Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SPITFIRES CHASE NAZIS Exchange At ACROSS THE CHANNEL
LONDON, Dec. 5 (Reuter).—Formations of Messerschmidts which crossed the -south-cast const of England to-day were scattered in all directions by Spitfires which
chased them right across the Channel.
Bombs were dropped on one town but did no serious damuge. An unsuccessful attempt was also made to bomb some small ships in the Channel but the ships replied so effectively that the raiders were driven off.
In the evening heavy gunfire abook Channel coast towns £13 British and Gorman long-range guns fought a violent artillery duel across the Straits of Dover. The cannonading was.continuing with unabated force after it had been in progress for an hour.
Aircraft Shot Down
LONDON,- Dec. 6 (Router).-The number of enemy aircraft destroyed off the British const to-day has now increased to 10, including one enemy bamber shot down off the south-west coast.
The remainder were destroyed in combats in the south-east, states un Air Ministry communique,
Two British aircraft were lost, but one plot is safe.
One squadron of Spitfires, to-day shot down elght Messerschmidt 100's off the Kent coast without loss to themselves.
A Polish flying officer has shot down his second machine in five days,
Egyptian Ministers Appointed
CAIRO. Dec. 5 (Reuter),—Abdel Haid Fendaoul Pasha has been up- pointed Finance Minister in success- lon to Hassan Bey Sadek, who comes Minister of Defence.
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The new Finance Minister Is Royal Councillor and lawyer of International fume. He had been offered Cabinet pools many times previously but had always retused' them.
Hassan Bey Sadek in an engineer- ing expert whose knowledge will be valuable to Government in the air- rald precautions programme.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FURTHER DONATIONS TO
THE BOMBER FUNDS
A total of $1,470,000.00 and 20.00 w reached yesterday By the War Fund Inaugurated by the B. C. M. Post. Lidz with the following donations: "Ex-Bydand" (3rd donation)
**** 200
All Ranks 35th (Mobile) Coast Dori
fence Battery, Mica B, M. Swift
Stanley
(monthly)........
Mr, E. T. McMullen (2nd denation)
Mira, 7. Geyer
T. M. (masthly),
C. R. P. ifurther donation)
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200
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PRISCILLA DONATES TO RED CROSS
Charming Priscilla Lane, Warner Brother's film star, is a keen supporter of American Red Cross work in Britain and other parts of Europe during the present war. Here she is seen handing a donation to a collecting Red Cross nurse.
A Glance
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4 m/s L/C London
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4 m/s D/P London
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4 m/s L/C U.S.A.
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30 da India
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U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y...4.09%
RADIO
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and
31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Recital by Harry Ore From the Studio
12.13 p.m. Short Service of Inter- ccasion.
12.30 Magyari Imre and His Kun- garian Gypsy Orchestra.
12.45 Plano Duets by Kawies and Landauer.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wen-
ther Report,
1.03 Songs by Turner Layton af the Plano,
1.15 Nat Gonella and His Georgians, 1.30 Reuter and Rugby - Press, Weather Forecast and Announce
ments.
1.45 Compositions of Grieg.
2.15 Close down.
6.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
6.32 Weber-Fantasia on Melodien of Johann Strauss-Marek Weber and His Orchestru.
7.00 London Relay—The News. 1.15 London Relay-“Questions of
the Bounce MustaThe Singing
2.30
I've
Got My Eyes On You, Jos Loss and His Orchestra; You gorgeous dancing doll, When June comes, Man- tovani and His Music for Danc
table to the Hume Organisation on be- The B.W.OF. appeals to the generous I Wouldn't Take A Milllon,
His Orchestra;
Wot cher
half of this Colony towards the purchase | public of Hongkong for donations] of Mobile Canteens. These vehicles are Amounts to subscribed should kindly be for Yesterday, Tommy Dorsey and greatly needed to enrry fond and comforts sent to the Hồn, Treasurer, B.W.O.J. c/u in the bombed areas to serve the home the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking __4300] Jess and desolato, the anti-aircraft da- Corporation, with instructions to earmark fences, and various services engaged in such moules for the purchaus of "Mobile 1,500, has been remitted by rescue work.
| Canteens,**
"D.W.O.P. "AND MOBILE CANTEENS
A sum of
NAZI BECHETE: Crail of Näxt bombing plants en English holl fin't end of érhit by any mdadi. Thay's hauled away to laboratories wheră Hair construktion' lé étudied, métal la dedlynid, and various Naz secrets Appeal. För axample, brit. Ishers can Quête Whöthör Nazis are running short
of materials, by construction of planes. Top, Görmän plakes aro studied in British hanger. somewhere in England, Left, four guns of cap- red Messerschmitt protrude from rear ofcelle. Right, machanic has just removed cännön from captured Mestarichmitt, Dan
Cock Sparrer, Don't Ever. Pass Me Mo Old
By, Jack Payne and His Band; The Day We Meet Again, Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,
8.03 Dvorak-Quartet in A' Flat [Major, Op. 105-Prague String Quar-
tet.
8.30 Studio Plano Recital br Harry Ore-1. Sonata No. 3 in F Sharp Minor, Op. 23 (Serlabin)—1st. Movi Dramalico, 2nd Mov: Allegretto, 3rd Mov: Andante, 4th Mov: Presto (con fuoco; 2. (a) Cradie Song (Tchal- towsky), (b) Polonaise (Tchal- kowsky.
0.00London-Relay--ThaTMNews" and News Commentary.
0.30 London. Relay-Talk: “Books and People."
0.45 Rachmaninoff-Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18-Sergei Rach- maninoff (Piano) and the Philadel phia Symphony Orchestra cond by Leopold Stokowski.
10.18 Three Songs by Tito Schipa
ACCROT).- Del Mio Amnio Ben. Oh.
Can I
I Forget, and Napulitanata. 10.30 Half an hour of Spanish Yehudi
Music-Spanish Dance,
| Menuhin (Violin) with Plano; Un
Barberillo Alegre, Sentir
Conchita Supervia (Mezzo-Soprano)
Orchestra; Festival in
with
coladelphia. Symphony
by Leopold Stokowski;
could forget Your Eyes, Eres Tu, Beniamino Gigli (Tenor) with Or- chestra; Romanzo Anduluan, Op. 27, Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) with Plano.
11.00 Close Down."
New Zealand And The War
In It To The End
WELLINGTON, Dec. 5 (Reuter),- "Now Zealand is with you to the last penny of our wealth, the last Inch of our property and the last drop of our blood." The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Fraser, gave this assurance to the British people at a State luncheon marking the approaching end of Vis- count Galway's term of office as Governor General.
Mr. Fraser said that Viscount Galway would and people ofte back to the King admiration and
and gratitude at their fight for themselves and the peoples of the Dominions,
of Britain New Zealand's
"From Buckingham Palace to the slums of Wellington the common danger is realised, and the common determination is to carry on .to victory" concluded Mr. Fraser.
MORE RATIONING
·FOR ITALIANS
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRÁPÍE”.... ROME, Dec. 5) (UP)—The Anap- 'cial newspaper "11 Sole, aanduriced lo-day, that (moelli rationing "cards will be isnted in January for pastry products, rice and four: These pro ducts the rationing of which was Initarod od Deopenbar
being sold on regalar nation, cards which are used for all other rationed (products? kiABE-DYERŐ!.
December 6, 1940.
UB.BEER
LIGHT & DARK
UB.Pilse
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BEST
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Here's the man
you buy his bomber
SEND YOUR CHEQUE TO
'WAR FUND, SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD."
Tiptions to 5412
1:479,090.90 and £2
Remitted to London
191-89.12.6.