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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 8, 1941.

Belgian Hero

Hero Of Church Gives Life For China

CHUNGKING. (Central News By Airmail).-Word has been received in Chungking Catholic circles that Father Vincent de Paul-Martin, 29-year-old Belgian missionary doctor, killed by Japanese shelling during the battle in the Chungtino Mountain Range in South Shansi in Moy,

At the time of his death Father Martin was captuin ofị the medical corps of a Chinese Division in south Shansi. Two of his best Chinese Friends. Dr Hsiao Chi, superintendent of a Chinese field hospital, and the latter's sister, Miss Hsino Ling- yl, head nurse, and the majority of the 300 members In the medical corps, mostly Catholics, were killed at the same time.

POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA

Curtin May Yet. Displace Menzies

Was

CANBERRA, July 7 (Reuter) The Commonwealth Govern-

In carrying out his duty Father ment, headed by Mr R. G. Martin always weat to the very front Menzies, the Prime Minister, line. Several times he had met may face difficulties in the forth- danger. Early in 1939 he and number of co-workers were caught coming budget session.

Thanks to

small mound

Ito

in the erons-fire of Japanese machine. The proposed budget is belleved contain suficiently contentious which provided over, they escaped and the three Government defeats maliers to provoke labour hostility on minor issues in the House of Representatives last week are inter-

unbuurt.

Native of Nantur

A native of Namur where his preted as pointing to weakness in father is still director of the public the Government position despite the health department, Father Martin statement of Mr John Curtin, the studied medicine } Louvain state University

for three years.

Before Labour leader, that Mr Menzies and graduated, however, his Interest

and

he are concentrating only on streng

defences Australian thening shifted to religion and he took up denying the possibility of an early theology in the mame university.

While in the university, one day he heard the late Father Vincent Lebbe, naturalised Chinese citizen also of Belgian birth, lecture on China. He come so completely under the

D

clection.

looking for a good election issue.

There is talk in some quarters of

Without Election

BIG GUNS TRY NEW GUNS—First dolivary of new 37 mm, anti-aircraft guns for U. S. Army is mado at Koppers Co. manufacturing plant in Baltimore. Highly mobile guns can fire 150 2-pound sholls a minuto, with range of 3,000 yards in vertical position. Battery of them, being triod out by high officers abovo, can firo 1,000 almod shots a minuto.

How

Are

Britain's Newspapers Beating The "Blitz"

LONDON. One of the few things constant in the changing life of war-time |Britain has been the punctual arrival cach day of the newspapers.

In war-time as in peace-time the British family expects its daily paper as a

In New South Wales, where Parlia- in- luence of Father Leble's selflessness mentary influence is strongest, it is

River.

In War Arca The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in 1937 found Father Martin studying the Chinese language and learning the Crese way of living. For he had decided to relinquish kl Belgian nationality in favour Chinese citizenship,

Peru-Ecuador Hostilities

of the

and love for the Chinese that at the suggested that Labour would take matter of course, just as it assumes that it will be regularly supplied with food, gas, time of his ordainment in 1936 he once under Mr Curlin as Prime light, water, coal and a thousand and one things. chose his mentor's first name Vincent Minister without an election. 5 bis own first name. Shortly after- Unions

Only people who have workedj ves permanent record—the fact that come out almost on time and as howing increasingtį. arc wards ho came to China and was anxiety that Labour shell take action inside newspaper oflice and the newspapers themselves, some of before the war, This has only been assigned to Szechwan to work in the rainst the Government and are who have watched the machines whom had large and some small possible because rival firms have Catholle Church in Namchun, north bringing increasing pressure to bear in movement, who know how a resources and introduced a voluntary papers which have suffered and every stocks of paper, pooled all their paper | offered" their full faclities to the of Chungking along the Chialing on their Parliamentary lenders, but

no crisis is in any case likely before newspaper is made, can appre-system of self-rationing so that no

man of the stuff on every paper has Parliament meets, probably late in ciate the achievement of those one newspaper, by reason of its fore taken a personal and individual pride

whose job it is to see that this vantage over any other.

sight August.

or luck, should have an ad-

in bringing the paper out each day. daily service is in fact main-

Voluntary Censorship This is merely another Instange tained.

of how in war-time Britain all In-

Finally, the Britta consorship The physical effects of the war ternal differences or disagreements system is an institution which is 'must an British newspapers have really are forgollen, when a common cause difficult to explain to anyone not been slight. Newspaper trains are still running, almost to the same sites. Then, too, the newspapers cuainted with the peculiar habits

to obtain their Father Martin left the Nanking Fishing In Muddy Waters schedule which they kept before the and their labour from Newfoundland

British. nonastery in November, 1938, to Juli

The best parallel is that of a the North China War Area Service

and Canada. WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuter), War. True, the size of the news-and

When Norway was grown-up son who is living at home. Corps under Father Lebbe who then

Welles, Under-Papers has

even smaller. This is not ships and started the system which his parents wishes, but yet he always

I working perfectly. a full-sized newspaper,

asks his parents first if there is any Mountain Range. In February the ference today, said that he was due however, to any lack of ability is now still

delivery of

papers in the objection to his doing what he wants following year he was appointed sure that the United States and all to produce a

but merely because the newsprint black-out and the blitzes has been to do. There is no compulsory cen- lender of the medical corps of al other American republics were an-

shortage is acute,

another problem. Some of the news-sorship in Britain-instead there is Chinese Division.

xious to help to halt the Peru-

British newspapers are still selling Lust autumn Father Martih tell Ecuador hostilities.

paper offices have been bombed, a voluntary censorship. sick. When General Ilo Ying-chin|

Asked whether the United States at the same price as before the war. people have been killedt und machines No one is compelled by law to

heaviest problem is one of staff, blown to pieces. Their heard of his sickness, he ordered the Government had received any re for very many of the younger journ- commander of the Division to which ports indicating "outside influences alists and members of the adminis- were forced by air raid conditions One or two of the provincial papers Father Martin was attached to release provoking the Peru-Ecuadorian trative staffs have joined the Forces him for vure and recuperation in clashes, Me Welles replied quoting and it has been nearly imposible temporarily to suspend their publica- Chungking. The sick man, however, an old Spanish proverb, "Very often to find replacements for them. tion. Yet near 100% of them have wired back: "I won't leave Chung in muddy waters fishing is good." tiaoshan until victory is won."

"Mr. Welles said that incidents of this kind were a matter of profound} regret to the United States Govern-it must be stressed that even if the

-Mr

Sumner

had his headquarters in the Chunglino Scerclary of State, at a press con- soon be creased and they will occupied, they chartered their own Ha in not bound in any way to obey

Succoured Wounded

A

ment.

No Compromise With Liar

The latter was then serving in the spiritual denih.

Alternative Workshops

In dealing with this physical side,

The

submit anything to anyone, but every essential parts every day so that newspaper docs willingly submit its nothing likely to be of use to the enemy can appear.

Four Men Chose 290

Miles Trek to Freedom

Four men of the famous desert patrol, stranded in the Libyan wastes after a sharp fight with the enemy, were faced with a grim choice.

chester,

In every battle Father Martin led his men to the ring line to rescue

whole of a national newspaper build- the wounded. One night he saved

ing, with its machines and its staff, the Ilves of 69 wounded soldiers

was destroyed by a bomb, that news- whom he and his men carried back

paper would still appear the next) from the blood-soaked

reduced field

day although possibly in under

form enemy fire. Once he was short of

| medien supplies. He cabled to his

For long before the wor national) father and two brothers, all medical

had established alternative papers. inners in Namur.

few LONDON, July 7 (Reuter)-Mr printing arrangements all over the Jater $30,000 worth of Herberl Morrison,, the Home country. Fortunately, most of them inedicine and other supplies were de-Secretary,

choice are already printing in two or more explaining the

Should they make for the and on the same day two French livered to him.

facing the British Eropire in this war,ecctres. Since war came, the emer- In May. 1040, of the death that it was either to continue our geney arrangements were put into nearest Italian post, 80 miles aircraft spotted Moore and Win- of his younger brother, Dr Pierre sacrifice, and determination to win, execution, and now most national away, and surrender?

A month later the other three Martin, was received in Chungking, or to surrender-which would mean omen but also at their alternative 200 milles to freedom and risk al-chester are now well on the way to Or should they try to walk the reached Khartoum Tighe-and-Win- would mean papers print not only at their Head Belgian Army medical service and If there was anyone who wanted bas

bases.

most certain death? This means, therefore, that some! fell under German fire. The news to believe in Hitler's words, the

They chose the

chance of free he was found, hardly suffered at all. recovery, and Moore, from the day was withheld from Father Martin for Invasion of Russia proved Lo bin two or three places would have to

and began dom, bebe wiped out in the same night to amazing journeys In the history of leadership have won

one of the most,

His determination and fear that it might cause too much how much that word

inspired for him the grief, As matter of fact, he was trusted.

stop a newspaper from appearing the British Army.

to be almost

Distinguished Conduct Medal. nover told of I up to the time of Mr Morrison concluded that there an event so unlikely

It was described recently in a his own death.

On the tenth day a search party Is no room for compromise and there impossible.

ast by an officer of the Middle found first Easton and then Win- broadcast by was no room for dealing with a man There is, however, more to it than East Command.

chester,

12 miles further on, both physical problem. It is what

Trooper Ronald lying exhausted in the sand. The men were British newspapers contain their Moore, D.C.M., of Tahnpl, New Zea

and Its presentation, their

When the party came up to Moore, Jand: Guardsman John Easton, of leading article, the views of their Edinburgh:

Guardsman

was 210 miles from his starting- Alexander readers and the like that really Winchester, of Glasgow; and Private

point, still plodding

along. symbolises the feeling of the people Alfred Tighe, of Manchester.

Easton could scarcely swallow of Britain. British newspapers have

Moore had a shell splinter in one owing to the wound in his throat. retained their right of criticism, their foot, Easton a bullet wound in the right of free comment.

throat, and Tighe was suffering from an old internal injury.

Heroic Sacrifice

Was to

George Of Greece who could not and never would be the

LONDON, July 7 (Router).-King| George of Greece arrived in South Africa to-day, accompanied by mem- bers of his culte.

An open verdlet was returned al

trusted.

Canada's Dead, Missing, 322

OTTAWA,

20.-Denth May

of

the Southend Inquest on 20 years old Lieut. James Clifford Haynes, R.N.R. formerly of Lathom Road, seven members of the Canadian Cambridge, who was found dead in (active) army

news

Resources Pooled was reported last The British are proud that they

uble

to say what they think his pyjamas on the pavement 40ft, night in the army's fiftieth casualty are below an open window at a Southend list of the war, bringing the total whenever they think it and British hotel. A brother-in-law stated that army dead and missing reported newspapers are us proud of being turns to carry their precious water. Lleut, ayns had been a sleepwalker since the war began to 322. since childhood. Police evidence Five men were reported "danger- told of an unpaid hotel bill and nously, four seriously ill and four letter referring to an "R. D." cheque, wounded.

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Tighe became very tired, and on the fifth day eventually persuaded his comrades to leave him behind.

Before going they poured out his share of the water supply inte bottle.

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On the sixth day the three took shelter in a ruined hut from violent sandstorm,

They had walked 130 miles.

Found By French

F

Tighe had struggled on alone. On the seventh day he reached the hut by nightfall, too exhausted to, go

farther.

On the evening of the ninth day

he

As he got down a few drops of sweet tea, he was heard to say, "I don't usually take sugar," He died shortly afterwards.

Strange Divorce

In N. Zealand ̈ ́

ever

The strangest divorce casc heard in New Zealand come before the Chief Justice at Napier recently, when a decree absolute was granted to Toko Pakal, against his wife, Polly Pakal.

The parties entered into a unique arrangement many years ago,

At a time when they had 11 chlidren, respondent went to live with petitioner's brother, and poti- |tioner co-habitated with respondent's

sister.

The parties were perfectly happy with the arrangement, but desired to make malters a little more regular.

Petilloner Is now the father of 17

he was found by a French patrol, children.

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