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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 30, 1940.

DONALD DUCK

HOCUS POCUS. AND THE DIME VANISHES!

GEE,

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INTO A QUARTER !

WILL YOU COME IN AND

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SURE LOUIE'!

AGAIN, UNCA

DONALD?

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Sea Captains Amplify Admiralty Statement

INEXPERIENCED MEN ABOARD GRAF

SPEE

Some of the younger men in the crew of the Graf Spee had been sent to sea

after only a few months' training ashore.

or perch.

They were inexperienced and unhandy about a ship. The crew were demoralised in soup with the strange admixture of Ajax, the Achilles, and the Exeler, was utterly different. the action against the Exeter, floating lumps of fat pork, very in- when their ship was being hit, their the Ajax, and the Achilles. This different and bitter-lasting, coffee, demeanour

and so-called synthetic fish in tins. Watching the ammunition parties! is the information which the This was impregnated with salt, through a small hole in the bulkhead Admiralty has gained from in-dyed, bright red, and preserved in of their prison, the British saw the

THEY COMPROMISE ON SHORTS-Pipers of the University terviews with British masters olive oil, and was said to be some Germans in a slate of demoralisation. wounded, many of the Graf and wireless operators who were very course sen-fish, or perhaps pike Unnerved at the sight of men killed Regiment have found an acceptable substitute since kills were banned

The cominent of the cap- and

on active service. prisoners aboard the German tives was that it was anuseating to Spee's crew were physically sick.

eat and like trying to chew the in-

The enemy, partleularly Captain pocket battleship.

darubber sole of a shoc.

Langsdorff, who saw sume of his "If, as has been said, the Admical

before they landed at They described the mortification of prisoners

were loud in their Graf Spee had a pleked crew, then

of the manoeuvring and the standard of the Nazi Navy can- the Germans when they discovered Montevideo, not compare with that of the Ger-they had sunk a ship with a cargo of praises man Navy of 1914-18," is the Ad- Just over 8,000 tons, largely made up! bravery of the three British ships. of refrigerated meat, butter, and They were amazed when the Exeter, miralty's conclusion.

cheese. The master told the board- having been badly hit and with most SENATE SELECTION Brillab masters say that the Gering officer that his cargo was wool. of her armament out of action, re- Invariably So it was in the upper parts of the turned and continued the fight with 194623 boarding parties

haich which the Germans only one serviceable gun. seized sextants, chronometers, bino-two culars, or telescopes, and even type-examined. writers. One captain who tried to a presentation sextant was keep informed that it was confiscated for

Reich. He was given a receipt the less well as for his ship. As for the sextant, he was told, “Mr. Churchill will pay for it."

All

Naver Been Afloat Before

the British prisoners agreed that the Grat Spee's crew were .ab- normally young. Most of then were aged between seventeen and twenty- two, with a small sprinkling of older men. Some of the younger men had never been afloat before,

"They were not seamen," said one of the British merchant captains.

They did not know the first thing about it. I watched them closely whenever I was on deck. If they could do a thing wrongly they did it."

The entire crew Armly believed

Domoralised In Battle While sinking merchant ships the Graf Spee's crew were cock-a-boop and joyous. During the action with the

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA FOR THE RESERVISTS

ed into the slush, and the fuselage be. came a twisted mass of wreckage. AIR FORCE COMMANDS

SYDNEY.

TRISDANE. The acting secretary of the Queensland Bryan) an- General Executive (Mr. nounced to-day that Mr. W. J. Ctimore. The account says that the Inhuman whose papers were held over for further treatment of prisoners on board the scrutiny, had been endorsed for the Altmark, the supply ship to the Cer-Senate plebiscite, man pocket battleship, was in direct! contrast to the treatment of Ute prior tus panir raises the Senate list to 21 come, if, as is expected, the new Chief soners by Captain Langsdorff,

Four of

Eight Died Clinging to Boat

FOUR men clinging to an overturned boat in the North Sea, hope of rescue almost gone, held on-and laughed. But their laugh was due to hysteria when they saw rescue at hand.

Their story was told by the man who rescued them, Captain Utue. of the Norwegian steamer Leka.

Eight of the crew of 19 had managed to get a hold on the that their ship was invincible. She boat when the Norwegian Ship Manx (1,343 tons) had sunk after had nothing to fear. Most of the an explosion. One by one, they were drowned or died from ex- British Navy was already sunk, undposure, until four were left. everyone knew that the Hood, the Itenown, and the Repulse were out of setion with the Ark Royal. Mr. Churchill's speeches were all bluf, and the Germans could not be beaten. As for Britain, the German wire- less had told them weeks before that the British east const ports were so blocked with mlnes that traffic hnd "One of them, apparently dying,

censed to run. The turn of the west const ports

"I saw an upturned boat floating in the water with four men elinging to it." he said,

"I learned that another group of men had taken to a raft," said Cap tain Utae, "Information reached me later that a Danish stearner had found the raft bearing the second officer and a deck boy both alive.

U-Boat Sunk? Intensive depth-charge netion by British destroyers in the North Sea was described by the crew of a Norwegian ship which has arrived at a north-east coast port.

Me. Gilmore was formerly an officer of the Labour League Club. The addition

Mr. Bryan ako nanounced that the nomination of Mr. W. J. F. Riordan, un opposed. as candidate for Kennedy, had been received

ALLEGED HORSE DOPING

PERTIL

New Air Force commands may be established In North Queensland, possibly In Popuo, in the Northern Territory and on the North-west coast, most probably near Wyndham.

This is belleved to be the likely put of the Australian Air Staff Air Chlet- Marshal Sir Charles Burnett recommends the development of the Royal Australian Air Force with an increased number of commands na geographical nats rather than on the functional system used in England.

Civing evidence before the New South BONDI INCIDENTS Wales Select Committee inquiring in Perth Into horse doping: Maurice Cobbin, Wholesale chemist, alleged. the doping of horses raced at galloping and trotting meetings was extensive in Western Aus- train. He said a large amount of the dope was being used. 11 mado horses unreliable as breeders.

Amendments would have to be made to the Noxious Drugs Act, whielt con- could have before the position could ba improved.

trolled the amount of drug a chemist

STRIKE THREAT

HODART.

having notified the Southern Tasmanian

SYDNEY.

Detectives have been unable to find the reason for the shooting on Friday of a woman in a lane at Sir Thomas Mitchell Road, Bondi, and the wounding of a man In a flat in the same street.

University Alumni

The Tasmanian Racing Club Committee, Bookmakers. Association that it cannot) telephone at Elwick for receipt of betting that thes information from mainland courses, the bookmakers have Intimated will not field at the liebart Cup meeting next week,

acerde to a request for Installation of a President Makes Appeal

For More Members

A strong appeal for more members The bookmakers express the view that of the Hongkong University Alumal

the the telephone is essential to the carrying Association was made by Dr. F. 1. annual meeting on of their business, and that such tele- Tseung at

who whs phonic Information is allowed to leave yesterday. Dr. Tseung,

the knowledge. ac- the courses with

new members would be conducted. quiescenes, and approval of the Victoria, elected President, said a drive for In the absence of the President, Mr. Racing Club,

was chairman, how the V.T.C. Selreiary has notified. J. N. Anderson, Dr. D. K. Šamy

In reply to a letter from the T.R.C., would come next, and was resting against an older man, already the crews of British mer- who proved to be the master of the chant ships in Argentina were in a lanx, Captain Nyeguard. state of mutiny and refusing to go to Aca.

of

"I realised it was a matter minutes to save them, so instead of The food served to the prisoners lowering a boat I manoeuvred the on board the Graf Spee was exactly ship alongside. the same as that given to the crew.

It was very bad Indeed, insuficient "Captain Nyegaard said that the

to enable men to do a full day's terrine explosion blew the fore part

of the captains. of the Manx cleap off. work, cald some The sausage, composed of "goodness

"After about an hour of clinging to knows what," could only be swal- lowed after hard mastication. The the capsized febout, the chief en- crust of the black bread was so like gineer slid off, then the second en- Indiarubber that chewing made little neer went under. During the night There was fruit the cook and a frenan froze to death. Impression on it.

"While we were coming across the North Sea with other ships," said one of the men, "we saw British destroyers approach and lower depth charges, which threw up columns of water.

the T.R.C. that the. V.R.C. Commitee I would not consent to installation of such a telephone, and that betting prices be fore a race is run are not telephioned from Flemington racecourse in anybody. RIOT ACT FOR JOCKEYS

was

for the

from the letter

read A University, requesting. the Assocla- tion's assistance in compiling a roll at registered graduates for the pur- pose of nominating three MELBOURNE. Court of the University. The Asso- Rending the riot act after the last race ciation decided it would be willing #1 Caulfield on Saturday. the V.B.C. Atewards warned two leading Sydney to supply data regarding members of jockeyn-Darby Munro and Ted Bartle the Association only.

that serious action will be taken against them if they do not observe the rules

"When we got to a control port we

annual report revealed a The were told by men in another ship

a decrease of mempership of 197, of fair riinit. which had been in the vicinity that

of Courational

WAS re-nine from the previous year. Fin- Munro, rider large patches of oil had appeured on the water and that pleces of wreck-

hernly at the Arst turn in the second ancially there was a loss of $23.08, age, which might have been frem a primanded for

Salisbury Welter Division, and Bartle on and for the previous year a profit of U-boat, had been seen."

Trumbent was reprimanded for crowding $184.33. Aldwirth on to Lucrative. Ten o'clock, and Triumvir in the second division of: the Federal Blakes,

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The following officers were elected.; -President, Dr. P. I. Tseung; Vice- The stewards loid both jockeys that President, Dr. Lee Ha-leung; Hon. to penaline visiting Vice-President, Mr. D. J. Sloss; Cum- they had no wish horsemen, but they impressed upon the mittee, Dr. Lu Yan-tuk, Dr. D. K. Messrs. F. Zimmern, Tan riders that the Victorian jockeys were Samy.

hed for breaches of the rules, and. that the Sydney boys must expect to be Yik-fong, II. N. Chung, K. H. Yuen, treated the same way.

S. C. Ho; Secretary, Mr. F. Zimmern;

The rules of racing, are there to be Treasurer, Mr. S. T. Cheung.

administered, sald one official, and every

kier, whether he be from Sydney or a local la. must be taught the difference between fair and foul riding,

Sydney jockeys have often encountered a torrid time in Melbourne. Suspensions but the V.R.C. have been frequent, stewards have always declared that they have not victimised the visitors.

Tho

When the controversy over these sus- pensions was at its height about two years ago. Mr. W. H. Johnston, chaleman at stewards, said: If anything, we are inclined to be more lenient with vtaltors, because wo realise they riding under strange conditions. AMAZING ESCAPE

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AB Air Force cadet, had an amazing escape from serious injury to-day, wher A training aircraft in which he waя practising forced landinga at Pelican Point got out of control and dived between the trunks of two trees

The cadet, T. J. L. Briggs, returned, lo the aerodrome after the crash, and con Unued his #round studies. Examination by a doctor showed that he was suffering no ill-effects aiher than a slight head- acho.

Bring lost flying speed close to the ground, and when he opened the thraitio the engine spluttered and failed to res pond. He kept the machine on a course straight ahead.

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