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Above Raids On
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LONDON, Nov. 15 (Router). Rond, Victoria, Hong Kong, onA thrilling account of how a FRIDAY, 22nd December, 1939, at | New Zealander in the R.A.F. 12 o'clock (Neon), for the purpose shot down
TOKYO, Nov. 15 (Reuter), a German
The War bomber
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General Blaff to-day observed was given by a witness, J. Went- Accounts and the Report of the worth Day, in a broadcast from
-the first "riceless day"-selling Directors for the financial year Daventry to-day.
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Wednesday, and THE TRANSFER BOOKS AND Garage optional. Apply Union Trad-REGISTER OF SHAREHOLDERS | R.A.F. where he met many pilots
olher military establishments, Inetailing divisional head- ing Co., York Building. Telephone
will be closed from Friday, 1st from all parts of the Empire- quarters, are to follow the War 27736.
Öffico load, December, 1939, to Friday, 22nd | Englishmen, · Canadians, Aus-
A War
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stated to-day that the shortage and a New Zealander.
of rice in Japan was duo lo the fallure of crops Korea and Western Japan. The shoringe, lie said, could be caslly met if the nailon dispensed with rice for one day a month.
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Mr. Day said that he had just returned from a visit to an advanced fighter wing of the
They were all doing very well, he Fald, and very happy. Their main fun, when off duty, seemed to be riding splendid horses lent to them by the French cavalry,
New Zealander's Fight While Mr. Day was visiting them, he saw a young New Zealander fight what was believed to be the highest [nerint battle yet fought in this war -four or five miles above the earth.
The German machine was a large Dornier-17 bomber, which appeared in the sky looking about as big as a swallow.
A liat moment, a British fighter which none had seen up to then, shot out of the cloud, climbed above the bomber and then dived.
rattle."
"It's Only The Beginning"
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DRIVE FOR KWANGSI
(Continued from Page 1.) neither interferes with nor incruces Freneli, interests in the least."
No comment was made regarding the possibility of the Japanese cutting off the French Treaty Port of Kwang chowwan from the Interior of the country.
Magistrate's "I Warn You? To Accused
"I warn you if I find you are tell- ing lies I shall treat you more severely," said Mr. Houston at the Central Magistracy this morning, - when Ng Woon-yuk, 20, dock evolle, Although, immediate French Indented stealing two packets of chrome terests are not affected, the French yellow paint powder from the Taikoo
Docks yesterday. are determined to watch carefully to see if the wider interest of third Powers are affected.
They are maintaining the closest contact and collaboration with the United States and Great Britain.
Chan Tung, Chinese detective sin-- tioned at Taikoo Decks, mid he saw Ng talte a package out from his girdle near the paint stores. He arrested Ng and took him to Mr. Elliot of the Taikoo Docks where he was searched and yellow stains found inside his girdle similar to the have landed at Lung-colour of the paint powder. Mr... BERLIN, Nov. 15 (UP).men, 60 miles from Pakhoi, across Elliot corroborated Chan's evidence.
Warns Germany
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Chungking Claims OPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, Nov. 15 (UP) The Japanese
Chinchow
DRY.
denled that Pakhol
The D.N.B. (Official Ger- It is offered. man News Agency) declares has been that Monday's attack on
Starships
Nov. 16 (Central) the Shetland Islands and A concentration of over thirty Japan
warships and twenty
armed the previous attacks
on launches yesterday heavily shelled Scapa Flow and the Firth of Lungmenkang, to cover the landing Forth are only "the very beginning."
Describing the attack on the
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of marines,
Another concentration of more than ten Japanese warships took similar action at Pakhol.
Chinese defence units at both
ADVANTAGE Shetlands the D.N.B. claimed places put up stubborn resistance.
WITH ALLIES
World-Wide Training Organisation
that two 50-kilogram bombs had destroyed two British flying boats.
"A heavy bomb is believed to have struck a cruiser. Heavy smoke and flames were noted by die lers.
"It can be expected that more at-
LONDON, Nov. 15 (Reuter).tacks will follow," the report added. The British Press, in announc
ing the awards of the O.B.E. to two young R.A.F. pilots, points out that one learned to fly as a member of the Musmans Flying Club, with half an hour's Bying
PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 20th day of November, 1939, at 3 pm, at the Offices of the Public Works Despite the distance, those on the Department, by Order of His ground could hear the sound of Excellency the Governor of onere, but it sounded like Lot of Crown Land at Wong Nei
Spiral Diva At 23,000 Foot Chung, in the Colony of Hong The German machine got a fan Kong, for a term of 75 years, burst in the fuselage which appar-in with the option of renewal atently killed the pilot, for it went into a spiral dive at 23,000 feet, and came a Crown Rant to be fixed by the down at a terrifle speed, hitting the Surveyor of His Majesty the cround at about 600 miles an hour. KING, for one further term of 75 village street and wounded an old It tug a six-foot trench in д
woman, but otherwise caused damage.
years.
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Dived At 400 M.P.H.
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a fortnight, He only became a Flying Officer in April, 1939. This illustrates the efficiency of the Air Force, training system, by
which volunteers and untrained enthusiasts rapidly become brilliant and daring pilots.
The system is now extended on an Empire-wide scale.
Training In India
The German High Command issues
communique saying: "One U-boat during the past few days has sunk 26,000 tons of shipping and captured one prize ship
The Real Version LONDON, Nov. 16 (Reuter),The Intest information shows that at least 16 heavy bombs were dropped by the Naal planes which raided the Shetland Islands on Monday.
An additional four bomby, which were not previously reported, fell on deep peat moor on a hill und did not explode.
They were amour-piercing bombs weighing about 250 pounds each.
A young woman teacher in a anall
Summing up the case, Mr. Houston said because of the cooperative evid- ence,
could not come to any other conclusion butto and defendant
guilty. A sentence of six weeira" hard labour was passed.
Belgium And U.S. Neutrality Law
BRUSSELS, Nov, 15 (Reuter),—
Chinese military authorities declare The Belgian Government is conalder- that defence preparations have longing the possibility of allowing a cer been completed in that part of tain number of American vessels, Kwangtung, and they are determined which are barred by the now neu- to put up a stiff fight against Japanese trality legislation from visiting Euro-
pean "combat" invasion.
under the Hulled States flags, to sail under Belgian colours, announced M. Marck, the Minister of Communications in the Chamber to-day.
MEXICAN OIL EXPROPRIATION
areas
Roosevelt's Discussions
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16 (Reuter) -It is virtually certain that the WASHINGTON, Nov, 15 (Router), Supreme Court will rule the expro-President Roosevelt discussed on priation of foreign petroleum in Tuesday the proposals by US. lines terests, dating from March, 1030 to transfer eight ships to the Panoma constitutional.
fog so that they could trade with The Judgment is expected to pro-combatant areas. vide indemnification covering every- thing installed by the development of industry, but no compensation fur
the loss of the concessions.
Expropriation Confirmed MEXICO CITY, Nov. 10 (Reuter), The Supreme Court yesterday de- clared as constitutional the expro priations of foreign oll companies' Properties in March Inst. Lady Astor Asks
this would be permitted, but he said He would not say whether or not that reporters could see which way the wind was blowing.
Meanwhile the Maritime Commis- slon has refused the request by the Pacific S.S. Line for their ships to be transferred to the Panamanian ré- gistry.
POLISH POLICE RESTORED
Mr. Day said that he had never seen before a plane smash up into Apart from the main training such a complete and utter wreck. centre in Canada, where 2,000 re-school in the aren kept her, five pupils The New Zealander, a tall, dark eruits are now training with a walt- singing churuses while the air danger young man of about 21 years of ageing list of between 10,000 and 15,000, continued. from Wellington, N.Z., said that he training stations for Indian Air Force The Manse was struck by splinters Direct Service-London date, ath offer who will be present at the followed the German bomber down in pilots are opening in India, where and another school was badly shaken. Ban On Champagne
Nov. 10. sale, the sum of two hundred its dive, but pulled out when he was native princes have given large suma Nov, 16. dollars, ($200) in cash. This gum doing over 400 miles an hour.
Ship's Narrow Escape for the development of Air Defence.
LONDON-Viscountess Astor wants i The dive. as Mr. Day saw for
The Nizam of Hyderabad Is franc- Nov. 16. will be refunded on payment of himself, whipped strips
When four large bombs exploded less champagne imported into Britain
WARSAW, Nov. 15 (Reuter)-The oft the ing an entire Air Force squadron. Nov. 18. the Purchase price.
Polish Police have been ordered to omong the peat soil of clay and during the war. icading cuge oľ the British Pilots are also instructed in Iraq, granite 250 yards away, the teacher
Speaking in the House of Commons, watch over the interests of Poles. machine's wing.
where fuel is immediately available. kept the pupils indoors away from the tried to impress on the Board of
Trade that chumpagne was a nones- Henceforth, it is announced, the Egypt Contres
Bomo observers report that eighteential commodity which, her German Police will be available to Numbers of pupils from Australia and not four bombs were dropped opinion, could well be excluded dur-watch over the interests of Germans and New Zealand will be trained in
near a naval vessel.
ing the emergency,
only. under Egypt, both
exceptionally
All those tant fell, in the sea did favourable climate conditions as no damage and those which dropped compared with the circumstances of on land were equally wasted. the German trahing and winter flying.
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
BASLE, Nov. 15 (UP).—The
The Aght, said the pilot, had start- ed about 27,000 feet and he finished the bomber oft al 23,000 feet.
"It was just a bit of luck," he said, and M:. Day could not get him to say anything more about it.
Nazi Raids Matched
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, Nov. 13
(UP)-Match-
Scotland,
In Germany home aircraft nre
the windows.
One Rabbit Lost By Britain! LONDON, Nov. 15
(Reuter).
Ing Germany's daily air raids on the uslug up the limited stocks of fuel. With regard to the German assertions Shetland Islands and and RA.F., bombers have carried out a series of daylight reconnaissance Germany photographing
fights over lowns, furbours and military objec- tives" from TokyoHittides; and, un several occasions, penetrated to a depth of over 200 miles despite active, opposition from German fighters and anti-aircraft guns.
Hundreds of photographs of mill- tary objectives with considerable de l tall and containing vital information
obtained.
were
GERMANY REJECTS
-MOVE FOR PEACE
[Continued from Page 1.)
on the cnids on the Shetland Islands, the full reply of Mr. Winston Churchill shows that the main con- tentions-of-Mr-Churchill-were-sup- pressed in Germany, states a special commentary.
replies in an effort to find a basis for air force did not attack the British Mr. Churchill said that the German further peace moves.
Fleet walting in the Firth of Forth in the past week.
Dutch Offended
The few. German airmen who
THE HAGUE, Nov. 15 (Router).Crossed the North Sea were careful to On one recent rali 16 enemy acro-clais to-night were busy decoding ayold the Firth of Forth and the Fleet dramen were photographed, in addi- communication from the Dutch defences, which had inflicted heavy tion to the well defended towns of Minister to Berlin, presumably giving losses before, but made for the vir- Erden and Hamburg.
the gist of his interview with Herr tually uninhabited islands.
The Geriaan airmen falled to do On this occasion one British plane van Ribbentrop. flew so low that it actually passed] If Ribbentrop's statement is to be any damage save shattering windows beneath two bombers which were taken as Hitler's reply to Queen Wil-by bomb-blast and the only casualty approaching to land.
helmina's telegram, public opinion in was one rabbit. At other times, the planes were Holland will inevitably be
most flown so high that the crews were offended, as it is pointed out that when the Queen sends a message to obliged to use oxygen equipment.
Admiralty Donial LONDON, Nov, 15 (Reuter)-The The total distance flown on each the head of a foreign State, the aver-Admiralty deny Berlin reports that Nov. 24. Swias mindo their first prisoner Taid seldom was less than 800 milesge Dutchmans expects at least the two flying-boats were destroyed in of which nearly half was over the courtesy of a formal reply. North Sea and the remainder over the offer is regarded all the more un- Moreover, this method of dismissing German territory. All but a few friendly in view of the recent state- planes returned safely.
ment by the Dutch Foreign Ofee to the effect that the Anglo-French replies are considered to leave the door open."
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The City Commander announces that the border guards, searching a local train from Karlsruhe, discovered a peacefully snoring German soldier in a cumpartment. The German was scared stiff when he learned that he wax under arrest In Switzerland,
The soldier was brought before the City Commander. He was returned .3 p..
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ITALY'S NEUTRAL BLOC IN BALKANS
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across the long and virtually unde- fended frontier.
Hller's failure to mention the pence move in his Munich speech capsed grent regret in Holland.
The German Intimation that Queen Wilhelmina's telegram will be care- Soviot Holds Whip Hand. fully examined, gave a ray of light A former Rumanian Premier, who during a critical period, but the intest has requested that his name be development serves to cast a deeper withheld, hinted last week that it shadow over the final disappointment. Į Russia need do to prevent the formation of the peace bloc is
to make
the air raids on Shetland Islands.
British Donial
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Nov. 16, (UP).The
British Admiralty and Air Ministry In a joint communique to-day cale Korically deny Berlin
reports that two British dying boats were des- troyed in Monday's raid on the Shetland Islands,
London's Air Raid Warning SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, Nov. 15, (UP).--An air Naxi Reply
roid warning was sounded in the BRUSSELS, Nev. 15 (Reuter)-popular East End district of London a few obvious troop movements The German reply to the mediation early this morning, due to a faulty visible from" the Rumanian and offer of King Leopold and Queen, siren connection. Hungarian sides of the frontier, Wilhelmina is now not expected for affected.
Pressure on Bulgaria to remain two or three days. aloof would be even marc simple,
It was originally expected to-day, shortly afterwards. according to informed sources here. It is believed that the offer will he but Bulgarin, according to diplomats rejected on the grounds that Britain arriving from Solla, fears Russin and France have set impossible con- might make an embarrassing offer of ditions.
A wide area was The all clear signal was rounded
ROTHERMERE WINS CASE
(Continued from Page 1.)
territorial revisions in exchange for It is reported that the German political co-operation.
civilian population of Aschen (Aix- Bulgaria wants her revision at afla-Chappelle), which top and back of
was recently conference table and nof at the point evacualed, are now being permilled of the bayonet
ito roturn.
the heads of foreign governmenta Well-informed quarters, hope that Hospitals prepared for soldiers aro
being bandied about in Court. Germany, who is certainly not averse again available for civilians.
The Judge declared that he had not to seeing Russian Infiltration checked
Rhineland Flooded In an area which has always been the LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter)-It is the circumstances in which
heard a satisfactory explanation of the goal of their Drangonchosten, would reported that the waters of the Rhine Princess, had received photostatic alve at least tacit support to Italian are now well in flood, putting a brake copies of these documents, which Initiative and use her influence with on any German military plans for were not from Lord Rothermere, her Russia to prevent pressure on an Invasion of the Low Countries. Humania-and Bulgaria.
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In support of this hope, it has been pointed out that following Italy's ; PARIS, Nov. 10: (Router) ---Semi- revision of trade reintions with Jugo- official circles describe, the German
Slavia and Bulgaria, he is now about reply to Belgium and the Netherlands
employer, but from his correspond- ents in Europe.
Judgment With Costs "There can be no possible occasion.
for the lady to continue to receive
to play host to a Inrge Rumanian as "another customary manoeuvre to from the German Chancellery' coples trade delegation which is going to throw on to Britain and Fratico the of private documents sent by Lord Rome next week to negotiate a new responsibility for Germany's war," Rothermere to that destination as late agreement. BANANA JEA
The added that the manoeuvres January, 1930, said the Judge. It is believed that Rumania would deceive no one, ga
The result in that this action falls would not take such a step :with- The only point to remember is that on every point, and there must be ́out the approval of Germany'..
Germany has said No.
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