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Sir,-I

reading yesterday's irate of the "Telegraph" when I came

the article "Is It Easy to Be

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What We Are Fighting For

To The Editor,

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FROM PAGE ONE

French soldiers were wounded and Ал undetermined killeri, seven number of British troops were also killed and wounded in the same uc-: tion,

The Germans scored direct hits on the Hole Grand at Namsos, killing three prominent British cfficers- two Ariny captains named Lindsey and Fleming, and a naval captain named Blake.

War Office Communique SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

20 (UP). The Apr. LONDON, British War Office to-day Issued n communique in the following terms: The position in the Gudbrandsdal Heavy valley remain unchanged. enemy air attacks were carried out to-day on the towns of Andalsnes and Molde.

There was patrol activity in the Namsos area.

"There is nothing further to re- port from Narvik."

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FROM PAGE ONE

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NOTICE is hereby given that

drive EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Share-ul for agricultural machinery for the spring planting which has been_ren- holders of the Hongkong Enginter dered all the necessary by the ex- & Construction Company, tremely severe winter and the shorply ing Limited, will be held at the Offices curtalled imporst of gasoline and fuel of Messrs. Sir Elly Kadoorie & oll from abroad. Sons, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 1st May, 1940, at 12 o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of recely ing the Report of the Board of Directora and a Statement of Accounts for the year ended on the 31st December, 1939, and electing

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Oslo Also Affected SPECIAL TO THE "TELEQRAPH" STOCKHOLM Apr. 20 (UP)---- to reports from Oslo According published in the "Allehanda" to-day, restrictions un petrol were introduced yesterday morning in the Oslo region and other German occupied territory, which puts to an end all motor traffle.

private

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before the father could place h child la'the mother's waiting nema. There were no more 'boats in the daviui on that side of the ship, which was setting rapidly.

So he dropped the ch bound, hoping against

mover orsomor

catch

She,

Troops Learn What They Are Fighting For

orde

She

year-old -Torgotten her ke to the father, Suddenly she barted her head on her father's shoulder, and cried:

Daddy don't throw me into the wateri

The Clippings forwarded by the writer

I forward these two clippings to you as 1 am sure you could make leading article froin them to serve an incentive to every decent man

and woman to do all in their power to rombat and help to defeat such dastardly crimes being committed by people who are not fit to be called civilised.

0.20

London Relay-News Sum- mary.

9.30 London Relay-“Cards on the Table."

9.45 Compositions of Momsorgsky. for Nothing."--A Sketch.

10.20 B, B, C. Recording--“Money

10.36 Dance MusicMania the Moocher's Wedding Day, Hot Toddy, 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter-Cab Calloway, and Ilie Orchestra Mario La O, Tendre Boloro, Lecuona cession,

Cells Cuban Boys with Elyano

Okt 12.30 Carroll Gibbons (Plane) and (Vocal): A New Moon and an His Boy Friends Smoke Gets In Serenade, We've como a long way Your Eyes, You've Got To Admit, Life Together, Ilarry Roy und His Orches Is Just A Bowl of Cherrrtes, Sleepy-tra; The Veleta, St. Bernard Waltz, Lime Down South, Can't We Talk It Victor Silvester and His Ballroom. Over, Now That You're Gone, Mun- Orchestru.

11.00 Cloe Downt, hunttan Music Box-Film Selection, Love and Hisses-Film Selection, If

You Love Me.

1.00 Local Time Signal and Wen-

ther Eleport.

1.03 Reginald Fuori at the Organ. 1.13 Maurice Winnick and Nis Orchestra in Danco Musle.

Her Strip

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, FE Weather Forecast and

Announce-

ments,

1,45 Musical Comedy Selections.- Selection, Jack "Anything Goes" Hylton and His Orchestra with Vouni Refrain; "The Desert Song"Vocal Gems, Light Opera Company with Orchestra; "Glamorous Night" Selec- tion. Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra; "It the Deck"--Vocal Gems, Light Opera Company with Orchestra.

2.15 Close Down.

Tease Act Was

Banned

· PHYLLIS DIXIE'S strip tease

6.00 An Hour of Dance Muslo.. 7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota-act, "Confessions of a Fan Dan- wax taken out of the bill tions.

7.02 Aldersbot Command Search

cer,"

at Tattoo, 1930.-Massed Bands of at Cardiff New Theatre recently The Aldershot and Eastern Com-at n few minutes' notice.

the curtain rose she Just before mands,

1.20 Songs by Peter Dawson (Bass- Was handed a telegram from

London agent. Baritone).

1.30 London Relay-The New% 5.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

her

It read: Strip tease Confessions of Fan Dancer-Out."

Chamberlain was perfectly

"What seems to have happened in right when he said "It is evil things

1 8.03 Latest Variety Numbers.— we shall be fighting against."

with the Sing

Guards, Regimental that the Lord Chamberlain, having think it is the perfect answer to those and of H. M. Grenadier Gunretenoticed the publielly about the show at Sunderland lust week, has decided rond, by Major George Miller; Lonely to prohibit it for the time being." Miss Sweetheart, Lucky Lucky Me. Dixie sald.

You,

people who are asking. the Ailles Fighting for?"

عيد

"What are

A DELJEVEN IN THE FUTURE GREATNESS IN THE PEACE-

LOVING BRITISH EMPIRE.

(Editorial comment on the article in question would be superfluous. b. speaks for itself.---Ed.).

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NAZI ADVANCE CHECKED BY ALLIED LINES

FROM PAGE ONE

.16.30 . rubber bands which the soldiers can

...8 drag across the bridge.

4.40 b. .103 sa.

Further progress north of Recros would bring the Germans to the town of Storen, which is south of Trond- 17. heim, and marks the junction of the Gudbrands and railways from the Oster Valleys.

.8 n. .4 n .68 n.

Both Storen and Dambaus are in

25. Allied hands.

.00 sa,

It la sakl that the Allies have also 3.05 Staken over, positions along the line 65 5. between the two towns.

.20% b.

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4860 S

.10 b.

Cald: Macg. (Ord.), Sh. $. .14.00 n.

Their ability to hold this line will be of great importance if reports of the latest German moves are to be confirmed.

These reports say that the Germans have sent out parties from two points!

Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh. $...12 n. in the Oster Valley to cross the moun-

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17 n.

tains and cut the line.

There Is one quite good motor rond 5:03 "n: "which" would bring them-out-not-far- south, of Storen, although it is pro- 22bably under heavy snow .0.35 n. present. .4.10 b.

.2 n.

drifts

at

Battle Near Hjerkin Other reports speak of Nazi detach- 39.ments cutting across the country

Dombaan. The south of Hjerkin, a little-north of Dombaus, is 704 s. mentioned in the reports. .230 .

b.

Losun

Reports are still very vague bul there is a talk of an engagement with 7:15 b. Allied troops near Hjerkin and Dom-

1% n

buas.

102

that The salient feature Nozi main advance up the two main valleys is being held up for the pre- sent.

is

the

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H.K. Govt. 4% Loan

H.K. Govt. 34% Loan

North of Trondheim both the

Maramans Inv. (H.M.) s/-/- 0. Germans and Allies are reinforcing

First B.E.F. Bridegroom

The paper also reports that follow- In negotiations between the Germans and owners, the Nazis have permitted the reopening of the Kongsberg arnis factory employing 800 men. The Nazis will receive the entire pro- duction for the army of ocupation.

Economic conditions in the occupied areas continue to be at stands B1 be- cause all credit facilities have been | French

uspended.

their defence positions just north of Steinkjer.

The vital question for both sides is that of the arrival of reinforcements. A communique Issued by the War Onice сп Sunday stated that the

irel Allies had landed more troops nt Andalsnes despite air attack, Reports from Stuckholm state that

are the these reinforcements arriving

even more quickly.

THE Arst B.EF. marringe has been celebrated in the office of a

village Mayor, with offerrs of the famous Welsh Guards standing outside to cheer their mun 888CSE0s he emerged with his bride

Journal-

of the

Beira, Lourenco-Marques, East and Courts of Justice. All charges Hongkong

mincurred in landing and ware-

South Africa

Amoy..

Shanghai

Shanghai

10.30 0.m.

12.30 pm housing this carge are for the Fisheries

2.30pm. account of consignces; pending

.12.30 p.m.

Air Mail for Indo-Chins, Iran, and completion of Steamer's account,

Franco (Paris and Northern Pro-

vinces only) by the "Air France

Airways Direct

Paris, 9ih May,

Rcg.. Ord,

Service"-due

K. P, O.

.May 1, 2,00 p.m. ...... May 1, 5.30 p.m.

G. P. O, Rex..

May 1, 5.00 p.m. Ord., .......May 1. 7.00 p.m.

Thursday, May 2

Research

Edited by

Dr. G. A. C. Herklots

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and a deposit of the amount of the Godown Company's Tari Landing Station Charge plus 100% is payable, this amount being subject to final adjustment. Hong Kong Cargo remaining undelivered after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the 30th April is subject to Additional storage Now on Sale ..8.30 a.m. chargos. All damaged packages Shanghof and Parcels only for Tien- will be surveyed by Mesura, at

.12.30 p.m. Anderson & Ashe at 10a.m. on .....1 p.m. Manila, Saigon, Bongkok, Maurit, Monday, 29th April.

Canton Manila

tsin Swalow

.7.15 4.m.

The was a Polish refugee, with no hope of real home until Corporal Marcel Amerlinck, of the Welsh Guards, come along. They fell in love, decided to wed."

But there were songs, religious

Iegal.

and

In the end the legal authorities relented.

more

The Germans have also landed more reinforcements at Oslo, accord- ing to a message from Stockholm.

These reinforcements have evad eil the Allled mines and submarines in the Kattegat but not without loss.

Admiralty communique issued yesterday reported that three inore been supply ships had German torpedord and sunk while on their way to Norway.

A few minutes after the wedding the lovers had to part-he for duty, the loss of a 3,000 ton ship which is Unomcial Swedish reports tell of she to return to her work on a

they were reunited believed to have hit a mine between farm. But

that

night in the bridegroom's the Danish island of Zealand and the farmhouse billet.

Swedish coast.

There, each night, they sit and talk in French. She calls him ser- Kennt now, for the Army gave him a present of promotion.

The one-time refugee is now look- ing forward to days of happiness Britain.

"My people at home in Cardiff are walting for her to go to them" the sergeant said.

|FIFTII. COLUMN ÎN FRANCE

service

EAST INDIES

DEFENCE

Batavia, Apr. 20. The People's Council' to-day ap- proved the adoption of a, bill" nub- Dutch Government mitted by the

construction of providing for the three new battle cruisers for the defence of the Dutch East Indies:

abstained from The Nationalists voling-Renter.

Paris, Apr. 20. The French counter espionage GALWAY'S LONG TERM Morning Post Building. "Communist wreekers and many han arrested about 4,000

Wellington, Apr. 20, The term of pills of the Governor- Reunion, Madagascar. Lourenco- No fire Insurance has been Price $3.00.

German agents, since September in General, Lord Galway, has been ex- an effort to destroy the "Fifth lended to February. H's Governor- Column" suspected of collusion with shin of New Zealand has been sabotage in wae production--United | already extended six months.-Reuter Prest.

Bulletin.

Marques, and South-Africa

Amoy Mahila

offected.

3,30 p.m. 7p.n

7 pun.

T. J. GOULD,

Marshal in Prize.

Heaven Will Be Turner Layton; Heavenly, The Only One Who's Dif-

At Sunderland she withdrew the

"It is not ʼn strip tease net." she flcult is You, Pat Kirkwood with act voluntarily after objections, Orchestra; Somebody's Asked Me, I

sald, "but a salire on strip tease in Dkin't Orter A Ett It, Jack Warner: general. The Day ↓ Rode Το Brighton On My Hike, We've Nowt Like Thee in Lon-

With You,

Act Was Passed

Tessit O'Shea with her Banju- "There is nothing in it to which lee and Orchestra; I'll Remember, anyone can take exception." Somewhere In France

Miss Dixie said she gave the Identi- Leslie Hutchinson,

cui scene at

In the same theatre 9.41 Max Miller in the Theatre.-Cardiff just before Christmas. (Recorded in the Finsbury Park Em- The act was passed by the Lord pire).

Chamberlain month ago, and has 0.00 London Relay-Speech by Mr.{not been altered, she asserted. Ronald Cross, Minister of Economlo She antlelpated that the scene will Warfare, at luncheon given by Amerl-{have to be repassed before it can be can Chamber of Commerco in Lon-(performed again. This may be done

in a day or so..

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