1941-06-16 — Page 7

NANCY

THAT WAS A FUNNY DREAM-I WONDER

WHAT IT

MEANT?

"YOU ARE VERY

KIND TO ANIMALS. AND ONE WHICH YOU'VE BEEN FEEDING --

CAM BOOK

Constant Stream Of Defence Inventions

Monday,

-**-WILL 50ON REWARD YOU WITH A RETURN IN MONEY!"

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP)—A flood of inventions and suggestions on military matters is pouring into offices of the United States Government. Alrendy about 16.000 have been re- ceived by the National Inventors Council, and they continue to come in at the rate of about 3,000 a year.

Although many of the "inventions" are fantastic and entirely Impractical, the Council said that many have been found to be highly useful for defence purposes and have been adopted by the War or Navy Departments.

The National Inventors Coun-¡ cil was created by Secretary' of Commerce Jesse Jones with the concurrence of President Roose- velt, to aid the military and naval branches of the govern-: ment by bringing to their atten- tion all such discoveries and mechanisms as appear to have

Paris Dawn

Raid On Pro-British

STRONG moves to halt the value to the cause of national spread of the De Gaullist move- defence. The Council is com- ment have been taken in Paris. prised of outstanding American Warrants have been issued against 6,200 householders and owners of inventors, scientists and busi- ness men having experience in the development and utilisation of inventions. They work at a salary of one dollar a year.

business premises for allowing De Gaullist inscriptions to remain on the walls of their buildings.

The

To ensure that the more important: slogans ore obliterated, police ore making a round of the streets at dawn (anys British United Press). All inventions and suggestions re-

De Gaulist movement is ceived by the National Inventors known to be particularly strong in Council must first pass the technical Paris, where the Nazi occupation has done nothing to enhance the reputa- staff at headquarters. When a suction of the Germans. gestion gets past tils Initial hurdle,

Travellera from Parls all have the

THAT'S SILLY!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HOW CAN AN ANIMAL LEAVE ME

·MONEY ? --- NOW. I KNOW THIS

BOOK IS

GOOFY!

June 16, 1941

By Ernie Bushmiller

WAIT A MINUTE!

IT WASN'T AS GOOFY ASI

THOUGHT!

DANES ACCLAIM KING-King Christian, 70, of Denmark ls on vergo of tears as people choor him as ho foavos Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen, for daily morning ride. Occasion was, first anniversary of occupation of Donmerk by Germans.

ENVOY'S ONLY Gibraltar

SON DEAD

who

Prepared

For Any Eventuality

By Stephen Wall

Mr Norton Knatchbull-Hugessen, it is referred to the appropriate same story to tell of silent anger on 28, only son of Sir Hughe Knatchbull- lechinical commlitee for closer study the part of Paricions against the Ger- Hugessen. British Ambassador to buried ot and possible teals, Those suggestions mans, of people who refuse to sit at Turkey,

Germans in Atherstone, Warwickshire, after an

(United Press Staff Correspondent) which get past the second searching the same table with analysis ultimately come before the restaurants, and of subtle demonstra inquest in camera at Oxford, died at

De his home at Woodstock Close, Oxford, GIBRALTAR, June 12 (UP), ~Britain's mighty rock for tlons in favour of Britain and whole Council..

Gaulle.

as a result, it is believed, of an over-tress guarding the Western Mediterranean is prepared for any dose of sleeping draught,

German attack from Spanish soil which a neutral military expert has said would cost the invaders 150,000 men.

lessness.

When the Counell places its stamp of approval on an invention or sug suggestion which meets the Council's attention for some time for sleep- He had been receiving medical gestion, it is turned over to the Army approval. or Navy, whichever branch of the

Many Inventions which have service is appropriate. If a sugges-

Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen had been tion is decided by the Council to be served to enrich the United States of value for defence purposes, it may were the brain children of cluizens senior assistant at the Bodletan be adopted if found superior to simi who had little if any direct contact Library, Oxford, since 1039. He was on holiday at the time of his death. lar devices already in use although with the particular field covered but

health and spirits the last time he them. Therefore, citizens who

was at the library. this emergency feel that they have

Reports that the Nazi armies will attempt to conquer the citadel failed to excite military authorities, who believe years of preparation and newly-completed secret defence devices have made the 1,400-foot peak as nearly impregnable as any natural fortress can be.

Like a battleship's quarter- |

the Idea embodied in the device may who had Ideas and believed firmly in but he appeared in his usual good deck, the fortress is stripped

not be new.

In

Of course, neither the Army nor something helpful to suggest are be- the Navy is under any obligation to Ing urged to bring ideas to the atten- put into use any invention, device or tion of the Counel

On Monday,

June 17, 1940

THE BOMBER FUND

was started.

He was formerly an undergraduate of Balliol College, and took tils B.A. degree in 1938:

On behalf of the people at Home and the British Government, the South China Morning Post and The Hongkong Telegraph tender grateful thanks to the many firms and individuals who have given generously.

SO

To the members of His Majesty's Forces; 'The Royal Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force, the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, the Hongkong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and to all contingents of the Hongkong Police Force and Police Reserve, The Auxiliary Nursing Service, the Nursing Detachment of the H.K.V.D.C., and to the Hongkong War Effort Committee, Clubs and Associations all of whom have made regular contributions, warm thanks are extended.

Contributions as at noon y June 14, 1941 $2,190,631.26

& £100

Total remitted to London

£130,939,19.6d

On Tuesday, June 17, 1941

THE BOMBER FUND

Commences Its Second Year!

for action. It has long been apparent that Gibraltar must be held if Britain is to keep con- trol of the approach to "North Africa and the Near East, and plans have been completed to defend The Rock against every conceivable form of assault of sicge.

A gigantic network of obstacles- many of them deep secrets-has been completed along the sandy isthmus between the Spanish mainland and The Rock.

All buildings between the frontier and The Rock have been demolished,

The Boy Who Had

Headaches

Lives To Fight In

Two Wars

VERY nearly 50 years age a boy, aged nine, had a' fall and dislocated his neck. Thereafter he suffered from violent

sochy attacking force would be headaches and grew up to manhood. vulnerable to a merciless shelling by as he himself later told his King, not guns concealed in the practically really fil, but a chronic invalid. bomb-proof calcereous rock. There

Then came 1014, and the young

is nothing to obstruct the view of man hesitated about joining up. Ho defending

feared that the guns would bring a gunners.

terrible headaches. The land approach from La Linct, return of those Spain, is studded with mines. Any But join up he did, in 1915, in the German Invaders would also have to Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and negotiate the Spanish defence line by May, 1918, he was Lieut.-Com- built during the Civil War by mond, skipper of ML.254.

mander Geoffrey Hencago Drum- man engineers. While the invaders were manoeuvring through the Spanish defence, they would wide open to shelling.

Canal System

be

ML.254, you may remember, was the little motor launch that crept into Ostend Harbour alongside the old cruiser H.M.S. Vindictive which was to be sunk is a block ship across the harbour mouth. Her job was to take off the aurvivors of the Vindictive's skeleton crew,

The Spanish press asserts that, Gibraltar's chief defence from land attack is a newly-finished canal sys- tem isolating the British territory

Before from the mainland, ban

Most of the civilian population amid

they got into the harbour hail of German fire Drum-

of several thousand persons, mostly mond was wounded very severely in women and children, were ev-three places, but not until he hid cuated long ago, and the garrison satisfied himself.no one was left alive and remaining civilans. are pre-aboard the Vindletive did he back sank down on the bridge

pared for an indefinite slege. his crippled M.L. safely out. There is danger of repeated bomb- exhausted.

ing, because The Rock is vulnerable For that he got the VC-they to air attack since it lacks land bases called him "Whittington, V.C." be for planes. But the inhabitants" can

withdraw into the deep catacombs cause his cat sat on his shoulder and lefty chambers carved from the throughout the action. rock where bombs never could touch them.

When September, 1939, came the Lieut.-Commander joined up - ogoln

Gibraltar has been transformed Into a great subterranean city, with ns an able seaman. At 54 he was reckoned too old for a Commission, hospitals, supply shops,, food and

bell-bottomed trousers he munitions stores protected by hun. In

swabbed tho decks of a! MAVO! dreds of feet of extremely hard rock auxiliary motor patrol vessel In the

Virtually Siego-Proof ⠀ Many persons believe that, the enormous supplies of munitions and food stored away in underground youits maka Gibraltar virtually siege-proof.

Gun emplacements and other, de- vices

to ward off attack by sea are prepared in equal strength to those

Thames Estuary. EPILOGUE.On April I.Able-Sci- man Geoffrey Heneage Drummond, V.C., had another fall-he slipped.| on the deck of his ship in a Lon don dock and fractured his skull He died in hospital..

оп

At the inquest at Lewisham, the coroner returned a verdict of -ne- on the north face, facing the land, eidemal death. approach: Anti-aircraft: batteries have been installed to drive off at troops train hard all day, then relax tekint planes, or keep them at a great height,

in cafes or attend; the movies" or Social, ilfe in Gibralter" 18 now thontrès at nights strictly; curtalled, but the populaco Everyday 1,000 keep calm and cheerful and goes across", the frontier to about-its-business-daúnuales. The recy

Blitzkrieg Began In America

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP),~Licut, Col. A.; R. WII- son. member of the Army

General Staff, kas told to Senate IS SICKNESS, CAUSING DELAY that's up to you!

Committee that German blitz- krieg tactics are practical ap- plications of warfare methods nught at the Army's General Staff and

Command School, Fort Leavenworth,. Kans., sincé 1932.

Combat tactics of the blitz krieg, he said were planned at Fort Leavenworth and tested with the army's single mechan. ised brigado at Fort Knox, Ky,, before the German panzer divl sions struck down Poland in 1939.

"The co-ordination of air forces and mechanised unitu was something new, in warfare until the German armles invaded. Poland," Wilson said. "However, all of these tactles were taught at Fort Leuvenworth from 1032 on.

"We were hampered by a luck of planes and lack of medehanised equipment. But the army, In Instruction under Gen, Herbert Brees, insisted on such facties.

"A German ponzer division is nothing but a type of organisation which we planned back in the early 30's. To-day we are beginning to get the actual equipment.”

The men who lead the army to- day, Wilson said, are the same men

who

tought the tactics of the

blitzkrieg at Fort Leavenworth.

"We have modified aur plans as a result of the European War, but the hasic pattern is that which we taught." he said.

Surgeons To Meet

In Mexico

The Mexican Legation in Shanghal has announced the coming Assembly of the Inter- national College of Surgeons (founded in Geneva) to be held in Mexico City from August 10 to 14, 1941.

The Mexican Government has bee requested to extend to foreign gov- ernments and medical institutions the invitation of the International Colle- ge to be present at this meeting. Consequently, the Mexican Legation has transmitted this invitation to the National Government of China, at Chungking, and has also addressed several important medical institutions the hope that they may participate in the Assembly,

Mental Tests For Recruits

Peak load production puts added atrain on personnel-requires that management take untisual precau tions to guard against that "biggest "Fifth Colúmn”—the common cold, Encourage men to drink more water by providing clean. Indivi- dual Purity Paper Cups at each fountain. This is the natural way to drink-anch Purity in 'n natural cup to use, It snuggles into the hand, does not leak, holds Just enough water, and in delivered from n meial dispenser that holds 300 cups and keeps them clean in. any surroundings;

KEER FIT EVERY DAY. Drink plenty, of water this Sanitary way.

300 "Purity" Cups for only $2,00 1

KINER

CER COM

Premier's

Cousin Led Own Army

A British "spare time soldier," who is a cousin of Mr Churchill, is playing a romantle part in the cam-

the palgn against

Itallans Abyssinia.

in

During the last war he had a dis- tinguished military coreer, and later become a District Commissioner in the Sudan.

When the present war began he felt the old urge for action.

So without any outside prompting, The raised an irregular force from the naked Nuer tribesmen whom he administers. ··*

Uniform they had note, and rides were their only weapons.

Constant Pain

Their commander, whose faded Recrults to the Army are to under-blue eyes cannot disguise an Indomit- go intelligened tests. When the able will, had been suffering for medical boards have graded them months from a tropical skin disenso physically, psychological experts will which gave him constant pain. test their mental equipment. It is But every moment he could spare pointed out that the great variety of he spent drilling and training his employment now available in the 'army," marching miles over dim-

demands amoro scientific cult country with it. Formed of selection to make

good

any wastage. In modern war men By sheer personality he compelled have to use their initiative, and it is discipline among tribesmen who are highly important that armoured and the world's greatest individualists. motorised units, the Royal Artillery The Italians have nicknamed him and the Royal Engineers should re- ceive the best men avaliable.

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