Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 8, 1939.
GERMANY'SGREATWESTERNDEFENCES
Line of Concrete and Steel Facing French Fortifications
CHUNGKING CIVILIANS EVACUATE
Protection Against Terror Air Raids
CHUNGKING. Feb. 7.
IN VIEW OF the possible Indiscriminate bombing of Chungking like that of Kwel- yang and Wanhsien, the forcible evacuation of civilians is con. tinuing.
Wives and children of govern- ment officials ATO classed us aivilians.
The police have assisted all houses and shops to place a number of sand- bags in the front entrances to *xinguish flames. Dug-outs are
being constructed in all open grounds and many private gardens.
The population of Chungfing, which won 600,000 after the fall of Hankow, will soon be reduced to 300,000,
LEAVE AT DAYBREAK
A thousand women, children and ald men are regularly taking refuge In the suburbs: every day. They leave the city at daybreak for the} various mountainside spring resorts and rivers for anfety, and return in the evening for dinner,
are
Buses, horses, donkeys, sedon ehairs, ampang and rickshas seen making good money every day transporting the refugees back and forth.
the
All houses and hotels in famous hot-spring resorts and nearby lowns are filled to capnelty.
New "Air. Defence" residential houses
puses are being built for the rich.
FOREIGNERS UNPERTURBED Chinese business elrcles particularly are worrying, but the foreign com- munity here, estimated at 100, appear to be unperturbed.
Representatives of the Soviet "Asin Motion Picture Trust" are as busy as usual postering the streets with big advertisements, while the Chungking offices of the United Aircraft and Dü
business Pont are carrying on usual, not even thinking it necessary to take precautionary measures,
na
The same spirit appears among Chinese Government officiels and military leaders, most of whom have experienced
bombing Levere Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, and on many other fronts.
In
The National Relief Commission has already established six emergency hospitals, preparing for air raids which Are considered certain.- United Press.
Stock Market Steady
London, Feb. 7. Although traflag on the Stock Exchange was quiet, the undertone in most sections
continued Arm.
Gilt-edged holdings further ad- vanced on investment support, and Indian bonds were sympathetically Gold-minings tended to be- steady come dull an occasional Paris selling. Oils were rather irregular and In- dustrials were distinguished by cup- port for breweries.
Foreign
exchanges
were rather
more nekive, with sterling very steady, while the dollar was easter
on Continental offering. Wall Street was asier.Reuter. Special,
steady, then
NEW
SUGGESTING a row of prehistoria tumull; concrete cups over gun- positions on the famous Maginot Line.
AN ADVANCED ́machine-gun nest in the German Slegrted Line, placed in the centre of an anti-tank barricade; part of the new defence system on the western frontier of Germany,
PALESTINE TALKS OPEN WITH FELICITATIONS
LONDON, Feb. 7.
A FELICITOUS SPEECH in reply to Mr. Neville Cham berlain was made by Prince Seif Ulislam Al Hussein at the opening of the Palestine talks to-day.
The Prince thanked the British Government for the, part It had played in the service of truth and peace.
He said he was unable to speak Mr. Chamberlain's language, but there was a more subline vehicle, namely sinecelly, in their hearts.
The superb spirit in which Mr. Chumberlain and solved intricate problems in recent
I
legates will remain and will sce Mr.: Malcolm MacDonald frequently as consultants.
STATEMENT ON DEADLOCK
An offelal statement on the dead- lock states that the efforts created by one of the Arub delegation were being continued.
Meanwhite
the meeting between the British re- international presentatives and the Arabs, in which affairs, and which was manifested in the Arabs are to outline their case, Mr. Chamberlain's address, was one on which they largely depended for Tort to define the Arab repre- a soluten of the Palestine questions.entations.
CONCERN OF ALL MUSLIMS
'No Invader Can Pass'-Claimed
BERLIN, Feb. 7.
RECENT INVESTIGATIONS by German military authorities have revealed that 20 per cent. of the German iron and steel industry and 10 per cent. of the coal mines lie within range of French artillery. Moreover, about five million Germans live in this exposed frontier section.
One of the paragraphs in the the armoured concrete bastions and Treaty of Versailles stipulated forts which form the nucleus of the that all of the German fortifica-entire yalem. tions should be destroyed, and Walls of reinforced concrete and that a demiliturised zone in armour plate have attained a resis
tance undreamt of during the Great which no German soldier Was War, and will make it possible for allowed to set foot should be the troops in modern German forta established along the entire to remain in security throughout
of bombardment trom western frontier to a depth of days,
heaviest nrtlilery. 26 miles cast of the Rhine.
Each of these forts is entirely gas- With the re-occupation of the proof, and an adequate reserve of Rhineland in 1930 the process of ammunllion
haz
been stored in rectifying this defenceless condition specially protected rooms so that the was begun, but the progress during defenders can hold out for an in- the next two years was entirely in- definite period. adequate for protecting the Reich
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the forts-kitchens, washing 12383. rooms, first aid quarters and rest rooms being constructed on several Each fort 18 with its
electrical mander would think of sending his provide
Own plant
and Is infantry to storm positions that had
and water supply, not previously been reduced to ruins equipped in through destructive duffler fire, considerable number of soldiers can
end tonka and bombing planes, the first remain there for months on and foremost task was to secure the necessary. Connection between western frontier against these wen through tunnels deep in the earth so different units has been provided
The requirements were threefold: that gun crews may be relieved and 1. The Individual forts and bastions supplies delivered even while the
had to be so heavily armoured | forts are under fire.
pons.
that they would withstand end- less pounding from the enemy
17,000 UNITS
Over 17,000 of these units ranging
artillery barriers and obstacies] from small bastions to large forts
constructed between
had to be erected to prevent the have been tanks of the aggressor, including Holland and Lake Constance, leaving the large ones and also the sono section of the territory uncovered. called amphibion tanks, from
All of the structures have been reaching the actual ring lines. covered with a deep layer of earth 3. The entire system had to bend us soon as the natural vegetation
again
springs UP
the landscape will be in no way altered by the line of fortifications.
nir
secured
against through concealment.
CONTINUOUS LİNE
attacks
Only an experienced observer will In conformity with the most mo- be able to perceive here and there dern experience and theory in the amongst the shrubbery and trees the construction of defence fortifications, threatening muzzle of a gun, while the Gerraon Maginot Line is not a he himself will be constantly ob- continuous, connected series but conserved by dozens of guards peering posed of a number of Individual forts through binoculars from concealed or bastions of which each is an in- loopholes, look-outs and dependent, self-sufficient unit.
turrets. Trans-Ocean.
Nor is this system, confined to # narrow line of forts along the frou- tier, but comprises a wide, fortified has been postponed in a further zone between 30 and 45 miles in
depth.
The Jews are expected to open their case to-morrow.-Neuter.
ences
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
London, Feb. 7.
was
armoured
Japan Is Building 131 Ships
Through this extraordinary depth la planned that should the rarmy succeed, against all expectation, In Those problems had become the
reaching and taking the foremost Keneral concern of
Arab
fortifications, he would be subject to every heart, and of every. Mushum
Muslim in the
the
concentrated fire of the battexica world.
The following oficial statement re-to the rear and would be even more The representative of Yemen said garding the composition of the Arab able to destruction since the ad-
TOKYO, Feb. 8. they admire the sublime spirit which delegations at the Palestine confer- vance from this point would have to inspired Mr. Chamberlain's wonder-
Issued
ONE HUNDRED and thirty- to-day; "His take place in
smaller, divided
groups. solutions of modern problems. Majesty's Government, have invited The chess-board arrangement of one ships, euch exceeding 1,000 und in the name of humanity, truth, members of all political parties the bastions and forte would compel tons, are building at various and Justice, Yemen wished him amongst Palestine Arabs to come to the enemy to break up his forces, and shipyards throughout Japan at every success in his wise policy. London to take part in discussions on the further advance he would con-
Mr. Chamberlain
tribute to poid a
the future policy in Palestine. Efforts stantly stumble upon the new fre- the end of January, a survey the restraint which had generally have been made to arrange that these spewing forts which had Inin hidden pointed out to-day. heen shown by the Jewish community
ity different
should be from view and had remained silent The vessels under construction
ali during
period of extreme dimeulty represented on the one delegation. until the most auspicious mument of total 818,000 tons.
In Palestine.
attack was at hand. He re- and danger in
These efforts have not succeeded so peated that the alms und objects were far but endeavours to reach agrCC- not represented at the morning's ment are being continued. talks. They had reached a deadlock "In the meantime, as a satisfactory with the Mufti Party regarding settlement has not been reached, representation. The Nashashibl de-
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ANTI-TANK MEASURES
The first condition for any advance
OPERATIONS TO RAISE OLD WARSHIP
Operations will begin shortly to is that the advancing tanks should succeed in breaking down every raise the old warship Olowa, which obstacle in order to pave the way for sank 21 years ago off Cape Dalwo, the other forces. In order to pre- Mie Prefecture, in order to salvage it vent this, a line of tank barriers de for scrap Iron.
signed according to the latest data The hulk has long been the pro- has been laid along the entire fron-perty of Mr. Tasuke Tanaka, Presi- dent of the Tanaka Rolling-Stock
tier.
The most outstanding among these Company, of Osake, but he has wait- in the "hump barrier,
ed until the current stringent times which is so before trying to raise it. Demei. constructed that its concrete fecih will hold up the progress of the tank, and should an attempt be made to climb over, the tank will be held up long enough for the concealed ar- tillery to do its work.
Another obstacle undisputed in its effectiveness in the series of plts up to 130 feet wid
very deep, and alled
with wide,
Special ing water.
have been erected
for amphibian tan
tanks, It being assun
Two Ladies Foil Purse Snatcher
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When she felt the tug, she shouted
as well as advancing infan- to Mrs. Kennedy who at once caught try will meet with a most encetive hold of Au, barrier in the socurely anchored Au received six months' hard barbed-wire entanglements, which labour from Mr. R. Edwards at the Dover many miles in irregularly Central Magistracy this morning. placed zones.
when he pleaded guilty to the theft. Au had a previous conviction, and The principal defence strength of was also recommended for banlak- the fortifications lines, however, Isment.
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