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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 15, 1940.

HOME DEFENCE UNITS FOR THE UNDER-20's

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Those Who Are Waiting NOW WITH R.A.F.

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A NEW HOME DEFENCE FORCE, TO BE COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF YOUTHS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 19%, WHO WILL BE ADDITIONAL TO THE “PARA- SHOTS,” WAS ANNOUNCED BY THE WAR OFFICE RECENTLY.

It is intended primarily for young men, who are not im- . mediately lable for service but who feel that they are not making the fullest contribution to the national effort. They wiil form additional companies for certain home defence battalions for special service in this country.

Application for enlistment in the young brigade should . be made as soon as possible at any Army recruiting office,

Applicants will be required to enlist for general service for the duration of the war.

It is intended to transfer them at the age of 20 years to train- ing units for service in the field army.

WOUNDED —BY WAR THUNDER

Wall Falls On Schoolboys

.

London, June 2. FOR three days the thun- der of the battle raging in France and Belgium has been shaking the Kentish coast,

Men in occupations reserved at 23 years of age or lower will not be accepted.

400,000 Old Brigado

It is emphasised that it is not in- tended to interfere in any way with armament and munitions productions, | shipbuilding, and undertakings pro- ducing supplies for the armed forces, which are at the moment of urgent national Importance.

Young men engaged in these in- dustries are advised to remain at their work.

Nearly 400,000 men have volun- teered for the Local Defence Volun- teer Force-the "Parashots"—It was announced.

The response in nearly every dis- frict has been most satisfactory, and is hoped to Issue a progress report shortly.

Trained For The Job

Closed doors have burst open, wall pletures have fallen down, and win-It dow panes cracked. Two schoolboys were Injured-one had a leg broken when the wall of their class-room fell on them,

Terrific machine-gun fire from the sea was also heard yesterday. It is belleved that R.A.F. fighters were driving off Nazi planes attempting their third rald on Britain in 24

hours.

The Casualties

As reports of the action flashed from various parts of the coast, damage done by the two German raids on Friday night was assessed

ns:

The War Offee has been inundated with letters and suggestions regard- ing the best method of organising this force. Most of the suggestions are good, but the majority are based on the assumption that the task of re- polling invasion from the air is to rest entirely with the L.D.V.

.

Actually this duty rests with our Home Forces. There are regular many thousands of these troops in the country and they are ali fully organised for this purpose.

to those of the re-

Kuled: I cow, 1 pony, several | Although it is impossible to publish chickens, in Enst Anglis.

details of a defence scheme, it must Injured: Eight civilians in a north-not be imagined that no such scheme east coast town. Three were taken exists. The duties of the LD.V. are

merely to hospital.

ancillary Damared: Several cottages, farm gulor Home Forces. buildings, chicken runs-and the sky- light in an Essex police station.

Child Slept

People living in the north-east Coast town had narrow escapes when a bomb fell five. yards from their back doors, blowing in windows and outhouses.

One criticism of the scheme is that the arrangements for the organisa- tion of the. L.D.V. are too haphazard and informal.

Village Units

Against this it is pointed out that the LDV, is purposely being raised Mrs. Walkington searched frantic upon as elastic a basis as possible.

for her 10-years-old daughter. Its members serve only in their spare: ally Although the room was littered with time and live, in their homes, and glass and smashed woodwork, the this obviously precludes them from child was covered by a blanket being fitted into any rigid scheme. asleep.

MAN WITH ARMY MAP CHARGED

JOHN BARRY, 24, a black-

The Duke of Kent, brothor of King George, who resigned an Admiralty Intelligence post to take a job in training com- mand of Royal Air Force. Ho's captain flyor.

Picture Of Hitler Seized

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At Croydon

POLICE recently visited- the home of a Croydon Council employee and took possession of documents, in- cluding photographs of Hit- ler.

The man was not at homei In certain districts.frins are or:| ganising their own units, and in when they called. Later a mant many villages the inhabitants have was taken to Croydon Police Sta- turned for leadership to some pro- tion. minent resident or retired military oncer.

A man addressing a British Union meeting outside Croydon Town Hall In the London area, where there was arrested, recently, and at the have been thousands of applica- same time a hostile crowd surrounded tions, it is hoped to enrol selected in man selling the Fuscist paper applicants and equip them with Action in the High-street. uniforms and rifles by to-night. Most of the volunteers selected are

Offices Mobbed There was a fight until the police;

Bmith, of Masonsavenue. Weald, ex-Service men. In the Metropolitan Intervened. The paper seller was

stone, was remanded in custody at Hendon recently charged with

area they will take their rifles home.

taken to

to the police station. Later a crowd assembled outside

possessing a military map of Solis He Remembered-29 the Croydon offices of the British

bury Plain believed to be stolen.

Alfred Lawrence, of Abbey Wood- road, Abbey Wood, general foreman of a Golders Green firm of pubile works contractors employing Barry aald that Barry called him aside and produced the map.

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TO- window and people, in the crowd

MORROW In March 1011 a boy was taken! challenged the men to “come down to King Edward VII. Hospital, Wind-f and fight."

ONLY sor, gravely ill with a bullet-wound Police dispersed the crowd and put

A successful a guard outside the offices.

WEDNES He said that he was in a dance in his body.

Watch On Queues- hali at Wealdstone with a young wo-operation was performed.

Delectives

R.K.O. Recently the secretary of the hos- Detect man when an Englishman and an

hunting 225 Columnists watched all queues where Pictura Irishman sat beside him. He over-pital received a cheque for

from the grateful patient-Mr. T. M. the 27's were, registering at Labour heard the Englishman Bay to the Irishman. "I have something which Winsley, of Singapore-as a volun-Exchanges recently

for Fifth

lary war contribution. "I owe my They had instructions to arrest any might be useful to you-a map.

Barry told him, continued Law-life to the hospital," he wrote.

suspicious characters spreading peace For other subversive propaganda." rence, that he immediately went to

Northern Ireland Special Consta- address where the map was and oblained it. He had had the map about three

ree months. Asked why he to the it lo had not taken

the

replied that "he washe

added that as he

did

not

and

and

Any-

body to blow his head off" he kept until he was returning to Ireland,

it

us he was returning to Ireland, as

he knew then that he would be safe.

Vain Search

Detective-Sergeant Gibbs said that

be saw Barry with Mr. Lawrence

the

д

The house,

at an R.A.F. station. Barry agreed that he overheard the conversation between the two men at the Laguna dance hull, Wealdstone. Asked how went he got the map, he replied, "I

and got

bus,

and outside

conductor directed

me to the and said road. I found the to the lady there, 'Can I have the map?? and she gave me the map."

"I then took him in the police car Har- to the vicinity of Wealdstone, row, and South Harrow" continued Sergt Gibbs, and gave him every opportunity to point out the house, but he could not do so." After 1vo hours search he arrested Barry..

ARMY MATSHED THEFT

Gunner Fullagar reports the loss of two pairs of shoes and a wrist- watch, valued at $35, from the Army matshed at Talwan Beach on Friday.

LATE NEWS bulary is to be enlarged to deal with

any landing of parachute troops.

Troops in Ulster were called out to I guard key points.

Sandbag barricades and barbed wire

fences were erected at vulnerable points.

'SHADOW' COURTS

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if and when necessary. A. complete scheme is ready to

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Charwoman Shot

WED HER HERO

A WEEK LATE

Miss Norah, M. Halke, daughter of Court houses have been 'ar- A FORTY YEARS OLD Col. FT. Halse, of Elmstead Grange, Chislehurst, Kent, was happy recent- ranged in comparatively safe widow, Mrs. Annie McFarlane, ly-because her wedding, postponed areas, complete with offices for wits accidentally shot dead re-a week ago when her bridegroom's leave was cancelled, became a bride registrars and other officials.

Already most of the High Court contly while working as a charat Chilehurst, Kent. records have been moved to places woman in a Scottish naval estab. It was a Ave o'clock (p.m.)

wed- af safety in the country. “

ding

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