1939-09-27 — Page 29

Wednesday,

NANCY

YIPPEE! WE'RE LEAVIN' FOR HOME TODAY!

OH BOY!--- AM

I GLAD TO LEAVE

DIS PLACE---

WELL, KIDS

WE'RE OFF AT LAST!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 27, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WON'T

IT BE SWELL TO GET HOME

Wow!

4406

DEADLIEST DEFENCES WORLD HAS KNOWN

Forming a concealed trap into which attacking tanks may fall: the dry "Moat" as a feature of modern defences--

GRAPHICSTORY BY GIRL SURVIVOR

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

THE FOLLOWING_eye-witness's account of the sinking of the Athenia, received by air-mail, was written for the United Press by Miss Irene de Mun, of Topeka, Kans., after her arrival in Glasgow.

GLASGOW, Sept, 5 (UP).—I am a teacher at State College. This was my first trip to Europe. With a group of friends I toured France and England.

I was scasick aboard the Athenia from the very first day. We were happy, however, to be on our way home on the beautiful liner.

separated.

My seasickness helped save when others and children became my life as I was lying down in ?

Saw Periscope my cabin when the submarino released its tourpedo.

When the torpedo hit the Athenia, I heard a duil sound. The lights went out. Luckily...I lind o flash light which I had bought in London. It proved Invaluable during those dreadful moments.

Gormans Aboard

I was on deck before the second explosion occurred and saw the peri- scope of the submarine. A short while inter a terrific amount of smoke and water arose from the submarine,.

shown toward the

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH'"

PARIS, Sept. 26 (UP).— The Western Front of 1939, across which millions of Frenchmen and Germans faced each other to-day, is only one-fourth as long as the Western Front of 1914, but potentially it is infinitely more deadly.

All that Germany and Franco learned in the Great War of the business of killing has been put into the construction of the Siegfried and Maginot Lines→→→ mighty chains of underground fortresses past which, when all the guns were roaring, not even a ant could crawl or a sparrow fly...

Twenty-five years ago the Western Front extended from the English Channel in a wide bulge to Switzer- land. To-day's front runs only 190 miles from Luxembourg, where three i nations have common, frontler in the Moselle Valley, through the Saar, and Palatinate to the Rhine and thence to the Swiss, border,

Cost £80,000,000

France's Maginot Line was bullt over a period of years at a cost of £80,000,000. It is underground

maze of galleries, guns, pill-boxes, machine gun emplacements, store- houses, munitions dumps, troop quarters and aeroplan, hangars, cach with its periscope cyc.

The French have a word for it

"upenetrable."

The German "West Wall," bulli later and more bustily, is believed to

German fortifications arc in the

AUG-10

As They See It Abroad

POLAND

-Sapajon in the N.C.D.N.

JAPANESE OFFENSIVE IN HUNAN PROVINCE

thorities show no anxiety regarding the recent developments on CHUNGKING, Sept. 26 (Reuter).—The Chinese military au- the Hunan front, where the Japanese are making a determined drive towards Changsha, the capital of Hunan.

They point out that from the be just as deadly. The heaviest military viewpoint, Changsha rector from Luxembourg to the Rhine, a little or no importance. where there is no water barrier. The Japanese drive, they say, is Like the French line, it is largely underground, but the entire front contains auxiliary fortifications 40 mites to the rear.

Aorial Minefield

The traveller expressed the belief that the recent fall in the level of the Sintstung Itiver facilitated the Japan- ese crossing,

When he passed through Changsha

as

purely for political reasons and the city was practically empty and designed to make an impression at conditions were much the pe the time of the establishment of the after the big fire last fali, new Cavernment nt Nanking under Wong Chung-wel.

Converging On City This anti-aircraft band the Ger-

The Chillere forces, it is pointed CHUNGKING, Sept. 20 (Reuter). mans call an "aerial minefeld." out here, have

tylee before an--Reviewing the present Japanese Ground balleries have

been nounced their intention of abandon-drive on Changsha this alternoon, arranged so as to form a cross fro ing Changsha, Immediately after the the Chinese military spokesman de- through which nothing could pass and full of lankow and again after the cured that the Japanese columns survive,

fall of Nanchang,

were converging on the city_in_three

The entire area is illuminated at "Router" news despatches from the columns. Our lifeboat was crammed. We

night with searchlights which, Uke the Hunan front #led almost a year ago The main body was striking south- had only three men in it, so the guns, are motorized. Squadrons of quoted the Chinese high comman-wards along the Canton-Hankow women took turns at the ears. The pursuit planes are stationed in the ders as intimating their intention of Railway. The second column, which sea was relatively calm and not too area to intercept all invading craft. abandoning Changsha and of fighting had landed on the south-eastern cold.

The German Labour Corps, which a decisive battle with the Japanese Inshore of Sharing my cabin was a very young

the Tungting Lake was German Jewish girl, a refugee from

Hunan, between moving cualwards, threatening the In the morning, a destroyer picked only a few days ago finished harvest- the hills in west

Chinese rear. The third column was Frankfurt. There were a number of us up. I cannot express sufficientizing the Reich's wheat crop, is now Hengyang und Paoching.

completing the West Wall by doubling My my appreciation for the British Navy the depth and strength of barbed only recently by General Li Tsung-main highway.

The same opinion was expressed pushing southwestwards along the German refugees on board.

became hysterical.

courtesy 1 The compunion managed to quiet her enough to sup Athenia survivors surpassed all pos- wire barriers between plll-boxes, ten and Chen Cheng, who, in fact, assembling logs for additional predicted a possible Japanese attempt on my coat and shoes. I then grab-sible imagination.

machine gun positions and building to capture Changsha, bed her by the arm and rushed on

The British Navy fed, washed and more than 1,000 miles of military Can't Affect Outcome deck.

comforted us. The sailors took off roads within the fortified band.

They stressed that the fall of Broad stretches of concrete tank Changsha would not affect the out- to us.

It was a horrifying experience, all roads to the eastward are under-ance, as the Chinese forces were pre- don't want to be taken for a heroine.slood to be heavily mined, Heavy paring to wage decisive battle Hundreds of other women aboard the sus emplacements have been against the Japanese in areas where Athenin neted similarly or did even established at 50 yard. intervals. the Japanese would be unable to Heligoland

make use of railways, highways, My one desire now is to get home Germany has one other fortress of waterways or the level plains. I shall never forget the scenes and to college as soon as possible. comparable strength Heligoland, The Chinese military authorities Demilitarised by the Versailles emphasise that this by no Incuns Trepty, as was the Saar region, the indicates that the Chinese army will double rocks of Heligoland have been not put up a strong resistance at re-fortified by Hitler so that they Changsha, form n northern Gibraltar.

What little confusion I say was their coats and sweaters to give them trups already parallel the wall, and come of the Chinese war of resist

made by a group of Polish refugees who did not speak English.

They were forming queues when we arrived and everything was being handled very efficiently.

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

PARIS, Sept. 20 (UP).—The dis- solution of the French Communist Party has been ordered by the Council of Ministers.

No action will be taken against the 72 Comununist Depulles and Senators, unless they violate the law.

The ban has resulted in the sup- pression of two famous Paris news, They point out that the Chinese papers, "L'Humanite" and "Le Soir," Their steep red cliffs have been have held up the Japanese for one as well as hundreds of provincial encased in concrete and new long-year across the Sintsinng River. They publications. range naval guns have been installed also draw attention to recent Chinese

lo guard the entrance to the Albe attacks in the vicinity of Tungchen,

aimed at strengthening the Chinese

River and to protect Hamburg and defences along the Canton-Hankow Australian Chinese

the northern provinces.

The Germans, too, have a word rallway.

for their fortresses. It Is "In- pregnable."

Amusing Incidents

A recent arrival here from the Sintslang River front states that

Denounce Wang

there. have been amusing incidents CHUNGKING, Sept. 27 (Central), there during the past year with the-Bitter denunciation of the "peson"

expelled Kuomintang leader,

BIG CONTRABAND Chase and Japanese forces facing movement of Wang Ching-wel, the

SEIZURES

Was

each other across the river,

The river is to narrow, he declared, contained in mesange received by that the soldiers often wrote mess- the National Government from the SPÉCIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH",

ager on pieces of paper, wrapped overseas Chinese at Sydney, Aus- them over stones and tossed them tralla. LONDON, Sept. 20 (UP)-Britain across to the other side.

The message pledged full support

has seized 203,600 tons of contraband Some of the messages enquired as for the National Government's polley, en route to Germany in the first to food and general living condilous of continued resistance to Japanese three weeks of the war.

of the soldiers on the other side, invasion. This revelation was made in the House of Commons to-day by tho Premier, Mr. Neville Chamberlain,

Another Slovak

In Disfavour

LONDON, Sept 20. (Router)-Tha German news agency Jins published a message which ostensibly came from Bratislava, stating that the Slovakian

Fresh Garments in Stock Consul in London had been deprived

of his offlec.

It will be recalled that the Consu sent a message to the Foreign Offee

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