OVERNIGHT
Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MANNERHEIM LINE IS
NEWS PAGE STILL STANDING FIRM
Woman Shot Dead Huge Soviet Losses In
In Kowloon City
One woman was site! dead and another seriously wounded by two rubbers at Kowloon City About s p.m. yesterday. The dead woman was Ho Rul, 39, and the one who was wounded wan her amah, Chan Hanı, 43.
The women were occupants of 201, Malauwel Road, ground floor, to which
robbers gained 1/10 admittance On tho pretext of coming 10 exchange greetings In connection with the Spring Festi val. One of the robbers, armeft with a revolver, shot the women when they raised the alarm.
The robbers decamped with an Imitation leather suitcase, cloth- ing and $500 In money, mostly $10 notes
So far they have not been arranted,
JEWS IN GERMANY
Cold Weather Adds To Their Misery
Amsterdam, Feb. 0.
From details collated from a large here-sourcen which have no reason or object to colour realities—it possible to, present a picture of the true horror of the plight of Ger- many's Jewish population.
number of neutral sources available
Attempt to Get Through
Stockholm, Feb. 8.
Despite vast Russian expenditure in men and materials in the last 11 days the Mannerheim Line stands firm.
Soviet losses on the various fronts in the last two days alone are estimated at 3,000 to 4,000
men.
It is possible that yet another Rus- sian division is in difleattles on the central and northern front. For just over a week the Finnish troops re- lensed after the victories at Suvinus sulmi and Lake Klanta have been trying to surround this division north of Kulimo.
the Kuhmo
A Finnish communique reports that Finnish troops in area have Improved their positions, while a battalion of Soviet troops was with losses of 250 men cut down while trying to cross the frontier south of Rante.
Another body of 300 men was des- troyed in this region the previous day.
few days. This may be due to the use of British aircraft which have! just arrived in Fintond.
Russian pilots have great respect for Brutish, fighters.--Reuter Bulletin.
Momentary Advance
Helsinki, Feb. 9. The Russians at one time yester-
were driven out! defences, but they after eight minutes of hand to hand! fighting-Reuter Bulletin,
day forced their way into the Finnish
Heroes Of Soviet Union
Moscow, Feb. 8.
It is announeed eight commanders of the Red Baltie Fleet have been
Soviet Union" for carryint out battle awarded the title of "Hero of the orders in Finland.
Casualties On
H.M.S. Sphinx
LONDON, Fel!. 9 (UP.)-Tho Admiralty announces the castani- ties on the minelayer Sphinx es one officer killed and four mise- inx, presumed dead; three ratings kliled; one died of Injuries, and 46 missing presumed dead.
The Captain. Comdr, J. R. N. Taylor, was killed Engineer F. A. Braham, Temporary Sub- Lieut. J. S, G. Comfort, Lieut. A. H. Nicholls and Temporary Lieut. A. L. Tessier are missing, prerum- ed dead.
OFFICER WEDS
Ceremony Hold On
February 10, 1940.
SPOTLIGHT
ON
GERMANY
NAZI FEAR U.S. ARMS FLOW
Under an outward show of indifference, the Nazi Press betrays growing alarm over the deliveries of war materials which the Allies will soon be re- ceiving from the United States.
The Berlin "Loka! Anzeiger" at- templs in a lung article to prove that the American aircraft industry, in particular, so overworked that it cannot possibly make any consider- able deliveries to Britain and France. "Once more," concludes the article, "the peoples of Britain and France will be forced to realise how they have been awindled and led tu."
This triumphant note jars, how- ever, with the vlows of the "Frank- furter Zeitung" which not only nd- mits the Imminence of armament deliveries of boom proportions, but frankly discusses the possibility that the United States will ultimately grant credits to the Allies.
The welter also speculates whe- ther the United States will intervene on the Allled side. He at once dis- misses such a prospect on the ground
Chinese New Year's Day that the Japanese menace oblige the
A pretty wedding was solemnised on Chinese New Year's Day at St. Andrew's .Church, when Miss Kath- leen Eleanor Tonge became the bride of Mr. George Charles Moss.
The Finns are still mopping up the An attack supported by artillery and "lost" division north of Lake Ladoga,
Polltient workers of the Baltic Fleet THE Rev. Mr. J. R. Higgs, tanks is reported to have been re-who have also distinguished them-
Vicar of St. Andrew's, oficiat nulsed in this region; one Soviet selves against the Finns are awarded
led, and Mr. Rupert Baldwin was column comprising heavy guns, four medals-United Press. tanks and over 60 motor vehicles was
at the organ. destroyed.
The Russians have made very few With the Aryans themselves suffer- ing severely from lack of food, cloth-bombing raids in the last few days.
ollter
Super Human Race
London
United States to keep her main Fleet in the Pacide and that she will "never trust her troop transports to
hevet the protection of the British Navy in the Atlantic."
But the mere mention of such n possibility by the "Frankfurter Zei- tung" cannot fail to cause uneasy questionings among its renders.
Taxes Swallow Dividend
The trials of industry under Nazl dictatorship are strikingly illustrated by the report and necounts just pub- lished by 1
factory sugar
near a ross This Arin made Cologne. profit in the past financial year of The bride, who arrived in the more than £100,000. Yet the In- roads of taxes and other Government On the return of the British Labour Colony on Tuesday, is the younger dues were such that It has been im- mission from Finland, Mr. Philip daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. F.possib to pay a
lividend Ing and fuel-these were largely The arrival of British and
seems occasioned by the recent period of foreign lighting aircraft
to Noel-Baker h an interview describ-Tange, of Ruchill, Glasgow, Scot- Taxes, "social contributions" and have had a strong leterrant effect. ed the Finns as a race of supermen land. protracted bad weather-it inevitably
the miscellaneous mulctings classed follows that the position of Jews is The Finnish air force is again re- "I have seen four armies in the
bave bombed enemy fold but have never seen anything The bridegroom, who is the elder a fecu accounted for more than one- duubly terrible. It is true that Ger- ported many's labour
forcing columns and concentrations of meto beat the Finns as soldiers, but son of Mr. G. C. Moss, of the third of the gross profit. They were shortage Is
substantially greater than the firm's Jews back into the economie life of chanlsed vehicles.
they need help." he said emphasis- Hongkong Fire Brigade, and the country, but this right to work
The Flans announce that the Rus-ing the special need for weapons to Moss, is a member of the Hongkong total pay roll. is quailfled for those only In the
sims have lost five more planes--combat air raids.
Police Force. lowent puid jobs. Particularly those Rester. which involve some danger to health are in general open to them.
Its
Mrs.
COSMOS
If these are the results in an es- sential industry during the last year of peace the war-time
cutlook l bleak Indeed.
Mincfields Mapped
"We saw, enough air ralds to con- The bride looked lovely in white vince us that open towns are being face, with a fine tulle veil caught to Reports Of Finnish Reversas
bombed for no reason except that the head by a wreath of white gar-
White Bombs fell in denins. they are open towns.
and rosts Former professional men such
London, Feb. 8.
She was doctors, lawyers and business men Diplomatic reports from Helsinki Turku and other places within two composed her bouquet. And it anything but easy to earn 00 state that the Finnish Army "has miles of the port or anywhere else attended by the Misses Maiste Tillery pennings an hour building roads or suffered reverses" but the exact im- of military importance. It wasn't and Vicky Moss (sister of the bride working in quarcles, but most of portance of the reported reverses is just bad marksmanship."
groom), in frocks of powder blue them are glad to cam anything at all. not clear.
The Berlin Municipality recently
Sir Walter Citrine told Reuter one taffeta, with goatees and muffs of British experts doubt whether the received orders to provide 3,000 Jews Russian troops are now in a position could not help being impressed by white fur cloth. They carried bou- Immedistety
to dig potatoes. They to force a decision after their fulle sublime confidence of the Finns, quets of sweet peas,
in the least based Mr. V. H. Freeman gave the bride were sent and young Jewish girls west of hammering at the centre of woon ignorance. They have measure way, and Mr. Wolter Brown under-German minefield from Sudetenland were enrolled" to the Mannerheim Line.
ed the risks against them and al-took the duties of best man. look after their feeding arrangements.
A hargely attended reception was it is not definitely stated that the though the odds are very consider- The Jews, however, were finally Finnish reverses were suffered on the able they believe that if they receive held later at the China Light and sent home, anony with frozen limbs, Mannerheim Line, but reports from the help they confidently, expect from Power Recreation Club, after which and were replaced by Polish pri- Scandinavia during the past few days countries, like Britain they can the happy couple left for Stanley, have indicated that the Soviet Army successfully resist the invasion."where the honeymoon is being spent.
Reuter.
Mrs: Moss travelled in a navy-bluc may have gained some ground in the
Italian Voluntears
silk crepe dress. fighting there.
saners, much more suited to the work.
Little Distinction
Ineldenially, relations between the
British experts are inclined to be-
upon
London, Feb. 9.
On the principle, that maps speak louder than words and diagrams cannot lie, the Nazis have issued a graphic "proof that German mines ping. The newspapers publish a constitute no threat to neutral ship- sketch-map of the North Sea, with a small shaded area boldly marked This, the caption is careful to em- phasise, "merely protects Germany's seaboard and does not block a single International shipping roule."
Since the minefield begins about 100 miles west of the Danish Coast and an ever greater distance south of Norway, Scandinavians must ob- viously blame Britain for the mines which their vessels are constantly
Jewish and non-Jewish workers in lieve that the Finns will be able to Britain and France are ready to -goed-and-the-Jews-nre-well-treated now reported to be facing and that teers-to-Finland.-Several-hundred by the foremen. In the canteens also the real crisis of the war will are ready to depart soon, via France no distinction is made between Jews not and Aryans.
the humble callings are sold to be surmount the difficulties they are facilitate the transit of Italian volun- SCHOOL ADOPTS encounting in home waters.
Although the authorities annount- ed that the Jews were to get the same rationing carda as everyone else, in practice a multitude of dif- flculties confront the Jewish women
comc for United PresR,
several
months and Britain, where they will embark
for Finland.
No Lack Of Food
Helsinki, Feb. 9. There are two encouraging items women in the home news from Finland to-
A WARSHIP
LONDON-Young school children A number of prominent Britons are are ploneers of an "adoption" scheme helping to organise n British con- which is intended to enable special tingent of volunteers which will be comforts to be "entmarked" for ships under the supervision of the Finnish Embassy. The volunteers have been
The
children are pupils of the promised two shillings daily, which Northallerton (Yorks) Infants' coun-. is the same pay as in the British ell school.
They have received permission from the. Admiralty to "adopt" H.M.S. Hood, and have now, started knitting parties to provide their "wards" with mittens, scarves, and other comforts,
in irying to provide for their familles. day. Despite the war the Finns are In Berlin, for instance,
a Jewish not suffering from any lack of food; housewife may not start shopping bu- indeed the Government hos naked Army-United Press. fore midday and the shops close for the people to eat more and thus safe- lunch at 12.30. In Leipzig, a city guard thir health and fitness for the with more than 700,000 inhabitants, winter. there are only three shops which Jews are allowed to use.
Since January 15 Berlin Jews have been unable to obtain milk and a special appeat had to be made that
More lant is being put under cul- tivation for fresh vegetables while a neutral correspondent reports that he and plenty of it. never found anything but good food!
CHARITY
FUN FAIR
Steps are being taken to see that Organised By Students'
the education of Finnich does not cease
children
owing to the war.
the bubles at least should be allowed Hittle. If the Jews are not starved to death, this is largely due to the ahopkeepers and the fact that there is "black market" for smuggled goods Those evacuated from the danger education prices
are fantastic. areas will receive their where, however, Coffee, for instance, costs 35 marks through radio, by post or through and a goose 45 marks.
newspapers-Reuter Bulletin. Ration
Turkish Tribute To The Dead
are
No -Soviet Advance
Stockholm, Feb. 9.
Relief Association
The Nazi oficial_draughtsman alsa obligingly sketches in the "British minefield,"
"which completely blocks the Straits of Dover, thus "proving" that Britain is strangling the oversen commerce of Belgium and Holland, as well as Scandinavia. Blancmango Rationed
Blancmange, the favourite German dinner tweet, is the latest item on the menu to be rationed. It is con- trolled under the general category of "starch products."
Most of those listed are not im- ports, but are derived from potatoes, of which Germany recently claimed The Royal Naval War Comforts to have harvested an excellent erop. Committee is making plans to ar range similar adoptions if they are specially asked to do an by schools
or other organized groups of knitters. An application to knit comforts for men on a minesweeper has also been received by the Committee.
The work of the Committee is to
In addition, cago and a number of cereal foods for children ore rationed.
Broadcastor's Stip
A sharp reprimand from the Pro- pagando Ministry no doubt awaits the Nazi broadcaster who described a visit to the Siegfried Line. "This There was a large gathering at St. Paul's College, Pedder Hil, yesterday, see that comforts are evenly distri-landscape," he said, ""ls quite dif- when the Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Halibuted, and ship adoptions could be ferent from the Polish front. In ometally opened the third annual arranged accordingly if the wish were fact, it is a typlently German lond- charity fun fair of the Students' expressed by knitting groups, Neilef Association.
RAIDS ON COAST
few hundred metres, but they were which existed to enable students of German Planes Appear
Over Britain
scape."
There was an uncomfortable break in his oratorical flow as fic realised that every land which Hitler seizes in, or used to be, "typically German."
War Services
Issue Blighty For
Camp Reading
"ton cards have been refused to Jews on the ground that the majority had formerly engaged in the clothing Irade and should therefore possess
Jows
It is reported by telephone from -sumcient apparel. The
Welcoming the guests and thanking compelled to surrender their wire- Helsinki that reliable unofficial quar- Bishop Hall for attending, Mr. Lee sets and sign a declaration that ters deny that the Russians have Ching-iu, Chairman of the Associa- they have done 50
voluntarily broken through the Mannerheim len, sald part of the proceeds would Line. It is believed that reports to be given to medical relief, part to Reuter.
this effect may have originated from a service corps organised by the the fact that some Russian tank de-Association for personal services to tachments succeeded in advancing a China, and part to the Association destroyed and nowhere have the Hongkong to render good and useful Rusalan infantry units forced the service to China. The amount of Finns to relire. United Press.
suffering imposed on China had been
London, Feb. 0. tremendous, said Mr. Lee, and he German bombing planes again ape felt that their responsibility to relieve peared over the north-east coast of that suffering was equally as great Britain to-day in a resumption of last A Sovlet communique to-day states: In his address, the Bishop, sald wecke's ralds on coastal shipping.
Royal Air Force planes took the "Clashes of advanced infantry units there was only a group of Chinese which have occurred in the last few women in Hongkong who could equal air immediately the warning days resulted in the occupation by the Students Relief. Association's given.
An offelal statement declares that The flag bears an inscription paying Soviet troops of the fortified area of record for enthusiastic and devoted one of the enemy taiders was that it is given on behalf of the Souineo In the Summa district with service
cnusc of suffering down near the Firth of Forth-sale to the general publie. It con- Turklal nation as a tribute to the eight artillery forts in the sector be-China since the Sino-Japanese war
a very United Press. dead of both sides who fell heroically tween Lake Ladoga and Suvasijacryl. began. It was, therefore, in the honourable struggle at Galli-Soviet troops also captured five de-great honour for him to be allowed
fensive artillery forti. General Sir Ian Hamilton, who commanded the British Forces at that campaign, was among those present nt Die ceremony,
LONDON, Feb. 0 (Reuter)--The Turkish Ambassador to London has presented the Turkish Bag to the Holy Trinity Church here to be hand- ed over to the 29th Division which fought at Gallipoli during the last
wor.
poli,
ROTARY CLUB ADDRESS
"Extracts from the Letters of T. E. Lawrence," will form the subject of next Tuesday's address at the Hong- kong Rotary Club by Denn J. L. Wilson,
Soviet Claims
Moscow, Feb. 9.
"In both cases the enemy suffered great lossen. Soviet planes success= fully bombed military objectives."
The communique appears to in- ditate that Soviet troops have won a substantial victory.-United Press.
Air Raids Fowar
in the
to be associated with the herole and
had been doing.
Was
shut
levoted work that the Association Communist Leader
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LONDON-Service with the arm-
ed forces is to be brightened by the perusal of Blighty, the purely Service weekly magazine issued dur- Ing the last two years of the World War.
This periodleal is issued tree to men of the Services and is not on Fists of jokes, humorous articles, stories and cartoons reprinted from current newspapers and periodicals.
it is to be sent out by the Y. M. C. A.
and the Red Cross as well as by the War Office, the Admiralty, and the Air Ministry.
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Nazi Victim Joins Crazy Gang
LONDON.-Bud Glanagan will produce a stuffed rabbit in the. "Crazy Gang" show at the Palladium.
The speaker reminded all present
The rabbit was killed by a German bomb in the Shetlands, and of the needs of the Chinese soldiers
LONDON, Feb. 9 (Reuter) —Mr. The original Bilghty was the re- has been presented to Bud by the owner of the land on which it was and begged them to do all they could
make others realise the require Harry Pollitt, former Communist nult of an urgent request from two killed. ments of the wounded. He under leader, will contest the by-election in soldiers to their father during the Flood that two men were leaving Silvertown, West Ham, caused by the World War for something to read.. Hongkong for the front and sald the resignation of Mr. Jack Jones, Mr. Donald Mackenzie, the father, - Stockholm, Feb. 9.
publication wounded Chinese soldiers wanted Labour.
arranged for the Scandinavian reports declare that many more to help them.
The Labour candidate will be Mr. Blighty then, and is now doing so there has been an absence of bombing
The fair will remain open to-day J. H. Collins while the Conservative again. Both his sons have joined up raids by the Russions during the past (and to-morrow,
Party will not contest.the seat. in this war.
of
Prisoners Like The Life
JOHANNESBURG," (UP),—Tanganyika has a prison with no bare, no cells and no walls, and where prisoners don't try to escape, because they prefer to stay where they are..