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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

TOODLE-00!

June 18, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

HEH HEH- I KNEW YOU'D .

GRAB ME

DUO-BRIDGE

(British Made):

The Board for Two Players

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Men, women and children reach Britain in last ships out, tell stories of fighting in Rotterdam, of how brave Dutch people faced the invaders

Rescue Ship Ran The Gauntlet

Vivid stories of the invasion of Holland, of mass bombing by the Nazis, of parachute landings, of fierce street fighting, of the superb courage of the Dutch, and of their own narrow escapes, were fold by men and women who, with many young children, ...arrived in England recently.

Car's Dash Through

Hail Of Bombs

MR. and Mrs. H. Smith, who were going to their parents at Southend, arrived at the rescue ship at Rotterdam with their two-year-old son, This is their story:

"The Germions held the bridge over the Maas. A. Dutch ship came up and fired 28 rounds at the bridge before she was hit herself. She wenst away, came back again, and, drove the Germans off the bridge with shell

fre.

we saw the Germans trying to pul The kige was blazing, and it out, but the Dutch came up again. "The Dutch fought bravely. "We ilved near the Schipof aero- Bayonets, mobs and rifle Ore drove drome, where some of the fiercest off the Germans. The Nazis dirt hot fighting has been. Early on Friday surrender. They were exterminat- morning we heard aircraft and then ed."

the bombs began to drop and the They Married As

guns to roar.

"We knew there was only one thing for it-to get out. We dressed

The Gunt Roared

ONE young couple had, been

and my wife put on a dozen eggs married a few hours after the

the

to boil while I got the car. Sixteen invasion and their honeymoon German planes flew ahead, dropping was spent in flight from salves of bombs till the place shook Nazi bombers, and the roor of anti-aircraft guns

was like hell let loose.

DROPPED LIKE FLIES

For wedding bells they had the sound of bombs, anti-aircraft gun- fire and the rate of machine-guns. are 28-year-old Edward

"We waited no longer. We left} They

our house and the eggs and made Allen, an Englishman, whose father

Marle Josephine

for the River Maas in our car. We lives at Woodford, Essex, and his 21- went into the country and the Ger- year-old bride, mons were over again bombing furi- Stolte. ously.

Then we saw eight Heinkels, some bombing, and after them a number of enormous planes and from them the parachutists began to fall.

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One of the passengers who Mr. and Mrs. Allen arrive said: "The bridegroom came aboard with a car nation in his button-hale j_bride....war..amiling-and-blushing--as.

and

They were dropping ke Mes and charmingly as you could wish."

we made a detour deep into

the

country and away again. It was just

a cose of go while it was clear; stop

when we saw the planes; wail for

the bombs; and then on again.

could go or stay. We stayed.

DUTCH SHIP ON FIRE

Wounded British

Airman's Story

Children Played

On The Bridge

Baw

THEY LAUGHED

no table napkins.

the

troops

NO EGG RATION

LIKELY

It is unlikely that eggs will be rationed because they are not an essential food.

Lord Woolton, Food Minister, sald: "We have done everything possible to increase our imports of eggs, but! It is apparent there must be a short- nge later in the year.

"When it comes to considering the question of rationing, however, it has to be borne in mind that eggs are not. considered an essential food."

Lord Woolton bad two pieces t good news to announce

There is to be no increase in the| price of bread during the

three.

months.

next

"Diggers for Victory" ease!!! their surplus produce without licences.

Lord Woolton said the offer to keep the price of the 2lb. loaf at

its present fixed price, In spite of increased production costs, had been made to him voluntarily by the trode.

The new regulation, allowing sur plus "home produce" to be sold with- out licence applies mbi only to vegetables and fruit, but to poultry, eggs, and honey.

Mr. Cyril Collins, of Dovercourt, Essex, said on the day of the invasion masses of German bombers dropped salvoes of bombs Amsterdam Nazi parachutists and Fifth Columnists swarmed into the city until every street corner had its own battle- ground...

Non-stop Raids

On Antwerp ENGLISH travellers who ar rived in England from Antwerp told of German bombing planes crash diving so low that anti- aircraft guns could not touch them.

An English business man said:

Mrs. Berentzen (wearing check coat), Englishwoman married to a Dutchman, when she arrived in London with her-daughters-Marianne (left)-and-Benita. Mrs, Berent-There was no balloon barrage round zen, unable to get in touch with her husband in Holland, hopes he will see this picture. With her is Mrs. Bonner, another English woman.

the city, and the bombers came in waves of 20 or 30. The raids were continuous from 4.30 a.m. to .80 a.m. on Friday, and in our suburb alone, Berchem, 75 bombs were dropped

were in the air continually."

"The invasion came out of the blue

"The children of the caretaker sky," sold a woman, who with her

Machine-Guns On Roofs

Into touch with the Consulate.

the

The arrival ranged in age from an 11-month-old child to a 92-year-old

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A Look Through The “Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

June 16, 1050. and Yorkshire, the former, in the first In the match between the Australians

innings scored 87, and in the second innings, made 10 with the loss of two

their first innings. The Yorkshire team wickets. Their opponents made 161 in won the match against the, Australians.) with ? wickets to spare. •

Von Matke, in the German Reichstadt, ninted that the next European war, would; be of long duration.

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"I can't remember much more, but MISS RONA RICCARDO, an dam, where she had a permanent to get through to the French Con-that morning. At least 100 plunes at last we got to the river and the English acrobatic dancer, who home. He could not let her suite.

of Nazis and Dutch arrived with her mother, said know how he was leaving, nor town was full troops fighting fiercely. We ran and 1340

the parachute

to fetch her because the were among those who escaped, but husband and 80-year-old mother had dropped down every time the fight- drop, Some of them had boats, 80

there are still some chlidren left. to abandon their home built up in the Ing broke out.

some blcycles. All had guns. wephones were cut.

The German planes made no mistake last 15 years. "At last we got to the river and saw some racing along over the Maas He believes he saw Scheveningen, about letting us know (ut they were "When we heard the anti-aircraft found our way to a ship. When we bridge on their eyeles. They were in gol on board we were told that the Dutch uniforms, but you could tell near The Hague, ablaze. "It was like there. Several bullets went through guns firing on Friday morning we

a sunset," said Kathleen Drummond, the Consulate windows.

thought it was just practice and it Germans held one bank and the they were foreigners because they his partner.

"We saw the Dutch set a bridge was not until we turned on the radio Dutch the other. The ship.

was stopped at every street-corner and

ablaze and Germans landing_by sea-at 6.30 a.m, that we learned going to try to get through. We looked at the names of the ronds. "Once we were aboard-there were plane. We niso saw the Germans truth."

On the bridge-we had to cross 150 of us and we were told there attacked by a Dutch destroyer. The

Their Second Flight it twice-we saw the planes swoop were 1,500 Britons in Holland who Dutch are fighting splendidly." down with their machine-guns going wanted to come home; I know me

On the cpening date of a match between "Opposite us a Dutch ship

with like a car engine roeing There English girl, the wife of a Dutch test-

Notte and Sussex at Nottingham on May on the pilot, who is just expecting, a baby, one gun was firing at the waves of were children still playing

Mr. Finch, of the Rotterdam Con-man. This is the second time since he 15, a very extraordinary display of bat- bombers. A Dutch itner was ablaze. bridge, women walking about--but and she didn't get away we had asulate, who arrived with his mother, was 50 that the man has been turned ung war der by Gunn and Strewsbury

who together complied no fewer service; and that did a lot to steady sald that before leaving he had got werp in 1914 after he had lived there for the day.

out of Belgium. He fled from Ant- Then we set off. It was night now) the Germans didn't stop.

runt, and were not out when play cented und the bombing and gunning were[

jur. We just prayed for the crew,"

for 50 years. maddening. A Heinkel few ahead

"They had posted machine-guns on

25 YEARS AGO Mrs. Hilda Hindley was another of the ship as we passed down the in the morning. It was swelteringly

"We got aboard the ship at nine Naxis Tried To

June 10, 1013. the roofs and a big Dutch liner was who was making her second escape Any European, desiring to leave the river.

Destroy Ship

ablaze opposite, Our "We have nothing but the clothes; our life-belts on. A dear old man

ship was fired from Belgium. She is the last ship Celany should apply in writing for per hot, but we had to stay below with

OTHER passengers told on by an isolated German machine that left with refugees in the last mission to do so to the Provost Marakat. wę stand in.

with white hair enlied out: Even stories of their steamer being 16 miles off the left bank between in the first passenger ship at the end

gun unit landed by parachute about war and she went back to Belgium Head Quarters Offices at least 40 hours before the intended hour of departure, we sink it doesn't matter: I still machine-gunned and bombed as the Hook and Massluis village.

appll- have my umbrella!' That little joke they left the Hook of Holland.

of 1018.

complexion and occupation of the "We saw German'planes at the en- made a lot of difference to us.

An Englishman said: The raids cant and flating the name of the steamer or other vessel or the hour of the train: "We also laughed when

None were continuous in the afternoon and Only through the skill and daring trance to the Maas Channel. someone)

by which the applicant wishes to leave. during the night, when the Germans | Applicants should apply in person for kicked up a row because there were of the British captain of the ship of them hit us."

tried were they brought safely to England. Hid In Dug-Outs

bomb British ships which

their pass to the Provost Marshal at HeadQuarters Offices between the hours "We were told that we should be

were pouring into the country. were on the left

of Am, and 1 pum, and -2. to é pan. escorted from the Hook-about half-bank of the River Maas, but under

For Two Hours

"The response of the Belgian Air: daily.

H.K. Society for the of darkness the ship raved

Force was magnificent. Within ten an-hour away; but we in our cabin cover

10 YEARS AGO MR. ARTHUR FRANKS, a minutes of the first air attack Belgian

Protection of Children reconciled ourselves

June 18, 1930. to die.

through a hall of machine-gun bul-

translator, and his wife and 16-fighters were up. When they found were given a tot of gin-Bois ginlets.

England_scored a magnificent vistory, In. "He told us that he and his crew the Dutch national drink.

WE ARE AT WAR the first Test match against the Auitra- We called had brought down four

ilans when, despite a nabis effort by D. G. OUR ammunition German

German planes attempted to bomb year-old daughter, left Rotter- they were outnumbered, they lald

[heavy, smoke, screens.

Bradman,

dismissed the visitors în planes, damaged two others and then it 'Dutch courage although there the ship as it steamed en a zig-zag dam in a car.

They deserve all the praise possible wonderful Anish for SM runk, winning

consists of HONG KONG were themselves badly hit. Their was practically no panic. That was course, and all the passengers, who

little children, one of the things that staggered us; Included 20

They were bombed as they made and so do the British Army authorl plane caught Are and they Jumpra} the lack of panic, even the Inck of youngest 18 months, were keit their way to the ship and had to hide fties, for the first British troops were Bradman's, wiekst fell when he was 131, in their parachutes. His parachute realisation that war had come.

be- Din dug-outs for two hours.

entering Belgium within half an hour caught dre.

Miss Ellerts The Dutch people just stayed out One of the passengers said that the secretary to a Dutch firm, said: "The Informed Officer

McFarlane, a private of that first attack." "The airman Innded in the water, put out the flames and got ashore, in the streets Looking at 30 or 40 Germans, as they made their way Germans bombed indiscriminately. the sky. They along the River Maas in rubber boats, The British will have to be ruthless, He scrambled around till he found men dropping out his way to the ship, all he wanted didn't even get under cover when the brazenly waved their hands to start-as the Germans will stop at nothing An R. A. F, offleer who had been to do was to get ashore and have once begun to drop, and took moled residents, some in pyjamas, who judging by what I saw. The Dulch interned in Belgium since January "another go."

notice, though all the, sirens -were stood watching on the quayside,

were wonderful"

after making a forced landing was a "Naxis Shook Their

AMany Trapped in ... -walled for the black-out.

Mr, F. C. Clarke, of Enniskillen, passenger in one of two Belgian air baby

woke up crying. Planes were British Consulato

sild the journey down the river was finers that reached a South Coast air-the note palate out that an increase in Ingarsby Old Hall, Leicestershire circling over us all the time.

He la made 48

In We

ruinutes, compared with port during the week-end. A WOMAN who lived near the saw ono aeroplane come down and MISS H. L. Coates, a secretary the usual two hours. It was a great Flying Officer C. M. Kempster. British Consulate in Amsterdam a body fall out of it without a para- in the British Consulate at Rothree young English Toman Catho- lancee and

of seamanship. - :i

As soon as he arrived he phoned his an early wedding is said:

chute. As darkness fell, we started."terdam, told how some of the le priests, the Rev. L. Hatfield, of planned. "I knew we

My fiance is a plot in the Dutch staff escaped through the back Birmingham; L. Thornton, of Man- A Dutch pilot who brought his air were marked down Air Force, stalloned at Wanthaven, door, as firing went on. by the Nazle. We used to fly the Rotterdam's airport."

chester; and M, G. Emery, of Ever liner to the same airport saw in a British dog on holidays and public

ham, had to cycle about 100 miles to British newspaper, this week-end a birthdays, and when the bombers They' Prayed"

Only five people got out and about Rotterdum from a village near Breda, photograph of a bomb explosion in 20, including: the Consul, were left Some English dancing girls Tan the Dutch town where he lived. }behind.TA DA

from their lodgings through streets, The photograph showed his, own Hal Bhen, which snchored at Chakwan, being taken to prevent -- 140 * Cu CAIT, tuh spot it by the Mons: Bridge roads was a battlefeld, to get to the children safe the day before, to haveing into the turbour to-day, it is learned some praiding them w

The Consulate ake sold us in where every corner and every crose house, where he had left his wife and just outside writion

been badly damaged.

MR. CATCHPOLE, of Brad- ford, said: "As the ship was leaving an English airman scrambled on to the ship. His hands were burnt and he was wounded.

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started we would have been caught For the Crow

but for a young man from the Con- MB, NOEL BARON,

Fulots who got us away in his cacher-of-another dancing

street shook" their. Üstá ut, ua. E

mem-

German forces

low,

the

ss the Nazis on the other side of the ag left his mother, in Amater- We hope that bjl of them will be able ship...

Is Homo Again –

by 93. The match ended an hour before

lump wire due to be drawn. When

a victory for either side or a draw seemed

equat elances.

5 YEARS AGO

June 18, 1005. It is believed here" that the French Government has sent a chilly reply to | Great Britain's naval note. If in under- stood the Government neither refuses to adhere to an agreement in preparation in London nor amenje to, the understand- ing on which it is based. 'It' In believed

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D.5.0. Major Found Shot

Mojor, Jolin Ellis Viccars (55), of

the Germin fleet to 25 per cent of the former high sheriff, and D.8.0. of British tonnage would create a grave to-the lust war, worried because he had blem for 'Germany's. Continental neigh- bours. Also it would upset the equitto give up hunting for health reasons brium established by the Washington and shot himself recently, Trenky, France adde.

In this event France could not sunt door of his home and at the Inquest, He was found dead near the side to the limitation of the Washington

yeaty and would have, to resume: Iberty when à verdict of "nuicide while the of action with regard to warship con- balance of his mind was disturbed" struction.NETRER DE ***S

was recorded, it was stated list is The rebel Chinese cruisers. Hai Chi and had no business or domestic worficki

waters, - yesterday,

from authoritative, sources. No action unity:

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