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GOVERNMENT OUTLINES NEW EVACUATION PLAN

TURKEY GETS Priority

BACKWASH

OF THE 'QUAKE

Violent earthquake shocks were felt, at Istanbul during the night, particularly in the area of Sinope and- Inebolu, on the shore of the Black Sea. So

far, no casualties or damage is reported.- Reuter.

Narrow Escape In Car Blaze

Be

Roster To STORY OF

For RAID ON

Prepared For An Emergency

MUNICH

How the Royal Air Force

AN IMPORTANT OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON EVA- bombed Munich on Fri- CUATION ISSUED BY THE COLONIAL SECRETARIAT THIS day was described last MORNING GIVES DETAILS OF PLANS FOR THE ESTABLISH. Įnight by a New Zealander MENT OF A ROSTER OF PRIORITY, to COME INTO OPERA-Flight Lieutenant in TION IN AN EMERGENCY.

It is intimated that all evacuation in the future will be carried out on a voluntary basis, in a certain order of priority, irrespective of

race.

PINDUS RANGE BATTLE

broadcast.

officer's The targets of this aircraft were the locomotive mar- shalling sheds almost in, the con- tre of the city, not far from the famous beer-cellar.

Shortly before leaving their

the base in Britain,

Senior- Intelligence. Officer told "the airmen that Hitler and some of his gangsters were to be in. Munich to celebrate the niversary of the Bear-Half Putsch.

an-

The official statement reads: be prepared. It has therefore "In certain eventualities it may been arranged to provide a card AN AMERICAN CORRESPON. become necessary to organise the to be filled in by those who wish DENT IN ATHENS REPORTS themselves when theTHAT THE ITALIAN TROOPS evacuation of such women and to avail children irrespective of race as time comes of any such organis- IN THE PINDUS MOUNTAINS,

This card may be ob-ON wish to leave the Colony and fored scheme.

THE CENTRAL FRONT Everybody on the flight, there- tained after the 18th day of No- HAVE whom a reiuge can be found.

MADE

to get ANOTHER AT-fore, was doubly eager on application "It is evident that the ques-vember

at the TEMPT TO BREAK THROUGH. there. tion of finding the requisite headquarters of the various or-

The attempt failed. ships may be difficult if notice ganisations given above and also is short, and that, in fact, de- at the General Post Office for those

in the last category. mand may exceed supply.

After a card has been completed "It is important therefore

by a person whose husband is in one of the organizations in cate- gories (a) or (b) it should handed in to the headquarters of that organisation.

Two brothers, S. A. Ismail and S. M. Ismail, had a miraculous escape on Saturday night when the car in which they have a carefully prepared plan were travelling, somer- well in advance of any such em- saulted over an embank-ergency.

ment, caught fire, and Category Of Priority was totally destroyed.

to

br

If the person is in the last cate- "The policy of the Government gory the card should be passed At about 5 p.m., the two is to provide transport accommo-over the counter at the General brothers, with S. A. Ismail at the dation in the following order of Post Office, where it will be stamp- wheel, were motering in car No. priority, for those who wish to goed with the date and time of re- 2412 in Kowloon City. At Au (a) wives and children of mem-celpt. Tau Kok they decided to return bers of combatant forces, ir-

respective of race,

to town.

As the round, it went over the embank- ment, somersaulted some 15 feet below and immediately caught. fire.

car was being turned (b) wives and children, irrespec-

Both managed to extricate

the themselves from

blazing

car.

S. M.. Ismail has been detained in hospital. He is suffering from injuries to the forehead and

hends. S..A. Ismail escaped with a slight injury, to his chest and

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Roster To Be Prepared

In Order Received

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tive of race, of those services "A prigrity list as regards the will be compiled and departments whose work last category would be necessarily expos- from such written applications in ed, such as the Police Force, the order in which the cards are Fire Brigade, A.R.P. Services. received at the-General Post Office certain medical services. em-where a date and time of receipt ployees of the Royal Naval will be stamped.

"After

of tho Dockyard, etc..

the analysis (c) all others irrespective of race, above lists It will be possible to

-examine the possibility of pro-· make viding transport and to further efforts to find refugea for those who have nowhere to

"It must be made clear that the decision as to when. such a scheme is put into force must rest with the Hong Kong Government. Once the order to put it into operation has been given anyone who 're- fuses accommodation offered will automatically go to the bottom of the list.

"As the numbers involved

are

to his fingers. He was not de- impossible to estimate it is essen- -tained in hospital.

tial that some roster of priority

AMERICAN MISSIONARY COUPLE AND SON KILLED

Missionary Association, Two American mission- | phía

Spokane, Washington; his wife, aries and one of their Emily," and one son, David.

childron - were mur. One of the other children was

wounded and is in hospital. dored lost Tuesday in There is no information yet Changyi, near Kutsing concerning the perpetrators of the Villagu, on the Yunnan- which it was carried out, but the Kweichow bordor, accord. Chinese authorities state that their Information indicates that the ing to a report received motive was robbery-Reuter. in Kunming yesterday..

The victims were Mr. Alfred Max Bernheim, independent mis-

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Fiji Offer

"Although the application' card: offers an invitation to give the choice of the place of destination (Continued On Page 16).

evacuate, Mr. Bernheim and his family had decided to return to the United States and had already applied for their passports a few days before the murder. Were To Evacuate The United States Consulate in Kunming is sending a member of Responding to the Stats. De-their staff to Changyl to investi-

sionary tainched to the Philade!- partment advice to Americans to gate.-Reuter.

A second Italian column which was going to its rescue is itself now in danger, it is reported.--

Reuter.

LAVAL HAS TALK WITH GOERING

One of the heaviest calibre car. bombs they had hitherto

this ried was included in 'officer's faircraft, and the sky was "the bomb-almer's dream, of a perfect, night."

minutes twenty They spent over Munich in sighting their target perfectly before bombing from a very low altitude. The M. Laval, Vichy Vice-Premier target was hit squarely by the and Foreign Minister, has returned bomb and the force of the

air to Vichy from Paris, where he had plosion severely "shook the a talk with “Goering.—Reuter.. craft-Reuter.

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