1941-06-09 — Page 7

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 9, 1941

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

I GREW THAT LITTLE FLOWER ALL BY MYSELF --- AND

NOBODY EVER

NOTICES IT A

YOU'D THINK SOMEBODY WOULD NOTICE IT, AND PRAISE ME!

AUNT "FRITZI-- MAY I CLIP SOME OF THE

LAWN ?

CORVETTE DEFIES RAIDER

Here is a David and Goliath story from the sepa story which overwhelmed the First Lord of the Admiralty and which will thrill you.

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It's E story of corvette, rolling along the ocean. Mumed men on the bridge saw a German raider against the horizon.

In the Admiralty, hundreds of miles away, this short brave sign reached them from the corvette:-

DNEMY RAIDER. AM ENGAG-

That's all.

INC

In his room. Mr A. V. Alexander picked up the brief signal-one of the many he sees every day. He described his reactions:

"Anyone who knows what naval ships are, and what is the size of a with an enemy corvette compared raider, will realise the courage of that signal," he said.

"It Just overwhelmed me. I brought tears to my, eyes. It also inte me feel very thankful that there was a big sister close by."

Germany's Blockade Worries

Transport Is The

Real Difficulty

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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 engine, Major Eugene Gorman, the Melbourne barrister and Comforts Fund Commissioner, escaped from Greece during the evacuation after à series of extraordinary adventures.

Carrying six Australian sol- Our blockade of Germany diers and 56 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 bution and transport are giving Fleet on the morning of April the enemy more worry than 28, writes John Hetterington, nctual shortage.

the "Sydney Sun" War corres- pondent in the Middle East.

In most cases where one would look for shortage as a result of the blockade, the Germans are still lv Ing on stocks, which they already had or have tooted.

Labour is also providing difficul- ties, in spite of the large numbers of foreign workers imported.

The German technical Press shows anxiety regarding ferro alloys, and announcements of synthetic rubber substitutes are made periodleatly,

Nickel coins have been called in in Italy and occupied countries.

Wooden Shoes

Shortage of textiles is affecting chiefly the German civiilan sumer.

con-

The French have been robbed of their textile stocks, and are now be ing forced to

collaborate in the establishment of synthetic textile Industries.

Hunger for leather is indicated by the fact that wooden shoes are offl- cially encouraged in Germany.

Tin and packing material sub- stilutes have been introduced, but German housewives are warned against keeping food too long in the substitute packing.

There is a serious shortage of fats,

POLES READY TO MEET NAZIS IN MIDDLE EAST

He was able to do this beesuse he had brought away in the kayak prac nur all the Comforts Fund stores in Greece-about 15 tons-includ

19 Men, To

Woman

One Plan New Britain

SANG IN BOMBED HOSTEL

--Brave Nurses

When a shower of fire bombs fell On their South London hostel during a recent raid nurses climbed on to the roof and sang "Keep the Home Fires Burning" as they fought the flames.

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

These "Florence Nightingales on

of.

the

Nineteen men and one woman were named by Lord Reith, cycles"-the District Nurses have Minister of Works and Buildings, as members of a consulta-just borrowing a truck on the island and

Gorman rounded off the trip by tive, panel who will help him to plan the New Britain.

been commended for their distributing cocoa, tinned fruit, 3,500 the committee set up under the chairmanship of Mr Justic Uthwait on are carrying on," she wrote in a

Lord Reith stated that he expected to receive shortly a report from

heroic work by Queen Mary. tins of tobacco and other comforts to the best methods of stopping speculation in site values in bombed areas. letter to Miss Mercy Wilmshurst, It is really wonderful how you Island. thousands of A.I.F. evacuees on the

The new panel will give expert. The central authority would luy Queen's Institute of District Nursing.

genetal superintendent advice to this committee which is down the bread-outlines of its plans, now working out details for the and hand them over

Amid Debris to regional machinery of replanning.

authorities.

"During the Plymouth raids our ing £100 worth of cutlery that had and town planning experts, headed provision for the collaboration of the age, and sometimes managed to get

The panel Includes ten architects

nuraca went out looking for their Below the regions there would be sick patients. They searched wreck- been purchased for the Australian by Professor L. Patrick' Abereremble smallest efficient planning units," Soldiers Club which was to have just appointed town planning whose ground knowledge would en-ield the press.

people out alive." Miss Wilmshurst opened in Athena.

adviser to the LC.C.) and Mr W, H.able them to fill in the detall.. Gorman hired the kayak in ex-Ansell, president of the Royal In- pectation that Greece would be stitute of British Architects: Sir of Birmingham, Coventry and Bristol Test suweys for the reconstruction evacuated a few days before Dritain Walter Citrine, Lord Balfour of Bur- have already proved, in Lord Reith's began to withdraw her forces.

leigh;

Dr L. Dudley Stamp, director view, that pre-war administrative

He loaded his personal belongings of the Land

Sir

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

..

and stores Into her during April 22 Montague Barlotion Survey (boundaries will have to be dis-"But to all our women, raid risks

and boarded her late the same night Royal Commission on the Distribue regarded. Present town and coun-are just part of their job now. No with five non-commissioned officers tion of the Industrial Population, and try planning as will have to go bem would stop them from visiting employed on canteen and Comforis' four other members of the same Fund duties.

back into the melting pot.

their patients," Commission; together with represen- Cabaret Dangers

tatives of local authorities such as The Australians found a number Gloucestershire

and

Lancashire, of refugees already on board-Greek Leeds and Liverpool. soldiers, four women enbaret per- formers and barman from a leading Greece, desperately erger to leave

Swedish Overseas Trade Kept

Up Despite Heavy Handicaps

The Woman Member The woman member is Mrs Lioné! Michenz, a member of the Royal Commission on Distribution of in- The kayak reached the island of dustrial Population. Siphnos early next morning and put Lord Reith sald he envisaged n into a small cove well away from central planning the main harbour, the passengers go-ed to Luke, bold, cumprehensive det- Swedish ships a month to pass through the blockade,

decl ing ashore in two dinghies and hid-sions on illisation of land, location ing In

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while enemy aircraft of population in relation to industry, scouted overhead.

creation of national parks, trunk They had not been ashore long roads, etc. when an enemy plane flew over and sank a 5,000-ion refugee ship in the main harbour,

Passengers who escaped ashore from the bombed ship, including a company of Greek machine-gunners naked Gonnan to take them in the

After many months of hard mill- tary training In Palestine and Egypt,

Polish group, equipped with the latest British weapons and ammuni- Lion, is set and anxious to meet the Nazis on the battlefield again,

"We are grimly determined to fight to the last man until

is won kayak and he agreed to take 12 be- And freedom

declared cause the kayak would not hold any General Kopanaki, commander-in- more. Chlef of the Polish troops in Egypt.

Boat Fired On: The Polish brigade, for

Test Victory

NEW YORK.-Although Britain now permits five. numerous difficulties still stand in the way of Swedish' overseas trade.

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,

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Enemy aircraft had sunk seven ships there In 11 days, and u 8,000– tonner that came in soon after the

In addition, while no general per- On February 25 the Swedish kayak's arrival was bombed and mit is needed, each shipment must matorship Glimaran loaded Bunk within a few hours.

bo covered with special naval cer- 6,000 tons of Important freight," A Miracle

ficate or "navlceri," thus Involving chiefly cutton and tin plate, arrived Four or five survivors from the onetimes as many as 300 separate direct from Galveston. bombed ship were added to the licenses for a single cargo ship. Exports to the United States were kayak's nirendy over-large company. This entails an enormous amount of reopened with the arrival in New Gorman put some aboard and was and when she was again preparing Pre

preliminary

negotiations before York on April 3 of the Swedish sall.

freighter Stegeholm from Gothen~ him up when Greek machine-guh-veloped and the captain decided it

Under sed across the bont and order was dangerous to put to sea,

Since March 4, however, it is ment, which says that one of the ed it to pull towards them. Twelve Thus

five ships going to Sweden must known that at least, four, Swedish the passengers returned to 13 got into it and compelled the ashore for another day's welt.

come from a British part, it is rowers to pull to the kayak, leaving Gorman still on shore.

about 11," said Gorhan. "A Greek of ships of equal tonnage be allowed Divorce For Officer

"There was only one good thing lated that a corresponding, numbefreighters have been sunk,

3040, is largely composed of officors waiting on shore for a dinghy to pick to salt that night 'adverse whisla dehlp en British blockade agree-burg.

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ravenous for fresh meat and tore remains at the same level. tank traps, wire entanglements and Greeks to surrender their arms and

the care

to blis and ate them Shipments Get Through

A decree nisl was granted by the other defences.

Nevertheless, shipments are got- President, Lord Merriman, in the turned them towards the shore. The kayak balled at dark, but soon ting through to Sweden from the Divarce Court recently to Colonel

second dinghy began to take of ran into heavy seat. The captain United States. On March 18 the Thomas John Robert Gorman, and il also was fired on, and was in despair, and said the kayak 4,000-ton motor freighter Vasahoins Hallsham, Sussex, on the ground of Langmold, of again the gunners climbed into it, could not make headway-his only of the Swedish-American-Moxien the but

by ruso he cluded them and course was to head westward to the Line entered Gothenburg, Sweden, Langmuld with the

adultery of Mrs

Mrs Helen Rost reached the kayak in darkness, only island of Cytherea.

{with a

co-respondent, Eagles' feathers, sent to England by to discover that she could not put "It looked like the end of the chap-York "ixed cargo direct from Now Colonel Hugh Alexander Urquhart the Indian Council Fire, an Indian to sea because of a broken alr-com- ter until a miracle happened, sald

The suit was not defended. society of Chicago, for presentation to pressor,

The husband's case was that when Gorman. "The members of the R.A.F., have benz awarded to a small group of pilots caves while the compressor was re-using her salls and engine, ran bethe United States with foodstuffs. Hongkong, she admitted the Was "In- and the kayak, pany of Stockholm, arrived from after several years in India and who have specially distinguished paired, but finally she got away and fore the wind all night, making about also carried delayed Christmas pre terested in Colonel Urquhart, and themselves in air fighting against the made the Island of Molos, where a eight or nina, knots, and reaching sonts and food gifts to private later she and the co-respondent oc- enemy, In-Indian-aymbollam, an column of smoke revealed another the island for which she had set Individuals, such as dried fruits and cupled a that together in Pembridge cople's feather, is a token of courage. bombed refugee ship.

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