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17-17

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WRITE YOUR WITHOUT NAME THREE -LOOKIN'!

TIMES,

Surrounded By Dead In Explosion

THESE THREE MEN

ΤΟ POSTS

STUCK

THREE men, surrounded by more than 3,000 lbs, of nitro-gly- cerine, which threatened to blow up at any moment, stuck to their posts and saved the lives of fellow-workers in the Royal gun- powder Factory explosion at Waltham Abbey, Essex.

Their heroism was revealed when [2 was announced that they have been Awarded the O.B.E. (Civil Division) Empire Gallantry Medal. They ar

MR, LEO FRANCIS”O'HAGEN, ⚫aged twenty-five, of Lombard-

avenue, Enfield, Middlesex;

MR. STANLEY WILLIAME SEWELL aged thirty-three, of Groft-rand, Brimsdown, Middlesex, MR. WILLIAM GEORGE SLY- VESTER, aged twenty-five, Hallside-rond, Forty Hill, Enfield. All are married,

purifying nitro- Sylvester was

glycerine when a deafening explo- sion blew away the walls and half the root off the washing house where he worked.

He could not run for safety with- out leaving more than a ton of nitro- glycerine in a dangerous state. The explosion had cut off his hot water and al services, essential to safely completing the process. That meant! the nitro-glycerine might freeze and blow up.

danger, Sylvester worleed on hour after hour never knowing the moment ho infgfit to blown sky high. He carried on until the vital services were restored and the nico-glycerine brought to safe condition.,

Desplie the

O'Hager and Sewell went through similiar terrifying experience. They were working in a building 150 yards from the centre, of the explosion, engaged on the nitration of glycerine, a critical stage in the manufacture.

Hot water, and air services were

than cut off. More

1,000lbs. of niiro-glycerine were in a dangerous state. If they left it might blow up. If they alayed there was always u

chance they could prevent it.

They chose to stay

Before they left for work that day the three men told their wives there was "something doing." They had been told the night before to wear their best clothes. They didn't know: why.

When they arrived they were told there was "pleasant surprise" waiting for them.

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A saloon car drove to the factory, and the three men were told to get Inside. They were driven to White- hall. where they met Mr. Burgin, Minister of Supply, who told them about the awards.

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"HE KING AND QUEEN talking to one of the Brillsh sailors rescued

from the Nazi Jall ship Allmark during visit to a Bealfish port.

NOTHIN' TO IT, BOYS!

CRASHED NAZI BOMBER

R.A.F.

mechanics rathered

round the Nail bomber shot down on a Berwickshire farma

in Thursday's rald. The plane was riddled with machine-gun bullets.

May 14, 1940.

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Breathed Through Tube For Ten

SURGEONS GAVE

SPEECH

Leaflet raider made prisoner

wedding eve

on

AFTER his plane had been shot down over a German coast town, a British airman pulled out a packet of cigarettes and a hox of matches, and told his German captors, "They're from Mary; we were to be married on Monday."

"

The airman's nume

was Albert 6000 Burkes, says the German news agency

which issued

detailed account tell- ing how the plane, a Vickers-Welling- down by on bomber, was shot anti-aircraft guns.

The bomber carried a crew of five and came down in flames about n hundred yards from a farm.

One airman died in the blazing machine. Another, Eustace Fawson, Jumped out with a parachute from a height of 400 feet,

a German farmer, his son When and a neighbour rushed to the plane, they found Flying Officer Temple- man from St. Johns, Newfoundland lying badly injured on the ground.

Bolt On Fire

The other two British airmen (4.4. 10.0%, 11] managed to cilmb out of the plane,

one with his belt ablaze.

RADIO Exchange At

31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) ana "Cards on the Table"

London Relay

Radio Programme Broadcast by zaw on a Frequency of 845 kc's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. per on 0.52 m.c's. and 8-11. p.m. second,

p.m. Short Service of Inter- 12.15

cession.

12.30 Arensky-Trio in D Minor. Op. 32.Eileen Joyce (Plano), Henri Teminnka (Violin) and Antoni Salu ('Cello).

1.0 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report,

1.03 Dance Musle by Maurice Win- nick and

Orchestra,The Sweetest Music This Side Of Heaven, Bedtime Medley, Leave it to Love, Great Ziegfeld, Colleen, A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody, On Treasure Island Some Other Time, Did I Re- member?

The

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast. and Announce

ments.

A Glance

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T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore T.T. Japan T.3 India

TU.S.A.

Manila Batavia IT. Bangkok

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11.40

80 d/s India

31

U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02% U.S. Cross rate in NY.

3.10

Chinese

Mr. LoungBlu-cho, executive National Liszt secretary of the of 1.45 Compositions Liebestroum (No. 9), Arthur Rubin-Y.M.CA. will be the speaker at the stein (Plano); Hungarian Rhapsody, timin niceting of the Hongkong Y's No. 2, Philadelphia Symphony Or- Men's Club at the St. Francis Hotel chestra cond, by Leopold Stokowski; on Thursday, Waldesrauschen, Louls

Kentner (Piano); Polonaise No. 2, Berlin State Opera Orchestra; Soiree De Vienne No. 6, Wilhelm Backhaus,“

2.15 Close down.

6.0 Schumann-Concerto in

While they were being escorted to the farm, they were joined by Fawson.

In the farmhouse Burkes, after lighting his cigarette and telling of his wedding pluris, took out a letter addressed to German women.

Youngest M.P. Is Baron

-But Is Not Resigning MR. JOHN DENNIS PRO- FUMO, youngest member of the House of Commons he is 25- became a Baron recently,

His father. Baron Profano, K.C., died at his Warwickshire home, aged 01.

As the title is an Italian one, The new Baron, who was elected three

·MP. for Kettering only weeks ago, will not have to sign his seat.

H.K. Stock Market

Years

HIM

AGAIN

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Peter Cripps turned his merry, blue eyes excitedly towards his special nurse, Sister Louise, at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, W.C.

He was able to speak again for the first time in ten years. At the age of two his windpipe was affected by a disease of the larynx and be had to breathe through a rubber tube in his neck.

Thanks to two of the hospital's surgeons, Peter now has a real windpipe of his own. A piece of skin takon from his arm was grafted in his throat and

Peter soon began to find his speaking valee,

"Hallo,' ha sald cheerily. "It's wonderful to be able to talk, breathe and drink like other boys. The words are coming easier as the days go by.

"When I Arst spoke to sister my I couldn't own voice frightened me. believe I was actually talking. It was marvellous, I wish I could go home lives.in

in Vincent Road. I have no father.

to mum. She

Datu

Kent

will I want to do when I get could never to home! Learn

swim.

do that with this hole in my throat. When it heals up I can try swimming, doctor says. And I shall also be able

to shout and whistle."

Since he was a baby Peter, an unly child, has been under the cure of the Hospital for Sick Children, Surgeons there had operated on him four times. When they gave him a rubber wind-pipe his speech was confined as clucking to what are described sounds.Only his mother could under- stand him.

IIe had two operations. First, the surgeons took a plece of skin ain. long and half an inch wide from his They wrapped it round a rubber

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tube and grafted it into his threat, Five days ago the tube was removed and the skin left in place.

Sister Louise said: "It was a won derful operation in plastic surgery.

No surgeon here has ever done such a thing before.

"Peter was tremendously thrilled re-when ho-found he could speak. I had to watch him day and night to see that he did not choke.

The following quotations were issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar ket this morning.

BANKS

"The leaflet Was such utter nonsense (adds the German news agency) that the Germans did not even bother to read it to the end." The plane had no bombs on board. The crew's orders had been to drop. the leaflets over Germany, but they did not know where they were.

.Burkes also had a rough sketch of the Ebe and a few. towns,

The R.A.F. men said that when

they tried to discover their position by penetrating the clouds, they were immediately shot down.

20-HOUR

CHANNEL CROSSING

British Evacuees Reach Home

LONDON, May 13 (Reuter). and 600 men PARIS, May 14 (UP)-German in-

-Between 500 materialised fantry action has not after the intense artillery bombard- and women, the last to be Holland, re- ment with which the Nazis subjected evacuated from

turned to England to-day, cross- the Allied lines.

The Bank's Head Office in Latideo 0,30 Closing local Stock Quota Sam Coats, Helen Clare, Paula Green, Pondent aboard the vessel,⠀⠀

undertakes Executor & Trustee buil

of Britian Income tions.

"

· Piani,

rencies at rates which will be quoted on MinorYehudi Menuhin (Violin) application.

says "Reuter's" special 'corres SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in and the Philharmonic-Symphony Or-8.6 Local Time Signal, Weathering the North Sea in a steamer,

8.01 'Singers Parado-With

on Local Currency and Sterling with Interest, chestra of New York cond. by John Report and Announcements. allowed at rates obtainable on application. Barbirolli

The voyage took 20 hours. George Barclay, Pat Hyde, Al Bowlly,

The party included members of the and claims, reoover which may be

6.32 Compositions of Faure Marjorie Stedeford, Jacic

Dan Donovan, Alico Brish Consular staff at The Hague Tax overpaid, on. ascertained at any of its Agencies and Balinde, Op. 19, Marguerite Long Dinah. Muller, Branchen.

LA CAMIDGE, " (Piano) with Orchestra cond. by Mann and Jack Cooper with Felix and Amsterdam, some of the Lega- Sadler Wells Ballet Company and all Manager, Philippe Gaubert; En Priero, Georges Mendelssohn, and His Orchestra.lon staff at The Hague, the entire British: newspaper correspondents Thill (Tenor) with Maurice Faure at 8.18 Darico. Muylo.

8.45 De Groot and His Orchestras. Brit the Plano; Elegie, Op. 24, Maurico,

9.18 London Relay-News Sum from Amsterdam. Marechal (Cello) with Plano by

"had been Maurice Faure: Tarentelle, Op. 10, mary

9.30 London Relay"Cards in the from Amsterdam. They

summoned to the ome of the Con- No. 2, Germaine Cernay (Mezzo- Soprano) and Rene Talba, (Tenor): Table with Joseph Benvenuti at the Plano.9.45 Violin Solos by Joseph Esl sul-Genetal on Saturday night and lold that if they did not leave by the lant British boat, the following day, Recording "Flying|reti,qu

he could not accept further responsi bility for them.

THE

EW PRENOM REMEDT.

NẴNG PION NË 2 ON:NĚ3

7.0 1.0.

High" Part Written and arranged 0.88 Efteen Joyce at the Plane. by Alan Russell and Charles Brewer. 10.10 Puccini's "La Tosca". Act I.

11.0 Close down. 1.38 Loudon Relay The News.

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Canton $....

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TWO EUROPEANS

ROBBED

A thief who entered the home of) Mr. V. Fetrey, 23 Cameron Street, by removing a pane of glass, stole money. and jewellery worth $164.4.

Mr. A.. C. Sinton; of 5, Grampian £.91 n.1 Road; has reported the theft of $424 2..01 n. from his home. He suspects a former

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MANILA SHARES

Following are sales and bid prices:

May 13.. May 14.

.0.05. Antamok .Gets. n. Bagulo Gold

.4.35

Alok

Batong Buh Denguet Cone. ma Wedge 80% 8. Coco Oravs .100 n. cons. Mines

16.10. Demonstration

East MindanRO, L'**** O b. Fuck .44 r.po dold 104%

.17.40

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B nine Operations ***North Camarines 14 Paracalo Gumaus

Bau Mauriela 43. n.

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22.301. Lon

17.90 m. Byndicate. Invest.

Afternoon Morning

Closing

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WHERE THE

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Fritz' report on this morning's

Edited by

·Dr. G. A. C. Herklotu

Now on Sale.

.11 n.jmarket worden

B. The Manila Stock Exchange did +274 10.30 n. not follow the lead of the New York

market during this morning in that at.

Three hundred of the party were cala). Maeg," (Ord.), Sh. 3..14.00 n, fit "held a very dull session but dia]

Chid: Macg. (Pref.), St. #...12 n. not show tremendous losses, Pat Morning Post Building.

Canton Tees $7. Cemente

· H.K. Ropes Blanca

STORES, &o. Dairy Farms ..

.1 .cale Gumaus gdinod one-half centavo,

17 n while most stocks were not traded Price $3.00.

8.53 min. However, several stocks showed losses from fractions to one tentavo, n.which was seen in Atoksy

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