1940-12-09 — Page 8

STOP IN AT OUR SHOWROOM NOW AND TAKE OUT A

STUDEBAKER CHAMPION

FOR A REVEALING, CONVINCING 10-MILE TRIAL DRIVE.

HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Road

FOR

MODERN

Phone 27778-9-

PHOTOGRAPHY

WEDDING GROUPS SPECIALITY,

AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE USE

KING'S STUDIO

TEL. 28765

BY APPOINTMENT TO TIPE PRIDE" OF WALES, 1999

Try VAT 69

Scotch Whisky

Only the bait Scotch Whisky is good enough to entertain your guests. Give them VAT 69, and make sura of a whisky of liqueur character

Quality

Tells 1

VAT 69

Sandersons

LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY

TDʼYORK BUILDING-

W.R. LOXLEY (CHINA) HONG KONG

friisiled weed battled in Scotland by. Wm. Bandarqon & SINU TAK, ERITH

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1940.

Strange Lull In Air Blitzkrieg

THE STRANGE LULL in German air ac-

tivity over Britain since Friday night has in- MOSCOW

trigued British observers. Three reasons are

advanced, all speculative, but one or more LOOKS AT may have some basis in fact.

Not a little exhausted by four months of ALBANIA

continuous day and night raiding over the Italy's difficulties in the Channel, Germany may be conserving the war with Greece are the strength of her air force for a dramatic new subject of long articles in

the Moscow newspapers · blow against Britain here or in another thea-

yesterday. tre of war.

Two other reasons find more immediate favour, however.

Probably inter-related, they are the RAF's eight-hour hammer- ing of Luftwaffe bases in occupied territory on Friday night. and weather conditions on the Con- tinent.

It is the first time that the main weight of the R.A.F.'s night blitz has been 'directed against aerodromes

EURASIA

PILOT AND CAMERA

from which the A pilot employed by Luftwaffe raids London, and more recently, English ports and industrial towns..

In the past these have been attacked only when British bom- ber crews have been unable to locate their primary targets.

Severe Cold

the

One says there is no doubt the Greeks have gained considerable successes and adds that Italian aims in Greece demand a great number of men and a great deal of material.

"Red Star," organ of the So- viet Army, declares the Ifalinns are encountering difficulties in the

transfer of troops to Albania.

It adds the. British Navy has. been unable to establish control Eurasia Aviation Corporation, MT of the Adriatic owing to sub-.

who was Chan Wang-ka, 28, walking with his wife in Water-marines, although it now domin- ates the Aegean, thereby isolating loo Road on Saturday, had the Dodecanese Islands. — Reu- camera scized by the police.

#

A

was

tér.

RUMOURS DENIED

Before Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this morning," : Mrs. Chan appeared on behalf of Her husband to answer a' charge of possessing a camera. In The daring with which the new prohibited area. offensive was carried

hours' remand out may A. 24 have combined with poor visibility granted for the police to develop near the ground and severe cold the film. at high levels to "ground" "the The police Indicated that since Luftwaffe on Saturday night for Mr. Chan had left the Colony the first time since August 7. for Chungking, they had no ob- German crews returning from jection to his wife appearing for the latest, raid on Bristol were him. _faced with the perilous task of Mr. Himsworth also remanded landing on flore pathe heavily Ho Yu-ming, 25, for 24 hours, plastered with high explosive on $25 bail, for a similar offence. Mr. Forrest, nevertheless, in- bombe.

Ho was found with a camera | dicated that severe measures It is reasonably certain there at Hau Wong Temple on Satur- would be adopted, in the event were crashes and casualties.

day afternoon.

of such cases arising. ··

Smashing Attack

Reports of another smashing R.A.F. attack on Saturday night of Nazi industrial targets -- and raids on more enemy aerodromes

were read in London yesterday as the capital debated whether it would experience its third suc~ cessive night without bombs.after. the black-out.

Up to noon yesterday only one Germun reconnaissance plane was sighted. Reuter.

PIPELINE ARREST

The arrest of a man by Water! Works Inspector A. M. Thomson at King's Park Reservoir, above Waterloo Road, possibly prevent- ed the disruption of the water supply in the vicinity on Satur- day, it was stated before-Major AN. Macfadyen at. Kowloon this morning, when Lu Yau, 22, was sentenced to three months' hard labour for damaging the water piping.

Accused who admitted having returned to the Colony after be ing expelled last month, was give en a further six weeks for this offence."

District Inspector A. Wright, who prosecuted, asked the Magis trate to take a very serious view accused might have cut through the pipe and disrupted the water supply;

as

OLD OFFENDER With 15 previous convictions, Wong Kn-yau, 39) was sentenced to six months hard labour by Mr. Himsworth at Kowloon, this morning for stealing a canvas car-cdver from the garage of Cap- |tain SR.J., Bouncy at No. 146.

Argyle Street: yesterday..

ROBBED OF WALLET .Lee Lui hội walking yesterday) in Queen's Road, Contraip near] Wing On Street, was robbed of, nj wallet, containing $207, "Krom his:] Jacket pocket."

"It is absolutely without foundation," declared Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, Immigration Officer, this morning concerning rumours alleging that three employees in the Immigration Depart- ment had been dismissed for a breach of the Department ̈re- gulations.

UNARMED COMBAT

IT'S CALLED

THE ARMY is being taught “unarmed combat” and it's very rough. When the Germans invaded : Norway and Holland and Belgium, the defenders could hardly tell friend from foe, and many were overpowered by surprise attack.

So the British soldier is to be trained to defend himself against this sort of thing even when he unarmed.

and

For this purpose the Army has of opponent we have to face we built up a system of training | cannot afford to have any scruples which makes use of the best for about the methods we use. worst) telcks of the orthodox | Such things as kicking wrestling, styles, of, the boxing gouging are detestable to us. But ring and of the “rough-house.”” we must learn to use them against The result, as demonstrated at a the Hun — and we must use them physical training centre in the without a tremor Southern Command, is something very much to be avoided.

A Pretty Throw

com-

There are, weapons less fear- some, than the bare hands of a. As he spoke, one of the instruc- sergeant-major instructor, who tors sprang head-over-heels and brew, men about as though they landed cn his back. The other were dolls..

Me pounced upon him and held him "Unarmed combat" is no af fast fair of taboos and nicoties of "A very pretty throw, hehaviour, ·· Kicking, gouging, „mented the expert," "and" very buiting –– all these "" it permits Nicely. Judged":"A little misjudg- ngainet, "a foe who' knows no ment and we might have had rules.

| 'broken, collar bone, then?"";S. AL ~While two instructors were "Unarmed combat”, the Army locked in, mimic fight, an expert | says, gives a man self-confidence said; “Won is always a matter of and initiative, andi teaches him to life and death even between un-linequit himself as a soldier even armed men. So, against the sort |'although, he finds himself in the

GENERAL ABE'S RESIGNATION

|.most desperate of situations,

=-,16,- for, Instance, unarmed facing on Enemy chargifig “with fixed bayonot."-

the

Ao

wif

(theˇans) dry it seems, In idyament made-up-of-

former

the demane Mr. Kumataro Honda former stratornik: lays - tha- enemy, on Japanese Ambassador to Ger- |-his-back in a second.. inany, has been appointed Am- There is a neat, trick of stalking „bassador, to the Nanking re- and silently overpowering a sen- Quarantine, restrictions imposed gime in succession to General, try;, another of using the tin hat by the port of Shanghai against Nobuyuki Abc, who has resign as a weapon of offence. arrivals from Hong Kong on ac-ed, according to Wang Ching-As instructors leave the contre, count of cholera have been re- wel's Central Press Service to-ro unarmed combat will be in-

-day-Reuter classm

troduced to the ranks: