NEWS MAP:
from Russia in
Oshipped across
the Black Sea and roaclica Germany vin the Danube,
This route cannot be blockaded by the Allio because the provisions of the Montroux Convention signed in 1936 close the Dardanelles to our warships.
GERMA
Oil Tanker Route Russia to Germany The Convention pro hibits the entry of belligerent warships into the Black Sea un. |lan ihey are executing obligations under the. League Covenant or under a mutual assiet. ance pact to which Turkey is a partner and which is recog used by the League,
RUMANTA
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 24, 1940.
Queer
Goings
On At
Sea
Make
Town
Wonder
a
Monster Is
About
If
·FOLKESTONË.
THE people of Folkestone are wondering what happened one day recently about a quarter of a mile cut to sea off the Warren,
SULINA
BLACK
SEA
BATUM
CONSTANZA
DARDANELLES
TURKEY
CASPIAN
SEA
IRAN
SYRIA
REAR GUNNER
OBSERVER
PILOT OFFICER
WIRELESS OPERATOR
FLEET MAINTAINING ITS TRADITIONS
THIS official picture of Britain's record of naval achievement since the war began shows how the Fleet is maintaining its traditions.
Aggregate....power developed
by the main engines of the Fleet was 12,000,000 horse power-equal to the total gen- erating capacity of all the power stations in, Britain.
Battleships have averaged 25 days ut sen every month during the past four months, the average milenge steamed being between 9,000 and 10,000 miles.
Here is one of the many R.A.F. bomber crews now
There is Loch Ness Monster atmosphere hanging
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 atation 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
tho. water," he said. "It Woo frothing and clouds of steam were rising from it. It lasted 11 low minutes."
BOMB CREW
OVER NAZIS
PILOT NAVIGATOR
fighting so splendidly on Haw-Haw Was Too
the Western Front.
VALUE OF A GIRL'S HAND -
A GIRL'S hand is worth £250 more
than a man's according to assessed at Manchester
damages
£1,250.
Much For This Set
Another person said he thought that some seals that had been seen car Folkestone were holding a mass meeting out to esa and were throwing up a fine spray.
near
Most people reject this theory. Mr. J. Fagk, a boatman, said con- dently that he saw a spout of water shoot up in the air. He suggested facetiously that someone on board a patrol vessel wanted fresh fish for tes and had dropped a depth charge. A man fishing with a rod and June on the pier said that in his opinion it was a miniature tidal wave.
Smoko Float Theory
Another bit of evidence is in favour of an eruplion or vast dis- turbance on the sea-bed. There have been three big landslides on the count during the, winter," one of this school, and probably this-had-some-effect-on-the-sea-bed: The chalk may have slipped causing air
to shoot up through the water and throwing a fine spray looked like strain."
which
is Lon-
The look-out, recalled, vinced now that he knows the actual reason for the boiling sea.
There is no doubt about it," he said. "I was a smoke font dropped by an aeroplane. I have seen them before. The effect of the water on these things produces a steaming and a vapour."
NEW FACE MOULDER
THIS WONDERFUL NEW APPLIANCE IS AN- ESSENTIAL PART OF ELIZABETH ARDEN'S NEW FACE MOULDING HOME TREATMENT
THE NEW FACE
MOULDER
HAS BEEN PLANNED
TO DUPLICATE THE
MOVEMENTS OF HU-,
MAN FINGERTIPS.
THE NEW FACE MOULDER IS INVALUABLE BECAUSE IT IMPARTS FIRMNESS TO THE CONTOUR DOES NOT STRETCH THE SKIN AND THUS LEAVES NO LOOSE OR SAGGING TISSUES.
Engateth Arden
PERFUMERY SECTION
MEZZANINE FLOOR
LANE - CRAWFORD· LTD.
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY & SERVICE
PARLOPHONE
RETURN OF OLD FAVOURITES
R 2583
Blue bells of Scotland
IL 2578
14-Hour Day For Germans 2075
AMSTERDAM.
My Ronnie Hes over the ocean. Aristes life
Vienna Bonbons
Ella Logan with Orch.
Orchestra Moscotte.
R 2075 Begia the Beguine ("B'way Melody of 1040) Mildred Bailey & orch.
I cried for you.
R. 2080 My blue heaven .........
The extraordinary demands made on. German roads and rallways for the transport of troops and coal and R 2085 other goods are reflected in a new.
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decree published in the Reichsar-R 2053 beitsblatt, organ of the Gernin Ministry of Labour.
This introduces a 14-hour work- ing day for all German transport R 2620 "workers" over 187
The measure,
is explained, is
due to the necessity of. "utilising all means of transport to the utmost."
An announcement in the National Zeltung of Essen showed that equal
on TWENTY-FOUR nations strain is being placed railway
Because I love you,
B. Louis Blues
Arkansas Blacs.
Art Shaw and his music.
Mildred Bailey & Orch.
One day when we were young, Millicent Philips, The girl coprano.
-Sweethearts-Waltz.
Acceleration waliz⋅ (Strauss), Budapest Waltz.
By the black sea.
-My-dream tango,
2611
Two sleepy people.
New Orleans.
2464
Orchestra Minscotte,
George Boulanger & Orch,
Ella Logan & Hoagy Carmichael,
Blue Danube Swing.....Eddie Carroll and hi Swingphonte orch, Night ride.
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY
-19-Queen's R. E
SPARK
CHAMPION PLUGS
One man who joined up was en-Assizes, when a girl aged eighteen broadcast one or more daily rolling stock. The paper printed a titled to weur" the Boer War medal was awarded" £1,500 for the loss talks in English and other jan./recommendation of Essen rallway-Marina-House-
three fingers of her right hand.
authorities that for journeys up to Later it was announced that aguages. Most of this in propa-80 miles goods trucks should be given claim by a man for a similar right-ganda. Some of it is news. Ton load weighing one ton more than Her 28,000 Miles
hand injury had been settled for sift it London newspapers em- their registered capacity.
These two items of news throw Miss Annie Hindle, of Heyes-ploy expert listener-reporters.
further light the causes of the
on During December one of our older)
One of them calculates that in frequent accidents on German rall- battleships steamed 9,500 miles at an street, Blackburn, awarded the £1,- average speed of 16% knots, and 300, sued the Rose Hill Laundry, of three months he has heard and sifted ways. Both men and material are
Blackburn, for damages for personal 3,000,000 words-more than half of being worked to 'death. during the brief time available
them from Jairmanny."
"A"different picture is provided by the end of each patroi was only able Injuries.
Her hand, caught in machinery,
to the Recently he again tuned in
new wage scoles to
for the Gennah clean one-ninth of her briler.
was seriously crushed and burned. Bremen. This, he reports, is what mercantile
marine, issi
issued last Thurs- One cruiser travelled 28,000 miles
Three of her fingers were pari-am- ppened when he turned the switch day by Dr. Voeltzer, special labour in the first three months of the war,
trustee for the putated and a fourth was stiff and
Noises, On And Off useless.
These
solely
with Twenty thousand active service mainly in the heavy seas of the Another stermed North Atlantic.
George September at an men and 8,000 reservists and pen- 12,000 miles in
Trevelyan- The mogle eye turned a bleary the, working time of watchmen em- sloners were engaged afloat in en average af 17 knots. Yet another street. Eccles, in a claim against his green. winked drunkenly, and then ployed on ships laid up in part "special circumstances gineering duties in the Navy in the was at sea in tropical waters for 102 employers, M. Epstein, manufac- went out. Lord Haw-Haw, who was owing to
turers of unholstery, of Cambridge-apparently in the middle of de-created by the war." Watchman on early days of the war, and, as the clays in the first four months.
street Mils, Lower Broughton, was nouncing Mr. Churchil, coughed, ships laid up for longer than eight Fleet expands the number increases.
awarded £1,250.
gurgled, made a noise like a man weeks are to be allowed two free Three of his fingers were sliced off with a fishbone stuck in his throat, days a month. by a circular saw at the works, The and went out, too.
The cruiser Exeter, which bore the brunt of the battle with the Admiral
Sellers, of
are concert navy,
tops of his thumb and remaining! From insidla-tie-sot-came-a-series-reporter, trying to _And_the_exit Since the outbreak of war only Grat Spee, was a year overdue for Anger of the hand were also cut off of cruckles, thon a cloud of dense through the smoke.
was
One ship has been delayed by main engine trouble-and that delay only for an hour and a half.
Reservists and ponded nobly to
pensioners
res-
the call to the Colours, some after many years ushore..
reft, while the Achilles had steemed refitted. 125.000 miles without being
Had the three cruisers burned coal instead of oil fuel they could not have done their job, for with ceal It } would noi have been possible to work up to full power so rapidly of
to maintain that power continuously.
Dockyards' Response
-
HITLER'S AMBITION
flames. black smoke followed by
The electrical expert's verdict is After this the set also went out that the accident was caused by the clutched in the arms of an agitated main transformer burning out,
NEXT CHANGE
AT KING'S
THE
THEY'RE
Berlin, May 23. In the dockyards the responte to A military spokesman to-day war demands has been equally entis emphasised to the Press that Hitler's factory. In two cases speelal com- prine objective was the conquest of NEVER SHOOT A MAN, GIRLS In one case a ship had three en-mendation has been earned for the Britain. gineer ofcera whose combined ages completion of repairs well in advance
of scheduled time. totalled 101 years,
Doran's Last Flight Was Over Stavanger Base
Latest reports from the front moke WORTH MORE TO YOU ALIVE THAN DEAD!
no enthusinse claima of succosses) but merely say that in the face of furious counter-attacks the Germans are spreading a now thrust to the north long the French coast in order to close around the Allies in west Helgium
Reports paint a picture of despalt and near panic in London and Forks because of the inlal success of the bilizerieg which swallowed Holland.
and The perfect weather favoured vis]- Luxembourg SQUADRON Leader K. C.1
two-thirds of Doran, first officer to win, the bility, 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.
into France to create a-serious threat The RA.F. planes were engeged that the war might be soon brought to receive a bar, is believed to by four Messerschmitt 110's. One to Britain.
but the pilot It is claimed that the Germana bave have been killed when ho led a Blenheim was hit,
Another tent a thrust about 30 miles inland and force of Blenheim bombers over manoeuvred away.
Messerschmitt 109 spinning Inle the northward and Unt eventually they Stavanger.
zca with smoke streaming from its will reach the north-west tip of engine.
Belgium and the Dutch border. It pointed out that aflor cutting the But Doron's 'plane was one of two Allled troops the Germans will be which have not been seen since the able
thoir pushi formation broke up to deliver their across the separate attacks on the aerodrome, Authorised quarters, after querying With him as observer was Sergeant the High Command, tally deny the R. H. J. Battrick, and si air gunner report that the Allies have recaptured and wireless operator Pilot Offer F. Abbevill Amienkund 'Sedan. -M-N.-Soarle.
His squadron was starting a new
first daylight| series of raids-the raids of the war-intended to reduce the German-occupied Norwegian air base to temporary Impotence.
In the face of intense anti-aircraft fire the British planes raked the base. with high explosive and incendiary
equaing havoc on the pero hom
droine..
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