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OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered und Pureel Malls are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise. stated, and where mails are advertis- ed to close at or before D am. regis- tered and parcel muils are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to close after 5 p.m., Registered and Parcel maila are closed at 5 p.m.

INWARD MAILS Europe via Sucz and Straits-

(London date, 8th Dec. 1030)

Feb. 19. .Feb. 19.

Kalphong Haiphong, Holhow and Fort Bayard

W. L HANDYSIDE,

Director.

Exchange At A Glance

SELLING

T.T. London Demand do. T.T. Shanghai

T.T. Singapore

T.T. Japan

TT. Batavia

1/2

1/201

.343

.522

.1034

TT. India

82/4

T.T. U.S.A.

24%

433

TT. Manla

.484

.45%

TT. Bangkok

.159%

T.T. Selgon

.100%

.10.85

107

TT. Australls

1/0 %

BUYING

.1/3%

do.

173

.25%

T.T. France

T.T. Switzerland

4 m/s L/C London 4 m/s D/P

4 m/s L/C USA.

4 m/s France

30 da India .....

11.40

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 19, 1940.

London Correspondents Bring to You Daily in this Page-the News-Mirror of the War-Highlights of Events which are Making History.

FINNISH PATROLS HUNT GHOSTS' IN ENDLESS FOREST ON SUMMA FRONT

LOSS OF H. M. S. EXMOUTH

Full Details Of

Disaster

THE DESTROYER Ex- mouth was sunk by mine or torpedo in the North Sea on January 23. There were no survivors..

There were 175 men on Their commander

board. .83%

U.S. Cross rate in London 4.0235 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y...3.03%

H.K. Stock Market

Feb. 19. The following quotations

issued on the Hongkong Stock .Feb. 19.

Feb. 19. ket this morning.

Feb. 19. "Imperial Airways

Direct Service" London date, 10th:

Manila

Japan

Shankhal

Air Mall by

February.

Conten

Formosa and Swatow

Snigon

Shanghai

Japan,

Shanghai and Amey

Strolls

Straits and Manila

was Captain R. S. Benson.

This was the second destroyer Like the lost in four days. Grenville, the Exmouth, a vessel a flotilla of. 1.475 tons, was leader.

Until the beginning of the war the Exmouth was manned by a Port- were smouth crew, but it is believed that Mur-her present complement were chiefly

Devonport ratings.

H.K. Banks (Lon. Reg.)...85

She was the first of the 1,476-tons leaders, and was constructed in dry cost of dock in Portsmouth at a 2300,000. She was launched" by Lady Kelly, wife of the then Com- amander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir John

Kelly,

in July 1035.

BANKS

.

HI.K. Banks $ ....

1,410 b,

.Feb. 20.

n.

.Feb. 20.

H.K. Banks (H.K. Reg.)

07

Feb. 20.

Chartered 2...

Feb. 20. Feb. 20. Feb, 20.

Mercantile, A. & B. £

Mercantile, C. E.

East Asia $.

Canton $..

.Feb. 20, .Feb, 20. .Feb. 20. Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Service"--San Francisco date, 14th February ....Feb. 21. Air Mall by "Air France Direct Ser

vico"-Paris date, 14th February,

Cniculla and Stralis

Juva and Manila

Shanghat

Straits

Feb. 21. Feb. 21. Feb. 21. Feb. 21.

Feb. 21.

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Bervice"-London date, 14th

February.

Bangkok and Saigon

Canton

Jupnn.

Feb, 22. .Feb, 22. Feb. 23. Feb, 22.

Feb. 24. Feb, 24.

USA, Honolulu, and Japan (San

Francisco date, 20th Jan.)..Feb, 23. Canton

Shanghat

U.S.A, Honolulu, Japan and Shang- hai (San Francisco date, 26th January)

OUTWARD MAILS Monday, Feb, 10 Fort Bayard and Hollow

Haiphong

Dairen ....

Fort Bayard

Shanghai (Parcels only)

Feb. 24.

.12.30 p.m. .1 p.m. 2.30 p.m.

.2.30

2.30 p.m.

p.m.

Canton

.7 p.m.

Formosa

Straits

7 p.m. p.m.

Tuesday, Feb, 20

Shanghai

Canton..

Shanghai and Japan

.10.30 am.

Halphong

..2 p.m.

Shanghai

.2.30 p.m.

0.30 p.m.

Salgon

.0.30 a.m.

.10.30 a.m.

Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct

Service"-due London, 28th Feb.

İtez.

Ord.

Iter.

Ord.

K.P.O.

.Feb, 20, 5 p.m. .Feb. 20, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Feb. 20. 5 p. .Feb. 20. 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus

traila by "Imperial Airways Direct Service-due Sydney, 26th Feb.

R.P.O.

Regi

Ord.

Feb. 20, 5 p.m. ..Feb. 20, 0.30 p.m. G.P.O.

Eeg. Ord.

Canton: Japηo Stralis and. Calcutta

Feb, 20, 5 p.m. Feb. 20, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21

Parcels

Ord.

Suntow

Straits

Amoy and Shonghol

.7.15 am. .10.30 a.m.

.11.00 ..

.Noon.

2.30 p.m. .2.30 p.m. .2.30 p.m.

Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and Franco (Paris and Northern Pro- vinees only) by the "Air France Airwayn Direct Servico"dus Paris, 29th February.

'K. P. O,

....Feb. 21, -8.00 p.m.

.Fett. 21, 5.30 Da

Ileg Ord.,

O. P..0.

Rex.. Ord..

Feb. 21, 5,00 μm. ..Feb. 21, 7.00 p.m.

Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu and U.9.A., by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service”—lue San Francisco, 28th February.

Ker.

Ond

K.P.O.

.....Feb. 21, 5 p.m. Feb. 21, 0.39 p.m. G.P.O.

..Feb, 21, 5 p.m. Ord.

.Feb. 2%, 7.30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 Sandakan

12.30 p.m. Halphong

1 pm: Friday, Feb. 23 Parcels only for Tientsin

12.30 p.m.

INSURANCES

Union $... China Underwriter $. H.K. Fire 5.

SHIPPING

Douglases $.. Steamboats $

Indo-Chinas P$ Indo-Chinas D.$. Shell (Bearers) s/- Waterboats $

DOCKS ETC.

Wharves $. Docks $.... Providents $. New Eng. Sh. Sh. Docks Sh.

MINING

Kailan: e/ Raulis $.... Venz. Gold $. H.K. Mines

Hotels... Lands $.

LANDS

Lands 4% Debentures

S'hai Lands Sh. $....

Humphreys $.

H.K. Realles

Chinese Estates $..

UTILITIES

Trams $.

Peak Trama (old) $. Peak Trams (new) Star Ferries

Y. Ferrien $. China Lights (old) $.

China Lights (new) H.K. Electrics $. Macao Electrics $. Sandokan Lights $. Telephones (old) $.. Telephones (new). $. Tractions /

Tractions (Prof.) -

INDUSTRIALS

Canton Icos $..

Cements $.... H.K. Ropes 5.

STORES, &c. Dairy Farms (old) $... Dairy Farms (new) S. Watsons $...... Lane, Crawforda $ Sinceres ANN Wing On (H.K.) 3. Powell, Llu. s.

.31.

.12 n

Captain Benson received the D.5.0. last December for successful action .78 n.

ogainst enemy submarines while in command of the Exmouth.

.2121⁄2 b.

He entered the Navy in 1905, and sub- .465 b. during the last war was

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lieutenant and lieutenant in H.M.S. .182 b. Superb, Grand Fleet, until he was selected to specialise in gunnery in 1017.

Later he served in the Royal Oak, .100 b.which was sunk last October at Scopa 10 n. Flow; in the Frobisher, und in the .100. n. Iron Duke, the sea-going gunnery former ..80 n. Bring ship, and Jellicoe's .73/0 m. Engship, which was bombed at Scupa

.74 n. lost October.

Only 24 hours before, & Wombwell, Yorkshire, bride had a joyful letter .102 n. from her husband, Ordnance Artificer 22.10 3. Sam Turton, one of the crew of the Exmouth, saying he WES coming 4.60 n. 20% B. home on leave.

.328 n.

Beved drowned.

An Admiralty telegram fold her that her husband was missing, be

,10/-... The

marzled in couple were .10 . December, when Turton was home ..... non teave, by special leence at Womb- .3% cts. n. well Parish Church.

COTTON MILLS Ewo Sh. $ S'hal Cotton Sh. $. Zoong Sing, Sh. $.... Wing On Textiles, Sh.

MISC. H.K. Entertainments Constructions (old) $ Constructions (now) $. Vibro Piling.$..... Ch. Govt, 5% 1923 G. Bonds :༢..་

Two hours after the wedding the

5.95 b. bridegroom went back to his ship.

38 b. & sa. They had not seen each other since

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VOLKISCHER BEOBACHTER Russians-and Trees-

CALLS THIS,

Churchill's Blockade Wish-dream

Children of Europe, I love you so much I could cat you.

Look Alike

By RALPH HEWINS, Daily Mail War Correspondent in Finland

On the Salla Front. EARLY this morning I crept through the 'eerie Finnish forest with a ski patrol and reconnoitred the Russian lines only 400 yards away.

For hours we picked our way among the trees. No one spoke. At every step the Russian guns might crash out. I almost wished they had. The strain of listening and watching in that great stillness hurt.. But not a shot was fired,

This is the ghostly work the Finns must do every night. A hundred times forest growths appeared to me to take human shape. Were they hiding Russlans? No-only trees. nerves are needed on these patrols.

WAR AND PEACE Soviet airmen have received strict orders to attack only military objectives, says Moscow. This picture (on the left) shows the ruins of a building in Viborg after bombardment by Sovlet planes. Below, a picture of Viborg in peace time.

BY

GERMAN PEOPLE, BORED

PROPAGANDA, WANT MUSIC

THE German people are intensely bored by the interminable floods of

The wireless has fallen into

n. those two precious honeymoon hours. propaganda which the Nazis are pouring out. The people would much .20 n. When the telegram came Mrs.

Turton took it excitedly from her 500nor have music or light entertainmont.... 4. afster, thinking it would tell of her disrepute.

7 n.

101 m.

17.50 50. .8 0.

husband's leave. She collapsed when she read it

Second Loave

.4 n. To Mrs, William. Butterfeld, of 64 b. Labournum-avenue, Crook, County 244 b. Durham, came the same news after 7.00 b. she had ant up all night keeping the 4.05 b. fires going to welcome her husband. .57% b. Two hours after his train should

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n. telling her that he was missing and 20 sa. presumed dead.

20 b. have arrived the telegram arrived

.0.70 n. Butterfield, a a stoker, who was 44 .19/6 n. years of age, was a naval reservist, 10/0 n. called up at the outbreak of war, and

Although there are terrible penalties for listening-in to the Freedom Radio, the people await its voice eagerly. This radio is proving of real service to the cause of the Allies.

Great discredit has fallen on the German Press, too. This is shown by the fact that the declared sale of the "Voelkischer Beobachter," Hitler's special paper and the organ of the Government, is only 80,000 a day.

Pacifist Is

Opposed To

Field Sport

Good

Watch We had our orders. for any Russian move. If pos- aible cut off any of the enemy daring to venture too far afield; surprise sentries chilled by the cold; capture prisoners for ques- tioning; break field 'phones; damage commissariat and equip- ment. But we must not provoke a pitched fight.

At first I was keyed up, ex- pecting uncanny silence to be broken by the roar of artillery, the whine and rattle of shella. and machine-guns. I expected. to have to dive into the snow for cover.

But as minutes passed my now-found animal' alterness be gan to yield to careless com- placency.

I dared to whisper.

A hasty "S-sh" from the, offer in charge reminded me we were in danger.

Trees-Or Mon?

A glance at the laut fentures of his men as they strained eyes and. ears for the slightest movement was enough to prevent me from being so careless again.

Time went on and the tension in- creased, Was I getting jumpy, or were those trees, that hillock, those shrubs really trees and shrubs, ́or men?

As it so

often turned out, the whiteclnd arm was only a branch; the prone hump only a tree trunk.

The officer raised a white-gloved. hand. We waited breathlessly until mysterious signs and passwords en- abled us to

proceed.

It was like going to a Ku-Klux-

Kian meeting amid an endles forest of Christmas trees.

My imagination began to play more tricks. A ghost waiting down a gentle slope made me start. It was only a skier hurrying across a small open space.

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At last we left the danger zone. behind. "Is it always

still as this?" I whispered. Nightmare

"I could start the Arlag at any noment, but you newspapermen are valuable to us. Be quiet, please," was the reply.

So it is on patrol. Silence. Always For any German paper-without their own tongue against their op-

Maurice Argyle, n Windermere silence. Nightly the Finns cover up the driving personality of Hitler be-pressors.

conscientious objector, told the Curn to Go miles with the thermometer hind to reach a sale of 50,000 re- The Sudeten Germans are the berland tribunal at Carlisle that he usually showing at least 40 degreca gularly is, of course, unthinkable, worst, they say, and the most hated would regard a wounded mah lying of frost.

Only the most fervid party 'mem-man is Franck, formerly a Sudeten on the battlefield as a polluted per

Only men bred in the woods, un- emotional, though sometimes mystic,

he had been home on leave once vers are still gulled by the spate of M.P. He is now the. real master of son no one sho would go so far as can keep it up. They need at least

dead.

n.

propaganda produced daily.

effect.

.170 n. husbands, in Exmouth, are missing strike back at them inter with wea-mitted thousand unarmed

A

the time

touch He also sald he to forbid all feld sports,

R.A.F. PLANE IS LOST

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH".

two years' training on akis.

nesses.

For the Russlong the strain must be almost greater. They live in a which may suddenly pump 'death at nightmare of fleeting white shadows at point them with machine-guna blank range.

NO DIFFERENCE

Naziism And Communism Speak As One

the Czech State. Cald: Macg. (Ord.), 5h. $..14.00 n. since he was called up.

The last time I saw my husband," Cald: Macy. (Pref.), Sh. $...12 n.

Nominal chief von Neurath, the Omelal Protector who was formerly ......1 n. Mra Butterfeld said, "he said he

Propaganda Boomorang

"If we had adopted pacifism," he Week in and week out they are 19.20 b. & s. was serving in the Exmouth, but the

Hitler's violent anti-Bolshevik German Ambassador in London, is continued, with the

the force we now holding up the Russian steam roller 0.85 a.telegram does not give any indication propaganda spread over the years confined to the Palace Racyn. He adopt to stop the aggressor, the war in these snowbound forest wilder-

of what ship he was serving in.

since 1933 is having a boomerang never leaves Prague, where he is would never have arisen." 22.10 b.

*** am hoping that he has been

to considered be o

8 prisoner of the He was then registered as an ob picked up, and that the authorities 21.10

Nazis he His tirades against Stalin, arch-

ance led.

Jector on condition that he remained 9.45 b. haye not yet found this out."

At the Presidency in Prague ce of civilization, are still re- enemy Ifis two children, a boy aged nine 735 n.

studying. and a 15-years-old girl, have been membered, even by ardent Nazis ports, decrees and requisitions have in forestry work, which he is now 1:00 p

Neurath. Dut, both told that their father is believed who swallow the fact of the Russo- to be signed by President Hacha and men are German Pact because they believe von

forced to Fame before

to sign every form that is set Telegrams were received by two that Hitler is playing a deep

them getting from the Russians all he 363 n. Rosyth women saying that the needs just now while he prepares to Only one Cz

Czech organisation is per

National Movement." .14 n. belloved drowned.

Czech Seven themselves provided. .48% n

The men are Henry James Webb, pons they have 33, acting petty officer, and Wallace German general told me that soldiers attached to it run about in

when

In Prague time came for the Nazis to comic opera uniforms. 7.10 b. Vaughan, 33, fat el. stoker.

it inevitably they are known as the "Hacha LONDON, Feb. 18 (UP)—Accord- .1% n

Webb received the Distinguished turn on Russia, as

the Germans would be able to Melody Boys,"

ing to an official announcement by 1. Service Medal in the New Year's list would,

The rumblings of revolt have pro- the "Air Ministry, a British plane'to- 84 n. of awards to the Royal Navy. Each march on Leningrad with three divi-

duced few tremors yet on the sur-day failed to return from a recon- A majority of the

The announcement added that this last Wives of two ratings living at with memories of

was the second British plane reported with the people.

the to be missing within 48 hours under Fions to gain freedom for them, are. Every loyal Czech knows still tremendously pleased at the name and address of the German he similar circumstances. series of Soviet diaastors in Finland, will kill when his people rise at lost

Nowhere in Europe la sympathy for against their oppressors.. the Allies stronger than in the Czech, Czech patriots told me that

the CAR MOUNTS PAVEMENT Protectorate and in, Austria,

slaughter would have begun already! Whisport In Prague

If there had not been ‹, '1,000,000 SWERVING sharply to avold a Undercover whisperers in Prague Czechs living in the midst of a Nazi Chinese boy who ran suddenly in pay that the Protectorate will be in- majority in Sudetenland.

front of the vehicle, a car driven by corporated in the Reich on April 2.)

England has regained the sym- Mr. A.-C. Kella, of 30, Mody Road, For two months now no foreigner pathy and friendship she lost after mounted the pavement in Mody Hond has been allowed to cross the bore; Munich. The Czecha, willing to be yesterday. Mr. Kelin, as a result,, dera, A

incorporated in a new State with sulhined slight facial injuries. The The ometal language of the old Bavaria and Austria, hope that 1940 car was slightly damaged, ngcording Czech State is German, but discon- will bring victory to the Allies, and to a report made to the police last tented Czecha süll speak. loully in deliverance to them, gên towenight.

11.

Govi. 4% Lonn

ILK. Govt. 3% Loan Marsmans (LOT.) B/→ Maremans (H.K.) #/-..

a

of the men leaves à family of six jalons at 14 miles German people, face of the Czech Släte, but they arenaissance: fleht.

the

.05% h. Weymouth inve also been informed in which Germany fought campaign buried lightly in the bosoms of its)

.50% n. children.. 100%.n.j

14/0 n. by the Admiralty that their husbands

4/-n.are missing.

BAD NEWS FOR NAZIS

CAPTAIN HAROLD BALFOUR, Under-Secretary for Air, who arrived in England recently from Canada, revealed that the Allied air strength, already superior to that of Gor- miany, is to be built up to a figure that ne rival can ever hope to approach.

Canada's war efforts can only be described as enormous,” he said.

LONDON, Feb. 18 (Reuter).The "Washington Post" on Saturday said; "Anti-Communism has proved merely a cloak without basle meaning or substance. Indeed to-day there is extremely little to distinguish Nazl Communist-, Russia, Germany and which are like two pean in a pod. It is no longer Communian but Capital- lam which the Nazis regard as the real enemy.

"Germany and Russin now, spenk

a one voice in the realm of ideology."

LONDON, Feb. 18: (Reuter)The death is announced of Sir Charles William Cayzer,