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*Imperial Airways Air Mail by
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Shanghai and Amoy
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Straits
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Calcutlu and Straits
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Feb. 21.
Feb. 21.
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WESTERN FRONT
AMBUSHED
BY NAZIS
French Patrol Caught Unawares
PARIS, Feb. 19 (Reuter),- With the onset of milder weather Feb. 22 Feb. 22. there has been a noticeable in- Feb. 22.
crease of German reconnaissance US.A., Honolulu, and Japan (San activity.
Francisco date, 20th Jon.)..Feb. 23. Shanghal
Feb. 24. .Feb. 24. Canton
The Germans yesterday morning raided a French outpost cast of the Moselle after a thorough artillery preparation, but were driven back. OUTWARD MAIL:
At dawn yesterday, French and Tuesday, Feb, 20
..2 p.m. German petrols stumbled into con- without 2.30 p.m. tact and exchanged shots 2.30 pm. definite result.--
Halphong
Shanghai...g
Shanghal (Parcels only). Shanghai and Japan Saigon.
.3.30 p.m.
Air Mall for "Imperiai Airways Direct Service"dao London, 28th Feb. R.P.O.
Res. Ord.
.Feb. 20, 5 p.m. „Feb, 20, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
German aircraft have made four 7.00 p.m.flights over north-eastern France.
French Raked By Fira
(Reuter)--The PARIS, Feb. 10 ambush of a French; patrol mention- ed in an earlier communique is described to-day as the most serious reconnaissance incident since the war. The incident occurred early in the morning when
troops operating behind the German lines.
Intent on the collection of Informa- tion, the patrol was suddenly raked by a burst of automatic fire. Nearly 20 fell at the first onslaught before they could begin to fight back.
.Feb. 20, p.m. Rex,
„Feb. 20, 7 p.m. Ord. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aux
tralla by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-due Sydney, 28th Feb.
K.P.O.
Ord.
....Feb. 20, 5 p.m. ..Feb, 20, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
.Feb. 20, 5 p.m. „Feb. 20, 7 pm.
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Rer.
Ord.
Japan
Straits nad Calcutta
Parcels
Ord.
Swatow Straits
the
Gormans Driven Back
were
PARIS, Feb. 10 (Reuter). This evening's communique states that to the west of the Saar a German de- ..10.30 am. tuchment tried to approach one of Gur posts and was driven back with 11.00a.m. lossen. ....Noon.
.2.30 p.m.
2.30 p.m. Air Mall for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Air France Airways Direct
Paris, 20th February.
Ord.,
K. P. O.
Service"-due
Reg.,...Feb. 21, 5.00p.m. Feb. 21, 5.30 p.m. G. P. O. Reg./ ...Feb. 21, 5.00 p.m. Ord.
Feb. 21, 7.00 p.m. Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Monolulu and U.S.A, by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service"--due San Francisco, 28th February.
K.P.O.
Reg.
On
Reg.
Ord.
Firing from casemates on the banks of the Rhine lins resumed.
Chinese Crews Coming Here
Refuse To Serve In European War Zone
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UP). Ninety-seven Chinese scamen who quit various ships in protest against travelling in the Euro- pean war zones arrived here to
.....Feb. 21, 5 p.m. Feb. 21, 5:30 p.m. G.P.O..
Feb. 21, 5 p.m. Feb. 22, 7.80... Thursday, Feb. 22
.2.30 p.nl. 10.30 am, ports.. .12.30 p.m.
Amoy and Shanghai
Streita Sandakan
Inphong
.7.15 u.m.
THIS IS WHAT EXPLOSION DID
THE RECENT EXPLOSION in an East London factory broke windows over a radius of 25 miles. This photograph shows what hap- pened to one nearby building-Domci.
Spies Watch Ex-Kaiser
AMSTERDAM. TONE of the ex-Kaiser'e grandchildren children or spent Christmas with him and Princess Hermione at his castle at. Doorn.
But members of his house. hold included some whom he did. not choose himself.
They have been sent to stay with him by the rulers of Germany.
The Nazi leaders do not wel come a full-scale meeting of the Hohenzollern family at the pro sent time.
Instead, the few faithful ones who share the ex-Kaiser's exile Joined by those whose task is to watch and report to their masttes in Berlin.
The
His in- refuse this conmany. come depends on their presenco,
as nearly all his possessions are in Germany.
Little Ship Fired Her, Gun-
PIRATE RAN AWAY
By WILLIAM COURTENAY BRITAIN has enough fighter planes on the Home Front to overwhelm the biggest mass formation of bombers that Germany could send against us.
That is why Hitler has not dared to bomb Britain. Our Air Force, it is now revealed, can always keep more than 2,300 planes flying-at home, alone-however many may be lost in fighting.
At least 800 of these first-line planes are high-speed fighters, ready to defend you..
These figures do not include the squadrons sent to France at the outbreak of war, the reserves available for the Western Front and the Home Front, the large numbers of new aircrafts with the Fleet Air Arm and at oversens garrisons, or training machines.
When Gormany revealed in 1934 that she intended to build a new air fleet of 1,600 first-line machines with adequate reserves, and said that hundreds of the plates were then ready, it was decided that we should build a first-line strength at home of 1,500 aircraft.
Ordor for 1,000 Fighters
This was later increased. to 1,750, and then to over 2,000 to be completed by the Spring of the present year.
Since every Squadron of the R.A.F. has a 50 per cent. reserve with it, for rapid replacement of casualties, the real strength of the Home Defence force is at least 3,000 warplanes.
Behind them is a vist stored and secret reserve, figures of which cannot be revealed.
Lord Nufeld's new factory, now in full production, has an order for 1,000 Spitfire fighters alone, which wil well the total of defending air- craft in 1940.
·Pace Too Hot
of the The present production British aircraft industry is the re- sult of five years of careful planning, which will assure a prodigious out- put of warplanes, nero engines, and Instruments all through 1040, the peak year of the effort planned when re-armament began.
'There is nothing that Germany can do to beat this magnilleent effort.
It may be doubted, in view of the Navy's grip on Germany through the whether Nazi Contraband Patrol, output is able to keep up to any- thing approaching this pace.
Exeter Heroes Hear Their Story Broadcast
ter), ---In
LONDON, Feb, 19 (Reu- trans- certain missions of the B.B.C. on Saturday, a talk by an officer of H.M.S. Exeter was broad. cast.
Early on Sunday morning a cable was received from the Governor of the Falkland Islands, asking for a repent of the broadcast for the benefit of British sailors from the Exeter who were in hospital there.
This was gladly done early
Wants to Serve this morning.
With B.E.F.
The sequel was another cable from the Governor of the Falkland Islands, read. Ing: "The Exeter's wounded thank you."
THE Comte de Paris, when he visited London last month, did not come purely for business. purposes.
the
He had another renson. 1 can now reveal that this was to obtain" per- British mission to serve with A SMALL British merchant forces, says a correspondent,
Though he is not allowed on French West! ship berthed at a
soil, the Count has a French pilot's Coast port and reported that she brevet. He took this at Brussels last had fought and defeated a U-year biler tests by French Air Minis-
try amelals.
On the outbreak of war he called boat in single combat,
"We were just sitting down to on the French Ainbassador in Brus
sels and handed him a letter for M. dinner when the alarm went," Daladler asking to be allowed to serve
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The King's Aid Invoked
л
said one of the officers, a Tyne-in the French Army. former Emperor cannot
"It seemed almost un- sider. believable to a German
sce aubmarine a few yards off our starboard bow.
"While our men were, still coming up from below the submarine's London with the Intention of applying
of Lord Thus apled on, the Doorn will keep silent so as not 10 compromise the future of the Hohenzollerns.
Sawdust 'Sweets'
-all flavours
WHAT would your girl friend say if you gave her a box of chocolates made from sawdust? That's the kind of ersatz trick they play in Germany. Professor A. M. Low, the British
about
day on the liner Argentine from scientist and inventor, tells "Science Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, the sawdust-chocolates in Montevideo, Trinidad and other in Industry" (Oxford
Press, 3s. 6d.).
put over
eight shells. Some of them were pretty close, but none hit.
Shot For Shot
"She was shelling us again without much effect, and we gave her shot for shot.
'.
"White
ail) waterspouts allowed around her as our gunners straddled their target. Then think it was with our thirteenth shell-a sheet of water like a small tidal wave seemed to swamp the U-boat.
"We saw her plunging in the trough of the waves, apparently try- ing to get out of range. Then she disappeared."
The British ship had one casualty -an engineer jammed his finger in a door hastening on deck to ser the
University
fun.
Steamship and customs officials met "A German Inclory builds sawdust 1 p.m. them at the dock and each was placed up into sugar, vinegar, alcohol and Canton
under a $500 bond. They were then cattle fodder," he writes. Saturday, Feb, 24
taken to Bush Terminal in Brooklyn "Dr. Friedrich Bergius, the great Parcels only for Tientsin...2.30 p.m. where they will board a
British German genius of synthetic products. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct | steamer for return to China vla Hong-not long ago offered his colleagues a
Service"-due London 3rd March. kong.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
The group abandoned five. British Her..
Feb. 24, 5 pm. tankers at Fort of Spain. The spokes-They were indistinguishable from Ord
.Feb. 24, 5.80 p.m.man Lal On explained, "afraid to do," Swntow, Amoy and Formosa
All were clean and well clothed."
Straits
Par
10.30 0.m 8.30 a.m.
Canada's Imposing War Forces
box of chocolates made from wood.
ordinary chocolates."
SPANISH SHIP SUNK
Straits and Calcutta
.11 a.m. Noon, Ord. Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA,
MADRID, Feb. 19 (Reuler),—The Central and South America, vin OTTAWA, Fob. 10 (Reuter)omicin! Spanish Agency has announced San Francisco-dus San Francisco Canada's combined military, naval that the Spanish steamer, Bandara, 17th March
and air force strength has reached 2,000 tons, was aunk following an ex-
90,000, according to an plosion six miles off Cape Villano. Parcels
National Twenty-two out of the crew of 29
lare dead. Ord.
G3.0, sød K.P.O.
over
by
..Feb. 24, 5 pm announcement Fel, 20, 940 am Defence Department. Feb, 20, 10.30 am.
the
Gestapo Shoots 134 Boys
It This request was refused, would have infringed the law under which he and his father, the Duc de of the Bourbon Guise, the head family, are banned from France.
The Comte de Paris then came to
to the British Government The King answered in cordial and general terms to the letter which the Comte wrote to him on his arrival.
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NAZIS RELEASE BRITONS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Feb. BERLIN,
10 (UP).-Eight British women together with two children all of whom have been interned at Beuthin for three and a half months, were allowed to leave Berlin for England viu Amsterdam on Saturday.
About 20 British women are re- maining in Berlin, confined in n wo- men's prison.
About 100 British men are confined In Wuelzburg Castle in Bavaria.
Check To Japanese Air Service Plans
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, Feb. 19 (UP),—It is under- stood that France has broken off
A personal call followed from a member of the Household, who re-negotiations with Japan regarding the
ing over French Indo-China. gretted that in the circumstances the authorisation for Japanese planes fly- Comte could not be accepted as
This action, it is understood, has volunteer with the British forces.
been taken as
a reprisal for the Japanese failure to reply to the two French protests against the bombing of the Yunnan railway.
Britain To Exhibit
At World Fair
No new protest will be lodged re- garding the third bombing of the rallway beenuse the Japanese have NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (Reuter)not deigned to reply to the original
demarches. The Executive Board of the British Empire Chamber of Commerce are unanimously in favour of the con-- tinuance of the British Pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1040.
The resolution opines that this is in the interests of maintaining the British export trade which at presenti is of equal importance to other war efforls.
U-BOAT SINKS GREEK SHIP
MADRID, Feb. 10 (Reuter)--The Greek steamer, Elli, 1,100 long, was torpedoed by n U-boat 60 mittes aft Cape Finisterre while on her way
Mr. Eden Returns from Cardiff to Greece with a cargo
LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter)-Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for the According to the Free German Dominions, arrived in England to-day radio, quoted by Reuter, 134 boys by air from his recent visit to wel- were shot by the Gestapo recently come the Australian and New Zealand In the market place of Bydgoszcz, in troops in the Near East. German-occupied Poland..
It was stated that many of the in- habitants of the town were fetched out of their houses and forced to altend the executions. More mass executions were reported from other Polish towns.
The Free German radlo' also re- ported that the Gestapo are in vesligating a bomb attackt made in a Nazi party barracks in Prague.
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Nazi Plane Over Denmark
of coal.
The crew of 20 took to the boats and the U-boat then completed the vessel's destruction with a second for- A Corunna fishing-boat saved the Elf's crew, all of whom were taken to hospital.
pedo.
Wishful Thinking
LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter)The German High Command's claim that COPENHAGEN, Feb. 19 (Iteuter). Your convoys were successfully at -A plane bearing German nationality tncked fa discredited in British naval marks flew over Danish territory circles. south of Slesqig to-day.
The Admirnity's comment was: Danish batteries opened fire but the "The claim is n fantasile as the machine was not hit.
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