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The FINAL EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
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No. 10114
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940:
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Most Thrilling Aerial Encounter of
of the War Staged Over N. Sea THIS ARMED MERCHANT-MAN' OF AIR BEATS NAZI PIRATES IN DUEL QUITE
Flying Boat
American Offers Secret To Britain
DEATH RAY CAN END SUBMARINE MENACE, CLAIM
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LYNN, Mass. April 4 (UP)~A radio beam capable of detecting and destroying submarines up to a range of| two miles has been perfected by Mr. C. Wilson, a well- known Massachusetts inven-. tor. D.N.B. BOASTS——-
WE WILL DESTROY ENGLAND
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY BERLIN, April 4 (UP)- "England will be destroyed and our. Air Force will strike the bardest blow, in this work of destruction."
This declaration was made by the D.N.B. (Germany's official
Attack
WESTERN FRONT
PASSENGER AIR-LINER PROTOTYPE
) Repels On Convoy
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, APRIL 4 (UP).—A BATTLE UNIQUE IN AERIAL HISTORY—THE AVIA- TION EQUIVALENT OF A FIGHT BETWEEN A SLOW ARMED MER- CHANTMAN AND SIX SPEEDY PIRATE CRAFT TOOK PLACE OVER THE NORTH SEA TO-DAY. The aerial merchant- man was a Short Sun- derland flying boat (shown on left) proto- type of the Imperial Airways flying boats now used on the service
REAL WARFARE
HAS COMMENCED
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH",
CLEAR
Thé object of this new cliuiso is to remove doinhta, whiche have risen as to the indidence and starting date of all four, laxes under this "Bill
ABOVE is what the Standing Law Committee of the Legislative Council says regarding the Clause, published bo- low, introduced by them in the War Revenue. Bill. Their Report was tabled in Legislative Council to-day.
The new Clause reads:
.
60. Taxes under this Ordinance shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and notwithstanding anything contained in any other written law or in any convention grant or agreement. be charged at the rates specified in Chapters II, II and IV for the year of assessment commencing - ou the first day of April, 1940, and jor each
subsequent fear
of assessment in respect of the property, Income and profits of every person for the year preceding the year of assessment, but without prejudice to any provisions of thla Ordinance which enact that tax is to bứ charged in particular cases i respect of property, income and profits for a period other than the pear preceding the year of assessment,
WE TRIED to puzzle out what it's all about, but couldn't. So we telephoned a Government oficial, who assures us that, despite the wording, Satarles, Property and Dividends are to come into force immediately.
Assessments will be due with the passage through Council of the War Revenue Bill, and the War Taxes will be due to be pald to the Treasury as soon as possible after April 1 this year in respect to Income for the year ending March 31 Inst. So there you are!
The "Telegraph" understands that the new Clause mentioned above is based on an identicnl one in the Ceylon Taxation Ordinance.
between Australia and WAR TAXATION TO
England.
The six pirates were speedy German Junkers.
Despite its handicap of lack of speed and general
BE ENFORCED
cumberness, the IMMEDIATELY
British
machine brought down one
-possibly two of the
THE SALARIES TAX and other impositions in con- enemy in one of the most nection-with-the-war-Revenue Bill start as from the first spectacular air duels of the of this month, according to the recommendation of the
Standing Law Committee of the Legislative Council..
war.
Two of the officers in the British flying boat were in- jured and the ship was riddled by Nazi bullets.
At one stage the British flying-boat was forced down
Salaries will be taxed on assessment as from April 1, 1939 to March 31, 1940.
HONGKONG BLACKOUT
The property and business profits taxes will become operative at the same time. A new clause is to be inserted to within a hundred feet of in the bill which provides that texes shall be charged at the Mr. Wilson stated that he has BERLIN, April 4 (UP),—Real war, despite the fact the sea, while the Germans rates specified for the year of offered his invention to both the that it is on a small scale, is now being fought daily in attempted without success assessment commencing April 1,
He claims that, in addition to the No Man's Land which, extending in some places to a to bomb it from above, as 1940, and for each subsequent Two Enemy "Raids" being able to detect submarines, depth of several miles, divides the Allies and German if it were indeed
U.S. and British governments,
his ray is capable of destroying
a torpedo en route to its target.
trenches.
Mr. Wilson has already entered Patrol activity which continu-
to correspondence with the Scereted throughout the bitter winter ary of the U.S. Navy, Mr. Charles months has received impetus Edison, and the British Embassy in Washington, regarding his invention. with the return of spring wea- ther and ambushes are playing la particular role in the increas-
are occurring.
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DICTATOR" WINSTON
chantman.
11
Attack On Convoy The battle started when the
tonvoy from a great altitude but the
On Colony
mer-year of assessment in respect of property, income and profits of every person for the year pre-
HONGKONG'S big blackout. ceding the year of nasessment.
It is stated that the object of this which will be held on Thursday have arisen as to the incidence and night next week, will be on German planes attempted to at-clause is to remove doubts which tack a convoy. The Sunderland starting date of all four taxes under more ambitious scale than pre- vious experiments of this nature. discovered the Junkers shadow- the bin.
"Enemy raiders" will attack the Married Women's Taxation
Colony twice during the course of the FEARS U.S. ing number of encounters which
Germany Screams Ating the convoy.
to night, and householders and others New Appointment She immediately engaged them in
Another important addition combat and succeeded in dipersing
the bili is a paragraph indicating affected will be required, therefore, to Lighting Control the NEAR WAR
that married women's salaries will comply with The ambush method of contacting
BERLIN, Apr. 5 (Reuter).them at about 1,000 feet allitude.
be taxed separately from those of Regulations twice, the enemy, worked out as battic Mr. Winston Churchill's new An hour inter four more Junkers
Details regarding the times at their husbands. technique by both sides
The clue to this is a clause which which the Air Raid warnings will be. WASHINGTON, Apr. 5 (Reuters, has now been adopted appointment brings him the title appeared. They tried to bomb the
The exercise will be divided into ter)The United States is following the altered conditions con- of "War Dictator" in Nazi Press warships guarding the convey kept reads: "In the ease of a married counded are being kept secret. review to-day of a documentary I hate to say it but I honestly shows. news agency) in a front page slipping and stepping into war.sequent upon the melting of the headlines and it is thought that a steady are and broke the Ger-woman, no allowance shall be made
which the for a child in respect of whom such certain periods, as under:
1-From sunset to the sounding of he will adopt new steps towards mans' formation, after
an allowance has been made in film which showed the part play believe it."
the first air raid warning sirens. "ruthless warfare.'
quartette disappeared.
favour of her husband.
PLEASE Turn To Page 2. Bad Time For Junkers ག This, It is stated, will prevent the Senutor Holt made this dociora- There are now regular contests Hesponsible Berlin circles fec! tion in the Senate during angry de- between the German and Allled
endorsement Six moro Junkers then appeared allowance bring claimed twice, in nunciations of propaganda following patrols for the best means of decept his appointment is en will wage and the second phase of the combat respect of the same child. The speech by Mr.
Connant,
Leave Pay To Be Taxed the tlon. Ailorney General of Ontario, yeater-
Ambushies are set during the war "with all means at their disposal began.
Two Germans attacked the Sunder-
Furlough pay is not to be exempt day in which he said that Canada's
night, either in the forests, or in against all the nations not in the
land.
from taxation. An amendment has deserted supreme task in the present conflict
German and
French Alled camp."
The Cabinet re-shuffle is taken to The British aircraft met the attack been made to clause of the b The film then cuts the German Ar the war on the Allies' alde,
was to bring the United States into towns in No Man's Land.
Elther the ambushes themselves mean that Britain intends to starvo with its fore and aft guns, and after which provides that leave pay, ne chief and pans across to a map show-
Germany by blockade and
PLEASE Turn To Page 2. ing England us it would look from Cordell Hull would have gone fur-patrols.
Senator Holt also said that Mr. are destroyed or destroy the enemy neutral nations.
ther if he was not restrained in his, On the the bomber dives down
Wednesday and Thursday night cent rebuke of Mr. James Crom-this week clashes between patrols and larger, says D.N.B.'s review of well, the US. Minister to Canada.
took on an almosphere of almost continuous fighting.
ed by Goering's air force in the destruction of Poland.
In the course of the film, General
Goering is quoted as saying:
"What the German Air Force did against Poland will be done against England."
mouth of the Thames grows larger
the film.
There is a deafening crash of a bomb detonating.
יד
"Afid, in a cloud of smoke and flame, the film enda,"
Horror Of Wat
D.N.B. praises the im us an historical, record" which shows the horror of war an filmed by actual combatants.
Six men; it saya, were killed in ne- tion making the film, which gives a
PLEASE Turn To Page 2. -
Regular Contests
coerce
The Berlin Frem has done the New Cabinet the honour of putting It under large headlines.
| ALLEGED ATTACK en reports state that artillery Norwegian Planes
WITH AXE
weakened on both slides, the only activity being in the vicinity of Mar- zig, cost of the Moselle River.
Charged with the murder of Chunj Iteconnaissance serial patrol ne- | Ming, 40, an earth dolle, at Blue tivity continued.
Poot Road, Happy Valley, on April
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well as wages, salary, fece, pension, NAZI WARNING
are
commission, bonus, gratully or per- quisite shall be liable to taxation, Various other amendments recommended with the object of clarifying the text of the bill, ·
Turkish Minister
Resigns
TO NEUTRALS
OPECIAL TO THE "TELEORAPH" BERLIN, Apr. (Domel).—The "Diplomatische Correspondents," or- gan of the German · Foreign Office, warned neutral countries to-day that if they accepted the British blockade proposals they would be immediately exposed to aliack both internally and externally,
"Great Britain now intends to drag neutral countries into the war and to
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" HELSINGFORS, Apr. 4 (UP),— The Finnish Olympic Committee will. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
imicet on April 20 to discuss the fate OSLO, Apr. 4 (UP).-A four of the Olympics, which were to have SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
4 ISTANBUL, Apri motored plano of undetermined na been held in Helsingfors this year.
(UP),-- tionality flew over the west coast of
Mr. J. W. Rangell, Chairman of General Nacitinaz, the Turkish Minis hamper their normal trade relations (Router)Norway at a low altitude to-day. the Committee, stated that the meet- ter for Defence has resigned his, with Germany," the newspaper add- Magistracy this morning, when he Earthquake shocks Bhook North Norwegian pursuit planes tock to ing would probably decide to seck office owing to it-health. was formally remanded for one week. Anatolia again yesterday. Some 40 the ale, but the unidentified machine postponement of the Games, but, It is believed that he will be suC- Lo is alleged to have killed Chun vilinges had to be evacuated owing to has meanwhile disappeared at a high would retain the right to stage them ceeded either by General Arikan or with on, axe..
Dipter. floods.
speed.
General Erzincan,
3, Lo Kau, 22, unemployed, appeared before Mr. Sheldon at the Central
ANKARA, Apr. 5
i
ed,
`an -utter: violation of International
Law.
Britain's policy, li maid, constituted