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GREAT DEEDS BY R. A. F.
Invaluable Aid · To Flanders Armies... LONDON, May 30 (Router), The ald given by the RAF to the Allied armies in Flanders
was described in an Air Ministry
bulletin.
The bulletin states: "Throughout Wednesday the main effort of the A. WHs concentrated or relieving the pressure on the danks of the Allied armies in Flanders.
"Our fighter aircraft, in a magni- Acent series of action; repeatedly broke up formations of and bombers. Vers mere ghters sovero losses were inflicted on the enemy.
77 Naxis Downed "The latest reports show that at least 77 enemy aircraft were destroy ed by our fighters during the day.
"Meanwhile
RAF medium
Friday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. O May 31, 1940.
"Devilish FAMOUS
Surprise
Possible
Drastic Precautions In Britain Urged LONDON, May 30 (Reuter),
DYKES BREACHED
How Evacuation Was Facilitated
By RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED' PRESS WAN CORRESPONDENT - PARIS, May 31 (UP)—The
There may yet be some devilish evacuation of so many British surprise in store for us," said and French troops from Dunkirk Sir Neville Bland, the British was. rendered possible by the Minister at The Hague, in breaching of the famous Yser broadcast urging that more and dykes, which created a barrier or more" steps should be taken to flood waters ten iniles wide over guard against the danger from which the enemy could not pass. The breaching of these dykes was the German Fifth Column troop-carrying planes.
probably one of the most dramatic
Allies Win Race Both the Germans and the Allied raced to reach Nieuport-the former In an effort to prevent the flooding of the countryside, the latter in an
and
Successful BELGIANS
Performance
**Cavalleria Rusticana”
By Choral Group
FIGHT ON
Parliament Disowns
King Leopold..
The Hongkong Choral Group con- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH", cluded their rendition of Pietro NEWYORK,-May-20 Mascagni's opera, "Cavalleria Rus (Domel)A Press messago Licans will another magnificent from Faris says that the Belgian performanco the King's Theatre Senate and Chamber of Deputies,
yesterday evening.
Sir Nevilio-described these troop vents of the fighting in Flanders.ng those who were sceptical over 50
| carrying planes - as a for
danger than parachutists or Columnists,
Losson Of Holland
greater
Fifth
Belgian radio announcer from France LONDON, May 30 (Reuter)—A stated to-night' that Belgian troops were still fighting side by side with the British and French In Flanders.
Ditownod King
PARIS, May 30 (Reuter)The Belgian Cabinet, meeting "somewhere in France" to-day, approved the text of two decrees.
Gaston D'Aquino was excellent in meeting. In France on Wednca- voice was fawless in his rendering decision to disown King Leopold the role of Turiddu; his fine tenor day, approved the Cabinet's of the songs. Miss Chan Mel-lan was heard In some fine singing, Mrs. God-Ill and continus fighting against dard, Miss Carmen da Silva and Ale the Germans. Greaves, the other principals, the Bofglans Still-Fighting chorus and orchestra gave excellent support, and the opera ran to a armooth cid, with a splendid finale.
Mr. Gualdi is to be complimented for having produced such a dificult opera in so fino a manner, confounds armbitious a project.
The proceeds of the two perform axices will be devoted to the Hong kong Food Kitchen,
the Foreign
One of these decrees declared that the Hongkong Boys' and Girls' Clubs in the power of the Invader, it was Association, the Agricultural School Impossible for him to reign. for Refugee Children, the Chung- stian Refugee Fund and the now St. Stephen's Church.
Other executives to whom pralso and thanks are due are: J. R. M. Smith (Stage manager), D. Kossick (stage director), C. Mose (settings) Lee Ping (scenery),
Miss Carmen da LONDON, May 90 (Reuter)-—-—Mr, Silva (costumes), Mrs. J. J. Edgar Malcolm MacDonald, Minister of (wardrobe mistress), A. A. E. Jeffries Health, gave a brondtast to-day. (lighting effects), C. Mose (promp-
He said that the Government feels ter), and M. F. Baptista and S. Tthat the risk of early bombing is so fard (make-up).
real, that it must make as complete as possible, new plans for the evacuation of children. It
may be necessary to commence evacuation
bombers were out all day attacking planes landed thousands of men and attempt to create the barrier of flood | Auxiliary of the Chinese Red Cross, In view of the fet that the King is
columns and
enitmy transport
• armoured Aghting vehicles, and destroying bridges and machine-gun emplacements. All our aircraft rc-
turned. One attacking Messerschmitt was shot down.
"Operations by heavy bombers followed during the night.
"Aircraft of the Coastal Command and the Fleet Air Arm engaged in reconnaissance and bombing opera tions on the French and Belgian coasts shot down two enemy aircraft and damaged two others.
Ten of these aircraft gre missing, but the crews of at least three have been rescued."
In The Sedan Area The bulletin, adds further details br the operations' in the Sedan prea on Monday. It says that medium RA:F-bombera operating from France attacked a number of enemy aerodromes, causing extensive fires in the hangers and surrounding bulld- ings, and also successfully bombed supply depots and trains.
"All our aircraft-returned while our fighters in this sector shot down 11 enemy aircraft and damaged three more. Thirteen enemy aircraft were destroyed by our fighters," concluded the bulletin.
Marked Successos LONDON, May 30 (Reuter)--The Air Ministry nnnounces that a single squadron of 12 British Deftant fighters yesterday shot down 37 enemy air- craft,
On their morning patrol they brought down 17, fighters and dive- bombers, and in the afternoon they shot down 19 and possibly 21 bombers,
One British air-gunner, believing that his machine had been fatally hit, baled out over Belglum.
Otherwise every muchine and man returned safely.
Nazi Pilots Become Shy
Find Allied Defences Too Hot For Thom PARIS, May 30 (Router) Referring to the invaluable help being given by the French air. arm and the R.A.F., a spokesman said that so effective has been their intervention, and that of the anti-aircraft batteries, that German airmen have become noticeably more shy.
He sold German troops-carrying howitzerd in Holland,
If the Netherlands authorities had not taken very thorough precautions, easily landed on their arterial roads thousands more would have been and the campaign would have "been finished in 24 hours.
He said he did not want to be an alarmist and there was no need for penle, but more and more steps must be taken to provide against this danger.
There were countless places in England where man and guns could be landed.
Emargency Powers LONDON, May 30 (Reuter).The new emergency powers were put into operation in Britain to-day.
Waters.
The Allies won. As a result the Allles are now hold- Ing the Yser front with comparatively uttle effort.
The Germans who are altempting to advance on Dunkirk and thus stem the evacuation of our forces from that nort only attack from two direc- tiens-from the cast, along the flank of the French and British forech who are retiring from the Lille pocket, or from Calais in the south. They can make no headway along this recond route, where big British and French forces have blocked passage, and they. are encountering heavy resistance in the cast.
Heroic Sacrifice
The War Office has revealed the Under them the Home Secretary herple sacrifice of a 'small British can suppress-seitious-publications, force which was sent last-week-to- seize printing presses,· commandeer jhold Calais in an attempt to maintain lund control signalling apparatus, communication between that port radio receivers, road vehicles and and the BEF, in Flanders. the supply
This small British force was sub- ject to an unprecedented altack by -strong-- enemy
mechanised units, and air and artillery bombard- merits,
uniforms.
Under these powers, too, the Home Secretary can suppress- seditious papers which print material cul- culated to encourage readers to op
posc
the successful prosecution of
Despite the overwhelming at the war.
tack, the Brillah Tommies held out for several days. The presses of these popers can be seized and the suppressed papers
This handful of men were res- may
another ponsible more than any other factor re-appeared under name or under new owners.
for the fact that Dunkirk was kept open for the evacuation of the main Can Commandoor Land
body of the B.E.F., since the Germans The Home Secretary can also au- could not continue their drive from thorise the commandeering of land the south along the coast towards required for the efficient prosecution Dunkirk of he war.
The action, says the official War This land may
be delegated to Omlee communique, must be counted businesses under the control of the among the most heroic deeds in the Government. Compensation or rent annals of the British Army. will be paid on the terms fixed by the Government.
"By their refusal to surrender, they were of invaluable assistance to No unauthorised persons will be the main body of the British Ex- allowed to have any official uniform peditionary Force in its withdrawal
badge, British or foreign.
from Dunkirk," the communique
or
This ruling also covers the uni-said. forms and badges which might..be
Whole Area Flooded mistaken for the real thing."
Anyone wanting to buy a uniform military circles here state that the PARIS, May 30 (Reuter)-French must first prove-tint-he-has-authority whole area south-west of Dunkirk to wear it.
has been flooded from the noghbour
of Gravelines almost lo
St.
CONSCRIPTION FOR N.Z. Statement By Prime Minister
in
| EVACUATING THE CHILDREN
next week.
Mr. MacDonald added that the Government had asked parents to recognise that the transfer of the children will increase the ability of the general population to shelter from harm. In addition, the children will be much safer.
South Coast Evacuations WELLINGTON, May 30 LONDON, May 30 (Router) The (Reuter), Mr. Peter Fraser, the number of school-children registered Prime Minister,
for spoke
from south-east evacuation Parliament to-day on the Emer-presenting 61 per cent. of
coast towns to Wales is 32,700, re- gency Regulations Amendment school-childrer in that aren.
the total Bill.
The total in four Medway towns
representing 38 per cent. 0.418, The
percentage regulering for evacuation in March was only 8.3.
a
Mr. Fraser old that immediate is provision was being made for a system of compulsory service.
He said that the country felt that These 69,000 children will be taken voluntary system, even if com-to South Wales and the Midlands on pletely successful, did not
June 2, while the 9,000 evacuated in apply fairly or embody the spirit of service September from London and the which the occasion
Medway towns to the coastal areas demanded. When the compulsory system would between Folkestone and Sheringham be applied would depend on will also be transferred to South ditions with regard to the forces, the Woles and the Midlands. ntamber who are at present volun- teering and the number.available in the next few months.
con-
Loyalty To Allied Cause WELLINGTON, May 30 (Reuter),
DEATH OF M.P.
Wes
LONDON, May 30 (Reuter)~The ---New Zealand's adherence and death ly announced, of Sir Joseph loyalty to the cause of the Allies was Leech, Member of Parlament of to-day. re-affirmed in the House of Commons West Newcastle-on-Tyne and a dis-
tinguished surgeon A resolution moved by the Prime Sir Joseph nad represented this Minister, Mr. Peter "Any apparatus which cân transmut
Fraser, and constituency since 1931 and was signals will be seized if there are Omer.
seconded
ded by the Opposition Leader, Lord Mayor of Newcastic-on-Tyne in Mr. grounds for believing that it is being used in a way which might help the stretches. from
To the north-east, the waterline determilton, declared the firm and 1032-33. Born in 1885, he was an
adherence of the House MD, M.S., and F.R.CS. He enemy. Some apparatus might be along the valley of the Yser River and liberty inspiring the Allied cause three sons. He was knighted in 1038. Nieuport to Ypres to the democratic ideals of Justice Senior Fellow of the Association of used unwittingly in this manner, over-a-width of between-two-and arid-lis infexible resolve to do all
Surgeons of Great Britain. He leaves is pointed out.
three miles. In future, care cannot have radlo
within its power to bring the struggle receivers without permission of the During-the-past-48-hours; thou-to-a-victorious conclusion. Postmaster General nor can they be poured into the region with each tide sands of tons of water has been
Parliament Opens wired for receivers.
WELLINGTON, May 30 (Reuter). flooding Restrictions Welcomed
depths up to several feet. The area has now become impratile-opened to-day, the Governor-General -When the New Zealand Parliament These new restrictions are wel-able both for
infantry and me said that over $3,000 offers had been come and at the same time many chinnised troops. This has allowed received for service abroad. Out of Government, are offering their services to the respite which was much needed by these, 41,600 had been for the Army
the troops. It will also assist in de-alone. The Royal Automobile Club has fending "Flander's Hill". placed at the disposal of the Govern- ment all its telephone boxes and patrols which cover every rond of Britain
Their commander, he sald, seems to have hesitated to continue the old lechnique of mass dive-bombing and machine gutning, regardless of cost, which the Germans had adopted.
The Conference of the Amalgamat Further south-west along the const, ed Engineering Unions, one of the British and French troops are report-most powerful anlons, has called on ed to be still heroically holding on in all members to give every assistance Calals after several days of ceaseless to the national effort. dighling.
CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES
---
Civilian volunteers are being en listed to help in the case of fires and air raids.
to
U.S. Defence Commission To Begin Work
Among those who have joined the Second Expeditionary Force are nine members of the New Zealand Parlia- mani
There has been a great response to the request for contributions for War expenses.
تویی
The total of the loans and dona- tions to date, is £20,000,000 or over 1. 5s per head of the population.
WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuter) CONDEMNS NAZI
Four or five householders in each community are to be taught how to President Roosevelt stated at a use handpumps which is particularly Press conference that the new De useful for dealing with Incendiary fence Commission-is-ready to begin" bombs. LONDON, May 30 (Reuter).-The
One householder will keep buckets
operating Minister of Home Security announces: of water ready in his home.
"In view of the existing situation, be trained through local dro brigades. Volunteers called for to-day will when there is every prospect of an They will asalst with much of the early call upon the Services, the Minister of Homework which is now being done, by Security is most anxious" that
the regular Auxiliary services Services should be fully manned in
Civil Defence
the
a slate of readiness and efficiency.
"Members of the Civil Defence Services, including the Auxillary Fire Service and Police Auxiliaries and Casualty Services, are rendering essential national service, and the
Minister asks all membors, of these services to remain in their present posis unless released for special reasons by the officer in charge of their local service."
WANG KEH-MIN
TO RESIGN?
INVASION
PRETORIA, May 30 (Reuter)
Its Job will be greater, he said. The Rev. W. Nicol, one of the leading have necessitated more than doubling the German Invasion of Holland in a because developments in the Euro-members of the Dutch Reform Church pean
ean fighing in the past fortnight in South Africa, bitterly condemned Amarica's defence expenditures.
sermon which he gave to-day. $4,300,000,000 Programme
It is hoped that the full production of war materials will be under way within six months.
His request to Congress to-morrow raises the immediate. defence
pro- gromune to $4,300,000,000.
Conditions in the world had PEIPING, May 31 (Reuter)-It is changed vastly in a short time, con- learned in authoritative circles that ably referring to the German suc Wang Keh-min, head of the Peiping cesses with mechanised troops,
President Roosevelt, presum Provisional Government, is expected
Message To Congress
to resign in the near future.
He said he had always looked for ward to an independent Afrikaan nation. However, he said that he would sooner see that nation lost than that it should find itself under the rule of a non-Christian nation.
NEW ZEALAND'S
OFFER
· Reported "Missing" tion Yuan of the Paiping Government Defence programme totalling $1,000, the Mayor and 36 others was pre-
LONDON, May 30 (Reuter)The names of "missing". troops form a large part of the War Office Casualty List No. 7.
It includes seven men in the Lincolnslures, 41 in the Leicester sires, 21 in the Green Howards, 64. in the Sherwood Forcaters, 30 in the 'King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and 33 in the York and Lancasters.
Singapore's New War Fund
His successor is likely to be Wang WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuter). WELLINGTON, May 30 (Reuter). Ytang, President of the Examina--The While House announces a New A New Zealand petition signed by and formerly Minister of the Interior 1000.000. in the defunct Pelping Provisional
serted to the House of Commons A National Defence Commission of suggesting that the Government ad Government.
seven has been formed to supervise vise the British Government that they the programme.
will offer hospitality and,: {f} \necèar. President Roosevelt hopes to sendry, adoption and permanent hamer a message to Congress to-morrow re-for 20,000 British "school-children as commending the expenditure of that soon as a transfer can be arranged., amount on the purchase of tanks, gund, plunes and reserva matorlul)
Motor Car Radio Sets Banned
road
The President is also requesting STOCK EXCHANGE
that the Legislature permit the ex-
LONDON, May 30 (Router)panded training of men both for Radio sets Installed in any vehicle have been banned subject to any exemptions permitted by the Postmaster General,
combatant and non-combalont pur- ponca.
The message will ask for the
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