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Tuesday,
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A Million People Observe Ceremony
"Mr
FROM PAGE ONE
More Prizes For Bomber Fund Raffle
FROM-PAGE ONE
(densted by The Commercial Press, Lid.).
The value of the Prize List has now Mrs passed the $11,000 mark!
the
car
anuary 21, 1941. Convoys Escorted By Planes
FROM PAGE ONE
to
the Dre
the
The President wave a silk handker-
western approaches to Britain, U- Boat commanders have adopted the'' chief to the crowds. A squadron of mator cycle units.precedes the ca
technique of attacking Atlantic ship- formation. in a shope
ping in these approaches by night Roosevell rode directly behind
instead of day because they dislike Letter From Mr Dodwell
the protecting aircraft. Methods of President's enr followed by a
The following letter has been re-locating and pouncing on submarines bearing the retiring Vice-President, ceived by Major C. M. Manners by night as well as day are being Mr John Garner and then another Chairman of the Hongkong Wardeveloped. car bearing the Vice-President elect Effort Committee, from the Hon. Mr New long range fighters will be Mr Henry Wallace.
tackle coming into service Stanley 11. Dodwell; office Wallace took the oath of
bombers which I have just received the Hongkong long-range minute before the President took War Effort Committee's request that harassing Allied shipping. his onth. Chief Justice Charles
prize for the raffle So vigilant are the Constal Com- Evans Hughes administered the Pre-we, donate a sidential path and the retiring Vice-which your Committee is organising mand reconnaissance aircraft all the way from Norway to the south of President, Mr John Garner, swore in all of the Bomber Fund.
calculated that these My Company will be pleased to France that it is c in Vice-President Wallace,
donate a Frigidaire, and would have "eyes" of the RAF will give due Freezingly Cold
been happy to present you with notlee of the last stage of preparation WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Heuter). something of much greater value for an invasion anywhere along Thousands of visitors from all over were it not for the fact that we are occupied-European coastline. Invas- the country, including a large cona Home company registered in Eng-lon barges are still there and while Lingent from Canada, left crowded land and subject to Home Income they are unlikely to sail in the pre- hotels and homes early to-day to at- and Excess Pronts Taxes. In sent weather, a watch is being kept-
for any sign of a move. tend the inaugural ceremonies, magy
4,700 Escorts From the outbreak of war to the FERREIRA: Sylvia Ferreira, wife of middle of this month, air escort was A. F., Ferreira passed away at 4 provided for 4.700 convoys. Sub-
sighted on 200 p.m., January 20, 1941, at Queen marines were
Approximately 160 attacks Mary Hospital, aged 42. Cortege ensions. leaves Anderson's Funeral Par- were made on them. The number lour at 5 p.m. passing the Monu-of
"kills" Is not revealed, ment
5.15 p.m. (Macau In the last few months, approxi- papers please copy),
mately 50,000 tons of enemy shipping were destroyed by nerial torpedo n1- videntally, also, our staff and share-tack alone. holders are presenting a Spitfire to the British Government.
of them wrapped in rugs and furs because the weather was freezingly cold though the sun was shining brightly.
After the Church service, Pre- sident Roosevelt and family returned to the White House in an open car and were enthusiastically cheered by the crowds lining the route. The President later left the White House and drove up the broad bellugged) Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capito emid more cheering throngs.
A New Meaning The various ceremonies had all the colour of past Inaugurations but there was a new meaning owing to events abroad.
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a1¢c= Colony how great is the difference markable successes" are claimed.
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our Jucal Recently Coastal Command bom- between the Home and taxation. I venture a guess, based bers have concentrated on German Washington was so crowded that on, my own Company's experience, and Italian submarine bases in Oc-
car that we and another large company cupied France. some visitors who came by brought trailers in which to live, and operating in the Colony, with
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Prelude To Diet temporarily Heat Oflee in England, will pay in
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railway housed
in passengers in rullway yards. eilies
Thousands of people stamped and shouted as Mr Roosevelt wayed his slik hat to the crowd along the route is just as vital for the future of this was Colony that we win the war as it is crowd the Capitol. The
for the future of Great Britain. I estimated at 75,000.
An escort of Police and Secret therefore suggest for the considera-
The manifesto stresses the necessity Servicemen guarded President Roo-tion of your Committee that, in addi- sevelt as he drove
to the Capitol tion to the organisation of this rale, perfecting highly organised national defence State for which local by Mr Sam Rayburn, you appeal to our partnerships, accompanied by Speaker of the House of Representa companies, and corporations, to cele purpose the increased production of cele necessary materials should never be lives, and Senator Barkley, Democra- brate the Colony's centenary by neglected even for a day, promptly
the Bomber Fund of the donations
and tightening the war- second-car, Mr sevelt
Gar the
the former Vice-Pre-tion assessment und that which Home sident, the third car and Mr and Mrs companies have to pay. The Bomber time structure for surmounting the
impending emergency, Fund would then soon mount up to Henry Wallace followed.
The manifesto expects all Diet Chief Justice Hughes administered
members conduct cautious de the oath to President Roosevelt, who
liberations to fulfil the duty of assist- was standing barcheaded.
ing the Imperial administration. It. forswears any arguments tending to "prejudice the current situation."
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the Trader of the Senate. Mrs, Rooference between their local taxarly out undertakings superseding||
$10,000,000 instead of. In my opinion, the modest sum at which it now stands.
Sensational Incident WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Reuter). CARIBBEAN A sensational incident marked the closing stages of the presidential in- auguration.
MANOEUVRES
London, Jan. 20. The Airst American warships
An unidentified man, corrying a operating from the new Caribbean loaded revolver, was arrested by bases will begin manoeuvres to secret service men in the square morrow, when a fleet consisting of fronting the White Ilouse just before an aircraft carrier, three cruisers and the President returned from the nine destroyers, salls from Portland Capitol. The man was taken to hos-Bight base on the south coast of pitol for examination.
Jamalca. Reuter.
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Concluding, the manifesto declares, The resources of the
the Empire are well suffelent to surmount any dificult situation provided that the military, official and civilian, peoples are truly solicitous over the Inte of the nation and meet the situation in full unity and harmony."
Matsuoka Sees Emperor TOKYO. Jun.
(Reuter)-- Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka was received in audience by the Em- peror when he submitted a draft of his Diet speech reviewing Japan's diplomatic policy. The scheduled extraordinary cabinet session for to-
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Senator-at-Large. If Not The White House A constitutional amendment under Eight employees of a Moscow meal which a defeated United States pro- combine have been sentenced to skiential candidate could be homed death, 15 to 10 years' imprisonment, Senator-at-Large," is proposed by and 18 to lesser terms for an in-the editors of the Saturday Review genious swindle which enabled them of Literature.
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