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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1939.

AN INVISIBLE ARMY

B.B.C. Observer's Tour Of The British Lines

LITHUANIA

WANTS

RETURN

· OF MEMEL

the

Copenhagen, To-day. Following the Soviet- Lithuanian pact Lithuanian Government intend to press Germany for the return of Memel, according to the "Berlin Sketidende" which adds that it is expected that the U.S.S.R. will sup- Reu- port the request. ter.

SINGAPORE TRADING: DIFFICULTIES

that

Chinese native goods manufactur- ers in Shanghai have sent a formal petition to Chungking asking negotiations be opened with authorl- ties in Singapore so that importation of Chinese goods into that British port will not be restricted, according to a Chinese report.

CAMOUFLAGE BROUGHT DOWN TO A FINE ART

London, To-day.

THE B.B.C. OBSERVER with the British Army said last night that as a result of his tour yesterday one thing stood out in his mind – the British Ex- peditionary Force of 1939 is, to all intents and purposes, invisible.

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NO VATICAN ACTION LIKELY

London, To-day. Reports from circles In close touch with the Vatican state that there is no Indication of any dis- position to advocate peace nego. tlations on the basis of Hitler's speech,

From the air and the ground, they were invisible GERMANY

until one got very close, and this applied to guns, PERTURBED tanks, lorries and soldiers, all of whom became

part of the surrounding countryside. To-day, BY LOSSES camouflage has indeed been brought to a fine art.

He and his colleagues were looking ❘ed with the cheerful optimism of the for a battery of field guns, which they British Army, all the way down from knew were "there" and yet could not the Colonel to the famous P.B.I. sit- find. They could see nothing except [ting over a fire cooking a meal with

and their faces as solemn as owls. one or two men getting dinner another cleaning his motor cycle,

"They don't think they'll win-they They asked him and he directed know it!" them down a lane, where they met two officers. They were led to the edge of a field and it was not until they were 50 yards away that they discovered the guns.

HUGE BLOCKHOUSES

!

TRIBUTE TO FRENCH

He paid a similar tribute to the French and most of all to the civi- lians in whose area the sector is, and who handed over cheerfully their homes to "Les Anglais" for billets and

The huge block-houses are the hard-headquarters. est of all to camouflage but their con- spicuousness

name

To-day, they are trying to carry on has been minimised. as though nothing has happened, the Huge lorries rumble about under nets women even walking around the gun with green strips of cloth across them, emplacements to gather their veget-

ables!-Reuter. It is stated that Mr. Kao Ling-pel, making them invisible from the air.

One lorry, which bore the Chinese Consul-General in Singapore, has already been conducting negotia- "Lulu”, had improved on the effective- tions with the authorities in Singa-ness of the camouflage by wearing a pore with a view to doing away with nosegay of wild flowers on its radia- the new regulations which control tor. cash remittance by overseas Chinese there to their mother country and limit importation of Chinese goods.

Previous Chinese reports were to the effect that the new regulations enforced in Singapore had affected Chinese native goods manufacturers

He visited the extreme limit of the de- area, where the mainstay of the fence is in pill-boxes which are real ly small forts.

-They are

HIT-PROOF?

in Shanghai a great deal. It was any kind of direct hit and their gun a wide field of fire. pointed out that since the sale of their apertures give products in the interior had been They can put up a blast of fire which limited they depended much on dis-will come as a very nasty shock tribution of their cargo in Singapore tank commanders. and South Sea Islands.

Water

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LONDON, TO-DAY. THE GERMAN ADMIRALTY ARE EVIDENTLY GROWING CONCERN- ED AT THE INCREASING NUMBER OF U-BOATS THAT FAIL TO RE- AND IN A TURN TO GERMANY RECENT PROPAGANDA LEAFLET: TRIED

BRITISH TO DRAW THE

BY REPROACHING ADMIRALTY THEM FOR THEIR OFFICIAL RE- TICENCE.

The British Admiralty has excellent reasons for keeping Germany guessing the fate of her missing submarines.

The Admiralty will from time to time lift the curtain on these occur- rences if it has any special feature of interest, as for instance, the "sauve qui peut" in a recently captured U-boat, which it was observed, was led by the Nazi captain, who headed the rush for safety out of the conning tower, leav- ing the crew to find their way out as best they could.-Reuter.

GERMAN RUN-OUT OF THE BALTIC STATES

London, To-day.

proof against practically ALTHOUGH RUSSIAN action is of course indefen- sible, Germany is most blamed for what is hap- pening in the Baltic states and Finland. Germany has led these countries to look upon her · as their chief protection against Communism. She has now left them entirely at the mercy of Russia, thereby providing further proof of her treachery to- wards those with whom she professes friendship and of the hollowness of her pretention that she controls the Baltic.

as

ground and there is a generous sup- ply of food. They can hold out long as ammunition and rations out.

hold

Authorities in Singapore were said to have banned the importation of 34 kinds of Chinese goods

and the action was taken in respect to those Even the smaller pill-boxes are fit- exporting countries which are notted with anti-tank guns. linked with the sterling bloc. It was He had hoped that he would asserted by previous reports, that have to refer to the "splendid spirit of China, in particular, was greatly af-the British Tommy," but yesterday he fected by the new ruling.

ALL WOOL BLANKETS

not

Soviet bases in the Baltic states surrendered. He came back impress-and Finland will be more a threat to

Germany than anyone else.

than It is clearly necessity rather choice that has made Germany thus abandon the Eastern Baltic to Russia. As regards the evacuation of Ger- mans and German Balts from the Bal- tic states only a small proportion of these people are Nazi by conviction.

They are faced with the choice of the Bolshevisation or return, to Relch and they prefer, the latter al 'ternative being racially German.

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CYNICAL ABANDONMENT.

The return of Balts is yet another sign of German weakness, and ‍trea- chery.

Germany has" in the past always claimed the Baltic states as within her sphere of cultural influence.

She is now cynically abandoning them to Russia and meting out to con- siderable German minorities there the same treatment as she has accorded the Tyrolése.—Reuter.

IN THE “GAZETTE"

The following appointments, etc. are gazetted;--

Miss May Wong to be a Public

Ø Vaccinator.

Miss Doris Chan to be a Public Vaccinator.

My J. P. Sherry to be temporarily Captain in the HKV.D.C.

Sergt. D. L. Prophet to be 2nd Lieut. in the H.K.V.D.C.

Col. L. G. Bird resigned his com missión in the HKV.D.C.

Miss A. M. M. E. Halliday to be Masseuse.

Mr., A. J. C, Taylor to aét 'Accountant-General.

Mr. W. C. Walker to be an Inspééter of Schools.

Mesars. J. Jackson and H. C Dawes to be 'Acting Sub-Lieutenante in the HK.V.N.F.

Hon. Sir R. H. Kotawall bppointed the a member of the Coupell University of HE.