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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 27, 1939.

Britain Has Mobilised The Scientist

"SEALED LIPS" WOULD END WAR (HisPrice) IN WEEK

Octogenarian Wants To

Fight Fourth War

LONDON.

Private John Wright, aged eighty-two, rafuses to ba evacuated.

White-haired and bearded, ho stumped his stick on the ground at the Royal Hospital Chelson and mumbled; "Evacuate mo, eh? Not likely. I fought through the Afghan War, got through the Boor War and Great War all right." And I'll get through this one. But I am not going to run away from it,'!

Some of the 'Pensioners have been, ovacuated to a largo house which has been taken for them in Herefordshire. Those remaining in London have had deep shelters built for them.

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,

Just the same as he was when he

was a clerk in a Tees-side insurance uffer

CAPTURE DENIED

Chinese Claim To Hold Nanning City

And yet what was this she had

Chungking, Nov. 24, been told about him? The vicax.

Well informed circles say that Nun-) the neighbours, the butcher, thening is a mere heup of ashes due to baker had been tellitig her that she five days of successive bombings and should be proud of him.

incendiarism on the part of the Chinese preparatory to their with- drawal, in accordance

carth scorched Press.

True I was that this zon 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 Hor On-twenty-five-year-old Sergeant William Edward Willits, one of five R.A.F. heroes of whom

Her

the

with policy-United

Chinese In Naaning

According

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 Ministry of Supply there were this vast knowledge in the

[27 tears of experts, covering such varied subjects as organic 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 Inbout 300-n 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 arxi careful attention except one type: the man who can win the war in a week, but who requires £100,000 down to un- seal his lips. He's shown out at

once.

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The

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first aircraft sound-locator Chungking. Nov, 25. (said the Director) was produced in Chinese military the last war, and since thaf time the King, in decorating them, had source, the Chinese troops "are still armament firms all over the world gallantly defending Nanning, indict-have devoted much attention to their said. "I am proud to have met suching very heavy losses on the attack-design, and a great variety of types

Hich."

ller con--the man who, in bottle is the air with the enemy, saw his pitot shot, took over the controls and new his plane to safely.

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And she said:-

"They told me at first that he had been decorated for gallantry in

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AND AT PEMBROKE DOCK, ON HER WAY TO WORK, MISS DOROTHY BROWN, TELEPHONE OPERATOR. BOUGHT A NEWS-

PAPER.

She read about Sergeant William Edward Willis-and was proud. And surprised.

Proud because she was in love with him, was engaged to bo married to

him.

Surprised because he had not given her one little hint in any of bis dally letters.

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

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ing Japanese."

The United Press correspondent heard over a long dance telephone ca}) from Nanning revealing the Chinese still hold the city-United

Presa.

Fighting in Suburbs

Chungking. Nov. 2.

have been put on the market.

Our own design has, however. bren developed entirely in our own establishmenta It is well up to its job, and is probably the most effec- five Round-locator in existence.

The problem of throwing a search- Field dispatches from Kweilin toght beam on to a target is not day Indiente that fighting of great solved merely by finding the direc- the sound of an intensity was going on in the suburbs tion from which

Modern bombers of Nanning, to-day .with heavy aircraft is coming.

travel at speeds which are a sub- casualties on both sides.

The reports state that the Japan-stantial fraction of the velocity, of ese under cover of severe aerial and scund, and the sound-locator in- artillery bombardments, succoeded in dicates where a torget was, not where crossing the Li River, which skirts it is, the southern suburbs of Nonning.

To get the present line of sight a It is stated that the Chinese-de-somewhat intricate mechanism-has.to.! fence positions in the western be incorporated in the sound-locator, suburbs have been lost and recapture and in our own designs the conver ed eight times and that fighting of sion from line of sound to line of the greatest magnitude is still raging sight is made semi-automatically.

there.

ning started crossing the Yi River at The Japanese advancing on Nan-

several points, including Liang- chingyu and Suyentang, on the morni Ing of November 23, after which

close runge

combat lusted for two days and two nights on the north bank of the river,--United Press,

Chinese Reinforced

GERMAN EXPORTS

London, Nov. 25. The King is reported already to Kwellin, Nov, 20. have signed an Order in Council The Chinese garrison in Nanning, authorising seizure of German ex-

have been reinforced, have poris 05 from November 28.-

Reuter Bulletin.

who been instructed to hold the city.

It is indicated that the Japanese) detachment which advanced south off news with which Britain plans to onning has been driving through apply the new measures.

U.S. Comment

Export Licences

Washington, Nov. 25. the uprrow passes of the Sap Men

Export licences of the State De- Tal Shan a mountain chain on the partment for the month of October New York, Nov. 26 (Reuter)-Mr. border, instead of along the Yah-revealed that neutral European coun Edwin James, Manuging Director of hsten-Nanning highway. The reason tries, particularly Sweden, Finland, the "New York Times," in long is that they want to evade encounter the Netherlands and Turkey began erticle to-day, declares that German ing strong resistance along the high-arming rapidly when the war began. publicity on the subject of mine way, which is, moreover, completely The October sales were over twice

is not handled with Dr.

destroyed.

the average of any other month of Warfare Goebbels' usual skill.

Two Japanese planes were shot the current year although there were For four days, he denied responsi-down on Wednesday in Kwangsino sales to the belligerents because blity, and then forward a defence of Plana for the attack of Nanning were of the neutrality law. The total was the new mines. Thus be presumably discovered in the notebook found in $9,274,478 compared to the total for accepted the responsibility,

the possession of one of the Japaness the first ten months of the year of airman.

$40,743,571.

The German defence is below per, and not much better than the feeble attempt to justify polson gas in 1915. There is little doubt, says Mr. James, that the laying of loose minca is a violation of the letter of The Hague treaties.

Swedish Indignation STOCKHOLM, Nov. 20 (Reuter), -The Swedish paper, "Dagens Nyheter," expresses the generat in dignation felt in the country at Ger- many's illegal mine-laying..

Besides supporting their ground! The bulk of the licences were for forces Japanese nic units were military and commercial airplanes, bombing many towns in south-moters und spare parts of which Fin- western districts of Kwangtung on Innd purchased $840,000 as compar- Friday to impede the Kwangtung ed to $400,000 in the preceding 9 soldiers from reinforcing Kwangai, months.

Two towne raided include Nalal, on Sweden took $702,250 worth of the Yamhsier-Hoppo, highway mouth- military planes and $115,307 worth east of Yamlisten, Tanhu and Wullhu of commercial planes. Turkey's war on the Hoppo-Lingshan highway, material totalled $2,200,042 of which $1,053,749 was for military planes, south-west of Lingahan.

$35,000 for machine guns, $158,750 for aerial bombs, hand grenades, etc. The Netherlands maintained their Jone half million dollars. There were no licences for arms exports to Japan during the month. Chinn returned as ja heavy purchaser when she took

$3,600,000 worth of armaments, which $2.240,000 was, for air planes.

A later report states that the Japanese have occupied Nalal and This form of operation, the paper are driving along the highway to- warns, will not pass without affecting wards Hoppo, north of Pathol consistent purchases which exceeded the economic relations of the two Wah Kiu Yat Po.. countries.

Indignation is also expressed at the fact that a total of 38 Swedish ships have been captured and are being held in German ports.

Many of these ships were of their way to the United States and eight were in ballast.

PATROLS ACTIVE

Japanes Intentions

Tokyo, Nov. 26. The Japanese clean-up campaign in China will be continued unless and until Japanese-lives and property in China are fully protected," the spokesman of the Japanese ex-

-United Press.

peditionary forces in China to day. Gunman

commenting on the reported capture of Nanjing.

Wounded

of

Kwok Kwal-aħlu, 39, admitted to The Japanese forces, he added, Kowloon Hospital last night with PARIS, Nov. 26 (Router)—A com-would not hesitate to co-operate in bullet in left thigh. Kwok allegedly munique issued to-day states that the reconstruction of China, net resisted arrest when Chinese detec- at Un patrols were active during the night only with Wang Ching-wei and his live attempted to search him in the Vosges region.

followers but with such milltary Long bus stop, New Territories, leadors of the Chungking Govern- allegedly drew revolver and pressed ment and Chinese native war lorda trigger., four times. Bullets falled to The new Japanese warship Zulkaisu who wish to break away from Gen-explode, whereupon Chinese detective will be launched at Kawasaki dockeral Chiang Kai-shek and desire to drew own revolver, shot Kwok in yards to-day.

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