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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NOTTINGHAM GAS-BAGS

A private car and a bus, both using coal gas stored in balloons as a substitute-for petrol, passing in a Notting- ham street.

March 26, 1940.

Entire Coastline Is Now Guarded

BALLOON GUARD FOR COAST OF ENGLAND

Ducts HOUSEMASTER" Secret Of The Day Before

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at 9 p.m.

War

Is Revealed

A "BALLOON NAVY,” seagoing adaptation of the curious "balloon barrage" which dots the skies over London, has been extended to virtually the British coastline.

entire

The balloon barrage is designed to keep attacking planes high enough to reduce their bombing efficiency.

Mobile marine balloons, trail- ing entangling cables, are being jextended to protect strategic

coastal points.

Exchange At A Glance

SELLING

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da

T.T. Shanghai T.T. Singapore TT TT. Japan T.T. India TT, U.S.A. TT. Manila T.T. TT. Bangkok T/T. Saigon

Batavia

TT. France TT. Switzerland T.T. Australia

BUYING

4 m/s L/C London

4 m/ D/F do.

4 m/s L/C USA. 4 m/n France. 30 d/s India

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231

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.8342

U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02% U.S. Cross rate in N.Y...3.00%

WESTERN FRONT

These balloons are attached by INTENSE PATROL

cables to harges and other chips which- fell into two classes: one designed to ile at anchor in key positions, and the other, larger and more seaworthy, able to proceed quickly to any post

tton.

Barbed Wire Fence Meanwhile on the Western Front a barbed wire fence seven feet high was being erected along the German- Netherlands border to-day by Ger- man soldiers.

ACTIVITY

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, Mur. 25 (UP),--Reports from the Western Front state that

there has been intense patrol activity, particularly west of the Saar Niver where the Germans were repulsed after a flerce night battle.

French troops surrounded a section of Germans east of the Afocelic River, and took some prisoners.

The 408th. conununique atutest

They said the barrier was designed to stop "undesirables" from crossing There has been localised artillery the frontler and to prevent smuggling action on various parts of the front presumably of money from Ger- and Infantry fire along the Rhine, many into the Netherlands.

together with aerial activity on both Barbed wire was strung along the sides.

All Quict southern part of the Limberg Provin- the Germans apparently are intending in border early in the war, but now to close the entire frontier,

Customs gates are situated at in passage is permitted at these points. As a further means of control,

NEWSPAPERS are now permitted after six months to reveal that on September 2, the day before the outbreak of war, a former Ger- man bombing pilot, who for several years had been one of the chieftervals along the barrier, and legal scientists employed in a famous British airplane factory, was taken from virtually all train tranle between the IN AID OF THE BRITISH WAR his London home on the instructions of Scotland-Yard and is now in an two countries is being routed through

internment camp.

Admission $3, $2.20 & $1.10

ORGANIZATION FUND

Booking at

ANDERSON'S, Hongkong

.05 n.

He is Dr. Gustav Victor Lachmann, generally considered to be one of the greatest aeronautical engineers in the world.

He was consulting engineer to the Handley Page Company, at their laboratory at Edgware, and as such had been engaged on building secret bombers for the British Government.

In 1934 he was responsible for dapan, while travelling on behalf of a bomber which for a consider-the Handley Page Company, he met an English widow whom he married. able. time was on the secret list

"He Worked Well" of the R.A.F. The machine em- bodied many new ideas, and only

At first they lived in a villa in

Wing On Textilies. Sh. $....48% n. the most trusted of men were Mill Hill, Middlesex, but later rented

and

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.170 n.

Zoong Sint. Sh. Ş.

n. 19.80 n. 5.60 3.

MISC.

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.7.40 n.

.1% n.

In large deinched house in Cononз- allowed to go near it.

drive, Edgware. Until the outbreak After extensive tests the planejot war they Ilved quietly, mixing ...was adopted by the R.A.F., and Dr. little in local society. ....8 n.Lachmann received the congratulo- tions of high officials of the Air .51% n. Ministry for his brilliant work.

.101 n. He went to England about ten

06-years-ago-at-the-invitation-of -Mr.- 14/6 n.Hondley Page, who had read a lecture .4/- D. Dr. Lachmann had given in Germany on the advantages which the "slotted wing" gave to an altplace.

**

ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles)

At that ime, Mr. Handley Puge was himself working on a design for

Although locally he was regard- ed as something of a mystery man, in British aviation circles he was recognised as a man of exceptional -brilliance,-always-ready....io. assist others interested in his work. At the Handley Page works he was extremely popular with executives of the firm and the workpeople.

On September 2, in the afternoon, a stotted wing. After reading Dr.Two Scotland-yard omcers rang the a police car stopped outside his house. Lachmann's lecture he asked him to front-door bell. The doctor had just co-operate in developing the device, anished his lunch. A few minutes and Dr. Lochmann consented.

later he accompanied the detectives! Airplane production in Germany In the car, waving goodbye to his

Treaty of Versailles, but in England Dr. Lachmann was able to develop his ideas in conjunction with Mr.

device has since become almost a

8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Re was then seriously hampered by the wife. port and Announcements.

His house is now deserted. The windows art closed. Carpets and

The lawn furniture have gone.

A Relay From London Of "Cards on the Table" Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 k.e's, and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and cond. by Vaclav Talich; Songs My Handley Page, and their slotted win8uncut, the flower beds untended. 0-11 p.m. on 9.62 m.c's. per second Kirsten Taunus Me, Og

8.03 Compositions of Dvorak. Slavonic Dance No. 18 In A Flat Major, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Mother Taught

Fingstad irsten

(Soprano) with

standard fitting.

During the war he served as an

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Mrs. Lachmana and her three daugh- ters have left the district and are

12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-Plano; Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.. Dr. Lachmann is a man of about Ilving in the country. cession.

61, Lener String Quartet.

forty-five years of age, tall, and of 19.30 Musical Comedy Selections. 8.45 A Light Orchestral Concert striking appearance. On the side of

Mr. Handley Page, discussing the 12.47 Gershwin-Rhapsody in Blac, with Richard Tauber (Tenor)-Bal one cheek is a scar, a relic of univer-case with a reporter at Home, -Boston

Orchestra conducted by Masque, Light Symphony Orchestra; sity days in Germany, when he fought said: "There was no more loyat man Arthur Fielder with J. M. Sanroma Indian Love Call, Richard Tauber in a duel.

to this country than Dr. Lachmann. at the Plano,

That is my view. 1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather chestra: Mon Heve, Light Symphony officer in a dragoon regiment of the

(Tenor) with Grand Symphony Or

"Ind it not been for the war, he Report.

I Love German Army. Later he transferred would by this time have been a Bri- A Harry Boy and His Orchestra Richard

Tauber (Tele

with Grand

to the air service and qualified as a tish subject. He was doing a very Orchestra: Babylonian

good job of work for England. 1.18 Halo da Costa at the Piano. Nights, In The Sudan, Alfred Van night bombing pilot.

State Orch.;

Tauber (Tenor) with Orch;

in Dance Music.

ther Forecast and Announcements.

Orchestra; O Rose

Symphony

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea-Dam and His Got Calling, on London, most of his bombing be- 1.45 Variety with Clapham and Riche A

Dwyer, Binnis Hale, Ronald Parade of the Imps, George Grohrock- Margatroyd, and Others--Music for Ferrari and His Orchestra. Romance, Mine Alone, Binnie Hale 0.15 London Relay-News Sup-

with Organ Accomp; I Want To Be.

9.30 London Relay-"Cards on the

9.45

Bizet The Fair Maid of Perth-

Snappy-Mcdiey, Sidney

Candi

Dwyer on

Dary.

Photography,

Table

and Dwyer; Love, Forever

He did not take part in any rald

ing over France.

After

the

-

"I know that now even to men-

tion that a man is a German is to create.nusplelon regarding him and his work, but I can say this. Dr. Lachmann was far from being a Nazi."

the War he took Degree of Doctor of Engineering, specialising in Aeronautics. Mien he had a bad crash in a plane he was testing. It was that crash which gave him the idea of the by the Special Advisory Committee

Blolled wing. con-

I Adore You, In Your Arms To-night, Sulle, Sir Thomas Beecham Ronald Murgatroyd (Tenor) with ducting the London Philharmonic Violin and Plano; Lulu's Back In Orchestra.

Town, In A Little Gipsy Tea Room, 10.02 D.B.U. Eccording—"Tot; Old George Scott-Wood with Instrumental Snell." accomp.

2.15 Close down.

6.0 An hour of Dance Music.

7.0 Closing local Stock Quotations. 7.02 Studio-A talk on The West Country illustrated by muslo of the Countles

7.80 London Relay-The News.

Sketch.

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10.15 Belections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondollers,"

10.40 Mozart-Symphony In D Major {"Paris"}, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orch. 11.0 Closo downl

"Service That You Can Depend Upon"

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SERVICE

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DIAL 31443 32 Des Voeux Rd. C.

When Dr. Lachmann arrived England ho was unmarried.

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Ills case has since been dealt with

on Allens set up to assist Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary, and in will now be further considered by In him.

200 Basque Children Hand

་

In Their Gasmasks As They Embark For Spain

children oft. Victoria Station in France.

one point-Bentheim, Germany.

THEY FIND THIS WARM!

TWO HUNDRED bachelors landed in England recently--and they took off their overcoats because they felt too warm.

The hardy Inds were Newfoundland fishermen, first of 625 volunteers who are going mine-sweeping. Among them were four brothers, who expect a fifth to arrive in the next ship.

Sennet FRERES

A HUNDRED Basque refuges either dead or in prison or refugees:·

The youngest of the children who recently on their way from war left Victoria were Carmen, aged time Britain to peace-time Spain. four, and Juan, aged five. They were babies when their mothers to Another 100 travelled to the some parted with them three

years ago port direct from towns in the South save them from bombs over Bilbao, of England. When they got there the Of the 500 who remain in Britain children's gas-masks, were collected 100 дго now over 15 and will for return to the Government.

be self-supporting The trade unions This is the Arst of three expeditions have been most helpful in Anding which,. will have condutted 600 of the them jobs, sald an official of the 1,080 now in England back to their Basque Committee. The others have homes. The remaining 500 cannot be all been placed in private familles sent home because their parents are and inny, în time, be adopted.

M

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PARIS, Mar. 25 (Reuter)—An. omelal communique issued here to day stales that everything was quiet on the whole of the front yesterday.

OPERATIONS IN WAZIRISTAN

NEW DELHI, Mar. 25 (Reuter).- "All quiet in Waziristan" cunts up the present position of operations in the Ahmedzal salient where cleaning up operations against bad clunracters across the border were begun on

February 22,

Although it is still too carly to forcenst a lasting improvement it is evident that the heavy casuallley sustained by the raiding gangs had 'a sobering effect.

The gangs in question consistex! mainly of criminals and outlaws and they have been using the Ahmedza district as a base for their operations.

H.K. Society for the Protection of Children WE ARE AT WAR OUR ammunition

consists of HONG KONG DOLLARS AND CENTS

It is running low.

Please send us new supplies.

MAX

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United States at the end of the present month.

ENGAGEMENTS FOR PRIVATE PARTIES MAY BE

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