1940-06-26 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 26, 1940.

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SEA

PICTURES

The dramatic pic- tures on this page, ox- clusive to "The Tele- graph," highlight threo moods of the sea as man encounters it.

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There is a vast differ- enco between the sea in the beautiful action study at the right and the bullet-torn sea of the Dunkirk evacua- tion, seen on the last picture on the page.

Yet men who were peaceful yachting en- thusiasts a few months before took part in the grimmest hours soa- warfare has over known. Several died in helping evacuate Bri- tish troops from Flan÷ ders.

The other pictures show the men to whom the sea is al ways grim British lifeboat crews. To them too the war has brought new dangers, new labours.

But that same sea is the one thing Hitler's legions can not con- quer. It is the seas that will bring Britain final victory,

LEE RAIL AWASH-This magnificent yachting pleture, one of the finest ever taken, won a major prize in an American photographic contest for Cameraman Morris Rosenfold.

yacht is the "Typhoon," one of the famous craft of the wealthy New York Yacht Club.

LIFEBOATS CARRY ON

Britain's lifeboat crews have rescued more lives during the last nine months than during any similar period in

· history. Submarine and mine warfare has made their work arduous, dangerous. This is the crew of the Southend lifeboat station.

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Coxwain Page of the Southend life- boat.

the Repentedly since began, the lives of neutrals, women and children, have depended on the skill and courage of British lifeboat

Coxswains.

Fine, modern equipment is carried on all British lifeboats. All but a dozen boats on Isolated shores are new motor-driven. This is a patent device for firing a lifeline to stricken-ship.

British troops lined up on the beach at Dunkirk were swept by Nazi machine-guns. Yechismen, like

those in the top picture, helped in the miracle evacuation.”, Soveral gave their lives.

here British Lifeboats, often manned by fishermen, stand by to sava,

devotion to duty la world-famous.

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