1940-02-21 — Page 39

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EVERYTHING'S O.K., SLUGGO --

AUNT FRITZI PAID YOUR

FARE AND WIRED YOUR

UNCLE HARRY!

DAT'S FINE--- NOW CAN

WE EAT?

Wednesday,

NOW PLEASE WATCH YOUR MANNERS IN THE DINING ROOM--- THE PEOPLE ON

THIS BOAT IS VERY SWELL!

RESENT DAT!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WELL ---

I BETTER NOT SEE YOU DO ANYTHING WRONG!

February 21, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

DOES DIS SUIT YA?

Jel. 28151.

RACE-WEEK SPECIALS!!

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WESTERN FRONT

PREMIER ON THE ALTMARK EPISODE

(Continued from Page 2.)

Marched Into bits that Norway is being black-

Nazi Lines

Ambushed

mailed by Germany into a position hostile to the Allies."

Was

LEADING OWNERS

The following is the list of owners The "Free Press Journal" says: and their successes to date:

1st 2nd 3rd "The cuse for Norway lost all 113

Cire strength when Norwegian officers re- ported timt there were no prisoners Lucky

L. Dunbar How Fronch Patrol Was aboard thic Altmark. .It.

Churchill who had to decide. He left an the law to Inwyers and ordered his ye sallors to board the Altmark. This Mrs. J, H. Taggart

Ellander PARIS, Feb. 20 (Reuter). Further they did-and with spectacular sue-J.

J. P. Macgregor details of the ambush in which 20 cess. French soldiers were killed on Mon-

The Nationalist Press of New Delhi Quartermaster day shows that it occurred when two forries, packed with troops to relieve some from being carried to 11. Leigh

regards Norway's inability to pro- others in the Front Line, drove by Get

Germany through her territorial S. M. K. mistake across No-man's-land into waters as the real justification for Airs. A. E. Gruselt

the German line.

Diamond

that road raked the lorries with / ****

The Germɔn outposts commanding the British vintion of her Cole Bros.

grenades at them.

Great Thaw Sets In

Thus the newspaper, "National Writer:

Nurwegian "Th

lores

Yick Chim machine-gur fire and threw hand-raud of its point owing to the S..

protest

Fan which the Norwegian frun Government allowed the Altmark to use is waters without a careful in-. Treverton vestigation.” j All these papers quoted are Na Neerlandia

tionalist papers.

The great thaw has now set in at the Front reducing everything to mud and water; hence oparitions are few and the sectors are generally calm with the exception of the Rhine retor sere sporadie exchange of fire has taken place between base

mates.

Two German raids in other sectors which were made without trench mortar or arutlery preparation were repulsed with ease.

G.

Gretka

Li Po-chun Unicorn American Press Reactions

Marber LONDON, Feb. 20 (Reuter), -The Mrs. Stanton following comments on the Altmark C. W. K. incident have been made by Ameri-Li Shiu-hang

can papers:

Tan Man-wa "World Telegram": "Friday's coups. W. Lee

on moral if not on tech-Dr. S. N. Chau was justified nical It is announced in French Naval certainly no merchantman. It was T. K. .. The Altmark was 3. 1. K. circles that British and French naval Wessels wero attacked yesterday naval auxiliary and a prison ship. 11. Jessen afternoon by neveral submarines but for the Graf Spee." It is not possible to say with what! -result.

"Pravda

Attacks The Nazis

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH'

MOSCOW, Feb. 20 (Do- mei). For the first time since the signing of the

John. Peet "New York Sun: "The raid was Kia Ora daringly conceived and brilliantly Y. H carried out. The Norwegian officials) Cogna aeccpted the word of the Germans. T. Williamson

Germany Commander.

violated Mrs. Dunber

Norwegian neutrality."

"Boston Herald": "The of Americans is probably with that of the British ment."

Lady Northcotis attitude M. Eu Tong-sen identient vinja Govern-Eu Tong-sen

J. G. Whittaker

Herald Tribune": "The most & E.

important Russian product for Ger-L. W. S.

to be many, Soviet oil, appears largely problematical not only be-; ese of the Inck of transportation

but also because the Soviet petro- leum industry has not kept up with the domestic consumption."

Turkish Comment

Russo-German Pact, sharp The following comments are made

by Turkish papers:

"Huriyet": "The

paper

LEADING JOCKEYS

Gram

1st 2nd 3rd

Un.

4

4

3

WILL POETRY SURVIVE THE WAR?

(Continued froin. Page 6.)

them which Interpret nearly all our inpes and fears. Soldier Ports

In 1914 something like the same response was maile to the German challenge by a poet of the

older school when, on August 8, William Watson published his sonnet "To the Troubler of the World," and in the months that followed wrote n series of poems on contemporary events, among them the resounding lines in which he acknowledged the offer of help made by the Indian Princes to the King-Emperor,

Look The Telegraph

50 YEARS AGO

Feb. 20, 1890. We are informed that the Committee appointed to arrange for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught have submitted the proposed programme by telegraph. One of the functions planned is the laying of a Praya Re clamation foundation "stone.

25 YEARS AGO ·

Feb. 20, 1916. The following wili represent the Hongkong Cricket Club versus the Civil Servnals on the Club ground on: Saturday February 2-play will com- mence et 2 pan.:-Mears. It. Hancock (Captain), R N. Anderson, D. E. Den- nelly, A. Grace, It. Kennedy, M. M. nailon-in-ins was enter, 11. H. Tayler and A. N. Mans, E. J. R. Milchell, 8, 8. Moore, T.

Uther.

But though Watson's poetry will And on echo in British hearts to- day, as Wordsworth's dors. It was poetry which seenwed to mark the end

traditiou, and the Iperience of

new ex-

! voleed not by Walson but the numerous solidler-poets who arose. Brooke end Grenfell, Sorley and Owen fell in conflict, but others

the like Nichols and Susan survived it. The note at first was Jubilant and romantle, but as the war dragged

on. It changed

changed to one of cynicism

and irony, and it is this note which has been uppermost in the poetry of recent years.

are

10 YEARS AGO

Feb. 20, 1930, Whatever the politient leanings of the majority of Hongkong's business men may be, we do not imagine that vory many of then are likely to enthano-DYET Lord Beaverbrooks' idea of bringing the Muther Country and the Crown Colunies together as one unit under, a Bacul But the ring and the disillusion system which he prefers to describe as which inform much modern verse | Empire Free Trade.

to some extent, a fashion, and they have not prevented poetry of a different kind from being written. Some of the finest poetry of Mase- Beld, of de la Mare, and of Davies belongs to the post-war years. Our poetry survived the last war will survive this one, if its survival is merely a question of finding ma- Lerial to inspire it.

The Inuovators

d

But there remains the other ques- tion-whether, in the modern world,

.

5 YEARS AGO

Feb. 20, 1935.

and The expectation that Chinese Japanese chishes would now be per- Hinnently terminated, vxpressed by General Doikara, the Japanese soldier who has had a bellilant career in Man- churia, and who recently aired bis views an the subject of Sine-Japanese re- Intions In Songhat, has favourably in- pressed the United States.

poetry is demode, whether human SPORT

nature

to

has so changed that it do longer responds

the

stimulus which poetry provides, whether it is unmoved by rhythmical utterance, undelighted by the jingling sound of ke endings," unexalted by the rap- ture of the poet's vision.

Rhyme is, of

course, no essential part of poetry, and there has been a tendency in recent times to aban-

ADVTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1940 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 24th February

on rhythm, which is at least an intrinele part of verse and is per- haps essential to poetry is indeed, Tuesday, 20th, and Wednesday, 21s

as our

On Saturday, 17th, Monday, 19th,

-lisation

15 the attempt to depart from rhythm February, the first bell will be rung 12 has already practically

exhausted at 11.30 am.. and the first race will

16 itself. Besides being naturally allied be run at 12.00 NOON. On Saturday,

to emollan, it is rhythm which helps 24th February, the first bell will be

12 to render utterance memorable. And rung at 1.30 pan. and the first race 12 we shall need memorable utterance will be run at 2.00 pan.

14 in these eple

days.

8 Modern warfare may not, as it 12 once did, "shine with the sudden

7 making of splendid names," but the

8 struggle itself in titanic-

3

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14

criticism of Germany hasUlus: "The British action in The following is the list of Jockeys appeared in "Pravda," freeing prisoners wandering months and their successes to date:

under oppressive conditions is not official organ of the Soviet only legally right but humane 1. B. Moller Communist Party.

duty."

P. Y. T. Wel fact at the D. Black "Pravda" to-day. bitterly as- Anznes travelled 10,000 miles with H. C. Ph sails the German-newspaper out loss proves the complete-noval H. J. A. Hearne "Nacht Ausgabe" for its reports supremacy of Britain."

V. V. Needn The that Soviet Russia entertains

Danish

"National paper,

L. B. Chao hy C. Encarnacao territorial ambitions on Norway procritical if we here in Denmark S.

Tidende," says: "It would be

S. C. Liang "The editor of this newspaper pretended that we cannot sympathise #

G. totally ignores the recent im- with the British Navy's motives in F. Marshall provement in German-Soviet taking action."

B. Α. Proulx "Telegrant," The Dutch

W. 11. S. Davis relations," says "Pravda."

says: "Norway herself was to blames. W. Pan Norway's is B. L. Tao In the first instance. the heaviest responsibility,

Slack-

Ip Kut-ying ness only increases the dangers fortune Mon-wa neutrals

H. M. Bolell The Swiss paper, "Derbund," says He Hung-pong "Germany recently boasted that she H, J. Cowle dominated the North Sea. The Bri-5. Judah tish Navy has taken action and given G. Treverton an answer that will ring throughout K. W. Fung

Yeung Wing-kwal the world,"

"He Was Lucky

C. L. Gregory LONDON, Feb. 20 (Reuter)-Com-S. W. Tang menting on the German wireless ad-R. M. Wood mission that the captain of the Alt-Ho Hong-ping mark tried to ram the destroyer C. F. Chlu Cossack, an authoritative statement L H. Howell recalls

of Captain Hoo Pak-ming the execution Fryalt during the last war by the S. L.. Yuen charge of having W. G. Poy

I.R.A. POLICY ATTACKED

DUBLIN, Feb. 20 (Reuter). The Lender of the Opposition in the Dail, Mr. Cosgrave, attacked the activities of the 1.RA. In a speech to his party. The IRA, policy, he said, would only bring dishonour to Ireland and make the solution of the partition problem more difficult.

At no time had it less claim than at present to the support of the Irish people, he said.

Inspects Aussie Forces

Germans an

rammed a German submarine.

The statement adds that, by Ger- man canons, the captain of the Alt- mark was lucky to have escaped a

"Brutal Attack"

JERUSALEM, Feb. 20 (Reuter).-similar fate.. Lieut. General Sir Archibald Wavell, British C.-in-C. in the Middle East,

to inspect the Australian troops.

months.

Polish Air Force.

Death of Mayor Of Tokyo

Churchill Cheered

A Rome and Carthage war once

more

And wider empires are the prize.

I shall be astonished if our civilisa- tion has yet sunk so low as not to 10 demand its poets, for it is poetry

which gives lite significance.

C. G.

Russia Buys War Needs From America

Striking Figures

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Badges admitting to. Members' En- closure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course.

The Secretary's Omee, 1st floor, EXCHANGE BUILDING, (Tel. 27784) New York, Feb. 20 (Reuter). WILL CLOSE AT 10.00 am. ON THE -The disclosure, that strategic FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 12.00 LONDON, Feb. 20 (Reuter)materials and machinery essen- NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.

A limited number of tiffins will bu When Mr. Winston Churchill look his tial for war industries constitut-obtainable each day at the Club

waters.

Day.

the

BERLIN, Feb. 20. (Reuter).—"Mr. Beat in the House of Commons to-day led almost 90 per cent, of Russian | House, provided they are ordered in purchases from the United advance from the No. 1 Boy, (Tel. has arrived in Palestine from Egypt Chamberlain's statement in the House he was greeted with cheers.

States since the outbreak of the 21020).

no pretext will children per- British us in Palestine for several purpose of the brutal attack on the man abuses of Norwegian territorial war in Europe was made by thee in other viclosure cube the

He will be in command of the of Commons proves that the main Allmark was a political one," says

Department of Commerce, ac- frst four days of the Meeting. No the offelul German news agency. It is felt that the Altmark incident cording to "Dow Jones" amans will be allowed on the Fifth Polish Airman Reviewed

"Atler committing 1 wanton

has thrown a searchlight upon the

Washington telegram. LONDON, Feb. 20 (Reuter)-At violation of Norway's neutrality,

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE Special analysis shows that exports an R.A.F. slation to-day Pollsh airmen Britain is striving to manoeuvre the German use of these waters.

It is declared that so long as these

The price of admission to were inspected by the C.-In-C. of the country away from, her policy of waters are used as artificial protec- to Russia for the five months ending

neutrality

constituted war including tax for all persons includ "Mr. Chamberlain's repilmand oftion for the evasion of Allied control January 31 totalled $38,000,000 of Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day ing ladies, and is payable at the Gate. the Norwegian Navy proves beyond or for acts of piracy, then the British which $33,000,000

and French navies will take whatever essentials.

Soidlers and Sailors in uniform are doubt that England in now openly

to defend Virtually all January's exports to dermunding assistance from neutrals ensures are necessary

their interests which are being in-Russia were copper and metal-work-admitted to the Publid Enclosure at since she realises that without this jured by the passivity of the Nor- ing machinery valued at $11,313,000 $1.00 per day including tax. ald, she is bound to lose the war."

compared with exports of January wegian authorities, Holland Approves

last year totalling $1,757,000. Skippor's Broadcast TOKYO, Feb. 20 (Reuter).-The

Altmark denth has occurred of the Mayor of AMSTERDAM, Feb. 20 (Reuter) —

British Warships Meeting Tokyo,

Mr. Neville Chamberlain's speech in BERLIN, Feb. 20 (Reuter)-Cap-

Itain Dau

of the Altmark, speaking on Minister of Communications in the the House of Commons on the

the German offelni wireless, said that Hirota Cabinet of 1936-7, he was for Altmatic incident le approved in the the Allmark at present in resting with Off Finland many years a leading member of the main by Dutch political circles. Minseito Party.

The reasons for the action taken by her stern on the shore. Her rudder is broken and one propeller damaged. the British warship

are fully

"We shall try to free the ship and preciated, though what is held to be then consider what to do," he said, violation of Norway's rights cannot, Describing the boarding of the it fa felt, be condoned,

sald, Allmark, Captain Dau The inaction" of Norway, how manoeuvred the Altmark in such a ever is considered to be a dangerous way that she had to run on the racks attitude for any country Intent in order to make It Impossible for pursuing a course of strict neutrality, the Engilsh to catch her and go away

Statement Welcomed

with her."

Ho admitted that there were a few PARIS, Feb. 20 (Reuler),—Well- informed circles here welcome Mr. pistols aboard but asserted that they Chamberlain's references to the Ger- 'were never used.

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Anti-Communist Measure

DRUSSELS; Feb. 20 (Router) The Belgian Government yesterday Introduced an anti-Communist Bill to deal with Communist propaganda which 18 financed from outside Belgium.

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Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc., will not be permilled to operato within the precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Race

Timns will be obtainable in the |Restaurant in the Publie Enclosure.

SERVANTS' PABSES Passes for Servants will be issued tax to a Rome despatch, the Italian to Private Box holders ONLY on

PARIS, Feb, 20 (Reuter), -—Accord- Press reports the presence of British application to the Secretary, 1st floor, cruisers near Pelaamo, near which Exchange Building. German ships enter the long passage of Norwegian waters.

It is stated that Germany has forced the Allies to consider these waters in a special light.

The "Avventre,” commenting upon the report, asks: "What are the In- tentions of the Brilah Admiraliy?”

Any persons found loltering with Servants' passes in their possession will forfelt the same and will be removed from the Enclorure.

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•Secretary,

C. B. BROWN,

· Hongkong," 11th February, 1940.

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