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LETTERS
Americanisms
To the Editor,
T. II. KING, Commissioner of Police.
22nd December, 1939. Hong Kong.
BANK HOLIDAYS.
In accordance with Government | Ordinance, the Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of Public Buɛlnesa on Monday and
The "Hongkong Telegraph,” Sir.-In his Castigation of local 'newspapera' øllered'use of American- isms, your correspondent "Briton" Tuesday, the 25th and 26th Decem- makes use of the phrase "what-have-ber, 1939. (Christmas Holidays). you"Surely an
There ever was one.
Americanism if
I suggest that "Briton" might, with nivaninge, take a minute or two from hla newspaper reading and look up Luke VI Verves 41 and 42.^
ALSO A LIMEY".
USO
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of
Sir,With reference to your planation concerning the
the word "Bililon," I wonder how you explain the expression "Mil- Hard, which is commonly used on the Continent of Europe, not only in France, from which this word pro- bably also originates, when
Hongkong, 21st December, 1939.
DRAMATIC RESCUE
Swedes Sayed In Ocean Gale
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reuter).
between British planes and
5,500 TRAINS FOR TROOPS AND MUNITIONS
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reu- ter).-A new type of rafl way waggon called "lowfli waggon” has been developed for the transport of gus cylinders for the balloon barrage.
Lorries with these cylin ders are a familiar sight on Britain's roads to-day and they will now be able to run directly on to waggons, saving a great deal of Iond- ing and unloading.
It was learned to-day that 5,500 special troop and munition trains were run by the British railways during the first three months of the war.
TO FIGHT TYPHUS IN FINLAND
Roosevelt Appoints.
Two Experts
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
(UFS
With gasoling rationing in force in England, a greengrocer in Westwood still operates his delivery car, but he Improstos Old Dobbin into service as the motive power. Note the shaded headlights, as a blackout measure. Pictura passed by British consor..
CARNAGE
Nazis Over STORY OF AWFUL
Belgium
(Continued from Page 1.)
Disappointed Germans
POST OFFICE
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS On Monday, the 25th December, and Tuesday, the 28th December the General Post Oflee and Branch Post Offices will be open as follows:-
Monday, 25th December General Post Office & a.m.. to 18 a.; Kowloon Central Post Office B a.m. to 18 am,; ShAngwon Branch Post Office 8 am, to 9 a.mn.
Tuesday, 20th December
G. P. O. a.m. to Noon; K, P. 0. 8 a.m. to Noon; Sheungwan & am, to
10 a.m.
All other Branch Post Offlees and Money Order Olee will be entirely closed during the Holidays,
.
There will be one collection from the pillar boxes each day ng on Sun- days and one delivery of registered and ordinary, correspondence at 10. a. on Monday, the 25th and at 11 8.m. on Tuesday, the 28th.
The Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Tal Po and Un Long will also have one delivery of ordinary correspon dence cach day at 11 am.
small Packet Port su all countries a suspended
Christmas and New Year Cards. hearing not more than five written words and enclosed in open envelopea r accepted by the Post Office at the ate for printed matter, i.e. 5 cents for 2 ounces, for all countries.
Hongkong, Chian and Macao at 2 ents per 3 ounces.
Envelopes must not be closed.
OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel Malls are
overwhelmed by the sudden Finnish To Be Sent From South osed 15 minutes earlier than the
Government Lodgevance.
A Protest
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
"They tried to dig in with their baro hands, but could not break the (razen surface.
Tyrol To Poland
INWARD MAILS
kne given below unless otherwisa xaled, and where malls are advertla- BERLIN, Dec. 21 (Reuter), The ered and parcel nails are closed st
d to close at or before 9 am, regla "One lies where he fell, his hands Germans who are being repatriated.. on the previous day. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21
BRUSSELS, Dec. 21 (Router), bleeding and discolouring the snow, from South Tyrol are reported to be
When. nails aro advertised to close after 5 (UP)-President Roosevelt The Government has protested!
und a bullet through his heart,
bitterly disappointed at the news .m. "From one of his pockels I took a that most of them are to be sent
Registered und Parcel malls has ordered two United to Germany against the flights letter which he had started to write to German-occupied Poland.
are closed at 5 p.m. States Public Health experts of German planes over Belgium. home
"Dear Papa”
This information was given to a to direct and aid in
It is officially stated that Belgian the aghters and AA batteries drove off "Its childish nerawi began: Dear number of repatriates on their arrival fight
planes which against typhus in foreign
flew over Pupa-...!.
Direct The rest was blotted out at Innsbruck to-day by the local Nazi
chief, Finland.
varlous parts of the country to-day. by his blood.
The encounters occurred in the "Among all these borlies were He has directed Senior Sur-provinces of Luxembourg and Liege, spread in indescribable confusion geon H. A. Spencer, who is ine at Bruges a German plane, hundreds of books and pamphlets which was engaged by a Belgian written by ancl about Stalin, whose Paris, and Senior Surgeon Vance patrol, opened are without effect. birthday to-day many of his soldiers B. Murray, who is in Berlin to
will
never celebrate. proceed to Finland and to
"I talked to one Kussian prisoner who had been captured after hi-living at Bolzano and North Italy are
Cu
wishes to denominate one thousand-The story of how co-operation operate with the American Red Stalin's 60th
millions.
Perhaps other readers would be destroyer saved six survivors of
interested.
"ALL MIXER Un"
(Both "Billion" and "Milliard" are derived from France, where they are synonymic for thousand million. It should be explained that the archnic meaning of "Billion" in France was the meaning to which England has adhered-one million million; France now adheres to the more moviem meaning of thousand million. "Mil-
inrd" is derived from the metric prefix "mille"-one thousand.-Ed).
DOCKERS CHEER
THE URSULA
Gallant Men Given -Special-Leave-
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Router). Dockyard workers cheered and mayai ratings lined the rails of a submarine supply ship lo give a tremendous welcome to the submarine, Ursula, when she sailed into harbour after her great feat of sinking a German cruiser of the Köln class at the mouth of the River Cibe.
After the Ursula bnd docked and the bearded members of her crew and posed for newsreel enmeramen, the news came that all had been
granted special Christmas leave in recognition of their service.
Within a few hours, all had caught trains to their homes.
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a torpedoed Swedish ship in the North Sen was told in London to-day.
An R.A.F. plane on coastal patrol sighted a small craft with six Swedes 1. It immediately signalled the news to its base and another plane was sent out to keep in contact with the raft,
The Admiralty meanwhile sent out a destroyer. the time, the raft was driven
Thanks to a fierce gule blowing at far from its original position and the rescue plme had to enrry out a wide search for It,
Guided by fures, the destroyn picked the men up after steaming full speed for 100 miles or so.
REDEEMED HIMSELF
(Continued from Page 1.) Nazi sources but from the High Com- mand of the German Navy,
In a statement, the High Command said that Capt. Langsdorf did not wish to survive the sinking of his ship and took his decision in accor
of the dance with the traditions Onicers Corps, to which he had be longed for almost three decades.
The Navy understands und esteems his action," the statement concluded,
The Nazi Presa also shows great reserve in reporting the scuttling of the Columbus.
British Captain At Funeral. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 21 (Reuter). ---Among those attending the funeral of Captain Langsdorff this afternoon was Captain Pottinger, of the British steamer Ashlea, who was one of the Graf Sper's prisoners.
The British Mission to Seameri seni a wrenili.
It is now learned that on Tuesday, Captain Langsdorff had a long talk with his officers: Certain remarks he then made, together with the fact that he had distributed his personal effects as keepsakes, suggested that he had suicide in mind.
Cross.
Years Of Experience
Birthday
Press Waxes Poetical
North Tyrol, he told them, will be available only for a small number of South Tyroleans.
Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Service"San Francisco date, 15th Dec.
.Dec, 22. U.S.A., Honolulu, and Japan (Sdn.
Francisco dule, 22nd Nov.) Dee, 2. Australla and Minila Haiphong
Suigon
Italian Offer To Nazis
ROME, Dec. 21 (Reuter).-Germans
Japan
London and Straits
Japan and Shanghai Sandakan
.Dec. 22.
.Dec. 22.
Dec. 22,
Dec. 22.
.Dec. 22.
.Dec. 29,
.Dec. 23. .Dec.
Dec. 23.
3.
hurt himself in a forest for three offered the chotee of German citizen- Shanghai and Amoy days, He was the only survivor ship and repatriation, or continued Calcutta and Straits ..... of 'n deall of twenty men. The Italian citizenship under an Italo- Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct other died of cold and hunger. German agreement, the text of which Service"-London date, 10th Dec. Both men are experts in the pre-
"He was exhausted and the Fin- is published to-day.
Deo. 24. vention treatment of typhus. Dr.
They must choose before December | Japan MOSCOW, Dec, 21 (Reuter)Tenish afficer who captured him spared
him the necessity of holding his 31. Spencer has had 20 years of experi.Soviet Press contained no news of
Manila ence both here and in Europe, while the operations in Finland to-day but hands in the air"
Different coloured voting papers Shanghai and Ainoy are being issued, white for Italy and Shanghai Dr. Murray has had long experience devoted large trucks of space to in the Philippines and Japan. He Stalin's 60th birthday.
yellow for Germany.
Straits The agreement was signed by Herr Calcutta and Strafts also directed the Quarantine Stations at Shanghai, Alesku and at South
Himmler for Germany and Signor Japan and Shanghai Guldi, Under-Secretary for the In-Japan, Shanghai and American poris.
terior, for Italy.
Manila
CHRISTMAS PUDDING AS HEAVY AS THREE MEN
(Continued from Page 1.)
grow quite poetic about him, speaking in lyrical terms of his "wisdom, ability and lovableness."
It is interesting to note in connec tion with the decoration of the Order) et Lenin, the highest order in Soviet Russia which has been bestowed on Stalin, that the last recipient was the Sviss Hotel Association examination Nazi Foreign Minister, Herr Joachimotel at Assuan. Egypt. From there and was appointed to the Grand von Ribbentrop.
he returned to the Burgenslock Hotel Switzerland where passed
in
HORE-BELISHA'S special examinations relating to the
WARM PRAISE
Typical Of Nazis Polish Professors Duped,
cold dorage of foods. He first came Maltreated
to Chinn in 1830 with the Hongkong, and Shuughal Hotels. SPECIAL-TO-THE-TELEGRAPH Following his visit to Hore Delisha usked at the Hongkong flotel to pre
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Retter) = {On__one_occasion.......Leopold__was LONDON, Dec. 21 (Router) The Palace," the camp in England of the pare the same menu and wines ar hud Polish Ambassador has received re- Canadian Expeditionary Force, Mr. been set for the banquet extended to solutions from most British univer- Leslie Hore-Belisha spoke warmly of King George VI on his visit to Paris sities, including Oxford, Cornbridge the discipline and efficiency of the The same table decorations, re and St. Andrew's, expressing
Canadian troops.
the Lake 1 presenting
Versalles dignation at the German treatment "When one sees these men me has were reproducert and the scene of the of the professorial staff of Cracow no doubt about the result of the war," dinner the famous Hall of Mirrors University and sympathy with the mid the War Minister,
was also copied by placing huge "I think they are quite unbeatable, mirrors about the dining roon. peoples of Finland.
It is stated that Cracow University! don't think any finer body of men professors attended a conference te as ever crossed the ocean."' hear a German professor explain the) German attitude.
10-
A number of lorries were already waiting at the front of the Univer sity.
The whole teaclung staff, including imony septuagenarians, were arrest- ed, severely inan-handled and sent to a concentration camp in, Germany,
REMARKABLE REVELATIONS OF NAZI WAR GUILT IN YELLOW PAPER
(Continued from Page 1.) Many Argentine newspapers take the view that
Poland. Capt. Langsdorff's the former to sign a military a lance It was intended to induce suicide was a protest against Hitler's and the latter to agree to the cances- order to scuttle his ship widle, sho was still capable of doing some dam-
alons demanded, uge.
Diplomatic Manoeuvre "Thirdly, by Iaitucion the Western Powers, threatened with German and Russian collusion, to accept certain Soviet demands to which Poland and Rumania would be opposed and thus spoil the Allies' hand."
Hittor Criticised SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 21. (UP),— There are persistent but unconfirmed rumours here that Captain Langs- dorff's last letter to the German Ein- bassy strongly criticised itler's order to sink the Admiral Graf Spee Instend of fucing the enemy.
The Embassy has declined to make the contents of the letter known to the public and has denied the rum-
curs,
Argentina has accorded the de- ceased Captain a hero's honours. The Argentine Navy provided a guard of honour and a battalion of marines were detalled to perform full military honours at the burial service.
The coffin was lowered covered with flowers.
Another Possibility LONDON, Dec, 21 (Reuter)-The scuttling policy is possibly also due to an expectation that Germany's. methods may agál bring neutrals into the war against her.
Uruguany might justifiably seize the interned
merchantships to com- ponsate for the damage done by the scuttled Graf Spes at Montevideo Harbour.
The sea-bottom, therefore, is the safest place for them.
Declaring it uncertain whether Hitler was planning a real under- standing with the Soviet or merely diplomatic manoeuvre, M. Coulon- dre anld that he was inclined to support the latter hypothesis because in his own view and that of his party, It was difficult for Hitler to enter a collusion with the
Soviet while completely neglecting the fact that not only his internnt policy but also the National. Socialists' policy was built up upon unti-Bolshevist Ideology.
Huge Bacon Orders
For Canada
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Ministry of Food will purchase from LONDON, Dec, 2 (Reuter),—The Canada an average weekly supply of £6,000,000 of bacon and ham, ac- cording to an agreement reached hy English and Canadian authorities.
This dinner given by a Hongkong resident for a party of 30 cost, $3,000,
We Can Even Beat The Nazis
At Weather Forecasting!
LONDON, Dec. 21 (Reuter)-A special commentary states that the meteorological conditions at this season give Britain and France a considerable advantage over Germany.
Graf Spee Was Bluffed
New Revelation By Naval Authority
SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" PARIS, Dec. 21 (Reuter}-Fur- ther details of how the
Germans were bluffed into scuttling the Graf Spee were given by a high French naval authority.
Straits
Air Mall by "Air France vice"---Paris dale, 20th
Haiphong
Japan and Shanghal
Dec. 24.
Dec. 24.
.Dec. 24.
Dec. 24.
Dec. 26.
Dec. 20,
Formosa.
.Dec. 28,
Dec. 26, .Dec. 20%.
.Dec. 28. Direct Ser-
December. Doo. 21.
.Dec. 27.
.Dec. 27.
OUTWARD MAILS Friday, Dec. 22 Manila, Australia and New Zealand via Thursday Island-due Thurs- -day Island, 4th January 1940
K.P.O.
Roy.
.2.45 pm.
Ord.
.3.30 p.m.:
G.P.0,
Reg.
.2.45 p.m.
Ord.
.3.30 p.m.
.4.30 p.m.
.7.00 p.m..
Saturday, Dec. 23
He declares that it was a glorious Japan. bluff which succeeded magnificently. Manila
"At the time the Graf Spee sank
were only two small cruisers Air Mail for Mania, Guam, Honolulu waltirag. outside.
there
"The Cumberland had not arrived and the British capital ships were far away."
This authoritative statement makes clear that the battleship Dunkerque also was not outside Montevideo.
New All-India Congress Edict
The prevailing winds and the bulle many also depends on the latter areas WARDHA, Dec, 21 (Reuter).-The of our weather come from the west.for knowledge of her awn coming Working Commillee of the All-India Information is gathered from North weather.
National Congress has decided that America, west cons of Ireland and The Al Ministry, therefore, on the Congress members should continue lo sometimes from the Atlantic, and outbreak of war, caneciled the usual abstain from attending the Central also from und and balloon observa- forecasts art weather became a Legislature except so far as this is Lion in England and France, but Ger- {guarded secret,
necessary to retain Forty seats.
Because it has been estimatod ons gram of radium scattered by a bomb might kill 100,- 000 parsons, London's radium has been stored in a 50-foot woll in the Thames river, bed, under Westminster Hospital. Hore nursos lend a hand at digging. Machinery is shown that boras, the 50-foot hole in the ground into which radium was let down,
and U.S.A., by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service"-due San Francisco, 20th December.
. Reg.
Ord
Reg. Ord.
Shanghal
Fort Bayard Saigon
K.P.O.
...Dec. 22, 5 p.m. ..Dec. 22, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
....Dec. 22, 5 p.m. .Dec. 23, 7.30 am.
10.30 a.m. 10.30 am.. 10.30 am..
Airways
Air Mall for Imperial
Direct Service due. London 31st December.
Ref.. Ord.,
G.P.Q, & K.P.O.
......Dec. 23, 5 p.m. ...... Dec. 23, 5.30 p.m..
Manila, Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Egypt and Eur- ope via Naples duc Naples, 17th January 1940,
Reg.,
Ord.
G.P.O. and K.T.0.
Dee, 23, 5 p.m.. .Dec. 23, 5.30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 24 Arnoy and Shanghal Fort Bayard and Tourane
Haiphong
'ur
.@ 3.m.
..D RIM.
... a.m.
..20 a..
Monday, Dec. 2 Haiphon: .............
Tuesday, Dec. 20 Shanghal
8.30 8.m. Batavia and Sourabaya ...9.30 am. Straits, Ceylon, Iridin, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europo via Marseilles due Morseilles,
24th January 1040
Ref.
G.PO, and K.P.O.
.11.15 4.m. .Noon.
Ord. Shanghai and Parcels only for Tien-.
tsin
.Noon. Salon, Madang, Salamaua, Rabaul and Tulog ......Noon. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-due London, 3rd Jan, K.P.O.
Ren
Dec. 26, Noon. Dec. 20. Non.
a.r.0.
Dec. 20, Noon.
.Dec. 20, 5 p.m.
Air Blask for Malaya, Jaya and Aus-
mperial Always Direct:
due Sydney, 1st Jan,
Ord.
Reg.
Ord
tralia by
Bervice
Rex.
Ord.
Rex.
Ord. Formosa.
K.г.0.
Des. 20, Noon.
Deo. 26, Noon.
Dec. 20, Noon.
GP.O.
Deo. 20.
Shanghai and Japan
3:30 pan