ASE DRIVING TIPS CURVER AND TURNS:- The proper way to
· take `a`curve or a ̧ turn, ix' to, slowdown while 11 on the straightaway approaching -- the curve, so that the cor cais -be, accelerated around the
curve This procedure gives beiter control of steering and an actual, stability and solidity which is lacking, when curves are taken too fast.
The ability to sense the sato speed for takin curves comes with practice, but it is wise to be crutious in this manner.. One never knows whint is around the 'curve, and the force which tends to slue the car off the rond, Is greater at high speeds than most of us, realize. This is called centrifugal force, and is responsible for many mishaps. Il multiplies very rapidly na car speed increases and can soon reach the point where it will overcome. the friction of the lyres on the 'rond and' possibly cause the driver to lore control of the car. The careful, driver will, fry to take curves as they should be taken-from a slow start, accelerating around the bend.
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The FIRST EDITION
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FOUNDED 1801
No. 18100
四拜體號一十月七英港香
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940. 日七初月六
THEY'RE PRACTISING FOR THE NAZI BLITZKRIEG
British troops and sallors are constantly practising on the sand dunes along the east coast in pre- paration for any attempt the Nazis may make to Invade England. This photograph shows a naval party climbing a slope during training at an east coast depot.
Hundred German Bombers With Messerschmitt Escorts Intercepted By Royal Air Force
GREAT AIR BATTLE RAGES ALONG ENGLISH CHANNEL
SPECIAL TO
THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, JULY 10 (UP).—TO-DAY SAW THE BIGGEST AIR BATTLE OF THE WAR ALONG THE COAST OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
A total of 150 planes participated in desperate combats and, according to an Air Ministry communique, eleven German planes were destroyed, many more were damaged and only two British fighting planes
¡ were lost.
150 Planes Take Part In Fight
LONDON, July 10 (Reuter).A correspondent on the South Coast telephones that at least 10 German planes were seen to crash into the sea in this afternoon's big air battle in which it is estimated that at least 150 planes were engaged.
However, the final. check up will not be known for hours!
For more than half-an- hour the rattle of machine guns and the boom of coastal defences rocked the countryside on the south-
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We Believe Departure from Manila is Imminent'
EVACUEES IN MANILA
REGISTER FOR VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIAN PORTS
THE SERGEANT SHOWED THE QUEEN
- HER MAJESTY the Queen with' Sergeant E. A, Scott, who has charge of the recruiting for the Cly of London Company of the A.M.I.8., the organisation commanded by Maj. General Amps, formerly of Hongkong, Bergt; Scolt is showing the Queen the register of men who havė joined up at the Mansion House recruiting depot.
east coast where the major Commons
Three German bombers were shot, necurately at this store, but it is battle was fought. down by Spitfires in less than three known that ten enemy aircraft have minutes, all falling in vertical dives been ahol down and the destructions A hundred German bombers Into the water. Another German of a number of others has been re-ascorted by fighting planes were machine had its tail shot off, and a ported though not yet confirmed." bomber and fighter collided in mid- air.
One fighter diyed vertically into the sea after receiving a burst of fire into its tail and several badly damaged raiders, with smoke pouring from their tails, turned back towards the French coast but seemed unlikely to get home.
30 Bombors In Action
attacked by British Spitfires and
Bombs Dropped, Little Damage Hurricanes which arrived after
LONDON, July 10 (Reuter).--On inquiry at the Ministry of Home Security it is understood that bomby were dropped during the morning} and early in the afternoon to-day at a number of points on the south "und} south-west coasts, and Wales.
In БОЦ
the Nazi planes had dropped a salvo of bombs on a convoy of ships in the Channel,
Eye-witnesses saw ten German
planes fall. At the height of the
baille the British fighters brought
German bombers in
The damage resulting from these LONDON, July 10 (Reuter)-At raids was not great and casualties close the Straits of Dover lo least five planes are believed to have were not serious. been shot down in to-day's biggest air battle, which occurred over the Channel...
one
German Claims.
the Balkan
Told Of Situation in H.K.
LONDON, July 10 (Reuter).—Mr. G. H. Hall, Under- Secretary for the Colonies, was invited by Mr. Robert Morgan in the House of Commons to-day to make a statement on the political, financial and economic situation of Hongkong.
Mr. Hall said that while the WOPS RAN
evacuation of
and women children and other measures have caused some feeling of dis-
Colony is in excellent heart. turbance, the population of the Trade statistics and revenue figures,
BY A TELEGRAPH LADY REPORTER WITH THE EVACUEES
MANILA, July 11 (UP).-During this morning the 1,700 Hongkong women and children who arrived in Manila by the Empress of Japan and Empress of Asia have formed queues at the British Consulate, where they are registering their names and addresses for the voyage to Australia.
We believe departure for Australia is imminent. but there is no official word yet.
Rumours are plentiful, the general opinion of those "in the know” being that the 81,200 ton Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary will arrive from Australia this week or early next week in order to evacuate us to the south. The Queen Mary has more than sufficient accommodation for all evacuees now in Manila, including the first batch of Army and Navy evacuces who arrived before us.
I was one of the hundred or 80 women and children who obtained accommodation with friends in Manila..
Yesterday morning, however, I visited Fort McKinley, the US Army cantonment where nearly 1,700 Hongkong women and children are now living
Their husbands and friends in
Assured Hongkong can rest
that
They
are obtaining every possible comfort from the U.8. Army and American Red Cross.
They are enjoying all the facilities
we
In
love in Manila itselt.
inc
cantonment there are
EVACUEES AND THE LANDLORDS
"Telegraph" Secures Legal Opinion
Recently, at the request of
shops, it restaurant and even a cinema several readers, the "Telegraph" house, to which all the evacuees have asked a Government spokesman
if the situation regarding- On arrival at Fort Mckinley, to tenancies following the com- where I travelled by car, I met many
_access,
mothers and children on the wide pulsory evacuation could be
alry verandahs of their quarters.
clarified.
Here is the question: "Does Government intend to protect tenants who have lenses
and
who. must now give up their homca?
Arc
Settled Down Happily All of them seem to have settled down happily and are quite comfort- able, despite the fact that they are unable to explore the spacious and landlords entitled, to demand a beautiful grounds and the green month's rent in lieu of notice?" playing fields of the cantonment
The Government spokesman sald owing to the heavy and continual that Government was obtaining legal opinion on the question and suggested
rain.
The organisation at Fort Mc-the best thing tenants could do was Kinley has been carried out by the to obtain private legal advice, U.S. Army and American Red In view of the interest in this sub- Cross without a hitch and every Ject
"Telegraph" yesterday Turn to Page 5. Fifth Column tendered to us is that the legal secured legal opinion, The advice
PARTHIAN'S SUCCESS
Hongkong Station Ship Sinks Italian U-Boat
H. M. submarine Parthian (1,476 tons) which until... re- cently was attached to China Station in Hongkong has sunk the an Italian submarine in Mediterranean, according to`a "Reuter" message received this morning.
down three three minutes. The raids are ubviously intended to all British shipping but, so far, they have been nothing but costly failures,
FROM R.N. BERLIN, July 10 (Reuter)-TheThe impression is growing here that Germany is slowly increasing the About 30 German bombers, escort in an air attack on a British convoy the actual invasion of England Germon High Command claims that intensity of her air attacks but that
"Disappointing" Says ed by fighters, were engaged.
In the Straits of Dover this afternoon, will be delayed until Guns and fighters broke up the cruiser and four merebantmen and Mediterranean situations are according to the latest information,
Mediterranean C. in C. were sunk, while another cruiser and stabilised.
LONDON, July 10 (Reuter). acnt the enemy three merchant ships were left burn-
are buoyant, although there are at ing with a heavy list.
Last night RAF planes bombed present some dimculties in findingAn Admiralty communique to- Ten planes protecting the convoy yards at Wilhelmshaven and Bremen
and damuged Germon nayal dock- cargo space for shipment of the night stated:
Colony's exports,
Lieut. Cmdr. M. G. Rimington, "The engagement between British Spitfires, whose Pilot were claimed to have been shot down, and freight yards in the fuhr. The
The Government has also improved and Italian naval forces in the who is still in command of manoeuvred so as to encircle the and it is admitted that four German Turn to Page 5, First Column the position of its liquid reserves by Mediterraneun la described by the Parthian, is very well known in
a recent flotation of the balance of a Commander-in-Chief of the Mediter-Hongkong.. loan authorized In 1934.
The cost of living still shows an upward trend due to circumstances beyond bor control," Mr. Hall cons cluded..
formations and scurrying.
Their fighter escort remained to engage
Germans.
Enomy Casualtios. LONDON, July 10 (Reuler)-Tho Air Ministry stated: "In to-day's confused series of engagements, it is; dificult to assess enemy casualties
INVASION OF EIRE DANGER
LONDON, July, 10 (Router)—The danger of invasion in Ireland and consequential hazards in the western scas involved are clearly very much
planes failed to return.
R.A.F. TRIUMPH IN BIG
EGYPT AIR BATTLE
CAIRO, July 10 (Reuter),—It is now possible to give detalls of a remarkable air battle which took place near Sidi Barraal in Western Egypt last Thursday, when nine enemy fighters were shot down by six British Gladiators.
The Gladiators flew over an flames on the ground. The fourth enemy landing ground in two crashed at a terrific speed and was formations at different altitudes, completely destroyed.
With him was a Flight Sergeant craft.
· in the offlelal mind now that all hope Enemy fighters, took off and when who accounted for two enemy air-
at reaching an accommodation with five or six of them were in the air,
Mr. Eamon De Valora appears to young flying officer, a Londoner, have passed.
NORTH ATLANTIC pursued until our Fleet were in at the enemy submarine.
MINED
aight of land, but unfortunately the enemy could not be overtaken before they were able to reach the shelter of their shote batteries.
Cruiser Hit
the
position appears to be as follows.
Legally, a monthly tenant is able to give a month's pkce or, in Neu of such, a month's rent.
The Law being as it is at present, those who have leases (and whose lenzes do not contain a clause covering such a contingency) can be compelled by landlords to honour the terms of such lease. This appears to be the legal. position unicas Government legislates to the contrary,
LATEST
NEW H.K. C.-IN-C. KNIGHTED
An Admiralty communique on the rancan as a 'disappointing action."
"This is due to the fact that the cncounter between submarines states British Fleet had no opportunity of that the Italian vessel was sighted on dealing
aling effectively with the enemy the surface at close range.
LONDON, July 10 (Reuter)—The In close range action,
Licut. Cmdr. Rimington manoeuvr-military section of the postponed "The Hallan Fleet was in facted into position and fired torpedoes birthday honours list is published in
|the "London Gazette" to-night........ The subsequent explosion threw It is not proposed to announce the quantities of debris high into the list of civil honours until some air. The Italian vessel's bows rogo appropriate time, which in no case to an angle of 70 degrees and sho will be before the New Year of 1941. sild to the bottom of the Modlier- | "'. Among the_new, Knight Comman- ranean stern first.
dors of the Bath are Vice-Admiral - According to the pre-war Hongkong Geoffrey Layton, the new Commait- naval list Parthian had aboard, in der-in-Chief of the China Station. addition to Lieut. Cmdr. Rimington, The following are the. principal
H. D. awards: and
Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Italian force,
(E) H. D. T. Duâln. Maja Admiral of the Fleet Sir Churtes "An Italian communique Issued Lieut. Cmdr. Rimington, who was Turn to Page à, Third Column to-day admits that one unit was hit unmarried, joined the ship In May, LONDON, July 10 (Reutor)-A-presumably the capital ship hit by 1938. He is a well-known member. cording to the Bremen radio, the a 15-inch shell from our forces. of the Hongkong Club whore, earlier. Danish Government has decided to "As previously announced, there this year, he won the Kemp Cup in eliminate all Jews from public ser- were no casualties among the British the club's English bowling tourna- {vices; **
ships engaged yesterday.":
[LONDON, July 10 (Reuter) ---The Admiralty has given notice that thei
·waters · belween' ilio Orkneys. andj Iceland and hotween leeland and Greenland are dangerous owing to mines.
"One enemy cruiser was hit by a torpedo during an attack by torpedo bombing aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm which was pressed home in the face
of heavy anti-withdrawal of the Verschovic, A, C. Halliday Danes Obey Their of checking the wit
Master's Voice leading the first formation, gave the had taken off and another. R.A.F.
Meanwhile more enemy fighters
formation entered the attack, jus
The RAF Idst only one alrerafi, the pilot of which successfully baled He shot down four enemy aircraft out on the Egyptian side of the himself, three of them bursting - in frontier.:
Shoots Down Four
Thore clearly an accentuated signal to attack. need for watching the sena, ubout Ireland & process which; Eiro's in- sistence upon neutrality makes the more pressing.
Iment
Lieut.
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