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ANY KIND OF ATTACK

Gibraltar.---Britain's mighly rock fortress guarding the Western Mediterranean is prepared for any German attack from Spanish svil which a neutral military expert has said would cost the Invaders 150,000 mon.

Reports that the Nazi armies will attempt to conquer the citadel talled to excite military authorities, who believe years of prepara- tion and newly-completed secret defence devices have made the 1,400-foot peak as nearly impregnable an any natural fortress can

be

Take a battleship's quarter-deck since it lacks and bases for de the fortress is stripped for action. fence planes. But the inhabitants, It has long been apparent that can withdraw into the deep cala- Gibraltar must be held if Britain combs and lotty chambers carved is to keep central of the approach from the rock where bombs never 40 North Africa and the Near East, could touch them and plans have been completed to defend the rock against every con- ceivable form of assault or siege.

NETWRK OF OBSTACLES

SUBTERRANEAN CITY Gibraltar has been transtormed into a great subterranean city. with hospitals, supp' shups, food and munitions stores protected by hundreds of feet of extremely hard

A gigantic network of obstacles many of them deep secrets has been completed along the sandy rock Isthmus between the Spanish main- Many persons believe that the land and the rock.

enormous supplies of munitions and All buildings between the fron- | food stored away in underground tler and the rock have just been vaults make Gibraltar virtually! demolished. so any attacking force would be vulnerable to a merciless Gun emplacements and other shelling by guns concealed in the devices to ward off attack by sea, practically bomb-pruot calcerous are prepared in equal strength to rock. There is nothing to obstruct; those on the north lace of the rock,

slege-proot.

For Receiving Orders Heard

Hearing of two applications for receiving orders was commenced

THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941,

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HONGKONG THURSDAY, 3rd JULY, 1941.

Airmail Service by British Overseas Airways Cor.

before the Chief Justice, Sir Athollporation to East & South Africa, United Kingdom and

beyond is temporarily suspended.

MacGregor. at the Bankruptcy Court yesterday.

the

In the arst application, regard. ing Lee Ho-Ion, alias. Ka Kong-lee, trading as the Kay Lee firm debtor, Mr C. A. Suthertou Russ representing the debtor, said that the application was supported by the vast majority of the creditors.

The debtor carried on B well known compradore business and owing to the increase of prices, gol Into a difficult position

The debtor then fled the peti tion for bankruptcy and a special manager was appointed and had been carrying onl the business since. Mr Russ added that he understood that the books were nut very satisi ortary

THE DIVIDEND

Mr M. J Abb KL. Acting Official Receiver, said. In regard to the assets, that he had been advised by the special manager that there was no chance of the dividend reach-

the view of the defending gunners, facing the land approach, Auting 15 per rent.

The lard approach from La arcraft batteries have been in His Lordship told Mr Russ that Linea

studded Spain, is

drive with stalled to

Oft attacking he was not greatly concerned with mines And any German Invaders planes. or keep them at a great the assets but what was severely would have to negotiate the height

exercised in his mind was the ab- Spanish defence line built during!

SOCIAL LIFE

sence of books. the Civil War by German

Sorial Hie within the Gibraltar

Els Lordship adjourned the ap gineers While the invaders were jealony la strictly curtailed under plication to the next sitting. manoeuvring through the Spanish the shadow of impending assault An application for a receiving deteners. They would be wide open or siege, but the populace keeps order was brought by the Far Eas 1 shelling.

CHIEF DEFENCE

The Spanish press asserts that Gibraltar's chic! defence from land BILJCK is a newly-finished canal system isolating the British terri tory from the mainland

Most of the civilian population of several thousand persons, most- ly women and children, was eva rnated long ago, and the Garrison and remaining civilans are pre- pared for a siege wilch could go on indefinitely. There is a danger of repeated bombing because the rock 1s vulnerable Lo air attack

ALICE MARBLE'S

BIG WORRY

RYE. N. Y.-Wren Queen Allee

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alm and cheerful and goes about Land Investment and Guarantee Its business as usual. The troops OG.. Lld, against Yiu Yuen, the debtor. The petitioning creditor train hard all day, then relax in

D'AL- Cates

was represented by Mr. C. movies attend the

mada. theatres at night.

Pang Chi-cheung, one of the di Every day 1,000 Spaniards come across the froniter to Gibraltar toj rectors of the creditor firm, stated, receive food.

DETECTIVE STORY 100

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Hearing of the application was adjourned

BANKRUPTCY COURT

Philip Van Doren The public cxaminations Stern, thinks it has not been im proved upon aloce.

| George Leung, alias Leung Yat-ho, proprietor of the World Trading The first who-done-it was by a Co., and Chiu Kong, partner of the Marble puts her national single Allan Poe, and the story was call the Heng Cheong (Shing Ree Co., neurotic American named Edgar Hing Cheong Co. also known as trunis Crown on the block at Forest Hills. there will be a prigue." Plenty of writing on murder Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at were concluded before the Chief mising pack of rising stars ipping had been done before, however, the Bankruptcy Court yesterday.

| and deduction was commonplace in worrisome books of many sorte. Mr. Stern

Both were examined 1m con-

at her heels

They may be a bit

ed "The Murders in the Rue Mor-

their

to the winsome young blonde who points out in the current Virginia nexion with applications for their rules the tennis world at 26. but Quarterly.

adjudication in bankruptcy brought they're not her biggest worries-- 'But Poe was the first to write

by

respective petitioning not by long odds.

the detective story as we know it creditors. the Wing Fung Trading Bone of them, Queen Alfee con- today," he declared. "He added Co. and Wong Lam.

fides, are good enough, of course, the puzzle element

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1,000 Pratt And Whitney Aeroengines Per Month

NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuter) ~~Plans for a huge increase in the production of aviation engines have been announced by the major units of the automobile industry, says a Detroit message to the NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE,

The message adds: "The Buick and Chevrolet divisions of the General Motors Corporation have each disclosed plans to produce 1,000 Pratt and Whitney e gines per month, matching the known objectives of the Packard and Ford Motor Companies.

"The General Motors are a so pressing to increase the output of Allison engine with 1,000 per month as the immediate objective."

the tale of Pun Yu-wah, a partner of the to upset even the best laid plans murder, he gave us our first real Wing Pung Co. stated that he on the right day. but Miss Marble detective-the brilliant and eccen- knew Leung who had acted as fears & couple of court wise veter-tric Dupin, and he was the ori- broker for his firm and had sign- ans far more

ginator of the Dr. Waison methoded contracts on their behalt. Who might be the ten young of presenting a story through an Leung was never a partner of the women most likely to dethrone observer who tells how the sleuth firm but received a salary of $20 her."

went about solving the case.

a month in addition to commis- "First of all." she said, "there's LOGICAL STRUCTURE

ision. Helen Jacobs. Don't forget her.

"Poe's rigidly logical structure She's been playing regularly and has continued almost unchanged; An application for the withdraw- SOVIET Overtures should be In topnotch form by his philosophical asides are al of a petition for the adjudlea-

TO AMERICA the nationals. In topnotch form imitated to this day; his atmos- tion in bankruptcy of the Koon she can play plenty of tennis, and pheric effects have defied auccess-Ah Rubbery Factory was granted NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuter).— I look for her to be right in there fu) imitat, on.

Mr. Sumner Welles. by the Chief Justice. at the last."

SARAH PALFREY

Next, Miss Marble Hated Sarab Palfrey, last year's No Y in the

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story has been improved upon only Mr. Alfred Y. Hon.

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CHUNGKING, July 2 (Central)—

Like printing. the detective Thet application was made by Secretary of State, disclosed yes- Dr. Quo Tai-chi, new Minister of on behalf of terday that Russia had made the Foreign Affairs, received Bir Ar- first invented; as artistic products, tor. In a mechanical way since it was the Tak Sing Co., petitioning credi. first overtures to the United States chibald Kerr Clark Kerr, M. Ale- Gutenberg's Bible and Poe's The

national rankings, Miss Pallrey

Murders in the Rue Morgue' have was topped last year only by Miss never been surpassed." Jacobs and Miss Marble. Miss

the 1939 finals.

Am-

xandre Semionovitch. Panaouch- for supplies.

M. Oumansky, the Soviet

kine, and Mr. Clarence E. Gauas. bassador, conferred with Mr. Welles British, Soviet and varea Ambas

placing orders for sadors to China, separately yester- materials for Russia.

day afternoon. Mr. Welles said that the request

Dr. Quo also attended ne re-

PRINCE BERNHARD yesterday on But writers are not discouraged,

Jacobs, Alice recalled quickly, car-nor are publishers. Nearly 300 LONDON, July 2 (Reuter)- rled her to three torrid sets in who-done-its were published last Prince Bernhard of the Nether had been forwarded to other in-gular meeting of the Executive year, "but most of them were as lands has flown back from Canada terested Government departments, Yuan yesterday when he reported After those two, the field is artless

as radio soap-opera, and to England in a bomber. He will but declined to give details regard- his impression of the interna- wide open, Alice believes, but of quite ELS tiresome." Mr. Stern immediately resume duties. the next best challengers she thinks our mysteries are long on picked Virginia Wolfenden. No. 5 gore and short, on good red blood- for 1939, as the most likely win-that their chief function is to put

ner.

year when she three sets.

The other

ta

Oracyn Wheeler. Helen Bernhard, Pauline Betz, Dorthy Bundy, Mary Amold, Hope Knowles or Patricia Canning.

Miss Marble, although ahe

ing the materials wanted, explain- tional situation on his trip back ing that the information could not to China and also public senti- be be given as Russia was a belli-ments favouring aid to China in

various friendly countries.

CHINESE ATTACK

KONGMOON SHIUKWAN. July 2 (Central)

*

Miss Woitenden has been tired business men to sleep from Dashiell Hammett'a The Thin gerent playing excellent tennis, improved sheer boredom.

Man' are insignificant compared greatly over the form that car- There have been some great suc-with the, sales of non-detective

The Kwangtung Food Control rled her to the semi-finals last cesses in the field research shows best sellers, or with Misa de

Bureau is planning to bulld some forced Altce

-Dickens' "Bleak House" (Detec- Maurter's tremendously successful

100 granaries in the northern part tive: Inspector Bucket) was one. story of murder." Meaning "Re-

Japanese supply depota at Kong-of the province for the storage of seven could be Anna Katherine Green's "The Lea-becca," of course.

venworth Case" (Detective: Ebone- Murder is a serious business, Mr. moon were destroyed at dawn on 200,000 municipal picula of rice. Chinese troops Boveral granaries will also be built er Gryce) is still being reprinted Stern declares. It is best com-Jane 29 when

in Hunan for storing more than who forced an entry into the town, with Mre, Belloc Lowndes "The mitted directly. "The man Lodger," which is not strictly a uses a stout club on a dark street The Chinese started the attack 10,000 piculs of the staple for ship- who-done-it; Glaston

Leroux's has ten thousand chances of es- toward evening on the previous ment to Kwangtung. "Mystery of the Yellow Room" in cape compared with the too-day. Toward midnight they gue- hasn't lost a match since 1937 at which Joseph Rouletabille was the clever slayer who employs a rare cessively occupied Talkongsbary, The Kwangtung Provincial Gov Wimbledon, has been carried to

solver, and many more recent poison distilled from the stings of Pungshan, Mashan and other ernment his formed a bureau for three sets and been close to de- fent three times this year. Ming Products such as those of Dashiell Tibetan honey bees," he believes vantage points in the suburbs, the administration of the fisher- Hammett, Mary Roberta Rinehart, "Too much intelligence is a limi-capturing many light and heavy men in the province. Under the Wolfenden took a set from her. Willard Huntington Wright (8. s.ing factor that may lead to idon-machine-guns, rifles and rounds bureau ere four sections, namely, Miss Bernhard had her at match van Dine), Dorothy Sayers and II.ification."

of animunition After further reflof, organisation, training and point five times only to lose, and o. Balloy,

Mr. Stern things, in other words, fighting, they succeeded in break-administration, A plan in being Mias Betz was within two games

that sometime in the second con- ing into the town and raided Jap- draw up for organising and train- of winning the declalve third set)

tury of detective fiction now be anese military establishments. ing the fishermon. In her recent match with Allee In But, says Mr. Stern, "No detoo-ginning the product may come of the Maryland state finals.

tive story has become enormously, age--If writers will learn from life, Marble opponents find her popular in our time-the sales develop characters instead of au- toughest, though, when the going even of such record-breakers as toinations, emphasise atmosphere, #ets tough.

the 59. Van Ding books and attain dignity,

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