DARLING OF AIR FORCE SUCCESS
STAGE DIES
The Passing of Mrs. Patrick-Campbell
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their last over the towns, fjords, Barbours and sen routes of the in- vaded country.
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MAJOR BATTLES · RAGE ALL ALONG NORWAY'S COAST
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operations elsewhere in the North
Narvik, since they have many it. He appeared to have fallen for
ward over his gun and was either wounded or killed. The German pilot shelter of ຕ cloud just gained the in time to avold further damage.
LONged By,
A Look Through The Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
Was
April 11, 1940.
DENMARK QUIET
Danes Find Sanctuary
In Sweden
LONDON, Apr. 10 (Router). -Denmark is more or leas quiet
to-day with the population accepting the occupation with
Danish newspapers have been threatened with suspension and their owners and staffs wih imprisonment if they do not obey German orders.
There was slight resistance at first, It is now confirmed that some Danish frontier guards were killed,
One British erew, having finished their reconnaissanco flight, gave Sea. their whole attention to an enemy
The fact that the Admiralty named The death occurred yesterday Heinkel which they pursued for half only two destroyers must be consider
April, 11, 1800, of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, at one an hour, They put in two good ed in conjunction with the Admiralty! It is even years since the con- time the darling of the London bursts of machine-gun fire into the policy of not revealing naval accrets. struction of the Forth Bridge When
It is also pointed out that it is not first commenced, and all the know stage, who will long be remem-centre of the enemy plane.
no surprising that destroyers were sent ledge tint engineering selence con resignation, next attacked there WOR they bored as the triumphant Eliza return of fire from the German air to engage the German cruisers at yield has been brought to hear upon Doolittle of Bernard Shaw's gunner.
advantages, both numerically and inee-bridge owes its, origin, In- to the terrible calamity which "Pygmalion", which he wrote
their ability to manoeuvre,
occurred on the Tay a little more especially for her.
Shrapnel than ten years ago, and it has been According to a message from
of pushed forward. In the face "Router"" Mrs. Campbell's death
tremendous difculties, with full occurred at Pau in the Pyrennees.
recognition of the strain which it Mrs. Campbell, who was 73 years
will have to bear. Some idea of the of age, was of Italian and Irish
vastness of the structure will be descent.
conveyed by the statement that its extreme length is nearly a mile and Nazi Admission
quarter, and that, Whilst eight BERLIN, Apr. 10 (Reuter)-Anllions of rivets have been used in construction 'und 42 miles of bent Berlin High Command communique states that the Bluccher was heavily plates have been used for its tubes, it presents something like twenty damaged outside Oslo while endea vouring to silence a battery of 11-acres of surface to the painter. The of construction amounts to inch guns. Subsequently she stru cust several mines and was lost.
£3,000,000.
At the age of 18 she married a young officer, Patrick Campbell, who was killed in the Boer War in 1900.
dressing room.
things
and
Another British reconnaissance aircraft damaged the starboard en- Kine of a Heinkel which attacked it. The Heinkel broke off the engage- ment and made off into the clouds with smoke pouring from it
Heinkots Driven Off Another Heinkel was driven away by a third R.A.F. aircraft machine after only 90 rounds had been ex- pended by the British RAF, gun-
ther.
Toast Of London During the middle nineties, Lon- doners actually rushed back from the Continent to attend her openings, Not to have seen Campbell in her newest play was to admit no Interest
Brilliant Reconnaissanco in things intellectual and fashionable,
Prime Ministers
LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter).-it is poets danced attendance In her authoritatively stated that an R.A.F. plane flow over Mayfair's smartest reconnaissance
Stavanger Aerodrome shortly after hostesses vied for her friendship.
Actually her first stage appearance dawn to-day at a height of 50 feet was made in 1880 and four years and counted and classifted every one later
she made her London debut. of the numerous German aircraft She swept London off its feet by her parked there,
The pilot had instructions to gather tempestuous playing of Paula Ten- queray in "The Second Mrs, Tan-photographs and information and queray" at the St. James's Theatre in would have exceeded orders had he jeopardised his nafe return by attack- 1804.
She embarked on the managementing though the target was
was tempting. The Germans werd apparently side at the Prince of Wales's Theatre
Laken in 1009.
entirely by surprise for the And then, at the height of success, plot was able to carry out the re- without Interruption. connaissance she was bereft. Her husband was killed in the Boer War. With here then made a second flight cross to confirm his first little daughter and son, Mrs. Camp-the aerodrome bell retired for a time. But the need observations. for money brought her buck. It was Anancial exigency that brought her to New York in Suderman's "Magda" in 1902.
The aircraft flew Iow over Stavanger skimming the roof-top of the houses and railway station in which there were three passenger trains and a juggage tráin.
Played with Bernhardt
The pilot reported that Stavanger She played in the Ben Greet Com- pany, and with Beerbohm Tree and appeared to be sleep but the Ger- mong apparently gave the alarm soon Forbes-Robertson. She was one of afterwords. He had to make his the few women whom Sarah Bern way towards the sea and there his hardt admitted to association with aircraft was shot at by anti-aircraft herself. Mrs. Campbell's "Mell- Are and a Heinkel in the distance.
sande" played opposite Bernhardt's. "Pellens" showed her to be 11 no mean rival of Bernhardt's talents.
She had a surpassing
talent for characterisation, humour and drama-
The German plane, however, did not close with the British aircraft which returned safely.
Two Heinkels Down LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter).----The
the effect, as well as an artistle A Ministry announces that whilst creative ability of the first rank.
Years after the death of Patrick patrul duty early in the evening Campbell, she
married George of the north-east coast, a Hurricane aircraft of the Fighter Coinand of the R.AF, shut down two enemy Heinkel bombers,
Cornwallis-West.
She took up flim work in 1934, her pletures including "Riptide". "Over the River", "The Dancers" and "Out- cast Lady." She gave up neting four years ago.
Scandinavian Ships Held Up
Canada And S. Africa Take Action
LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter), Scandinavian ships are held up in various parts of the world.
The South African Government has ordered Norwegian and Danish ships not to put to sen at present.
This temporary measure will apply until the position is clarified.
The Canadian Government is con-
sidering taking over all Danish ships in Canadian ports.
Meanwhile a German broadcast from Copenhagen urges all Danish stips in the Mediterranean to
make for Haly or Spain.
*Similar acion has been taken re- garding Norwegian and Danish ships In Hongkong, where four have been held up.
OSLO'S FALL DESCRIBED
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the districts round the harbour de- fences,
Before he left the German troops had taken control of sil military aero- dromes including Fornebo, which is just outside the city. It was there that Bfty Nazi planes landed.
With these they threatened blow the inhabitants out of the city If any resistance was shown.
By
Apr. 10 (Reuter).—In' connection with the German claims that they have damaged four Allied battleships and five cruisers, the Admiralty on Tuesday night replied that two cruisers had been slightly damaged by bomb splinters.
The Karlsruhe, after having met strong resistance at Kristiansand,
On the 17th ulto. Rajali Sir was heavily damaged and sank. A Charles Brooke of Sarawak annexed greater part of the crew were saved. the Limbaug River, which constitutes The Bluecher was a new heavy the main portion of Brunel, and to cruiser of the Hiffer Class, com- obtain Jurisdiction over which has missioned since the war began. She been for so long the policy of the was of 10,000 tons and carried eight | Sarawak Government. No one was B-in. guns.
present from Brunel, and the holsting The Karlsruhe, which visited Hong-|of the flag was not known to the kong in 1937 (the first and only Sulton. The annexation is subject German warship to do so since the Great War), was of the Kohn Class, of 0,000 tons and carrying nine 5.9 Inch guna. Only one of this type now remalus, as either the Kohn or the Konigsberg was torpedoed by British submarine recently.
ANOTHER BATTLE
RAGING
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iL
added that planes are participating
in the battle.
Fishermen and boats are standing
by ready to conduct rescue work.
to the English approval.
"Chinese Editor Martyrs, A newspaper published in Peking is understood to be the oldest in the world. It clates from a period about 200 years prior to the Norman Con-
of England. Naturally,
The Germans any that the resint- ance was based on erroneous ordera* received by the Danish guards.
Flee Into Swedon STOCKHOLM, Apr. 10 (ficuter). Muny Danes have fled into Sweden neur Matmo. Some of them made the journey across the 30-mile neck of the sea open bonts, many women and children being among them,
All official.communication is still suspended. Travel out of Denmark is restricted.
BELGIUM'S ALARM
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" glum has become thoroughly alarm- BRUSSELS, Apr. 10 (UP).-Bel-
ed by the turn of events in San- dinavia.
A sudden an unexpected meeting of the Cabinet was held this morning. view of the rumours that the British which caused alarming speculation in
Its and French authorities have de-
Served
existence in un autocratic-manded permission for the passage
governed country like China of troops through Belgium. has been marked by numerous vicis-
However, these reports were later situdes. Not the least notable of believed to lek foundation inasmuch these is the fact, recently announced as no Belgian milliary measures have in its columns that during the thou-
8017 | so far been taken. sand years of its existence nineteen hundred of its editors have been be-
headed. This is. roughly speaking. un average of about two per annum.
Leave Cancelled
BRUSSELS, Apr. 10 (Reuter).- The granting of further Army leave has been suspended. The men who are already at the front are not affected by this ruling.
come across the above paragraph jin a recent home paper, and anyone Naw Stockholm Report who takes an intelligent Interest in LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter) — | all that is new could not fail to According to the Stockholm Radio, be struck with it. On first thoughts German warship is reported to the information it contained seemed have been sunk by British action to me unlikely to be accurate, but and the soundness of my childhood's near Arendal.
Innturer reflection brought to
A German destroyer Was sunk that axiom of one's earliest youth. axions once more verified.
Norwegian navy,
Still Fighting LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter).- Norwegian constal batteries were op- parently still in action against Ger- man warships at Oslo Fjord this evening.
At 5.40 p.m. the German-controlled
that
Oslo Radio broadcast an "order" to winter. In vain: not
the batteries to cease are.
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the
off Hortenport by the Norwegian | "W)
Whatever is
ver is in the
25 YEARS AGO newspaper cruiser-minelayer, Olaftry Gvalsun, true." However free from exception the newest and largest unit of the subseqsion to be, yet my thirst after Washington is attributed
April 11, 1915. experience hns
The renewal of peace talk In
by definite knowledge craved a little American Press to German inspira- to satisfy it, and Ition." One of the German peace to the uble and exhaustive
manoeuvres takes the form of a long disquisition on the "Peking Gazette" interview with His Holiness the Pope, which was delivered before the who is represented as urging the Tientsin Literary Society in the
United States to avoid anything that from ignor- would prolong the war. alice but out of respect for his hearern feelings, as I imagine, the The order was purported to come gifted writer mnde no mention of from the Norwegian commander at the grim editorial slaughter. It Oslo.
the grim editorfor?
slaughter. It was Transports Sunk
then
determined to take
акс n Stockholm, Apr. 10 (Reuter)-independent course, and to Interview
stated
action near the Editor of the "Gazette" himself. Marstrand occurred off the Island of I found him after many and varied Paternoster when the British Fleet difficulties, and was ushered into the
dozen large German editorial sanctum where the great i
man attacked transports, escorted by worships, sat. I employ these expressions to describe him and his Together because they are consecrated by usage; they they are conse A German destoyer is reported to are inappropriate otherwise in the have been bombed and sunk by Bri-present Instance. For the editor of tish planes in the estuary of Oslo the oldest newspaper in the world he Fjord.
was hardly abreast of the times, and it took me half an hour and all my Chinese to instil into him an idea of
it
to
was
noon the main_station packed with fleeing evacuees Includ=" ing women and children carrying all the possessions they could muster.
House Blown Up
seemed dazed. The air They all above was filled with the ceaseless roar of aeroplane engines apparently designed to terrify the inhabitants,
During the afternoon the corres- pondent
watched
bombers from a great height blow up a house
few hundred yards nway.
three
More bombs followed quickly. The watcher realised that counter-
སས་ netton had begun.
The uppermost feeling in the minds of the. Inhabitants seemed to
ANGLO-RUSSIAN be incomprehension at the turn of
RELATIONS
LONDON. Apr. 10 (Reuter)Dur ing question mo in the House of Commons to-diny, Mr. R. A. Butler said that no negotiations had recently taken place with the Russian Gov- ernment about the resumption of discussions on trade
questions.
He said that the subject had been raised, however, by M. Maisky, the Russian Ambassador, when in con- versation with Lord Halifax,
events and the question asked every- where was "Why have the Allies allowed the Germans to do this?"
Scandinavia A Combat Area
U.S. Extension of The Neutrality Act
WASHINGTON, Apr. 10 (Reuter).
Mr. Buller told the house that no dale has been fixed at present for the return of the British Ambassador-President Roosevelt has issued a
who is now on leave in England.
Military Band Concert
proclamation re-defining the combat aren established under the United States Neutrality Law,
The
con
proclamation forbids Ameri- to enter all waters round shipa the Scandinavian Peninsula.
The ports of Archangel and Mur- minnsk are included in the new com- bat zone. We are asked to announce that the
ati buy arima in the Norway can Military Bond. Concert originally United States without the necessity intended for April 21 will now take of paying cash since the proclama place on Sunday April 28
concerned only with
in the ton
that
Two transports ure reported sunk
and the others scattered.
GERMANS ENTER
HAMAR
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until the vessel revealed her colours yesterday.
true
Norwegians Dig In MALMO, Sweden, Apr. 10
(Reuter),
hands.
the towns.
Norwegians Wiped Out
There were imposing wor demon- strations o Breschin, where 20,000 people clamoured for war; at Naples, where Sig. Garibaldi spoke, and also at Leghorn and Coun. "Would-be de- monstrators at Rome were dispersed and there were several arrests.
10 YEARS AGO.
in
April 11, 1930. The results of the Naval Conference were outlined by Mr. A. V. Alexander, First "Lord of the Admiralty, in a He estimated speech at Shefeld, that the Three
Power agreement would mean Britain saving between 60 and 70 million pounds up
1930. Compared with the figures submitted to the abortive Geneva Conference 1927, the present Treaty meant a total reduction of the Three Powers However, a faint impression was
of 521,300 tons in cruisers, destroyers made in time, and he consented to
submarines, see what the operation was like. Ind.
The agreement would mean the early scrapping of commenced in the usual way:
five "Your valuable journal hos
British ond the
three American battleships and of one Japanese largest circulation in the world, I
battleship and restricting the numbers presume?"
for the countries to 18, 16 and 12 respectively.
what being interviewed mennt.
"It has," was the prompt reply. "I haven't the figures by me just now, but the fact remains,"
I marvelled at the case with which
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er)-Norwegian troops have dur themselves in near Elverum, he adapted himself to the situation. about eight miles north of Oslo and "The position you held is, I am are tenaciously resisting the Gernot wrong in saying, one of honour, man attempts to break their line, and if I may
may venture of preßi?" "Profit, yes;, honour, no.
"Your own According to the latest reports reaching here, fighting on a big sages have said, I believe, a prophet the League of Nations, calling the scale going on but detalls are has no honour in his own country: Council to act in view of the threat lacking.
the two things are incompatible." A of war, provoked by Germany's re- Naxis Bomb Open Towns
timely cough came to my assistance armament. and he proceeded. "Most of my STOCKHOLM, Apr. 10 (Reuter). German planes tombed Drammen, material is furnished by the Govern- Daolsk and Oscratsong in Oslo Fjordment, and I use my own discretion which are apparently in Norwegian as to what shall appear. Someilmes from any further violation of the somebody doesn't want something to be published; this is my chief source Fires are reported to be raging in pro
proa I admired his candour and went on Worlly the
to point on which I was The German dead are stated to most desirous of gaining information. number, several hundred,
"I have heard it reported," I said, According to the "Afton Bladet," "that you had many predecessors in despite the Soviet decision to remain your post of editor; i mean that I neutral, big Russian troop concen-has occurred that editors have seme- trations are reported in North Russia. | times not remained in omeo
very The Russian Arctle fleet is report- long-In fact, that there have been ext to have had steam up.
frequent solutions of continuity' if I may so say."
"Yes," he
replied thoughtfully, "It is true that..."
Here the door was thrust open unceremoniously, and a petty man- darin, followed by half a dozen ragged soldiers, walked. in and held out a paper to the Editor. The latter LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter). The inspected it carefully, read it through, economie mensures adopted by Ger- and handed it back with a sigh. many against Denmark orc being
"Yes," he said, "It seems in order" repeated in German-accupied Nor- and turning to me. "1t appears that I way. Credit notes at an arbitrary omitted a stroke in some character rate of exchange are being given in denoting an Imperial title and there exchange for goods.
Is a difcully about it, in fact, thin paper fa a warrant and there is about to be a solution of continulty if I and he smiled sadly as may so say," he drew his forefinger round his neck.
If you will excuse me a moment. will send up the sub-editor, who will replace me, and further information
Ground Floor Lounge of the Penin- zones and teen hot mal combat SPURIOUS MONEY
sula Hotel, commencing punctually Norway or Denmark.
at
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p.m.
This Concert is in aid of The Bri-Law, such as the "Cash and Carry tish War Organisation Fund.
Other provisions of the Neutrality
clause, regulate the purchase
By kind permission of Major arms.
W.
M. Stewart, 0.8.E., M.C. and Officers the Band of the 1st Battalion
of
President Talks with Welles WASHINGTON, Apr. 10 (Reuter); The Middlesex Regiment (D.CO.) President Roosevelt has discussexi will play under the conductorship of the Scandinavian situation with Mr Mr. W. E. Kifford, A.n.c.M., Band-Sumner Welles, who recently visited master. The programme clude numbers by outstanding local the capitals of Europe.
vocallata.
:
will in-
The final decision regarding the extension of Neutrality Law to In- eludo Norway and Denmark was apparently delayed owing to the lack LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter)—It is of diplomatie information from Nor understood that the Parliamentary way, Labour Party has decided not nak The President also conferred with for a private session to-morrow. Mr. Jesse Jones, the Federal Loan Instead, fa understood, they will Administrator, whose department re- have a pubile debate on the Nor- cently made credits totalling $35,000,- wegian situation.
000 avilable to Denmark, Norway
FOR NORWAY
In Norway notes are still at the old rate of exchange nominally, but actually they are worth nothing.
Norweglans are forced to accept them in exchange for whatever the Germans want.
and Sweden.
According to White House sources, 'Toans were among the subjects dis- cussed by President Roosevelt,
The rest was lost as the soldiers hurried him away. I did not wait for the sub-editor. My thirst for knowledge was abundantly satisfied,
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