1939-09-01 — Page 27

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 1, 1939.

"TELEGRAPH" SPECIAL MESSAGES ON THE EUROPEAN CRISIS

BRITAIN ORDERS MOBILISATION OF FORCES AS SITUATION WORSENS.

HEAVIEST TYPHOON IN MEMORY AT TSINGTAO

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"

TSINGTAO Aug. 31 (UP).-Half of the town is without lights or communication due to the heaviest typhoon in the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

The lower section of the town is flooded with three feet of water.

Numerous persons are believed to have lost their lives due to scores ofj Ampans and junks being beached onl smnahed.

Hundreds of trees have been up- rooted and roads are washed out.

The full force of the typhoon expected to hit soon.

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LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter). In continuation of the measures already adopted, it has been decided to complete naval mobilisation and to call up the remainder of the re- gular army reserve the supplementary reserve and the air force volunteer reserve.

It is pointed out that the order includes completion of naval mobilisation, but is not a general mobilisation.

The announcement adds that officers and men will await further instructions, which will be made by each of the three service depart-

GERMAN TRICKERY

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LONDON, Repl, I (Reuler),— "Reuter's" diplomatie correspondent

could be arranged, it is understood, on terms of equality, that the settle

ments.

CENSORSHIP INSTITUTED

LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter).—Telephone communi- cation between Britain and abroad has been temporarily suspended, and wireless service has also been temporarily suspended.

All outward news-telegrams are subject to

AIRCRAFT RESTRICTED

censor-

states that the German proposals are ship as from 7 p.m. to-night. Įnot a reply to any British proposals.

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LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter).-Stringent restrictions on all Civil aircraft in the United Kingdom, including those entering, have been announced by the Air Ministry. 3,000,000 TO EVACUATE

Sept. Dee.

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Que experience with a two-house legislature Was enough for Goy.Sept. Culbert L. Olson. Upon the ad- Der. Journment of the recent legislature May he announced his intention of ad- vocating an initiative measure for det. one-house body following Nebraska's, Dec. example.

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LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter).-The evacuation of London's school-children will commence at 8 a.m. G.M.T., [to-morrow, after which rail and road services for ordinary passengers will be severely curtailed for the next three or four days between the hours of 8 a.m. and

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and trolley buses will be needed and those can only be TO-DAY KING'S

provided by their withdrawal from ordinary routes.

The general public is advised active fighting and home defence. only to travel if compelled to do And the spirit of the people is wrought 50. Green Line coaches and up to a pilch of readiness which it never before attained at the begin- country buses will be curtailed ning of a conflet. or withdrawn. ·

"If war comes now, it will flud It is estimated that over 400,000 the British people neither staled by children will be evacuated from over-exertion nor numbed by dis- about 2,000 schools in the Landon spline and routine, but fresh for a County Council area, including about struggle which they did not desire 250,000 children who will be but from which they cannot in evacuated with their parents.

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In Britain. During the period of evacuation,

Resigned To War

In Britain, some 10,000 schools will be affected. Twelve hundred de LONDON, Aug. 31, (Reuter).— training centres have been selected Briton has settled down to con- by the Minister of Health.

template the possibility of war in a Altogether. over 3,000,000 per- spirit the like of which has never song to be evacuated from the been seen in the country's history. A survey of city streets, homes, factories and newspapers reveals that the whole spirit of the country is dif- ferent from that of 1914, because Certain hospitals in London and there is no traes of Jubilation, and it other towns will transfer part of their is vitally different from last Septem- patients to outer areas to-morrow, ber, because there is no trace of last- necording to an announcement by the minute nerves.

the main line trains will not be available to the general public.

Minister

of Health. Except for some individuals, the emergency staffs have not yet been called up. Some Scotland movement of patients in has already started.

Hospitals Remove Patients SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Aug. 31 (UP)-Many London hospitals have completed the evacuation of walking cases and are planning to evacuate stretcher cases

uny moment.

at

the

As one newspaper wrlier to-day expresses it: the British people feel to-day that they have now done everything necessary to prepare for any eventuality, and no longer say "what shall we do it war comes,” but "what shall we do if it is peace

ter all."

After

resolution is unprecedented unity and Accompanying the nation's quiet determination of which one outward sign to-day is the agreement between new 350,000 engineers and employers, on engineering unions, representing and the dilution of labour, namely the

ution skilled men of introduction of

Into skilled jobs enabling production of arms, aircraft and shipbuilding plants

be

enormously increased. For

to

The hospitals are rejecting cases and are taking in cots blankets and soliciting the Usc private molor cars and trucks cnable them to handle casualties.

They are receiving additional sup-to plies of medicine and are generally years previously dilution has been 2learing for action with the staffs of the

on the alert. ductors and nurses Medical students, stripped to the

walst, are stacking sandbags outside the hospitals,

of

The London County Council has requisitioned

basements the numerous large buildings, including the massive Unilover House, for casualty clearing stations, Mattresses are already being taken in.

The authorities have also issued instructions to the essential Air Raid Precaution centres to complete the equipping of their First Air Stations and to man the control centres with | skeleton stafts,

workers and employers

cause of discusion between

Financial Fiurry

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Aug. 31 (UP)-Con- tinental interests,

,not relishing the ling and repatriated their own cur- European outlook, to-day sold "aler-

rencies.

Sterling lost 121⁄2 polats and shed at 4.27 against the dollar, There are unconfirmed rumours here that the British Government hus planned to mobilise British- owned foreign securities, whether there is a war or not.

Sterling Slumps Soldiers Take Charge

LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter)-Most LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter) groups on the London Stock London during the crisis has change to-day closed rather entier presented a striking twin picture of after a quiet sesalon in which even war and peace, with the ordinary the announcement of to-morrow's pence time happenings occurring closing of the markets failed to cause alongside such outward manifestations any material selling.

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of war us

us sandbagged buildings, ter- Developments in connection with ritorials in khaki

khaki everywhere con- the International trials adversely trolling trame, in some streets ten-affected sterling, which closed at in blocks of residential Stats 4285 in terms of dollars, compared combining-together to dig trenches with 4.305. The crisis is responsible for common safety, and shop windows for an increase of over £20,000,000 plastered with strips of paper to bre- in Bank of England note circulation, vent splinters.

which at $20.6 millions establishes a new high record.

One of the sidelights of the crisis has been the increase fr civil weddings, many bridegrooms being militamen.

Can Resist First Stock. The spirit of the nation as a whole has been best summed up in to-day's fender in the "Times". which de clares:

"Britain's preparations, long de- Iayed, have made her strength in the air and at home adequate to resist the first shock, however violent, and is solld enough to last out the power: of resistance of any DEFTERSOF The very

latencas of her atort has ensured her the use;of tho newest and most efficient materials, for bota

Wall Street was easy.

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