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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Reply To Lord Haw-Haw
LISTEN to Adolf Hitler, whom Haw-Haw calls His Master's Voice:
"Part of the secret of be- ing believed Iles in the size of your lle, since the broad ntasses of the people
will more easily be taken in by a big lie than a small one."
LATE
INTENSE RAIDS
HELSINGFORS, Feb. 20 (Reuter). The capital has had the worst day juf air alarms for some time. There
were six warnings during the day,
A train from Turku to Helsingfors was halted six times by alarms and the phasengers hrd to scatter into the wouds near the line.
It is reported that
seven
February 21, 1940.
NEWS
DARING MIDNIGHT ROBBERY
Bandits Abduct Girl In Sedan Car
GANGSTER METHODS were
parachutists were dropped west of introduced to Hongkong last Helsingfors.
night in one of the most daring That little effort appears in!
Russian bombers near Helsingfors robberies ever perpetrated in the were supported by fighters and Colony. the dullest book ever written, several battles are reported between "Mein Kampf."
them and some of Finland's new air- craft,
Lord Haw-Haw, who is one of the Fuchrer's chief mouthpieces, and whose nightly broadensta in Eng-| lish are so much funnier then the D.B.C. comedians, has learned this lesson
The victim, A 20-year-old dancing hostess named Pak Suet, At least two Russian planes are lost jewellery valued at over stated to have been shot down.
There were also severul severe air raids at Vipuri and Kulimo.
$11,000 as a result of the affray.
She was abducted in the city in a
The Finns are repelling all Soviet large black sedan car by four men attempts to relieve the remnants of robbed of her jewellery whilst the car the Russian 54th Division cut off travelled at a fast speed towards sometime ago in the Kuhmo aren inappy Valley and was faily thrown out of the car in Curoline Hill Road, As soon as the girl was thrown onto the roadway the car sped back towards the city.
His news talks in English last week contained all the shades of lie and central Finland. half-truth, sophistry and sarcasm, At least 5,000 Russians from this known to the tub-thumpers in Hyde, division were killed in the last fort- Park.
night.
Out-Hawed.
Fifty bombs were dropped in two Iraids on Kuhmo and there were also raids on Nurmes and Joensuu, towns And here are a few replies to typ-on the main railway line to cal Haw-How specimens: It was Karelian Istinua remarkable week for His Lordship.
Lie No. 1: "Great Britain's imports) have dropped by 42.2 per cent, and her exports by 48.0 per cent, since the war." (Friday, 8.15.)
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one is believed to have Hongkong from Shanghai
Dancing Hostess
come
to
The girl is employed as a dancing hostess at the China Emporium Ball-
room.
She met one of the alleged bandits
The Truth; Haw-Haw doesn't seem · ANOTHER squaliers village on ththere shortly after 10 p.m. last night to know there's a war on. British outskirts of Kowloon was partially and agreed to accompany him to the imports in November at nearly destroyed by fire in the early hours Capital Ballroom shortly after mid- night. They were joined there by £90,000,000—were the highest for 10:
The months as Britain bought the war
which
painty two other men. Lo Star Ferry passengers A short while after the girl decided materials with which to smash Nazi-visible
China Emporium dom. British exports last month, crossing the harbour at I s.m., start- to return to the maintained by a Navy which rules ed through the thatched roof of a Ballroom and the three men offered
hut
by occupied the seas, were only 17 per cent. below
58-year-old to drive her there in their car.
"As soon us she entered the car one the previous November's figure.
woman catching fire.
revolver It spread rapidly and by the time of the men produced German exports for the sume the Fire Brigade arrived on the scene whilst another placed a hand over her
mouth, month were (in good cold cash) an area containing approximately 100; approximately nil. Neutrals like buildings had been burnt out.
Throw Rings From Car dollars and pounds-not trading pro-
The girl agreed to hand over her take mises which are never kept., ..
jewellery, and commenced to her rings off her Angers.
Lie No. 2 (and many little white lies)-Haw-Haw had a lot to say about the air battle over Heligoland, in which he claimed that the Nazis had shot down 34, 36, or perhaps 40 British bombers. (he was never quite sure how many). The facts were: we lost seven, but we shot down 12 Messerschmitts.
Quoted the Times as saying that the new Gerinat fighters were faster and better than the British Spilares, The Times inerely said they were faster. which is vastly different. British planes are much easier handle in war conditions.
Adding Up
A
About 500 people have been ren- dered homeless,
Paying For The War
toToken Sums For Forces To Appear On Estimates
Lie No. 3. When he came to Russia, Haw-Haw really laid it on with lummer and sickle,
4
As the car passed the Hongkong Hotel in Queen's Road the girl, hop- ing the attention of nearby pedes- trians would be attracted, suddenly threw her two rings out of the win- dow
The car stopped and one of the men leapt out to retrieve the rings.
The girl managed to momentarily free herself from the grip of the other man and screamed for assist- ance.
Without waiting for the confeder- ate who had gone back to search for the two rings, the car drove off again at a high speed.
The girl was robbed of her remain- whilst en route to
ing jewellery Happy London, Feb. 20. 1940 and the duration of the
The Treasury has decided that for
provision for the armed forces, the
In addition to the two rings-one war of which was valued at 310,009 and the other at $1,500--the girl lost a
"Stalin has maintained his policy of Ministry of Supply and other Ser-white reid bracelet valued at $2,000, co-operation with the Reich," hei shouted on Thursday. "German and vices connected with the war shat in cash and other items. Russian friendship has been reinstat- be made by a token sum of £100 for
each vote.
ed
both great Powers are as- sisting cock other politically and A Treasury minute states that It is economically on a large scale.” neither practicable nor desirable to The Truth: How-Haw didn't men present to Parliament detailed esum- tor that Stalin is building a Maginotintes purporting to cover the whole
vas. Line between his new Polish bound-cost for the Navy, Army, Air Force,
and Germany.
ary.
a cold necklace valued at $70, 5140
It is not known whether the bandits recovered the rings thrown into Queen's Road or whether they were picked up by pedestrians..
Previous Robbery
The Telegraph" learns that Pak Ministry of Supply and certain other Suet, who lives in Min Fat Street, He didn't mention that German Services. The
sensational robbery about two on the In
years ago.
She was also the victim of the carlier hold-up.
trade delegations have been snubbed | Services must expenditure on these was wearing jewellery which Agured
clearly depend on all over Russia and sometimes re-course and progress of the war and fused passport facilities..
it is not desirable in the public in- He didn't mention that Germany terest to disclose through the gave Finland some quiet help, Ju to timates the nature and extent of annoy Russia-and that Stalin knows the war effort as envisaged at the
jme the estimates were published.
It
And if you want to know anything more about how fond these dictators are of each other, read Madamo satisfactory alternative to dispensing. Tabouls' articles
Wrong Time-Table
There appears. therefore to be no
for the duration, with estimates for these Services in normal form and make provision for the whole of this of credit Lie No, 4: His Lordship went as-expenditure under votes
token Itsuct to-day, for the Navy tray, as usual, when he said his little
estimates of plece about Britain being blockaded
of 1940.
is The strength of the Navy into defcat.
nol "Britain has completely under-given and each particular item of estimated the dangers of the blockade expenditure will be represented by instituted by her own Government, 2100, the total being £1,800. A supplementary estimate will be
short war
he said. "She had reckoned on 4 provided for such additional numbers i The Truth: A week after war of officers, seamen, boys and Royal started the Prime Minister announced Marines for the Navy and Royal that the country was ready and pre- Marine Police as His Majesty may pared for a three years' fight. It is deem necessary.
Germany who wants a short war, not The maximum numbers at present Britain. Britain has the resources to authorised are 145,000 officers, se1- walt ten years or more and still men, boys and Royal Marines win.
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The jewellery on that occasion was stolen from her home. Police subsequently made an arrest and the Jewellery was recovered. The robber is still serving a sentence in Stanley Prison.
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