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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 21, 1941.
GOOD USED CARS
Make of Car
Year Price
760.00
Studebaker Rondster, 1833 $ 450.00 Studebaker Selan... 1033 Bulck Sedan Studebaker Sedan
Poritine Sedan
· Morria 10 Suloon Singer 11 Saloon Standard 12 Saloon. Vauxhall 14 Coupa Vauxhall 14 Saloon Studebaker 2 Door
Brougham
1035 2200.00
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IN PARIS
PARISIAN friend, who
has been able to make
his way to a port in Britain,
1035, 1200.00 has brought with him some
1038 1800.00
1934
How Britons Fare
NOW
80.00 particulars of life in Paris And What the French
1935 1400.00 as he has known it as recent- 1937 2000.00 ly as last month.
1836 1800.00
1034 1200.00
1038 4000,00
All cars serviced the samo s
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The
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Friday, February 21, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015
His business connections had brought him in carlier days into
Are Learning
or
B.R.C. They compare its nows carofully with the spate of new French language newspapers started by Otto Abetz, Ribben- trop's agent in Paris, which have to be read because they give news of police regulations, food restrictions and the like.
The art of listening is a com- plicated one and requires a good deal of exchange of information champagne, with neighboura as to which contact with the British colony underwear, under the slightly is plentiful, there, and he says that a good- sardonic gaze of an elegantly which costs them about Is a particular wave-length is lenst many remain in the capital un- dressed assistant, in an attempt bottle in the English purchas- jammed at a given time, when der the Occupation. Every day to assess whether it is adequate ing-power equivalent. A Ger- Mr Churchill or Gen. de Gaulle the ground floor of the United to appease the insistent de- man soldier can buy a bottle of is to speak personally, and so States Embassy-previously oc- mands of Frau Major at home. chumpagne for one-third of a forth.
"Tas Do Blagues" cupied by the Immigration "Achille," one of the smartest day's pay at the special Army of Arrangements Offices-in full of British sub- hairdressers for men, has now Occupation rate. jects who receive there the reopened on the Place de la are being made to import truf- The opinion is expressed that denl more grammes should financial assistance which the Madeleine. The chairs previ- fles into the Occupied Zone for the B.B.C. in its French pro- British Government provides ously occupied by French and German consumption. through credits in. Washington. British generals and diplomats One of the main reasons for specifically with the Radio-Paris пом taken by German the shortage of food is bad dis- German controlled news than it
The amount varies according to are circumstances and provides for subsistence on a very scale.
modost
By E. B. WAREING lately chief of the Paris Staff of the "Daily Telegraph”
docs at present. For instance, when Radio-Paris and the Paris Press state that half London is burning and the B.B.C. reports that
"n number of fires were started," the B.B.C. may at first be regarded as confirming the worst reports, and some despon- ensues. Nevertheless, there is a considerable, sceptic- ism.
British men of military-age are interned, partly in camps outside Paris and partly in the Sante prison. All are visited regularly, and those in Paris daily, by United States officials, generals and heads of the Ges- Iribution, due to the absence of deney who take them food.
Lapo. No Italian soldiers, by petrol. the way, are to be seen in Paris. Renault Workers
Fate Of Property
The sick of Paris goes on,
Food For Germans Noting that the Germans rend the Tageblatt, Parisians Of the non-interned British-
The shortage of such articles have invented a word for the. who have to report to the police cach day the majority are Useless paper marks unaccep- as oil, silk, tea, coffee, chocolate, German-inspired Paris Press. French-born wives who did not table even in Germany itself cocoa, jam, butter, margarine, They call-it the "Tas de blagues," wish to leave France and who are handed over in exchange for and dried vegetables falls, how which sounds much the same but
ever, into a different category. means "A lot of nonsense." now have gone to live with their the loot. Many shops are al- The population does not fully The people of Paris are brave to the B.B.C., relatives. Many of the super- ready closed. Even a German realise that such products have about listening numerary clerks and assistants woman-and they are legion in for the most part been taken by though in any case clandestine at the United States Embassy Paris-can now only buy one the Germans, who also intercept listening is hard to control. are of British nationality. It is pair of silk stockings, if she is fresh produce and meat, which Knowing little of the Vichy believed that the number of lucky enough to find them.
There is no fraternising be- would otherwise come into the Government, on the other side of an hermetically sealed fron- those interned has recently been
The black-out-once a very tier, they tend to revert, to old reduced, and reports agree that tween the Germans and the the
are still others arc being well Parisians. Germans
casy-going form of "blue-out," allegiances, for they naturally studiously correct in their beha, since all lamps were painted desire freedom. Yet they have trented.
Except for chateaux and large viour. Their attitude is that blue-is now strictly enforced, been stunned by a knock-out villas owned by very wealthy the French are beaten, harmless and the last metro (under blow and are too dazed to realise British subjects in the occupied creatures who will in time be- ground) train departs an hour exactly from what quarter it territory, the Germans have not come amenable.
A healthy reaction is It is a clever before curfew (11 p.m.). There came. YESTERDAY'S annual speech day pillaged British property, and line to take, as some examples are no 'buses, except for a very gradually setting in and the few running on wood-fuel. healing process of the French Parisians therefore stay at mind will be rapid in proportion home at night and listen to the to British successes.
THC preax "Apecial to the Telegraph" med by the longkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni catsans Urdinance, 1830. Such news bears the indication "Up" ta received in lungkot on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all Fights and forbid repaileations, eldier wholly or in part without previous arrangemost
BUDGET DEBATE
of the Legislative Counell produced crillelem of some vehemence from the Unofficial members, with spectat emphasis placed on the administra- tive shortcomings of the Govern- Secretary Colonial ment. The
the contents of two flats or small show.
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housen with caretaker in Thus, the workers in Renault's charge have been left alone, un- factory, now engaged in turn less the Germans had some rea- ing out lorries for the German son to dislike the tenant or he army, have to work 60 hours af was a Jew.
week, as though they were in
markets.
Property abandoned without a Germany, instead of 40. Their Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jur,
more
The Mediterranean Situation
described the speeches as "healthy caretaker is, however, often pay, however, has been
handed over as billets for Ger- than proportionately raised and and helpful criticisms", which was
man families, and articles un- since its purchasing power, for United Press Naval Critic, Examines view of the gracious in
heavy obtainable in Germany, such. as what little there is to purchase, strictures passed on several of the blankets, sheets, clothing, is much the same, they do not Administration's departments. More leatherware and the like, are apt grumble. Again, a garage hand, to disappear. The chances of whom my friend occasionally important, the criticisms, most of which were echoes of publicly aired survival of the contents of the saw, though he had of course to was carning complaints, are to bear immediate cellar are also extremely low. give up his car,
Wireless apparatus capable of re- more money working for the results; the machinery of the mceiving foreign stations is likely Germans, who have unrestricted migration Office is to be investigated; -to-be-overworked if left behind. petrol and make "joy ridles" the Food Control organisation Is The British Embassy has not wherever they like. already in the process of being over-yet been touched or hauled; the firewood problem is tered as the result of the Occu- pation. It is protected by having been placed under United States care.
being tackled,
gent,
bas
even en-
Francs But No Funds
Is An
PUSH
AXIS
IMMINENT?
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (UP).---|
2.
These people do not realise that there is no backing what-
1. The fall of Benghazi in Italian The
Secretary Financial
ever for the money which the already met the Hon. Mr Lo's com-
Bank of France is obliged to Britain, for the moment, has the Libya, coupled with Greek successes plaint about the functions of the
At The Smart Shops
tary prestige to an all-time low dur- change into francs, and the ap- upper hand in the great cam- Albania, has brought Italian mill- Superintendent of Inland Revenue
Opposite the bar entrance to proach of the financial Nemesis paign for control of the Meditering the present war, Germany, as
Morcover, ranean.
How long she can Italy's partner, hurdly can let these too and Estate Commissioner and the alleged harsh administration of the the Hotel Crillon, now the Ger- is slow and unseen,
much danger that Italy might sue man headquarters, the fairly they are gradually accepting res- maintain this advantage, how-reverses go farther. There is
would ever, is a question. which they
for separate peace
with the British.. Estate Duty Ordinance, so that, in many instances, the sharp barbs of conspicuous sign of The "Daily trictions
Reports are current that Ber- A vigorous German thrust to-
wards the
he Mediterranean might force Unofficial eritielsm became blunted Telegraph continues to hang never have accepted from a almost before they were delivered. outside number 11, Rue Boissy French Government. The sight lin is still seeking Russian assent This factor, however, does not rob d'Anglas. My friend was un- of a well-fed, well-equipped, dis- to a "peaceful" German occupa- the British to withdraw planes and tain, and thus Improve Germon a drive on *** the criticisms of their justification nor able to say whether the office ciplined army in their midst has tion of Bulgaria which would ships needed for the defence of Bri-
open the way for
chances for the long-desired invasion the north, the of Britain. their timeliness; they were, for the itself has been visited by the had a hypnotic effect. Their
3. United States assistance to Bri- most part, cogent, fair, and intelli- Gestapo. If it hus, they will wives, obliged to queue up for Grecce from
have found little material worth every necessity, are less philo-object of which would be to
sophic about things, and it is obtain control of Salonika and, tain daily is becoming more effective. The Financiul Secretary deprecated incorporating in a blue-book.
A little further along the from the woman's side that bit from that base, all of Greece The Germans need to move fast, and the may be prepared to take desperate and the Greek islands in
chances in an effort to achieve a the suggestion that, he was taking
knock-out before American support a gloomy attitude in his budget, but street a smart club has been terness will come first.
Outwardly most of the res- Aegean Sea. that the Colony's taken over for German civilians,
Should this prove successful; and of the British makes a German vic- is admission
they who look oddly out of place taurants and cafes look the were not what reserves
Some have been requisite British be driven from their only tory impossible. purparted to be on paper was hardly there. The personnel. changes same.
the German air force then would be The British, however, will prove no joy-provoking. Ha dismissal of Mr continually; it is believed to tioned. The Taverne d'Alsace foothold on the mainland of Europe,
in position to sweep eastern push-over, in my judgment, If the 0.3 outlined Li Tae-fong's theory and suggestion consist of relays of "Strength in the Champs Elysees is now
victorica in North concerning use of the financial sur-through Joy" visitors who get labelled Soldatenheim (Soldiers' Mediterranean and launch heavy at- German plans unfold
Home), and no civilian may en-tacks on the British naval base at above. Their
Africed
and Greece to date have de plus was a suave piece of argument. cheap trips to Paris.
their ability In the same street the smart ter. Others, such as Fouquet's Alexandria and even on Cairo.
The British, of course, realise the but not completely convincing, es-
shirtmakers are still open, but and the Cafe Marignane, are danger which confronts them and one ordinate the use of all classes pecially it was bound up in an
to all, and. but for the may take it for granted that they are arms-mechanised land forces, the offhand reference to the method of German officers who are al- open
Government's lowed to wear mufti on certain German uniforms, show little putting up the greatest possible navy and the air force and to main- administering the
Penalon days in the week-have taken all external change, for most Pari-diplomatie resistance in Soft, Moutain sustained offensives.
They are solidly entrenched in both Widown
Orphans
Greece and Afrien and have the ad Scheme, which has long been a bone but the most fanciful designs. sienes had hoarded clothes, cow and Ankara.
The same applies to, the leather and the lack of new ones is not Bulgaria always has been close to vantage of the initiative and the Russia, and Turkey has had the clos strong morale which goes with a Mr Butters sought to justify his gooda shop at the corner-now yet felt.
Menus, however, are much de-est of relations with the U.S.S.R. In series of victories. 10 take from reserves sold out with no hope of replac-
pleted, even on Sunday--the recent years. Neither of these states Many of the troops in use on both lians and New Zealanders to meet budget requirements on the ing stocks.
On the opposite corner the only day when in theory no res hence, would be likely to permit the Greek and North African fronts grounds that there was no guarantee world-famed perfume shop still trictions apply. The famous German control of Greece and the are Australians
the finest soldiers in the world.
of The British lines supply, while properous as it is now-an assump has some stock left, fur German restaurants, such as Maxime oregon without asking Moscow for who ave been proved to be among
women are not encouraged to Larue, now only offer a choice
long, was
and, so far? well-organised use cosmetics. Lingerie, how- of three dishes, and every cus-Fleet probably would be able to de-
end itself in the Mediterranean, even have functioned smoothly.
army, too, probably
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tion for which there is little founda- ilon Judged in the light of the
The Greek Colony's history: Hongkong certainly ever, is inn different category, tomer has to hand over four if deprived of its Greek bases, but has been subject to booms and de- and one of the strangest sights different coupons-for meat, fat, whether it could defend itself against could be depended upon to give a pressions, and always will be, this is not peculiar to Ilongkong: is that of senior German officers bread, macaroni or cheese in overwhelming German air superior- good account of itself. The Greeks.
In another question. but the net result to date has lett thoughtfully handling dainty, exchange for trilling portions, ity in
A glance at the map will show the unquestionably have done most of the fighting in driving Italian in-
អាណ the Colony in a sound condition. On
Meat, for example, is restricted
Italian-con- would have if they con- carrying the Axis powers
Into wor thesh grounds Mr Butters_argument
good, and the Colony, as a whole, to just under 1oz a day, three possibility for air action which the vaders from their homeland and does not imprese.
trolled Greece and the Aegean is-trolled territory. There is no reason days a week.
The Germans also have cou-lands, in addition to Italy with her to believe they would prove More acceptable is the implied will not object to its application., desire to follow the principle laid
the Italians, for they The debate produced much absorb-
they were fighting for down by Sir Kingsley Wood-that it is ing data, intelligent and constructive pons, but on a different scale, island bases, including the Dode- brave preferable to meet as far as possible criticism, and Interesting revelations; and provided by their
A number of factors would appear their homes and they would have extraordinary expenditure such as wherefore the pubile has reason to authorities: There is no coffee, war effort and defences out of re-feel appreciative of the contributions the so-called "cafe national" to favour the reported German plan the advantage of defending a torrain End a with which thay aro intimately
familiar. venue than to resort to borrowing to the discussion, made both by the being a substitute, and no milk. for occupation of Bulgaria and overdrafts. This principle la Ugoffietal members and the Govern-he Germans drink beer, which joint attack with Italy on Greece. acknowledged to be fundamentally ment spokesmen.
Ings
OwI canese group off the const of Turkey have the Germans than they
would