1939-12-15 — Page 17

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 15, 1939.

DONALD DUCK

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Walt Disney

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GERMAN WARSHIP RUNS TO SHELTER

(Continited from Pape 7)

ham respectively, the Achillos is from New Zealand.

The question as to whether the Admiral Graf Spee will be allowed to stay in the neutral port depends upon her seaworthiness,

If he in found to be seaworthy she must leave within 24 hours, if not, she may stay, but must not re-. plenish bur armainent or increase her supply of war materials.

The German rndle acnilts that the pocket battleship was damaged, but talks of hits and damage to the "heavy British cruiser" Exeter,

The official German News Agency says that a successful battle was fought, but says that an exact pleture cannot be given as only British re- porte are at present available.- Reuter Bulletin,

New York Account

that

New York, Dec. 14. The New York Times states British cruisers established contact with the German pocket balleship "six times during the morning,

The German ship attacked the Ajax while the latter was convoying | he French liner Formose near the inouth of the River Plate, The Exeter and Achilles responded to a call from the Ajux. They came at full speed and opened fire on the German vessel, which was repeatedly

from uit, especially by shells

the Exeter.

The four ships fought.on intense gun battle from 8 am to 10 a.m. The Gerraan ship directed her main efforts on the Exeter as all four chips ran southward.

After passing Punta de Leste the British ships turned westward get the advantage of the sun which placed the German ship in silhouette. This caused the German to change

courne

LOVEM AND LEAVEM

"ere, look! -* Elephant "Boy.'"

the

disastrously to the south- enst. The British ships continued This source said that according to 460 firing until well after dusk.

German Informatiso Admiral "SHIP" SUNK ON Under cover of darkness the battle-Graf Spec had 36 ship again, chunged course and anal

ly leached Montevideo.-Renter.

-of-a-lack-of-fuck-Reuter-

wounded.

drad

and 60

The vessel had aboard six Captains

the Admiral Grat Spee had sunk.

DRY LAND

of British ships, which presumably NAZIS' WILDEST CLAIM

By A Naval Correspondent AN enemy

broadcast has

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Atlantic to England, are Moscicki of Poland and his wife to enter Switzerland.

THE Swiss Government has given permission to ex-President

expected in three months. ·

Other batches will follow (at regular intervals.

Britain has already placed in, Canada war contracts that mean a thousand planes of various types-bombers, fighters and trainers.

The trainers will stay in, Canada and be used as part of the scheme for training Empire į - airmen.

Canada is putting everything inte the

And war against Hitlerism. Canada now is vastly more powerful than in 1914.

The number of airfields is being increased to 100. A31 airports of the trans-Canadian air lines are to be commandeered.

men

M. and Mme. Moscicki are at present in Rumania, and are expected to live in the university town of Fribourg,

The ox-President has been a Swiss citizen since 1908, when he acquired citizenship in the Canton of Fribourg.

THESE POLES WANT

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Compared with the fast war. Canada can send THREE times as much whoat

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FOUR times as much nickel

for bullets,

TEN times as much copper,

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Danes Warned By Leaflets Umbrella With

-

Dagger

COPENHAGEN. Germany started a big pro- paganda leaflet campaign"; in Denmark this morning.

Colacident with the announcement of new taxes, citizens all over the country received a sealed envelope. containing versions of Hitler's and Goering's recent speeches and a leaf- let.

This leaflet shows on one side-a picture of a folded umbrella, and on

FIFTY-FIVE Polish seamen, denied the chance of fighting the other the same umbrella without for their country, want to catch fish for Britain.

its cover and revealing a dagger..

The leafct, printed in Danish,.

They are the crews of six trawlers, departure of the vessels to the fish-stated: "If your cars remain in gar which were fishing off Gdynia when ing grounds. Germany marched on Poland,

Ordered by rodie to race to British

Every

from year 25,000 Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada will be trained and sent over ports, five reached Fleetwood and ane to the front as pilots, gunners and went to Aberdeen,

abservers.

"It is hoped that the trawlers will get away soon."

"All the mon were eager to go A British, air-hiission, headed by home to fight," said Mr. B. A. Parkes, Lord Riverdale, has been conferring general manager of the Boston Deep Britain.. with the Canadian Government on Sea Fishing Company, which has an the training scheme, and..also the interest in the vessels. production of bombers which will be

town across the Atlantic,

Lord Riverdale has said that he estimates the training programme

will cost £140,000,000 a year. of 10,000 men is training for over

The first Canadian army division

Another 49,000 aro

Ran Out Of Fuel

London, Dee. 14.

According to present information.

ecas service. According to reports from the Admiral Graf Spee attacked the

under arms. Montevideo the Commander of the Exeter, which called the Ajax and

The number of Graf Spee has announced that the Achilles, into the fight. It is con claimed that H.M.S. Kestrel has capacity at the moment.

volunteers is greater than the country's training warship put into port only because firmed that the Exeter was badly

damaged,

been-sunk.This-is-the-biggest-A-national-committee-is-working All four ships are at present lying joke of the war, since the Kes under the leadership of Dominion in the harbour of Montevideo, from trel is actually the official name which they must depart within 24 of the Fleet Air Arm training hours-United Press,

establishment at Worthy Down, Hampshire.

Why Exeter Dropped Out

Loudon, Dec. 14. According to reports from Montevideo the Exeter sustained seven hits. Two holes were blown

in her control tower, while five hits were registered on her hull above the water line-Reuter.

Exeter With A List

Montevideo, Dec. 14. It is reported here that ILM.S. Exeter, which dropped out of the battle, has a slight list-Reater,

GERMAN VERSION Admiral Graf Spee Said To Have Attacked Exeter!

Berlin, Dec. 14.

German Claims Grow

Berlin, Dec. 14,

British Denial Issued

that it is unconilrmedly alleged that mans to carry on with the verbal The German News Agency states: This should encourage the Ger- the Achilles was sunk,

it further says that the British destruction of a few more ships of a suffered several hundred dead and similar character, such as the Bos- wounded.-United Press.

cawen, which is the shore base at Portland; the Buzzard, otherwise the London, Dec. 14. R.N. Air Station at Lympne; the The Admiralty states that the Daedalus, R.N. Air Station at Lee- allegation made by the German casualties on the pocket battleship Station at Dontbristle. Embassy at Montevideo that the on-Solent; or the Merlin, R.N. Air

{wero mostly caused by British

mustard Fas Ja entirely without An especially tempting cholec

An authorised source confirmed foundationReuter. that the Admiral Graf Spee engaged

the cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achlica of Montevideo and all are

BRITISH COMMANDER

London, Dec. 14. The British squadron

was under

ni present lying in the harbour of the command of Commodore H. H. Montevidico.

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effort and make huge qualities of omcinis to co-ordinate agricultural foodstuffs butter, cheese and eggs and wheat-available to the Allies.

In several, provinces plans to ex- fend agricultural production are be- ing undertaken.

Canada's war expenditure WVORI estimated at the outbreak of war at £200,000 a day. Now it is said to have reached £500,000.

A War Supply Board has been set up, headed by Mr. Wallace Compbell, general manager of Ford Motors in Canada.

Board will do all the buyini for the Canndian forces, and will also act as purchasing agent for the British Ministry of Supply,

War

But Canada is paying no faney salaries to directors of these various

Mr.

Campbell is taking exactly four shillings a year for his services. Other business execu- lives are getting the same. Higher pay goes to the soldiers, Privates get 5s. 4d, a day now, com- pared with 48, a day in the last war. A British Purchasing. Commission, under Str James Rad and Colonel J. H. Greenly, are now.completingį a survey of Canadian plants.

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research facilities both of private enterprise and the umiver- sities have been mobilized under the National Research Council.

And here are the natural resources which this great war organisation will mobilise.

Four hundred million bushels of wheat for export..

The largest supplies of asbestos, nickel, radium, and platinum in the world.

Zine, silver, gold, copper, lead; molybdenum, tungsten and maxi ancao (for steel), Domkirkan dos Lumberjacks are swarming into the

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Every unit In manufacture and production. Is-being mobilised under the War Industries Board

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ages, if you have no petrol, if you are cold and have no coat, if you queue up for rations, you have only Britain to thank.”

Mr. Parkes said the vessels would

This umbrella is supposed to be put to sea with British officers,

used against rain, but it is really a The former captains, mates and weapon of war. chief engineers were Dutch, and had landed in Holland on the way to out it. It is better to

We think it is better to do with

getwater down one's neck than a dagger in Among the crews is a 27-year-old one's back. But we know how to Polish Jew educated in Vienna, deal with both foul weather and "But that was out of the question, where he gained the degree of daggers

The bombs on Denmark, pilots "Negotiations are in progress with Bachelor of Philosophy. the 'Polish authorities in London tol enable the men to produce fish for Spanish and Dutch.

He speaks German, French, Italian, flights. over. Holland · and Belgium, and the despotic British blockade

everything possible to facilitate the turned to Polend and went to sea. this country,

He was finishing his studies when which puts the thumbscrews on the "The British authorities have done he was turned out of Vienna, so re-trade of neutrais, have shown, the

true use of the umbrella."

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