1940-07-09 — Page 20

OLEANDER

Sunburn

OLEANDER SUNBURN LOTION.

Sunburn.

To Be And Trendy

To The Shin

Before & Adint propert

LOTION

A. S. WATSON & Ca. Linied.

HỒNG KONG.

A NEW

TYPE OF LOTION FOR USE AFTER EXPOSURE TO SUN OR WIND QUICKLY ALLAYS The Discomfort of SUN BURN

Non-Greasy

Mildly Astringent

ANTISEPTIC

and

HEALING

A WATSON'S PRODUCT.

"

JUST

ARRIVED NEW

H. M. V.

Pinocchio-Selection.

ID 820

BU 830

Where or When.

Oh, Johnny,

BD 826

I've got no Strings.

BD 828

RECORDINGS

Reginald Foort (Organ).

Pat Kirkwood.

Pat Kirkwood.

Three Cheers for anything. It's a lovely day to-morrow, Careless.

I 9030 Rosita, Websler. Booth.

When you wish upon a Star. A kles in the Dark (Herbert). Indian Summer.

B 0031

B 9032 Someday (Victor Herbert).

Thine Alune (Victor Herbert),

J.O.G

3.0.2

3.0.4

Mala Junto-Tango,

La Tabluda-Tango,

Chagrin D'amour-Tango. Tango Chinois,

Al Bowlly.

Webster Booth,

Allan Jones,

Argentin Orchestra.

Elegante Popiruse-Tango. Malinconia-Tango.

S. MOUTRIE &

York Bldg.

Mario Melt Orchestra.

Argentin Orchestra.

Co.,

LTD.

Chater Road,

Tel. 20527.

Famed The World Over!

JOHNSON'S WAX POLISHES

ON'S

WAX

JOHNSONS

WAX

Buy a can of Johnson's Wax today and beautify your home... For sale at feading department, hard. ware, paint and grocery stores.

Nothing gives floors and furniture. ́exquisite beauty and long wear like genuine Johnson's Wax. That is why millions of women through. out the world use nothing but this Racst of polishes

Johnson's Wait produce a rich, mellow lustre, yet it is tough and durable. Protects against wear. Makes housework easy because dirt can't stick.

There is only one Johnson's Wax ---Insist on the genuine! Cheap imitations amear of become gummy. Johnson's Wax is the Anest polish, and ia conomical to use!...

NEW FLOOR POLISH NEEDS NO RUDDING!

• Johnson's GLO.' COAT!er, dika

Ty naw kind of Enor,

polish that sålass without rubbins. Just apply and fet day 14. În 10 vadás vier Gio-Cest deles

ban gleaming footrek

Made by 5. C, JOHNSON & SON, INC. RACINE, WIS., U. S. A.

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz

Investment Bankers- and Brokers

Members of New York Cotton Exchange

Chicago Board of Trade

Manila Stock Exchange

Winnipeg Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York

Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Mònireal

Now York Coffee and Sugar Exchange

Hongkong Sharebrokers. Association

Shanghai Stock Exchange

SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA and BUENOS AIRES

Cable Address: SWANSTOCK

Tuesday,

Don't

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

GAMBLE.

DON'T GAMBLE WITH YOUR LIFE... For your own safety ar well as the safety of your car.. have brakos that you can depend"

on.

Brake Fluid plays a big part in the officiant operation of Hydraulic Brakos

WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING HYDRAULIC BRAKE FLUID

the dependable, permanent brake fluid that gives you the fooling of safoly.

Uso

For longer life for your brakes .. your car and yourself WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING HYDRAULIC BRAKE FLUID.

The

Sold Here HONGKONG

HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Ra

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, July 9, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

July 9, 1940.

The

Destroyer's Message

BRITISH destroyers were zard, but according to schemes at sea on

an independent invented and tried out long be search for German sub- marines.

fore the war,

*

The weather was typical for THE thudding detonations of the time of year--a ahrowd wind' those massive' canisters about from the north-north-east caus- seemed to squeezo the air, and ing the little sens to break on top caused the sea momentarily to | of a heavy swell from the south-` shimmer es if beaten by heavy,

westward. The sky was grey rain.

and overcast with a low cloud Exploding at various depths below celling. Occasional squalls of water, they shook the ships from rain blotted out the horizon and which they were projected, and rats- shut down the visibility to about 'ed huge mushroom-shaped domes of white water which burst upwards in seven miles.

the size of ordinary dustbins Down below in a wireless gouts of spray tinged grey by the cabinet a young man in the early high explosive. twenties stiffened and sat for- The explosions died away. There ward in his chair as a faint came the inevitable suspense as to crackling started to come whether the attack had been success- through his carphones.

His ful. Many eyes searched the ten for the signs of a submarine breaking up from the depths. But for the tima Furface, or oil or wreckage floating- nothing appeared.

| hand moved to a knob on the in- strument board in front of him, and the sound became intensifi- ed. Listening, he started to write.

A German submarine had

THE predz "pecial to the Talegraph" la sred by the "Hongkong Telegraph Indicate news which is zurictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuulbeen reported||

some distance to"

cations Ordinance, 1038. Buch newE, MA. bears the indication "UPHP is received in Jongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, where the southward. servo All rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement

Is It France?

She had tor-

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"It's for you!”

Southampton,

Wonder

Dock

The destroyer lett behind to pick up the survivors of the sunken ship Britain has depended largely vessel up to 100,000 tons.

came racing to the upon sea transport, which in

THE successful war effort of the modern area and will take a

-by TAFFRAIL

It Is 1,200 ft. long and 135 ft. wide, turn is reliant entirely upon The 73,000 ton Queen Mary enters

efficient docks.

the dock with the greatest of ease, leaving plenty of room for a much The major work of transporting bigger vessel.

scene ut full

speed. Three men, she reported, had been killed when the steamer Britain's overseas army to the various was torpedoed. theatres of war has been done The port also has the distinction of pedoed a neutral steamer, and Twenty-two others had been rescued, through the port of Southampton owning the world's largest floating the crew were taking to their

with its wonderful network of docks dock, capable of lifting a vessel with bonts,

Collecting his flocks, the senior and quays, new and old.

a displacement weight of over 60,000 onloer ordered another attack. Once]

tons completely out of the water in Within a few minutes the dog. more the depth charges were dropped The South of England port, with under four hours, This mammoth troyers were steaming in the according to plan-is time with its wonder docks, is the world's floating dry dock covers three and a direction indicated at something success.

greatest remance of modern dock quarter acres and was built on the over thirty knots.

River Tyne. building. Yet, although it has been; About half-a-mile astern of one of a port from ancient times, and it was If seven of the world's super liners the destroyers the coming-tower and from here in 1820 that the little 180 which make the port their British long hull of a submarine suddenly tans sailing ship Mayflower set sail home were to berth at the jetty in the IT took them some time to broke surface bow first in a swirl of for America willi the Pilgrim Fathers, mile and a quarter of quay. Their

• modern docks they would occupy a of chess that is being played on the reach the reported position, water. The U-Boot's stern was still it is only during the last thirty years total weight would be round about floor of the world, Britain, by her marked for all the world to see under water when her conning-tower that the port has enjoyed an inter- 350,000 tons, and they would carry prompt and efficient action, has by three boatloads of survivors Ild opened, and men started to tumble national reputation, from the Lme over 30,000 passengers, the population Ecored a distinct check to Germany, and a litter of floating wreckage up on decks. She might have a sting when it became a terminal port of of n good-sized town.

France's position in the war gome

Future historians when writing: history of the war, will feature the round up of the French fleet as one of the most significant events in the record of hostilities. This action by the British has probably changed the whole course of events and changed them to the disadvantage of Germany. In the desperate game

Locs for nothing. She sold out with tumbling about in the grey sea. eft. Nobody was to know if she in-call for the largest

the signing of the armistice by

And while one destroyer was Marshal Petain and his government, detailed to rescue the men, the not be taken. The fleet was no longer a French

*

had

tended to surrender and risks could

trans-Atlantic.

liners.

No port in the

☆

world has grown

so fast or made

such, material pro-i

by

SPITHEAD

One of the most „cómplex factors in modern commerce lia the science of distribution, 3.0 Rockland has

to

be equipped with every modem ap The modern pllance for dealing expeditiously with the every type of sea-born traffic, passen-

Best. It became a German arm and others passed on ahead and then must be so regarded. To call it slowed down and started to French is misleading and unwise, as quarter the sea according to--BUT it was a case of surren- gress during the

colour to the German Ile plan. They were well over a der. Some of the U-boat's crew pave It gives that

France could still have called hundred miles from the nearest the fleet her

own. Pelain

have given the dect up to Germany com- land; but an aircraft had sighted could be seen to be leaping over-site of 400 acres of tidal mud-land, gir, and cargo, pletely when he recognised German what was probably the conning board. Others were holding up the home of seagulls. Over £10,000- rule in the occupied territories of tower of a U-boat, and had has their hands. Her bows started land and creating on it the finest dock 000 have been spent reclaiming this France. That the feet was not be used by either Germany or Italy tened to report it after dropping to lift as the stern slowly went was a story that would not deceive a bomb or two,

1

a chud. French indignation is Ger

are instigated from Herita;

ما

were

under..

ready. Extra lookouts were on went asteri

docks

been

built

on

in the world, providing an additional

16,000 lineal feet of berthing. Twenty.

million tons of mud was involved in

7

* #

BRITAIN'S

wonder

The destroyers' guns

port, man indignation, Germany speaks manned and their depth charges. through France, French

Destroyers approached, stopped, and the dredging operations, half of which thanks to far-sighted planning,

em- pumped behind concrete to check their way. bankments for reclamation purposes, as any great port in the world, em is easily as efficiently equipped the bridge, and the ships'.com- Beats were lowered. They rescued of the residue 3,000,000 tons

a concrete

the

the

:

7,000,000 tons of soft mud was taken

nel.

Nature has conspired to make Southampton a great port by giving her the practically unique gift of

by Berlin, and French reported to have taken the form of panies keyed up to the idea of the entire crew, some from the water, gravel, and re-used as Ws and possesses one great natural a rald upon Gibraltar, was com action. They all knew what was come from the submarine herself. oggregate, whilst the remaining advantage over them all. munded

Berlin. Probably by planes that took part in this ratain the wind. Though it was They were described as youngish ren were manned by Germans.

Accord afternoon, and those who had and beard, some still self-possessed; out to sea and dumped in the Chan- ing to Mr. Churchill, 400 German kept watches, the night before but others obviously shaken by their airmen were released under the might reasonably have been ordeal. They were well cared for The modern docks are approached double tides which, in co-operation armistice conditions. What could be asleep, there were few men on by their rescuers, who gave them by a newly dredged channel, 2 miles with six miles of sheltered estuary, better than to give them French planes to operate against. Britain? the mess-decks.

long and 000 ft. wide, running from gives complete and easy access to the Navy rum and warm clothing.

the old ocean dock to the end of the old and new docks in all weathers It is necessary at this time, when The search continued. For

Those U-boat men described what new quay wall. So successful have and at any state of the tide. Liner most crucial events in the some time nothing happened. had happened inside the submarine been the dredging operations that the and cargo truffle are thus completely world's

history are taking place to Then, quite suddenly, a flag first the bombs from the aircraft, and built, can arrive or leave the docks time of the day and night, thus saving largest ships afloat, or likely to be free to make or leave port at дру realise clearly the difference between hoisted by one of the destroyers then, after an interval the sound of at all states of the tide. German-France and the Frenchmen indicated that the scent had been the hunting destroyers' propellers be-

much time and expense. whose pride of race, independence of character and bravery in war give picked up. The deadly Asdics coming louder and louder. Next the

The double tides in Southamptort. them the right to demand our re were at work. The remorseless thudding detonation of the first depth

Water make it possible for passenger. pect and affection. That Marshal hunt began.

super liners to dock as easily Petain thought at to surrender his

charges, doser, closer all the time.

train coming into a station, and country into the ruthless hands of Depth charge after depth

and The first attack caused serious

time. The Queen Mary Germany is

Normandie glide into the dock and Judgment must be suspended. Apart from the throwers-not hapha-, her look. There came a short respite mammoth liners, is enclosed, in they berth as gracefully as small ferry steamers at a river pier, and except during which the propeller sounds

for fog are never inte. Once berthed, be heard receding.

two invasions begin in real carnest bears the unmistakeable could

Soon there was only enough pressure the pent-up passengers tace for the breathed again, persuading them-left to blow the tanks and come to waiting trains, and hundreds of work- marks of Nazi censorship.

the chase. selves that the hunters had given up the surface to give the crew a chance men and cleaners jump aboard:

for their lives, which the commander make the Ener pick and span for

the next voyage. Vain, hope. Unseen impalpable decided to do,

All classes of maritime trane, and more so, as in the confusion of the faced with run should they refuse neath the waters.

The rest of the story's been told, every type of ship from glant liner moment, they are unable to ses to acknowledge Petain the Fuchrer

The propeller Shortly after the rescue of her crew to fussy coaster are to be found in the clearly and might be persuaded even of France while, on the other hand, sounds became louder again, then that submarine tung her bows verti-docks. Since the Great against their inner convictions, that to accept German rule must be more depth charges-close, frightfully cally into the air, and sank stern volume of shipping ust their old enemy has suddenly and wormwood and gall to a brave close. unaccountably become their friend.

:1

a matter upon which charge was dropped or projected damage to their submarine and made

from the lesson it teaches, it is, ut the moment, immaterial. The point, to be remembered is that Nazi pro- paganda, under the guise of French country Indignation, must be discounted.

France is suffering and will suffer The position the French colonies mare. Frenchmen who subjected to terrie

are boing is not a happy one. On the one

-Men

in a cruci predicaments are hand the greater number of French

All the officiais and business houses are fingers were soon groping again be-

Bul

дл

people.

THE largest graving dock in the world-King George V Dock capable of berthing the

us #

the

to

War the

wing

Southamp

year, and

great pride Iri

Tho

first in a dutter of whitened water ton has more than doubled itself and not for long. To-day, in spito

and an over-widening patch of iride- now amounts to nearly 20,000,000 tons In the days to

when of

come,

the confusion of thought, France is world may be much startled by so-

scent all sprending over the surface per annum. More than half a million of the sea. by no means a willing sacrifice on called

passengery use the port esth "French"--"aellon against THAT second attack put out Hitler's altar. Straws indicate the Britain, it will be necessary to per

it is a joke locally amongst the dock "Attack successful", said the wire-workers, who take wind and the order put out by the ceive clearly the truth of this capitu- lights, shattered delicate instru- less. Twenty-three survivors res- their port, that here it is possible, to Petain Government forbidding of Intion and to know that whatever mente, and caused worse flood-cued." Deers

to wear

wear British decorations is Fetain and his colleagues think wise,

buy a ticket to anywhere

These world.

cheery an indication

A hundred and fifty miles away workers, when watching hundreds of opinion of the

dockland of the la" not necessarily the opinion of thejing. country. It would be unnecessary vast majority of French people... Tho

In an office nshore a British officer to issue such orders if the ant dificulty he is experiencing in chang-

Very soon the U-boat's stem was wearing the gold stripes of an Ad into the big liners can

passengers passing up the gangways British feeling were as strong as the ing the form of government and the full of water, which came spurting miralleant over a chart spread out shouting: "All aboard for anywhere."

be heard Germans would have us believe

constitution is further proof of this, in through the pipes and rivet holes The ordered arrest of such dauntless if proof were needed. Without doubt

"Hero's the position, sir," said his

Men of all types have pooled their writers Pertinax" Mme. To when the day comes when Britain in the bulkhead. She developed a

Emile Bure is a further indication German aggression, amongst the Arst seep into the interior through the elves," the Commonder - In - Chief [have succeeded. These docks are: bouis, M. Henri de Karrills and M. succeeds in freeing the world from heavy list. More water started to Chief of Staff, dabbling with a peneli. gifts of brain muscle and worked un- ceasingly, day and night, to make this "The boys are surpassing, them-port the rival of all others, and they that France is now, as the "New to welcome and honour our exploit damaged conning-tower. York Herald Tribune" puts it, no will be our old comrade in arms--|

answered. "That's the third- this owned and controlled by the Southern longer fres, and that news from that Franco,

Railway.

on a table.:

The compressed air was leaking, week:"

Page 20Page 21