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A Look Through The “Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

Jan. 9, 1800,

The projected Firth of Clyde Canal to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the North Sea will be begun at once. A Manchester Bem has contracted to com- plete the canal at a cost of £8,000,000.

of 14,000 tons Three new ironcinda and 20,000 horsepower will be added to the naval strength of Italy as soon as poralite. Vessels, armor, guns etc., are to be made in Italy.

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The "Cherolista" is the last London dance, the name comes from chorus, a dance, and ofisikanein, to glide.

Baron Douneral, a French officer, pro: poncs that France and Germany should fight on a new principle, each country to have 100,000 men un its side only. At the name time he in liberal in his offers to Germany, and says that the country may have 10,000 Italians to help it.

25 YEARS AGO

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Jan. 9, 1015. The deadlock on the western frontier secnus complete. In spite of incessant attacks, driven home selih quite exirn. brilinary resolution and hurricanes of shell expended every day, the losses and guine along the fighting front fairly balance ene unether, and at this rate things could go on for weeks with ad- vantage to either side were the re- sources behind both more nearly equal. 10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 9, 1930. A further fall of a farthing was re- the Hangkong istered in respect of lollar when exchange opened this morn- ing. This brings the T.T. rate down to 3. Gd. which is us low as it has ever been in the history of the Colony.

5 YEARS AGO

Jan. 9. 1935. The question of the mare adequate ndvertising, of Hongkong us a tourist or travellers' resort, which has periudi. cally arisen In recent times, is taken aaten Turther to lay by the suggestion made by a contributor that the time has come for some defalte nction to bu taken in the matter.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH –

January, 9, 1940.

French Army Leaders Are Masters Of Their Machines

MAGINOT LINE

Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficial Summary issued "yesterday' says:****

The week has opened with an air of stendiness, enquiries continue on a moderately fair scale.

Buyers H.K. Bank $1,380 Canton Ins; $205. Union Ins. $440 Douglas $72 Docits $21.00 Providents $4.05 Hotels $5.85

Lands $334 Reallles $4,49

Tramways $1714

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Yaumati Ferries $234

China Lights (Old) $7.65

Sandokan Lights $11

Electrics $55

Telephones (Old) $241⁄2

Telephones (New) $0.30

Cements $17.00

Ropes $6.10

Dairy Farms (Old) $221⁄4

Dairy Farms (New) $214 Watsons $9.20

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COMMANDER J. ULLMANN

SAYS, "LET THE NAZI COME"

BY RICHARD CAPELL "Daily Telegraph" Special Correspondent

FRENCH WITH THE ARMY-A giant is stirring uncasily, but the War here is still not really awake. He groans in his sleep some- times, but we can only guess when he will rouse himself.

Home

It is like early morning in

enormous palace, tyrant's palace. The master of the household is not up, but there is tremendous activity among the innumerable ser- vante.

Privilested onlookern have been allowed to see the preparations for the day's work. They have been welcomed and shown without reserve all kinds of marvels, dreadful",

the marvels, now in readiness for entertainment of the risen plant Never before was there anything of the sort so elaborately prepared.

parts. genuity

But, underground, French has elaborated.

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new

German

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Repulsed

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French Advance

Here

FRONTIER

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Supporting Forts

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Hague LAUTERBOURG

Miles

But it would not be fair to them---- · One man's complaint was that his strange people had not written to him for 10 it would misrepresent the life they lead a hundred feet below days. The General did rol rub it in

of wistfulness. The outside fault of the Post Office, round-to leave unmentioned the too hard that this might not be the world ought to be reminded of the sacrifice and strain which this life represents.

trace

leaving behind them their belongings, the fruit of the work of a lifetime.

"They did so without complaint, innd all they said was: This time we finust see the matter through. We are slek and tired of repeated invasions, and we do not care about anything else than to see the final victory.

Unequalled Fortifications "This is the indomitable, spirit of the French frontier peasantry," cons- cluded the General. 10 words ring true.

Later I was privileged to visit one of the most important works of the main French defences—the Maginot Line.

"On ne passa pas" is the mollo of the troops there, No one who hos seen the Line-and they are few in

· number—can doubit for a moment its Impregnability. No fortifications con- ecived can equal it.

It is a long way from the actual front, far too distant to receive a shell from the longest range German netillery. This, no doubt, explains why life in the French village in its vicinity goes on as usual.

The officer commanding the work I visited, accurately described it as a battleship that does not roll even in the heaviest of seas.

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The Maginat Line is the Inst word perfection. Nothing has been overlooked and the advanings of Is

I do not know what exactly is the It is not on the surface. The eastern frontier of France will In

power of an Army commander over

Succession Of "Battleships" 1.000 years or so have nothing to

the working of the postal service in

It is, in fact, a long succession of show to remind posterity of the year Many of these guardians of the fort the Actd; but when they went back 1839 comparable with Hadrian's and its secrets have spent years in its into the woods the ploucers knew buttleships, as though miles and miles labyrinths. Those labyrinths abound that a great man from on high had of capital ships as powerful as H.M.S. Wall or Offa's dyke.

The Great Wall of China has not in comforts such as shower baths, heard their grievances kindly und Hood had been placed in Ale. The stall the that he would assuredly do anything only difference is that the Maginot been rivalled as a pleturcaque spec-lifts and tramways, and tacle by the Maginot Line,

Line is Oxed instead of being mobile. confess to mere visitor has to

within to straighten things out.

The cross Bren of its turrets cover feeling of relief when he 15 once

Later, at the battalion commander'u "ADMIRAL" IN COMMAND

again able to breathe the upper air. headquarters somewhere in Germany, an area of ground which makes it Above ground there is a world to the Officer Commanding explained to impossible for an enemy to approach Like Subterranean Battleship

One of its leading oflects C The new wonder of the world is all appearance placid. On most days us, by the dim light of a candle and, it.

the sound

uf n shell is

a rarity, with a mop of his sector chalked on marked, "The Germans will break Indeed characterised by its modest Cows are grazing between the belt a blackboard, the course of opera- their teeth on the Maginot Line if

ever they get near It." inconspicuousness. Here and there of wire. We come across a young lions. is a mushroom-50 called-of con-

leisure hour We were received by the General The doorkeeper of crete and steel, but here is hardly gunner who lies in p

commanding the army occupying this principal works of the Line has play- spoke ined in the French Army Association A very few miles nway there is a lares of the front. Fle anything else to catch the eye of the snared a hare. casual passer-by-it one can possibly Imagine a casual passer-by in these ridge, and you are told that the Germoving terms of the tennefty of the football team.

French villagers who had been com- mans are there.

"Let them come," says the compelled to leave their homes near the in mandant. The whole garrison longs front.

the defenders aver possible attackera is a ourselves We had seen for for them to come. The garrison ts world, something between the Lon-on tiptec. It is magnificently rou evacuated villages which were not thousandfold.

It is a gigantic underground work- don lube system and a battleship.

detall has been The dent in itself pad its marvellous very far from the front and only a Battleship." "Sublerranean

machine. It knows itself im-few miles behind the point from shop In which no phrase is inevitable to describe the

pregnable.

which the French long-range artillery overlooked. Probably it is the safest and most comfortable sector of all forts of the Maginot Lino. It has

pounds the Siegfried Line.

sca, been heard often in recent weeks, POSTAL DELAYS

"These people," said the General, the fronts un land

Men off duty would be able to sleep and st it was news to me, when

"left at a few hours notice their enjoying the hospitality of the com- General And Men Talk It Over

homes in the operation zone, cherying pencefully, despite the thunder of mandant of one of these forts, to find I had the fortune to witness a sure with them, only a small valise con- the guns above their heads, through he was "the admiral" of his officersprise visit from no less on eminence taining their family documents and the heaviest of enemy bombardments, and men.

Jibon the Army Commander' to a And, by the way, we no longer say pioneer battalion working in a forest

The near the frontier. "Tort" in this part of the world.

The daily shave word for the new thing which is a fort indeed, but one which assembles French Army the the resources of a half a hundred jobligation that it is with us; and the techniques and sciences, is "ouvrage."men as they came scrambling out of Throughout this visit to the new the undergrowth might have been different underground world it wanted a per-taken for beings of, a sistent effort to realise that one was species from the wonderful General, and so net on board a battle cruiser of some 50 refined and pale of face strange navy where khaki was the gloriously decorated..

wear.

As much wes sald to a young gun- ner. In one of the turrets, He an wered with a shade of wistfulness: "Yes, but a real ship would times put into port."

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But in a moment his relationship with there muddy woodlanders was established. It was almost fatherly. They crowded round him, und after but a moment's shyness there were plenty who did not wait to lae spoken to before they chipped in. Things were not too bad they all agreed: büt not everything was perfect. There was, for instance, the great question

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Pride and confidence pre the of delays the Army postni service. prevailing notes among these men, in The General questioned them closely. their various ways so zealous, such He wanted to know exactly how long complete masters of their complexit had taken for letters to reach ther machine.

from home.

SOLDIERS STILL

SEEK SOCKS,

SO SUSIE-

By LOUISE MORGAN

You would never guess what is the most popular gift at the

Front. And so I will tell you. It's socks!

I learned this, and the reason why, from Captain R. W. Phillips, officer in command of the Army Comforts Depot, St. Mary's Butts, Reading.

"Soldiers' aocks wear out so fast," he said, "and soldiers, unlike sailors, are not experts at darning."

Or, as a Berkshire soldier put it, has taught himself knitting and sends "Socks on the jaw are quicker mend-n scarf overy fortnight.

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H.K. Bank $1,400 Wharves $102 Docks $22 Providents $4.007.03 Hotels $5.00/,05

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Mr. Casey Annointed

Wabhington, Jan. 7.

The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, announces that United States' diplomalle relations have been es.. tablished, with Australia by the rp- pointment of the Australian Mialster. of Supply, Mr. Richard Candy, as first Australian Minister to:Washing-

The United States Minbter to Can- borra will be announced shortly. United Proes.

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"Dear Soldier," they had written, They Like Colour

"will you please write, as we would Pullovers can be coloured, too, sald like to keep your letter for always?"

dress Captain Phillips. The batile

The youngest knitters so far are a conceals them and a man likes to girl of six from London and a boy have a touch of heartening colour of seven from Leeds. like red or green to relieve the mono-

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If you will stitch each pair to- husband, but he has now gone to` gelker when you have finished them, warmer climo." -

he can abolish the "joining up" room,| "Funny" inscriptions like "This is where three voluntary workers. ali to keep your neck warm and cloan ull day tacking pairs together.

until you meet Hitler," are the com-

Between 400 and 600 parcels a day monest.

come from every part of the country

The one which touched me most

to the depot which is responsible for was from a Streatham: woman who

all comforts for the B.E.F. in France. at 60 still goes out to clean by the Considerably more than half come day. It read "Just a few things for from people with very small in the boys from Mother,"

s comes, and some have been received

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lovera and mittens, are dark-coloured soldier who lost a leg in. 1017 handkerchiefs, mouth-organa, play- 93-and has only his disablilty pensioning-cards, elgarettes and sweets;

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