1940-05-17 — Page 9

NANCY

SO YOU WENT TO THE MOVIES

AFTER I

TOLD YOU

NOT TO!

BUT LOOK,

AUNT FRITZI.......

I HAD A

LUCKY TICKET

AND WON A PRIZE!

Friday,

THAT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE YOU, DISOBEYED.:

ME

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Store By Ernie

“BUT MAYBE ITU A SWELL PRÍZE---

I DIDN'T OPEN.

IT YETE

May 17, 1940. Bushmiller

OF ALL THINGS"

・TO WIN!

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A NEW SHIPMENT

OF

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HOSIERY

LUCKIEST SHIP

(1s. Still) AFLOAT

THE Grimsby trawler Russell

is one of the luckiest ships afloat. That is why she is still afloat.

A few weeks ago, she was attack- ed by a German aircraft which sprinkled her with steel darts and Incendiary bombs,

Went On Fishing

Nobody hurt and the Russell continued to fish.

Then, the hauled "up -a-Ger-

man mir in her arts, towed it

for three hours trying to get rid

of it, exploded it--and survived,

Skipper Wright snid: 、

"We were hauling in our gear when one of the crew saw a mine bob up He shouled a close to the ship.

mate, Frank warning, and the Crompton, who was at the winch, let the trawl go back to the bottom,

We 'cauld have cut away-the nels, but we decided, to try to get rid of the mine by manoeuvring the ship.

Ready For Swim

decided to

"We lowed the trawl for three hours and then

haul ogain, but in case of anything hap- pening we prepared the bont faunching and put Jackets.

aur on

for

life-

"Almost immediately a violent ex- - plesion occurred less than 100 feet

from the ship.

"The ship was lifted practically out of the water. The wheelhouse windows and most of the eléctric light bulbs were smashed and the dyndmo! stopped working. The only light we had wits from my electric torch,

The two compasses were torn from their, fastenings and reli, nur- rowly missing the mate and myself. The ship was "No he was hurt. not leaking. But when the trawi was hauled in it was found to have been almost blown to pieces,"

IF THE BOMBS SHOULD FALL..

L.C.C.

have no beds

IF air raids were to cause heavy casualties amongst the civil population of London and other congested areas, there would be a serious shortage of doctors and hospital beds,

nurses.

This is one of the facts re- vealed in a secret report the Ministry of Health has received from the L.C.C., and other authorities.

Tens of thousands of beds origin- ally shinside by the Government for air-rald victims are being used for aller purposes.

London Is In the worst position! "Frozen" Bedi

(វឹងក

When war broke out the Ministry of Health set aside 7,400 beds-in L.C.C hospitals for air raid casual- "froze" 6,331 into complete dis- use-tilher by withdrawing nursing staff or by closing the top floors of all hospitals and allowed only 3,070 ns civilian sick beds:

Now no fewer than 10,540 beds in L.C.C. hospitals are occupied by civi Han patients. All those beds not aside for air raid casualties have been put into civil use, and 2,180 of the "frozen" bede have been brought into operation again. 5

Not one bed reniains avail^' able in the whole of the LC.C servico, for air" raid” victimis."

is expected that the proûtom: will be solved by a special order placing all hospitals under the con- ird of the Ministry for the duration of the war

BELGIUM'S FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE WAS THIS CANAL

Horses Under

The Hammer ABOUT 40 of the horses of Mrs. Bertram Mills' Chal- font St. Giles (Bucks) estate were auctioned,

Tha...; sale was conducted by Mr. Harris and

among the spectatom were these Sıra boya,

Old Sam Tagg, 70-yest-old Master of

the Home, watched the sale and

“Wa Mrs.Deftiam Bilike.

ILLUSTRATED ABOVE I Belgium's famous King Albert Canal, which runs from Liege to Antwerp. By capturing a strategic. bridge before the Belgians had time to demolish it, the Germans: were able to compromise the entire Belgian defences.

Brought Prize Ship Home

With 6d Book

to

TO assist in navigating the 7,000- ton captured Nazi freighter, Uhenfels,

West Africa, from Freetown, London, Captain H. Flowerdew, of the British Merchant Navy, used a sixpenny dictionary.

a

The Uhenfels, which has completed unloading at Millwall Docks, is veritable treasure ship. Ship and

ergo-is-worth.roughly £750,000.

Hides, wool and cotton waste were being haisted from the holds of the ship as Captain Flowerdew displayed the souvenir he prizes most. It is a series of churts, traced on ordinary rice paper, apparently taken from the cook's galley.

These charts were the means by which the German skipper meant to get back to the Fatherland," he said. "He must have got them from another ship after the war hroke out. Not being on the South Atlantic run, he would not have these charts.

"The tracing is a work of art, par- iicularly

the the one showing hazardous Norwegian const.. Every detail is clearly shown, and the cap- taln or his navigator must have put in hours of work, to complete their tracings."

Navy Stops Scuttle

Tucked In the holds of the Uhes. fels there were tons of oli cake and ground nuts, suitable for making raorgarine.

"The Germans attempted to scutile the Uhenfels after they had been ∙Ark sighted by a plane from the

Captain Flowerdew Roynl,"

sald,

"But it was not a very serious attempt, and when the Navy boarded her, they had no difficulty in stop-

ping the water corning in.

"I think the captain, was not too keen on the scuttling part, because he had his wife and son aboard.

Nuts For Fuc!!

The Germans ran out of fuck

HONGKONG

GIRL HAS

DAUGHTER:

HUSBAND

PRISONER

DIEUT. KYRKE, of the submarine Starfish, now a prisoner in Germany, has become a father, Picture shows Mrs, Kyrke leaving

Windsor nursing home with their baby daughter.

Mrs. Kyrke is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hanse, of Hongkong.

Sphinx

Hero

Buried.

Widow Was Not Told

Six weeks after the mine-sweeper Sphinx was bombed and sunk, the parents and young wife of one of the heroes of the disaster learned that he was buried in a churchyard at Wick, Scotland,

ing him down with H. His body was washed up later.

Whitehall Rod Tape

So that they would not have to put Into a port for coal, they used 400 And the information came, not

For five weeks his parents and his tons of ground nuts, "This did not from omlelal quarters, but from a

toidl stranger, who, seeing the grave wife walled hoping and praying he to the engines any good. TEREZA

wrote and told them. The dead was alive. "To get over the dificulty of avi caling a German boht in which all hero war twenty-five-year-old tele- Instructions and machinery are Ger- graphist Henry Dave, whose parents

and

married during man, we bought a sixpenny diction-live, ht Sunningdale Avenue, Coys

B We had our trials, but in Ule Christmas ary. end everything came out all right."

the After attack on the Sphinx When the German captain decided damaged boat wils being foyed to to make a

show of running the port where the duble broke aid was Brital blockade, he bad-the-nomedung boek over the deck, causing Easter

the crow." Oiled) The dead" man's falljer” wrote for "Aagtekerk; Rotterdam," painted on have among

advice Tho War Ofce sent. him several forms to be filled in in tripl

le stern and the real name painted married mon with six children and a besom pal of Duco's-lind His arm shattered/

out.

That was a mistake which led to ta capture. The acouling plane from Ole Ark Royal signalled to a British warship, which took the Uhenfels in prize. The port of registry of the Anglokarke Is The Hou!

When the Uhonfel's valuable cargo sahfely stored shot will be renamed and join British convoys,

Duce. ruslied" for 'roll-of bandages and lashed his friend's arm to his side, then flusz kim tar out Into the sea by some walling boats.

The man was picked up and *kived.~*`But Dhoo was too Inic

He ran back into the edbin to gel - 'the ship's papers and was trap ; ped. The ship heeled over tak»

Then come the letter from Wick Baying Duce was buried there.

Astounded the family decided to travel the 600 miles to Wick daring

.

Mr. Duce said: "On one of the forms It says application for permission to visit must be made ten weeks before hand,

: ... They kept us for a month wender- ing. if my son was dend or alive. Now are we to be forbidden to see his grave?!!

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