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MURDER BEFORE

BREAKFAST

ACK SANDERS has gone home. He doesn't want to work in a lightship any more. He wants a job whøre he gets a gun.

And this is why:-

It was early on a stormy, miserable North Sea morning.

. You road a week age of Gorman air raids along a 400- milo line off the 'cast coast of Britain.

One of the. victims was the East Dudgeon lightship. At the time, the attack on this defenceless craft was told in a fow words. Road, to-day, the dramatic story of the only man in a crow of cight who cxcapod

as told

to

The Eust Dudgeon lightship was rkling a swollen, awelling sea, Jack Sanders, 5ft, Dins, and 12st. lbs., „kid- just come up on deck to také

his turn in keeping watch with young drink of water, but the bung hind | George. Jackson.

ANTHONY COTTERELL

They were great friends these two, After a few minutes they heard airplane engines, Thien down out of the clouds came a Heinkel bomber and swooped just over their mast head. Even then they weren't terri- HONGKONG HOTELbly alarmed, for Nazis had sometimes flown over their ship before and waved a greeting.

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Thursday, March 28, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

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Nazi Super-Man

Dr. Ley, the leader of the Nazi Labour Front, repents what he has often said before, that Poles and Jews are

mere vermin, to be exterminated so that the superior race, the Germana, may have room to live. A German, he insists, could never live in the same con- |ditions as a Pole or a Jow,

What sort of life, then, does this superman live? The question has been answered in various

books, written by men who have

Nazi hierarchy. One of the latest which throws light on those | dark-places-18-"Hitler's Twelve Apostles," by Oswald Dutch, describing the character and ex- ploits of the chiefs of the clique which Hitler has gathered round him.

got knocked out of the keg and the water had all run nway.

They didn't feel much like eating; they were too busy watching the horizon.

It began to get dark. Harry Davis took Jack Sanders' place at the par, it was the first break for Sanders thai dny. He began to nod.

But when it circled round they ron for cover under the after-part But after twenty minutes Davis of the deckhouse. George Jackson had to give up; he was too tired and and three others of the crew had frozen to go on, Sanders said, "Well, seen this happen before. They know get back, old chap," gave him a clap what was probably coming.

on the back and he fell buck into the water on the floor of the boat

AND sure there cus

\ND sure enough there came

fre. The German came over a Bird time and dropped a bomb.

seemned to this cruelly battered max to be great mountains of black rock. The pleasure beach wan R savage windswept shore,

His seven friends crawled a few yards up the shore and went to sleep. They were found next morning in a sad quarter-mile line along the sands --dead.

But something drove Jack Sanders on to get help. Ho dragged himself through gaps in the dunes, down. across 200 yards of rough wind- ‚slaslied ground, through a gate, up a patch and round a corner out of reach of the wind.

I traced his path a few mornings. "You could hear the chops-shouting later. How he had the strength is a to each other, One man had hold miracle. of the buck of my life-bell. Next minute a wave came and lifted him Next: "I fell forward. My hands. right over the top of me.

went through a window, I couldn't feel the cuts. I pulled moro glass.

away with my hunda nad slumped down,"

"ALL I could do was dog- paddle. My legs were dead. All I was thinking was to keep my back to the surf, otherwise

house. He fell back, in a time a wave broke,

faint. If he had slept then he would.

But his lifebelt was "The others were gradually drift- keeping his neck strung up so that.

have died, ing away from me. I could just see he couldn't sleep. black dots for their heads, but the night was too dark to see more than a few yards,

you got a swamping mouthful every BU

QUT it was only an out-

He staggered across the path and ratiled a pale ... then on to and. "It seemed an hour and a half we

up some steps, and threw himself in a lust effort against the door at the, THEY went on pullingas hour. top of them,

worst thing of all was the Ilké three-quarters of an hour. Time

seems so long when you're suffering. And by a tremendous stroke of luck he found himself in a room Then I felt my knees touch some. Ilmit. They had been rowing in thing (I couldn't feel anything with used for storing blanketa. Far gone heavy seas all day and most of the my feet). I was on my hands and he was, he struggled for more sick night. The skipper ordered them to knees in the water, but I couldn't clothes; then buried himself in blan-

put the anchor over. They did; it realise I'd struck shore. touched bottom, and they knew they

Seeing the way it fell the erew made for shelter in the bows.

One of them, Bell, was man, but the skipper had to order

im to get dressed and stand by.

AL

The plane circicil round and drop-

ped another bomb, then a salvo of four.

darkness.

They were beginning to reach their

than n

hour to get out of his

Jets and slept fully until 7.30 a.m.,

"I crawled forward out of the sea when through the window he shout- must be somewhere near land.

and up the sand, I wanted to get ed to young Wally Turatt. They should have been warned as much distance between me and by the sound of the breakers, but the water as possible. I wanted to Threadgold, retired pork butchers, Turfitt roused Mr. and Mrs. Georgo

It was murder, crouching there in surf which had been chasing them

these were drowned by the heavy lose the sound of the surf.

whose house it was. the bows with not even a shotgun all day long.

"I yelled, shouting 'Hello' all the to defend themselves with.

time.

At 10 am, when Jack Manning, The others yelled too, but the local Daily Express man, arrived,. And these white tops were to be after a bit I couldn't hear them. And the German

getting their ruin. A cross current caught

Sanders was talking freely, but was nearer. His eventh dropped not them and three great waves come

"I thought I was on one of the still dazed. much more than ten yards from snacking down,

bird sanctuary islands where no one the ship. The eighth smashed right

goes but once a year. through the port lifeboat and explod- ed under the stern,

Wos

She jumped almost clean out of the sea, and us she wallowed back they found themselves waist deep In

swirling, icy water.

all the glass in the big lantern started The deck rail went overboard and rattling back. The ship was listing badly to starboard.

THEY sluck it for half an

TH hour, and it was obviously

no_use trying to stay any longer.

They ran for the remaining boat and put off.

The Nazis circled round three or

The doctor allowed him bacon and eggs. Then Police Sergeant Conner They Jumped to right the boat for the first one, "Start bailing out,"

"I carried on crawling til I saw took him to the police station, where shouted the skipper.

two beach huts. I was too done in Mrs. Conner has been looiding after to And the door but I knew Tway

him ever since. somewhere."

He is still very weak, He can't. use his swollen fingers properly yet.

CTUALLY he was at n A small cast coust town. But

"But before we could move the second one struck us," says Sanders, "We're on a shoal, skipper, I heard young George. Jackson shout. Then and threw us all out into the water. "crowds flock to watch the sunsets" stop thinking of those seven men." the third one simply upped the boat on that night the sand dunes where "It'll be a long time before I can

£4000

going back to the ship, and made off | four times to make sure they weren't THE Chancellor's revelation that the war is costing this country at in a northerly direction.

least £6,000,000 a day just _£4,000_a_minute_is_sumclently_lm-

Then they pulled back and young

George Jackson went inboard to get the lifebout equipment box and emergency stores.

They were wet and freezingly cold, but very hopeful. They didn't talk

much,

Some one started singing "Roll out the barrel and some one else told him to shut up.

over

hos-1

A

The Cost

But the main trouble in mental:

MINUTE

notable scheme, whereby every per-- of

son should contribute a percentage of his income for loan purposes. This, Ware estimates, would bring in about. four hundred millions Д

year. It would serve a double purpose; the restriction of oxpenditure resulting

pressive proof of the enormous burden Totalitarian twentieth century totalitarian

Rica place on the belligerents. Actually that is not the end of the millions Taxation will raise about upon higher wages, thus creating de story, because when Britain is fully £995,000,000 this year. This proves mand and foreing up prices, so leading. into her war stride the cost will most that so far the Government is only to the pitfall of inflation; and the probably rise to half as much again. taking in taxation about 16 per cent. putting away of money which would This

As a measure of the extent of the Although taxation seems heavy en-be released after the war, when there Ley, nick-named "the

national effort £0,000,000 is

morelough, before the close of the Great will occur the inevitable slump. Tho Jailer of.the German Workers"

dramatic than final. For, although War nearly 30 per cent. was being money so taken would help to pay when German working men were

expressed in sterling of present day THE skipper, Mr. George, a purchasing power, it is actually great-taken in taxation

for the war and afterwards when re- to Anance the

turned assist the wage-corner over still free to speak their minds, is

tough, compactly bullt man er than the daily expenditure in the struggle. of about nity-four, was at the liller. latter days of the Great

the Industrial depression. War. acknowledged to be the champion His plan was to run for the Humber, represents a materially smaller frac-If Inflation Came

Whether this war will cost as much toper of the Party. "He la bestands job was a difficult one; for tion of the national income than 21

with the seas that were running years ago,

These figures are further proof that as the Great War, nobody can tell, found in the ale-house from which they were in much danger of being

Britain has by no means reached the duration. An exoct calculation of its as this will entirely depend on its swamped it she got broadside on to Clark, now Government statistician in national income is bound to increase, The day after the declaration of war

A well-known economist, Mr. Colin maximum of her war the loudest laughter issues, but it them.

effort. The cost to Great Britain Impossible. is also common knowledge in the

Queensland, estimates that in 1918 and, as Sir Walter Layton has pointed the Government obtained from Parlia As it was, two men were kept Great Britain was devoting to wor Party that when Ley is urgently balting all the time.

purposes 60 per cent, of the current out, it by financial mismanagement Nobody realised then this would bo ment a vote of credit of £100,000,000.. national Income. So far in this war uncontrolled inflation sets in, it would a mere drop in an ocean, but it was wanted all that is necessary to Sanders and Bert Rumsby were' only about 40 per cent. is being danger of terrible collapse ns in Ger50, and the other day, lecturing on the

de- rise to astronomical figures-with the produce him is to ring up his up fn the bows.

pulling, and the other three were voted to them. Furthermore-and

this is greatly in our favour-he many after the war.

potential of Britain, Professar favourite taverns,

Whatever hop-wur reckons Bell was too ill to do anything capacity of British industry is half as is inevitable and economists believe said that if the national income rises.

that the prscent

pens, some rise in prices and wages recently at the University of productive per

Shirras, Professor of Economics until "Although he is married, and, He had been seasick ever since he large again as it was in 1919. There that the national income will rise to

Bombay as an organiser of the German Sanders didn't even know his name scale could be continued for a num-eight thousand millions,

came aboard the previous Thursday.fore the expenditure on the present between seven thousand millions and to seven thousand millions, and the Government takes the same propor- Labour Front in busy day in and until the police told him afterwards.ber of years without undue burdens.

tlon of our expenditure as in the last If the cost of the Great War day out, he is hardly ever to be

"They were a very nice crowd." The Tax-payer's Load

is wor, we shall be able to reach anything to go by the Government maximum war effort of at least three- found at home. In the evening or

says Jack Sanders,

will require well over three thousand hundred millions A month, which This policy, however, would drag millions for war purposes, and In all gives us dally expenditure of over "Herbert Rumsby, very quiet but out the conflict. Britain's aim is to early hours of the night; he is very nice. About forty-five, I sup-throw the whole weight of her re- thousand millions. Much remains to financiers,

will very

probably expend four the nine millions estimated by come always at some inn or another. It-ot ou jo ao at Hood sources Into the struggle to bring it be decided and planned out before the has repeatedly happoned that not a man nearly fifty. I'd been ship that £6,000,000 a day by no means large number of unemployed is suff-

est men you could wish to be with, to a speedy conclusion, and it is plain nation is fully girded for war. The Nazis' Financial Weakness only has Ley had to be brought mates with him before-nine years represents our maximum effort. elent evidence of this. home dead drunk in his service Boulton too, he was a nice chap, I've been in lightships-and Bardolph

The financial side of the present To quote Sir Waller Layton in the end the War Governments of car, but also he, has even attended about forty-four, I think.

wer very much resembles that of the to the present we are a very long way 1914-1918 had to spend the huge sum Grent War, The upward sweep of short of our maximum important Party meetings not Then Dick Norton, he was a good expenditure is following much the How quickly the peak can be rench-

war effort. of 20,417,000,000, entirely sober. Since, however, in five. I lived alongside him, home in, £5250,000 a day, and it will soon be taxation or by internal borrowing, the United States. It says much for the old sort, must have been about fifty-same course. In September it was cd, how far it should be financed by Allies, and ourselves borraw.from the the Party drinking is a peculiarity Yarmouth, for two years." which, ovon if it is carried to excess, does not in any case cast a slur on the offender, Dr. Loy's love of heor and wino has alded rather than injured his reputation."

And as for his other qualities, they are much the same as those of most of the notorious twelve. When Loy destroyed the German Trade Unions and established the Labour Front In their place, ho did so with the utmost violence and shamelessness. The brutal fist and the point of the bayonet" mado his success possible.

One hundred millions to-day would.

last little more than a fortnight, and

We had to lend, huge sums to the

Would

entirely.

We enri lako edurnge from the fast. that whereas we are this time no-. where near the peak of our war

25 per cent. greater than that, proportion to be spent on the three enormously strong financial position was about two hours before

aghting services and civil defence of Britain, that had we not been com- It is interesting to compare they lost sight of the ship, expenditure curves of the Great War the decision must be governed by the France, Italy, Rumania, Portugal, and

the respectively, and the extent to which pelled to make loans They were glad to do that, for it and the present war. They

to Russia, meant they were getting somewhere. striking resemblances, which are like means of buying overseas those are have been able to finance our efforts.

show

amount of imports which we have the sundry other countries, we Shortly after that they sighted mark will soon be passed, and in the answered before it is possible to draw ly to continue. The seven million all major questions that need to be: trawler. A wave of life swept over them. They led a blanket to an course of little more than a year the up a national war plan."

seven millions may reach eighti oar and holsted it.

millions, and even nine millions n day. The People's Savings

Most far-sighted economists hope,| for the sake of posterity, that we shall the public to the new issue of National stalled practically her full economie The enthusiastle reception given by effort, Germany has already mar- be able to raise a larger proportion Savings Certificates and Defence effort" (Mr. Colin Clark), and in his reserves and cannot make grenter of this out of the current taxation Bonds Is striking evidence that the book ("Nazi Germany Can't Win") generation will be faced with crippling to contribute towards the cost of the officer, declares the Nazi doctrine of than

we did before. If not the next British public le anxious and willing Dr. Necker, himself a former German burdens.

The country's total incomo at the

self-suflelency has created now weak- present time is calculated by Snancial Mr. J. M. Keynes, the eminentnesses, both moral and, economie, Bell, the sick man, asked for a experts to be about six thousand Leconomist, has come forward with a

Norman Barclay

They burned some flares, hoping they would see the smoke. Pathetic did not see them and pashed on. ally they shouted. But the trawler

"When she'd gone It took a bit of the go out of us," says Sanders, They got out their rations, bully, beef and biscuit.

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