Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 19, 1940
ARE YOU THE DOPE.
WHO SOLD
DONALD DUCK......
ME THE QUICK- DRYING VARNISH
YESTERDAY?
YES! WHAT ABOUT
ITZ
WHAT'S THE IDEA TELLIN' ME IT'D DRY IN
TWO HOURS?
I SAID
A FEW--- NOT TWO!
1960, Walt Doney Produtant "1-13:
HITLER
YEAH?
YEAH! WHAT ABOUT IT?
J-JUST CURIOUS!
O'YA)
WANTS STALIN TO
LAUNCH ATTACK IN EAST
By SEFTON DELMER
HITLER is trying to lead foxy Joe Stalin into a campaign of conquest in the Middle East against Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and India, so that the Russian armies may create a diversion for a German push into south-eastern Europe.
rapidly closing against He may have to push south-cast soon, as the Balkans are him, refusing him necessary supplies, which may force him into making an attempt to get them by arms.
Diplomatic agents, military experts, newspaper propaganda, all have been mobilised for the task of dazzling before the eyes of Stalin, the riches of the East; the domination of regions which throughout history have been the happy hunting- ground of Georgian raiders.
What success he is having is not yet clear.
Threat in East
Many reports are coming in speaking of Russian concentrations of troops on the border of Iran, Afghanistan, and Eastern Turkey.
Look Through The Telegraph
Feb. 1, 1500.
But the Turks, thep Iranians, and the Afghans are doing their best to dis- suade him. With the example of Finland's so far highly successful resistance before them, they are pre- paring to meet any Russo- German attempt at force With force.
50 YEARS AGO At eleven o'clock the afternoon St. Andrew'a Hall wax crowded with! Indica and gentlemen, including General Edwards and the heads of departments,) attending the presentation of addresses Turkey has reinforced her to H.E. Sir. O, W, des Voeux, on the troops on the Russian frontier. occasion of his departure for Europe Her. President, General Inonu,
25 YEARS AGO
has gone up
to Erscrum 10 Feb. 19, 1815. Center's correspondent at Amsterdam inspect them and the prepara- states that a Berlin communique retions for extending the Turkish ports that a nine days winter battle! on the Masurian Lakes has taken pince strategic railway here by a fur- with the Russian Tenth Army, of eleven ther twenty kilometres towards Infantry divisions and several cavalry divisions, who were thrown across the the Russian frontier. A credit
of £2,000,000 has been voted for! that the The communique clalink
this purpose. Russiann were Also encircled and Neverely benten. Thone remaining exenped into the forest of Sawalki and Augustowo.
frontier.
The Japanese, too, are interested. A Japanese mission has arrived in Many Russians were killed and the Antenro. number of prisoners has not yet been ascertained, but it is sarely over fifty-They are to study the situation in thousand, together with forty guns and the Middle East, und prepare every-: *ixty machine gunn as well as much thing for a deal by which Japan war material,
would buy from Turkey, Iran, and attended the dreisive battles of our troops, old Easterse with Afghanistan raw materials, mainly young troops, who, expecially allotted agricultural products, offering in re- to this task, proved equal to their old turn munitions and guns comrades despite very ndverse weather."
"The Kaiser
This would be very useful, help General von Hindenburg directed the should the Japanese decide to give IL out For the Iranian Army, though well splendidly by Generals Elchhorn and trained and numbering about a mil- von Buelow.
Ilon men, is not well equipped.
operation which were carried
Four Germans interned in the pri- Radio Throats Koners' Comp at Hunghom succeeded in
elfecting their exenpe from the camp For Germany, certainly, the situs- yesterday. Details of the matter show tion is grave in Turkey and south- that Ave men made the attempt, but
Europe. German radio that the th was caught in the at-eastern tempt, the other four managing to get attacks on Turkey are becoming away. Up to the time of writing, one more and more violent as it becomes of the escaped prisoners has been cap Lured in the New Territory.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 19, 1930. Chief Interest in the tennis cham- pionship which was continued yester day was centres in the appearance of Too-cheun), the Paul Kong (Kong Shanghai. Intorport player, who met T. Akiyama in the second round of thel Open Bingle.
The full results of yesterday's matches were as follows:
Open Bingles.-Luk. Ding-cheung bent
1. Mohamed 4-0, 6-4, 6-0, -7-5) - E. F Fineber beat II. Owen Hughes 6-3, 0-0;
6-0, 6-1, 0-3.
Club Championship-Dr. J. Valentine best W. H. Sueur, 6-4, 6-2.
clear that Turkey will not help Germany to obtain by overland routes raw material supplies from the Middle and Near East.
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"A DAY in the life of a German bombing expedition."
Civil and Military Gazette.
·News Guide-
U-BOAT BASE IN NORTH RUSSIA
-By Bernard MooreTM
Rumania is standing up more armly to the Germans. She is
MURMANSK, the Russian coast, carrying with it cod, turbo, refusing to grant them the thirty- eight per cent. premium they are port where the Bremen took re-haddockt, herring, even sharks.
In 1910 a railway line linking it demanding on purchases of oil and fuge, and where the United
was completed.
"other raw materials. For she can States steamer City of Flint with Leningrad (then Petrograd)
export these mare profitably to countries like Britain and France, which pay in gold. Just to
ΠΟΥ that the
across 1
make things really difficult 7-6; & E Green beat Wong Fuk-nam for the Germans, 6-1 6-1, 6-2: Kong Too-cheung bent T. Danube is freezing up and river Akiyama 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.
deliveries of oil and grain are becom- Open Doubler.-F.A. Redmond and A. L. Sullivan heat II. 3. Armstrong Ing impossible, the Russions stiil and O.E.C. Marion 6-0, 4-0, 6-4, 7.6; C. connot, or will not, set working the A. L. Ramjahn and 3. A. E. Carsumbhoy railway line from Rumania heat T. C. Monaghan and B. G. Grigor, Russian-occupied Paland into Ger-
mony:
Five trains a day of sixty trucks each were to have been despatched 5 YEARS AGO
from December 2. None has yet pussed. Feb. 19, 1935.
Certainly Germany For the first time in the history off
every the Hongkong Jockey Club, the interest to open up the war with a Stawerde "to-day. hanned part-mulbel betting on a pony. Shortly before the south-coatern push. Russian help in start of the Exchange Plate, a netines the form of a diversion engaging tion was posted on the course stating Turkish, British and French troops that, until further notice, Liberty Day, must obviously be highly desired by the unbeatable Dunbar stable mount, the German Staff. would be excluded from the betting.
SHAVED HEAD
FRAU
AS SHAME
Discouragod
hus
But I cannot see Joe Stalin taking
was taken, by the Nazis, is in the news again.
The fishing village began to de- velop into a port.
The Germans, according to Paris
Murmansk is now a flourishing sea- a naval port, of 00,000 inhabitants, with an reports, have established bace nearby in accordance with the chornge for large vessels and an un- terms of a German-Soviet Agree-loading capacity of 3,000 tons daily. It was chee occupied by British ment signed in October.
Docks and machinery for repairing troops. In 1010 it was an active base submarines have already been estab-tor operations against the Bolsheviks fished, the reports say.
by Allied troops,
Commander of the British forces A quarter of a century ago Murin North. Rusala at the time was an manak was a handful of log huts clus-officer named Ironside-now General tered on the granite coast of a deep Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the inlet cutting into the Kola Peninsula. Imperial General Staff.
It had one characteristic: it was the General Ironside was sent there in Russian the summer of 1910 for a specifle only place on the North Const that could be kept ice-free all the year round.
For although Murmansk is a good 200 miles within the Arctic Circle, it is warmed by the Atlantic drift, which flows round the Norwegian
purpose.
It was to prevent the establishment either at Archangel or Murmansk.of In German submarine base.
this line, not if he is as wily as they Iran oven now they prefer to bur ja Bay he is. The Finnisli experiment their oll from Russia,
of his army's strength has hardly! And then there is always' Britain
to reckon with. been encouraging so far.
Italian newspapers reports
to
RAU WIEDENROTH, found guilty
Besides, attractive as the German are giving prominence ata Nasl court at Gifhorn of living with a Follch prisoner-in-war, invitation must be, that he should showing that British engineers are busy building defensive roads in the has had her head shaved.
an-controlled oilfolds in Iran and Iraq, Westfallsche Landesreitung
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ATHENS, AN cagle flung itself against the front of a bus
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