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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 8, 1940.
PHOTONEWS
THIS IS HOW TO
INSIDE GERMANY
Will Soon be
'Sold Out"
MANY German shops will be forced to close down after the New Year rush which has just ended. The seasonal buy- ing wave, restricted though it is by severe rationing and scarcity of money, has cleared them of their meagre supplies, which in many cases it will be impossible to replace.
This is not wishful thinking. It is candidly stated by Herr Joseph Winschub, a leading Ger- man economic expert.
crioui Losses
**** Even
the most blustering Nazi newspapers are forced to admit the grim realities of economic warfare. Herr Winschuh puts it in the plainest! language.
DEAL WITH WATER
Army sappers gave a convincing demonstration of thele methods of dealing with water at a milltary engineering school in England. Above, you see them, undeterred by the difficult-
les, advancing at the double" to construct' a pontoon bridge.
the Newsreels of
Queen seized
A NEWSREEL version of the Queen's recent broad-
Writing in the Deutsche Allgeme-cast to the women of the Empire has been withdrawn
ine Zeitung, he says:
"I now becomes necessary to realine that the economie war is get- Ling more and mare serious, and It it continues much longer the losses) will be higher than on the military front.
"No Replacement
"It would be deânitely wrọng to: Hive In a world of illusion. The trade groups will be the first to be mewed down.
+
"Christmas trade results
selling out of shops, and it will no longer be possible to replace their goods, or only in very small quanti-
. Lies,
from circulation.
Girl From Spain Finds
Clue To
Parents
Decision to hold up the film was made so late that coples for circulation throughout the world had left the laboratorics in London.
it was stated in Wardour-street) that ships and & fizing-boat leavingi England were stopped and searched by offelals and some of the reels) they carried were seized and con- fiscated.
It took some time to find the reels. Police officers searched a rallway station and a train arriving al
A MILLION-TO-ONE coin-nort, but could not trace them.
The decision to stop the Alms cidence may decide the fate of going abroad was made because it nine-year-oft Elisa Iturralde. was held necessary to make certain Elisa went to Bristol three years essential additions to the film of the ago as a Spanish war refugee from Queen at the microphone.
The oficial view was that the in-
Bilbao.
"Now that the motor cur trade and petrol filling stations have been com- pelled to go out of business most of the shops will be obliged to do ke wise immediately after Christmas, After the we she remained un- troduction to the screened broadcast: and it will have to be left to them to: deelde whether they will quidate claimed. Me, and Mrs. T.. Reed, of was too abrupt and would not do at once or gradually, which means Queen-parade, Bristol, became her; Justice to the Queen in Empire und! they must decide how much of their kind faster parents
capital they are prepared to go on) Josing. Rations First
neutral. countries.
Coples of this version of the recl Recently Mrs. Beed heard that a Spanish ship had docked at Bristol. jhave niso been withdrawn from pro-
"I showed the captain, she said, vinelal elreutation. "an envelope which had on the
As soon as the essential additions made the Alm will be
last address we had of Elisa's parents, have been
"He said, ' come from there, I released again. The new reel will be took out of my handbag a photo in time to catch the next outgoing
batch of ships. graph of Elisa in a family group.
"Pointing exclledly to the mother
The King and Queen saw a news-
"The German tradesman is playing] an important political role. Unter -tunately, it is a fact that the customer considers his portion of meal and his ration card as of more importance he said, "That is Ellsa Maza. I re-reel version of the Queen's breadcast than the present war and war alms, member her well.' and freely expresses his inlogivings In the shop,
Thus the tradesman is rendering a national service in endeavouring to quielen these dissatisfied people.
"On the other hand, the trade realise that the State cannot grant them any subsidy and that they must find means of helping themselves."
the
at the Leicester-square Cinema when went together to 500
film "The Ilan
"Maza was the mother's malden they ikime. She had worked for the cap-propaganda
Wings.". tain's sister-in-law."
Elisa lind ten In the captain's |
He is going to write to cabin. his wife, who will search the town, to find Elisa's mother.
And a message from Elisa will be In the lefter.
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INDIAN FRONTIER Reports Of Disorders Said Unfounded
London, Jan, G. German "wishful thinking" is again displayed in persistent attempts to persuade themselves that the Indian North-West Frontier is extremely dis- turbed, and especially that Waziristan is the scene of a serious outbreak.
"As a matter of fact," says The Timce, "Waziristan is less troubled then it was early last year and al-
The sappers fording an Army Jorry across a stretch of water on a heavy pontoon raft,
PROFESSOR GIVES UP CAREER FOR SON
It's not set to music yet, but it's the same
Hymn of Hate
HITLER has ordered tho. whole of the Nazi Press 'to join in 11 chorus of hate- against Britain. But not a word is said of France.
This is the same technique when Ernst as in 1915, Lissauer wrote the notorious
"Hymn of Hate."
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This was the last verse of it;
Canton
What care
we for Russian or
Сапрого
French ?
Cebu
Colomba
Medan
Delhi
New York
Haiphong
Petping
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Blow" apoinst blow,, and shock)
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We fight the fght with brunze and.
#teel,
And carve a pruce for ever and
opic.
Thee will we hate with a lasting
hate,
Westvill not abate from our hate, Hale by water we hate by land, ffate of the hend and hate of the
hand,
Hfate of the workers and hate of
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Eire Orders 50-Knot Patrol Boats
A Southampton Arm, it was an- nounced recently has, a contract to buld pocket worships for a small, swift dieet which the Government of Eire is forming to guard territorial waters;
Orders now being placed totul £230,000 for motor torpedo-boats capable of 50 knots and other types: of fast armed patrol eraft.
And they seem quite uncon cerned
at the prospect of standing-at-ease in the water while a walting further
Instructions,
WEDS FOR
WAR NEWS
DR. LUCY NAISH, Professor of Osteology at Sheffield Univer- THOMAS ROUSE, aged 79, of sity for twenty years, has re-Links-rond; Ashford, Middlesex, signed her post and sacrificed a cannot read or write, so he is brilliant career to.-nurse her gotting married to hear the war twenty-seven-year-old invalid nows,
son who has been evacuated to His bride-to-be, Mrs. Lillan Wi- North Wales.
Hamson, a widow of do, is the only
Her husband, Dr. A. E. Nalali, has one of his acquaintance who has the been connected with the university time to read war news to him, he for more thun' thirty years. He was Bald. farmerly professor of melleine there.
Dr. Lucy Naish le regarded as one of the most brillant lecturers in her subject in the country.
though there have been some rapes of Murder Plea
kidnapping, brigandage and sabotage, they have not given the Indian
authorities any grounds for anxiety, Of Second
Apilation of the embroiled pertion of the Atridis with the Afghan Govern- ment has been defeated by joint British-Afghan action and the rest of the frontier is.qulet."
There
of the war.
Personality
have been no military DR. LEONARD PHIPPS
They will live in a flat at Mill End, Statues.
"I am a widower," said Thomas Rouse last night, "I want to know what is going on in this war. Mrs. Williamson has eat many, evenings rooding the paper to me and it has brought great pleasure into my life. So now we are marrying.”
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fmander in1031; Major Tom' E the followers of the Fakir of fpi. but at Nottingham Assizes recently, Gov. Prentice Cooper, Legion com since thers this has been confined found guilty but insahe on a Morris state Palety "director, com- charge of the murder of his wife mander in 1937, and R. G. Turner, chiefly to small acts of sabotago.
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