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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 20, 1939.
POLISH CORRIDOR HEMMED
BY GERMAN FORTS
BERLIN, Apr. 19.
HITLER'S EASTERN fortifications, a counterpart to the steel and concrete Sicfried Line in the west, were to-night officially revealed by the publication of a series of "forbidden areas" to members of foreign military forces.
SUPPLY MINISTRY FORECAST
Churchill May Fill New Post
The prohibited areas show that fortifications aro being bullt on both sides of the Polish Corridor and all round East Prussia,
Germany now ling a line of de- fence works from the Baltic to the southern corner of Silesia (Breslau is included in the prohibited areas).
The ring of defence works around East Prussia is intended to
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IPPER
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Konigsberg
POLAND
Labour Fears Naval Act Of War:
British Ships Cut Suez Route
LONDON, Apr. 19.
THE SUGGESTION that
ward ન nny invading army marching through Poland or there might be an act of Lithuanin which might try to cut war against British ship- off this most easterly province
ping was made by Lord London, Apr. 19. from the Reich. The creation of a
The forbidden zones include Supply districts in East Prussia of Koenigs debate on foreign affairs in the Strabolgi in the course of a Ministry will probably
be de-berg.
Gumbinnen, Elbing and finitely decided upon by the Marienburg.
the House of Lords to-day. Government at the Cabinet's re-| Banned also are the Friesian Is- Jands of Borkum, Norderney and gular session to-day, according sylt, as well as the North Sea naval fax assured Lord Strabolgi Replying, Viscount Hali- base of Wilhelmshaven and the is that the subject had en- The remark which Mr. Chamland of Heligoland. berlain made in the House of Klel, naval base on the Balte, gaged the full attention of Commons yesterday afternoon is formerly on the prohibited list, may the Government, who had generally regarded as & hint forecasting such a step.
chieta. This is taken as an indlea- [not been at all unmindful of tion that the fortifications there are its obligations in this completed,
nection.
to informed quarters here.
The new Supply Ministry will, so It is believed, be endowed with full powers for the control and co- ordination of industrial production.
now be visited by foreign milltary
Thus it will have the right to compel Industrial concerns to reject orders by private firms, or It may transfer such orders to other factories. not engaged in the manufacture of armamenta,
No Difficulties
Chance For present. "Jitterbugs"
con-
TROOPSHIP
DIVERTED
LONDON, Apr. 19,--Two battalions of British infantry, at prosent aboard the troopship Palestins, will, according to Somerset on their way to
well-informed sources, bo landed at Gibraltar.
They will remain there until the arrival of a third battalion, which is due to leave England about April 22.-Trans-Ocean.
GANGSTERS
ROB MAN OF TOOTH!
A night watchman at the Arnhold Trading Company, To Kwa Wan Road, Kowloon, had a gold tooth, forcibly and painfully extracted with a pair of pliers by an armed robber early this morn- ing!
Afterwards, four robbers ransack- |ed his jacket and took away with them $1.70, leaving their victim gagged and bound.
The co-ordination of the supply Swing Orchestra For agreements reached with other Cape, whereas vessels from the Far him up, they made a search for byg
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departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and their amalgamation in a single organisation will not present greal dificulties, as the personnel of
SWING MUSIC in the Ameri- the present separate supply depart-ean fashion will be turned on in ments of the three services, and the
Tangiers Safo
Some time after the robbers had ftown, Tam succeeded in freeing him- self and he made an immediate report to the police.
He could not say more at decision was to divert ships which usually went from India and the Far
The affair took place at 3.45 this East vin Suez to America.
morning, the victim, Tam Yu, aged Anti-Aggression Pacts
Shups to the United Kingdom would 49, being set upon by four men us Replying to
continue to use Suez Because the be kept watch over the Arnhold a question by Government's
war-risk
Trading Company premises. After Insurance Lord Strabolgi whether any rates were not higher than via the silencing him with a gag and tying countries would be registered
East to
America, via Suez, had but only managed to get away with to pay war-risk insurance rote of a meagre $1.70 from the night watch- with the League, Viscount Hali- 36/- per cent, compared with 30/- man's coal. fax said he had no doubt it via the Cape-Reuter. would be the purpose of the Government to take whatever│· Hongkong on Saturday night.
action was incumbent upon it.
PARIS, Apr. 10. The Management of the Hongkong under Article 16, but it would day told the Chamber of Deputies The French Foreign Minister to- Hotel has arranged for the leading depend in some degree upon the Foreign Relations Committee that the Churchill In Command?
Swing Band of the Orient, the Swing form of agreement reached. French Government does not expect BURGLAR SURPRISED
of the, Orchestra
US.S. Augusta, to Mr. Winston
With regard to the Churchill is still provide the dance music for a gala troop movements in Spain, Viscount upon which question he had received rumours of coup de force against Tangiers, believed to be the most likely can-In the Grill Room. didate for the post of the Supply
Italifax The Augusta's dance orchestra is of troop movement was legitimately Minister, in view of his experience regarded as one of the finest in the
gos Government, as Minister of Munitions during the Far East. It
and naturally accounted for by the
He said he had also received consists War, but
of twenty fact that the Spanish army was now one would be members who, in addition
assurance regarding the eventual surprised if somebody else is viding "hot" muse, are exponents of for the movement to cause uneasiness.
to pro-demobilising, and there was no need evacuation of Italian troops from since
Churchill's
Spain-United Press. violent criticism of Mr. Chamberlain's Specialities.
Spanish Assurances foreign policy in the past has
Hongkong already has its quota of not "Jitterbugs, keen followers of been forgotten, and several members
of
framework of their organisation will be taken over by the Ministry Supply.
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Mr.
the
of the Cabinet, who never had great swing bands already active in the
sympathies for Mr. Churchill aref still opposed to his Inclusion in thei Cabinet.
That the creation of a Supply Ministry-with the functions consi- derably exceeding those of the Muni- tions Ministry directed by Mr. Churchill in the World War-is im mincal, is also confirmed by several papers in their editorials this morn ing.
Culony,
Estonian Losses
"In Civil War
REVAL. Apr. 19.There were 19 Estonian casualties in the Spanish released. civil war, according to figures just
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pointed out that a great dent satisfactory assurances from the Bur-Caught Red Handed While THE WING ON
In connection with this Jast ques- tion, another London message says that
the Spanish authorities at Tangier have given the British Consul-General the fullest assurances that there is no truth in the rumour that Spain intends to occupy terri-
tory:
The rumours are described by the Spanish Press Service as "totally false and unjustified."
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Malayans In Divorce Suit
------London."
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Divorce Court in London recently.
A Singapore case was heard in the
rence King, who was described now on leave from Singapore.
The petilloner was Herbert Law-
He asked for wife,
divorce from his Rhoda Margaret, on the out ground of her adultery.
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The Spanish authorities added that they were prepared to authorise any The "Daily Telegraph", as well as
foreign newspapermen who wished to do so, to visit the Spanish zone in the "Daily Mail" and the Labour
The Estonians fought for the Re-Morocco in order to organ the "Dally Herald", stress publican side, and it is stated that of investigations on the spot-tenter. that the creation of a new depart the 19, nine were killed, and the ment co-ordinating the supply of the remaining ten are missing-Trans-
British Ships For various services, is
absolute Ocean. RN necessity In the present situation.—! Trans-Ocean.
ROME, Apr. 19.-Pope Plus XII to- day received at the Vatican 500 Mrs. D. J. Sloss, wife of the Vice-newly-married couples, this being the Chancellor of Hongkong University, first resumption by the new Pope of was robbed of money and jewellery the custom established by his pre- worth $185 on Tuesday evening, decessor.-Trans-Ocean.
LONDON
.
In Godown
Going to his godown in Cadogan Street, Kennedy Town, on Tuesday. Lo Wan-sang, 60, discovered the door had been broken open, the locks missing, and man Inside. The in- truder, surprised by Lo, bolted but was pursued and cought by Chinese detective.
F1349.
Before Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Yip Kum, 29, unemployed, was charged F1350. with
storebreaking, possession of an fron bar at for an unlawful purpose, F1351 and larceny of two locks.
I was sentenced to three months'
hard labour on each count, two of the F1357. terms to run concurrently. He hadi three previous convictions, and was F1350. ordered to undergo police supervi- F1350. sion for two years.
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Orient Diverted LONDON, Apr. 19-A British committed adultery with the co-res- It was alleged that Mrs. King had
WENATCHEE, Wash. steamship company has decided to pondent, Kenneth Brotchle, with
Hugh Herndon, Jr., who few from send certain ships on the Far East whom the left Singapore for England Japan with Clyde Pangborn and trails via the Cape instead of the on August 31 last
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