1940-06-04 — Page 9

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

GERMAN BLITZKRIEG HAS FAILED IN. OBJECTIVE

LONDON, June 3 (Reuter)-Paul A. Tierney, war editor of the New York Post, states that "it may now be said with full confidence that the German blitzkries has falled in its major objective. The" chief purpose..of the drive was to obliterate the.

take the Allied armies in the north in such a manner as to heart out of the British and make the French amenable to a proposal for separate peace.

The fact stands, out-ths, grin- ning faces of the Tommies photo- graphed aboard transports is elo- quent testimony-that the British spirit is far from broken and that"

THE GERMAN STORY

these men will return to the bat- BERLIN, June 3 (Reuter)

Yesterday's communique ile.

states Moreover the fact that the fight-that the air forces combated the of the ing is again on the same soil as attempts of the remnant the last World War has stiffened; defeated BEF to escape to ships the French resistance, rather than salling off Dunkirk... weakened

Germans it. So, the have won a battle, and a battle only, at terrific cost to them selves.

FINANCE & GENERAL

Finance and Commerce

| KWEICHOW

INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION

The Kwelchow Industrial Cor- poration held an exhibition of its products in celebration of the estab- Arst anniversary of its lishment

Among the principal exhibits were gasoline, alcohol, machinery, glass, fabrics, and chemical pro- ducts.

I

Corporation The capital of the "Tour warships and 11 trans-has been increased from $8,000,- parts Bygregating 54,000 tans, 000 to $15,000,000. were sunk. Fourteen warships. namely, two cruisers,

light

two

POWERS OF RESISTANCE

er ulsera, one anti-aircraft cruiser, The National Zeltung in Berne six destroyers, two torpedo boats, states the "tremendous moral and

and one speed-bost as well as feat of the retreating armies gives 38 merchantmen were damaged evidence of the inner powers and by bomb hits. resistance by the leaders of the men cannot be too highly praised. .."Many boats, barges and tugs

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capsized And troop concentra- Such a fullment of duty under hopeless circumstances and against tions on the Dunkirk beaches uninterrupted attacks on all sides were effectively. bombed.

"A

tor-

German speed-boat cannot be achieved by mere super- ficial discipline The explanation pedoed and sank a heavily-laden les rather in the inspiring pre-transport of 4,000 tons. servation of strength of character

"Air force detachments attack- having roots of virile determina-jed for the first time the port of; tion and Internal self-confidence Marseilles, set fire to two large merchantmen, and damaged the in each individual soldier.

at

The great rearguard action of Lyons-Marseilles railway line Flanders, which was not a senseless, several points. battle of despair, but an act of "The enemy lost 58 aircraft on conscious and disciplined self- June 1, and we have 15 missing. sacrifice, brought back to a fortless and horrific picture of modern warfare, something of the nobility of classic heroism."

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"German Alpine troops advanc- took Ing north from Trondheim Bodoe on June 1 and captured a British battery"

WARNING ON RISK OF AIR

INVADERS

LONDON, May 20 (By Air Mail A former British Army officer who has just escaped from Holland told me yester- day that in his opinion Britain must prepare at once to deal with Nail parachute troops, and that infantry armed with rifles would not be sufficient to deal with them, writes a Daily Telegraphs reporter.

CLEAR PICTURE

In the first clear picture, from a the military point of view, of fighting in The Hague, he told

me:

W

Air Invasion

Plans

Britain Mapped For

Parachutists

LONDON May 20 (By A Mall)-A woman who taught English in- Friedrichshafen “ shortly before the war told me yesterday how she found that her pupils were members of the

parachute Nazi

corps,

writes a Dally Telegraph re- reporter. She said:

.

SUPERVISORY COMMISSIONER Mr. Li Keng.-yuan, newly-ap- pointed supervisory commissioner of the Control Yuan for Yunnan and Kweichow, assumed office on Saturday, pending a formal cath- taking ceremony later on, says Central News.

REPEAL IS APPEALED

IN INDIA

women

MOSLEMS NEVER DRINK, because the Prophet told them not to. Hindus seldom do, because

they consider impolite to

and old men. One of the foremost ains of the Indian National Con- Tess has been to introduce prohibtion throughout India- ⇓ demonstration that Indians can rule themselves as· well as control themselves...

NOT AUSPICIOUS. British officials have opposed prohibition because liquor excise taxes have recently contributed 25% of provincial revenues. Besides they say, why prohibit something which is already taboo? But last August the Congress Cabinet of the Bombay President (pop. 26,400) prevalled. and, plut prohibition into effect.

not Its beginnings Were auspicious, The first day of prohibition brought yiolent riots, caused

by eleventh-hour drinkers but by bone-dry natives furious that property taxes had been increased to compensate for lost liquor taxes, Soon sinuggling became a problem. Hotels shorn of their Ecenses lost money..

not

For Europeans club life without chotapegs (half-sized whiskey- sodas) was da dull as billiards cues... At Government receptions, parties and

"I heard of no case of genuine

fighting Dutchman against his own people. All the ⚫ nghting

"Hitler ordered that all boys without WAS started by locall Germans These,

wers between 15 and 20 must speak House In time, supported by parachute troops, English and soon I had hundreds guests

"

of

and

beefed because His Excellency, Governor Sir Lawrence Roger Lumley, said he sympathized with prohibition, and would not serve even shandygaff (tralt beer, half ginger ale) to the Viceroy, Lord. Linlithgow himself,

pupils. Among them, who had three main functions;

"To occupy strategic positions, somewhat older, was an officer in Buch as the aerodromes, in the the Hitler Youth Corps. teeth of "previously" organised re

"To gain his confidence and to sistance;

do a bit of secret service. I pre-' the immediate tended to admire Hitler and detest of already organised England. I found from him that bodies of local Germans, as re-I was in the heart of the new Indians would gladly fight without parachute corps and that he was having first consulted the Indians. Inforcements; and.

TO land in vicinity

To divert the attention of their leader. Dutch troops in areas of no ap- parent strategic importance.

'TANKS REQUIRED

"All parachutists were

THEN CAME WAR The Viceroy announced

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$100

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$6.90 Waterbosta sammanf 200

$6.50

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$95 83

HK & K Warren $95

Providentu

334

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$18

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816.76

$17

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$30 Bhanghai Dooks .....

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6 cta, Hong Kong Mines ... Lands, Hotels and Bulidings

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H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE

A moderate turnover was record: ed and embraced Lands @ $32)

Trams @ $161/16.10, ́ Electrics « $58 & Telephones (Old) $24.

SELLERS

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Lands, $32).

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Telephones (Old), $24).

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WEATHER REPORT

Hongkong Roral Observatory

10 am, June 3. Barometer (at sea level), 29.79 ins. Temperature. 77 F: Humidity, $2 per cent. Wind Direction, E/S

Wind Force (Beaufort), 4 Temperature: maximum. yesterday,

80 F.

Temperature: minimum last night,

1974 F

Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th

today, 1.31 ins.

Total rainfall since January 1st

35.86 ins..

Against an average of, 24.91 ins. Sunrise tomorrow, 5.38 a.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 5.38 am.

4 p.m., June 3.

Barometer (at sea level). 29:76" tms."

Temperature, 76 F.

$4.20

N

H.K. Tramways

3910

$120

Public Utilities

918

TRZEWAYS

TO

816.15

816,25

28

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$8

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594

86,80

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A.B. Watsons

175 $ 8.40

Humidity, 93 per cent.

China Lights (0)

102

6.80 Wind Direction, E

$59

$21.10 Macao Electrics... $11 Bandakan Light..... $261 Talaphonan (öll) ...... $10.90 Telephos (new)

China Lights (N)

...

20

4.00 Wind Force (Beaufort), 4.

HK Docks⋅ (0)

150

16.75 Maximum temperature,78 F.

$20

500

16.76 Minimum temperature, 74 F. -

810

HK. Electrics

100

58.50 Rainfall, 0.12 iris.

23/0

***

200

58.50

100 58.50

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE

100

16.25

HK. Telephones (0)

300

24.50

From 4 to 10 June 1940.

$14.30

144

$4.80

HK. Wharves... Yaumati Ferries H.K. Lands

100 05,00

HIGH WATER.

LOW WATE

130 22.00

Siv

100

32.25

Bong

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Kong

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9191

$19.75

Standard

75

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In protest eight of eleven Congress

"My pupils were all parachutists. Party Cabinets resigned, among and I ascertained that they had them the one which had devised maps of all open spatea near the Bombay's prohibition law. With ex-east and north-east coasts of prohibitionists out of power, & traordinarily well armed «and England and Scotland and all British High Court last week equipped. They carried eight days' vulnerable 'spots near bridges, pleaded complicated legal tech- rations, sub-machine-guns and factories and porta.

nicalities and effectively nullided

dislodge them

often

required

even heavier arms, radio equip- "They had plans all made for prohibition outright. ment, maps and ammunition. To landing here. They had agents Congress Party *members- waiting to act for them in various anxious "lest Bombay's noble ex- infantry with hand grenades, light parts of Britain, and these were periment he put out of the ring on a technical knockout-decided to appeal to Sir Lawrence to lasue a special ordinance re-enforcing the law..

guns and even tanks.

by no means all German. "Close attention was given to the timetable

BOY SCOUT DISGUISE by which .the! parachutists were dropped. In one! "Among disguises they proposed instance a party of 20 was dropped to use were those of scouts. They half a mile east of an important were to be armed with small military post, When troops had, bombs, a little larger than eggs, been drawn away, to deal with and capable of immense damage. them a much larger party was There was a second large dropped to the west of the post. "school" for parachutists at "It should not be difficult to ap Cologne. Scores of thousands of preciate the possible significance youths were "training for the of the landing of large numbers of parachute corps all over Germany. similarly equipped troops in Eng- "At Friedrichshafen. I watched land to pave the way for large boys train by jumping from scale direct landings by troop wooden towers and going higher carrying planes. ..

each time they jumped. Many, I DISORGANISATION THREAT heard, were killed in training" "Such landings could easty create widespread disorganisation | similarly equipped troops in Eng- land at a highly critical moment

of reserves

importance,

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despatch abroad wag of the highest LONDON, June 3 (Reuter)- to the Secretary of State for Air |

Yesterday Sir Nevile Henderson, in 1936 He was a Lieutenant in "We require therefore, not only formerly the British Ambassador the Supplementary Reserve of the 16 Wyndham Street. large numbers of observers and to Berlin, broadcast an appeal on riflemen, but also troops other behalf of the British War Refugees than those intended for service Funa,,

He said that there were now abroad, well. trained in the use of heavier arms, and even armoured thousands of homes Britons. ears sufficiently mobile to reach "Many are in a most pitiable danger points before the German condition." he continued. "The defence could become consolidat sufferings they have gone through ed.

while returning home wrings our

"I suggest that all able-bodied hearts. ✦ men not required for service "Many of the refugees are gover. overseas should be mobilised to nesses, school-teachers and pro- defend this country

against fessors for whom it will be difficult parachute troops."

to find posts".

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