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NANCY

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NANCY--- I'VE GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU---

GUESS WHAT

IT IS!

"Ask your Mr. Churchill"

Deadlock

German Announcer: "You will remember I told you last week that we'd blown up the entire British Fleet . well, since then they've built another and we've blown that up as well."

OBJECTOR

WOULD

NOT HAVE SAVED CREW OF THETIS

December 8, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

I KNOW---MY AUNT FRITZI

IS COMING

HOME!

THAT WAS A CINCH TO GUESS!

RNIE BUS

On Western Front May Persist STRENGTH OF RIVAL ARMIES DELAYS WAR

PARIS-One of the circum- { stances that make for extreme hesitation in launching a large- įscale war on fand is the high pitch of eficiency to which the defensive side of warfare has been brought.

The deadlock that appears to have arisen between the French and German armies on the western front is giving rise to jhope that the struggle may i eventually be settled in some way other than a great holo- caust like that of the World War.

One of the chlef characteristics of the World War on the western front was the almosi complete absence of Imovement, after the Arst Germe!

thrust had been repulsed t Marne.

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Manubein

Karlsruhe

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Vast armies dug themselves in from the Channel to the Swiss fron- ler and paid for the microscopic goins of territory, only visible on a targe-scale map, with great sacrifice the west of is a recent addition. of troops. Among the technleni sur-The dotted curve marks the reserve prizes of the World War were the Siegfried Line. sirntone, the tank. the submarine,

and pulson gas.

The outstanding characteristic of

and German armies,

natural formidable

posts and mine fields can make in- cautious advance extremely costly. Moreover, the use of tanks is made dificult by two kinds of obstacles, ramouflaged pils Into which the nks may fall and large helds of upright steel rails planted in the eround.

Forctaste Of Difficulties

With the aid of heavy artillery Are such obstacles can be overcome, But they are only the foretaste of the diffenties involved in storming a line of underground fortresses.

the equipped with

most powerful types of cannon, protected by armour- olated turrets, from which are can be turned in any direction. The Maginot Line, bullt over long oeriod of Une, is unquestionably the more carefully constructed of the twn. Many of its forts, one of which the writer was permitted to see, are located hundreds at feet under- round, provided with underground communicating telephones, claborate electrical systems, the most scientiûc means of detecting gas.

Noither Line On Frontier

At the same time it would ha unwise to underestimate the strength obstacle to an of Germany's

РУСП West Wall,

the present war in its initial stage is invader. Only overwhelming super-though the French newspapers pub- In artillery ish hopeful reports of inundations of the tremendous power of the defen-orlly, in the air and sive lines held by both the French would give either side much chance parts of its trenches whenever the of throwing bridges across the Rhine Rhine overflows. The Siegfried Line, and carrying out large-scale offen- or West Wall, was begun in 1937, The French Maginet line, namedrive with any prospect of success, after Germany had reoccupied the after the war Minister, Andre Lacking such superiority, the attack-Rhineland the preceding year, was Maginot. who directed its construc-

with feverish speed ne side would run the risk of having pushed ahead tion, and its counterpart, the Steg- part of its forces cross the river and during the months which led up to fried Line, which the Germans theme and themselves cut off when the crisis of Munich and has been selves usually call the Western Wall.

hostile Dircraft or artillery had greatly strengthened since that time. are not mere lines of trenches of the destroyed the pontoon bridges.

Whatever may be its defects, in com- World War type.

parison with the Maginot Line, it is They sre prolonged fortresses. The fighting that has thus far certainly stronger than the "Hinden- built largely underground and, made taken place on the western front burg: Line," which proved very impervious

attack

the German-French difficult to crack during the World by every

has been on Ingenious device known to modern frontler between Karlsruhe and the War. military engineering.

frontier of tiny neutral Luxemburg., Hasty critics of the slowness of the Neither line is built directly up Enormous Reserves Ready French advance during the period to the frontier. Over the stretch of The history of war is the history Poland overlooked the tremendous thine there is an intermediate "no when the Germans were overrunning frontier that is not covered by the of a constant race between offensive difcuttles which an attack even to man's land, parily on the French, and defensive weapons. It is an axiom that there is a defence for the approaches of a fortress line pre- jenta. Underground machine-gun. every attack and also that no defenre has proved permanently impregnable

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-A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD-bank clerk told the London. Tribunal for Conscientious Objectors that he would have left the victims of the Thetis disaster to their fate.

"They were only trying to prepare a worse death for others," declared Percival Judge, of Rocombe Crescent, S.E. He added against attack. But at the present that his conscience shrank from participation "directly or in-moment defence seems to possess the SPOTLIGHT directly" in the war machine.

upper hand over offence, especially

Judge was granted exemption from combatant service only. under the conditions which prevail Another applicant, who asked for total exemption, said: am standing here witnessing for Christ."

STOCK MARKET REPORT

on the French-German front. on "which cach side is in a position to throw into action enormous numbers of reserves men and material to

Sir James Baillie: You don't need

people here to. There are

who! understand it as well as you do.

The objector. Dennis Knight, a clerk, of Wickthom Avenue, Shirley Hongkong Stock Exchange Official was told that he must get a job with in a month in agriculture, forestry Summary issued yesterday says:

Although the amount of business or the mercantile marine. transacted during the day was not in

a large scale it does not afford a true!

Could Not Kill

Metropolitan

indication of the market. The tone Dennis Love, a former bank clerk all round is steady with traders in- and now a wartime creasing their offers but scrip is police constable, said that he was al scarce and may need more tempting member of the Oxford Group and, before coming to the surface.

Mayers

HK, Dank $1,330

Bank of East Asla $i

Canton Ins: 200

Union IE: $300

Douglases $20

Blocks $10

Providents Y

11, and S.. Hotels $4.05

Lands $33

Humphreys $73% Itenttico $430

Tramways #10.20

Peak Trams (Old) $ Peak Trama (Now) Star Ferries $6314 Yourmoil Ferries (23 Electric

Sandakan Lights #litt Telephones (Old) [2]; Telephones (New) #7.20

Cements $10

Rope $3.10

Dairy Farms (Old) $20.20 Dairy Farman (New) $19.40 Watsons

Entertainments $84 Constructions (Old) $1%. HK., Govt. 314% Low 37

Bollers Trantways $103% Walsens 34

Balka

Docks $10

IK, Bank $1,330

HH. Mihez 4 cts.

Cements SYS

Dairy Farmu (Old) 2014 Watsons #27.33

Atoka

Mulia Gold Shards

Anlamok BAULO Cold Balong Buhay Big Wodgo

Coco GrevE

·Con. Mingg Demonstrations Kast Mindanao

Ipo Gold

Kogon Mining Marbulio Coa. Masbato_Con. Mind Motherious Mine Operation

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"could not kill."

chairman:

support their strongly fortified de- fensive positions.

For about 100 miles, from Baslei to Karlsruhe, the River Rhine con- stitutes the frontier between the two countries and represents an extremely

£3,000 FOR YOUR LIFE

Have you over Value In Wartime

The heard of the Battle of Sidney Street?

Yes. I should refuse to lake up

arms in clrcumstances like that.

Assessed

Sir Edmund Phipps: As a police- i "WHAT is the value of life

man you might have to stop dan-

a problem set-to gerous spy even at the risk of falling to-day 7" was

Mr. Justice Oliver in the King's him?-I had not thought of that.

Love, who lives in Leybourne Road, Bench Division recently during Leytonstone, was refused exemption the hearing of a claim brought from military service.

by a widow damages in for Friend Hitler

the respect of death of heri Frederick Phipps, a local govern- husband in a motor accident ai

Fload, St. James's ment clerk, of

year ago.

S.E., said that he would invite Hitler Mr. Armstrong Jones, for the de-

here "as a friend."

Phipps was registered combatant,,

fendant motorisi, submitted that unf

ON

GERMANY

ANOTHER OUTSTRETCHED HAND.

The Sun, Baltimore.

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partly on the German side of the frontier. ranging in width from eight to thirty miles, where the advanced units of the two armies can skirmish and carry out raids and local operations without coming to grips with the main defensive positions of the cremy.

OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS

"The Bun Never Bets" (Oriental): A Colonial Servien melodrama. The story of 2 deals with a Colonlat Oce gent who vindicates the name of his brather on the Gold Coast after the former ไฟเร unwittingly brought the Inter into disgrace. Patriotic appeal.

"Winter Carnfral" (Majestic) : The story of my heiress whù married a duke, divorced him, und came back to her old love who wasn't having any--at Iisust, not at frat. The romaneo of Ann Sheridan und Richard Carlson in long- winded and you'll nigh_with rollef when they finally get together till death do them part. Ann Sheridan in good but it will take better paría than this to prove her to be the actress they're hulding her up to be. Light, gay en- tertainment.

"Girls on Probation" (King's): An- other "naciol drama" purporting to nhow the sorrows of an innocent girl who suffers for her had judgment" in pleking her friends. Starring Ronald Reagan, Jano Bryan and Anthony Averill..

"Saint In London" (Queen's) : The famous "Balat”, fetional Robin Hood of the moment, beloved by no many readers of the storias written by Le■lla Chartoris, has this time been brought to the creon by a British company- and an excellent Job they have made of it. The debonair characterization of "The Saint" by George Boundars in outstanding.

A non-assessing damages the court had to

take into consideration wor risc.

"Supposing, during this argu-| ment, an air raid warning wis given and the court cleared, would

GERMAN workers are to pay "The_Warning” (Queen's and Atham- damages process?" asked Mr. Justice Oliver, a new "tax." All money they bra) Demonstrates clearly the emer geticles for which British men and Free if this argument lasted two car for overtime or Sunday women must be trained in those times. days, and by some miracle there work is to go to the Goveru-Presents grim picture of toll of modern

warfare. Bereening time! 15 minutes. was peace during the night, would

George Piper, of Sandycombe Road, Richmond, who said that he had resigned his job in the Inland Re- venue Department on the outbreak of war beenuse ho could not reconcile It with his principles, was grantesl unconditional exemption.

When the decision-the first of its kind that week-was announced, Judge Hargreaves ordered

young woman who joined in an outburst of| cheering and clapping to leave the court:

be fluctuated by

that

the damages to-day be different ment. from those to-morrow?"

The Munchener Neucseste Nach-

is introduced "for reasons of war

Drama In The Night

CLEVELAND.-An

old.

In addition, thera are to be no to meet the bicher Mr. Justice Oliver awarded the wage Increases widow, Mrs. Marle Hall, of Ferncroft cost of living. Another applicant, asked whether avenue, Eastcote, Middlesex. £2,250 he belonged to any Church, replied: 4amages and £750 for her two chil-richten explains that the measure "1 hava, joined the Peace Pledge dren.

unlighted Union and the Independent Labour In arriving at those amounts, he psychology," and adds: "The work- Party,

gold, he had made allowance for war er behind the Froat have to make sedan stopped at the end of a Lake their sacrifice and contribute towards Erio dock her. One man sat at the risk.

wheel. The other dragged a heavy The husband (Leonard William the conduct of the war."

The entire weight of the German object to the water's edno, atdh Hall), a chemist's manager, was 31,

machine has been plopped it in-kerplank! It tyns a and he might have been killed in the propaganda war if ho-had gone out to fight, or he brought to bear to "popularise" the smashed cigarette machine which two might have died as the result of an tax, which is called "part wage burglars, after Tooting Its coins, had

saving."

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