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ENGLAND AWAKE at a sleepy country village, a road is barricaded: precaution against the possibility of parachute Invaders. All over England, names of railway stations and any informa-

tion which may be useful to an enemy agent are obliterated for the duration,

Embezzlement "GUILTY MEN"

Charge In Shanghai

AMERICAN EXPRESS AUDITOR GIVES EVIDENCE

case

BRINGS TRUE BILL OF CHARGES

GUILTY MEN—"Cato” — Stokes ($1.50).

This short, slim-book of some 140 pages caused an uproar in England. It indicted the former members of the Chamberlain Gov- mained in the Churchill, Govern- ernment, several of whom have re-

ment, largely by stating their re- cords, and suggested that the Bel- tish Isles would be a little more buoyant if these men were dropped

Mr. Frank P. Fleth, auditor and inspector of the American Express Company, Shanghai, was the only

| witness called on Oct. 23 at the adjourned hearing of the against P. J. MacKellar, formerly In charge of the travel department of the American Express Company, accused of embezzling funds be-verboard. longing to the company.

Witness said he was auditor and inspector of the company for India and the Far East since February 1938 and was assistant manager in

Paris in charge of the accounts department 1291 to 1927, and from

CHARGES NOT NEW At any rate Gulity Men is terse. biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appearance of careful, res-- ponable judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indict ment is terrible.

NEW BOOK Hoare's record includes megotiat

ing, without the knowledge of the French the British German naval pact, selling Haile Selassie out In the Hoare-Laval agreement.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1940.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 31st OCTOBER, 1940, 9.30 ..

Parcel post service to Canton is temporarily suspended.

The Imperial Airways Bervice between Hongkong and Bangkok is temporarily suspended. Air mail correspondence will be accepted at the existing rates of postage and will be forwarded by the Arst opportunity by steamer to Singapore to connect with the east and

west bound air services.

An air mail service providing a connection with British Over- seas Airways at Rangoon will be available during the period of

of suspension

the Hongkong-Bankok Service: The postage rates. for all destinations will be $1.50 per à 02. for letters and $0.75 each for postcards. Mall for this service should be superscribed "Via Rangoon" and bear the usual bluc air mail label.

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended. INWARD MAILS

From

Due

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$1st Oct. 1st Nov.

Ist

Nov.

Air Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct vice," San Francisco date 18th October. US. A, and Manila-(Seattle date, 30th Sept.). Australia and Manila.......... Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways Direct Ser-

viceSan Francisco. date, 26th October

When the apple blossom of Bewdley" made way for the hard ware of Burmugham, Neville Chamberlain the era of grand London and Straits. blunders had begun. High point, of course, was Munich. "Cato" does not believe that Chamberlain had to back down at Munich.

Baid the Prime Minister, to somebody who questioned Hitler's promises at Munich: "Ah, but this time he pro- mised me."

quipped a Parliamentary wag about Sir Thomas Inskip's appoint- ment in 1936 as Defence Minister:: There has been no similar ap- pointment since the Roman Em- peror Caligula made his horse a Consul," Winston Churchill re-

Java and Manila. London and Straits. Swatow

London and Straits Java and Manila................. London and Straits, Australia and Manila.

London and Straits

U. H. A., Honolulu, Japan, and Shanghai-

Francisco date 19th October), .......................................no Sandakan.......

Calcutta and Straits

2nd Nov.

Ind Nov.

and Nov.

2nd Nov.

2nd Nor.

3rd Nov.

4th Nov. *

8th Nov.

7th.. Nov.

8th Nov.

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8th Nov.

10th Nov.

11th Nov.

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marked that Sir Thomas was per- the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malis are Registered and Parcel Mall are closed -15 minutes earlier than fectly right in saying that the advertised to close at or before 9 a m. registered and parcel malls are March last began to audit the Gulity Men is headed by a cast Arms was being mechanized in osed at 5 pm, on the previous day When malls are advertised to Shanghal accounts. He went on to sheet of villains, Among them: the sense that its horses are being dose after 5 pm, Registered and Parcel malls are closed at 5 p.m." relate how he examined" some of Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin taken away from it." Said Sir the accounts and found certain of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain. Thomas: "Sometimes I do not feel amounts were outstanding for & Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, very well equipped for my office." long time, some of the accounts of Lord Halifax, Str Thomas Inskip, He held it three years. Just after the Associated Mission Treasurers, Mr. Leslie Burgin, a half-dozen the British troops sailed for Nor- for instance, going as far back as others. The patriotism of these way-without proper weapons or Formoss and Daireb... October, 1939.

men is not questioned. No nith column is mentioned. The charges Eurgin was photographed holding Saigon...

supplies, Minister of Supply Leslie against them are appeasement, playing politics with national dep a white snow suit, No British fence, negligence in face of danger, ported to have said, had ever been

Expeditionary Force, he was re blundering inaptitude, plain stupi-

so well equipped.

OUT OF ORDER. Witness went on to say that he returned to Shanghal on Septem- bez 27, last, when he checked the balance sheet of the outstanding accounts of the travel department dity. PHONE 28015.

and found some of the accounts Most crushing part of the in- were reputed to have been paid.

dictment is the simple quota- Some of the accounts, he said, were

tions in Chapter I from sur- out of order, certain outstanding

vivors of the Battle of Flanders accounts having been paid by

-brief, unemotional state- cllents of the company.

ments about the enemy's superiority

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·Counsaght Bönd.

squiqment,

casual comments that it is "the story of an Army doomed before they took the feud."..

A TRUE BILA

Says "Cato" in closing: “Let the guilty men retire, then, of their own volition, and so maké an essential contribution to the victory upon which all are implacable resolved.".

GODOY READY TO FIGHT DICTATORS

NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (Reuter)-

Witness said he discovered that certain cheques sent for payment of outstanding accounts had been utilized th some cases for closing other accounts for which they were not intended and in 14 cases che- The rest of the book is a true! ques received had not been credit-bill against the politicians who ed. As a result of his investigation doomed these soldiers. Ramsay witness said he discovered a shor- MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin tage amounting to between US."took over a great empire, supreme "I am ready to fight anytime and $8,000 to $9,000 of which he found in arms and secure in liberty. They anywhere whether against Hitler. that U.S. $5,100 was a definite loss conducted it to the edge of nation Mussolini or Joe Louis,” said Ar- and US. $3,600 represented ac-ai annihilation." Next on the 1st ture. Godoy, the Chilean heavy- counts which he had reason to be-is Sir Samuel Hoare. "Like the weight boxing champion lieve were also a loss.

whosc Abbe Sieyes who was asked what name was drawn among an early he had done in the Great French 1st in a lottery to determine the Revolution, Sir Samuel could order of the calling-up of United faithfally reply: I kept alive."States conscripts.

THE COLOUR BLIND

Can They See Through Camouflage?

Recently was discovered by accident that men who are eplour- blind can see through camouflage better than men with normal vision

Now the US. Aring Air Corps Is searching its files here for the

names

ness,

of candidates who were

Ship's Engineer 's Wife To

Get $60 Maintenance

"It seems to me, in this case, that your husband has not neglected to contribute towards the maintenance of yourself and your children,” said Mr. Conrad Oldham In the second Singapore court addressing Mrs. Mand Thompson, who sued her husband, Mr. L. Thompson, for non-maintenance, for a period dating from June of this year.

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THURSDAY

Bangkok, Madang, Salamaua, Rabaul and Tulagi

Date and Time

Thu, 31st

10.30 AM

• 12,30 PM

1.30 pa

KPO

Parcoli. Beg.

4.00 PM.

5.00 M

Note: All Malls for United-Kingdom will be for- Reg.

warded with or without superscription.

| Shanghal, "Japan, Canada, USA, Central and

South America and United-Kingdom via Van- GP.O. couver, B.C., (Parcels for Canada only).

Ori.-

5.30 PM

Parcels

4.00 ZM

6.00 PM

Ord.

7.00 PM

XP.O.

Reg.

5.00 PM

Ord 5.20 PM

&

G.P.O.. Reg. 5,40 PM Ord.

7.00 PM

Fri. Nov. 1st

9.00 AM

3.30 PM

K.P.O.

Reg. 4.4.0 PM Ord.

4.30 FM

Air Mail for Manlia, Guam, Honolulu, U: S. A.,

Europe vla "Tan American Airways and Trans

Atlantic Services."

FRIDAY

Parcels only for Canada via Victoria B. C. Formosa

Air Mail by Air to Hangoon to connect

"British Overseas Airways"

SATURDAY

with

OPO.

the Beg. 4.00PM

air Mall by Sea to Singapore to connect with the Beg

"British Overseas." Airways" Istraits.

Font 4.30 FM

Sat, 2nd.

GPO, & KPO.'

9.00 AM

Urd...

9:30 AM

10.30AM

EPO

Parcels

4.00PM

Reg. Onl

5.00 PM

6,30 PM

GPO

4.00 PM

6,00 PM

5,30 PM

...KPO

Reg Ord.

6.00 PM

5.2

6.00

6.30 PM

Sanj 3rd.

9.00AM

Mon. 4th

Shanghai, Japan, Honolula, U. B. A., Canada, Cen- Parcels tral and South America and United Kingdom Reg. via Ban Francisco (No Parcels for Canada), ..... Ord.

Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and G.P.O.

Europe via "Pan American Airways and Trans Reg Atlantic Services."

Ord

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Mrs. Thompson stated that when paid off bills which were in ar- rejected because of colour-blind she returned from Penang, where rears, and in addition had given she had been on a visit to her sis-her $50 allowance, but she said it What will be done with such ter, she found that her husband was insufficient, as she had to Manila, Batavia, and Mauritius. men in the air rearmament pro-had paid of the rent on their support their two children, gramme remains to be determined, house, and also paid off her ser-

At this stage, Mr. Chandra, who but the army's School of Aviation Vants

appeared for the defendant, ad- dressing Mr. Conrad Oldham said that his citent had been previous- ly working in the Naval Base on a salary of $3 a day, but that since. then he had by hard work passed a correspondence course in en gineering, enabling, him to secure an engineer's post on board a ship at a salary of $230.

is re-indexing their names. ⠀⠀

Having no place to live in, she The discovery was made at Fortlived for a time with her father sil, Oklahoma, when an effort. She admitted that her husband had was being made, to determine how many artillery guns,.. heavily camouflaged, could bespotted from the air,

thing which a man of normal A man with normal sight was vision did not see in the or able to pick out only ten of the dinary way a colour-bitnd man guns but a "colour-blind observer, would see less of form and colour- from the field artillery, who con

fre cases when one feased to his ailment only after he entire colour does not exist for the had landed, picked uut all 40. of individ the gund

But here is another view.

SA“BUNKUM"

camoufl example.

w to the

the ability to pierce might exist. If for was a "dend colour. and the gun - was

When, his ship had docked, he went home to find that his wife had gone viriting, and that she had incurred numer- ous dobis by her extravagance. He paid off the debts and, in addition, gave his wife an alkwanta, of-850 a month. Remarking that this was very befobvious SODA zenerous of him, In view of the But If the American Air Force fact that his wife had been ex- recruit observers from travagant due to his higher salary.

sople it is making Mr. Conrad Oldham hade an or mistake, even the der by consents that the complain Ive form

uage ant should receive $10 and $10

each for her twa children:

Dr. Edridge-Green, one of the camouflaged in red, it would look world's leading experts on colour Jet black to him and world there blindness, told the News Chronicle that the theory that colour-blind

men could pierce camouflage was is as a general rule, "bunkum" ")" col

"Only in certain rare cases," he a ghastly said, would it be possible for a colour-blind man to spot some the

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U. 8.A., Canada, Cen- | G.P.O.&KPO.

via San Francisco.... tral and South Ameries and United Kingdom Reg./15.00 PM

Ord 4/15 8,30, M- Note: All Malls for United-Kingdom will be

forwarded with or without Superscription

[GPO,AKPO.

Ord." - 1.30 PM

Air Mail by sea to Singapors to connect with the Beg.1.00 Fa

"British Overseas Airways.” Straits. Ceylon. India, Mombasa, Beira,

Marques. East and South Africa, Via Durban

THURSDAY

Manila, Batavia and Sourabays.

FRIDAY

Lourenco

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Thu, 7th

Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New Zealand

Brisbane

8.30 AM

Fri, 8th G.P.O.&XPO. Par. 7/11, 5.00 PM

via Reg.8/11.45 AM Ord:8/11,9.30 AM GPO.&KPO.

Air Mali by Sea to. Singapore to connect with the Reg 0.30AM

"British Overseas Airwa

Straits and Calcutta.

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