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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WHY THE DUTCH E

MOBILISED

Nazi Plans Fell Into Hands

LIEGE.

I am now able to tell the remarkable story of how the Belgian and Dutch Governments came into pos- session of Nazi plans which led them to take special de- fence measures.

A German officer's haste to rejoin his newly-married wife was the prime cuuse in a chain of events which resulted in the plans falling into Belgian hands.

A German plane made a forced; landing at Mechelen-sur-Meuse, on the Belgian frontler near here. Two officers were in the machine.

One of them belonged to the group of armies which has its headquarters at Cologne. He was the officer who carried the vitally important docu- ments,

in

were

Told To Go By Train

TOUGH CLIMB AHEAD OF THEM

Speeding Up Productions

LONDON, Feb, 13 (Reuter)

February 14, 1940.

By Walt Disney

SIR JOHN SIMON IS SATISFIED

LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter).A! Proposals for un intensified effort in the result of the unnouncement on the engineering industry to speed up January 17 of a new loan by way of the production of armaments was the conversion of the existing £350,- nanded to-night to representatives of ou0,000 four and a half per cent. the 34 Untons in confederation with lons, netual applications for conver- the Shipbuilding and Engineering ion mounted to £230,000,000 and Unions by Mr. Ernest Brown, Minis-for repayment £90,000,000. ier for Labour,

A conference between Mr. Ernest Brown and representatives of the Union lasted 2 hours and when the proposals have been considered further conference will be held.

In making this announcement in the House of Commons to-day, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, stated that thus the total proportion converted exceeded two- thirds of the whole,

Sir John added that he regarded the results as satisfactory.

The offer of January 17 was to re-

Toy-Pistol Used In pay on July 1 in cushi or, if halders

Alleged Hold-Up

Alleged to have held up Ya Ma- ying with a toy pistol and robbed liim of $2 in Wanchal yesterday, two unemployed quilt-mokers, Lai Shing, 25, and Li Fai, 22, appeared before Mr. Sheldon at the Central Magis! tracy this morning.

preferred, to give them un option in a new conversion loan at par.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official

They were remanded until Satur-Summary issued yesterday says:

day.

THIS PHOTOGRAPH epitomises the dificulties encountered by Japan Kennedy Tells. Of

in her war with Chies. It shows Japanese soldiers tolling upwards on a snow-clad battlefield in the north.-Domici,

JAPAN'S DEATH WIRE CLAIMS FIRST VICTIM

I learn that he had been ordered convey. these documenta, whichi very bulky, from Berlin to Cologne. So that no risks should be taken, the officer had been told to The High Command travel by train. In Berlin had, in fact, provided him Liu and his cousin were living in a with a first-class railway pass, refugee camp in the British area. happened that the ofleer had Yesterday he made enquiries regard- unly recently

married: Hising vegetable prices outside wife wo

was living in Cologne. The barriers, apparently intending to train journey would have taken so smuggle some into the camp.

that he would not have been He was crawling under the cler-days. The very children in the

trined wire when a Japanese sentry

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TIENTSIN, Feb. 13 (UP)-A Chinese named Liu Lao kuat, aged 31, was electrocuted on the Japanese barbed wire barricades at 5 a.m. to-day.

long

been

able to see her the same evening,

the

the

He beard that one of his friends, saw him and made a rush towards an airman, was just on the paint of him. leaving Tempelhof for Cologne, and Liu, although aware of the electri- staff officer decided to take this fieation, tried to escape under the He almost succeeded but must chance of reaching his wife so much wire.

have touched the wire, because he fell more speedily.

As the result of a big navigational dead into the British area. His body pilot crossed the Rhine for was discovered by his cousin. error, the to the north of Cologne und found himself over the Dutch border.

He was greeted by anti-aircraft fire. He consequently turned south, and a few minutes later had to make a forced landing in meadow nt

21 Mechelen-aur-Meuse.

Borrowed Matches

The restrictions for Chinese have now been tightened.

to-day. Following a conference

noticed newspaper correspondents hundreds of Chinese waiting to pass the barriers. The Japanese sentries were slapping and I treating the men' in contradiction to the professed desire of the Japanese to gain the

The first thing the staff officer did | goodwi of the Chinese. was to ask a pensant for

Kome

matches. With these he tried to set:

Are to his documents.

the

Belgian soldiers hastened to plane, however, and forelbly pre- vented the officer from destroying the papers.

The two Germans were taken to the nearest military post for ques- tioning. During the interview

the

HAPPY DAYS AGAIN, (Continued from Page 4.) xpeditions, and seaside holi-

ways, innocent as flowers, are ware of a new unease sensitive us the trembling of green leaves. There was a little boy and

a little girl

Lived in an alley.

Position In Europe

WASHINGTON, Feb, 13 (Reuter), Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy arrived here to-day by acroplane from Florida for important" conferences with Government officials on the in- ternational, situation.

It is reported that he will confer with Mr. Sumner Welles and Mr.

William C. Bullitt, the US. Ambas

sador in Paris.

Swedes Arrested For Espionage

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 14 (Router).

nessmen have been arrested for. Three prominent Swedish busi- espionago. They have confessed, say the Swedish Pellee.

They are said to have given in- unnamed foreign formation to an power about the movements of ships.

One of the three is a native of Says the little boy to the England who is employed by a Ger- man-concern-in-Sweden, another is the Swedish employee of a British soap company and the third is a ship-broker handling iron ore.

little girl,

"Shall I, Oh! shall 17′′

Says the little girl to the

little boy,

"What shall we do?" Says the little boy to the

little girl,

"I will kiss you." Now comes in. "the sweet of the year," and it belts each man

Japanese Ace and maid to look to his and her

Shot Down

Nazi Stif ofcer succeeded in Aerial Battle Over

snatching the documents and throw-

Ing them into the fire. A Belgion officer was able, however, to recover

them before they enught fire.

Yunnan Province KUNMING, Feb. 13 (UP)

life and to be happy. We can- not hope to live for ever. Happi- ness is no doting delusion,

It is to sing to a purpose na

priests praise God in the morn- ing. He is wise enough who can keep himself warm. "Hey! Trolly, folly, and God save you, Lady Em

There could thus be no doubt that these papers were of exceptional im-The leader of a Japanese air portance. According to my Informa squadron carrying out a raid over tion, they related in the transfer to Yunnan to-day was shot down the left bank of the Rhine of 22 by Chinese pursuit machines, ac-are still alive to hear, the voices newly-formed divisions.

Facts Confirmed

cording to a Chinese Air Defence This moventent was in course of announcement. being carried out. Some of these divisions were to go to the Dutch) frontier, but the great majority were; destined for the Belglon frontier.

The Belginn Intelligence Service was speedily, abic to confirm that these troop movements were in fact taking place.

The wreck of the Japanese plane was found near Lotus Lake, five miles south of Wenshun, which is 30 miles cast. of the French, rail- way and 30 miles inside the Yun- nan border.

It has been definitely accertained: that the plane was the Japanese

the

At the same, time news was re- squadron. leader. All the occupants: ceived of the arrival in the Aachen were killed,

Defence area of the Belgo-German frontier of

Alr According to Iwo Army corps, cach consisting of authorities here, the Governor of three divisions.

Yunnan has presented each Chinese While the movement of troops in airman who participated in the aght! the sense indiented By the captured with six sets of aviation clothes, plans was thus clearly taking place, while the provincial government has it was not possible to be sure awarded those responsible for bring whether these movements were to being down the Japanese plane 3,000 regarded as a concentration or were yuan ench./ merely designed to rellove units al-

ready in the area.

At the samic

time, there, was

notiring in the papers taken from the German offleer at Mechelon which made it possible to place any certain- ty on this interpretation of the troop

novements.

British Welcome For Welles

LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reutor)In

The one fact which is certain is the House of Commons to-day, Mr.

There is another summer be- fore us, with sunshine on grass, and moonlight on the river. We

of laughing children at play in the lengthening evenings.

Birds of a feather flock to-

gether,

And so do sheep and kine. Cats and mice will have

their choice,

And so will I have mine.

Naval Officials Non-Committal

MANILA. Feb. 14 (UP)-Naval, officials have refused to confirm or deny reports that a warship will be dispatched to chart the shonl on which the President Quezon; foun- dered. This shoal is alleged to Ito on the trans-Pacific route.

The exact location of the shoal is not known, due to the fact that the vessel's charts and compass bearings were lost when the vessel sild off the shoal and sank with lille warning.

that at the present moment there Neville Chamberlain, referring to the More U-Boat Men

are between 75 and 60 divisions pn forthcoming visit of Mr. Sumner the frontiers of Holland and Bel-Welles to Europe, said that the British glum, for no movement of troops Government for their part would be Irtan the Rhineland back into the ready to welcome President Roose interior: of Germany has yet taken | velt's representative and take him

Captured

LONDON, Feb. 13 (British Wire-

* fully into their confidence with the{ less)—The War Omeo announces a

Of the total concentration, 57 diel- object of assisting the President to further list of eight U-Boat per- sions are believed to be eastward of form an estimate of the presentsonnel..who are now prisoners of war

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