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DONALD DUCK

WELL, WELL! LOOKS LIKE A BILL

FOR THE PEOPLE

WHO USED TO LIVE 'HERE! HM-M---WONDER

WHO THEY OWE MONEY!

I'LL JUST STEAM IT OPEN AND HAVE A---

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 15, 1940.

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ZBW, 355 metres (845 kc.) nad 31.49 metros (9,520 kilo-cycles)

Herbert and Bernhard Ruff

From the Studio

Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of,845 k.e's, and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's, per second. 12.15 p.m. Shart Service of Inter- cussion.

12.30 Haydn-Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell") in F Sharp Minor.

12.65 A Schubert Sona,

· 1.0 Locul Time Signal und Wen- ther Report,

1.03 Lucienne Bayer (Vocal) and the Orchestra Mascolto.

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wen- ther Forecast and Announcements.

1.45. Carroll Gibbong (Plano) and

the Savoy Hotel Orpheans,

2.15 Close down.

5.45

Studio-Children's Hour.

0.45 Closing local Stock

tlons.

0.47 Compositions

Strauss

Quota-

of Richard

7.20 Viniln Solos by Emil Tel-' manel

7,30 London, Relay--The NewA 7.50 Studio-Short talk оп the forthcoming Hongkong Dog Show.

8.0 Local Time Simal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Stullo-Two Plano Recital

by Herbert & Bernhard Buff (from

the Glozcester Hotel),

8.23 At Bollugton at the Organ.

8.35

8.15

0.05

Bonga by Tino Rossi (Tenor),

Studio-Talk on "Iraq."

Sea Shanties.

0.15 London Relay-News Sum-

mar.

9.30 "Old and New"-A Potpourri

of Popular Melodies arranged by

Herman Finck,

Herman Finck and His Orchestra.

9.45 Favourite Ballads.

10.04 Eric Coates-Springtime

Sulte.

DAVIS ESCAPE

Wrecked Twice -Saved By, Breeches Buoy

Advance Posts In Red Hands

HELSINGFORS, Feb. 14

(Reuter).-A

Finnish

official communique issued to-night admits for the first time that the Russians have occupied advance posts in the Mannerheim Line.

Another official communique Funeral Well

Light Symphony Orchestra con-issued to-day, states that on the

ducted by The Composer.

10.17 Mendelssolin-Quartet in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1

Stradivarius String Quartet.

19.42 Leopold Stokowski and the Philharmonie Symphony Orchesten. "Carmen"-Prelude to Aci (Bizet) Entr'acte, Act 4; "Samson and Dellinhacchapule (Saint- Sachs) "Damnation of Faust”- Rakoczy March (Berlloz, Op. 24); Hungurlan Dance No. 1.

11.0 Close down.

Karelian Isthmus the enemy continued their heavy attacks on Tuesday."

Attended

Only on the Summa sector, states The funeral of the Inte Mr. P. M. the communique, has the enemy Hodeson took place yesterday at the succeeded in occupying some of our Roman Catholic Cemetery, Father foremost supporting points but a Riganti afficiating. thrusi checked them in front of our Dr. S. W. Tso, Mr. G. A. Pentreath supporting points.

and Mr. T.O. T'so walked immediate Everywhere else,

the enemy'sly behind the cortege, while othersj attacks were repulsed with heavy present included. losses fur the attackers,

Sir Atholl MacGregor, Lt.-Col. II. B. L. Mr. Thousands were killed and dozens Dowbiggin, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith. TRIBUTE TO TWEEDSMUIR of destroyed tanks were left in front Jusilee Fraser. Hon Mr. C. G. Alabaster Hon. Mr. A. Dodwell, Mr. Justice Lind- seil, Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields, Hon. Mr. Leo d'Alınada Messrs. P. V. Steavensan,

C. Landail. Humphreys, Prentis, G. G. N. Tinson, G. B. Wilson, A. i. Seth, F. O, Nigel, F. E. Noth, E. David, C. B. Cave, E. Poller, F. F

D: E. Clarise,

Taggart. Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo

Ottawa, Feb. 14.

of our lines.

The fighting is continuing. Long lines of women and children North-east of Lake Ladoga our stretched across the nowcovered troops dispersed all enemy attempts slopes of Parliament T to-day watt- to thrust forward and a few tanks ed patiently despite the cold to file were destroyed, past.Lord Tweedsmule's coffin.

Battalion Mowed Down

The crowd was so grent that the In the direction of Kuhmo (Central

Senate Chamber, where the body has Finland), one Russian batialon was beca Lying in Slate since its arrival mon down and several "nests" were There was lively patrol activity in

from Montreal, was left open destroyed. throughout the evening and by mid-

N. Anderson, M. i. Turner, F. X. Amada. C. d'Almada, R. A. Wadeson, F. 11. Loseby. A. el Aretill, J. M. d'Almada Remedios. II. G., Sheldon, T. H. d. Dray- field. D. Hancock, D. 1. Blake, D. L. Streitet, U. D. Evans, M. W. Lo. 5. M. CheyT. Borrain, 11. J. Armstrong. G. Wood. R. T. E. Pearec. Berg. E. M. Haymond, B. A. da Siva, D. The communique also mentions that Metallen, A. R. Alves, R. Pestonji, the Finnish air defences were in-namin, Alfred Y, Hun, S. A. Gleap. volved yesterday in a number of alt battles and Finnish planes continued |

night 14,000 people had filed rast.-other sectors. Reyter.

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The Hong Kong a dhamphai Wotele Lia.

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to successfully bomb the enemy con- NINE GERMANS

centrations and encampments.

Among other places, the Russians TO LEAVE SOON

bombed Vilpuri.

The

(Domel).

APPARATUS

-Inpuiry Disclosures

WHEN the inquiry into the loss of the submarine Thetis in Liverpool Bay last June was resumed in London

The “Telegraph”

50 YEARS AGO

Feb. 15, 1890. Lady des Vooux will be at home on Monday afternoon, the 17th inst., from 4 o'clock.

25 YEARS AGO

Feb. 16, 1915. appears that Count Bernstorff, in

it was disclosed that 50 of the 99 dead wore the Daviserse of bis interview with Mr. |escape apparatus when the bodies were recovered.

Photograph taken inside the submarine after she had been raised were examined by the Tribunal, of which Mr. Justice Bucknill is president.

Sir Donald Somervell, K.C., the Attorney-General (for the Admiralty), sald the condition of the escape chamber when the vessel was found was that one of the doors--he thought the after door was open and one of the main valves into the escape cham- ber was also open.

"The effect of that was that, as the vessel was foundering, water could enter from the sex," he added.

Chief Petty-Officer Rowkins said that both doors of the es cape chamber were open, as the bodies were taken out that way. found there was *Mr. Justice Bucknil: Bas any the vessel was cak been delected in the plates of access from the sea. Into the sub- this compartment otherwise it must murine and into any compartments have got in through the escape cham- which had not got their bulkheads

shul. Sir Donald Somervell: I think it is clear from the evidence that when

ber?

Passengers and crew of the torpedoed Dutch" freighter Tajandeon were rescued for the second time in a few hours when they were brought ashore by breeches buoy from the Belgian ship Louls Shied, which went aground on the South Coast yesterday. They had been picked up by the Louis Bhied These pletures show after their ship had sunk during the previous night. (top) the Belgian ship aground with the rescue apparatus rigged, and above) a Dutch officer helped on to the cliff too

BLITZKRIEG MAY BE LAUNCHED BY HITLER SOON

of

LONDON, Feb. 14 (Reuter).—“The second phase It is estimated that during the day

the war will soon begin," said Sir Edward Grigg, Parlia 14 LONDON, Feb. several hundred enemy planes were

Ministry of Information, British official circles announce that mentary Secretary for the action over the country. In Finnish lighters and air defences shot the handing over of nine Germans down 17 enemy planes, according is in retention at Hongkong to Japan- speaking at Altrincham, Lancashire, to-day.

ese authorities would take place in

Hitler, he said, might launch a great offensive or might hold the near future.

his hand. They confirm that negotiations are

If Hitler took the former course, he said, the British in progress between the Japanese people would rise to the occasion as they always had done in the and the British Governments regard-

Four Things Needed ng definite arrangements.

The date past.

confirmed reports.

Finn Counter-Attacks

It 19 officially announced that successful counter-attacks were cur- ried out to-day on the Karelian Isthmus. The fighting is stated to have been particularly, sanguinary,

The Russians fiercely bombarded the Mannerhelm Line.

In Complete Control

nd methods of handing over have

Mr. been discussed between

Tanl. Germany had the advantage: Four things, he added, were needed the Vice-Forelin Minister.

and of a much longer preparation in for victory.

They were rapid expansion of the Sir Robert Craigle, the British

time of peace and her stock of Allied @ghting forces already formid Ambassador at Tokyo. WITH THE FINNISH ARMY, Feb.

munitions were certainly very able though they were vastly increas- ed; output of munitions; strong 14 (UP)-11 18 announced that been granted to British subjects to

national finances, and a buoyant Finnish troops now have complete enlist in the Finnish forces and that large, he continued. control of Suomussalmi and then licence would be granted to re-

export trade." Kuhmo highway despite repented cruiting organisation to be established Russian air attacks, Kuhmo village in London.

It would be significant Indeed it she falled to deliver в carefully, pre-

Bryan, Inimated that Germany would partly rescind her "war zone decres"

Mr. Bryant inslated upon the Wil-

helmina's cargo of foodstuffs being

delivered at Hamburg. Falling this, he

threatened "further frightfulness" and the direction of auch "frightfulness" is indicated by a Copenhagens despatch to the effect that Germany contemplates

gigantic broadcasting of Healing minum.

The American Ambanindor at Berlin, Interviewed by the "National Zeltung" dwelt upon the Insanity of a Gorman- American war, which, ko sald, would be fatal to Germany econotoically, In vlow of the Garmas millions Invested in American undertakings. But the Am- bandor added, the language of the German press increased the dißculty of solving a Jimcult problem and tho possibility of serious conillet would in- stantly also if an American ship wero sunk.

In contemplating

the

wonderful loyalty which has been shown by tho Why Storn Sank

Oversen Domisions in the present great erinin, the part which Australia kon Mr. Justice Bucknill: That might played stands forth with much promin- explain why her stern sank so sud-ence. She has, to the deep satisfaction associated with of her people, been denly.

magnificent work at sea, but above all elas the manner in which she has come forward with soldiers to awoll our Ex- peditionary Force on the Continent alla all Britishers with intensa admiration. he has already provided a contingent of 20,000 men has now offered another batch of 10,000 and will train na nddi- tional 4,000 mon every month A re- Inforcements.

Sir Donald: It might. Rowkins, questioned by Mr. Regi- nald Paget (one of the counsel for the relatives of William Henry Smith, an apprentice who lost his life), said that nut of the 03 bodies recovered, 50 were wearing the Davis escape apparatus.

+

10 YEARS AGO Mr. Paget: What I was going to suggest happened was that as soon

Feb. 15, 1930. as it became clear that there would

The opening of the investigation of not be time to evacuate the men in the Judleiary Committer of the U.B. rotation owing to their becoming ex- Houes of Representatives into the ques hausted, it might have been decided Lion of Prohibition, was

to

marked by chairman, a

use all the engine room as a warm applause when the large escape chamber sa that by well-known "Wet", declared that Pro- flooding the whole compartment the hibition had been tested for ten years men in that compartment would be with no satisfactory results. able to file out?

The prophets have all been confound- Rowkins replied that if they were ed by the appointment of Sir William going to do that and the valves hnd Phel Governor of Itongkong in been opened for them to do it, all succession to Sir Cecil Clementi. the men would have been wearing) The actual appointment, however, the escape appartus. When the goes to an officer who has had a long hatch of the after escape chamber and distinguished career in was opened in his presence-in-drywhere he has spent the whole of his colonial servico extending over a period dock at Holyhead it opened proper of 32 years. At the moment, Sir Wil-

ly.

Panic Theory

felt he

sometimes!

Maleyu,

lam Peel is Home an leave, and it is therefore not possible to say when he will come to Hongkong, but we can be- Mr. Justice Bueknill asked Row-speak for him in advance a very cordial kins if he could throw any light on welcome when he lands to assume the why the after escape hatch was not. Governorship. used after Mr. Shaw and Leading

5 YEARS AGO Stoker Arnold had escaped.

Feb. 15, 1935. - Rowkins replied that

Baron von Neurath this afternoon during the flooding of the escape handed the British and, French Am- chamber a man

could not bassadors the German answer to the alr aerord. The German nots was semi- stand the pressure. "A man panies, Franco-British proposals for a Europe anil somebody then may have opened officially described as friendly and the door on the forward side to allow favourable towards the principle of him to get out," he added. The general, discussion along the lines og man on the after side would only gested. know that the man was panicking." The mole stated that Germany was After Rowkins had advanced in willing to negotiato: Indeed, was will- technical language a second theorying to place hor alt force at the pro- the judge said: "You mean they did posed Fact's disposal. This offer, it is not turn some handle sufficiently to explained in reliable sources, was mado enable men inside to open the hatch since the London Agreement assumed and I believe that theory is borne the existence of such a force. The note borne expressed the German Government's out by the position of that turning willagne for negotiation of an arma handle as subsequently found 60 convention, at least in principle, and that men had gone into the chamber, welcomed the offer to abolish Part V tried to open the hatch, found they of the Versailles Treaty, which would could not open it, and then opened remove the stigma of inferiority o the forward door, thereby letting keenly felt in Gormany. the water pour into the submarine? Is that right?"

Rowking: Yes.

and

Interviewed in the prison cell, Bruno Hauptmann, sentenced to die by elec trocution for the murder of the Lind borgh baby in less than a month's time, declared to-day that he was ready to die iko a man."

Engine Room Escapa Bid? The Judge: Finding they could not open the hatch of the chamber they

S.M.R. OPENS HERE decided to use the engine room it- self as an escape chamber, escape through' the hatch, through A cocktail party was held at tho by the which the bodies were subsequently Hongkong Hotel yesterday brought; and to try to do that they South Manchuria Raliway Company, tried to flood the engine room by Limited, to mark the opening of the opening this door and the sen valve. Company's offices in Hongkong, at It is suggested to me that the ex-1A, Chater Road. About 300 guests haust in the engine room was also were presented. They were received found open,

by Mr. Akira Watanabe, Commander R. M. Edwards, RN.. Submarine Assistant to the Director

na to the functions of

Enamelled Test Cock Commander Edwards was

also

of Naval Equipment, sald that in his knowledge opinion the bow cap on No. 5 tube these levers." "We can all play our part in ono

was not open when the vessel left or other of these four branches of

Liverpool. is no longer subjected Russian Capt. Peuke added that H. M.pared and massive blow.

national effort. In particular we can

Asked how he thought it came to questioned about his earlier evidence artillery fire, indicating that the Government had carefully consider-

Alluding to the Prime Minister's save and bear the shoringe of many

be open later, Commander Edwards, that the aperture of the tent cock' in Russians have commenced to with ed this matter in the light of the

nims and things which we normally enjoy", he

replied:

No. D tube door had been found to draw their heavy artillery to the resolution passed by the Assembly of distinction between war

"In my view, in the ten minutes be enamelled over with bitumastic frontier.

the League of Nations on December pence aims, Sir Edward Grigg ob-sald

While the Government is doing all prior to the accident, after power enamel.

the Thetis had He agreed that It is understood that at least 35,000 14 on the subject of provision of as-served that peace aints would of |Russian bodies are lying in the battle-sistance to their view incon-necessity remain a dream until the mod prices he said, and in other ways tently moved the bow-cap operating passed the Admirally overseers be-

it could by rationing and by pegging had been put off, someone inadver slatent with

lover towards the open position and fore she went out for her text. trying to leasen harships, it was

Mr. G. I B. Streatfield (for tho perhaps realising that he had moved LONDON, Feb, 14 (leuter).-In solution that British subjects who There could be no future but necessary to stress that hard times

it, but not realising what he had Walles Dove Bitumastic Company, Jay ahead.

cause to the House of Commons to-day i wished to volunteer for service In

Let us face them proudly, for no done by moving it, he moved it back Ltd.): Had not anybody

behalf of the Ad- was slated by Capt. O. Peake, Under Finland should be hindered by pro degradation and darkness for Europe

over marched

bgain to a similar position of the inspect it on Secretary in the Home Offer, in visions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, and for Briain if the military power generation of men

other lovers on the panel. It might miralty?-It should have been in- a cleaner banner for s written reply to a question on this seeing that that Act contains power of Germany were not destroyed, he beneath

be some man who had no technical spected subsequent to being painted, ubject, that a general leende had to grant dispensations.

nobler' goal," he concluded. 'said.

field.

British Voluntoors

"..

Finland.

It would

spirit of that re-war aims were realised,

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