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A Look Through The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

Jan. 0, 1800. The projected Firth of Clyde Canal in connect the Atlantic Ocean with the'. North Sea will ba begun at once. A Alanchester firm has contracted to com- plete the canal at a cast of £8,000,000,

Three new fronclads of 14,000 tons and 20,000 horse-power will be added to the naval strength of Italy as on A possible. Vesele, armor, guna etc., are, to be made in Italy,

The "Chorolfaths" is the last London dance, the name comes from chores, a, dance, and ollathanen, to glide.

Baron Dounezal, a French officer, pro- pores that Franco and Germany should fight on a new principle, each country to have 100,000 men on its side only. At the same time ho is liberal in his, offers to Germany, and anys that the i

have 10,000 Italians to Country may help it.

25 YEARS AGO

Jan. 0, 1916. The deadlock on the western frontier seems completo. In spite of Incosannt attacks, driven home with quite extra- ordinary resolution and hurricants of shall expended every day, the lones and gains along the sighting front fairly briance on another, and at this cate things could go on for weeks with ad, vantage to neither alda were the re- Mources behind both more nearly equal. 10 YEARS AGO

Jan. 9. 1930. A further fall of farthing was re- sintered in respect of the llongkong dollar when exchange opened this morn- ing. This brings the T.T. rate down to Is. 6d. which is as low as it has ever been in the history of the Colony.

5 YEARS AGO ·

Jan. 0, 1936. The question of the more adequate advertising, of Hongkong as a tourista' or travellere resort, which has periodi- cally aron in recent times, is taken aatep further to-day by the auggestion made by a contributor that the time has come for some definite action to by taken in the matter.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday soys:

The week has opened with an air Jan. 97 p.m. of steadiness, enquiries continue on

.7.00 p.m. a moderately fair scale.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January, 91940,

French Army Leaders Are Masters Of Their Machines

MAGINOT LINE

COMMANDER J. ULLMANN.

SAYS, "LET THE NAZI COME"

By RICHARD CAFELL, "Daily Telegraph" Special Correspondent

FRENCH WITH THE ARMY. A giant is stirring uneasily, 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.

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It is like carly morning in Home enormous palace, 4 tyrant's palace. The master of the household is not up, but there is tremendous activity among the innumerable, ser. vanta,

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

"They did so without complaint, and all they said was: "This time we must see the matter through. We are sick and tired of repeated Invasions, (and we do not care about anything

else than to see the final victory.*

Unequalled Fortificationa

"This is the indomitable spirit of the French frontier peasantry" con- cluded the General. His 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 passe pas" is the motto of the troops there. No one who has (seen the Line-and they are few In

number-can doubt for a moment its Impregnability. No fortifications con- celved can equal It.

Privileged onlookers have been allowed to see the preparations for the day's work. They have been welcomed and shown without reservo

But it would not be fair to them One man's complaint was that his of marvels, dreadful all kinds

it would misrepresent the strange people had not written to him for 10 the marvels, now in readiness for entertainment of the risen giant,fe they lead a hundred feet below days. The General did not rub it in vicinity goes on as usual. Never before was there anything of ground to leave unmentioned the too hard that this might not be the the sort so elaborately prepared,

It is not on the surface. The eastern frontier of France will in 1,000 years or so have nothing to show to remind posterity of the year 1039 comparable with Hadrian's Wall or Offa's dyke.

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trace

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It is a long way from the petual front, far too distant- to recelve shell from the longest range German artillery. This, no doubt, explains why life in the French village in His

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

Succession Of "Battleships"

of

the

of wistfulness. The outsidefault of the Post. Omice. world ought to be reminded of the

I do not know what exactly is the sacrifice and strain which this life

power of an Army commander over the working of the postal service in Many of these guardians of the fort the field; but when they went back It is, in fact, a long succession of and its secrets have spent years in lis into the woods the pioneers knew battleships, 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. The Great Wall of China has not in comforts such as shower

and Hood had been placed In Ale. The baths, heard their grievances kindly

the that he would assuredly do anything only difference is that the Maginot been rivalled as a picturesque spec-ilfts and tramways, and still

Line la fixed instead of beling mobile. thele by the Maginot Line.

mere visitor has to confess to within to straighten things out. feeling of relief when he is

The cross fires of its turreis cover once

Later, at the baltalion commander's 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 Omcer Commanding explained to impossible for an enemy to approach all appearance placid, On

a rarity. with a map of his sector chalked on marked, "The Germans will break The new wonder of the world is the sound of a shell a most days us, by the dim light of a candle andit. One of its leading offlcers re indeed characterised by its modest Cows are grazing between the belts a blackboard, the course of opers their teeth on the Maginot Line if

ever they get near it.” inconspicuousness. Here and there of wire. We come across a young tions.

The doorkeeper of one In a mushroom-so called-of con-

Jelsure hour We were received by the General: crete and steel, but here is hardly gunner who has in a

snared a hare.

commanding the army occupying this principal works of the Line has play- A very few miles away there is a arca of the front. He spoke in ed in the French Army Association anything else to catch the eye of the casual passer-by-if one can possibly

The Muginot Line is the last word imagine a casual passer-by in these ridge, and you are told that the Ger-moving terms of the tenacity of the football team.

mans are there.

French villagers who had been com-

been "Let them come," says the com-pelled to leave their homes near the in perfection. Nothing has

overlooked and the advantage of its But, underground, French in-

mandant. The whole garrison Iongs front. genuity has elaborated

We had seen for ourselves the defenders over possible attackers is n world, something between the Lon-for them to come. The garrison is;

on tiptoe. It is magnificently con- evacuated villages which were not thousandfold.

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

Adent In Itself and its marvellous very far from the front and only a The machine. "Subterranean battleship."

It knows Itself Im-few miles behind the point from shop in which no detail has phrase is inevitable to describe the pregnable.

which the French Jeng-range artillery overlooked. Probably it is the safest forts of the Maginot Line. It

and most comfortable sector of all has

pounds the Siegfried Line. been heard often hi recent weeks, POSTAL DELAYS

"These people," said the General, the fronts on land or sen. and still it was news to me, when

"left at a few hours' notice their Men off-duty would be able to sleep enjoying the hospitality of the com- General And Men Talk It Over

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

than the Army Commander to it And, by the way, we no longer say pioneer ballallon working in a forest "Tort" in this part of the world. The near the frontier.

The dully shave is not in the word for the new thing which is hi fort indeed, but one which assembles (French Army the almost religious the resources of a half a hundred obligation that it is with us; and the techniques and weiences, is "ouvrage." men as they came scrambling out of Throughout this visit to the new the undergrowth might have been underground world it wanted a per-taken for beings of a different sistent effort to realise that one was species from the wonderful General, not on board a battle cruiser of some 50 refined and pale of face and so strange navy where khaki was the gloriously decorated, wear,

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But in a moment his relationship

As much was said to a young gun-with these muddy woodlanders was ner in one of the turrets. He ons- established. It was almost fatherly. wered with a shade of wistfulness; They crowded round him, and after "Yes, but a real ship would some-but a moment's shyness there were times put into port.

YEARS OF SERVICE

Mastors Of Their Machino

{ plenty who did not wait to be spoken" to before they chipped in. Things were not too bad they all agreed; but not everything was perfect. There was, for instance, the great question

Pride and confidence are the of delays in the Army postal service. prevelling 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 thor complexit had taken for letters to reach them machine.

from home.

SOLDIERS STILL

SEEK SOCKS,

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

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

ed than the socks on my 'fect-1 mother's not about."

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So if you want to delight some soldier in France, send him socks. under 10 from Bradford, sent a two- They can be any colour, or all the colour scarf In which Pat colours of the rainbow together, be-knitted the grey and Peter cause they do not show.

khaki bands,

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

will you plenso write, as we would Pullovers can be coloured, too, said like to keep your letter for always?" Caplain Phillips. The battle dress 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 entour of seven from Leeds.

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like red or grem to relieve the mono- "Some of the very best work has tony of khaki, Dark shades are pre-been ferable to light.

The Captain, who has organised the the comforts as they arrive, depot down to half-minutes and A very fine pullover came from ha'pennies, gave me another Up about Sunderland with the slightly am- socks.

biguous note: "I knitted this for my

If you will stitch cach pair to- husband, but he has now gone to a gether when you have flaished them, warmer elime.**

he can abolish the "Joining up” room, "Funny" Inscriptions like "This is where thres yoluntary workers alt to keep your neck warm and clean all day tacking pairs together until you meet Hiller," are the com-

Between 400 and 500 parcels a day monest

come from every part of the country

The one which touched me most

to the depot which-la responsible for was from a Streatham woman who

all comforts for the B.E.F. in France, at 60 sulll 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.

comes, and womb have been received Among the things most wanted be- from: old-age sponsioners and uns sides socke, scarves, limets, pull- overs and mittens, are dark-coloured employed. The dengang tot ingen sta

A soldier who lost a ler in 1017 handicerchiefs, mouth-organs," "«play» and has-only this, alarbilliy gensioning-cație, cigarettur and sweets:

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