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GUARDSMEN Home Trade!

IN ACTION Tin Hats Replace The Busbies

(By WEBB MILLER)

("UNITED PRESS WAS CORRESPONDENT"}

Increases!

Astonishing Figures Despite The War LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter). A special commentary issued to-day states that the Septem- WITH THE BRITISH ARMY [ber selbuck in seaborne tra le IN FRANCE, Nov. 20 (UP) was due to commercial uncer- Onc of the famous guards tainty and the sinkings of ships unprotected, scattered regiments which thousands of while tourists have seen parade in along the ocean trade routes. London occupies to-day some of the first-line French blockhouses. The picturesque, towering "busbies" the men London have been replaced by tin helmets. The helmets are covered by ugly, olive-green gunny-Backing to prevent their Klinting in the sun-should the sun ever shine.

wore

in

Commanders of the regiment in- clude Lord Frederick Cambridge, cousin of King George and nephew of the Queen Mother Mary.

Other members of the British royal family in France include the Duke of Gloucester, Viscount Gort and the Duke of Windsor.

Muddy Ally

The convoy system and the un- censing offensive by the Itoyal Navy have resulted in a large reduction of sinkings and the restoration of con- Adence.

the British Importa Jience October increased nearly £12,000,000 and exports £1,500,000.

Defying The U-Boats

The ocean-golag tonnage of the British Mercantile Marine at present consists of about 18,500,000 tons in ships over 500 tons,

Despite requisitioning by the Gov- ernment Department, nearly 00 per cent of this tonnage remains engaged in purely mercantile work.

German

The sinn results of the U-boat campaign are demonstrated by the fact that nearly 19 per cent. of British imports are arriving safely in British ports, and that the total tosses of British mercantile tonnage In alt causes during the war amount 19 less than three-quarter of one per They cent, of the total ocean-gohy; tonnage.

Oor useful ally to the Allied armles has been the persistent rain, which has converted the countryside into a quagmire. But the drenching showers have also been unpleasant. have filled the newly-dug trenches with yellow water and forced soldiers and correspondents to plod through cabbage and beet Belds deep in mud, large chunks of which have stuck to the boots.

Fortunately, almost all the British are now in comfortable billets-farm- houses, barre, evacuated schools, etc. The ronds throughout this region are well-paved, often with French cobble. stones.

14 SHIPS IN 9 DAYS

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terrifle week-end. A during the explosion sank nt unidentified steamer off the northeast coast of England with possible toss of 16 Ilves.

The ship sank so rapidly that the crew were unable to launch a bout Seventeen survivors have beet landed four of whom have been sent to hospital.

Eleven of the Torch Bearer's crew have been landed, six sent to hospital and two are reported missing.

Eleven of the Grazin's crew have been landed. The known number of survivors is 20, five are missing and one is known to be dead.

8 Merchant Ships Sunk

(Reuter).- LONDON, Nov. 20 Eight merchant ships have now been sunk over the week-end by German mines or enemy netion in the North

Sen.

The latest addition is the British steamer, Pensilva, of 4.000 tons, whose crew are safe and have been lunded,

The Pensilva was sunk by enemy

action.

Dramatic Pictures

The British Press is full of the pathetic figures of the survivors of the Dutch liner, Simon Bolivar.

One photo shows two six-month old babies, whose parents are miss-

Another shows a Dutch woman with two of her children, The other three are missing.

There is no doubt semi-official circles state, that Germans are laying their mines Indiscriminately acroSA regular shipping lanes.

They have resorted to this because of the fallure of their equally illegal U-boat campaign.

Brutal Methods

This, however, is more brutal. The submarine at least has chance of distinguishing between belligerent and neutral ships, but the present campaign has resulted

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SPREADS

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summoned to Berlin to report to Hitler.

Tuesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Exchange At A Glance

SELLING

T.T. London Demand do, T.T. Shanghai

T.T. Singapore

T.T. Japan

T.T. Franco

1/2

1/3

.270.

.62%

103

.02%

TT. India.

T.T. U.S.A.

.21

T.T, Manila

.48%

T.T. Datavia

.45

T.T. Bangkok

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TT. Salgon

..108

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4 m/s L/C U.S.A.

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4 m/s France

11.45

T.T. Switzerland

TT. Australia

BUYING

4 m/s L/C London

30 di India...

,04% .:4.02

U.S. Cross rate in Lon. U.S. Crass rate in N.Y...3.031⁄2

INVENTORS

GET BUSY

War Office Swamped

With Ideas

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Nov. 21 (UP).— Great Britain's director of scientific research revealed to- day government receives hun- dreds of inventions and ideas

Nazi Pilot Is Killed

Sequel To Exploit

Over Holland

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20 (Reu-. ter).The pilot of the German plane which crashed in Holland near the German frontier after being attacked by Dutch aircraft I has been killed.

November 21, 1939. VIOLATION

OF LAW

Nazi Barbarity Is Reversion To Type

LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter). The German practice of illegal mining outside enemy territorial waters is nothing new, states a special commentary.

In June, 1915, four merchant ships and two destroyera were blown up in German planes have been infring-one day in a field near a sunken light ing Dutch territory during the past ship where German mines lay.

officially two days, and. It is now announced in Berlin that the pllot of a German plane WAS seriously wounded on Saturday when two trespassing Nazi planes were attacked by a Dutch machine,

Shot Down From Ground AMSTERDAM, Nov, 20 (Reuter), It is now announced that the Ger man military plane, which crashed in Holland, was shot down from the ground.

According to an unofcial version, frontier guards actually shot the pilot with rides.

The two explosions of the Simon Bolivar suggest that the mine field was laid in a zig-zag pattern, a type of sowing not practised in waters which a nation's own fleet expects to use, because it is impossible to plot the exact positions of mines on secret charts Issued by the commanding officers for guidance,

The disaster occurred in a channel regularly swept, but it was no slackness of the sweepers since it is

favourite trick of German U-boat mine-layers to approach at periscope depth an area which has already been swept and sowing their mines shortly after.

Naxi Denials Discredited

The "Handelsblat" learns that the German pilot, who was shot by the Dutch on Saturday, was badly wound-discredited because Britain obviously The German denials are utterly ed and reached German territory would not mine without notification with great difficulty.

established channels of seaborne traffic.

It is understood that the Dutch Legation in Berlin has taken the matter of German planes flying over Holland with the German Govern- ment.,

each week-some of them useful LETTERS

but many of them humorously absurd.

One woman, he said, suggested that Baron von Neurath will have a lot Adolf Hitler's "secret weapon" was of explainlug o do, as in spite of the

a scheme to drop locusts enclosed ist must repressive measures in Czecho-glass bowls over England in the Slovakia, he has not stamped out the summer-lime to destroy agriculturni Czech revolt, embers of which are

сгоря. ist glowing nercely.

One of the proposed inventions was Although many executions have enormous magnet to disorganize been carried out and thousands of the compasses of invading aircraft og arrests made, order has not yet been ships. Another scheme was to drop fully restored IE former Czechgasoline behind the German lines and provinces.

sel fire to the countryside. The gravity with which the Nazis view the situation is indicated by the sudden despatch to Prague and other farge Czech towns of more officials of the dreaded Black Guards and the Gestapo (Sceret Police).

Mennwhile Nazi repressive men- suves against Jews are spreading to Poland in a more intense form.

In Warsaw alt Jews to be Isolated in one district which will be barrleaded off and put under strict control.

are

Von Neurath Recalled SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Nov. 20 (UP).—It is re- reported that Count von ably Neural, Minister without Portfolio. and State Secretary Karl Hermann Frank have been summoned to Berlin to report to Hitler regarding the pro- tectorate disturbances.

Simultaneously, a number of the highest Chiefs of the Storm Troops have been sent to Prague to take charge in the restoration of order.

Herr Karl Frank, should not be con- fured with Reich Minister Hans Fick, the Governor-General of the eevcupied area in Poland,

CHIANG MAY APPLY TORCH TO NANNING

The director said plons for "death rays" arrive twice a week. Another plan was for a radio wave that would destroy airplanes and "seem to de everything but break the Ten Com-

mandments."

He said one inventor proposed the use of anti-aircraft shells carrying would wrap railing wires which themselves around aircraft in flight,

INTENSIFIED NAZI AERIAL ACTIVITY

(Continued from Page 1.) South-east coast but it is not clear if it was the same craft or another An air-raid warning was sounded and the "A Clear" went an hour

Government Hospital Sisters To the Editor.

"Hongkong Telegraplı,"

Sir, It is not wise to be always "agin the Government." I cannot endorse the paragrapli in "Facts are Facts letter in which he criticises the petrol frant for 40 nursing sisters, who are allowed $00 per annum for conveyance allowance.

Germany hos announced some arens, notably those closing the Baltic and forcing neutrals to use the Klei Canal, but German U-boats by clumps of mines unannounced in the channels this side of the North Sea in order to inflet losses before the minefields are discovered and swept. Many German mines have been washed up on the east coast.

No Bickering This Time

Capital And Labour Work Harmoniously If the public were more conversant

LONDON, Nov, 20 (Reuter). with the exacting nature of the duties of the hospital sisters and their long special commentary issued hours, more sympathy would be felt to-day states that the wage ad- recently received by for a class of Government employees vances who are deserving of a greater mea-several million wage-earners are

сп

sure of thanks for the services they a striking testimony to the joint render, often at personal pecil, as during the prevalence of an epidemic collective agreement of

who in the Colony. During recent years ployers and employees epidemies have not been of In have arrived at mutually satis- frequent occurrence,

factory terms without Govern- ment or strikes.

that the

An allowance of $90 per annum works out at only $7.50 per month. When it is realised that the hospitals are situated far apart and the sisters have to visit their colleague and friends at places so widely distant as the Queen Mary Hospital on the Is- land and the Kowloon Hospital on the mainland, the surprise is sisters are granted so small a sum for travelling expenses incurred in seck- Another Nazi reconnaissance planeing relaxation and recreation from visited the Orkneys and was driven their arduous duties. off by anti-aircraft fire.

Meanwhile, the unsuccessful attack on one of our destroyers in the North Sea may have been curried out by one of the planes which had Blown over Britain earlier.

Inter.

Paris Alarm

The advances mean an improve- inent of real wages owing to the price. fixing of a wide range of goods.

New Co-operation Examples of the co-operation of Labour and the Administration pre the joint Advisory Council, consist- Ing of representatives of the Trade Union Congress and the Confedera- Hon of Employers, and the appoint- I would make a speciul plen that their travelling and other allowances ment of a Trade Union adviser to the revised so Ministry of Shipping and four mem- might not be adversely

bers of the T.U.C. General Council that the recipients of these allowances to advise the Ministry of Food. might be made to suffer unjustly,

J. P. BRAGA.

Empire Equality SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Sir,-While they are about it, I LONDON. Nov, 20 (UP)-There

would suggest that the Government were air raid warnings la Soullenst England this evening. In Parls, this consider ways and means of raising morning, ale raid alarms were sound-sufficient revenue to make a $10,000, ed in the Rhone Valley, and in south. cast and western France from be tween 20 minutes and an hour. The overcast and no planes skies were

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reveal and, despite intense Japanese AA. fre, dropped over 58 bombs. A Chinese communique claims that direct its were scored en the were seen. Japanese barracks and supply de- All the Chinese machines re- turned to their bases,

pois,

Operations In Kwangtung

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

YAMCHOW, Nov. 21 (Domel).

Raids Ovor Wide Area

20 (Reuter),- LONDON, Nov. Nazi aerial activity over Britain to day, though only three planes were definitely sighted, extended from the South of England and the London

In the loss of five neutral ships and while the advance forces are steady area to the Orkneys in the far north.

only three British vessela..

All of them are merchantmen. The German Press is telling the Germon public that British mines caused the disaster, but British mines have not been laid anywhere near where the Simon Bolivar was sunk. and in any event Britain has nothing to gain from the mining of shipping routes used by her own and by neu- tral ships.

consolidating their positions in the coastal region.

Three Japanese Army detachments have captured Lomonhu, about 7 miles east of Tassu on the Kwang tung-Kwangel border.

Two other Japanese Army detach- ments have occupied Chlutchling, 7 miles northeast of Taitunghu,

Japanese field officers claim that the main Chinese forces in the Fang- Furthermore no British mines were cheng-Yamchow aren have collapsed laid without full notification being and the first phase of the Japanese given to both British and neutral operations in southern Kwangtung shipping.

has been successfully concluded,

Minos Washed Up Dozens of mines were washed up

the Belgian coast,

The enemy raiders were obviously following up the almost daily flights of the lost fortnight or so with fur- ther reconnaissance patrols.

The area chiefly affected was the Thames estuary, Essex and South

Kent.

A German plane was sighted flying at a tremendous height, and British Aghters tooit off.

when

our

000 gesture to Canada, Austral, New Zealand, South Mrica and India who, like England are devoting all their resources to the successful pro- secution of the war.

Or is this idea of a Commonwealth of Nations, in which all are equal partners, a myth?

AUSSIE.

SWISS PROTEST TO REICH

It is noted that simultaneous action is taken by the French Government 10 stabilise wages.

Nazi Prisoners Of War Landed

LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter),—— Fifty-eight German prisoners march- under armed guard.

ed through a south const lown to-day

They were the crew of

a Naz) stemmer selzed by the Royal Navy carller in the week.

DUTCH SOLDIERS!

TO GET LEAVE

AMSTERDAM, NĂv. 20 (Reuter).

BERLIN, Nov. 20 (Reuter).-The Swiss Minister at Berlin has protested to Herr von Ribbentrop, the German-Periodical leave in the Netherlands Foreign Minister, against the repeated any will be restored from to-day. flights of German aircraft over Swiss This leave was cancelled on Octo- territory and the fact that there were her 10 when Holland new worried German anti-aircraft shells in the over the movements of Nazi troops on Bacle retion.

the other side of the Netherlands- German frontler,

The - German Minister here ex- violation of Swiss air-space by Ger- pressed, regret for the Involuntary acroplanes, but mate no mention German shells.

Escapos Defences The plane mode off at a high speed towards the coast and fighters drew off, the enemy machine was engaged without effect by anti-of aircraft batteries.

Another machine flew over the

Essex coust.

One exploded near Ostend and casualties gives the names of 84 miss-chased the raider out to sea from the

broke the windows of a millary hospital three miles away,

It is considered unlikely that the Germans are using loose mines.

British mines are equipped with a device which makes them harm- lesa should they break away. This is required by International Law.

Many German mines are not filled with this device.

ing and killed.

Casualty List Now 126 LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter).The casualty list in the Simon Bolivar sinking now totals 120.

Three hundred survivors are being cared for in England,

May Have To Blow Up Ship LONDON; Nov. 20 (Reutor)-It In this connection, the statement may be necessary to blow up the made to a Dutch newspaper by the Simon Bolivar as she is in the line Nazi Admiral Erich Raeder two of trame.

weeks after the war began is recalled. Company's Biggest Loss

Germans, he said, intended to con- form to the rules fold down by the Hague Convention concerning the laying of mines,

The Lier Grow

One also recalls Hitler's speech at the telchatag on September 1 when he said: "I will not war against women and children."

AMSTERDAM, Nov, 20 (Reuter). The Managing Director of the Reyni Dutch Steamship Company, owners of the Simon Bolivar, described the loss as the biggest the Company has ever sustained.

Dutch Protest" ROTTERDAM, Nov. 20 (Router). -At the request of the Holland- The London "Daily Express prints America Company, the Dutch Leza- this and under it the German allegation in Berlin is instructed to protest tion that the disasters were caused against the inclusion of the Dutch by British mines..

liner, Veendam, in the latest Gorman The article was headed The Lica list of liners alleged to be armed

against U-bants by Britain, Siman Bolivar Casualties The Germans recently issued a LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)The Sinking on Sight" list of allegedly official Bat of the Simon Bolivar, ormed merchantmen,

Grow"

Cinemas Carry On LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-Air- raid warnings were sounded several times in the South-east coast to night.

Cinemas were in full swing, but the majority of the audiences stoyed, No gun-fre or bombs were heard. The "All-Clear” በነዚ signalled after an hour.

NEW WAR RISK

RATES

LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-The Institute of London Underwriters notify alterations in the current schedule.

Including voyages within the area of Slam, India, Dutch Indles, Malaya and British North Borneo and includ- ng voyages between the Straits and Indo-China but not north of Saigon, Bombor Attacks Destroyar

ten LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter).If is henceforth the rates will be officially announced that a German Shillings per cent, but voyages be- tween Malayan ports, excluding bomber unsuccessfully attacked Brilists destroyer in the southern Singapore, will be five shillings per

Area of the North Sen.

#

cent.

New Russo-Nazi

Agreement

MOSCOW, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-An engagement has been signed for the exchange of Germans in Russian- occupied Poland for Russians in Ger- man-occupied Poland.

CHILD'S TELL-TALE

TONGUE

New Underground IMPORTATION OF like constipation.

Railway

LONDON, Nov. 20 (Router)-The now extension to the underground trame came into operation to-day, whereby the Bakerloo tube can be taken as for, as Pangbourne,

The work is estimated to have cost £5,000,000.

Your child's tongue will tell you. plainly when the tiny bowels need the help of a laxative. A coated sour stomach and tengue means a most careful what medicina you give. constipation. But you have to be Strong purgatives weaken and leave the bowels more bound than ever, and nothing stops a child's growth Doctors and nurses everywhere advise 'Callfornia Syrup of Figs' because it is a pure fruit laxative, therefore safe, and, being a liquid- LONDON, Nov: 20 (Heuter)--Im- you can measure the dose to a nleety portations of ground and unground to suit your children's system. Kid-

all the better for it. pepper are prohibited under a new dics love its pleasant taste and thrive order issued by the Board of Trade,

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