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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 5, 1939.
When A Box of Matches Cost 1,000,000 Marks
GERMANS FACE NEW INFLATION DREAD
Himmler Falls Out
With Goebbels
COPENHAGEN.
ESTAPO chief Heinrich Him mler. "the man who can't guard GE
Hitler," has blown sky-high_alf Goebbels's carefully prepared bomb plot accusations against Britain,
Unconditional Surrender
gave
A NEW dread is sweeping Germany to-day. K is dread of inflation.
To the working people, hi uni- ed by memories of the 1923 collapse when a single box of matches cust 1.000,000 marks (nominally £50,000), inflation is feared as much as the Gestapo itself.
Prices
are
stendily rising. despite the elaborate control and the promises of the Nazi party
Chat Mr. Cham-kept stable.
As Goebbels's propaganda machine that wages, and costs would be Was claiming berinin
orders for the And on every street corner and in Munich bomb attack in his speech every home the people are whisper- un September 3 at the outbreak of img about the sinking value of the war, Himmler announced, oficially mark.
year ago.
that preparations for the attack began! The total of murk notes in circu- before that speech was made, and lation has risen 5 per cent, since a before war broke out. Demanded By Soviets
Hamler said that the preparations
No Good Abroad 4 (Reuter).-Tho were begun by a "workman" in the BERLIN, Dec.
Buergerbrau beer, ball at the end of Germans who have recently visited Soviet is determined to secure the un-
¿August,
Switzerland and Holland are relating. conditional defeat of the Helsingfors
His agents are now searching Ger- on their return, how mark notes or fo establish the Government and Government of M. Kuussinen, accord-many for this man, whose descrip- even bank-orders from Germany are
tion is given ast Age thirty to not being accepted abroad. ing to a news agency dispatch from thirty-five; medium height; unkempt Moscow.
hair: wening yellowish working kij
The dispatch adds that this wa
M. Molotoff's answor presumably
the Swedish when The received Minister.
More Nazi Subtlety BERLIN, Dec. (Reuter).The German press to-day mentioned for the first time the establishment by Soviet Russia of a puppet government at Terijoki.
The papers give no indication that it was Communist and so the German reader gets, the impression that the whole matter is absolutely constitu- tional.
Great prominence was given to the pael concluded by the Soviet Govern- ment with the bogus regime.
Wants Justico
ROME. Dec. 4 (Reuter). The Finnish Minister to Rome stuled that Finland is still ready to negotiate a just peace.
Swedish Cabinet To Bo Reconstructed
STOCKHOLM, Dec. (Router).-- Negotiations for the reconstruction of the Swedish Cabinet with a view to the formation of a National Coalition Government are now in progress, ac- cording to the "Afton Bladet."
This journal emphasises that the negotiations are un established fact and the result may be expected any mcment.
MEETING OF COUNCIL
Second and Third Readings Of Budget
A
A meeting of the Legislative Coun- el will be held on Thursday, when the second-and-third-readings of the Budget will be taken. As the debate has been concluded, the Bill will be passed without further discussion.
Other items on the agenda are: The Attorney General to move the first reading of
A Bill to amend. the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897.
A Bill to amend further the Rating Ordinance, 1901.
A Bill to amend yet further the Volunteer Ordinance, 1933.
The Attorney General to move the Second reading of: A Bill to con- soiklute and amend the Prevention 1938 and OrdinanceA of Eviction
1939.
War Purposes Fund Now £450,000
LONDON, Dec. 4 (Reuter)---The India Office announces that the War Purposes Fund already exceeds
£450,000.
THIS IS SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE WITHIN GER- MANY THAT THE MARK HAS LOST ITS 1 INTERNATIONAL VALUE.
Britain Absolved ? Immter's. Gestapo men have up- parently absolved the British secret strvice, and are now working on! three lines: that the attack came from
In alt parts of the country attempts Jewish, Monarchist, or Communist are being made to buy and, hoard:
commodities as an insurance circles.
of complete collapse.
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ut the £50,000 reward for the, which it issued carlier this year in payment for goods, and' which t capture of the bomb planter.
Police are reported to be astonish- undertook to accept in payment of t by the number of Germans who this year's taxes.
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The fight to Switzerland recently the sitel of Herr Fritz Thyssen, magnate, and oire of Hilter's leading backers, has had a very depressing industrial circles in the effect on
Ruhr.
Germans are wondering whether the left Germany for personal reasons. because he lost, favour with the authorities, pr because he was one of the first to leave the sinking ship.
But whatever the reason, the significance of his decision is re- garded as equally bad, particularly as He has abandoned a fortune of about £18.500.000.
Heligoland Raid
Direct Hits Registered
LONDON, Dec. (Reuter)-Fur- ther details of the Heligoland raid one pilot re- yesterday show that ported that his three bombs straddled a warship, and he was conflent that he had registered it.
Another pilot dropped a bomb directly on a warship and a third said i that one of his bonits fell close to u ship.
The Bomb must-have-coused-con~- Giderable damage.
SOLDIER FACES GRAVE CHARGE
SHANGHAI, Dec.
(Reuter).- Pelvale Eckford, of the Seaforth Highlanders, was yesterday formally charged with the shooting of Lance Corporal Davis with a service pistol. Eckford did not plead and reserved his defence.
He will be tried before the British Supreme Court.
'QUINS' GIFT TO RED CROSS FUND
OTTAWA, Dec. 4 (Reuter).-The Dionne quintuplets have given $1,000 to the British Red Cross Fund,
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M. Reynaud, the French Finance stute, has been accepted for "enist- Minister.
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Sir John delivered a broadcast in
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It was his own wish to start in the **anks.
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Nazi Labour Chief
Visits Rome
ROME, Dec. 4 (Router).
Dr.
men and women will be added to the Robert Ley, the Nazi Lubour Leider, list of AB.P. workers by an agreči arrived in Rome to-day, for a stay of ment made by the Government with several days at the Invitation of the employers of large staffs.
Italian Government.
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