Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NANCY
MY MIND'S. MADE.
UP-- THAT LITTLE,
IMP HAS
TO LEAVE MY HOUSE
TONIGHT!
OH BOY-- HE LOOKS AWFUL MAD THIS EVENING!
GOOD EVENIN
MR. SPUTTER
November 24, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
C?
TEE HEE-- I BET HE WON'T SLEEP TONIGHT TRYIN'
TO FIGURE THAT
ONE OUT!
'Do not neglect it
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U.S.S.R
FINLAND A NATION
IN
ARMS NOW
From E. ERIKSEN, "Daily Herald" Correspondent
OSLO, NORWAY.
BEHIND HER BARRIER of a thousand lakes, her marshes
and her great forests Finland is arming to-day to repel a possible attack. Officially, there has been no mobilisation yet.
THE Scanding- vlon countries are anxiously watch- ing the talks now poing on in Atoscow butwern the Finnish envoy and Stalin and |Molotoff. To-day's map illustrates the reason for their anxiety.
THANKSGIVING DAY Americans Celebrate Their Traditional Festival The American community yester dny celebrated Thanksgiving Day. Consulate-General and most American offlees were closed and a luncheon porly was held at the American Club, which is the rendez- for vous of all Americans on this day. The Philippine Associatión China Industrial Co-operatives un-Despite the typhoon threat, there was
to cat the nounced the organisation of a Christ- large gathering mas, fund and. membership drive. In turkey tiffin.
Thanksgiving Day Is one of the which It is hoped to double
lins greatest festivals in the United States, US$1,850 contribution which already been sent to Chungking, and where the people make as much of it as the English people do of Christ- Increase its membership to 100.
Mrs. Francia B. Sayre, wife of the mas. It began with a good harvest United States High Commissioner, reaped by the early Pilgrim Fathers. who recently contributed to the Co-operatives, has been named Prestant Tuesday asking for second hand sewing machines to assist in maicing dent of the incal Association,
Mr. K. P. Liu, Secretary General 250,000 padded coats for the soldiers.
United Press. at Chungking, wired the organusauón
the
In effect, with class after class important islands in the Gulf of Fin- of conscripts called out and the land. entire Civil Guard standing to, Finland is now a nation in arms.
Her people ure determined to malte any invasion so costly, even to a great Power, that the aggressor will hesitatu before attacking.
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In return. It is suggested, Russin nay after the eastern part of the Rybntachi Peninsula. on the Arctic, Ocean.
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ON
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PIGS CAN'T
EAT PIGS
ERMANS who own pigs or cattle are now forbidden to kill them
The western part already belongs for private consumption as a supple-,
ment to their rations. Lo Finland.
Rumours represent the Russian do mands as being far wider, and ex- leading to a Soviet-Finnish miillary pact, with political and economic co- operation.
"NO DICTATION" "If Russia attempts to dictate her claims to us, we shall die with our bools on." » Finnish Labour journalist sold to me.
thousand people were Seventy
Up to now only one division of evacuated from Helsinki yesterday. Russian troops has been reported at Another 70.000 are leaving to-day. the border,
With evacuation and mobilisation going on side by side, all trains are leaving hours late.
On the roads, buses and private cars are pouring out of the capital in long caravana.
There are queues outside the banks as evacuees draw money for their immediate expenses.
REFUGES READY
But there has been no panic run, and the bank rate has remained the
same.
Strips of sticky paper are beginning and A.R.P. refuges are heing to appear on windows, as in London. established.
scen
squadron n
A Frankfurt man found guilty of this "crime" has just been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and a
£600 Ant
PAR
DARIS 'reports that Hitler is about to go to the Western Front originate in the fact that. Hitler's moving headquarters, the so-called "Fuehrer-train," is being overhauled
A number of Soviet planes have in Berlin. bren
out carrying
recon-i New couches are being added to the train, which will consist of ten noissances, however.
And
of Russian departments. Each department will destroyers has arrived at Estonia's be housed in a separate coach. capital of Tallinn, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland.
CIVIL SERVICE POSTS
THE
THE Nazl "land girl" has not been
received with enthusiasm as a' helper on the farms.
to Employ the Peasants refuse young women, and
a propaganda
The following promotions, trans-drive has been ordered by Gochbels fers und re-appointments in the to induce them to change their et- Colonial Service were gazetted in titude. Landon last month:
rufe Winners Pub,
Executive Engineer, Public Works De- partment, Hongkong.
DAILY radio reports about the eficiency of these girls chiefly
work-aro Mr. R. Cryan (Electrical Engineer), to clerks, telephonists, hair-dressers and Most of the schools are closed,
he Chief Electrical Engineer. Public others ignorant of land Even to-day, however, high official Works Department, Hongkong.
Leing broadcast. Purves (Waterworka Yesterday's new feature In the quarters in Helsinki are optimistic,
propaganda drive was a radio' drama
a Jund girl who saved Mr. W. Woodward (Executive Engineer). about though quite aware of the shouls Engineers, to be Asistant Director of They forecast that Itusala will clnim to be Waterworks Engineer, Public Works
peasant's farm and existence.
Other similar plays are to follow. Hogland and two other strategically Department. Hongkong.
ahend.
},
Ar
__ Public Works Hongkong.
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THE Gestapo has been given a new
Job.
Since it has become impossible to prosecute every German who spreads -and-belleve Lumours, anti-rumour squads" are being formed of trusted Gestapo agents.
Their task is to contradict runours rcs- in public places, cinemas and taurants, and even to visit people in their homes to enlighten them about the official Nazi view.
REPORTS
reaching Amsterdam serious difficulties speak of within the Nazi organisations.
Hundreds of local leaders have Govern- failed to recept the Nazi ment's new polley of friendship with the Soviel.
TRAINED to be violent anti-Boi-
TRA
shevists, they have found it im- possible to adapt themselves to the new course.
It is impossible without a radical purge, to remove all these people whose prestige is big enough to allow them open criticism.
LOST
CHANCES
IN CHINA
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'Put Up Barricados
At Amoy and Swatow the piers of British slipping companies are sur rounded by barbed wire barricades guarded by Japanese marines. Nu cargo can be loaded or unloaded by. British ships.
British Hongkong is still carrying: on some of the trans-shipping which made it one of the world's busiest. ports, bat its importance has decreas ed greatly since the Japanese cap- ture of Canton in the fall of 1930. ΠΟΝ enter China's war materials
Indo-China or French throughz Burna, while only Japanese ships can carry cargo to and from Canton. Taking advantage of their freedom of operation, Japanese silpping com- ponics have recently merged their China branches in a single company. which operates ships in
China coastal traffic, on the Yangtze and: Pearl rivers, local ferry lines and shuttle services between Shanghai and Japan.
In
At Dairen, in the north, the Japan- nese have constructed a huge port which last year ranked sixt volume of business among all the harbour cites of the world. Strate glenlly located at the tip of the gate
North way for Manchukua and China, into the Japinhese are pouring vast quantities of military supplies and machinery, and, funne out the products of those regions for export all over the world.
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