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FUTURE FOR WHICH WE

FIGHT

Sculptor's Quest For Truth

Mr. Chan with one of the best examples of his work, the clay bust of His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong."

Vivid Eye-Witness How Mighty Hood Description⠀⠀⠀Met Her Tragic End

were, very severe,

FROM PAGE ONE

casualties aboard the

Bismarck Among the bits received by the Bismarcks were some from the Prince of Wales, which herself suffered alight damage.

Casualties aboard the Prince

of Wales, however, were very small The hits she scored are considered in naval circles to have played some part in the Anal destruction of Hitler's greatest warship since they slowed her down by two or three knots and enabled the shadowing cruisers, Norfolk and Suffolk, more casily to keep up wit

her.

The shadowing work of the Norfolk and Suffolk also greatly contributed to the British success. The team work shown by these two cruisers in the tricky conditions of varying visibility is described by naval ex- ports as a masterly performance.

Final Stages

Goon Chan Discusses Hardest Of All Arts

By Alec Greaves

"Beauty is truth, truth Sir Robert Kotowall, Mr Wei Shiu- beauty" wrote John Keats, pak, Major A. N. Macfadyen, Me -F. Goon Chan, young Chinese W. Shaftain and others. sculptor who is fast becoming Then Goon Chan was honoured by known for his work, has taken no less:a: personage than Sir Geoftry the immortal words as his Northcote. The clay bust of the

motto. He understands their Governor, which has been exhibited and may have been seen by many and deep significance, with

an people, is one of the beat things this artist's gift of perception. And young Chinese sculptor has done. with a true artist's Insight he Sir Geoffry is no mean eritle himself exclaims, "If you have found an intelligent art lover, he has by his interest greatly encouraged art truth, then you have found hap: activities in the Colony--and he was piness!"

Vso impressed by Chun's work that Although he has been sculp last year he ordered a bronte cast

shortly before proccoding-on leave)- ing steadily for many years, and to be made. has taught a number of stu- dents in his time, he has found his work. That is not to say that -Goon Chan is never sallaßed with the path to success, proverbially he discovers flaws and imperfections,

full of pitfalls. He has always in the usual sense of the terms,

gained notice, but only compara-

tively recently did he begin to

Hardest Of Arts

secure real, appreciable reward

"One can always try to do soma- thing for his years of patient toll and whenever I model, I always try to better," he bald to mc. steadfast devotion to his art. and something which I have

not He has at last come into his found before. Every latest work of mine seems to me to be better than

FROM PAGE ONE

Bismarck since she left Bergen. kept own. the Hood und Prince of Wales and Art circles are following his career the last, and I hope to live long other pursuers informed from hour with encouraging interest. He has enough to achieve something really to hour of the Bismarck's movements.

Never during that fatefulnight did been commissioned to model a bust good. In art, even a long life is truc

A darkness. fall. chain of blinding

lashed the Geoffry Northcote, a bronze cast of jet-black waters. At times visibility Science College of

snow squalls

which wil adorn the Northcote portrait or a figure statue, he seeks fell to a few yards.

the Hongkong to achieve not only sound construc- Unhurried minute calculations sug- University. Now he is hard at work tion, but to convey the generat gested that we should contact the on the model of a statue of Gener- movement of the subject. That is be not so easy; sculpture, it has been Bismarck about 2 am, but at the alissimo Chiang Kai-shek, to last moment, she altered course,

entered in a competition sponsored sald, is the hardest of all the arts.

Listen to Chan as he explains. by the authorities. of Shiukwan, Kwangtung's war-time capital, Studied 12 Years... ·

of the Governor of 'Hongkong, Sir whenever Goon Chan makes

...

"A sculptor," he says, "must not reproduce nature as it is, but should

Curtain of Snow For another four hours, the Hood and Prince of Wales continued on a

give expression to the extract of the throughout most of the time plough-Chan Sik-kwan, to give him his full been evoked in him. course roughly parallel to the enemy, Born In America, Goon Chan-or most cholce sensations which have

of snow.

Bismarck and

our way through a dense curtain name in the Cantonose rendering—

*When I do a portrail, I try to get studied art at the Boston: Museum not only a good likeness of the fea- Suddenly e curtain lifted. The of Fine Arts. He devoted seven tures, but to express the real char- Just snow squall passed, laying

years to drawing and pointing be- bare horizon broken by

blackfore he turned to sculpture, and in acier, the soul, of the person who

poses for me," specks-the

her this department he studied for no That, ho thinks, sums up both the cruiser consort.

icss Less than

a further Ave years, purpose and technique of sculpture. For a few long minutes we plough-Twelve years is a long time to bo cd on to shorten the range. Then spent in apprenticeship, but os Chan

meet their says, the Germans turned to

s, in art time is not, a pursuers. The world's biggest war- he taken ships, their bow waves hissing aside is always something more to learn. The specits grew rapidly Into in. challenge, sped to meet each other. At the Boston Museum The won eight scholarships. When he gradu- cognisable form.

The tension of walling for the under Burdelle, noted pupil of the ated, he went to France and studied. battle became scute.

"Open Fire" "Open Fire!"

re-

to

Into consider factorero"

The last half-hour of the Bismarck ALL great wars, involving is described by officers of the ships the major nations of men, are which followed the chase to the final

stage. fought for peace. They are.

The enemy made no action to show-downs to determine the surrender. We closed to 4,000 yards firing our guns and torpedops. One conditions under which hundreds.

torpedo scored a hit amidships. of millions of men are .to live

The

cruiser Norfolk Was also their peace-time lives once the firing with guns and torpedoes, and the battleship King George V with

great Auguste Rodin. Then to Italy, to the Florence Academy. war is over. Some wars merely

guns. The

of the enemy position

Returning to China In 1931, he Almost within split second, seek to bring about readjust was unenviable."

orange-gold dame belched from the taught in the Citon Art School and ments of power inside a general-raining shells on the doorned ship.

The British warships closed In Hood's great forward guns. Within the art department of the Shun Kun University. He liked Canton, and three seconds, there shot from the ly accepted international order. "After this pounding had continu Bismarch puts of black smoke. She speaks of lits days there with sym- These are wars for adjustment Dorsetshire, which had closed in to

ed for some time, the cruiser too had opened fire.

pathetic recollection.

he There worked, experimented and taught, of frontiers, or transference of

about two infles, asked permission came into action. Clouds of yellow making many friends. But then the colonies. One side wins, and

to fire torpedoes

cordite smoke enveloped her bridge, others he had to evacuate when the war came, and like thousands of the loser emerges stripped of

momentarily blotting out the view.

some of its territory, forced, inevitably, to pay the costs of the war, but otherwise intact, and able in another generation or two to challenge if it chooses, the

power situation again. Such was the Franco-Prussian war of 1870; such was the Great War of 1914...

The outcome of this war will | determine how humanity. is going to live for the next epoch. Not how Germany, or England, or the United States are going to live, but humanity. This is a world-wide struggle between and inside great nations of men. It is an international war, and It is a civil war. This war will determine whether the peace of the next epoch is to be kept, (a) by checks and balances to Power; (b) by improved collec- tive security federation and commonwealth, with freedom

and equality for races and groups of men; (c) by world mustery exorcised by one or two organised groups over all the others. It will also, of course, determine whether the world shall be capitalist or socialist. But it will more importantly determine what sort of capi- talism, what sort of socialism, or what sort of synthesis between the two.

The Sinking

Then the Prince of Wales'

τα

guns

To port, the Hood, 200 or 300 yards Japanese occupied the city. His "Three torpedoes struck the Bis-away, surged forward on a parallel studio and a number of his works marck, the first below the bridge, in her wake. The Hood ploughed on.

course, Fountains of water shot up were destroyed.

Immediate Notice being followed by a sharp explosion. Then suddenly she had been hit. A

The extraordinary scene

Goon Chan came to Hongkong, which shell or shells appeared to fall just officer. Suddenly all over the hull turrete followed was described by another ahead and on one of her after 16-inch where he practically began anew lo bulld his reputation. Hongkong we could see a number of black dots

Sickening Sight

has been criticised for its lack of -hundreds of them, It seemed they

cultural A large fire broke out with thick |

appreciation, but that"in- were human beings maiting a last

discernment is far more strangling, sickening sight,

effort to avold death. As the vessel black smoke. What happened next widespread than is generally believed

This officer estlinated that there were over 2,000 men aboard the Bismarck.

Fought Bravely

was

taken

heeled over further, the dots crawled There was a terrific explosion and is borne out by the immediate notice Bronze bust of the Hon. Sir along

the hull anywhere out of the whole vast ship was enveloped in

of Goon Chan following his Robert Kotewall modelled by reach of the water.

Mr Chan, "The vessel took the plunge and high in the shape of a giant mush-

a flash of flames and smoke, hissing first show here,

He had few works to exhibit when sank slern

while dots were room. foremost, for a time seen on the face of the Sections of funnels and masts show rolled around In 1938, but the what he is talking about..

the Hongkong Art Club's annual His Ideas are sound, and he knows His water."

hurtled hundreds of feet into the air, small number of pieces he sent opinions are formed of much expert- and then fell, some on the ship and aroused considerable attention. He ment and inquiry. How cise was he some into the sea. The Hood's long also exhibited a few paintings, and to teach to his pupils? line bows tilled vertically into the one of these, a still life, "Peonies,"

He acknowledges that sculpture is took the most votes,

dimeult for most people to under- Three or four minutes after she Commissions came in, and the stand. LONDON, May 30 (Reuter).-Eight was hit, all that remained apart from number of people who bought his or nine torpedoes hit the Bls-pieces of wreckage was a flicker of pictures or wanted busts of them- "People want sculpture for monu- murck before she finally heeled over flame and smoke on the surface of selves continued to grow. He made ments, but seldom does anyone with her crew swarming like black the sea..

of busts or plaques of Lieut-General F. think of having a good piece dots over the hull.

A destroyer was diverted to rescue Lindemann, former military adviser sculpture for pure enjoyment, for its This was related to-day by officers work and managed to pick up three to the Chinese Government, the Hon. Intrinsic aesthetic worth.? and men who took part in the "kill" of the Hood's company, two seamen

midshipman. bravery," one of these men declared.

"The enemy fought with great and

All this time the Prince of Wales Apparently even to the last, the continued to pour shells at the Bis-

that the Bismarck

Insurgent Raschid

German ons ek was actually un- water showed that she was straddled Ali Flees From Iraq

sinkable, and they were hoping for relief from land, having been told that 200 planes had been sent to their assistance.

picked up, warning was received that While the purvivors were being submarines might be in the vicinity and the British

sessels moved on.

Bismarck Turns Away

FROM PAGE ONE

Agh the Bismarck's shells crash- ed near the Prince of Wales, but no serious damage bad been done, The ing efficiency and her speed was not says the Beghdad Radio. Prince of Wales never lost her fight-Security, composed of city notables, impaired.

R.A.F. Radio

Then the Bismarck turned away

· TURKISH PRESS RECONSIDERS ROOSEVELT TALK

latest Turkish press comment reveals ANKARA, May 30 (Reuter).The

less disappointment with President lost Roosevelt's speech than did night's.

but only to be pursued that day and Flew Battle Colours'

night and the next day over the At- CAIRO, May st (Router), This is doubtless due to mature The Bismarck gave no sign of sur-lantic at high speed, render and kept her battle colours

Numerous sorties were made by consideration....... Twice during the night, the Prince aircraft on Thursday, in support of flying to the end."

the British salvoes with her whole armament,

that

Until her guns were put out of of Wales pumped out salvoes at her. the British troops advancing on The newspaper, Tan," action, she replied der some time to and edo bombers from the Victorious Baghdad, it was announced by R.A.F. Mr Roosevelt has taken another step

Ark Royal carried out at-hentiquarters.

*** forward on the road leading to war. tacks.

- "The "Veteran" : comments: "The Rebel motor transport. south of speech represents United States de- Altogether these attacks were de- livered intermittently for three days Fallujah was heavily bombed, termination to take a more active and four nights. Then came the final that she had torpedoed the Bismarck, dramatic signal from the Dorsetshire

on

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New Powers

"Ulus" expresses the opinion that Mr. Roosevelt's new powers will re- by the sult in increased production of wáy

Commission exhorts the population misterials and enable him to over-

A good deal of the foregoing was expressly stated or im- piled by Mr Anthony Eden in

It is now revealed that the Hood his speech at the Mansion House blew up two minutes after being hit. on Thursday in which he gave tle of Greenland in which the Hood

An officer who took part in the Dal the first definito Indication of was sunk said that the Bismarck was Britain's war aims. The de-sighted in the Denmark Strateg

and to "resumo civilian claration was rendered all the May, 23 about 7:30.

A

proclamation moro

he sold. compelling because it most inconvenient ilme

"I was about to have my dinner,"

Lo con eschowed rhetoric and confined

remain calm and disciplined. come the efforts of certain defeatist With the Bismarck was the cruiser The following maximum prices at itself to expressing sound, sober Prince Eugene,

b* public isolationists. All attempts to disturb which content (except imported order will bo

be plillesaty repressed, and constructive aspirations. It

cement) may be nold in the Colony is added:

it pads: The situation remains was the statement for which

Thick Weather

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King Feisal accompanied Raschid-All have made no difference on his northward flight, PENANG Roosevelt. 2 heavily

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which

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reinforced In Transjordania beaut

solid and safe foundation, the, smoke was itën by one of our Hood, whs hit and fire broké,Cout, reports that Vichy has withdrawn the by Prof Chao Hoo-k

dre pressing on the capital The An exhibition of Ching

Chan-huan and

this war to make the world, at one of the ships was the Hood, which Prince of Water continued are completely

least a little better place in which

was expected to hercept the enemy the action, betwil compel

to live, 7 Thla in the final to Short Firing Period.

analyale, the suprema justle fication for war:

followed by the Bismarck, and “Very soon, the Hood opene

Prince of Wales, Thom: shortitimit

be held