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TSK, TSK WHY IS MR. SPUTTER ALWAYS SO GROUCHY IN THE
MORNING T
THE MINUTE THAT OLD ALARM CLOCK GOES OFF, HE GETS MEAN --- HE JUST HATES THE SOUND OF IT!
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
THEN WHY DOES. HE
USE
IT?
WELL, SOMETHING
HAS TO
WAKE HIM UP!
Tai, Joe, LA M. Par. 14th rights entered
August 7, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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السادة :
COMMONS Landslide War Guilt
QUESTIONS
Members Curious Regarding Evacuation Of Children
Landon, Aug. 6. A variety of questions was asked Ministers when the Commons met to-day.
Italy by any seaberne route.
Victims
Four Bodies Recovered In Tunnel Disaster
bodies were
Inquiry
Further Indictments May Be Made In France
"
THE VOICE OF FREE FRANCE
(Continued from Page 4.) lines, everything shows that he is working at this task.
"The brilliant successes be scored
in Poland with his fighting motors
give him overy encouragement to push ahead on these lines. Now, we The recent heavy ruins, which re-
Riom, Aug. 0.
must realise that the Maginot sys- sulted in three landslides In three The French Government has decid-tem, however much reinforced with days along the Kowloon-Canton Railed to instruct the new Supreme infantry und artillery, can be pierced. way, have resulled in the death of Court to widen its inquiries soon The means of doing this virtually
As possible after Its installation on exist already. The Minister for Shipping, Mr, three women and a man, passengers Thursday in order to sccrtuln Technique and industry are able Cross, and he did not consider the who were caught beneath an ava- whether any fercign Power distri- to build tanks which, if used in sinking of the Avandora Stor, with lanche while walking along the track buted funds to French nationals and masses as they should be, could nur- the German and Hallan interneca
to beard another train on the other newspapers to create or stimulate mount both our active and our #board, called for a judiclo in-
the Talpo tunnel. Their support for a declaration of War,
oud is traces of such operations for Psive defender who tries to resist vestigation under the Merchant Ship-side of ping Art.
dug out on Monday the framing of French public opinion Mr. Dalton, Minister for Economic afternoon, while five other persons are found the Supreme Court will be on the spot with forces of the old instructed to hurry the indictment,ype is foredoomed to disaster. Mas- Warfare, stated he was satisfled that were rescued ailve.
both of those who distributed the sive counter-attnek by air and land funds and those who received them, squadron against enemy forces more or less dislocated by their passage United Press.
through the obstacles is the essential
of the modern resource
defen- Australian Intervention
sive Canberra, Aug, 0. in the present condict, as in all The Minister for External Affairs, others before it, inertia means de- and in the air would enable would send a representative to us to purry the possible attacks of Noumen In order assist New Germany, to seize fighting grounds Caledonia in the prosecution of the and bases around her, to expel hier from the areas she has subjected, to war-United Press,
blockade her. to bombard her and finally to plunge our weapons from trips to Kowloon all sides into her body. and five return from the tunnel. The journey on to
"On no necount must the French yield to the Blusion that the Lowu on the north side of the tunnel present military immobility is the The area aflected is the west side is being carried on by rail bus, makeburneter of the war now in pro- those who could not afford to pay of the south portal of the Talpo tuning nine journeys dally.
their
gress. The opposite is true. The passages for
etildren, Mr. Shakespeare sold a statement was to nel, where the fall of earth is esti
mated at over thousand tons.. The It was difficult to obtain the facts motor gives to modern means of be made on this matter in the very Railway, authorities state that, with in gariter enquiries, and the impres-destruction such power, speed und reasonably good weather, the line (slon was gathered that the people range that the present conflet will should be cleared for trafile within buried were workmen employed on be marked sooner or later by move-
removing the first fall of earth. It ments, surprises, invasions and put four or five days.
Five trips are being made daily by now transpires that none of the sulls whose scale and rapidity will infinitely exceed those of the most a passenger train up to the tunnel, workmen was affected.
no oil was likely to leave Syria for Rescue work in still being carried on by railway workers during the Mr. Shakespeare, Dominions day only, as it is too dangerous to Under-Secretary, sid the Govern| work at night. It is not known whe- ment and deliberately come to the ther any other passengers are burled conclusion that they ought not, in the under the fall of earth, and it is Mr. McEwen, told the House of Re- fent. But mechanical power on land, existing circumstances, take the res- ponsibility of sending children over-possible that further vielims may be scas unless they went in escorted found. One estimate places the num-presentatives to-day that Australia, at sea ships, and in their view to encourage ber buried originally at 18. by offer of financial assistance the sending of children abroad otherwise than in escorted ships would be in consistent with this policy.
Asked exactly how Won
maintained balance
to be tween those who could
near future.
occurred The first landslide
on
Friday, the second on Saturday, and the last one al 7.30 am. on Sunday. A large boulder weighing many tons the also fell on to the track on Monday be-night.
ir
A party of children had arrived in Canada under the Government scheme but the bulk had gone outside the Government scheme-Reuter.
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The Hongkong monthly broadcast- ing report for July states that actual hours of transmission totalled 440. were devoted to of which 223% European programmes and 217 to Chinese progrommes, as follows:
ZBW (European)-Morning trans- mission 71 hours, evening trans- mission 152 hours. During the month apart from recorded programmes the following items were broadcast:
Studio recitals 5, Studio talks 11, Studio relay to Manila 1, recorded talks 3, local relays (including Church Services) 8, children's con- certs 1, Sunday evening epilogues 4, Daventry relays (including news) 74, rela
relays from Manila 2. ZEK (Chinese)-Morning trans- mission 02 hours, evening transmis
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Studlo concerts 22, Studio talks 23, children's concerts 8.
Now licenses lasued during July, totalled 210, and renewals of licenses 470. The total licenses issued during 1940 are 10,175 to dute.
shattering events of the past. Many signs already foreshadow the leashing of new forces
un-
"Let us make no mistake. The canflet now begun may well be the most widespread, the most complex the most violent of all that have ravaged the earth The obscure custe harmony of things has endowed this revolution with a militory instrument -the army of machines-in true proportion with its colossal dimen- sions. The new order will come out of the crucible of battle and cach nation will finally reap according to the deeds of its arms,"
*
Yet Gamelin, Petain and the French military leaders ignored his reasoning and blindly, ob- stinately clung to her outmoded idiens.
To-day General de Gaulle is energetically rallying Frenchmen around him to continue the fight for freedom. Already French warships which arrived in British ports before the signing of the France-German ULICO are being manned and for sen entirely by French officers and men under Admiral Museller, who was appointed to this nost by General de Gaulle some time ago. Land forces are being mobilised and when
day comes for a general offensive, de Gaulle's men will play their part.
The
There is indeed a large and grow. ing nucleus of Frenchmen who, re- cognising that life in France under the Germans is no life at all, have thrown themselves wholeheartedly in the work instigated by de Gaulle, to continue the fight from Britain's shores more will be heard of this able man.
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