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GENERAL
ITALO-GERMAN PLAN FOR Contrast LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS OFFENSIVE IN S. E. EUROPE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
THE' Undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC" AUCTION
Friday
011
the 7th June, 1940
...commencing at 130. pm............
at their Bales Room, No. 35, Han- how Road, Kowloon,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:-
Divans. Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Chests of Draw- ers, Sideboards. Dining Tables, Chairs, Chesterfield Suites. Ice Chests, Hatstands, Desks, Cabinets, Bookcases, Tables, Screens, Ward- robe and Cabin Trunks, Rattan Furniture, etc., etc.
AN OUTLINE OF THE ITALO-GERMAN PLAN, BECEIVED THROUGH PERSONS HAVING CLOSE CONNECTIONS IN ROME, SHOWS THAT IT IS BASED ON THE LIMITATION OF OFFENSIVE ACTION TO THE EAST.
First act would be creation of a mine barrage across the neck of the Adriatic Sex between Italy and Albania--with the Italian Navy sheltering inside, much as the German Fleet has been using the Baltic
THE OBJECT
Behind the barrier troops and officially announced to be "suffer- supplies could be shipped to the ing from an attack of influenza." Balkan coast.
But they also produced stories between of heated arguments Mussolini and his Foreign Minis~ While a Fascist column ad-
ter in the course of which the vanced Into Yugoslavia Irönt Al-
Duce openly threatened Cland bania, another would strike south-with replacement by a "more re- eastward from Trieste Jo the
llable" member of the Fascist north.
Party.
The object would be to seize the coastline of Dalmatia and make the Adriatic a closed Italian lake.
Simultaneously, a strong force would march eastward from Al- banla towards Salonika, Greek port on the Aegean Sea.
For the first time since Mus- solni became Dictator he has not lately been on very good terms with his daughter Edda, Clano's clever,
politically-
minded wife, and for many years the Duce's close adviser en foreign policy:
“DUCE" WARNED
Contact would be established there with the Bulgarian and German High Commands, for joint
In his struggle to keep Italy out action against any expeditionary of Nazi clutches. Clano is not force thrown against Italy by the without a powerful ally, Turks.
for
In King
Air Raid Methods
NAZI PLANES AT
GREAT HEIGHT LONDON, June 5 (Reuter Contrasting the German and Allied methods of conducting air raids, a" B.B.C. commentator last night said that in ali raids, and in the bombing raid on Parls the Get- man planes flew at a great height,
Generally they flew around 30,- 000 feet or more. They used this height for protection.
It was instructive, to compare this with the RAF's long series of raids on military objectives in Germany.
The use of heights, has long been understood and all defence systems take note
th
NIGHT RAIOS.
"The RAF, has not used-height protection on its major bombing raids. It has used the night for raiding.
If planes came over at 30,000 feet it was difficult to hear them. Even after they were heard it was
There is good authority NO CAMPAIGN.
stating that a few days ago the The Italian strategists who map-Duce received a message from the Ornaments, Pictures, Rugs, Cut-ped this plan of campaign were Vaticari asserting that, if he led imenit to pick them up except
told to work on the assumptions Italy into war on Hitler's side, the take that it would be supported by a Catholle German attack on Hungary and "strong and immediate" measures Yugoslavia, and that Italy's new of retaliation,
lery. E. P. Brass, Porcelain and Glass Ware. Filters, Portablë and Cabinet Gramophones, Records, Blect. Table Lamps and Radiators, Clocks, Cooking Utensils, etc, etc.
!!
also
A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and
2 Upright Pianos by "Moutrie"
1 Upright Piano by "Puhlmann
and Son"
1 Electric Refrigerator "GE,"
1 Electric Refrigerator
2 Radio-grams
3 Radios
Mectric Table Fans
"Frigidaire"
↑ Electric Ceiling Fans:
2 Bicycles
1 Saddle and Stirrups
2 Chronlum Plated Figures
1 Typewriter "Underwood"
1 Sewing Machine
1 "Zeles" Enlarger and Lense
"Zeiss" Cine
Lense)
1 Projector
1 Exposure Meter
1 Dinner Service
Camera
1 Marble Standard Lamp
1 Marble Clock
1 Teakwood Bed Room Sulte
150 School, Desks and Benches
On View from Thursday, the 6th
June, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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would
Alpipe fortresses, would be strong This is Interpreted in Rome as enough to hold back any French meaning that Pope Pius would army which attempted to counter-leave the Holy City and establish attack through the Valley of the himself outside Italy. - Po, un Italy's north-west frontier.
From the fact that the scheme involves combined Italo-German action, the inference is that it is of Nazi origin.
I Mussolini himself did not think it worth close examination, he would scarcely have ordered the maps to be prepared, especially
If that were to happen, Musso- ini would face the danger of open revolution, for Catholicism is still stronger than Fascism throughout the country.
DARING ATTACK
How critical the situation had
become was shown in yet another
as his Army chiefs are opposed to broadcast by Ciovanni- Ansaldo. military action in concert with director of the Ciano newspaper
Germany."
"No large-scale operations In Africa are envisaged; because of the strong-Allied forces in Tunisia, Erypt and Kenya. Italian garrisong in Libys and Abyssinia would be expected to remain on the defensive,
CLASH IN ROME
Question of the hour is whether not Il Duce would be able to put this plan into operation.
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He is experiencing some internal dificulties, apart from Army op position to a big war.
Four-hundred members of the OVRA (Italian Beerct Police) were recently sent into Sicily to destroy movement
a strong auti-Fascist
Telegrafo. 6.
Warning the people to prepare for the war. which "may
come from one day to the next An- saldo added with more pluck then wisdom:
"Only if Italy is strong, very strong. will she be among the victors. Those who are van- quished will be expropriated } ahd exploited in "every way. · They will be reduced to the state of Chinese coolies and be forced to labour for others. The victors will seek to appro- priate the whole world, and no manner of promises will com- mit the victors to doing other- wise."
A dellalte, brazen challenge to
which had developed there since Mussolini was this.
the Nazi invasion of Scandinavia.
I sharp clear weather.
After they have been picked up the fighters have to reach them.
The rates of climbing those heights vary. The Hurricane, for instance, takes only nine minutes to reach 20,000 feet and can get up to 34,000 feet and still be climb- ing slowly.
An enemy plane at 20,000 feet. however, may have travelled some 35 miles before contact can be
made.
VERY HEAVY
L'
The RAF. raids" on Germany have been very heavy ones aimed only at military objectives. Our planes have relied on the night to protect them. They fly well within anti-aircraft fire and low enough for fighters to get up to them in a 'short time.
THURSDAY,
George's Message
To French President
LONDON, Jane 5 (Reuter)His Majesty the King in telegram to BL Lebrun, President of France, said: "Our armies of the North, fighting side by side. hate, with the help of the fearless, unflinching efforts of the Allied Navies and Air Forces. come through the ordeal that proved their courage, discipline and fighting power,"
The gallantry of this com- radeship in arms has shown the enemy the measure ot Allied bravery and resolution which will meet him in battles that are to
come.
Death Of Mr. Colin Still
-Bar... Colin Still, the well-known
JUNE 6, 1940.
FALSE TEETH
CLEAN AS NEW AFTER 15 YEARS'
USE
With profound gratitude and adoration, all my people and. I have followed the great part literary critic, died at University played in these historic events by Cottage Hospital. London. last the French armed forces, and month at the age or arty-two. He We sympathise
losses had been ill for three months.--- France has sustained. but re- Mr. Still, who was born in BIT-be cognise in them the measure of mingham, was the son of the late French heroism and devotion."
the
Mr. A. W. Still, who was for many years the editor of the Straita *Times.
SEFORS
AFTER
Been filan teeth engrained with age-old_wsing, can
made clean and fresh as new with Sterndent -the newly discovered denní cleanser. The
effectiveness of this wcientifs cleanser has proved by M. & H., who writes: "Some moncki ago I bought a zmallyin, the remit mens about dikli. My tech were in a masily seats. I hate had them about 15 Sears, - 3 am not quite mer Whether they look better than they did wwen they come from the Dentist but do stres you they wer
He was a critic of sound and Kew tarck."
BLUFF OR sensitive judgment. He had a flair
BLOOD?
ITALIAN PLAN FOR ENTRY INTO THE WAR
ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM ITA- BENITO...... MUSSOLINI, MAN MILITARY EXPERTS HAVE PREPARED AN OPERA- TIONAL PLAN FOR USE IN THE EVENT OF ENTRY INTO THE WAR ON GERMANY'S SIDE,
This news has set diplomats
the arguing whether
anti- Allied tirade in the Fascist Press is bluff; or foreshadows Italy's 'abandonment of nOT- belligerence...
On balance, the view prevails that Mussolini is not bluing.
Italy's 45,000,000 people, despite the Duce's martial eratory over
the last 18 years, drend the thought of war against Britain and France, but are now being Tery carefully "educated" through
URGENT SUMBIONS
They have proclaimed their pre-facial channels to expect the sence not only by the roar of their worst. engines but also by the flares which they have dropped in order to make sure of recognising their targets.
If we contrast the high-firing raids on Parts with the night ralds on military objectives in Germany, we see that the work of the Allied bombers is more ful than that of the Germans.
MILITARY EFFECT
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The raids have a military effect and a real effect on the progress
of the war.
The German method of scattar- ing bombs is of no military signi-
It sounded unmistakably ke aficance. Its effect on the Part-
But the real struggle going on warning that acceptance of Hit-slans is one that is far different inside Italy is not between Musier's leadership would lead to the from what the Nazis expect.
solini and the masses.
utter subjugation of Italy, politi-
The chief protagonist ls Count cally and militarily. Galcazzo Clano, Italian Foreign Minister.
The fact that it was publicity The War And
made was a sign that Clano felt There Bre no visible signs of himself backed by a strong enough personal antagonism. At the body of Itallap public opinior to height of the recent" anti-Allied come cut into the open against newspaper campaign, Ciano was war with Hitler.
Naval Power
THE ALLIES Stl Plays
"Has Britain understood" the message of the Americas during the last few days?
"When the American Press has to publish reports of some new German mitlative or success it does so reluctantly. When, after many days of waiting, it gets some news of British moves it uses its biggest type to convey it to the American reader,
In the same way as the Italian Press support Germany, the Ame rican Press fights this war on the
side of the Allies.
"Has sufficient use been made
Great Role
JEWS DASH INTO PALESTINE
Pestilence
They were gently told recently that Herbert von Mackensen, Nazi Ambassador in Rome, had been
gently summoned" to Berlin by the Fuehrer.
German agents in Italy spread rumours that on May 15 the Duce del Fascismo would give Hitler the word he has been waiting for.
They add that Alexander Skwartsef, Russia's Ambassador in Berlin, has secured Stalin's agree- ment to a parcelling out of "spheres of infirence in South- eastern Europe:
To Germany would go Hun gary, Rumania and Bulgaria, Italy would receive Yugoslavia snd Greece, while *Russia would get Turkey.
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QUISLERS
2
-- "Major Quisling," said the Lon- In Europe's bloody wars, for on Times recently, "has added a every ten men slain by the enemy, new word to the English language. pestilence, has killed its thousands. Aurally it contrives to suggest In the Thirty Years War, an something at once silppery and estimated 8,000,000 Germans were tortuous. Visually it has the sup- wiped out by flea-borne bubonic reme merit of beginning with a Q. plague and louse-borne typhus which with one august exception) fever. On Napoleon's retreat from has long seemed to the British Moscow, typhus, dysentery and mind to be a crooked, uncertain pneumonią killed 450,000 of the and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the Since April last year 15,000 Grand Army's 500,000 men."
World War I was the last war in querulous, the quavering of quak- LONDON, June 5 Reuter)--The European Jews are estimated to
and quivering Allehanda, Stockholm newspa-1 have legally landed in Pales-history in which guns were more ing quagmires
Battle-field quicksands, of quibbles and quar- per points out that the battle in tine: hundreds of them swimming deadly than germs.
of of deaths totalled 8,000,000 deaths rels, queasiness. dead
quackery, Flanders reached an unexpected ashore from ships at
from disease, 3,000,000. Yet des- qualms and quilp.* conclusion which did not corres-night. Since the war began, re- pond with the German claims of veals the Christian Science Moni-pite the great achievements of the destruction of the Allied ar-tor, more than 7,000 have arrived, medical science, disease was still aed
potent wartime killer. In 1914, since the New Year 3:424.
typhus swept through Serbia, Tremendous troop transports, A few shiploads of refugees: continues the paper, were carried have
mles.
*The Major's name is pronounc-
Kvissling.
BARISH FEAT
been reported to be still spread to Russia where, in four gratulated. He has performed the
out under herce pressure by the dodging the authorities and hop- superior German forces and a raining to make a dash for it.. But of bombs by German aircraft,
since the arrest of the Turkish The Allled embarkation has steamer Sakarya on February 13, of the sympathetic feelings of the shown that naval power still plays when 2,200 Jewish passengers were
detained in camps no more have. The Social Demokraten says get in are detained in camps. but run the gauntlet, Refugees who The battle in Flanders did not
released gradually become the destructive battie bona-fdes are fully established. which was prophesied by the Ger man press and radi.
American editors and reading public? Some joint Allled effort should be made to serve those who belp us."-Depeche. Toulouse.
TREATMENT OF OUT-PATIENTS
a very great role.......
"
"It is by no DONGRE ELS the catastrophe which it was fear- ed might have been after King Leopold's capitulation...
"The English have shown a spirit which has transformed the retreat to something like a triumph."
when thetr
FIFTH COLUMN
"Britain needs to purge her fifth-column, which la, unfor- tunately, present in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. much in the same way as it was' In France.
All patients who wish to be ex- amined at, or admitted to the wards, of, Government Hospitals with the exception of Government wives and şervants and their children as defined in GO. 124
The Berlin correspondent of the "We may rest assured that and accident or emergency cases, must bring with them letters of Stockholm Tidningen says. "The action will shortly be taken in German losses in the battle of London and, concurrently with introduction from their private medical practitioners, unless they Flanders are now very high. Ger-this effort, the leaders of the man military circles report that Government and the Opposition, can satisfy the Almoner, on ar- rival at the hospital, that they they are very much higher than acting jointly, will explain the are not in a position to afford the losses suffered during the ac-great war effort to the country by through Holland a series of meetings throughout a private practitioner's consulta- tual offensive
nd Belgium."
the fand-Gringoire, Parts, tion fee.
years it killed 3,000,000 peasants.
Today British and French doctors expect no "epidemics of typhus, typhold or cholera. Although there
M.
"Major Quisling is to be con-
rarish feat of turning a proper name into a common one, and in so doing has made sure that in a future life he will find himself in is no effective remedy for any of a distinguished circle. In addition these diseases, all can be prevented to Captain Boycott, Aloysius Han-
British
so will be there, also those two against smallpox, tetanus, typhoid. Macintosh and John Loudon Me- by sanitary precautions soldiers are given Inoculations.
redoubtable 6cots, Charles But a titanic task faces the doctors Adam, and the first Lord Broug of Germany and Central Europe. ham and the fourth Earl of Sand- wich and the great Duke of Wel- lington in his famous boots....."
Although the Times could still be whimsical about it, Major in Vidkun Quisling's trenchery hamstringing Norse defenses the.) week before gave Europe a first-
shock. "Quialings Every-, CHUNGKING, June 5 (Central) | rate -Rumours current that the British where; headlined the London Ee Times, while all over the Con- and French garrisons will withdrawn from Shanghai in the tinent governments went hunting event of Italy's entry into the for those malcontents in their European War were branded as midst who might open the gates groundless by a spokesman of the to the enemy. British Embassy, according to a Shanghai report.
British Withdrawal From Shanghai Denied
الا را به
The spokesman uld that no may develop, Britain will riot matter how the European situation abandon her interests in Shanghai.
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He revised and prepared for publication many of the most im- portant memoirs and blographies of recent years....
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"Wam't, I on the warpath by your side? And look at me no more hangover than an innocen: little child."
"Well, it's not natural. It just
proves that the Devil looks after his own." 4
"I look-after myself, old son. Last night I took a sizeable swig of Rose's Lime Juice before hitting the„ hoy. That's how to kill off the aftermath of alcohol."
"You wouldn't lead me up the garden, Timothy ? ***
"Peter, you wrong me. I've seen the light and I'm passing on the tip."
"Then, if you will kindly step ashore, we will seek out a vendor of Rose's. It's time I fell into
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