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W. L. HANDYSIDE,

Director.

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

Treasury LOSS OF To Control Securities

Important Move Is Announced

LONDON, Feb. 18 (Reuter). The Money Order Office public-The Treasury have announced counter will be open from 10 am, to an order transferring to them- noon only on 19th, 20th and 21st February, 1040.

Smull Packet Fost to all countrica

la suspended.

OUTWARD MAIL TIMES Registered and Parcel 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 & a.m, regls- tered and parcel malls are closed at 6 p.m. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to close after & pink, itegistered and Parcel malls

are closed ut 3 p.m.

INWARD MAILS

H. M. S. EXMOUTH

Full Details Of Disaster

selves all holdings by United THE DESTROYER Ex- Kingdom residents in 60 speci-mouth was sunk by mine or fled securities marketable in torpedo in the North Sea on January 23. There were no survivors.

New York,

Holders will be re-imbursed in sterling at the current New York pelco of currency and the official ex- change rate plus accrued interest to March 4.

There were 175 men on board. Their commander

It is recalled that arrangements was Captain R. S. Benson.

This was the second destroycr

were made on the outbreak, of war for registration with the Bank of England of all United Kingdom hold-lost in four days. Like the ings of United States securities, and Grenville, the Exmouth, a vessel the present step aims at vesting of 1,475 tons, was

a flotilla certain number of these securities in

leader. the British Treasury.

Europe vio Suez and Straito-

(London date, 8th Dec. 1939)

Not To Force Sales Feb, 19. Haiphong

....Feb. 19. The reason for this is to ensure that Haiphong. Hollow and Fort Bayard realisation of these securities in the

Feb. 10.

10. American market is orderly, and that Feb. 19.

the total volume of such sales from .Feb. 19.

the United Kingdom, vested and non-

continue over ...Feb, 19, invested, should

Airways period of time at about the average

of recent months.

Manila

Japan

Shanghal

Air Mall by "Imperial

Direct Service" London date, 10th .Feb. 20. Feb. 20.

February.

Canton

Japan.

Safgon

Formosa und Swatow

Shanghai

Shanghai and Amoy

Strails and Manila

Straits ...................

Feb. 20.

Feb. 20.

Feb, 10.

N

In addition to the present 60 securi- ties, further, vesting orders may be issued from time to Ume.

"Reuter" learns that there is desire in free sales..

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

She was the first of the 1,475-tons tenders, and was constructed in dry cost of doek in Portsmouth ut £300,000. She was launched" by Lady Kelly, wife of the then Com- mander-in-Chier, Admiral Sir John Kelly, in July 1935.

Captain Benson received the D.S.O, last December for successful action noaguinst enemy submarines while in

command of the Exmouth.

Feb. 20

The list represents preliminary .Feb. 20, mobilisation of certain securities Feb, 20.

with an active market, ` Feb. 20. In no case do the securities re-

Air Mail by "Pan American Airways quisitioned form a big proportion of Direct Service"-Ban Francisco the total outstanding securities of the dale, 14th February.................. Feb. 21. | rongaanies concerned, Air Mail by "Air France Direct Ser-

vice"-Paris date. 14th February,

Calcutta and Straits

Java and Manila

Shanghat

Straits

Precautionary Step

д

He entered the Navy in 1905, and

sub-} during the last war was lieutenant and lieutenant In HMS. Superb, Grand Fleet, until he was selected to specialise in gunnery in 1013.

Later he served in the Royal Oak, which was sunk last October at Scupu Flow; in the Frobisher, and in the Iron Duke, the sea-going gunnery

Feb. 21. Feb. 21.

It is believed that the recent, un-Bring ship, and Jellicoe's former Feb. 1. certainty has been worse for the flagship, which was bombed at Scapa Feb. 21. United States market than the know- last October. Feb, 21. ledge now given that the British Airways Treasury has a definite long range

Ale Mail by "Imperial

Direct Service-Londen date, 14th | plion. February.

Bangkok and Saigon

Canton

Japan.

.Fcb. 22 Only a small proportion of the Feb. 22. total securities available are now re- Feb. 22. quisitioned and the present list ex- . Feb. 22, eludes several important merket U.S.A., Honolulu, and Japan (Son counters.

Francisco date, 20th Jan.). Feb. 23. The step in no way indicates on Feb. 24, actual or impending exchange short- Feb. 24. uge, but is a precautionary step taken and Shang-] well in advance of any necessity.

date, 26th

Canlon Shunghel U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan hal (San Francisco January)

Dairen

Feb. 24.

Will Not Weaken Market

If private sales continue at the re- cent volume, there may be no need for official sales, though doubtless the opportunities of profitable marketing will be taken.

OUTWARD MAILS Monday, Feb. 19 Fort Bayard and Holbow..12.30 p.m. Haiphong

.1 p.m. .2.30 p.m. .2.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. 7 p.m.

It is pointed out that the British p.m. authorities obviously desire to obtain the best price possible and will not operate so as to weaken the market.

Fort Boyard

Shanghal (Porcels only)

Canton

Formosa

Straits

Shanghai

Tuesday, Feb. 20

Canton Shanghai and Japan

Haiphong

Shanghai

Saigon....

p.m.

.0.30 a.m.

.10.30 a.m. .10.30 a.m.

.2 p.m.

2.30 p.m. .6.30 p.m. Air Mall for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"dur Landon, 28th Feb.

Reg. Ord,

Reg.

Ord.

K.P.O.

Requisitioning will probably have the effect of reducing sales.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary issued Saturday saya:

The Commission's recommendation Feb. 20, 6 p.m. .Feb, 20, 5.30 p.m.

of the Corporation Tax has not affected the market in any way and G.P.O.

.Feb. 20, 5 p.m.

in spite of this as well as the short morning session owing to the Races, Feb. 20, 7 p.m. Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus-prices on the whole are firm and in tralia by "Imperial Airways Direct same stocks, show an appreciable ad- vance. Telephones (Old) changed Servico"dué Sydney, 20th Feb.

hands at $26% and there are further K.P.O.

buyers, while Lunds were transacted .Feb. 20. p.m. Feb. 20, 5.30 p.m.

at $38. G.P.O.

1.K. Bank $1.410. Feb, 20, 5 p.m. Union Ins, $489. .Feb. 20. 7 p.m. Douglases $100.

Ker. Orl.

Rez.

Ord.

Wednesday, Feb. 21 2

Conton Japan

.7.15

a.m.

10.30 a.m.

Straits and Calcutta

Porcela

Ord.

Swalow

Straits

Amoy and Shanghal

11.00 am.

Noon. 2.30 p.m.

2.30 p.m

.2.30 p.m.

Air Mall for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Parla and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Air FranDa Airways Direct Service"-das Paris, 20th February.

Rek., Ord..

K, r. o. Begy..............Feb. 21. 5.00 p.m. Ord.......Feb. 21, 5.30 p.m.

G. P. O.

Feb. 21. 5.00 p.m. .Feb. 21, 7.00 p.m. Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu 'nud U.S.A., by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service'idue San Francisco. 28th February.

Rex.

Ord.

Rex.

Ord.

Sandakan -Haiphong

K.P.O.

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

Feb.

21, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O. .....Feb. 21, 5 p.m. Feb. 13. 1.30 mm.

· Thursday, Feb. 23

.12.30 p.m.

....1 p.m..

Friday, Feb. 23 Parcels only for Tientsin 5.3.30 pm.

Wharves $101.

Providente $4,50.

Lands ERTY.

Tinyur

Tramways X.D. ·3174.

Star Ferrica X.D. $64;

Chlog Lights · (Old)" $7.00.

Macao Electrics 120.

Telephones (QId) $79.00. Cements $10.10. Entertainments 87,10,

Constructions told) $12.

Tramways $17.00. Watsons $9.00..

Heer

Sales

Dock $23,10. Landa 13746/25/30. Tramways $59. Telephones (Old) $265%. Cements $19.10/20

Manila Gold Shares

"

Atoks Antarnok Tinghio Gald Balong Buhay Big Wedgo Coco Grove Con. Mine Demonstration

Mindanao

Ipo. Golt Logon Mining Mambutas Con. Maabato Con. Mind, Motherlode. Mine Operation North Camarines Paracalo Gumaus Ban Mauricio Surigao Con Huyos Con, Byndicate Inv, United Paracale Benguet Con.

Only 24 hours before, a Wombwell, Yorkshire, bride had a joyful letter from her husband, Ordnance Artificer Sam Turton, one of the crew of the Exmouth, saying he Was coming home on leave.

-

An Admiralty telegram told her that her husband was missing, be lieved drowned.

The couple were married in December, when Turton was home on leave, by special licence at Womb- well Parish Church.

Two hours after the wedding the bridegroom-went-back-to-hip-ship; They had not seen each other since those two precious honeymoon hours.

When the telegram came Mrs. Turton took it excitedly from her sister, thinking it would tell of her husband's leave. she read it.

VOLKISCHER OBEOBACHTER

CALLS THIS

Churchill's Blockade Wish-dream

Children of Europe,

ha cat you,

Russians—and Trees- Look Alike

By RALPH HEWINS, Daily Mail War Correspondent in Finland.

On the Sulla Front. EARLY this morning I erept through the eerie, Finnish forest with a ski patrol and reconnoitred the Russian lines only 100 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 Russians? No-only trees. Good 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 Below, bombardment by Soviet planes.

a picture of Viborg in peace time.

GERMAN PEOPLE,

BORED

BY

PROPAGANDA, WANT MUSIC

We had our orders. Watch for any Russian move. If pos- sible cut off any of the enemy daring to venture too far afield; surprise sentries chilled by the cold; capture prisoners for ques tioning: break fleld 'phones; damage commissariat and equip. ment. But we must not provoko- ja 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 shells and machine-guns. 1 expected to have to dive into the snow for cover.

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

I dared to whisper.

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

Trees-Or Mon?

A glance at the taut features of This men ns they strained eyes and cars for the slightest movement was enough to prevent me from being so careless agnin.

Time went on and the tension in- creased. Was 1 getting jumpy, or were those trece, that hillock, those shrubs really trees and shrubs, or men?

the

As it sa often turned out, the whitecind arm was only a branch;

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-

THE German people are intensely bored by the interminable floods of Klan meeting amid an endless forest

She collapsed when propaganda which the Nazis are pouring out. sooner have music or light entertainment.... disrepute.

Second Leave

Butterfield, a stoker, who was 44 years of age, was a naval reservist, called up at the outbreak of war, and he had been home on leave once since he was called up.

"The last time I saw my husband," Mrs. Butterfield said, ""he said he was serving in the Exmouth, but the telegram does not give any indication

of what ship he was serving in. propaganda .produced dolly.

"I am hoping that he has been i

have not yet found this out."

The people would much The wireless has fallen into

Pacifist Is

Opposed To

Field Sport

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.

At last we left the danger zone behind. "Is it always as still as this?" I whispered. Nightmare

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

To Mrs. William Butterfield, of

Although there are terriblo penalties for listening-in to the Labournum-avenue, Crook, County Freedom Radio, the people await its voico aagarly. This radio is Durham, cume the same news after she had sat up all night keeping the proving of real service to the cause of the Allies. fires going to welcome her husband. Great discredit has fallen on the German Press, too.

Two hours after his train should have arrived the telegram arrived-This is shown by the fact that the declared sale of the telling her that he was missing and Voelkischer Beobachter," Hitler's special paper and the presumed dead.

organ of the Government, is only 80,000 a day.

So it is on patrol. Silence. Always For any German paper-without their own tongue against their conscientious objector, told the Cum- to 50 miles with the thermometer Maurice Argyle, a Windermere silence. Nightly the Finns cover up the driving personality of Hitler be-pressors.

the berland tribunai The Sudeten Germans aro

Carlisle that he usually showing at least 40 degrees hind-to reach a sale of 00,000 re-

worst, they say, and the most hated would regard a wounded man lying or gularly is, of course, unthinkable.

bred mien

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

emotional, though sometimes mystle, bers are still gulled by the spate of MP. He is now the real master of son no one should touch.

the Czech State.

Nominal chief von Neurath, the

He also said he would go so far as can keep it up. They need at least

two years training on skis.. Propaganda Boomerang

to forbid all field sports. Official

Week in and week out they are Protector who was formerly picked up, and that the authorities Hitler's violent anti-Bolshevik German Ambassador in London, is "If we had adopted paclismo," he holding up the Russian sicam roller.

propaganda · spread over the years confined to

the Palace Racyn. He His two children, a boy aged nine since 1933 is having a boomerang never leaves Frague, where he continued, "with the force we now in these snowbound forest wilder

adopt to stop the aggressor, the war nesses,

For the Russians the strain must considered to be a

prisoner of the would never have arisen," " and a 16-years-old girl, have been effect..

His trades against Stalls, arch-Nazis he once led.

be almost greater. They live in a told that their father is believed dcad.

enemy of civilisation, are still re- At the Presidency in Prague re-1 He was then registered as an ob-nightmare of fleeting white shadows Telegrams were received by two membered, even by ardent Nazis ports, decrees and requisitions have jector on condition that he remained which may suddenly pump death at Rosyth women saying that their who swallow the fact of the Russo to be signed by President Hocha and in forestry work, which he is now them with machine-guns at point

But both men are studying. husbands, in Exmouth, are missing, German Pact because they believe von Neurath,

that Hitler is playing a deep game, forced to sign every form that is acti believed drowned.

Russlans The

all be before them. the men are Henry James Webb, getting from 33, acting petty officer, and Wallace needs just now while he prepares to Only one Czech organisation is per Vaughan, 33, 1st cl. stoker.

Webb received the Distinguished pons they have themselves provided. Seven Service Medal in the New Year's lat

A German general told me that soldiers attached to it run about in of awards to the Royal Navy. Each when the time came for the Nazis to comic opern uniforms. of the men leaves a family of six turn on Russia, as it inevitably they are known

"Hacha 48 the children.

would, the Germans would be able to Melody Boys"

The rumblings of revolt have pra-| Wives of two ratings living at march on Leningrad with three divi- Weymouth have also been informed sions at 13 miles a day.

duced few tremors yet on the sur- by The Admiralty that their husbandai A majority of the German people, face of the Czech State, but they are are missing.

with memories of the last campaign buried lightly in the bosoms of its in which Germany fought with the people.

BRITISH TANKER BLOWN UP

LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuler)

Sunce back at them later with wea-mitted and

National Movement." unarmed Czech

In Prague

Finns to gain freedom? for them. Aro Every loyal Czech knows the

series of Soviet disasters in Finland. will kill when his people rise at last still tremendously pleased at the name and address of the Germain ho

Nowhero in Europe is sympathy for against their oppressors.

blank range."

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 Ger- many, is to be built up to a figure that no rival can ever hope to approach.

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

NO DIFFERENCE

Naziism And Communism Speak.

As One

Maltese To Join R.A.F.

MALTA, Feb. – 10 .... (Reutor). ---Re- cruiting for the RAF.; has, been

the Allies stronger than in the Czech- Czech patriota told me that the Protectorate and in Austria.

slaughter would have begun already Whispers In Prague [ if there had not been 1,000,000 Undercover whisperers in Prague Czech living in the midst of a Nazi Captain and a fireman lost their lives when the 3,050-lon-Britbli steamer, say that the Protectorato will be in- majority in Sudetenland.

LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter)The arranged for. Maltese nationals under Baron Allsa, sank-after an explosion corporated in the Reich on April 1.

* Britain, It is announced. England has regained the sym-"Washington Post" on Saturday sald: the name conditions as for those in For two months now no foreigner pathy and friendship she lost after "Anti-Communism has proved merely has been allowed to cross the bor- Munich, The Czechs, willing to be cloak without basic meaning or is no longer Communiam but Capital- Incorporated in a new State with substance. Indeed to-day there is Ism which the Nazis regard, as the LONDON, Feb. 18 (Reuter)--The The omcial language of the old Bavarin and Austria, hope that 1940 extremely little to distinguish Nazi real enemy...

and Communist Russia, "Germany and Itusala now, spook costermonger comedian, Gus Elen, has Czech Stato is German, but discon will bring victory to the Allies, and Germany aled, aged 77.

tented Czecha still speak loudly in deliverance, to thein.

which are like two peas in a pod. Itins ona voice in the realm of Ideology."

in the North Sea lost night,

The remaining 34 were saved.

ders,