed on the rocks below.

important economic concessions to Hindenburg's camp even before clently the Datu was hiding him far The third cargadore reeled back Germany, even involving mineral they got to the Russians for off any track a searchlis party would wards on a ballet from Canavan's rights in Northern Russia, In whom they were intended. follow, to the waiting ambu. Poor pistol caught him in the back; his change for a Nazi promise of

general half-blind Hartley would have to rely ega seemed paralyzed by the shot, staff consultations in regard to Fin- implicitly on his leadership, never but with his hands he claired his land and the Balkans. suspect the duplicity until he walked way to the edge of the cliff. Cana- straight into the trap.

van grabbed the dynamite box just as he somersaulted with A Canavan reached a clearing along scream Into the abyss.

wild the edge of the river. Above him When Canavan turned with the two buzzards circled heavily up from box of dynamite, Hartley was stand- behind a boulder of rock.

ing apparently stunned by the ex- night and day with orders march! He took them to Hartley. A figure detached itself from the On the other side he found atrewn plosion. As Canavan came toward to shoot down anyone at-ever. As long as he was in com- the whip-like body of the Datu in jaure hunt, cartridge bells, tin plates left him store bllud.

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 tempting to get water. mand, the War Department orders his gaudy coat and tight striped and forks, a soldier's hat, a battered

"It's all right," he said quickly to would be obeyed! He reminded trousers--a strange, almost carnival harmonica, and finally, near some The flames of the lime canavan of a sick herd-bull, defying figure in this setting of death and shrubbery, a knapsack with several lending you into an ambush.

the unsecing face, "the Datu was I have kiln illuminated the night; the moment when his leadership sorrow and with the carnival mum-bottles of unopened beer.

the dynamite-enough. Yabo!” great bonfires in the street would be wrested from him.

mer's mask carved in lines of ex- The bodies of the soldiers were "Yes, sir," were continually fed by con-

Canavan was opening the dyna- Revolt was in the air. It was aggerated good fellowship, which further up where they had fought off taminated clothing and churning under the sick apathy of somehow convey a latent dreadful the surprise attack, their bucks to mite case and stufting his pockets household articles-the leap- see it in the dark faces of the solin measured tones, "the people die with horror,

the plague-ridden town.. You could "css. Canavan didn't like the man. the river.

"It is true," the Datu was saying Suddenly Canavan stopped, rigid Hartley and ace that his orders are ing, fantastic shadows seem-diers watching their women die

Under a Bat-branched obeyed. I'm going to the dam." tree. spreading Iteelf with

the ed like the form of death it- AlcCool felt the need to fight rising less the river runs again."

in him like a fever. Ile faced Hart) self, unleased..

A slight urgency came into his utilitarian precision of an umbrella, ley atross his desk,some stupen- voice and he leaned forward aldress-was a pale head sprouting like a Hartley know Canavan was dous effort of control making him ing the bowed figure of Hartley giant maliroom from the and. right. He called Larsen, gave sway on his feet and clench his fists "Give me men, Tuan, and I will lead mask of tortured dying, and thick Almost unrecognisable under the him a squad of eight men and at his side.

them myself to the river houd to with honey, were the simple child to follow the path to the riverhead. "Shouldn't someone go and see break up the dam. orders to dynamite the dam.

like features of Larsca.....

was alert for ambush. Miguel went with him to show he said in a tense voice.

By August 29, 1914, the whole what happened to Larsen, Captain?";

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UP)-Empitiable affair was all over, At Long afterwards, Canavan rement-

Canavan's inouth went down in a Under an arch of knarled and twisted barrassed alience has been Tokyo's him the way. When he shook

Sorry, McCool, I can't spare any bered the expression in his small thin hard line which, for a moment, banyans the Moro stopped, sullen only reaction to the peace terms re-least 125,000 Russians were hands with Canavau and McCool more meu. Suppose there was an eye-the diabolical intensity. was not steady,

and scowling

ported to have been signed by Bir. taken prisoner, and the Germans his honest face was beaming attack on the post ?"

He got no further, for down the Then he leaned over, took a bottle

"Get on, my friend-" Caravan Wang Ching-wel," says the New York claimed 500 guns and immense with delight: "Oh, boy! What

and gave him a push. With a scream "I wish to God there was-so does street two soldiers movel slowly, a of beer from Larsen's case

supplies; but no food.. orchids I'm going to get in that everybody else. We're all so limp body between them, calling for cracked it open against the rock he stumbled forward and the earth

"Mr. Wang's pro-Japanese friends jungle!"

collapsed under his feet. Face down in Shanghal explain the gentleman's The slim cutluca of the beside him.

The story of Finland's carlier you we're jumping at shadows the doctor. "Hope it won't be lilies," McCool leaned over the desk, his eyes down the steps and across to them friend, he drank a silent toast that of the Datu transfixed by a dozen

agreement as 'unofficial, with the aplight against the invading Soviet It has never McCool muttered as they watch-burning with a feverish light:

army is a fine one. was also a pledge... Then he spears.

been well told, for the world was ed him disappear into the you don't send me to look for Lar- two strides:

Hartley waiting in the gully could an leaders unit to rebuild friend just a little tired of fighting in" "At a moment when Japan's civi jungle...

sen-air--I'm going myself with or Miguel "The cloned eyes flutcrushed the empty-betlic-against-the without ordera..

rock.

hear the tered: "Teniente." Canavan Jean-

roar of the dynamite ship with the United States, these 1920 and war correspondents Canavan began to climb again charge, and then the faint stendler terms remind us of the mentality of had exhausted their talenta. "McCool! You're sick.

"ed over him: "What happened?" against disease The Irishman rushed out without Miguel struggled for words, along the river bank. Hiy

commanders. But a race that had only been' went on. The answering. Just at the door he "Ambush-killed-everybody." He river bed staggered slightly

Canavan lapsed into unconsciousness. As ment of men moving in single file on mountainside.

gests that the Army still controls the a nation two years fought and When Canavatt rejoined Hartley Government's policy." stretched

found him a few minutes later, face Canavan took him in his arms, tre high rocky escarpment to his right.

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

Hindenburg's body at Tannen- under the piti-his cartridge belt hooked around his intently into the boy's face.

clambering frantically up the steep Alipang's campground and there

lierg Hes close by the huge Gor- less sun,walst.

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

and

WHEN Hart-thought he could patcit him up, but Sometimes he would lose sight of the played right fato Allpang's hands. MORE MEN BEING man war memorial, which con- slats of eight towers 65ft. high, gray as the

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

with an altar from which rises No water

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

sky.

finish the sentence. "We've got to

a huge sword. collapse he seem-

Something troubled Miguel the At last he was running parallel get back fast."

Behind the wall of his blindncas, el to take it like next morning as he tossed restlessly to it as it wound into an isolated In denth blow.

to and fro on his narrow hospital gully. He saw the Datu pacing Hartley's mind was working doubly Caravan hnd

cot. He mumbled

and muttered quickly in the lead, his eyes shift-quick. "Yake," he shouted, "set got McCool into 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

anesthetic.

turn when the groping Hartley, rafts. Enough rafts to carry the Linda haunted the hospital help, and when she had fallen into Canavan enuight the word "Datu" stumbling and tripping behind him, whole, troop-we'll go by the river." and the streets, overwhelmed by an exhausted sleep sitting by his several times, then, the bay would asked him a sharp and anxious ques- the catastrophe. Canavan mak- own quarters in his arms.

side, Canavan had carried her to her lapse into unconsciousness. Canin- tion. ing his ceaseless rounds seemed

Evidently Hartley had begun to Hartley was waiting for him in/Van leaned forward, tensely. "Comeauestion the circuitous way they hardly to see her. At last she the shadows of the veranda when he Try to remember."

on, Mike-what about the Datu?

were going to the river head. Help- stood squarely in his path, her come out. He came uncertainly face pale and strained, her across the porch. "Linda all right?" opened his eyes wide in sudden van could see his hands fluttering At the sound of the name, Mikeless in his growing blindness, Cana- hands clasped tightly together. he asked vaguely. "I want to help," she said.

"Just exhausted from. forty-eight terror, and grabbed Bill's arm: "The out in a futile instinctive effort to Datu-he with Alipang's men in sense bla position. Yaho was be- "This isn't your kind of sol-hour duty," Canavan and briefly.

ambush-he kill Larsen.

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

worry. CANAVAN And behind him wore the three "I'm pretty busy."

raced back Lo Mara

the cargadores, carrying

THE fight

dry skin of a snake.

out

flowed, and Larsen did not re-

turn..

The padre passed from house to house administering extreme

unction and comforting the bereaved.

diering, Linda," he said wearily, talk to you." "It's just filth and slime and work that'll make you sick to your stomach.”

"Tell me what to do.”.

a

Ber-

"If

HARTLEY put a hand on

his arm. Cana-

van noticed, again

the henvy, immo-|

Timd.

proval of the Japanese Army. body they carried made Canavan leap With eyes level on the face of his in a deep pit, Canavan saw the body

stare.

eyes roar of the waters rushing into the Japan's milltary caught sight of the snake-like move-idry bed of the river and down the The absence of a Tokyo dental sug-

He did not

TO-MORROW THE ATTACK

13th Time Was Unlucky

CALLED UP

LONDON, Jan. 28 (Reuter)-~~The next batali of men to be called up for military service must register on February 17.

The order applies to men over 23 years of age but not yet 24, and those who have reached 20 since the last batch was called up.

It is expected that 250,000 men will be called up.

DIFFICULT YEARS FOR CHILDREN:

It's when chlidren start to shoot up suddenly that they need your special attention. Children who are growing fast often tire easily, get pale, listless and do poorly at school.

The trouble is that children

ly in the Datu's path men kia the contraband control. In the last have a double job of work to do, strong to headquarters, but avery withere 7 when the river hend is/war a dozen times, is now

Briush

tribule portma effectiveness of the British this time.

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Hartley's quar-dynamite boxes on their backs; one Contraband Control Get

of them Canavan recognised; as the tera, but he was Juramentado he had captured from

Their Man In his tired mind he suddenly

no longer on the

Allpang's camp. Quietly, he clam- saw her, at six, in a Top Ser-

porch or in his bereu abreast of the column and

LONDON, Jen. 25 (Router)-A

Norwegian silpper, bedroom,jumped down from a boulder, direct-veteran

who geant's uniform;-his long sen-

rushed across the

boasted that he had slipped through sitive lips relaxed in just the

bility of the mNI,

parade ground ghost of a smile. "See that

like n

do you Why do

in n They use up energy iza work and. lime over

animal staked to was dark. In the there? Make

guardhouse ho

ho asked, pointing. In the

the play and at the same time they the ground.

control. saturated solution, and wash

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

áre growing! every dish in every house in ther preliminary, "I'm going blind."

"Canavan," he said without fur. Captain Hartlay

The Sergeant saluted: "He leave"Canavan F'" Hartley called as His ship was brought in by the

Doctors and nurses have, re- Mysang."

So that was it! "That bolo cut

the contraband control assisted by a sea- commended Horlicks for years "Yes, sir." Linda answered the nerve centre. Hatch knewhalf hour ago for Jungla with compat, stopping

plane which spotted his vessel near for children who need this extra and for a fleeting second he ordered me home to the base. hos-The Datu, was he with him?"

That way dangerous," the Datube Arctle and which wirelessed a energy, Horlicks moreover builds said sullenly.

patrol ship ahead to bring him in. imagined she was going to pital, but I tore up the report after "St, Teniente. Ho go along."

The captain acknowledges in good sturdy bone and muscle You'l "Yes, I know--I just got a look salute.

ho was killed. I wanted to die The river wound and turned. in- One night Yalio walked into in harness. They is my Bfe terminably up into the hills. Cana-at Larsen. And I know who amor that be has been fairly and and that paleness disappears, and

bushed him.".

squerely treated

school-work improves. And the Canavan's office with a dozen

we van thrashed through the vegetation,

children seem-ta: rain endless The blundering, lonely pride of the trying to find a trail. grim looking soldiers behind

He had taken the long chance of man tore at Bill's hurt. Ho

energy and "go". Get Horlicks him. "Captain," he said, "we couldn't help feeling sorry for him, getting to Hartley and his mon be watch our women and children but it was a nice mess. I had to fore they were betrayed Into ambush 'die' Allpang he do this to tell you," the hopeCool

voice went by the treacherous Datu. He had us, and stay safe in the jungle. on, "Lareen gone,

elck, loft the sick McCool In charge in the We no longer afraid of enemy You're the only one left. We've got village--when McCool, heard there who do this coward thing we to sand for the army."

pany of men.":

LIKE light- ning the Datu'a

krls was out and Effect Of Hinted day.

ewong through

the air, but

Canavan WAR quicker with his

U.S. Navy Cuts

WASHINGTON, Jan, 20 (Reuser),

gun, and it clat-The Naval authorities announce tered to the thorisations recently granted under

that by limiting the faonelul att

as nabody else, through the fog of want to fight, we are ready.do hand to hand battle with Hart-hia pillow and saluted weakly: "An ground as the Moto caught at his the Naval Expansion Programme la

Canavan rose as though lie would his fever, he raised his head from Canayan felt a thrill go up his loy' deanair, aybe you can wait order's an order, air and by the wounded wrist Pelicant and vesela which lie Navy coulds kulla

that long, but the cholera can't. Wilme Canavan had on his cartridge. one as he heard: the Filipino's don't need the army-we need run-belt, the Irishman was reaching for vanised this, cargadores handing be could be cut from the proposed $800,--

A screaming Moro command gal-in two years, the rum of $200,000,000 deat last they were ready to

ning water."

This shoon

Kew hinde Yabanka

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won.

"...

Over the coffin of the dead soldier, Hitler pronounced a fun- eral oration five years ago. Said the man whose words have such weight with the German people: "Not. for a century now will it be necessary for Germany again to defend her honour."

And Samsonov? Where is he buried?

On the night of August 28 he was on horseback, vainly, trying to ride forward through the mass of his soldiers, stumbling backwards. He dismounted, walked into a wood. His staff heard a shot.

Samsonov was Russian to the

end.

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