December 22, 1041
THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE THRE1
EPIC DEFENSE
OF WAR SEEN
AT HONGKONG
it Accents For a Smart You.
By PETER ED80N
WASHINGTON, Doc. 22
United Status Interest in Ilia
JnpuiK'Hu icrup naturally canton
on what happens to Americans
In the Pacific, but from tho
itandpolnt of military history,
drumutlc Interest and tlio story
of dt'spernto fltlht with sill the
heroic qualities of tho Chartfo of
the Lliiht Brigade, Custor's last
stand or the rotrcat from Dun
kirk, keep in eye on Hong Kong,
Britain's last and only strong
hold In China.
Hong Kong got one of the first
Jap blows, right ulong with
Pearl ilurbor, Manila and Mala
ya, but the story of the siege of
Hong Kong and Its defonss is yet
to come and it has all the mok
ings of ono of tho epic bottles of
this or any other war. Hawaii,
the Philippines. Slngupore all
have a chance. They have their
own air defonsvs, their fleots,
their strong gurrlsons. To get at
them, tho Jups have to cross
hundreds or thousands of miles
of sea. . At Hong Kong, tho Japs
were less than HO mile away in
Canton'. Hong Kong, because of
its mountainous terrain, has only
one airfield. 1U fleet is negligible
and vastly inferior to whotevcr
the Japs may care to bring
against It. The Hong Kong gar
rison Is necessarily limited in
size. There is no place for that
garrison to retreat. Closest
friendly territory Is the Philip
pines. 700 miles away. And tho
orders of the British garrison at
Hong Kong were to defend it to
the last man.
HALF MILE FROM CHINA
To get the real mental picture
of what goes on at Hong Kong
you must recall your geography.
Hong Kong Is an island 10 miles
long, three miles wide. It Is
solid rock, rising sharply from
the water Una to Victoria peak,
1700 feet high, crowned with the
British government house. On
the slopes is the city of Victoria.
Half a mile to the north across
channel straits is the mainland
of China. But hero the British
hold under lease from the Chi
nese govcnt'iont the famous
Kowloon peninsula, which with
Cheung Chau and a few smaller
Islands to the west of Victoria,
make up the Hong Kong crown
colony.
Open on all (Ides to attttrk and
Invasion by land, by sea and by
air. Hong Kong held up but did
not twiddle lis thumbs and await
Its fate for these three years that
tiia Jups have been in Canton.
Life on this powder keg has gone
on. though its destiny seemed
sealed and tho question was not
what, but when. The populace of
two million, perhaps nine-tenths
Orientals, was not silting wiy Dy
waiting for this Inevitable strug
gle. Hona Kong harbor, one of the
busiest in the east and one of the
most picturesque in the world,
was heavily mined. The hills
bristla with coast defense guns,
anti-aircraft batteries, machine
guns. Barbed wire entangle
ments lined every possible land'
Ing point. Civilian defense was
organized as nowhere elso In the
world. The rocks wcro honey
combed with air raid shelters.
AMERICAN LINK
In all this period of defense
nroDurcdncss. Hong Kong was
the most direct link for cominun-
Icatlons between the Chinese and
tho United States. Pan American
dinners and trans-Pacific steam-
ships from the rest of the world
touched at Hong Kong and drop
ped their cargoes of passengers,
mall and express, My sea, iu
neso smugglers ran tho Japanese
blockado up tho China coasts to
obscure ports whero contact is
kept with tho Chiang Kai-shek
forces In unoccupied territory.
By nlr, daredevil pilots, flying
only at night, only in oaa weain
er and entirely without tho usual
aids to navigation, hopped over
the Japancso armies and made
Chungking with unbelievable
regularity and with only two
planes shot down by Jap aviators
during four years or mo fjmncso
war. Even ono of thoso was
saved, repaired, and flown out
under iU own power.
That, briefly, Is tho setting for
tho battlo of Hong Kong. And
Hong Kong's defenders the
handful of British regulars, tho
Brigl
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Arts
by
Alice
.Brooks
BREAD HID VALUABLES
Lnuvcs of bread packed with
precious stones were found
floating in the English Channel
by English and French fisher
men after tho defcut of the
Spanish Armada In 1588. The
Spaniards put their valuable
Jewels in little cork balls in
serted Into loaves of bread, and
tossed thorn Into the waters,
hoping they would be picked
up by other Spaniards and thus
saved from the enemy.
COWHAND CHAMP
SALINAS, Calif., Dec. 22 (VP)
Homer Pettlgrcw of Grady, N.
M, is the national cowboy cham
pion. Pettlgrcw, a calf roper and
steer wrestler, compiled 8027
points during the 1041 season to
replace Fritz Truan of Salinas,
the Rodeio Association of Am
erica announced. .
Dolf Aber of Nowhall, CalU,
was second and Truan third.
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Selective Exercises Should
Forge Your Muscles to Form
By ALICIA HART
NEA Service Staff Writer
A long distance runner jogs
along for great distances,
stretching out for long periods
in dcpetitlous exercise which
burns up fat without develop
ing muscles, and this athlete is
very likely to be thin. On the
other hand, a sprinter puts ev
erything into a short dash,
drawing a lot of blood to his
arm and leg muscles and then
relaxing and giving them plen
ty of time to rest before the
next dash, and this runner gen
erally has large, well developed
limbs.
On the same principle, says a
good trainer, women can use
exercise to build up or trim
down.
Take arms, for Instance.
A thin arm can be made
round and smooth and graceful
by vigorous, concentrated exer
cises. Try lifting a bar bell or
some other heavy object soy,
your heaviest skillets. Lift up
and down over tho hcod ten
times, quickly, twice a day for
two weeks. Then increase the
number of lifts to eighteen. The
idea is to exhaust the muscles
as fast as you can, rclp. and
rest.
"FREE" EXERCISES
WILL BURN UP FAT
But If you wish rather to re
duce fat arms, use free arm ex
ercises no weights and keep
at It and at it, repetltiously
over an extended period of
time. Swing your arms in cir
cles, move them back and forth,
In and out, briskly, but not too
swiftly. Continue this for fif
teen minutes daily for a few
weeks, then extend the exer
cise period till you can con
tlnue the routine for half an
hour at a stretch.
Remember, of course, that
beautiful arms are symmetrical.
rounded, full, but not overde
veloped.
If you plan your exorcise
carefully, you can quite easily
Improve scrawny or too-fat mus
cles.
contingents of Anises, the native
troops from India, tho Chinese
militia, the home guards, the
faw combat pilots, the crews of
the small flotillas of gunboats
and submarines these men will
go down in history as heroes
among tho heroic.
By last reports, there were a
couple of hundred Americans
hanging around there, too.
Arm Bands Available
For Local Air Raid
Zone Wardens
Identification arm bands are
avoilnblo at the air headquarters
for all zone and sector wardens
and their assistants. All wardens
are requested to call at head
quarters and secure a sufficient
number of these bands for them
selves and their assistants.
All wardens are requested to
take first aid training classes,
which are being held at the
high school on Monday and
Thursday, and Tuesday and Fri
day evenings at 7:30 o'clock.
All wardens are again remind
ed to go to the county Jail and
have their pictures taken for
identification cards.
OLD PLOW HAMES
A pair of dogwood plow hames,
carved by hand In 184S, was ex
hibited among tho relics at a re
cent semi-centennial celebration
in Russton, La.
Scottish, maidens once placed
snails on slates in the thought
that their twisting, crooked tails
might spell out the names of
future husbands.
Tho sign language they In
vented enabled American plains
Indians to convcrso fluently
without understanding a word
of the other's language.
TO
ENGINE FAILURE
JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 22 VP)
An army official today blamed
apparent engine failure for the
crash of a B-28 bomber which
killed the crew of five men.
i-oi. j, h. Houghton, com
mandcr of the Jackson air base,
said the plane had taken off yes
terday from the air base, made a
turn and apparently was at
tempting to got back to the air
port when it crashed, exploded
and burned.
Tho dead were listed as:
First Lieut. John E. Doer, for
merly of Orchard Place, Pough
Kccpslc, N. Y.
Second Lieut. C la u d e A,
Knight, Ocola, Fla.
Second Lieut. Robert A. Sa
ner, Fremont, O.
Second Lieut. Leslie M. Shime-
all, Chicago, 111.
Staff Sgt. Harold A. Wissinger,
Indiana, fa.
CROCODILE TONGUES
Crocodiles do have tongues.
contrary to popular belief. The
organ is fleshy and flat and is
attached to tho floor of the
mouth except at the extreme
edges.
Germany's World war gun,
' Big Bertha," attained a muzzl
velocity of 3400 miles an hour.
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