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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MARCH 27, 1940.
By Walt Disney
WELL, DID THE
POOR LITTLE FELLA
FALL OUT OF
HIS NEST ?
THERE YOU ARE-SAFE
AND---!
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CHEEP---
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News ANZACS MOVE INTO TENT 1915,
from
the
Empire
These
CITIES IN THE DESERT
names stir Eden Flew to Welcome
memories
Gaba Tepa
Bauchop's Hill
Table The Farm
Тор
Chunuk
Bair
Fisherman's
Jul
Lom
Pine
Battirup Hill
Scrubby
Knoll
Ridge
Gun
Ridge
Andersons
Knall
AUSTRALIAN and New Zealand troops wan the admiration of the world-Including that of their hard-lighting enemy, the Turk-by thele exploits in the Gallipoli campaign.. NAMES of the places shown in the map above-of the Anzacs sector on the Peninsula-will bring back to many men of the 140 contingent memories of their exploits twenty-five years
.ago.
ZEST in battle was the mark of
won
the men who fought their way from Anzac Cove, over Mac- lagan's Ridge; from Ocean Beach up to Table Top. AFTER the withdrawal from the
Peninsula they
battle honours In Palestine and on the Western Front, CROWNING achievement, how- ever, was their holding, for three months, of their 154-mile Ite above Anzac Cove-in the words of the official war his- tarlan-They made this ap- parently hopeless position Im- pregnable, a story that will live for ever."
CLINICAL MEETING
A clinical meeting of the Hongkong and China branch of the British Medical Association will be held at Queen Mary 9 p.m. to-day ut Hospital,
the
"The Boys" to Egypt
SUEZ.
THE first of the Anzacs are here in Suez and, sixty miles up the canal, at Ishrnilia. -
In the biggest troop convoy ever to put to sea they voyaged 10,000 miles from New Zealand and Australia, and they landed, singing and shouting their war cries, in Egypt.
Mr. Anthony Eden, Dominions Secretary, after a secret flight from England, took a launch out to the troopships lying anchored off Suez, carrying in his pocket a message from the King,
It read:--
an enemy-held bench to create n diversion.
"know well that the splendid!
He won his V.C. on the Somme. tradition established by the arined;
The Australian commander is an- war- of New Zealand will be forces
veteran of the last worthily upheld by you, who have other left your homes to fight for the Lieut-General Sir Thomas Blomey.
General Blamey was seven times the whole Empire has cause that
mentioned in despatches during his mide its min.
"Now that you have entered the service In France in 1018. In 1019 he was chief of staff of the, Austro-
Is feld of active service, I send you a
his senior ameers very warm welcome, together with an Imperial Force. He
itty-six. Many of best wishes for your welfare." Men armed in the rigging of are old comrades-in-arms.
round the the ships and clustered ilfeboats aboard the "flagship" of
my
лош
come on In the ranks, too, you scores of original Anzacs. Men like
the convoy-once a luxury liner-to Paddy Burke, or Jack Orr, two of hear Mr. Eden and senior officers of the oldest men in the contingent the Empire's Middle Eastern Army welcome them ashore.
crossing the seats you boy have sent the bravest and most en- couraging message it is in a nation's power to senti. Britain thanks you," Mr. Exien told them.
Then a lank New Zealander hauled him down from the hatch on which he was speaking with the words, "Come down here, pal, we want to get a pleture of you." Mixers
For an hour Mr. Eden, General Wavell, and Britain's Ambassador to Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson, moved among the crowd signing autograph and banding round cigarettes.
-la-exactly twenty-five years since Egypt saw these soldiers-or- fathers, for most off cather, their these men are sons of the original!
Bantams
They are both fifty-five, both re- foot buntams," Both landed here to fight in the last war. Both were wounded, and now they have come back to fight as they did before-a sergeants this time.
Trim, serious, Nurses came, too. grey-coated girls in their twenties and thirties. They had little to do.
A squadron of British warships brought the troopships across three out of summer into winter, oceans, without a single serious incident."
For Ave wecks they stole, blacked- Red Sea out by night, toward the without the Nazis getting an idea of their position.
Even rumour-ridden Egypt was taken by surprise as troop-train after troop-train passed by on the way to the desert camps. Advance partles have prepared Anzacs-nuggety, close-knit. Ogures.vast tent cities. As the troops more the sand has They seem a bit quieter in manner in they And that thon their fathers, but they are just sprouted water taps, Macadam roads, as tough.
petrol dumps and radio stations have Officers and men wear hats like a ten built. Bay Scout's, and carry a 5015. kit that will take them through any desert heat or tho weather-the
Leaving the New Zealanders after lunch, Mr. Eden motored up the storms up north,
"I'll stake whatever military re- canal back to Ismailia to board the putation
fliese have on
fads," Australian troopships. Major-General Freyberg, the New
"Hullo, Tony" the men roared as Zealanders' V.C. commander-in-he clambered aboard. chief, told ine.
There was another huge cheer
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Canal Drive
That reputation is formidable. when the men heard that their Freyberg, six-foot champion swim- arrival had been announced in Aus- Their wives and familles mer, got a D.S.O. at Gallipoli by tralla. swimming ashore naked, his body didn't know where they had been news of painted black, to light flares on sent. They had had no
their husbands, fathers and sweet- hearts for a month.
Australia
GIRL IN
STOPS
PANIC
Till Inst night the men them- no idea where they were selves had bound for, Brigadier Allen said. "They started sweepstakes about it -some even bought Canada and Finland in the 'sweep.
"But now we know what we're in for, and we expect a fight."
MID-AIR BLAZE Brigadier W. Darby
MELBOURNE.
FLYING six thousand feet above South Australia to-day eleven passengers in the air-liner Bungana felt a shock to the machine and, looking through their observation windows, Saw flames burst from one of the engines.
New O. C. Salvation
Army In H.K.
General Carpenter of The Salva- tion Army, has decided to appoint: Brigadier Wm. Darby as Oficer China and Hongkong. The South Brigadier takes over this Command from Colonel V. E. Rolte, who went home on leave last year and who will be taking up another appoint- ment most probably in England.
Then, along the central gangway (moved calmly among us, helping us Commanding The Salvation Army in walked the plane's young air hostess, to fasten our safety bells." cnimly telling them to keep in their seals, but to
bolts.
buckle their safety
Exports Take Lead AUSTRALIA'S oversens trade made tremendous strides during the The plane, on the Melbourne seven months ended January 31., Adelaido run, had been struck in the
Exports Increased by £3,500,000 starboard. propeller by a giant wedge-compared with the same period of talled-engle.
1038-39, and an unfavourable balance
£330,000 was converted into
Captain Croucher, her pilot of skuifully side-slipping the machine favourable balance of £3,300,000 time being served in North China. to keep the flames away from the an aggregato improvement of nearly fuselage, brought the plane down £4,000,000.
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For the first time wo men's advertisements for husbands appear in the Nazi Volkischer Beobachter. The newspaper has al- ways refused such adver. tisements, but it now ex- plains that "the population policy of National-Socialism has always promoted efforts leading to marriages."
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Brigadier and Mrs. Darby are not In any way new to China, both having spent nearly 21 years in this country, the major portion of the The Brigadier came South four and a half years ago to take up the post of General Secretary to The Army in. South China, therefore he takes up ground before the blazing engine "WE cannot expect to win this this new post with wide experience fall off.
wor unless we carry the night to of Chinn and also of the peculiar enemy," Bald Lieut-General needs of the district in which he now Thon, grazing tree-tops and smash- the ing through a: fence, he landed Blamey, Commander of the Austra- commands the activition of
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NOW HE SAYS 'IT'S MYFAULT
NORA BROUCHER, twenty- five-year-old wife and mother, stood crying in Stockport (Che- shire) Police Court. She was accused of trying to murder her baby, aged three months.
to
Her husband, William. Henry the front of Broucher, walked the court und sald, "Please may I
speak? It's all my fault."
lle said he had quarrelled with his wife about the baby, "I have Il-treated her," he went on, and I
a gola to make a fresh start.
"This case has taught me a lesson. I want us to start the New Year tagether.
Told His Wife
"Please give us a chance."
He said he had always told his wife that the baby was not his. He quarrelled with her before leaving for werkt one morning. Then he felt "gomething was going to happen," so he asked to be let off work early.
The prosecution said that when Mr. Broucher got home he found his wife, distracted, nursing her baby and muttering "I didn't mean it." She told her mother-in-law that sho tried to strangle the baby.
Mrs. Broucher, whose address was alven as Richardson-street, Stock- to Chester committed
port,
Assizes.
was
But the chairman granted ball, and said "The magistrates incline to the view that it will be best to let you have a new start at once."
SOUTH AFRICA
Pastor Refuses To Bless Hitler
CAPETOWN. NAZI sympathisers in the Orange Free State have found Wil- "Niemoeller"-Pastor helm Luckhoff, of the Lutheran Church in Bloemfontein.
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Luckhoff, censured because he re- fused to pray for God's blessing, on Hitler, resigned,
"I have been fighting the Nazi spirit in Bloemfontein ever since I realised that Nazism and Christianity are in direct conflict," he said.
"To have asked God's blessing for Hitler would have been a mockery,"
After the Church Council's vote of censure, threatening letters-most of them anonymous-poured into Pas- tor Luckhoff's home.
He was warned that his life would be in danger unless he quit the Free State.
Martin Niemceller, former U- boat commander, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Dahlem, Bor- lin, was hounded from his pulpit and thrown into jail by the Nazis because he drew attention to the clash of Naziam and Christianity. Nazl judges could and him guilty of no crime, but he was returned to a concentration camp as "poll Ucally unreliable."
Devotion
"I gather from the very best sources that Mr. Elliot (Minister of Health) has haugis once a week.
"From what I have seen of it I should think that eating haggla once week really plumbs the depths of national
dotie 24" Professor Fre...]
choon recently,
at a London lun-
(Ifaggie, originally French, consists of minced heart, lungs, lider, sual, ontona and
oatmeal boiled in shcop's stomach, Served with whisky.
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