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GEORGE CROSS RECIPIENT

Saved

St Paul's

LONDON, June 17 (Router)-One of the men of the famous bomb dis- posal squad who saved St Paul's Cathedral last September by remov lng a one-ton high explosive delay- ed action bomb, burled in the south- west corner of the Cathedral, decorated by the King with George Cross not a recent Investiture at Buckingham Palace.

Ile war Corporal George

was the

Wyllie.

re-

to whom fell the task of the actual discovery and removal of the bomb. When bomb was dug up, the

the removal squad, commanded by Lieu- tenant Robert Davis, who also ceived the George Cross, loaded the bomb on a lorry and drove it to Hackney Marshes some miles away, where it was exploded.

Was a Grocer

Corporal Wyllie is a bachelor of 31 years and was a grocer in Scotland until eight years ago. Before then he was working in an aeroplane factory In England,

As the King plained the Cross on his tunle, Court offlelal read out. an account of his deed "for con- uniiring spicuous bravery, la energy, courage and disregard for denger was an outstanding example to his comrades,"

The King asked Wyllie how long

It took to remove the bomb,

"Three Jays, sir," was the reply.

Health

Bulletin

Cholera Figures

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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NEARING COMPLETION-With the closing of the gap between the American and Cana- ⚫dian sections of the now Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls, this great 950-foot arch will Later they will be removed to givo be finished this month. Cables abovo ára temporary.

an unobstructed view of the famous falls.

BOB BLATCHFORD, AT 90, WORRIED

Ninety years old, Mr Robert Blatchford, soldier, Socialist, They called him about the future. journalist, is worried. from the green-house in his Sussex garden so that he could tell about it.

He walked firmly, confidently and unaided up the path to his well-loved library.

Bob Blatchford he was always Eleven cases of Cholera (three each Bob to the thousands who gained in- from Victoria, Kowloon and Shauki-spiration from his vigorous writings wan, and two from the New Terrt--wonders what is going to happen torles), 12 cases of Dysentery, seven after the war.

On

"The outcome of the war I take

of Typhoid, cae of Measles, and 42 for granted," he said. "I never had of Tuberculosis, were reported

any doubt that we should win. Monday,

"One Hope"

Yugo-Slavia's Protest On

Record

Robin Moor Depositions

Roosevelt To Study

June 18, 1941.

CANADA'S WAR

EFFORT

NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuter)--- and "With the enemy at her gates approaching our shores, there will be Ume enough to check on the costs and credits when we all know whe- ther the world is to be slave or free," said Mr W. L Mackenzle King, the Canadian Prime Minister, to-night, referring to Britain's shortage of Canadian money

"we have A

old her not to worry about."

in New York to

associated "Our

went to war for the people sake of Canada but not for Canada alone. We went to war for the sake of Britain, for the sake of North American civilisation which we are proud to defend, and for the sake of that humanity which is above all pations. Against total wor we have total brought and shall bring our efore value of Canadian shipments of food, raw materials and war equipment to Britain," he continued, It is estimated, reach $1,500,-

In 1941.

He was spodian organisations.

"Apart from goods sent to Canada, Britain has needed already $1,000,- 000,000 to cover Canadian purchases, Britain has paid Canada about quarter of this in gold, while Canada herself has supplied the remainder in

dollars witich Canadian

Britain needed."

He predleted that the end of the war would find the British Com- monwealth and the United States "on

Survivors' Stories each other's side, united more closely

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

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WASHINGTON, June 17 (UP). The depositions of the eleven survivors of the steamer Robin Moor who landed in Brazil arrived from Pernambuco by plane to-day, are being brought to the United States by a member of the United States LONDON, June 17 (Reuter)The Embassy, Mr Phillip Williams. British Government in a Note to the They will be studied immediate Yugo-Slay Minister in London, places ly by President Roosevelt for on record "their sense of indignation further details beyond the brief "But it grieves me to think that at the shameless manner in which resume sent last week.

After conferring with Mr Sumner

of State, Welles, Under-Secretary human nature hos sunk so low as Yugo-Slavia has been mutilated and that is parts of her territory subjected to to wage the kind of war

foreign rule in gross violation of the the President or Mr Welles may

feelings of the Yugo-Slay being waged now.

statement condemning the "The peace will be more difficult true

British Government takes sinking in the strongest terms. to win than the war.

Meanwhile, the United States Con- "The one hope, as I ree it is in the further cementing and the continu-note of the Yugo-Slay protests at the

who arrived on ance of the friendship between the dismemberment of the country by sul at Capetown. Mr James Denby, British Empire and the American the Axis. It recalls the Yugo-Slav has sent a sketchy report of the 35

protests of May 14 and 20 calling other survivors continent.

attention to the illegal proclamation board an unidentified British craft. Smallpox On Decline

The warning comes well from a "Independent Croatia," which re-He is expected to Ble a more de-

the future of Cholera figures for the week ended man who has foreseen June 14 show a total of 34 cases with with almost uncanny accuracy since presented a camouflaged annexation tailed report later and also take de

which to Italy of Croatia and the "brutal positions from the survivors. 12 deaths. From January 1 to June long before the Great War, 10, at midnight, the total was 130 pronounced as inevitable in 1000 dismemberment of the Slovene pea- cases (five imported) with 523 deaths, prophecy for which he was nub-ple Fifty-one sufferers are undergoing tected to a barrage of abuse. treatment.

The weekly return shows the fol- lowing cases of infectious diseases in addition to Cholera: Three coses of Cerebro-spinal Meningitis with one death, four of Diphtheria with two deaths. 43 of Dysentery with 10 deaths, 22 of Typhold with nine deaths, two of Measles with one death, of Puerperal Fever with one death, and 270 of Tuberculosis with 120 deaths.

one

Evidence that Smail-pox is being: steadily checked is contained in the Information that there were no cases

for the week ended June 11. From

make a

The British note declares these acts A Bandit's

Tho

pacifists again hurled their by the German and Italian Govern- epithets at Bob Blatchford when, ment null and void, and states that will con- throughout the 1830s, he repeated the British Government

his warnings of inevitable German tinue to support the Government of

King Peter. Degression.

He

June 1 to June 16 there were 15 cases, formed and ready to pounce."

of which 13 proved faini,

The decrease in Small-pox figures

is to a certain

extent,

In 1935: "Germany is a revengeful, unscrupulous And, in 1936: "The horror of

Power, arm

due to the education of the Chinese in the value 1014 is closing in on us again, but it

of vaccination. The

has grown bigger and more

Ignominious Capture

PAYMENT OF CHINESE CREWS Peninsula,

KWANGCHOWWAN, June 17 (Wah Kiu Yat Po).-Fu Yung-mou, the notorious bandil chief of the Lulchow has been caught in offelally Kwangchowwan, announced.

Fu who was the head of the so Bob Blatchford smiled sadly when Llewellin. at question time in the called "One Hundred Men Gong" House of Commons to-day, disclosed had ravaged Luichow. He was was reminded of this.

don't blame people for taking that the Ministry of Shipping had forced to escape to Halhow in Hal-

discussed very fully with Mr Quo little notice," he said.

The Chinese seem devilish. to have lost their prejudice but they are still reluctant to allow their in-

fenicka fants to be vaccinated. This is one

why the reason why majority of Small- he pox cases occur among Infants.

On the other hand, the Chinese are not so willing to avail themselves of the protection afforded by inoculation against Cholera,

Briton Shot

Dead In Nazi

Prison Camp

Britain has protested to the German

Mr

"Smiled Sadly”

Blatchford thinks there cannot be a return to the old way of living after the war.

LONDON, June 17 (Reuter).The Parliamentary Secretary, Col J,

With the fall of Hainan to

the

"I don't suppose We shall

ever Tal-chi, former Chinese Ambassador non before the Japanese invasion of Chinese bandit suppression measures ceose to make the mistake of think- and now Chinese Foreign Minister, the island as a result of the strict ing that the whole globe is peopled the question of payment to Chinese enforced in south-western Kwang- by Britishers."

seamen and added: am glad to say that there have been no recent tung

inculties with crews in this coun-Japanese, Eu supported the Japanese and acted as their agent after secretly returning to Lulchwo, where he snuggled wolfram and tung-oil with armed forces from the Chinese terri- tory to the Japanese.

Asked what he would like people to remember hin of Socialist, or journalist. Bob Blatchford thought for, a moment, then-"I don't know that I want them to remember me at all," he said, "but I like to think

I am still Sergt. Blatchford."

Government against Washington Is

the shooting by a sentry in a

.

try."

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Food Scarce

In Rumania

of

prisoner-of-war camp in Ger- 64"

"Boom Town" important foodstufis and other ar- under a disguised name.

many of Lieutenant Decs, of the 6th Battalion Durham Light In-

fantry. The officer died Imme- programme has transformed diately.

The disclosure was made by staid Captain Margesson, Minister of gayest and most expensive War, in the House of Commons capital in the world. recently.

Only recently several of his yang were caught in Kwangchowwan. They were believed to be involved in ZURICH, June 17 (Reuter)-Re-a burglary case carly this year. introduction

black-outs in

Hide-Out is Bucharest reported by Ric

In order to resume his activities in Budapest correspondent of the "Bas- the leased territory, Fu Yung-mou ler Nachrichten."

secretly leased a wooden cottage near He adda: "Shortage Of several the shore at Fort Bayard last month Не Was ticles in common use is beginning involved in a dispute with the land- lady of the house on June 11, which the French America's gigantic defence to make itself felt in Bucharest."-

The shortage, the correspondent led to his arrest by

by tus says, involves meal, fats, oil, coffee, Police who identified him Washington from a dull city of tea, rice, flour, soup, textiles and Ivory private seal bearing his own

name and

a notebook which were bureaucrats into the leather.

found in his possession.

Two new revolvers, some bullets. and a bundle of banknotes to the value of NC$3,000 were discovered in his luggage. He is said to have Inquiries made through a protect

worn a bullet-proof waistcoat. ing Power, said the Minister, had

It is reported that in his notebooks, esinblished that Lieutenant Dees was shot by a sentry while standing in -It is known as "Boom Town."

WELLINGTON, June 17 (Reuter). the number of arms, the names of connection with the window of his cabin in Ofing Workmen are busy on scores of new-The placing of a contract for his gang, and his 7 C/H.

bulidings.

building four minesweepers at Port the Japanese were clearly recorded.

Contention For Prisoner The shots were fired because of » One reason for the fantastically Chalmers to British Admiralty plans

Reliable quarters here understood camp regulation forbidding prisoners high cost of living is the arrival of was announced by the New Zealand

and to lean out of the windows with scores of millionaires, who are giving Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan, that the Japanese tried to offer ball.

for his release

the Chinese view to preventing communication

authorities requested his handing with the evil population.

aver to the Government of Kwang- Power had been The protecting

Itung Shlukwan. requested to convey to the German Government on behalf of the British Government the most emphatle pro- test against the shooting.

SINO-BURMESE FRONTIER LINES

CHUNGKING, June 17 (Reuter), -Delimitation of the frontier be tween China and Burma has been finally settled after prolonged nego tlations, "Reuter" learns well-informed sources to-day.

from

A tiny hotel room costs £4 a night, champagne (at £3 a battle) flows like water, and queues wait to get into night clubs.

New Zealand Shipbuilding

their services to the Government for to-day. a nominal salary of a dollar a year.

BOMBER FUND

SELF-SACRIFICE DONATIONS

Two substantial donations to the

CALL TO CLERGY Bomber Fund have been received as

A call for practical self-sacrifice! follows: Messrs Linstead & Davis,

by the clergy, so as to set about re- $2,000. Mr C.

Bernard Brown,

building a Christian order of society $2,000. Both are second donations.

in

the modern world; has been made

to clergy of the Church of England Shortage Of Power

by the Company of Mission Priests.

This body has been formed

the us

under

auspices of the three largest re

glous communilles for men in the

It is recalled that Fu Yung-mou, the onco offered his loyalty to Chinese authorities, but it was Inter proved that his intention was false.

GARRISON FOR AZORES

VICHY, June 17 (Reuter)—A

In Shanghai detachment of soldiers, hon left Lis-

SHANGHAI, June 17 (Inter-bon for the Azores to reinforce the Church of England. The aim is to national).As the Shanghai Power naval base at Ponta del Goda, stoles tackle the main pastoral problem of Company has nolined picture houses a Lisbon despatch.

The Ballora took with them a the Church, thà numerical inade to curtall power by 75 per cent.,

materiais movie theatres may have to close quantity of war

A contingent of troops from Lis- An appeal is to be made by own-bon has already arrived at the The membership of the ers of picture houses to the Shanghai Azores, according to a despatch from

They Municipal Council and the Shanghal Angara do Heroismo. is at present 13.

It is expected that the agreement between the Chinese and British quncy of the priestranterbury, Dri down. - Governments will be signed shortly. Lang, has given his approval to the

The Archbishop of

movement. Company

TROOPS LEAVE all accept very small stipends and Power Company not to enforce this

Canton Will Be Replaced

SHIUKWAN, national)About

June 17 (Inter-

five

lest the public should be

ve. together in houses of the ar- deed of their main source of en-1

or lower middle class type.

thousand work in some of the now]

At an informal meeting held re- tertainment.

in London it was decided to on further recruiting so that

Fewer Workless

Cripps Sees King

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH LONDON, June 17 (UP)-Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador Japanese troops left the Canton area

to Moscow, had a lengthy audiendo lute Inst week for Hainan Island.

LONDON, June 17 (Reuter).Tho with the King to-day and it is un- They were mostly Infantry, and housing areas near industrial centres cavalry unita. The transports could be undertaken. Clergy, who unemployed in Britain numbered derstood that they discussed the

Join the Company, accept, a ille 290,321 on May 12, which is nearly Soviet situation. steamed out of Canton in broad day voluntary poverty, and membership, alla fallion lower than May 20 The Prime Minister, Mr Winston therefore, is for practical purposes last year, and nearly 30,000 loss than Churchill, also had an audience with

His Majesty, the previous month's figure:: Umited to the unmarried..

light, t

Well informed quarters hero to not expect a southern movement yet.

than ever in one great endeavour to undo the wrongs which have been done to mankind.”

Bond With America PRINCETOWN, June 17 (Reuter) ...... "Canada and the United States shall for ever walk togther as the best of good neighbours sald the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King receiving an honorary degree at the Princetown University to-day.

Mr King is on a brief visit to the United States.

He told the graduating class, "be- tween you and us is a community of Our thought and ideal and purpose. common disdain of fleeting things that will pass, and our common love for eternal things that will remain."

KREISLER WILL PLAY AGAIN Discharged From Hospital

NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuter),- Fritz Kreisler, the famous violinist, was discharged from hospital to-day and his condition was described as good.

Aut

Audiences may expect once again to hear him play with all his match- less art, for his wife stated that he will play again "as he has always player, who is 00, was knocked down by a motor car in New York seven weeks ago and was taken to hospital suffering from a fractured skull and internal injuries.

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