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WESTERN FRONT

Paris, Mar. 31.

A French communique to-day re- ports artillery fire in the region north- west of Bilche. Burs of machine gun fire old occurred in upper Alsace,

-Reuter Buterin.

Berlin Report

Berlin, Mar. 31.

A High Command communique to day states, "On the Western Front between the Moselle and Rhine there

were several encounters between wer on March own and enemy patrnis

patrol succeeded in taking

The

Seventy-first Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be hold at the Offices of the undersigned on Thursday, the 4th [April, 1940, nt Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1939.

The Share Register and Trans- ter Books will be closed from the 21st March to the 4th April, 1910, both days Inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

General Managers, The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 14th March, 1940.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Farewell

Murder:

April 1, 1940.

Dance, Car

Now - Man

Die

Sentenced to

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.

Ride,

Trying To Televise The Enemy

JEAN WATSON MOORE, twenty-one-year-old girl officer in the Wrens, asked From Planes

her lover for a few months of freedom so that she could have a “very small fling” be-] fore they married. He agreed. They danced together for the last time. Then he choked her to death.

"Just Dy 1. was finishing the| The three of them left in Chli-| cigarette the constable came along." | coat's

and ol Jean's home Patriela got out, leaving the two

'Cirl Loved'

car,

To the questions of Mr. Russell lovers together. Vick, KC, counsel for the prosecu- ton, Chilcott said that he and Jenn

In Lovers'-Lane

·

A policeman took the story. At had one small quarrel because during ten minutes to one in the morning amo of doris some naval people he saw a car, unlighted, in a side called Jean by her Christian naine road known as Lovers-line. and he did not like it,

He flashed his torch on to the back Mr. Russell Vicit: Why did you sent and saw the face of Jenn Moore, tell the policeman who found you half hidden in her thick fur coat. 1st you had choked her?-1'She was dead. realised that though I had not the nerve to take my own life I could plend guilty at court.

Beside her sat Gordon Chilcott,] smoking a cigarette. To the police- man's abrupt question he repliest: What has changed your attitude now? I have been told that I would "I choked her with my hands." not be able to plead guilty and I do Then Chilcott, plending not guilty, not want to go to penal servitude. stopped from the dock to the wit

And when Mr. Russell Vick askedness-box to tell what he knew. Ile

were

why he decided to take flfe, is an estate agent, and lived at Whit-i Chilcott replied: "The girl I lovedley Buy, Northumberland.

Jean, formerly a shorthand-typist, was dead. She died in my arms."

At Newcastle Assizes Mr.ved in Lish-avenue, Whitley Bay.

He said how hoppy they Justice Cassels put a square before the war. When she joined the of black cloth over his wig Women's Royal Naval Service they

meet so Got and sentenced the lover, december she wrote this letter Gordon Richard Chilcott, to "Darling. I have more courage on paper than I have when I am with be hanged.

you. Just to be near you sends all my resolutions un in smoke I feel

want

ould

often, and in

Chilcott, pale, slightly built, | aged twenty-five, took the sen-

lence calmly. He had just told to be d the court that he still loved Jean, and placed little value on his own life.

Jean Moore's friend, twenty-year-

Annual Meeting or Shareholderaald Miss Patricia Svendsen, sild that

will be held at the offices of the

on the night of December 1 she and Company. Exchange Building, DesJean went to a dance at à scaske Voeux Rond Central, Victoria, hotel. Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 3rd day of April, 1940, at 11.30 o'clock, ļam. for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the

Chilcott was there; he danced with Jean most of the time, and they seemed happy together.

20 and 30. North of Saargement a Report of the Directors for the Race To Build

prisoners."

year ended 31st December, 1939.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the A conumentary on the Western Front operations published by the Company will BE CLOSED from German News Agency states that THURSDAY, the 21st MARCH,

patrul reconnaissance activity was fairly intensive, One Getinan patrol ptured an officer, sergeant and four

privates. A machine gun was cap- tured in heavy fighting between one of the German patria and geny

The enemy lost on this ne outposts. casion sume 10 killed and a number wounded, while the German toises were very light-Reuter,

Attack At Dawn

Paris, Mar. 31. An allack at dawn by the Gericans against a French post in the region of Nied was repulsed. The Germans were driven off with men killed and

1910, to WEDNESDAY, the 3rd APRIL, 1910, both days Inclusive.

By Onder of the Board of Directors,

Faster, 'Planes

SECRET BRITISH DESIGNS

By Major C. C. TURNER R. TAYLOR,

Aircraft designers in all the Acting Secretary-principal countries have in hand Hongkong, 4th March, 1940.

types which eclipse in perform- ance the most up-to-date machines at present in war ser- vice.

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Notice to Shareholders.

North of Bitche after antillery pre-

THE FIFTY-THIRD ORDINARY paration, the Germans attacked two French outposts lying fairly close ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE- together. The French repulsed the HOLDERS will be held at the Germans-Reuter,

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There is.one important difference. Whereas United States designs are openly discussed, and even coming) German types are sometimes the subject of carefully regülated publi- gily, those of Great Britain must not

be mentioned.

Progress is being made on appro-1 parallel lines. Surprises į ximately Office of Messrs, Jardine, Mathe-are rare, but there is scope for talent son & Co., Ltd. on TUESDAY, 2nd in the application of known prin-

ciples, [APRIL, 1910, at NOON for the nirpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1939.

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Faster and more powerful machines, are being developed, and the issue

the war might be vitally affected the results of a race for the ear- liest production of some new type, or class, of aeroplane.

Engine Behind Pilot Fighters 80 m.p.h. faster than the

3701

present leaders, which attain mp.h., are coming along, though it might seem that 'plane which could ofy from Croydon to Hendon in three]

minutes would outstrip burman adap- tability, and would never be likely to want more than three-fifths of its speed.

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager. Hongkong, 11th March, 1940.

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In this class there is the United States Bell Airacobra, the P 30, said | to be already in production. It la claimed to exceed 400 m.ph. The engine is behind the pilot and drives tractor airscrew by means of a shaft. It has four machine-guns and a shell-Aring gun of about 14in cal. coming German type, the Focke Wulf

said to have about the 198, me speed. This too has the engine behind the plot.

The Germans also have in hand, but not yet in production, a LAPO- mufor fighter, the Dornier 20. This may be compured with the Messer- schmitt 110, but in likely to prove somewhat faster at about 380

m.p.h.

Faster than any of the foregoing. the claims mnde for it are true, is the American Villee Vanguard. which has actually been flown by Sqen.-Ldr, J. B. Addams, one of the Air Ministry representatives in the United States. Though this machine has an air-cooled engine, of the class -which offers a large surface agalast the air, efever engine cowling modi fica this drawback, to speed,

Long-Range Bombers

In the United States there is al- ready talk of bomber type which (would be able to fly to Europe, drop its lond, and fly back again without stoppint. Great Britain has in the Wellington bomber the longest ranger

yet, and

and this has, of course, inspired rivalry.

Has Great Britain a still longer-

small fin

would like a taste of freedom for Just a little while. "Inlan think you are right when you say we should not marry until we can settle down with at least moderate security behind us, and 1 am afraid by the time we marry, if we continue to see each other sh often, all the gilt will have worn off the gingerbread.

"I am feeling very unhappy us I write this letter, because I do lave you, and I should hate it if you decide it would be impossible for us to meet occasionally. "But I do think, after thinking things over, you will see that this is the only thing to do Please answer my letter.-Yours, Jean."

Ring Returned Chilcott spoke quietly: "I phoned and sow her outside her home next night. I did not at first like the dea she had suggested in her fetter and asked for my ring back.

I did not like her wearing as a dress ring on her right hand. But Jran did not want to return it I insisted. She gave it to me. I agreed to her having mere free- dom.

Chilcott went on to speak of their last dance together, two nights later, "We spent a happy evening. I had no feeling of hatred or hostility or anything opproaching it. At the end we drove away to the lane. "As you will realise I have been

"We had our arms around each yours since I was seventeen, and other and I was whimpering endear- although we have had some mut-ments. Suddenly she struggled a vellous times together. I do feel 'sue, then went limp. I did not

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