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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 19, 1940.
DONALD DUCK
DOGGONE! EVERY BENCH IN THE PLACE
IS TAKEN!
OH-OH! A VACANT
ONE!
C'MON... WE GOTTA BEAT
EM TO IT!
11-12
·ILA.F. DID SINK KONIGSBERG THIS picture has just.
been received from Sweden. It shows antoko rising from the sinking Nazi cruiser Königsberg in Bergen Harbour, Norway. A British bomber crew hau found their target and sunk yet another German
warship.
It's in the News
HOT SPOT
ADEN, Gibraltar of the East.
19 crooping into the nowa, We shall bear more of it as the Eastern war develops,
A hot place, this flock that dominates the -Indian Occan
entrance to the Red Spa, So hot that normally they never keep a parson there for more than a year. or the soldier, made of sterner stuff, for more than two.
And this is almost the hottest time of the year. The sun beats down by day on the extinct vol. cano that la Aden, and at night- the Rock gives off its store of heat in blasts that are felt even out at sca
The average abade temperature of the year tā 87 degrees—a humid, turkishi-bath kind of heat. Tho aun temperature nobody has ever tried to investigate.
It's one of the driest spots on earth, too, as well as one of the Lairallest. It rains on only a few days of the year, and then scarcely enough to lay the dust.,
Not a pleasant place at all. At the best of times, the liner pás senger rarely goed aktore there.
If he does, it is to return with his. Junge tuil of, dust, and a thirst nothing can quench.
...
Aden was "acquired" by Bri tain just over a century ago, after
'row with a local chieftain. It is not comparable with Gibraltar an a naval base, but it pokes is nose into the' - sca^ in much the same-way., And, rising nearly 2,000 feet high-in' places, it -would be very difficult to capture
elther from land or sen.
A small, insignificant little pro- montory only five miles by three. Not much bigger than that rocky Cornwall eminence · · known
- King Arthur's Castle,::
as
But you have only to look at the map to realise its strategio importance. I one of the "pulse pointa" of the Empire's arterial highwaya--and Mussolini, cutting through Somaliland across the water.. fa* wondering - KOW: whether he cannot stab at itsel
Copt. 1940, Wah Diwiry Molucion World Higher Receved
BERLIN IS FULL OF
By A Special Correspondent
No capital city in Europe is so highly indus trialised or contains 80 many military targets in the heart of the city itself as Berlin.
Ita magnificent airport, Tempelhof, unlike any of the other big nerodromes of Europe, is only a short dis- tance from the centre of the city.
For
Dushiess air travelling
and people.
from tourists
All countries, it was very much appreciated advantage to be, coll nected by car or coach' within few minutes with the principal hotriz.
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But in war-time tha. Je naturally danger for Lens of thousands of inhabitants of the crowded dialricle, Kreuzberg. Tempelhof. Maricaderi. and Nelkoella to the immediate neighbourhood.
Big Centre
For Tempelhor is now, of course, military berodroma of vital impor
Lenco.
Apart from this, Berlin, bas always bean, and still 18, the biggest arTLE Germany. production
only with the Ruar
comparable district.
centre in
Berlin was..and still is, the strong- hold of Certina matzilurgica) bro- duction in which already in peace- time at least 500,000 worker wern engaged. Many more. It is certain. arn working those now
The Allgemeine Elekrizitat Descchaft, world-wide known fa A... fór, example, Bas Dinota scar- tored all over Greater Berlin
The accumulators (actory in Oberschoenewolde. in the cast, t aurrounded by a middle din rest dential quarter. In the middle of dense populated inner-town writ ste other planta, auch as those 'n' the Brunnenstraate N.E. ада ! Moabit N W
The huge Siemens works torma apecial town Bleinenstadt, between Unnrtettenburg and Spandau. which include thousands of workers' and engineers' dwellings.
Old Arsonal Town Spandau. which also belongs to Creator Berlin ja the old Stale Arsenal town of the Reich, includ. ing oven a gun foundry and plantel for avery possible manufacturing of alter arms. It is, morrover: Clossis _linked_with_the_second_big_military
air base of the capital. Stanken
Most of the biggest anns factories aro.- in true in outer districth, but early all surrounded by residential areas - che. Chorr-Bremse. in Lichtenberg. 'aud Bergmann elec Lrical works in Rosenthal. N. The Loewe Company also called Berlin- Karlsruhe PIZÒATITIA Works), in Wittenau. N.. and near it the famous old tocomotiva factory Borsig in Tegoi.
war effort
In the southern part of the chy the number of important factories alonely connected with the German 19 even bigger-the Deutsche Telefon works. In Schoen- enberg, B.W., the Lorenz Company. the Daimler work in Marianfaldes, and belt of big factories in Tempelhof, lining the southern and eastern border of the Tempelhof
Admits Nazis Might Seize Belgian Food
By W. N. EWER.
Bel-
glum, if their transport breaks down because of war conditions, will live on the country."
in
So German authorities have told Mr. John Cudahy, former United States Minuster in Brus sels.
Mr. Cudahy, who is now London and talked to Press re-
Is apparently an xicus to send food to Belgian for rellet of, the Belgian population.
"believes" that tha German Army would “promise" not to requisition food sent for, that purpose.
prese persuade Americans to
the
But even he admits that in the event of transport · trouble freat or staged) the Germans would take dft they could, and let the Belgiana större.
the
It is significant that even now, according to Mr. Cudahy, Belgians are only being allowed 225 grammes of bread a day to one person--day two slices.
It is, though ne omitted to say ao, only two-thirds of what the German pooploʻget. ·'
The fact is that Belgium, ilko the other occupied countrips, il being deliberately starved in order to provide food for the Naxia,
For the rest. Mr. Cudahy's inter- view consisted of warn tribule to the Clerman 'Army and King: Leopold.
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NURSES HIT BACK AT
RANEE'S 'SLUR'
Nurses are indignant at the slur cast on their pro- fession in reported statements by the Ranee of Sarawak, wife of Sir Charles Brooke, white, Rajah of Sarawak, re- garding the evacuation of children to Canada.
"If things are not changed, wish to help the future generation 'of you Canadians will be getting Britain. the young riff-raft of England --and you'll be sorry, let me tell you," she declared, according to the "Toronto Globe."
"Women-of-England are fak- ing names of relatives in Canada just so they can got rid of their children," she is further report- ed to have said.
Lady Brooke also spoke of English "society". women who offered to pay the passages of children going to Canada,
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"They placed them in charge of nurses," she went on, according to the paper.
Sister Dowland Jones, of Ching- ford, Essex, an ex-Service nurse of the last war, wliose 20-years-old son is now reported missing, said:
"Nurses are volunteering for this service because they want to look after the children, not because they are out for a good time.
It is a work of mercy and they are prepared to face danger and dis comfort in carrying out their dutles."
An Honour
Miss Beatrice Mary Heathcote, of Onslow-gardens, London, S.W, who is going to Canada, said:
"I count it n great honour to be
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"So far as I can see, it isn't going
chosen. It in very responsible to be much of a plenie.
A "The only object of many of the position, and we shall have neither "We're not going with the idea that nurses is to get a man aboard ship the time. ner the opportunity, for it's a pleasure cruise, but because the and they don't care what happens.
children must be looked after, and
"Nice
Miss Eski Helen Ogilvie, who will I'm looking forward to plenty youngstera
.hard work." youngsters are mixed up topuner. go to New Zealand, said: It's shameful."
social life."
and rotten
these Strong public criticism of remarks has been inade in Toronto.
In England, Miss Beatrice Maud Drapper, national organiser for the Guild of Nurses, sald;-
"I think it's a very gravo reflection on the nursing profession.
Put Job First
"I'm sure nurses who volunteer for this type of service do so out of devotion to their job because they
Child Flung In Air, Dies
A man who flung a three-year- old boy into the air while at play and failed to catch him gave evi- dence at the inquest at Birming- ham on the boy, Donald William White, of Whitehead-road, As ton, Birmingham.
The mother, Mrs Doris White, said that she and her sister went to a public-house at night and took the child with them. She heard a bump, and turned round to see the boy on the ground.
Albert Edward Davis, of Victoria oad, Aston, said that he picked up the child and tossed him into the air. He slipped, missed his balante, and Called to catch the boy, who fell on
is head,
Coroner's Comment Recording a verdict of zocidental, deall, the Coroner, Dr W. H. Davl-
#honi cotamented. "Mothers zlata,
not take their children to a pubifo- hotse ni this hour."
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