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NANCY

SORRY, NANCY --- "YOU'LL HAVE TO RESIGN--- I DECIDED GOILS

DON'T BELONG

IN MY ARMY ?

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

| HEY--- WHERE'S

| MY ARMY GONE TO?

THEY ALL DESERTED, GENERAL!

October 30, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

JOIN THE

NAVY

ADMIRAL NANCY

POPPY DAY APPEAL Future Needs Of

Servicemen

The Hongkong and China Branch

The 'aléna Fasture Brattenir, Ing.

| TA, MAY SEEN PAL DE MAI Slavic zowrie &

COLONY BLACK-OUT

First Night Of Exercises

Hongkong's longest and most ex- of the British Legion announces that tensive black-out, for which 2,500 street sales of puppies this year, inale raid wardens have been mobilis- connection with the Colony's con- ed, began last night and will con- tribution to the Poppy Day Fund, tinue until sunrise to-morrow, when

will be held on November 9, instead normat lighting and sen trafic win

Unlike previous black-outs, last

night's practice was decentralised in

of November 11. This will afford be resumed. the publle a more convenient oppor tunity of contributing, since Annls- Uco Day is a holiday.

The following leiter has been re- ceived from Capt. W. G. Willens,

the sense that the wordens in charge of the various districts were left their discretion to deal with what

the Organising Secretary of Earl ever might happen, as if to an ac-

W

NETHERLAND LEGION WAIT 'S REVENGE

DUTCH SOLDIERS ARE

ON GUARD IN BRITAIN

Down among the dunes along this sunny shore in Wales I had a surprise, writes a correspondent. A dozen soldiers, wearing helmets like coal-scuttles, and shouting in a strange tongue, bobbed up out of the sand and covered me with curiously short rifles.

A dozen small, skewer-like bayonets, hinged to the barrels, snapped forward like blades from a pocket-knife, and threatened me on all sides. Then came a pleasant

Haig's Brush Legion Appent: |tual raid, and without direction from laugh behind me.

Headquarters, whose only job was

"I hope very sincerely that i may te plot the affected areas on a large

I turned to see an officer in khaki battle-dress similar to that worn by our own

count once again on the sympathie-map nu soon as information to this Army. He clicked his heels, saluted, and said in perfect English: "I am glad to meet

the support of your Branch to this effect was received.

greatest of all efforts on behalf of

you. I am at your service."

Then he pointed to his

those who have suffered, physically To-night's exercise will be on a or, economically, In their, Country's bigger scale with Headquarters main-i Service.

taling communication with both the shoulder-tabs, which bore thei

one word: "Nederland." mainland and island.

"We are looking to the future with great anxiety. For many years now

The exercise automatically began

It has been a real problem for my at sun-set, at which time all lights, Council to make the income of our including those of vehicles, were to one-day appeal, generous as it

been obser

cured, and

one Star

has have

1 had stumbled on a constal de- fence post held by men of the Royal Dutch Legion.

It was so cleverly concealed that

been, serve to finance the Legion's) traffic, will the exception or in had seen nothing of it, and would

have steppeil on to the heads of the many alded work, day in and day ferry, was to have come to a stand-defenders if they had not been keep- out, for the whole of the year. But

Many houses, particularly in this most difficult problem bas In Yatimati, Wanchal, the Western daring a sharp walch on me.

most years been overcome by means trict and Happy Valley-notably in training here, and guarding a section A large part of the Legion is In of careful planning of our schemes the vicinity of the A.R.P. af assistance, careful but sympathe

Jobs. the investigation of all claims and quarters-fated to observe the light of the coast is only one of their many

above all by rigid economies in ad- ministration.

"The new Wur, however, has financial tccessarily changed our outlook. We have still to help the men of the Great War and their families. This is an obligation we must always honour.

Head-

ing regulation nt first but the

Health Runs evening progressed these lights were either extinguished or obscured one They have a thoroughly equipped so democratic that by one and by 7.30 p.m. there was cump, and are Hittle cause for complaint in this their commandant and all his officers Join the men in a "health trol" every respect.

morning.

They go across country in a steady Indian lope, and come back glowing. The commandant told me: "Most

Before 7 o'clock,' searchlights were But in addi-sweeping the star-lit sky in prepara- ton, we have undertaken to make tion for the raiders and they were all our schemes of assistances nvall diven some practice by un aeroplane of the troops are seasoned men who able to the men serving in this War which appeared long before the alarm fought the Germans when Holland when they too become Ex-Service was sounded. The warning signal was invaded, but we also have many

15 o'clock,

when recruits from all parts of Britain. men, and the time is rapidly ap- was not given until D.15 pronching when the claims from this trafic on the road, except those on They are all very keen to take new category of Ex-Service man essential services, immediately pulled part in the defence of this country will assume serious proportions. to one side and stopped, as did theid later to help to win back their

solitary ferry which bad been the own land." only vessel running since 8 p.m.

Potential Sufferers

"We have to keep in mind the fact that every man who serves in the present emergency a poten tini Ex-Service man who may even tually need the help of the Legion. Nor must we forget when we are considering our future financial post- tion, the decrease in the purchasing power of the pound sterling.

fance than ever before.

Wax

Some of thesc big, blue-eyed Dutchmen, who came from overseas to Join Uic Legion, were disappointed to find no battle raging when they arrived. "We want to get at those Germans," they say.

One Legionary left a large

and prusperous farm in South Africa to.

Military Manoeuvres

Meanwhile, military manoeuvres were being held independently and blank gun ammunition was fred in the vicinity of Kowloon.

Along the water-front, machine enlist. gun posta were manned by detach- He is the biggest man in the ments of Indian troops,

Legion-so big, indeed, that there, is "Thus it is clear that we must look Soon after the alarm, the search-not u uniform to fit him. forward in the near future to what lights succeeded in spotting the raider

Playing Darts may prove to be doubled financial which, tried as it would, failed to The men's recreations include need, and our Poppy Day Appeal escape from the beams until it went therefore becomes of greater impor- far out into the sea. The all clear darts-which they are playing for

Incredible though it may

sound, "We are only too well aware how was given at 0.45 pm, when trade the first time and learning Welsh.

for resumed but only for half an hour

some of these Dutchmen are also generously our friends Overseas have by that time another alarm supported the work of the British sounded, though this lasted only 10 learning to speak Dutch. They are

10 recruits of

of pure We know minutes. At 11.10

Dutch parcentago Legion on Poppy Day.

P.M. there was

born in this country. too of the many additional calls another 10-minute alarm This was who were

Several are Cockneys. "Dutch which have been made on them in the last for the night,

โ double-Dutch to

to us," they say. recent months by other well-known The black-out was probably the

One company. appeals which are helping men who must effectively held so far, while entirely of English-speaking Dutch- are actually serving. We feel cer- the number of pedestrians was smal- tain, however, that the members of ler than on previous occasions. In men, talk to their comrades in signs.

Not a and China Branch, cidentally, work on the ald raid fun- the Hongkong

a penny of Britain's money is

the Legion. spent and indeed all our friends in Hong-nels was not stopped.

Equipment, kong and the surrounding districts, After the exercise, Wing-Comdr. maintenance, pay all come out of will appreciate the Nation's obliga-A. H. Steele-Perkins, Director of Air tions to those men when the time Raid Precautions, said it was de- To-day the troops were reviewed comes that they too have lost the cidedly better than last time. How-by a general.

At their head marched the Legion's security of Service pay and allow ever, residents were rather slow in] unees, and ns Ex-Service men have getting the full black-out and some band, formed only a fortnight ago only the British Legion to which of them did not realise that it start of amateur musicians from among the

recruits.

of need.

they can look for help in their time cd from sunset, but as the night pro- Kressed became better and better. "We are most anxious to be pre- Observations from the air, he odd- pared for the greater need, and hope, ed showed that there were fewer very earnestly, that our 1840 Poppy torches and cigarelle lights, Day Appeal may be supported with pared with previous occasions. an even greater measure of sympathy "1 fully satisfied,"

and generosity than in the past."

com.

Wing-

Comdr. Steele-Perkins concluded,

In view of the increasing burden "and I think a little more pro- that the present War la placing onpaganda amongst the population will the Poppy Day Fund, it is hoped soon make black-outs in the Colony that the Colony's contribution will 100 per cent. effective.”

be generou

No Cenotaph Ceremony

"I understand that His Majesty

Wardens Mobilised

Mainly in connection with

the

Dutch funds.

composed

almost

Broken Vow To Holland

More Workless

New from neutral sources reaching London indicates that there is mark

ed deterioration in economic life in the Netherlanda under German occu- pation.

The Germans had promised that]

needs.

In the absence of any formal cere black-out, all Air Raid Wardens were they would not hamper Dutch, muny at the Cenotaph this year mobilised by proclamation yesterday. economic development as far as was wreaths may be inld privately, and After the exercise, according to Mr. compatible with German war econo- the public is advised that Flanders B. H. Puckle, Deputy Director of Air my. But, in fact, everything is being poppies will be on sale through the Rud Precautions, they will not be done to adjust. Dutch economic life British Legion if it is desired to lay demobilised but will be granted to Nazi war, poppy wreaths.

leave without pay to return to ther Undertakings which can contribute The following telegram has bean civilian occupations. They will be to these need are fostered; the others received by His Excellency the Off-lable for servica whenever called are left to themselves to face greatly

Unemploy cer Administering, the Government upon, and a mobilised footing is to changed circumstances. from the Secretary of State for the ba maintained possibly for the dura- ment is mounting following the Colonies, dated October 28:

tion of the war, Mr. Pucklo added. demobilisation of the Dutch Army.

Transport la difficult, as admitted Blackout Accident

by the Germans themselves, Ti ía to has decided that no public service Two young women, sald to be be assumed that the RAF. is partly shall be held on Armistico Doy. inmates of the North Point refuges responsible for this. The question of special services on camp, were knocked down by a car Another German promise was that the previous Sunday is under cou during the black-out.

political lito in Holland would be left) sideration. Poppies will be sold ar

The driver, Lo-hok, told the undisturbed. The worthlessness of usual."

Polleo driving in King's Road this proming was

he was

tho proved by when the women, Haut Mei-lal and appolniment of a Dutch Naxi LONDON TO OBSERVE DAY Tsang Pul-ching, suddenly ran in trustee for the Dutch Socialist party. A cable has been received in Bin-front of the road. He was injured Steps are now being taken to found gapore by the Ex-Services Associa-in the back and Tsang received slight single political party, but the Ger mans have made it known before tion to say that Poppy Day, despite abrasions on the forehead and legs.

hand everything, is to be held as usual They were reat to Queen Mary political leaders of the old regime.

that they will not accept

in Londen

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