Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 24, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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Small Patch Of France Is Poland
LONDON. Four acres of France have become Polish IN POLAND the Russian grabbed
sail fought.
with full cxtra- territorial rights and a pro- visional lease of 99 years.
while the Germans
In Finland the Russians are hav- ing to do their fighting for them- selves.
So fur they are not doing so well in Finland as they did in Poland. Nor are they doing so well as the Germans old in Poland.
The Russians are notoriousty brave. Hut in modern war personal courage is scarcely half the battle, writes the trilitary correspondent of the Dally Express
A campaign requires thorough and elaborate organisation. The Russhuns
bad organisers,
are
The Swedish colonists in Finland, like Marshal Mannerheim, have la- herited Swedish organising ability, and have placed their talents at their | country's disposal.
The Finns are putting up a hard fight, and the Russiang hive, on their own admission, failed tu scure any! outstanding success,
In the country north of Lake Ladoga the Russians claim to have made progress, white the Finns say the Russian troops have shown them- selves unwilling to fight: Oficers have to use revolvers to urge their men forward.
South of Lake Ladoga, on the isth- mus keparating the Inke from the Gulf of Finland, the Finns have their strongest defences. They have with- drawn from a few outlying positions.j but the Russiana have reside no reat progress.
When Polish President Vladislav Rackiewitz signed the lease, the Polish Covern- freehold ment became
ה
tenant of France just as the Belgian Government under King Albert did in the last war When the Belgians had been given back their old country by the French and the British they Rave back their four acres to the French. The Poles will do likewise.
The new Poland is in the beautiful chateau country of the Loirc. President Rackiewitz. General Ladi-
the slay Sikorski
Polish Premier. and M. August -Saleski the Foreign Mini- ster will reside there. The -Polish Treasury will also be moved to the chateau, and several inexpensive stu dent's boarding-houses will be empty as Polish civil Servanis move south to the new Poland. Our Correspondent.
Ou
Thankulbul be
Further Details of Remarkable Incident A Look Through TANKER CREW TRIED The Telegraph ΤΟ SAVE HALF
THE CREW of the Lon- don tanker San Alberto (7,397 tons), which was cut in half by a German tor- to the pedo, returned surviving stern
half, got steam up, and attempted to sail it back to port.
The ship was attacked without warning and the crew escaped in | fou rboats15 minutes before she
broke in two.
The fore part twisted and sank
captain in one, kept together
inneriately. Two boats,
the
and the cut pecasion other two though the rain, but could
could occasionally the
not reach them.
Early that afternoon the captain
determined that the after, part wild not sink and he returned to what was Jeft of his ship. On examination it
proved staunch, and the crew started to raise steam, intending if possible,
SHIP
INDIA'S VAST RESOURCES BEHIND ALLIED CAUSE
Her Troops Protecting Empire From Red Sea To Singapore
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24, 1890,
THEY FOUND ARP TUNNEL
In Long Lost Caves Of Antiquity
LONDON-From the outskirts of
Do not have your girdle Loa tight-- will make you uncomfortable, will deceive nobody, and will probably make London there comes a atory which your nose red. And the angle te underlines once more romark will probably do more good than
age-old
the
alle of ductore ipse dixits on the moral that while it may be true that painful position of a tight-Inced ver. "wishhtg will make it so," it is a For wherever else pearl-powder my good deal quicker to get what you stick, leaves the tip of your nose baru
where.
and shining, the instant you pat your Wunt by going out and looking for It. pult down, and there is no hope any- Like all good local authorities,
thesc daya Greenwich 25 YEARS AGO
Borough Jan 24, 1916 Council wanted a good deep under- The Admirnity states that early this ground air-raid shelter. Unlike most morning British patrullis vides, other focal authorities who either with battle cruiser, and light cruisers, build one or wish for it, Greenweli
under Rear-Admiral Beatty, and a de-
stroyer flotilla, under Commander adopted the course of sending out an Tyrwhitt, sighted four German battle expedition composed of one "diviner" cruisers, several light cruisers and with a twig and one party of sur number of destroyers apparently k veyors, with electrical resistance ing for the English coast. The enemy survey, to bunt for an air-raid shel- speed.
at high
Princess
ter.
Or at least they
IN THE COURSE of a recent dispatch to his news-immediately minde for home paper, "The Times" correspondent in India gave a They were immediately pursued and They found one. detailed account of the war efforts being made in India tattle rulers lot. Tiger fences have found a possible one and are in various ways. He had also referred to the sending the hand, and the Deltable, deciding whether it will do. of troops and R.A.F. units from India to Malaya and Moltke and Bucher, on the Council remembered that nearly other places of strategic importance,
Air Force Reserve
on Derflinger,
other.
and
after one shortly
German batile-cruiners were
1 secins that somebody on the
A well-contested running fight ensued, century ngo some large caverns o'clock the nder Blackheath were closed up Blucher, which had previously fallen out their location lost to subsequent "Even the Congress party," he says, "while secking of line, capsized and rank.
generations. It Rent-Admiral Beatty reports that two the Council try to find them. The wan proposed that some specific assurance as to the future constitution, is other
seriously damaged but were ablo diviner and the electrical resistance in agreement with all other political parties in express-continue theit light and reached on Survey succeeded in locating the en- to take her back to harbour,
nrou where the danger of German subtrance, and, having burrowed down, ing hostility to Naziism and all it represents."
marines and mites prevented purnult. the expedition discovered what looks Engines Work Again
like a ready-made air-rald sheller "The Indian reaction to the seizure | Indian upper and middle classes withi The
announces Admiralty
that with three large By night-time the
rooms and water were of Austria, engines
Czecho-Slovakia, and the provision of effleurs in emergency Squindran-Commander Davies and Flight laid on.
There is a well in the working again and there was electric Poland corresponded with the opinion are also well advanced.
Lieutenant Pierar visited Zeebrugge on light. A third boat had now come of all the great-democracies," he says.
the 22nd inst, and dropped 27 bombs Caverns in a fine state of preserva- jalong-side, but the fourth was still The Press has been unanimous in
on two submarines and on gunn which tion..
It in leved i missing.
condemning power polities, both in Units of the Royal Air Force, they mounted on a mole.
There is also evidence to intimate The front part of the San Alberto's Europe and the Far East, Sympathy normally stationed in India, have re- Jamaged. There were many casualties that one of the rooms was used as
that one submarine was considerably *** | remains were prevented from being with Great Britain has found ex-inforced Imperial garrisons in Malaya
ja ballroom long ago, and among the torn to pieces by the seas because the pression in a wide variety of offers and the Middle East. An Indian Armong the gun crews.
names scratched on the cholk walls engines were kept going slow astern,¦ of service and each from all sections Force Volunteer Reserve is in process
_was that of Sir Robert Peel. but every the she came head to sea of the community, and, although lie of ercation: A will consist of five in- meal strips of plating, were forn away: Congress Party is withholding active dependent fights located at Karachi, and the attempt to take her tune had support for the moment, it leaders Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, and Macias. to be abandoned.
constantly emphasize that they seek The personnel for these forces will At 10 p.m. another vessel's lights a declaration of British intentions be found in India. were sighted, SOS messages were only that they may the more willing- 4sent out ant she was asked to search Inaccessible Island In for the mixing boat, which she failed
to find, and then to stand by. In their bombardment of land forts
This ship, the Belgian tanker from the sea the forts came off better)
Andre, nade attempts! ONE of the smallest and most | Alexandra than the warships they almost inaccessible islands in the world,ext morning to transfer the crew.! always have done in the past
In the air, too, they have been ruth-Niue lies in the vastness of the were onding to high-directed into war emmels,-and-dic-recruited-range-and-commissions in patute when paint the firing
Os land the Russians have made. the mistake of attacking theiri enemy where he is strongest in- stead of where he is weakest. This suggests that they are still work- ing a pre-1914 fext-hook methods --15 some of their crities have sald
before now.
They have shown their failure to learn from recent military lessons byį attempting to land troops (near} Hankee) before achieving a decisive superiority.
"TINY DOT” BUYS CARS
31 32
Pacific
a
that the life-boat could get no closer than 20 feet. After two men hatt jumped into the water and been picked up it was decided to wait for the weather to moderate,
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24, 1930. On the eve of the Naval Conference. So that if after all, Greenwich Soviet Runnin provided a sensation of Borough Council decide they have day steamed through the Dardanelles, shelter, they have at least found un- her own when a Russian squadron to not found a ready-made air-raid presumably with the previous knowledge other little bit of history, y collaborate in winning the war.
"Hitherto al pilots and mechanies and consent of Turkey..
Salvacs of for the Air Force in India have been saluting
gun-re from the forts the Russian blps brought "The machinery of the Gaven-} trained at Air Ministry establishments huge crowds into the streets, gazing at: ment of India, under the Immedi- in the United Kingdom and els- the unprecedented spectacle of two ale zuidance of the Viceroy, has where; now British, Inction, and Russian warships steaming slowly to- been unobtrusively but definitely ¦ Anglo-Indian persunie! are behrt wards, the Black Sen and dipplug their
Turkish batteries,
vast resources of the country are in India.
5 YEARS AGO being Mystematically regimented i
"The various civilian flying clubs
JAR. 24, 1913, Tell the Allied cause.
have placed their resources at the Following an outbreak of hostilities; Chinese at disposal of the authorities, and nearly Kuyuna and Tushikow resterday, and a
between Japanese all plots who hold the reéessary threatened further offensive by Jan-
*The
Troops To Malaya
Keographical position
ol
India and her association with Great licences have expressed their willing-¦ noso troops in that aren, the Chinese }
and
ness to serve with the air forces.
Authorities in Peking are reported to Naval Collaboration
huvu upprunched the Japanese Consulate there with a view to effecting a peace-j "The Royal Indlan Navy Is ful settlement of a threatening altu mobilized and is collaborating with clort. the Royal Navy in Indian waters,
and
*
Maunder and landed after five days Russia, has in India mountainous trollers af enemy trading have been the background of the altaation iny
"Our Gracie" Ander bile. Niue boasts at sea in an open beat
The Navy from 1961 to 1937 account for 11 lost his life after assisting in launch! On January 7 Gracie Fields dating from 1928 to 1938 account for!g two of the lifebents. received an enthusiastic wel- the remainder,
come from the Navy when shel
Build Own Roads
went to the town hall of a Scot- The residents of Niue have
con-
British Victory Vital tish port to sing to 2,000 officers | structed a system of roads which on- To African Natives
over
Harry Tate Has Heart Attack
LONDON, Nov. 15, Mr. Harry
tess without being readly efficient. South Pacific Ocean, "a dot on They have not disorganised either the the horizon" to ships that raise military or civil defences of Finid. her, Their landing of troops by perachute!!
Seventeen miles long and eleven tacked effect because it lacked sur-!
miles whic, Niue is an island of the prise.
Warship To Rescue Russia's strength, as compared; "raised coral" type.
Britun endow the country wi Because of its with Finland's, is overwhelming.
configuration and
The next night a searenlight was immense political and military im een on the port beams and a des portantee, is far too soon to form optimistic becaure entirely surrounded by
while ber actual Troyer uppeared. Tine warship potential assets in men and material forecasts, from the Finis paint or a coral reef, Nite has no harbours, view, of the results of the cam for the Iskuri must be taken in decided to await daylight in spite of
Passengers and einções destined offered to attempt immediate rescue, are entrious.
but the captain of the San Alberto!
Arrangements have been made for Professor Grover Clark, of Wellesley paign. But it is safe to say that in such surf boats trough a narrow pass ass seas, darkness and the break-Navy, the Indian Army is helping to Enemy-suing in luchar pts when to-day to the National Conference d
In conjunction with the Roythe protection of ports and harbours. College, In, un nddreis in Washington climeult country and antalinst such cutlu le coral reef.
the remnant of his ship, maintain peace over half a hemise war broke out have been Although the tough fighters the Russians will inc
viitor reathing up
detained, using the cause and care of war, said With troops in Egypt and first
stern.
phere. time is
the danger of hostilities in the Far East Authority has been given themselves in difficulties if they do shore at Nuc for the
Early west morning lines were Aden the country is assisting in the commandeering of vessels
for the bud increased due to the United States cidubtlesi prepared to see zot improve their methods.
many
for and other powers' failure to take a firm passed to the warship and the crew protection of the Red Sea; he tr They have been over-confident and strange customs and queer sights in
were ferried over in fonts. The fluence is behind the friendly sheikhs restricting the transfer of ships and stand, and make their peser machinery careless.
This little outpost of civilization, he is
effective when Japan struck her first of the SP crew
fourth bcal were
Afghanistan, aircraft, romewhat taken aback when' one of
of the Persian Gulf.
of "A. Controller of Shipping and can low in Manchuria. He added that In the fun things that meets his gaze is eventually picked up by the steamer apprehensive of lie intentions
"the danger of a militarised Chins, terrain, stretching from the Arabian appainted. Exports to
The enemy kocking revenge for all the Injuries that have been forbidden, and export to had been inflicted upon her and the reat It is understood that the boatswain Sea to the Bay of Bengal trucks and commercial cars dating of the San Alberto, Malcolm Blain.
neutral countries are supervised and of the Far East by the West." "Indkin troops in Singapore con- | controlled. Restrictions have been vehicles, while Ford passenger cars
tribute to the safety of Burma and placed on the movement of gold and the Malay States, sharing with the on exchange and foreign securities. British Navy in upholding peace After recalling the gifts of the the northern parts of the Princes and others both in cush and Indian Ocean. East Africa looks kind, the "Times" correspondent goes to India for goods and reinforce on to discuss in detail the formatlan Tate, the comedian, is seriously ill. ments if necessary: Great Britain, of a Department. of Supply as soon able them to utilize modern motor |
He had a heart attack last week, the Dominions, and France obtain as wor became imminent. This de-while appearing in a variety show of City Wansportation in carrying on their
supplies from her.
partment is directly responsible for endee, and is at present, resting at Square to nwalt her, and women and two principal occupations, the pro- THE unfetal leader of the Tan- dren tried to shake hands with duction of copra and the raising of Lind, speaking in the Budget session ganyika Legislature, Sir William
New Recruitment
the supply of raw materials and man- his home in Northolt, Middlesex. ufnetured goods direcily required for "The expeditionary forces of Bri- the conduct of the war and has pl-husband had suffered from nervous Mrs. Tate told a reporter that her her through the open windows of the banmus,
said: Until recent years they depended Sallors and marlors and to rescue solely on the production
"The native of this country, this tish and ladian troops which re-
Government. sa at the request her when the crowd land broken the dried kernel of the coconut, for a converted portion of the African con inforced the garrisons in Egypt, Ader, British Gove any orders for the attacks following the recent air raids
A comprehensive organization has on Scolland.
At 63, Harry Tate is famous for to secure supplies of through the police cordon, and push-velthood. During that period the tinent, has more fear of the result and Singapore
оп burlesques
"Motoring," Island was almost isolated from of losing the war than ourselves of the British Government. The been set up
troops are fully equipped for their cloth, blankets, steel, textiles, books, ed the ear to the door of the hali,
than anyone else in the Territory. She sang for over half an hour and civilization, being visited only two or
"It is moat, clearly a war, the re- tasks in these places, and possess the
many of the millions of sandbags then went into the body of the hall three times a year by calling vessels
immediate interest to all Africans, Arrangements for the expansion of which now protect British buildings creased transmission hours, at all lis tant to pome of the min. In the from Aukland, New Zealand. Then sult of which must be of great, and latest mechaniziki Brst Bine transpart, leather, tentage and other materials; "Fishing" and "Aeroplanings.
Another evening she gave
per-un unprecedented decline in the not-
Under a registration scheme de were obtained from the jute mills in eight stations-Delhi, Bombay, Cal- ket value of formance which was broadenst.
forced the especially Africans in this part of the Indian Army are proceeding.
Calcutta.
cutta, Madras, Lahore, Lucknow, Сорга
signed to secure the services of 20,000 She Junched on warship and innders to turn elsewhere for the Africa."
Trichinopoly and Peshawar, Supply Of Munitions He asked the Government to con- men, recruiting officers are examining visited a battleship in the evening. principal cource of their livelihood,
firm this view, and Inter the Gover-the thousands who are flocking to the During the first two moraths of the
War Nows nor complled with this request. Colours. The men are not enlisted war, the Department of Supply placed "Daily news bulletins are given in immediately. After examination they orders amounting to about £10,000,- eight languages English, Hindustani, are returned to their homes, lo await 000 which is double the normal year- Bengali, Gujerall, Marathi, Tomil, calling-up orders. Groups of Euro-ly output of the Indian Stores Supply Telegu and Pushtu. For neighbour- peans are now being called up for and takes no account of the large ink listeners Peratan has lately been from ho added. There are Ave daily news service as officers and are undergoing quantities of munitions training at Belgium, They represent ordnance factories supplied during bulletins in English, four in Hindus
tani and three in each of the other The supply of
· Britain and the Dominions as well listeners. as to the forces abroad, has been a outstanding feature of organization in India. "Much is also being done," the "Times" correspondent points out, in
and men.
Thousands gathered in
car.
#
the
The visit was made at her own request, and the is returning now tuj France to continue her programmes: for the troops there.
FILM
of couro,
Connection To N.Z.
It was at this Juncture that noders transportation, both ashore
and nost, came to the rescue. Al- SLIPPERS FROM
4
though a coral island with an aver- age soll depth of only six inches, un- certain rainfall and
complate absence of running streams, bananna grown well on Niue. Inauguration of
OLD HATS
servo,
WOUNDED soldiers in the Vienna only a few of
"While the authorities are ready
. the war
This
1
"In addition,⠀ áll' stations relay London builolios daily, and there are special bulletins in different languages for rural Eistezzers) (1) "Whatever may be the outcome of
STARS RESCUED
and other tropical fruit have always military hospitals were without anxious to the hundreds who are the same perini aliloms to Grealfanguages being used for Indianı MADELEINE CARROLL, Dougios à regular schedule from Niue to the slippers. Their need has now been to provide oilleers in larger numbers |
Fairbanks jun., Tullio Carminati port of Wellington, N. Z by the met by the Nazl women's organisa-
prevented the absorption of as murty and Lynne Overman were rescued by Government motor vessel Maul Potion, whose members ronde 700 pairs the unexpected course of the war has officers as was at first expected. The Alm director Edward H. Griffith and mare provided frequent refrigerated out of old felt hote: others using "native" cances when cargo service, enabling the islandors
withdrawal of civilians from com- an improvised river boot foundered to engllatire on the banana crop. tion on the island was almost simul-merce and industry hon been arrang- the dissemination of war nows and the domestic political controversy," in a lake near Hollywood.
Annual shipments for the New Laneous with the coming of the ed in collaboration with the European authentic information regarding the the Times" correspondent says in They were making an African film, Zealand market soon reached thirty steamer. The "Maut Fomare was Association, which has rendered the British war effort. A Central Board conclualon, "It is not likely to alter the says Reuter,Meren a
thousand cases, and Niueans and launched at Dublin in September government notable service, In the of Information luis been created to unanimous opinion ofthe country Mr. Grinth was the director of new source of Income to replace the 1927. The first of the present fleat matter both of supplying officers and co-ordinate the provision and public that Hitlerism has to be defeated, nor the films "Ladies In Love," "Cafe devalued copro.
of eighteen Ford cars appeared on of the compilation of a national re-tion of news through al enlisting lessen the efforts made in India, to Metropole," and "I'll Take Romance." Improvement of land transporla-Nue in 1928.
gister. Arrangements to associate the channels. All India Radio his "in-assist in the prosecution of the war
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