1940-04-15 — Page 7

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HITLER'S Inspection NAZIS TRYING TO

MAD ESCAPADE

Stands To Lose-All By Norwegian Campaign LONDON, Apr. 14 (Router), ---The German invasion of Scan-

Of Fires

The growth of the Colony and of the Police Force since 1895,

when

Fire Investigation Ordinance was lice Stations in outlying districts has

passed, and the establishment of Po-

rendered it necessary and convenient for inspections and reports on pre- mises where a fire has taken place dinavia is thought in informed charge of the districts concerned, and to be made by the Police officer in

quarters in London to be a Bill to this effect will be introduced susceptible of two interpreta. at the next meeting of the Legislative tions, says "Router's" Diplomatic Council. Correspondent.

KILL HAAKON

LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reu- ter).The Foreign Ofco unnounces that the Nor- wegian Government has in- formed the British Govern- ment that Germun aircraft evidently have orders to attack the King of Norway personally, as they are bombing every successive place at which he stays in.

The action follows the re-,

Hankon to negotiate in person with the German Minister at Oslo,

Under the principal Ordinance, in-

fusal of King Ispections and reports had to be made The first is that it is only the first either personally by the Commission- instalment of a larger plan of er of Police or by some oflcer of aggression and may be intended to Police of gratte not lower than divert the Allies Into a rat hunt Inspector. through the Norwegian fjords whist greater armies are set in motion else- where,

The second is that it is an Isolated ́nlove.

fin

Clause 2 of the amending BIII MB- stitutes accordingly the words "by the Police officer in charge of the district or by such Poilee officer as

If the former conjecture in correct, shall be deputed by the Super- then Hitler is obliging the Allies by, intendent in charge of the Division." undertaking at last what they have always wanted from him, namely, a campaign on two fronts.

The Allies are ready for 'Hitler even if he should break cut on several fronts simultaneously.

Action Of Madman,

Lord Haw-Haw

Has Biggest

Magisterial Investigations Radio Audience

Similarly section 4 of the Ordin unce, which deals with subsequen! magisterial Investigations a lo the causes of fires, gives certain rights of Inudience to "any Police officer not

below the rank of inspector."

He Calls Us "Liars” In Oxford Accent

If the second supposition is right.

LONDON. (UP).-At 9.15 then Hitler's action seems to be that and desirable to give the exercise of British radio listeners will hur

In some cases it is more convenient o'clock to-night thousands of of a madinar. He may have thought these rights of audience to the ulcerriedly switch from the B.B.C. to that Norwegian ports would offer who had personally buses for his submarines, but the premises and made the report.

Inspected the destruction of a large proportion of

a point on their dial where a bis fleet seems an absurd price to Clause 3 of the Bill adds according-Huave voice will be announcing

pay for bases which anyhow cannot ly the words "or the Police offer in English. "This is Hamburg, be used as freely as Norway's waters, in charge of the district or such Police Bremen and DJA." while she was still neutral.

omeer as shall be deputed by the Hitler has, thrown away a chance Superintendent in charge of the of saving his skin by wearing out the Division" after the words "runk of Allies patience and has chosen to inspector," fight on a naval front on which he is outnumbered and on which, as the British mine-laying in the

Baltic! shows, he risks being taken in the rear.

Six People Die In City Blaze

That will be 'Lord Haw-Haw the clown of the war to thousands of Britons, who delight in bls. venom- tongued newscast in English, but who has been called competent by David Lloyd-George and dangerous

His Job Is Toby Harald Nicolson.

See Sailors Get Grog

PANAMA CITY, Apr. 14 (Reuter),

ALL demands for supplies for the -Six people are reported to have Navy, including the sailor's daily prog been burned to death and 10,000 dict for submarine men, have been (rum-and-water) ration, and special rendered homeless an result of disastrous fires in the town of Colon adequately met since the war began. Inst night.

War-time problems have greatly Increased the responsibilites of the The entire elvillan and military Director of Victualling, whose depart fre fighting forces on both sides of ment operates at the Admiralty under the Isthmus were mobilised to fight the Fourth Seu Lord. the flames.

United States troops' blew up bulidings. In an attempt to save voluable properties.

Not only food, but clothing, galley utensils, crockery and cullery dre supplied by the department.

All men over 20 are allowed one- eighth of a pint of grog, or, if they prefer it, 3d, a day instead.

1) Fire, Under Control MANILA, Apr. 14 (UP).—Colon} officially stated that the Are was food, while submarine personnel have Men on exposed duty get extra completely controlled at midnight.

special diet in addition to the normal

Lammy Suits

Approximately 10,000 ure home-rations. less and 30 wounded, the number of dead being unknown. Twenty-fivel city blocks were destroyed and the damage has not been estimated.

Looting and rioting which started with the fire was brought to a halt by military patrols.

GERMAN POCKET

BATTLESHIP

ADMIRAL SCHEER

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to Northern

Probably no American radio star is listened to and followed with the assiduous itention "Lord Haw-How" FECEIVER from the British. They have a fondness for him that might

almost be called affection. te re

leves the tedium of the black-out and other forms of boredom of this war. He was dubbed "Haw-How" hecause of his broad Oxford accent,

gan Lord-law-Haw" of Zee--sen Almost nightly since the war be- has been calling the British liars and worse in it Emooth Oxford ac- cent. He mixes derision, contempt and sneers on his grid to fry Winston Churchill, Prime Minister Neville |„Chamberlain and the Ministry of

Information in particular.

Harold Nicolson, well-known com→ mentator. writing In The Spectator, warns that the British public hus been in all too receptive a frame of mind," in their tolerant attitude toward Lord Haw-How,

Dangerous Propaganda-

"I regard these broadcasts as very dangerous indeed. The technique adopted by Lord Haw-Haw has, with Every ship attached

usual German thoroughness, been bases has an ample supply of duffie object is to sap the morale of this carefully studied in advance. His clothing, known to the sailor lammy suits, account of their being made of Ilama wool.

April 15, 1940.

Occupation Government Of Denmark

The Hague, Apr. 14. Gorman troops estimated at 70,000 have been passing through Copen- hagen in the last two days necording to members of the British, French

Lines

Chango-Over To Company's Systam

On Sunday, April 21, at 0a.m. the and Polish diplomatic party number-present system of Government tele- Ing 180 who have arrived at The phones on the Island of Hongkong ngue from Copenhagen, bringing will be changed over to automatic the frat eyewitness accounts of the working. occupation of that elly. Included in the party was the British Minister at Copenhagen. Mr. Howard Smith, who was arrested and locked up for several hours on April 9.

A girl who had been working at the British Legation said that li all came as a fantastle surprise. At 5 a.m. the Germans trickled into the city and occupied it with only about a battalion of men at first. They brought 50 bombers which dropped leaflets telling the population what happened...

"I hurried to the Legation and rung the bell," the girl stated. The dnor was opened, and I was con- fronted by two German Foldiers armed to the teeth. Later the Ger mang commanderred-n brewer's lorry and took the Legation staff, who hnd

arrived one by one and fell into the same trap as I had done, to a fortress where they locked 15 Mr. Howard Smith was spared that up. Indignity and went by ear. They let us out during the afternoon and we were more or less free,"

Another member of the Legation staff said that luckily they had time to burn all the ciphers before the

Germans came.

Eyewitnesses say that the Danes krem to be dazed by the events, They are colm and have no idea what the future holds.

The Legation party crossed to Germany, in a sealed train.-Reuter.

BLOCKADE COMPLETED

London, Apr. 14. Allies

The Admiralty announces that the have completed the mine blockade of the whole of the German coast line by extending the minefeld into the Bullie, heretofore

retofore regarded by Germany as her private seo.

Kattegat not previously mined in ad- The minefield includes all the

dition to all the Baltic south of the Kattegat in the west and south of a line rawn from the southernmost part of Sweden to the Prussian border in the cast.

It

is emphasised, however, that mines were not laid In Swedish ter- ritorial waters-United Press.

Audacious Exploit

London, Apr." 14. The minchaying is described in London as a singularly and audacious exploit by the Navy-Reuter.

Borlin Claims

This does not mean that outside callers to Government have anything ditterent to do than before.

They will stifl dial "30" and ask the Government operator to conncet them to

to the

they require. After being put through they will hear the ringing or

extension

will control the busy signal and themselves. The operator will do nothing more alter ascertaining the required number and switching the call through.

num-

All the numbers of the extensions have been changed and users will speed up their own call by referring to the Telephone Directory, green section, and noting the new

These numbers are ber required. given in the third column under the heading "Automatic System Num ber," therefore, the outalde caller should note that he still dials "39," but should note the new extension number and after asking the opera- tor for it, will listen to the tones.

Internal Use

Government servants using the system internally will dial the new number contained in the 3rd column whenever they, want an extension on the system on Hongkong Island. I they want the Hongkong Telephone Co.'s System, they pro the num ber they require by put them on to the public exchange. want Kowloon Government System, they will dial "" to obtain

Kowloon operator.

the

they

which will

Both members of the public and

Government servants should hote that the system in Kowloon remains unchanged.

The ma

magneto system will be used by Government servants

THE TIE

WITHOUT

Wembley

Cravats

Krst it, beint i There's no "working after" look le a Nor Emi Nam Crush Tie.

crush it, fie it again and again, the wrinkles are out in the morning.

HANGOVER

New stocks being shown at MACKINTOSH'S, Ltd.

MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS.

Patvalley's NOR-EAST

as before for internal calls, and FOR YOUR HOLIDAY IN AUSTRALIA,

members of the public will still dial 50071 to obtain any Government Department in the Kowloom aren.

Norwegians Resisting

London, Apr. 14.

The close contact which the Nor- wegian troops are keeping with the Germon forces is shown by a report received in London this afternoon | that south-east ol Oslo the Norwegians blew up a bridge just as the Germans were crossing. Many Germans were killed-Reuter,

Germans Rotrost

Paris, Apr. 14. According to a Stockholm des- patch, following the fighting at Berlin, Apr. 14.

Eidsvold, 40 miles north-cast of Oslo, A IUgh Command communique re- the Germans are reported to have fers to the operations at Narvik as

been forced to retreat. southwards. British forces in yesterday'a attack crossed the Swedish frontler beyond

Over 1,000 serious engagement and says that the

Norwegian refugees as country.

Included two battleships, aircraft Kongsvinger during the night-Reu- carriers, cruisers and a large number ter. *He well knows that constant vitu-of destroyers. Nevertheless the Ger- In times of severe weather valan-peration or patent lies would create tary efforts

man destroyers attacked the superior to supplement winter animosity and contempt; his system British force.. comforts are welcomed.

Is to conceal the polson of half truths within the sugar-coating of a con- Jurer's prattle. His listeners are under the Impression that they are being entertained by some comic, Interlude; they swallow the poison

WHY GERMANS NEED

LEBENSRAUM

SUCH A SUPERIOR RACE

unaware."

British authorities disdain the Ger- AMSTERDAM, man method of banning foreign Remarkable statements about the broadensts and likewise would not nounced in the House of Commons "superiority of the German race" cause technical interference with were made by Dr. Ley, the Jovial Lord Haw-Haw's talks. But the leader of the German Labour Front, BBC and the Ministry of Informa- a speech to Nazi "educational tion have started to counter his leaders" in Berlin.

statements,

by the Prime Minister.

Scuttlings

in

The following known Scuttlings have taken place:-the tanker, Ska-less space, lesa food and less euiture

"An inferior race," he said, "needs Nicolson warns, however, that it gerrak, of 0,044 tons (on being sight than a superior race.

Is "a dangerous illusion" to believe

It claims that the destroyer Cossack was set ablaze and ran aground and that the destroyer Eskimo and others were seriously damaged or destroyed. No German losses are specified,

In operations elsewhere the com- munique claims that a U-boat tor- pedoed a cruiser of the Glasgow class north of the Shetlands and submarine chosers destroyed three enemy sub- marines in the Skagger Rak.—Reuter,

NEW USE FOR DRUG

Norwegians Attack

London, Apr. 14. olm correspondent reported that The Exchange Telegraph's Stock- 20,000 Norwegians attacked the Ger- man forces at Oslo-United Press.

TWO BIG ATTACKS

Paris, Apr. 14. The Western Front saw two big attacks yesterday. At dawn the Germans launched a well-prepared onslaught with a whole company It was preceded by heavy artillery ed by a British cruiser)

A German that the good sense of the British and the could never live in the same condi-people "is impervious to the falsi

preparation including large calibre German ship, Maine (on being sight-tions as a Pole or a Jew.

mortars and extended nearly a mile ed by the Norwegian desroyer, Draug, "We Germans regard

Ancation in which Lord Haw-Haw STILL another use has been barbed wire entanglements near the crew and conveyed them to a British blessing that the German worker is

Il as a great indulges."-

of front. The attackers reached

picked up some 69

One night he sinks the British found for M. and B. 693, the French lines where they were beaten of the on the the battle cruiser Repulse or a couple of The Draug now forms a part of former and then, the German cruisers, the next he pictures the Dr. A. J. Ewins, of Upminster. artillery and infantry fire.

German engineer., "horrors" of British concentration Essex. It is to cure cerebro- Only

among racially equal men is a national community possibic such as slavement of other races. His suave,

camps or recounts the British "en-spinal, or spotted fever. It has been reported that the Ger-we have created in the Germany ofolly certainty brooks no contradic- man tanker, Kattegat, has been sunk Adolf Hitler.

tion. by' Norwegians in the. Skagerrak.

which

⚫ port).

the Allied naval forces.

German

business

"How different are the conditions

in the English plutocracy! They

It will be noticed that no mention carry the Bible in their banda and

lo mode of the loss of any U-boatsruin for the whole world in their It would be incorrect to assume that brain. That, is England and the positive results were not attained. English.

cut

U.S. May Be Dragged Into War, Paper Warns

stentegle advantage."

"Horald-Tribuno's" Warning

Quick On Job

by

Dr. Ewins created the drug in the laboratorics, of Messrs. May and Baker at Dagenham. It was given its name because it was the 193rd laboratory.

also

French

delivered a bold attack and captured West of the Vosges a flying squad a German post. Detalls of this feat are not yet available.

There was

on engagement yesterday between French and Ger- abandoned village on the Nied front. man detachments who met in an

Jed yesterday's attack on an island in the Rhine has been found. Reuter.

If the BBC announces that anoth. aynthetic substance produced at the The body of a German officer who

German submarine has been bagged

or describes a successful British at-

1

on the

tack on German aerial mine-laying published

Recently the Ministry of Health a memorandum bases, Lord Haw-Haw probably will new treatment of cerebro-spinal. fo. give it "the lie" fifteen minutes later. ver by the use

Some he angers, but most

this drug. listeners

Thousands · Savad

he delights. For months there was much speculation as to who he was, whether a renegade Englishman or a thousands

M. and B. 603 has already saved German who had been educated and

of lives by conquering pneumonia, It formerly lived in England.

has reduced the

close secret and the English have cent. given up thinking of him as anything but a caricature-usually portrayed

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Britain's War strictly speaking, the Order of Merl

Honours

Only Two Take No Regard Of Rank

The highest honour for service is,

Then follows the Order of the Bath. Next, The Order of the British Em- pire with its various divisions. Mem- bera of the merchant navy have been made oficers of this order.

LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter}\—The Dutch newspaper "Volk",

His Excellency Admiral Sir Percy The Germans keep his identity at pneumonia death rate from 40 Noble will preside over the first rally in discussing Mr. Winston Churchill's speech, says: "It is the

and 50 per cent. to 3 and 10 per of the Auxiliary Nursing Service at British soberness which appeals to us Netherlanders and arouses

the China Fleet Club to-day, in place confidence."

as a long-nosed, big-mouthed blonde tained with

Now amazing results are being ob- of His Excellency the Governor, l

who is India- Geoffry Northcote, Agreeing with Mr. Churchill's con-

it in the fight against posed. Lady Northcote will present Englishman with a monocle, the type cerebro-spinal fever. Already deaths the certificates of first aid, home viction that Hiller committed a

famillar to the old American vaude-have been reduced from 50 per cent. nursing and hospital training to the stratégical error, the "Handelsblad" "The war is coming closer to usville stage or the Percy of the comic to 10 per cent. says: "It looks as if the growing every day." says the "Heroid strips. persistence in Norway might be a Tribune." The fate of Greenland The vituperation he pours down Dr. Ewins discovered drug The Auxiliary Nursing Service danger to the Germans who may be brings the war to our very doors, if on the heads of British leaders may 1936 after four yours of experiment, came into being last year to meet the

at off."

Holland la invaded the fate of be received gleefully by some listen. However, he refused to discuss Its potential needs of the civilian popula- The

destruction of the German Curacao and the Dutch West Indies era but omfalat quarters are known to new application.

tion. Nearly 340 ladies, Chinese and destroyers at Narvik provides the would bring the war within a stone's consider him a real menace.

European, have joined the Service, chier war story in all the New York throw of the itey of defence, How-law's tame has even begun

LONDON, "If you want to speak to me about thanks to the energetic action of Mrs.

(UP). Out of papers,

The "New York Times" says, "The

Ito surpass that of filler. Recently M. and B. 603," he said, "I'm afraid A. V. Peters, the Chairman, and har the 26 honours to be won in war warring nations are not alone in dread the thought of war but to-day, which the owner of a bar was sum-

as I have given those past two stood

of willing workers. It is under- time, there are only two given merchant service has raised u pro- belleving that their existence depends more even than in 1017, the war moned for serving drinks after the years-I don't wish to be brought than half that which may be needed, income. They are the Victoria chant service is part of the navy,

the outcome of this war, Every threatens American interests. The licensing hours.

Into the matter, or any song made should it be found necessary to ex Cross and the Empire Gallantry therefore, lest merchant seamen fail neutral country, no matter how far only thing that can check it is an "Come on, let's have one for the about it." from Europe or how determined they overwhelming victory for the Allies rond." two polico ameers testified

hospital accommodation rapidly as has been done in the Home Medal

to enemy hands, they must not be are to stay out of this wur must and the defeat of Germany,

they heard a volce say from within

A doctor, however, anld: "The Country. All who can do so, are

ven a naval decoration. reasmess its position in the light of the "The United States must obviously the bar. The landlord was discharge peere! of the drug is that must urged to get in touch as soon as Both these medals may be awarded: Naval decorations, are to be with- result of the German drive, Ger- face the possbility that it may find when he testified that It was Lord be administered early in the fever. possible with the Honorary Secretary posthumously, and the Empire Gal-held from this order but it has been many has now shown that she will, itself forced to Join in the fray as the Haw-Ilaw's cultured voleo uttering that in a few weeks they are their the Queen Mary Hospital to volunteer for gallantry other than the Victarla qualify for the Örder of the British The recovery of patients is so mpid of the Auxiliary Nursing Service at lantry medal in the highest award decided that they should be able to not hesitate to crush any neutral in only way to protect her own the famous English "night-cop" my- her path if by that she will gain alinterests.""

ing over the radio.

normal selves."

their services.

Croes.

Empire in the civilian divisions.

on

our

There are two awards which are exclusively naval. One is the Con- Epicuous Gallantry Medal, the other the Distinguished Service Cross.

Tho The question of awards for the

The Germans must not be

In in 1917, the people he was an alibi in a court case in I shall give you the same answered that this number is rather less with no regard to rank, class, or given an excuse for saying the mer-

Pand