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'SHANGHAI, Dec. 39 (UP)— The "Shanghai Evening Post"

the An editorial replying to British

report from Hongkong in which the long- kolle censors allegedly dented that transil mail was censored in Hongkong as alleged in an earlier editorial, said the paper was able to produce proof that a neutral company's letter from Berne, via Hongkong, bears the sticker "Opened by Crusors Censor."

The paper says it has informa- on that the Hongkong censors Arc even censoring mall to Shanghai from Swnlow vla Hongkong.

In another section of to-day's taper the "Shanghai Evening Past" reproduces a photo of the Berne letter showing the Hong- kong census' sticker over a torn ravelope.

The British report stated that trassi mail via Hongkong was not opened but merely stampret "Passed by Censor."

WEEKLY TRAFFIC TOLL

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 30, 1939.

R.A.F. 'Plane Finnish Advance Fog Bell Stolen

Flown With

Half A Wing At A Standstill

Roached Home After

Raid On Germany

A lying feat with a 'plane which was almost wingless was revented when details became known of a successful R.A.F. fight over North-West Ger- many.

One of the inachines was safely brought back with:

Only the framework of one wing left, and

Half of the other wing gone.

this British plane The crew of were two young New Zealand pilots unc a short, slim schoolmaster, who comes from Gisborne; the other a tall wool buyer from Masterton,

The dainage to the wings might have been caused by lightning or by anti-aircraft fire. It is not yet cer- tain which, but with the aircraft in this condition. the

pilots kept on ying and were able to bring the machine home ente if not sotanel.

A Blinding Flash

"A blinding yellow flash followed [by a big bang was how No. 1 pilot described the happening that nearly wrecked thein. This occurred when they were tying at about 2,000 feet,

for the moment and they thought that they were being threatened by euemy fighters.

Presently the aircraft began to go

Tound and rutind in uncontrollable eireles nod to drop at an alarming rute,

Russians Reported To

Be Consolidating

In three different sectors the Fluns are fighting on Russian soll. Two Soviet companies are said to have been wiped out in hand-to-hand fighting on the ice on Lake Suvanto in the Karelian Isthmus. An attempt is being made to cut the Murnunik-Leningrad Railway, thus preventing the Russians in the north from receiving reinforcements.

The Russians are said to be digging in along the Northern Front, apparently in anticipation of a stalemate which will last Finns, whose advance the remainder of the winter; while the towards Petsamo has gradually halted, have denied that they intend pushing further north immediately.

Helsinki, Dec. 20.

In the far north the Finnish counter-attack towards Petcumo ap- pears to have come to a standstiil, hut between Pelsamo and Soumus salmi the Finns are holding gains in the forest-clad border area,

The Russans are reported to have lost 150 tanks in the last few days on the northern front.--Reuter Bulletin.

Soviet Digging In

Ilovaneimi, Dec. 20.

Volunteer

Orders For The Week

Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps It is glated in authoritative sources orders by Lieut. Col. H. 1. How, p..C... Volunteer De- that fighting occurred last night be-Commandant, Hongkong

their fence Corps, tween Russian troops behind"

lines in the Salla sector.

or on

December 27.

1. Orderly Medical Omerr. Jan. 5. q. 3.30 p.m. L. . W. Stout. It All recruits not yet examined will attend.

2. Holiday Cerp HQ will be clored on Jan. 1, 1940.

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that

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J. Pramotion

Is Excellency the Governor has been used to approve the following pro- motion with effect from December 6, (uso: Company Quartermaster Sergeant Fer- dinand Gerald Nigel to be Second Leu- tenant

4. Qualifications

The following members of the Corps Artillery parted examinations as Gun- Jayers or Rangefinders:

Was Machine gun and rifle fre Believing that they were about to clearly heard by Finnish troops. fall into the sea, the second pilot, not known whether the Russians who was also the navigator, went aftred on their own ner

| Finnishi patrol. to get the dinghy ready, He mande Many People Injured In his way back into the cabin and was At Petsamo the Russians have lismayed to discover that practical-began digging trenches. This is Street Mishaps

ly all that was left of the top of the taken lo mean that they are not The snow port wing was framework. Taking planning an advance. During the week ending Saturday, look on the other side, he dis-falling at present has brought opera- fitre were in ·Hokong 81 trafic

covered that half the fabric wastons to a standstill. ucidents, as the result of which 20 stripped of: the starboard win

no important people were injured. Of these in-' That the aircraft was able to

There have been By jured, 16 were pedestrians who were In such condition was no less re-developments in the Kunsamo sector, erossing carriageway and were markable than the skill with which 70 miles south of Salla.

int Bty. (Gun!ayer)-Sgt. I. J. Ming- struck by vehicles.

tor. Authoritative quarters deny It was handled. To keep his pilat

with General Vallenius is launching a new 2nd

Gunlayers)-Gars, 6. Slanka, Two bicycle riders and a lorry pase going the navigator fed him

hot roffee. The offensive in the Salla sector im- p. Or, N. 1. Por. R. M. Barnicy. sandwiches and senger were injured as the result of effort of bringing the aircraft hume mediately. For obvious reasons no E C. Marion G. 1. Hidfell-Corre, W.-H. Richardson, W. G. R. Contes, F. S. Leak. collisions between vehicles. Twai buy passengers were injured when was such that when they landed the indication of operations or the nun- Lloyd-Jones, F. Durrell.

ber of troops in the sector is given, was temporarily their bus ran into a veindah pillar, pilot's right arm

Finnish ski patrols are constantly Two lorry passengers were injured paralysed.

operating behind the Russian lines in the Salla sector in the direction of

the White of self-preservation | Kandalataja on

Sea, after-which has been approached a few times. This is the terminus of the Murmansk rallway. It is therefore believed that one or another of these patrols reached the Murmansk rail- way at one or more points. General Vallenlus himself has said that Finnish patrols had penetrated close to the Russion White Sea bases

United Press,

lorries, A was injured while

un falling off moviny trum passenger

Saved By Instinct "The instinct

alighting from a moving tram: One pulled us through," he guid bus passenger and one lorry pas-wards, when he had partly slept off senger were injured while attempthis exhaustion. Ing to board a moving bus and a "Anyhow, what a nitwit 1 should moving lorry respectively.

have been to let her fall into the

Of 81 arcklents, 40 wae collisions, se after mulig her out of that fall between vehicles; 20 were collisions through space."

between vehleles and pedestrians; 15: accidents were due to other caines.

MR. H. G. SHELDON

Hongkong Barrister May

Be-Police-Magistrate

It gives some idea of the intensity these lights, which of the cold on na occasion reaches almost Arctic severity, to realise that a 10-year-old wireless navigator, when opening his vacuum dusk to have a drink of hot ten, spilled some of it on the key of his wireless transmitter and that the hot liquid Immediately hoze.

In a reference to the recent It is understood thut Mr. H

G. night an official German news agency Sheldon, K.C., who has been appoint- declared that one British acroplane ed Crown Counsel from January 1, made a forced landing on the sea and will shortly

be appointed a Police sent out on $.0.S.. This 'plane, they Magistrate.

addled, must be counted it.

Mr. Sheldon has been a barrister- nt-law in Hongkong since 1925 and has been briefed for the Crown in severul criminal cases He was made

a King's Counsel in 1977..

4th 11 (Gunlayers).—Gnr. W. Tang. Eur. C. S. Lens Gr. Leung. L/EXIT. Chan, J. Boctus M. 1. Kwok, W. O, Connor, 1. M. Fernantes.

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Tam. Dr. T. Houston, Garo, I. 5. A. 4th Bty. (Rangefinders).-Gnr, Y. ic. Curreem, G. . Poon, C.. F. Pau. 1. O. N.

3. Paradey (a) 1st. Ballery:-Jan. 2. Balchers, 530 Cetalled.. DR.F|| Dress- .m. Those Overalls,

Jan. 6. Belchers. 5.30 pm. Gus drill for recruits and D.R.F. for those deinided. Dress Overalle and G.P. shoes.

th) 3rd Dallery:

Plight Of Reds In North

Copenhagen, Dee, 28. The Astbublodeta's Helsinki corres- pondent reports there is widespread pm. Dress Overalls, S.D. cap. hunger among the Russians in the

1. Gul Detachments & Rangetakers.-- Jan. 4. Belchers. 5.30 pm. Dress-Over- all. S.D. cops, G.P. shoes,

of

II. Lewly Gunners-Jan. 4. ILG. 5.15

the Jan. G. Wellington the overalls, SD. cap.

Barracks. Drea

. D.EL. Personnel.-Jan, 4, 11.Q. 5.15 north as a result of the interruption-G Case-All-those who wish-to-

supplies. The Berlingske Tilende's correspondent said groups of Rustend. Dress as above. sians on the Salla front near Aretle Circle have been cut off by Finnish troops and forced to surren- der. In the far north deep snow has rendered the Russian tanks inmobile.

Since, however, all the aircraftUnited Press. which took part in the fight returned safely to their bases, the German statement and not the British plane

must be countert out.

EARTHQUAKE TAKES TERRIFIC TOLL

Istanbul, Dec. 29.

tel 5th Battery: Jan. 2 Queen's Pler. 5 p.m. Dress- Overalls, No.1 Section. DressMufti

Jan. 3, 11.9 1.15 p.m. Officers & N.C.O's,

Jan. 3, Queen's Pler. 5 p.m. No. Section. Dress Overally.

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Reuter says: On the Petsarno (d) Field Company Engineers?—Jan. 4. front, the Russians have completely.C.R. 5.30 pm. Technical training by lost the, Initiative and are practically

Sectiona,

(e) No. 1 Company:

1. Nos. & 2. Platoons.-Jan. 1, HQ. 25 per pro- gramme.

Named after Comdr, C. W. M. Beckwith, a former Harbour Master of Hongkong, and erected in 1927 at a cost of £600, the neral for bell at Lam Tong Island, Lyeemun Pass, has been stolen,

The bell has actually been missing since sometime in Ocio- ber, but the loss was not üla- covered until Thursday,

The bell is made of bronze and welglis 800 lbs., being im- porled originally from Stock- halm.

It was housed inside a steel structure, the door to which has been broken, while the appara- fus was sina, damages,

In the old days before the bell WAN Installed, many ships foundered near the spot where

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was erected, including 3.

P. & 0. Iner,

Mine Menace "Exploded"

MINE-SOWING seaplanes of the Nazi Air Force have sus- pended operations. Like the Nazi Grand Fleet. they are bottled up.

Out-range, out-gunned, and out- flown by Security Patrols of the R.A.F, they skulk in underground hangars, hewn from the solid rock of Goering's "secret" seaplane bases in the Friesian lalands.

The crews of our heavy bombers which maintain the day and night patrol have orders to extermbate mine-guwers and to destroy them at glu.

Our

From Borkum, in the East Friesian

North, Group, to Sylt, in the Security Patrols keep a constant lookout for the white wake of an enemy seaplane.

A Blank Weck

But in a whole week's vigil not one Nazi plane has ventured on to its slipway for mine-lying operations: in the North Sea.

The Security Patrols are. quife distinct frim the regular North Sea air patrol which has been mal- tained throughout the war.

Security Patrols comprise twn types of twin-england, long-range heivy bombery, each carrying a trew of Ave and several tons of bombs.

One type mounts four Aune, 123 electrically-operated turrets, and has range, with full military land, of 1,040 miles

The second type of bomber has five guns and a range of 3,240 miles.

Non-Stop Patrol

An eight-hour turn of Security duty Includes two North Sea cross- ings (out and home) and a ceaseless patrol of the six island bases.

Borkum. Nordency, Langcoog_und. Wangeroog of the Eastern group, cover some 40 miles. Sylt and Foehr, in the Northern group, have a

sea frontage" of about 25 miles.

Between the island groups le the mouths of the Rivers Ens and Weser and the entrances to Wilhelmshaven and the Kiel Canal-all of which re- ceive their due share of neriat obser- vation.

Flying Low

Security Patrol bombers ny below.

in a state of sleg. A Finnish officer, M.G. training who has just returned from that area reports that at least 150 Soviet "1. No. 4 (Troop) Platoon -Jan, 5, 1127 | the minimum effective range of anti- Sections desit-Night firing. 1st year inen. 3.30 p.m, MG, training. Trained men,

1st and 2nd Pasitions.

tanks are snow-bound and in many cases the Finns have found their crews frozen to death inside. Some Soviet tank detachments have placed their tanks in a circle, forming small but effective fortress,

Conservative estimates put the total killed Russian oilcer killed in Finland have and injured in the earthquako at over 25,000been published" mostly killed.

According to the Turkish newspaper Haber the Erzingjari district alone suffered 42,000 casualties mostly killed, out of a total population of 60,000.

It is reported that 15 provincialjet 42,000 killed and injured. The towns and 90 vilinges and hamlets cities stretch from on the Black Sea have been reduced to, ruins. Rail- for inland. and devastation has

as a

While all the ensualty figures are President Incoņu bas telegraphed still unconfirmed. rocent statistics

the provincial governors expressing give the populations of the towns re- the sorrow felt by himself and the ported to be the worst hit as Siva whole nation for the victims of the 70,000, Erzfenl 60,000, Kemah 20,000 disaster. Donations and offers

and Plumer 1,500 United Press.

Tidende.

(1) Na, 3 Company:Jan. 4, JI.Q., '5.30 pan, as per Company circular,

(R) No, 4 Company-Jan. 3, Q., 5,30

Company parade, Lecture-Gar

Jan. 5, 11.Q., 6.30 p.m. Company parade. L.G.

Officer's Diary Found

f) No. 5 Company:-Jan. 7. Stonecut- ters. M.G. Part I. Lounch leaves Queen's Pier 8.30 .m, and Kowloon Police Pier Copenhagen, Dec. 29.

8.40 am. Dress-optional. Range Officer- Extructs from the diary of As deatiled by O.C.

Service Corps Company:-Dee. by the Berlingske 31. c. Camber. 30 sm, Transport Section. Driving Instruction (lectures, those detalled), The first entry, dated November Jan. 2, 9.30 p.m. Ofteers, and

stationed on the Finnish frontier for Parade Ground. 5.30 pan. Parado

fortnight, having participated in uniform. the invasion of Poland.

Jan. 6. St. Paul's College, 5.30 p.m. Lec- ture.

(k) Pay Sectlón:-Jan. 5, ILQ., 5.30 p.m. Lecturp by 11.8.3.

10, says officers of the company were

On December 3, the officer ex- presses surprise that the Finns should burn their houses and fight the Red Army, since the Russian officers and received as liberators. men had been told they would be

Long Line Held

N.CO. Lecturo

U) Field Ambulance:-Jan. 3. Murray

in

Corp. Orders-Ameidenenta Carns Orders No. 1 of the 8.12.30. Porn. Strength-Decrease. Delete the name of L/Bdr. L. Der Mo, 05, of 116 22.12-30.

Ordern

Bete. Lors, D, S. Blake to be Bdr. Gars

Para

7. Strength-Deereste. Delein the A few days later, the officer wrote name of Ptc. J. H. Xavier, No. 6 Coy. way communications are still Inter- spread over an area of 25,000 square that his тел Had no courage.

1.Appointments & Promotions ruptex

result of allapsed rilles.

L/Edra. A. T. Godfrey, N. T. Belibing- bridges and the suffering of victims Some of the

Disease was spreading. The cold was affected zones are was accentuated by the extreme without food

too great and most of the men would on, W. D. Gardner, to be Bdre Ginrs. and the few medical

D. Orr and J. 11. C. Highet to cold; the temperature reached 30 relief organisations are confronted not fight.

be L/Bdr.: Edr. I. Deddow to be degrees below zero. Many homeless with enormous

Later he sintes that it is a bad sign B.8.M.; Bdr. W. F. Dudman to be B.Q.M.S.; ctinicuilles, because persona were frozen to death in the the shocks have disrupted communi- trained and had not more courage

that the Red officers are not better, J. McCannell to be Sat.: L/Bdrs. E. W. Banataler, J. S. Dunnet to be absence of any kind of shelter. The cations, railroads and highways-the than the men,-Reuter,

1 A. Olsen, 9. Simpson, A. B. Olsen, C. T town of Keman has been almost fret relief train reached Erzincan

Marshall, A. T. Lee, P. F. Cathrew, D. I completely destroyed.

lust night.

Bosanquet, G. L. Chow, to be L/Bars, Ple. J. R. Stephen to be L/Cpl.; Pies, M. N. Hakusen, W. J. Woolay to be Cpl. Rovaniemi, Dec. 29.

1. Transfers After une month of invasion, ac- Captaine A. H. Patis, H. R. Davies,

of Officers

to AS.C.

9. Leave L/Cpl. N. . Whitle. 3.140-27,3,40, The following leave le cancelled; Sgt. 1. F. Grant, 1987.30-31.12.39.

To strength-Increxan Spr. H. H. Chan, (7d. Coy. Engineera), Gnr. A. 6. Bim, (lat Battery); Gnr. F. Lee, (8th A.A. Úty),

EN. Tihusene Captain. Adjutant. JN.V.D. Corps.

AFFILIATED UNIT

Nursing Detachment, H.K.V.D.C.

help are forthcoming from all parts of the country,

Further violent shocks occurred ́in the devastated areas yesterday- Reuter.

Seventy Per Cont. Casualties

Istanbul, Dec, 20. Omcial reports frein the castern Turkish quake zone speak of fright- ful destruction and suffering. in. Erzincan province alone feared that the ensualties might bel

it lo

May Bo 100,000 Dead

Istanbul, Dec. -20. Reports from Erzincan, centre of the earthquake area, Indicated tho possibility that there are 100,000 dend,

However, this has not yet

been officially checked.--United Press.

120,000 Raported Dead

cording to Finnish maps drawn by strellett, Reserve"

Lieute, C. Baker, G.___Miskin, D. 3. military circles here, the Finns are | Coy. still holding 1,200 mlle line of forests, nowy tundras and frozen wastes-about seven timea as long as the Maginot and Siegfried Lines.--- United Press,

Along Southern Coast

Helsinki, Dec. 29. Air activity was resumedi this morning at Karja on Uie southern coast, which was bombed. The re- sulta are so far unknown.

Parvoo and Lohja on the coast 70 per cent. of the population, but The Glerate d'Italia's Istanbul cast of Helsinki received the alarm. climates of the dead and wounded correspondent reports that 120,000 which was also Bounded at Hangoe In the populations of the cities have been killed at Erzitan, which is at 10 mm.

mounting to hundreds of thousands completely in ruins. It is also re- A considerable number of pinner have not yet arrived. Erzincan city ported that many other villages have were sighted in south Finland dur hat: a population of 90,000 and un- disappeared leaving no imce Unifeding the night but no bombe were confirmed reports place the casualties Pres

dropped-Untied Pyear,

Rome, Dec. 30.

1. Lecture Jan, 9. Ut, Johns Cathedral Hall, 5.20 p.m. Ist Aid lecture.

2. Practical Bandiging - Bluses Jan. D. Vol. 11.Q, and No, 23, Leighton

Bgd, Mr. 1, M. 8. BRAUDE, ANT. COMT.

Nursing Detachment, 11.K.V.D.C.

aircraft guns; uccasionally almost down to sea-level. At night their work is helped by the discharge of their own parachute-flares.

Their crews are drawn from re- gular RAF squadrons, with a rea- soning of Dominion pilots. All are skilled in long-range night flying, and many of them have gained use- ful experience by leaflet ralds into Germany.

Each plane carries a captain, navi- gator, radlo operator and two gun- nors, expert in the use of bomb sights. Their Sying suits are elec- trically heated.

́Although 'their continuous activi. ties over the seaplans hases *re well-known to Naz Air Force chiefs, no fighters have been sent up to try conclusions with them. The reason for this reluctance, is What Goering still prefers the old "Richthofen Circus" tactics of hunt- - ing in packn'and swooping on

weaker adversary.

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In the R.A.F. Security Patrol he s up against whole squadrons whose crews have already shown superior: Initiative combined with a resolution to see the job through at all costs.

IMPORTANT TO.

WOMEN!

Doctors say that a woman's systern ls no sensitive that the shock caused by strong purgative medicines may do serious harm. Those internal troubles which often afflict a wornan in later le are in many cases due to taking harsh medicines. Treat the delicate mechanism of your body gently by taking 'California Syrup of Figs. It never interferes with the bodily functions, but relloven the bowels naturally, giving a complete Internal cleaning in few hours. Doctors and nurses everywhère re- commend 'California Syrup of: Fizs" because it is a gentle liquid laxative, Obtainable from all chemists, drug- gints and lending stores. Be sure you ́get""California Syrup-of-Figs brand:-

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