1939-12-27 — Page 23

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Indo-China Border Drive Collapses CHUNGKING, Dec. 27 (Reu. tor) The Japanese attempt to reach the French Indo-China border by occupying Lungchow and Chengnankwon has ended in disaster, according to the Chinese reports received here.

Look Through The Telegraph

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 27, 1899. One third of the deaths in the

French Army are attributed to typhoid fever,

The first International match played this colony for many years was commenced yesterday, Scotland oppos

gn.combination ating from other parts of the empire. The World hati a fairly representative and good all Theravad team, although no doubt it could have been materially strengthened; Scotland, on the other hand, whilst at mittedly strong in batting was con sklered to be weak both In Belding had change bowling,

There claim that in a big battle in the vicinity of Yashukang or highway to the Indo-China border, south of Lungehow, Chinese farces, after 24 hours of desperate fightig, have driven the Japanese back.

Heavy Casualties

The Japanese pre reported to have inst over 1,000 dead and many more

were wounded.

The rates were: The World:-First innings 120: Second innings 104, Geot

and--First Innings 195: Second in- winga 14.

The sume despatches reveal that Japanese infantry, artillery and cavalry units moved south-westward from Nanning over a week ago along the highway in the direction, of Day Chengnaakwan vin the towns of Sullu, Szeloh and Mikfang.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 27, 1914. The Admiralty announces that seven naval seaplanes, at daylight on Christ- attacked German warships ring in the Schilling ronds, off Cux- haven. They were escorted by a light 'cruiser and n destroyer force, with,

After Teaching Minklang, thewalsmarines, Japanese column is said to have Two German Zeppetias, four' sea-l headed straight to the Indo-China border south of Lungchow.

The opinion is expressed here that the desperate drive of the Japanese towards Lungchow is aimed partly to Important reach Chengnankwan, an terminus of the railway to Hanci, and also partly to draw the Chinese forces away from an attack on Nan- ning.

in a statement, Chinese military authorities say that after a "crushing defeat of Yashuiting, the Japanese are retreating eastward with the Chinese in hot pursuit.

PEARL RIVER RE-OPENED

The China. Navigation Company, has been notified by lis Canton office that the Pearl River has been re- "opened to the usual limited -British-

service.

The river way closed on December 17 and was to have remained closed until the end of the year. Its closure occurred only a week after permis alon had been granted for the fort- nightly railings of the Fathan from Hongkong to be made weekly. The result was that the sailings had to stop altogether and one immediate departure cancelled,

planes and several submarinos attacked the British squadron, whereupon a novel combat ensued, of most modern cruisers against the enemy's

and nubmarines.

aircraft

In The Kaiser Mad? By Jean Finot Appearing dally in the Telegraph"

19 YEARS AGO

Dec. 27, 1920.

The visit to Hongkong of Mr. Philip Oppenheim, the well-known Action writer, who is amongst thous making a world tour on the pleasure sacht. Biella Polaris, has been some. what marred by the loss of a consider. able sum of monoy.

IB

The form of government under which Hongkong labours providen so little stope of the effective play of unofficial opinion that we cannot but regret any Government action which iznat as of small account the efforts of those who gratulteasly give much time and service to work connected with the administrative life of the Colony.

5 YEARS AGO

Dec. 27, 1934. The frontiers of the Saar will be closed at midnight and from that time onwards the only persons who will be allowed to enter the area will be those I possession of permits, properly signed by authoritative. persons. frontier will be closed until January

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Governing Commission ounces that it is taking this action with a view to excluding undesirable elements which might cause trouble during the plebiscite, before or after Meanwhile, conditions remain The weekly sailings of the Fatshan

quiet. There have been no indications) will

be

resumed early in the that there will be need for interven που now year.

tion of the foreign troops

on duty The closure on this occasion was here. ilmited to eight days. No explana- tion has been given.

BUSY CHRISTMAS

"La Journal" to-day status that Hen leier will publicly retract the phonog in his autobiography "Mein Kampt" In which he declares that Germany muit crush Franco as a step to prove the way Lo " resumption of diplomatic negotiation for solution of the presont

He will make la retraction after the Sanr plebiscite, the paper says

FOR AIR PATROLS Franco-German disarmament Impaste.

LONDON, Dec. 20 (British Wire- les).The Air Ministry announces; "Throughout yesterday, although it was Christmas Day, the RA.F. con-[ tinued with unrelaxed vigilance their] patrols covering our thing aceta in the North Sen.

SEVEN DIE IN

PLANE CRASH

One of the male nurses who joined in the fran. fle got a big, hand for his female. impersonations, which were generally voted to be “as good as you see at the music-halls,"

NURSES, hospital students, cooks, and soma of the casualties themselves combined forces to resent the first concart for the British casualties rom Franco who are now at a hospital in England. The event was an unqualified success, and ono of he most popular features of the programme was ommunity singing.

Smoking was allowed (above)—and the audience didn't need telling twice!

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·RADIO-

ZBW, 355 metros (845 kc.) and 31.49 motres (9,520 kilo-cycles) "The Heart of England" Vocal-Violin In Vienna (Strauss- Dalc), I Miss You In The Morning B.B.C. Recording (Leslie-Burke), Al Bowlly with

Orchestra. Instru. -Xylophonia - Radio Programme Broadcast by

(Green), Lady of Madrid (Damerell ZBW on a Frequency of 845 kc's and Others), Joe Green (Xylophone and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pm fund Cotarimba) and Mili Herth and 8-11 pm on 0.52 m.c's. per (Organ), Vocal-There's A Lull in accond.

My Life (from Wake Up and Live),

cession,

12.30 Sydney Gustard at the Organ 12.43 Songs by King Crosby with

Orchestral Accompaniment,

1.0 Local Time Signal und Weather Report

over

12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-It's Swell Of You (from Wake Up

and Live'), Ruth Etting, Finno Charlle Kunz Plano Medley No. D. 8, Intro: The greatest mistake of my life; Let us be sweethearta again; Ten pretty girls; Moon at zoa; No more you; Wake up and Live. Charlle Kunz, Saxophone My Kingdom for a Kiss (from Hearts Divided'), I have Lost My Heart In Budapest (Mihaly), Raymond. Baird." Cinema Organ-Irving Berlin Me- mories, Intro: What'll I do; Blue Ocean; Say it with music; You forgot Skles; Always; How deep is the to remember; Say it isn't so;. The song is ended, Ai Bollington.

1.03 The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea- ther Forecast and Announcements

1.45 Mozart-Concerto In D Major ("Coronation"), Wanda Landowsku (Piano) with Chamber Orchestru

conducted by Walter Goahr.

2.15 Close down..

6.0 An hour of Dance Musle.

7.0 Closing local Stack Quotations. 7.01 B.B.C. Recording "The Heart of England."..A Programme from the Midlands arranged and produced by Robin Whitworth.

7.30 London Relay-The News. 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,

10:13 Dance Music, 11.0 Close down,

CHRISTMAS CRIME

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6.03 Classical Request Programme, Nazi Torpedo Ends "The Barber Of Seville" Overture (Rossini), Philharmonic-Symphony

Ship Xmas Party Orchestra of New York "cond, by Toscanini,

LONDON, Dec. 26 (Reuter). Questa

Quella ("Rigoletto" Verdi), Tito Schipa-The British steamer, Stam- (Tenor), Overture "Merry Wives of holme, 2,473 tons, was sunk Windsor" (Nicolai), The B.B.C. without warning by a U-boat Symphony Orchestra conducted by

The

Sir Adrian Boult. Muselta's Waltz yesterday off the west coast Song ("La Boheme”—Puccin!), Grace with the loss of 14 lives. Moore (Soprano). Parpetual Motion, The ship had left port two Op. 11 (Paganini), Dance Of Goblins, Op. 25 (Bazzini), Yehudi hours carlier and the crew were

Christmas Menuhin. (Violin), Hungarian celebrating

below Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt), Philadelphia decks when a terrific explosion Symphony Orchestra conducted by

occurred. (Granados, art. Casals),

Vito Dance) Op. 64, No, 5 (Popper), Pablo Casals

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UP)-The Leopold Stokowski. Spanish Dance -army-is- prepared to ask Congress next Spanish

The ship began to'sink immediately. Died Saving-Wifo

The death roll includes the Chief

month for US$1.650,000,000 as its ghare Mouvements Perpetuclsgineer, who was drowned through

Etude (Stravinsky), Beno

The U-boat was sighted by a

on effective alarm.

("Hiawatha" Coleridge aboard. She was saved,

Davies (Tenor

deck-hand too late for him to raise New Light Symphony Orchestra

9.05 Studio Comments on Recent Events.

9.15 London

Two Submarines Sighted. One mirviver declared that he mw two submarines and that they had no time to launch the life-bosis,

of a short-term $3,000,000,000, defence ex-witsch. (Plano). Onaway! Awake! his efforts to assist his wife who was pansion programme to insure the western loved Tudor hemisphere from attack, authoritative London Bridge March (Eric Coates). administration quarters have disclosed. cond. by Joseph Lewis.

The tentative plan, which already has re- ceived approval of high congressional leaders, calls for an initial protective force of 600,000 men -largest in this nation's peace time history-instead of the present maximum of 280,000 in the regular army and 236,000 in the national guard.

Islanders

Pitcairn

Isolated by War

Under the plan, which is the companion to the navy's recently projected programme calling for expansion of its strength by ad- dition of 95 light fighting ships,

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PANAMA CITY, Dec. 26 (UP).—Inhabitants of Congress would be asked for be- lonely Pitcairn Island, populated by several hundred tween $750,000,000 and $850,- fiscal descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty, have been 900,000 during the 1941 cut off entirely from the outside world since the European year.

Additional funds would be "Certain of our aircraft observed

asked in subsequent years. CASABLANCA, Dec. 20 (Reuter).|War began. German patrol vessels in the eastern

jused to put into Pitcairn with North Sea nrea. These vessels Seven bodies were recovered from

Before the war British ships supplies from New Zealand. opened fire on our aircraft which the Italian plane which crashed in

Since the war, however, this prac action. French Morocco and burst into flame running to New Zealand and took retaliatory bombing

The dead comprised four members

London via the Panama, Canal tice has been abandoned, it was sald, of the crew and three journalists,

because of fear that German sub

in the marines are operating vicinity.

Hits were not observed and no dam- age was done to our alreraft.”

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Transfer Of U.S. Ships

The present situation is not likely Government Permission

the to work

on any hardships Islanders, because they have abundant crops of fruits and vegetables as well no fresh meats,

Sought By Big Line

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UP).— The United States Line has asked permission from the Federal Mort- time Commission to sell eight ships,

mary.

Relay-News Bum-

9.25 Variety with Sidney Torch. The crew jumped overboard. A Bowlly, Ruth Etting and Others. Some managed to get on to a small Organ-I Want To Be raft, from which they were Inter Cinema Snappy-Medley, Sidney, Torch, rescued.

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I Give My Heart,

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By Candlelight 138724-The One I Love

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Just Let Me Look at You. 38120 The Sunshine Cruise

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Cheung Chau ··

Two mines exploded off the rocks

nt Cheung Chau Island on Christmas

Eve.

Hitler's Tour Of Front Lines

The first mine exploded about 600 yards' south-east of the Cheung Chau Police-station, causing some of the

BERLIN, Dec. 28 (Reuter)-In windows and plaster in the OIC the course of its announcement of Hitler's Christmas with the troops on Quarters to fall of

The second mine exploded on the the Western Front, the official nows rocks north of tho Island. Neither agency says that on his tour to the of the mines were sighted before the hills of Spichern the Fuehrer crossed explosion . No one was' injured. the frontier and promoted the explain Lt. Dallies, of the Anti-Piracy commanding the sector to the rank vessel Britannia, reports that a drill-jof major.

ing mine was sunk by revolver fro Hitler's whole tour was marked about throw fathoms south of Pine by promotions and presents to the Tree Bay.

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