1939-05-11 — Page 27

ADDING INSULT TO INJURY

Picked Rainy Day To Steal Policeman's Car

VERY, wot and annoyed polica zergeant stamped into the

o'clock this morning), udlow 4.

Sergeant J. Harris, of Police Headquarters, is the owner of a-Morris Yill; Nö: 3245, 0172/60

•

Of course, what we should; have said, is that Sorgoant Harris was the owner of a Mörzis car.

Becauso, when Sergeant Harris'loft his quarters at the Park Road Police Quartors at 8 o'clock this morning, he walked,

"Someone had stolen his car!

Colony's Decline As Big Shipping Port

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPHO May 11, 1939,

BALANCE IN EUROPE

SWINGS TO THE DEMOCRACIES

$3,568,000 Left In Treasury

By WEBB MILLER and RALPH HEINZEN

United Freak Staff Correspondents

PARIS, May 10. THE BRITISH and French general staffs are confident that if war with the dictator states comes, the margin of superiority by land, sea and in the air is now in their favour and growing more favourable daily,

The five major powers-Franco will be asked to provide gir Britain, France, Germany, Italy and naval bases for the Germans and Italians in the Atlantic from the and Russia, Giave among them mainland ports of Cadiz, Vigo and more than 33,000,000 men either Cerrunna as well as from Spanish under arms or in reserve the Morocco and the Canary Islands. greatest potential armies ever expected at the outset of war to oc- ready for action in history.

ALTHOUGH Hongkong'a excess of Assets over Liabilities! is shown at. $13,562,235 in the Financial Report for the year 1938, tabled in Legislative Council this afternoon, the actual cash resources of the Colony amounted on December 31 to only: $3,568,221,

The Colony has advanced a total of $12,003,389

launs against two which will be floated in the future. A Dollar loan for $11,000,000 has already been authorised by Legisla- n propitious time, This $11,000,000 is the balance of 000. the $25,000,000 Loun buthorised in 1934, only $14,000,000 being fouled at the time. •

The year 1938 showed a further decrease in theive Council and will, presumably, amount of shipping using the port of Hongkong. During floated at the year 6,250 less ships entered and cleared the port, than in 1937, involving a tonnage decrease of 686,004.

decrease of

The

To offset that, the French may be

cupy the Balearic Islands as guarantee of Mediterranean Con

Russia has 18,000,000 trained re- serves and men in active service; inunications. France has 6,250,000, Italy 6,300,000. Germany 2,200,000 and Britain 550,- 41,000,000 Mon

It war comes, Italy will And her |naval (--outlets plugged at Suez,

Ailimury, Supreme Coca),

Gay, colourful

SCARVES

from $2.25 each

Gibraltar and perhaps out of the CHIFFON SQUARES

The will be at Allled with the. democracies and Malta and Corfu and the French at In addition to this advance by the the dictators are 8,000,000 seasoned Modane and Vintmille in the Alps, These figures are given in the re- Steamships under 60 tons showed a Loan, $1,077,333 has been advanced troops of secondary Powers, which as well.

Ethiopian Danger port of the Harbour Master, Com- numerical decrease of 2,407 and a against a proposed new loan, terms means that if war comes 41,000,000

Two hundred thousand Italian mander G. F. Hole, tabled in Legis-tonnage decrease of 57,359, Three of which have not yet been divulg-men will be available for action. fative Council this afternoon.

hundred and seven steam launches, [ed.

Europe is speculating on where a troops in Ethiopia would be cut off

their These loans are for the purpose war will be fought If it does come from their home base with 500,000 backs, Vessels employed in foreign tradefor a tonnage of 1,021, were engager lot public works, such as the Jubileo and how the Ideological blocs will Ethioplan warriors at entering and clearing showed a net in local trade,

On December 31, 1938, there were Reservoir, Central Markets, etc. line up the start. Eventually, there clamouring for revenge. decrease of 9,112 vessels and 6,601,-

One hundred thousand other the stems lttle doubt that nearly all the 340 tons, while loent shipping showed 229 launches and 200 motor boats em-

system of advancing

Italians in Libya would be pinched a not increase of 2,862 vessels, but a ployed in the harbour; of these 352 Colony's rurplus funds instead of nations would be forced in

between the powerful French forces decrease of 206,004 tons, British were licensed for the conveyance of floating loans is being continued

Mediterrancan Vanua

in Tunisia and the British in Egypt. ocean-going shipping showed a de-passengers.

for the present.

It is no state secret that the famous In event of a conflict, military There create of 320 in numbers with a de-

"The Hquid

available resources was & decrease of 38,055 tonsi in the amount of bunker coal shipped wedinte needs, but the necessity of war would be the Mediterranean, September, for the French penetra- crease of 312,450 tons.

appear sufficient to meet the im- experts believe the main theatres of "Gamelin plan" exists and has exist

ed since the Munich crisis lost Foreign Ocean-going shipping and a decrease of 415 tons in ship-issuing the remainder of the Dollar North Africa and possibly northern showed a decrease of 2,070 vessels,ments of fuel oil.

tion of Italy. with a decrease of 5,133,200 tons. Forty-nine ships

loar as were registered

soon as clrcumstances re- Italy.

French Maginot and German "This large decrease," states the re-under the provisions of the Merchant quire is kept in mind," states the

Annual lines are so strong that port, "is due to the complete cessa-Shipping Acts and 17 ccrtineates of Hon. Mr. S. Calne, In his

Report.

possibly neither country would risk shipping for registry were cancelled. The fees

sherificing a million men in the full year and the large decrease collected amount to $2,000.00 us com-

attempt to break through there. of Japanese shipping due to thepared with $1,110.00 1037.

France might try to penetrate Sino-Japanese conflict.

tion

of Chinese

River Trade

in

An increase is revealed in the work German Journalist

of the Government Marine Surveyor

Must Leave Egypt

"The River-steainer trade shows aand his staff. Vessels surveyed for net decrease of 015 vessels and 212,-passenger certificates in 1933 totalled 044 Lons. Foreign river steamers 97 of 407,428 tons gross as compared have decreased by 1,191 in numbers with p2 of 374,800 tons gross in 1937, CAIRO, May 10.-The expulsion} and 014,251 tons, but British river showing an increase of Ave vessels of a German Journalist, Paul Forty-nine vessels Schmitz, from Egypt was ordered by steamers have increased by 376 ves- and 22,532 tons. sels and 402,207 tons--there being were surveyed at Talkoo Dockyard, the authorities to-day.

It is stated that the action has been! two more vessels put on the Hong- 39, at Kowloon Dockyard, one at kong to Macau service," the Repurt W. S. Balley's Dockyard, three at the taken at the request of the British states.

Cosmopolitan Dockyard, four at Embassy on account of reports sent Chinese shipyards, and two in Japan. by Schmitz to German newspapers, notably in connection with the recent death of King Ghazi of Iraq, which were calculated to disturb relations between

the Arab countries.-Trans-Ocean,

The Sino-Japanese conflict is also blamed for a decrease in the junk trade. The Import and export trade Silverware valued at $25 was stolen of Mr. W. E. involved 133 less junk visits than in from the residence 1037 and the handling of 1,141.842 Rickwood, No. 370 The Peak, on May

.. less tons.

Britain and

#cream

finest

my Theε

an

northern Italy through the Alps and Pass, and Germany might attempt

strike Germany through the Brenner

the same thing in reverse,

Alr.

Under it, the French would' use the Piedmont and Lombardy plains to strike down the Po Valley to reach Germany

the through Brenner Pass into Austria, thus turning the Biegfried fine without violating Switzerland by taking advantage of the common German- Italian frontier created by anschluss.

Under that plan, Italy is to be knocked out completely ng rapidly as possible,

The ultimate

A major feature of such a war would be action at rea and in the

aim is to beat her "In event of a general outbreak of into submission on land and by air fighting, there would be prospects while the French feet, backed by the of milliary action along the tradi-British Mediterranean fleet, tries to tionally "untouchable frontiers" of

sink the Italian fleet. To

do that small nations from the North Sea they must overcome the menace of to the Red Sea, the experts agree. Italy's 120 submarines and 2,000

Alps Barrior

bombers, so based that they need fly invasion between France and Italy ships at sen.

The Alps have been a barrier to only a few miles to fight foreign throughout history, although Hanni- bal and Napoleon both got through, and France might attempt it in the southern Alps.

France hus formidable fortifications in the Alps and Italy likewise on her side,

The British and French bellevo that by six months they will over- come the present aerial superiority of the dictator states and forge aticad

Axis Strategy

put the

On the only common frontier beside probably would be to

The strategy on the German-Italy tween French and Italian interests "Gomelin plan" into reverse. While the 100-mile long frontier across the Italian subraarines and planes tried sandy desert between Tunisia and Libya, French engineers have built surface flect in the Mediterranean in to wipe out the French and British the Mareth line as a miniature re order to grab Suez and Gibraltar, the production of the Maginot line.

Hence experts doubt whether there through the Brenner Pass and using German army would be pouring will be any attempt by the major the Lombardy plains to reach France powers to strike direct blows on the right flank explains the anxiety among the three

That

With her present North Sea fleet,

umoller powers which have the according to naval experts, Britain

of

being

geographle misfortune natural corridors used for centuries would be able to hold the entire Ger- by Invaders-Switzerland, Holland man fleet at bay without weakening her strength in the Mediterranean or and Belgium..

risking security of her Atlantic traffic lunes. The latter must be kept open to insure the constant arrival of food,

Dutch Flood Threats

Proof of the determination of the and war material, which will be smaller powers to maintain their bought on a "cash and carry" basis neutrality and defend their frontlers the United Stolcs revises tho is furnished by the Dutch threat to

cut their dikes and flood one-third of neutrality act.

it

The German dect is rapidly being

the lowlands; the Rumanian menace rebuilt but her three big ships of of setting Bre to their oil wells to 35,000 tons are still on the ways and prevent them from falling into will not be ready, this year.

German hands, and the Swiss readiness to explode mlues planted along the frontiers and blow the Alpine clits into the valleys to block invaders.

Sea Blockado

One of the British-French moves

in event of war would be to clamp a blockade against Germany and, Italy. It is a long-range means of bringing the dictators to terms, how- ever, and is dimcult to make airtight. That is why Germany at present

With the frontiers so well de fended to the cast and south-east, the French hope to avoid the destruction of 1014. But the wide open Pyrenees engaged in an economie offensive Spanish frontier has suddenly become tying up Rumanian oil and

D serious menace to French security and Jugo-Slavian meat and grain to It becomes increasingly evident that

insure deliveries in Gen. Franco will be closely allied-

of a block- morally if not militarily with the two those countries to take wh

ade

and to allow any to

to go into {dictators who helped him win the

what she needs If they civil war.

break their trade agree- ments by refusing deliveries,

Germany has been preparing for Italy has not attempted to hide the years to meet an economic blockade,

.Franco's. Aid

fact that if the rival blocs clash, which has been, the purpose of Her

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If Russia stays out, there is no doubt that Germany could control the Baltic, and by heavily mining the narrow entrance off Kiel, she would be able to keep the British out and enjoy the natural resources of the whole Scandinavian peninsula,

Unlesa Germany or Italy direct- ly altack Franco In amilltary Invasion, Britain: is, not likely to be called upon

upon to send a major Ex-

Across *pedillonsty

force

channel.

the

However, the co-ordination plan of the two general staffs provides that the Air Minis-Britain's air defenses shall be based of those claments which strengthen your children's resistance against colds, eye troubles ter, in a written reply, said it had not on the continent.

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Only the confidence born of a very slender lissom figure could stand up to ordeal by stairway on an "Orden and Decorations" occasion like tonight. She takes no chances with that willowy figure of her. If, through some rare oversight, her host fails to see that there is gib and Rose's Lime Juice xhen she just sighis faintly and danka not

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