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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 29, 1940..

BLACKOUT PIERCED BY SHOTLESS STRATEGY?

NEW RAY

An "invisible light" for blackout cltles and streets claimed to be visible only in the path of a beam, but casting insuficient reflection to betray Its presence-fs being tried out by Netherlands authorities.

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

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 Lo published accounts.

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

C.O.'S NOTES "IN

CASE OF A SLIP"

ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST.

A PALL of smoke, a blinding sheet of flames, and the laconic remark, "Well, that's another gone," tell of one more Nazi mine 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.

KEEPS THEM GUESSING

BASLE. - The military strategists on the Western

Fritz Shows Off His Front have not forgotten the Fritz Shows

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 trumpets, as both sides resort to their in-

Long

after

the

lind French Abandoned the Waarndi Forest

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 the other side of the Rhine just in front of the house from last October, French scouts armed which I could see peeping out of n square black window the round officers' whistles kepl the pink face of a German soldier keeping watch. The soldier did Germans guessing.

not bother to come out and pick up the white thing. He went on Later the same month, observers staring. In Luxembourg noted long lines of trucks, presumably full of troops, moving away from the Moselle zone Just the night before the Germans launched an niinck that drove the French out of their hard-won post- tiona between the Moselle and the Saar Rivers.

Always On The Watch Wherever a neutral country lies clase nuugh to a belligerent coun- try to make it worth while for observers to come and see what they

RADIO

ZBW, 355 metres (845 kt.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Bishop Sargent on Opera

From the Studio

-And then I saw why. Several white things were fluttering down towards us.

I put one that fell almost at my feet. It

11 German leaflet, "French soldiers," it said to me, "you are wrong not to believe us that it was the English that drugged you inlo this war. Listen to what your great Napoleon maid about them."

There followed same remarks about a nation of shopkeepers.

for the airplane that was dropping The sergeant saw me looking up

the papers. "It's no use looking up there for the cuckoo that dropped that stuff. He flew over ten minutes ugo. It always takes

can see, the business of fooling the Radio Programine Broadcast by other fellow goes on.

ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.e's and German flat cars, pontoons such

loaded with on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and as on Army would 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.e's. per second. have to use to get any considerable H.K.T.

umber of men across the Rhine, 13.15 m. Short Service of Inter-minutes to come down." For two days I have shared with a photographer the rolled ostentatiously and slowly along cession. dangers of the naval crew.

A telephone shrills at their G.H.Q.

A mine has been sighted:

The crew hurry away by ear. Our quarry is sighted among the boulders of a peace-time haven of anglers.

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

A rope fostenect round the nine draws it into position for the removal

of the brow plate at the base,,

With infinite caution, the crew dis- able the mechantern. One slip of the hand would mean death for all within 500 yards.

500lb. Block by block

of grey- green high explosive are levered out

of the mine helt to be broken up by hammer blows.

A last look inside by Commander

RUSSIAN

SUPPLY PROBLEM

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

Up to that moment, the Rhine River frontier had been so quiet Swiss bargemen were considering seriously asking both Paris and Berlin for per- mission to resume their business be- tween

the Maginet and Siegfried forts.

The day after those fat curs carried, their pontoons past watchers on the Swiss side, French reinforcements arrived at Rhine River posts, and French observation planes buzzed serom the river to see what was going on in Baden,

Don't Shoot

about ten

12.30 Half ass hour of Dance Music. 1.0 Local Time Signal und Weather Report.

Now these leaflet raiders have been 1.03 Songs by Lesile Hutchinson at exceptionally busy these last few days the Plano,

over the French lines along the Rhine Maybe I'm Wrong. Again (Trent-and behind it. It is part of a new in- Bennett); Back To Those Happy Days tensified Hitler propaganda offensive (Nicholls); All My Life (im trying on the old German game of Laughing Irish Eyes').

splitting the French from the British, 1.13 Patrick Rossborough (Plano) persuading the French gold!er that he and H. Robinson Cleaver (Organ). is bearing the brunt of this war alone, Zampa (Herold); Poct and Peasant suffering alone in hardships and (Suppe)....Fairlea Rossborough and privations, Robinson Cleaver; Sweetmeat

Joc,

Where they are close enough to The Candy Man (Croom-Johnson); be heard as here on the Rhine they A Cavalcade of Martial Tunes; Intru: do their best with loudspeakers. They There's something about a soldier; broadcast pro-French passages from A Polite Warning

The King's Horses; When the Guards Hitler's speeches, bits of invective are on Parade; When a Soldier's on against England from Schiller's Another day the French, after Parade; The Toy Drum Major......

"Joan

| of Arc,” interlarding it all with giving German sentrles a polite warn Putricia Rossborough (Pinno); Nola the continual refrain, "We shan't ing. blew up a footbridge over the (Arndt); The Wedding of the Painted shoot if you don't" They even do a Kembs Dam above Basel. That very Doll, Intro: Tac Doll Dance (Brown) spot of play-acting when the weather night the Germaans had reinforen ments in the forts across the riverPatricia Rossborough and Robin-pertnits, from Kemus,

1.30 Itcutor and Rugby Press, Wea- thinking, it is interesting to Germans have not used the pontoons,

So consider, in the light of reported and the French haven't crossed the Andresen (Bass).

1.453 Two Mozart Songs by Ivar

"They had one of their fellows out disturbances among the popu- [river."

there the other day walking up and O Isis Ince, some of the administrative

and Osiris ("The Magic problems that have to be dealt most of the fooling is being done. for("The Magic Flute").

Reports reaching Basle indicute Flute"); Willin These Sacred Walls down the embankment bold as bruss within girl. - Hë even kissed her. Ho 1.53 Mozari-Symphony in D, Nogesting that Fritz was allowed to have was trying to make us jealous by sug- with by Russia's military staff the benefit of observation planes,

There has been little bombing from 35. and similar

in the air, but much cbserving.

From the air, a long line of trucks Leningrad.

all is a long line of trucks whether

Abnormal Strain On Railway

BY A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT

san Cleaver.

Edwards and then drelighters are / WITHOUT indulging in wishful for nothing has happened. The ther Forecast and Announcements.

nserted among the explosive and set Hight.

A thin wisp of smoke grows in volume until it darkens the sky and ecomes suddenly transformed into Jazzling pyrotechnic display.

"That little lot," the Commander says, "had sufficient power to bring down 0,000 tons of cliff, or to lift your hat from your head at half a mile."

When a new type of mine is seen the crew leave it alone cominander is called.

until

Alone he approaches the mine, in

n notebook he sketches every detail

|

very

authorities

planes.

Sir Hamilton Harty conducting the Baile Orchestra.

2.15 Close down.

6.0 "Fer the Children,"

Courtship

The sergeant told me about that.

Public Kiss

his girl up in the lines.

"Then yesterday the same man came on with a woman and a kid. The kid played around and shouted 'Papa' at the top of his volee, Same

"No.

I do not think much of the

of the now monster, then writer down sumably a good deal is supplied from soldiers with the steps be proposes to take to dis- stocks in the surrounding districts, able it, and hands the notebook to his but much must arrive by rail, porti men waiting beyond the danger zone. cularly in the winter months, when

"If I make a mistake," he says in the Gulf of Finland is frozen. the maller-of-fact way of the Navy. "the book is left to show where went wrong."

There is, of course, the large civil they are empty or full, so the allied population of the city to be fed and forces have "been sending many The Clockwork the provided with fuel and other neces-columns of trucks dashing about for (Rayners)....Graele Fields (Vocal Stunt again. Well, we don't fall for

saries, a problem that in normal times, according to all reports, is not the benefit of German observation with Orchestra; The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse Part III; I successfully dealt with. Pre-

'The Germans have

plenty of Got A "Code" In My "Doze" (Fields effect of this Hitler propaganda on time on their hands, and Others)....Gracie Fields (Vocal) the French soldiers so far.

But then what else is poor old and they are kept busy laying out with Orchestra; Studio Story by Daddy Adolf to do? Sitting quiet mock uir fields, complete with stummy Aunt Susan; Here Comes The Sand- planes, for the benent of wandering man (Alm Mr. Dodd takes the art and dropping his bad lob. He would

Elale Carlisle (Vocal) with Orch.be crazy to make an offensive. 6.30 Closing local Stock Quotations. 6.32 The Kentucky Minstrels, Flight of Ages (Bevan)....Soloist: With Herbert Dawson

NAVY WANT SMALLER SHIPS

New 40,000-Tonners Will Be Useless

news

THE fate of the Tacoma gives the war at sea pride of place in the The lists of naval hostoars remind us of those aller longer lists of bravo seamen who have fallen in our service.

The old spirit still splendidly do- minates the Royal Navy. So, also. do some of the ideas. Weare fight ing this war wish the battleships of the last war.

It is, I think, safe to assume that)

allied observers.

tanks-farm Dummy

WULOUS

the normal civil population has not to covered with painted canvas-are any considerable extent been eva-reported to have been built in Ger- cuated. I may even have been in many for the time when they may be John Duncan, creased by an influx of labour to useful in simulating concentration of at the Organ; Songs from The assist military organisations: When forces. one superimposes on the normal 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.

Added to that the railways have to carry troop trains, munitions and other milltary stores. Their conges- tion must be great. Leningrad is obviously a bottleneck and the conflet in it of civil and milltary interests mtl be acute. It would need un administrator, of genius to ensure a smooth-running organisation,

There are many questions one would like to ask. We hear of fresh troops in many thousands from cen- tral Russia and

even from Siberla. But what happens to troops with- drawn from the fight after failure and how are the wounded disposed of? Are they filling the hospitals of Leningrad? How are the railways standing up to abnormal traffle and how long will they function efficient-

30,000-ton battle We have eleven

alton, and

three oven heavier battle-cruisers. All but two of the

(Nelson and Rodney.ly? battleships 1927) were completed in 1916-17. The latest battle-cruiser (Hood) was completed In 1920,

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

It is nol' only the isthmus battle that places a strain on Leningrad, for the Murmansk railway has its southern terminus there. Although t may not involve using each Line's

RATIONS FOR THE PALACE

ARRANGED BY THE QUEEN

The Queen has drawn up speciat

Kentucky Minstrels Plantation Mcd- icy (arr. Douis Arnold)....Soloista:: G. Stearn Sectt and John Duncan. With the

6.4.7 Kentucky Banjo Team.

Walizes.

DEFLATION PLAN

Ration System For. Japan Considered

Ever or Never (Waldteufel); Chi- dren of Spring (Waldteufel)........ Orchestra Mascotte; The Swallows

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

The low price policy will be speci- 7.01 Musical Comedy Selections.

Acally

directed to rice, cool and] **White Morse InnSelection fertilisers. Adequate measures are (Erik Charell)', „New_Mayfair Or- | being taken to ensure increased pro- chestra; "Helen" Vocal Gems duction of those products which are (Offenbach, arr. Korngold)........ vitally necessary for dally Ke and Colurabla Light Opera Company with for industry. Orchestra; "Princess

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 fler Hussar" (Abra- ernment also plans to ensure defa- ham)-Vocal Gems. .Light Operation of the currency. Company with Orchestra,

Charming"-

The Government is studying the card system for daily necessities. Tha eard system for rice and exal.will be first studied, though some advocate the necessity of exleading the system Studio-Bishop Bargent on to wheat, barley, charcoal and soy.

with the Bullfinches."

THE King, the Queen, the Princesses, and other mem- bers of the Royal Family will eat only the normal ration of butter, bacon, and

7.30 London Relay The News sugar from to-day (first day

8,0 Local Time Signal, Weather of rationing). They have Report and Announcements, been issued with "commer-

8.03.This week's programmes. 8.07 cial travellers' cards," the

"Opera."

The Government has decided to same as those given to all

8.67 Orchestral Selection.

postpone establishment of the Trade people who have to move With The Classles (arr. Stincy Ministry planned by the Льс

Crook). about the country,

Cabinet, which caused the recent con- 3.05 Studio Comments on Recent troverey with officers of the Foreign Leningrad must certainly carry troops method bo adopted, and that no summary. terminus, the railways leading to

The King insisted that this Events.

9.15

Landen Relay-The News

products The

of agriculture, and other trains destined for the special arrangements should be 8.30 B.B.C. Recording "Breakfast totalled in value Yen 6,005,130,000. forestry and fishery in Japan in 1938 The keels are laid for four battle-Murmansk line.

The Buccession of made. ships of the Lion class. They will Finnish victories all along the eastern

an increase of 7 per cent, over the Written by Ursula Branston. Music preceding year, the Ministry of be 40,000 tons and mount 16in. frontier must therefore affect the guns, the heaviest assoat anywhere whole railway system which centres menus which come into force in an by Various Composers; Production by Agriculture and Forestry announced. In the world. These craft will not on Leningrad. The strain they throw the royal kitchens to-day. They drop William Maclurg.

10.0 A Chopin Recital by Arthur four per cent. forestry products by Agricultural products increased by be completed until 1943. This war on the Murmansk rallway itself is two courses from both luncheon and

Rubinstein (Piano). will be over long before then....

obvious. Fresh troops will be needed dinner. and much lost, material will require

Orders have been given for more) Grande Polonaise, Op. 22; Nocturne 32 per cent, and fishery products by 15 per cent. over the preceding year. replacement, in addition to enormous fruit and vegetables to he served. To in B Major, Op. 1, No. 2: Nocturne in maintenance supplies.

meet this extra demand the gardens F Major, Op. 15, Ne, 1; Waltz In-C

Specch By Promier are we building them? About as One gathers that the Russians are the royal residences, are being con-

at Windsor Castle, which supply all Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2. well construct a Maginot Line along making great use of motor transport siderably extended.

10.22 Compositions of Brahms.

The contents of the speech by the Tragic Overture, the Canada-United States frontier. with their forces on the eastern front.

Op. 81. The Premier, Admiral Yenal at the Diet But how casualties in vehicles will be

B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra conduct on February 1,, will be approved by ed by Arturo Toscanini; Vier Ernste the Cabinet Council on Monday. He working will

Menschen; Die Malnacht, Op. 43, No. settlement 2....Alexander. Kipnis (Bass) and reaffirm the Japanese Government's Nurmi, Gerald Moore (Piano); Intermezzo, full co-operation with the now Cen- famous Finnish runner who has been Op. 117, No. 1...Elleen Joyce tml Covernment of China. I cannot help feeling that the measure om Helsingfors, said Dec. 12 he had flungarian Dance No. of their success will denend to n great degree on

6...Boston the "positive and independent status the weakness or abandoned plans to take Taisto Maki, Promenade Orliestra cond, by Arthur of Japan's forelim policy in adjusting efficiency of Russian administrative currently Finland's outstanding dis Fiedler; Cradle Song. services, which will be increasingly tance runner, on a tour of the United Octet

The Angelus relations with Erlialo, America, the tested as the war goes on.

Soviet Union and other foreign coun- Sintes.

11,0 Close down.

tries Domel,

I see no use for such great baille- ships. Against what possible enemy

000 enensters Wonid be the Great for continuous intensive, worn Nurmi Drops Tour 31 Denn ca gehet dem weltlement of the China Affair, and

Lakes of Canada. No Impudent be maintained it will be interesting to U-boat commander could penetrate know. Greatly

ns I admire the

HELSINGFORS.Paavo

those Lakes to sink firem, with gallantry and leadership of the Finnsdriving a truck In, removing citizens (Piano); Hungarian Dance No. 5: The Premier will also emphasise

€3,000 torpedo.

•

The craft the Navy need primarily REO destroyers. After that, fast cruisers. This type of building must have priority.

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