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Wednesday,
NAZI PATROL OUT IN
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
March 6.1940MD esi
U.S. IN
THE
NO-MAN'S LAND
This is a German Photograph from The Western Front. Is it real,
or is it another Nazi fake?
PHOTOGRAPH
on right,
just received from Borlin via Japan (and passed by the British Consors) purports to reveal a Nazi patrol in No Man's Land on the Moselle sector, cutting through the -French barbed wire barricades, Patrol activity has been fre- quent on both sides of the front lines.-Domei.
He's 3ft. 1lin.:
Small,
Acting Secretary. Too
Hongkong. 4th March, 1940.
HONGHONG & WILMP01 DOCK CO., LTD.
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INWARD MAILS Air Mail by "Air France Direct)
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Mar. 0
Mar. B
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Ity Order of Directors,
Say
Forces
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Ronald Harvey, an Ipswich pageboy, is annoyed with the armed forces.
None of them will have him because of his height-be is 3ft. Ilin,
The Navy said: "Far too small" The Air Force did not bother to give him a second look.
The Army rejected him "on ac- count of his small stature.“
MANOEUVRES
CARIBBEAN
To a reporter Ronald said. "There JAMES KEEPS ON GETTING NOTICE, BUT-
doesn't seem to be any room any- where for a stood fitje 'un,
"But I'm going to give the Army the Board of one more chance. If they turn me
down again we little men of Britain are going to know the reason why,
"We shall have to gel together und put our feet down' firmly."
E. COCK. Chief Manager. Hongkong, 27th February, 1940.
FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
What to do to help a child
Air Matt by "Pan Aberlegu Alr- ways Direct Service"---San Fran- elsen date, 21th February, Mar. 2. has been
Anyone knowing of a child who assaulted, neglected, or Canton
Mar. 7-trented in a manner likely to Shanghai und
Ainay... Mar. 7. U.S.A., Honolulu. Japan and Shang to health, or knowing of a parent cause unnecessary suffering or injury
(San Francisco date, 6th
who is seeking advice on any malter February)
Biar.
concerning a child, would be doing an act of kindness by communicating at once with-
hus
Japan and Shanghai
Hoiplan
Marita Shanghal
Bangkok and Tourane
Shanghai
Straits and Manila
Saigon.
Canton
Mur. .Mar.
Mnr. 7
The Hon. General Secretary, .Mar. 7. H.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall.
.Mar. U. The Inspector, 48, Pokfulam Road,
Mar. 8. 1st floor.
.Mar. 8. The inspector, 82 Stone Nuljah Mar. 8. Lane, 2nd Floor,
Mur. 9.
Calcutta, Strait and Salgon Mar. D.
Jak
Japan and Shanghai
Sandakan
Shanghai
.Mur. D.
The Inspector, 12, Sai Yeung Choi St., Kowloon.
The Inspeelor, 52, Argyle St.. Mar. 9. Kowloon, .Mar, 0. All further steps will be taken, and .Mar. 9. expenses borne, by the Society. Air Mall by "Imperial Always The Informant's name will be Direct Service"-London date, 2nd. kept strictly private, except in cases March.....
.Mar.-10.-where-malice-is-proved..
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5.00 p.m. .5.30 p.m.
5.00 p.m. 7.00 p.m.
French "Blue
THIS SERVANT JUST WON'T BE
SACKED
"Hitler Cannot Match This"
OTTAWA.
SAID Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Governor of Kenya, when he arrived ut Ottawa to join the British Air Mission: *Hitler cannot match the Empire air training scheme in Canada. It is one of the most important steps taken to ensure ultimate victory.” ***.............................................
TWICKENHAM.
FOR most mistresses the servant problem is how to find them. But for the sixty-year-old widow of an | inspector-general in the In- ***dian police, Mrs. Cox, -of Burlington - gardens. Chis-
get rid of one.
ALTMARK INCIDENT: vids, the problem is how to
OFFICIAL STORY
battleship and were tolerably Devils" Ready
For Action
By DAVID SCOTT- News Chronicle Correspondent with the French Army
FRANCE.
Reg.
Ord.
·G.P.O.
Reg Onl. Bangkok
.. 7 p.m.
.
Thursday, March 7
Cunton
-Manila
.7.15 a.m. .9.30 a.m.
Amoy
Sondakan.
Shanghai
Swalow
I HAVE just-seen France's 10 am. most famous troops (not count- 11.30 am. ing the
legendary Foreign .2.30 p.m. Legion) in close contact with the 2.30 p.m. Manlin, Saigon, Bangkok, Mauritius, enemy.
Reunion, Madagascar, L. Marques and South Africa via Durban
Amoy Manila
They are the Chasseurs Alpins 3.30 p.m. the "Blue Devils," as they have 7pm. been proudly called; and their ...7.00 p.m. prowess of to-day is no less than
Alr Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu their fame of yesterday.
and U.S.A, by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service"due San Francisco, 14th March.
Rer. Ord.
Rex.
Ord.
March
K.P.O.
Natives of Savoy for the most part sturdy mountaineers from the Alpine villages between Switzerland and the Mar, 7, 5 p.msen, they are some of the southland Mar. 7, 5.30 p.m. guardians of the mountain Insinesses G.F.O.
of France.
K.P.O.
p.m.
and
for
fewn her south-eastern frontiers.
James Hunt, aged sixty-five, has been in her service fourteen years. And he refuses to leave. So Mrs. Cox went to Brentford
ETHEL, ALL FORLORN
ETHEL RYLANDS, an adven- turess, swindled London firms of nearly £2,500 by looking, sorry for herself.
"It was her forlorn RIANNET that made people do what she asked," one of her friends Bald." Ethel, aged 27, was sentenced, a1 Bow-street. to len months' fall for stealing a platinum ring, a gold watch, and a diamond bracelet fron three separate jewellers,
Three other cases were taken into consideration.
She once tricked a. London solicitor Into guaranteeing her bank account and giving her a ́reference, on which she ran up a
debt of £1,300.
Hint For Holland
-And Germany?
By
WASHINGTON, (UP AIR EXPRESS). -American naval manoeuvres off the Dutch West Indies suggested that the Navy may be preparing to de- fend the strategic Caribbean islands if Holland is drawn into the European' war.
President Roosevelt said at its press conference that 22 naval vessels of the Atlantic squadron manoeuvring In the Caribbean will operate off and out of the Dutch Islands of Curacao. Aruba, Bonnaire and St. Eustatius. He said that this was no more than routine training.
More Than Coincidoneo
The Navy and State Department refused to comment. Diplomatic eireles, however, speculated that as- sembly of the Atlantic squadron near the Dutch islands following recent Dutch milltary defence measures, might be more than coincidence.
Recently George A. Gordon, United States minister to The Netherlands conferred with Queen Wilhelmina at The Hugue. The White House never disclosed the nature of the confér- ence, but it was considered, possible now that it concerned American naval operations in the West Indies.
The Incident recalled Mr. Rouse- velt's declaration shortly after the outbreak of the European war that the United States, under the Monroc Doctrine, would not countenance:
1. Transfer of any western hemis- phere territory from one European nation to another.
2. Transfer of any western hemis- phere territory to i non-American power.
Informed sources hinted that there inny be significance in Mr. Roose- velt's decision to send the Atlantic ** *******44 | squadron on "good neighbour" calls to the tiny Netherland Indies at n
ment apparently considers self en- dangered.
PARKING FEE IN time when the Netherlands govern
THE DESERT Probably the only man in the,
Warning To Nazis ?
The manoeuvres precipitated semi-
A warning to Germany und all
the Netherland government's status quo could not result in change of ownership of the Dutch
West Indier
3. That
Panusno
The official account of the juzen examined at Bergen the day be- Police Court to seek the magistrates world who has been charged aofficial speculation that the incident British action against the Ger- Norwegian territorial waters on chairman, that for more than a year craft in the desert is the ad other European powers that revision
fore, and had received permission to help. She told Mr. A, J. Chard, the parking-free for leaving his air-might imply: man prison ship Altmark was her passage to Germany.
Hunt, although dismissed, had in- contained in two communiques
"Upon these assurances the British sisted on staying in her big house,jutant at one of the Royal Air issued by the Admiralty. destroyer force withdrew from terri-where she lives alone.
Force Fighter stations. dark, on Following is the text of the torkul waters, but after
"Countless times I have sacked first communique:
"receipt of the Admiralty "orders, the
-him, but it has
neffect,le-le-is-partly-responsible-for said. "He just says, 'Yes, madam. the defence of industrial Bri- 2. A demonstration that the "It will be remembered that the destroyer Cossack with the British
Certainly, madam, most respect-tain.
United States fleet is prepared to de- Graf Spee sank seven British mer- Commander on board re-entered the
flord.
fully, and goes back to his work.
fend the strategically vital Carib- chant ships in the South Atlantic
Before the war, he wore Arab "The Norweginn gunboats re-
'It's Pathetic'
bean approaches to the before Christmus. The officers were!
dress and a beard, and was one of Canal. fused co-operation in the search, "have called In the mute prisoners on board the pocket|
police to that select band of Englishmen who but remained passive.
the lines of western treated
turn him out, but he always comes have lived and Ilked ihe hard te hemisphere defences run along and "The seamen, on the other hand. "The Altmark was manoeuvred so back, and they are sick of wasting of the Arab in the desert. He was
tlands owned by European were confined in the Altmark, on as to try to sink the Cossack as she their time.
Chief of the Saudi Arablan Air "I have tried to
nations as well as territory of the harden my Force, Duxiliary of the German Fleet, which prepared to board. In doing so the
heart and let James stay outside.
Americas, Now, instead of flying thousands according to the reports of the Bri Altmark ran aground stern first, and
liberated tish prisoners
from the Cossack came alongaide her and
but it is pathetic to ace him prob- of miles over the Desert of the Sing-4. Active Atlantic squadron pre- eat-boarded her. Fighting followed, in ably catching his death of cold, and Ing Sands or the sandy mountains familiarising officers with harbours,
paration for Graf Spee, was armed with conceal
any eventuality. by three and four which, according to a wireless mes- ed guns, Between
plly makes me open the door and of the Western Desert, quellingto bring him in again."
tribal disputes for the greatest of a
navigation
conditions, topography and hundred British merchant seunen one from the Allmark, four Ger-
the magistrates were held prisoners in this vessel, mans were killed and five seriously:
said they the Arab Kings and landing where puttalions of the tiny but Import-
islands. and upon the evidence of those of wounded. One British casualty was could do nothing, and Mrs. Cox, on no aircraft had ever touched down t
Mr. Roosevelt did not tears, declared: " before, he sits working with count-Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and St. Gay that verge of them who were transferred to the sustained. Graf Spee and later rescued, gric. The Allmark was overpowered, think I shall go mad if nobody can less forms and telephones instruc-Estatus are all Dutch islands, in re yous hardships and severities were part of her crew fled to the shore, help me,"
naval inflicted upon them.
and the rest submitted, Between James was getting teu for his mis- The Adjutant tells one story of vealing the locale of the three and four hundred British pri- tress when she got back from the tribal war that was settled as soon manoeuvres. One source suggested Traced To Norway
And he explained:- isoners, who had been battened down court.
could not squadron us his landing wheels touched ground. that
obviously Since then the Altmark vanished below, were now found, rescued and "You see, I feel I belong here, 1.
The King of Saudi Arabia was his have been to British or French from the seas, and no trace of her taken on board the Cossnek, which could not leave this house.
Caribbean possessions in view of war Every passenger. As they approached the could be found until it appeared, on with other British vessels in com-room recalls memories of my life troubled district, they heard sounds conditiontert out that it would have But the 'same source the 15th, that she was moving down!
But
the
tions.
ㄓ
the Norwegian coast, taking advan- Is
pany now approaching British here, and if I left it would be the of spasmodic firing, and, flying low been possible to send the fleet to the
tage of its peculiar configuration and endeavouring to convey these three or fou
four hundred British merchant seamen captives through Norwegian territorial waters to confinement in
Germany,
shores.
and
#
end of me,
over the warring Arabs, they saw
to
RAILWAY DISASTER
The liberated prisoners state
bursts of fire on either side. They waters of neutral American nations in that during the Norwegian exam-
landed in No Man's Land-and the the Caribbean rather than to the four Ination at Bergen of the Altmark, weglan commander to take the Cos-
"He accordingly invited the Nor-war stopped.
Netherlands' istands. their efforts to make their presence seck's boarding party to the Altmark
For miles in either direction known to the searching party werej
were and accompany them during the
to be keen unheeded.
the recumbent "Accordingly certain of H.M. ships
forms further conversation.
of thousands of Arabs, "A full report has been called for, search. After which were conveniently disposed both from Capt. Vian, whose contact the Norwegian commander consented
brought to their knees by a King. were set in motion, and certain air-has been highly commended.
to take passage in the Cossack, and
a plot, and an aeroplane. craft reconnaissances were made, as from the freed prisoners, upon all to accompany the boarding officer. Mar. 7, 5 p.m.)
the result of which a vessel bearing the circumstances. When the call to action sounded at
Tried To Ram Cossack British, and two Germans who were Yar. 8, 7.30 s.m. the beginning of September, the
the name of the Allmark, and con Friday, March 8
In the early part of these pro-
"Meanwhile the Altmark, which scrambling across the lee Join Japanese Train's Crash Shanghai and Japan. 10.30 m. Eosts along the Mediterranean coast Norwegian fiord of Joessing, after was summoned to stop by the de- her engines, and, in spite of an order
her Chasseurs Alpins were at their usual forming in every respect to
ceedings the German tanker Baldur, was formed in an ice-pack in the those already ashore were hit, : description.
look Fort Bayard, and Holhow..
refuge In the passing by outside territorial waters, inner end of the flord, began to work)
Over Bridge Officem' Rescue Dive Tientsin (Parcela only) .... 2.30 p.m. of France and in the mountains that having been sighted by coastal re-stroyer Ivanhoe, Cmdr. P. H. Hndow, to stop, broke free from the fee and Yokohama, U.S.A Central
Tokyo, Mur. 5. "At the same time another Ger. connatasanee aircraft, and intercepted and thereupon scuttled herself in the attempted to rom the Cossack while man fell into the water and e South America and Canada viu
The Traditional Boret
by 1.M.S. Intrepid, Commander R. C. German fashion."
One of the most appalling train San Franelsco (No Parcels
occurred: Gordon, Royal Navy,
the latter was coming alongside. broken fee. Two of the Cossack's disasters in recent years Canada)-due San Francisco 24th They looked forward then to al "Orders
"No Prisonora On Board" Those
the officers plunged overboard and saved between Kokuni and Tomagawagu- were
manoeuvres resulted in by given
the campaign starting from their native Admiralty, with the full authority of
Additional details of the action Allmark grounding by the stern. him. It was discovered that the Alt- chi, on the Yonezakn line, in the soil and waged in their native climate H.M. Government, to enter neutral were given in the second comTM "The Cossack now grappled herself mark was armed with two pom- early hours of this morning when the which would have justified
Yonezawa train bound for Sckama to the Altmark, and immediately poms and four machine-guns. the waters, search the Altmark, and munique, which said: years of watching and shown the 5 pm world at once what they could do. rescue any prisoners if
"One of the officers stated that she chl, Niigata Prefecture, crushed over- "On entering the flord after dark, boarded her. found on
Capt. Vinn, of H.M.S. Cossack, and and Mr. J. J. F. Smith, gunner in while in Norwegian waters, but had destroy an
"Firing broke out on both sides, had twice been visited (besucht) a 20-foot bridge which had
a heavy landslide commanding the flotila, went on 4 p.m. is at the extreme limit of an advanced
Joint Search Offer Rofused
caused by snow drift. board the Norwegian boat, Kjell, and charge of one of the boarding par- not been searched (untersucht), B p.m. section of the French outpost lino not
would explain
Derailed by the Impact, the engine · 7 p.m. In the Alps
the Pyrenees nor oned at its mouth,
and two Norwegian gunboats appear be
inken 10 Bergen with a joint any such romantic frontier, but in
Anglo-Norwegian guard and under a to the bridge and thrust the captain who were clamouring for release and foremost corringes were hurtled to the valley 21 yards below, where this rain-soaked, muddy corner of The British Commander, Capt. joint escort in order that all matters of the Allmark from the control of were not noticed. North-Eastern France.
P. L. Vian, H.M.S. Cossack, was, might be settled in accordance with the
Ship
"As soon as the boarding party and plied up on each other they were almost Instantaneously enveloped in Instructed to offer to place a folat international Jaw.
Only the hindermost car British and Norwegian guard upon
prisoners, who were found safely embarked in the Cossack she ringe escaped the disaster, the ship, and to escort it with Norwegian warship, in refusing locked in shell-rooms and store proceded out of the ford and Joined! British and Norwegian warships to this request, stated that he was rooms, and in an empty all tank. the rest of the British forces.
It is feared the death roll - will Bergen, where the search could be neting' under 'Instructions from his "While these captives were being The Ivanhoe had, during the exceed 100. Twenty-three passen- conducted and the whole matter
released a number of the German afternoon, rescued the crew of the gera envelling in the rear Investigated according to interna- "Ife gavo otr assurance that there armed guard put on board by the German tanker Baldur which had escaped with minor bruises, tional law. This offer was not could be no British prisoners on Grat Spec escaped over the stern of scuttled herself, and all the British Rescue corps were immediately, accepted.
board the Altmark as that vessel the ship and, making their way Milps proceeded in company, and hurried to the spot but their work had been twice examined in Nor-ocram the leg, reached an ominence without molestation, on their home- was greatly hindered by a wnow fall. wegian porte. Capt.. Vian asked on the shore from which they opened ward Journey, being protected by three yards deep and by the exceed. that this assurance should be, put, fire with rifles.
strong" forces" both upon the sea and ingly rough slopes Banking ** the to the proof.
"The fire was returned by the from the air."
railway line.Domei,
Parcels Reg. Ord.
G.P.O.
4 p.m.
.5.30 p.m.
The place in which I found them
Parcels Reg. Ori.
Saturday, Mar. 0 Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
10.30 a.ro. Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, Indin, East
There they were, a trifle share- and South Africa, Egypt and faced in khakl greatcoats over their Europe vin Marselllea due Mar- beloved dark blue dress, with khaki neilles, 5th April.
painted steel helmets substituted (when they absolutely had to wear them) for their wide black berets or even balanced insecurely on the top of them..
G.F.O, and K.P.O.
Reg.
.1.45 p.m. Ord.,
.2.30p.m. Air Bfall for "Imperial Airways Diroot Bervice"-due London 17 March
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
KeK., Ord..
.5.00. p.m. 8.30 p.in
board.
the fact that
"Jocssing Flord has n dead end, requested that the Altmark hunt British boarding party climbed up the 300 British prisoners on board
ties, was severely wounded. The This
Not a man in the ranks failed to "The captain of the Norwegian echo their middle-aged but wiry cap-gunboat stated that the ship was un- tain's observation; "Noblesse, obilge. | armed, that ho knew nothing about 1The. Alpin must show the way?" any prisoners on board, that she had!
The commanding officer of the Barch was then made for the all the British prisonere hud, beer numer.
Government.
been
car