HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 17, 1941.
NANCY
HELLO! I JUST MOVED
AROUND HERE!
OH, THAT'S FINE... I'LL BE RIGHT OUT!--
WAIT THERE!
HM---NOW THERE
GOES THE BELL
AT THE BACK DOOR!
SAY !--- I JUST TOLD YOU TO
HELLO! WAIT FOR ME
AROUND BY THE
FRONT
DOOR
O.K.- I'LL GO THERE!
By Ernie Bushmiller
WHAT A
STRANGE CHILD HE
IS!
C Ingenohl's Cigars
Thailand Evacuation Order
Wise Precaution
LONDON, Feb. 17 (Reuter).The official advice to British citizens that they should leave Thatlanul must be react as a wise precaution, nut a IL proof of Imminent danger, declares the "Daily Telegraph" in an editorial.
The paper adds: "When Huler boasts of the number of people un- der the Axis whip we should remem- ber that delegates from the eastern and southern quarter of the British Empire at the Delhi Conference te- presented a population of 418.1100,000 with a trade of £1,300,000,000 per year,
Their
war strength undeve Joped was formidable us Iinly han bitterly complained. Their ECO- graphical position enables them to distribute their growing power just where it is most needed for the security of the Empire.
Southern Drive
I
To frustrate the menace of the southern drive of Japanese Nazlism towards Singapore and
Australia. Australia has not only fighting men of supreme quality but effelent indus- tries behind them and she is "all out" on a huge production plan.
Yet Australia is only one of the Arsenals of the Empire which can 'supply campaign in the Pacific.
The "Telegraph" proceeds to refer to the industrial resources of India and South Africa and adds, "The Japanese Government inay well re- flect on this ampiliude of supplies. There should yet be enough wisdom in the councils of Tokyo to disobey Hitler's order for national suicide."
Tetley TruBrek, lor
HOMEWARD FLIGHT-Flight of training planes, homeward bound, roars over tower of administration building of Randolph Field, Toxas. Field is called "West Point of the Air." About 350 planos go aloft each day.
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R.A.F. Continues Its "Blitz.""
On
Rhodes
CAIRO, Feb. 16 (Reuter) The R.A.F. "blitz" on the Dodecanese Island of Rhodes continued on Friday night, it was revealed to-day.. Switching again from aerodrome targets, heavy bombers carried out a second attack on the harbour installations.
Bombs fell among the buildings atļ Lindos hurbour and started a number of Aires.
The "blitz" is now in its second week,
RAF. co-operation in the Greek offensive yesterday also included of- fensive patrols in the Tepelinl aren,
OLD WORLD HAS
GONE FOR EVER
according to a communique Issued Attlee's Speech
bere.
The South African Air Force, hav
LONDON, Feb. 18 (British Wire-
Ing gained virtual air supremacy over less).-In the course of a speech at Italian Somaliland, continues to ham-Tonypandy to-day, Mr Clement Attice mer nway at the retreating enemy stressed to his audience that there with remorseless energy. The air could be no return to the pre-war
area
economic
Craft which yesterday harassed world and that a new world would the Itailans the Jelib Omo River have to be planned for. Despite all
machine-gunned motor the destruction, British transport vehicles between captured power remained and must be used on Kismayu and the next big port of the right lines. Mogadiscio, as well as a number of grounded Italian aircraft:
A
Italians
operation
of
"I would stress the point," he con- Unued, "that after this war has been These attacks followed the equally successfully ended, our production successful oper
Bring Friday. power will be greater than ever, and of the it is upon the foundation of a pro- of perly planned and organised people preceding the capture Afmadu and
is made the that the future welfare of the "world
communi- will rest.” feature of when Smsve
special quo issued here to-day, British ground troops facing the effemy ut Almadu and Bandera and near Kismayu were greatly heartened by South African Alt Force. The BC- curacy of the bombing and machine-
way confrined gunning was
by a sub-
sequent inspection.
In Abyssinia
yesterday,
п
a large
motor transport park at Dessie was
ully attacked from the air,
successfully
while
Rebellion In Abyssinia
Latest Development
"REUTER" IN ABYSSINIA) Abyssinien news-boys armed with
in Eritrea te R.A.F. continued spears and rifles aro now distributing
to attack enemy troop concentrations, free the first national Ethiopian news! motor transport and other military paper printed in the country in five objectives.
years.
"Ban-
Ilangars and workshops at Mal The newspaper, entitled Adaga were bombed and a number darachen," ("Our Flag"), is being published in Abyssinia's "Fleet of fires and explosions were caused.
Two aircraft are missing from yes-Street," in the forests of the Gojjam highlands. It is bordered by the terday's operations over Rhodes, Ethiopian colours, headed with on {Albania and Italian-East Africa.
Impression of the Lion of Judah.
During a forced trek through the i busli.
Camel caught up with a commanded by a convoy
young English officer who was formerly an engineer.
food and He gave me shoes-and-fold-mo-that-his-unit was an Ethiopian propaganda one, com- posed of strange camel trains that cross the lowlands to Gojjam.
New Magistrates Take Seats
Macnamara & Anderson
Jungle Press
Mr Henry Charles Macnamara and Mr Donald James Neville Anderson, well-known barriers in Hongkong, commenced duties as Magistrates at bundles of newsprint, boxes of the Kowloon Magistracy thla mor- ning the former appearing in the First
Court and the latter in the Second Court
Mr Anderson took over from Mr. E.
His GO camels carried a printing press, a complete newspaper staff, Amharic type, some of which had been salvaged after the Abyssinian war, the Emperor's standard bearing the royal seal and
coloured
boxes of silver dollers like |
Himsworth who, it is understood, has For same time,
1been
transferred to another Govern- those distributed by the R.A.F. have ost. The position now held by been dropped all over Abyssinia.
ment post.
Mr Macnamara was formerly occupi-Now this travelling newspaper has
ed by Me Q. A. A. Macfadyen who is passed within
at present in the Queen Mary Hospl-enemy position to
tal recovering from on attack of
Imularia.
few miles of an
a spot in the forest
where it is weakly. Armed
Abyssinian
are, distributing the newspaper among the Ethiopian Mr Macnamara flest arrived in Hongkong in June 1920 and was forces, village populations living in called to the Bar in 1032. bir caves and sometime almost within In stone's throw the enemy's camps.
Anderson was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School and graduated from the Hongkong University and
vas admitted to practice in 1030.
Cricket Match Off
It is announced that owing to the ground being unfit, the cricket match between the Hongtong Cricket Club and the Volunteers to-day, has been cancelled.
Situation
U.S. MARINES LEAVING S'HAI
CHUNCHING, Feb. 17. (Central News). The American Navy trans- part Chaumount is scheduled to sall from Chlawanglao to Shanghai within this week to take 104 men of the US. Fourth Marines In Shanghai back to j America, eccording to a Shanghol dispatch.
is
Grave:
No Cause for Alarm
SYDNEY, Feb. 16 (Reuter):-"Although the situation. is grave, I see nothing that need alarm or even seriously, 'disturb a resolute people.”
traila Bellove that Japan will begin This statement was made in to move south in concert with Ger- broadcast by the Attorney Gen-many's spring offensive, but Japan's eral and Navy Minister, Mr W. |M. Hughes, to-day.
move to the south began when Japan announced the necessity for constructing on East Asiatic sphere."
Evacuation Advice
It declares that rumours
that
Mr. Hughes sold that the joint statement by the Acting Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader last week seriously disturbed the conditions in the Far East pre us- Australian people and may oven have made them a little nervy,
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Hughes added:" "This will pass."
COLLECTED TO DATE $1,582,012.30
REMITTED TO LONDON
£98,389,19.6d.•
summing serious proportions are only Mr strategical British propaganda and it describes the United States Govern-
Japanese Declaration ment's advice to Amerlenn residents TOKYO, Feb. 16 (Router) to evacuate the Far East on one of Japan's advance to the south has the causes of "such wild and ground- been spurred on by the Dritish and less rumours."
+50 American policy of aiding. the The newspaper concludes: Chungking regime and antagonising long as Amerien hindern Japan's declares the newspaper, advance to the south, she is destined "Nichi Nichi Shimbun.”
encounter Japan's stout opposi-
ما
Japan,
It continues: "Britain and Aus-tion."
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