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SOMERSET MAUGHAM PLAY TO-NIGHT
The European Y.MLC.A, has chosen for its current dramatic effort W. Somerset Maugham's comedy, "Alrs Dot." The first performance takes place to-night at 9.15 p.m., and will be followed by two other. performances to-morrow and Salarday. Y.MC.A. war charities will benefit. Above, the producer, Charles Thom (extreme left) is seen with the cast: Rita Cole, Lewis Benn, Fred Clemo, David Ingleby, Winifred Dalziel, Peggy Sharpe, Ralph Dormer, Norah Witchell, Frank Willis and Bill Colledge. (Photo: Ming Yuen).
Huge Airport Russia Near Tokyo May
Is Opened
Forces For Masses Forces Day Parade, And-?
Special to the "Telegraph"
May 1, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
WHY DID YOU
MAKE ALL D' PITCHERS HANG CROOKED
MAR-12
́SO AUNT FRITZI WILL THINK I'VE BEEN DUSTING
THEM!
Plymouth Blitzed Fifth Time In Nine Nights
(By "Reuter" Staff Reporter) PLYMOUTH, Apr. 20 (Reuter),This front line city on England's southwest shore is assuming the mantle that was Coventry's. Last night, the fifth night in nine, the city endured again the full fury of the German night 'bombers.
No provincial city has suffered
ja more concentrated bombing,
and to-day Lady Aster, speaking Debts
as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, re- ferred to her city as the "worst blitzed town in England."..
She was sending a message of
Debts Owing By Enemy
thanics to Lord Woolton, Minister of Notified At Shanghai
Food, for the magnificent help of the; Food Ministry in feeding the towns-
SHANGHAI, Apr. 30 (Reuter).
people from flying food convoys. In connection with the appeal to Bri- To-night some of the city's streeta tish subjects and companies through- are nothing more than a desert of cut China to register forthwith with dusty rubble. They are the streets the British Embassy at Shanghal a which the citizens leave for the statement of all debts owing to them countryside when night falls. Some from enemies, it is stated that 'the have even slept beneath hedges rather debts would be classified as far as than face the horror of night bomb-possible in accordance with the ing. Many are homeless.
following grouping, that is, according Others have homes which are as they arise from or consist of:
They all join in the tramp Group A-(1) Supply of goods;
damagniry, and just before dawn (2) Rendering of shipping services;
to the come back.
"The homeless are a pathetic sight. Some carry their remaining posses- sions tied in small bundles, and some push prams with what is left to them.
Streets Ablaze
(3) Insurance transactions; (4) Ren- dering of other commercial services.
Group
B-(1) Bank balances standing to the credit of British nnks: Sub Section (a) Under standstill agr
agreements; Sub Section Streets of this already stricken city (b) Others. Sub Section (1) on MOSCOW, Apr. 30 (UP).—The Soviets have massed dozens blazed again last night. Flames their own behalf; Sub Section (2) on) of squadrons of planes, heavy artillery and tanks for the May leapt, fed by oll bombs. Then the behalf of clients. (2) Standing Day demonstration, coincident with the reports of the landing of ground shook to the crash of high directly to the credit of arms and German troops in Finland. Finland, northern Norway and inexplosives. Without even a momen-persons other than banks.
Dividends and Shares The newspaper "Red Star" the Golf of Bothnia, prevailing in tary break this went on for some |to-day commented: "The inter-
these parts in recent months.
+
hours.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, May 1 (Domel)-The largest civilian airport in the Orient was opened at Chofu, outside Tokyo, on Wednesday morning with a Shinto
The clouds were low and targets Group C.-Dividends, interest and ceremony.
The coming spring weather may -Built at a cost of Yen 4,000,000, the national situation is extraor- now have accelerated the leave-going was no deterrent to the Germans who shures, debentures and the like issued could not be clearly seen, but this other moneys payable as arising from airport covers 408 acres and is three dinarily complicated and fraught arrangements and there may be news released their loads indiscriminately by companies which ure enemies times the size of the Honeda Airport with surprises, but no matter of even more troops passing through The residential areas were shattered. within the incening of the third sec- or 81.0 acres larger than Croydon air-
It is believed that the agreement destruction of the coing great work perly held in encimy territory, includ
The Germans seem to be set on the tion. port, which is one of the largest what storm rages about us, the inland during the next few weeks. civilian airports in the world. There ship of state is continuing its between the Finns and Germans
city.
Group D-Moneys due from pro- Food convoys arc are two 80-metre wide runways, ohe course unfalteringly."
allowed the passage of "materials" as in feeding demolition squads, dockers Ing moneys arising under wills, from:
north to youth for 1,000.
well as troops on leave. und the other from east to
and a large number of workers in settlements, trusts or mortgages. some of the worst hit places "of the Group E-Moneys due in respect west extending 500 metres while the
town. Thousands of plates of soup, of patents; designs, trade marks and airport is surrounded by beacons to
stew and cups of hot tea are being copyrights (1) royalties and similar assist night flylog, direction towers
served daily as well as sundwiches. payments; (2) professional charges. and landing lights,
The airfield, which is 50 minutes distance by car from the centre of Tokyo, situated in Kitatamn in the
The former Finnish Communist Chief, Tolva Antikninen, writing in the "Pravda" said. "In capitalistic countries behind our borders, national hatreds, beastly chauvinism andi Ideology, and plunderous war spreading."
German Landings „MOSCOW, Apr. 30 (ŪP)—–—The |
Harassing Invaders
suburbs, were completed by tad newspaper "Pruvda" quoting a report Situation In Egypt
labour of Middle School students and also of conviels, through the good offices of the Ministry of Justice.
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frum Taliin said that German troops aboard four transports innded at Abo on April 26 and proceeded to Tam- pere on the 20th.
Official Denial
CAIRO, Apr. 30 (Reuter). Axis troops on Egyptian soil stilled: halted around Sollum are
con-
WAR FRONTS COMMUNIQUE
to
Other Moneys
Group F.--Any other moneys due persons in the United Kingdom from-enemies.
It is suggested that registered Bri- CAIRO, Apr. 30 (Reuter).Atish subjects and companies in China British G.HQ. communique announc-should notify the Commercial Coun- sellor of the British Embassy in "Greece: The withdrawal of our Shanghai with as little delay as pos- BERNE, Apr.
sible of any debts and moneys as may 30 (Reuter) Retinually harassed by British troops is continuing satisfactorily. ports of joint German and Finnish
"Libya and Tobrjik; No change in be owing them by enemies. manoeuvres in Finland are officially armed patrols, and concentra- the situation,
A statement of claim without sup- denied in Helsinki, states a Swiss tions along the coast road are "Sollum: Patrol activities are con-porting documents is all that is re-
from the Finnish shelled by the Navy, agency telegram
quired. capital.
"Abyssinia: Units of the Sudan The sun daily rises higher, the Defence Force captured Sokola on No Confirmation
desert sands get hotter, sandstorms Sunday last, inflicting many casual- LONDON, Apr. 30 (Reuter) make it difficult to keep the engines There is no confirmation in authorita- cool and in any case the air is too hot
the enemy. A further 315 tive quarters in London of reports of to cool the radiators. These factors: prisoners were taken, of whom 400 the landing in Finland of 12,000, Ger- are creating difficulties for the Ger- teered to enter the Emperor's service. Colonial troops immediately volun- man troops with tanks and other mans, particularly unaccustomed to "In all other areas of activities, our equipment, snys "Reuler's" Diplo- desert warfare.
matic Correspondent.
Finnish Denial
WASHINGTON, Apr. 30 (UF).—
R.A.F. RANGES MIDDLE EAST
tinuing
ties
on
own troops and patriot forces con- tinue to clear the country of isolated detachments,"
Quaker Ambulance
United China Relief Fund
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Apr. 30 (Cen- tral News)-The United China Rellef, Inc., has received $148,- 822.25 between March 1 and April 3, according to an an- nouncement made by Mr James G. Blaine, chairman of the $5,- 000,000 campaign committee.
The above sum includes a grant of
$50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundu tion for special war-time needs of Christian colleges in China.
The Fiulsh Minister. M. Hjalmar Procope, announced that his Govern- ment denies "emphatically and ente- gorically" the Moscow reports that CAIRO, Apr. 30 (Reuter).-The Unit For China German troops have landed in Fin-R.AF. has carried out constant con land. He declared, "The facts are voy patrols over certain areas of the
LONDON, Apr. 30' (Reuter)---Four that German soldiers arrived unarm- Mediterranean, it is oMcially un-I members of the Quaker Ambulance ed at Turku in accordance, with the nounced.
| Unit, under the auspices of the transit agreement made last autumni Enemy aircraft attacks were re-British Red Cross, led by Mr Peter and the total number of those, troops Petcentrations of enemy planes at Chungking for such service as
repulsed.
Tennant, are leaving this week for
The United China Relief has just is below 1,300,"
the Finnish Comment
Derna and aerodromes in Cirenelen Chinese Government
thinit launched a financial drive from coast- to-coast in an effort to raise $5,000,000 HELSINKI, Apr. 30 (Reuter).-were heavily raided by the B.A.F. best.
Many bombs The full party numbers 40. The by the end of July. "The Agures given by Moscow beat on Monday night.
burst among the dispersed aircraft. remainder are following shortly.
The
American Red Cross has also all previous records in exaggeration,'
revealed that huge shipments of sup- is the official cominent.
This action follows the strafing by!
plies have been sent to China which include 50,000,000 aspirin tablets aircraft at Benina
gauze,
hod
many
The Moscow newspaper, "Pravda," daylight of concentrations of Junkers ATLANTIC SERVICE
sald
troop-carrying that 12,000 men with tanks and guns landed at the Finnish port
of Abo.
"Reuter's" Moscow correspondent states that report was received there with no great surprise.
According to neutrals, Germans in Moscow say that the troops are pro- bably on their way to Narvik.
Nazi-Finnish Agreement LONDON,. Apr. 30 (Reuter).--- Nothing is known in London of the
landed troops at Turku (Abo), Just
drome, where 110 lined up on emctally announced that the British 2,200,000 sulfanilamide tablets, 454,-
LONDON, Apr. 30 (Reuter)-It is 15,800,000 yards of surgical Benghazi harbour was also faided Trans-Atlantle Air Service will be 354 yards of muslin and twill, 140,000
resumed this
summer for purposes pounds of absorbent callon and 112,- and there were many explosions.
950 pounds of boric acid. R.A.F. fighters continued to harass connected with the war. the enemy by low-level machine-gun
niincits.
Three enemy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft guns over Tobruk during the last two days.
report that German transports have EIRE ARMY VOTE by the Gulf of Finland, says "Reu- | DUBLIN, - Apr. 30 (Reuter).—The ter's" Diplomatic Correspondent, who Dall by agreement passed without acids that the Germans have an discussion the Army Vote for £8,383,- agreement with the Finnish Govern- 558 for the year 1941-42,
The amount for 1938-39 the last ment allowing the transit of troops through Finland to Petsamo and army vote made in times of peace. thence to northern Norway.
was £1,072,025.
This agreement, which
hich was regard-
ed in
In London as unfortunate, was the subject of strong representations to
Quo's Conferences
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
the Finnish Government by Britain. WASHINGTON, Apr. 30 (UP),— The agreement also allowed the tran- Dr. Que Tal-chi to-day conferred sit of troops on leave in Germany with the Secretary of the Navy, through Finland on their return to Colonel Frank Knox, and the Secret- their unlis in northern Norway, ary of Commerce, Mr Jesse Jones, >It may well be that many troops and is scheduled to vidit Mr Henry on leave have been held up owing to Morgenthau, Secretary of the Trea- bad weather, with ice and snow in sury this afternoon. ¿
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