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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD DUCK

WE'RE WORRIED

DONALD!

MAYBE WE

SHOULD'VE COME

TO THE MOVIES

FIRST, AND THEN.

GONE SHOPPIN'!

AW,

PIPE DOWN AND ENJOY

GEE WHAT IF SOMEBODY'S

STOLEN

OUR GROCERIES

AND TURKEY OUT OF THE CAR?

WILD BILL

AW, PHOOEY! TO WORRY NOTHING

X.MARKS THE SPOT!

ABOUT

PARKING LOT

I LOCKED

THE CAR NOBODY

CAN GET IN!

THE SHOW!

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People's War-

People's Army

MUCH is heard just now of

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the phrase "People's War," and no plece of shallow- rhetoric to declare that the army that is Aghting to unve Britain I in every way People's Army,

When man receiven his rulling-up papers he is told that he is about to join the King's Army. Of course, it Is the King's Army, in the fine ok! sense of the phrase. But it is also

Berally People's Army an army in which each man egards himself not as a con- script, but as one who has ebogen the Army as a means of

protecting himself and his own. There is

is not a suspicion of press-ponging about this new

It is not Army. is not a case of the Army conscripting a people for its own

ends; it is more a case of a

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a people investing the Army. To any man who is going to Join the Army I will say this: ---- You are not to be caught

going up.in merciless machine, which will either mould break you. You will not have The liberty you had in civil life. But will be treated as if

you you were a self-respecting Bri- tish subject. You are not first of all a soldier who has been dragged from his home to serve the Army, but a citizen who is willing to defend his horne by means of the Army..

Friendly Atmosphere

The atmosphere of the Pen- plo's Army "is friendly. The recruit frds himself under the charge of N.C.O.s who, not so long ago, wore civilian clotties. For there are chances of pro- motion for everyone In this new Army. In short, the re- crant

is trained by men who know what it means to leave home and what the change

from elvilinn to Army life means.

That has been my experience, and this atmosphere of friend Tiness la general in the Army. When the batch I was with de- trained at the depot the fest

words that greeted us

were.

"Anybody want to go to the pub?" Not at all what we exe pected, but our hearts, were gladdened.

We

were allowed to settle

down gradually, and 1 can truthfully say that, considering the six-wecka 1 have been here we have been almost coaxed into learning the tricky job of ankiering. To bully and blast 1 not the way of the modern sergeant. It all boils down to the fact that the instructors remember that it is free men they are dealing with.

No War Worry

You who are about to join the People's Army will have so rough passages. I have had mine, have felt home-sick. Hut in the Army you will find a strange romradeship like no- thing to be found in civil life.

venture to

assert that this spirit of

has never comradeship been stronger than in the Army of the British People. You will feel filter than ever before, you will sleep better than you ever tlich. You will feel awkward pl first, but you won't be treated na if you were a brainless auto- maton.

Most wonderful of all, you'll stop worrying about the war. That

have found, is about the strangest thing in the Army. Any man in the Forces will bear this out. Some of you civilians must envy us,

One thing more. Thin People's Array must never, never

be allowed to die. The Anny and all it has to offer has too long been estranged from the peo- ple. A wonderful change has taken place in the spirit and femper of the British people. The heart of the British people has always beat strongly under its elvey trappings; the heart of the British people still bents, but a thousand times higher and bolder-shicë Il came to be beneath khaki,

AN INFANTRY SOLDIER

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The V. C. Who Chased The Fuehrer Stones Of St. Paul's For

With A Bayonet

I Had Hitler

At My Mercy

THE man who on Septem-

Ther 28, 1918, held Hitler

at his bayonet point and let him go because Hiller was wounded is busy salvaging his home in Coventry.

It was destroyed in Hitler's maniae raid on the city.

Yet had it not been for this man Hitler would never have. been alive to instigate his savage bombing.

This man is Henry Tandey, V.C., who at Menin with only nine men to help him held up for four days and eventually captured 16 enemy machine- guns.

Wants Second Chance

He took the crews prisoner except for those who ran away led by a wounded corporal. That corporal was Corporal Adolf Hitler.

Because he did not like to shoot a wounded, man Henry Tandey let him go,

"But if I'd known who he'd turn out to be I'm damned if -he'd-have-got-off-Mr Tandey said to me, his arms bristling in his shirtsleeves.

"I'd give 10 years now to have had five minutes of clair- voyance then.

"Now, when I tried to get back in the Army to see he didn't escape a second time, they refused me because I had a game foot."

Then Mr Tandey, the only living N.C.O. with the right to wear the V.C., the D.C.M., the M.M. and the Mons Star, gave me the story of how he savèd Hitler's life-and won his V.C.

"For several days I and my platoon had held up a large German contingent with our two small Lewis guns," he said.!

"The Germans had sixteen machine-guns, but one by one we picked off the members of the gun crews,

"Eventually we decided to polish these Jerries off, so. I rigged up a plank bridge for the others to get across and charge them."

This "rigging up the plank bridge" meant 15 minutes' cool work under a hail of machine-gun fire from the enemy.

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"Then we dashed across. "Only, nine of us made it We were hopelessly out- numbered.

"So I told the boys to fix bayonets and charge. The Germans fled and we took about 37 prisoners."

For his outstanding bravery and his leadership in this exploit Corporal Henry Tan- dey was awarded the V.C.

"The fleeing Jerries were led by a Corporal. I was go- ing to pick him off but he was wounded and I didn't like to shoot at a wounded man.

Corporal Henry Tan- dey, V.C.-hero of the last war and one of Coventry's heroes, too -here for the first time tella Vivien Batchelor the amazing story of how he had Hitler at his mercy on the Western Front.

"When I see the helpless women and children up here that he has wounded I am sorry to God for my compunc- Lion."

Henry Tandey had no idea that the corporal was Adolf Hitler. He has never told this atory before. It was Hitler himself who was the first to admit his identity-to Mr Chamberlain,

When Mr Chamberlain made his historic visit to Hitler's hideaway ni Berchtesgaden he was shown

a puinting by Fortunino Matania of a 1918 battle scene at the Menin cross roads,

In the centre of the paint- ing was Henry Tandey.

"That man came so near to killing me that I thought that I should never see Germany again," Hitler said to Mr Chamberlain pointing to the central figure.

Tea For Wardens

Mr Tandey didn't salvage much of his own home.

He was too busy being a hero in Coke-street.

To no fewer than 12 blazing hauses he rushed to rescue the trapped occupants. Fighting his way through the flames he dragged out half-suffocated wonten and children trapped In their cellars.

Everyone in the road is full of heroism of Henry Tandey, the her V.C.

"Well, I had to do what I could. Everybody had to lend a hand,” he said deprecatingly of his own night's work.

Token Of Esteem

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But be hay salvaged a clock, the little room at his works which is now home to him since one of Hitler's Bombs brought down his bedroom and kitchen it has a place of honour on the mantelpiece,

Inscribed on the clock is "L/Cpl. Tandey

V.C., D.C.M., M.M. Duke of Wellington's Regi, Old Con temptibles Association, as a token of esteem and comradeship, April,

1020.

"But now I reckon they would have esteemed it more if I'd bump-

the blighter off," he laughed. His one grief now is that they' won't have him back in the Army. Bul as I left him he fired one parting threat. "Just let him ever come over here. He's got an old score to settle with Commissionaire Henry Tandey,"

Duchess Of Kent And Greek War

EVERY night the Duchess of Kent anxiously awaits B.B.C. news, according to a the London report.

As 9 p.m. approaches she sits in front of the radio at her coun- try home-and listens to the Intest news of Greece,

"Providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as In the morning she hurriedly those English boys were aim-reads the newspapers to see how ing at us."

the Greek Army is pushing back the Italians.

On his return to England Mr Chamberlain told this story to a.colonel in the-Green Howards, Henry Tandey's late regiment.

For the past sixteen years Henry Tandey has worked.na a commis slonaire in a Coventry factory, Ilis rows of medal ribbons lend two splashes of colour to his dark blue uniform.

"And before the war is finished

I hope to have the chance of add- ing a few more to them," he said. With his wife he lived in a small house in Coke-street, Coventry, unt! Hitler's fateful raid.

"Fortunately

her

mo,

my wife was with sister in Leamington," he told

She frequently attends the Greek church to pray for vic- tory.

When the war started she was one of the Greek colony who fervently sang the 3,000-year-old Greek hyrant "Grant us victory against the bar- barians.'

She is a

But she keeps up with her work.

fully-trained nurse

commandant Wrens" she is busy visiting centres of the all over. Britain..

University College Hospital.

And

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"Delighted"

at

"The Duchess is delighted, at the naws of the Greek successes," bald one of her friends.

"I know she would be happy, when the time is due, to attend a service of thanksgiving.

was alone at home making à cup of tea for some of the wardens. She is happy that things are go- "Just as I was pouring it all helling so well, but is anxious that any

Hitler at the height of his mill-started popping. We rushed into blu catehenfions should be postponed the street and found the whole until a little Inter when aftales be- tary career in the last war.

place alight."

come more settled.""

Oversea Churches

Fragments of stone from the altar and dome of St Paul's Cathedral, damaged in a recent rald, may be bulit into the walls

of new churches throughout the world.

Because of its close associa-

tion with religious life in the

Dominions

and Colonics, St Mr Gauss Returning

Paul's has been called "The Parish Church of the British Empire."

As Ambassador

Chungking, Feb, 1. In peace-time it was the practice,

It was officially announced to-day when renovations were in progress, thint the Chinese Government had to give pieces removed from the proved Washington's plan to re- structure to religious bodies bullding Nelson T. Johnson, by Mr Clarence place the American Ambassador, Mr new churches overseas.

E. Gauss, at present Minister to Australia and formerly Consul- General at Shanglini.

Altar Smashed

The altar, smashed beyond repair, is still covered by great pieces of masonry, debris and dust from the saucer dome above the reredos.

It will take a long time to cum-to China in view plete repairs.

The authorities have not yet hod time to decide if any of the broken pieces can be used again in St Paul's or other churches.

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The move followed Mr Johnson's request that he go to Australla as he wished to rejoin his family who are at present in America and cannot go of Washington's polley on evacuation.

Sumultaneously with the announce- ment the Chinese press published the information that Mr Gruss Would leurs for China very shortly and anying he commanded widespread friendship In China and was synt bathelle to China's resistance. United Press.

PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA

Aden, Feb. 4. This year's Mecca pilgrimage is

HONGKONG ESTATE described by the frat pilgrims to} The late Mr George. H. Chubb, arrive in Aden from Mecca as most formerly of Swatow, who died there successful. Although the altend- on January 4, left Hongkong estate ance from overseas has not been as valued at $800. Letters of adminis- large as in peacetime many thou tration to the estate have been granit- Sands came from Palestine, Syria and ed. to the Omeial Administrator, the Arablan hinterland.-Router. Hongkong.

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LEWIS SAYS FAREWELL Overcome by omotion, John L. Lewis, CIO chieftain, wipes' tears from oyas at ho tolis convention of Atlantic City, N. J., that he is kooping pro-election plodge and will stop down as CIO leader.

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