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· ISN'T HE CUTE ?
ACT-7
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CHIEF INSPECTOR-President Roosevelt, in automobilo at right, visits the Boll aircraft factory at Buffalo and inspects progress of defonce orders there. He is shown looking over a 50 mm. machine-gun of a type to be installed in naval planes."
1,000 Air Engines A Month On Way At Motor Plant
Engines designed specifically for use in swift interceptor pursuit planes are expected to be rolling off the production line of an Indianapolis factory at the rate of '1,000 a month by November, 1911, announces the General Motors Corporation.
The statement on the output of its Allison division was the first made by the Corporation since the stepping up of production on the heels of a lesson taught by the European war-that the liquid-cooled engine apparently was dominating the fighting plane field.
HE'S A DEAR!
January 13, 1941,
By Ernie Bushmiller.
NON-I
HISSSSS, HISSSSSS HISSSSSS
FOOD RATIONING
IN HOLLAND
It is a commonplace that wherever German soldiery sets foot destitution is rampant. So the former prosperous Holland will now also have her "winter rellef,” instituted at the behest of Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissioner for Holland.
It is to be feared that the greater part of the collections will not reach the needy, but will go to strengthen the Nazis.
Holland, traditional country
of fishermen, has to import her Increase Of Rates
tish from Scandinavia. This in not only because fishing in the North Sea has become extreme- ly dangerous, but in consequence of German looting, which has created an acuto scarcity of food.
totalitarianism.
In Shanghai
Special Meeting Called
The Senior Consul in Shanghai has issued a public notice convening, at the request. of the Shanghai
The
The German-inspired attempts to Municipal Council and under author- form a single political party in the ity of the Land Regulations, ព Netherlands have had no results. At special meeting of ratepayers on a Joint meeting of the two largest Thursday, January 23. Protestant parties, recently held in
principal Resolutions present Amsterdam, Dr Slotemaker
de the recommendations of the Council Bruine, an ex-Minister in the Cabinet to increase the levies of Land Tax of Dr Collin, and leader of the and General Municipal and Special Christian Historical Party, rejected Rates from January 1, 1941, by the addition of a surcharge of 40 per "Do not expect of us that we shall, cent, on the existing gross levies. for the sake of national unity, drive
A further Resolution which is to aut of public life that which is most be introduced by the Counell provides sacred to us," he said. "Spiritual for the levy from January 1, 1901, freedom lies in our blood-freedom of Licence Fees in accordance with of religion, school and opinion." the modifications of the existing The Police Commissioner of The Schedule of such fees which nave Hague has again been obliged to been unanimously recommended by warn the public against sabotage, the Sources of Revenue Sub-Com- such as the demolition of military mittee of the Munleipal Economy traffle signals placed by the Germans.
Committee and adopted by the Bones Instead of Meat
Council. Meanwhile. "Fr Nederland," the Free Dutch paper published in Lon- don, states in its current issue that after a few days' experience of meat rationing Dutch wamen know that the Nazi weekly ration of 14oz of ment per person, and half that for children, means little, since the ment allotted to butchers contains a pre-embraced and kissed by the dead A soldier who shot a comrade was ponderance of bones.
man's mother at the inquest in Lon- Tobacco, too. has been rationed, don. "I quite understand. It was and the price has increased by nearly an accident," she said. 200 per
per cent. There is an acute
of cigars, cheroots
Evidence was given that, while on andard duty, Fusilier Harold George elgarettes. Some 29,000 bales Watson, oged twenty-six, almed his Sumatra tobacco have just been sent rifle in fun at Lance-Corporal Den- to Germany.
The Germans have ordered, all
mond Walby, a friend. Walby fired his own
bullet entered rendered, and those who possess Watson's chest.. He said he did not tyres of any sort must deliver them aim at anything particular, and did within 21 days,
not pull the trigger, which must have Many Diseases
caught in his equipment. Concerning-German health,a Both men came from Newcastle. Hague doctor wriles in "Frij Neder- The verdict was "Death by misadven- land": "Statistics I have seen prove ture." that in several types of diseases,
The output of the Allison Company is doubly important to American defence because it manufactures the only engine of its
Corps and for Britain's Royal Air Force. The interceptor pur- suit is the type of plane being used by the R.A.F. in fending off uir assaults in the battle of Britain.
The Allison engine, developed | Vice-Marshal Elmhurst, representing over a long period of years, hasi
Staff Talks At type presently available for pursuit planes for the Army Air carcity
Ankara
Ankara, Jan. 12. General Marshall Cornwall and Air
the Middle East Command, are been adapted to three makes of Warsaw Jew
arriving to-day for
one
of the pursuits-the bimotored Lock- periodical exchanges of views withheed, the Bell "Airacobra,"and the Turkish General Staff which have the Curtiss P-40-and to the taken place since the signature of the Anglo-Turkish Alliance.
Bell "Airacuda," known as h bomber destroyer. Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, who is resident at Ankara as personal re- Only a service order of 13 plancs: presentative of the Commander-in-was placed by the Army for "Airn-| chlef Mediterranean Flect, will be cudas.” present at the talks.-Reujer,
BORIS
KARLOFF
CARLOFF
KILLS
...TO TURN TIME, BACKWARDI
BEFORE
I HANG
Th
EVELYN KEYES BRUCE BENNETT
Screen play by R. D. Andrews
Directed by NICK GRINDE
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
NEXT CHANGE at the
KING'S
The three makes of pursuits cur-
the
Walled In
New Ghetto
Approximately 500,000 Jews rently represent the United States' are leading a new life behind an bid for air superiority in the cafe eight-foot concrete wall built by gory of fast ghters. Until Packard Motor Car Company, which Germans to enclose the ghetto is expected to manufacture a quan-district of Warsaw, state dis-
of British-design Iquid-cooled engines, and the Ford Motor Cole patches from the former Polish
capital.
y
pany, which is working on its own
design, get into production, the The wall-unusual in modern Allson division of General Motors times-surrounds 100 or more will bear the entire burden of pur- sult plane "in-line" engine manufac-city blocks and closes off 200
ture.
Possibilities
MOTHER KISSES MAN WHO SHOT HER SON
cycle and motor-car tyres to be bur- it was loaded, and mife, forgelting
particularly scarlet fever, diphtheria STOCK MARKET
and infantile mortality, the pub- licised German health record provest to be a record only in having the worst figures for all Western Europe. Perhaps this is the long term dividend of Goering's 'Guns for But-
Ler' plan,"
Prisoners Escape From Devil's Is.
A story of giving provisions at seap to nine exhausted men who said they had escaped from the French penal colony on Devil's Island was told streets and even street car lines.by an American tanker captain, who
arrived at Paulsboro, NJ. The Allison liquid-cooled engine Warsaw have been required to take Sinclair snid his crew sighted the By German decree, all Jews in
II. L. Dahlat
of the L. P. makes a substantial contribution to up rezidence in the ghetto, which a plane's speed because with its lies in the central district of the city. Carribbean Sea 1,000 miles from the inen adrift in an open boat in the cylinders in fine, like those of an it has become overcrowded, with as automobile, it affords greater pos many as seven persons living in one said they had been without food and penal colony off South America. He sibilities for streamlining than the room in some buildings. better-known, star-shaped radlat en-,
water for five days.
#ine
"Health Measure"
All the German and British pur- suits are powered with this type of winter, suying the action was not The Germans bullt the wall last engine. For the last decade the anti-Semitic but simply a health United States has lagged behind other world powers in the manualike from the pestilences likely to mensure to protect Poles and Jews facture of in-line aeroplane engines, follow total wor fargely because air-cooled radials were lighter for horsepower, easier
to cool and casier to service.
Increase in Production
10
They left 18 entrances open-but recently effective all persons who wish to enter or leave must have n special pass. This applies atso The General Motors announcement any Gentile Pole wishing to enter the divulged that 280 Allison: were district temporarily. manufactured in October as against The German decree brought about 223 In September and only 73 in a wave of frantle purchases outside July and 65 in August. Some parts the ghetto in an effort to stock up of the engine are made by the Cor-on things which may not be pro poration's
Cadillac unit For months the production of planes designed to take the Allison
ured within.
has exceeded the supply of engines. Hitler Gives Away
The Allison output now is expected |
lo creep up to the scheduled plane
output.
C. E. Wilson, General Motors Act-
ing President, sald a total of 13,000
Polish Treasures
HITLER is trying to win the sym-
men would be employed in manu-pathy of the Spanish Catholics by facturing Allisons when full produc-giving them treasures stolen from tion was attained.
the churchos of Poland. Equipped with Allison engines, the Three rallway, carriages filled with Lockheed Interceptor has a top speed vessels, plctures and statues recently of slightly more than 400 miles an arrived in Spain for presentation to hour. The single-engine bell, of a churches damaged during the civil novel design which places the engine war. behind the pilot and gives him a A Polish priest, who was shown greater Geld of fire with a cannon Ulder's gifts in Madrid, told a British and as many as eight machine guns, correspondent that he recognised two can achieve about 390 miles an hour, big cups and other articles from and the Curtiss about 270,
Warsaw Cathedral.
Ship's officers, he said, gave them food and 50 gallons of water.
Dahlof said he heard later by radio that the men had landed fately on IIniti,
REPORT
Summary issued Saturday says:
Hongkong Stock Exchange Ofelat The market continued very qulet.
Buyers
Canton Ins. $205 Unions Ins. $405 H.K. Fire Ins. $165- Wharves $94
Trams $17.85 Star Ferries $01
Yaumali Ferries $24.25 Ropes $8
Dairy Farms $19.10 Entertainments $7 Constructions "O" $1.00
Sellers Lights Ria Cts.05 Electrics $40.40 Cements $18.00 Watsons 311.40 Vibro Piling 57.70
Sales
H.K: Govt. 3% Loan (1030) GA Trams $17.00
Lights X. Its $0.25 Lights Ris Cla.90
Swan, Culbertson & Fritz
Investment Bankers and Brokera
Members of New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Manila Stock Exchange
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montreal
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
Hongkong Sharebrokers Association
Shanghai Stock Exchange
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ל
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