1941-09-11 — Page 13

Dead Men's Tissues Used By Russian Surgeons

MOSCOW, Aug. 31 (UP).-Disfigured, crippled Russian soldiers are being restored to health with the bones, blood and tissues of fellow soldiers killed by the Germans, doctors demonstrated to-day.

·Men whose nosen and ears were) blown off by German explosives are convalescing in a Red army hospital with slight truces of disfigurement

after the noses and ears of dead men were grafted onto them.

The chief surgeon took foreign correspondents on a tour of the modern hospital to demonstrate that modern plastic surgery has eliminated the necessity of repairing a patient's features by grafting his own skin.

Economic

Warfare

On Reich

LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter)-As a

During the first weeks of the war there was widespread transfusion of result of the Anglo-Soviet action In blood from corpses to injured men, iran Germany will lose not only con- the surgeon said, but this operationsiderable food supplies but will niso is becoming less frequent us supply of voluntary blood donors In-

thebe deprived of substantial quantities, te, colton and boxwood.

creases. There now in an abundance of

Germans will lose 20,000 tons

of blood available, both liquid and dried, for easy transportation to hus-of cotton yearly, pitols.

The

-formed from only

That supplies are short is shown army hospital recently trans-have been deprived of the

by the fact that Jews In Germany major school building, cares portion of their bed linen, Ger- for severe CUSCS requiring special, urgent attention. After the many's lack of jute will be even operation, during the later stages of more acute owing to the loss of Iranian Jute which up to now has

exported

1) Germany as Hession and jute bags. Box! which the Nazis also obtained dran is one of the few woods of rufelent good quality to be used inj hand-Alling shells and bombs and is! also used in the manufacture of former mathematical instruments, rogs and

convalescence, the patients are heen moved to the Interior, far from the el menace of air raiders.

Surgeons and

nurseя appeared N highly efficient, and equipment was of the most modern type,

Story of Battle

A 30-year-old captain,

peasant decorated for bravery, lold tool handier: The story of the ballic in which

he suffered severe heart, shoulder and leg wounds. He said he was anxious to recover and get back intoj the fight.

"After fighting a rear guard ac- tion in Poland, my battillo took up a position somewhere west Ohio, south-west of Sinolensk." he sald.

of

Two Infantry battalions supported

by its tanks attacked us. We threw in 10 tanks attached to our reginent. Atter 10 hours late we disabled eight enemy tanks by throwing flan Ing gasoline bottles.

Englishwoman

Who Loves Japan

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

WAKAYAMA, Sept. 11 (Domei)

At least one Englieti wamán will re-

main in Jupau despite the evacua- ties advice from the British authofties,

Mina Catherine Davis will make a permanent home at the Siticabama hotsprings in Wakayam Prefecture.

Then we charged with bayonets

Earlier this year, Miss Davis went while ou motorized column from the rear."

our tanks flanked and took af te Sydney but finding her nostalgin

for

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 11, 1941.

NEW GOVERNOR'S LANDING IN COLONY

Seene nt Queen's Pier yesterday morning when Hongkong's new Governor, Sir Mark Young, K.C.M.G,, landed to assume charge of the Colony's administration. His Excellency is standing at the salute before the main arch of the Pier as the guard of honour presents arms during the playing of the National Anthem. (Photo: Mee Cheung).

Saboteurs Wreck U-boats With

Secret Corrosive Chemical

A secret ring of daring German saboteurs led by a brilliant chemist has been scientifically wrecking U-boats during their construction at Krupps, Germany's great arms firm.

Using a corrosive chemical substance Introduced into the steel rolled for the submarine have ruined hulls, these men dozens of the new U-boats which

Essen.

Despite the Germans' mechanized on too strong she turned back tire being mass-produced

strength, he

in Apr. An 18.000 Yen a night combat and never stand up hams as the Finares Ministry

ways avoid mansion is being completed at Shira- to Russian bayonets,"

not frozen her deposits. Long in- A former truck driver from a terested in the Kongo rchrol of the Minsk brewery, 25, said he had been "Nah" drama, Miss Davia intends to wounded just four days after being donate a fund fer constructing a mobilized, while fighting parachutists "Noh" theatre in Kyoto in the ear

the woods near Minsk.

tn

Three groups totalling 125 para- chutists floated to earth disguised as Red army men and peasants, the wounded man said, but he and his comrades killed all of them in a hand-to-hand fight.

Chartered Bank Dividend

future.

Death Sentence For Greeks

10

at

-

He blamed "Communist saboteurs".

convenient excuse to cover up the shortcompings of his Gestapo in failing to track down anti-Nazi Ger- man organisations.

The ships, pecording to Himmler, were sailing in the Baltic and the North Sea when they were destroyed So successful have they been-tby mysterious and uncontrollable

fires or explosions. Is impossible to detect the sabotage util the submarine has been to sen

that it has reduced folds in the Atlantic.

the U-boat

of highly-skilled wreckers

The existence of this amazing band and the

It has done has been re- by the news that in an effort to trace the leader

ader the Gestapo has shot 40 Krupps workmen suspected of complicity in the sabolage,

Rots the Steel

R.A.F. GETS

WORLD'S BEST

Recapture Of

Smolensk Expected

FROM PAGE ONE

movements of vast masses of ́men and materials which gather momen- tum is they go and are incapable of

being stepped Superb lighting skill can gradually slow them to a tem- porary standstill by applying braking action to their impetus. It ly then Jonly a matter of days or even hours before the movement re-starts, deve- lops, is slowed and held. Three Įtimes have the Russians thus held the entire might of the Nazl surges forward and three times they fought them to a standstil

Indications are that this time it is

But it is believed the scientist kas eluded the frantic efforts of Himm- her's men to trup hlm, and the

During one day at the two big wrecking bas been months.

Kolng on for

Oghter aircraft factories of Curtiss-Wright and the Bell Air. the Russians who will initiate the The chemical, used, is understood craft Corporation in Buffalo we be seen whether the Germans are forward movement und it remains to to be a preparation which includes have seen plenty to cheer about as good at applying the brake as they the molten steel. pregnated lots and almost too much to report in are at rolling forward by sheer

jahurry, according to Leland weight of masses Its presence cannot be defected

ment and until the U-boat has been in the sen Stowe, the U.S. Correspondent, sale massacre of their manpower,

credible disregard for the whole- Foremost, perhaps, I should mention one fighter aeroplane

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" DERLIN, Sept.

(UP)The German newspaper, the "Belgrade Donow Zeitung" reports from Alliens that German military authorities in The

following telegram Was Greece announced that the death received today from the Ilead sentence hnd been passed on Once in London of the Chartered Salonika merchant who helped two Bank of India, Australia and Chine: British to escape, #rel on three Directors have declared an Interim farmers from the vicinity of Athens dividend for the pust half year at the for possession of urms, as well as on rate of 10% per annum subject to a former at Crete for sabotage of income tax dividend payable on 1st, German army telephones.

1 is the action of salt water in October.

with this chemical It said that the Greek Government combination

tely "rots" the steel. had placed under control

completely of the which com

The bulks of the submarines are State all property of a number of former Greek statesmen and all of

so weakened that they either crum- their relatives,

ble under pressure when the U-boat dives, or the seams open up even while the boat is on the surface.

Many of Hitler's latest Atlantic

U.S. Tax Bill

water for some weeks.

.

which experts generally believe Roosevelt May Seek to be better than anything the Repeal of Neutrality

Germans have got. This is Bell's Airacobra P.39, a terrific- ally powerful, heavily armoured flying areenal

FROM PAGE ONE

Modern Knightsaiders have become completely unit is the only pursulf 'plane In the Mr Roosevelt may nsic permission for

serviceable through this sabotage. Of St John

Demoralises Crows

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Reuter). -The House and Senato conlerces considering the $3,084,000,000 tax bill agreed upon a number of techni -cal-differences-in-connection-with-s difference in the versions of legisin tion approved by the two Chambers.

Houro. leaders began their efforts, MALTA, Sept. 10 (Reuter)---A |

Reliable sources of news inside to-day to have all members back on rhield inscribed "In Taken of Appre- Germany disclosed that the know- the job by September 10 to expedite clation and Gratitude for the Bril-edge of this sabolage, allied to the

· final Congressional action on the billliant Services rendered in Defence intensive anti-submarine offensive

of these

Iskinds," was presented to by the Royal Navy, was having a de- the RAF and Ficet Air Arm by moralising effect un Nuzl U-boat

e Anglo-Maltese League yesterday rews,

A distinguished metallurgist sild: in the name of the people of Malta.

Air Vice-Marshal Floyd, replying

"It would

uld be, quite possible to in- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (UP)-to the speech by the President of the troduce a corrosive chemical sub- James Hilton, author of "Lost Hor]- League, said: "We have been called stance during the manufacture of zon" and "Goodbye Mr Chips," pre- Knights of St John-they cleared the

steel without fear of detection except dicted here that present wara even-rep of the scourge of piracy, Our by complicated scientific tests." tually would be the Inspiration for task to clear the reas and air of Himmler himself revealed recently "Great Literature." However, he the securge of d'etstership, and we that sabotage on u very wide scale added, we are "now too close to see will. Malta and its history is an in- is rampant in Germany. it in its true perspective."

spiration to us all."

in

Great Literature

Predicted

WOMEN MAKE NEWS Answer To Correspondent

A lot of articles posted as “Found"

the Ministry of Information

Ile admitted that 21 Axis ships had been lost by nabolage.

Gestapo Baffled

They included 28 German, three Y. K. Chan:You have overlooked | Italian, and, two Japanese ships.

case. The Two, he added, carried valuable decision Was

total losses."

bullding includes: bangles, a pair of the legal aspect of the corsets:

a nightdress; a skirt; unagistrate's overcoat; socks; and leflet requisites. Jupon this.

the

world which carries a 37 mm. can-naval escorts for convoys carrying non in its nose. It also carries six war materials to Axis foes, or some machine-guns in its winga.

more vigorous form of naval action By virtue of its revolutionary de-designed to halt depredations against sign, with the engine behind the American shipping. pilot, affords greater freedom than. Secondly, he may ask Congress to any fighter plane in existence. The repeat the Neutrality Act, thus lift- first shipment of these fighters has in the ban against American vex- already been sent to the RAF., and sels sailing Into British and other the United States Army has 60 of belligerent ports. Lhem.

Thirdly, he may disclose. the status We saw the 1-inch armour plate of

negotiations between the which protects the Airacobra cockpit United States and Japan regarding a and engine, together with the 24-settlement of Oriental issues. inch bullet-proof glass which shields.

Tokyo-Washington the pilot.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Iteuter). Two new Curtiss-Wright factorles-Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of will be completed before the year State, sald at a press conference that ends in Columbus and St Louis, and he had ne advices of any impending will employ 24.000 workers. A big agreement or announcement

con-. new plant in Buffalo has also been cerning Japanese-American talks constructed in less than eight months. Which had been under way for several months. There was nothing new in the American altuation.

based cargoes and must be regarded as PRES. ROOSEVELT

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the Free and Accepted Masons of the Buffalo, New York, recently. He was John Caltalian appeared in court in State of New York. sald recently that charged with being drunk and dis- it was "public property" that the President was a member of Holland

orderly, Lodge No. 8 in

in Manhattan and was anti-Roosevelt. Hell Hitlerl"

He shouted to the magistrate: "I'm Grand Representative of the State of Georgia to New York.

Magistrate: "Thirty days." Callahan: "I'm still of tho opinion.

Magistrato: "But I've changed

same

Mr Turner said that George Wash- ington, a prominent Mason, laid the cornerstone of the Capital of Wash-mine. Do 60 days," Ington at Masonle rites ond that Presidents McKinley and Harding

Sunday was observed as a day of were Masons,

The organisation is cpen by invi- trian) Community of Hongkong, and Intercession by the Parsco (Zoroas- tation to anyone who believes in prayers were held at the Zoroastrian God, Mr Turner said. Three sons of Building, 101 Leighton Hill Road. the President James, Elliott Franklin-are members, he sald

and the ceremony was well attended by

the Zoroastrian Community.

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