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HONGKONG TELEGRGAPH
French Progress On Western Front
GERMANY FEELING EFFECTS
Reservists Not Called
French Residents In Hongkong To Stay
ALTHOUGH they are liable
September 13, 1939.
Another Nazi Canard Nailed
Canard Nailed ALHAMBRA
Britain's Treatment
Of Gormans
LONDON, Sept. 12, (British
to be called to the colours at Wireless). It was stated in the any time, no French reservists | German news bulletin to-day Paris, Sept. 12, living in Hongkong or in any that Germans in the United French newspapers note that while part-of-the Far East have been Kingdom are being arrested and satisfactory progress the western front, the position of the Consulate told a representative ed. This is quite untrue.
continues on called up as yet, the French their property is being conflacat- Poles Is improving.
The gradual French advance into of the "Telegraph" to-day.
As stated in a publle notice broad- the Saar is being achieved by quiet
cast on September 3, and reproduced methods which match the methodical There are about 100 men, women in English newspapers the following withdrawal of the Polish artales to and children in Hongkong's French morning, no obstacle has, generally stronger positions The check to community, of whom less than 50 speaking, been placed in the way of the German advance on Warsaw is are of military age. All Frenclumen foreigners of any nationally who the direct result of shortening the between the ages of 10 and 48 are wished to leave the country; in fact
French Poilets ine.
troops gradually overcoming the German War,
Right To Appeal resistance and making their way
By not immediately drawing upon Of the many thousands of Germana steadily forward.
The French advance in the region her man-power in the Far East, it is remaining in the United Kingdom o north of the Sarreguemines reveals polley outlined for British subjects reasons of national security, but each understood France is following the few hundred have been arrested for that pressure is being brought to bear
Saarbrucken. The capture of in China by the British Ambassador of them has the right to appeal to this area would prove the first vital Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, The Am- independent legal tribunal, which
bassador fold British subjects that will commence work shortly. loss to Germany.
Petit Parisien suggests that the for the present they will be able to Cases of those remaining at liberty time is not far off when the Germans serve their country best by remain will be investigated by nearly 100 Independent tribunals of a legal will have to fall back on a line to at their posts.
character, to be set up in each the rear of the Saar-Renter.
cin
are liable for military service in this large numbers of Germans have left.
since
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11 understood that a numbers wishing to
Frenchmen In Hongkong have been allutter key posts for the duration of the War.
leave the require an exit permit the requirement also applies to British
French Advaner Continues
Paris, Sept. 12. Continuing the battle plan operations began on The Western The French Consulate hire to-day subjects. In the absence of special Front, the French forces sedented reports that French reservists solidated the positions taken yester-
rein Shanghai had been called to the 20-kilometre front, as re- day flected in communique No. 17 which colours. reports "Calm along most of the front."
The French battle plan, frequently! emphasised in offleial and unofficial statements, consisted
slow,
methodic advance, during which they have captured 40 sitions,
post
besides large quantities of automatie arms. artillery and mortars,
The putise
Public Meeting To-morrow
reasons they will receive this permit without difficulty. In no case has the property of Germans la this country bren confiscated,
A
DEATH OF MR. REW
The many friends in Hongkong of Mr. Tom James Rew will learn with regret of his death, which occurredt at the Queen Mary Hospital at 1.30
The funeral will take place this curtege passing the
How, who wan 41 years of
In order to inaugurate a Hongkong jan, to-day. branch of the British Red Cross the campaign; Society and the Order of St. John evening. thods is, first to render the con- War Organisation, a public meeting, Monument at 5.30 p.m. quered pitos mpregnable against to which all interested are invited Mr. any eventual big reale enemy coun- tereattack; second, to transform the new positions into extension of the Maginal Line and several outer de fences third, to use the new posi- thm for a campaign off the front in
the nest advance.
jose
Bank. He felt
to attend. will be held at Govern-jage, was born in Hongkong, For meat House to-morrow at 5.30 pm.mang years, he was Clerk in Charge
The meeting which has been con- at the Mercantile veurd by His Excelites the Goy there two years are to take up a ernor and Lady Northcote is ex-irallar position with Messrs. Utoomal preted to
be well attended and fully Audamal. representative of the various com~] He is survived by his widow ond According tu all indications
munities in Hongkong.
six children. Ronnie, Franels, John, Western Front operations are pru-;
The objects of the Organisation Margaret, Lawrence and Alan, ressively emerging from the contact are to colleet funds and provide com
into the engagement phase, in forts for stek and wounded men of which the big French forces are up the fighting services and prisonM'S
A.R.P. EXAMINATIONS proaching the main defences of the of war. Siegfried Line at several points. During the Great War, the Colony Successful Candidates In
Unofficial reports
by rallied magnificently to the call ani
Recent Tests observers concerning the subscribed nearly $2,000,000 and sup-
diente a great superior-seri
ported 8 relief organisations. Al- ity of the French firing power in though conditions are slightly ton held at St. Paul's College for air practically all categories of weapons. different with the contributions being reid worden instructors and air told war- it is stated that this superiority sent to relief organizations in
the den. Mr. Chak Tal-kwong
was tho which has been revealed in the Saur Ching War zone, organisers of the lecturer. Valley comtats,
constitutes one of new body for rellef in the European the major reasons for the persistent war zone, hope that. Hongkong wili
ud vanco widening of the French against The determined enemy resistance again play its part,
ance.
received
The French artillery is reported to
now
be playing a brilliant role in the RIFLE SHOOTING
Saar Valley fighting, especially in
the active smashing of the enemy counter-attacks at long range.
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NEXT CHANGE Air raid warden instructors.-Tong Sik- ming, Leung Hee-ling, Lau Yau-chi Ip Yating. Tang Yon-kit, Ng Yee-chang
A Paramount Chul-yan. Ip Tatening. ____ Trang
Flenson Wong. Tam Chun-ching, Li Man, So Shun, Lnt Do-man, Tang Min-trot, Kwol- | King, Pang Wai-chen, Chak Kwong-kul,
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Suk-han. Teng Kwong-tal. Ip Klug-chuen, positions and engage in the work of lengthening and keeping the trenches, installing barbed wire, motors, feld Rrtillery and anti-aircraft guns,
United Press.
Only Minor Engagements
Berlin, Sept. 12, A German High Command com- munique states that on the western! front à minor fight is going on withi the advaner
the groups between Saar, Gemuend and Hornbach
There have been no air attacks on German territory.-United Press,
RED CROSS SOCIETY
Government House Meeting To Discuss Plans
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REICH CALLS UP ITS GREAT WAR VETERANS
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 12 (Reuter),—-Mon aged 41 and 48, many of them Great War veterans, have been called" to the colours In Germany, according to Berlin correspondents.
These men are preferred to younger. men because many of the latter have had no military training and the Government is anxious to avoid upsetting the economic life by removing the most useful men from Industry.
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