Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 5, 1939.
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Dec. 5. Haiphong, Haihow and Fort Bayard Je, 5.
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Notico I hereby given In pursuance of the provisions of Section 227 of. The Companica' Ordinance that a Meeting of Credi- tors of COLFIX (FAR EAST) LIMITED will be held in the Registered Offices of the Company, Chartered Bank Building, Hong- kong, at 12.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 27th, December, 1939.
By order of the Board,
W. A. STEWART,
Chairman. Hongkong, 4th December, 1939.
A CHILDREN'S FANCY DRESS PARTY
in aid of the
B. W. O. F.
will be held
ut
The Peninsula Hotel
on December 22nd
from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
DANCING, MUSICAL GAMES, ctc.
Dance Band of 2nd Bn. The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). by kind permission of Lieut.-Colonel D. J. McDougall, M.C., and Officers. Prizes will be given for
Fancy Dresses..
Tickets to be obtained at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel. Children $2.00. Adults $1.00.
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Hitler Tells Neutral Newspapermen
That His Mind Is Made Up
66 OUR ONE AIM IS TO SMASH BRITISH
WORLD SUPREMACY"
From RALPH IZZARD, Daily Mail Correspondent
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 17.-Neutral correspondents were to-day called to a full-dress and very noisy conference at the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, where a blustering official told them that Hitler's mind is
finally made up.
337 Germans Are Interned
In 6 Camps
337
BRITAIN Ha slx internment ramps in use, occupied by cariny allens,
Cilving these figures in a Parlia- mentary reply Mr. Peake, Under- Secretary, Home Ofer, states that the interned persons Include rexi 'dents in this country, people who arrived at ports after the outbreak of war and crews of captured ships. Mr. Peake adds that at one camp the commandant refused to for- ward to the Swiss Legation a letter signed by six persons owing to the irms in which it
couched. ANN The writers were, however, il- the formed that they might ask Swiss Minister to send a represen lalive to inspect the camp. Such A letter
written and for- warded.
Way
"Our one aim is to smash British world supremacy," he said. "From now on Ger- many is going to fight the war in real earn- est."
All day to-day chiefs of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Nazi Party and Government officials streamed into the Chancellery.
Hitler is believed to have told them that he now favours a war of frightfulness. He wishes to hurl all Germany's land, air, and sea forces into one ruth- less offensive.
Continuing his outburst, the Foreign Office spokesman said: "Germany considers that the time for peace appeals. of all kinds is past.
"The question of who is to blame for beginning the war now no longer of the least im portance. We are out to smash British world supremacy."
Faked plans and statistics have: been produred to "prove". That fier- any can turn out 400 suberarizes sx 60,000 aeroplanes by the spring,
The opinion is still held in respon- sible quarters here that the
next Hle accompanied this remark Hitler stroke will be towards the with a heavy thump'on his desk. Balkans and not in the West. The correspondents blinked
Plan for this drive are said to Mr. politely-all except
H. have been discussed between Berlin 2 been 1 Conger, of the New York Herald-and Moscow, but Hitler hos
lion's share of the spoils. expect session had been asked to leave.
His "crime" has been to value! Stalin's weak point is that he can- Balkan campaign crude Nazi propaganda at its true not well start a
Finland is worth in his messages to the United until his dispute with States, and his expulsion is believed ended. to be under consideration.
SEES LONG Tribune, who carlier in the clearly fold by Stalin that he cannot
CONFLICT
BUT ALLIES WILL BE VICTORIOUS
The spokesman went on: "Where Germany will open her offensive, whether in the West or the East, is not for our enemies to prescribe. against force. tentions abundantly clear in good time."
"From now
on it is to be force: We shall make our in-
Hitler may be contemplating that the time has come to double-cross his unwelcome friend, and a quick drive through to the Black Sea is not en- Lirely impossible now.
to
Off to Get Another
The souvenir of the last war worn by this Tommy somewhere in France is being taken back to the battlefield by its owner "to find another one to match it."
American Arms Embargo Affects Asthma Victims
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UP).-Application of the arms embargo Canadian and New Zealand hospitals for the treatment of asthma, pneumonia and other respiratory ailments was lifted.
When the embargo was applied licences for shipment of $156 of The Wilhelmstrasse ^view that the gas to Canada and $207 to New Zealand were revoked.
The gas was not being exported in quantities sufficient for military there was nothing unusual in Ger- many's abrupt reply to the Belgian-use, and was going directly to the hospitals, Dutch peace move is not shared in
The helium act provides that none of the gas may be shipped to Brussels or the Hague.
rations to whom the arms embargo has been applied.
NEW YORK-While holding that prediction on the politics of the present European situation was "risky business," Hugh S. Gibson, one-time Ambassador to! He said the verbal message given Belgium, was home from 15 by Herr von libbentrop to the Dutch
I understand that both Queen Wil- months travel abroad con-Minister and the Belgian Ambassador fident of an Allied victory, but yesterday was the only answer Hol-helmina and King Leopold are land and Belgium could expect to the offended by what amounts to a rebuff, envisaging a long war..
prace appeal of Queen Wilhelmina particularly as Hitler has more than once intimated that he wished them and King Leopoldi,
to take the initiative.
The Dutch nation as a whole juet TURN FOR WORSE
insulted and fear that itler's proten
respect The correspondents received the im-tations that he intends had been "such a bewildering war pression that events had taken a turn Dutch and Belgian neutrality may und had found puzzlement even for the worse.
not be as sincere as they appear. ummung seasoned observers in Europe, This was reflected, it was pointed The "itter" atmosphere of last week-
Dutch peace Initiative.
His guess was based on the supe- rior economic power and resources of but for Great Britain and France, the rest, he supposed
there
never
10
"I just doesn't run true la form, in the landling of the Belgian-end-is-returning perceptibly.---
The TAILPIECE:
SPECIAL
French War
the 1911 class will be demobilised ai
Dr. 1. M. van Haersma de With, and this veteran of 30 years in the
Yesterday a reply in moderate terms Dutch Minister in Berlin, left for the American diplomatic service, who re- was expected. Then quite suddenly Hague to-day to make a full state- turned to the United States on board the Dutch Minister and Belgian Am- ment to his Government, the Steamship Samaria, of the Cun-bassador were summoned, curtly told ard White Star Line. "I couldn't find that the matter was closed, and dis-Ministry announced yesterday that any real agreement among military missed without a word in writing. men on just where or when, or how To-day, also, is the first occasion on the end of the month. A large num they were going to do their fighting which official Germany has baldly her of doctors will also be released stated her determination to destroy soon. Last night's communique re- "My guess is that the Allies can the British Empire. Previously Hitler ported almost complete inactivity on win, but that is a guess based weaknesses In Germany such as food has always expressed a certain ad- the Western Front.
miration for the Empire. rationing, lack of oil in a mechanised But the correspondents who attend-i war, unillgested Polish Czech ed to-day's conference were left in no
arkl
on
Minority groups and an undercurrent doubt of the new German attitude. "MR. NAAF" HAS
of discontent,"
Everything was done to create the Impression that the Nazis have de-
Mr. Gibson reported an "extrnar- | cided on very serious action. dinarily objectivo" attitude ninong]
the British people toward the United MORE "JITTERS" States' role in the International con-
fiel as being a problem on which Whatever action Hitler is planning, Amerlen had to "make up its own preliminary preparation is already mind."
going forward.
NO SUIT--YET
His Uniform Will Buy Comforts For Tommy
"MR. NAAF," who, as his All sorts of fantastle rumours are name suggests, relates to the He had left Germany before the being deliberately spread by normally Navy, Army, and Air Force, has | signing of the Soviet-Nazi Pael, but sober officials.
Great attention is being paid to started helping those three Ser- believed it must have been a "jolt," she many Germans had closed their neutral correspondents, in the majority vices in Chelsen.
Dressing "Mr. Naaf" may ήταν eyes to Nazi policles, "with the Americans paying their first visit to thought that Hitler was leading the Germany who have had little experi- Into Chelsea's chief pastime.
He will be standing the whole world in the fight against Commun-ence in sorling out Nazi propaganda
from the truth.
cardboard length of him, in the en- isin."
Officials have told breath-taking trance to the Town Hall.
of hush-hush submarines, It was bis opinion that Italy wish stories ed above all else to remain neutral superspeed veroplanes, and all man- and that Spain would do so because ner of mysterious "terror" weapons
of its necessity to repair the damage which will shortly be directed agains!
of the Spanish Civil War."
Tragic
England.
£8,000 Gretna Bride In
£8,000 Glasgow Will Puzzle
A BROKEN-HEARTED wife, whose baby son has never seen his father, learned recently that the husband she married in secret at Gretna Green had løft £8,825,
He was Alexander McKinley Smyth, 22-years-old médicalį student. He was a Glasgow University undergraduate, son of the late Dr. Smyth, Antrim brain specialist.
He was found noeldentally shot in his uncle's Glasgow office last De- cember. His mother died from a broken heart three days later. They were burled together in Belfast.
Scrap Of Paper Will
Six months later Mrs. Join Smyth, of Ainsworth Hall, Bolton, Lanen- She had married her young husband over the shire, gave birth to n sON; Anvil at Gretna. For two years only their parents krim the secret, They decided to live apart so that Smyth could continue his studies.
An objection was entered to a will the young man bad. scribbled on # scrap of paper. The hearing of the case was carried forward to a tuturo dinto.
Khaki And Blue
At first he will stand in a colour-
Jess uniform, but girls of the W.VS. will sell small seals of khaki or blue for you to stick on "Mr. Nauf" until he is warmly clothed all over. It will take thousands of seals to cover
him.
The money will go towards buy- Ing Wool for socks, sweaters. helmets, and other comforts for the various Services,
Mr. V. C. Buckley, Chelsen's A.R.P.
liaison officer, originated "Mr. Nonf," and the designer is Nina Mallinson,
"Mr. Nnaf" will visit cinemas and Iarge stores in the district.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
"Stantry and "Eiringstone" (King's) !} Exploration deme. An opet story of Henry Stanley's tribulations in finding Dr. Livingstone in African Jungle though latter was recorded as dead. A flawless portraiture of Stanley
ment. by Spencer Tracy, Excellent onlarialn
Broadway Berenade" (Queen's Alhambra) Entertaining musical Rim starring Jeanolio MacDonald and Low Ayres, Musical numbers are expecially good.
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