1941-02-04 — Page 5

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 4, 1941.

ANGELS OF WAR 1940 VERSION

Every war has its legends-tales of bravery, treachery, and mysterious happenings. A story of 1914; first told in all sincerity by a group of British soldiers, became a legend of the Great War. Now 1940 has brought a similar story, from civilians in a Sussex village.

When British troops were re-i treating from Mons in. August, 1014, a group of weary soldiers had a vision.

They saw St George, with allend- ant angels, Interposed between the advancing Germans and the British.

Many men who took part in the retreat assorted that they had seen the Heavenly company, who, they anld, hnd saved our troops from destruction.

ITALIAN

SWEARS

REVENGE

Emillo Matteotti, "The Man

The story spread. Others claimed Mussolini Fears," has arrived in to have had a similar vision,

Thus the Angels of Mons became London after a dramatic escape- Great War legend.

Lipari. Fascist Devil's

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Shepherd's Vision

Now villagers of Firle, in Sussex, claim to have seen a vision which they declares un omen of British victory in this war.

from Island.

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He is a brother of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist leader |whom Mussolini put to death,

has sworn Mr Fowler, a shepherd, was watch-and whom he ing his dock on the hill above avenge "with the blood of the Lewes. Then, he says, this hap-|Duce." pened:

white line slowly spread across

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Emilio Wis arrested by Musso-

the sky. From it appeared the vision lini's orders when he denounced the

of Christ crucified on the Cries. Duce as the murderer of his brother, Then six angels took form. They and publicly took oath to assassinate

had long white wings, and one was playing a harp.

The apparition tasted two minutes, then faded.

Air Fowler ran to the village to tell of what he had seen, and found that several other people had also watched the apparition.

him.

Provoking Revolution

ALICE'S. AMBULANCE-By speech-making, Alice Marble, woman's world tennis chom. pion, raised money to buy this "Alice Marble Wimbledon Spacial Ambulance," shown in Now York, to go to England. Now she heads British-American sports committee in driva for ambulance planes.

Nazi Oppression Told

By Rumanian Refugee

Sale in Britain, Emilio Mafleotti is now engaged in organising on Fleeing from brutal Nazi Influences in Rumania, a middle- International movement for all anti-aged Rumanian_building contractor, his wife and six-year-old Fascist, Italians with the object of daughter arrived in Singapore by air recently. provoking revolution against Musso- lini.

"I cannot give the detalls of my escupe for fear of incriminating some

Briton Faces Trial who assisted me. It followed nearly

In Shanghai

Shanghai, Feb. 3. A Briton named Hawkins was Arrestert ut 12.20 a.m. to-day and charged in the British Police Court this morning with operating gambling establishments In Seymour Road and the Burlington Hotel, both of which were closed some days ago. Hawkins pleaded not guilty and was released on bail when the hear- ing was adjourned.

Police evidence alleged that on January 24 visited the Burling-

they where a gambling den

Hotel

been established in one of the

Fund rooms.

It had been closed before

their arrival, but they saw gambling

equipment In the hotel

floreroom.

I a year of cautious planning," he said, "If my escape had been postponed two weeks I could never have got | away as all Creek ships would have been the prey of the italians on the pen sen. They would not have given me a dog's chance."

Australia Claims

Oldest Tree

Australia claims the world's Later they arrested 16 Chinese who oldest tree. It is known as "Old testified that Hawkins and a man

nemed Ning Wen-vuan were opera-Peter." and is found in The

ters of the establishinent.

On his way to settle down with his brother in Australia, the refugee told a reporter that when he left Rumanin in November there were thousands of Nazi troops in the country, dictating martial law.

"I left because of their trutal; methods," he declared.

He added that the shortage of foodstuffs in Germany was ap

Jury Go Home

parent when the Nazi troops For Week-End

entered Rumania. The invaders took "everything they could lay their hands on."

"They'll soon be starving though." he said.

An eye-witness of the earthquake that wrought havoc at many centres of the country, the refugee stated that hundreds were killed and numerous

buildings reduced to ruins,

New Rule

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FITNESS CORPS FOR YOUTH

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Britain intends to form nation-wide Youth Service Corps

to 20 may play their part in the so that young people of from 14

national effort by taking up fitness training.

The scheme is sponsored by

lined in a circular to local nu-

the Board of Education and out- thorities.

Mr H. Ramsbotham, President of the Board of Education, de- clares: "There is no Hitler Youth

The War Office is co-operating by the release of key men who before

At the Old Bailey recently, when idea contemplated, and no ques- the trial of Mrs Florence Iris Ouidation of regimentation or mili- Ransom, 35, who was accused of thetarisation."

Dorothy Sonders murder of Mrs

He alins at a corps of co-ordinating Fisher, 48, at Matfield, near Ton- bridge, Kent, on July 8, was adjourn local units organised and run by the ed from a Saturday until Monday, young people tiemselves. the jury, under a

War Office Helps new regulation, were, for the first time in the history Youngsters "Led Astray" the Central Criminal Court, allow Speaking of the Rumanian attitude led to separate and to the Nazis, he said that the older tive homes insten go to their respec- the war were employed as physical of being locked training organisers and leaders, and citizens

anti-Nazi up together at a City hotel, as had in the provision of Instructors for were definitely walle die youngsters had been "led hitherto been the custom with juries local centres. astray" by tempting, but false, pre-engaged on murder trials,

This provision, it is understood, has already about 100 are being re- The Inspector of Physical Introduced been

owing to the air Training at the War Once is a mem- raids.

ber of the directorate.

mises.

tropical forest to the north of When charged Hawking sald Queensland, which abounds in nothing and he was not represented strange things. by counsel at the Court hearing.—

The age of the plant has been United Press.

He added that Rumanian leaders set down as 15,000 years.

who

had protested against the count- EAST INDIES PASSPORTS "Old Peter" is a giant macro-try's attitude toward Germany had lands advises that, as from February mit of Tambourine Mountain, in had relatives in Rumonia.

The Consul General for the Nether-zama palm growing on the sum-been killed, and asked the reporter 1, everyone visiting the Netherlands, the southeast corner of Queens Enst Indies must have a visa.

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The State which holds it also provides another puzzle for the batanists. It a roup of Antaretle heeches, recently discovered growing on the sunmil of a peak in the Macpherson Ranee, one of the bigh- est mountain chains in Queensland,

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fossils of the trees amidst the They are H. D. Vigor, Edmund blizzard-swept ley wastes of the Far Bennion, W. Bloor, T. H. Hodg- appears, the son, J. Arthur Rank, Arthur

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Robinson and Dr Sword, and Professors E. C. Dodds and R. A. Peters.

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A large factory has been built to turn out the vitamin from simpl:r chemicals, by a complicated build- ing up chemical process.

Cutting Cost

B.B.C. BANS ENEMY MUSIC

to

German songs and music re be banned from B.B.C. programures. Incorporated Society of Musicians

hare histions on economic grounds, and the B.B.C. have agreed to delete their programmes any music by which Germany or Germans might benefit.

Mr-Ralph-Hill,the BBC munic mine, mald With the possible exception of Wagner, the great Ger- man composers of the past would utines be the first to decry the present regime of oppression In Germany."

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Every available gymnasium, hall. playing field and sports ground will be used, and the War Offee has asked commands to avoid requisition- ing premises suitable for recreational

work.

Premizes already requisitioned will be released if possible.

The scheme is at present limited

to boys and young men, but may be extended to girls and women,

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Penecillin is as yet something of a riddle. It exists in a certain type of mould-one of the fungi like that which forms on bread or cheese.

Gramophone Sales tually be used to fight:

It is hoped that it will even-

Touch Records During Blitz

Gramophone records, always a trade prosperity barometer, can- not be made quickly enough now- adays.

Counsel Repavs Man Who Saved His Life sellers of the blitz. In the North

In London they are the best-

DEFENDING & boy of 16 who was and Midlands sales have jump fcharged at Chelmsford recently with

ut alice Mr Frederick Levy, the bar ed to near the boom figures of

1928-1920.

ristne said:

"A bomb fell on the Temple, In "But for the war the Industry I was would be climbing to new record London, and I was burled,

dug out and the man who saved my figures," Mr E. R. Lewis, managing life, a fireman, is the father of the director of the Decca Record Com- pany, told a pressman. "As it is, the bom pleading for.

"I feel I owe it to him to do all Improvement over the past two years can for his son, who may turn out has continued.

to be an good a man ag bis father.”...

The boy was placed on probation.

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A Rough Time "The gramophone business has had

~Streptococcal Infections:"

Child - bed (puerperal) fever, sepsis, and seplicatmla; cry- sipelas; scarlet fever; acute ton- silitis: blood poisoning by strep- tococcal Infections. Wound infec- ilons due to streptococef. Staphylococcal Infections:

BIG A.R.P. COMB-OUT BEGINS

Bolls, carbuncles, whitlows, styes, wounds infected, by, and An intense comb-out of A.R.I'. blood-polsoning due to, staphy-personnel has begun in Britain.

Jococci.

One In 800.000

+

Men and women with criminal records, some of whom have al- For ten years past penecillin has rendy been found in the civil de- been extracted and used by bacterio-fence services, are to be sacked. logists in connection with their work.

It is believed that many of these people enrolled in order to get op- If a bacteriologist wants to grow portunities for looting, behind the a culture of a certain germ his great-protection of an AR.P. uniform. est dificulty is to prevent this germ

being killed off by stronger-growing Several cases in which men had germs which find their way into the served two or three terms of im- fest-tube incubators of the labora-prisonment have been discovered. a very rough Journey since the econo-tory. Pengelilin

lin prevents straphy-Often these sentences were for taeft, ¡mle collapse of 1929. Radio, a young incovel and streptococci from killing of just the kind that has been pre-

industry, riepped in and took away

eft less powerful bacilli which may valent during recent ralds. millions of old customers. Paul Robeson, Negro singer and

be required for experiment. "Then there, was the change-over Professor

stor Alexander Fleming. of With increased production it is eight others, three of whom A sergeant of a famous Hus-expected that the cost of synthetic Negroes, charged racial discrimina- and we lost more ground."

pre from acoustic to electrical machines London University, told the Phar- maceutical Society in a lecture on sar regiment, on patrol in an Neurasthala

vitamin B1 will be reduced tremen- tion in a sult demanding $22,500! Mr Lews numed the two biggest armoured car, fought a lone bat-deusly.

damages from a San Francisco res-sellers in the war-time popular deld. tle with 14 falian fighter planes.

Fortified broad is expected to be taurant. The suit al the restau-They are Bing Crosby and Deanna He shot one down and drove

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Frant, Vanessi's, refused to serve them. Durbin. the others off.

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The encounter took place while he was natrolling the bor- ders of the Libyan Desert.

Machine-Gunned

Figet. ton Italien hiers, diving low. machine-gunned him.

bb his Bren gun and re-

turned the fire.

Then more Itellan fichiers op- [peared, fring their

machine guns

and dropping bontba.

One bomb fell 30 yards away from the armoured cor. tearing off the baze -sump and bringing the car to In standstill

One Crashed

But the regenot went on blazing Inway with his Bren gun at the nt-

tackers.

1 hit one Ilation machine of the Breda class, which crashed. The others then fled.

The pilot of the shot down plane was found to have had two bullets through his head,

UNIVERSITY LECTURE

Dr F. C. Yen, former Director of the Chinese National Health Administra- tlon, will give a lecture on "Medical Reconstruction in Chinn" on February 7 at 6:30 p.m. In Room "K" of Hong- Kong University.

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The active principle which makes penecillin do its work has not yet been isolated. The substance cannot yet be made synthetically and thus standardised in power and dose.

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Your body must be nourished even though rolld food and most liquid foods causo pala and vomiting.

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Horlicks is a complete balanced food in very palatable form. It has been · · given with remarkable Leuocess in the most severe cases of - 'gestrils. Get Horlicks to-day from (1) your usual storm.

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