1940-09-03 — Page 3

DONALD DUCK

Tuesday,

BALCONY

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SAY, DID YOU DROP-... OH, PARDON

Cage 1955 Walt Disney Pricin

·Darted by

ME!

SORRY, SIR---. BALCONY SEATS

ONLY!

September 3, 1940.

Ullary, Supreme Coas

By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE PAGE

I ESCAPED IN A MOTORBOAT RUN ON BUTTER

A GLIMPSE of German soldiers swinging along a Jersey street, shouting and bellowing the Horst Wessel song in chorus, was one of the last incidents of the invasion of the Channel Islands to catch the eye of the refugee who tells this story.

"My wife left Jersey imme- diately the Lieutenant-Gover- nor-the King's representative -announced that the island

was to be demilitarised," he Hold.

THEN, Just Fiday the fietman

plunos aum

machine-Kunning,

tomakutus

kak woundung civiltons indiscriminate We didn't have a hate

Iv

"There wasn't a gin, not even revolver, left in the talund I was 10 40 pot the crash trund when two bombej s cape roman love wit us from the direction tor tartot

" flung myself down by the sea wall. The bullet patter

all around ne

Saturday

ze over

damage On Sunday

slchaming

Tac

Whey

c

1417 they aTIO the housetoph

buge Trinitely singly

Lofted hour

the

PAL SMI I want awakened by

rear of 2

swooped very

"Another 111$123 pointed cust H innor-band left by Eriglishman who desi

OFF the genetal evarundion We derided to take il to Buglared and hand it over

r #ML Then we found it wouldn't work

od

411

"I went ma 20JOMURER paralition anal canar back with the spor kang j sentent and a Tengil

24

S

somestrom, mle 121 enga Theme bd inside the and wasted for elat kris and logs water

WE got wer harvan de lange Far

uter

that of :e Ch972-

A me the quay hengged n PRENSARE

I knew it lessened van

chatues. but we agreed to take

and

1 bad but 10 eine bok later. it to bewathe H wgal tea

He promised to bring more

3

Pom Poms

soode

[:e

boube

le

and dropped

something on for a 20of

"Someone climbed up and found Alterbed

st was a German Blag

to was on ultimatum fruin the general commanding the Nazi BÈT force i Nurmandy.

even.ng

were

E proclamations were posted up at pm that day By the

Bere

white Anga showing trom houses all over the Jaland. The GerKINS were

They had ar- rearly in the streets eived at 0 p.m.

"I met the captain of a Dutch cargo vessel which had rome to In the air ruid of collect potatoes. Friday his cook had been injured, and the skipper had taken him to hospital.

crew and

"In his absence the gone off with the ship, leaving the

captain stranded.

J. D. S. ALAN Tells You About FREAK WEAPONS

ROUND the British coast, at

points where sand and shingle are not backed by frowning cliffs, the Army, in co-operation with the Royal Air Force, is preparing a hot reception for German swim- ming tanks.

Nobody is sure how far the enemy has developed the am- phibian tank, an instrument which has not yet played a part in warfare,

But the War Office defence scheme rightly works

on the principle that the Germans may have plenty.

Ten years ago, the British and American war depart ments gave much attention to amphibian craft.

We had little three tonners, carrying a machine-gun, that used to stagger Thames-side locals by dashing into the river, swimming across, and climbing up the opposite bank.

ABOUT this time,

too,

we developed a scheme of landing medium tanks from

3 onan of the Bity eve

She beged a pubar ven due on her kubes to pleading

She toll free she lasă un NOD, AL heulement in the Navy

FUNNY SIDE UP

ABER DEAN

WITH SOMETHING

Capel Mullal Yemlere Boudicata she

By Abner Dean

COAP

DOWN With ANYTHING

"I'm afraid we're losing our grip on the public!"

Tangang along shouting and be! = lux ang The Borst Wessel

ציווה

They mahed pond with ter Oilers yards of us, and went up Top Hast fort Alles

1 that

Other - autor ychols pirtrolling i sad

WINE there was not a soul to be She turneet for

open salonging on the quay and You sand. Do you want my cat'

frast

The and What's Har une ti a “ I can't even drive" Bid e sand he would have it, as it was Tren Pertups I can sell it,' he sai

The wornan tok ne she had just seen the Germans in the town She said they were led

lap, hemes-

ly armed, with motorcycles, with which they had landed from planes

"I gave orders, 'No sunoking, no talking, no inmoving about If you It's don't obey these instrumfonis the finish for all of us

"Twilight was coming on when i heard voices. I crept to the hatch between and peeped out. I saw

fly and eighty German soldiers

WE KNOW

Wer THE boat started to float put up the soils, but Ore was n u breath of windi We got hold of a rope bed further along the quay- aide and tried to haul ottrselves. www

"It look us almost an ear to travel fifty teet We thought we should be caught in the middle of the harbour. We dared not start the engines.

"We had just got through the barbour mouth when we started the

We wil engines.

J cir- Punteus, amateurish route.

"North-west of Guernsey the engines seized-up for lack of oil. We heard scores of planes and expected them to spot us at any

moment. We heard the sound of many explosions from the island.

“We thanked heuven for a mist which came up at that moment, But we had to have oil, 1 search- est among oth provisions and found aits of butler

"We meltedf it on the exhaust pipe and poured it into the sump. The engine can the whole day until eight o'clock that night on Jersey butter.

"We were within twevle miles of The English coast when darkness fell. There was a big swell and our engines failed.

raid started.

Then an

Bir

"The Geroun bombers dropped flares. Searchlights swept the sky, then coastal runs blazed into action.

“At daybreak a cutter spotted us and towed us in, more dead than ailee. Sotne une mude us coffee. Everybody shook hands, thanked everybody cise, and then drifted

to awny perhaps never agata,"

meet

AS MUCH AS THEY

DO ABOUT SWIMMING TANKS

the sea, by sliding them into the water with floats that kept them up, just like water winge sustain the non-swimmer,

its

The little tank was propelled by its own water screw, and steered by rudder, until tractors gripped the, ground. The medium tank was paddled or towed.

It was claimed in 1930 that the United States Army had an amphibian that would do 10 miles an hour on water, 50 miles an hour over fields, and 70 miles an hour, on the road: Later the Americans inves- tigated tank carriers, for uso where the fleet could not com- mand quays. These were light armoured cruisers, 40 feet long. They were rushed to land, and beached as high as possible, by momentum, thrashing screws, and special- ly angled prows.

wound

Then a ramp was forward, over which a good- sized tank without wetting its tracks.

Now the United States Navy Department has ordered an amphibian troops-carrying tank capable of landing 40

men.

The first model, costing £6,250, will have an estimated speed of 25 miles an hour on land and 81⁄2 miles an hour in water.

Inndings THE bloody Gallipoli

made a lasting impression on the United States service chiefs, and many of their combined manoeuvres have concentrated on troop landings with small casual- lics,

Now, what we and the Ameri-

ten cans could do

усата ago, could be done much better by any- body 'to-day,

Lighter, tougher tanks metals have been discovered.

Engines are more reliable, run cooler, and turn out many more "horses" for given weight and size.- It is safe to assume that the Germans cannot send "swimmerk" with anything like the guns or armour of the tanks that ravaged the Continent,

It would not be safe to assume, though, that they have not effcelive amphibians approaching our med- fum tanks in size.

Such tanks might be dropped a mile or so off shore, at quiet parts of the coast, where the beaches run on to lottish country. Pro- bably darkc nights or misty weather would be chosen. They would eer- tainly be doomed before landing It spoited by the Navy or RAF.

TGN

IGNORING the various threats of what death rays, I wonder mechanical inventions remain to be harnessed to war?

The balloon stays, though the airship is washed out.

Our big flying boats beautifully combine faculty in two elements. They are good, fost sea boats. They are good, fast air cruisers, formidable comfortable, steady, and of long range.

c. Why, then, has the inventors'

of combined aeroplane and motor-cur never gone past. the elementary stages?

On see there is plenty of room for the vast spread of wing.

On land it must be unpacked and stowed before, the chassis- fusilage can take the road.

The Russlane carry small tanke slung under the bellies of their big monoplanes.

THE POLES FIGHT ON

By JERZY SZAPIRO

You have read how, when

the French forces in Syria decided not to continue the wer, 6,000 Poles who had been serving with them crossed the border into Palestine to link up with the British Army in the Middle East.

mon!

Not Lome surrender for those They have an necmmt to set- tle with the invader who had devastated their country, and they mean to present the bill in full.

I lound the same determined spirit among the hundreds of Polish soldiers atud airmen who crowded the boat on which returned to Britain from a French port near the Spanish frontier

It was one of the last boats out, All of us aboard had made des- pernte escapes from the vurushing Nazis.

Most of us bad suffered days of strain and danger.

But none of us lud nad u more hurausing time than the Poles. And none of us was in better spirits than these tough, intelligent youngsters. When talked to them, I found they had onty one complaint. Musi of them had beer, kepi

the war.

training romps until the last few days of

had They

not been allowed

to see the enemy until t was too late for anything bul fighting retreat.

Few of their airmen had been permitted to fly. The French could not spare them enough planes even for practice purposes,

When Petain's surrender began, the Poles in France did what their compatriota in Syria have since done. They began to march to join the British

They had to cut their way across the tentacles of the German octo- pus. Their arms were old and of inferior quality, their conveyinces But they were equally out of date. reached the coast-those who did not die fighting.

They could have stayed with the French and ended the war with

They preferred to fight on, They all told me that

them,

"We shall fight anywhere--and with our fists if we have nothing better and we shall keep on fight- ing until we have helped Britain to win,' one lithe, fair-haired young sergeant told me.

He belonged to the remnants of a motorised brigade which inflicted heavy losses on the Germans.

When the Nazis broke through Weygand Line, this brigade was at last thrown into the battle. its equipment was poor, Many of the men had rifles 30 years old.

As the German onslaught deve- loped they retreated, fighting, all the way. Near Rennes they tried to bold up an advancing Nazi column of cyclists and light tanks.

After an hour of fighting they were ordered by the French Com- mand to cease fire. Again the re- treat went on,

By luck, these men encountered another Polish forco. Together, after great hurdships, they reached the coast.

Other Polish units had achieved the same goal, having been com-: manded to do so by General Sikor- aki..

It was thought by some at the time that Polush resistance could not have been very dotermined if the Nazis were able to over-run the country in a month.

But now France has been over- run in roughly the same time.

And whereas the Patain Govern- ment sued for an Armistice-threw in the towel--the Poles are sti11 fighting on, wherever they are able,

Providing enemy aerodromea or firm beoghen are captured; any. amount of tanks and guns may be Wilhelmina's Cousin transported this way,

+

WE must expect development in To Marry In London

spring parachute carriers, that will land, without damage, fairly intricate gear, with dellente parte, up to several hundred pounds in weight

The guns that shelled Paris at 75-miles range may be followed by guns that double that range--li anybody thinks the effort worth worth while.

All these things are merely imm provements" to Imnown Inventions.

Baroness Imma von Doernberg, cousin of Queen Wilhelminn and Princess Alice, Counters of Athlone, la to be married in London to Mr. Neil B. W. McLacharn, fifty-five- year-old retired Army captain.

The baroness, who is thirty-nine, lives at the Clock House, Kensington Palace. Last year it was announced that she was applying for British na- turalisation.

IMPORTANT!

JUST ARRIVED A "SHIPPAM'S"

FISH & MEAT PASTES

DELICIOUS ASSORTED,

SMALL 50c per jar LARGE 90¢ por jar

FOR YOUR CANAPES AND SANDWICHES USE ONLY SHIPPAM'S

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

ADVANCE SHOWING OF MAGNIFICENT

American Silks

FOR AUTUMN WEAR

NEW DELIVERY OF WHITE GARDENIAS

PROVIDING

STRIKING CONTRAST FOR YOUR NEW SEASON FROCKS.

$1.30 and $1.50 each

Suedo - like

dull finish

Will drape

beautifully

In the nowost

Autumn colours

39 inches wido

$3.50

per yd.

GARDENIA

White

ALSO - FIRST DELIVERY OF

Winter Woollens

from the famous house of Debenham's Beautiful new shades. Limited supply only. Call early and choose your material and shade for the new season. Whiteaway, Laidlaw &

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

To SAN

FRANCISCO

Co., Ltd.

AND LOS ANGELES

Via Shanghai, Robe, Yokohama

SS "President Coolidge"

BS "President Taft"

88 "President Cleveland"

Honolulu.

SEPT. SEPT. 17 OCT.

To NEW YORK AND BOSTON

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay & Capetown,

TO SINGAPORE &. PENANG

$5 "President Polk"

SS "President Garfield"

ss "City of Newport News"

SS. "City of Norfolk"

SEPT. 29

OCT. 18

SEPT. OCT.

27

TO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

Direct

95 "City of San Francisco' SS "City of Los Angeles"

via Yokohama,

AMERICAN

SEPT.

SEPT.

PRESIDENT LINES

SANA ROUND-WORLD SERVICE",

AGENTS. FOR-TRANSCONTINENTALIA- WESTERN

AIR AND UNITED AIR LINES, D

· 17 Pedder Street

SA M Telephone 18171.

1