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6.32 Compositions of Faure, Balinde, Op. 19, Marguerite (Piano) with Orchestra cond. by Philippe Gaubert; En Priere, Georges Thill (Tenor) with Maurice Faure at. with Plano by Marechal (Cello) the Plano; Elegie, Op. 24, Maurice Maurice Faure; Tarenteile, Op. 10, No. 2, Germaine Cernay
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B.45 De Groot and His Orchestras: 9.18 London Relay-News Sum-.
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0.30 London Relay--"Cards on the
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D.45- Violin Solos by Joseph Szl- getl
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Macleod Lieutenant-Commander York Cleeves, B.D. R.HR., Unit Commander A/S Group 23.
Chief Skipper John Culbertson 'Anderson, H.M. Trawler Loch Oskalgi.
Chiet Skipper George Youngson. Aber nethy. RN... RM. 37awler Concertator
Chief Skipper Isaac Parkinson · R.D., R.NR. HM, Trawler Loch Bule.
Chief Skipper Thomas Fraser, R.N.R.., H.M. Trawler Rinavia.
Skipper Alexander Craig. R.N.R., K.M. Trawler Darwen.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL First Engineqiat David Brown, KIEU. |H.M. Trawler Loch Oskalg.
First Brittan Thoman Johnson, X313DT. RNA., HM. Trawler Binovia.
Engineman James Norman Hodgeon, R.N.K., XBYTES, H.M. Trowler Barthema.
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MENTIONS IN DESPATÇÕES
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"Chief Skipper John Cowling, RNR. Trawler Evelina.
Chief Skipper Royge W. Stocks,, RN.R. H.M. Trawler Sedgefly.
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The following quotations tasued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this
morning.
BANKS H.K, Banks $..... H.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.) "H.K. Banks (HK, Reg.)
Chartered £. Mercantile, A. & B. £. Mercantile, C. £..: East Asia. $.
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! K. Mines
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Lands 4% Debentures S'hal Lands Sh. $.. Humphreys s.. H.K. Realtles Chinese Estates $...
UTILITIES
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Peak Trains (old) Peak Trams (now): Star Ferries $..
Y. Forrles x. d. China Lights (old) $. Chins Lights (new)
Electric 3. Macao Electrics $... Macao Sandakan Lights ..
H.K
Telephones (old) 3.- (new) $.
TelephoNDUSTRIALS
May 14, 1940.
W. N. Ewer In Front Of The Front-II GIFTS
AS FOR
ADOLF
FROM
Don't)
DOWN
UNDER
LINE AS MAGINOT LINE
NAZIS SEE IT (Answer-They
By W.‚N. EWER,
"THERE," said the Commandant as we came into the open, "is the Maginot Line from in front. As you might say.u Ger- man's eye view-if a German manages to get as far as this.".
I looked. But there was nothing in particular to be seen.
The farm building just to our right were, I happened to know, by no means as innocent as they looked, but full of all sorts of things not to be found there in
peace time.
who
The wood through which we had just come held disagreeable surprises for undesirable allens might pass this way.
But the Maginot Line. I looked again and saw a mile or so away what I guessed to be a tangle of barbed wire. But-?
nothing?"
"You - see mandant laughed.
The Com-
"But I assure you that the spot where we stand could be put at a low seconds' warning under direct cross- fire from-quick-firing guns.
Between them they could plaster us with-tons of shell per minute."
le mentioned a staggering Bgure which I am not allowed to repeat.
"Look carefully where I point. Just to the left of that little wood."
I looked.
"Do you mean that block?" I sald.
21 casemate. That is He smiled. Steel and concrete-inches of armour of concrete-guns. 1,500 sa plate--Inches £..91 n. Now look again where I point. £..91 n. "A brownish smudge on the slope
..94 m. of that hill?"
..31 m.
another casemate. We That is .125% n. ought to be able to see at least two
..75 11. others from here.
one
about "One just over there; .230 n. there. But I can't spot them exactly! ..485 n. myself."
,85 cts. n. This, then, is what the Maginot .175 s. Line looks like from in front. Just exactly like nothing at all..
Converging Firo
120 n.
.11 b
100
.80
.0.90 n.
65/7
It is not in the least a kind modern' Roman wall.
The ae bomb casings, weighing
250 pounds ench, are in process of completion
Britalen
for
at the Marl- byrnong ex- plosive fac- tory
near
Melbourne, Australia They will be shipped to England to
be filled.
RISE IN WAR RISKS
Japanese Underwriters
New Schedule
i
Tokyo, May 13. At a meeting of the executive of the Japan Underwriters Association on May 11, it was decided to raise the war risk rates by Y2.18 to Y4 per
NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN
Stockholm, May 13. German troops pushing northward from Nampon aro stated by the Afton Bladet to have reached Mosjoen, 200 miles south of Narvik, The Norwe- ians have organised a defence line at Mosjoen.-Reuter.
of Y100 Insurance for Japanese ships Indies, French Indo-China, Singapore
and V3 to Y0.10 for foreign vessels and the Philippines have been in-
creased as follows.-Japanese vessels:
It is not even a continuous trench destined for the Mediterranean. line of 1918 type,
At the same time the rates for by Yo.10 to Y0.20. Foreign vessels by
It is a sicilfully designed chain of ships bound for the Netherlands East Y0.20 to 0.40.-Router. "works"-big forts and smaller
.100 n."casemates"
-powerfully armed, ...21 b. heavily armoured, so placed as to .194 n. sweep with converging shell-fire .032 8. very possible line of advance of an .4.20 s. invading force.
.67 1 In the gaps between these batteries. here I am on the verge of But 19/- n. forbidden matters. .9.85 m. Facts. n.
4.35:
36% .100 n 16.10 .
that the
tanks or Infantry.or
Suffice It to
вау chances of either molorised units or anything-breaking-the-line-by-a sudden rush through the barrage are negligible.
And even if they did there are
8 b. plenty more defences and most of 14 n.the French Army-waiting for them 104 m. behind.
17.40
We went to visit one of the bigge n.works.
.8 n..
The car turned a sharp corner in a 4 n wood, stopped sharply,
.63 m. In the side of the hill was a great 22.85 n. entry: a cross between the mouth of 7.90 na tunnel and the gateway of a giant's 14.00 m. caette:
doors with great
of the
.644 tougliest armour plate.
B
21.10.
The colonel commanding was there
.11% to greet us.
.2748. The guard presented arms. The .10.20 n. band played God Save the King and
the Marseillaise,
Like A
Cold: Macg. (Ord.), Sh. 3..14.90 n.
Warship
Cold: Macg. (Pref.), Sh. $.....12 n. "Now," said the colonel, smiling, Canton Ices ..
1 n."we take the train." ..17 n. Cements $.
Picture a well lit tunnel running .5.53 n. straight into the hill; a narrow gauge:
rallway with footpath either side. 2116 .
Eight miles of track In this one 0.15 n. fortress, they tell us,
H.K. Ropes $5
STORES, &c. Dalry Farms 3.. Watsons $.
Lane Crawforda $. Sinceres $
Wing On CH.K.) $.. Powell Ltd.,
COTTON MILLS
Ewo Sh. $. S'hat.Colton Sh.
MISC. HK. Entertainments $1. Constructions (old) 3.
Constructions (new) s.. Vibro Piling $....
Ch. Govt.5% 1928 G.SBds,
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan
H.K. Govt. 3% Loan Marsmans (Lon.) 3/-. q
4
.8% 1. The train goes on. Every few 2.60 n. yards cross tunnels run off to right i
39 n. or left.
1.30 b, Down here, three hundred feet underground, are the barracks, the
76 n. alares, the power plant, the water 240 n. supply; everything, it need were to
arlse, for a-siege of many months, .7.30 h. Deep underground are the colonel's 1% headquarters, the various fire-control 7n stations with their plans and 8 n.dlagrama and complicated instru-
31% n. ments.
103 n.
It is all rather like the inside 1.97 0. of a warship; only it is all cut int
.12/9 n.
Mammans Inv. (LK) 3/- 24/= B.
Raid Alarms
In Paris
the solid rocks.
Up the lifts to marined
the batteries--
day and night.
Steel and concreto: always steel and concrete,
Turrets which lift themselves above ground to fire, and then sink down again to invisibilty and the shelter of the solid earth,
Uncossing Watch
Casemates ingerilously placed so that every yard of ground for miler For the first time since the out-can come not only under fire but
Paria, May 13.
break of war Parisiens left their under cross-fire. beds twice the same night;
tho
air
First Engineman' Frederick Atlas. Engineman Albert George Allen, X232EU
Every bit of open ground within H.N.R., M. Trawler Concertator.
(and that means well. Into Petty Officer Second Hand Christopher result of German air raiders
p-range Wimpenny, Xiao, IT.M. Trawler Iproaching the capital. They are con Germany) is charted in the control
- vinced › that henceforth they aro rooms. Third, and James Baily, H.MC Drifter lucky to sleep through uninterrupted
Its direction is known to a second Wireless Telegraphist Robert C.Edwards, bainale-night without visits from of arc. Its distance to a metre. WIEKME. FLA, Trawler Imperialist.
Nazi pianics.
cho con Disk – phella w minitio (rules Telegraphist Arthur Bidney The twelfth and thirteenth
on to any igfyon more."'- it was s Judge Joseph Marchettl performed White, C/J 10 ..R. Dase. Maintenance raid alarms of the war appeared in the ceremony in Gracle's Beverly .... Sentners · William Sutherland ILNBsharp contrast, the former shortly
Watch is unceasing. A few hours Hills fat in the presence of hornalman Dougies in Arthur Kividge.
11.M. Trawjor James Zudford
after midnight registering most in earlier an observation post bad, rei .3.p.m:
pmother, father, stator brother-in-NAD/X34; H. Trawler Corstenso and continuous anti-aircraft ported a slight movement of, jome
kind at a certain spot over the fron 5.30 pin law, and many friends..
*-- Puneralfian Leita Paroy, R.NR. 1.387. The mocning has been quiet, no
ller 11.M., TRWler Doe.
Stoker Alexander Buchan HNR., x. enemy plate Teaching the vempital, Then you may read in your paper BOUT 3 NG Lawler Loch Auletta Franch planes are patrolling - over: next morning, and p
p.m.
.m. Grace and her husband w:leave D.m. shortly for London.
Afterwards there was a party..
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