1940-02-28 — Page 4

SUPPLEMENT TO "CHINA MAIL," FEBRUARY 28, 1940

GERMAN

WARNS GERMANS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Berne, Feb. 19.

-A warning to the Gorman peo- ple not to underestimate “the ∙tenacity of the British"-was-given. by General von Metzch In an ar- ticle which appeared yesterday the paper "Deutsche Adelsblatt.".

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It is possible for England, he said, to place a new, continental army of 1,000,000 men on a war footing.

"Once a decision taken, there is not the least hesitation, from the English," he added. "The completion of this plan demands several years. The fact that it has been started indicates that they are determined to wage long war."

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"We are but at the threshold of a war already' marked by numerous successes of the German air force and submarines, but many transports are still arriving in England and new constructions, purchases, exchanges, and thefts on a large scale, make up for the losses sustained by the Allied ships by our planes and submarines," General

continued. von Metzch "There must be no doubt as to the fierceness of which the English capable, for they certainly do not lack tenacity. We should strengthen our own war potential as much as we can. The French, I may add, are similar to the English in the above respect."-Havas,

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MR. BUTLER GETS SAMPAN MEN

A LESSON IN CONCISENESS

MISS A. M. BOULTER, a £500-a-year assistant, gave her £1,500-a-year chief, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a lesson in conciseness a few days

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IN NAVAL BATTLE

Shanghai, Feb. 21.

On its very first day of operation a. Japanese-managed ferry service had to suspend. yesterday "because of the open opposition of Whangpoo sampan

men, it was reported by the Chinese

press yesterday evening.

The clash came about yesterday

morning when the ferry, one vessel,

was placed in operation between Lu- katu in Pootung and the fish wharf on the Quai de France in the vicinity took her 26 words to sum up the work of the Royal Insti- of the Nantao Bund. The appearance tute of International Affairs (Chatham House) who of the ferryboat was the signal for the angry sampan men to throw a spend their time snipping newspapers in Balliol Col-cordon of about 100 sampans about. lege, Oxford, and plying the Government with inform-the French wharf to prevent their new ation at a cost to the taxpayer of £55,000 a year.

WHAT SHE SAID

It took Mr. Butler 1,202 words dur- ing a debate in the House of Com- mons to cover the same subject.

This is what Miss Boulter said the telephone to a reporter:-,

"We have three main functions; deal to prepare memoranda, to with Inquiries from Government departments, to produce a sur- vey of the foreign Press for the Government.”

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Miss Boulter is chief assistant to And Dr. Arnold Joseph Toynbee. Dr. Toynbee, 50-year-old world his torian, is the £1,325-a-year head of the staff of 65 experts who form a branch of the Royal Institute.

the institute's In the debate on activities. Sir Stanley Reed referred body armed to "a large and costly

ROTAPLANES with scissors and mountains of paste

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producing summaries of the foreign Press."

The evacuees from Chatham House; (St. James's-square, W.), laughed at the suggestion,

MANY WOMEN'

Half the specialists working under Some are Dr. Toynbee are women. professors' wives, giving

their ser- for a nominal vices voluntarily or salarly,

Mrs. Toynbee, the brilliant daugh- ter of Professor Gilbert Murray, gets £130 a year for half-time duty in the Italian section.

The aircraft section of the British Standards Institution has decided that aircraft deriving lift from free- ly turning wings shall in future be Hitherto the called "rotaplanes." officially recognized title for these machines has been "gyroplanes."

There has been some difficulty about finding a name for the rota- planes because they were an entirely new invention. The first rotaplane was the Clerva Autogiro, but the name Autogiro is proprietary, and when other machines deriving lift by. similar means came into being the problem arose of what they should be called. It was important to avoid their being called helicopters because the term helicopter was already set aside for the type of aircraft deriving lift from one or more power-driven The salaries of Professors G. N. airscrews, On the other hand, the Clark (£1,000), H. J. Paton (£1,- Autogiro derives lift from a freely 000), J. L. Brierly (£1,000), Sir A rotating airscrew, rotor, or, to take Zimmerman (£1,000) and C. A. the most exact word of all, windmill. Macartney (£600), as well as part The Air Ministry follows the lead of the salaries of two other experts, of the British Standards Institution are paid by the university in return and will in future call gyroplanes ro- for lectures.

will taplanes. The definition which

Mrs. Webster, whose husband, Pro- fessor C. K. Webster, is said £1,000 a year; Mrs. Manning, wife of Pro- fessor C. A. W. Manning (£1,000); and Mrs. Seton-Watson, wife of Pro- fessor R. W. Seton-Watson (£1,000) are all unpaid.

Professor A. G. B. Fisher, in

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soon be issued by the institution lays International Economics Department, it down that a rotaplane derives its gets the second highest salary support from one or more which normally rotate freely."

"rotors £1,200.

WOMEN WORKING IN PROHIBITED HOURS

Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones prosecuted in his first case as Labour Officer this morning before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen.

The manager of the Wah Nam - Knitting Factory, of Kilung Street, was prosecuted for allowing 20 women to work during prohibited hours. He was fined $75.

CORRECTION

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The lowest, 25, is paid to' Dr. Nathaniel Micktem, principal of Mansfield Congregational Col- loge, Oxford, `whose job is to gather information about Roman Catholic world.

'LOST' SON IS PRISONER

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A postcard, written in German, de- livered at Waltham-terrace, Queen- borough (Kent), has informed Mr. and Mrs. Whiffen that their son Harry, presumed lost from the Rawalpindi, is a prisoner in Germany.

Underneath the message was her son's signature. The message read: "I am in good health and in a German An error was made in a recent prisoner of war camp, and at present racing caption in "The China Mail" feeling quite good. All my best referring to successes gained by Mr. | wishes."

Eric Moller and his son Mr. "Boojle" :.; Mrs, Whiffen said "Although all hope Moller Mrs. Moller was stated to had been abandoned, I often praye have led in the pony, but this should that my son was among the survivors. have read Mrs. R. Johannessen. Now my prayers have been answered.

KAISER PRAISES THE FINNS

competitor mooring. It was said that. the hostile shouts of several hundred hardy sampan men made the ferry- crew consider discretion the essential part of valour and go somewhere else. Later in the day, however, the ferryboat emerged again from Poo- tung, towing two smaller craft, and attempted to make the fish wharf. The sampan men once more voiced their indignation and this time they were- on hand in even larger numbers than before. They threatened to put on a minor naval battle right then and New York, February 2. Since the former Kaiser went into there, with the result that the Chinese exile in 1918, no statement has ever crew of the new service threw in the been published in his own words of towel and promised that, after land- his views on public affairs; but lasting their second cargo of passengers, his they would quit. This was all right night this rule was broken by lifelong friend, Mr. Poultney Bigelow, with the sampan fleet, the cordon was the American publicist. Mr. Bigelow opened and the Japanese-managed authorized the publication of the fol-ferryboat was permitted, for the nonce, lowing passages from a letter which to tie up at the wharf. the Kaiser wrote to him on January Lukatu, whence

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ferry service started yesterday morn- of tho The magnificent stand

ing, has only just been opened to boat Finns has smashed the nimbus of traffic by the Pootung authorities.

· Bolshevism and has set people

BADLY DAMAGED ` thinking, with the result that the wish for peace is gaining ground. The belligerents should stop fight- Ing and join their forces to help the Finns. They should fight in one line to rid the world and civilization of Bolshevism.

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It was reported later that the Ja- panese ferry. boat which started its Pootung-French Bund run on Tuesday but which was later forced to quit the service, had been badly damaged by angry sampan, men after its return to Pootung. Many glass windows of the boat were broken and its funnel was also badly damaged.

Mr. Bigelow is now 85 years old. He went as a student to Germany when his father was American Am-

So far no suppressive action has There he met the been taken against the sampan men., bassador in Paris.

become young Prince who was to

friendship Wilhelm II and began a which has continued ever since. Their the correspondence was stopped by Great War, but was resumed after it ended, and Mr. Bigelow has visited the Kaiser every year since then.

INDIAN REMANDED Channan Singh, 27, was remanded by Mr. E. Himsworth this morning when charged with impersonating a police officer yesterday.

H.M.6;- Bàrham: ing a broadalle during exarclaes. It was discios- ed by Mr. Church|i| yesterday that the battleship;was damaged by a tor. pado towards the end of last yant, but in nearly ready for ana again.