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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 17, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
JULY-
"If I'm too small for probes: fems, I'm too small for fan atives made for grown ups. Give me Castorţă; it'a méda
·for children only."
UFS
WINGS OVER ATLANTIC—A long-range-U.S. patrol bombor wings out of the now 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 when 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 aerial 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.
U.S. NURSES ADRIFT IN ATLANTIC
Ship Sunk By Submarine
"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 she was rescued trom 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.
There were 32 passengers on board the liner Maanden when the warning came that enemy ships were In the vicinity.
Like An Earthquake
Australian Costs Of
Living Soar
Due To Labour Lack On All Farms
Tho
Brisbane, Queensland steady rise of living costs in Aus- tralia, despite all effort at stabilisa-
Ruth Martin, a tall brunette, from on by the ometal price-fixers, is Washington: "We were in the giving the Government serious con- dining-room drinking sodapop when com
we
DON'T TREAT YOUR CHILD'S SYSTEM
AS YOU DO YOUR OWN
Your child may be a little man to you-act so much like "Dad" that you may forgot that his system is delicate after all. It cannot stand even in small doses the same strong laxatives that adults may take.
Castoria is made especially and only for children
So the next time his tongus ja coated, a cold is on thỏ way, or ho has a stomach upset, give him Castoria, the laxativo made espe- clally and only for children. Ho A will take it willingly for children love its pleasant taste. But above all else Castoria is safe for deli- cately balanced young systems -- contains no harsh, irritating "adult" drugs.
Castoria is no mild and gentlo in action it can be taken from. babyhood to 11 years. Got ac. quainted with Castoria-the safe
Isxative made especially and only for children. Keep, a bottle on band always.
Where there are children, Castorials needed. . Economi. cal. 12 doses or
more in each bottle.
CASTORIA
The SAFE laxative for children
|VICTORY BADGES
heard our boat dropping depth acute through the prospects of labour The difcuity is rendered the more charges
"That gave us the first idea that shortage, which la atrends tending up. This shortage Naz! submarines were about. Fi- to send, prices 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- ever since the shock was terrific. The ship shiver gress in Australia
British reverses in Greece and.North cd and reeled like a building in an Africa a fact that offers the best re- earthquake.
"I know what I had to do and ply to those who talked of discoura- did it. It was not exactly dark but scment in the Dominions,
The shortage is affecting in par- it was raining heavily."
Shirley Ralph cannot complain because of the large percentage of
ticular farmer and pastoralists who, i because she admits she. come out
among field workers, both to nurse and "seek adventure." and tens
are finding it extremely difficult to When the torpedo hit us I strap-
carry on normal operations. ped my life jacket on and went on
There is also a shortage of labour Nor are the six air forces sepa- and some airships from Britain alter|400 pilots and 2,000 mechanics for deck. It was a Hollywood film night;
secondary Industries, including local defence, mainly above India's in fact, there has been nothing like
those engaged in rate, unrelated units. There is a the last war.
munition-making. To offset it on the screen ever.
this shortage solidarity between all branches of With this material, the Canadian coasts and parts.
tage the Australian the Empire air defences that is being Air Force was formed in 1920. But
Government has introduced compul- Some months ago five flights start-
With several others I managed to sory exemption of certain age groups, rapidly tightened by the constant in the prefix "Royal" was not granted ed to operate from Karachi, Bombay, get into
lifeboat, thanks to the terchange not only of
also is energetically pushing Ideas but of
of the
Madras and Delhi. Pilots and air help of some Marines on board who and 1024.
forward with a nationwide plan for men themselves.
the Apart from
A year ago last September it num- crews are being trained at Risalpur worked like heroes. training scheme that is bringing, bered 4,000 ofleers and men-to-day and mechanics at Ambala.
kept afloat for more than an the training of youths as mechanics thousands of young British trainees It has 30,000 on active service in Meanwhile regulars are being ex-hour despite high Waves that and mechanists for war *Industries to Canada and the United States, Canada and elsewhere. The expan-panded to four squadrons, three of threatened
as for the Army and Alr to send our tiny boat as well service is taking these airmen to all sion rate is therefore nine times. which are formed already. Thus down to join the torpedoed liner. At parta
of the globe.
last we were picked up...
Women In Industry Australians a In
are
She said:
H
-Carrads, Malayai Canada, which is the home of the regulars and reserves have built upcom-of-the-girls-were- binck
Air
Southern Rhodesia. Ervot. Britain, man in the Scheme will have 40,000/the- ̃IAF to fifteen-times-its and blue with shock and cold. My
Canadians are
in
foundland, Britain.
are in
.in
ground staff when opera- war strength. New-tions are in
full swing for this part Zealanders of Its oir defence. At present there
served
in Canada and Britain. Malayans are 30,000 training and being trained are in
in Canada,
South
Africans are for the R.A.F. to which finished air Northeast
Africa. and Britain. fighters are being sent in an ever in- Belonging to separate ale forces creasing stream. So mony Cana- which have rallied to Britain's ald, dians
the R.A.F. In the last. they are being trained at their coun- war that they are allowed to wear tries' expense and remain on active Canada on their uniform shoulders; service, under its orders.
a quarter of the R.A.F. officers were The state of the five clster air Canadians.
In November, 1018,
and airmen in the RA.F.
The Royal Australian Air Force
'Bomb Basket' Invented By U.S. Private
head was bleeding from where splinter of shrapnel hit me.
U-Boat Was Sunk "For three days after we had been picked up we never undressed, but, stayed with our lifejackets on:
in
Force.
into
The introduction of women industry and as farm workers is be- Ing asked to replace enlisted men with women and girls, particularly in the clerical professions.
05
Queensland, being Australia', big- gest primary producing State, is bear- "Before we were picked up weing the brunt of the labour shortage. saw the ship go down, and the cap-f tain told me that the submarine was in farming districts the dearth of manpower has become so acute that Bunk."
some farmers have had to ask avail- Evans, from Cambridge; able harvesters Lillian forces of the R.A.F. may be summed there were 22,408 of them as officers Robert R. Stubbs of Macditi Field has was about to capsize. "It was ter normal 44 or 48 hours. This added TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 4-Private Muss, jumped from a lifeboat as 1hours a week, compared with the
to work up to up as follows:
Australian Air Force
South African Force received public commendation from ribly rough, and I am a poor swim-labour cost, together with the drop in
his commanding ofleer 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 experts caused by lack of was organised in 1913 when a Fly-ing off as the South African Aviation Stubbs described as an improvement ship for a lifeline to be thrown to shipping, is partly to blame, accord- ing School was set up at Point Cooke corps at Kimberley in 1913,
ing to Government officials, for the was of the "Molotov Brend Basket," me," she said.
None of the nurses is more than steady rise in living costs. Brig. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker. 28, most of thom being around 22, former
of commander
the fold, praised the invention, and Col. Harry As the war continued, the originals H. Young, present commander, wrote It has grown to seven times that size, countrymen so that 3,000
ize were joined by hundreds of their a letter of commendation to Private being about 25,000
for Stubbs which was read before his all
But the told,
Britain during
the 44th company, total Ogure is 48,000-meaning that
1914-18. The South African Air Force, still Group. about 20,000 have been allocated
In Victoria. It was the only Domi- snuffed out prematurely.by the Great which scatters bombs as it falls, nion Air Force to see active service War. All hands volunteered for and It became the R.A.A.F. served in the Royal Flying Corps, 1, 1923, It
which preceded the RAF. and at the start of this war nurn- bered 3,500 omcers and men.
as a
April during the last war.
Оп
Now
to part
-the Empire Air Scheme. These men
RAF.
few
Bombardment
of the Army, was formed as its It was also announced at the field
VICAR IS DETAINED
The Rev. George H. Dymock,
will mostly go overseas to join the Dying section in October, 1920. In that the device has been favourably vicar of St Bede's, Fishponds, 1034 a "Five Year Programme" was indorsed by high ranking officials of Bristol, who in June, 1937, ad- to man special Austra-
put into operation for expanding the the War Department following tests dressed a Fascist meeting direct were the first Empire force and in 1937 this was supple-at Australians
the Aberdeen, Md., provingly after evening service, has mented with D
"Thousand Pilots air fighters to get into action in de-
idea behind the whole thing,"
been detained under the Defence fence of
Britain as a unit within the Scheme."
regulations.
llan Squadrons..
RAF The Sunderland flying boat When this war broke out results
Stubbs paid, "is to cause the In April his vicarage WAS intended for air passage to were so far ahead of schedule that maximum damage with a minimum squadronwealth, was held back the Union had its own air force of of risk." He said he' first conceived raided and the matter
the
was
for service with the RAF Coastal 3,000, which has since been expanded his invention about three years ago. raised in the Commons. Command and has already distinto at least 10,000.
He has assigned all his rights in the Mrs Dymock told a reporter that S.A.A.F.
F. was the first Domin-inv on air force to get into action ass, he said. to the War De-her husband left the vicarage on independent Dominion air force when
The
:guished; itself against Nazi U-boats..
·New Zealand Forea
Private Stubbs, a native of Char- The Royal New Zealand Air Force it began operations by bombing lotte, C
N. and a construction super- started off as the New Zealand Per-Italians at Moyale on the Kenya intendent in civilian life, first tried manent Air Force in 1023 with 33 border. Before then, and of course his invention by dropping a harmless, planes
presented by Britain.
On since, part of it has operated as the miniature model off a seven-storey the Seaward Defence Force which guards building. It worked, and he then became R.N.ZAF
1914-18. some the Union shipping routes by sea made a formal drawing for the War During 200 $200,
men
Air Force of patrol.. ed in the
Department. the Motherland. A year ago · last
Indian Force
1934,
served
September the force numbered only The Indian Air Force is the young- 766 permanent officers and men.est of the family. It started in 1932 NEGRO COMPOSER
ost
Now it numbers 0,000, having been after the first indian cadets had been enlarged nearly 11 times the high trained at the RAF. Cranwell Col-
rata of
Any Dolege, England. Many Indians served expansion of minion Air Force.
there is a ground In addition of 8,000 to operate New Zealand's
of the
share
with distinction in the last Wor and staff those
in
the RAF, to-day are
Force blue"
Empire -Air Scheme guished by t
turban.java)
HONOURED
Saturday morning.
4
Wearing Blackshirt uniform, at an open-air meeting on Bristol Down in 1937, the vicar was howled down
every time he mounted the In in a
recent
that he had attended he declared
meetings addressed by Sir Oswald Mosicy, he had severed his connec tion with Sir Oswald's organisation..
It was alleged, he added, that he flashed lights from the roof of his home to the enemy. On another occasion the police had searched his NEW YORK, Aug. 5—The Americellar for wireless transmitting
apparatus and Publishers announced to-day
He Ate Knife And that Harry T. Burleigh, Negro com-
Fork With Meal
a
which in destined to put out annul started with one Bight, became poser, had been nominated for ally 4,800 officers and men, mostly two nights in 1930, then went into board of directors med to All for the RAF
active service on the Northwest. He was one of eight named Lalice other Dominions, airmen of Frontier where some of its dir fight three vacancies. The others were: New Zealand will wear their home- have been on duty for
Deems Taylor and Oley Speaks, pre- Hand name on the uniform shoulders. months each year since.
A Chinese, recently left a 'restaur- sent board
ard members, Clara Edwards, ant in Winnipeg, Canada, with a Canadian Force
third flight Was
soon added, thus Horace Johnson, Geoffrey O'Hara, stomachache and told a doctor he ***** The Royal Canadian Air Force, forming a squadron, so that when John Tasker
and
Harvey and swallowed the Znife and fork which has grown from the First India Joined up in the present, war, Ender asker Howard, an Curiadian Air Force Wing training there were 200 omcers and men Mr Burleigh is baritone soloist at with the meal. An Tay examina
attlor confirmed his story Surgeons, Bagland when the 1018 armistice hardened to air war: St. George's Episcopal Church and operated on him, and recovered (the alaned owes its existence to a The Indian Volunteer Reserve, author of "Lille Mother of Mine, fork, but were still groping for the £3,000,000-present) of over 100 overwhelmed with recruits since I sung throughout the world by John knife. The Chinese was expected to
erits radio equip was announced, is being built up to McCormacki..
Acknowledgments
Yesterday's typhoon caused a tempor- ary cessation in the flow of contributions to the Bomber Fund. The day was not entirely blank, however, one venture- some spirit braving the elements to pay $3 for a Victory badge. The total of the Fund is now (2,822,047.53.
GIFTS FOR ORPHANA The Director of Medical Services grato.
fully acknowledges receipt of a gift of pairs of clogs and 30 face towels, from the Hongkong: Associated Bouth China War neturce Reller Committes, for the orphan children in King's Park Camp.
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