NEWS MAP:
IL from Runnin hippud nerois the Black Sea and reaches Germany via the Danube.
This route cannot bo blockaded by the Allies because the provisions of the Montreux Convention signed in 1936 alose the Dardanelles.10 our warships.
GERMA
FALY
REAR GUNNER
it Tanker: Route
❤ - Russia to Ger muting -
The Convention pro- hibits the entry: af belligerent warships Into the Black Sea un- less they are executing, obligations under the League Covenant, or under a mutual assist. arico part to which Turkey is a partner and which is recog ¡nised by'the League.
RUMANIA SULINA
Danube
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 24, 1940.
Make
At On Town Wonder
Sea
Queer Goings
If
Monster Is About
FOLKESTONE.
THE people of Folkestone are wondering what happened one day recently about a quarter of mile out to sea off the Warren.
GROZN
BLACK SEA
CONSTANZA
DARDANELLES
TURKEY
CASPIAN
IRAN
SYRIA
OBSERVER
PILOT OFFICER
WIRELESS OPERATOR
FLEET MAINTAINING
ITS TRADITIONS
THE
NEW FACE MOULDER
THIS WONDERFUL NEW APPLIANCE IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ELIZABETH.... ARDEN'S NEW FACE MOULDING HOME TREATMENT.
There is a Loch Ness Monster atmosphere hanging THE NEW FACE about the whole affair. You shall hear the evidence, and return whatever verdict you like.
First witnesses were two small boys who went to a look-out station and said: "Oy, Mister, the sea's boiling.
The look-out looked out but saw nothing. He con- cluded that the boys had seen a strong tide breaking over some rocks: We shall recall the look-out later.
A man who was travelling by train from Dover to Folkestone was more explicit. "I saw a big disturbance on the surface of water," he sald. "It WDB the frothing and clouds of steam rising from I. It insted minutes."
Here is one of the many"
BOMB CREW
OVER NAZIS
PILOT NAVIGATOR
R.A.F. bomber crews now Haw-Haw 6ghting so splendidly on
Was Too
the Western Front.
VALUE OF A Much For
THIS official picture of Britain's record-of-naval GIRL'S HAND achievement since the war began shows how the Fleet is maintaining its traditions.
developed Aggregate power by the main engines of the horse Flect was.. 12,000,000 power-equal to the total gen- erating capacity of all the power stations in Britain.
One man who joined up was en-
A GIRL'S hand is worth £250 man's according to more than
at Manchester langes
A
assessed
This Set
wero
П Low
thought Another person sold he that some seals that had been seen neur Folkestone were holding a mos meeting out to us and were throwing up a fine spray
Most people reject this theory. "Mr. J. Fogg, a boatman, snid. con- fidently that he saw a spout of water shcot up in the air. He suggested facetiously that someone on board a patrol vessel wanted fresh fish for Leu and had dropped a depth charge. A man shing with a red and line on the pier said that in his ophien It was a miniature tidal wave!
Smoke Float Theory
Another bi of evidence is In |·favour-ui-en-eruption orvost dis
turbance on the sea-bed. "There have been three big landslides on the coast during the winter," sold ene of this school, "and probably this had some effect on the sea-bed. The chalk may have slipped eausing ur to shot up through the water and throwing a line spray which looked like stem,"
The lonk-out, recalled, is con- vinced now that he knows the actual reason for the boiling sea.
There is no doubt about it," he said. "I was a smoke itoat dropped by an aeroplane. I have seen them before. The ellect of the water on a stewplug these things produces and a vapour."
14-Hour Day For Germans
AMSTERDAM.
The extraordinary demands made on German ronds and railways for the transport of troops and coat al bther goods are relected in a new decree published in the Reichsar- beitsblatt, organ of the German Ministry of Labour,
14-hour work-
M
MOULDER
HAS
BEEN PLANNED
ΤΟ DUPLICATE THE
MOVEMENTS OF HU-
MAN FINGERTIPS.
IS
THE NEW FACE MOULDER INVALUABLE BECAUSE IT IMPARTS FIRMNESS TO THE CONTOUR, DOES NOT LEAVES STRETCH THE SKIN AND THUS
'TISSUES.
NO
LOOSE
OR
SACCING
Elizabeth Arden
PERFUMERY SECTION
MEZZANINE FLOOR
LANE CRAWFORD LTD.
•
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY & SERVICE
PARLOPHONE
RETURN OF OLD FAVOURITES
R 2583
Blue bells of Scotland
My Boaulo lles over the ocean.
RL 2578
Artistes life.
Vienna Boubens
I 2075
Begin the Beguine ("It'way Mejady of
I cried for you.
R 2686
My blue heaven
Because X-love-you-
2685
1 2633
Arkansas Blues. St. Louis Blues
One day when wo were young. Millicent ~Sweethearts-Walin.
R 2656 Acceleration waltz (Strauss).
Budapest Wallz.
By the black sea.
My dream tango..
Twe sleepy people. New Orleans, R-2404-Blue Daube Swing Night ride,
Ella Logon with Qich;
con-with-
Mildred Ballby pich
Art Shaw, all his musjed
Mildted Bailey & Oreh,
Phillips, The girl septano. Orchestra Mascotte. ..George Boulanger & Orch.
Ella, Logan & Hongy, Carmichael.
Eddie Carroll and his Swingphonic orch.
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY
19. Queen's R. C.! Marina House Essen railway
}
This introduces a ing day for all German transport. I 2629 workers over 10..
The
incusure.
it is explained, R 2011 due to the necessity of "utilising all means of transport to the utmost
An announcement in the National Zeitung of Essen showed that
count TWENTY-FOUR nations strain is being placed on railway
paper printed more daily rolling stock. The
recommendation of titled to wear the Boer War medal Assizes, when a giri aged eighteen broadcast. one or
was awarded €1,500 for the loss of talks in English and other lan-authorities that for Journeys up 10 three Angers of her right hand.
Later it was announced that a guages. Most of this is propa- 60 miles goods trucks should be given claim by a man for a similar right-ganda. Some of it is news. To a load weighing one ton more than hand injury and been settled for gift it London newspapers em- their registered capacity.
I hese two items of news throw Her 28,000 Miles
£1,250.
further light on the causes of the Miss
Annie Hindle, of Heyes- ploy expert listener-reporters.
neeldents
on German rail- During December one of our older
One of them calculates that in frequeal neck battleships steamed 9,500 miles at an street, Blackburn, awarded the £1, Battleships have averaged 25 days average speed of 161⁄2 knots, and 600, sued the Rose Hill Laundry, of three months he has heard and sifted ways. Both men and material are
them from "Jarmanny."
A different picture is provided by at sea every mouth during the past during the brief time available utkbuen, for damages for personal 3,000,000 words more than half of being worked to death.
Her hand, caught in machinery, Recently he again tuned in to the new wage scales for the German four months, the, average mileage the end of each patrol was only able injuries.
to clean one-ninth of her boilers.
was seriously crushed and burned. Bremen. This, he reports, is what mercantile marine, issued last Thurs- 8,000 and
One cruiser travelled 28,000 miles steamed being between
Three of her fingers were part-am- happened when he turned the switch. day by Dr. Voeltzer, special labour
trustee for the merchant navy, in the first three months of the war.
of the putated and a fourth was stiff and
Noises, On And Off 10,000 miles.
These are concerned solely with useless. Another steamed North Atlantic.
ic ve turner bleary the working time of watchmen em- George Sellers, of Trevelyan-| The magic eye Twenty thousand betive service mainly in the heavy sons
at an GEOS
10 "special circumstance men and 8,000 reservists and non- 12,000 miles in September
Watchman on sioners were engaged aflat in en overage of 174 knots. Yet another street, Eccles, In a claim against his green, winked drunkenly, and then ployed on ships laid up in port gineering duties in the Navy in the was at sea in tropical waters for 102 caloyers, M. Esteln, manufue- went out. Lord Haw-Haw, who was wing
turers of unholstery, of Cambridge-apparently in the middle of de- created by the war. street Mills, Lower Broughton. was nouncing Mr: Churchill, coughed, ships lild up for longer-than-vigist early days of the war, and as the days in the first four months."
awarded £1,250.
purpled, made a noise like a man weeks are to be allowed two free Three of his fingers were sliced off with shbone stuck in his throat, days a month. Fleet expands 'the number ricreases.
The cruiser Exeter, which bore the by a circular saw of the works. The and went out, too.
find the exit brunt of the battle with the Admiral tops of his thumb and remaining! From inside the set cune a series reperter, trying to
black smoke followed by flames. The electricnl expert's verdlet is reft, while the Achilles hnd steamed
After this the set also went out that the accident was caused by the 125,000 miles willout being refitted.
clutched in the orms, of an agitated main, transformer burning oul..
Since the outbreak of war only! Graf Spee, was a year. overdue for figer of the hand were also cut off of crackles, then a cloud of dense through the snake.
Had the three cruisers burned coul insleuel of cll fict they could not have done their job, for with coal it would not have been possible to work up to full power se rapidly or to maintain that power continuously. rus-
Dockyards' Responso 'cult to tic after many years
one ship has been delayed by main engine trouble-and that delay was only for an hour and a half.
Reservists and pensioners ponded nably to the Colours, sonic
HITLER'S AMBITION
A
Berlin, May 23. military spokesman to-day In the dockyards the response to factory. In two cases special com-prime objective was the conquest of In une esse a ship had three en-aendation has been earned for the Britain: gineer officers whose cornbined ages
war demands has been equally satis-emphasised to the Press that itler's
ushore.
totalled 101 years.
NEXT CHANGE NEVER SHOOT A MAN, GIRLS -
AT
THE
KING'S
www.te
THEY'RE
completion of repairs well in advance Latest reports from the front maice WORTH MORE TO YOU ALIVE THAN DEAD!
of scheduled time.
Doran's Last Flight Was Over Stavanger Base
SQUADRON Leader K. C.
The perfect weather favoured
no enthusiastic claims of successCR but merely say that in the face of Jurious counter-attacks the GermANG ath spreading a new thrust to the north on the French coast in order to close around the Allies in west Belgium.
Reports paint a picture of despair and near punte in Lendon and Paria because of the initial success of the Hitzkrieg which swallowed Holland. and two-thirds of vini-Luxembourg
and
into France ip create a serious threat Doran, first officer to win the butty, but it also hampered the Belgium and pushed a huge bulge D.F.C. in this war and the first British raiders in their escape,
The I.A.F. planes were engaged that the war might be soon brought to receive a bar, is bolluyed to by four Messerschmitt 110's. One to Britain.
Inland have been killed when he let Blenhetin was".hit, but the pilot It is claimed that the Germans have
Another sent a thrust about 30 miles force of Blenlleim bombers over manoeuvred away.
Mesterselumitt 109 spinning into the northward and that eventually they tip of Stavanger.
Belgium and the Dutch border. It is Hia aquadron was, starting a new sea with smoke streaming from its will reach the north-west
engine.
pointed out that after cutting the series of ralds-the, first daylight Takis of the wit--Jotencied to reduce Bit-Doran's plane was one of two Allied troops the Germans will be the German-occupied Norwegian air which have not been seen since the able to concentrate on their push base to temporary Impotence formation, broke up to deliver thiele, across the Channel:
in the face of interase anil-alrchaft separate attacks on the aerodrome, Auhorised quarters, after querying Are the British planes ruked the base With Him as observer was Sergeant the High Commant, faly deny the with high explosive, and Incendiary R. H. J. Baltelek, and as air gunner report that the Allies have recaptured bombs, causing havoc on the dero- and wireless operator: Pilot Oncer FAbbeville, Amiens, and
M. N. Searle, fluke • United Prese;"
drome.
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$35,000
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