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Pin Pricks Irritate Nazi Plans
Diplomatic Set-Backs
ZURICH, May 11 (Reuter).— The now diplomatic successes confidently anticipated by Berlin have not materiallsed, according to reports from Berlin.
"A clear decision" by Vichy, has not yet been taken on the resumption of collaboration along the lines desired by Germany, says the Berlin correspondent
tho "Easter Nachrichten."
of
Herr von Popen's return to Turkey is considered to be a sign that Turkish developments are far from being a falt accompli as recently hinted by the "Berliner Zoersen Zejtung," the organ of the Wilhelms-
trakse.
Spanish Development
The now appointments. In Spam have been regarded as a sign that the Intent opposition between General Franco and Senor Serrano Suner over Spain's polley is taking shape.
The
ล
Wilhelmstrasso Insists, of that General Franco's move is exclusively an internal matter.
Finally hitch in the frontier egotiations in Zagreb between Court Ciano and M. Pavelitch, head of Germany's puppet state of Croatin, is reported by the Budapest corres pondent of the "Basler Nachrichten."
Churchmen
Look For A New World
LONDON, May 11 (Reuter). -The Archbishop of Canter- bury, addressing a Second Sword of Spirit meeting to-day, said thut the first aim of this tremen- dous war we were now engaged
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH HIGH May 12, 1941.
Mr and Mrs Jiming Woo, who were married at Shanghal on April 19. The bride was formerly Mims Alma To, eldest daughter of Dr and Mrs Herbert. To of Hongkong.
Boy, 16, Wrote For Headship As Hoax
A sixteen-year-old boy, E. G. Bartholomew, of Westward · Hol, applied for the headmastership of Maidstone Grammar School, which is soon to become vacant.
Ho meant his letter as a hoax.. Little did he think it would get into the headlines.
Here is what he wrote to the governors!
"Sooner or later schools must have. young headmasters. Why not begin new? I am willing.
"I am only 18, but I have got the school certificate with credits,
and passed tiigher School Certificate
last year.
LETTERS.
The "51st" In The Last War
The Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.
Eple of the S1st " have certain SirThe articles just concluded or ly stirred the hearts of Highlanders and, of course, the in-
Big Japanese Drive To Open Path Towards Sian
CHUNGKING, May 11 (Reuter).Field dispatches from Southern Shansi province reveal heavy fighting on the north bank of the Yellow River where Iarge Japanese forces are launching a big drive in several columns on the Chinese forces holding out in the Chungtao. Mountains.
Much importance is attached
to the outcome of the battle
since the Japanese are apparent- Governor
ly making a determined attempt | to oust the Chinese from the mountains.
Success would enable them to dominate tho north bank of the Yellow River which would enable the Japanese either to march westward towards Sion, the capital of Shangl Province, or push southward across
Of Macao Departs
The week-end visit to Hong- the river to cut the Lunghal Hallway kong of His Excellency the In the vicinity of Loyang.
It is learned that in addition to the Governor of Macao, Commander large Chinese forces concentrated Gabriel Teixeira, and Madanie within the Chungtao Mountains, Teixeira, accompanied by Cap- Chinese forces are also stationed on tain Silva the south bank of the Yellow River to meet any eventuality,
U.S. LAD'S ESCAPADE
Air Rifle Attack On Japanese Shipping
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
e Costa, Private Secretary, ended at 8 o'clock this morning when the distinguished party returned to Macao by the 8.8. Sai On from the Tung On Wharf.
The Hon. Mr Leo D'Almado e Castro, Jnr, received them on arrival
at
the wharf, from Government House, accompanied by Licut K. E. Young, A.D.C. to His Excellency Sir Geoffry Northcote. Captain H. A. de B. Botelho, Hon. A.D.C. to Sir Geoftry, accompanied the party on board.
KOBE, May 12 (Domei).-A 12-year old American Ind William Lee, by playing with The steamer left punctually at 0 his air-rifle on Sunday afternoon a.m. and the party will no doubt held up the sailing of the 12,000- carry back happy recollections of ton liner President Pierce for their short stay in this Colony. was on the point of clearing three hours just as the steamer
Kobe port.
While the ship was still inside the
but in the Colony of argument has not breakwaters, William decided to do!
re-evitable
"I have no testimonials, feel absolutely adequate to modernise the school, and make
A pay double.
"As proof of my sincerity I ans willing to commence at £500 a year, rising in due course to £1,000."
Practical Joke
Mr S. T. Kipping, a house master School evacuated to Westward Ho sald that he had
at Highgate
in was the destruction of this spoken to Bartholomew, one of his powerful evil force and the boys.
The whole thing was just a prac- liberation of nations which weretical Joke," he said. "and I am not now held in bondage.
going to tell you what he says about it now."
wait
It was unthinkable that after the war. men should not set themselves to conceive an order of civilisation belter than that which was now being destroyed before their eyes.
"We cannot and dare not until the war is over," he declared. "It will help us in the immediate struggle if we can see beyond the distress and darkness some promise. of the coming of a better day."
Criticism Of Scots Children's Speech
"Like Haw-Haws"
"After children have been at cer- It was plain that men had lost their way and they had trusted in them-tain secondary schools they speak selves and neglected God, and the wrong use of science and machines had subordinated man to machine.
like perfect 'Haw-Haws," said Mr J. C. Robertson, Cardenden, at a meeting of Fife Finance Committee at Cupar, recently, in supporting 8 proposal for the provision at second- ary schools of "Sepitish National
Dictionary.
DARLAN MEETS IMPORTANT NAZI The recommendation by the Educa-
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
VICHY, May 11 (UP)-It is re- ported but not as yet confirmed that the Vice-Premier, Admiral Darlan has met a very important. German personality at an unspecified place, not Paris, to discuss the general Franco-German relations.
According to Q dispatch from Zurich, the meeting took place at Obersalzberg.
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tion Committee was that each secondary school in the County be provided with a copy of the diction- ary at a total cost of £140.
Mr Robertson thought the methods
talk of
taught in certain schools were ridiculous. This dictionary was going to help them to speak proper- ly, he said. They ought to "push It down their throals.
The Committee agreed to make the purchase.
on June
been missing.
To settle a "wce"". bet for the Bomber Fund will some render who can speak with experience please state what part of the line in France was held by this famous Division in the latter part of 1017.
UMPIE.
Nazis Losses In Balkan War
a little surface raiding Inspired by
:
SINGING TO VICTORY
In response to the "Acroplune
what he had been heuring about the New Chinese Fund European war Japanese ships idling in the harbour nearby sermed to offer an excellent target. What- Fund Campaign" started by Chinese
William's other ever
fallings may be, Artists recently, Chinese songsters in he proved to have a deadly alm, Hongkong are planning a similar
only matched by the effetency of
the drive. Police who promptly radiced the slip At a meeting of a number of local to halt within a matter of minutes choral societies, including the Hung after two Japanese had indignantly llung, Chau Fung, Ling Sing, New registered the effects of William's China and Chung Wah, yesterday. pallets.
measures for the campaign were dis- A police launch soon arrived along-cussed. It was decided that the fund side and close investigation followed, will be raised by contributions and for three hours. After this the liner singing recitals. Those who donato was allowed to get underway with $10 will be given a gold-gilded plane LONDON, May 11 (Reuter). William, dispirited and a little scared, badge, those who donate $100, will The German wounded in Bul-out of harm in his parents' custody. get a pursuit plane model. whlic garia number 6,000 and in The liner arrived in Kobe on May 11 those who donate $500, will get a Rumania 10,000, according to from Shanghai, carrying more than large bomber modej. estimates checked up by direct points in the Far East. evidence, announced an Istanbul message to the independent French agency.
Greek Islands In
Italian Hands LONDON, May 11 (Reuter). -An Italian cómmunique states
that in the Aegean Sea Italian troops have occupied the isles of Zea, Syphonos, Syria and Micono, thus completing the oc- cùpation of the Cyclades Archi- pelago.
-MORE-INDIANS
The first check of India's recent census suggests that the population has increased by about 15 per cent. to 400,000,000.
17, 1940,
the
Bomber Fund was commenced
the first week produced over
$1,000,000. will you help
to double that
that figure before
June 17, 19412.
109,000 is
all that is required.
Donations to Date: $1,891,718,25
Remitted to London: £116,889.19.64
400 American evacuees from various
Divorce Case
Domicile Still Not Proved
A group of prominent Chinese have been invited to serve as advisers in- cluding Madame Sun Yat-sen, Madame Liao Chung-kai, Mr Chung I-lin, People's Political Council mem- ber, the Hon. Mr M. K. Lo, the Hon. Sir Robert Kotowali, Mr Aw Boon- haw, Mr Tu Yuch-sen, Mr Wang Hsiao-lal, Mr Liu Wei-chih, Proics- sar Hsu T-shan, Madame Sun Fo
to the.
cile to be produced, a petition for Government will be named "New
Adjourned for evidence of domi-end Mr Wang Yun-wu.
The plane to be donated divorce, by Mrs Maria Fernanda
Ribeiro Cabral de Carvalho against
Mr Eduardo Henrique Cabral de Carvalho, was again before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, ut the Divorce Court this morning.
Petitioner was represented by Mr Percy Chen, instructed by Mr M. A.
do Silva.
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Epidemics In Kwangsi
Spinal Meningitis
Japanese nesmen that military and government officials of the Philip- pines, Australia, Netherlands Enst Indies, Burma and Chungking will meet in Singapore soon for an im portart conference, but added that he did not know whether he would attend It.
been
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(By "Reuter" With Southern Command) LONDON, May 11-British heavy tanks rolling in hundreds across Salisbury Plain swept imaginary German panzer divisions into the sea and relentlessly routed up an imagined enemy in. vading force,
fcalled in from Headquarters seven That is what happened during hours after the German "landing." a four-day exercise in which one By dawn their advance units were contacting the enemy and by 11 am. of Britain's armoured divisions two days later, the invaders were and 50,000 troops have just vanquished.
Co-Operation Planes taken part. In theory at any rate all the invading force was Army co-operation planes, hun- wiped out, thanks largely to a flank-dreds of mobile radio cars, despatch Ing movement undertaken by British riders and field telephones were all Lanka, whose commander, using the utilised for communications whose same tactics so successful in Libya, speed and accuracy were astonishing. When a motor cyclist was captured gave the enemy no rest but sat on
Gor- top of them mile after mile as they with a clue.
was, it made their withdrawal.
To make the exercise as realistic matter of minutes before bombers James J. Hamiler, Jr., is drafted.
Mr Hamiter, owner of a small Work has bogun on those special possible, famous British cavalry were strafing the place, regiments now mechanised, played General Sir Alan Brooke, Com-circus, said that is he goes into the tunnels at 10 stations whose names All are central- the part of a panzer division, basing mander-in-Chief of the Home Forces, Army someone would have to feed cannot be disclosed.
ly placed.
Nazi.
Would Not Feed
His Elephant
Tunnel Shelter For 100,000
Army Induction officials at Dallas, By the end of the summer deop Texas, havo declined to feed an shollers for 100,000 sleepers wil
the London Tubea,
man Handquarter where the elephant at'a yearly cost of $2,840 11 have been completed, "In" ̈ offshoots of
WAJ
Its operations on what is known of toured the. battle area as did Major- the pachyderm NEMDEN No trains, will-run' through therm
methods.
Commanding the General Martel, Lieut-General Alexander, O... Royal Armoured Corps.java Southern Command, told me that the rode in one of the latest heavy floating mine in lat 22 degreds until after the war. They will be 12 N. long. 113 degrees: 50 E., equipped with bunks, first-aid porta whole exercise was designed to test tanks now mass-produced which (Approx) was alghted fix cables N. and washing facilities and proviron how speedily and effectively reserve inside is an inferno of noise but from 4 degrees Way from the south point will be made for meals, mobile, troops.could be brought into without looks as smooth and sinister of Lantaos faland by the Captain of After the war they may | battle," A full. Infantry dEVIS ON TWEE
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