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PETAIN APPEALS FOR AID |Military
FOR 70,000 EXPELLED Preparations
FROM LORRAINE
In Formosa And Amoy
VICHY, Nov. 30-Marshal Henri Fetain today appealed to the French nation to assist 70,000- Frenchmen expelled from Lorraine by German occupation authorities before the Vichy government's. Intervention with the Weisbaden armistice commission resulted in Berlin's order to cease deportations. Fetain said, help to the homeless Lorrainers would be an effort at national solidarity,
"Seventy thousand Lorrainers have arrived in the free zone. having had to abandon everyg thing: their homes, their belong ings, their villages, their churches and cemeteries 'where their ances- tors sleep, everything in fact which has interest in life for them," Petain declared. They have lost everything so they bays come to ask asylum from their brothers of France,
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ROMAN FORTRESS UNEARTHED
CHUNGKING, Dec. 10 (Reuter) -Feverish military preparations are going on in Formcsa and Amog following the appointment of the new Governor-General of Formosa, General Nakajima Ya- sutsume, who is regarded as an in- fluential member of the Japanese Young Officers' Clique and also a staunch advocate of the southward
Workmen agging air raid sner-expansion programme, according to ters at Stanwix, a suburb of Car-Chinese despatch."
The fort, measuring 580 by 700 Tect. Is some 300 feet wider than any other along the wall found by
rcheologists.
to stated
Isle, have uncovered the hitherto The report adds that among new unknown site of an old Roman measures adopted is the organisa fortress that formed part of Ha- tion of the "South Asia Skurveying EVE OF WINTER
arian's Wall
Corps," comprising 400 Japanese "Here on the eve of winter with-
ronin, or trouble makers, in dif- out resources they have nothing as
ferent parts of the Straits Bettle- treasure except their pride at re
ments and South Seas who are French. maining
be divided into ten They accept their unhappy lot without com- The digging has suppitea group for the purpose of collect- plaint and without protest. They evidence that there WAS aning information. “ are French of real stock, with especially important garrison, along energetic spirit, strong of heart the wall at Stanwix." A preliminary and stout. Many of them are guess is that the effort was the. peasants of the frontiers who quarters of anala," or cavalry have, during the centuries, suffer- regiment, nominally 1,000 strong. ed more than we others of the The Romans had only a few of rigors of war.
hese regiments, but one called the "I feel as you must feel your-Petriana is known to have been self. all pain. The government is quartered at the western end of doing everything in its power to the wall, help them in their misfortune and furnish them with a means of liv- ing and working. But Lorrainers scholars have been searching for deserve better. The welcome given | years. them must be a welcome from the heart. which we reserve for brothers and dearest parents."
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AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS
Two of the most prominent American organizers of wartime civilian relief in Farnce, Miss Anne' Morgan and Madame Paul Verdier of San Francisco, were received by Marshal Henri Petain in private conference Friday evening prior to returning to. Paris, it was learned
It is possible that the workmen uncovered its fort. for which
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The following Notice to Mariners was issued yesterday by Lt.-Comdr. N. R. Harbour J. Jolly, R Master:-A waterlogged junk, withi one mast showing, was reported by the Master of 5.3. Tinley a8 being in position Lat, 22 deg. 19' N. Long 114 deg. 38 E. (approx.) at 3.05 am. G. M. T., on Dec. 7.
Widespread Devastations
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Marshal Petain thanked the two American women for their volunteer work, which has al- ready won for Miss Morgan. War Minister General Charles " Hantziger's citation, fn army orders. Miss Morgan wore her khakl unifrom; with several rows of service medals and ribbons of principal European orders, including the Legion of Hanour,
Morgan's. group of American women volunteers aided civilians! spending the winter in the French Ardennes and then when the blitz- krieg began in May they aided evacuation of women, children,
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He said that practically all declared that dging from the houses in the hamlets and cities elaborate nature of the Japanese along the "Pingyang-Nanning-caiences. there which still remai Lungchow highway were destroyed intact, the Japanese must have in- elther by bombs and shells or by tended to occupy the city for long fire. Areas 15 kilometres around Their recent withdrawal, was { the Nanning Wuming highway evidently effected under heavy,
were a picture of desolation with Chinese pressure. all the farms rendered barren,
Peace and order have now been restored to the places recovered be said. Mary people have return
During their occupation of the city and its surrounding areas, he asserted the Japanese were unable to acquire foodstuffs from the local population. Evidences gather- ed show that they had to import not only rice and meat but also A high military commander who | vegetables and fodder from Japan. returned after a visit to Nanning-Central News),
ed but relief is urgently required.
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Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 am, Dec. 10: Barometer (at sea level), 30.09 tas. Despite the fact the Germans Temperature, 70-F. gracked the French lines in the Humidity, 74 per cent. Meuse valler behind them, they Wind Direction, E/S continued work untly the last Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. civilians were evacuated, losing Temperature maximum yesterday. three ambulances with American 70 F
drivers who were taken prisoners in the final evacuation.
The ministry of war today an- nuanced organization of winter re- ilet for. French prisoners of war in German camps whereby 210 tons
HONG KONG "TIDE TABLE From 11 to 17 Dec. 1940.
BIGH WATER.
Days of
Dals of
Month.
Heiglit
Low WAL
Haight,
Hong
Hong
Kong
Kong
Standard
Standar
Tuna,
Time
b.m.
b. m.
12. S.
Wed
27 25
48
GI 29
39
Temperature: Minimum last night Thur. 18
19 15
6 B
12:30
13 2
08 20
48
0208
26
65 F.
Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th Fri
today, mil.
10 38
71
1307
13
09 07
09.07
02 43
2003
174 18 45
14
UB BO
PZU 36
14 18
117.50 ins,
8pp. 16
Mon 16
|Tues. 17 |
Wind Force (Beaufort), 9,
Maximum temperature, 70 F. Minimum temperature, 65 F. Rainfall, nil
Total rainfall since January 1st. Set,
of foodstuffs and clothing will be Against an average of, 84.48, ins shipped daily from France. Biz Bunset tonight, 5.40 pun carloads of 50 tons of fresh bread Sunrise tomorrow, 6.53 am and six tons of canned meats are!
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