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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

ALSACE

IN THE

WAR

February 23, 1940.

Censorship SHORTAGE

Infuriates

U.S. Criticism Of

British Methods

to Bermuda,

OF COAL Situation In Shanghai

Becomes Scrious

Shanghal, Feb. 22.

record figure of $350 a ton reached

malla price is $220 a ton, compared with

By RICHARD CAPELL, "Sunday Times" War Correspondent with the French Army Between Belfort, the fortress

Owing mainly to the diverting of supplies to Japan, Shanghai is to-day that guards the famous gap be- (Reuter). Several

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 Incing the most acute shortage of tween the Vosges and the Jura. made statements to-day criticis- are rapidly soaring to threaten tho Senatora coal in Ita history, and coal prices and Mulhouse, in Alsace, there ing Britain's "insistence" on during the Great War. The presen are still to be seen relics of the censoring United States last war-battered pill boxes and the like.

$10 in the summer of 1937, Just 1870 Belfort gloriously with-

before the outbreak of the Sino- atood the German assault, but to United States planes should

Senator Truman proposed that Japanese hostilities. travel over this ground is to realise visiting Bermuda and that Bellishmendous increases in prices are sald cease Causes responsible for the tre- even more vividly than the maps tell planes be barred from landing-in you how uncomfortably close the the United States. frontiers of the pence of 1871 brought) the Germans to this gateway to the]

Senator Clark, of Missouri, declared Interior of France when in 1914 it that the latest disclosures of censor had again to be defended. The "Bership "only strengthen my view that fort Gap" in, geographically speaking, we should prohibit our planes from what it always was, but, militarlly landing at Bermuda."

ng, how comfortable is the

In

established by the pence!

"High-Handed Procedure”

that Britain had

to include:

1. Diverting to Japan, because of the shortage there, of Shantung and Keelung used to meet about 20 per cent. of (Formosa) coal, which Shanghai's needs;

value

of the

require-

Chinese

2. Mounting freight charges as the number of bottoms available for shipments of coal to Shanghai de- of 10191

|ercase;

3. Shortage of cool in Belfort, the much tried and the

Senator Filtman;: Choinnon of the whose production has been diverted India, much besieged, can survey the new Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to Europe to supply the war with a lordly sense of security.

declared

made ments of the Allies The instions of the mountains to left excessive and very foolish use" of 4. Phonomenal declines In the and right serve the fortress as they her right as a belligerent to censor exchange have niways done; but the eastern Am

American math. He said that there Dollar-Reuter.

1 line of defence is now flung far for was no doubt that Britain had the ward. It is the Rhine, and the Rhine fight to examine for contraband all to-day is a barrier against the inva-nail aboard the Clipper. der such as it has never been from

Senator

Clark, attacking the dawn of time.

high-handed

procedure." secured the unanimous consent of the Senate for Insertion, In the records, of the

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 22 (Reuter).— alleged In the South-West Africa elections. newspaper account of the Bermuda incident.

Meanwhile, according to a Dermurin Hertzog and is supported by Germans despatch, British officials there des- in South-West Africa, Is being badly cribe as utter nonsense the repart defeated. that armed marines boarded Clipper in order to enforce the moval of mail for censorship.

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There is still one outstanding re- sult

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NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (UP). It is 74,500 REFUGEES 2,000 pounds of Clipper mail Bermuda on January 18.

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Nothing more different from 1014 is conceivable, and it would falsity the picture not to mention that one

fairly often

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eard sign for the opportunity of winning glory and re- hown. It le a dull war; by compari- The Pan American Air Lines have: son the front In Lorraine and in the turned over the whole question of Northern Vosges, is adventurous. But British censorship of United States' this war, which for the rank and file mails to the State Department. consists so largely of sheer navvying, Newspapers feature nensational has revealed in the French soldier aversions of the incident. One report

after a heated argument.

of

LONDON, Feb. 22 (Reuter)-It is officially estimated that 74,500 re- fugees from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland are now in the United Kingdom, stated Mr.

He added that it is unomcially estimated that there are about 42,000 auch refugees in France, 20,000 in Belgium and 23,000 in the Nether-

prodigious capacity for dogged work. states that the Captain of the Clipper, R. A. Butler Under Secretary for What he has here accomplished in Capt., Charles A. Lorber, refused to Foreign Affairs, in a written reply these uneventful and tedious months permit examination of the mall and to a question put forward in the amount roughly to this-while

Hic a ordered the censors off the Clipper House of Commons. German invasion of Alsace in Sep- tember would have been hazarduus. The latter algnalled a party it would now appear to be hazardous Marines in a nearby launch who, to a higher degree of Improbability, with bayonets affixed to their rifles, Not that the smallest measure of pro- boarded the Clinoer. Captain Lorber bability is ruled out by the French then submitted to the seizure and de- Command.

manded receipt. He then wrote a This was Interestingly demon-formal protest to the British Consul. strated to the visitor is an excursion

to the friendly frontier of Switzer-

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The annual presentation of prizes Bear Swiss territory. There were officially stated that there is no be held on Saturday, March 9, at LONDON, Feb. 22 (UP). It is at the Kowloon Cricket Club will Indications In November that the Germans were not indisposed to con- Marines, at bayonet point, seized

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The

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are engaged in rendering any such BERMUDA. Feb. 22 (UP)... excursion less and less attractive as Spealing with governmental autli- each month-goes-by-

Becoming Mora French

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Japan's Mammoth Budget

The

ority, the Chief-Censor, Lieutenant -TOKYO, Feb, 22 (Reuter). The Colonel R. Swire, said that news-Lower House at a plenary session paper versions of the Clipper incld-to-day unanimously passed bills for There is in Alsace an interesting ent were "utter nonsense,"

the budget approximating Yen 10,- side aspect of the war. It raises the

"The request to hand over the mall 300,000,000 for the coming financial question-will not Alsace in the fu- was made to the Captain of the year which dates from April 1. ture be more French than ever be- Clipper by an unarmed officer ushore bills were passed without amend- fore? In peacetime one always had at the air base and there were no ment. a feeling there of a little country of med men in the vicinity. Independent character. But to-

"Captain Lorber made a formal to-day a broad strip of Alsace along the river protest, as he was duty-bound to do, has been evacuated. The inhabitanis but thereafter he put no obstacle in have taken refuge in the Interior of the way of the censorship officials France. The younger people at least who waited while the protest was must be losing their accent and be put into writing before boarding the coming more "Frenchided," while the plane." immense number of French troops

He added that the relations be- quartered in the non-evacuated towns officials of the Pan Air Lines has tween the censorship officials and the and villages of the country must also, always been "most harmonicus." as time goes on, make for Franco- Alsatian unification.

ara

Britain Replios

The budget now goes to the House of Peers where the examination of the various bills will command the attention of the nation, which so for had been concentrated on the budget interpretation in the Lower House. 100 Britons Interned

In Germany

ABOUT 100 Brilish subjects and 100 French citizens are interned in i Germany, authorized German sources declare.

subjects continue to live in German Several thousand ather enemy

The local newspapers published In German, and in such a town as Colmar one has the feeling-Britain has replied to American WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (Reuter), of being in Switzerland. But the representations on the censorship of territory as before the war, reporting people have welcomed the troops U.S. malls, stating that it is unable wholeheartedly; while the Alsatians to limit the rights to prevent cur- contribution to the ranks of the rency, etc., from reaching Germany, French Army is very appreciable. whatever its source.

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