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Monday;

.HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December: 11, 1939.

Army Only Has Time To Dream of "Blighty"

KING'S HOUSE

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From PHILIP JORDAN

FRANCE.

HOME leave is now expected

even earlier than was at first anticipated. The first batch of

St Wen Kaiserslautern men will, it is hoped, be hone

in time for Christmas.

In the meantime, the Army, kept always on its tues, In Loo busy to do more than dream of leave in its few leisure moments. The "ravalry" have been out proce Using with their anti-tank guns and their machine-guns.

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BAS-ICEN „NA (ALBACE),]

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No Papal Appeal

For Armistice

Kot far from this place, they moun! ther tak nd curriers and sweep per the plains, each machine-gun Being at the rate of several hundred rounds every minute.

Accurate Firing

Despite the novelty of their armour-plated substitutes for horses, and despite also the speed at which those substitutes travel over level VATICAN CITY, Dec. 3 (UI) ground, the men are firing with re- Authoritative quartérs deny that the markable accuracy, as your corres- Holy See had asked for a Christmas pondent has just had occasion to Farmistice on Sighting.

observe.

Bath tanks and cartier, running on They point out that such a request a rapid zig-zag course not dissimilar is not urgent in view of the relative to that whitch they will almost cer- entro on the western front, while it would be meaningless ni sen beesuse tainly have to adopt in battle, to-day pumped out a broadside that ripped juf floating mines.

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lo pieces the ground immediately be- hind their targets.

Artlacial faults had been In- troduced Into the magazines of the | machine-guns so that the men might become fully expert at correcting jamming while on the move. Most of them proved superlor to these defects in their armament.

Room Of Maps

Beyond this improvised range there is an innocent looking house.

If you can get into this.house, they will show you n room whose walls Jure Uned with great maps, upon which are painted cabbulistic signs that would mean nothing to an un- authorised intruder.

Yet these maps tell the instructed all that we know about the enemy- and a great deal more besides.

In this department, as in others, the Army is up-to-date. It uses pic- torial statistics (which were invented and perfected by an Austrian) to convey Information rapidly to The authorised visitor.

Here, too, they keep a lie of all photographs taken from the air. Even those taken from great heights amazingly clear and accurate. You can almost count the sleepers on the railway lines!

are

Each photograph la so simply cross- indexed that you can and its exact location

large scale mup with- out the slightest trouble.

Once more I was deeply impressed by the thoroughness will which the Army does a job of work. This įmabilned rooen is a reassuring sight oner you know what all the hieroglyphics really menu.

Missionary Still Held

Kyoto, Dec. 10. Father Luther Tucker, an Ameri- can missionary, who was arrested by the polles while embarking at Kobe for Shanghal à few months ago, hos been indicted by the Publle Prosccu- lor for spreading seditious literature and groundless. wlid rumours.

Father Tucker was detained and examined by police authorities in Kyoto on October 12 on charges of distribution of seditions literature (and

and wild rumours,

He arrived at Kyoto at the end of September and arrested when he was about to sail from Kobe for Shanghal aboard the French Incr Felix Rous-

set.

Tucker allegedly threw overboard his documentary evidence which, however, was picked up by water police.-Domel.

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S.P.C. MEETING

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcole will be prisontot the Annual General Meaning of the CHUNGKING, Dec. 11 (Central), Sockly for the Protection of Children, Shanghai-bound Japanese which takes place at the Helena May freight train was wrecked when itInstitute at 5.30 p.m. this evening. struck a Chinese mine at Chowching- The mealing is open J te publie hang, near Wush on the Nanking Shanghal Railway, on Saturday, ac rushing to the scene were attacked

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