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U-Boat

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

July 4, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

AIN'T-WE GONNA BE SOMETHIN

Food Ministry Finds Plot

To Wreck Meat Control

Sinks Nazi, FARMERS AND BUTCHERS

Italian Internees

LONDON, July 3 (Reuter)About 1,000 scantily-clad sur- vivors of the British liner, Arandorn Stur, which was torpedoed by a German submarine when carrying 1,500 German and Italian internees to Canada, were landed by a British ship at a Scottish port to-day.

British soldiers were aboard

acting as guards.

It is learned that the ship

went down with many German

and Italian victims.

There was panic aboard and the rush seriously hampered the getting away of the lifeboats,

They Cursed Warfare

Two soldiers said the ship was struck without warning andi they Added: "Wo cursed the U-boat, but not so much as did the Germans and Italiana who were almost ferocious In their denunciation of this type of warfare.

"Such was the scramble that we had difficulty in getting into the life- boats,"

The Captain and several of the - ship's ofcers were standing on the bridge and decks, and it is feared that several went down vessel.

Bad Feeling

with the

Some of the British soldiers bitterly commented on the conduct of the German prisoners, describing them as big hulking brutes who tried to sweep away the Italians and had to be forcibly restrained,

Bitter hostility between Germans and Italians was apparent both on the liner and the rescue ship, and troops were constantly on guard to prevent blows being struck,

No estimate of the total casualties is yet possible, but the Italians, most of whom were traders in this country, appear to

have been the worst sufferers.

Casualties were suffered by mem- bers of the crew and British troops,

Doris Duke's Offer To Refugees

NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuter).-According to the "New York Poal," Mrs. James Cromwell, the the former Doris Duke, has offered to take 500 English refugee children and to spend $250,000 a year supporting them.

The paper reports that 1,000 persons

are daily offering refugees homes and already 10,000 in- dividuals have offered homes while 500 private schools and other organi- sations have offered homes to 5,000 children.

ship open as she began to settle very rapidly.

...

"Everyone was provided with life- belts and life-boots were rapidly lowered and rofts put out.

"After two hours in the water. swimming and resting on our planks. we saw a pline and knew that s- sistance would soon be on its way, "Eventually we were hauled sith ulrendy over-crowded British ship, which had 150 people aboard. Fortunately the sea was not rough, but all around us, we could see the water strewn with wreckage and bodies."

Rescue Work By Nazi When a life-boot capsized, a rap-aboard tured German aboard went to help arid succeeded in righting the boat, He then set about rescuing those in the water.

The owners of the Arandora Star state that a fair proportion of the crew were saved,

Struck Without Warning

Total Losses Unknown

The vessel was carrying about 4_official_of Frederick Leyland 2,000 persons and the survivors had and Co., owners of the liner, stated had terrible stories to tell of the to-night that the total losses could Keenes on board before the liner not yet be established.

sank.

He hoped that

more survivors!

The ship was struck without warn- might yet be landed in addition to ing in broad daylight about 6 o'clock those who have arrived at a Scottish in the morning, according to two port. soldiers, who said:

""The

The skipper of the Arondom Star Internces, particularly the is Captain E. W. Moulton, who has Italians, made wild scramble for had charge of the vessel since 1927.} the life-boats pushing everyone aside in pre-war days, when the Arandora In their eagerness.

Star was a cruising liner, he took, her practically all over the world.

Only One Torpedo "Apparently unly one torpedo was fired, but, it must have ripped the and sunk of the coast of Ireland.

The Arandorn Star was torpedoed;

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RATION RUSTLING'

A WIDESPREAD SCHEME in which farmers and butchers are co-operating

to defeat meat rationing has been discovered by the South Western Divisional Food

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Every Factory To

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LATEST news of the Local of dealing with formidablo Defence Corps, formed to deal monace. Ho suggested that with parachutists, given by trained troops should be used. Sir Edward Grigg (Under- Secretary, War Office) in the ad Forces) Bill which provides The National Service (Arm- House of Commons recently:

Mombers of

that men shalt not be exempt- the Corps would be soldiers under milled from liability to serve in the fighting Services by boing tary command; they would not be free to move about the members of the Local Defence country as they pleased, but Corps was passed through all would act in sections under its stages.

their focal commander.

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It had been arranged to the parachutist menace are to appoint a Security Officer in bo asked in the House of overy factory to see that do Commons. fence was adequate.

They include suggestion that A.R.P. servicos Free potral or third class should be trained to use arms; railway fare was to be allowed two other questions concern arca or zone organisors: office the desirability of arming expenditure up to £10 for each unit; allowance of 2s. 6d. postmon and lorry drivars. per rifle for group organisers; Mr. E. W. Salt

(Com., members to woar a khaki Yardley) will ask the Home armlet on their uniform with Secretary: } the latters L.D.C.

By May 20, 250,000 had volunteered, and many more wore still coming in. In some districts it might be necessary to close down enrolment.

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How soon

con rifles and uniforms be provided for Local Dofanco Volunteers, and can arrangements be made for those men to obtain rifle prac tice without delay?

It is suggested in another The formation of the Corps question that all prisoners of was condomred by Mr. Horo- war should be transferred to Belisha as an inadequate way the Colonies or Dominions,

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BOMBAY KEEPING WET High Court saying that legislation prohibiting possession of liquor le High Court Ruling Says beyond the power of authority of the

Prohibition Illegal

Provincial Legislature.:

Customs revenus from liquor being Bombay, July 3.u matter for the Central Government, Prohibition in Dombay has virtual- the provinces cannot prohibit the ly ended by a further decision of the import of liquor.-Reuter.

Office.

A number of prosecutions are to take place and others, are under con- sideration.

Evidence regarding illegal sale of ment in Bristol is now being con- sidered by the food authority.

Sell At Any Prico Investigations have shown that

farmers

are illegally slaughtering livestock and supplying butchers with ment, which they are able to sell without coupons, and at any price they

choose.

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slaughtering is prevalent, and we are talking steps to stump it out," a Food Ministry official

Allo "Daily Herald."

It is believed that in some districts, farmers and buteliers are combining

in this legal action, because prime ment killed in the district has been

taken away and foreign meat sent Into the area to take its pince,

In other cases butchers anxious to antisfy wealthy customers have per- sunded

farmcra to do Illegal slaughterring so that "good" cus- tomers may be satisfied.

Mayor's Warning

The Mayor of Gillingham, Kent, Councillor L. J. Newham, told the Tocul food control committee that some butchers were flagrantly abus- ing the meat rationing order.

If further cases were reported, he satd, proceedings would be taken in the police court.

Pro-Nazi Jailed

ASKED FOR WAR OFFICE JOB

to

NAZI swastikas, cut from cardboard and covered with silver paper, were said at West Ham Police Court recently have been found in the rooms of Charles Max Sackritz, 30-year- old British-born son of n German- He was sentenced to a month's hard

Jabour and Ained

£10 for defacing a Government poster, con- trary to the defence regulations.

Detective-Inspector R. Jones said: Sackritz had very strong pro-German sympathies.

Map And Cartoons

In his rooms at Margery Park-rond, Forest Gate, E., was found a large map of Central Europe, on which were pinned political cartoons, all pro-Nazi,

There was also a letter in which he had offered his services to the War Office as a war correspondent or censor, saying he had a perfect knowledge of German.

At a previous hearing he had pleaded guilty to tearing down Q poster headed "Don't help

the enemy,"

Was A Fascist Sackritz, a. tailor, Joined the Fascist Party last year, but left it,

He was taken to live in Germany when he was seven years old and stayed 15 years.

His father, an invalid, Hees In Germany, as does a sister.

His mother is dead. He, went to Germany just before the war to see his relations,

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