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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 30, 1940

By Ernie Bushmiller

'THEY ALL DESERTED. GENERAL!

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JOIN THE NAVY

ADMIRAL NANCY

NANCY

SORRY, NANCY --- YOU'LL

HAVE TO RESIGN--- I DECIDED GOILS

DON'T BELONG

ÎN MY ARMY ~

HEY--- WHERE'S MY ARMY.. GONE TO?

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POPPY DAY

APPEAL

Future Needs Of Servicemen

COLONY BLACK-OUT

First Night Of Exercises

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NETHERLAND LEGION WAIT S REVENGE

DUTCH SOLDIERS ARE

The linerend and Clas Brown Hingiges Jered ON GUARD IN BRITAIN

Hongkong China Branch. Hongkong's longest and most ex-

of the British Legion announces that tensive block-out,

for which 2,500

street sales of poppies this year, in air 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

of November 11. This will afford be resumed.

Down among the dunes along this sunny shore in Wales I had a

will be held on November 8, instead normal lighting and sen trafic will 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.

the public # more convenient oppor- Unlike previous black-outs, Inst tunity of contributing, since Armis- tice Day is a holiday.

night's practice was decentralised in

the sense that the wardens in charge The following letter hins been re-jof the various districts were left to

A-dozen small, skewer-like bayonets, hinged to the barrels, snapped forward like ceived from Capt. W. O. Willcox, their discretion to deal with what- blades from a pocket-knife, and threatened me on all sides. Then came a pleasant

tual raid, and without direction from laugh behind me. Beadquarters, whose only job was

the

Organising Secretary of Earl ever might happen, as if in an ac- Haig's British Legion Appeal:

to plot the affected areas on a large effect was received.

"I hope very sincerely that I may

I turned to see an officer in khaki battle-dress similar to that worn by our own tuunt once again on the sympathic mup as soon as information to this Army. He clicked his heels, saluted, and said in perfect. English: “I am glad to meet you. I am at your service."

fle support of your Bronch to this greatest of all efforts on behalf of those who have suffered, physically or "economically, in their Country's Service.

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

many

To-night's exercise will be un a Then he pointed to his bigger seale with Headquarters main- taining communication with both the shoulder-tahs, which 'bore the

one word: "Nederland." and Island:

mainland

I had stumbled on a constal de- fence post held by men of the Royal

Dutch Legion.

It was so cleverly concealed that

The exercise automatically began it has been a real problem for my at sun-set, at which time all lights, Come to make the income of our including those of vehicles, were to one-day appeal, generous as it has have been obscured, and shipping I had seen nothing of it, and would heen, nerve to finance the Legion's traffle, with the exception of one Stur have stepped on to the heads of the

aided work, day in and day ferry, was to have come to B

stand- out, for the whole of the

defenders if they had not been keep- But year.

Many houses, particularly in ing a sharp watch on me. this most difficult problem has in Yaumati, Wanchai, the Western dis- most years been overcome by means trlet and Happy Valley notably - training here, and guarding soun

A large part of the Legion is In of careful planning of pur schemes of assistance, careful but sympathe the vicinity of the

quarter-failed to observe the light of the coast is only one of their many ing regulation

Jobs.

Health Runs

and

lie investigation of all claims and above all by rigid economies in ad- ministration.

in

Head-

at first but as the evening progressed these lights were either extinguished or obscured one They have a thoroughly equipped so democratic that "The new War, however, has by one and by 7.30 p.m. there was camp, and are necessarily changed our fannela litile cause for complaint in this their commandant and all his officers outlook. We have still to help the respert.

Joln the men in a "health trot" every morning.

They go across country in a steady" Indian lope, and come back glowing.

The commandant told me: "Most

en of the Great War and their Before 7 o'clock, rearchlights were families. This is an obligallon we must always honour. But in addi-sweeping the star-lit aky in prepara- tion, we have undertaken to make tion for the raiders and they were all our schemes of assistances avail-given some practice by an 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 100 become Ex-Service was sounded. The

o'clock, when recruits from all parts of Britain. men, and the time is rapidly ap was not given until 8.15g signal was invaded, but we also have muny

proaching when the claims from this truffle on the road, excentely pilled new category of Ex-Service mm essential services, immediately will assume serious proportions.

Potential Sufferers

"We have to keep in mind thei fnet that every man who serves in

to one side and stopped, as did the solitary ferry which had been the only vessel running since 6 p.m.

Military Manoeuvres

the-present-emergency-is-a-poten----Meanwhile, military manoeuvres

"Thus it is clear that we must look forward in the near future to what inay prove to be a doubled financial need, and our Poppy Day Appeal therefore becomes of greater impor-

alarm

Wha

part in the defence of this country They are all very keen to take

and later to help to win back their own land.”

Some of these big. blue-eyed Dutchmen, who came from overseas to join the 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 prosperous furm in South Africa to

Playing Darts

The men's recreations Include the first time and learning Welsh, darts which they are playing for

Incredible though it may some 01

of these Dutchmen are

also lo speak Dutch. They are

sound.

tial Ex-Service man who may even were being held independently and tually need the help of the Legion, blank gun ammunition was fired in Nor

must we forget when we are the vicinity of Kowloon. considering our future financlnt post- tion, the decrease in the purchasing gun posts were manned by detach-

Along the water-front, machine enlist. power of the pound sterling.

He is the biggest man In the ments of Indian troops,

Leglon-so big, indeed, that there is Soon after the alarm, the search-not a uniform to fit him. lights succeeded in spotting the rider which, tried as it would, falled to escape from the brams until it went far out into the sea. The all clear lance than ever before.

was given at 9.45 pm, when trame "We are only too well aware how resumed but only for half an hour for generously our friends Oversens have by that time another supported the work of the British sounded, though this lasted only 10 recruits of pure Dutch parcentage Legion on Poppy Day. We know minutes. At 11.10 p.m. there was too of the many additional calls another 10-minute alarm. This was Several are Cockneys. which have been made on them in

In the Inst for the night. recent months by other well-known The black-out was probably the double-Dutch to us," they say. appeals which are helping men who most effectively held so far, while One company, composed almost are actually serving. We feel cer- the number of pedestrians was smal-entirely of English-speaking Dutch- tnin, however, that the members of ler than on previous occasions. In-men, talk to their comrades in signs. the Hongkong and China Branch,cidentally, work on the aid rald tun- Not a penny of Britain's money la and indeed all our friends in Hong-nels was not stopped.

spent on the Legion. Equipment. kong and the surrounding districts, will appreciate the Nation's obliga-A. H. Steele-Perkins, Director of Air Dutch funds.

After the exercise, Wing-Comdr. maintenance, pay-all tions to those men when the time Raid Precautions, said it was le- To-day the troops were reviewed have lost the eldedly better than last time. How-by a general.

At their head marched the Legion's

comes that they too

of need,

it

learning

who were born in

ora 211 this country. "Dutch la

come out of

lof amateur musicians from among the

Broken Vow To

security of Service pay and allow ever, residents were rather slow in band, formed only a fortnight ago ances, and as Ex-Service men have getting the full blac

the full black-out and some only

the British Legion to which of them did not realise that start- they can look for help in their time ed from sunset, but the

night pre-recruits. gressed it became better and better. "We are most anxious to be pre- Observations from the air, he add- pared for the greater need, and hope, cd showed that there were fewer very earnestly, that our 1940 Puppy torchies and

cigarette lights, Day Appeal may be supported with pared with provious occasions. an even greater mensure of sympathy

fully am

satised." Wing- and generosity than the past." Comdr. Siecle-Perkins concluded, In view of the Increasing burden "and I think #ttle more pro- that the present War is 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 generous.

No Cenotaph Ceremony

Wardens Mobilised

com.

Mainly in connection with the

Holland

More Workless

London indicates that there is mark- New from neutral sources reaching

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

The Germans had promised that? they would not hamper Dutch

In the absence of any formal cere black-out, all Air Raid la gesterday. economic development us far as was mony at the Cenotaph

this year, mobilised by proclamation wreaths may be laid privately, and the public is advised that Flanders After the exercise, according to Mr. compatible with German war econo

B. H. Puckle, popples will be on sale through the Raid Precautions, they will not be done to adjust Dutch economic life Deputy Director of Air my. But, in fact, everything is being British Legion it it is desired to lay demobilised but wii be granted to Nazi war needs.

poppy wreaths,

leave without pay to return to their Undertakings which can contribute The following telegram has been civilian occupations. They will be to these need are fostered; the others received by His Excellency the Om- liable for service whenever called are left to Gemselves to face greatly į cer Administering the Government upon, and a mobilised footing is to changed circumstances. Unemploy- from the Secretary of State for the be maintained possibly for the dura- ment is mounting following the Colonies, dated October 20:

tion of the war, Mr. Puckle added,

"I understand that His Majesty

has decided that no public service

usual."

car

demobilization of the Dutch Army,,

Blackout Accident

Transport is difficult, as admitted by the Germans themselves. It is to Two young women, said to be be assumed that the RAF. is partly shall be held on Armistice Day. Inmates of the North Point refugee responsible for this, The queation of special services un camp, were knocked down by

Another German promise was that the previous Sunday is under con- during the black-out.

political life in Holland would be left sideration. Poppies will be sold as The driver, Lau Lo-hok, told the undisturbed. The worthlessness of Police he was driving in King's Road this promise was proved by the when the women, Eau Mel-lal and appointment of Dulch Nazi 'na LONDON TO OBSERVE DAY Taong Pul-ching, suddenly ran in trustee for the Dutch Socialist party. A cable has been received in Sin-front of the road. Ho was injured Steps nro now being taken to found gapore by the Ex-Services' Associn- In the back and Tsang received alight | a single political party, but the Ger tion to say that Poppy Day, despite abrasions on the forehead and legs," mans have made it "known befores everything, is to be held as umunl They wore · rent to Queen Mary hand that they will not accept In Londen,

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