1940-07-20 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 20, 1940...

KOWLOON

GERMAN BOMBERS ATTACK SHIP CONVOY ROAD STOPPED Widespread Visits Over The British Isles

BRITAIN'S IRONSIDE YOUNGEST LT.-GENERAL

Major-General H. R. Alexan- der, the officer to whom Lord Gort handed over command of the remaining troops at Dunkirk when he returned to England, has been promoted Lt.-General.

Major-Gen. Alexander, who is 48, was one of the youngest major-generals in the British Army and has already seen ser- vice in three campaigns — the Great War,

on the North-West Frontier of India and the present) conflict.--Reuter.

GIRL SHOT DEAD AT CAMP

PROMOTED FIELD-MARSHAL

General Sir Edmund Ironside has been promoted Field-Mar- shal, says a Reuter telegram from Lon- don this morning.

General Viscount Gort is appointed In- spector-General to the Forces for training.

Lt.-Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, G.O.C.. South- ern Command, has been appointed Com- mander-in-Chief of the Home Forces, with the acting rank of General, in succession to General Ironside, -Reuter.

The story of a soldier's tragic joke will be told at an inquest at Liverpool, on Miss Mary Hooko

(17), of Gainford-road, Liver- pool, who was killed by a rifle bullet.

• Miss Hook, and a girl com- panion - were out for an evening stroll and decided to have a rest.

They were leaning over the wall of a military camp when a soldier was seen to enter a hut. preparatory to going on sentry duty.

00000

TOO MANY

TROOPS IN

AUSTRALIA

Casualties In

Scotland

And S. Wales

TWENTY-TWO GERMAN DIVE BOMBERS APPEARING OVER THE ENGLISH COAST AT- TACKED SHIPS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

Twenty high explosive.bombs were drop- ped but not a single ship was hit. Anti-air- craft fire broke up the attack and drove the raiders out to sea.

One is believed to have crashed in mid- Channel after one of the crew had jumped with his parachute. He was drowned before help could reach him.

An Air Ministry communique says that aircraft of the Fighter Command and A.A. guns engaged large forces of enemy aircraft in Iseveral actions over the south-east coast of England during yesterday.

In the fierce encounters that ensued, eight enemy planes were shot down by our fighters and one by A.A. fire. Several other enemy aircraft were damaged.

The number of aircraft report-

-

UP--BY ORDER

In exercise of the powers conferred on him by regulation 36 of the Defence Re- gulations, 1940, the Officer Administer- ing the Government, deeming it necessary in the interests.of.de- fence or public safety so to do, has ordered the stopping up of that portion of the public roadway on the north-west arm öf

Yaumati Typhoon Re- fuge, Kowloon, south of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 32 and west of. Tai Kok Tsui Road at its junction with the extreme western end of Argyle Street.

BRITAIN AND GOLD

STANDARD

A STATEMENT DECLARING that Britain in- tends to return to "liberal monetary policies as soon as possible after hostilities cease," was issued in Washington jointly yesterday by Secretary of Trea- sury Henry Morgenthau and Sir Frederick Phillips, an Under-Secretary of the British Treasury who re- |-cently arrived in Washington for 'discussions with

the U.S. Treasury.

ed yesterday as having been shot down by the R.A.F. and A.A. guns is now 11 (four bombers and sever. fighters). . Five of our fighters are missing.--Reuter.

Building Demolished The Ministry of Home Security When he came out of the hut MR. R. G. MENZIES, THEI in London last night announced: and saw the two girls looking to-AUSTRALIAN PREMIER, STAT "There was some enemy activity wards him from the wall, 10 yards ED IN SYDNEY YESTERDAY

The statement followed con- away, he raised his gun in fun THAT OWING TO THE GREAT over Scotland and Wales and ut

CHANGES IN. THE EUROPEAN one point in South-East England ferences dealing with "questions, of mutual interest," including Miss Hook, accepting the mock-SITUATION, WHICH MADE IT to-day (Friday).

SAY

"In a Scottish town, a building British purchases in the United I wish you ing challenge, said.

IMPOSSIBLE TO would."

THE DIVISIONS OF THE AUS- was demolished and some others States and control of assets

Some casualties

the invaded countries, which are 00- TRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE damaged. The soldier replied: "Anything to oblige a lady," and again lifted NOW IN AUSTRALIA WOULD curred, nearly all being injured. held in Britain and the United

"Minor casualties

States. occurred his rifle, which went off.

REQUIRED OVERSEAS, when some bombs were dropped The young soldier and Miss THERE AT PRESENT WAS A

in South Wales." OF Hook had never seen each other GREAT CONCENTRATION

TROOPS IN CAMP IN THE COMMONWEALTH.

in their direction.

before.

MACHINE THAT BLOWS BUBBLES

BE

WHEN

Reuter.

in

As a result, the strength of the' HE TRIED TO what, if any assurances he had

forces in the Commonwealth! would be temporarily, limited to 80,000 and recruiting would have) to be temporarily interrupted at an early date.

HIDE PLUCKfuture

MARQUIS WON EASILY

"Naturally we do not want the these acasts to get under effective control of Germany A charge of driving while un- Bir Frederick Phillips said, der the influence of drink aganist adding he could not discuss the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava

at was,

Greenwich, dismissed received about United States

without calling upon the defence. policy towards these assets.

It was stated that one test. to When questioned regarding the determine his condition after his future value of gold, since Bri arrest was a game of noughts and tish payments are reported to be There were already 77,000 men)

crosses. Because he did not like the concentrating.

This was played with a nearly all. the in camp, which was greater than camp laundry nineteen-year-old world's gold in the United States brought off a rapid victory.

police surgeon, and the 'Marquis at any time in A machine that blows bubbles Australia was now concentrating ner whose home is at Railway-doubts on the future value

war. Donald Brown, R.A.F. air gun-Sir Frederick said: "We have no of molten glass

of the street, Stafford, sent his washing gold."-Reuter. Saing fashion

as a child blows home defence forces to 250,000. home to his mother each week. bubbels with soapy water has been developed,

being and is used to make the coloured glass, balls used as Christmas the orna- ments.

the last

in much the

on raising the strength

Reuter,

Although of equal weight, they are stronger than the Imported handmade variety and have thicker breakage.

necks, which reduces

The machine used is similar to that which makes electric light bulbs. A ribbon of molten strip on the underside of which is a series of moulds. A puff of air

blows the fluid glass into the

NATIONAL

ANTHEMS

She knew that several times he had been in action, but when he came home on leave he did not tell her very much about his ex-` periences.

One day she received his par- cel of laundry and on opening it was horrified to And his shirt stained with blood. There was a

MADE HER hole through the shoulder. She

LATE

burn.

PAID MAN £50 TO TAKE HIS MEDICAL EXAMINATION

of

The police surgeon also said that the Marquis put in the face of a clock very well.

Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C. (defending), produced 1 letter from Lord Horder stating: that the Marquis, upon his advice, had been having a series of in- Jections, which would account. for" his dilated pupils and their slug- gish reaction to light.

WARSHIP SAVES BOMBER CREW

The police surgeon said that She Stated to have paid another man had he known this it would have wrote and asked him for an ex- £50 to take his place before o made a differente to his diagnosis. planation and he replied that the medical board, Isaac Rosenberg, hole was caused by a cigarette 24, of Bethune-road, Stoke New- ington, was at Tottenham ordered Now she has heard that he to pay a fire of £25 or go to pri- A Russian tailor, an Italian mould, and it shapes itself to the headwaiter a Norwegian woman,

had a lucky escape. in an en-son for three months. counter with fourteen 'German The charge against him was spherical form of the mould.

from Salvador, The mould, which is in two and a student

planes and that he was hit in that, with intent to decive, he lent, the shoulder. She would never or allowed to be used, a certi- parts, separates, leaving the seri-were charged at West es of bubbles attached to the glass Police Court with being out

of have known, perhaps, but for cate received under the provi- The menthe blood-stained shirt. doors after midnight.

sions of the National Service Hibbon, from which they are me-

theBrown was a member of the Armed Forces Act. He pleaded] An. Air Ministry bulletin last chanically detached and finished, were each fined £2, and

woman was fined £1, The silvering or colouring is The Italian, Antonio Bertorelli, limped back to France and land. Det-sergeant Davies said that an

jnight described how the crew, of crew of the wingless plane which guilty.

R.AF. "Coastal Command glass ribbon minus the bubbles 37, of Old Brompton-road, S.W., ed safely. He has had many Rosenberg registered in February. bomber, after it liad made

on active The man he paid to take the forced landing..on the sea, was goes back to the reservoir to be was said to have lived in England thrilling experiences

since i 1916.

service. Now he is in.. hospital.medical examination for him had saved by another bomber of the remelted.

previously been rejected because same quadron,

done in a second process. The

ADMIRAK ABRIAL'S

APPOINTMENT

London

The magistrate, Sir Gervais Rentoul, expressed surprise when told that as yet there were no [other restrictions imposed upon

him.

Admiral Abrial, who played en The woman, Astri Wiese, 30, important part in the evacuation of Atherstone-mews, Kensington,'

Reuter from Vichy.

!

NEW MEMBER OF HKN.V.F.

1

of a bad heart, and it was obviousThe aircraft dived and 'bombed that In taking the examination two German motor torpedo- again the man would obtain an bonts off 'the Dutch coast. Then exemption for Rosenberg.

they raked them with machine- Mr. Edward Fail, for Rosen-gun fire, much of which got home. berg, said he had now been exam-The motor torpedo-boats ⚫ were

at Dunkirk, has been appointed said he had been out to supper His Excellency the 'Ofleer Ad-jined and accepted for service. Governor-General of Algeria in in the West End, and when she ministering the Government has succession to M. Le Beau, says was about to leave the band made the following appointments] played the national anthems of in the Hong Kong Naval Volun- the Allies, and she did not like teer Force: to leave,

To be. Acting Sub-Lieutenants. George Spedding Mcdill. Noel Julian Cornes.

A Correction

By a confusion, of names

in

"THAI CONSULATE

putting up a heavy curtain: of anti-aircraft fire, and one of our alrcraft, was struck in the port IN THE "GAZETTE" engine. Still under control,it disappeared into "mist; close to An announcement - In the the sea. [“Gazetto” states - thut in exercise Another aircraft of the patrol of the powers conferred by section followed and saw it land on the 3 of the Naval Volunteer Ordin-sea. The crow stood on top of

on official report, it was reported yesterday that Mr. J. J. Ferguson It is notified that Mr. Sangar His Excellency the Officer Adance, 1039, His Excellency the the fuselage before launching had been involved in..a motor Suwanasri, That Trade Agent at ministering the Government, has Officer Administering the Govern their dinghy. The second aircraft accident near Taikoo. Mr. G. P. Hong Kong, will be in temporary appointed Mr. Arthur Grenfell ment has dispensed with the ser flew away and found a destroyer, Ferguson, also of the Education charge of the Thal Consulate-Clarke to bo an Assistant War vices of Warrant Officer James which it guided to the wrecked Department, was the European General, with offect from 20th Revenue Commissioner in uddi Owens as a member of the Hong machine. 'The crew were taken

July, 1946. concerned in the mishap.

tion to his other duties.

Kong Naval Volunteer Force, 1on, board the warship.