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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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Tuesday, December 31, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28015

Till prefx "Special to the Telegraph" is wird by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate, news which is strictly copyright under the provisons of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1036. Buch news as beary

the tndleation, "UP" is reseived in Hongkong on the date of pubileation by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, elther wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

PLEDGE & A WARNING

PRESIDENT Roosevelt has struck another mighty blow for the anti-Totalitarianism cuuse. He has told the three Axis Powers-Germany, Italy and Japan-in firm unequivocal terms, that the United States is prepared to go any lengths, should the necessity arise, to prevent world domination by these aggressor nations. In the meantime, he has promised -Britain-and-her-Empire, now engaged in a life and death struggle with a common enemy, expanded aid to the limit, short of war.

The cabled reports of the President's speech do not pro- vide details of the proposed increased aid, but they are not difficult to guess. The Marquis

THEIR JOB IS BEING BOMBED

HAVE Just been listening at headquarters of Coastal Com- mand, RAF to the almost Incredible story of the most bombed men in Britain,

Thesa men lead lives more amazing than any others in all the activities that combine to give Britain's Air Force that well-proven superiority, man for man, machine for machine, avor the numerically -stronger enemy,

They are the "Three Men in a Boat " -a ile yellow armoured target motar boat--who provito our bembers with the nearest thing to a ren), live human tar- get to be found anywhere.

Some would spectacularly call them the "Buicide Squad." But these men laugh at that description of such a- taken-for-granted, everyday job.

You meet them all round the coasts of Britain-wherever there is a sen tar- gel range for our bomber,

Their boats, painted yellow, so as to stand out well an targets, as they arr smaller than any hostile craft our bombers have to hit, take up their posi- tions on the ranges when the daily prac tice times como round.

The three men are snug inside, under Direo and a half tons of armour. Colos kal weight for so tiny a craft. But, even so, they wear cinah-helmets and ear-protectora.

The armour covers the wheel house, engino room and hull. The rest of the boat is packed with a secret buoyant material to render it unsinkable.

✰

. Not one has ever yet been sunk. But several have been overturned by the force of the bombs,

The three men, specially trained to escape from their, target in such emer. gencies, get clear till the craft rights

self, or is righted.

Then back they climb agafa, and carry On an uzunl

Tho bomba weigh eleven pounds ench. But despite their smallness they are sufficiently powerful when they register a direct hit to dent the thick armour plate of this powerfully pro- tected man-controlled target and to give the crew inside on uncomfortable erack. The percentage of hits is just as un- comfortably high, and has cone up enormously since the outbreak of war. But the practica bombers don't have it all their own way. The three men in the little yellow bont give them a run for thele money,

They streak along at twenty knots, turning. zig-zagging, watching the bomber's course and dodging 19; pre- Lending to be a hostile motor, torpedo- boat, the smallest and nimblest objec tive our aircraft ever have to hit.

Securing a direct hit on a crash-diving U-boat, caught by surprice, is in com parison child's play.

Many a bomb-aimer who has sent a U-boat to its doom has a friendly thought in the moment of success for the fearless and hard-bitten irce men li a boat who gave him practica.

Theirs is not a single act of courage. It is just a routine incident in the daily round. One nono of them ever makes a song about.

So much so that not one person I've met has ever heard of theso silent heroes who pit their speed and armour ngainst the precision bomb-almers ol -the B.A.P.—

There are many such crews and stich' bonia They belong to the Marine Craft Bection of the R.A.F., and are operated by Coastal Command.

The crews receive the ordinary pay of their ranka. Their extraordinary job is contributing immensely to the deadly sklil of British bombers.

And those bombers are now finding their mark in relentless and incessani, rakis on enemy objectives from Bergen to Brest and from ab to the Red Seal

C. D.

of Lothian, before his untimely Fine Reduced

death, made it clear to Mr Roosevelt that Britain would neet financial assistance in the not distant future; there is little

By £14,500

l

A fine of £16,000 and £25 coats doubt that this will be forth-which had been imposed by Sir coming. Secondly, the Presi-Robert Dummett at Bow Street. dent has made it known that he Police Court was reduced to is closely studying ways and fine of £500, and no order was means of speeding up aeroplane made as to costs, by the London supplies to Britain, and one Sessions Appeals Committer suggestion, which apparently is recently. being, seriously contemplated, is that for pooling the resources of Argenti, a company director, and he The applicant was Leon Pendelt the American motor industry to had been convicted of failing to offer provide for 500 planes a day. two bars of gold and 400 sovereigns, Thirdly there is the proposal, valued together at £7,200, for sale to

the Treasury. now being fully discussed in Washington, to hand over to magistrate's decision, said that. Just Mr L. A. Byrne, supporting the

merchant ships tied up in to Belgium. He resigned from the American ports. Fourthly the directorship of an Engilsis company He returned to this country on June President is studying the 27, and in subsequent correspondenco possibility of making available disclosed that he had been in posses-

alon of the gold. to the British navy additional destroyers for convoy work.

Thus the British nation can look forward to the new year with re-

December 31, 1940.

15

HITLER. "Jam practising'again....... There will be plenty of work for paper-hangers after the war...

YEARS FOR

The third chapter in an interesting eye-wit ness narrative of how the Nazis occupied a part of the United Kingdom-the Channel Islands, Told by a native to

THE

DUDLEY BARKER

HE Germans wasted no time in establishing their hold on Guernsey.

"GOD

THE

of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Later on, as the nights grew longer, those hours were extended.

Machine-Gun

SINGING

SAVE KING"

keep that. Harold threw our gun en the pile, and went out quickly. "I happened to have quite a bit of food stored away in my house, and I decided to risk nol handing it over. I was lucky, and they did not search others. And the food was very useful · later

In Their Boat the house, as they did some

"All clocks had to be altered on. by an hour, to fit in with Ger- "I went down to work a bit carly man time, by which everything that afternoon, for I did not

know

on the island was run from then what would happen. I was stopped at the entrance to White Rock and onwards. They occupied the island on

fold I must go to the Channel Islands "No fishermen were allowed Hotel for a n_pass. Sunday, June 30, without many to leave the port, but three

"And that was the first me I saw

berri

of the islanders knowing they weeks later that was altered, the German Kommandant who had

teen put in charge of the island. were there. But on Monday, and they were allowed to go out "I was shown into his office, and the first full day of their occupa- to a limit of two miles from the there behind the desk sat a

short thick-set German officer with dark tion, they saw to it that the shore.

"Une or two fishermen broke hair, and very lively, plercing eyes whole island knew all about it.

that rule, and they got a shot should say he was about 44 year As Fred Hockey said-Fred across their bows as a warning, between brown and khaki in colour old. He wore a uniform something Hockey, the harbour signaller and then a launch went out to and a peaked cap with white braid from St Peter Port who later bring them back.

and the eagle's wings on it. He also escaped to England to tell this "Afterwards, their boats were wore, the Iron Cross. story-they made a thorough hauled up on the beach for the Kommandant duration of the war. -job-of-it, once-they-started-

"What is more, if three

Was Polite

or

France.

"Everybody who could hurried more fishermen went out in one "His name was Dr Lanz, and 1 down to St Peter Port that boat, they had to take a German must say that, all the time I was on sentry with them, and he sat the island, he behaved like a gentle- morning to see what was hap- with a machine-gun across.

his man. pening," he said, "and we found knees.

"After a time, indeed, the Guern- sey people's fear was that he might that the Germans had taken "Other regulations published be replaced by some other German over all the chief hotels.

on that first day said that all Komunandant. He had an assistant motor transport was stopped, at first, a Dr Maas, who also behaved "They set up their head-except for absolute necessities. Well, and he was then tranferred to quarters in the Royal and the The chief tradesmen, for

"We got quite used, in time, to Channel Islands hotels.

instance, were allowed to use seeing the Kommandant / driving "The officers were quartered vans for deliveries. All petrol about the island.

He was always driven by a Incul in the Old Government House mans at once.

had to be handed to the Ger-

policeman in the police car, which Hotel, and the N.C.O.'s in

a mwastika flag put on its bonnet, but wherever the Kommandant went Moore's Hotel.

Private soldiers No Talking

by a Gorman were billeted in unoccupied

In Groups vovers strapped

soldier as

to houses all over the island. None "There was to be no talking Monday afternoon, he was perfectly

his belt. "When I first met him, on that Was billeted on the island in groups, and severe penalties polite to me. He spoke families.

Newspapers

brad

he was abducerend with two re-

excellent would be impossed for that.

English: He asked me what my job "NOBODY WAS ALLOWED was, and took down particular of TO BUY ANOTHER MAN A me. Then I was handed a pass, in

White Rock,

Given Away DRINK IN A PUB. EVERY German, that would let me on to "Altoghther there were about OWN, ALL SALE OF SPIRITS Food Taken

MAN HAD TO PAY FOR HIS

AND THE

ships came.

1,000 German troops on the WAS BANNED, later to take over the harbour. ED OVER TO THE GERMANS. jaland, and a few sailors came SPIRITS WERE TO BE HAND..

From Island "The first thing we knew that

"The German sentry passed me Monday morning was that the of stores of sugar, tea, bacon Not that I had anything to slo, for "All lardera had to be declared through with it at once that evening. island's two newspapers, the and any tinned food. It had to the harbour was still empty, and no Press' and the 'Star,' were being be handed over to the Germans distributed free.

"None came, indeed, until the fol- "They kept. that up for three

at the Channel Islands Hotel.

lowing week, when the first German "Rationing, በዚ under the boats started to arrive from France. covered with the new German

"There was one, the Holland. regulations for Guernsey. Later severe), and we were allowed WOB soon made much more

which was still plying regularly back and forwards when I left. on, the papers started carrying only one small piece, of soap &

bringing troops guns and simu- a German lesson overy day; week.

nition from France, and taking back all the things the islanders though I don't think many of "All business was to carry on the islanders took the trouble to as usual, and any shops that had

were forced to surrender--the food stocks, the spirtis, and so on.. learn it.

Even cases of tomatoes," shut were compelled to re-open.

I don't "But

added Fred

Swan, Culbertson & Fritz Britain. Danish and Norwegian before war brolie out Argenti went days, and their front pages were British rule, was continued (it

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Cable Address: SWANSTOCK

On behalf of Argenti, Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., said that a most un fortunate miscarriage of justice had taken place, for which no one was to blame. Argent's father was an yesterday let the world know that educated at Marlborough and Ox- Britain's Oght was America's flight, |ford. and though he pledged the nation that no American soldiers would bo

newed hope. President Roosevelt Englishman, and the applicant was

sent to Europe, he pointedly referred the part of the American President to the fact that the US. fleet was to support, both morally and physic- in the Paclic, inferring that it would ally, the cause of democracy, and it

can be regarded as a solemn, warn-"; be prepared to act against furthering to the axis alliance. Her and aggression in the Far, East,

his partners would do well to note Mr Roosevelt's speech, in fact, Mr. Roosevelt's.renunciation of was a highly stimulating new year appeasement until aggressivo Total! message. While - free of threats, ittarianism has Bean obliterated from revented a clear determination on the world,

"I got a copy of the first day's

"There were a lot more regula. Hockey with th what the Ger- papers, and started to read the tions, but those were the princi- mans got a very high opinion of regulations. There were a lot pal ones. I finished reading Guernsey tomatoes. Both these boys of them, but the principal ones them, and then I thought I had of mine. George and Harold, were were these:

working in the glasshouses. And better send my son Harold down they can tell you that, when the Ger- "All weapons-guns, ammuni- to the Royal with our shotgun. mans came in and ordered too many tion, even daggers and bayonets

had to be handed in at once Given Back to the Royal Hotel.

IT WAS FORBIDDEN TO

His Sword "And the pos

arep

sald

boxes to be prepared by a certain time, they didn't always

gal quite

the best quality

thero

George SING GOD SAVE THE KING. "He found two German

dreamily, “was not always first- sentries class market startderdi. You'd be THE PENALTY FOR DOING outside, with fixed bayonets. "An surprised at the number of boxes 1 "HAT WAS 15 YEARS' PENAL officer sat in a room inside, with a saw with the juice streaming out of SERVITUDES LAS A

pile of weapons of all kinds that the the bottom, even before they left the Linndors had brought in.

"Nobody was to be outside his home at night between the hours

glasshouse,"

One man even brought an old THURSDAY: "THET THREATEN

· sword, but he was told he could ME WITH REVOLVERS."