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OURVES AND TURNS The proper way to take a curve or a turn is to slowdown while all on the straightaway approaching the curve, so that the car can be accelerated around the curve. This procedure gives better control ofiteering and un actuni stability, and solidity which is lacking" when curves are taken too fast. The ability to sense the safe speed for taking curves comes with practice, but it is wise to bo cautious in this manner. One never knows what is around the curve, and the force which tends to alue the ear off the road Ja renter at high speeds than most of us realize. This is called centrifugal force, and is responsible for many mishaps. It multiplies very rapidly an car speed increases and it can Econ reach the point where it will overcome the friction of the tyres on the rond and possibly cause the driver to lose control of the car. The careful driver will try to take curves as they should be taken-from a slow start, accelerating around the bend,
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No. 10100
四拜敢 號一十月七英港香
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940.
THEY'RE PRACTISING FOR THE NAZI BLITZKRIEG
Brillah troops and sailors are constantly practising on the sand dunes along the cast coast in pre- paration for any attempt the Naxis may make to invade England. This photograph shown a naval party climbing a slope during training at an east conal depol.
Hundred German Bombers With Messerschmitt
Escorts Intercepted By Royal Air Force
GREAT ALONG
AIR BATTLE RAGES 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
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.
Three German bombers were shot down by Spitfires in less than three minutes, all falling in vertical dives into the water, Another German machine had its tail shot off, and a bomber and fighter collided In mid- ale.
One fighter dived 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 toward the French coast but seemed unlikely to get home.
were dropped during the morning and early in the afternoon to-day at a number of points on the south and south-west coasts, and iri
Wales.
south
-were-lost.
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We Believe Departure from Manila is Imminent'
EVACUEES IN MANILA
REGISTER FOR VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIAN PORTS
How Empress Of Japan Evacuees Are Being Looked After
FROM THE "MANILA BULLETIN"
MANILA, July 9.
The last of the Hongkong e vacuces who arrived Sunday was safely taken off the Empress of Japan yesterday noon and quar- tered at Fort McKinley. There are now approximately 3,500 evacuees in the Philippines, 1,300 of them in Baguio,
and the
Fort McKinley is at present began yesterday morning nu mixups taking care of some 1,600 of the were encountered. evacuees. The remainder
are scattered at various dormitories, apartment houses, hotels and private homes in Manila and vicinity.
Military Efficiency
Pler 3 won the scene of an excel- lent demonstration of military effl- elency and precision yesterday morn- ing as United States Army troops disembarked 1,111 women and chil-|
Soldiers from McKinley 31st Infantry and Plulippine Scouts lined up on the pier and seemed to be having a grand time as they carried babies and small children from the ship to, the big army trucks Turn to Pago 5, Fourth Column|
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.
1.
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 evacuces now in Manila, including the first batch of Army and Navy evacuces who arrived before us.
DRAMATIC JOURNEY
dren evacuees from the Empress of TO FORT MCKINLEY Japan quarters at McKinicy. Gen- eral Henry Conger Pratt, command- at Fort the Philippine division McKinley, supervised the proceedings. The disembarkation began at 8.05 and the last evacuee left the ship at
United States High Commissioner Franels B. Sayre expressed himself
Mr.
IS DESCRIBED
By BESSIE HACKETT- "MANILA DULLETIN" STAFF. REPORTER MANILA, July 8 (By Ship Mall)-Tossed about on a rough
I was one of the hundred or BO 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 Hongkong can rest assured that they are obtaining every possible comfort from the U.8. Army and American Red Cross.
They are enjoying all the fucilities we have in Manila itself.
In the cantonment there arc shopa, a restaurant and even a cinemo
as well pleased with the dispatch with sea in cramped quarters for two days, heartsick and seasick which the United States Army landing in a strange country in the midst of driving rain, bounc- handied the disembarkation Sayre came aboard the Ent
ing about in big army trucks on bumpy washed-out roads, more s of Empress -Asia-Sunday-and-
and again yesterday he than six hundred women and children evacuees from Hongkonghouse to which all the evacuces have boarded the Empress of Japan to see arrived at Fort McKinley yesterday afternoon to find huge could- things for himself. Lieut.
Colrons of tasty, steaming food and rows of clean bede awaiting Robert M. Carswell, of the High Com- missioner's stast, is neting as co- ordinating officer for the various
However, the final check up will not be known for hours!
For more than half-an-agencies engaged in taking care of hour the rattle of machine guns
eyecuces,
Shipboard Conference
and the boom of The efficiency and smoothness of coastal defences rocked the the transfer was due in large measure countryside on the south-declared General Prati east coast where the major battle was fought.
A hundred German bombers escorted by fighting planes were attacked by British Spitfires and The damate resulting from these Hurricanes which arrived after rakis was not treat and casualties the Nazi planes had dropped a were not serious.
salvo of bombs on a convoy of ships in the Channel,
German Claims BERLIN, July 19 (Reuter).-The German High Command claims that in an air attack on a British convoy in the Straits of Dover this afternoon, one cruiser and four merchantmen were sunk, while another cruiser und three merchant chips were left burn- LONDON, July 19 (Reuter).—Ating with u heavy ist.
30 Bombers in Action
About 30 German bombers, escort-
1000 ed by fighters, were engaged.
Eye-witnesses saw ten German planes fall. At the height of the battie the British fighters brought down three German bombers lu three minutes. The raids are obviously intended to close the Straits of Dover
to
all
Sunday
to the co-operation on board stilp,
night the general and several officers
boarded the Empress of Japan and conferred with the ship's captain.
and the evacuees were instructed lo Signs were posted all over the ship gather in groups, bringing their hand luggage. When the disembarkation
NEW H.K. C.-IN-C. KNIGHTED
EVACUEES AND THE LANDLORDS
"Telegraph" Secures Legal Opinion
access,
On arrival at Fort McKinley, to where I travelled by car, I met many
them at the end of a long trail mothers and children on the wide
airy verandahs of their quarters. As the lorries Jogged along out to Settled Down Happily Fort McKinley, the women talked over their experiences of the past down happily and are quite comfort- All of them seem to have selfled few days and tried to quiet their able, despite the fact that they are bables, who were feeling the strain unable to explore the spacious and of the trip and crying with hunger beautiful grounds and fatigue.
Children Excited
The older children showed on cager Interest in the new land they were riding through, especially the calesas. "Look!" one little boy cried out, there's a horse!" "I see other," shricked a little girl opposite Recently, at the request of him--and pointing out culesu ponies several readers, the "Telegraph" became a game. The flooded streets
-
and the green playing Belds of the contonment owing to the heavy and . continual rain.
The organisation at Fort Mc- Kinley has been carried out by the U.S. Army, and American Red Cross without a hitch and every lady I talked to was enthusisatio and appreciative of the treatment shown to them, Mrs. W. Awrock who evacuated The declaring, with her twin sons, told me:
asked a Government spokesman and the driving rain became toples
conversation, the women
Here is the question: "Docs Government intend to protect tenants who have leases and who must now give up their homes? Are
through here landlords Entitled to dernand
from
of
Mrs.
LATEST
if the situation regarding that they've been having a lot of rain kindness of these people is over- tenancies following the com-in Hongkong, los. The rice paddies whelming and nothing has been too pulsory evacuation could be and carabnos came in for their share much trouble for them." clarified.
of discussion by the youngsters.
Richards agreed, saying: A bright little boy named Peter, "The food is good and wholesome and who's almost eight and who aspires there is any amount of milk avall- to be in the R.A.F, when he grows up, able for the children." has been in Manila: before, going! Later I entered the barracks, in Singapore to which I found the evacuees who had least five planes are believed to have Ten-planes protecting the convoy British shipping but, so far, they have military section of the postponed month's rent in lieu of notice?"
LONDON, July 10 (Reuter). The
Hongkong. He and his mother and Turn to Pago 5, Third Column been shot down In today's biggest were claimed to have been shot down, been nothing but costly failures,
3-year-old sister certainly have had air battle, which occurred over the and it is admitted that four German The Impression is growing here that birthday honours list is published in
The Government spokesman said an unusual dose of "evacuation ad- Channel.
planes failed to return.
Germany
my is slowly increasing the the "London Gazette to-night.
It is not proposed to announce the that Government was obtaining legal venturing." Last year his father de Skipper's Story
intensity of her air attacks but that
opinion on the question and suggested elded to send the family to Singapore List of civil, honours until some A skipper in the convoy, describ-the actual invasion of Englund
entered Guns and fighters broke up the ing the raid, sald he saw 21 German will be delayed until the Balkan appropriate time, which in no case the best thing tenants could do was sort of a private evacuation. As
their ship, the Sirdana, are will be before the New Year of 1941. to obtain private legal advice. formations and sent the enemy bombers fly high over the convey. and Mediterranean situations
In view of the interest in this sub- Singapore harbour, it struck Among the new Knight Comman- scurrying.
"Hundreds and hundreds of bombs stabilised.
the "Telegraph" yesterday and sank in 20 minutes. The mother Their fighter escort remained to fell all round. It was just like a Last night R.AF, planes bonibedders of the Bath are Vico-Admiral Jeet
The advice and her two children lost everything backs. In whose plot shower of heil. Some raiders were and damaged German naval dock- Geoffrey Larten, the new Comman-secured legal opinion.
tendered to us
us is that the legal but the clothes on their manoeuvred so as to encircle the shot down in flames. I saw the tallayards at Wilhelmshaven and Bremen der-in-Chief of the China Station.
November, they returned to Hong- the principal position appears to be as follows. The following are fall out of two as they fell into the and freight yards in the Ruhr. The
awards
Legally, a monthly tenant is liable kong, because everything wES sen, chopped off by the machine-gun Turn to Page 5, First Column
Knight Grand Cross of the Bath to give a month's notice or, in lieu (right," and now and themselves in bullets of British fighters."
a wholesale evacuation to Montla. Admiret of the Fleet Sir Charles of such, a month's rent.
But Manila may have, its compensa- Forbes and General Sir John
The law being an It is at present, tions-young Peter nutlerd that those who have leases (and whose Tarzan Escupes is showing at a Pasoy Knight Commanders of the Bath.
Icsacs do not contain clause movie house. Vice-Admiral Charles Gordon, Ram covering such a contingency) can
Vice-Admiral Thomas Hugh Binney, Vice-Admiral George Haliton
engage
Germans.
Spitfires,
Enemy Casualtics LONDON, July 10 (Reuter).-The Alr Ministry stated: "In to-day's cenfused series of engagements, it is difficult to assess enemy casualties accurately at this stage, but is known thint ten enemy aircraft have been shot down and the, destruction of a number of others hos bren re- ported though not yet confirmed."
R.A.F. TRIUMPH IN BIG Colerid
EGYPT AIR BATTLE
CAIRO, July 10 (Reuter)It is now possible to give details of a remarkable air battle which took place near Sidi Bombs Dropped,. Little DamageBarrani in Western Egypt last Thursday, when nine enciny
LONDON, July 10 (Heuter) fighters, were shot down by six British Gladiators. inquiry at the Ministry of Home Security It Is understand that bombs
The Gladiators flew over an flames on the ground. The fourth enemy landing ground in two crashed at a terrific speed and was
completely destroyed.
NORTH ATLANTIC formations at different and udes. With him was a Flight Sergeant
*
be compelled by Inndlords honour the terms of such lease.
to
D'Oyly Lyon, and Vice-Admiral This appears to be the legal
Geoffrey Layton: Lieut. General position unless Government legislates Robert Hadden Haining (Vice-Chlef to the contrary, of Imperial General Stuff), Lieut. General.' Henry ·Meilland
Wilson (Commanding British Troops in Egypt); Air Marshal Artliur Barratt, Air Marshal Charles Portal (Air Offeer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber Command) and Air Marshal Richard
asked another.
mine
"all
"Just-A 'Nico Holiday"? "Did your husband tell you this was just a nice holiday?" one woman
"Mine did." her chin quivered as she said it and But she hugged her two small children closer, "I was born and brought up "but this in Hongkong," she said,
Egypt To Put On little baby was born in England last
The Clock
sisters and year. My mother and other members of my family are on the. Empress of Japan. I hope I'll CAIRO, July 10 (Router)-Sum-get to see them to-morrow." Peirse (Vice-Chief of the Aspire: mer time will be insituted in Egypt One woman listened proudly, as a Enemy Bghters took off when who secounted for enemy
Knight Commanders of the Empire. five or six of them were in the air, craft,
Admiral Henry Crooke (retired, for the first time on July 16 when couple of fellow passengers discussed MINED
her baby. It's only three months old young flying officer, a Londoner, Meanwhile more enemy fighters now serving as Commodore, Second clocks will be advanced one hour.
and already has two teeth. Vico- LONDON, July 10 (Benter) The loading the first formation, gave the had taken off and another. AF. Class, Royal Naval Reserve),
Mr. T. M. Pilo, a cheerful Scot- Lieut. Admiral Wilbraham Ford, Admiralty bae given notice that the signal to attack.
formation entered the attack, waters. ·bótween
DUBLIN, July 10 (Reuter)-The tith lady with two sons, Chris, three the Orkneys - and
Shoots Down Four
The RAF. Lost only one aircraft, General Lindsell (who was Quarter
in Elrean Government has added years, and Tan, four months, had her Todland "and between Iceland' and
the pilot of which successfully baled Master General Staff, B.E.F.. Grecidand are dangerous, owing - lo To shot down.four enemy aircraft out on the Egyptian side of the France); Lieut General L. R. Pownal Waterford to the list of controlled hands full, with Chris crying con-
himself, three of them bursting in frontier.
fistely Lord Gort's Chief of Staff). ports
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