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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 16, 1940.

TORPEDOED BOY SAVED STAMPS

THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Derek Fairhurst, who lives, in a London suburban town, made 'one condition when his parenta proposed he and his sister Doreen, aged 10, should go to Canada

as evacuees.

It was that he should be allowed to take his stamp collec- tion, containing 1,000 stamps of Europe as it was before Hitler changed it.

that

His mother objected warm clothes were more im- portant, and as luggage was strictly limited the collection must give way.g

to

Derek argued that he had taken yeara

collect the stamps. With Europe at war, some of them were valuable and irreplaceable,

His father persuaded Mrs. Fair- hurst, reluctantly, to let him put his stamps before warm clothes.

Derek was onn of the children saved from a ship which was attack ed by a U-boat in the Atlantic.

All He Had

He and 200 other rescued children from London and the Home Counties arrived back nt Euston.

And when his father met Derek and Dereen the boy had his precious stamp book with him.

"It was the only thing I had time to sive," ho

said. "When we felt the bump just grabbed it, and went to see my sister nately out.

"Many other children were awful- ly sick in the small boat, for it tossed up and down so, but I wasn't I'm a good sailor. The sailors said

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home.

clutched my book all the way

"I think a lot of my stamps." This is Derek's second adventure

nt sca.

Three years ago," said his father. "I took him out to see the Queen Mary after her record-breaking trip, "We got stuck on a sundbank in

the Channel. The shilp we were on was in some danger, und we signalled for help. But Derek enjoyed every minule of it."

Soldier's Alleged Bigamy

A Battery

FINDING LOST-MEN OF B.E.F.

IT was disclosed recently that a largo proportion of the 70,000 British casualties in France are prisoners of war.

The Information was given at a meeting at the London Man- sion House by Sir Philip Chet- wode, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross and St. John Joint War Organisa- tion.

The Red Cross, he said, is still tracing men who have been lost sinco Many of the BEF. left France. them are prisoners.

It was reported at the meeting that) the Lord Mayor'a Fund now stundis at £3,073.000,

Lord liffe, deputy chairman of the Fund, said the cost of collection had been under two per cent. Nearly one-third of the money come from

overgens,

The penny-a-week schemo had collected no less than £200,000.

Weekly receipts now averaged £15,000. This meant that more than 3,500,000 working men and women wore giving a penny a their wages.

week

from

Sugar Chief Libelled By Broker

UFS

INDIAN AIRMEN—Mon from India arrive in London to join the Royal Air Force as pilots to strafo Gormany. They are greeted by a sergeant, of London polico force in hearty

handshake.

Finest Generation

Boys and Girls

Of

“IF anyone thinks our youth is decadent let him ask the opinion of any German who has met them. I do not think that ever in our history has this country produced such a fine genera- tion of boys and girls.”

That tribute was paid by Mr. H. Ramsbotham, President of the Board of Education, at a meeting of the Manchester Youth Committee.

The war, he said, made him proud of Britain's education efforts in the years preceding it.

After announcing that expenditure on youth work in 1941 will be two or three times as much as for 1040, Mr. Ramsbotham stated that physleaf training for young people is not to be made compulsory:

GERMANS' WAR AIMS IF THEY-

HITLER SACKS ARMY PRINCE His Fury With Bernhard

PRINCE

ASCHWIN ZUR LIPPE-BIESTERFELD, brother of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, has been expelled from the German Army by the special order of Adolf Hitler.

He has been put under demi- cillary arrest at the family castle near Bomst, in Silesia.

None of his friends is allowed to see him-even if the friend dared to incur the suspicion of the Gestapo by doing so. The motive for Hitler's order is his fury with Princo Bern- hard, who, though born a German, has not in Nazi fashion betrayed the eath of loyalty to Holland which he swore when he became naturalised before, his marriage to Princess Juliana.

Under Hitler's direct orders a Good of scurrilous newspaper attacka was let loose against Prince Bernhard both in Cermany and in the German. controlled Press

Now Hitler, unable to get at Prince Bernhard himself, has tried to punish his brother.

He was degraded and put under arreat as an officer who, for his herolam us a Deutenant of motorised shock troops during the Polish cam- paign, was decorated with the Iron Cross

Nazi Playing Cards Found In Shelter

A PACK of Nazi playing cards was found in a North London shelter after a strange man had panicked during a raid and after- wards vanished.

Despite the efforts of shelter marshal, the man went on asserting that Britain. had a hopeless cause and stood no chance against the German forces.

After the all-clear the marshal was tidying the shelter when he came across a pack of German cards, with the Swastika on their backa,

They were on the bench where the man had been sitting, and had evi- dently fallen from his pocket.

It was suggested that the Nazig be using agents to spread panic

Libel damages of £550 and costs were awarded to Mr. William James Rook, Director of Quarter-Master Sugar Purchases at the Ministry Sergent, Charles Harold Taylor, of Food, in the King's Bench was accused at Birmingham Division.

Mr. Justice Atkinson declared that "If and when I am satisfied," te recently of committing bigamy

GERMAN war aims are oul-during raids. three months after he had mar- the defendant, Mr. J. Leslie Fairrle, said, "that adequate provision can

a sugar broker, of Mincing-Jane, E.C., be made for physical training on a lined in a memorandum publish- | ried his second wife,

Mr. M. P. Pugh, prosecuting, samt was actuated by enmity against Mr. nation-wide basis, then will come ed in the "New York Times." Rook and the Sugar Control. The the time to consider the release of young from work for Rook

It is stated that the Germans

may

GIFT FOR

Taylor was divorced by hot, hearing had lasted 15 days,ges for one or more short periods a week in admit their fulfilment depends SALVATION ARMY

and married Mrs. Margaret Lillan Taylor, of Chelmsford Road, Ports-alleged libel contained in cables sent which they may take part in physical on the defeat of Britain. mouth, in July last year.

to Mr. Fairrle by Galban Lobo and training, with great beneat to them- Miss Brends Annie Weston sald Co., Cuban sugur exporting firm, to selves and their eficiency as she nct Taylor at a dance in a mid-whom the defendant acted as agent.workers." land town and married" him on

Je contended that Mr. Falerie had

October 21. She regularly received poisoned the minds" of the firm by

£3 S. Gd. a week from him..

Both women expressed their loyal ty to Taylor in the witness-box.

His wife said: "I am will fond

of him, and-will-forgive-bim-if-he will be true to me."

Min Weston said:

"He stands by me, and I stand by hum.”

untrue pecusutions that Mr. Took

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was favouring the firm of C. Czarni- Lord Mayor

kow, Ltd., of which he

chairman.

Is vice-

The Judge said he had no doubt¬ that Mr. Fairrie wanted to force Mr. Rook to give orders to Galban Labo. There was never the slightest foun- Taylor was sent for trial and was dation for any of the libels. allowed bail.

Earl Beatty To Command

"U.S." Ship

·GOOD PRICES

FOR RAMS

HIKED 183 MILES TO A FIRE

Of London

Is Elected

Despite the risk of air raids all the ancient customs and

The annual "gift day in aid of the Salvation Army Home for Women The plans provide for the an- and Girls, No. 2 Embankment Road, nihilation of Switzerland, the will be held on December 20. Gifts in Netherlands, Norway, Poland, money or kind will be gratefully re- the Baltic States, Rumania and celved by the following:

Mirs Pearson-Grant, Empress Jugoslavia.

Lodge, Kowloon; Mrs Phillips No. 28 Kadoorie Avenue, Kowloon; Mrs Belgium and France will be Yale, No. 31 Harbour View, Kowloon partitioned.

Mrs Piercy, No. 409 The Peak; Mrs Pokfulam; Norway will be joined with Sweden Blake, No. 15 Felix Villas, "under the present Swedish dynasty." Old City Hall, Queen's Road; Helena Belgium will lose her Flemish May Institute, Garden Road; Star areas to Germany, and ber Walloon Ferry Travel Bureau, Hongkong: Star areas will go-to France.

Ferry Office, Kowloon; and Major Brazier, Salvation Army Home, No. 2 France and Italy Embankment Road, Kowloon.

Sultable gifts would be rice (red France, the newspaper continues, and white), dry vegetables, soya will cede Alsace and a part of Lot- beans, salt vegetables, wood, clinrcoal, nine to Germany and will give Italy four, sugur, tea, tinned milk, soap. Nice, Corsica and Tunisia.

towels, blankets (red or brown) Germany, according to the story, buckets, brooms, brushes, enamel

to

enamel bowls, 14" calico, |Balkans to attack Russia,

intends next thrussin ve into the mannelette, toh hair, keks, tooth-

etc.

At the annual sale held at Lanark ceremonies were observed at the recently excellent trade was experi-Guildhall recently when Sir enced for Border Lelcester rom lambs. George Henry Wilkinson was when 243 head were disposed of selected Lord Mayor for the com the splendid average price of £12. Gs. 11d. opiece, as against £10, 10s. 3d. ing elvic year, last year. The top prices for lambs Dating from the time of Lord This means that the Ukraine, Po-brushes, cots, knitting wool, loys. were £130 and £100.

Mayor Whittingto, the first of land, and the Baltic States will be Luxozen, Christmas fore, crackers, Lieut. Commander Earl

the customs was the attendance and Jugoslavia will be partitioned or English), gramophone and records, absorbed by. Germany, and Rumanin materials, books and games (Chinese Beatty, R.N., son of the former

at divine service in St. Lawrence among Italy. Hungary, and Bulgaria. any hou

household requisites, First Sen Lord, it is understood,

Jewry of the Lord Mayor,

A special appeal is made to Chinese will be appointed to command

Sheriffa, and Aldermen.

housewives to lend a helping hand to one of the fifty -American des-' Because he wanted experience, a Afterwards the liverymen met at

their less fortunate sisters, by sending along any commodities they can spare troyers sold to the British Navy. Manchester part-time nuxiliary fre- the Guildhall, and at noon the Lord

that might be of use in The Home, Earl Beatty, who is thirty-five, re- man bitch-hiked 183 miles from Mayor (Sir William Coxen) took his

whose inmates are mostly Chinese. signed his commission in the Leices- Manchester to London on his week's choir at the hustings in the ancient

It is officially, estimated in Parls The floor was strewn with. tershire Yeomanry after the outbreak holiday and to obtain practice at reall hall. of war to join the Navy,

Ares. He joined up at a London fire sweet herbs, a practice of great anti-that there are. 600,000 persons 3= ROAD ACCIDENTS Viscounicas Benity - Was formerly station and quickly got the experience quity which was originally a precau-employed there.

tion against plague,

Half of them are being aided by During August this year, 729 per- an American, Mrs. Dorothy Sandes. he wanted.

After the usual ritual the election their former employers. The zons were killed on the roads, of of Sir George Wilkinson was an-mainder have received a dole cqui- Great Britain, compared with 810 nounced:

lavent to.... about. 1/1, a day or during the corresponding month of bachelors and 1/7 for married 1939. Of these, 205 were killed dur- couples, plus 6d. for efch child.

ing the black-out.

Gas-Proofing Of Raid Shelters To Go Ahead

...

Authorities responsible for public air raid shelters in damaged, and the life's work and Britain have been told to examine their arrangements for gas- proofing the shelters in accordance with schemes prepared some lime ago.

600,000 UNEMPLOYED IN PARIS

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German-Japanese Plots For Sabotage Alleged

Ruthless Damage Addressing the liverymen, the Lord Mayor-Elect aald that there would be no pageantry and very little hospitality during his, year of office. The City WOR being ruthlessly

fortunes of many of its citizens and the homes and total belongings, öf many of its workers were being de- stroyed at one foul blow. 'Peace The New York newspaper "P:M." describes what it calls Military authorities along the South Coast have for some

might not come in his year of office, widespread plots by Germany and Japan to foster sabotage in the time been instructing the forces in their commanti in gas pre-

but our right would prevail and the cautions in view of the possibilities at any time now of an at-City would rise ngnin in all ita digol United States and to stir up trouble along the Mexican border.

First violence, it says, In Germany's undeclared war against tempt at invasion by the enemy.

ty and glory.

Sir Robert Kindersley said that the the United States has been tentatively set. It is considered possible that and perhaps damp air raid sifelters, Lord Mayor's fund for air-raid vio

Plots are being developed in

Directed By Consul the Germans may include the and various methods of keeping she-tims had reached £700,000 in two

The Federal Bureau of Investiga-

·Warm Lera dry and

have been use of poison gas as part of the investigated

the United States and Mexico by weeks.

lion, adds the newspaper, is awaiting preliminaries for an invasion.

Earlier if the day Alderman Frank German and Japanese diplomata the sign for the start of wholesale The beating of shelters cannot. S. Alexander and Mr. George Pers The possibility that sub however, be combined with

Trentham were formally installed in and others, calling for action, arrests.

According to sources of the De-" ---marines might be used for such proofing because of ventilation

At the an attack from the Channel Hasdimculties.

Mexican revolution, incidents on on the West coast, sabotage plans are "not beén” overlooked."

Ministry of Home Security is more ensuing year.; concerned with urging the authorities

the Mexican-United States under the general supervision of the It is believed that meteorological to hasten with

San Francisco, German Consul in the work of gan

frontier, destruction of United Herr Wiedmann Investigations have been made by the proong the shelters for the public. enemy of factors affecting the strato-

Ways of making. Anderson and

States warships by special bombs Aastating him is the German consul gle use of poison gas

li Los Angeles, Herr Gyssling, says brick private, shelters as Kas-proof

from Germany shipped by way the newspaper, who is alleged to have Risks Of Flinga

as posible. have been described In Two brothers Aríður and Stanley various official handbooks and leadets Vince-of Ranleigh Road, Felixstowe, of Japan, and explosione in the been at a meciing where plans to With the approach "of colder, fisved from time to time,

were drawn up.... The Federal Bureau weather there is some public concern about the risks of finess through is a blanket soaked in water and aide id, France, are prisoners of war factories by German explosives was advised of this plan, the news

{disguised na pencils.

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moment: the office as sheriffs of the City for the which will probably involve Apartment of Justice in Mexico and

BROTHERS ARE INSEPARABLES,

The simplest form of an e-known to their friends as "the in West Coast arsenals and aircraft dynamite the Hercules' power plant,

having to spend whole nights in cold hung ncross the entrance.

separables," and who fought side by i

In the same German camp,

paper, concludes.

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