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1938 ....... 20044 5493 52400 Morris 8 Saloon

1930

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1935

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1930

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1934

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1940

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August 28, 1940.

THEY'RE NOT

AFRAID

BOMBS

OF

JOHN PUDNEY

visits a North-Eastern Coastal town whore 32420 54 $1000 bombs have fallen, describes the courage and moralo of people in the little streats; tells the story of Mrs. K. and her family, who live on in their damaged home because there is work to be done. THE street is smashed, empty a monument to courage which sockets for windows and triumphs over all desolation. All units of $1500 and over in exlar doors, pallid walls wispy with

"Apart from the pub," says

All cars serviced the same as

for new cars

ADDITIONALLY

carry

I

the Hongkong Hotel Garage pornice for three months.

Inspection and trial invited

Hongkong Hotel Garage

Ploors 27778-0

Stubbs Rond

THE

six children romp in the small Then it happened. There was

room.

an awful noise. Everything went dark. The ceilings came down, but something must Downstairs is derelict, the two have made baby come toddling upstairs roons, which were

on the stairhond just before the

flapping woodwork, and a pathe the policeman, "you'll still find hers, are smashed open to the celling of the room he was in

tic confusion of gooda moulder ing in the weather.

one family-No. 167."

And does Mra, K., Jeaning over

wind,

The family is "making do" in

fell.

Before the bomba sinashed it, the banisters as I knock, look two other small rooma till they head and I knew he was all

live blossomed in it.

or dia- cowed, disheartened traught? No: her idea of

mustn't we?"

"As I ran up I could feel his

#t was desolate, inhabited by

can find somewhere to go--and right. I couldn't see him, but I

till Mra, K. smiles and says: eoukl feel his head... working-class people, but I re- member how their courage to morale is a broad grin, an in- "After all, we must make the

vitation, upstairs and the hair best of everything in war-time, cream in what's left of the We traffic in pennies for ice- raising story of her air-raid survival recounted in a conver.

house. We laugh: and I think With six children, the young- of the sediment of sational voice, while most of her

panic- est two and a half ("And I stricken citizens with long poc- wouldn't be without опе of kets and loud voices in comfort- them"), and A husband busy able rooms far from here asking long hours as JA Inbourer on each other, "What can we do to Government jobs, it has not been be safe?"

Y

Now, uninhabited, ils ruin in

The Battle for England

Sikr

mairi has

the

alt terugt

at least.

German High C rebied largely

Lami

Ita

the earlier Miegma, ngolbat campaign

other countries, its intensified

Takis

on British shores and watern may be capable of interpretation on of the much opening phase 6221 heralded "Battle for England." What

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, August 28, 1940. Wyndham St., Hangkong

Telephone: 20813

further fury in je wine can imly be murmised, but the striking success the Royal

Air Furce, the British Navy. and British anil-aircraft

craft of her anelllory objectives, though tulertes against these particular

the stear an objective of great

triumphant outcome,

importancT—

jensy for Mrs. K. to pursue her Nobody has left this town. hunt for a new house she can near the Nort-East coast: no-

body is quitting: there is work:

statis of il, cannot be everywhere at afford,

Possibly, with large enough

shallow-draught Has it occurred to her to there is neighbourlines; there is boals, favourable weather. evacuate with the children?

concentration *lert!

I still fun. 1 meet some of the some picups of screening the vessels, and a feint to create a diversion elsenak her.

men enjoying a Sunday drink in Kinal] but well-equipped

"What, and leave my husband the pub with the boarded-up German force might be landed on and my eldest son working? windows.

where.

English shores

It might

conceivably

be supplemented by a similar army Oh, no!

many of them are When a man's work- discussing the new homes to of parachute troops, perhaps conveying he must be looked after, which they have taken their

familles in the town.

ed by gliders which, released from

their towing-planes at a great height You know what it is..." at an early stage of their journey,

Nothing will shake Mrs. K. in our attack fosters high hopes for the closing of the Straits of Dover to would have a better chance of ban

ing British sound-detectors,

her resolution

or make her If Germany Bettish shipping.

"But you can take it from this budge from this North-Eastern me." Relatively mall forces of

KayR can be hammered so mercilessly and

the ship's rigger, Not only have British air fighters successfully in the air, where she in

supremacy over the nature might be intended rather a war zone while her man has "you won't find a blue-spencil admittedly strong, it is a reasonable proved their assumption

man that thinks twice about that

numerically German raiders, but they have re- "uicide squads" The

warfare into troops, their function being to dis-work to do. she peatedly carried the moderate forers, if any, that

Nothing. I say, remembering stopping for blue-pencil air- would be able to land on British German territory, and have done organise British defeners by destroy-

material damage to Germany's pre- ing roads, railways, and communica Bull could be dealt with as effectually.tions, of various kinds, for in- tions in a brief life of mischier be what she has just been through. raids. Mind you, wo all take

vading

Britain bonne ቤቲን crity

on

England.

than a. battle

cover if we hear stuff coming Every petrol dump fore meeting their inevitable doom. Official British computationa of air

larger forces

down, but we shall soon be used losses on both sides during the more set ablaze, every Rhine barge sunk. Then, presumably.

Take advantage of

of the con- would

"Yes, all six of them were to recent fighting show that Germany every high speed motor-boat bombed

any blue-pencl! thing he has suffered far more severely than to scrap-metal, speils a weakening of fusion to land at various points to

in the shelter; and manages to get through to us." be the forces which have long been pre- give battle to the British home ar-with me Lexi These figures, it

The mes All this, however, can only when we thought it was "all

The ship's rigger, I hear, is mind, are as rough-and- pared for the great invasion

Whatever be the initial "Battle for England will not be be conjectural.

which clear I let them come back in a one-Idea man. based esturiates

England netual form of the attack

Several times claims which might easily be honestly fought wholly in or over Carroneous. but the remalt of enteful An luportang part of it has been and might be premeditated, it is com- doora. I carried baby up and in the course of our rather em-

checking by appropriate methista.

it will continue to be fought over Ger- forting to realize that Britons are

thoroughly alive to the ingenuity of let him in the front room phatic conversation he comes is too soon, of course, tu my that Get- many.

Probably the German High Con- their enemy, and that they will lack (that's the one that had the back to the suggestion: "These many has been defented in the air,

ben mand has built its hopes upon the nothing in courage on en un larder rain in) and then i went back blue-pencil sirens now. but she has without doubt

Why worsted in the aerial Bghting so far fort-which hardly permits of denial fending the soil which

Jon to the stairs to make sure all can't they play "The Campbells Moreover, the has failed au lar in one that the British Navy, or even divi- has desecrated for centuries.

the others were coming up.nre Coming,' instead of the row

(they do make.

MOYALE

MOYALE, little British frontier post on the Kenya-Abyssinia bordor, is Front Page news. In this article, Violet Cressy-Marcks, English wo- man explorer, describes the post, its residents and its strategic importance.

MOYALE is a frontier post on

them, European women

on the Kenya and Ethio- were forbidden in Moyale. The pian Frontier. The actual line British authorities in Kenya of demarcation runs between gave no permission to travel in

this part to men or women. two hills. On the Northern one

Officially, the postmen came is Ethiopian Morale (now north from Kenya and south Italian); on the Southern is from Ethiopia once a week. The British Moyale. In between the Ethiopian postman ran for four two is "No-man's Land."

A days, and then handed over to a fortress crowns the southern relay, who ran for four days peak.

more, and so on. He carried a The fort stands in the centre water-bottle and a bag, which of a compound, maintained with was marked in Amharic, the all the cleanliness and efficiency official Ethiopian language, and of British Colonial Administra- in. English: "Addis Ababa to tion. It is surrounded by Moynie." He was dressed in thatched buildings, trees and Ethiopian garments, but had a dwellings. Round them all runs military cap.

*

invader

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"Lefty's wife it having him shadowed!"

DIAN

I think this hard on the Campbells, but I hear through- out' my journey not one kind word for sirens. Now that they unhappily seem to become a part of people's lives, people want them to be accurate and to sound pleasant.

FUSES WERE FORGOTTEN

-Man Killed

London, July 11.

It was revealed at a Poplar in- quest that a man was killed by the explosion of fuses which had been forgotten.

Six years ago 14 packages were delivered to a Stepney warehouse for storage. When a. Director of the firm and Walter Saunders, 63, ware- houseman, of Bovill-road, Lewisham, were unpackng the boxes they found in one what looked like-mall hand grenades. There was an explosion, which killed Saunders,"

WHISKY SAFE FOR FOUR YEARS

Scotland has passed the word along that it has enough whliky in store to supply, the 'world for the

the circle of fortifications that The key to Moyale's im- defend this frontier post. portance is the wells near by. Just before the Italian stole These are heavily wired, and are Ethiopia from its rightful outside the fortifications. They owners, I stayed, at British have been used for centuries by Moyale on my way from North- all travellers, and there had been ern Ethiopia to Nairobi. It was no trouble until the Italians a tiny settlement led by three came. A few small things could Europeans, a Consul who divided be bought in the village, but wells or streams are few and harder. The further northward next four years. his time between Moyale itself were expensive, as native cara- far between, and, if unguarded, you go, the ground is harder to cover, and there is the same and Mega, a few miles away, a vans passing through this post may be poisoned. doctor and a (very able) repre- were rare,

This is the cardinal difficulty scarcity of water, sentative of the Kenya Frontier. Police.

This news, relayed to the United Staics Department. · of Commerce; -zaid · that stocks were nò large. thai, despite higher production and ship- ping costs, the export price of whisky had not been lacrossed.

in both travel and fighting In The Italians are bad fighters, this area, but lorries can be used slovenly and undisciplined, and Wagier, the nearest post to to get to Moyale from the south the beat Ethiopians are all Moyale (recently heavily bomb without difficulty, and much working against them, hoping My Ethiopian soldiers and ed by Italian machines); had in ground has been cleared to make to regain their country.EN

commented on the its garrison a few officers and possible the use of aircraft, If withdrawal le necessary at cleanliness and tidiness of this man. Any rollef force would Difficult as the British task the moment, Moyale can easily dollars that can be used to ach post; it made a great impression have to carry its own water, as may be, that of the Italians is be regained in a short while.aeroplanes, and other war materiali

servants

The report also stated that Scot land was amsacing -whisky, parllen» larly, for the American market;· ho- cause ales in America