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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Big German Forces Massing In Saar ALLIES PREPARED FOR NAZIS DRIVE

PARIS, OCT. 15

(REUTER). IF HITLER STRIKES, OBSERVERS HERE ARE OF THE OPINION THAT IT WILL PROBABLY BE ON THE SAAR FRONT, WHERE HIS CONCENTRATIONS ARE REPORTED TO BE HEAVIEST.

The Rhine front, with a fast-flowing river, would present great difficulties, especially as the French have now blown up the main railway and bridges.

The Front just cast of Luxembourg includes wooded and hilly country very difficult for tanks, on which Hitler is believed to place great relianco.

If Hitler launches his offensive, it seems probable

BERLIN ALARMED BY

A LONE PLANE

BERLIN, Oct. 15 (Reuter)~~An unidentified' seroplane flying at a great height over Berlin war fired on by anti-aircraft guns on Saturday evening, according to the Official News Agency. Owing to the height, the presence of the aircraft was disclosed only by the Bound of the engines,"

Mystery surrounds the Berlin report of the unidentified plane over the city.

Berlin correspondents of Dankh newspapers state a cumber of planer, believed to be British, were over Berlin during a two-hour period. No alarm was sounded but the anti-aircrali guas opened fire at 8 pm.

The Air Ministry, however, states they have no knowledge of any raid over Berlin Jast night.

that he will use masses of tanks and swarms of Gghting NICK KORIN SWINGS THE

planes.

The French Command are well-prepared for every eventuality.

"NO GREAT ACTIVITY"

PARIS, Oct. 16 (Reuter)-The following com-

munique has been issued:

"The weather is misty and there is rain.

"No great activity on the front during the day.

October 16, 1939.

APATHY IN GERMANY

Noutral American Givos Impressions

By Albion Ross AMSTERDAM, Oct. 14 (UP), -Poland's defest neither clates nor overly interests Germans, but they are curious about what Is going on in the West and their resentment against England s growing.

The Germans never respected the Poles, for one thing, and besides their attitude seems to {be that in crashing the Poles, the |German army did merely what

was expected of it...

As for Britain, political conversa» tions in Germany are now carried on |

the with periodic references to wickedness of Britain, just as former- ly it was routine to curse Russia. Now one looks round for Gestapo agents if expressing doubt of the trustworthi ness of Moscow where formerly this would be done if something com- plimentary were said about Moscow. Now people discuss everywhere with- ! out restraint the idea that Bolshevism and Nazism have a

Ereat deal in common.

No Debating

I have found here in Amsterdam bigger crowds studying war maps displayed in store windows then I found in Berlin. The typical German :

CLASSICS AT THE GRIPPS showing the axlonishing advances

BY popular request, Art. Car- neiro and his Band are to re-

appear at the Hongkong Hotel Commons Will

every Monday night until fur- ther notice.

The well-known local orehes- tra, which has always had a

Clamour

popular following at the Gripps, 300 Questions To Bel

"North-west of Wissembourg, our scouting partics obtained is to make its first re-appearance

results aimed at."

Frontal Attacks Eschewed

LONDON, Oct. 15 (Reuter). LINDBERGH

The following special commen-

tary on the war has been issued.

German propaganda constantly states that French gains on the Western Front are small, that Saur- bruecken and open towns only two miles inside the frontier are still in German hands, and that the Siegfried Line, for behind, is bombarded but otherwise intact.

OFFENDS

"Hitlerian Doctrine" Says Canadian Press TORONTO, Oct. 15 (Reuter), -Much offence has been caused

in the Grill Room to-night.

The re-appearance of Art. Carneiro at the Hongkong Hotel is actually a prelude to the opening of the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel, which is scheduled for the first Saturday of next month, Carneiro and his bond will then transfer from the Lido to the other side of the harbour.

The Gripps was again crowded on

| passer-by looks at the lines of little dags on the map of the war area,

made by the German armies, and goes his way. There is no debating and talking such as ane sees here.

Not Popular War

in

Asked This Week order iven to march into Poland.

Royal Oak Statement

This is not a popular. War Germany. It certainly is not the re- sult of any outburst of national feel-i ing or demand for redress of wrongs. I talked with all sorts of people in Berlin just before the war broke You cannot say and be honest, that the German people wanted the

Hitler gave the order, most people It was not until a were sorry. LONDON, Oct. 15 (Reuter).couple of days later that they began The House of Commons wil to say, well, maybe he had no choice. meet this week on Tuesday, On the morning of September 1 1 stood in front of the Chancellory Wednesday and Thursday.

when Hitler returned from announc The House of Lords is also expecteding in the Reichstag that the_Ger- to sit on the same days.

mun armies had crossed the Polish The Prime Minister will make his frontier. Everyone knew this pro- Saturday night, when the Ormonde statement on the international situa-bably was the beginning of a great war. Everyone had read in the sisters, popular English entertainers, tion on Wednesday.

Notice has been given of over 300 papers or had heard Hitler say that and U.S. Thompson, the American

questions to Ministers on various Germany marched to right a great ! negro with the twinkling feel, enter toples to be answered during the

Injustice to the German people. tained,

Hitler's "Acclamation "Swing" adaptations of the classics week. was a feature on Saturday night of

The Chuneellary window giving to Canada by the broadcast by the music supplied by popular Nick At the conclusion of questions on Becess to the balcony where Hitler

the Korin and his. Band, who, recently Tuesday, Mr. Winston Col. Charles Lindbergh,

Church), makes appearances and receives ac- Admiralty, wili jelamations was open. Berlin knows famous American airman, in imported from Shanghai, now pro- First Lord of the

vide the nightly dance music at the make a statement on the los of that.wison that window is open it America on Friday night.

Imeans Der Fuehrer Is likely to make Col. Lindbergh virtually suggested Gripos. Glibert and Sullivan, Be-H.MS. Royal Oak.

thoven, Mendelssohn and Bach in It is expected that there will beja personal appearance. On this that Britain and other European swing time" are Innovations which only a short debate on the Prime morning there was a small crowd of countries withdraw from the western

less than 500. There were three hemisphere lest they drag the United make the old maestros turn in Minister's statement.

their grave but they certainly created Afterwards the Labour Opposition companies of Storm Troopers, plus a a vogue for requests from dancers, will raise the question of the co-police control group, apparently ex-| experiences of the last war, are c@]}]*

who inundated the band leader with ordination of the economic dusting A methodical siege

war pecting throngs. war.

cards calling for more classical musle activilles and press for the appoint- The throngs never carne. The These restrained tacties have already

ment of a full-time Minister to deal amalt crowd which was there made achieved, at very unsall cest In

in the newest fashion.

Owing principally to the new band with this question instead of Sir John

things

worse with a demonstra- casualties, results the great value of

und the high type of enbaret enter Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, tion such as has never been seen which cannot be gauged from the depth of the French peneration alone. "He would detach Canada from her tainment provided since the opening taking over this work in addition to in Berlin since the Nazi regime

came to power. Saarbruccken Is important rond British connection," adds the journal, of the season, the Gripps is enjoying his other duties, and railway junction. It is now and "would refuse her right to preferiremarkable-wave-of- popularity, surrounded on three sides, and all the crown of England to American 1935-40 winter senson will not tack which seems to indicate that the roads and railways are under the independence. It is fortunate that!

for galety. Are of powerful French artillery Col. Lindbergh's broadcast is not re- solidly established on the surround-presentative of the view of the vast ing heights.

masses of Chanda's good neighbour in The capture of the town would the south. add nothing to this but would entall In Washington, Senator Key Pitt- unnecessary casualties through man, Chairman of the Senate Foreign traps or hand-to-hand fighting. Relations Committen, declared: "Lind- Nothing would have been easier bergh's brondenst was subject to the than to shell this open town with | construction that he approves of the its large elvilian population (130,- brutal conquest of the democracies 0001,

by the totalitarians through war, or Sequel To Finding Of

The Germins would doubtless prefer frontal attacks und Inrge enzualty lists, but military operations are not the most important part in the first stage of the present war.

Methodical Sloge War The Allies, warned by the painful

States into war,

"Hitlerian Doctrine" The broadcast is described by one Toronto newspaper as "pure littterlan) doctrine."

The French, of course, refuse to threat of destruction through war." follow Hitler's example in Poland.

Gorman Morale Weakened

Abandoned 17 Years Ago

-Stolid People ----------------- 'A group of Sturm Troopers raised the old cry "We want

to see OUT ot the

INTERPRETATIVE Fuehrer which is a part

DANCING

Latest Attraction At Gloucester Hotel

ritual of Hitler's appearances on these historieni occasions. There was Do response from the crowd. The people gazed stolidly at the facade of

the Chancellory.

Quietly the window opening on to the balcony was closed.

The newsreel cameramen who had Adding considerably to the success come to Alm Hiller receiving the

cently opened and which precedes the ning of the war took their cameras full winter entertainment season-is and went away. the appearance at the Gloucester The unnecessary polles and troopers

two dispersed. fotel of Doray and Chels, talented dancers, whose Interprétative) (ent to the Colony's socialites,

of Hongkong's "Little Season-re- plaudits of his people at the begin-

Lost Girl In 1922 SEVENTEEN years ago, a

doned in a coal yard in Mongkok by a woman. The deserted girl was taken to Leung Kau, a car LONDON, Oct. 15 (British Wirepenter. and he took her evacuated from this regionan ex- opened for war purposes n fund to after giving the finder $2 "lucky perience which Germans have not receive the spontaneous and gener-money." endured for over a century.

ous donations for purposes connected

War Fund Opened month old baby was found aban- dancing in offering something differ-

In India

The presence of French troops un German soll has deeply affected the morale of the Rhineland population, from whom the Nazis concealed the truth ng ɔng as possible.

Over 2,000,000 people have been less).-The Viceroy of India has

To-day, Leung, 53 and an abundon-

Economy results also are of the with the war which have been sented girl, now 17, appeared before Mr. first Importance. French air force to him by all sections of the com- Macfadyen at Kowloon Magistracy; and artillery have brought all Indus-munity and from all parts of India. Leung as defendant in a case of try in the Saar to a standstill, de-} An Appeal Committee will naalst in falling to report possession of a ward ⚫ priving Germany of as much coal the administration of the fund and to the Secretarint for Chinese Affairs. and iron as she obtained In Polish advise on its application consistent Mr. H. W. Fraser, of the S.C.A., Sticsin.

with the wishes of the donors.

Judges Will Go To

Cells In Raid

IN wig and red robes, the Recorder, which mark the opening day of thei of London, Sir Gerald Dodson, sat session-bigamy, post office offences,

recently st the Old Bailey ready at house-breakings, and counterfeiters

any moment to enter the dock and walk to the cells.

"You need not thinlt this is an

said on Saturday a constable station- jed at Yaumati received information that a girl had been ill-treated at a house in Temple Street Enquiries revealed that the girl had been struck and had been accused of theft of $1.50.

After Mr. Fraser had spoken of the girl's history, Leung was fined $15.

Mussolini Confers

With Army Chiefs

LONDON, Oct. 15

of

Y.M.C.A. ROBBERY

Messrs. J.

Johansen and

THE prefix "Special to the Tele- Cleverly conceived and skilfully graph" is used by the "Hongkong are included in their wide repertoire, is strictly copyright under the pro- executed rhumbas, tangos and waltzes Telegraph" to indicate news which and the smooth perfection of their visions of the Telecommunications sequences demonstrates the artistry Ordinance, 1930. Such news as bears of these two dancers.

the Indication "UP" is received in Gloucester Hotel patrons are being Hongkong on the date of publication, entertained nightly by Doray and by the United Press Associations, who All rights and forbli re- Chela, and they will continue to offer reserve hele numbers until the end of the publication, either wholly or in part, month.

without previous arrangement,

Argentina Asks-"Why No News from the Allies?"

BUENOS AIRES.

After capturing the sympathy of

the people and Press of the Argen- NEW

tine, Britain is surrendering the pro- paganda value of the newspaper but-

MEDICAL

letin boards in Buenos Aires to Ger- DISCOVERIES ABOUT INDIGESTION.

many,

The Buenos Aires H¤raid writes: "This morning, most of the news Seven instead of the usual twelve

(Reuter)placarded on the newspaper bulletin Hellel-quick relief-l your one over- Signs everywhere in the building Jurors were empanelled for the first Signor Mussolini conferred with high boards seems to hall from Berlin. whelming necenity when suffering from said, "To the air raid shelter," and case, but Sir Gerald Dodson explain army officers to-day.

stomach pains and Indigestion. That is they pointed to the hundred cells ed that under the Administration of 1 is reported that Il Duce ordered

"No news comes from the West, why leading medical authorities-special- izts, doctors, hospitals-recommend and under the courts,

Justice Act criminal cases could be Italian artillery to be strengthened. the impression that all the fighting the most obstinate me dyspepata, and the mon in the street is given specity Hisurated Mamisia for even There, far below ground level,¦ tried with such a jury, everyone in the courts-Judges, bar-

is in Poland,"

seid stomach and gastritis.. rinters, prisoners, and public-will encroachment on the principle

There is a "whispering campaign" the latest developments in medical prac

They know (for they are in touch with take sheller as soon as a raid alarm triol by jury," he said. "It is only is sounded.

made in these special circumstances,

that peste will come if Poland" is Uzo)" that recent mediest research and and is in no sense a whittling away HOSPITAL NOW

B. beaten.

numerous X-ray photographs of actual case of Indigestion, have proved "Eltater• The Old Bailey is one of London's of the rights of privileges of any-Gronstedt, realding at the European best-equipped ARP. hospitals, with body."

|Y.M.C.A., "reported to the Police that The agencies are liberally supply-ted Magneola to be the quickest-peting land the most effective stomach remenj doctors and nurses in constant at- The public gallery alone was clothing valued at $40 had beening the Press with what are repre-known to medical science.

ented to be extracis from London tendance, but it is still the criminal closed because of the difficulty peo- stolen from them yesterday,

Money. plo would have in getting to a shelter

Jewellery and clothingnewspapers protesting against the And, when the new session opened, in the event of a raid alarm. valued at $64 were reported by Shek lack of news, despite the sandbugs. and steel- Tallpiece-One case was put back Chi-huf, of a cargo boat, as having helmeted police guarding, the doors, for the attendance of an important been stolen from the vessel. Justico was dispensed as serenely as witness, Counsel rald he was a

Light gun firing practice will be new vendor with a pitch in the West Mr. Morron, of 4 Duko Street, (carried out between the hours of Prisoners with gas masks over End. He worked at night, and ow- Kowloon Tong, reported to the Police 6 pm, and midnight to-day and.ngam their shoulders walked in and out of ing to the black-out the police could yesterday the theft of a fur coat, on to-morrow and Thursday.. the dock. They were the usual cusest not And him.

valued at $320.

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