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The War

The General Officer Commanding made it quite clear in his recent speech before Legislative Council that the Motherland is at present in no need of additional man-power from the Colonies in order to pro- secute the war,

Events in Flanders have certainly proved that it was not deficiency in this respect that was responsible for the serious reverse sustained by our arms, but rather that our men were asked to fight without adequate equipment. There is no doubt but that the revelations in this respect will lead to adequain steps being taken to rectify the position, as they Werd" taken" 1813 after the muni tlons scandal London newspaper.

J expose by great.

It appears, therefore, that the people of Hongkong.can_best_serve the Cause not by offering themselves but by offering their possessions. In

the light ot experience, the Colony's

TO MAKE A FUEHRER'S HOLIDAY'

THE STORY OF THE

Heroine

of Swallow

Cottage

By REGINALD FOSTER

WHEN the telephone rings in the rescues, framed diplomas "in recog-

cosy little parlour at Swallow nition of his proposed War Tax contribution ap- Cottage It is u signal for the begin- perfect seamanshi, endurance and

pears ridiculously inadequate.

про To the Lifeboat Service, sir months of war have brought the labours and perils f six years of peace.

Many deserved tributes have been paid to the heroism of the lifeboatmen. Now, in this arti- cle, we pay tribute to the women -of-the-Lifeboat Service—the wives who must stay at home and wait.

Evening of twelve, twenty, perhaps forty- Somewhere in Swallow Cottage is if $10,000,000 is derived from one eight anxious hours for Mrs. Blogg, a proud collection of medals awarded which show what war means to the

not homes of lifeboatmen. year's taxullon will be sufficient, For Swallow Cottage is the home to Mr. Blogg, but they were

This is a typical five-days' log in at the current rate of war expendi- of Mr. Henry Blogg, only possessor brought out for me to see. Some- ture, to finance the wir for only half of the "double lifeboat V.C.," and times Mrs. Blogg will bring them out a busy week! an hour. Our efforts, therefore, the most famous lifeboatman in for a visitor-but if her husband Is Tuesday...Out 11.18 p.m. should be turned in other directions, It seems fullle to argue in the cor- respondence columns of the local

in women

whether newspapers Hongkong should knit a pair of Bocks when what is really required from this Colony, and from every Colony in the Empire, is an effort on a scale that will place upon our shoulders sacrinces proportionate to those borne-by-our-kin In the Motherland. Even so, we are not called

the fice to upon greater sacrifice of le itself which our folks at home must face in the Imminent future.

We have In Hongkong semi- skilled labour that can turn out war materials on a tremendous scale it

Britain.

there he tells her not to bother.

That

Instead, Mrs. Blogg said as much is not his opinion, of course, He would say, perhaps, that he just as she dare before her hero-husband. happens to be the coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat. And that happens to the busiest lifeboat in the country at the moment.

One of the chief concerns of the lifeboatman's wife is the health of If you walked down Corner-street, her husband. Cromer, on your way to the seafront, "Henry often returns home soaked you would not notice Swallow Cot- to the skin, cold and exhausted," Mrs. tage, for there is nothing about Ils-Blogg told me, as she set the ten,

"Twice I have had to nurse him humble exterior to hold your niten-

through serious illnesses."

evention.

it is organised. If we can turn out 10,000 ton ships there is no reason why we cannot turn out other wor

That explains why she shows

Back 4.30 a.m. Wednesday. Wednesday Out 5.37 p.m.

Back 12.30 a.m. Thursday. Thursday.. Out 10,45 a.m.

Back 10.30 p.m. Friday....Out 1.45 p.m.

Back 4.30 am. Saturday. Saturday..Out 7.20 p.m.

Back midnight.

*

I quoted this in Swallow Cottage. "There have been several spells 1ke that, including one of 42 con-

Rotterdam: The First Full Story

ROTTERDAM, May Jệ..

Rotterdam was covered by an im- mense pall of bikek, as four motor- bases containing members of the Bu and French colonies, crept alowly along the road to the look of Holland yesterday afternoon. Heinkels had Jait bombed the bir of depot at Viardingen, 10 miles farther down the river, and the smoke from the burning tanki w spreading right across the sky, liko.

threatening thunder-cloud. Under it, the three evil shapes circled symás and stain Over the almost delince jess city, deliberately selecting their targets. One of Chesa Wat the ateamer 6 Denis, which was to have taken the refugees down the river, Crash-crash-crash-crash went the bomba among the quays and Warehouses of the Ljisel-haven, where the steamer lay. One of them missed her by only 50 yards, but the Admiralty bad already die- cided..thne, she sfiould not be used on account of the danger of mines in the stwer. he had been scotled; and the party went instead by bus to the ok where they were taken aa, together with the staff of the British Leration at The agua and

ather refugees, by two finish des- troyers.

The Dutch Army has been fighting a gallant and dogged hatile in and round Rotterdam against an insidi- aus enemy, who had established himself by stealth right'in the mid- dia of the town. They have been sorely handicapped by lack of anti-aircraft guns and tanks. They have had nothing but machine- Fun with which to Aght the German bombers, The IMAP, have lent repeated and effective sid, kne the relief has only been temporary Arun and nghin the. Heinkel and Junkers have been able to select their targets unscathed, or recon- noitre the ground position and drop reinforcements or supplies for th German machine-gun hests, Tanks and armoured-cars were the weapora obviously

the

haute chung, hat those which Dutch possess have been required elsantiere, and they have had to. expel the invaders from their midst by literally blasting him out of the houses in which he had ensconced himself. This has been effectively done, but the business centre of Rotterdam has been completely wrecked.

When the Gormans first descended on Rotterdam, zarly on Friday morning the advance guard, which was landed from the dying-boats a the Hans · bridges and in troep carriers on the Wasibayen airport, found Immediate assistance from numbers of German residents, who had been concentrated during the night on the Noctderelland, the Island in the Mass over which the two great girder-bridge# run. The omces of the then Company, a big Germatt tug-boat arm, seam to hard been their headquarters. How many" they numbered it is imposible to say, but of the 3,000 Germans re- eldent in Rotterdam the Dutch worn unly abla, to arrest some 790, The Text are unaccounted for, and it in fast to assume that a good may or them were waiting in the Them offices with arms and meraunition 500 Gormana An Hour ready. This little army was further estaferced throughout Friday" by more mon landed from troopicsery- ing aircraft at the Waalhaven. Unill 180 ILA.P. taided the airport om Friday afternoon and put it partly out of service it was estimated 2 they were being landed' there at the rate of 500 men an hour.

Blarting from the Noorderelland and "the "two bridges, this force occupied the whold of the south bank of the river, and obtained a footing on the north bank si well. The Dutch failed to loosen their: hold appreciably. In the course of Friday night, the Germans, alfed no doubt by Dutch sympathisers in the town, altered into the hauser of the ---Old Town,-a-close-packed district-of-

business emees Intersected withK canals, which stretcher back from the river bank some 300 yards. Throughout the night honis of machine-gun fire alternated witha the crash of tranch-mortar. shells, am........... the Dutch fought this new threat. The morning found the „Üirmans- sniping desperately, Farther to the est they were established in tha· has railway statio

A Beleaguered City

+

Their plan had obviously been to soite the administrative entire of Hotterdam, with the Town Hall and the Post Omice, in the course of Baturday. The Dutch felt the threat and hastily threw up" trenches and barricades In the main streets. Natterdam became a balesquered elty. In the course of the morning- the tension grow, when two hoRVÝ machino-gane suddenly started en- Allading the Coolsingel, Halterdamm mala central boulevard, on WOJCI both the Town Hall and the Post Once are situated, from a hints at : Its hond. At the same time sniping broke out in a dozen places obse- where in the town.

The two machine-guns ea the Coolingel were, silenced by shelfoy from an anti-tank-gun,- They proved to be manned by two members of the Dutch National-Boeluliit Party. "Can you contrive the state of“ ming of such men,” said a Dutch outer to me, "who would tro on tball own countryman?" Yom that point the Dutch weat steadily and zuinigusly to work with mortars, anti-tank guns, and other light artit. Jory, demolishing · avery houta in which wipers were found.

By the late sitemoon, they had. rtiñod ene upper hand on the right' bank, and even an the Noorderl land the Germans wete Klenced. They began wotting Are themselves to positions which they could not சயன் an the great line- fannelled Liner Statendam, the second largest ship of the Holland- Amuriza line,

But take one glimpse Inside, as I have done, and you realise that it is anxiety when he happens to have a tinuous hours, when I had to stand no ordinary seaside home.

cough an anxiety which he dis by with the soup," admitted Mrs. misses with some scorn.

Blogg, her eyes twinkling defiance as "When he is called out I sit up she made this revelation.

"Sometimes he has been no busy As I arrived the homely smell of on the sofa, just knitting and waiting tea greeted me. Mirs. Blogg was and wondering what is happening that a week or two has gone by be- busy.

out there at sea-and wondering fore he has had time to make his Mr. Blogg sat back in the arm- when he will be back for his soup. report to Mr. Baldwin, the lifeboat requisites. If we can manufacture chair at home for a change, "Do you know sometimes he has secretary" she added. gas masks for sale in China we can

(When he does his dictates them in Brightly polished brass firelons come home and stood on that step

unadorned

hold, phrases"and manufacture them as gifts to the

leaves out all the best bits," Mr. people who need them in England. gleamed on the hearth. Round the and had another call before he's had simple

room, on the sideboard, on the walls, time to take off his wet boots." If we can weave cloth there is no and on the table, were mementoes of Mr. Blogg gave a grunt of dis- Baldwin told me later.] reason why we

we cannot

unle make

I think I heard him a hundred wild nights; pictures of approval. forms. Many of our factories to-

to ships and wrecks, photographs of mutter that women always talk too wards the trawler," he reported of day are catering for orders from Japan, the Philippines and other parts of the Far East. Production should, as in England, be for the sole purpose of prosecuting the war. We can manufacture a variety of articles in Hongkong, and thus re- love factories In England for some olher purpose.

If a dockyard or a factory in Hongkong could turn out one single tank it probably would be more useful than the, enlistment for ser- vices in the trenches in France of a hundred men.

lottery as a method of raising money

much."

a

.. We then turned round to-

recent service. But be did not sný that the trawler was at that moment being bombed and that one bomb fell for various causes, and the Irish "Sometimes," went on Mrs. Blogg. dangerously closely to the lifeboat. Sweep, Golden Casket in Queensiering the reproach, "I want to put At a recent launch 11 of the crew land and N.S.W. State Lottery-all him something in a flask, and some were members of the Blogg family: of which have placed hospitals in thing to eat, but ho's all for getting H. Blogg, J. JHTJ

J. W., H. W., their respectiva States on basis off and won't stop.

R. C., F., J. J

Jun, W. W unequalled in any part of the world Sometimes he's hardly get off to Davis, completed by R. and G. Cox, have been quoted as examples. sleep before being called out again. father and son. The brothers Wil- A lottery may be the hand-malden As for meals, it is often a case of lam and John Davies are half- of the Devil, but we could envisage breakfast, dinner, tea and supper all brothers of Henry Blogg. William the proceeds from one sweep_pur-in_one.

has four sons and John three. Cousin

A

and.R.

chasing a purault plane and saving Offering a cigarette, I tried to H. W. Davies is mechanic and only the lives of many innocent people at question Mr. Blogg again.

full-time paid member of the crew.

These are anxious days and nights Turn now to the Anancial aspect. home who otherwise would become "All very well for soothing the The war has been in progress for victims of the Devil's more polent nerves, so they say, but I've never for the women who wait at home.

found tho need for it," he anld. For.. Coxswain_Blogg will tell you he is -nine-month-During that time our assistant In-Germany. sole contributions towards its pro- We mention a lottery, by way of the rest, he merely rubbed his eyes a fisherman Arst and Bfeboatman secution (outside of provision for our suggestion. There must be dozens and said, "I don't know I can't ofter. But Mrs. Blegg will tell you his heart is ✅ really in the lifeboat, own safety) has been mil. It has of means to which we in Hongkong remember. taken us nine months 110 the War

get

a Saturday tum can

to raise money to help the I pointed to a handsomely-bound Except sometimes on

wo need are volume, a history of the Cromer life afternoon, in times of peace, when Taxation proposals under way and Motherland. What

you can hear the voice that has roared it will be impossible for any taxes suggestions from the people them-bout collected from this source to be re- selves; more 80, however, we need "I've never really read it," he said. over angry seas roaring over Cromer mitted until the war is in its second someone in authority to take note of "Since the war Ma. Blogg told football ground, encouraging the year. As for the BW.OF., the the suggestions and to act on them me, they have been called out to local team. A Hongkong public, has voluntarily, when they are feasible. The majority search for aeroplanes, bombed and **Why,**** revealed - Mrs. ** Blogu, donated; · just over?! half-a-million of the people in Hongkong aro sile machine-gunned vessels, mined, ves- "railer than eat the meat I've pre- dollars--about”- 231,000—in “25 mlne fering from a feeling of impotency,sels and bombed light vessels, as well pared, he'd rush of to football as month.

SAME?! They want to help, but they don't as ships in trouble in the ordinary if he were answering a call to sea." The proposal has often been made know how. Cannot someone, give way,l

But Mr. Blogg=just shrugged: his that Hongkong" should turn to the them a lead,

fahad previously found records shoulders.

That night (Saturday) Rotterdam YAS KA Swe-inspiring sight. The whole of the Old Towni was ablaze. trelading all the banku and business offices on the river front. The Maas Stadion, too, was burning, and then close-packed shipping offices on the western half_of "The faland. Crack- Ung names : lexped, up from theạ doomed statendam. The rest of thes town iny na quiet sa A ECAYIYard, bet rools, church-spires, and the nuityle skyscrapers

were lit up with an unearthly-slow.

Two Liners Ablaze During Sunday, the Dakh con 'tinued to makę" program, and hy yuterday morning All reslitangu had bees extinguished on the right kank and on the tsland, buz the Germans were sitt holding the greater-part of the left bank and the bridge which links fe with the laland, · Vitav threatened to engulf, the whole of the left bank. The blasa bad spread from me "Stafondem⠀⠀ ̈ to "Amather falland-Amertes ship which lay next to her, and what wa taft yesterday evening, the Verudan, insther fine liner, was on Cre.

· The Germans were now counteri attacking with bombs from thešrou aircraft. How far they will be

Hective will probably depind on 20 how far British and French Mizerne ran support the nich datence The Germans ite' - thig abetor › havas que KINSTY, Atzeraft: Kruz taking' it. place, they mourals of the "Dutal Groups In Boterdam. Le azrailem. They looked as if they would take a Jon of punishment; but they mad tuppati angiosfalty, in

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