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The Society asks for
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in 1940 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hong Kong, against which the Income to date is $12,000 only.
In order to continue its work, the Society appeals for the balance of $23,000 before the close of the financial year on 31st October. A copy of the Annual Report for 1039 may be obtained from: «
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH March 21, 1940.
SEA
SKIES
ALIVE
WITH AEROPLANES
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”
· LONDON, MAR. 20. (UP).—THE SKIES OVER THE NORTH SEA ARE ALIVE TO-DAY WITH AIRCRAFT.
WHILE BRITISH PLANES WERE CARRYING OUT FURTHER| EXPEDITIONS OVER SYLT, NAZI MACHINES STAGED A RAID OVER THE SHETLAND ISLANDS.
The air raid warning was sounded for half-an-hour
British fighters went up and drove off the raiders. No bombs were dropped.
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It is reported that similar reconnaissance flights were made on Scapa Flow.
Now Raid Starts
· COPENHAGEN, MAR. 20 (REU- TER).—LIVELY. ACTIVITY BE- GAN AT SYLT AGAIN AT 3 P.M. WHEN PLANES WERE SIGHTED APPROACHING THE ISLAND.
THE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS WENT INTO ACTION. NO DE-
MORE QUINTUPLETS
EXPECTED
TAILS OF THE RAID ARE YE Five Little Rivals For The
AVAILABLE.
Sylt In Smoke
COPENHAGEN, Mar. 20 (REUTER),~Smoke, apparent- ly from burning buildings, was still rising from Sylt Island this
afternoon.
According to a despatch from the Danish island of Roemoe, which is
just north of Sylt Island, the railway fine along the Hindenburg Dam is believed to be damaged.
Normally four trains crass the Dam dally but no trains have been running
to-day.
Flies Low Over Town LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter)......... Believed by onloniters to be German, a plane visited Shetland Islands to- day and was driven off.
No bombs were dropped. The machine, which was a Heinkel, was apparently on reconnaissance and new low, over the town and harbour, It swooped towards the anchored shipping, then ruse rapidly and dis- appeared behind a low cloud with British Oghters in hot pursuit.
Wave Aftor Wave ESJBERG. Mar. 21 (UP),—Other eye-witnesses of the Sylt raids state that the British planes came over in wave after wave.
Dionne Sisters
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
MIAMI, Mar. 20 (UP)-The odds against quintuplets be ing born are millions to one.
Nevertheless, the Dionne quintuplets will soon have five little rivals.
The New York "Daily News" to-day published a copyright X-Ray photograph showing that Arline, the 22-year-old wife of Emory Callahan of Miam! muy expect quintuplet babies in May, or perhaps sooner.
worker in Miami.
Callahan is a 30-year-old factory
Married Last June
The couple were married in June] last year.
be
The Dionne quintuplets will six years old on May 28.
Together, the five babies weighed only 13lbs.
They are the only known "quiry" to live longer than five days.
According to the "Rule of 87," quintuplets occur once in about 57,- .000.000 births. One twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births, one triplet to about 7.569 singles,
one quadruplet to about 058.503 singlen, and sextuplets to about 5,000,000,000 single births. Sextuplets and quintu- plets are so rare that there are no recorded cases, excepting the Dionnes, of any who live lived for over five days after birth.
Now Record Likely
The roar of their engines and pro- pellers was clearly nucible in the elear, moonlit fight, and many of the British machines were tetually visi-
If the Miami quintuplets live they ile in the flashes from the German will create a new record,
for they anti-aircraft guns, which were ling will be the first childrett of their the sky with hundreds of burst- parents. The Diounes had seven ing shells simultaneously, German elder brothers and sisters. searchlights were also trained effec- tively on the raiders.
Eye-witnesses in southern Jutland remained up all night to watch the British planes en route to Sylt,
Awe-Inspiring And Tragic
"It was an awe-inspiring and tragiej sight," aaid one eye-witness,
We wondered if it was possible for human beings to live through that hali of-bombs.
avenging planes
The roar of the aven kept coastal inhabitants awake along in wide aren of the Danish coast.
the
The Dionnes have amassed an in- vested fortune of £230,000 since their birth.
Disturbances In Malaya
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald States Position
Windows were smashed and plas- LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter) ter fell on Roemue Island and muny | During question-line in the House other places even further away from fut Commons yesterday Captain Allan
concussion of the exploding Graham requested detailed Informa
tion about the labour disputes In Singapore and Mataya since the beginning of the war, and the Com- munist agitation in connection with the disputes.
bombs.
An eye-witness at Esjberg suid: "We
were sitting, talking quietly about the war and telling each other how long ago it had been since the Bri- tish had raided the German Island, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary when, suddenly, we heard terrifle of State, enumerated the explosions. We looked at each other In silence it had come.
-one
Our
disputes
and said that it was difficult to give the exact figures of the disputes which
were attributable to Communist agitators.
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Ministry Of Supply Absorbs £508,000,000
LONDON, Mar. 20 (Reuter). -Mr. Lasile Burgin, the Minis- ter of Supply, told a conference to-day that since the beginning of the war, the Ministry of Sup. ply had placed orders for materials, munitions and stores to the total value of £508,000,- 000.
The Ministry was spending £1,500,000 a day,
At the beginning of the war, there were nine Royal Ordnance factories in the country. Now there were 16, and 37 were planned.
more
The majority of the latter would be in production next year, employing a labour force of more than 250,000,
JARDINE SHIPS TAKEN OVER
-SPECIAL-TO-THE "TELEGRAPH"
SHANGHAI, Mar. 21 (UP).The British naval authorities have re- quisitioned two small vessels be- longing to Jardine, Matheson & Co.
They are the Liwo, a new 342-ton
tug, and the 500-ton Fuwo.
The two vessels are to be sent to Hongkong, from where they are ex- pected to continue on to Singapore.
Four other lugs, recently requisi- tioned, have been sent to Hongkong.
MUSSOLINI'S
WAR TALKS
Violent Explosion "We left our table and rushed to the shore to witness the fighting across the water on German territory.
"The moment we left
table there was a violent explosion on Sylt of the British bombs had ex- ploded a German munitions dump. tricted areas: the seizure et a dupli- The conversations lasted
The
explosion WAS awful. It cating plant and normal police men-hours, shook the house, shivered glasses that sures. wore on the table and upset chairs. A card table collapsed from the con- cussion. Cards and a whisky bottle and glasses fell to the floor.
Where the law had been broken by
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Communist agitators the offendera
with were dealt
by prosecution: ROME, Mar. 20 (Domel)-Signor deportation in the case of allens: the Mussolini to-day received General of residence in res- Graziani, the Vice-Minister of War. requirements
several
"We were over thirty miles away from Sylt. Inngine how that ex- plosion must have rocked the Ger- man island.
Plano Plunges Into Sea
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGĦAPH" COPENHAGEN, Mar. 20 (UP),- The "Eskra Bladet" reports that a farmer on western Fance saw a burn- ing plane plunge into the sen.
A second plane dropped a flare but made no attempt to land.
NAZIS MINE A DUTCH SHIP
THE HAGUE, Mar. 20 (Neuler),~~ Another dutch ship has fallen victim to Nazi sen warfare.
She is the 7,000 ton Phobus which Annk yesterday after hitting a mine! off the south-east coast of England. She was carrying a cargo of crude oll from the West Indies to Rotterdam. Thirty of her crew were rescued by lifeboats from the afore but it is: feared thnk six others are missing.
NEYE PRENON FURBERRY,
PIONING] RAPION No 2.
PION: NI.3
An official communique says that He said that generally there had various matters relating to Italy's been an absence of actual distur- precautions against war were dis-
cussed. bance.
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