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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Exchange At A Glance
SELLING
TT, London Demand do. T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore Japan T.T. India T.T. U.S.A. T.T. Manils T.T
Batavin
TT. Bangkok T.T. Saigon
T.T. France TT. Switzerland T.T. Australia
MARCH 27, 1940.
MYSTERY
THIS NAZI
PLANE DID
1/2.25/32 1/2.25/32 .350 525%
NOT ESCAPE
BOOKS
.43
15036
108
10.02
90
.1/01
1/3.3/32
4 m/s D/P do.
.1/3.7/32
4 m/s L/C U.S.A.
.2244
4 m/s Frutico
11.37
.83%
U.S. Cross rute in London 4.02 U.S. Cross rate In N.Y...3.531⁄2
BUYING
4 m/s L/C London
30 d/s India
H.K. Stock Market
The
were
following quolations issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar ket this morning.
BANKS
H.K. Banks $..
1.1.400 .
As is customary with Nazl airmen, Iest'some secret of their planes H.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.) £03%, be gained by the French and British, pilots of this German bomber II.K. Banks (HK. Reg.) ..93 n. set it afire when they were forced down behind the French lines re- Chartered C.
...x.d. 9 n.cently. However, the wreckage showed that if was a Dornier 17. Mercantile, A. & B. £.. x.d. 31 n. Mercantile, C. £...... x.d. 12 a. East Asia 3.
INSURANCES
Canton 3
Union 3..
Chinn Underwriters $..
H.K. Fire $.
SHIPPING
Douglases 1..
Steamboats $. Indo-Chinas P$
Indo-Chinas D§.
Shell (Bearers) s/- Waterboats $
Wharves
'DOCKS ETC.
Docks $ (c. rts.. x. d.) Docks $...... (ris.) Providents ... Sh. Docks Sh. S..
MLINING
Kallon / Raubs x. d. Venz Gold $ H.K. Mines
Hotels $. Lands $.. Lands 4%
.LANDS
...71 n.
23214. .010 sa. ,1∙n.
.187 n.
.150 n.
.10% n.
100 n.
.80 n.
78/0 n.
714 n.
.169 n.
R. A. F. CANNOT
BOMB BERLIN,
SAYS GOEBBELS
OF NAZI
FOR SALE
IN
LONDON
SOME of Goering's books are to be sold in London. They are included in a three-day auction of valuable books at Sotheby's.
How these volumes, once the personal property of the Nazi. leader, with marginal notes in his handwriting, found their way to the London market is a mystery..
Some of the books offered in the sale are from the collections of well-known owners whose names are published in the catu- logue, others are described as "the property of a gentleman," but Gooring's books are included in a acction headed "other proper- ties."
It is not surprising that the Field Marshal, who, like many other Nazi lenders, has enriched himself by plundering his Jewish victims, should have taken a grent interest in one of the books. Secrets of Jews
The volume, entitled "The Secrets of the Elders of Zion,” contains many annotations in Goering's handwriting and bears his signature on the cover.
It was evidently a prized posses= |
sion, as was another book, “Bel-
shevism from Moses to Lenin; a Discussion between Adolf Hlller
and Myself.”
This has also
been signed by Goering and contains many notes. Nobody knows as yet what these are and it might be a good idea for the Ministry of Information to buy the books to find out.
Inquiries
to at Sotheby's failed solve the puzzle of how the books found their way to a West End sale- room.
"We are unable to state who is the
GOEBBELS has found a new hero and a new boast present owner of the books," said on
22 sa for the people of Germany,
7% 0.
.5.20 sa.
30 10/
.9.00 n.
.....
official of Sotheby's.
Their value to the average Eng- lishman may be negligible, but a
The BOAST is: "The British cannot bomb. you. Our cities are invulnerable from the air." The HERO, foreign collector may regard them as
is the Flak (anti-aircraft). gunner.
The German girl to-day would cts. n. rather walk out with ព Flak
[of considerable interest and worth."
440,000 Died In
Spanish Civil War
FRANCO SETS HIS LOSSES AT 140,000
PARIS.
NEARLY hulf a million men were killed on the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War. One hundred and forty thousand are officially listed as Nationalists
Millan Astroy, president of the War Disabled Association.
5, n. gunner than any other man in THESE PRINCESSES ENJOY SKATING by the Nationalist General
48
uniform, because she iy told:
100 n. "He is the man who will protect
Debentures
Shai Lands Sh. $. Humphreys $..
.15 n. ..8 b.
H.K. Realties $ Chinese Estules $...
-UTILITIES
4.05 n.
Trams $.
10 8.
.BT.
.4 n.
Peak Trams (old) $. Peak Trams
(new)
Star Ferries $.
SH
Ferries $.
China Lights (old) $... China Lights (new) .. H.K. Electries $. Macno Electrics $ Sandakan Lights $. Telephones, (old) 7. Telephones (new) Tractions 8- Tractions (Pref.) a/-
INDUSTRIALS
68 n. .2014 S
.8.30 62. .5.40 b. .05% 8.
.22 n. .11% n. .30.
.11.60 5. .20/0 n. .23/1
Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Sh. $..14.03 n. Cald: Maeg. (Pref.), Sh. $...12 n. Canton Ices
Gements
H.K. Ropes $.
STORES, &. Dairy Farma (old) $.. Dairy Farms (new) Watsons 3. Lane, Crawfords $ Sinceres $. Wing On (L) Powell, Ltd. ....
COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $....... S'hai Cotton Sh..
. $. Zoong Sing. Sh. $.. Wing On Textiles, Sh.
MISC.
H.K. Entertainments $. Constructions (old) $ Constructions (new) Vibra Piling $. Ch. Govt. 5% 1925
G. Bonds
H.K. Gort, 1% Loan H.K. Govt. 3% Loan Marsmons (Lon.) s/~ Maramons (HK.) **,
you from British bombera.'
Germany's Flak gunners have not yet done anything to cam their new popularity which is entirely due to the Goebbels
campaign. The German "A.A. defence is worked in zones-in the outer ring searchlights and sound locators, next Kuns,
then areas where only fighters operate.
Germans are being taught that "Planfeuer" is the secret that will defeat our bombers. That word means an anti-aircraft bar- rage intended to lock attacking bombers inside an area where they will either be shot down by figh ters or blown to pieces by high- explosive shells if they try to
escape,
On good authority I can give the true position of the probabiliiles of future air attacks. They apply as well to Britain as Germany.
Falso Security
In 1914 sa. 5.05 sa.
23 n.
British citizens should not be .22 b.
lulled, like the Germans, into a false 10.05 n.
sense of security, to be shocked into 7% renlisation of the truth only by
bombs.
1.80 n.
.41 m.
.1 n.
No city is invulnerable from bombers. The only ultimate de- .44.
fence against enemy bombing is .100 n. the deterrent of heavier bombing
03 n. reprisals on enemy 'cities, 481⁄2 n.
Fighters, balloon barrages, and .7.40 b. anti-aircraft units mean that target- dimcult, 14 bombing is made more
.in.
8
sometimes food with accuracy.
But, however
defences may be plastering" the haphazard spray-
ing
of
cities
with bomba from
.51 great height-cannot be completely ..101% n.
66% 1. stopped. At night. It may be carried
out with only a very small-percent~{ 14/3 n.
4/-n age of losses to the bombers.
NO POST-WAR
U.S. BOOM Author Paints Dismal
Picture Of Europe
If people use air raids as thril- ling. spectacles, casualties from high explosive shell splinters as well as bombs may be terrific, But if Germany, çûres to start the bombing war, we have the class and number of bombers to go to Ger- many and persuade the Nazis very
That is our "ultimate defence."
quickly of their error.
LETTERS
Bazaar's Success.
To the Editor,
"Hongkong Telograph."
Having fun with the new skates they have just received nre Princesses Margaretha, left, and Birgitta, right, of Swe- den. They are shown with their father, Prince Gustaf Adolf, the eldest son of the Swedish Crown Prince. At left is nurse. The jolly scene was taken in front of Drottningholm Castle near Stockholm.
Officer, Due Back from Leave-
Shot By Wife
As He Slept
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NEW YORK, Mar. 20 (UP).—Mr.] A. W. Zelomck, President of the International Statistical Bureau, in a new book entitled "This Peculiar War" concludes that nothing good is likely to come from Europe for years. He says nobody wants Europe but Russia-who wants it for everyone else.
Also he warns that there will be your Correspondence, Column, my
Rogers died as the result of a gun- no boom for the United States com- hearty thanks to all those who have tage, Shaldon, Devon,
shot wound Inficted by his wife, and parable with that after the first World contributed to make our Bazaar a War,
They were found dead in their bed-that she died from a self-inflicted success on last Saturday. It was room, on the day when Captain wound "when-the-balance of her raining quite heavily on that day, but Rogers was due to return from leave: mind was disturbed under acute de- a great number of people came. It
The theory of the way they died pression:" was really very kind of them to do
was put forward by the coroner ́at]. the inquest
His
of the scene, he
UNABLE to bear the thought of being parted from her soldier husband, a wife shot him while he slept-and then took her own life.
The couple were Captain|dead with a double-barrelied gun in Sir, I shall be very grateful if you Thomas Rogers and Mrs. Jacin-her grasp. will allow me to express, through the Rogers, of Brookvale Cot- The verdict Was that Captain
Soviet Feverishly Buying Petrol
BO.
NEXT BLACK-OUT The result of the Bazaar is beyond TOKYO, Mar. 27(Reuter).—The our expectation. We have achieved sald, was "not out of charity, or a Instructions to shipping are issued Soviet Union is "feverishly importing" our object and got over $2,000, In desire to molify people's feelings, but by the Director of Air Raid Pre- petroleum from America through these hard times, when war has as a matter of right and justice," cautions regarding the black-out to Vladivostok, according to a Japanese broken out in the East and iri the He handed to the jury a a letter be held in Hongkong.on the night of Press message from Tsuruga, which West, such a result must be con-written by the wife to the husband, April 11.
The Building.service linking Vladivostok with lonably this is wholly due to the
to the terminus of the ferry-boat aldered very satisfactory. Unques-boginning, "My very own beloved." Port of Hongkong will be It was too sacred, he said, to be closed from sunset April 11 to suarise Japan.
help and generosity of our
April 12 and no shipa will be Mr. George Vosper, a friend of the allowed to enter or leave, runn are also soeking to develop their own thanking now::
couple, said he entered the house by Certain Ughts, lighthouses and En | Far Eastern deposits.
A secret door, and found Mrs. Rogeral light buoys will be extinguished.
The message: adds: that the Soviets and well-wishers, who friends read 'to satisfy morblu curiosity..
wo
TSANG KEI-NGOKİ,
ning
The rest are Republicans and the Azure, though not offelal, has been worked out at 300,000 in other quaT- ters.
The
Nationallat communique, signed by General Astry, gives the Nationalist killed in action as 70,000 and those wounded as 353,000. Hos- pitals cared for 750,000 slek, of whom 70,000 died.
It is estimated that there is one dead for every soven wounded and one permanently disabled for every six wounded.
---The figures, given indiente that the forces fighting on the Nationalist side numbered about one and 4 hall million men. The losses suffered by the Moorish legions are put at 7,074' dead, 28,972 wounded and 770`miss- ing.
The First Attackers
The Moorish losses are estimated to be equal to 18 regiments, which, with the Navarese-Carlists, consti tuted the Brst assaut forces against the Republicans at the outbreak of the war.
These figures do not include those shot behind, the lines in various Spanish cities. Both aldes executed more than a hundred thousand men.
The Republicans lost 200,000 killed and the rest by death from wounds, I am inclined to place the Nation- alist dead at rather higher than General Astroy's figure of: 70,000, My estimate is 100,000.-
MAX
MALINI
is leaving for the United States at the end of the
present month.
ENGAGEMENTS
FOR PRIVATE
PARTIES MAY, BE
BOOKED.
Communicato ́with"
MAX MALINI;
Room 48 Hongkong Hotól,