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BLACKOUT PIERCED BY

NEW RAY

An Invisible light" for blackout cities and streets-claimed to be visible only in the path of a beam, but costing Insufficient reflection to betray is presence—is belag tried out by Netherlands authorities.

The new light, now being installed in cities of the Nether lands and on some of the main highways, was invented by n Netherlands Army Intelligence officer, Captain J, Bikker.

It is claimed that difficulties arising from blackouts have been overcome to a large extent by the device, described as a strong beam of light which is thrown in one direction and can be seen from a horizontal direction only.

Military units are enabled by the light to move at high speed during the night, completely unseen by planes above, according to published accounts,

The light is adaptable for use in auto lights, to mark traile routes and street corners, and portable equipment of the beam light in being used by the Netherlands Army Signal Corps.

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI January 29, 1940.

SHOTLESS STRATEGY? KEEPS THEM GUESSING

BASLE.

The military

strategists on the Western Fritz Shows Off His

Front have not forgotten the

old theory that the Walls of Jericho fell because trum- peters held their attention while the enemy attacked from the rear.

But in this modern war, there are whistles instead of trumpeta,

as both sides resort to their in-

Girl, Tries To Make

The French Jealous

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY,

genuity to fool the other fellows. SOMETHING white fluttered down out of the sky. It landed on

Jong after the Franch had ►

the other side of the Rhine just in front of the house from abandoned the Wournet Forest

Fast October, French scouts armed which I could see peeping out of a square black window the round kept the pink face of a German soldier keeping watch. The soldier did not bother to come out and pick up the white thing. He went on staring.

And then I saw why. Several while things were fluttering down towards

officers whistles Germant euessing.

Later the

same month, observers In Luxembourg noted long ties of trucks, presumably full of troops maving away from the Moselle zóne Just the night before the Germans //unched un attack that drove the French out of their burd-won post- tom between the Moselle and the Soar Rivers.

C.O.'S NOTES "IN CASE OF A SLIP"

ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST.

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RADIO

ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cyclca) Bishop Sargent on Opera

I got one that fell almost at my feet. It Was

Germun [

Jadet. "french soldiers," It aid to me, "you are wrong not to belleve us that It was the English that dragged you into this war. Listen to what your great Napoleon aald about them."

Always On The Watch Wherever neutral country en

There followed some remarks about try lo make it worth white for From the Studio

anation of shopkeepers. observers to come and see what they

The sergeant saw me looking up en see, the business of fooling the Hadio frourimine, Broadcast by for the airplane that was dropping other fellow goes on.

ZBW on a Frequency of 845 E.c's, and the papers. "It's na

use looking German dat ears,

loaded with on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pm, and up there for the cuckoo that dropped pentoons such DE an Army would U-11 pan, on 9.52 m.c's, per second. that stuff. He flew over ten minutes have to une to get any considerable H.K.T.

ago. I always takes about ten Bumber of men across the Rhine, 12.15 pan. Short Service of Inter-minutes to come down." rolled ostentatiously and slowly along vession.

A PALL of smoke, a blinding sheet of flames, and the laconic remark, "Well, that's another gone." tell of those enough to a belligerent com- one more Nazi ming robbed of its power to destroy.

A handful of naval men, expert at disabling Hitler's internal machines, are daily risking their lives in this work on the rugged Yorkshire coast.

For two days I have shared with a photographer the

dangers of the naval crew.

A telephone shrills at their G.H.Q.

Our

A mine has been sighted. The crew hurry away by car. quarry is sighted among the boulders of a peace-time haven of anglers.

Led by Licut-Commander R. B. Edwards, the crew set to work.

A rope fastened round the mine draws it into position for the removal of the brass plute at the base.

With infinite enution, the ovew digs, able the mechanism. One slip of the hand would mean death for, all with 500 yards,

Block by block 5001. of grey- reen high explosive tre levered out of the mine tilt to be broken up by hamnier blows,

A last look inside by Commander Edwards and then direlighters are; inserted, among the explosive and sel alght.

RUSSIAN SUPPLY PROBLEM

Abnormal Strain On Railway

.DY. A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT

WITHOUT indulging in wishful thinking, it is interesting to consider, in the light of reported A thin wisp of smoke grows in disturbances among the popu- volume until it darkens the sky and Ince, some of the administrative becomes suddenly transformed into a problems that have to be dealt dazzling pyrotechnic display.

with by Russia's military staff That little lo," the Comin:under

similar authorities says, "had sufficient power to bring and down 5,000 tons of cliff, or to lift your Leningrad. hat from your bead at half a mile."

When a new type of mine is seen until the the crew leave alone commander la called, "

Alone he approaches the mine. 1

a railroad in, full view of the Swiss frontier in-mid-October.

The day after those fal cars carried their pontoons past watchers on the Swiss site, French reinforcements arrived at thine River posts, and | French observation plones buzzed arres the river to see what was going nanden,

A Polite Warning

19.30 Half an hour of Dance Music,

1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather, Report.

Life

Don't Shoot

Up to that moment, the Rhine River

Now these leaflet raiders have been frontier had been so quiet Swim 103 Songs by Leslie Huichiuson at exceptionally busy these last few days Largemen were considering seriously the Plano,

over the French lines along the Rhine asking both Paris and Berlin for per- | "Maybe I'm Wrong Again (Trent- and behind it. It is part of a new in- mission to resume their businers be-Bennett); Back To Those Happy Days tensified Hitler propaganda offensive tween the Maginot and Siegfried (Nicholls); All My

Citin trying on the old German some of forts,

Laughing Irish Eyes').

splitting the French from the British, 1.13 Patriela Rossborough (Plans) | persuadling the French soldier that be and II, Robluson Cleaver (Organ). is bearing the brunt of this war alene,

Zampa (Herold); Poet and Peasant suffering alone in hardships and (Suppe).Patricia Roseborough and privations. Robinson Cleaver; Sweetmeat Jo Where they are close enough to The Candy Man (Cream-Johnson); be hemd at here on the Rhine they A Cavalende of Martial Tune: Intro: do their best with loudspeakers. They There's something about a soldier; broadest pro-French passages from The King's Horses; When the Guardis Hitler's mecches, bits of invertive fare on Parade: When a Soldier's on peninst England Another day the Frenes, 3er Parade; The Toy Drum Major.......

from Schiller's "Joan of Arc," interlarding it all with Hiving German sentries a polite war Patricia Rossborough (Piano); Nola the continual retrain,

"We shan't ing. Blew up a footbridge over the Amit): The Wedding of the Painted shout if you don't." They even do a Kembs Daun above Bages That very bull, Intro: The Dell Dance (Brown); spot of play-acting when the weather night the Gèrming And reinforce- ! ments in the forts across the riverPatricia Rossborough and Robin-permits,

The sergeant told me about that. from Kenbs.

So far nothing has happened. Thether Forecast and Announcements,

130 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea-

Public Kiss and the French haven't crossed the Andresen (Bass). Germans have not used the pontoons, 1.45 Two Mozart Songs by Ivar

"They had one of their fellows out river.

there the other day walking up and Fiate" Within These Sacred Waits with a girl. He even kissed her. I

("The Magie down the embankment bold bran ("The Made Flute").

1.53 Mozart Symphony in D. Nogesting that Fritz was allowed to have was trying to make us jealous by sug-

his girl up in the lines,

Reports reachhut Basle indleate most of the fooling is being done for the benent of observation planes,

1son Cleaver,

35.

Isis and Osiris

Sir Hamilton Harty conducting the 11alle Orchestra.

2.15 Close down.

There has been little bombing from the air, but much observing.

"Then yesterday the same man From the air, a long line of trucks

eatne on with a woman and a kid. still is a long line of trucks whether they are empty or full, so the alited

The kid played around and shouted forces have been

6.0 "For the Children." sending many

The Clockworkk columns of trucks dashing about for (Rayners)....Cracle Fields (Vocal)

Papa' at the top of his voice. Same Courtship tunt again. Well, we don't fall for normal the benefit of German observation wh Orchestra; The Town Mouse

plunes.

and The Country Mouse Part III effect of this Hitler propaganda on The Germans have plenty of Get A "Code" In My "Doze" (Fields

There is, of course, the large civil population of the city to be fed and provided with fuel and other neces sarles, a problem that in times, according to all reports, is not

a notebook he sketches every detail very successfully dealt with. Pre-

*

No. 1 do not think much of the

He would

of the new monster, then writes down sumably a good deal is supplied from the steps he proposes to take to dis-stocks in the surrounding districts sellers with thine on their hunde, Others)....Gracie Fields (Vocal) the French soldiers so far.

But then what else is poor old able It, and hunds the notebook to his but much must arrive by rail, part and they are kept busy laying out with Orchestra: Studie-Story-by men waiting beyond the danger zone. cularly in the winter months, when mock air fields, complete with dummy Aunt Susan; Here Comes The Sand- Daddy Adoir to do? Sitting quiet

"If I make a mistake," he says in

planes, for the benefit of wandering man (film 'Alr. Dodd takes the Airy and dropping his bad job. ulled observers,

....Elsie Carlisle (Vocal) with Orch.

be crazy to make an offensive, the matter-of-fact way of the Navy,

tanks farm

8.30 Closing local Stock Quotations. "the book is left to show where i

Duminy

6.32 The Kentucky Minstrels. went wrong,"

Flight of Ares (Bevan)....Soloist:

NAVY WANT

SMALLER · SHIPS

New 40,000-Tonners Will Be Uscless

THE fate of the Tacoma gives the war at sea pride of place in the news. The Ilsts of navat honours remind us of those other longer 1sts of brave Kamen who have fallen in our service.

The old spirit still splendidly do

minates the Royal Navy. So, also. do some of the Ideas. We are fight ing this war with the battleships of

the last war,

the Gulf of Finland is frozen.

wegons

It is, I think, safe to assure that the normal civil population has not to covered with painted canvas-are "any considerable extent been eva reported to have been bulli in Ger.

cuated. It may even have been in-ny for the time when they may be John Duncan, With Herbert Dawson creased by an Influx of labour to useful in simulating concentration of at the Organg Soons from The assist military organisations. When forces. one superimposes on population the army in the isthmus, which must mean an additional quar ter to half a million mouths, the food question alone must be a serious pro- blem.

normal

Added to that the rallways have lo carry, troop trains, munitions and other military stores. Their conges- tion must be greal, Leningrad is obviously a bottleneck and the conflict in it of civil and milliary interests must be acute. It would need

2011

ministrator of genius to ensure a smooth-tunning organiration.

There are many questioris one would like to ask. We hear of fresh troups in many thousands from cen- tral Russia and even from Siberia. But what happens to troops with- drawn from the flight after

fallure and how are the wounded disposed of? Are they Alling the hospitals of Leningrad? How are the railways We have eleven. 30,000-ton let standing up to ubnormal traffle and

ships, and ibreo even heavier battle-cruisers. All but two of the how long will they function effelent- battleships (Nelson and Rodney, 1927) were completed in 1916-17, The latest ballie-cruiser (flood) was completed in 1929.

Five more battleships of the King George V, class will be completed next year. They are 35,000 tons and carry: len 14in. guns,

ly?

It is not only the allmus battle that pluces a strain on Leningrad, for the Mumansk railway has its southern terminus there. Although It may not involve using cach Line's terminus, the ralhways leading to

RATIONS FOR THE PALACE

ARRANGED BY THE QUEEN THE King, the Queen, the Princesses, and other mem. bers of the Royal Family will eat only the normal ration of butter, bacon, and sugar from to-day (first day of rationing). They have been issued with "commer- cla travellers" cards," the same as those given to all people who have to move about the country.

1

Kentucky Minstrels Plantation Med- ley (arr. Doris Arnold)....Soloists:į G. Stearn Scott and John Duncan. With the Kentucky Banjo Team.

3.43 Concert Walizes,

Ever or Never (Waldteufel);_ Chit- dren of Spring (Waldicufel)

DEFLATION PLAN

Ration System For Japan Considered

[Orchestra Mascotte; The Swallows i

Tokyo, Jan. 28. (Josef Strauss).... Johann Straus Low price and deflation policies] and His Viennese Orchestra; Dance have been decided upon by the Gov- Of The Fairies (Willy Rosenthal); ernment ns a result of yesterday's] Lovely To Kiss (letter)....Orches- Cabinet conference. tra Mascotte.

The low price polley will be speci-f 7.01 Musical Comedy Selections, fically directed to rice, coal and *White llorse

Inn"Selection fertlilsers. Adequate measures are (Erik C New Maylair Or-1 being taken to ensure increased pro- | chestra;

- Vocal Gems duction of those products which are (Ofenbach, arr. Kurngold)....... vitally necessary for daily life and Columbia Light Opera Company with for industry. Orchestra; "Princess Charming"-____ Banning all transactions of dark Selection (Sirmay, Ruby and Waller) exchanges and conducting a vigorous Palace Theatre Orchestra: drive to encourage thrift, the Gov- "Viktorin and Her Hussar (Abra ernment also plans to ensure defin- ham)--Vocal Gems....Light Opera ilon of the currency. Company with Orchestra.

7.30 London Relay. The News. 8,0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 This week's programmeg. 8.07 Studlo-Bishop Sargent "'Opera."

The Covernment is studying the card system for daily necessities. Tho card system for rice and coal will be Arat studied, though some advocate the necessity of extending the system. on to wheat, barley, charcoal and soy, The Government has decided to 8.57 Orchestral Selection.

postpone establishment of the Trade With The Clusalea (arr. Sidney Ministry planned

tho Abc by Crook),

Cabinet, which caused the recent con- 4.05 Studio Comments on Recent troversy with officers of the Foreign

Once.

The King insisted that this Evenis.

Leningrad must certainly entry troops method be adopted, and that no summary.

9.15 London Relay-The Now The products of agriculture, and other trains destined. for the special arrangements should be Murmansk Jine. The succession of me Finnish victories dil along the caster

3.30 B.B.C. Recording--"Breakfast with the Bullfinches."

Written by Ursula Branston, Muriel William Maclurg.

The keels are fald for four battle. ahips of the Lion class. They will bo 40.000 tons and moust 16in frontier must therefore affect the The Queen has drawn up special gun, the heaviest afloat anywhere Whole railway system which centres enus which come Into force in 'all by Various Composers; Production by Amriculture and Forestry announced.; in the world. These craft will not on Leningrad. The strain they throw the royal kitchens to-day. They drop be completed until 1943. This war on the Murmansk railway itself is will be over long before then.

I are no use for such great balife- ships. Against what possible enemy are we bullding them.7 About us well construct a Maginot Line along the Canada-United States frontier.

|

Arthur

forestry and shery in Japan in 1938. totalled in value. Yen 6,005,130,000. an increase of 7 per cent, over the preceding year, the Ministry of

10.0 A Chopin Recital by

Agricultural products increased by Nubinstein» (Plano),

four per cent, forestry products by Grando Polonaise, Op. 22; Nocturne 32 per cent, and nahery products by 18 per cent. over the preceding year, Major, Op. 15, No. 1; Waltz in C

Speech By Promier Sharp Minor, Op. 44, No. 2.

19.22 Compositions of Bralims. The contents of the speech by the Tragic Overture, Op. 81...The Premier, Admiral Yonaí at the Diet B.D.C. Symphony Orchestra conduct- on February 1, will be approved by ed by Arturo Toscanini; Vier Ernste the Cabinet Counell on Monday. He Menschen: Malnacht, Op. 43, No of Chinn Affair and Lakes of Canada, No Impudent be maintained it will be interesting to

2.Alexander Kipnis (Bass) and reaffirm the Japanese Government's U-boat commander could penetrate know. Greally as I admire the HELSINGFORS, —–—– Panvò Nunni Gerald Moore (Plano); Intermezzo; full .co-operation with the new Cen-- these Laker to sink them with a gallantry and leadership of the Finns, famous Finnish runner who has been Op. 117, No. 2.Eilcon Joyce: tal Government of Chirin.

£3,000 torpedo,

I cannot help feeling that the measure driving truck in removing citizens (Piano); Hungarian Dance No. 5, The Premier will also emphasise of their success will depend to a from Ifclsingfors, said Dec, 12 he had itungarian Dance No.. 6. Boston the "positive and independent” stalus The craft the Navy need primarily grent degroo on the weakness or abandoned plans to take Talsta Maki, Promenade Orchestra cond, by Arthur of Japan's foreign polley in adjusting Are destroyers. ** After that fast efletorey of Russian administrative Curzontly Finland's outstanding dis-Fiedler: Cradle Song....The Angelus relations with Britain, America, the crulmers. This type of building services, which will be increasingly tance runner, on a tour of the United Ociet,

Soviet Union and other foreign coun- must have priority.

tested as the war, goes ort.

Blaten...

11,0 Close down.

two coursen from both luncheon and: abylous. Fresh troops will be needed dinner. and much lost material will require

Orders have been given for more replacement, in addition to enormous fruit and vegetables to be served. To In D Major, Op. 9, No. 2: Nocturne in meet this extra demand the gardens maintenance supplies,

at Windsor Castle, which supply all One gathers that the Russians are the royal residences, are being con making great use of motor transport siderably extended. with their foreen on the eastern front.)

But how cosunlites in vehicles will be

Nota monsters would be the Great for continuous intensive workeing wNurmi Drops Tour Senne, Denn es gehet dem weltlement the the ally of a forphed

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