Colonial Air Fleet Of 200 Machines
MALAYA SUBSCRIBES FOR 14 BOMBERS
LONDON, July 2 (Router)~Malaya has 14 bombers in the Colonial Air Flect of 200 aircraft ready for service.
Wednesday,
M. C. FOR FORMER
H. K. MAN
A "Reuter", news agency correspondent who worked in
LETTERS Hongkong for nearly a year in
The Ministry of Aircraft Production
·told "Reuter'n" air correspondent to- day that the scheme outlined yester- day hitherto uncompleted in detall,| but the next stage would be to find out in wilcli R.A.F. squadrons Colonial personnel are serving in! order that aircraft can, a far To The Editor, ponsible, be attached to them and manned by pilots and gunners from the different colonies, concerned.
place numca such us Penang, etc.
the
The Right Spirit
The "Hongkong,Telegraph," Sir, Pigano accept my small con- tribution of $ to the War Fund, I Planes To Bo Christened
would indly give more, were I able A spokesman of the Ministry said: to do so. "It In proposed to christen
Thanking you for setting the ball Malayan aircraft after prominent rolling, for such a good and just Singapore, couse. It has set many minda in Naturally the planes will not carry their names into battle. moon. Others should gladly help. We do not want the enemy to dis- I went through the last war, and tinguish and perhaps maisé capital know who the enemy is. We were out of the origin of my one shot fools to have been so easy with them, int the end of the last war. It Ger- down."
inany had won where would the British Empire, France, or any other country be by now.
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It is not known up to now whether there are suflelent personnel from Malaya serving in the R.A.F. to fly all the aircraft towards which the
Tils small contribution, means a publle there have so generously con- lot to me. But it is to show, my tributed, approximately £322,000, but heart and spirit, that I give it, every effort will be made to see that every Malayan bomber pilot or
Kunner
will be able to raid the enemy In his own "Malayan" plone,
More And More Pilots LONDON, July 2 (Reuter),-In the House of Commons to-duy, Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Air Minister, announced that a number of steps were taken which would have the effect of speeding up very consider- ably the output of pilots and other flying personnel during the next few
G. W. L. B.
R. A.F. Busy
In Ethiopia
Direct Hits On Two Aerodromes
LONDON, July 2 (British Wire- He had also decided that oli de- less).-An R.A.F. comunique issued periments of the Air Ministry con- in Cairo states that R.A.F. machines cerned will training should be placed bombed Gondar and Azozo nero- under the direction of a new member
dromes in Ethiopie yesterday, setting
of the Air Council to be called Altre to one tri-malored bomber and Member for Training.
seriously damaging five others,
Bulidings were set on fire and a divert hit was scored on the muin
The
This officer would be charged not: only with the responsibility of ensur- ing that the training organisation was at all times adequate to meet the re- quirements of the service and in pace with the increased flow of production, but would also have the special responsibility of all on fire.
on RA.F. suffered no casualties.
Oil refineries and tanks at Augusta in Stelly were also bombed and set
Italian planes bombed matters concerned with the Empire Matruh yesterday afternoon but there Mersa Training Scheme.
The officer selected for this work were no casualties and no damage
was Air Vice-Marshal A.G.R. Garrod. Colonics Give Fighter Planes LONDON, July 2 (Reuter) Ceylon has sent a third contribution of £7,500 to buy fighter planes. The Legislative Council of Falkland Islands is transferring £50,- 000 worth of imperial stuck to the
for
Imperial Government
the
was done.
Britain's Big Man-Power
the Mr. Eden's Statement
purchase of war planes. Although
the Falkland Islands have only a population of 2,400 they are already paying for their own defence.
In The Commons LONDON, July 2 (British Wire- less)-All men registered for mill- These planes will be added to the tary service up to the end of May Colonini fleet of 40 bombers and 100 have now been called up with the Spitfires which has been made avall-exception of a few special categories, able to Britain.through contributions] from the Empire.
Giving this information to the House of Commons at question-time to-day. Mr. Anthony Eden, the War Minister, udded that the intake was being further accelerated and that this would apply to those age groups now registering.
Hongkong Way Fund Steady support of the War Fund of the S. C. M. Post, Lid., continues, and a large number of subscriptions were received yesterday and this morning. At 4 p.m. the Fund had He declined to accept the sugges- reached totals of $1,205,280.15 and tion of another questioner who be
£2,753.15.9, Tho latest list of lieved that a seaborne invasion of subscribers is as follows:
Britola on a serious scale was o re- mote contingency and that policy in 50, respect of enrolment for military
training should be reviewed.
M. M. Blau and
Strav63
French Consul General
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Japanese Admit Loss
Of Kaifeng
PEIPING. July 2 (Reuter),-A 34. Japanese
military spokesman ad- 18. mitted to-day that the Chinese troops had again penetrated inside Kaifeng 30. the capital of Honan province.
The Chinese attack, he declared, was delivered on June 29 and peace was restored after the Chinese had been "annihilated Inside the city walls.
been
The attack was actually repulsed on June 30, the Japanese losing 10 dead and 37 wounded.
The last attack by the Chinese was on April 23 when a force of 3,000 strong stormed the city and engaged the Japanese gorrison in street fight- ing.
Why Ford Won't Build Engines
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LONDON, July, 2 (Reuter).-The death of Marshal Bulbo is now ad- milled by Rome to be a mystery, an- nounces an official German. news agency. In: any event whatever caused his plane to crash in 'flames it
vas not in an air battle with British LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)--In planes.
reply to a question in the House of A curious post-script to a Rome Commons to-day, the Under-Secre- radio announcement was that Mar-tory for Air, Captain H.H. Belfour, shal Balbo's will was found in the said that the sole renson for the wreckage of the plane. No explana breakdown in negotiations for the tion is given how the will managed manufacture of Rolls-Royce aero- to survive after the plane had com-[engines In America was that Mr. pletely burned itself out or why the Henry Ford had stipulated that his Marshal should be carrying his will factory would make acro-engines with him on his last journey.
only for the Government of the United States.
THREE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Britain And The French Navy
Three traffle accidents were report- LONDON, July 2 (British Wire- ed to the Poller yesterday.
less).-Mr. Clement Attlee, in reply Wong Cheung, lorry driver, sald to a question in the House of Com- that young girl named Wan Hulmons on the French Navy, said the was mocked down and sustained Government were fully alive to the injuries to the foot. She was taken importance of encouraging and assist- to the Queen Mary Hospital.
ing to the utmost of their power all
Ger-
Lal Kwan reported that as he was French forces able and willing to driving a in Matauwel Rond, a continue the struggle against
a lorry, in 12-year-old Chness girl, named Lau many and Italy. Wah-chop, ran across the hand and
The Government
were devoting
was struck by the left front-wheel of their urgent attention to the matter.
the lorry. She sustained head injuries,
Lorry Overturns
Au Woon driver of a lorry, reported that as his lorry was on the Tin Hau Temple Road, it skidded and over- turned on a plece of vacant ground.
-No August Bank
Holiday
LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)-It is
holiday has been cancelled.
No persons were injured and the officially announced that August bank vehicle was slightly damaged.
1932, has been awarded the Military Cross, according to a message received from London to-day.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MILITARY GOVERNOR
Hongkong is to have temporarily a Military Governor, who will adminis- ter the Government in the absence of His Excellency Sir Geoffry North- cole K.C.M.J.
The Colony's new executive head will be Major-General E. F. Norton, C.D., D.RO., 140. This was announced yesterday in the following offrinl communique:
"In the absence from Hongkong of His Excellency the Governor, Sir
Northcote, Geoffry
K.C.M.C., Majesty, has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Major-General E. F. Norton, C.D., D.B.O., M.C., to ad minister the Government of has
the Colony.
He In Lieutenant Normann Bradbury, who is now attached, to the anti-aircraft artillery,
Lieutenant Bradbury been a member of "Reuter's" Far Eastern staff for 'severni years. He was stationed in Shanghal, where he became a member of the Shanghal Volunteer Corps, then Inter came to Hongkong for a brief Interlude. afterwards being transferred to Singapore.
While in Singapore he joined the artillery battery of the Singapore Volunteer Corps,
MASS RAID ON KIEL
FROM PAGE ONE
second time. "We definitely scored Floating Dock Hit
hits."
A few minutes later, the floating dock was again hit by a salvo of bombs and the pilot of this aircraft saw five large fires break out
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"Major-General Norton is at pre- sent commanding the western district in India and will take up the appoint- ment in the near future."
of
As is known, the Governor Hongkong, Sir Geoffry Northcote, is on sick leave. He left Hongkong for Ceylon on May 10. Since then, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, Colonial Secretary, has been Oficer Administering the Governmnt.
The appointment of Mujor Generat Norton is apparently an Indication of the Hongkong problem as it appears to the Imperial Government. He is the first regular military officer to administer the Colony since Sir Frederick Lugard 1010-12. In the Colony's earlier years military ad- ministrators were frequent.
July 3, 1940.
Exchange At A Glance
T.T.
SELLING
T.T. London Demand London T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore T.T. Japan T.T. India
T.T. Batayla
.8244
U.S.A. Manila
.23%
.46%
.43%
T.T. Bangkok
149
T.T. Saigon
.Nom
T.T. France ........
Nom
T.T. Switzerland
100
TT. Australin
1/G
BUYING
4 m/s L/C London
4 m/s D/P London
.1/35%
1/3
4 m/s L/C USA.
4 m/s Franco
30 d/s Indla
.243
..Nom. ...B4
U.S. Cress rate in London 4,021
U.S. Crosa rate in N.Y. ....3.80
HONGKONG GARRISON
Shanghai Army May Come Here
London, July 2
It is understood that the Cabinet hns discussed the situation in the For Major General Norton is appro- East, where they are facing a show- priately, on artilleryman. He was down, while invasion threatens at born in 1884. Joining the Royal home. Artillery, he served throughout the It is expected that Sir Robert M.C., and being mentioned in des- shortly receive the British reply to Great War, winning the D.S.O. and Craigie, Ambassador in Tokyo, will patches three times.
Japan.
Major General Norton is also an
The crew closely following the air-explorer and took part in two reported that these fires so lit up the awarded the Founder's Medal of the craft which claimed hits on the docks to climb Mount Everest 1uzz and 1824). He was in 1920 target
that they could see distinctly Royal Geographical Society, He the superstructure and gun turrets of wrote
book, "The
Fight for Scharnhorst
the
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it is understood that the small British garrison in Shanghat may be
that this involves no acrifice of transferred to Hongkong, but Britain at the same time will make it clear treaty rights and the Shanghal Settlement will remain Inviolabic.
The return of the United States
Meanwhile other aircraft were af to
his Army dulles, feet to Hawali is greeted with satis-
theking the naval buildings and
General Norton became
events might faction, but it is pointed out that soon necessitate п
storehouses on, either side of the instructor at the Staff College at canal. A large building to the north Quetta, India (1020-32), then Com- of the docks was struck and set on manded the 1st Division of the Royal United States naval concentration in completely gutted that the stech gird-was Brigadier on the General Staff children from Hongkong is viewed fire, and another „bli
Atlantic. shed was so Arilllery at Aldershot (1934-35). He
The evacuation of women and ers of its framework were plainly of the Aldershot Command from 1034 visible among the mass of flames to to 1938. In 1937-38 he was A.D.C. here as precautionary measure against the miders overhead.
to the King. In 1939 he was op- pointed ns Commander of the Madras District in India, which post he still holds. Last year he was made a Commander of the Bath,
Raging Inferno Large fires were also started in other parts of the dockyard and the pilot of the last aircraft to leave the aren described them as **a solid mass
of flame covering as much space as a big aerodrome."
The pilot, added: "I have never seen anything like it. Three other quayside fires, which would nor- mally look quilo big, appeared almost insignificant beside the great Inferno,"
ATTEMPT TO DODGE ORDER
FROM PAGE ONE
parled for Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, Australia and even Shanghal. Portuguese Registration British women of Portuguese, des- cent begin registering for evacuation
this afternoon
Major General Norton married, in 1925, Isabel Joyce Pasteur, younger doughter of Dr. William Pasteur, Consultant-Physician to the British miles in France during the Creat Way. They have three sons.
SHIPPING LOSSES
Many Vessels' Sunk Off French Ports.
sources
emphasise that they are disinclined to satisfy Japan at China's cost and indicate that they expect moral but not phy- sical support from the United States in Enst Asia. It is recalled that similar action was taken last Novem- ber when the British
Karrison North China was reduc
In
cense
The Japanese demand to shipment af munitions to Chungking from Hongkong is not expected to cause difficulty, since the traffle is stated to be non-existent after the recent Japanese troop movements bad closed all gaps-United Press,
PEAK TRAGEDY
According to a Police report, a Chinese gardener named Liu Ling. 24, hanged himself in the Chinese kitchen of No. 4 The Peak.
LONDON, July 2 (British Wire-
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London, July 2. The Admiralty announces that the total British mercantile losses duc to enemy action for the week ended less).The King received in audience midnight of June 24 were 88,250 tons. at Buckingham Palace this afternoon of this figure, however, 30,440 tons Corbin, who took, leave were lost during the combined opera-French Ambassador in London.
relinquishing his appointment tions off French ports and were. They must attend between 6 p.m. therefore not mercantile losses in the and 7 p.m. at the Club Luslinne ordinary
sensa. for residents of Hongkong, and at Similarly, cf .69,770 tons Allied the Club de Recreio for people living shipping, 33,020 tons were lost in in Kowloon,
like circumstances. In all 27 ships The Government is considering the were lost with a total tonnage of position of Indian women and chil-129,445 tons. Of these eight were It was planned to evacuate British representing 57,013 tons, eight
The actual registration Agures yea- terday were: Kowloon, 505 adults, 554 children (1130); Hongkong, 521 children, 400 ndults (690). The total number of children registered was 1023, of adults 1100.
four
П
In the August scheme, on which Allied of 36,750 tons, and 11 neutruts the plans are largely based. amounting to 34,882 tons.
Although
the losses of British tonnage were admittedly heavy, comparison of
the weeks ended June 24 with the similar period dur- ing April 1917, when our losses were the greatest during the last war, show that we were then losing nearly three times as many merchant ships and twice as much tonnage per week.
It is emphasised
in authoritative quarters that while the
sinkings weeks, we succeeded in toll of U-boats. Our losses in the taking our Mediterranean were not very many whereas it has already been stated ilint we sank nine Italian submarines. Raid Precautions Union is closing The main reasons for the increase are down. The Union was started as the rise in the number of U-boats
H.K. W.A.TS.
DISBANDED good deal heavier than the previous
ARE
FROM PAGE ONE
are a
a recruiting center and lectures | operating, but this is not to an alarm- were given at the various women's ing ext
extent.
Institutions for ARP. and First Our arrangements also for escort- Ald to interest women, and to put ing vessels were upset first of all by before them the list of services the French armistice and by ships they could train for in an exter-sually engaged on cscort duties
The organization has been having to be diverted gency.
in order to working for 234 years,
evacuate not only our troops but also
hours.
some France, Foland and others from French ports along the coast stretch- Ing from Brest lo St. Jean de Luz.
The German U-boats have been operating mainly in the western op pronches of the Bay of Biscay pro- bably from French poris.
An official said this morning: "It is gratifying to feel that we are able to turn over to the Government so much accomplished work, which has given the W.AR.P.U. many happy
"May we again thank all the ladles The view taken by experts is that who so nobly helped us, to accom- the Channel Islands will not be of plish our work."
very great value from a strategical Letters and enquiries in future point of view to Germany. Sho should be addressed to the Women's already possesses Sylt and operations rison Hill Road, the ometal said. Section, A.R.P. Headquarters, 8 Mor- from the Channel Islands of a naval
character will not be easy..
Transport Officers Required
Two Europeans, over military age, ure required to act as transport off Hongkong. cers, one for Kowloon and one for
It is desirable, but not essential,
In spite of these heavy lusses It is pointed out by the Admiralty that our actual tonnage position is better at the present time thart it was. 10 iontha ago. The losses dup.... to enemy action have been made good by reconstruction, captured enemy ships and transfers from other flags. In addition there have been placed at our disposal considerable tonnage belonging of Allied countries.
.
The German mercantile losses up to
transport. tons and the tailan to approximately
that they should have had some ex- June 30 amourted to about 857,000 perience in organising
Names should be forwarded as soon 220,000 tons,
as possible to the Director of Air Raid Precautions, A.R.P. Headquar-neutral ships have been escorted Ja A total of 2,355 British, Allied-and ters, 38, Morrison Hill Road, Happy British convoys with a loss of 37. Valley.
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