Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 20, 1940.
Hitler's Plan to Smash Britain
Air: Mass raids Sea: Pocket Land: Could break
U-boats
by super-bombers. HOLLAND: The Stuff They
NEW NAVY
BATAVIA.
HOLLAND, invaded Inst week, had intended to spend. £38,000,000 on a new Navy to guard the Dutch East Indies.
I was to have included three battle cruisers of 27,000 tons each, 12 submarine chasers, two mine- layers and a dry dock of 40,000 tons. Sourabaya was to be fully fortified and war supplies built up on a large scule.
The Government statement ex- plained that the East Indies must have a Navy which could malatala Holland's right by force if neces Kilry.
WE MUST QUARREL NOW AND THEN TO
SHOW HOW
NEUTRAL I AM
Kemas
Tell America
HITLER HAS a four-point war plan to smash Britain. It is Here revealed by Mr. W. B. Courtney, famous American journalist, who interviewed German military and air chiefs.
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It is the type of war news that is being cabled to America from Berlin,
By W. B. COURTNEY
GERMANY'S FOUR-POINT WAR PLAN TO CRUSH BRITAIN WILL BE PUT INTO OPERATION SOON, THE NAZIS CLAIM. IS A NON-STOP AIR WAR, BIGGEST FACTOR IN THE PLAN WHICH WILL BE PART OF THE GERMAN "BLOCKADE" OF. BRITAIN.
OH, SURE
-Thomas, Detroit News
EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS
LIGHT FOR LHASA: PLANT CARRIED ACROSS MOUNTAINS.
NEW DELHI.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED cases of British machinery were carried by coolies and mules over precipitous moun- tain paths to equip a generating plant just supplied for Lhasa, the "forbidden city" of Tibet.
British enterprise is helping to transform this remote capital, home of the Dalai Lama, into a modern city possessing many amenities, including telephones and electric light.
A British electrical Arm, success-joften at a height of 12,000ft, above fully surmounting immense transport sea-level. dunculties, dispatched complete equipment for a generating plant ordered by the Tibetan authorities.
At 12,000Ft..
The equipment was especially de- signed for transportation in packing coses which could be carried by cooliea.
This blockade, recording to high muitary authorities in Berlin, will be made by:
1. A fect of 800 pocket U-boals,
manned by crews of 12.
2. A large fleet of armed speedboats,
cach with a crew of 4.
3. Mass air raids on British ports.
dockyards, and the fleet.
4. Mass air raids on merchant ship-
ping
and convoys
For the air raids the Nazis have developed
new twin-engined, medium range, high speed Junkera bomber,
Mass production of the pocket submarine, specludly designed for a blockade of Britain, has been in full swing.
Britain Encircled
by Submarines
Maginot Line
SHE IS FIRST WOMAN ANNOUNCER
Ara. Sheila Borrelt, first ffall register ofice, after
woman announcer of the B.B.C., leaving Caxton her wedding to Mr. Ian Cor, of the B.B.C.
Talks Department.
Give The Troops Chest Armour
·Says Surgeon
CHEST armour for the troops is advocated by Mr. Kenneth
the "British
In theory they can remain on Walker, Harley Street Surgeon, in station, and be refuelled and repro-Journal." visioned from large U-boats, neting us mother ships, or from seaplanes.
They have been building at a rate] which in October was about 90, and is now about 100 a month.
AT LEAST 300 WILL BE READY. THE GERMANS CLAIM TO FORM A CIRCLE KOUND BRITAIN WHEN THE BLOCKADE IS ANNOUNCED. · Next, for the blockade plan, come the "pocket torpedo boats.
They have tile fleet combat value, but are useful for reconnaissance,
Zigzagging a full speed they make poor targets. They are trati. Their great value to the blockade will be ruids on merchant ships and convoys.
A high military authority in Berlin told me:
"Germany learned in
1014-1918,
first, that no matter how smashing an army or how efficient a home moale and industry we have, we) cannot bring a major European wur to a definite end unless we beat the British Navy.
"SECOND, THAT WE CAN- NOT SUCCESSFULLY FIGHT A MAJOR WAR AGAINST
MAJOR POWERS ON MORE THAN ONE FRONT. "Third, that if we keep our eastern frontier, and the Danubian Valley open the Allies cannot starve us out.
Breaking the
Maginot Line
"Therefore, It is Allied strategy to get us fighting on two or more fronta, It is Germon strategy not to.
"Our General Staff has worked out mathematically our exact chances of breaking the Maginot Line.
"On paper, we say that we can do it with the loss of 900,000 men. We figure the French can simi- larly get into us by loelng 1,000,- 000 men.
"In either case, the attacker would
Medical
In an interview between opérations at the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, Mr. Walker supplied further details.
Mr. Walker, whin, served as captain
ba
A shell splinter the size of a -fingernail-ontoring-this-aroa-
at comparatively low speed might cauta instant death
Suggested design for breast-
would plate, which attached to the straps-of-expensive to manufacture as it would
the battledress
not require shaping. It could be suspended from the broad shoulder- straps of webbing on the battle-dress.
"There is no doubt," added Mr.
with the RA.M.C. in the last war, noticed the great number of men who died in the front line from chest wounds made by tiny shell splinters, Walker. "that the steel helmet saved scene-in-the-House of Commons to some-no-bigger than finger-mail, countries lives, but it took a dramatic These, entering the vital area get the authorilles to consider its use. (taining heart and lungs, would strike The French and the Germans had it
one of the great blood vessels.
long before we did." Twenty-seven per cent. of men [The Cominons scene to which Mr.
Instantaneously killed
died troni
Walker referred took place on It has also penetration of the chest.
March 29, 1916, when an Amy been found that nearly 60 per cent
lieutenant drepped fcet (from of wounds were due to splinters
the gallery) to the floor of the House and shouted: “I am sik- ing you to protect the heads of British soldiers against shrapnel fire."]
He said that the armour could be the same material and thickness as the steel helmet, but would not be so
flanks would be exposed to wither- ing assaults from the still intact but now separated portions of the line. be blasted Communications would from the blr.
Thus our policy, subject of course ose as many as both sides lost aito-to the changing fortunes and cir- gether in six months at Verdun. cumstances of war, must be:
"This would be just for a narrow "Stand fast on the Siegfried Line
This involved the carriage of the A picturesque touch was given to 1,800 cases of machinery. After be-the transaction by one of the Tibetan break-through; perhaps on a front with as few troops as possible, keep ing sent by rall to Darjeeling, they orders in connection with the con- of 20 to 30 miles. Then where would a potent mobile force ready to am- paign in the south-east if necessary hind to be carried by coolles and tract, which was written on rlee- we be?
"The speartend would meet and make a direct Blitzkrieg on paper and dated "The Twenty-first mules over boulder-strewn tracks of the Fourth Month of the Water-counter-attacks from
marseil re- Britain to get her into a frame of winding along the mountain sides, bird Year."
serves in a hostile countryside. Its mjnd for quick prace."
NEVER-MISS
GUN SECRET
CLOSEST friends of Mr. G. T. Grimn, aged tty-four, an unem- ployed mechanie, of Glebe-street, Castleford, Yorks, are unable to probe the secret behind his latest Invention.
For twenty years Mr. Griffin, who was wounded six times in the last war, has been working to provide the War Office with an invention which will make Impossible for an anti- aircraft gunner to miss his target.
Now he claims to have succeeded and he has forwarded to the War Office plans for an attachment fo an anti-aircraft gun.
But Mr. Griffin refuses to reveal the full story of how his idea was born.
..
"It was a uniper's bullet which put the idea in my head,” he states. “I was shot through the band in the trenchies when I tried to sava a periscope, from falling,
Mr. Griffin has several other-in- ventions to his credit, including a re- volving dartboard and darts.
“My maltaiden, though;" into shorten the war, to Buys. You see, I have a son in the Army and two more may be called up soon."
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A PROGRAMME OF GOOD CHEER
C 3034 Let's join in the Chorus with Tommy Handley and his Pals. Daisy Bell, Dont dilly dally on the way. Nellie Dean, Beatiful doll. Spaniard that blighted my life. Llly of Laguna. At Trinity Church. Man who broke the bank. Knees up Mother Brown,
C 3030 Here we are again. If you were the only girl. Sweet
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John Brown's body, Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ny. It's great big shame. Old bull and bush. My old Dutch. Broken doll. C 2893 Fantasin. The British Empire. England. The British Grenadiers, Ireland. Minstrel bby, India. Rektah. Wales. Men of Harlech, Canada, Canoeing song. Australia. Aboriginal air, South Africa. Folk song, Scotland, Caller Herrin' & hundred pipers.__New Zealand, National song, Finale,
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C 2898 England my England, Drink to me only with thine eyes.
Land of Here's a heaith. O peaceful England. Fanfare. Hope and Glory. Dritish Grenadiers. Jerusalem. God gave We ̄Kina.
Massed Symphony Orchestra With Dennis Noble, C1783 More old Songs. I've made up my mind. Two little girls in blue. I want to go to Idaho. Let's all go down the Strand. My Irish Molly. Silver threads among the gold.
Jack Hylton's Orch. With Vocal Refrain.
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Pacifist Raid
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Held Up Warning
A CONSCIENTIOUS objector stated recently that
as a G.P.0. night telephonist at Folkestone he did not pass
on an air-raid warning.
"The result was that the siren did not sound, and I jeopardised
the lives of my own kith and kin, LETTERS
among others," he added.
Girl Guides' Appeal
To The Editor,
The "Hongkong Telegraph.". Sir May I beg the courtesy of
William The objector, Ernest Friend, aged 23, of Dover-rond, Fol- DESCRIBED as a case in a
kestone, admited that he was dia missed because of his failure, million, a fifteen-year-old Traf-
He told the South-Eastern tribunal! ford Park, Manchester, boy, at Southwark that he was a minor Eric Tench, of Eleventh-street, poet and writer, and frem childhood your columns to bring to the notice of your readers the scheme put for- has bones that break at a touch. had strong pacist tendencies.
He would suffer court martial and ward by the Girl Guide imperial
London, lo
raise He has trad about fifty fractures, crucifixion rather than engage in Headquarters
£20,000 amongst the Galdes. and national defence.
Every day he prayed for peace and Brownles throughout the Empire. prayed in German for friends in Ger- The money will be devoted to provid
ing two Air Ambulances, Air Speed many.
He was registered as a conscienti-Oxford type costing £15,000 to H. NI. ous objector provided he worked in Forces, and a Motor Life best costing
£5,000 to the nation. agriculture.or forestry.
In Hongkong, Guides and Brownles
to earn as much are, working hard money as they can and every Guide. Is asked to give half a day's income or salary to the fund.::
and he is unable to walk.
Ills father told a reporter recently: "He has been in and out of hospitals ever since he was born.
"We dare not even leave bails of paper on the floor, because if he kicked them his leg would break.
"One day his mother was walking by and he pul'out his hand. He just caught her frock-and Eric was off
to hospital again."
Eric Bald: "I am beginning to cheer up a bit because I have fallen several ilmes without a break"
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REPORT
MESSAGE TO TROOPS. Belgian People Praise Namur Defenders
Through the generosity of the owners, directors and management of the King's and Majestic Theatres, two cinema performances for children Osterid, May 18,
will be given on Empire Day, May A message from the Belgian people 24 at 11 a'clock. "W
"Wee Willo to the defenders of Namur broadcast
be shown' the King's this evening stated:
Theatre and expresses profound admiration of the Pauper at the Majestic Theatre. herole defenders of the Namur forts. The total proceeds will be devoted who offered amazing resistence to the to the Gude Gift Fund. We very enemy assaults. Their example and much hope that parents and children
enshrined in the Anest
will support the scheme, All the virtues of our race." Accept the deeptheatres and help the Hongkong gratitude for the help which is par~ | Guides' contribution.
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MARY KING.". Colony Commissioner.
PHEASANT ESCAPES
Light gun. Oring practice will B || M. F. Flippance, Superintendent carried out between fire hours of 0 of the Botanical and Forestry De-
4.20 p.m, and 12 midnight on May 20, 21.partment, reports that a Chinese
-23-osit-24, 1940
Firing Area "E" will be affected.
pliesžant, escaped from fur coge in Tino Botanical Gardorir un Tridayatimi