1940-06-28 — Page 3

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 28, 1940,

proé Court

MAGAZINE PAGE

CHURCHILL ESCAPED FROM

Goebbels Misses For A Gibe

In all the vitriolic outbursts that Dr. Goobbols, chief Nazi propagandist, has directed at Winston Churchill, one bitter blast that he could have used with some claim to truth has been missing.

Goebbels has never callod Churchill a gaol-bird; yet the First Lord of the Admiralty spent his 25th birthday in à Boar prison.

17INSTON CHURCHILL'S

W

escape from captivity with a handsome price on his head is perhaps the most colourful episode in his amaz- ing career.

At, a salary of £250 a month, Churchill was on his way to the South African war

83 corres{0}]}~

dent for the Morning Post, when a British armoured reconnaissance train was derailed near Chieveley on November 15, 1800, und he was taken

by the Boers, and prisoner Interned in Pretoria's Stuats Model School

The school was in the heart of the Boer territory, heavily guarded, and surrounded by a high iron fence. Alter Churchill had been in custody for a month, he decided to escape.

With heavy odds against getting away, audacity was the one card he had to play. About 7 p.m. on December 12, 1899, whilst the other internees were at dinner, Churchill chose a moment when the sentries backs were turned, and scaled the wall, to drop into bidding among shrubbery. He had some chocolate, and £76 in his pockets..

After an hour's hiding, he skirted the house in the school grounds, and strolled carelessly, but with a thumping heart. Into the streets of the Boer capital.

Leaving Pretoria without being ctuallenged, he found the Delagoa Bay railway, and boarded a mov- ing goods train moving eastward.

Until dawn, Churchill journeyed towards the coast among bags of coal dust, and then jumped out as the train stowed on an incline.

HE hid all day in a thicket on the side of a ravine with a culture for company.

He ate the chocolate and as the -day-pot-hofter--and--Wasidering patrols made it too risky, lo ko down to a nearby stream, he sut- fered severely from thirst.

That night he tried but falled to pick up another east-bound train. He was becoming too weak to walk after his month's internment, followed by lack of food.

He knew that in the distrlet some lang-resident Englishmen had been permitted to retain

u neutral

freedom to keep the coal mines working, and, seeing a house somne. little way from the railway line. he made towards it, gambling on it being the residence of countryman.

fellow

Churchill's Umid knock on the door was answered by. Mr. John

BANKS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. Jacorporated by Royal Charter 1853 Paid-up Capital

£3,000,000

HEAD OFFICE LONDON.

Bishopsgate, R.0.1. Sub-Agencies in London: Reserve Liability of Proprietors £3,000,000 Reserve Fund $3,000,000 11/123, Londonhall Street, E.ça, West End Branch:

14/16, Cockapur street, B.17.1.

Manchester Branch

52, Mosley Street, Manchester, Z.----- AGENCIES AND BRANCURS:

Farbla

Kantoon Hongkong Saigon

Alor Star

Amritsar

Bangkok Betayla Rombay Calcutta

Jollo Karachi Klang Kobo Cilva Street Kunle Jarilo PiscO Lumpur

Agencies:

Canton Cawnpore

Cebu Colombo

Kuching

Modras Manila

Medan

Semarang

Seremban

Shanthal Singapore Sitiawan

Seurabota Telping Tientsin Tongkah

(Bhuket)

Taingtao

Yokohama.

Dethi

· New York Haiphong

Hepi Hamburg. (Paking) Hankow

Penang FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITA rebelved for One Year or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur rencies at rates which will be quoted an application.

SAYINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rašen obtainable on application. The Bank's Head Office in London undertaxes Executor & Trustee businem, and claima recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of its Agencies and Branches...

12 A CAMIDOR.

J

COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS'

EVERYWHERE

GAOL

A Chance

Howard, manager of the Transvaal Collieries-the only non-Boer for 20 miles,

Howard and his British com- panions concealed Churchill in the mine workings until December 10, when they hid him among Rome bales of wont being trucked to Delagoa Bay. He had food and water with him, and remained In the truck for three days while the trein rumbled towards the coast.

When it arrived at Lourenco Marques, Churchllt slipped out of the truck, went to the British con- sulate, and .cmight a boat to Dur- ban the same evening.

He served as an officer of the South African Light Horse for the reinpinder of the wa

Three years passed before Chur- chill discovered the identity of the Boer burgher who had taken him prisoner. R was Louis Botha, by this time a General.

Later, when Churchill was Un- der-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Botha breame Prime Minister of the Transvaal.

FUNNY SIDE UP

15-10

ME NOODLE'S POLICE SCHOOL

TAKE MY

COURSE- GET ON THE FORCE!

Boulogne

Chapte

Ultr

PARIS

F

R

1914

Bac

THE arrows in the 1914 map show how far the Germans advanced in the first month of the 1914-18 war. The arrows in the 1940

map show the direction taken by the Nazi armoured divisions which, employing the Banso modification of the Schlieffen plan, were able to crush France.

In the two maps you see how the Schlieffen Plan, which was the basis of the German in- vasion of Belgium and France in 1914, has been adapted for the Nazi invasion of the Nether. lands, Belgium and France in 1940.

The German 1940 plan was a repetition of 1914 but on the opposite flank aimed at draw- ing Allied forces into Belgium, weakening the

By Abner Dean

"Now repeat after mo. 'So ya won't talk, ch?'

right, break it up!',

An

Be

SIGHT WRONG

and, 'Where's the fire?'"'

'All

Air Raid Can

So

Impersonal

17AR is a strange adven-

nowhere, the burst

Wture more terrifying and the splatter of debris. The

ence.

to read about than to experi- You read of bombing raids, of roads being sprayed with machine-gun bullets, and you form, maybe, a nightmare picture of death striking from the skies, of wholesale devas tation from which there is no escape.

But just as the nightmare onds with awakening, so can you pass through the blizzard of a barrage, a hail-storm of machine-gun and rifle fire, un- scathed, and-strangely-un- shaken.

Not every bomb or shell has your "number" on it, as the soldiers say; not every bullet finds a billet.

Ono need not minimise the horror of modern war, but it may be some consolation to relatives of soldiers now in the firing line to realise that in jury or death is not an hourly. menace.

Those photographs you ste of smiling, singing soldiers on their way to the front line are not posed, The soldier smiles and sings en his way to what may come, because it

first bomb, with its terrifying whistle through the air; the first time under intichine-gun fire when the bullets drone past like Invisible bees and you see little spurts of corth spring up at your feet.

You are alive unhurt, you were alightly sick, but you did not panic.

I, like many another, have been bombed, shelled, machine-gunned, passed; have gone over the top and walked through an enemy barrage: have crouched against the parapet while the area was "plastered," or when "whizz-banga," egg-bombs or "coal-boxes" whistled and shrieked through the night, and I have sur- vived

The soldier Icarris to recognise by its note where a shell will fall, where a bomb will burst. If he is not there, well and good. He adopts a philosophy of "Don't care," and translates it into char- acteristic. British humour, "Where did that one go_to?”.

He Invents familiar names for the worst of the enemy's artillery. In the lust war he amused himself in the stillness of the night, when there was "nothing doing," by playing "om-iddely-om-pom" with the enemy machine gu

"Om-liddely-om-ners.

a German

is his nature to do so; because die-machine-gun would stutter.

cipline and comradeship produce. n common courage. The fear of showing cowardice is greater than the fear of the unknown.

The baptism of fire is a nasty thing; the first shell that comes,

4

A

moment's alienes, then a British

gun would reply pom-pom.

So, when you read of violent" or "intense" fighting in this wor, think of the millions of combatants in the last war, the millions who survived

NEIL MACINTYRE

PARIS

F. R

1940

Osnabrück

Hüner

Jay Wilbur's band.

Joy Wilbur's band..

JUST RECEIVED

9757 Pinnochlo,

THE LATEST POPULAR REX RECORDS

Selection.

0758 There goes my dream.

O Mamma Mia.

0760 There's a boy coming home.

Who's talking you home-to-night. 9760 Arm in arm.

Dreaming.

0701 The man who comes around.

Bring out the little brown jug.

8722 Falthful foreve

Careless,

In a sentimental mood,

0700 You made me care,

No souvenirs.

9768 Moonlight avenue.

When the Rose of Tralee met Danny Boy.

0760 In an old Dutch garden,

Rainbow valley.

Billy Cotton's band,

Billy Cotton's band.

Billy Collon's band.

Roy Smeck's Hawaiian Serenaders.

Jay Wilbur's Serenaders,

Oscar Rabin's band."

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

19 QUEEN'S ROAD, C.

Cologne

Aachen

0774

My blue heaven.

Cooten

SWITZER TAND

French .centre and then cutting through and sweeping in behind the Allies.

And once again the centre thrust developed and reached a major crisis round Le Cateau. In 1914 Von Kluck, the German general commanding the right-wing army, wheeled inwards at this point, thinking that the French and British were al ready defeated. In this abandonment of the Schlieffen Plan the Germans lost their main chance of a quick victory.

It is worth remembering, too, that in 1914 the Germans advanced so rapidly that they out- ran their timetable and supplies were unable to keep pace with the advance. Mechanisation aided them in 1940.

SPAIN KEEP

WILL OUT

LISBON.

ON the winding banks of the lovely River Tagus

at Lisbon thousands of workmen toiled fever. ishly day and night. They are not building fort- nor even air raid shelters, despite the Mediterranean tension in these days.

resses,

They were completing, in time for the official opening, the Imperial Exhibition to celebrate the fact that this year it is exactly eight centuries since King Alfonso Henriques cut adrift from Spain and made Portugal a free and indepen- dent nation.

years

It is not bravado or blindness to for Suner was originally at Chris- danger which causes neutral Por- tian Social lender under Gil tugal publicly and elaborately to Robles. celebrate elight hundred except for a few decades when she was temporarily under Spain again

f-complete-liberty and Indepen dence at a time when all

over Europe snall neutrals are being eli- minated.

It is just that Portugal firmly believes that Spain will not invade Portugal, even if she joins in the war, an eventually regarded here 4s extremely

ustry improbable.

Austere Oliveira Salazar, who is his own Foreign Minister, is the least spectacular and the most el- Belent dictator in Europe. Nothing going on in Portugal escapes him, and very little of what goes on outside misses his notice.

11

Mobile Units

It is true that General Franco has well-trained, experienced army. When the civil war ended he had probably in the neighbour- hond of 800 bombers and chasers in good condition. We do not know what happened to the German and Italian, mainly Italian, crews and ground

these plats" who helped to fly

Some may still be there. Then there were at least 600 motor- hauled light and heavy modern German and Italian guns and many hundreds of armoured

cars and light Fiat and heavy Mercedes tanks,

And the tough Foreign Legion is still there, as a spearhead against any blitz-coup, with at least half million soldiers to back it up. From the point of view of men and ini- tial army materials, Franco could certainly strike in

any direc-

tion.

The navy is mall but useful and has been overhauled under German guidance after being returned by the French after the Republicans had surrendered.

But Franco would be. Immedi- ately blockaded by England.

Wheat Scarco

ΟΙ

He would have no possible means of getting further munitions petrul. Franco's brother-in-law,' Ramon Serrano Suner, Home Min- Ister and political leader, told a Valencia audience frankly that Spain was having to face, and comedy, a deficit of no less than. one million tons of wheat in order to bridge the period from the last harvest to the next.

Then there is the internal situa- tion in Spain. Suner spoke freely about this too. Very briefly, what is happening is a big tug-of-war within the Falange. Suner and his fallowers are probably listening closely, to the advićo of Germany's Madrid Ambassador, von Stohrer, which probably coincides closely enough with their own opinions.

Left Wing Now High-pressure Nazi and Italian propagaida tells the Fallige it must be radlenl. It must appeal for popular support.

That, in Spain, means inevitably going a long way Left. But the Carlists, Catholics and Monarch- ists hold up their hands in horror. They say, "We sacrificed every- thing to save Spain from Com- munism, and now we are asked to install almost the same thing under another label.""

General Francisco Franco, in the seclusion of his new home in El Pardo

Paluce, eight miles from Mudrid, says nothing. It is not clear

how he will bridge the gulf, for both sides thinks it is a life of death issue.

There are other things he must take into account. A quarter of a million people are estimated to be in prisons and labour camps--not

*

nation happy aspect of a united

of

Public opinion in Spain might not welcome a war against the Alltes-despite all the efforts the 200 propagandists reputedly employed by the German Embassy in Madrid and the nation-wide activities of Thomson, Nazi chief for Spain.

It seems, in. fact, very unlikely altogether that Spain will stick out her neck in order to receive swift blows.

Italy's Bargain

Portugal sees os a tranquilising factor in the general skuation the visit of the Duce's son, Bruno Mussolini, who is paying a three- day visit to negotiate final permis sion for Italy to use the Sal Island of the Cape Verde Islands for the Italy-Brazil flying services, which it is hoped will function soon. Bruno is discussing the matter with the Colonial Minister, Machado.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Slock Exchange official Summary lasued yesterday says:

A line of Lands was placed at $30 followed by a further transaction in them at $20%. Telephones changed hands at $20, Cements at $13, Elec trics at $58% and Providents at $34. Sellers Electries $56.75

Bales Pravidents $3.20 Lands $30/29.75 Trams $14

China Lights (Old) $0 China Lights (Now) $3. Electrics 556.25000969 Telephones (Old) $20) Cements $13

MARINA HOUSE

The

Oscar Rabin's band,

Billy Colton's band.

PHONE 24648,

Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition

June-September, 1940.

Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.

For the best and second-best entrics,

Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO.

First Prizes in each of the four Sections.

$250 CASH PRIZES $250

SECTION ONE General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION TWO

Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. SECTION THREE

Still Life and Table Top Studies.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. -SECTION-FOUR-- (Craftsmen's Section)

The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who will be required to make a declaration to this offect. Each entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society. Subjects at the discretion of competitors..

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20: 4th. $12.50.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1The Competition is confine ex- clusively to arnateur photo- graphers.

2.-No employes or member of any arm in the photographía trado is permitted to compelo.

3.-1710 prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are ndjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Bection, Each entry must be accompanied by a form which wiị bà published during the period of the Com- . petition, and which must ba

pasted on back of entry,

The right to publish any or ali of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

Q-NI photographis entered must have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong,- Photographs which › have been already entered in -No resporaltüHIC

Promotii be accepted

for non-delivery of loss of, or damage la entries.

SECTION

NAME

ADDRESS

7-All entries to be either black, sepla, or toned pictures, and must be mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. -Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be accompanied by a smaller print in black and white. D-No picture to entered in more

than one Beclion.

10.-Mounts to be only while or cream, must be of one of the following sizes:-10X12, 10×20,

11--No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition,

11-Members of the Staffs of the

Hongkong Telegraph

and

South China atorning Pois are not permitted to compete,

13 The decision of the Judges shall

be final

14-At the conclusion of the Com

petition, entries will be returned to competitors on application at the Telegraph alices within seven days.

ENTRY FORM

Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entry in

·fections 1, 2 and 3

HONG KONG, SOCIETY, FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

in $30,000

In 1940 to meet the creasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hongkong, against which the Income to dato 18 $22,000 only

...

In order to continue its work, The Society ap peals for the balance, of

$13,000 before the closs of the financial year on Sist October.

The Society, now administers to over 3.000 children at eight Centres and, in addition, supports 20 children at various Institutions and 00 bables at its Creche

Jon. Treasurer (from whom a copy at the Annual Report for 1009 may be obtained):

Mr, A. McKellar,- C.A.

210/0 Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.

P. & Q. Building.

Mr.-Kwok Chaddiyat

c/o The Banque de Lindo-Cisine,

TONG KONG.

1st June, 10.