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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 17, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

"If I'm too ampil for prob

lems, I'm too kmall för tanı atives made for grown upp. Glee Castodamit's made for children only."

WINGS OVER ATLANTIC—A long-range U.S. patrol bomber wings out of the new U.S. air base in Newfoundland to scout for Nazi raiders and submarines in the north Atlantic. About 15 other big PBY-5 airboats were in the harbour whon this rare picture was taken,

Britain's Great Aerial Army Is Expanding: R.A.F. Only A Part

ADELAIDE.-An Empire Air Force that soon will number 250,000 stalwart young men is one of Britain's first bulwarks of defence, yet little is known of this great aorial army apart from the Royal Air Force. The R.A.F. is playing a truly heroic part in keeping the would-be Nazi invader at bay, but the R.A.F. is only one of six air forces that are guarding the British Empire.

men

JULY:

U.S. NURSES ADRIFT IN ATLANTIC

Ship Sunk By Submarine

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· “Hollywood has never produced such a thrill as this," said a young nurse as she struggled for her life in rough seas in the pitch dark, after the ship in which she was travelling was torpedoed.

As she fought through the Atlantic swell in howling wind,! with the rain beating down one thought struck her.

"Gosh, this is sheer Hollywood." That was the only other remark she made before the was rescued from death,

∙She was Shirley Ralph, of Jamaica, New York State, one of seventeen young American nurses who arrived in London to work for the Red Cross. They were swimming in rough seas before being rescued from sub- marine-Infested waters,

were

Australian Costs Of

Living Soar

Due To Labour Lack On All Forma

There were 32 passengers ол board the liner Maasden when the warning came that enemy ships were Brisbane, Queensland

The In the vicinity,

steady rise of living costs in Aus- Like An Earthquake tralia, despite all effort at stablisa- Ruth Martin, a tall brunette, from tlon by the official price-fixers, is Washington: "We

in the giving the Government serious con- dining-room drinking sodapop when cern. we heard our boat dropping depth The difficulty is rendered the mora. charges.

acute through the prospects of labour "That gave us the first idea that shortage, which is already tending Nazi submarines were about. Fifto send prices up. This shortage teen minutes later the ship was hit. has been hastened by the intensified "When that torpedo struck us the recruiting which has been in pro- shock was terrific. The ship shiver-British reverses in Greece and North |gress in Australia ever since the ed and rected like a building in an Africa- fact that offers the best re- earthquake. did it. It was not exactly dark but gement in the Dominions,

I knew what I had to do and ply to those who talked of discoura- It was raining heavily."

The shortage is affecting in par- came out because of the large percentage of said:

finding it extremely difficult to When the torpedo bit us I strap-here is also a shortage of labour

an normal operations. deck. It was a Hollywood film night; ped my life jacket on and went on in In fact, there has been nothing like those

because she admits she

Shirley Ralph cannot complain, ular farmer and pastoralists who, both to nurse and "seek adventure." ellatmens among "Beld workers.

She

Southern Rhodesia, Egypt, Britain.men In the heme, will have 40.000 the LA.F. to fifteen times its pre- and blue with shock and cold. My |

a

are

Women In Industry The Introduction of women into industry and as farm workers is bo- ing asked to replace enlisted men with clerical professions. women and girls, particularly in the

Nor are the six air forces sepa-tand some airships from Britain after 400 pilots end 2,000 mechanics for rate, unrelated units. There is

secondary Industries, including the last war. solidarity between all branches off

local defence, mainly above India's

engaged in munition-making. With this material, the Canadian cousts and ports. the Empire air defences that is being Air Force was formed in 1920. But

it on the screen over.

To offset this shortage the Australian Some months ago five-flights-sturtWith several others-I-managed-to Governme

Government has introduced-compul-- rapidly tightened by the constant in the prefix "Royal" was not granted ed to operate from Karachi, Bombay, get into u lifeboat, terchange not

thanks to theory exemption of certain age groups, not only of ideas but of the t 1924.

| Madras and Delli. Pilots and air help of some Marines on board who and also is energetically themselves. Apart from the

pushing A year ago last September it num-crews are being trained at Risalpur worked like heroes.

forward with a nationwide plan for training

scheme that is, bringing, bered 4,000 officers and men-to-day and mechanics at Ambala. thousands of young British trainees it has 30,000 on. active service in Meanwhile regulars are being ex-hour

"We kept afloat for more than an the training of youths as mechanics to Canada and the United States, Canada and elsewhere. The expan-panded to four squadrons, three of threatened

despite high waves that and mechanists for war Industries service is

as for the Army and Afr is taking thes

to send these nirmen to all sion rate is therefore nine times.

our tiny boat as well parts-of-the-globe.

which are formed already. Thus down to join the torpedoed liner. At Force. Canada, which is the lame of the regulars and reserves have built up last we were picked up. Australians

are in Canada, Maloya, Empire Air

"Some of the girls were black ground staff when opera- wor strength, Canadians are in Bermuda, New-ons are in full swing for this part

head was bleeding from where foundland, Britain. New Zealanders of its air defence. At present there)

splinter of shrapnel hit me. are in Canada and Britain. Malayans are 36,000 training and being trained

U-Boat Was Sunk are in Canada, South Africans are for the RAF. to which finished air

"For three days after we had been fighters are being acut in an ever in-

picked up we never undressed, but stayed with our lifejackets on.

Queensland, being Australia's big- "Before we were picked up we rest primary producing State, is bear- saw the ship go down, and the cop In forming districts the dearth of brunt of the labour shortage. tain told me that the submarine was sunk.'

manpower has become so acute that some farmers have had to ask avail- Lillian Evans, from Cambridgeable harvesters to TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 4-Private Mass., jumped from a lifeboat as it

to work up to 10 Robert R. Stubbs of Macdill Field has was about to capsize. "It was ter-normal 44, or 48 hours. This added hours a week, compared with the received public commendation from ribly rough, and I am a poor swim labour cost, together with the drop in his commanding officer for his inven- mer, but I swam for about an hour The South African Air Force, start-tion of a bomb device which Private until I got near enough to the rescue primary exports caused by lack of corps at Kimberley. in ing off as the South African Aviation Stubbs described as an improvement ship. for a lifeline to be thrown to tag po ove paragni oblano, aor the

1913, was of the "Molotov, Bread

she said.

ing to Government officials, None of the nurses is more than steady rise in living costs,

in

Beloningrica and Britain.

to separate air forces escasing stream. So mony Cana-. which have rallied to Britain's nid, dions served in the R.A.F, in the last they are being trained at their coun-war that they are allowed to wear tries' expence and remain on active Canada on their uniform shoulders; servico under its orders,

a quarter of the R.A.F. officers were The state of the five sister air Canadians. ใน November, 1010, forces of the RAF, may be summed there were 22,468 of them as ofeers up as follows:

and airmen in the RA.F.

Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force

ing School was set was open out in up at whoint Cooke

total

Britain

South African Force

All hands volunteered for and

'Bomb Basket' Invented By U.S. Private

Brig. Gen. Clarence L.

It was also announced at the field

VICAR IS DETAINED

In Victoria. It was the only Domi- snuffed out prematurely by the Great which scatters bombs as it fallnicer. 23, most of them being around 22. nion Air Force to see active service War. as a force during the last war. On served in the Royal Flying Corps, former commander of the April 1, 1923, it became the R.A.A.F.which preceded the RAF

Acid, and at the start

start of this war num-

praised the invention, and Col. Harry As the war continued, the originals 11. Young, present commander, wrote bered 3,500 omeers and men. Now it has grown to seven times that size. were joined by hundreds of their a letter of commendation to Private being about 25,000 all told. But the countrymen so that 3,000 Пош for Stubbs which was read before his

Agure is 40,000-meaning that

during 1914-18.

company, the 44th Bombardment about 20,000 have been allocated to The South African Air Force, still Gr

Group. the Empire Air Scheme. These men part of the Army, was formed as its

The Rev. George H. Dymocks, will mostly go oversens to join the dying section in October, 1920. In that the device has been favourably vicar of St Bede's, Fishponds, R.A.F. there to man special Austra 1934, a "Five Year Programma" was Indorsed by high ranking officials of Bristol, who in June, 1937, ad- Ilan Squadrons.

put into opemtion for expanding the the War Department following tests dressed a Fascist meeting direct Australians were the first Empire force and in 1937 this was supple at the sir fighters to get into action in de- mented with "Thousand Pilots grounds.

Aberdeen, Md., provingly after evening service, has fence of Britain as a unit within the Scheme."

iden behind the whole thing," been detained under the Defence RAF. The Sunderland flying boat were so far ahead of schedule that maximum damage with a minimum

When this war broke out results Private Stubby said, "is to cause the regulations. squadron, intended for air passage to the Union had its own air force of of risk,"

In April his vicarage Was the Commonwealth, was held back

He said he first conceived raided and the matter for service with the R.A.F. Coastal 3,000, which has since been expanded his invention about, three years ago. raised in the Commons. was

He The S.A.A.F. wa

was the first Domin

Command and has already distin-lo at least 10,000.

assigned all his rights In the

Mrs Dymock told à reporter that

Saturday morning.

guished itself against Nazi U-boats.jon air force to get into action as anente de sald, to the War De-her husband left the vicarage on

The Royal New Zealand Air Force it began operations by bombing/rivate Stubbs, a native of Char-

New Zealand Force

independent Dominion air force when

started off as the New Zealand Per-Italians at Moyale, on

N. C, and a construction super- manent Air Force in 1923 with 33 border. Before then, and of course his invention by dropping a harmies, the Kenya intendent in civilian life, first tried planes presented by Britain. On since, part of it has operated as the miniature model off a seven-storey Fob,

27, 1034

it became the Seaward Defence Force which guards building. It worked, and ko then R.N.Z.AT. During 1014-10, some the Union shipping routes by sen made a formal drawing for the War 200 men served in the Air Force of patrol. the Motherland. A

Department. year

Last ngo

Indian Force September the force numbered only The Indian Air Force is the young- 100 permanent officers and men. Now it numbers 8,000, having been enlarged nearly 11 times the high est rate of expansion - of

tiny Do minion Air Force.

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In addition there is a ground staff of 8,000 £6

000 to operate New Zealand's ahore a

of the Empire Air Scheme is destined to put out annu- 4,800 officers for the RAF and men, mostly

which

ally

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HONOURED

est of the family. It started in 1932 NEGRO COMPOSER after the first Indian cadets had been frained at the R.A.F. Cranwell Col- lexe, England. Many Indians served those in the RAF, to-day are dis- with distinction in the last war and

by the Air Force blue

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Wearing Blackshirt uniform al an open-air meeting on Bristol Downs in 1937, the vicar, was howled down overy time he mounted the platform.

In a recent interview, he declared although he had attended meetings, addressed by Sir. Oswald Mosley, he had severed his connec tion with Sir Oswald's organisation.

It

was alleged, he added, that he

dashed lights from the roof of his home to the enemy, On another ocension the police had searched his

NEW YORK, Aug. The Amort- cellar for can Society of Composers,, Authors spparatus. and Publishers announced to-day that Harry T. Burleigh, Negro com

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wireless transmitting

with one flight, became poser, had been nominated for its He Ate Knife And

two flights in 1936, then went into board of directors. active service on the Northwest He

Like other Dominions, alemen of Frontier where some of its air. fght-three Vac bed of int numed to all Fork With Meal New Zealand will wear their homo- Jand name on the uniform shoulders, ers have been on duty for three De vacancies. The others were

months each

A year

вілсе.

Deems

Mat Bent bolor and Oley Spaaks, pro- !

A Chinese recently left à restaur- Canadian Force

A third flight was soon added, thus Horace Johnson, Geoffrey O'Hara, stomachache and told a doctor he ard members, Clara Edwards, ant in Winnipeg, Canada, with a The Royal Canadian Air Force, forming a squadron, so that when John Tasket: Howard, Which has grown from the First India joined up in the present war, Enders, hos

Harvey had swallowed the knife, and fork and Canadian Air Force Wing training there were 200 officers Fund:

with the meal. An X-ray examine- onlaride when the 1918 armistice, hardened to ale war. 297 menar Burlolah ia Baritone solltet. Non.confrmed his story. Surgeons! 164, owes 14 existence to The Indian Volunteer Reserva, author of "Little Mother of Mine fork but were full hoping for the St George's Episcopal Church and operated on him and recovered the OLDER Over 100 overwhelmed with recruits-since it rung throughout the world to John InfoThe Chinese war impacted to armarnents: radio equipment I was announced, is being built up to McCormack, 14 an

the

Acknowledgments

Yesterday's typhoon caused in tempor ary cessation In the flow of contribuilona to the Bomber Fund. The day was not entirely blank, however, one venturo- some spirit braving the elements to pay Fund is now 4.5221547.52. 43 for a Victory badge. The total of the GIFTS FOR ORPHANA The Director of Medical Services grate.

fully acknowledges receipt of a gift of pairs of clogs and 90 face towels, front the Hongkong Associated South China War Refugee Retief Committee for the orphan children in King's Park Camp.

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