1940-06-01 — Page 15

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 1, 1940.

The man in bedroom slippers sees cnother convoy safely home

DESTROYER'S JOB ENDS AT DAWN

By GODFREY WINN

I THOUGHT I'knew better than to go to sca "again, but I found myself standing on another strange quayside, this time in the south.

Two destroyers were moored close together and I went down the gangway and across the deck of the first, and another adventure had begun.

behind us, si a distance of seven

or eight hundred yards.

A "Shunting" Job

This section of the Straits has be come since the war the Piccadilly of the Channel as far as traffic is con-: cerned.

And our job, to quote the captain, is like shunting backwards and forwards a night from Berkeley to the Ritz, crossing and recrossing the road to see that it is

the

The destroyer seemed like luxury to me after the fishing trawler I was last in, but I dare say I should feel differently if clear of all obstructions in the dark- instead of spending twelve hours ness, aided by the fellow who works on board I had spent the last the Asdic device, death to submar- seven months, day after day, ines.

night after night, crossing and

recrossing the Channel, in gales THEN there is the other constant and fog with visibility nil, con-anxiety. How are they coming on? A boy with voying troopships.

Are they still in Hine?

"We are still waiting for our Christ- may leave," the engineering offerr sali.

80 a night off becomes their "Idea]

of the ultimate luxury. However,|

It wasn't going to be to-night. I went on board in lime for dinner. They were calling later.

Relief From Money

In the ward room they had found; NEW tise for one of the posters about careless talk costing lives. They bad stuck up the FougasSO In effort of the two fellows talking their club, and Hitler peeping out from the tapestry on the wall, and peppered him good and strong with darla.

rome

of

America

(9 lbs. of coffee

per head) drinking

more

tea

AMERICANS, who con- sume 9lbs, of coffee per head a year, are drinking more tea. Last year American imports of tea were a record at. 96,000,000lbs. a jump of 16,500,000lbs.

Britain (91⁄2 lbs, of les per head), is the largest tea pro- ducer, and has dreams of converting America to our tea tastes. We have 9lbs. - per head to go, as American consumption equals only

lb, per head.

Tea planters would be in the money if America went tea. Meanwhile, a publicity campaign in the United States is having effect, and tea is increasing as a dollar producer.

5 Crowned Heads Aid A Mr. and Mrs.

TROWBRIDGE (Wilts).

INTO THE country court at Trowbridge walked an fold couple. They looked {worried.

Mrs. Edith Reay with her triplets and her eldest daughler, Edna, aged 10.

Now She Has Family Of 12

Triplets Born to Soldier's Widow

TRIPLETS born to Mrs. Edith Reay, aged 36, of Burnley- rond, Blackburn, whose soldier husband, John William Reay, died while on leave six weeks ago increase the size of her family to twelve.

Among her nine other children, the eldest of whom, Edna, is 16, is one set of twins.

The triplets were born at intervals of almost an hour-a boy, of 4lb., and two girls, one weighing 5b, and the other 41b. Mother and children are all doing well.

As soon as she knew one of them

was a boy Mrs. Reay whispered: "It must be William-after his dad."

Nurse Steele, of Blackburn, assisted Drinking a toast in hot cocoa.

by a neighbour of Mrs. Reay, was the a Tyne-alde accent, swathed in a They had not-spoken much an only skilled attendant at the birth,

look-the way,

but a doctor saw Mrs. Reay later. It ONE of this destroyer's officers balaclava, handles his job

But each knew the other's thoughts. was the first case of triplets with was no mean artist, and showed me out like a velcran, but later, when

I am chatting to him, discover that! As she paused for him to catch her which Nurse Steele has had to deal, work. Another, his

up after closing the door of their but all she would say about It was: B.N.V.I. sub-lieutenant, had been as is actually his first ship.

After a couple of hours I ge below little home she looked back and knew "All in the day's work."

he was looking back. was a great relief never to hear the to do a tour of the ship. subject of money discussed, but In- sicad to do a job for the job's sake and not for the intrinsic gain.

stockbroker, and assured me that it

*

MY two most vivid memories of First seeing this part of the night.

their

Looking back on the door that had opened and closed for them for forty- two years.

But never before had their going. A third, this time disguised by the fellows below in

bunks out been like this. divide the They were journeying together to beard, was jokingly introduced to sleeping-two watches

Royal night-four hours on, four off-scép a place strange to thein-a court of me as a deserter from the

ing on their backs so peacefully, and law, Oak.

And with them they took their old Apparently he had been posted to at their feet yawning the hole that

with rent book. the ship, but had arrived too late leads down to the magazine one night to fola her, and so had its store of ammuntilon ready to be slept on board a base ship instead. pulled up on ropes in the first second In the morning he heard the news of attack. "that"alio-had-been-sunk.

GREAT argument al dinner.

Was

Wants A Garden-

Mrs. Reay is being looked after by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Reay, and her sisters, Mrs. Nelson.

Very capable "little mother" to the other children is Edna, who is employed as a weaver at the Royal Mills, Blackbum.

The only other child working is George, aged 15, a foundry appren- tice. The remaining seven children are: Jack aged 13, Doreen 10, David

IN the court they were still to-7, Mary and Miriam (twins, aged 6), gether, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Adams. Norman 4, and Peter 3.

And the story was told-of-the-little home that had been theirs since 1898.

LETTERS

Erbert Iggs Again

To The Editor,

The "Hongkong Telegraph."

deer mister editer,

Is

time this cre blinkin wor

ike the tecchers is finished looks

goin to nve a noo job ov work dont it dont meen in the senserin or keypast biznis or enyfing like that but wet abart the jografy on gram- mer biznis

ccrlovaduck orl the noo words wot

keeps poppin up fair get me dorn Arst we as Aft collums then we ns blinded divishuns an parashooters divishuns and then a and panzy saller down ole dutchs place told me an alf they carls the noo life- jackits may west

curnt see why can you?

but the wun wot got alf an me groggy wos this ere seblarge alf sed it mecns dirty work but I dont fini can be rite becos uvverwise the govment wud know orl abart it

enyway we desides to find art Burnley-road is "right proud" of abart-it-so-we-gits--the ideer-ov They had always pald their rent the event. Neighbours-are-helping In goin up the minstry of infermashun it vos their biznis ter tell £14 17s, 11d.

a year-unti last the horne and by making gifts of nif

clothes to the babies. They are urg- us infermashun it mutton or beef? Most of us had| My other memory is of the engine- September.

but da yu fink we could find the laken mustard, till the artist-officer room and the officer who hasn't had Then a new landlord told them theying Mrs. Reay to apply for the King's

Bounty.

minstry not on yer blinkin life wot appeared and temperamentally dels Christmas leave yet, telling me must pay £19 195, 5d. a year.

inks we wants is a minstry of in- manded red currant Jelly. The pe how he's served for twenty-six years, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Adams went

The father, aged 36, who joined the fermashun ter tell us where the of Infermashun minstry and how much he had looked for to see a solicitor-to ask him whether Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps be-blinkin that was finally produced had the captain's name on it, as one had onward to retiring and tending his the law did not control their rent and private luck at school. Did it belong garden. But mow he simply hates prevent its being raised above what fore the war, died from pneumonia. Thangs art to the mess or was it the captain's the thought of it, because however it was in August 1914.

own?

The

happily a man is married, there is

Now they had come to court to the nothing to replace the comradeship resist the increase, and they showed discussion.ended with

announcing that he was of the men with whom he has served. Judge Kirkhouse Jenkins their old off to have a couple of hours' "kip." And all the time his eyes shone rent book.

Generously he gives with love for his engines, as though A good idea!

captain

me his bunk and goes to sleep on the they really were alive.

wide couch in his day cabin that was

A memento of the time when Lord Louis Mountbatten had served in the ahip.

*

Their new landlord sald he had no evidence what their rent was in 1014.

Y. M. C. A. Camera Club

to re-

enyway we carnt and it so we goes darn the hankong otel as sees a littel desk wiv a little notis wol sez infermashun and we arsks the chince bloke wots sablarge and e

sez its smashin up fings an all sez wol did tell yer.

Wos

toast the Ialest news of the battle) "I shall accept the validity of this commence the activities of the Club, mareen was buried

I HAD never been só conscious of off Norway, and in that small_rem document." aslip's existence on its own as just stricted space up there, so close to

before midnight I was led along the the stars, with the men Just dark deck and up the

companion wAYL

I seemed that

thousand

differ-

ent sounds had struck

ruddenly

In a symphony. She was strain.

שגים

in creaking,

pulsating to

be

off. It was sho

Who

and

WNE Wo

alive

powerless zbosts.

The Impression passed na poon as

the

OUT of the county court at Trow-Ireson. bridge walked an old.couple. They locked relieved,

Another mceling

mister

then we sits darn to ave a spot of But Judge Kirkhouse Jenkins

finished we A meeting of European Y.M.C.A. nurishment and by the time we nd both sabtarged and. said: "Here we have the old rent WHEN I get back to the bridge book hearing

arsking sum wavy navy the stamps of five members interested in the formation alf was It's nearly three o'clock, and we all crowned heads of the country on the of a

Camera Club

was held last bleke if e knew where the dead drink some piping hot

and it was decided cocoa, and receipts.

werk,

The nex fing knows Ands alf which has of late been discontinued.

wly a blin

blinkin great chopper workin The following Committee was clecard on the telefone poles down oppy ed: A. J. Partridge (Chairman). H. G. Ramage (Secretary), and W. valley on wen i sez wots up e cez

e is sabtarging the keyposts!

forkin abart sabtargin was held, when editer i spose there aint nuthin in it was decided that all members of the yarn that sum peeple is trying against the ensaffroned ahy, followed the Y.M.C.A. should be eligible for to subtarge the noospaper carlumme by the plansco sent to fetch me, for

of the Camera Club; though i tell yer wat i wud like ter membership my destroyer turning straight that the entrance fee should be fixed do-i wud like. ler obtarge sum of back.

at $1 per annum; that there should the ladies wat i see in the honkong be a meeting of the Club once a otel month at which all members will cor chase me ole aunt fanny rarnd 23 cents towards the the gasworks sum of them ladies ats makes me wunder wevver itler is rile arter orl

bungo mister editer dont cry-suck yer orange

yotes trewly

ENDENT 16C9. ps: confushus sex plenty keyposts

H's their darts target

LAST trip they had a few hours contribute In harbour, and the engineer went funds. ashore and bought a cacius in a pot.

The dark room on the 4th. Roor for his garden, and the captain some French pretties for his wife. of the building will be available to members from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on (0.K., duty paid.)

to increase the make happy dogs

srx hope you'll have your night off." all days of the week, and it is hoped I reached

1 shout in farewell, remembering to be able to hold exhibitions, lec- bridge, and from the darkness of our twin destroyer, silhouettes, you can't help having a what happened last Ume. The de- tures and outings also setting sall, a fruity voice calls vivid sense of the implacable, un-stroyers get back in the afternoon, Club's activities.

and their captains decided upon a

I was arranged that an Informal out, "Bye, chums, see you in Haslar," defeatable strength of our Navy.

"Have a clear gum, they're good spot of exercise on the tennis court. "Cheerful blighters," mullers our when you can't smokec," says the They got into the train for the dance should be held one evening as journey, the spring 800n as possible, with the object of captain, who, besides his beard to captain, rusing the paper bag to- twenty-minute

A mo- sunshine was very warm upon the beginning the Club funds details to keep him warm, wore bedroom slip-wards me in the darkness. pers on the bridge, combined with ment later he's gone below to match windows, and the next thing they be arranged Inter. skl-ing stockings, an excellent non-a couple of hours more "klp" but remember was steaming into Belgh-

when I climb up the companion way ton Station two hours later. alippery combination.

zrain myself at half-past five, he's already back on the job.

than ever in

that

RELIEF FOR CHUNGKING

A list will be placed in the main

Chungking, May 31, entrance hall, and it is hoped that

Rain

much- brought to-day_n intending members will append their

the Japanese names and addresses. Everyone will needed respite from ONCE more I am standing upon a be welcomed, and it is expected from bombings in Chungking, which have number of people who have been going on daily aince May 20. AND now wo are slipping our]

quay, deserted except for my guide, the

shown interest in photo-Coming all hours during the day moorings, slipping away in the dark-i news to pick up the convoy waiting NOW I can see the living reality who leads me across to the unfamiliar already

on arrival in extremely hard on the nerves. The for us outside. I must not describe of yet anollier safely conducted con- elderly casino that is more ramah graphy or who show signs of becom-and evening, these rakis have been

that half-light, and ng camera-conscious

the Club will Government offices, however, have exactly the manoeuvrings that voy. Now I can see the men stand-absurdly unreal with the notices of Colony

into a very popular develop

and been carrying on their work despite ing shoulder, to shoulder along the army occupation superimposed and successful one, whose alms will be the trying conditions. decks, their lifebelts white and ******* Suelent to say that it seemed a fuminous patches, and I cannot help scattered about it, so that I burst out to stimulate interest in the scenic The Chinese Press unanimously

laurbing. Pygmalion miracle to me, not only wondering what they are thinking in ""What is the joke?" my companion and artistic values of the island of appeals to the United States to bring Hongkong and the New Territories. pressure to bear upon Japan to censo how they pick out which light means this moment of transition, as they asks politely. Whereupon I collect what, but also how delicately they wall to enter the harbour,

myself and reply: "I've just realised The date of the next meeting was bombings of open towns. The papers 20 At 7 point out that such raids have been their Dassage throtsgh the

Soon teaplano comes off the that it's the first time I've ever suc-fixed for Thursday, June straight and narrow way, with the troopship sometimes there are a shoro and circles round us, in re-ceeded in crossing the Channel with-p.m. when it is hoped that there will made possible by supplies of Anteri-

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can petrol and scrap fron-Reuter.. ́many as she in a convoy-failing in cognition, like a great dark bird out paying my fare."

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