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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 6, 1941.

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TRIBUTE TO BRITISH SAILORS' COURAGE

By Famous Greek Actress

Madame Kalina Paxinou, the famous Greek actress has written the "London Times" as follows:

A week or so go the ship in which 1 won travelling was tor- nedoed while crossing the Atlantic. It was in the darkness, and when morning came the rest of the im- inense convoy had escaped were alone. That afternoon slip sank and, we took to lifeboats.

and

Wo our

I was in my lifeboat for 11 hours

in a high aca. Then we were fourk by

a British destroyer and brought back to your coast.

While I was on that destroyer I realised that the terrible hours be fore were a privilege, since they Have me the opportunity to see the burning courage of your navy and to realise why you can never be beaten.

High Prices For Sam's Choice

And King Kong

An avetion of race ponies was heid yesterday in the Jockey Club paddock where among the ponies disposed, Sam's Choice and King Kong, went for $1,550 and $1,000 respectively. Mr. E. V. AL R. do Sousa was auctioneer.

Ponies, prices and purchasers, are:

I am s amazed by what saw Phoenix, C. L. Gregory ............. on that ship: the strange, snered Royal Highness, R. M. da Rocha

1. Taeng core gipse Into the

of British A Good Time, T

Cirer, Ian Pak-ming character. One day there was an nifer, 1. 1. Fro air raid We were at lunclicon. Pigtail, T. 1. Tecn Without word of command, with Senorita, T. C. Yüen

Hose Evelyn, Sling cut any

of the loud volces which Saur's Choice, &. W. Les urge ebedience in a militarised state, Lodestar, Ng Cheung-fal those officers and men went about Nancy Ler, f. 1. Wilbur

Our Bunspot. L. J. A. Feliden

their duly as if it were a recreation, King's Worthy, IL M. da Rocha The one stiling next to me turned New Moun, Johannessen

to the steward and said, "Here, keep the rest of my lunch warm. I'll be back soon." Then he went to his place of duty.

Men Of Steel

Onc

Cockierol, G. W. Cooper Night Express, 8. N: Pan

Jane Doe, Y. K. TH

adderday, Ho Hung-ping. Ivulat, Chiu Chi-fan Friday, Sling

National Liberty, M. Alarcon National Buccess, t. Mt. da Rocha

National Blessing, B. W. Leo

National leform, Yeung Wing-sing Too Hat, Cheung On King Kong. S. V. Les Musketeer, P. P. Boteftio

300

100

500

24

700

260

1,000 200

I can not put my feelings about the character of those men of the navy Info words. They seemed like men of steel, with the hearts of children. could not wait to feel Advancing Time, Lo Kwong-lo 200 were withdrawn-Lan- self-pity over one's own losses. It The following was the most Inspiring experience of cashire Lass, Rocky Beach, National Vic

tury, National. Caurace, King's Filgint, my life, and I am so terribly proud, King's Welcome. Woodbridge, Juver as a Greek woman, to feel that we,bridge, Marsh Warbler.

the Allies of Auch Gallant,

modest men in whom courage and laughter seem to flourish

со

very different from the humourless ferocity of our common enemy.

When I was a litle girl in Athens

I was tought by my grandmother and then by my mother to look as the protecting upon Engind shadow over the fate of our little country. When I was quite young learned the phrase "England can But I had to go never be bentèn."

Fanling Golf

EMPEROR ON A HORSE-Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah, returns to camp after making a 200-mila journey on horseback to visit his Ethiopian patriots. He has now entered his capital of Addis Ababa in triumph, from which ho was exiled by the Italian invasion.

"French Lawrence of Arabia May Save Syria From Darlan

Free Frenchmen everywhere have received. with acclamation the news that Col. Collet, one of the most brilliant French commanders in Syria and creator of the well-known Circassian Legion, has thrown in his lot with Gen. de Gaulle.

A Free French offleer who is now in Singapore and who serv-

Starting Timesed with Col. Collet in Syria, told

Sunday

OLD COURSE

9.18 J. A. D. Morrison, K. S. Morrison. 020 T. E. Pearce, A. W, Bourne. 0.21 3. Linaker, J. D. Harrison. D24 W. Sharp. J. L. Macintyre.

030 A B. Purves, R. Young.

through the experience of being 1. O. Baldwin, H, W. Deisley.

picked up by one of your destroyers

G. G. Aitkenhead.

from a little lifeboat on the Atlantic 46 R. C. Gairdner Megarry.

before I realised what my grand- mother and my mother meant.

Muslim Military Body Banned

SIMLA, June 5 (Reuter).—The Bengal Government has been the

Mualim body

first to declare the Khaksar Move

ment military

in originating

the North-West Frontier unlawful under the powers given to all provincial governments by a Government of India "munique to do so wherever necess-

ary,

cam-

D.44 McKellar,

4 Geare, 9. 11. Dodwell, D32 F. G. Price, J. A. Blackwood. 0.50 F. D. Hunter, S. L. Lloyd. 10.00 A. J. Dennis, W. Stoker.

10.32 11. Overy, W, J, E. Mackenzie. 1036 B. D. Evans, J. E. Dovey.

Morogoro Selected

won

Making Eggs Go Round

5 LONDON, June (Reuter), Registration for eggs is being intro- duced at once by the Ministry of Food to ensure fairer distribution.

An official announcement to-night

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both the French and the natives came back not only with supplies states that from June 13 all retailers heart from "the man with the merry eyes."

their commander, "I know the Druzes never attack an unarmed man." "It seems astounding," remarked a reporter that Col Collet wields the French officer, "but they let among Collet through-and very soon he considerable influence

but also with reinforcements!” Influence with Syrians in Syria, and, in combination with General Catroux, Com- Another episode illustrating Col. mander-in-Chief of the Free Collet's coolness and particularly French Forces in the Middle his influence with the Syrians-was Hu said, "At the beginning of 1936, East, should be able to persuade related by this French officer.

out broke revolution the people to continue the wara.

anong against Germany instead of Syrians, aimed originally against kow-towing to Vichy and Hitler.Jews and then developing against the

itself. French Government

"Collet at the time was 34 years Col. Collet, said this officer, is known as the "French Lawrence of of age, and a major. was with Arabia" A Mohammedan by faith,

during the height he 13 a brilliani milltary leader in Damascus in company

4

of the revolution,

ous French author, with the famous oourageous, with many eple feals to his name, and a devout reader Homet, and his wife, we were travell- of the Koran.

the city when we found ing through the when

several by "I first met him in 19

surrounded Curscives Druzes revolted against the French housand armed rioters.

"Collet had 100 "cavalrymen witn Syrian occupation," said the French officer.

Legion Formed

in

supplies in accordance with their registered customers for CEES, together with allowance respect of

of those who hold ration documents which do not permit them to register.

Registration should be carried out unmediately and in any case by Saturday, June 14.

The "Fighting First" Is Always Ready

Blitz victims and fellow wurdens in Britain have often taken

However heavy, the. raid, his grey eyes never lost their sparkle. Yet they are com- pletely sightless.

Arthur Small, Liverpool's only blind A.R.P. warden, has helped to rescue people from blitzed houses and guided the in- jured to the local doctor. So efficient is he that few realise he is blind,

Now he is a blitz victim him- self. His consciencs may have saved his life.

It was his night off duty, but the crump of high explosive bombs maile him say to his wife, alab m warden: "Let us go and see if we can help."

They put two old Indies, bombed out from their own home, under the stairs and went out.

Soon after a heavy bomb wrecked

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuter). but he gave no orders to them.The "Fighting First" Division would

the the house. 01 units the three of us and the be one of the first Leaving

United States Army to move

New Gun "Answer"

To Bombers

Nine new anti-aircraft guns

if Dodging bamb splinters, as though firing two-pound shells

in

Receiving permission to form a troops, he walked into the thick of America decided to send an expedi- Buided by a sixth sense, Mr Small machine gun fashion and des.

"He told them ho would be very.

cribed as "one answer to dive the mob, sat down with their leaders,

rescued the old ladies. had tea with them, and discussed the lanary force abroad, it was learned and his wife hurried back and

eneral George C. Marshall, Chief

Later, alone, he led several of the bombers"-have been accepted reasons for the rioting.

sorry to be forced to fight them of the Army, addressing the House safety cut to a doctor and carried to by the United States mor

a two-year-old baby, wrapped Ordnance Department. Representatives Appropriation

"Not Pulling Weight" was "a task force of Brat

rubber-tyred, highly

of

He did not want to shed the blood committee, sald that the First in an eiderdown.

of brother-Mohammedans, be said. Ho went on speaking to them and

The

To Win Blue Ribband Hope For Woman Owner

LONDON, June 5 (Reuter). History may well be repeated in is year's Derby, which only twice in its long history has been The Khaksars came into confllet

by

a woman owner, Lady legion to fight against the tribe, with the Police at Lahore in March

Galit Douglas triumphed with Colict, who was then a captain in the last year and following a disturbance

Gainsborough in 1908 and Mrs French intelligence service, enlisted in which 23 Khaksars and two police-

Miller's Mid-day Sun won in 1937. inmates of prisons In Beirut and The brightest chance in this year's Damascus as well as Circassion and men were killed, a guard had to be

the "Cir- posted at the residence of the Pun-event is held by Morogoro, owned by Armenian refugees. So

the senior Maharani Sakib of Kolhapur, cassian Legion" was formed. jab Premier.

Leader In Custody.

widow of the Maharajah. Morogoro

Heavy fighting took place during

Mr Small, who is thirty-eight, told mobile _gun__carriages—each SIMLA, June 5

(Reuter).The. Won"four" fiimes" ns ̄a ̃two-year-old and the campaign agaitist the Druzes," and again, amazing as it may-sound, priority and as such gets 100 per

when he was bought last year it was

French officer quoted an episode the riot ended from the moment cent. feumns of any new equipment/reporters!""I"do no more-than-mounted with a barrel manufac-

should. Goverment of India, in empower-planned to send him to India, but the

Certain other units would also get "In addition to patrolling with my tured at an Army arsenal-roll- ing all provincial governments to Maharajah's death and the re-opening which, he said, was typical of Collet's declare unlawful

North-West of entries caused a change of plan.

May Save Syria

among wife or another warden, I used to ed off the assembly lines of the priority "because they are Frontier Khaksar militarist move-

Allowed To Run

Collet had on intense dislike for those selected for possible tese in cer-manage the phone switchboard and Bartlett Hayward Division of He was in command of a fortress.

do other odd jobs. ment "wherever necessary," explains Remaining in his stable at Beck-high in the Druze mountains. With polletons. He numbers several encinin eventualities."

the Koppers Company, which The First Division, virtually at "I feel I am not pulling my that the Khalsar for some time had hampton, he was not in the original hins were fewer than 150 men. They intes among the Darlan clique. One

weight now. I have been evacuat holds a $18,500,000 contract for been carrying on agitation for the entries but when Epsem was not avail- were cut off entirely from the re-of them, said the French officer, is war strength, is stationed at Comp

En- former Minister in Baghdad for whom Devens, Massachusetts. It took the ed to a strange district and have the gun mounts, release of their

Allama able, necessitating a change of venue, mainder of the French forces. leader,

entries were re-opened, and allowed circling them were 2,000 bloodthirsty he refused to provide a military es American Army's first German pri- temporarily given up my ABF. Masrique.

tribesmen

cort on the grounds that he was.

work Masrique is at present under de-him to compete. tention and the agitation, neverthe

It was imperative that the fortress

attack him.” less, was largely inspired by the leader Morogoro was extremely unlucky in should receive supplies of food and eminate that the Arabs would not *oners in the last war.

Ever himself. He has never ceased to en-finishing second but is credited with an

maiunition, and Capt. Collet himself

pore," said this French oflcer, "I had decided to make the trip which would pere since my arrival in Singa- been telling Free Frenchmen that

deavour

the

(the communique explains),

not without some success, to carry

on

In the Gulneas a tow weeks axo

outstanding chance for the Derby.

unauthorised communications Baseball with the outer world and has de- finitely instructed his followers to organise demonstrations to

his release,

Demonstration

secure

the

50-

Nelices recently, appeared in "Allshah," the Khaksar organ, direct ing all Khaksars, uniformed and col- armed with belchas (axes), to fect at the mosques of Delhi, Lahore,

shawar,

(Sind) and for certain ligious observance.

The Government of India also had information thai this ostensibly peaceful occupation at the mosques. was to be merely a screen for some form of organised deflance of Taw.

Governor To Pitch First

tho.

fearlessness.

ho left they?" **

MBO

that becomes avaliable."

Roosevelt Seizure

"I still attend wardens' meeting If I can find accommodation in my own, neighbourhood I would like to be back on the job."

a home

The new gun fires about 150 two- pound (37-millimetre). shells minute, and has an approximate range of about 3,000 yards in vertical ring position. It can be put into action "in less than one minute," enld D. N. Hauseman, executive

trlet, Ordnance Department.

have been hazardous if not fatal, for cellet will be the man to save the Powers Explained strict in which he instructs blind ofler of the Army's Philadelpie die

situation in Syria. He, and be alone, the enemy as well as he did.

Unarmed, Capt. Collet loft the might be able to stop Darian from

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuter). People in Braille and handicraft. fortress one morning, walked bringing the Vichy navy into opern--The reasons for President Roose- straight into the lines of the enemy, tion against any "foreigners invad-velt requesting powers to seize pro- and with extreme, candour sald to ing Syria."

Ball To-morrow The Hongkong Baseball League 66

is pleased to announce that at the offisial opening at the Area Sports Beard ground, corner of Chatham and Gascolane Roads, Kowloon, the traditional cere- to-morrow mony of pitching the first ball will be performed by His Excelleney the Governor, Sir Geoftry North

cole, the

"My

Flight

To Italy

With Our Paratroops

British paratroops who recently landed in Italy took off on Other emelal guests of the President, the job singing: "Oh, we're a surprise for the Duce, the Duce." Mr B. C. Lawrence, are H.E. Mator This was revealed in a broadcast talk recently by one of the Danger To Peace

General A. E. Graselt Commodoro R.A.F. officers who took part. Convinced that the procedure con- Hichard E. Cassidy, US.N., South templated, however Innocent, con-China. Patrol; and the Acting-Consul

States the United stituted a danger to publje peace, the General for Government has empowered the pro- America, Mr J. II. Bruins, vincial governments to ban the move ment as it is determined not to risk

the disturbances and serious loss of life which occurred at Lahore Inst

year.

The Bombay Presidency has also declared the Khaksars unlawful.

"I

St Lawrence Power yesterday.

Vital To U.S.

of

"The flights were long, at night, a good deal over hostile territory, and for long periods in pretty bad weather, and the but we ran to places we were navigating to were pin points... schedule," he said.

R.A.F. pilots and crews who their own, the rofrain of which was carried the Force did their jobs "Oh, we're a surprise for the Duce. with characteristic thoroughness the Ducel" and accuracy.

Navy 'B' Beat Y At Water-Polo- Two matches in the water one of the most beautiful you can "The night of the show itself was polo tournament were played imagine, full moon and glorious stars above patches of white cloud, the sea In the YMCA. pool Navy B de- clear of mist, and the snow-capped fentral Y.M.CA. 1-0 after a poor ex- WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuter). the play but two forwards were out The enemies of democracy are of the pool for most of the match and developing every hydro-electrie re-IIall scored during the absence. Bourco and every waterway from In the Army pool Royal Scots, beat Norway to the Dardanelles. Are we 5. A.A. Regiment. Slater (2) and Hunter scored for Scots and Yabaley to allow ourselves to continue to banit Clarke replied. outmatched because

-sighted

tho

one of

of our greatest

Interesta oppose a US of

the

bibition. YMCA. had practically all rd flown over that bit of count

scene.

"They certainly had," he added, "ond perhaps not the last."

Programme For To-night's Recital

years ago in a Moth on my way to luth Litvin, pianisto, Pauline Afrien, and I could easily recognise Chow, soprano, and Gaston D'Aquino, it in the moonlight. It was a lovely tenor, will take part to-night in a Joint recital, to be given in the Rose "We could recognise every feature Room of the Feninsula Hotel, com- and landmark as we came in, look-mencing at 9.15 p.m.

Part of the proceeds will be given ing just like the landscape model we had used in planning the job and to the Bomber Fund.

The programme is as follows:

The above message was sent by Coastguardsmen To training the air crews.

Man Transports

President Roosevelt, recommending Congress legislation authorising the Immediate construction of the St

"SPECIAL TO. THE “TELEGRAPH" *. Lawrence seaway power project.

WASHINGTON, June 5 (UP) - He added: "Production and more production is the keynote of our all-The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr out race for national defence. Elec- Ilonry, Morgenthau, announced to- trie

and transportation are day that more than 3,000 Coast- Dower Umiting factors In the production of guardamon will be transferred to the tanks and ships Navy for the purpose of monning Planes:-|

Pripident opined that "under transpots and auxiliary vessels. amerirendy pressure the project Soven hundred of these will man the would be completed under four liner America which the navy will

uso na a transport.

Unforgettable Moment :

the

by

1. Tenor salos-(a) "Love Sounda the Alarm," from Acis and Galatea, "It was ear afterwards to see by Handel; (b) "In Native Worth, the parachutes on the ground an from The Creation, by Handel; (e) the figures of the troops moving "Cangio, Cangis," by Fasolo; (d) together and giving us a fast flash Chro mio ben," by Giordano. of their torches as we passed over- 2. Soprano solo. "Caro nome,"

*** opera, hoad,

"Nigoletto," HIL WI

(tamment one will nover (Veroplanoforte.zolo-Sonata Pálhe- forget. But even more shall f member the efficiency and the won-tique, derful spirit of the men we dropped, Movement, Grave, 2nd Movement, their bearing, and the way they got Allegro Molto o con brio, 3rd-Move into the aircraft at the take-off, eing-ment, Adagio cantabile, 4th Move ing a song with special words of Iment, Rondo allegro.

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