1939-11-21 — Page 5

OVERNIGHT 'NEWS PAGE

Petty Officer's Fatal Fall

A traplé aceldent resulting in the death of a popular member of the Royal Navy occurred in, Hongkong yesterday morning.

The victim was Petty Officer William Lang, of one, of Ill Majcsty's ships now in harbour. Petty Officer Long while walking on the wall of the dry dock malased his fooling and fell to the bottom of the dock, austiniog fatal injuries,

He was Imrandlately picked up and taken to the Royal Naval Hospital, where ho died some hours after admission, despite every ears. He had sustained multiple injuries in all parts of the body, tuoluding fractured limbs and a fractured skull,

Felly Offloor Long was a native of Portsmouth and had a lang and distinguished career in the Royal Navy. Ho WRS very popular with his shipmates. The funeral takes place at ID to-day from the Royal

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Hospital.

GUARDSMEN

IN ACTION

Tin Hats Replace The Busbies (By WEBB MILLER)

("UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT")

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Nov. 20 (UP).——| One of the famous guards regiments which thousands of tourists have seen parade in London occupies to-day some of the first-line French blockhouses.

The picturesque, towering

"busbics"" the men wore in London have been replaced by tin helmets. The helmets are covered by ugly, olive-green gunny-sacking to prevent their: glinting in the sun-should the sun ever shine."

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

Onn useful ally to the Allied armies has been the persistent rain, which -kas- converted-the-countryside-into

quagmire. But the drenching showers have also been unpleasant. They bave filled the newly-dug trenches with yellow water and forced soldiers and correspondents to plod through cabbage and beet fields deep in mud, large chunks of which have stuck to the boots.

Fortunately, almost all the British are now in comfortable billets-farm- houses, baras, evacuated schools, etc. The roads throughout this region are well-poved, often with French cobble. atones.

No Bickering This Time Capital And Labour Work Harmoniously

Home Trade Increases!

Tuesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Nazi Pilot Is Killed

Sequel To Exploit

INVENTORS GET BUSY

War Office Swamped With Ideas

of

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ LONDON, Nov. 21° (UP).—

director Great Britain's scientific research revealed to, day government receives hun- dreds of inventions and ideas

Astonishing Figuras

Dospite The War Över Holland LONDON, Nov, 20 (Reuter). AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20. (Reu- -A special commentary issued ter). The pilot of the German to-day states that the Septem-plane which crashed in Holland ber setback in seaborno trade near the German frontier after was due to commercial uncer- being attacked by Dutch aircraft tainty and the sinkings of ships has been killed.' while unprotected, scattered German planes have been intring

ing Dutch territory during the past officially The convoy system and the un-two days, and it is now

One woman, he sald, suggested that ceasing offensive by the Royal Novy announced in Berlin that the pilot | Adolf Hitler's "secret weapon" was a scheme to drop locusts enclosed in have resulted in a large reduction of of a German plane was seriously

glass bowl over England in the sinkings and the restoration of con-wounded on Saturday when two

trespassing Nazi planes were attacked | summer-time to destroy agricultural fidenco..

inby a Dutch machine.

along the ocean trade routes,

Hence the Brilla Imports October increased nearly £12,000,000 and experts £1,500,000.

each week--some of them ust Jul but many of them humorously absurd.

crops.

One of the proposed Inventions was Shot Down From Ground ...

an enormous magnet to disorganiza AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20 (Reuter), the compasses of invading alrereft or Dofying The U-Boats

It is now announced that the Gerships. Another scheme was to drop 'The ocean-going tonnage of the man military plane, which crashed in gasoline behind the German lines and British Mercantile Marine at present

Holland, was shot down from the set fire to the countryside. coneixia of about 18,500,000 ions in

ground. ships over 500 tons.

According to an unofficial version, Despite requisitioning by the Gov-frontier guards actually shot the pilot ernment Department, nearly 20 per with rifles. cent, of this tonnage remains engaged in purely mercantile work.

The small results of the German U-bont campalga are demonstrated by the fact that nearly 90 per cent. of British Imports are arriving safely in British ports, and that the total losses of British mercantile tonnage In all causes during the war amount to less than three-quarter of one per cent, of the total ocean-going tonnage.

NAZIS SINK 14 SHIPS IN 9 DAYS

(Continued from Page 1) mines or enemy action in the North Seu.

The latest addition is the British steamer, Pensilva, of 4,000 tons, whose crew are safe and have been

landed.

The Pensilva was sunit 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 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 across regular shipping lanes.

They have resorted to this because of the fullure of their equally legal U-boat campaign.

A

Brutal Mothods This, however, is more brutal. The submarine at least has chance of distinguishing between belligerent and neutral ships, but the present campaign has resulted In the loss of five neutral ships and only three British vessels.

All of them are merchantmenл.

The German Press in telling the German 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 gula from the mining af slipping routes used by her own and by neu trol ships.

Furthermore no British mines were laid without full notification being given to both British and neutral shipping.

Mines Washed Up Dozens of mines were washed up the Belgiant coast.

One exploded near Ostend and broke the windows of a military hospital three miles away.

with this device.

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The "Handelsblat" learns that the German pilot, who was shot by the Dutch on Saturday, was badly wound- ed and reached German territory with great difficulty,

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

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-rald warning was sounded and the "All Clear" went an hour

later.

Another Nazi reconnaissance plane visited the Orkneys and was driven off by anti-aircraft fire.

Meanwhile, the unsuccessful attack on one of our destroyers in the North Sea may have been carried out by ane of the planes which aid flown over Britain earlier.

Paris Alarm

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

He said one inventor proposed the use of anti-aircraft shella carrying would wrap trailing wires which themselves around aircraft in flight.

LETTERS

Government Hospital Sisters

To the Editor,

"Hongkong Telegraph." Sir-It is not wise to be always "ngin the Government." I cannot endorse the paragraph in Facts ste Facts

letter in which he criticises the petrol grant for 40 nursing sisters, who are allowed $00 per annum for conveyance allowance.

If the publle were more conversant with the exacting nature of the duties of the hospital sisters and their long hours, more sympathy would be felt for u class of Government employees who are deserving of a greater mea- sure of thanks for the services they render, ollen at personal perit, as during the prevalence of an epidemic in the Colony. During recent years epidemies have not been of in- frequent occurrence.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Nov. 20 (UP). There were air raid warnings in Southeast England this evening. In Paris, this

An allowance of $90 per annum morning, olr raid alarms were sound-

works out at only $7.60 per month. ed in the Rhone Valley, and in south-when it is realised that the hospitals east and western France from be- tween 20 minutes and an hour. The Overcast and skles were

no planes

were scen.

GESTAPO TERROR

SPREADS

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chased the raider out to sea from the Essex coast.

are situated far apart and the sinters 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 that the sisters are granted so small a sum for travelling expenses incurred in seek- from ing relaxallon and recréation their arduous duties,

I would make a special plea that their travelling and other allowances might not be adversely, “revised so Cinemas Carry On

that the recipients of these allowances LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-Air-might be made to suffer unjustly. raid warnings were sounded several

J. P. BRAGA

times in the South-east coast 10- night.

Cinemes were in full swing, but the majority of the audiences stayed, No gun-fire or bombs were heard. The "All-Clear" was signalled after an hour,

Bombor Attacks Destroyer LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter)-It is officially announced that a German bomber unsuccessfully attacked A British destroyer in the southern area of the North Sea,

Order Not Restored LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter).—It is reported from Prague that Baron von Neurall, former German Foreign

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

British mines are equipped with Minister and now Nazi Protector of a device which makes them harm- Bohemia and Moravia, has been less should they break away. This summoned to Berlin to report to

Hitler. is required by International Law. Buron von Neuruth will have a lot Many German mines are not tied of explaining to do, as in spite of the In this connection, the statement most repressive measures in Czecho- made to a Dutch newspaper by the Slovakia, he has not stamped out the revolt, embers of which are Nazi Admiral Erich Haeder two weeks after the war began is recalled. still glowing fiercely.

Although many executions have theresis made, order has not yet been

restored in fully

former Czech provinces.

Czech

LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter). Germans, he said, intended to con- A special commentary issued form to the rules fald down by the been carried out and thousands

Hague Convention concerning to-day states that the wage ad- laying of mines, vancea recently received by several million wage-earners are

The Lids Grow

One also recalls Hiffler's speech at a striking testimony to the joint the Reichstag on September 1 when collective agreement of em- he said: "I wit not war against ployers and employees who women and children. have arrived at mutually satis factory terms without Goyer ment or strikes..

this and under it the German allega

The London "Daily Express' prints on that the disasters were caused by British mines.

The article was headed "The Lies Grow."

Simon Bolivar Casualties LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter).—The official list of the Simon Bolivar casualties gives the names of 04 miss-

The advances mean an improve- ment of real wages owing to the price- fixing of a wide range of gooday

Now Co-operation Examples of the co-operation of Labour and the Administration are the Joint Advisory Council, consisting and killed. ing representatives of the Trade Union Congress and the Confedera- tion of Employers, and the 'appoint ment of a Trade Union adviser to the Miniatry of Shipping and four mem- bers of the T.U.C. General. Counell to advise the Ministry of Food,

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

WAR MINISTER ENTERTAINS

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

Three hundred survivors, tire being cared for in England.

May Have To Blow Up Ship LONDON Nov. 20 (Router).I may be necessary to blow up the Simon Bolivar as she is in the line of traffe.

Company's Biggest Loss AMSTERDAM Nov, 20 (Reuter), The Managing Director of the Royal Dutch Steamship Company, owners of the Simon Bolivar, described the loss the biggest the Company has over

Protest

LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuter)-Mr. Leslie Hore-Bellsha has returned by air from a visit to France zustained

Before leaving, he entertained‹M.,

of

The gravity with which the Nazis view the situation is Indicated by the sudden despatch to Fragus and other large Czech towns of more high officials of the dreaded Black Guarda and the Geatopo (Secret Police)...

Meanwhile Nazi repressive ⠀ mea-

sures against Jews are spreading to

Poland in a more intense form,

In Warsaw all Jews are to be isolated in one district which will be barricaded off and put under strict control.

Empire Equality

Sir, While they are about li, 1 would suggest that the Government consider veya and means of raising sufficient revenue to make a $10,000,- 000 gesture to Canada, Australià, New Zealand, South Africa 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?

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AUSSIE.

SWISS PROTEST

TO REICH

November 21, 1939.

Campaign Plans For 1940

Com-

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UP) The Executive mittco of tho Пepublican National Committes in scheduled to meet December 7 to draft 1940 campaign plans,' ''which include an informal discussion for convocation of a 1940 Party Convention for the purpose of nominating a Presidential caudi- date.

It is understood that moverni members believe that the Re- publicans should depart from the traditional customs of holding a Democrat has been chosen probably due to President Roosevelt's failure to reveal whether he will seek a third term.

A Look Through The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 21, 1880. A bloodless revolution has occurred In Rio de Janeiro, deposing the Em- perur, who bes started for Europe. A Republican; Government has been form- ed and accepted by all the provinces excope Bahla

Share business is quite „staguast, and quotations generally continue on the downward track. Stock Exchange mat- tot are, in fact, wo bad that it would be well nigh impossible to make them much works. But the tide should near- ly be at its ebb, and muit soon turn.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 21, 1914, Although there is small probability of the United States being directly involved in the present world crials, points occasionally arise which make the question of her preparedness for war of special interest. She la at pre- sent the only great country nutelde the conflict, if we except Italy, whore in- fluence in the councils of the world has long since been on the wane, and for that reason, apart from any other, speculation is often indulged in ns to how she would show up in a routact with some of the Powers now netively engaged in the struggle.

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Despite recent praserutions, the Chin- ero compradore la stili Indulging in hi little game of over charging, according to information received from Kowloon. There is a shop In Haiphong Rund, wo ara told, where tinned beef which could previously be had at from '35 to 40 centa now priced from 08 to 70 cente, and if customers, are not willing to pay this figure, they cannot obtain uny

Several prominent Manchu ex-officials have been arrested in Peking in con- nection with a movement to restore the Manchus to power.

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 21, 1929.

It is mesreely to be wondered at that some anxiety should be expressed in the House of Commons regarding-the- value of the Soviet pledge,

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The completion of the major accept- ance trial of tho giant British dirigible, the Rt. 101, raises the highly important question of the use to which she will be put. Her latent successful flight accupied a perlost of roughly 20 hours, In the course of which the air- ship traversed large areas of England, Scotland, Froland and Wales, contend- ing for long periods against unfavoár- able weather condition.

It has been conclusively shown that the . 181, when ally in the air is safer and more rebble than any uir ship yet bullt, and other things being equal, should be capable of better per- formance than the Graf Zeppelin, which bas potne excellent achievements to her credit. (The R. 191 crashed in France.

BERLIN, Nov. 20 (Reuter).—The Swiss Minister at Berlin has protested to Herr von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, against the repeatedEd.). flights of German aircraft over Swiss territory and the fact that there were German anu-aircraft shells in the Basle reglen.

The German Minister here ex- pressed regret for the involuntary violation of Swiss air-space by Ger- man aeroplanes, but made no mention of German shells....

New Russo-Nazi Agreement

An

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

Nazi Prisoners Of War Landed

Two wartime enemies, Captain Ernst

German U-boat comman Hashagen, der, and Commander Norman Lewis, who commanded a British anti-sub- macine Q-boat, spoke in the cause of pence at the League of Nations meeting last night in Reading town hail.

Captain Hashogeh sank Commander. Lowli abip, and captured him, treated him with chivalry and kindness whith Commander Lewis is now repaying by entertaining him in England.

Both officers wore loudly cheered by the audience, which sung the British and German national, anthems.

5 YEARS AGO

Nov. 21, 1934.

A further complication of the arma- mant situation was introduced here to-day by Austria, whose delegate to the Disarmament Bureau of the League of Nations, Herr F. P. Luegel, declare that his country was deprived of all security in the face of the growing wall of force around her.

Von Neurath Recalled SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ BERLIN, Nov, 20 (UP).It is re- linbly reported that Count von Neurath, Minister without Portfolio, and. State Secretary Kari Hermann Frank, have been summoned to Berlin to report to Hiller, regarding the pro-Fifty-eight German prisoners march-

ed through a south coast town to-day | CHILD'S TELL-TALE tectorate disturbarices.

under armed guard,

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- fused with Rolch Miniator Hans Frank, the Governor-General of the occcupied area in Poland.

GOOD WORK BY

FRENCH NAVY

LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter) —

They were the crew of a Nazi steamer seized by the Royal Navy,

earlier in the week.

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TONGUE

Your child's longue, will tell you plainly when the Uny bowels need the help of a laxálive. A coated

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constipation. But you have to ba most careful what medicine you give. * Strong purgatives weaken and leave the bowels more bound than ever, LONDON, Nov. 20 (Reuter).The and nothing stops a child's growth Institute

London Underwriters like constipation: notify alterations in the -- current schedule.

of

Doctors and nurses everywhere Edouard Daladior (French Premier), AROTTERDAM, Nov. 20 (Router),

Including voyages within the oren advise 'California Syrup of Figa" General Gemella (Allied Comman—At the request of the Holland-

PARIS, Nov. 20 (Reuter).The of Siam, India, Dutch-Indies, Maloya because it is a pure fruit laxative, der-in-Chief), General Sir Edmund America Company the Dutch Lega- Ironaklo (British Chief of Staff)tion in Berlin is instructed to protest French Navy has captured several and British North Borneo and includ- therefore safe, and, being a liquid and other prominent Anglo-French naiixt (le incfusion of the Dutch thousand tons more of German ship-ing voyages between the Straits and you can measure the dose to a nicety Indo-China but not north of Balgon, to suit your children's system. Kid- leaders at luncheon, and alad at-liner, Veondant, in the latest Gergjan ping than it has lost. fended à discussion of the Ministry list of liners alleged to be armed

The commander of a 718-ton sur- henceforth the rates will be len dies love its pleasant taste and thrive vay ship is receiving special common-shillings per cent, but voyages be--all the better for it. of War,

Agnijat U-boats by Britain. "Subaequently" Mr. Hara-Batishp | The Germons recently issued a

dation for having made a dangerous tween Malayan ports, excluding | Get" a bottle to-day. Obtainable, Informed "Reuter that he had had "Sinking on Sight. lat of allegedly but successful counter-attack against-Singapore, will be five shililogs per from all chemists, druggists and ¿"some most useful talks.”

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