Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 26, 1940.
CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Western Front has a Blitzkrieg rehearsal
TOMMIES GO
OVER
MAKE-BELIEVE
DR. GOEBBELS'S tame
NOTICE is hereby given that the TWENTY - FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY" MEETING of this Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, on Saturday, the 16th March, 1040, at 1.00 p.m. for the pur- pose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st newspapers are working up Princo Starhemborg Is
his latest propaganda cam- Officer in French Army December, 1939. Company will be closed from Satur-paign-rumours of war to day, 9 starch, 1910 to Saturday, come in the Near East be- 16 March. 1040, (both days hielu- sive) during which perled no transfer tween Russia and the Allies
-to crescendo pitch.
The Register of Shares of the
of shares can be registered,
Dy order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TUNG PO,
Chief Manager. Itongkor, 28th February, 1940.
for further particulars from Messri, THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC Wilkinson & Grist, 2 Queen's Road Central,
"HONGKONG AS REVEALED BY
Over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Price $1.59. Obtainable t Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Travel Bureau or from the Publishers, South China Morning Post, Ltd.,
CO., LTD.
Notice is hereby given that the THE CAMERA" Second Edition. Fifty-first Ordinary Yearly Meet- ing will be held at the Company's
Omice, Hongkong Registered
4th Flour, P. & D. Building, on Thursday, 21st March, 1940, at II n.m. for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounta to 31st December, 1939, *electing Directors and Auditors and fixing
Wyndham Street.
ROOMS TO LET.
ROOM TO LET, room with bath- room attached, suitable for a couple or two bachelors, five minutes walk from Star Ferry, Rent moderate. | their fees. Write Box 571, "Hongkong Tele- Braph,"
BRITISH WAR ORGANISATION FUND
A Variety Concert in aid of the British War Organisation Fund will take place at the Kowloon Cricket Club, on March 13th, at 9.15 p.m.
His Excellency The Governor and Lady, Northeote have kindly consented to be present.
Tickets can be obtained from:
Mrs. Phillips,
Club.
28 Kadoorie Avenue,
Tel. 57997.
Prices: $1.00 & $2,00.
Russla is being told that Britain, France, und Turkey nie massing an army 1,000,000 strong to attack the Soviet arross the Cauensun,
Britain is being warned that Itussin is massing troops-variously reported as up to a total of 800,000-to attack Iraq. 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, und Turkey were latching any such plot. They also denied that Dussia was massing men along the franion and Afghan frontiers,
Goebbels, 11 is therefore may have one of three almıs
Dr., thought in view:
1. To hearten the German people by rletuding them into the belief that
between war
trouble on their hands; To stir up Russia and the Aflies; or
The French Government has accepted Prince Ernat Rudiger von Starhemberg's long-standing offer to *Army.
serve in the French
He is been accepted for the duration and riven the rank of Heutenant.
The Prince, a bitter opponent Germany and Nazism, led the Austrian patriotto movement, Heimwehr, until the invasion of Austria, and offered to form an Austrian Legion to fight many.
Ger-
Paper Hat
Concession To Nudists
worn as a concession to the season at a party of London's
The Register of Members of Britain and see why 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 ean be registered.
By order of the
Board of Directors. GIBB, LIVINGSTON, & CO., LTD.]
Agents. Hongkong, 22nd February, 1940. THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
CO., LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held in The P. & O. Building, Victoria, in and from the Kowloon Cricket the Colony of Hong Kong, at 11-15 o'cluck in the forenoon on Thurs- day, the 21st day of Murch, 1910, thereafter an the Ordinarly Yearly Meeting of the Company shall have terminated, for the purpose of considering and if thought fi passing the following resolution as a special
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tically to wriggle out of a full armed clash with the powerful Ailled Forces. ALL FAILED
TOP WAR Pistols fire
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IN
lights bullets
By O. D. GALLAGHER,
Dally 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 enrried the "casualties" from kummediately behind the line to clearing stations miles behind, and it was then that the stretcher bearera hud the last
"casualties" laugh. The
were
They had been sent out to get an enemy's eyeview of our line. You might say they were snipers, beenuse each pair had a Very pistol, and when they spotted the sudden; stab of a torchlight or something equally offensive In u 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
seen.
I doubt if half a dozen Very lights were sent up to flood the lines with light. Which is remarkable, as the whole British line was in action in the darkness.
"Pass. Tom**
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Reply To Lord Haw-Haw
LORD HAW-HAW of Zecsen and Hamburg is the bent needle on Goebbels scratchy gramo. phone record.
A little man, with an creats plum in his mouth, he tells the lies of the Nazi propaganda machine with the glibness of a | small boy reciting "The Charge ·
of the Light Brigade."
He is the Groucho Marx of the· air. Anst every bil AS funny. British steners hear his broadcasts every night. They prefer his comedy to chamber musle.
But Haw-law is a clever lar, and some of his Hes are repeated 30 often that they start to sound con- vincing.
The week, taking It by and large, was a bad one for his lordship. He tel out.
mighty blast at Britain's contemptible little Air Force, but the R.A.F. had the final word. They in- vanded Western Germany so effective. ly that Haw-law had to scuttle to his air-raid shelter along with all the other Haw-Hows in all the other. languages.
The RAF, Indeed, inspired hla wort howler of the week, Fiction And Fact
Adjusting his ersatz plum so he could really get his teeth into it, he said, in the course of a broadside lasting several minutes: bliter
rum
light-
They've got a simple way of find- ing enough passwords to provide one night for a good while. They take the Christian name of some one in the regiment. The Britons were playing at "Halt Who goes there?" a sentry make-believe. Every man was in asked. "Friend." "Password?" "Tom." position and carrying on as though "Pass, friend." Hitler had begun his Blitzkrieg. There i
be some fun going to 3. To frighten Britain into letting nudist colony in the clubhouse of Germany off with an easy peace,
Billets were emptied by an early when they get down to the Welsh the National Sun and Air A880-order which sent every one into regiments. It is, in any case, a clear indication ciation, Shoot-up Hill, Crickle-position with all the gear necessary. To help the men fght the that Germany is still striving franwood.
And the "war" began.
cold and the mud they get a ration early in the morning which Otherwise the 150 men, women and
Endurance Test
they warm up into a rum toddy on children expected as guests will be Of course, no shots were fired. braziers unseen from the nude. Only an occasional bangle. They might have been misunder-snipers in No-man's-land. IT will be recalled that Germany necklace or wrist watch will be seen. stood. Ready though our Army are has mack several attempts in this tant countries-Brazil, Malaya, South it is not high polley
Some of the guests will be from dis-to take their full share of a Blitzkrieg. direction. All failed.
to precipitate Africa, India. Others will be leaving anything. As you know, this is First, there were the peace "pro-Service uniforms in the cloak-room war of endurance.
13 a posals" of Herr Hitler last October. near the entrance: W.A.A.F., W.V.S., The Allies answered "No!"
The longer IL lasts the more cer- W.A.T.S., W.AF.S., R.A.F., and Armytain are our chances of winning. Then cathe velous subtle moves!
and Navy. to designed
France from separate
British troops carried on through- "We have always had very keen out the night-bringing up munitions Britain, France refused to listen.
Finally cane a while series of members the services. Ms. in dumb play, sending up wiring blitzkrieg" threats designed to make Marian Lill, secretary of the associo-parties, carrying casualties to the
tion, told a reporter. Britain's Bush creep. Britain's flesh did not creep. And nothing happen-
ed.
So now comes the new campaign. Reports are published from Mos- cow, Istanbul, Rome, Belgrade, and Budapest, all purporting to show that militory preparations of the Allies and Russia are already so far ahead that the storın may break any day. resolu"H.Q. IN SYRIA"
**That Capital of the
the "Company be increased from its "prevent Capital of. $6,900,000 "Hong Kong currency divided "into C00,000 shares of $10 each "La $18,000,000 Hong Kong cur "rency divided into 1,800,000 "shares of $10 each and that "such additional shares shall
trank in all cuspeels pari passus "with the original Capital of the "Company."
THE Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung has even sent a special correspondent describe the "Situation South of the Cauensis.* He tries to show that Russia will not be caught unawares and that the building of strategie roads leading to the Turkish-Armen- ian frontiers is proceeding satisfac- torily.
The Volkischer Beobachter, Ini a cable from Istanbul, gives details of the alleged British-French-Turkish
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Dancing
Trear.
The stretcher bearers were un-
America's Code System
"Obsolete"
NEW YORK.-The real rea- Mrs. Li's daughters, Nora (17) luckler than the munitions curriers, and Monica (14) will be hostesses for they really had to carry men on son why Mr. Joseph Kennedy, with her. Her third daughter, Sheila their stretchers. Tiresome burdens, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, had
(7), is evacuated.
"casualties" lay back with the to return to America from Lon- There will be dancing, with music insouciance of Mae West and smirked don for talks with President ranging from Strauss walizes to at the sweating stretcher bearers. swing, in one of the three large re- creation rooms.
the
"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 fireworks, crackers, and all panting, they turned his head and which insures relative secrecy in kinds of physical exercises.
but not a great deul," wiring confidential information."
added,
Bombers That Shoot Down
German Fighters
GERMANY'S AIRMEN have discovered to their cost Army being massed against Russia that since the outbreak of war practically the whole of
The
correspondent "reveals that Britain's bomber force has been re-equipped with more De army will consist of 500,000 Turks, 100,000 French, and 80,000 formidable armament. British soldiers,
They will be under the commandi
The Wellington, for example,
generally recognizell
us the
Air Mail by "Imperfal Airways
Direct Service"--London date, 17th And for the purpose of consi-
dering and if thought fit passing of General Weygand, with his head-nest bomber in the world, is sur- February. Air Mail by “Air France Direct Ser-
the following resolutions, name-quarters in Beirut, in Syria. vlec”—Parks daie, 21st February.
Feb, 28. ly:- Calcutta, Straits and Saigon, Feb. 28. .Fel›, 28. -Feb, 28.
Japon and Shanghal
Japan and Shanghai
Manila
Shanghai
Shanghai
Feb, 2
28. Feb. 20. .Feb. 28.
.Feb. 20.
U.S.A., and Manila (San Francisco
date, 31st Jan.)
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"1, Thai 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 "holding shares of the Company "as on the 1st day of July, 1940, "in respect of the net amount "capitalised fully paid shures of "the Company of equivalent "nominal value in the propor- "tion of me share for every two "sharts of the Company then "hild by such persons respec- "tively and that such shares so "allotted shall rank for divi- "dends as from the 1st day of "July, 1940.
QUIET WEDDING
The wedding took place quietly at St. Andrew's Church on Saturday, between Mr. Frederick William Winyard and Miss Florence Audrey Lee.
IE REV. Mr. J. R. Higga,
Vicar of St.
prisingly heller than it was before the war.
Recent photographs reveal that these Wellingtons now bave twin guns in their turrets. Flying in close, formations of three they can bring among them 12 machine-guns to bear on any attacking fighter,
which was their objective,
VICTORY SEEN FOR
TROTSKY.
PARIS
-
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- cuments."
"In at least one belligerent capital
"The Prime Minister has mention- ed the alleged superiority of British 'planes over those of German design.
Such a statement must be very diflcult to maintain in the face of recent events. The facts are: One British plane alone was sighted-- and driven off. A mujor encounter took place when British bombers aí- tempted to attack an island. .they turned back almost at once. Fled TO Funk Hola
This is scarcely accurate. are the facts:
Here
The RAF. have made about 100 reconnaissance flights over Ger-
many,
· The ILA.F, sent Haw-Haw him» self streaking for his funk-hole on Tuesday night-Just when his Bri- tish fans were seitling down for a good laugh.
The R.A.F, pulled out the largest aerial action of the war when they knocked the hell out of Heligoland nearly a fortnight ago and bombed Nazi battleships in the process.
The RAF, security patrols now go on nightly over the Bight---and we won the first dog-fight 4--3. Not Quito His Topic
But he made beautiful ersatz bloomer on the same night—and oguin on the same subject.
ha
it is a commonplace experience,quested, will mal vorticularly in says Franklin, "for Embassy stere
tarles to have Government officials discuss with them frankly contents of secret coded messages sent by our
State Ambassador to the
Depart- ment."
The story adds that the code pro- gramme devised during the Hoover regime was scrapped on the "stupc fying" ground that it was wrong for the United States Government to de- cipher messages of foreign Govern- So the State Department still was already obsolete in 1014."
ments, Publication of a
THE SALE OF AMESBURY ABBEY
& STONEHENGE
LONDON, Nov. 27.
So far they are the only British French "Yellow Book" on origins "imps along on a cutte system which aeroplanes which have stood a of the war disclosed that the pitched battle over the North Sea last French Ambassador to Ber- ant thes flown on with their bombs to the German harbourlin, Robert Coulondre, had told Reichsfuhrer Hitler he feared But the harbour was devold of the only real victor of a new shipping, so they returned to their war would be "Trotsky Com- base without unloading their bombs. aerodromes by British planes flying.
munism." Photographs taken over German
M. Cuulondre's concern was ex- Andrew's at only 2,000 or 3,000ft, may be re-pressed to Herr Hitler in an inter- Twice within the early days of a view Inst August 25, when the Fuhrer war, first in 1915, 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 i in one corner the wing of a Ger- Premier Edouard Daladier express markel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lee,
man aeroplane landing while Bri-ing the hope that France would not In 1015, the property comprised in tish bombers are machine-gunning go to war against Germany.
the present offer formed only the formerly of Shanghai, was given away in marriage by her father,
The Ambassador, in a report which first of to lots, and the total arch She was attired in French bridal Two German planes were machine- he wrote immediately after the inte exceeded 10 square miles.
Great though the historic and pre- 2. That if, on such distri, crepe cut on Victorian lines, with gunned, for as they flew home they view and which is published in the historic and literary Interest
officiated.
orange
|leased for publication soun.
.
of
high neckline and gathered bodice.were apparently unaware that the "Yellow Book." said he had given Amesbury is, there was in the 1915 "bation as aforesaid, any person The sleeves of the gown were long heavy bombers circling round their Herr Hitler my word as a soldier auction one lot of predominant im-
that I have not the slightest doubt "would be entitled to a frac- and tight fitting, and the train cut landing ground were British.
that if Poland should be attacked, the significanco
portance, Stonehenge. Something of Canon of what "tional share the Directors shall, in one with the full skirt. Her
Aerodrome after atrodrome, as France would be with its forces at Rawnsley called "the sacred rampart "in lieu of issuing Fractional short veil was caught to her head well as the whole Siegfried Line, has the side of Poland."
with
of Salisbury Plain," is expressed by blossoms. White now been photographed until it is "Certificates, cause the whole
Then M.. Coulondre added: "AL- him: "None who approach within gladioli composed her bouquet. almost possible, to build up a cum- "share to be allotted to a person
The bridegroom is the son of theplete alrmap of secret Germany as though I think really that we would eyesight of the solemn company of be victorious, I also have the fear circling stones but felt that Gott "or persons to be named by the s "Directors and such share shall, late Mr. F. Winyard, formerly of the far inland as Berun.
At night-time, too, British bombers that at the end of a war there would might indeed. Inhabit that temple Kowloon-Canton Itailway, and of "at such time as the Directors Mrs. M. Winyard, of Hongkong. He are continuing reconnaissance flights only one real vletor--Monsieur made with hands, but lie alone."
which constitute some of the most "think fit, be cold and the pro-was attended by Mr. George Roy-rele efforts of the war. Incident- It was signifeant that M. Coulon- £0,000.. "ceeds distributed amongst the lance, as best mun: ·
ally, pilots say that the German re used the name of Leon Trotsky, "peraona entitled to the frac-
Hot much leader of Communists working for The reception, which was attended black-out has recently
world revolution, rather than that. "tions making up such share," by the intimate felends of the happy blacker. By order of the
couple, was held at the Peninsula Hotel. Later Mrs. Winyard changed into a rose coloured woollen dress
Board of Directors,
Shanghal, Japan, Canada, USA., GIDO, LIVINGSTON, & CO. LTD.,
Vancouver
Central and South America vin
D.C., (Parcels Connda' only) -- due B.C., 10th March
Parcels
Reg.
fur Vancouver
G.P.O. and K.P.O,
Feb. 47, 5
p.m. Feb. 28, 0.15 am. ..Feb. 28, 10 am. Shanghal, Japon, Honolulu, U.S.A.,
Ord.
Agents, Hong Kong, 22nd February, 1940.
TRAPPED AIRMAN
SAVED
LONDON,
trimmed with lace, with brown ac- cessories, created by "Rivelle,"
Lady Clark-Kerr In Hongkong
Trutsky,"
of Joseph Stalin. whose form of Communism is considered by the French national rather than inter- national.
The "Yellow Book" consists of]
350 diplomatie documents recording
developments from the Munich con-
Among arrivals by Dutch boat ference of September, 1038, to the climbed 200 ft, down a cliff at War- from Shanghat yesterday were Lady start of the war. den in Kent and saved him.
Clark-Kerr, wife of the Brilleh Ain closely a similar, publication by the In form it follows The airman was spending the lext bassador to China, and Mr. C. M. British Government. hours of hls leave walking with his McDonald, Correspondent in China wife and mother-in-law when he of The Times. They are both on stopped into the quagmire and imme-their way to Chungking, Lady Clark- Miss M. Davis, Mr. H, Hobden, Mr. Kerr to rejoin her husband and Mt. diately sank.
K. K. Hu. Mr. W, J. Kelly, Mr. McDonald on the business of The M. Marcuss, Mr. Z. On, Mr. C. Times,
Tunes), Mr. R. J. Wantherhead.
Central and South America vis San Francisco-due San Francisco While a young aircraftman fought 21st March
frantically for life in a quagmire He was in a terrribly muddy atate G.F.O., and K.P.O.
which was dragging him under, and had not limo to clean him- Feb, 27, 5 pm. watched by hla terrified wife, and self before calching his train to re- ......Feb. 28, 0.30 am. mother-in-law, two young brother join his unit,
Reg Ord.
The hammer fell to a bk of
111
THE HUNCHBACK Starts Wednesday For Batavia: Mr. 2. A. Collins, Queen's, & Alhambra For Hongkong: Mr. J. J..Hermann, Mr. G. Ringnalda, Mr. J. O, Sim- Mr. S. C. Chao, Mr. N. B. Chen, ¦ monde," Mr. F. F. Spieltnan.
Other passengers were:
"The German Air Force,"
ierested in stressing the superiority of its warplane designs..
"It can afford to wait until the evidence supplied by actual encoun- ter proves which is the better."
Con it? Apart from the fact that Goering's air force shows a marked disinclination to Bght at all, its re- cord when it has been cornered is not impressive. Just investigate.
On November a fight of nine French Curtiss 'planes-not consider- ed to compare with British Hur ricanes or Spitfires-took on 27 Ger- man Messerschmilis-shot down nine and escaped without loss. Knocked Cock-Eyed
Then, of course, his lordship per- petrated a minor masterpiece about the Graf Spec, which he hailed as a great German naval victory,
He assured breathless world recently that the Grof Spee, speed 20 kaots, could not possibly have run away from the British cruisers, speed 30 linots,
I never struck this clown that the cruisers might be zig-zagging to' avold guns so powerful that they could have blown the British attackers out of the water.
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