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Monday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

January 8, 1940.

PHOTONEWS

THIS IS HOW TO DEAL WITH

INSIDE. GERMANY

Will Soon be "Sold Out"

MANY German shops will be forced to close down after the New Year rushi which has just ended. The seasonal buy- ing wave, restricted though it is by severe rationing and scarcity of money, has cleared them of their meagre supplies,į which in many cases it will be impossible to replace.

This is not wishful thinking. It is candidly stated by Herr Joseph Winschuh, a leading Ger- man economic expert.

Scriaus Losses

Even the most blustering Nazis' newspapers are forced to admit the grim realities of cconomic warfare. Herr Winschuh puts it in the plainest language..

WATER

Army sappers gave a convincing demonstration of their methods of dealing with water at a military engineering school in England. Above, you see them, undeterred by the difficult-

les, advancing "at the double" to construct a pontoon bride.

Newsreels of the Queen seized

A NEWSREEL version of the Queen's recent broad-

Writing in the Deutche Allgeme- cast to the women of the Empire has been withdrawn

ine Zeltung, he says:

**11 NOW bremnes necessary to realise that the economie war is el! ting more and mare serious, and it

| frum circulation.

it continuer much longer the losses Girl

will be higher than on the military] front.

No Replacement

"It would be definitely wrong to live in a world of illusion. The trade) groups will be the first to be mowed)

down.

"Christmas trade results in a rapid selling out of shops, and it will not) longer be possible to replace their goods, or only in very small quanti- tics.

From Spain Finds

Clue

To

Parents

coin

A 'MILLION-TO-ONE cidence may decide the fate of

Decision to hold up the film was made so late that copies for circulation throughout the world- had left the laboratories in London.

-It-war-stated-in-Wardour=street} that ships and a flying-boat leaving! England were stopped and searched reels by oflends and some of the they carried were seized and con- Ascated,

It took some time to and the reels. Police officers searched railway. station and a train arriving #t n part, but could not trace them.

The decision to stop the ilms going abroad was made because it essential additions to the film of the Queen at the microphone,

"Now that the motor car trade and nine-year-old- Elisa Iturralde, was held necessary to make certain petrol Alling stations have been cum- Elisa went to Bristol three years pelled to go out of business most ul the shops will be obliged to do file-go as a Spanish war refugee from

The ofetal view was that the in- | Bilbao, wise Immediately after Christmas,

After the war she remained un-reduction to the screened broadcast and it will have to be left to them to decide whether they will liquidate claimed Mr. and Mrs. T. Reed, off was too abrupt and would not do. at once or gradually, which means Queen-parade, Bristol, became her justice to the Queen in Empire and they must deelde how much of their kind foster-parents. capital they are prepared to go on Tosing. Rations First'

Recently Mrs. Reed heard that a Spanish ship had docked at Bristol. "I showed the captain," she said, "an envelope which had on it the Just address we and of Elisa's parents,

neutral countries.

Coples of this version of the red)

The sappers fording an Army lorry scross a stretch of water on a heavy pontoon raft,

have also been withdrawn from pro- PROFESSOR

vinelal circulation.

As soon as the essential additions will be have been made the film

"The German tradesman is playing an Important political role. Unfor- took out of my handbag a photo in time to catch the next outgangi tunately, it is a fact that the customer graph of Elisa in a family group.

balch of chips. "Pointing excitedly to the mother? The King and Queen saw a news- considers his portion of meat and his xation card is of more knportance he said, "That is Elina Muza. I re-reel version of the Queen's broadenst than the present war and war nims,] member her well.'

at the Leicester-square Cinema when нее the and freely expresses his misgivings "Maza was the mother's maiden they went together to in the shop,

name. She had worked for the cap-propaganda film "The Lion Has Thus the tradesman la rendering tain's sister-in-Inw.”

Wings." a national service endeavouring to Elisa had quieten these dissatisfied people. cabin. He is going to write in "On the other hand, the trado his wife, who will search the town realise that the Ståle cannot grant to find Elian's mother. them any subsidy and that they must And a message from Elisa will be; find' means of helping themselves." In the letter.

"He said, "I come from there, I released again. The new rec GIVES UP

ten in the captain's

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INDIAN FRONTIER

Reports Of Disorders Said Unfounded

London, Jan. 6. German "wishful thinking" is again displayed in persistent attempts to persuade themselves that the Indian North-West Frontier is extremely dla turbed, and especially that Waziristan in the scene of a serious outbreak.

"As a matter of fact," says The Times, "Waziristan is less troubled than it was carly last year and al- though there have been some enses of kidnapping, brigandage and sabotage, they have not given the Indian authorlites any grounds for anxiety. Agitation of the embrolled section of the Afridia with the Afghan Govern- ment has been defented by

Joint British-Afghan action and the rest of

the frontler la quiet.”

There

CAREER FOR SON

DR. LUCY NAISH, Professor

It's not set to music yet, but the same

it's

Hymn of Hate

HITLER has ordered the whole of the Nazl Press to join in a chorus of Inte against Britain. But not a word is said of France.

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This is the same technique in 1915, when Ernst Lissauer wrote the notorious "Hymn of late."

It:

This was the hast verse of

What care we for Russian ar

French?

Blow against blue, and shock

against shock,

We fight the fight with bronze and

steel,

And carve a prace for over and

qvc.

Thee will we hate with a lasting

hate,

We will not abate from our hate, Hate by water ani kate by land, Hate of the head and hate of the

haud,

Hate of the workera and hate of

the crowned, Throttling

millious,

Jatr

of

seventy

One in their love and one in their

hate,

Then have all but due single, only

for:

ENGLAND!

Eire Orders 50-Knot Patrol Boats

A Southampton firm, it was aḥ- nounced recently as a contract to build pocket warmlys for a small, swift feet which the Government of Eire is forming to guard territorial waters.

Orders now being placed total £250,000 for motor forpedo-heats capable of 50 knnis and other types of fast armed patrol craft

And they seem quite uncon- cerned at the prospect of standing-at-cars in the water while awaiting further Instructions.

WEDS FOR

WAR NEWS

THOMAS ROUSE, aged 79, of of Osteology at Sheffield Univer- sity for twenty years, has re-Links-road, Ashford, Middlesex, signed her post and sacrificed a cannot read or write, so he is brilliant carcer to nurse her getting married to hear the war twenty-seven-year - old

invalid news. son who has been evacuated to North Wales.

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His bride-to-be, Mrs. Lilian Wit- Bemson, a widow of 00, is the only i Her husband, Dr. A. E. Naish, has one of his acquaintance who has the been connected with the university time to read wer news to him, he for more than thirty years. He was said. formerly professor of medicine there.j

Dr. Lucy Nalsh is regarded as one of the most brilliant lecturers in her subject in the country.

Murder Plea

Of Second

Personality

have been no military DR. LEONARD PHIPPS Lengagements on the North-West LOCKHART (41), on whose be-

They will live in a flat at Mill End, Staines

"2 am a widower," said Thomas ftouse last night. "I want to know what is going on in this war. Mrs. Williamson has many evenings rending the paper to me and it has brought great pleasure into my life. So now we are marrying/

Legionnaires In High Posts

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UP)-Three

froniler of India since the beginning half a defence of "unconscious former state commanders of the of the war.

For some time previous to the 'out-action" or "dissociated person American Legion in Tennessee now break of war, there had been dis-ality" had been advanced, was, occupy high state posts. They are: turbances in Waziristan, coused by at Nottingham Assized recently, Gov. Prentice Cooper, Logion com- alace then this has been confined found guilty but insane on amander In 1031 Major Tom E. chiefly, to arall acts of sabotage charge of the murder of his wife ander in 1037; and R. G. Turner, The other areas are peaceful at their home at Beeston, Not-director of the slate game and fishi Render Bulletin

tin ham

[division;; comimonder-in 1834.

the followers of the Fakir of Ipl, but

Morris'stato, safely, director, - com».

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