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By HUGH CARLETON GREENE

AMSTERDAM.

FOR sheer mendacity and dis- tortion of the facts the German Press recently left even its own previous records far behind.

Dr. Goebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Pro paganda, has evidently decided · that the disastrous impression created by the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee must be wiped out by a frenzied cam-

Whart and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow-paign of bigger and belter lying. Too, whence delivery may be ob tained immediately after landing.

All claims must be sent in to me on or before 17th January, 1940, or they will not be recognized.

bouts.

Nazi propaganda's magic wand has transformed the defenceless shing trawlers bombed and machine- gunned by German 'plaries in the Damaged Packages will be exam-North Sea into warships and patrol ed by the Company's Surveyor Messra--Goddard und Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 1000 um. on Saturday, 13th January, 1940. Consignees must have a Revenue Ofcer in ullendance when any dullable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever,

K. VIIL, Agent.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Ofekt Summary issued yesterday may

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The invention that 34 out of 44 British bombers were shot down in un air battle over the Heligoland Bight is emphasised in huge banner headlines,

Lt. Col. Schumacher, officer com- manding the fighter squadron which the British bombers, is engaged

German Press as the quoted in estimating the British losses at 40 machines, instead of the seven not necounted for angonieed

the British Air Ministry comununique, which also stated that 12 Messer- sehritis were brought down. The Germans put their own losses at two.

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Holland's Question The question all fiolland in asking be satis- Hiter wil whether

German

Business continued brisk throughed with a propaganda campaign to re-establish his prestige, or whe- out the day, resulting in a turgever

ther he will decide on soine dramatie topping any reported for many months pent. Cements were leaders, coup. On this point the message from the Special Correspondent of and the medium of an extensive Trading.

The Daily Telegraph in Eupen de- Government 15% Lars changed hunds @ $101 to the extent cribing the missing of

troops near the Luxenburg-Belgian of a litle over a laklı. Docks were a Khade easter coming to bushes and Dutch frontiers has been read

here with great interest. after touchleg @ $21.80. Trams,

11 would, however, be a bad time $17.80 ensed off, and were

launch an at that price. Here, again, as of year for Germany to

Holland. Ir the Dutch probably the case with Docks. prut attack on taking may explain the halt in their military authorities found it neces- advance. The market generally at sary to flood the main waterline, it the closely steady with a arm under- would soon be covered with a thin couting of lee which would be in- tone.

weight sufficient la bear Uc

of modern mechanised forces.

Even if there were a really hard frost which enabled tanks, and artil- lery to penetrate Holland's defences, this might only turn out to be a trap. A Dulch military expert with whom

recalled

the talked

Incident which took place in December, 1672, after William of Orange, later King William II. of England, had cut the dykes in face of a French Invasion.

Taking advantage of a hard frost,

French

Marshal force under Luxemburg marched over the frozen waterline, but a sudden thaw com- "pelled them to retrent-in-a-hurry-for fear of being cut off with the waters at their back, and only the treachery of a Dutch colonel enabled them to escape by the one road open to then.

Union Ins. $400 Wharves $101

Providenta $4.05

Hotels $531

Lands $33

Humphries $8

Realties $4,40

Tramways $17

Youmall Ferries $24

China Lights (old) $7.05

Electrics $591⁄4

Sandakan Lights $11

Telephones (Old) $25.40 Telephones (New) $014 Cements $18,00

Ropes

$0.10

Dairy Farms (Old) $2245 Dairy Forms (New) $214 Watsons $0.20

Sellers

H.K. Bank $1,380

Decks $22

Tramways $17%

Telephones (New) $9% Cements $1D

Salca

H.K. Bank $1.370/65 Wharves $102 Docks $21,80 Providents $4.70* Raubs $10

Hotels $5.00

Humphries $6.05 Tramways $17,80

Electrics $5514

Macro $18

Telephones (Old) $25

Telephones (New) $91⁄2

Cements $1847.05

Dairy Farms (Old) $22.65/40 Constructions (Old) $1.80 H.K. Govt. 4% Loan $101

WESTERN FRONT BECOMES LIVELY

PARIS,

IL

Canada

Invites

Alien Aviators

To Air Force

OTTAWA.---United States citizens who make application from Canada and men of European descent living in Canada but unnaturalised may en- list in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Department of National Defence has announced.

Hundreds of such applications have been received, many of them from United States citizens, officials sald, but the number was not made ichown.

However, bona fide Canadians who apply for enlistment in the R.C.A.F. will receive preference.

Just how many Americans come to

Canada and enlisted in the air ser-

vices during the World War could

not be learned here because at that

time enlistment in the Air Force Jan. 11 (Reuter)-To~ came under the direction of the Im- day's communique states that there perful command. was increased artillery activly on However, some 16,000 men who -either side and also a fair amount of | identified themselves as Canadians

activity on the part of both forces.

An enemy": reconnoitting plane was brought down within our lines:

Outburst. Of Air Activity PARIS, Jan, 11 (Reuter).—å fresh outburst of air activity has occurred on the Western Front, where cold and dry weather has brought excel- lent vllbility,

Planes have taken to the air in large numbers on both sides and have been engaged principally on reconnoitting and photographic mis- sions over the front, with fighter air- craft giving the necessary protection.. The Germans have also made several long distance reconnaissance nights over Northern and Eastern France, as well as day flights towards the east coast of Britain,

It is believed that the object of these night flights was the Jaying, of magnetle mines.

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LONDON, Jon. (Reuter) General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, return od to England to-day after a visit to the front.

served in the Royal Air Forcò dur- ing the World War and many of these were. United States'eftizens.

Al present non-Canadians must

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Mr Churchill

DO

Nearly Creates North Sea

Ink Shortage

MR. CHURCHILL stoals the show in the largest Das Schwarze Korps, official week.

of Ly publication Hitler's black- uniformed bodyguard, commanded by Himmler.

He is on the front page, which includes the cartoon above, telling "What German Airmen Have Done to the Hood." (Yes, they're still tell- ing that one!)

on

four

He is featured other pages, where they call him "Pancako-face, phrase- monger, chameleon, withered. up Puritan," and "speculator, obese liar, bricklayer, sharper."

AND---

there are sixteen Chur- the back chill pictures on page, each showing him in a different hat. Last there is the cartoon below, showing him gasping as he sees great British battleships sunk by Gerinan bombers.

German

Airmen Miss

A Chance

Churned By Battle

WITH the toll of torpedoed ships mounting daily, the North Sea become the No. 1 Battleground of the world's second great war.

To-day, as in the World War, sea- going nations not at war are paying heavily along with the belligerents.

How many peoples live by the North Sea is oppurent from a roll- call of neighbouring countries. Bur- are six nations, dering it directly Germany, Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, The Netherlands, and Bel- corner, gium. At the south-west where the larger body of water meets the English Channel is a bit of French shore, In the north-cast, uimost within touching distance, is Sweden, washed by the Skagerrak, arm of this sarna sea.

Hearing Gunfire

So closely clustered about the em- battled waters are the various neu- trols that from time to time many of them hear the gunfire of naval und Both German engagements.

flects have been tombed British within the general area. Britain's and Firth of Forth Scapa Flow bnaca, on the east coast, have been bombed by the Germans, with the British also making attacks on Ger- many's North Sea bases of Emden. Cuxhaven, and Wilhelmshaven.

January 12, 1940,

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R.A.F. JIGSAW PUZZLES OF THE SIEGFRIED LINE

By PHILIP JORDAN

News Chroniclo Correspondent with the B.E.F.

FRANCE.

POST OFFICE

BROADCAST RECEIVING

LICENCES

Holders of Heences are rerainded that if it is desired to continue to retain possession of the apparatus* ifter the date of expiration of the leonce a renewal must be effected: without delay.

New Licences will be available at the Government Radio Omcc, GP.O. Building., First Floor, on ordinary business days, and will be issued remittando

"BRITISH aircraft made further reconnaissanceentnst the receipt of a flights over Germany. All returned safely."

Those are the words of the official communique. The aircraft flew low through the skies, dropped its wheels and came down on to one of the few fields that are not sodden in that part of France to which all those who come back eventually return.

Somewhere near that hidden field,; ringed with anti-aircraft batteries to deal with enemy aircraft at o halght, the Royal Air Force and the British Expeditionary Force marry their separate functions.

"Spliced"

The actual "splicing" is done in one of the many factories that the war has forced to close down.

RELISH

AUTIS NONSENSE NOW AND THEN IN ALLESPLICE DE 321E WISADE JA

SOME OF THE

LATEST WAR.

JOKES

AN East-End Vicar was try ing to console an elderly woman parishoner apprehensive of alr-

Here the pilot hands in the films which he has taken, with the heavy automalle camera that juts from the belly of his machine; and here he has a long talk with the Army telligence officers and tells them, co far as he able, the exact spot he has photographed on his trip across raids. the enemy lines.

"Perhaps, London won't be Less than one hour after he is back bombed at all," was his en- the mobile developing unit, parked in

the yard of the factory, has delivered couraging conclusion.

of

scores

different photographs from

of $12 between the hours of 9 nmin. and 5 p.m. except on Saturdays when Hrences will be issued between 0 'a.m. and 1 pm,

Applications may be made; (a) personally.

(b) by messenger,

by post.

It is essential under (c) and pre- terable under (a) and (b) that ap- allcations should be accommneled by Crossed Cheque payable to Hondoong. Government. The new licenco, will then be sent by post or messenger 1 Boon as it is ready. Where actuni ash is tendered a new HRcenes should be received in exchange before leav ing the Licensing Offer.

In the case of renewal, the old fernce should be returned with the application.

Licence holders are requested to exomize their licences carefully and verify the, dale of exotry before applying for renewal, All broadenst Hences do not expire on December 31st.

Small. Parket Post to all countries is auspended,

OUTWARD MAN. TOWER Registered and Parcel Malls are toned 15 minutes earlier than the I given below unless otherwise

"What!" protested the indignated; and where mails are noverti

each roll of film that he has taken, ant old lady, “after all the eix- Each print overlaps the next, so that

"AND there, son," said Father,

by pinning a series of prints together pense we've been put to.” at the right place it is possible to get long aerial map of whatever course the plot has flown. This is called a ""inosale."

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Amazing Accuracy

*I have told you the story of you?. daddy and the Great War."

"Yea, daddy," replied the young- ster, "but what did they need all the other soldiers for?"

THE little evacuee, billeted at the

A to

cines at or ḥnfora • 12 roalke "ered and parcel mails are closed at dhe praplexus. BOY When are aduertited to close after 5 Registered and Parcel malls closed at 5 num

p.m.

INWARD MAILS

Jun. 12.

.Jnr. 12.

.Jan. 12.

Yon. 12.

Jan. 13.

.Jon. 13.

Jan. 13.

Jan. 14.

Jan, 14.

Air N by "Imperial Airways Direct

Haiphong and Holhow

Haiphong Manila. No matter from what height these

Rabaul and Manila photographs are taken they reveal

Shanghai details with astonishing accuracy.

Even without the aid of a magnify- Rectory, was made to eat her pee-Canton

ridge. Reluctantly she gulped it Shanghai to see, on ing glass it is possible

from a

Snodiskon tremend- down. photographs taken

"Now thank God for your meal." Innan and Shanghai ous height, barges being towed along!

Shon chai............. the Rhine, email heaps of fertiliser she was told.

"Why should I? I didn't like it." which is to be strewn on the fields,

"Well thank God for something." the traffic on the new motor roads

few moments. She thought for u and even gun positions which are presumably supposed to be camou-Then added wretchedly: "Thank God flaged.

we now

If the enemy, lanew what a com-

photographa plete set of have of important sections of his country and of all that has happened on those' sections since the war be- gan, he would be disturbed by our efficiency

First Indian

R.A.F. Officer

HE WILL TEACH BLIND FLYING

I wasn't sick."

I was a very imposing looking house to which two small boy evacuces were sent.

The lady of the house opened the door herself, greeting them with: "Be very careful of the polished floors, won't you?"

"That's all right, lady," way the reply, "We wear heb-nail doels. we shan't slip."

The inhabitants of Scotland always look ahend? 'One Scotsman WIG scen pouring a strange mixture into hta whiskey, which before hand he had always taken neat.

When naked what it was and why

he was mixing the drink, he replied: It's anti-freeza mixture. I'm think

Service"-London date, 6th Jan, Jan. 16.

Manilo

Shorghini and Amoy tits and Manila Amoy ..... Calcutta and Straits Safron Sherichot

Jan. 18.

Jary 15.

Jan. 16.

Jan. 18.

.Jon. 18.

Jan, 16,

..Jan. 10.

Jan. 10.

Air Mail by “Air France Direct Ser- - vice"-Paris date, 10th January, Haiphong

Jan 17. Jaz 17.

.1.30 p.m. 1,30 m.

OUTWARD MAILS Friday, Jan. 12 Bangkok Fort Bayard Shanghai and parcels only for Tien- ,2.30 p.m. .2.30. p.m.

.3.p.m.

tsin Straits Amoy,

Saturday, Jan: 13

THE first Indian to receive afing that if I take enough of H, IParcels only for Tientsin...10.30 am. commission in the R.A.F. is Mr. won't have to buy a winter over-Fort Bayard, and Holhow 1.30 p.m.

Mines lie in patches off the British and Continental shores, while othery drift in the narrowing waters toward the English Channel. Announcements by the belligerents of such dangers to American shipping are passed J. M. R. Jayakar, son of the Rt. along to "mariners" by "the" Hydrogru- phie Office of the United States Navy, through radio warnings and other forms of publicity.

On a current chart in the U.S. Navy Department at Washington is shown a particularly large minefield. laid by Britain,

which follows Danish, German, and Netherlands coasts. A second German patch overlops this region to cover some of the same area, but is located on the far side from the German terri- tory.

Of the belligerents with North Sea coastlines to defend, Britain has by for the most inllcage to consider with a water frant stretching 425 Dover to the Shetland miles from Islands. Important British bases are scattered all along the way from Chatham, across from the French shore, to Harwich, Firth of Forth, Invergordon, and Scapa Flow, in the far northern Orkney Islands.

Fishing industry

Hon. M. R. Jayakar, the barris- ter.

coat."

A manager complained at the length of reports sent him by his foreman at a lumber camp, in the He has been gazetted pilot oficer, north of Canada. The camp con- and will shortly be promoted to ysisted of one hundred men and two

women. ing officer, when he takes up his duties as a link dying instructor.

When you

send me a report about |

wrote the manager,

The link trainer is a ground ap-your camp," paratus which reproduces the cou don't use a lot of flowery language. illions of blind flying and records Just put down in figures what has electrically the actions of the pllat happened during the month."

Next time the report came, it said:" under training. Mr. Jayakar, who is 28, learned to "Last month 1 per cent. of the men fly in India. He came to England to take a degree at Oxford and to rend for the Bar. He took his Bar. and ho examinations this month, hopes to practice in India after the war.

He has an English wife, formerly Miss Phyllis Wilder. of Wallingford

HAVEN SOUGHT FOR "WAR" DOGS

By contrast, Germany's North Sea

ST. LOUIS. The possibility that naval bases along a much shorter shoreline, are highly concentrated, many ane dogs in Europe will ho with Emden. Wilhelmshaven, Cux destroyed because of the oxigencies! haven, and Heligoland all coming P. Strenger to undertake a com

of the war has caused Mrs. Gilbert within a circle, Bio' diameter of which is no more than 88 miles palgu to find homes in the United

States for valuable

animals,

Ecross.

married 50 per cent. of the women."

*

Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu, USA., Central and South America and Canadavia-San Francisco-(No Parcels for Canada)-que San Francisco, 1st February,

Parcela

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Saigon

G.P.O. and K.P.O.

.Jan. 19, Noon.

Jan. 13, 148 *p.m.

.Jan. 13, 2.30 pm. 13.30 pm. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"dae London tist Jan.

G.P.O. & K.P.0%

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Jan. 13, 5.00 p.m. Jan. 13, 5.30 p.m.

.7.15. a.m.

9.a.m.

A man was complaining to his friend at the bad condition of his FLOTC.

"Why don't you tell the landlord, Manila the friend queried.

Parcels only for Tientsin "It's no good telling him," the Shanghal

Monday, Jan. 15 householder continued Who, if I'

Sunday, Jan. 16; Catatoni Amoy and Parcels only for Shanghai.

told him the roof leaked' he'd Straits and Calcutta

Parcels charge me extra for shower baths,"

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The mistress of the house beard the bell ring, and saw. a Chinese hawker standing at the open front door.

Quickly 'retreating, she called, to her maid: "There's a Chinese at the door. You.ro. Ella."

This was a bit too much for the Chinese. He stuck his head in the door and retorted: "You to Tell-a 'yourself,"

Haiphong

1.m. am.

0.30 .m.

Jan. 15, 9.a.n. Jan. 15, 10. a.m

21 pm.

Saigon, Madang, Salamaun end

$3,30. pm. pm,

..9.30 0. ..9.30a.m 10.

Raboul Cariton

Tuesday, Jan. 16 natavia and Sourabaya Shanghal and Japan Fort Bayard Haiphong Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, India, Bast South Africa, Egypt, and Europo" via Marseilles due Mar-

and

seilles, 12th February

..10.00 am.

G.P.O. and E.P.0.

Reg.

Jan. 10, 2.45, p.m.

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K.P.O.

Jan. 16, 5 pm Jan. 16, 5.30 KAL G.P,O.

The war has had a far-reaching Mrs. Strelinger, vice-president of effect on the vast fishing industry in the American Pointer Club, already

KILLED ON ROAD, By RONALD WALKER,

the North Sea, whielt normally pro- has written for English breeders and vides much of the world's fish supply. offered to care for six pointers with- FLEW ATLANTIC Nows Chronicle Correspondent Herring, mackerel, whiting, haddock, out

Jan. 16. 8.30 p.m. und solo, are among the catch taken the mpensation for the duration of Mr. Leonard Gillcäple Reid, 39, at

war. Ono kennel with the R.A.F.

sent her a Manor House, Hockliffe, England, Ab Stall for) "Imperial Airware who, in August, 1934, with Mr. J, R. Direct Bervite"-dne Landos, 211H each year to an estimated amount of pointer champion. Stainton Sonora.

January FRANCE. more than a million tons.

Principal dog fanclers and secre- Ayling, made the Dest. Allantle alr THE Germans, maybe dis- In the economy of all the countries taries bf clubs devoted to the various crossing from Canada. to Reston, make application In Canada per-couraged by their losses of a near the North Sea, fishing is of con- breeds have expressed approval of died recently in Northampton Hos Bonally, and take the onth of al- week ago, ignored the break siderable importance. It is especial- the plan. Mrs. Strelinger hopes to pital, after a road accident.

He was a son of Lady Reid, widow in Norway, ly valuable, however,

get in touch with breeders in other offered by yesterday's weather. where 10 per cent. of the national warring glance before being accepted by the

besides Great of Sir William Duft fteld, of St. countries

John's (Newfoundland). E.

To-day their chance of making income is figured from fish exports, Britain. long reconnaissance fights was gone, and in Great Britain, with its many lost in the endless low. clouds which shing and allied Industrial centres. filled the skies and the rain which Sending thousands of ships out to has renewed the mud,

take advantage of the rich karvest- provided by the North, Sen, are the Since our air victories over the English east coast towns of Grimsby, raiding German aircraft last week, Hull and Yarmouth. Aberdeen. I the weather bag made reconnaissance Scotland, is another. One indirect nights impossible until yesterday... result of the war has been a report-

For a whole duy it might have ed higher cost of fish.. been spring. The wind" became

It was pointed out that an Ameri- ean holding a Canadian commercial pilot's licence, could qualify as an Instructor in civilian aviation could be used in that capacity in the flying clubs giving preliminary train- ing to I.C.AF. Tecruits.

·and

in that manner an American could serve his purpose for the RC.A.F. without ever joining the military service and his taking the oath of allegiance would be unnecessary

Officials said that among United States applicants wanting to join the R.C.A.F., are a number at experi enced pilois offering themselves as Instructors.

the

At present enliitment in RCAF, is virtually at a sinoudstill. Hundreds of Canadians milated in the first month of the war and there now are more applications then can be handled. shah

San

Francisco Not

To Reopen Its Fair

SAN FRANCISCO-Plane to je 000 to finance a reopening of the gentle and skies blue with occasional Germans because of the bad weather. open the World's Fair here in 1940 show had not succeeded tufts of cloud. The sun shone: it is possible that yesterday's break have been abandoned by the or The decision came shortly alter. warmly.

in the weather was not known by ganiation, which directed the 1830 ton that President Roosevelt was in George Creel announced izi Washing- All day, British and French alr- the Germanis until too Inte..

show, and prospects are that blows favour craft were busy keeping constant Since the war began the Allies of the wrecking hammers will botin Creel, Chairman of the United States of a repeat season. Mr. patrol watching out for enemy have made every effort to cut Ger-through Treasure: Taland shortly

San Francisco' Fair Commission, sald machines. Not one was reported by many off from, all Information which i words en CO

would enable their Air Force to Leland.. Whitman Cutler, President the President belleved, the fair could observation posts...................

prevailing conditions

of the San, Fráhcisco Bay Exposhion be made “the rallying polpl"? for ex- Today there has been little-aying know

Corporation, said a deivé to $1,060,- torsion of Pan-Americanism activity on our side and none by the France and Britain.-

Over

Jan 16, 5 p.ni. Jast. 18; 7. Air Mail for Malaya, Java, and Ans- tralia by "Imperial Airways Diroot Servicoduo Sydney, 22nd Jan

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Jan. 10, 6 p.IL

(Jam, -10; 7'.p.m.- Wednesday, “Jan. 1796cyl Shanghai E CONDOS LLA 10.10 am. Ar Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and

France (Pariz and Northern Pro vinces only) by the "Air Frincë Airways Direct Servicendus Park. 25th January.

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