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FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE
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Landing Effected With
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ARTILLERY AND TANKS
PART OF EQUIPMENT
LONDON, April 21 (Reuter) The first official French reference to their share in the expeditionary force to Nor- way was contained in Friday's official war communique.
It says French troops have already landed and are taking part In the operations.
Meanwhile it is still difficult to obtain a clear picture of the situation in Norway.
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British and Norwegian troops are known to be in contact all over the north Fighting is still going on for Narvik but the main offensive against the German positions has not yet started.
BRITISH FORCE
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and
way have been reinforced mountain batteries sent to Norway were made by the German News Agency which says that, during Friday," German troops In the Trondheim district were reinforced and supplied with equipment ac- cording to plan.
Between Narvik and Trondheim the Germans have not yet estab Hished positions, and a major Allied expedition 13 being
prepared agains: Trondheim.
The Germans are said to be
:
closing in on Elverum.
NORWEGIAN TACTICS Norwegian tactics in destroying bridges and communications, says A German communique, "only causes hardships to the Norwe- It declares that the German ad-gians themselves," and tells Nor- vance in north Oslo has been de weglans that their hostile attitude layed less by the Norwegians than the cause of the stricter German by, the nature of the country.
Several batteries and mountain artillery were landed in Oslo yes- terday for the use of most of the
advance troops.
Germans operating in the Chris- tiansand region, in south-west
atittude.
Complaints by Norwegians who have been forced to drive German soldiers in commandeered Cars that they were taken to the firing line is met by the highly origina). explanation that it is not the fault of the Germans out of the
Norway, are said to be rounding up population Norway whe-Are-on three Norwegian divisions..
CLEANING UP
IN TURKEY ANKARA, April 21 (Reuter)- The Turkish authorities are in- creasing their investigation Into the activities of foreign residents particularly of those who arrived recently.
German troops,
If they did not take this - atti-"
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MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1940. -PAGE. 7
NORWAY No Fear Of Pacific Status Quo Being Disturbed: Concentration By Japan At D.E.I. Not Easy Matter
SEATED, in his "nest" in the tail, his action, station whenever enemy 'planes are sighted, is the rear gunner on a heavy bom- ber. This picture was taken at a British bomber station from which are made some of the extensive reconnaissance flights over Germany.
The Diplomatic Correspondent of the Sunday Times, according to a Reuter mes- sage from London, says that in informed circles in London it is felt that there is no need to fear the status quo of the Pacific being disturbed.
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This is supported by an authoritative Dutch opinion which is that there is no reason whatever to assume that a change in the status of the Dutch East Indles would be imminent or unavoidable if Holland should be involved in the war.
MESSAGE FROM.
"PUPPETS"
In the Dutch East Indies the same polley is adhered to as in Holland itself-that the indepen- dence shall be defended agairist any attack. There is no doubt
It was learned from the Nor-that the Dutch East Indies could wegian Consulate during the week- | successfully hold out against any end that a communication from surprise action unless it was made the "puppet" government set up with overwhelming forces. In Nazi occupied" Norway, had "For Japan, a concentration of been received by the local office. such forces far away from their When asked whether he had remain bases,, would not be an easy ceived any instructions from the matter.
proper Norwegian
Government
since the Nazi invasion, the Consti
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STABILISING FACTOR
stated that no Instructions had sidered a stabilising factor. ITALY'S PRESS AND THE
EUROPEAN SITUATION
Ludicrous In Presentation Of News: Contemptible
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To The World
LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter)-The Times yesterday dealt at length with the attitude of the Italian press...
| tude, there would be no danger!"
PARIS. Apr. 21 (Havas)-Allied
"The hallucinations of the Italian press during the troops continue to disembark at last fortnight have made them-with the exception of the various points, on the Norwegian Vatican newspaper and two or three other publications- Coast, according to the Parls appear ludicrous in their presentation of news and con- Radio.
temptible in their expression of views before the whole
in favour of the British, who re- At Namsos, an engagement went pulsed the Germans.
The latest Nazi version of the The Directorate of Public Safety events at Narvik is that British has already drawn up a list of troops have been sent there, pot undesirables recommended for ex- to aid Norway but to pulsion.
Sweden...
world-and also presumably in the eyes of their own read, ers, for the Italians are a particularly intelligent race.
"In any case, it is significant, gues, are in the unhappy' position that the circulation of the Vatican of having to publish what their organ. which still respects the masters order them to publish; threaten truth, has recently risen by leaps and their masters at this moment
and bounds.
obviously have urgent need of making German power invincible.
WEEK-END ACTIVITY AT KAI TAK: "IMPERIAL" & CLIPPER SERVICES
There were busy scenes at Kal Tak during the week- end-the Pan American Airways California Clipper and
arrived Imperial Airways plane Denebola
On Saturday afternoon and Air France plane "took off for Hanol the same day.
Clipper and the Denebola
Florence Gardner, young society matron of Manila, who is visiting Hongkong on a pleasure trip:
SLIGHT BIAS
Until the Brenner meeting of
the two Dictators last month, the press as a whole gave news more or less objectively, although with
a slight blas, due, no doubt, from
ever,
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Rumania And The Soviet
UNDERSTANDING,
NOT RUPTURE ® BUCHAREST, Apr. 21 (Reuter) -There are many Indications that relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.B. are leading in the direction of "an understanding rather than rupture.
The Arst signs lie in the econo- seems likely about to
replied in the negative. The official Meanwhile, the presence in the added that he had received a com- Pacific of the greater part of the thic field where it munication from the Oslo "pup-American Navy and the British that negotiations are pet" but proposed to ignore it. Pacific Fleet, with its powerful begin between Yugoslavia Band At the Danish Consulate it was base at Singapore, can be con- Russia to be followed by simHar talks between Rumania and Rus- been received from the Danish
The correspondent of the Sun- sla. Government. They were "carrying day Times adds that in Dutch It is thought Improbable that on as usual."
circles it is felt that in order to Russia has any immediate, de- maintain the status quo Holland signs on Rumania and, least of can do no better than to keep to all, risking a war with the Allies its traditional polley of the open over such an adventure, door in the East Indies and their
It is rellably "reported - from defence against all attacks and in frontier towns that the Russians in Galicia are feverishly con- It was announced in London to- Speculations about what would structing fortifications along the day that the Foreign Secretary, happen it Japan seized the Dutch | Rumanian-Russian frontier in ad- Lord Hallfax, yesterday received East Indies are, therefore, rather dition to three barriers of barbed- the Soviet Ambassador. M. Ivan off the mark.
wire along the whole of the line. Maisky.
BRITAIN READY FOR TALKS LONDON, April 21 (Reuter
Lord Halifax told the "Russian envoy that Britain was prepared to explore the possibilities of a trade agreement which would take into account the war situation.
BRITISH REQUEST REJECTED
NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuter) -The Danish shipping committee here has rejected the British re-.. quest that Danish ships should transfer to Allied "register or risk seizure by the Allies as enemy
THE BITTER TRUTH has already brought some painful ships.
"The course of the campaign,
disillusionment to writings.
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The their wishful
"Even Italian newspaper readers a non-belligerent to its belligerent must know by now that eight ally.
German large "After the meeting on the Italo-sent into Narvik Fjord by Admira! destroyers were German mountain frontier, how-Raeder, and were there pursued all objectivity disappeared and destroyed by the British Fleet. and after Signor Massolini's, an- nouncement on April 7 that 'events the Vatican newspaper and their They must, have learned from which we see have granidiosse pro- own trustworthy broadcasts that portions all records for truth one big German warship was sunk, have also disappeared from the two others damaged, three cruisers pages of Italian journals-always ent to the sea bottom, some more with certain honourable exccp-submarines, destroyed and many tlons..
according to 4. Swedish report about 30-larger or smaller trans- "If grandiose events have not; ports torpedoed. Mr. Paul S. Lewis, another fre-occurred they clearly had to be Pan American Airways Phillp-quent China commuter. He is an created on paper.
COLOSSAL FIASCO pine Clipper is due to arrive at Kal executive of the Coca Cola Export did her best to provide material dition to those now abandoned by And Germany "One destroyer was sunk in ad- Co., and 19" visiting the Colony on immediately after the Duce had the Germans at Narvik and three business;
Mr. Walter R. Roemer, travel
spoken.
were damaged by the RAF, while "She invaded an unoffending, the Fleet Air Arm have been busy
Yesterday, the California:
started in their return flights in the morning and the Im-. perial Airways plane
Del-
Mr. Vassaama! Assanmal, a pro- minent British Indian merchant of Manila, who is on one of his fre-
phinus arrived at Kai Tak in quent, business visits to China; UNOFFENDING NEIGHBOUR
the afternoon.
Tak tomorrow.
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
Mrs. F. B. Winter, well-known in
Express Co., in Manila who came
on an overnight familiarization trip to China; and
tory of a second.
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bour and tried to seize the terri- bombs on other German warships, knocked about two aerodromes newspapers into transports of en- and some hangars.
"This heroic act sent the Roman and destroyed many aeroplanes thusiasm.
"The colossal fasco does not "It is well known that Italian seem to have been on Britain's papers. like their German collen-¡ side."
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committee, representing major Danish lines, was formed in New York last week to handle the problem of Danish shipping outside Denmark.
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES
Marking a step forward in com- KUNMING, Apr, 21 (Central)—
Kunming-Chungking. munications development, the Kwellin
Kunming- Kunming-Lluchow long-distance telephone lines were inaugurated yesterday.
and
OHIO FLOODS
LONDON, April 21 (Reuter)- Hundreds of people have been
swollen by heavy rain, and flood- ing the low-lying areas between Fittsburgh and Louiseville.
the Ohio River having. been
local amateur theatrical circles, representative of the American unsuspicious: and unarmed neigh- all the time and have dropped rendered homeless as the result of! accompanied by her niece, Miss Macdonald, travelled by the out- .bound Imperial Airways plane Denebola, which left Kal Tak Air- port yesterday, on the return trip having arrived here on Saturday The Denebola, which carried two passengers to. Hongkong on Satur- day, took away with her yesterday 240 kilos of mail.
DELPHINUS' ARRIVES Shortly after 3 p.m., yesterday the Delphinus arrived in Kai Tak from the South. Two passengers' arrived by the plane, Mr. Wan Wal-choi, from Bangkok and Mr. Luang Trasasna, from Thalland. The plane also brought in
kilos of mall.
CALIFORNIA CLIPPER
Mr. A. P. Donia, Sales repre- sentative of Fan American Airways in Manila also on an overnight visit to China.
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CLIPPER LEAVES · The California Clipper. (Captain Paul T. Adams) left Kal Tak yes-
terday morning on her return trip' HEAVY ARTILLERY GOES
to Manila. She carried
Amin Khan Mohammed, Alce- INTO ACTION IN FRANCE
de-Camp to H.H. the Maharaga of Indore. who is proceeding to Los
there;
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Angeles to report to His Highness during the night several enemy raids were repulsed. At the centre PARIS, Apr. 21 (Reuter)--A French communique states that
150 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Benedict, of the front, stretching from the Moselles to the Rhine Franch newly-weds. who are returning to and German artillery fire was more intense and heavier today than Manila after spending their on previous days.
Pan American Airways Call- honeymoon in Hongkong. MT. fornia Clipper (Capt.
Adams) arrived at Kai
on Baturday from Manila, brought
Numerous engagements took
aircraft and US, PARTICIPATION |
IN ROME WORLD EXHIBITION
T. Benedict" is an executive of the place between our Paul
Tak Laguna Tayabas Transport Com-German. aircraft. In the course She pany:
of these engagements two German, Mr. and Mrs. Raj Hix. Mr. Hix is Superintendent of the Antamok planes, a fighter and a reconnais- Mining Company, one of the lar satice plane, were brought down gest producing
on our territory by French fighters. mines in the Philippines, and is returning to
Others were brought down
Mr. and Mrs Ralp Arakie. Mr. Arakle is returning from Honolulu to his horne in Calcutta where he is engaged in business;
by
MILAN, Apt. 21 (Renter)--An announcemen; that the United States Senate had approved of $2 One of our fighters was forced | 000,000 credit for participation of the Mr. Shewaram Pessumal, Indian to land with in our lines.
United States in the Rome world merchant, going to Manila on
(exhibition in 1942, was made by the urgent business;
American Ambassador. Mr. William
Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Horton. his post after, a delightful vaca- British aircraft, Mr. Horton is an executive of tion in Hongkong: R.C.A. Corporation, and returned
to Hongkong after a brief vacation
In the Philippines;
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Mr. Alfonso Ponce Enrile, pro- minent Manila lawyer on a visit to Hongkong on business;
Mr. Walter Roemer, Travel Re- presentative of American Express Co., Manila, who returned after a
BELGIAN "AGENT"
ARRESTED
The river level is rising at the rate of nearly five inches an hour and the Red Cross is now prepar- ing for any emergency.
As a result of the recent Social and Dance held by "Toc" H" Kow- Ibon Circle, a Draft for £8-12-7 has been forwarded to ""Tos H" Incorporated, London, to assist in their work with the British Forces in France and elsewhere.
Thanks are expressed to Rev. J.R. Higgs and the Church- wardens of St. Andrews Church Kowloon who gave use of their
Hall free; the Dance Band of the Royal Corps of Signals, Mrs. A. C.
Jeffreys and the ladies of St. Andrews Church and the Press.
The 30th Heavy Battery, R.A. held their annual dinner at the Hotel Cecil on Baturday night. Major C. R. Templar presided, amongst those present being Brt- gadier T. Macleod, OR.A, LE, OH. ¡Philips, addressing the annual
meeting of the Italo-American. Shaw, RA., Lt. Col. F. 8. Hinch- Chamber of Commerce,
cliffe and B,SM, (IG) C. E, Ford,
Mr. Phillips stated that this step
Among the events planned for the coming week at the Cheer-O Club are dances on Monday and Wednesday at 8.30 p.m., a whist drive at 9 pm on Tuesday, com tract bridge and mah jongg on
Mr. John L. Kiernan, mining en-rapid overnight trip to Hongkong, BRUSSELS, April 21 (Reuter)— gineer of Baguio, Philippines, who ere he was once stationed; A former Belgian airman and his had the full support of President has arrived in the Colony on B Mr. A. P. Donia, sales repre- wife háve been arrested on Roosevelt. vacation and pleasure trip: sentative of Pan American Alr-charges, of obtaining information It was hoped it would make the Mr. Domingo O. Almares, Chi-ways, Manila, also returning after for a foreign State and recruiting two peoples know each other bet- nese merchant of Manila, on aa short trip to the Colony;
agents for this service, to watch ter and lead to an increase in vacation trip:
Mr. John Spekdian, Indian mer- troop concentrations Mr. and Mra Lugian L. Rocke. chant on a business trip to Mani- frontiers of Belgium.
on certain trade, Mr. Rocke who is a frequent bust-la; and the following Chinese mer- ness and pleasure communter be- chants and, their relatives: tween Hongkong and Manila, is an Qua Chee-gam, Qua Chi-tông, been in touch with the officer PARIS, Apr, 21 (Reuter)—A Wara gala dance with music by the executive of Standard Vacuum Oll Cheng Beng-hoaf, Maria Penalosa, and his wife have also been communique issued "today," states | dance band of the Royal Scots has
1 Co.;
Dy Bun Biong, Lee Koo, and so arrested..
that where is nothing to report
been arranged; | Chay-kun.
A number of agents who had NOTHING TO REPORT
Thursday and a variety concert
on Friday. On Monday, April 29,
all circumstances.
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