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Low-level attack is being prac- tised with great moral effect by the RAF against exposed troops and "line". targets, such as long. Inarrow collimns of troops. ***
TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1940.
FOREIGN MAILS
HÓNGKONG, TUESDAY, 18th JUNE, 1940, 9,30 AM.
T.F. Powys
BAIT OF HIGH Eighty-years-old Mr. Walter
WAGES Richard Bickert, and his fellow artist, Mr.. Julius Olsson," R.A., have Old-established arms with Just been made Civil List pension trained personnel are having their ers They will each receive £170ey workers taken from them by 1 year not free of income tax.
new war firms who are poaching Mr. Sickert is the oldest and, in on their stan preserves. the view of many," the greatest-of This is one phase of the practice which all anti-aircraft are concen-charge being $5 per half ounce for letters and postcards $1.50 British painters. He has been or enticing skilled workers from Dive-bombing-deadliest of all mission la twelve days from the date of departure of the Clipper 20 famous for over a score of years one employment to another with forms of air attack—is used for the from Hong Kong, and has been disconcertingly
same targets as low-level bombing. but is carried out by the pilot in- | stead of the bomb-almer. This is how it is done:
The air mall service by Imperial Airways to al destinations is temporarily suspended. Air mall letters will be accepted for When we read of aircraft that transmission to Europe by Pan-American Service to New York and fall to return we may picture at onward thence by sea, at $2.80 per half-ounce for the air tran tacks of this type; they expose port, plus 15 cents per ounce to British possessions and 15 cents bomber formationa to" heavy casualties, from ground defences per ounce to foreign countries in respect of ses transport,
An experimental air service for Europe via United States of This applies equally to dive-bomb-
America and Trans-Atlantic Service has also; been introduced, the ing attacks against targeta
outlook all that time-and as re- bellious as a boy.
and special bonuses,
trated.
changeable in his methods and the inducement of higher wages New firms entering a particular trade for the first time are given higher prices by the Government On approaching the target, the while they are learning their job. formation leader orders line astern Their method is to use these high for the full-power dive. At an er rates payments to tempt skill-angle of 45 degrees and a speed
Jacob Epstein's decorative figures on Agar House, Strand. W.C.
each. An approximate, estimate of the time occupied in this trang-
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From
Five years ago he resigned from the Royal Academy, only a year after he had been elected an RA because Sir William Llewellyn. then president, would not sign an
vice.”—San Francisco date, 1lik June, .................................... appeal for the preservation of Mr. men away from established of about 500 m.ph, he axes the Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Ber-
concerns which have built up their target in his sights, His salvo is
*********5F***********164***** trained personnel over a number launched from about 100 feet above Shanghal
target level
Japan of years
USA., Honolulu Japan and Shanghai In the last two or three years
BEYOND RANGE CHANGE TO UNRESERVED JOBS
Francisco date, 21st May), Mr. Sickert has been painting as
One by one, in quick succession,U, S. A Honolulu, Japan and Manlis (San Fran- busily as ever., He attributes his The drift from some trades to
cisco date, 29th May). amazing energy to goat's milk, higherpaid occupations, accelerated every plane m the formation which he drinks every day-sour, by the activities of tauts employed follows his lead, zooming. If thes Japan, Shanghai and Formosa ... There are always bowls of it in the for the purpose of enticing skilled are lucky, beyond the range of Alr Mall by "Air France Direct Servies" kitchen at his home at St. Peter's- men from their employment, has ground defences.. But cost what it in-Thanet."
also had the effect of transferring may, the target is reached and de- who have been exempted from molished. all manner word
"stick" bombing is for targets of Europe and Straits (London date, 1st May) queer clothes in his time, but now military service into unreserved
line without breadth. In he prefers rough tweeds and a occupations. "
Agricultural labourers, exempted operation bombs are not aimed on Ralphens, Holhow & Fort Bayard
Shanghai. sort of outsize yachting cap.
His need of a Civil List pension from military service because of separate "runa" but released al-
the importance of maintaining the most simultaneously, to straddle Sandakan... is a commentary on the ups-and-
home food supply, have been en the target. It is the aerial form Calcutta and Straits Calcutta and Straits downs of an artist's fe, even
Japan and Shanghai. Glide bombing 1s A night
Java and Manila though that artist has gained ticed into the building trade. al- of box barrage.
though they have never laid a ·MANGER Vre designed to batie world-wide reputation. Some of his pictures have fetched many brick or used a trowel. hundreds of pounds.
He has
01
off
date 12th Juné protismerenevois Btraits.
Shanghai.
this
It is felt keenly that the Govern-listening-pasts and "ground
fences. With engines When he held a one-man show / ment should exercise its power to bomber glides silently down to its
last year he placed a value of more than £4,000 on 21 pictures.
WRITER'S PLEDGE
Mr. Olsson, an RA. since 1920, and president of the Royal In- stitute of Oil Painters, gained fame long ago with his pictures of the sea and the seashore. He went for inspiration mostly to Cornwall He is a J.P. for St. Ives there.
Like Mr. Sickert; he is still an energetic personality. It was only
on the "British Paint-
Ing Since Whistler" exhibition at the National Gallery.
control the movement of personnel.
target.
Shanghai and Amoy
London and Straits,
18th June
18th Juno:
18th June
(San
18th June
18th June .18th June
Part's
19th June
19th June
19th June
19th June
18th Juno
10th June
19th June
19th Juna
19th June
19th June
19th June
de-
the
U. B. A Honolula, Japan and shanghai (Ban
Francisco date, 24th May), asteignersäpaika Canton.. Manila
19th June
30th: June
20th Jane.
1st June
21st June
21st June
1st June
Europe and Straits-London date, 10th May). Canton
Bad June
gand June
Japan and Shanghai. ..................
22nd June
U. S. A., and Manila-(San Francisco date, 19th
May)..
23rd June
Haiphong" Shanghal.
24th June
25th June
25th June
28th June
26th June
26th June
28th June
26th June
27th June
27th June
Japan and Shanghai. Calcutta and Straits"
28th Juna
28th June
U. & A., Honolult, Japan and Shangha
Francisco date, 8th June).
(San
19th June 29th June
End July
3rd July
as it did in the last war, to prevent All these forms of bombing at exempted men from entering other tack are being pressed home by occupations from those for which our airmen against vastly superior
adds.-Evening News Air Corres- Shanghal. they have been exempted,
pondent.
This question has been brought before the authorities on innumer- No decision able occasions but
There is a has been obtainable. growing feeling of irritation at the procrastination and delay in taking definite action-(Daily Telegraph),
KING'S BIRTHDAY "SPECIAL"
BEYROUTH, June 17 (feater) -The Almarahil Almusawara.
contain
Japan, Shanghai and Formncia
Australia - and ̈ Manila....
Java and Manila,
Japan and Shanghal.
the
Haiphong
free tack ago that he made a MR. J. P. MORGAN'S largest leading weekly, published Straits and Europe-(London date, 13th May), ...:
a special number on the occasion Manila YACHT FOR SALE of the King's birthday
ing inter alia some fourteen Japan and Manila, Mr. J. F. Morgan, the American "Half the pictures are incom- petent daubs by unknown people anancier, has asked the United articles and 44 pictures of
Royal Family of Great Britain Japan. with friends at court," he declared. States Maritime Commission for
In the new Civil List there is also permission to sell his yacht Corsair and or the Empire. a well-known writer-Mr. Theodore to Camper and Nicholsons Ltd., of
Mr. Tan Kah-kee, Chinese F. Powys, who receives supple-Southampton. The price they are
dustrialist of Singapore, returned mentary pension of £40, a year. prepared to pay is not divulged. Some of his short stories are maa-d
Corsair, one of the largest and to Sian on Saturday after an ex- Canton terpieces of their kind, but pro- most luxurious yachts in the world, tensive tour to north Shenal and Bandakan. bably his best-known book is "Mr. was built by the Bath Iron Works west Shansi. At the latter place, U. B. A., and Manila-(San Francisco date 11th Weston's Good Wine."
Corporation, of Bath, Maine. In he called on General
Shansi Mrs. Beatrice Wild, widow of 1830. She is a twin screw turbo-shan, Chairman of the Commander J. R. F. Wild, the ex- electric vessel of 2,853 tons. with a Provincial Government. He left! plorer, gets a pension of £105 a speed of 16 knots, and cost £500,- yesterday for Loyang to visit the
.000.
year,
Mrs. C. R. Carswell (granted 150), for the services of herself and her late husband to literature. is an author of note, Mr. Carswell was knocked down and killed by a motor-car, in the black-out in January.
"Garlic" in " salad can either make or break a home."--Dorothy Dix.
Too ulten the old men, and
frontline soldiers............
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Yen Hx-
Indians Want Formation
Of Volunteer Unit
If sufficient support comes from the local Indian community and Government approves, Singapore will have an indian volunteer unit whose equipment and maintenance will be provided for by funds raised by Singapore Indians themselves.
June).
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TUESDAY
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Manila, Makassar and Sourabaya... Fort Bayard Haiphong
Amoy and Shanghai, ........
Date and Time
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, and Reg
United Kingdom.
But the fullest support for the volunteer movement, prominent
local Indians feel, will not be forth Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U. 8. A., &i
Europe, via “Pan American Altways and Trans-Reg coming until thei; young men are
Atlantic Bervices." unusuUTANDOFDE) given an opportunity of having their own unit
Manila
Undeterred by past disappoint the last 30 years, there have been some of the young men, bring the ments whenever they approached many enthusiast Indians who have mind of the competent policeman Government for permission to form joined, but as members of other to bear on problems for which the Indian unit among local volun- units. Imagination of a prophet is re-teers, leader of the Indian com- ĺmunity have decided that, as in quired."-Bishop of Chichester.
the past, economy was Govern- 'ment's reason vetoing the sus The rains which fell in Japan on Sunday night brought some relief Kestion, their long-standing am- to the water famine, according to bition may be fulfilled if they can a Tokyo report. The people are raise the funds necessary them-
selves. asked to take a bath only twice a
The scheme has already received week, and every effort is to be made to conserve water. Another the approval of many prominent latest scheme are thinking of an Saigon, Ceylon, India, East cause of water shortage is the lack Indians, but as it can only be steproaching officers of the Indian
and Europe via Marseilles. of coal to drive the pumps-(In- cessful with the fall support of the regiments stationed locally to pro-
community, they have decided to vide these instructors." ternational)
ask for the views of Indians in Singapore before, they go further with the proposal.
2.
Japanese warplanes bombed the Hanoi-Kunming Railway on June 14. at points near the border of Indo-China; on the ground that the line was used to transport arms to Chungking. The French Government recently denied that the railway had been used for the conveyance of arms to China- (International}'`
About a year ago, deputation waited on the Governor to ask for the formation of a local Indian, volunteer unit. “met with “no meceas
This
Should the difficulty of getting
WEDNESDAY hitructors be another obstacle in Fort Bayard and Hothow, their plans, propagators of the
The Japanese sponsored Special Municipality of Shanghai has to structed the police to ban the as- fribution of news leanets in, the western districts by German, Ita- lian and other belligerents. All the police bureaus have been in Community leaders feel that, as structed to stop the distribution of times have changed since then and such printing matter and sent the the urgency of supplementing local distributors out of the municipal "Disgracefull Fancy sending defence forces has increased greatly jurisdiction after questioning little children with dowers when since a further approach to Gov-International). these Germans might have klited ernment may meet with success them." Woman at Clacton fine- they can carvince government that ral of crashed"-Nazi "airmen,gl
.*
the question of expense need not be a bar,
with
INDIANS ENTHUSIASTIC
Chinese troops renewed their at tack on Tachih on Kwangtung ter- ritory west of the Tamchi
in hig
The strug Despite the fact that there has gier has the effect of pretty ones don't never been, any scope for Indians in up the construction of a miniature notice that they look as had as Bingapore forming their own mits railway from the coast to Nanning, the ugly ones Gracie Pields. in the local volunteer forces during international);
"I suppose girls get into uni- form because the ugly ones think they look as good as the pretty ones.The
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