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NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office- at the Company No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, on Saturday, the 16th DANCING IN 6 HOURS, Ballroom, March, 1940, at 3.00 p.m. for the pur- Tango, Rhumba, American Tap. Tulpose of receiving the Report of the tion rapid and practical. World's Directors together with a Statement Champion's Steps. Dance Studio, China Buliding, 6th December, 1039. floor, Tel, 30933.
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 26, 1940.
Western Front has a Blitzkrieg rehearsal
TOMMIES GO OVER TOP
MAKE-BELIEVE
DR. GOEBBELS'S. tame
of Accounts for the year ended 31st newspapers are working up Prince Starhomborg Ís Apply: Tony'a
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE: Goodwill and business of well known ist clues hotel, very well situated in Kowloon with liquor licence, including tease and fittings, three large frigidaires, electric radia- tors, are ranges, celling fous, radios, etc. Excellent business proposition. Any person interested, please apply for further particulars from Mesars. Wilkinson & Grist, 2 Queen's Road Central.
Kelly &
his latest propaganda cam The Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Satur.paign-rumours of war to day, 6th March, 1940 to Saturday, come in the Near East be- 16th March, 1040, (both days inclu- sive) during which period no transfer tween Russia and the Allies
-to crescendo pitch. of shares can be registered.
By order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TONGg po,
Chief Manager. flongkong, 26th February, 1940.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY Notice is hereby given that the THE CAMERA" Second Edition, Over 00 excellent views of the Fifty-first Ordinary Yearly Meet- Colony Price $1.50. Obtainable at ing will be held at the Company's
Office, 4th Walsh, Ltd., Hongkong | Registered
Floor, Travel Bureau or from the Fubilshers, P. & O. Building, on Thursday, South China Morning Post, Lid., 21st March, 1910, at 11 am. for Wyndham Street.
the purpose of presenting the ROOMS TO LET.
Report of the Directors together HOOM TO LET, room with bath-with a Statement of Accounts to electing room eltached, suitable for a couple 1st December, 1939,
or two bachelors, five minutes walk | Directors and Auditora and fixing from Star Ferry. Rent moderate. their fees. Write Dox 671, "Hongkong Tele- Kraph."
BRITISH WAR ORGANISATION FUND
A Variety Concert in ald of the British War Organisation Fund will take place at the Kowloon Cricket Club, en March 13th, at 9.13 p.m.
Ilia Excellency The Governor
Russia is being told that Britain, France, and. Turkey are massing an army 1,000,000 strong to attack the Soviet across the Caucasus.
Brituin is being warned that Russin is unsski;: troops-variously reported up to a total ut 800,000—to attack Inq, Afghanistan, and India, MYSTERY MOVE
THE purpose behind this campaign is not clear. To begin with it is not true.
Authoritative quarters in London have denied that Britain, France, and Turkey were hatching any such plot. They also denied that Russia was massing men along the Iranian and Afghan frontiers.
therefore
Dr. Goebbels, £t thought, may have one of three alms
In view:
I-To hearten, the German people deluding them into the belief that
by
Officer in French Army
The French Government has accepted Prince Ernst Rudiger von Siarhemberg's long-standing offer to serve in the French Army.
He has been accepted for the duration and given the rank of Keutenant,
The Prince, a bitter opponent of Germany and Nazism, led the Austrian patriotic movement, Heimwehr, unil the invasion of Austria, and offered to form au *Austrian Legion to Bght" Ger-
many.
Paper Hat
Concession
To Nudists
The Register of Members of Britain and France will shortly have CARNIVAL paper hats will be
the Company will be closed from 9th March to 21st March, 1940, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered,
By order of the
Board of Directors. GIBB, LIVINGSTON, & CO., LTD.
Agents.
Hongkong, 22nd February, 1940,
and Lady Northcole have kindly | THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC consented to be present.
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By O. D. GALLAGHER,
Daily Express War Reporter
WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE.
IN PAIRS, British troops went over the top at selected spots all along the British line this morning when it was still dark and pushed out into No-Man's-land.
Trucks and ambulances carried the "ensualties" from immediately behind the line to clearing stations miles behind, and it was then that the stretcher bearers had the last
"casualties" laugh. The
were
They had been sent out to get |
of our Unc. an enemy's eyeview You might say they were snipers, because each pair had a Very pistol, and when they spotted the sudden stab, of a torchlight or something equally offensive a night front tipped Into the road and had to walk line they fired them and, marked on back to their positions. a map the spot where it had been
Eeen.
I doubt if half a dozen Very lights were sent up to flood the linea with light. Which is remarkable, as the whole British line was in action In the darkness.
"Fass, Tom"
They've got a simple way of find- ing enough passwords to provide one a night for a good while. They take the Christian name of some one in the regiment.
The Britons were playing at "Hali! Who goes there?" a sentry more trouble on their hands;
worn as a concession to the 2-To stir up
make-believe. Every man was in asked. "Friend." "Password?" "Tom." Russia and the Allies; or
season at a party of London's position and carrying on as though "Pass, friend."
Hitler had begun his Blitzkrieg. There is going to be some fun 3-To frighten Britain into letting nudist colony in the clubhouse of
Billets were emptied by an early when they get down to the Welsh the National Sun and Air Asso- Germany air with an easy peace.
into regiments. It
order which sent every one ciation, Shoot-up Hill. Crickle-position with all the gear necessary.] To help the men fight the bitter
And the "war" begon.
cold and the mud they get a rum wood.
ration curly in the morning which Endurance Test
they warm up Into a rum toddy on
tis, in any case, a clear indication that Germany is still striving fran- tically to wriggle out of a full armed clash with the powerful Allied Forces. | ALL FAILED
Otherwise the 150 men, women and children expected as guests will be Of course, no shots were fired. braziers unseen from the light- nude.
Only an occasional bangle, They might have been misunder-snipers in-No-man's-land. necklace or wrist watch will be seen. stood. Ready though our Army are Some of the guests will be from dis- to take their full share of a Blitzkrieg, tant countries-Brazil, Malaya, South is not high policy to precipitate
IT W be recalled that Germany. has made several attempts in this direction. All falled.
First, there were the peace "pro- Africa, India: Others will be leaving anything. As you know, this is a posals of Herr Hitler last October. Service uniforms in the cloak-room war of endurance.
hear the entrance: WAAF, WV.S., The Allies answered "No!"
The longer it lasts the more cer- W.AT.S., W.A.F.S., R.A.F., and Army tain ar
are our chances of winning. and Navy.
British troops carried on through- "We have always had very keen out the night-bringing up munitions
Then came varlous subtic moves designed to separate France from Britain, France refused to listen.
a whole series of members among the Services," Mrs. in dumb play, sending up wiring // Finally came blitzkrieg" threats designed to make Marian Lili, secretary of the associa-parties, carrying casualties to Britain's flesh creep. Britain's flesh tion, told a reporter.
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NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held in the P. & O. Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, at 11.15 o'clock in the forenoon on Thurs-ed. day, the 21st day of March, 1940, Or ភទ sonn thereafter as the Ordinarly Yearly Meeting of the Company shall have terminated, for the purpose of considering and if thought it passing the following resolution as a special resolu"H.Q. IN SYRIA”
the
did nat creep. And nothing happen-
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America's
Reply To Lord Haw-Haw
LORD HAW-HAW of Zeesen · and Hamburg la the bent needle Gochbels scratchy grame- phone record.
on
A little man, with an ersatz plum in his mouth, he tells the lics of the Nazi propaganda machine with the glibness of a amall boy reciting "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
He is the Groucho Marx of the air. And every bit 115 funny. British listeners hear his broadcasts every night. They prefer his comedy' to chamber music.
But Haw-Haw is a clever liar, and some of his lies are repeated £0 often that they start to sound con- vincing.
The week, taking it by and large, was a bad one for his lordship. He let out a mighty blast at Britain's contemptible little Air Force, but die R.A.F. And the final word. They in- vaded Western Germany so effective- ly that Haw-How had to scuttle to his air-raid shelter along with 'af the other Haw-Haws in all the other. languages.
The RAF, indeed, inspired his worst howler of the week. Fiction And Fact
Adjusting his creatz plum so he could really get his teeth into it, he said, in the course of a broadside lasting several minutes:
"The Prime Minister has menilon.. ed the alleged superiority of British 'planes over those of German design.
.Such a statement must be very dimeult to maintain in the face of recent events. The facts are: One British plane alone was sighted— and driven off. A major encounter took place when British bombers at- tempted to attack an island. .they turned back almost at once.
Code System Fled TO Funk Holo
"Obsolete"
The stretcher bearers were un- NEW YORK-The real rea- Mrs. Lill's daughters; Nora (17) luckier than the munitions carriers, So now comes the new campaign. and Monica (14) will be hostesses for they really had to carry men en son why Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Reports are published from Mos-with her. Her third daughter, Sheila their stretchers. Tiresome burdens, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, had cow, Istanbul, Rome, Belgrude, and (7), is evacuated.
the "casualties" lay back with the to return to America from Lon- Budapest, all purporting to show that There will be dancing, with music insouciance of Mae West and smirked don for talks with President
military preparations of the Allies ranging from. Strauss waltzes to at the sweating stretcher bearers. and Russia are already so far ahead swing. In one of the three large re- that the storm may break any day. creation rooms.
THE Deutsche Allgemeine Zeltung has even sent a special correspondent describe the "Situation South of the Caucasus." He tries to show that |
of strategic and that the building" roads leading to the Turkish-Armen- lan frontiers is proceeding satisfac- lorily.
"How's things?" I asked one who Roosevelt is that the State held the rear end of a stretcher. Department in Washington has In the others there will be games, "Could be worse." He walked on."failed to develop a code policy indoor Creworks, crackers, and all panting, they turned his head and which insures relative secrecy in kinds of physical exercises.
added, ... but not a great deal." wiring confidential information."
Russia will not be caught unawares Bombers That Shoot Down
German Fighters
This is stated by Jay Franklin, Washington columnist, in an article published in New York to-day,
"Public Documents"` According to this story code books expensively prepared by the chief of the Division of Communication and Records are "regarded as public do-
This is scarcely accurate. are the facts:
Here
The R.A.F. have made about 100 reconaissance flights over Ger- many.
The .A.F. sent Haw-Haw him- self streaking for his funk-hole on Tuesday night—just when his Bri- tish fans were settling down for a food laugh.
The LA.F. pulled out the largest
serial action of the war when they knocked the hell out Heligoland nearly a fortnight ago and bombed Naxt battleships in the process.
The RAF. security patrols now go on nightly over the Bight—and we won the Grst dog-fight 4-3. Not Quite His Topic
"That, the Capital of "Company be increased from its "present Capital of $6,000,000 "Hong Kong currency divided "into G00,000 shares of $10 each "to $18,000,000 Hong Kong cur "rency divided into 1,800,000
The Volklacher Beobachter, in al "shares of $10 each and that cable from Istanbul, gives details of GERMANY'S AIRMEN have discovered to their cost "such additional shares shall the alleged British-French-Turkish: "rank-in-all-respects-pari passu Army being massed against Russia. that since the outbreak of war practically the whole of "with the original Capital of the The correspondent reveals that Britain's bomber force has been re-equipped with more says Franklin, "for Embussy secre- que "s-rot-particularly In
the army will consist of 500,000 "Company."
Turks, 400,000 French, and 80.000 formidable armament. And for the purpose of consi-British soldiers."
They will be under the comment!:
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Air Mall by "Air France Direct Sertering and if thought fit passing of General Weygand, with his head finest bomber in the world, is, sur-
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QUIET WEDDING
"1. That the Directors be "and they are hereby authorised | "to capitalise the sum of $3,000,- **000 Hong Kong currency part of "the undivided profits of the "Company standing to the credit "of the Company's Reserve Fund "and to allot to the Members
on
Saturday, "holding shares of the Company
between "as on the 1st day of July, 1940,
Mr. Frederick "in respect of the net amount William Winyard and Miss "capitalised fully paid shares of Florence Audrey Lee. "the Company
of
equivalent
The wedding took place quietly at St. Andrew's Church
The Wellington, for example,
generally recognized now
prisingly better than it was before) the war.
that Recent photographs reveal
have twini these Wellingtons now guns in their turrets. Flying in close formations of three they can bring among the 12 machine-guns
to bear on any attacking fighter.
VICTORY SEEN FOR TROTSKY
cuments."
"In at least one belligerent capital it is a commonplace experience." taries to have. Government oMelals discuss with them frankly contents of secret coded messages sent by our Depart- Ambassador to the State ment."
The story adds that the code pre- gramme devised during the Hoover regime was scrapped on the "stupe- fying" ground that it was wrong for the United States Government to de- elpher messages of foreign Govern-
So the State Department stili Imps along on u code system which was already obsolete in 1914."
PARIS Publication of aments. So far they are the only British French "Yellow Book" on origins aeroplanes which have stood a of the war, disclosed that the pitched battle over the North Sea last French Ambassador to Ber- and then flown on with their
bombs to the German harbour in, Robert Coulondre, had told Reichsfuhrer Hitler he feared which was their objective. But the harbour was devoid of the only real victor of a new shipping, so they returned to their war would be "Trotsky Com- base without unloading their bombs.
Photographs taken over German munism."
"nominal value in the propor. 'THE REV. Mr. J. R. Higge, aerodromes by British planes flying
"lion of one share for every two "shares of the Company then, "held by such persons respec- "ively and that such shares so "alloited shall rank for divi- "dends an from the 1st day of "July, 1940.
Vicar of St. officiated.
Andrew's
leased for. publication soon.
was ex-
THE SALE OF AMESBURY ABBEY
& STONEHENGE
M. Coulondre's concern
LONDON, Nov. 27. at only 2,000 or 3,000ft.,may be repressed to Herr Hitler in an inter- Twice within the early days of a view last August 23, when the Fuhrer war, Arst in 1916, and now again, One photograph actually shows gave him a personal message for Amesbury Abbey, has come into the The bride, who is the younger In one corner the wing of a Ger- Premier Edouard Daladier express-market, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lee, man aeroplane landing while Bri-ing the hope that France would not In 1916, the property comprised in
Ish bombers are machine-gunning, go to war against Germany, was given formerly of Shanghai,
the present offer formed only the it.
first of 89 lots, and the total aren The Ambassador, in a report which exceeded 10 square miles. away in marriage by her father. She was attired in French bridal
Two German plants were machine he wrote immediately after the inter- crepe cut on Victorian lines, with gunned, for as they few home they view and which is published in the historic and
Great though the historie, and pre- ilterary interest of 2. That if, on such distri- high neckline and gathered bodice. were apparently unaware that the "Yellow Book," said he had given Amesbury is, there was in the 1915 "bution as aforesaid, any person The alcoves of the gown were long heavy bombers circling round their Herr Hitler my word as a soldier auction one lot of predominant im- "would be entitled to a frac- and tight fitting, and the train cut landing ground were. British. that I have not the slightest doubt portance, Stonehenge. Something of that if Poland should be attacked, the significance of what Сапоп "tional share the Directors shall, In one with the full skirt. Her
Aerodrome: after aerodraine, as France would be with its forces at "in lieu of issuing Fractional short veil was caught to her head well as the whole Siegfried Line, has the ride of Poland."
with
blossoms. While now been photographed until it is orange "Certificates, cause the whole
almost possible to build up a gladioli composed her bouquet. "ahure to be allotted to a person
The bridegroom is the son of the far intond so Berlin.
plete Airmap of secret Germany as "or persons to be named by the "Directors and such share shall, late Mr. F. Winyard, formerly of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and of: "at such time as the Directors Mrs. M. Winyard, of Hongkong. He "think fit, be sold and the pro-was attended by Mr. George Roy- "eceds distributed amongst the lance, as best man, "persons entitled to the fone- tions making up such share." By order of the
Board of Directors, GIBB, LIVINGSTON, & CO. LTD.,
Agents. Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1940,
TRAPPED AIRMAN
SAVED
LONDON.
The reception, which was attended by the intimate friends of the happy couple, was held at the Peninsula Hotel. Later Mrs. Winyard changed into a rose coloured woollen dress trimmed witli ince, with brown ac- cessories, created by "Rivelle.”
com-
At night-time, too, British bombers are continuing reconnaissance flights which constitute some of the most heroic efforts of the war. Incident-] ally, pilots say that the German black-out has recently got much blacker.
Lady
Clark-Kerr In Hongkong
Rawnsley called "ihe spered rampart of Salisbury Pinin," is expressed by Then M. Coulondre added: "Al-him: "None who approach within though I think really that wo would eyesight of the solemn company of be victorious. I also have the fear circung stones but felt that God that at the end of a war there would might Indeed. inhabit that templo only, one real victor-Monsieur made with hands, but He alone."
Trotsky."
The hammer fell to a bid of
It was significant that M. Coulon- £6,000. dre used the name of Leon Trotsky, leader of Communists working for world revolution, rather than that! of Joseph Stalin, whose form of Communism is considered by the French national rather than Inter- national..
The "Yellow Book" constats of 350 diplomatic documents. recording developments from the Munich con-
from Shanghat yesterday were Lady
Among arrivals by Dutch bont ference of September, 1038, to the Clark-Kerr, wife of the British Am
start of the war. In form It follows closely a similar publication by the
climbed 200 ft, down a cliff at War den In Kent and saved him.
The airman was spending the last bansador to China, and Mr. C. M. British Government. hours of his leave walking with his McDonald, Correspondent in Chinn wife and mother-in-lawy when he of The Times. They are both on stepped into the quagmirs and imme- their way Chungking Lady Clark- Miss M. Davis, Mr. J. Hobden, Mr. Kerr to rejoin her husband and Mr. KC KC Hu, Mr., W.-J. Kelly, Mr. diately sank....?
McDonald on the business of The M. Marcuss, Mr. Z. On, Mr. C. | Times, HATES WAY
Toneg. Mr. R. J. Weatherhead.
For Batuvin: Mr. L. A. Collins, munds, Mr. F. F. Spielman, Mr. G. Ringnalda, Mr. J. O. Blm-
Feb. 27, 5 pm: Feb. 28, 0.15 .. ..Feb. 20, 10 a.m.) Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu,.. U.S.A., Central and South America - vis San Francisco--due San, Francisco While a young aircraftinan fought
frantically for fe in a quagmire He was in 'n lerrribly muddy state 21st March
which was dragging him under, and had not Ume to clean: hlmn-
Rog Ord,
G.P.O. and K.P.0.
Other passengers were: taga For llongkong: Mr. J. J. Bermann,
Feb. 27, 5 p.m. watched by his terrified wife and self before catching his train to Mr. S., Cho, Mr. N. B. Chen, Feb. 20, 6.30 am. mother-in-law, two young brother join his unit.
THE HUNCHBACK
Starts Wednesday Queen's & Alhambra
But he made a beautiful crsaiz bloomer on the same night--and again on the same subject.
***The German Air Force," he
terested in stressing the superiority of its warplane designs...
"It can afford to wall until the evidence supplied by actual encoun- ler proves which is the better."
Can it? Apart from the fact that Goering's air force shows a marked disinclination to fight at all, its re- cord when it has been cornered is not impressive. Just Investigate,
On November 6 a flight of nine French Curtiss 'planes-not consider- ed to compare with British Hur ricanes or Spitfires-took on 27 Ger- man Messerschmitis-shot down 'nine and escaped without loss. Knocked Cock-Eyed
Then, of course, his lordship per- potrated a minor masterpiece" about the Graf Spec, which he hailed as a great German riaval victory,
He assured a
breathless world recently that the Grat Spec, speed 20 knots, could not possibly have run away from the British cruisers, speed. 30 knots,
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It never struck this clown-that the cruisers might be zig-zagging to avoid guns so powerful that they could have blown the British attackers out of the water.
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