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NAZI PATROL OUT IN
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This is a German Photograph from The Western Front. Is it real,
or is it another Nazi fake?
right,
PHOTOGRAPH on Just received from Borlin vla 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 Franch barbed wire barricades. Patrol activity has been-fro- quent on both sides of the front lines.—Domei.
He's 3ft. llin.:
Acting Secretary. Too Small,
Hongkong, 4th March, 1940.
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FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The
Secretary,
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Japan and Shanghal
Halphong
What to do to help a child
Anyone knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or manner likely to ill-treated in a Shanghai and Amoy
•Mar. 7. cause unnecessary auffering or injury U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shang to health, or knowing of a parent
hai (Son Francisco date
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.Mar. 7 concerning a child, would be doing .Mor. 7. an act of kindness by communicating .Mar. 7. at once with-
Manila
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Mar. 7.
and Touranc
.Mar. 8.
Straits and Manila
Saigon.
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Alr
General Hon. 11.K.S.P.C., Old City Hall.
The Inspector, 49, Pokfulam Road,
Mar. 8. 1st floor,
The Inspector, 82 Slanc Nulinh Lane, 2nd. Floor.
None of them will have him because of his height he is 3ft. in.
The Navy said: "Far too small." The Air Force did not boller to give him a second look.
The Army rejected him "an oc- count of his small stature."
March 6, 1940;perW AA..
U.S.
MANOEUVRES
CARIBBEAN
IN THE
To a reporter Ronald said: "There JAMES KEEPS ON GETTING NOTICE, BUT-
doesn't seem to be any room any- where for a good little 'un.
"But I'm going to give the Army 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 get together and put our feet down firmly."
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 at Ottawa to join the British Air Mission: "Hitler cannot match the Empire uir 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-
ETHEL, ALL
FORLORN
ETHEL RYLANDS, an adven- turess, swindled London firms of nearly £2,500 by looking SOITY for herself.
"It was her forlorn manner that made peoplo do what she asked," one of her friends said." Ethel, aged 27, was sentenced, at Bow-street, to len montlis' Jail for stealing a platinum ring, gold watch, and a diamond bracciel from Ured separate Jewellers.
Three other cases were taken into consideration.
So once tricked a London sollellor Into guaranteeing her bank account and riving her a reference, on which she ran up a debt of £1,300.
ALTMARK INCIDENT: wick, the problem is how to *********
OFFICIAL
STORY
get rid of one.
PARKING FEE IN
THE DESERT
20
Hint For Holland
And Germany?
WASHINGTON, ́ (UP — By
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 his press conterence that 22 naval vessels of the Atlantic squadronmanoeuvring in the Caribbean wil operate off and out of the Dutch Islands of Curacao, Aruba, Bonnaire and St. Eustatius. Ite said that this was no more than routine training.
More Than Coincidenco
The Navy and State Department refused to comment. Diplomatic eireles, however, speculated that as- sembly of the Atlantic squadron near the Dutch islandy following recent Dutch military defence incasures, might be more than coincidence.
Recently George A. Gordon, United States minister to The Netherlands conferred with Queen Wilhelmina at The Hague. The White House never disclosed the nature of the confer- ence, but it was considered possible now that it concerned American naval operations in the West Indies. The Incident recalled Mr. Roose- velt's declaration shortly after the outbreak of the European war that the United States, under the Monroe 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 a non-American power.
Informed sources hinted that there may be significance in Mr. Roose- velt's decision to send the Atlantic squadron on "good neighbour" calls to the tiny Netherland Indles at a time when the Netherlands govern- inent apparently considers Itself en- clangered,
Warning To Nazis ?
The manoeuvres precipitated semi-
James Hunt, aged sixty-five, has been in her service fourteen years. And he refuses to leave.
So Mrs. Cox went to Brentford Probably the only man in the Police Court to seek the magistrates' world who has been charged a omelat speculation that the Jucident help. She told Mr. A. J. Chard, the parking-free for leaving his air-might imply:
1. A warning to Germany and all Hunt, although dismissed, had in-jutant at one of the Royal Air of sinted on staying in her big house, Force Fighter stations.
"Countless times I have sacked]
The official account of the The Inspector, 52, Argyle St, British action against the Ger- All further steps will be taken, and man prison ship Altmark was her passage to German waters on chairman, that for more than a year craft in the desert is the ad-1other European powers that revision
The Inspector, 12, Sai Yeung Chef St., Kowloon,
Kowloon.
expenses borne, by the Society." contained in two communiques
The Informant's name will be issued by the Admiralty, Airways
kept strictly private, except in cases where matico is proved.
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Thursday, March 7
Canton
Manila
Devils" Ready
For Action
By DAVID SCOTT News Chronicle Correspondent with the French Army
FRANCE.
hundred British
the
been examined at Bergen the day be fore, and had received permission to use Norwegian territorial
"Upon these assurances the British destroyer force withdrew from terri- torial waters, but after dark, on receipt of the Admiralty orders, the Commander on board re-entered the destroyer Cossack with the British ford
and
where she lives alone.
the Netherland government's status quo could not result in change of ownership of the Dutch West
3. That
him, but it has no <ffect," sho He is partly responsible for Indies. sak. "He just says, "Yes, madum. the defence of industrial Bri- 2. A demonstration that the Certainly, madam, most respect-tain.
United States fleet is prepared to de- fully, and goes bitch, to his work.
fend the strategically vital Carib- Before the war, he wore Arab car approaches 'It's Pathetic'
to dress and a beard, and was one of Canal.
the Panama "I have called in the police to that colect band of Englishmen who turn him out, but he always comes have lived and liked the hard life hemisphere defences run along and the Ilnes of western back, and they are sick of wasting of the Arab in the desert. He was through falands owned by European their time.
Chief at the Saudi Arabian Air nations as well as territory of "I have tried to harden my Force.
Americas. heart and let James stay outside, j
4. Active Atlantic squadron pre- but it is pathetic to see him prob of miles over the Desert of the Sing-paration for ably catching his death of cold, and ing Sands or the sandy mountains familiarising officers with harbours; eventuality by pity makes me open the door and of the Western Desert, quelling navigation conditions, topography and
Now, instead of flying thousands
uny
the
Following is the text of the first communique:
"It will be remembered that the Graf Spee sank seven British mer chant ships in the South Atlantic before Christmas.. The officers were
"The Norwegian gunboats re- fused co-operation in the search, made prisoners on board the pocket |
treated.
but remained passive. battleship and were tolerably
The
"The Altmark was manoeuvred so seamen, on other hand, were confined in the Altmark, an as to try to sink the Cossack as she Buxillary of the German Fleet, which prepared to board. In doing so the according to the reports of the Bri-Altmark ran aground stern first, and tish prisoners liberated from the boarded her. Fighting followed, in
the Cossack came alongside her Graf Spee, was armed with conceal- cd guns. Between three and four which, according to a wireless mes- from the Altmark, four Ger- merchont seamen E
bring him in oguln.'
tribal disputes for the greatest of were held prisoners in this vessel, mans were eliled and five seriously
But the magistrates said One British casually was could do nothing, and Mrs. Cox, on no aircraft had ever touched down unt islands.
they the Arab Kings and landing where populations of the tiny but import- und upon the evidence of those de them who were transferred to the
verge of tears, declared: "I before, he sits working with count Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and St. Mr. Roosevelt did not say. that Graf Spee and later rescued, grie- The Alimart was overpowered, think I shall go mad it nobody can lear forms and telephones instruc- Eustatius are all Dutch Irlands, in re- vous hardships and severities were part of her crew fled to the shore, help me." inflicted upon them.
and
the rest submitted. Between James was Traced To Norway
three and four hundred British pri-tress when she in ten for his mis- The Adjutant tells one story of vealing the locale of the naval got back from the a tribal war that was settled pa noon manoeuvres, One source suggested soners, who had been battened down court. And he explained: "Since then the Altmark vanished below, were now found, rescued and
as his landing wheels touched ground. that the squadron obviously could "You see, I feel I belong here. I from the seas, and no trace of her; taken on boord the Cossack, which could not leave this house, Every paksenger.
The King of Soudi Arabia was his have been sent to British or French
вашо They are the Chasseurs Alpins could be found until it appeared, on, with other British vessels in com- room recalls memories of my life troubled district, they heard, sounds conditions. But the the "Blue Devils," as they have the Norwegian const, taking 3.30 p.m.
15th, that she was moving down pany now approaching British here, and if I left it would be the of spasmodic firing, and, flying low niso pointed out that it would have
advan Amoy
....7. p.m. been proudly called; and their tage of its Manila
peculiar configuration and Air Mail for Manila, Guart, Honolulu their fame of yesterday.
..7.00 p.m. prowcas of to-day is no less than endeavouring, to convey these three or four hundred British merchant and U.S.A. by the "Pan American
seamen captives through Norwegian Airways Direct Service"-due San
territorial waters to confinement In Francisco, 14th March.
Germany, KP.0. Reg.
....Mar. 7. 5 p.m.
Amoy
Sandakan.
Shanghai
Swatow
.7.15 a.m.
I HAVE just acen France's .9.30 д.т.
..10 a.m. 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.
Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Mauritius, enemy.
Reunion, Madagascar, L.
and South Africa vin, Marques -
Natives of Savoy for the most part sturdy mountaineers from the Alpine villages between Switzerland and the sea, they are some of the southland
of France.
the
shores.
the
end of me."
{tions.
not
As they approached the Caribbean possessions in view of war
source
over the warring Arabs, they saw been possible to send the feet to the bursts of fire on either side. They waters of neutral American nations in landed in No Man's Land-and the the Caribbean rather than to the four "He accordingly invited the Nor-war stopped.
Netherlands' ́ Islands. weglan commander to take the Cos
For miles In either direction sack's boarding party to the Altmark
wero and accompany them during the
to be scen the recumbent forms of thousands of Arabs, search. After further conversation
Brought to their knees by a King, a pilet, and an aeroplane. to take passage in the Cossack, and
Tried To Ram Cossack
Mar. 7, 5.30 p.m.] guardians of the mountain fastnesses | Were set in motion, and certain air- hna be Capt, Vian, whose conduct the Norwegian cammonder consented
Ord.
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Reg.
Ord.
Parcels
highly commended,
and
When the call to action sounded ate result of which a vessel bearing the circumstanersoners, upon all to accompany the boarding officer.
the
the
RAILWAY DISASTER
Japanese Train's Crash Over Bridge
"The liberated prisoners state that during the Norwegian exam- Ination at Bergen of the Altmark, their efforts to make their presence known to the searching party were unheeded, "Accordingly certain of H.M. shipa full report has been enlled for, which were conveniently disposed
from both craft reconnaissances were made, as from the treed ...Bar. 7, 5 p.m.
British, and two Germans who were Afar. 8. 7.30 am. the beginning of September, the the name of the Allmark, and con- "In Friday, March 8
the carls
carly part of these pro-
to "Meanwhile the Altmark, which scrambling across the ice Join Shanghai and Japan......10.30 am. posts along the Mediterranean coast Norwegian flord of Joessing, after was summoned to stop by the de- her engines, and, in spite of an order
every respect to heri eeedings the German tanker Baldur, was jammed in an lec-pack in the those already, ashore were hit, Chasseurs Alpins were at their usual forming In
description. took refuge In Fort Bayard, and Holhow..1.30 pm of France and
the passing by outside territorial waters, inner end of the flord, began to work **・・ Officers' Rescue Divo Tientsin (Parcels only)....2.30 p.m. foun her south-eastern frontlers.
the mountains that having been sighted by coastal re-stroyer Ivanhoe, Cmdr. P. H. Hadow, to stop, broke free from the ice and Yokohama, U.S.A., Central and
connaissance alreraft, and intercepted and thereupon scuttled herself in the attempted to ram the Cossack while man fell into the water amid the "At the same time another Ger-
Tokyo, Mar. 5. South Amerlea and Canada via The Traditional Borot by H.M.S. Intrepid, Commander R. C. German fashion."
One of the most appalling train San Francisco (No Parcels for
Gordon. Royal Navy:
the latter was coming alongside broken ice. Two of the Cossack's disasters in recent years occurred Canada)-due San Francisco 24th
They looked forward then to a
"Orders
"No Prisoners On Board" were given by
These manoeuvres resulted in the officers plunged overboard and saved between Kokuni and Tamagawagu March
campaign starting from their native Admiralty, with the full nuthority of
Additional details, of the action Allmark grounding by the stern. him. It was discovered that tho Alt- chi on the Yonezaka line, in the K.P.O.
soil and waged in their native climate 11.M. Government, to enter neutral were given in the second com-
"The Cossack now grappled herself mark was armed with two pom- curly hours of this morning when the 4 p.m.
which would have justified their waters, search the Altmaric, and, unique, which said:
to the Allmark, and immediately poms and four machine-guns. Yonezawa train bound for Sakama years of watching and shown the rescue any prisoners if 5 p.m. world at once what they could do.
"On entering the fiord after dark, boarded her. found
"One of the oneers, stated that she chi. Niigata Prefecture, crashed, over 5.30 p.m..
Vinn, of H.M.5. Cossack, and Capt
"Fixing broke out on both sides, had twice been visitex (besucht) a 20-foot bridge which id: been The place in which. I found them
commanding the flotiln, went on and Mr. J. J. F. Smith, gunner in while in Norwegian walers, but had destroyed by a heavy landsüde Joint Search Offor Refused 4 p.m. is at the extremo limit of an advanced
board the
not been searched (untersucht), caused by a mnow drift,
Y that the Altmark should ties, was severely wounded. The at its mouth.
the 300 British prisoners on board
Derailed by the Impact, the engine Anglo-Norwegian guard and under a
a to the bridge and thrust the captain
to the valley, 21 yarda below, where The British Commander, Capt. Joint escort in order that all matters of the Altmark from the control of were not nollced. P. L. Vian, H.M.S, Cossack, was, might be settled in accordance with the
"As soon as the boarding party and piled up on each other they were instructed to offer to place a joint International law.
almost instantaneously enveloped in British and Norwegian guard upon
were British prisoners, wito
found enfely embarked In the Cossack sho the ship, and to escort it with Norwegian warship, in refusing locked in shell-rooms and store proceeded out of the flord and joined ringe escaped the disaster. British and Norwegian warships to this request, stated that he was rooms, and in an empty oll tank. the rest of the British forces.
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 Government.
released a number of the German afternoon, rescued the crew of the gers travelling in the rear investigated according to interns- "He gave an assurance that there armed guard put on board by the German tanker Baldur which had escaped with miner bruises, fional law. This offer was net could be no British prisoners on Graf Spee escaped over the stern o scuttled herself, and all the British Rescue corps accepted.
were immediately board the Allmaric as that vessel the ship and, making their way ships proceeded in company, and hurried to the spot but their work Not a man in the ranks failed to "The captain of the Norwegian had been twice examined in Nor- across the ice, reached an eminence without molestation, on their home was greatly hindered by a snow fall echo their, middle-aged but wiry enp-gunboat stated that the ship was une wegian ports. Capt. Vlan asked on the shore from which they opened ward journey, being protected by three yards deep and by the exceed tain's observation: "Noblesse obligo, armed, that he know nothing about that this assurance should be put fire with rides, spyt ASE The Alpla must show the way." any prisoners on board, that she had to the proof..
atrong forces both upon the sea and ingly rough slopes flanking the The fire was returned by the from, the air generum).fi Tangi railway ling Domel, over a
Reg. Ord.
G.P.O.
p.m. section of the French outpost line noti
board.
on
"Joessing Flord has a' dend' end, requires Norwegian boat, Kjell, and, charge of one of the boarding par-1":"This would explain, the fact that and two Norwegian gunboats appear- be taken to Beeven with . Jalnt į Briush boarding party climbed up who were clamouring for. relenza and foremost carriages were hurtled
Phrcels Rex, Ord.
7 p.m. in the Alps or the Pyrenees nor oned Saturday, Mar. 0
any such romantic frontier,' but in Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
this rain-soaked, muddy corner 10.30 am. North-Eastern France. Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, India. East
and South
Ord,
of
painted steel helmets substituted (when they absolutely had to wear them) for their wide black berets or even balanced Insecurely on the top
There they were, a trifle chamo- Africa, Egypt and faced in khaki greatcoats over their Europe via. Marsellies-due Mar- beloved dark blus dress, with khaki soilles, 5th April.
G.P.O. and K.P.O. Reg.,TM Air Mail for "Imperial Direct Service"-dae March. ***
GPO, and K.P.O. --- Rex.,
5.30 p.m.
Ord.
1.45 p.m.. .2.30 p.m.
Airways of them. London 17
5.00 ..
The commanding ofleer of the Scorch was then made for the all the British prisoners had been flames. Only the hindermost enr-i-
It is fenred
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