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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH 7 November -27; 1939.

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Octogenarian Wants To

Fight Fourth War

LONDON.

Privato John Wright, aged eighty-tvo, refuses to bo evacuated.

White-haired and bearded, he stumped his stick on the ground at the Royal Hospital Cholsca and mumbled: "Evacuato mo, eh?

Not likaty. I fought through the Afghan War, got through the Boer War and Great War, all right." And I'll gor through this one. But I am not going to run away from it.”

Some of the Ponsioners have › been/covacuated to a large house which has boon takon for thom in Horefordshire. Thoso remaining in London have had doop shelters built for thom,

GREY-HAIRED MOTHER WAS PROUD OF SON

ROUND a table in a house in Ayresome-street, Middlesbrough, a mother-grey-haired Mrs. Isabella . Willits-handed bacon and eggs.

She handed a plate to her husband, one to her daugh- ter, and one to her son.

She looked across the table at her son. She studied him with- out his knowing it.

LATE NEWS

Just the same as he was when he SEIZURES NEAR

was, a clerk in a Tees-side Insurance office.

And yet what was this she had been told about him? The vicar, the neighbours, the butcher, the baker had been telling her that she should be proud of him.

Truc it was that this son of hers wore R.A.F. uniform, true that on his left breast was stitched the ribbon of the Distinguished Flying Medal

Just Bill To Her Her con--twenty-five-year-old Sergeant William Edward Wilts, five R.A.F. heroes of whom the King, in decorating them, hnd sai

"I am proud to have met such men."

onc

Her son the man who, in battle

in the air with the enemy, saw his pilot shot, took over the controls and Lew his plane to safety.

Impossible. No, he didn't fit

in with her idea of a here. Son 'or

no son.

1.

Why, he was always so quiet and reserved, she remembered. Never much use at games at school. Not the athletic type at all.

And she said:---

HONGKONG

of Junic Reports of the seizure cargoes by members of the crew of two. Japanese cruisers have made to the Police of Hongkong.

been

Lo Tal, master of a fishing Junk, has reported that on Friday when sailing near Sanmun, In Chinese waters, they were stopped by a Japanese cruiser bearing the figures 80 palated amidships.

About 20 Japanese, dressed in khaki ond armed with revolvers, boarded the junk and removed the cargo of cas, hide skuins, pigs, wood

HOW Britain has mobi. lised her scientists was des. cribed recently by the Direc- tor of Scientific Research.

In 1914, he said, the War De- partment had fewer than 40 experts. By last, September there were 800. In addition to this vast knowledge in the Ministry of Supply there were 27 teams of experts, covering such vorled subjects us orgable and Inorganic chemistry, physics, metal- lurgy, pharmacology, explosives, and so on, with 27 key scientists and 112 assistants.

Sealed Lips

One of the Ministry's jobs is the Investigation of the inventions sub- mitted from outside, at the rate of about 300 a week.

Some are impracticable, others not new, others turn out useful for a purpose quite different from those proposed by the inventors.

Everybody gets kind and careful attention, except one type: the man who can win the war in a week, but who requires £100,000 down to un- scal s lps. He's shown out at

ouce.

Anti-aircraft defence is the favourite theme of these inventors. "Denih rays" are common, and some of more fantastic ideas submitted about Hitler's so-called secret wea- pon are:

The dropping of locusts to de- vour all green stuif;

Stells designed to drop a net- work of chains over aircraft;

A means of dropping petrol from the air and igniting it to form a sheet of flame; and ·

A mysterious radio device which (as the speaker sald) "breaks every thing except the Ten Com- mandments.

The Very Best

The first. alrcraft sound-locator (sald the Director) was produced in and since that time

oll, dried sausages, preserved fruit, the last war, valued at $9.126 to their cruiser. armament firms all over the world

The junks was ordered to be tied have devoted much attention to their to the stern of the cruiser. Later that design, and a great variety of types day the Japanese stopped and board-have been put on the market, ed fishing junk No. 5780. They took arms and ammunition worth $102 on to their cruiser. They ordered Lo and its crew into junk No. 5780 and the cruiser then steumed away tow- ing Lo's Junk.

Lo and his men came to Hongkong

Our own design has, however, been developed entirely in our own establishments. It is well up to ita Job, and is probably the most effec- tive sound-locator in existence,

The problem of throwing a search- not "They told me at first that he hoard junk No. 5780. His own Junk light beam on to a target s

solved merely by Anding the diree- had been decorated for gallantry in has been valued at $300.

Another report has been made by tion from which the sound of an the Kiel Canal raid, I knew that i was allly, of course, They need Lam Sang-cheung, master of cargo alreraft is coming. Modern bombers daredevils for jobs like that, nat Junk No. T30141, who states that at travel at speeds which are a sub- a.m. on October 5, whilst sailing stantial fraction of the velocity of ordinary people like B."

ficat Saumci, Chinese territory, he sound, and the sound-locator in- AND AT PEMBROKE DOCK, was stopped by a Japanese cruiser dientes where a target was, not where. ON HER WAY TO WORK MISS and several Japanese unit 19

boarded DOROTHY BROWN, TELEPHONE armed with short swords, OPERATOR, BOUGHT. A NEWS-junk. They removed his cargo of To get the present line of sight a 1,000 tins of kerosene, valued at somewhat intricate mechanism has to She read about Sergeant William $2,000, two cannons, valued at $70, be incorporated in the sound-locator, Edward Willits and was proud. And three rifles worth $140.200 rounds of and in cur own designs the conver surprised,

sight Is made semi-automatically.

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Proud because she was in love with powdon and 15 rattles of gun-sion from line of sound to line of

him, was engaged to be married to

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valued at $120. Lam then sailed to Kitshek In Chinese territory and from there sull- Surprised because he had noted to Hongkong arriving last Friday. elven her one little hint in any of his daily letters.

"Just like him to hide a thing like that."

AMERICAN ATTITUDE STIFFENS

GRAVE SOVIET ALLEGATION

Fire Warning Just In Time

MOSCOW. Nov. 20 (Reuter)-An Her Toys And Gas Mask

official Soviet communique accuses Finland of having fired with artillery: seven shells at Red Army troops on Le Soviet Finnish frenlier, killing, four and wounding nine.

Found Ablaze

HARPENDEN (Herts).

A Soviet oficer. Colonel Tikho- TWO small boys, who ran mirov, has been sent from Leningrad away without giving their Washington, Nov. 25.

to Investigate the matter on the spot. names but who are believed to The Chairman of the Senate

The communique adds: "This act be London evacuees, have saved Foreign Rebtions Committee, Sena-

of provocation has caused tremendous tor Key Pittman, to-day told the

Indignation among the Red Army a baby girl. Anne Morrow, an Press that the United States should troops stationed in the area of the Enfield evacuee, from being not even attempt to "appease" Japan. Finnish artillery attack."

burned to death. He described the conditions be-

Artillery Practice - tween the two countries as "nggra- vating" and wild he will urge the

PARIS, Nov. 26 (Reuter).—Accord- next session of Congress lo enacting to unconfirmed reports reaching legislation empowering

President "Havas's" Zurich correspondent from Roosevelt to Impose anti-Japanese Leningrad, several people were killed and wounded on Soviet territory embargoes.

during artillery practlee

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on

TWO DIE IN

CITY BLAZE

the

was

With her mother the baby billeted at a house in Milton-road, Hurpenden, the home of an A.R.P. warden.

The boys, seeing a fight through some trees, ran to the chief officer of the Harpenden Fire Brigade, Mr. G. II. Herring, and sak: "HL, mister, there is a window slight up diere."

"I see no reason for acts of ap- Finnish side of the frontier.

even expressions of peasement or appeasement on behalf of the United States towards Japan. Information I have shows that Japan has tinued to violate the rights of citizens In China. It would seem futile to enter a new commercial agreement with Japan until she, has made some

Two dled in hospital, five others glass of a window by which the bed effort to keep to former agreements seriously injured following, fire which stood was cracked, the room full of. under the Nine Power Treaty,"

This is no time for our Govern-Rutted three-storey tenement at 480 smoke, and the child's toys and her ment to take the initiative in foreign Queen's Road West at 1 a.m. lo-day. cas musk were alight, Others thought missing. matters. This opinion is mine and

Dead, both women, are not identi-

When the warning was given at the house the baby was found asleep in the attic. Curtains were burning, the

Mrs. Morrow anatched her baby also applies ta trade treaties. No fled. Remainder are in Queen Mary trem, the bed unhurt. question of neutrality is involved." Hospital, some in critical condition, He said that the action of the either suffering from burns or from

United States in notifying Japan of injuries received when they jumped

its intent to abrogate the trade to escape flames. treaty had eliminated the objections,

to the embargo plan and he expressed

the opinion that it would receive the

approval of the Senate "under £10 present conditions."

Ho contended that the United

Gunman Wounded

SOONG TO JOIN

CHINA CABINET?

SHANGHAI, Nov. 20

(Reu~~

Kwok Kwai-shiu, 30, admitted to ter).-"Router" is authorita- States was entitled to "retaliate" Kowloon Hospital lost night with tively informed that Mr. T. V. against any violators of any treaty bullet in left thigh. Kwok allegedly Soong is being appointed Minis- with the United States which has a resisted arrest when Chinese dotée- "perfect right to Imposo embargoes tive attempted to search him at Uniter of Finance, replacing Dr. without affecting its nommal new- Long bus stop, Now Territories, H. H. Kung. trality,

allegedly drew revolver and pressed

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“HIGHWAY PATROL' Official quarters, however, state JACQUELINE WELLS, In He added that he would "certainly, trlugor four times. Bullets, falled to in the end," urge an embargo "unless explode, whereupon Chinese dolective that the matter is not definitely set- conditions chango materially from drew own revolver, shot, Kwok in tied, but admit that Mr. TV Soong'sary

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