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FOUNDED 1001 No. 15004

一拜禮 號三十月一十英港香 MONDAY. NOVEMBER 13,1939日三初月十

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THE DUNLOP FORT TYRE

"We Must Regard The Situation As Grave" At Abbey Service

FATE OF HOLLAND DEPENDS ON HITLER

GERMAN TACTICS REVEALED

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Holland As Key To U.S. Invasion

"When we consider the wonders we did achieve and the trouble we spent in less essential objectives we are forced to the conclusion that mer failure to occupy Hol- land (in, 1914-18) and at- tempt a landing on the other Ride of the Channel was 4 grave error.

"We may assume thui we could have got 25,000 men across from the Belgian and Dutch coast before the Grand Fleet could interfere, "Instead of delivering this blow which had, every chance of success and would have struck at the very heart of the Allies as well as delivering France into our hands, we involved ou5- selves in piecc-meal operu tions of places which could not bring the War to an end."

THESE paragraphs are taken from a remarkable

British Troops

To Withdraw

LONDON, Nov. 12 (Router).-The War Office has announced that it has decided to maintain only affectives necessary to protect property and maintain order in North China.. says a "Router" message.

The "Telegraph's" Correspondent in Lon- don adds that British troops are to be withdrawn, presumably from Tientsin and Shanghai.

The decision has been made for reasons of military convenience arising out of the conflict in Europe,

It has been notified by the British Govern-

ment to the other Governments who, under the

1901, Protocol, maintain military garrisons in

China,

Will He Keep His Word?

The decision does not affect the garrison ating

Hongkong.

LONDON, Nov. 12. (Reuter). – Nazi Germany, barred from the

east, is turning a fierce but rather prudent glare upon the an- cient civilised and unoffend- Dutch and Belgians, First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, in his weekly statement to the House of Commons to-day.

"They have not chosen to molest the British Fleet.

said the

Documents Give Lie To Nazi Claims

HUN ARMIES WERE

BEATEN IN 1918

The Queen leaving Westminster Abbey with the Dean, the Rt. HOV. F. do Labilliere, after attending morning

service

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DRAMATIC MISSION

Doad Pilot Brings Back His Photos

LONDON, Nov. 12 (Reuter).-Political commenta- "They recoil from the tors in Britain draw attention to Hitler's reiteration in Maginot Line, but their his Munich speech to the "fact" that Germany did not conscripts crowd the fron-

steel front

along the suffer military defeat in 1918.

gium, to both of which they tiers of Holland and Bel- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

PARIS, Nov. 12 (UP)-A have given solemn guaran- reconnaissanco-plane with its battered and riddled French tees.

wings almost in ribbons lands, "But ua nobody believes Hit-behind the lines and miraculous- there as grave."

Munich-BombingTM

book "Germany Prepare for

Britain and France, he said, did not defeat Germany on the -War" published in 1934. battle-field.. That was a lie.

The English translation is It is interesting, in view of published by Messrs. Lovatt 29, 1918, at a council of high this, to recall that on September Dickson, Ltd.

political and military officials.

at

Strong attempts were made by presided over by the Kaiser, the Nazi Government to prevent General Ludendorit declared that the publication of the English trans- situation of the army demanded lation of the book which is immediate armistice. regarded as Germany's military text-book.

the

Nazis Deserted By Allies

CHURCHILL CONFIRMS THE AXIS SPLIT

LONDON, Nov. 12 (Reuter).-“We take blood-curdling threats as a sign of our foes' weakness," exclaimed Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty in a broadcast to-day.

He said: "We don't make threats in wartime. If we have ideas of an offensive character, we shouldn't talk about them, but try them in action.

"We don't under-rate the power and malignity of the onemies. We are prepared to endure tribulation; in fact we were prepared for it ten weeks ago.

"We are far stronger than ten weeks ago and far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns,

Allies' Improved Position

HONGKONG BORDER

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CHINESE ACTIVE

Attacks In Vicinity Of Shumchun

YINGTAK, Nov. 13 (Central) "Our Navy is stronger, our anti-Military despatches received. U-boat forcen three times. more here report considerable activi- much ties by Chinese forces on the

numerous, our Air Force

stronger, and our Army Is growing

and improving in training every day. Japanese position near the Now

Time is on our side.

Territories border in the vicinity

"A long procession of important of Shumchun. events has moved in our favour since

the beginning of the war, affecting not On November 10, Chinese enly German relations with Italy and guerillas in a night attack storm- Japan, but what has happened in ed the Japanese station at Sun- Turkey and Russin. So now, the wei, and killed scores of the boastful, bullying Nazis are loolding

hungrily for some small country in invaders. the west to trample down and loot."

At the same time, another

Mr. Churchill would not prophesy guerilla "unit attacked the Jap whether the frenzy of a cornered anese poats in a nearby village maniac would drive Hitler into the

worst of all his crimes, but the fate and set the Japanese barracks of Holland and Belgium, ke Poland, to fire,

Czecho-Slovakia and Austria would

be decided by the victory of the Pritish Empire and France.

The Alternativos

"If we are conquered, all will be enslaved and the United States will be left single-handed to guard the rights of man," Mr. Churchill said. If we are not destroyed, all these countries will be restored to life." Mr. Churchill declared that he had

always agreed with

GESTAPO er, we must regard the situation ly fails to overturn. Troops lain although they had always been

HOLDS 100

to

concentrations

in

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LATEST

GERMAN SHIPS AT LARGE

They apparently eluded British war- abips on patrol duty outside Japanese territorial waters, and are now some- where at sca.

rush up and vainly wait for the personal friends, but Mr. Chamber- Berlin Assurances

occupants to climb out. Finally fain was a man of very tough fibre AMSTERDAM. Nov. 12 (Reuter). dead, their heads and bodies for victory as he did for peace.

they look in and find both men and was going to fight as obstinately SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH** German Findings Nazi Press Changes

The Netherlands Press shows no signs riddled with the bullets. of acute tension.

"Elther all that Britain and France

TWO SPEEDY, The German Parliamentary Coin-

Diesel-engined Ewald Bance, the author, is Nazimittee was formed after the war and

Its Tune

The Amsterdam paper "Handels-In his hand. is a movie camera intact recurring German or Prussian menace hiding from the China Squadron since stand for in the modern world will go freighters are at large in the Paclic. Beside the observer, still clutched down, or the Nazi regime and the Professor of Military Selence at sat for six years enquiring into

The two stlps, which have been blad," carries a report from its Berlin with its valuable photographs of the in Europe Brunswick Technical College.

causes of war and why Germany had

LONDON, Nov. 12 (Reuter).ances from the Wilhelmatrasse.

correspondent containing reassur-Siegfried Line.

will be broken Host.

and the outbreak of war, slipped out of The reconnaissance destroyed, and everybody had better Nagasaki harbour on Saturday night. -Neutral sources report “100 The chapters devoted to England

Berlin denies once again, he says, fully.

mission has been carried out success-made up their minds to that solid, The President of one of and Holland are particularly signi- sub-committees subsequently issued nection with the Munich bomb-g the neutrality of Holland before and the observer, despite the

the arrests by the Gestapo" in con- that Germany has any intention of Пcant

to-day in view of the a report in 'three volumes in which he ing.

The pilot had been shot come time

sombre fact," continued Mr. Churchill. developments in Uto Lowlands stated that as Germany was not vic-

and. Belgium.

If Words Could Kill during the past week.

Troop torious, she

People have been warned not northern frontier, says the Wilhem-plane from a crash and bring it down frightful vengeance they

bullet in his head, had enough was in no position to This is what Bance rays of Holland, makto terms for peace.

the sirength and courage

"The Nazis exude through neutral to save

The German vessels are the 5,200- to talk about them and are strasse, are carrying out manoeuvres behind the French lines. He died to

the States and inside Information of the ton Anneliese Essberger and the Part Garman Soil

The Foreign Office had clearly frightened even to discuss the which it describes as being "purely minute before or after the landing.

org going 6,100-ton Elsa Essberger. warned that military operations might bombing,

technical and instructional, and of no

wreak upon us, and they also They are both new ships. The "The Kingdom of the Netherlands fail and that there might be a need

bawl it around the world by a Annelleso Easberger The Nazi Press continues is part of German soll and of the for diplomatic action.

political character."

This is one of the stories brought leather-lunged propaganda machine. Hamburg in 1930 and the Elsa Es was built in German people, but has been poll-

from the front about the herole ex- Another German milltary wriler try and put the blame on Britain, Communications Restored

ploits of the French airmen to-day- already.

"I words could kill, we are dead sberger, which was built only last tically separated from both since warns Germany that if she did not and in the absence of facts, 1048.

exploits blck so far are anonymous

year, is believed to have been on her realise that the Great War was lost tries to bolster up this case with-On Saturday night telephone com-attached to the men who died in the alert and casy war. Nothing has can carry large ananities of oil.

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 12. (Router). as official glory has not yet been supposed that this is going to be a

"Nobody in the British Isles has maiden voyage to the Far East. "Its territory forma the natural for purely military reasons not

Both ships are built so that they north-western boundary of Germany, the ffome front but through the fight-quotations from the speeches of munications in many parts of Holland air. Its soil consists partly of the flating forces of the Allies who brought Mr. Chamberlain and

were suspended owing to "Tallitary other delta of the Rhino, partly of the debris the German armies to ruin, Ger-statesmen who have expressed

Impressed me more than the calm,They were primarily built for the Amazing Exploit actiully."

steady and businesslike resolation soya ell trade and have large storagR of northern inland gincters and partly many would be facing another fall in dislike of the Nazi regime.

The situation this morning was re-

A less tragic tale is told about a with which the masses and ordinary tanks which can be converted for oil. ported to be normal.

lone chaser pilot on a mission in the people have faced what they im At the same time, they try to put

Both have cruiser sterne and have Amsterdam's airport is now "black- Below him he saw three Messerchinidt about to fall on them and

high clouds above the Siegfried Line. azined would be the fearful storm been strengthened for navigation in the best face on the bombing by ed out" and Amsterdam and other planes bound for

thekr saying that after all it was really to northern elties will have their first airdrome. They were already slow selves for the ordeal,"

the Saarbrucken familles. They have braced them Germany's advantage.

black-out test to-morrow night. Wave Of Unrest

Ing down for the landing.

To the list of improvements in our LONDON, Nov. 12(Reuter).

Before the Nazi flers spotted him, position in the past ten weeks already the French plot dived at full speed News from Germany reveals that the

PLEASE Turn To Page 2. Munich explosion has caused a wave confidential circular from the British curate volley of machine-gun bullets

BRUSSELS, Nov. 12 (Reuter)-Aat the first one and fired on ne of unrest all over the country.

Consul states that Britons who pre-before the German knew he tain of trying to kill Hiller, and in an do so, but those in a position to leave spun to the earth.

The Nazi Press still accuses Bri- for or are constrained to remain, may being attacked. The German plane effort to prove this contention, refers to history.

of muddy sea-bottom wrested from a short time.

the ocean by means of dykes.

Figures Which Can't Lie

"The population is a mixture of Lower Frankish, Frislan and Lower Saxon races, which have retained the General von Moltke said that signs of After the battle of the Marne, old Low-German as their written victory were the capture of prisoners language instead of the ometal Saxon and equipment of war. and Lutheran German,

Between August 8 and November 11, 1918, when the Germans were being driven back, Britain, France. United States and Belgium took over 365,000 German prisoners and captured almost 7,000 runs roughly one quarter of the army and half its guns,

would be

Belgian Advice

well-advised to mako necessary arrangements.

Was

Veering quickly before the others could gaiber speed, the Frenchman looped and returned over theru, and a fow seconds Infer sent the second and third bewildered pilots to their death..

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Sea Back Page For

Further Late Naws.

BIG SHIPPING FIGHT OPENS IN HIGH COURT

LITIGATION over the affairs of the Hongkong branch of the Ching Kee Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. was carried a step further in the Full Court this morning, when an appeal was brought against the recent décision of the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor in ordering it to be wound up.

"There is absolutely nothing un- Germon about the country, and yet French, and later English, intrigues have succeeded in creating a political gulf between this fundamentally German population and its Germani parent, and cause it to live in dread

Nazi editorials talk of the "British An uncmcial committee of the of losing the scanty measure of poli-

habit of murder" and go back to British colony yesterday advised Bri- This did not include the number of Henry IV in an endeavour to con tical Independence which it enjoys killed and wounded, and the military vince their readers of this fact,

lish subjects to leave Belgium. through the grace of France and equipment surrendered after the England.

Italy Incroasos Army Strength armistice.

Noutrals Not Fooled

This triple victory was observed "The Netherlands are flat plains,

The German plenipotentiary, at the neutrals are not the slightest con. OSLO, Nov. 12 (Reuter)That except for a number of small moralne

ROME, Nov. 12 (Reater).-N is from the French side, but was not officially announced

officially recorded because the planes deposits extending north-castwards armistice conference, said that Marvinced by German attempts to blame Mussolini has ordered the strengthen all fell in German territory.

that Signor from Utrecht with their heather-clad shal von Hindenburg rave sand-dunes running from north to power to accept any terms, even shown by the most outspoken com-dition of some 5,000 Junior officersserschmaldt squadron and sent out of Another story is reported of a young him Britain for the Munich bombing is ing of the Italian Army by an ad- sergeant-pilot attacked by south.

unconditional surrender.

Мев "Morgen Bladet." ment of the Norwegian nowspaper, and 18,000 specialists.

The appeal, which is being heard were chartered to Japanese interests, control. Dropping like a stone to- by Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell and Mr. Urce ward the ground, the Frenchman re-Justice J. A. Fraser, is brought by business and the other six had, since fought desperately to regain control. 30,000 shares as well as the Dairen waters of the Colony.

were engaged in ordinary fused to take to his parachute but shareholders of the Company holding August, 1937, been lying in the Just 300 feet from the ground, while Kishon Kalaha, a Japanese concern the enemy planes circled overhead and one of the creditors. The Chief that as the Company in Ching was The Chief Justice's decision was waiting for the crash, ha righted his Justice's decision was made following tri process of dissolution, an order for machine, executed a rocket climb and a petition by the Shlang Kee, other the winding up of the Hongkong brought one Nazi plane down with a wise known as the China Merchants branch ought to be made. Hoferring volley underneath the fuselage. Then Steam Navigation Co, Ltd., one of to the Sino-Japanese hosililles, be ho managed to reach the French lines this shareholders, and a raid in his judgment: "Not only an

Local Raids Ropulsed

Japanese Interesse authoritar which have cited PARIS, Nov. 13 (Reuter) comIn the Lower Court proceedings, li of copallone on the Ching coast, a but also on my inescapable knowledge munique lasted to-day rates that was staled that the Ching Kee Stewm state of war exists: Between China locally some, attempla, by the enainy Navigation Co. Ltd. owned and, and BORDARD Thesisted pan were repulsed during the day.

operated 20 steamships, 11 of which iman material to this app

Inundation Aroos

The case for complete military victory, political commentators point

"The western part of the plain, out, could hardly have been more

from Helder to Zeeland, is low-lying amply proved. marshland, situated below sea-lovel, and it can thus be turned into water

by inundation. The natural lines of CALCUTTA'S AIR

defence towards the cast are the

moraino hilis, south of the Zuyder

RAID ALARM

The paper anys that if normal

considerations fulded the German

presa suggestion that British terrorists could penetrate Germany's thousands of lines, flad their way into Munich

and set up their bomb at the exact spot where Hitler was going to speak, 10 would at once be absurd.

Roosevelt On The "Peace To Come" WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (Router). --President Roosevelt gave a short drained, and the rivers Issol and

If that had actually been the case, address on his return from laying a Vecht, tributaries of the lower Rhine, Calcutta received the first air-raid do with its Secret Police, the most Soldier at the Arlington National

CALCUTTA, Nov. 12 (Reuter) Germany would have nothing else to wreath on the grave of the Unicrown safely. which run parallel to the hills.

plane over a prohibited area, somo to the appearance of an unidentified |sack it

He spoke of the better peace to come, a peace which would cause men 20 miles south of the city.

to lay down the weapons of hatred.

Zee, which is now in course of being

"The Vocht is part of the inunda alarm of the wor this afternoon due numerous body in the world, but to! Cemetery...A

Herr Himmler, head of the Gestapo, would be put on a scrap heap.

tion area and is protected by a num

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