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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 16, 1940.

Doctor Sailor

Goes To Any

In Any

Seas

A SHIP arrives in the Downs with a badly-injured scaman needing im

An urgent call for a doctor is flashed ashore.. mediate medical assistance.

Seas may be running high in a gale. It may be the darkest of nights. But the call will be answered at once, and by Mr. James S. Hall, of Deal, you may be sure.

London Recalls Another Von Spee

On 67 of these missions of: help since war broke out, Dr.

Hall has covered hundreds of Invention To

miles of operi sen, sometimes in

open motor launches, sometimes Protect R.A.F.

In lifeboats.

Hours of Searching

is ollakin, aou'wester and sen

boots lie always ready.

He has gone out fearlessly in weather which even hardened sailors hive faced with misgivings.

Often the search for the vessel in

Rear Gunners

Britain Again Loads The Way

BRITISH designers have which his patient lies has involved now perfected an invention hours of searching in a pitching boat.

Critic from the Past Dr. Hall has attended wealthy pas- which will take away much sengers in laer staterooms, senmen of the peril from the R.A.F. In their fo'c'sle bunks, fishermen and penniless emigrants.

rear gunners' joh.

In view of the interest of German propagandists in the past history of Britain there enn be no harm in re-

He has hadt tusks at sea that wild enlling the existence in the seven-be difficult enough to perform anhure

battleship.

He Will not Talk

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teenth century of a certain Friedrich von Spee (1501-1035), a Rhineland Jemit of noble family, perhaps a

It would be easier to swim the collateral ancestor of the admiral whose name was given to the pocket-Channel than get the doctor to tali about his work, but men who have been out with him tell of his courage. He enjoyed soine Tame us a poet,

One said: "You can inngine sailing but is also known for his caustic comments on Germany in a book en-about in the dark, searching for a Among ship, with Morse warnings flashing led "Chullo criminalis," his obiter dicta are the following: everywhere from patrol-vessels: You fare steaming into danger,' or 'Stop

or I fire."

O my Germany, how I grieve for thee! Woe that our fatherland should klow with the flames of martyrs' stakes and

the light of not with truth.

"Even when we have found the ship, It has been a ticklish job to get alongside in the heavy seas, and to transfer the doctor and his kit abourd in darkness.

The mischief has gone deep in Germany, and the roasting and lay-

"When it has been necessary to ing waste has spread so much in our transfer a patient to our boat on a dear fatherland that we have dam- aged German honour among our stretcher, the job has been tremen- "Dr. Hall once visited a liner, NEXT WEEK foreign enemies not a little and made dous..

which was tossing about in a gale, sat by man's bunk, and removed the stitches of a major operation

uur name stink.

O.Germany, what art thou doing? Is it not lamentable that no one dare END OF MARCH speak of what is being done by those MIDDLE MARCH who rule?

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wound." Race with Time

A Geaman in

Inan

He successfully treated a A decree of the Council for the Defence of the Reich regarding the suffering from neute appendicitis.,

tramp Dutch 11 EARLY APRIL subsidies payable to factories which

have been compelled to close on ac-steamer had a splinter of rusty iron Dr. Hull wanted to count of the war is published in the in his Reichsgesetzblatt. It is in general operate ashore. terms, but it is understood that the principies on which assistance, is to be given have been fixed.

FORTNIGHTLY FORTNIGHTLY cases where the factory in question

The decree merely says that in!

eye.

The master eventually agreed to let him take the man ashore pro- vided he was back within 48 hours,

The man was back within that time, the operation successful.

Dr. Hali has received payment for some of his cases. In others, he has given his services free.

bas had to close because it is situated in o war area or from any other will be provided by direct result of the war assistance the State. In

And he counts as adequate reward NEXT WEEK other cases must be provided on a

the branch of the many letters of gratitude he has communal basis by NEXT WEEK industry to which the firm belongs. received from patients now scattered

nil over the world. to END OF MARCH

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The family relations and friends of men killed in battle are not allowed

Songs Broadcast

To Marooned

In this war the rear gunners in bombers have been the first object of attack by Nazi fighter airplanes and their job has been recognised as one of the most dangerous in the service.

The new Invention will make them. in one sense, no longer + rear

gunners.

They will now nit in well- protected position in the centre of the airplane and fire their 'guns situated a few feet away in turret. Ollier this remote-control device.

Three British aircraft companies have taken out patents on the inven tion, and the details have only just been released. Each patent-differs slightly in method.

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All claims must be sent in to me on ar before 20th Murch, 1940, or they will not be recognised.

London, Mar. 15.

Damaged Packages will be examin- The Prime Minister announced

ed bv the Company's Surveyor yesterday, that the Commons would Messrs-Goddard and Douglas In adjourn for Easter on Thursday unit the presence at the Consignees at April 2. tion of the budget, but lobby circles ontver announce the date of the introduc-10 m. on Friday, 15th March, 1940. Consignees must have a Revenue in attendance when any

He stated he was

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resumption. It is also kely

to

that

gunners will also benefit by expect it within a fortnight of thedutiable goods are examlaed by the

the practice of only three sittings Company's Surveyors.

No Fire Insurance will be effected each week will be resumed to give Ministers us much time as possible by us in any case whatever,

1. OHL. for

work in heavy departmental wartime British Wireless.

Moves In Sympathy. But in each case the broad idea is that the gunner sits in a rotatable turret with the gun-sights fixed in front of his eyes.

runs

When the gunner manipulates a Inver which rolaten his own turret, the turret containing the movca In perfect sympathy by means of mechanical or electrically controlled interconnecting systems. The sights through which the gun- ner keeps his target in view pro interconnected with the guns, so that the line of fire is either parallel with, or converging on, the gunner's

view.

The remotely controlled gun fol- jows the power-operated turrets, also a British invention, as a revolution- ary device in fighting aircrhfi.

Youths in Ketch End Up at Sydney

SYDNEY. --Two young Americans

book, and

who built their 30-foot ketch Volita

by instructions from learned to sail and navigate, it from another

Earle

Harbour after arrived in Sydney voyage from Doston

They are

and Sher- Woodfall of Rockport, Mass, The Brothers left Boston Nov. 6. 1038, and

arrived in Australia by way of the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Samoa, and

New Caledonia, The brothers had planned to tour world in the Valita. But, ils Sherman explained, "there are so many restrictions with the war, we might as well sell our ship and re- turn home"

to wear mourning of any description, Arctic Scientists th

as it is considered a disgrace for a loyal German to mourn for

lives on for ever in his nation."

hero.

In

FIFTEEN Russian "sailor "Who dies as a hero is not dead, he scientists,” marooned in the case of the death of a civilinn the Arctic near Greenland, may be following apparel ly to be used In-rescued soon. stead of tull mourningg: ---

The giant ice-breaker Joseph Stalin hns advanced two miles closer to Upon producing the documents the floating inboratory Sedov, on which prove the death of a person which the men have been stranded in and the relationship of the mourner. the midst of lee floes. there will be issued a permit to bay Wives, children and parents of the beyond the clothing ration-for men sentists gathered in Moscow

re-

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a black tie, a pair of fabric gloves,cently to hear a special concert which and a mourning-band; for women: a was broadcast to the Sedov. black gown or a skirt and blouse or air of binck Jumper, a black scarf, fabric gloves, and a mourning-band. Other items the mourner can only LOOPED A CENTURYing the neutrality law.

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