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Lynn Bar Alchard Clarke Harold Huber

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ERROL FLYNN in

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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 4, 1940.

"LORD HAW" Homeside Rationing Next Week

FOUR OUNCES OF

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Boy Scouts Blamed For Sabotage!

BACON A WEEK

LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter).—The Ministry of Food LONDON, Jan. 3 (British announces that the ration for uncooked bacon and ham Wireless). The commentator beginning on January 8 will be four ounces, and that for facetiously known as "Lord cooked, three and a half Haw" owing to his mannerisms, ounces a week. who nightly addresses the Eng lish public from the German Radio Station and whose com ments on affairs are mainly The Food Ministry states that it is distinguished by gretesque mis- proposed experimentally to allow representations, last night mado entering establishments to servo bacon hlinsel responsible for the fol- and liam without surrender

coupons, provided they are consumed lowing observation:

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Death Sentence On I.R.A. Murderers "Sabotage in Czecho-Slovak fac-

How Is Calculated

LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter).— torles is due to the evil influence of

Supplies of butter and sugar to the Mr. Eamon de Valera has made British Boy Scouts. This is the con-

the British clusion of Yugo-Slay abservers, which catering establishments will be cal representations to

is being freely mentioned in Belgrade.culated on the basis of one-sixth of Government with regard to the

They point out that companies an ounce of butter and one-seventh

of these alleged Boy Scouts were ne-of an ounce of sugar per meal served, sentences of death passed on customed to camp in the areas where including afternoon tea, for which no December 14 on two Irishmen. sabotage has occurred, and they took butter was allowed during the Inst!

to war,

advantage of the opportunity spread nati-German feeling among the local population.

EUROPEAN TACKLES

The arrangements apply to all places of refreshment open to the publle, including clubs and canteens, Shortage Of Materials

HOLD,UP

ROBBERS IN U-BOAT

Shanghai, Jan. 3,

with

The superintendent of the Chiun Car and Foundry Company, Mr. John I. Nielson, was attacked in his office by alx Chinese thugs armed

They Mausera and hond grenndes. demanded Mr. Nielson to hand over the pay roll of Yuan 8.000. It is believed that dhe thugs were strike

ngitators,

Mr. Nielson selzed the gun of the nearest assailant, whereupon the ulher surprised thugs dashed to the door. The last man threw a band grende. It did not explode,

the Mr. Nielson chased

Recing thugs and grappled with one of them. ile look a gun. from another and chased away the last thug, who pumped shots at Mr. Nielson at close range, but did not hit him.

Three hundred employees were buddled at one end of the compound

United Press.

BUILDING

By A Naval Correspondent

THE Nazi's U-boat plan is! getting out of gear.

They were found guilty of mur- dering a girl, one of five victims of an explosion at Coventry on August 25.

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This in disclosed in a letter from Mr. de Valero, read at a meeting to day in Dalston, County Cork, Urban Counell, which had previously NEXT CHANGE ndopled a resolution urging Mr. de Valero to request commutation A. Paramount the sentences to penal servitude for 11fc,

of

AMERICAN FLEET

Washington, Jan. 3. Before the war began Hit- Mr. Charles Edison, Assistant Navy ler's naval experts assured Secretory, is studying means for ac

record warship him that there would always ccieration of the

construction programme.

He suid be enough U-boats to make it

the Navy's authorised Impossible for Britain to re-building programme was progressing ceive sufficient food from ahead of schedule in some categories without causing delay in any other abroad. Two things have gone wrong with category. The authorised programms the plan,

was on the regular planned basis, any acceleration of which must be (1) The German shipbuilding submitted to Congress which would sards are short of skilled labour be called upon to decide on that be and material:

(2) Britain and France are sink-fore very long. At this time it might to lay down be more advantageous Ing U-boats mitch faster than. Ad- miral Roeder believed possible.

more authorised ships.

Mr. Edison said the Navy, at Con- The Stettin yard, engaged exclu-

any

and watched the thugs escape-sively on naval work, eannot Andi Kress request, Is assembling data s enough skilled men. To keep up its to the feasibility of construction of super-buttleships up to 80,000 tons, rate of production it has had to in- but it was too early to reach erease working hours.

intends 10 push The workers

are rumbling-and conclusions He

scientific research on the latest wes- the quality of their work is suffer-pong and ships and to "grab any new foreign ideas, inasmuch as the United Krupps and some of the Hamburg States has no monopoly on brains." yards are also affected,

Little Tough Guy Push-And-Pull

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·RALPH BELLAMY In

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On Border

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British naval experts laugh at the Nazi clalin that she can balance her WASHINGTON Government of- folals ruled recently that American U-boat losses by the building of new warplanes bought by the French, boats. Brlish and Canadian Governments could not be flown to Canada under their own power, and could not take off from American sol for fights across the Atlantic.

Under International law, it was! ruled, this would constitute an armed expedition.

In 1917, when she had many more row materials to draw on. Germany put only 87 submarines Into commission.

Shipbuilding experis here de- clare that the Nazis cannot pro- duce more than six U-boats ench month.

At least 40 U-boats are believed to have been sunk since the war bet

The Navy was pushing ahead with the development of fast motor tor- pedo boats and sub-chasers, of which it was eager to have a dotilla for tests. If they are found satisfactory, the Navy may produce on a mass production boats-United Press.

Welcomed As Horoas

Montevideo, Jan. 3. The newspaper Eldia with a very wide circulation, appeals to the Uru- guayan women to receive the men of H.M.S. Ajax with flowers.

Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, who commundet the British forces So. month by month, Hitler's during the battle with the Admiral U-boat fleet is getting smaller and Graf Spee, visited the President of smaller.

Uruguay and the Foreign and Defence Ministera

Experts agreed, however, that there was nothing to prevent planes being Rown to the Canadian border and gün. helng pushed or pulled across the border without being dismantled.

Once an American plane is across the border there is nothing to prevent it being flown across the Atlantic

Army's Health

LATE NEWS "Satisfactory"

Moscow To Aid 'Quake Victims

of

MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (Router)—It in panounced that the Council Peoples' Commissars has decided to contribute $10,000 for the relief of the earthquake victims in Turkey..

Air Chiefs Will Co-Operate

TORONTO, Jan. 4 (Reuter),—Air} Chief Marshal Brooke-Popham, member of the British Air Mission, is remaining in Canada to supervlaó the Empire Air Training Scheme in Co-operation with the Chief of Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The visit is purely a courtesy one lasting two days.-Reuter.

"Neutrals" Lossus

Stockholm, Jan. 3.

Marine The Swedish Minister of

In the report on the health of the has announced that Sweden lost 11 British Army for the year 1037 ships, totalling 17,000 tons, since the Issued recently, it is stated that, the beginning of the war.

The Norwegian Goverment las general health of the troops during declared that their losses were 24 the year under review has been inost ships and the lives of 91 seamen- | satisfactory.

There was a decrease in the rate of Reuter Bulletin. admission to hospital of 14.1 a thou- sand, compared with the previous year, and the admission only 21.5 a thousand higher than thot of 1035, the lowest recorded since the Great War.

rate was

The death ratio of 1.07 a thousand and the ratio of 8.88 a thousand for invalids discharged from the Service are the lowest ever recorded since the Great War.

INTELLIGENT PREPARATION

LONDON, Jan. 3 (Router)--The Royal Proclamation notifying another two million men of their lability for military service is generally welcom- The number of offers admitted to ed by the British Press. hospital shows an admision ratio of Typical of the comment is that of 187.3 a thousand of the strength com- the "Manchester Guardian," which pared with 220.4 a thousand in 1936; says, that this is intelligent prepara and 1978 in 1935. The deaths were tion.

2.16 a thousand of the strength com- Transfer of skilled workers to

pared with 3.43 a thousand in 1930 similar occupations in the Army and 3.37 In 1985.

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AFGHAN BORDER trations on the borders of Afghanli-

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REPORTS DENIED The Afghan Government have off-

LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuter)—| cially denied that there has been London official circles attach no any mobilisation of - their ormed credence-whatever, it is authorita- forces, and nothing

whatever, isn tively, stated, to the rumours in cer-known of any mobilisation in Iran,

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