1941-06-09 — Page 23

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

June 9, 1941;

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

1 GREW THAT LITTLE FLOWER

ALL BY MYSELF --- AND

NOBODY EVER NOTICES IT!

YOU'D THINK SOMEBODY

WOULD NOTICE IT, AND PRAISE

ME!

CAUNT FRITZI-

MAY I CLIP SOME OF THE

LAWN?

CORVETTE DEFIES RAIDER

Here is a David and Goliath story from the sea-a story which overwhelmed the First Lord of the Admiralty and which will thrill you,

small

It's D story of corvette, rolling along the ocean, Mufled men on the bridge saw a Gorman raider against the horizon,

of

In the Admiralty, hundreds miles away, this chort brave sign reached them from the corvette:

"ENEMY RAIDER. AM ENGAG- ING.

That's all.

In his room Mr A. V. Alexander picked up the brief signal-one of the many ho scea described his reactions:

every day. He

"Anyone who knows what naval ships are, and what is the size of a corvette compared with an enemy

raider, will realise the courage of that signal," he enld.

"It Just overwhelmed me. It brought tears to any eyes.

It also

made me feel very thankful that there was a big sister close by,"

Germany's Blockade Worries

Transport Is The

Real Difficulty

YES, NANCY

This year's medical graduates of the University of Hongkong are seen in the above photograph. Seated in centre

is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof, Gordon King, and beside him are (left) Prof. P. B. Wilkinson and (right) Prof.

R. C. Robertson. (Photo A. Fong).

Melbourne Man's Miraculous

Escape from Greek

Front

In a clumsy oaken craft of 50 tons, with sails and an auxiliary ongino, Major Eugene Gorman, the Melbourne barrister and Comforts Fund Commissioner, escaped from Greece during the evacuation after a series of extraordinary adventures.

Carrying six Australian sol-j- Our blockade of Germany diers and 66 Greek refugees the and the R.A.F. bombings, it is little trading vessel, called a learned in London, are seriously kayak, sailed safely into an hampering the Nazis' war island harbour behind eight potentials. Problems of distri-warships of the Mediterranean

19 To

transport are on mornings of To

the enemy more worry than 28, writes John Hetterington, actual shortage,

pondent in the Middle East. the "Sydney Sun" War corros- Gorman rounded off the trip by borrowing a truck on the island and

In most cases where one would look for shortage as a result of the blockade, the Germons are still

Men, One Plan New

fell

SANG IN BOMBED HOSTEL

When a shower of fire bombs

--Brave Nurses.

on

their South London

hostel during a recent raid nurses climbed on to the roof and sang "Keep the Home Fires

Woman Burning as they fought the

Britain

Nineteen men and one woman were named by Lord Reith, tive panel who will help him to plan the New Britain. Minister of Works and Buildings, as members of a consulta- Lord Reith stated that he expected to receive shortly a report from

flanics.

As soon as the incendiarles had been put out the girls went off on their cycles as the raid continued to tend the sick and injured

These "Florence Nightingales on

patients,

just been cycles the District. Nurses have commended for their herofe work by Queen Mary.

"It is really

she wrote in a

and hand them over down the bread outlines of its plans,

The central authority would lay Queen's Institute of District Nursing,→ Kenerat superintendent of the

to regional!

Amid Debris authorities.

"During the Plymouth raids our Below the regions there would be stek patients. They searched wreck- nurses went out looking for their

Ing on stocks, which they already distributing cocoa, tinned frult, 3,500 the committee set up under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Uthwait on are carrying on Wonderful how you had or have looted.

Labour is also providing difficul- as of tobacco and other comforts to the best methods of stopping speculation in site values in bombed areas. letter to Miss Merry Wilmshurst, ties, in spite of the large numbers thousands of A.L.F. evacuees on the of foreign workers imported.

Island. The German technical Press shows anxiety regarding ferro alloys, and announcements of synthetic rubber subsitutes are made periodenlly,

had brought away in the kayak prace now working out details for the He was able to do this because he advice to this committee which is The new panel will give expert tenlly all the Comforts Fund stores machinery of replanning. in Greece-about 15 tons-includ The panel includes ten architects

Nickel coins have been called Ing £100 worth of cullery that had and town planning experts, headed provision for the collaboration of the age, and' sometimes managed to get

in Italy and occupled countries.

Wooden Shoes

Shortage of textiles is affecting chielly the German civilian con-

sumer.

The French have been robbed of their textile stocks, and are new be- ing forced to collaborate in the establishment of synthetic textile

in Athens.

been purchased for the Australian Ly Professor L. Patrick Abercrombie mallest efficient planning units," people out alive." Miss Wilmshurst Soldiers Club which was to have just app opened

appointed

town

planning whese ground knowledge would en-told the press. adviser to the pectation

president of the Royal In- that Greece would be stitute of British Architects; Sir began to withdraw her forces. evacuated a few days before Britain Citrine. Lord Balfour

Walter

Dr L. Dudley Stamp

Gorman hired the kayak in ex-Ansell, L.C.C.) and Mr W. H.able them to All in the detail.

leigh

Test surveys for the reconstruction

Sir view, that pre-war administrative

He loaded his personal belongings of the Land Utilisation director/have already proved, in Lord Reith's

to be dis

"They lit fires with debris wood, to sterilise their instruments, and they continued their rounds some- times working without gas, light, or water.

"But to all our women, raid risks

and boarded her late the same night Royal Commission on the Distributors set why, and coun- are just part of their job now. No and stores into her during April 22 Montague Barlow, chairman of the boundaries will have for teather is indicated by employed on canteen and Comforts' four other members of the same

with five non-commissioned officers tion of the Industrial Population, and Planning laws will have to go bomb would stop them from visiting the fact that wooden shoes are off-Fund duties.

back into the melting pot. cially encouraged in Germany,

their patients."

Tin and packing material sub- stitutes have been introduced, but German housewives

warned against keeping food too long in the substitute packing.

are

There is a serious shortage of fats,

POLES READY TO

MEET NAZIS IN MIDDLE EAST

General

Chief of the

comm

Cabaret Dangers

of refugers already on board-Greek The Australians found a number soldiers, four women cabaret per- formers and barman from a leading, hotel, all desperately eager to leave

Commission: together with represen tatives of local authorities such as Leeds and Liverpool, Gloucestershire and Lancashire,

The Woman Member Hichens, a member of

The woman member is Mrs Lionel the Royal The kayak reached the island of dustrial Population.

Commission on Distribution of in-

Crecce.

Sipos early next morning and put

Swedish Overseas Trade Kept

Up Despite Heavy

Heavy Handicaps

Inte small cove well away from central planning authority empower-Swedish ships a month to pass through the blockade, the main harbour, the passengers goed to take bold, comprehensive decl Ing ashore in two dinghies and hid- sions on utilisation of land, location numerous difficulties still stand in the way of Swedish ing in caves while enemy aircraft of population in relation to Industry, overacas trade. scouted/overhead,

Lord Reith said he envisaged a NEW YORK-Although Britain now permits five

*

Latest estimates of Swedish shipping losses announced by Swedish sources here, show a total of 85 vessels aggregating more than 200,000 tons have been sunk. About 500 officers and men have been fatalities.

They had not been ashore long roads, etc.

creation of national parks, trunk After many months of hard mill- when an enemy plane flew over tary training in Palestine and Egypt, and sank a 5,000-ton refugee ship a Polish group, équipped with the

in the main harbour, latest British weapons and ammuni-

Passengers who escaped oshore ahipa there in 11 days, and a 6,000- Enemy aircraft had sunk seven tion,

is set and anxious to meet the from the bombed shilp, including a Nazis on the battlefeld again.. company of Greek machine-gumers

tonner that came in soon after the In addition, while no general per- On kayak's arrival was bombed and mit is needed, cack shipment must matorship Glimaran "We are grimly determined to fight asked Gorman to take them in the

February 23 the Swedish to the last man until victory is won

on kayak and he agreed to take 12 be-

sank within a few hours.

be covered with special naval cer-0,000 tons

loaded with And freedom restored,"

declared cause the koyak would not hold ony:

A Miracle

tificate or "navlcert," thus involving chleßy cotton and in plate, arrived of important freight, Four or five survivors from the sometimes as many as 500 separate direct from Galveston. more. troops. In Egypt.

bombed ship Boat Fired On

were added to the licenses for a single cargo ship. The Polish brigade, formed in April

Exports to the United States were kayak's already over-large company, Mris 1940, is largely composed of officers waiting on shore for a dinghy to pick to sail that night adverse winds de Under the British blockade agree-burg.

Gorman put some aboard and was and when she was again preparing preliminary negotiations

entails an enormous amount of reopened with the arrival in New

before and men who fought their way from him up when Greek machine-gun-veloped and the captain decided it

York on April 3 of the Swedish can gall. German prison

freighter Stegeholm from Gothen camps plodding news fired across the boat and order-was dangerous to put to sea. through deep snow across the Taurus

ment, which says that one of the mountains. Recruits are still pour-to-13 got into it and compelled the ashore for another day's walt.

ed it to pull towards them. Twelve Thus

Since March 4, however, it is flo passengers Ing in from many parts of the world.

returned five-ships going to

Sweden must known that at least four Swedish come from a British port, it is stipu- freighters have been sunk. rowers to pull to Many Palish pilots are also

kayak, Icaving -ed in the Near East. Poles helped

Gorman still an shore. report-

There was only one good thing lated that corresponding number As the Greeks reached the vessel

about 11," said Gorman. "A Greek of ships of equal tonnage be allowed to prepare defences in the Desert and

Western the a non-commissioned o ofteers aboard, are 'now establishing with a rifle, a revolver lines of communication and building rounds of ammunition, forced the Ave tank trans, wire entanglements and Greeks to surrender their orina and other defences

turned them towards the shora,

A second dinghy began to take DIF

R.A.F. COURAGE RECOGNISED

soldier caught four mountain geats to leave westward so that the Swee Divorce For Officer

and cooked them, 'We' were dish tonnage inside the blockade ravenous for fresh meat and tore remains at the same level.

the carcases to bits and pie thera and

Gorman, and it also was fired on, and

like gern.”

The ran into Was in

Once In Colony

but by a ruse he eluded into it could pair, and said the kayals 4,000-ton motor freighter Vasaholm Hailsham, Sussax, or the ground of

again the gunners

them and course was to head westward to thej Lino entered Gothenburg, Sweden. Tanumald with the co-regution?"

reached the kayak in darkness, only island of

Shipments Get Through

A decree nisl was granted by the Nevertheless, shipments are gel-President, Lord Merriman, in the nyak salled at dark, but soon ting through to Sweden from the Divorce Court recently to Colonel heavy seas. The captain United States. On March 16 the Thomas John Robert Langmald, of not make headway-his only of the Swedish-Americon-Mexico Uie ndultery of Mrs Helen Rose. Eagles' feathers, sent to England by

to discover Uiat she coukl not put "It looked like the end

of Cytherea. the Indian Council Fire, an Indian

with a mixed Q

cargo direct from New Colonel Hugh Alexander to sea because of a broken air-conter until- society of Chicago, for presentation to premor.

York March 4 the 7,800-ton steamer miracle happened,"

sult was not defended. members of the RAF, have been

The husband's case was that wilen wind changed to This meant another day ashore in favoutable quarter, and the kayak, pany of Blockholm. orrived from after several years in India and awarded to a small group of pilots caves while the compressor was re-using her sails and engine, ran be the United States with foodstuffs. It Hongkong, she admitted she was in- awned by the Rex Com-ho returned to his wife in 1931, who have specially distinguished paired, but anally she got away and tore the wind all themselves in air fighting against the made the Island of Melos, where a eight or nine, knols, and reaching sents and food gifts to private later she and the co-respondent de I night, making about also carried delayed Christmas pre-terested in Colonel Urquhart, and enemy In Indian symbolism an column of smoke revealed another the Istand for which she had set Individuals, such as dried fruits and cupled a flat together In Pembridge anglo's feather is a tokens of courage. bombed refugnoʻship.

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