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BRITAIN LAYING FOUNDATION FOR MIGHTY ARMY

London, To-day.

NEARLY 2,000,000 MEN are affected by a Royal Proclama- tion signed last night making liable for military service all men who have reached 19 years but not 28, on Jan- uary 1 and January 30.

The

NORTH SEA SHIPPING LOSSES

London, To-day. British steamer Boxhill (5,677 tone) sank in the North Sea yesterday following an ex- plosion. Twelve of the crew of 32 and one body were landed at a north-east coast port; it is fear- ed the other 19 are lost.

According to a message from Haugsesund, the Norwegian steamer Luna (959 tons) struck a mine in the North Sea yesterday.

The crew were rescued by an- other Norwegian cargo vessel, the Columbia, and taken to Koper. vik.-Reuter.

NAZIS ARE REVIVING SLAVERY

This new method of specifying the number of age groups simultaneously instead of one at a time, as formerly, is adopted largely for administrative

reasons,

re-

Registration of men covered by the Proclamation will not take place im- mediately, nor will all the men quired register at the same time.

Men of 19 will not be called until they reach 20.

the

be

re-

The speed of registration and calling up of the new groups will made in the light of manpower quirements of the three fighting forces.

NEARLY THREE MILLION In the meantime no action is re- quired of the men concerned until pu- blic announcement of the date of re- gistration of the various age groups, which will follow at carefully worked out intervals.

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 2, 1940.

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Boys of St. Mary-of-the-Angels Bong School, Addlestone, Surrey, practising their Christmas carols. The boys will miss their jack. a-lanterns this year owing to the - blackout but their voices did not suffer. (Copyright. By Air Mail).

NEW YEAR'S DAY MATCHES

The total number of men who, since HOME FOOTBALL the introduction of compulsory ser- vice, have registered or are liable for service, is now between 2,500,000 and 2,750,000, in addition to men who were members of the regular, reserve or auxiliary forces before war and those entered as volunteers since.-Reuter. NOTICES SOON

London, To-day. The last reserved occupation will naturally decrease the gross total of those now made liable to military ser- vice, but such exceptions will not be Authentic Information on Germany's very numerous until the age of 25 is plans for Poland reveals that the Nazis intend to create a new. alava which will serve what the "Warschau er Zeltung" the German Government organ for Poland-is already calling "the German master race."

clase

Evidence of the existence of this class, whose status can be compared only with that of the negro slaves who were bought and sold, is to be seen on a big reservation cast of Lublin.

reached.

London, To-day.

The following were the results of football matches played yesterday.

South "A"

2 Arsenal South "B"

Charlton

Men who registered in October are mainder will probably be called in the now nearly all called up. The re- Queen's Park 3 Reading middle of January.

None of those registered in Decem- ber have yet been called up, but some week or two, and the whole group may are expected to receive notices in a- be absorbed by the end of Februry.

Under the proclamation, nation of the Dominion are not liable to be called

in-Britain, the qualification for ordin- up if they are not ordinarily resident

ary residence being more than two are years.

Jews and some Poles are being mov- ed into it. The Lublin railway station is choked with trains dumping thou- sands of destitute families who herded behind barbed wire and put to work for 12 hours a day construct- ing roads and buildings and labouring in flelds. Men up to the age of 70 and women up to 55 are forced work.

JEWS STARVED

to

It is planned eventually to extend the slave area to receive 240,000 Jews and prisoners from Germany, 210,000 from parts of Poland, 150,000 from Bohemia, and 65,000 from Vienna.

OVERSEAS STUDENTS Exemption will be made in cases overseas students attending a course of education.

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Doncaster

Liverpool

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PASSPORTS FAKED FOR SPIES

· LONDON, YESTERDAY. ACCORDING TO BELGIAN SOURCES, NAZI SPIES ARE GET- TING FAKED PASSPORTS AT £50 EACH FROM A GANG WITH AS- SOCIATES IN LONDON.

Frederick Hardter, a 31-year-old German spy, who was arrested by military police at Ostend, said that he acquired a forged passport made out in the name of Henry Bell

"It was passed to me by an enemy agent from a distributing headquar- ters in London," he said to the ex- amining magistrate at Antwerp.

POLICE SWOOPED

The forgers, are believed to be the remnants of a famous gang which once operated from Milan.. When the Italian police swooped after co- operation with Scotland Yard on cer- tain British aspects of the gang's activities-three of the "ace" draughtsmen disappeared.

Hardter is believed to be associat- ed with four men, claiming to be Italians, who have been arrested at Liege on espionage chargés.

Their chief was Rudolph Cuder, whose son is serving with the Ger- man Army, Cuder's children, care- fully coached by their father, used to haunt the cafes frequented by Belgian soldiers.-Our Own Corres-

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OUR MODEST AIR FORCE

London, To-day.

R.A.F. planes which carry out the daily "security pa- otrol" over the Nazi North Sea bases are generally in the air for five or six hours. -

1 Sheffield U. Western

2

3

7 Crewe

Matches

Friendly

Blackburn Barnsley Darlington Carlisle

Middlesborough Manchester U.

New Brighton South Port Manchester C. Chesterfield

Celtic

4 Huddersfield

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tasks,

They accomplish subsidiary such as attacking, and often sinking,

2 enemy submarines.

5 Wednesday"

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3 Leeds

1

2 Bradford C.

2

1 Blackpool

4

6 Newcastle

0

2 Everton

7 Stockport

2

7 Leicester

2

6 Accrington

SCOTTISH LEAGUE

Despite the danger, our pilots show

a high degree of nonchalance in their reports.

__They have to meet enemy-pom-pom

are and machinegun fire and freez- ing weather, and yet a pilof can re- 2 turn and report laconically:

Western

1 Albion R.

4

2 Queen O'S

1

1. Rangers

Morton

1 Hamilton 3 Clyde

7 Kilmarnock.

It is understood that arrangements are being made for Australians and Airdrie Canadians to transfer to their respec- Ayr tive contingents now in Britain,

Sir Thomas Phillips,

3 Permanent Dumbarton Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, Motherwell stated last night that probably all new Partick classes will be called to the Colours St. Mirren Meanwhile, until they can be mov-by the end of 1940, and added that Third Lanark ed, Jews all over Poland are being the earliest practicable date for call- starved and broken in spirit by harshing up the 23-year old group is not Alloa regulations. Around Lodz Jews are likely to be before March 1, Reuter. Arbroath forced to wear yellow armbands and are forbidden to leave their homes be- tween 5 p.m. and 8 a.m.

For weeks Hans Frank, on Hitler's orders, has been trying to find respon- sible Poles who will take Cabinet posts In a Puppet Administration, but even threats of imprisonment have not pro- duced acceptances.

Prague is now being "cleaned up" and hundreds of Czechs have gone to prison camps. Guards have had to tear down signs erected at night warn- ing Germans to leave Prague before the Russians arrive. Though all uni- versities are closed and everything possible is being done to terrorise the population, underground activity, is said to be continuing.

MONARCHY PLAN REPORTED Other reports from Germany state *that:

Hitler has had a long interview with Prince Frederic, Wilhelm, and the Nazis are considering a plan to set up a figurehead monarchy under him;

Military Sources say Germany Is perfecting a new torpedo with a range of ten miles,

"DON'T FORGET YOUR

WIVES !"

There's a new song likely to make a bit hit with Tommies in France- and their wives at home! Here's the

chorus:-

"So don't forget your wife, boys, because she's far. away,

"Keep her in your minds, boys, and send her half your pay.

Dundee U.

Dunfermline Falkirk Hibernian

| Raith R.

HOCKEY

2 Queen's Park Eastern

3 Stenhousemuir 2 Aberdeen

1

2 Dundee

1

2

Cowdenbeath

1

4 St. Johnstone

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5 Hearts'

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2 East Fife

5

Reuter.

"Returned from patrol.

Flew over

Sylt at 20.00 hours at 1,500 feet."

Sylt is one of the bases from which Nazi minelaying planes used to oper- ate.-Reuter..

POLITICAL STORM IN CANADA

war.

A political stoum which has swept over Montreal concerning the plucing of war contracts threatens the party truce existing since the outbreak of It may result in a demand for a General Elecdon," a ing which Mr. Mackenzie King's Government wished to avoid for the time being on: ac- count of the cost and the possible up- set of the national war effort.

CLUB TEAM

the 1st XI of Hong Kong Hockey Club Dr. Robert Manion, the Conservative The following team will represent In a statement issued to the Press against Royal Engineers on Club leader, charged the Government with Ground at 5 p.m. to-morrow:-V. M. political patronage and favouritism Benwell, V. C Bond and E. V. Reed in the placing of war orders, and de- N. B. Whitley, W. A. Reed and R. Amanded the immediate summoning Bates; S. Fowler, D. S. Carey, G. E. Rof Parlament. Divett (Capf.), T. D. Whitley and B. I.' Some Bickford.

"She's waiting for your letter, so write and you'll feel better.

"Don't forget your wife, boys, but write her every day.”

There are several verses. the soldier may find himself which describe romantic situations in which

may lute him into temporary forget fulness.

first time at the second

The song was sung in publi

for and by the

drive there t the fron and

Visitors to the Ruhr region return hospital to Berlin with stories of a tremendous military

the ven

of

PLANES OVER HOLLAND

enzie King denied any Manion's charges, and produce spacije

LADY JORD

DEAD

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