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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 23, 1940.

Air Secrets Of Three Nations

WAR BRINGS FILLIP TO

DESIGNS OF

AIRCRAFT

BANK NOTICES

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED. Bead Cute:-15, Gracechurch Street, Landon, K.C.3.

£3,000,000 Capital

1,800,000 1,050,000 1,252,770

THE GREAT WAR of 1914-18 is said to have advanced the design of Authorised Capa aircraft by at least half-a-contury.

Below are three reports, from three countries, of what is happening as a result of the current European War.

BRITAIN'S AMERICA'S GOERING'S

SECRET

The Lion Has Teeth

As Well As Wings

SECRET

SECRET

Super Plane Twice He Doesn't Want To

Size Of 1938 Type

22

Be Left Out

So le chance in fact do the

Paid-up Capit Reserve Fund and Rest

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Jawrah Ipots

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R A CAMIDGE.

JAILED and cialme recovery of British Income

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, March 21 (UP), WASHINGTON, March

BERLIN, Mar. 21 (UP).~~~ The Under Secretary for Air, (UP) The Army Department Germany is building a largo pro- DEPORTED, Captain Balfour in a speech to-announces that the Douglas Air-portion of her famous Messer- day for the first time officially craft Corporation is building for schmidt purauit planes at a disclosed that British planes are it a 70-ton four-engined, super vast factory in the south-eastern using cannon with which they bombing plane capable of flying corner of the Reich which is re- have already brought down many to Europe with 28 bombs and to garded as being very safe from enemy planes.

return non-stop.

air attack, The plane will be completed Germana belleve that enemy raiders and delivered this year.

would have in getting through with a cargo of bombs that, apart from a few machine-guns, the factory is not

EXPELLED to Eire, Victor Barr. ared 23, went to Belfast, joined the equipped at all against air attack, a new, and so far still secret, machine

Army, and returned to England as In addition to the Messerschmidts a soldier an (cave. whereof nothing has yet been reveal-prison for, one month for breaking

At Birmingham he was sent fed is also being built there.

Wiener Neustadt, thirty miles south of Secretary was satisfied that Barr was murder of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, was

the expulsion order, The factory is at a town called

In making the order the Home Udham Singh, Vienna and only ten miles from the dangerous owing to his political further Hungarian frontier.

views, the prosecution stated.

remanded at Bow Street Police Court to enter England.

His uniform made It ensier for him nesses had described the shooting.

to-day after eyewil-

hots which killed Sir Michael were The prosecution alleged that the fired within a distance of nine inches. --Reuter.

"It has been stated that German planes have the advantage over us since they are armed with cannon while we have only machine guns. It will be the largest plane in "I can tell you that our Achters are the world, more than double the already equipped wills & cannon kun size of the flying fortresses and which has contributed to the destruc-it is being built under the tion of some enemy machlues," he declared.

greatest secrecy.

He emphasised that it is impossible | lo prevent enemy alr raids from striking swiftly but Britain was cap-| able of swift retribution.

"The Syll raid shows that the Lion: has teeth as well as wings," he said.

ATTACK ON CONVOY

FROM PAGE ONE

referred to as having falled to return by the German High Command.

Sarcastic British Comment SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Mar. 21 (UP). The Admiralty to-day sarcastically com- mented: "The German claims to

THIS WEEK having sunk 42,000 tons of convoyed

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•

EARLY APRIL

ships is

factual fac000 tons in excess of

The announcement said that three

The Army Department sakt the plans for it were stolen once last year but the Federal Bureau of Investigation quickly recovered them. The plane will cost a million dollars. It will have a wing spread of 210 feet and a cruising radius of 6,000 miles non-stop.

Its four engines, will deliver 6,000 H.P. and its speed is understood to be "considerably in excess of 200 miles per hour."

A crew of ten will have heated enbins and sleeping quarters.

German Internees

neutral ships were damaged in a La Salle College Inmates convoy on Wednesday night off the May Be Sent Elsewhere north coast.

They included the Norwegian vessel Erlingindoe, which |

That a proposal had been made to

to

This "United Press" correspondent newspapermen ever permitted was one of the first party of foreign visit this or any other Messerschmidt cently one of the most Jealously factory to see the planes-unill re- guarded milltary secrets-actually in production.

Mystery Nazi Plano SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

LONDON, Mar. 21 (UP)-German planes were sighted off the south const of

England last night. One German bomber acted very mysteriously. She dropped white

to

his services.

The Army did not wish to retain

Dotested J.R.A.

Mr. J. Silkerman, defending, sald Barr assured him he did not know when the expulsion order was made.

Manager.

O'DWYER MURDER CASE.

London, Mar, 21.

necused

of the

THE NEW FRENCH REMZDY. He was never associated with the THERAPION NO:) RA, and detested their views and

THERAPION NⱭ2 outrages.

Barr came to Birmingham to spend THERAPIONNS

his leave with a brother In the B.E.F. He thought that, since he had taken

and orange coloured flares at dif- the oath on joining the Army, the ex ferent intervals. Also she fired rod, pulslon, order, was washed, cut green and grey lights repentedly and switched off her

Lights.

own navigation

The mysterious aircraft attracted

the attention of watchers along miles

it shore.

has since arrived safely in harbour. send the German internees in the La MORE NAZI VICTIMS

It also denied that the convoy was alle College camp elsewhere, was dispersed but asserted that it is pro- disclosed by the Hon. Mr. N. I ceeding on its way with none of the Smith, Colonial Secretary, yesterday escort ships damaged and no ships when approached to confirm o Gunk. One German raider was des-Tumour that the inmates of the cump troyed and others were hit by naval were being sent to Australia on Tues aircraft. The FORTNIGHTLY

Danish

The Colonial Secretary stated that ships Borthal (3,000 tons) and Viking (1,500 tons) were there was definitely no truth in the FORTNIGHTLY sunk by U-boat torpedoes of the east rumour, that the internees, together coast of Scotland, but they were not with their wives, were being sent to In a convoy, the announcement said. Australia on Tuesday, but be said The steamer Barnhill (5,439 tons) that a proposat had been made that which was bombed and set aflre, is they be sent away. However, no de- now safe with some casualties aboard.cision, has yet been reached by Gov-

The Barnhlil is skippered by crament. "Potato Jones" the captain famed for running the Bilbao blockade.

Another Neutral Attacked SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" It is notified for general informa- -LONDON.-Mar-22---(UP).-The-tion-that-Government Medical Head- crew of the Norwegian steamer Torra quarters will be closed for ordinary Elise (721 tons) returned to a north business during transfer to the Na Scottish por to-day and reported tlonal City Bank Building on March that three Norwegian members of 28, and only enquiries and corres- crew were killed and Captain pondence of an extremely urgent Svmman

will be dealt with on the Wednesday nature when ten German planes attacked 29th. their convoy.

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FROM PAGE ONE

was the Christiansborg of about

2,000 tons.

Charlow, 1.200 tons; Algier, 1,600 The other Danish vessels are the tons; and Bothal, 2,100 tons. tons: Mansk, 1,200 tons; Viking, 385

of

1,207 tons, was damaged in an air

The Norwegian ship. Svinta,. attack on convoy and was later tor- pedoed when the convoy had left.

All the ships, with the exception of the Charkow, were torpedoed without warning by U-boats. Their crews were left to their fate.

Some 40 Danish seamen lost their lives.

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