Wednesday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BRUSSELS IN GERMAN
HANDS
PANORAMA AND COMPOSITE photograph of Brussels, the Belgian capital which was evacuated by Allied forces during the weak-and. The fargo photograph shows an aerial photograph of the capital, twice invaded in the last quarter of a contury. Below, from left to right, are the Hotel Albert, the Palace of Justice, the Porto de Hal, the Hotel de Ville, the Colonne du Con- grer, the Maison du Ruo and St. Gudule's Cathedral.
HERE IS THE
ARK ROYAL
Schweinwält bei Angrift: Der Husseinidur Pictures Taken
Captain
Power (right), of the Ark Royal, show. Ing a group of nows papermens "The ship's scrap
book, which con- taina cartoons ant
newspaper comntenta on the alleged destrue- tion of the air craft-carrior, The group looking at tho Imaginativos drawing of the sinking (above),: published in the
Polk is char: de Beobachter,”ag
At Portsmouth HAVING repeatedly sunk the
Ark Royal, the Nazi propa ganda service will no doubt bo surprised to BCO these pictares of the famous air- craft-carrier, taken at Ports mouth.
She came home from her
long voyage to take on stores, tidy herself up and give her crew a well-carned leave.
May 22, 1940.
CHANNEL GUNS BARK
British Coast Towns Shaken By Noise SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHY LONDON, May 22 (UP). Anti - aircraft
guna barked furiously last night, apparently in the Channel south of the Dover Straits.
The firing was no intense that everything shook and trembled in the coastal towns,
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COLONIAL
Exchange At NEEDS
A Glance
SELLING
TIT. London Demand London T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore TT Japan. TUT. India TT. USA.
T.T.. France
.1/1.27/32
1/2.27/
123%
.10%
T.T. Manila
TT. Batavia
.30%
TT. Bangkok
140%
T. Salgon
100%
10.05 .85
T.T. Australia
1/0
the
4 m/s L/C London
4 m/s D/P London
..1/3.5/32 ..1/3.9/32
"People ran into the street to watch the brillant display of bursting alirapuel in the sky.
The cannoancading followed activity of German planes over the English Channel from midnight to dawn,
Anti-aircraft guns were also fired from French coastal towns.
A.A. Guns Roar In Channel
LONDON, May 21 (Reuter).--- 'Intense "anti-aircraft gunfire occurred twice this afternoon off the south- east coast.
Before and after Oring the drone of aircraft engines were heard high overhead..
The sound scome to come from the Channel and south of the Straits of Dover.
It appeared that anti-aircraft guns at that point had been in action..
T.T. Switzerland
BUYING
4 m/ L/C U.S.A 4 m/s France 30 d/s India
.20% .11.43 ...0946
U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02% U.S, Cross rate in N.Y.....3.17
Our Merchant Navy's Spirit
Higher Than Ever
Says Minister :
LONDON, May 21 (Reuter). -The spirit of the Merchant
To Work Day Navy has never been better, said
And Night
Mighty Effort By Aircraft Workers
Mr. Ronald Cross, the Minister of Shipping, at the annual con- gress of the National Union of Seamen to-day.
Telegrams wero sent pledging their loyal support to the Prime Minister and Labour members of the Govern-
LONDON, May 21 (Reuter)nent." Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Air-
At the beginning of the war, said
craft Production, has issued an appeal Mr. Cross, the Merchant Navy was to all employees on aeroplane pro- subjected to violent and ruthless duction to work on Saturday and | nttacks by the enemy, Sunday, the following week-end.
next week-end and the
Square Deal, Promise
"They are asked to work by night In spite of this there has never and day on full overtime for the been any difficulty about getting present," says the appral.ships to sail.
Any Brm unable to follow this advice for any reason is invited to telegraph Lord Beaverbrook explain- ing the dimeulties and everything possible will be done to smooth them out.
They could not have a healthy industry without proper conditions and pay for the men.
He would endeavour to see that the Merchant Navy, as a whole, got B square deal,
group of stokers photographed on board the Ark Royal at Portsmouth. They, in common south the rest of the crew, thoroughly enjoy the joke of the supposed catastrophe.
US. RUSHING
NEW FLEET
WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuter). All-United-Blates-Navy-establish ments have been ordered to speed up defence preparations by working additional shifts and by' increasing the civilian ́:ship-building forces by at least, 15,000 within three months, Sixty-six warships, including eight battleships, aro at present under construction, or, ore projected.
·Civilian Prisoners Exchanged
SPECIAL TO THE "TE) ZGRAPH"
Advance Not A Victory.
British Militarists
Still Confident
SPECIAL TO THE !!TELEQRAVİ”
LONDON, May 22, (UP) British military circles refuse to regard the German advance as a victory until the enemy suc- ccode, if evor, in consolidating the positions into which their motorised units have succeeded
KING RECEIVES PREMIER
LONDON, May 21 (Reuter)The Prime Minister was received, in ‘a28+ dclice by the King at Buckingh arr Palaco to-night.
His Majesty also received General
Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of Im- perial General Staff, in audience at
Buckingham Palace,
Schoolboy Suffers
Concussion
Abdul Gader, a 14-year-old school- boy residing at No. 17 Peking Road, was admitted to Kowloon Hospital ozlerday afternoon affering from
House Finds Time For
"Social Legislation LONDON, May 21 (Router). In the House of Commons to day, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Minister of Health and former Colonial Secretary, moved tho second reading of theB authorising the expenditure of £5,000,000 a year for ten years. for Colonial development and welfare and £500,000 a year on Colonial research, as well as romitting the loans amounting to over £11,000,000' from, tho United Kingdom to the Colonies,
Ho said It was characteristic that while every ounce of our energy was being thrown in to, the tasks of dis- comforting, defcating and destroying the enemy, yet the House found time to tum and offer substantial and generous encouragement lo. Colonial development.
Continuing, Mr. MacDonald sald: "At this critical hour, the world will make the passage of this Dill through British Parliament as a sign of ultimate victory. This hallon will pass triumphantly through its pre- sent ordeal, however hard, grim and desperate the struggle may be, and when the enemy is worsted and the war finished, Britain will still exer- clse vost responsibilities for the government of Colonial proples,
In the meantime wo mutist not default upon our Colonial obligations. We must not let slip the experienced skill of our guiding hand; we must even poly havi constant carn to pro- tect and promote the well-being of
·our fellow-subjects in the Empire
Overseas.
Those Sombro Days
In these ombre days, gur van- xieties and hopes are fully shared by the peoples of the Colonier. It seems to me that one of the most notable assurances that our cause is just is the fact that these distant peoples, allen to us in who are ruled by
us, sprang instantly and spontane ously to our side at the moment of
declaration of war. There
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some 60 Colonial ter-
ritories. Most of them are far re moved from the scene of our Euro- pean quarrels. Many of them are comparatively small communities who, in these circumstances, might well hove thought to excuse them- selves from the sufferings, hazarde and dangers of modern
Wor
"But not a single ine of "them chose to take that course. I think If "algnificant that " tliese 60,000,000 people, scattered over 50 distant Lerritories, who are not free in govern themselves and who Roverned by us, recoralse Instine- tively from that experience
that we are the true guardians of the peoples."
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Not A Bribe Nevertheless, he continued, the pro Fosals for the assistance towards Colonial developments were--not a bribe or reward for the Colonies' support in the present supreme crisis. They were conceived long before the war and were part of the normal peace-time development of Brition Colonial policy.
The money would be devoted to research, building clinics, hospitals, schools, etc.
the of
The Government also attached particular, Importance to the "giving of assistance-to-works of economic development. These works' would enable them to exploit to maximum the natural resources those territories which would place a colony in a position to finance, out of its own resources, the administra- live and social services required.
The object was that the Colonies should become, as far as possible, self-supporting units..
Darkest Hour Before Dawn Mackenzio King Asks
For Courage
OTTAWA, May 21 (Reuter}-- Addressing the House of Commons to-day, the Canadian Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King asked the members to remember that "In this, probably one of the darkest hours in the his- tory of our Empire, that the outlook was similarly black in 1018, but the British and French troops. rallfed and won.">
Mr. Mackenzie King declared that the tuation of Franco was more serious.
Close Co-operation He briefly reviewed the position from
the communiques received and declared that the British and French were working in close co-operation, their morale unbroken.
He added: "The gravity of the news precludes the need for any general statement of palley or pro-..
gramme since the altuntion is chang-
ing every hour-overy minute."
KING'S BROTHER
UNDER FIRE Duke Of Gloucester's Three-Day Ordeale
LONDON, May 21 (Router)It is learned in London that the Duke of Gloucester was for Diree successive
nights in
the areas which were heavily, bombed, and that he is suf fering from scratches enused by bomb splinters.
Both his hands are badly bruised, The Duke and Duchess visited Mansion House. yesterday to hear and stayed to tea with the Lord"
GENEVA, May 22 (UP)-German in penetrating. and. French civilian prisoners were
'The Allies, it is pointed out, Ɛ can efchanged at Genova lo-day,
lose a battle without losing the war. concussion, the result of a fall off the progress of the Red Cross Fund Ninety French and 03 Germans. But if the Germans lose a battle, it wall by Ashley Road, while playing have been repatriated to their homer will mean they Have lost the war. with some companions,
Mayor.
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