1940-08-19 — Page 19

THAT

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD DUCK

WHAT'S 'THING,

UNCA DONALD?

IT'S A HIVE! SMITH'S BEES ARE SWARMING

AND I'M GOIN'

OUT AN CATCH EM!

IF YOU'RE HUNTIN' FOR MY BEES, SON, I'M WARNINI YUH

G'WAN! SWARMIN!

BELONG TO

WHO CATCHES 'EM!

AWAYLON

SMITH'S

HONEY FOR SALE

I KNOW THE LAWI

AND, FREE HONEY

IS WORTH--{

7-5

Cope 1918, Wale Doney Prodo, Evana)

THE BRAVE NEW FRONT

JOHN PUDNEY, cent vistas where "you don't know there's a war on," to the

who has just returned firm thresholds which have from a visit to North- murmured "it won't happen

here,' Eastern England, here

I have seen this Britain, in describes the courage that North-Eastern corner,

and common sonso

with which ordinary men and women have

faced their frequent air-raid alarms.

+

"Horler glanced at the

E'S late." The night

hotel clock. "Not like Jerry. He hasn't missed lately."

Familiar words, this war and last; but the setting has shifted. This is the North- East of England, the evening bracing and opalescent, the in- dustrial skyline almost nudi- bly pulsing in its industrial dream, the business men'e hotel weighty with the heavi- ly dined.

"Keops me on my feet, the mind you." continued night porter, "The customers don't seem to want to go to bed. It saves them being dis- turbed."

So this is the new Britain. land wherein the first child-- ren, the first old people, the first married couple have been killed by bombs, wherein the first shattered houses have shocked the orderly streets, and the first windowless rows have been left empty, but for salvage squads and policemen at the barrier.

This is the Britain in which we will love and fight. This will come; with all its cour- age, its agonyita comrade- ship, its fury to the compla-

ZIS RENEW ATTACKS AFTER MID-DAY LULL: EYEWITNESS STORIES

where the bombs have been falling this week. It must be an example to the rest of us, awaiting action.

Outside the hotel where the guests "ant up," the balloons. had risen over night working factories, foundries, shipyards and wharves,

In the narrow blind strecis of working-class houses a few There men stood on corners. was a confused murmur of voices in the dark.

"Who are you, anyway, mate? Hadn't we better look other's identity at ench cards?"

On this front, you see, even the ordinary uninformed folk are cautious. Satisfied that the stranger is identifiable the to me that they men reveal are the husbands of women who, with their children, are already in the shelters. It is their voices that we can hear coming up the concrete steps.

After Wednesday night when I sat with mine in the cellar and felt the earth and the house rocking over us, I said, never again-all of us did. And to-night, you won't find a woman in this street

TRIALS OF AN EVACUEE

тано

MELBOURNE CUP

MANFRED

WIND BAG

DARLAP

CARBINE

AUSSIE BOV

AMONIUS

A JAY YOUNG IDEA

GLOAMING

NIGHT MARCH

FIRST EVACUEE: Look Maisio! They've ovon evacuated

from Happy Valloy,

(The Melbourne Cup is run at the Annual Race Meeting in. Hongkong on Derby Day)..

who has not gone down be- low."

Owners of flooded, neglected shelters, shelterless people, and despisers of public shel- ters, take note of this solid common-sense steel worker's words,

It's a town of abundant (though not always, com- pleted) public shelters. They stand generally in the centre of working-class streets.

Till the Wednesday to which everyone refers, when a num- ber of people were killed in

ASK ME

ANOTHER

1. (a) Who was the last King of England to claim to be also King of France?

(b) What town in France was last actually in English hands, and in whose reign was it lost?

2. "A fellow of Infinite jest, of mos! excellent-fancy."-What- Shakepearean character says this, and of whom?

Hellas

3. Five countries are known to (a) their own inhabitants as

(b) Nippon, (c) Island, (d) Muang-Thai, (e) Mar. Un- der what names are they known to us?

4. (a) Walch of the following held the office of Poet Laureate: Shakespeare, Milton. Byron Shelley, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Kipling, Bridges?

first official (b) Who was our Laurenter

(c) Who holds the office at pre- sent?

5. Which of these are metals; Strontium, Solatium, Sodium Honorarlum, Viaileum, Vanadiurn Uranium, Vasculum?

6: Kalghts of the Order of the blue" "Carter

wear A

Garter ribbon. Of which of our "orders of chivalry," are, the respesilve ribbons (4) relison, (b) sky blue, (c) green?

7. What are the functions of Trinity House. and from whom did it receive its charier? ·

8. One port conmemorated the death of another in anode, "Adonals." Can you name the two poets?

9. The British Empire Games wero Jast held at Sydney in 1938. What famous athletes triumphed in (5) the 100 yards, the (b) the quarter-inile, (e) high Jump?

10. (a) What did Humpty- Dumpty mean when he said. "There's glory for you"?

(b) What was the sum which he insisted should be worked out "on paper**

ANSWERS

1 Orora IL; th) Calals; Queen Mory 1. 2. Tarafct, of "poor Yorkck." 3 (n) Greece; (U) Jepan; (c) land: (u) Stan (o) Egypt (0) Wordsworth, Tennyson Bridges; (b) John Dryden; (c) John Masefield. B. Strontium, Sosi- um Vanadium, Uranium. 6 (a) Order of the Bath; (b) Order of St. Patrick: (a) Order, of the Thistle. 7. The ad- ministration of Anthouses and of pilot services. Henry VII. 8. In "Aconais," death of Shelley commemorates tho Keats. (až C. B. Holmes (b) W. Roberts; (e) 2. Thacker. 30 (a) **T};ere's a regular knack-down argument tor you? (b) · The - mattraction of 1 from 305, to determine the number of "an=- þirindays". in a year,

the district, folk just "stayed put." To-day the shelter is be-. coming the centre of life and a focus for morale in every atreet.

Here, for instance, is every- body's chair, sensible kitchen chairs and stools-and Grand- ma's with a yellow satin cushion-placed ready for the next time. "After the first night we found it was too tir- ing to stand."

In one street there is a very of working vigorous committee men's wives which has installed carpets and mata, a table, an oll Inmp led daily, and daily fresh water in their street shelter which holds 50,

who runs

The (unemployed) docker's wife solid rampart of this faith which defles death and den- pair, says. "We watch Roslia every evening. She's that barrage balloon even over there, that goes up last. When Rosita goes up all the women in this street bring their children in here. The kids are used to play- ing here on rainy days, so liky don't mind. And nobody hears Go much when we're all chatting in- ench feel we've Kot site. We other."

So speak the women of this new Britain of the front line. The common sense of not making things worse than they are the neigh-

August 19, 1940. By Walt Disney

HERE'S YOUR BEES, MR. SMITH!

WALT

bourliness; their practical humnui-

ty are qualities which have killed panic.

But how does the morale of the British civilian stand up 10 the reality, the actual bomb blast which follows the threat?

"I

show you where the misus and I were sitting when it hap- pened," says Mr. William Spurs, whose house has been a wind- blown heap of rubble, a dusty gap in a row of blasted houses, since that Wednesday night.

We climb beneath precarious facades of destruction round to the back where the cellar steps are, miraculously, lutact beneath the ruin of the staircase. "We were sitting there on the steps, four of us, listening to the noise of the bombs and anti-aircraft. After n time I pulled open this door at the top of the steps und-instead of my own hall there was open sky through what was left of the upper floors of this house."

The matter-of-fact story of their crawling out, their rescue of dog, canary, and the wife's false teeth, soon ended, and the more import- ant job of salvaging his Joinery tools ("my bread and butter") is completed, while we wait. Then over a drink Mr. S. calmly changes to another subject-a fragment of the Dunkirk eple-telling us how hin son got home.

Several of his neighbours killed, is own life saved by a solid stalr- case, a week's work lost, compen- sation for his sinushed house un- settled, he raises his glass with a steady hand and says: "Yes, we've had several alarms since, and we Just go quietly into the shelter at my daughter's place."

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Hot Retaliation By The R.A.F.

BOULOGNE

BLOWN TO

PORT BITS

LONDON, Aug. 18 (Heuter) --An Air Ministry communique says that seaplanes and shipping in Boulogne harbour were heavily and successfully attacked by battle aircraft of the Coastal Command last night.

Oil plants, munitions factorics, Dutch Aid

on

aircraft stores and railway targets in Germany were bomb- ed and attacks. were made 26 aerodromes in north-west! France, Holland and Belgium. All our aircraft returned.

R.A.F.Crew To Escape

And The Nazis Are Infuriated

Reports received up to 8 pm. show that 30 enemy aircraft were destroyed by our nighters during raids on south- cast Englund nt mid-day to-day.

Bombs were dropped on several RA.F. aerodromes, where some per- sonnel were killed and others injured. 3 Tons Of Bambs Dropped LONDON, Aug. 18 (ftcuter).The LONDON, Aug. 18 Air Ministry news service says that three tons of high explosive bombs (Reuter).-German dissatis- interspersed with showers of in-faction with the behaviour cendiaries were dropped on Boulogne of the Dutch people is re- harbour by Fairey in a raid at dusk on Saturday.

battle

aircraft

flected in a proclamation These aircraft dived effectively on issued at The Hague by their objectives at two-minute tervals.

-in-

The harbour was bombed on all sides and from a low altitude.

Ships, Seaplanes Hit

General Christiansen, com-

the manding

occupying forces, a few hours after a British plane had landed in ahips and seaplanes. Holland and all 12 occupants One seaplane came above the smoke had got away without leav-

thousand

The main pler was hlt several times but most of the bomb felt

the ninong

ing a trace behind them.

of the explosions in pleces.

One plane dived ind machine-:

The proclamation, which re- There are funerals on the North-

Kunned cordoned

anti-aircraft batteries. It East Coast; there are

minds the Dutch people of the silenced one battery. streets; there are sleepless nights;

Benheim fighters, who escorted the previous warning of July 5, go-to-it and long

days; there

bombers, reported that when the at- notwithstanding which "acts of are applications for child evacua-

tack ended the Boulogne basin was sabotage have been committed." tion abroad. Grim war has come.

ringed by spreading Blame. But with war saw no panic, no refugees, no sauve-qui-peat whis- pers shaking the line.

The corrupt stupidity of pollu- cians, the white ties, the racegoers, the red-tape trimmed dollies of the Civil Service, the job-seekers, the dodgers, and all the timid and rout will have to complacent emulate the humble people of this new wartime Britain if they can. The rest of us must joyfully greep their single-heartedness and neigh- bourliness,-their-loyalty and ef ficiency; and we, too, will stay the air-ralds.

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BACKWARD MONIMALIST,

"AND KEXY CARYNGOR HITET RANG SOMETION:

The famous Thomson sub-machine gun--famous weapon of American gangsters-was used by Nazi parachute troops.

Now Britain is buying them by the thousand. The guns have an accurate fire up to 750 yards and can be fired either pistol-fashion or from the shoulder.

Nearest approach to the "Tommy Gun" in the last war was the Mondragon au- tomatic rifle, originated in Mexico and was used by Germany to a small extent.

The Tommy Gun" is really more of a heavy au- tomatic pistol.

It was first of all chosen by the American polico for anti-gangster work, though it had been invented during the war by Brigadier-Gen- eral J. T. Thompson.

The drums containing the 'ammunition are circular and fixed in front of the trigger- guard. They hold twenty to fifty rounds.

The rate of fire, including changing drums, is about

300 shots a minute, com- pared with the 450 to 500 rounds per minute achieved by heavier guns such as the Vickers.

Weight would probably be between four and five pounds. (Service rifle weight Blb. 10 oz.)

As the "Tommy Gun's" barrel is short, its range is short, too, and it is suitable only for close fighting.

Possibly it will replace the bayonet..... only a bayonet doesn't run out of ammuni. tion. The Jerry is known to have a distinct dislike for cold steel with a point on it. And there's no bayonet on "Tommy, Gun!"

N. Y. GIANTS TWICE BEATEN BY PHILLIES

NEW YORK, Aug. 18, (Reuler) The New York Glants suffered defcat twice to-day at the hands of the Philadelphia Philler. losing open 3-8 and the nightcap 6-8.

Complele scores ̈were!”

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Philadelphia

New York

J

(Rizzo homered for the Phillies),

Philadelphia

New York

the

Stern Warning

only in- After stating that not dividuals but the whole local com-

for

munity would be punished sabotage, the proclamation orders the people to report the landing of enemy planes and the dropping of objects from planes.

It threatens penalties for shellering enemy soldiers,

It disclosed that a German military court lately

several sentenced subolcurs.

OPENS FRIDAY AT THE

KING'S

D GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION

(Muller, Rizzo and Marty homered_for the lies, and Young, Wek and Cze cinello for the Glants),

Boston

Brocklyn

T

10

ton homered for the Bees, and Walker and Camilli for the Dodgers),

Flosion

Brookiya

AZUPERS!

ZORINA

TILLATING!

Cincinnati

St. Loult

(Moore homered for the Cardinals). Pittsburgh

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Brio with an "Angel"...lo

Chicago

New York

Philadelphia

New York Philadelphla

St. Louis

Cleveland

Mack homered for the Indians. The game ended in the ninth inning when the search were tled),

Washington

Boston

(DiMaggio and Doerr homered for the

Red Box).

You've got a

OUR

SCHOOLCHILDREN TEIS

EVACUEES

Australia Ready For Their Reception

LONDON, Aug. 10 (Reuter)Aus- tralia will soon welcome her first batch of Government proteges to be evacuated from the more vulnerable| parts of Britain.

Numbering 479, the children were selected from grant-alded schools in all parts of England, Scotland and Wales.

Their ages range from five to 16 years and they left their homes for the port of embarkation under the strictest secrecy.

Pioneer Spirit

י

Tho Ileadmaster of one school, who is in charge of the party, told u reporter before they sailed that the youngsters have a real plonger

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BANGSON HOUNA LONGER,

spirit. "The majority tell me that ADDED ATTRACTION

JOE LOUIS VS. ARTURO they are never coming back to Eng land. They say they are going..to

GODOY" IN "A-15 ROUND Australia; to make a lot of moneyBOUT. SEE GODOY T.K.O'd and then after, the war they are going to send for Mum and Dad to IN THE EIGHTH ROUND. como out to join them."