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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 12, 1940.
JAPANESE MAGNATE SAYS ALLIES WILL BE-
ON ROAD TO VICTORY
IN APRIL
LONDON, Jan, 11-Sphinx- like Viscount Kano, vice-Chair man of the Bank for Interna. tional Bettlements, and London manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank, is a Japanese tonic for the Allies,
Yesterday, in his office in Bishopsgate, he said:
"The German thermometer is going down and the Allies thermoincter is
I going up. Easter, feel, should bring the turning-point."
:
"You Aro United" This is how he woighs up the Furopean situation: "The advantages are on the side of England. Your country is ninety per cent, united. German opinion is fifty-fly divided. You have large resources, Germany Jus not.
INVENTOR RUSSIAN TELLS OF DEATH-RAY
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́OAKLAND. —-- The States already has a death ray avallabis for war and facilities for manufacturing thousands of airplanes in days, rather than in months or years, Albert G. Burns, president of the Inven- tors of America, has revealed. respects as well as in thousands of others will be made public, he said, at the annual convention of the as
What Amerlen can do fit
sociation.
these
ARMADA SHAM IS EXPOSED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” ›,
LONDON, Jan, 11.-The Allied High Commands have received details of the much- vaunted Russian Red Air Force, which show it to be a bigger sham than the Red The airplane of the future will
he Army. made from plastic material, indicated, and will be molded instead For her 4,000 mile wide con- of being built piece by plece.
tinent Russia has a first-line Turning out thousands of planes strength of little more than a day, is not a dream," Burns la- ststed. "Wu know how to use plas-4,465 machines.
tic materials and we can pour out- Compared with the latest products and I mean pour out-airplane sheils of the chief Western Europesti like waffles."
Powers 0 per cent. of the Red
Burns, 5 years old, is the inveh-machines are obsolete. There are no tor of the sawtooth brend knife and new-type machines, under production. various klads of automobile locks. The Russian second-line machine
to
"In 1914 Germany had great foreign
Just returned from Lakewood, O., strength is about 2,000 planes. Lack investments. To-day they have no complete arrangements for the of advanced training machines la foreign investments, no foreign funds, annust convention and demonstration restricling the output of trained the gold in their hunds is very little of the Inventions of the Inventors of pilots to 2,000 a year, a useless figure and their exports are being cut off America, Burna dectored:
for large-scale war in Europe. by the blockade.
The death ray that has been
Split In Two "As Germany's
already! internal resources perfected at, Lakewood is
The Russian Air Command are diverted, more and more to mill-Tective in the king of dogs, cats, divided into two sections, one to the A Columbia "ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS" lary purposes, the suffering of the and mice instantly. I witnessed the west of Lake Baikal, the other to the
people will become great.
demonstrations there and the develop-east, Lake Baikal is practically in "How can Germany, in this plight,ment of this ray has war potentiali-the centre of Russia. carry on a full-dress air bembard-tles in it," ment of this country or of France, or
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Tho Western Air Command has a total of 3,240 of the most modern machines allotted
The to St. Eastern Commarid, which covers the Mongolian and Manchurian
frontter. has 1,225 Arst-Une
machines.
On his trip east, Burns collected a full-dress nasault on the Maginot a large number of the latest inven- Line? If they do that their losstations and gadgets that will be exhi- will be great, and the psychological blted at the convention. effect on their own propte will be Among a motion
Allies will continue to grow in man. The trap is a little box filled
There are two types of Russian strength."
with mirrors. A piece of cheese warplanes which experts say "com- Then Viscount Kane, with his hangs from the roof.
pare not unfavourably with the next statement, sent up the For When a rat pecks in, it sees only modern medium-type bombers of East thermometer with a jump. the reflections of the place of cheese, other nations. They are called the It was this: "The war between so numerous as to make it think it
SB and Ts.Kh.25. Japan and China will end in would be a perpetual rat's banquet.
The SB is similar to British When the rodent dashes in, the Blenheim and has a maximum speed. month."
trap springs, and all that is necessary of about 250 m.p.h. A Ditnheim will is to remove the body and the trup do 205 m.p.h. is ready for the next rat.
Viscount Kano believes there can be no peace in Europe until terism Is destroyed. He says that Japan, whose pact with Germony has been clead a long time, is intent on tablishing a new order in the East. m it will not be the old order
of
terms and indemalties st by vic- torious nations,
We have learned a big lesson from the Versailles Treaty. Soon a united
Chinese Government will be es- tablished at Nanking, and when pence comes to China there will be nothing left for England and Japan to quarrel
about."
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The Ts.kb.26 has 4 maximum speed of 245 m.p.h. and a range of 1,000 miles with 3,300lbs, of bombs.
High Morale
The best Russian fighters are the 1.18 (SSF), of which the Western Command has 713 and the Eastern Command 320. These machines ore ⚫ BRIDGEPORT, Corin-John similar to British Gloster Gladiators, Honsel and Roaul Graumont are which have long been superseded by experts when it 'com cs to newer types. "knotty problems."
The morale of the pilots is high, they are good fighters. But discip Inc, as a result of the 1937-8 purges, tow. Every communding officer of every squadron, is watcherl by a political representative.
Between them they have lied thousands of knots, some of them "My bank," he said, "ince theso Intricate they have required days foreign trade of Japan, chiefly
of study and patience to complete." the trade with the British Empire. Wei Hensel claims to have duplicated handle, too, all the bonds and cou- the baffling Gordian knot which was America to grant pons on behalf of the Japanese so cleverly made that both ends of manufacture their latest warplane Government. There will be a mark- the rope were concealed and defled designs. Those sources of progress
are closed to her now, ed improvement in Anglo-Japanese) undoing,
relations this year.
"The opening of
the Yangtse River to international sea traffe is
purely for the benefit of England.
Amerlea does not send ships up there, neither does France. Eng land's shipping can go up Yangise. It is the main and only ariery to China.
Both Hengel and Graumont travelled the world to pursue their hobby of rope making and kaoti in all they have a collection
of 3,200, no two of which are alike.
310 orthodox knots, the simplest of According to Hensel, there are only the which were used almost from the
beginning of time.
Mr.Chamburiain wants to estab 1sh a new order in Europe, so Japani will do the same In the East with the economic collaboration of England.*
Viscount Kano has lived for the Inst nine years in London. In
thel next few days he will be flying home) to Tokyo. He would not admit that he was going home to help celebrate. the peace.
BEATING U-BOAT CAMPAIGN
Anglo-French Shipping]
Tonnage Increases
LONDON, Jan. 11 (Router).-It is olelally stated in London that the number of British tankers in con- mission is larger than at the outbreak of war, when the tonnage was 3,279,- 000.
British losses to January 7 amount- ed to 60,000 tons, which are more than made good by building, ecquisi-| tion and other ways.
The same true of the French tanker fleet. Hence German activi-1 ties have not interfered with normal supplies of petrol to the United
Kingdom.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan (Reuter)-A large crowd thronged the Rio-docks and cheered warmly. when the British cruiser Ajax, Bying the log of Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, victor over the Graf Spee, entered the barbour for the first Ume since the battle.
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BRUSSELS, Jan. 1 (Reuter).- The Government has protested to Derlin against Dying over Belgian territory following the landing of a Gorman plano.
More Contraband Is Seized
PARIS, Jon. 11 (Reuter) The Contraband Control intercepted 12,000 tons of contraband in the week end- Ing January 7, making the total Intercepted since the outbreak of war,
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