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Manchukuo Invaded

Frontier Violation By Soviets Reported TOKYO, May 6. (Reuter),— A great sensation was created in Isinking following the revela-

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 6, 1940:

REALISATION OF NAPOLEONIC DREAM

NORWEGIANS IN ENGLAND

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FASCIST SPOKESMAN PREDICTS

THE INDO-CHINA STEAM | NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING

The Fifty-ninth Ordinary' General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Meaars, Jar- dine, Mathuron & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, 30th May, 1940, at noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directoir, passing the Accounts, and electing Direc-

or and Auditors.

REMARKABLE HAPPENINGS WILL SHAKE THE PILLARS OF THE WORLD

-

Boast

ROME, MAY 5 (REUTER).—DETAILS HAVE REACHED HERE OF AN ORGANISED ANTI-ALLIED DEMONSTRATION IN MILAN OVER THE WEEK-END BY ABOUT 100 STUDENTS WHO MARCHED THROUGH THE STREETS SHOUTING “LONG LIVE GERMANY” AND “DEATH TO BRITAIN AND FRANCE."

They chalked on the walls: "We want Hitler in London and Musso-

INVASION PREDICTED

The Transfer Books of the Com- any will be closed from the 23rd lini in Paris." May to 13th June inclusive.

By order of the Board.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

General Managers, Tongkong, 16th Apell, 1940,

ENVOY TO

RETURN

Significant Move By British Government LONDON, May 5 (British Wireless).Sir Percy Loraine, British Ambassador in

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders

The Fifty-Ninth Ordinary Meet-the ing of Shareholders will be held at Rome, who has been for some the Offices of the undersigned on time on leave, is returning to his | Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1940, post.

at Noon, for the purpose of recely- Sir Percy was present at the dis-

ing the Report of the General cussions which Lord Halifax hud

few weeks ago with British diplo Agents, together with a statement matic representatives in south- of Accounts for the year ended the leastern Europe who had been 31st December, 1939.

jculty summoned back to London for

the

purpose. The Share Register and Trans- He will, therefore, be able to give

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROME, May, 5 (UP). Signor Giovanni

NORWEGIAN officers who have arrived in England to con-- |sult with Military Intelligence officers before returning to Norway.

soon walking in à London street in battle dress..

Ansaldo, who is generally regarded as being the NORWEGIANS TRY

mouthpiece of the Italian Foreign Office, told his soldier listeners in a nation-wide radio broadcast to-day that he believed Germany would invade the British Isles.

TO SMASH WAY

He predicted that the coup dreamed of by Napoleon TO FREEDOM

would be finally realised through enormously improved - technical means now at the disposal of Germany and from the emerge added that the "Italian people will present war greater and more powerful than ever before.”

"We would all like to presume

tion of a brush on the easterner Books will be closed from the the Italian Government, should il re./ that we will see just that that

border between Russia and Man- chukuo.

ne

It is alleged that Soviet soldiers Invadedi Manchukuo territory

Pro- Laowengling, in Mutabl:nag vince, at 7 aan, on May 4 and fired on five Manchukuo guards, according to a Japanese report from the capital of Munchukuo.

Police Sergeant Shot

A police sergeant, Ishimati, it is) alleged, was shot through the left thigh.

with

About six Soviet soldiers military dogs penetrated into Man- chukuo territory near Tungning in the same province at noon and with

rev after reconnoitring along the

border.

The Manchukuo authorities, it is added, are paying attention to the recurrence of these illegal actions,

New Naval Staff

I

Appointment

8th May to the 22nd May, 1940, quire it, a fuller and mare intimate is to say, the invasion of Eng

account of the proceedings, the pur-land," he declared: both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents.

Hongkong, 1st May, 1940.

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

port of which must be already known He also sald he expected the to them through Sir Noel Charles. Allies to be defeated in Norway, and the essence of which lies in the

"They withdrew from Namcost and settled policy of Britain deflued, in Andalsnes in eight days, but that is the official statement issued after the time enough for all Allled soldiers consultations at the Foreign Office, as who survived, to have a memory the "preservation of peace and pro-impressed upon them which will last motion of security in Bulkun and for the rest of their lives." Danubian countries."

Of Equal interest

As Professor E. II. Carr points out in an article in the "Sunday Times," [that it is Italian Interest no less than!

British.

Storers and Consignees of Cargo European capitals of

Since the return to south-east

the British

are hereby notified that this Com-diplomats who took part in the dis- pany's premises have been declar-cussions with Lord Halifax, events in another directions have increased rather ed a "Protected Area" by

then diminished the anxieties which beset these states. It has again been demonstrated that neither strict neu- trality nor non-provocation_verging compliance, nor guarantees, nor promises, nor pledges will save any country from German attack if the tortuous developments of Nazi policy require its subjugation.

on

order of H. E. the Governor, made under the Defence Regulations, 1939, and no unauthorised person is permitted-entry thereto.

No persons other than those in possession of Passes, Delivery Orders or other Authority from LONDON, May 5 (Reuter)-Rear the Wharf Company are therefore There has been plenty of evidence in the last fortnight that in the face Admiral Henry Moore has been ap- allowed on the Wharves or other of this renewed warning,

nations pointed a Lorit Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of the arts of the premises; bearers of situated wherever Germany can dis- Rear Delivery Orders, Bills of Lading turb the peace are increasing their Naval Staff In succession to

vigilance and their precautions. Admiral H. Burroughs us from July jute, must present these documents 25.

Opens TO-MORROW

AT THE

at the Gates,

Deliveries of Cargo ||--No---labour-other than that employed by the Hongkong &

Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd. lis permitted in the Godowns, on the Wharves or other premises' of

Cargo will be delivered cx godown to consignees' craft and/ for lorry by the Wharf Company at half the Company'a Tariff rate for Coollehire Storing.

KING'S the Company, You CAN'T KILL ME ..FOR A CRIME YOU

Committed!

Fato docroos that a prison warden must kill an Inno- cont youth convicted of the oxoculioner's own crimal

VICTOR

JACKIE

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McLAGLEN COOPER THE BIG GUY

with

ONA MUNSON PEGGY MORAN EDWARD BROPHY

British policy, which stands in op-

Napoleon's Dream

ROME, May 5 (Reuter) — "Napoleon's attempt to invade England will certainly and soon be attempted by Germans in this war." declared Signor Ansaldo, Editor of Count Clano's news- paper "Il Telegrafo,” in a

a weekly broadcast to Italian troops.

“We have already secu remark- able

happenings. We shall see even more remarkable ones which will shake the pillars of the world," he concluded,

Bad Outlook For Japanese

Army Facing Serious

Position in China

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

STOCKHOLM, May 5 (Reuter).-The Norwegian troops in the Roeros sector are reported to be planning to break through a fast closing German cordon to join the Allied troops in northern Norway.

An official statement that the fighting would continue in the north has partly dissipated the bitter disappointment felt at the orders given to retire in the Roeros sccior, following the Allied evacuation in southern Norway.

The Norwegian General Head- chine was primarily engaged in re- quarters is now established in connoitring to discover whether any the north and Norwegian mobili- Allled forces from Namsos and An- dalsnes are transferred to the sation remains in force.

Kirkenes region.

CHUNGKING, May G (UP). According to military reports the situation in China has total-Fire" order was given. ly collapsed for the Japanese,

The Norweglun positions couth of

Rocres were intact when the "Cease

Elsewhere, the Chinese have taken the offensive.

During the latest operations, about

Guerilla Warfare

Official Silenca

LONDON, May 6 (Reuter).-Allied and Norwegian official circles are slient regarding operations in Nor-. driven was only reports which are avail-

able at present are those which come

The

The southern push of the invaders 300 German soldiers were has died down In Shansi, and the back by 120 Norwegians. Japanese have now retreated to their original bases.

The Germans bud 35 killed and from Sweden. wounded

the while

Norwegian

Oslo correspondent af casualties were only

Swedish paper says that all the Henceforth only guerilla warfare Nrwegians in the district surround- can be expected from the Norwegian Ing the city have been forbidden to forces in southern Norway,

go out of doors after dark or to go The Norwegian troops In the Gau neur places where coldier arc Valley have decided to fight on and stationed. all the German efforts to take Nor- weglan positions there have failed.

A German detachment south-east of Storen have been defeated. 100 Germans were killed.

There is bloody fighting in the Han River valley, and the Chinese have relaken several cities in southern Aniwei, where they are now attack- Ing Tsingyang.

Secret N. Sea Crossing In British Warship

LONDON, May 5 (Reuter).-Professor Koht, the position to any extension of hostill- Norwegian Foreign Minister, and M. Ljungberg, the ties at their expense, must be to them an anxious situation. one of the few re-n suring factors in Norwegian Defence Minister, who are in London to confer with the British Government, are believed to have

No Tientsin travelled from Norway to a Scottish port in a British

Agreement

Japanese Newspaper Report Denied

warship.

The journey was kept a close secret until several hours after their arrival in London.

***

Professor Koht and M. Ljung- berg went to the Norwegian Legation in London where con.... LONDON, May 5 (Reuter)ferences lasting several hours Lorries must enter by the Navy There is no confirmation in London took place with the Norwegian Street Gate only and leave by the of the report in the "Nichi Nichi Minister in London.

Shimbun that Sir Robert Craigie, Salisbury Road Gate; no person the British Ambassarlor

It is understood that the Norwegian other than the bearer of the and the Japanese Vice-Minister of Minister and Sir Cecil Dormer, the relative decument and the driver Foreign Affairs have reached a basic British Minister to Norway, will see

agreement regarding the Tientaln Lord Halifax and possibly issue. especially "the problems of British Ministers on Monday. the maintenance of order and the Foreign Minister's Broadcast docu- transfer of silver."

Professor Koht, broadcasting this

is permitted on the lorry, and

entry will only be allowed presentation of delivery ¡ments.

}

on

on

Any person found premises without Authority will ¡be prosecuted.

BY ORDER,

to

Japan,

other

We

jof violent help against the forces

It is understood that there is no evening, said that he was in London the truth in the report:

for a few days "to discuss how This Is The Report Which (best can

London Has Donied

From London, he will go to Parts TOKYO, May 0 (Reuter),--The British Ambassador, Sir

and then home again to fight. Robert;

Professor Koht claimed that Nor- Craigle, called on Mr. Masayuki Tani, the Vice-Minister of Foreign way's neutrality had been "truly im- partial" and said that acceptance of Affairs, on Saturday morning.

The interview lasted about two Norway a vassal state of Germany.

Germany's demands would have made

"After

Austria, Czecho-Slovakia

C. M. MANNERS, Secretary and Manager.

Canadians Display Their Smartness

Aldershot Inspection

hours

A basic agreement of views on the and Poland, we refused to believe in long-pending Tientsin issue, with special reference to the problems re-new promises. This moral defeat of garding the maintenance of peace Germany is the worst of all. Nobody and order in the concessions and the will any longer trust German pre- transfer of

miscy." silver, was reached at the conference, according to the "Nichi Nichi,"

Never Will Be Slaves Professor Koht aded: "We say as A memorandum on the matter, the in 1814, No Norwegian will ever paper declares, will be formally sign-agree to be a sinve. ed by Japan, Britain and France.

Hranaume

Rocros Falls

Over

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ROEROS, May 5 (UP)-Rocros, the last Allled stronghold in central Norway has fallen to the German

iroops.

Evacuation of the city by the Allied forces was followed this morning by the appearance and entry into the town of 25 German soldiers who rode motor cycles.

They occupied Roeros without flug a single shot.

Earlier this morning. German bombing plane dropped six bombs In the middle of the town.

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Nazi Overtures Rejected

In Oslo itself the German efforts aimed at ingratiating the population by opening cinemas and theatres have failed.

The Norwegians show no sign of rejoicing because the invaders invite them to, and the best flm in Oslo draws a

a "house" of only five people. In many cases the Norwegians ali leave realaurants EN soon ta German party

arty entera.

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The correspondent also reports that the hospitals in Oslo contain a large number of wounded. The trenchdigging machines are hard at work outside the eltý, digging graves. Narvik Position Clearer Church-Goers Bombed

PARIS, May 5 (Reuter)-Re- Crowds of people were going to grouping of British, French church at the time of the raid, and Norwegian forces in Norway con- it is not yet known whether any were tinues to evolve without incident, ne- killed or Injured.

cording to military circles here.

The situation ut Narvik is gradual-

clarified as Allied troops.. ly being progressively enter contact with Ger- man forces.

The horror of the attack is inten-

H.K. MAN IN CASUALTY LIST alfed by the fact that there is not

__LONDON, May 5 (Router)--- The latest R.A.F. casualty st Issued by the Air Ministry in- eludes a Hongkeng-born man.

He is Sergeant J. L. Hawken, who had already won the Dis tinguished Flying Medal for gal- Jantry.

War's Biggest Casualty List

The new casualty list is the biggest of the war to date, and includes 119 names,

DOW

Killed in action, seven: pre- viously reported missing, presumed killed In action, seven; missing 52: killed on active Ber- vice, 18; died on active service, 12.

Among the list of missing is Squadron Leader Kenneth Doran, the first British air ace of the war, who led the famous Klel raid the day after Britain had declared war on Germany,

OFFICIAL DENIAL OF NAZI CLAIMS

single Norwegian cun or soldier in Roeros, the authorities attempting to save the town from raids by evacuat- ing all military units.

Wooden houses were shattered, windows broken and telephone and electric power lines torn down by the explosions of the heavy bombs.

and

Yesterday for the first time Gor-: man aircraft intervened in the fight- ing, bombing a village north of the town.

The latest information available here indicates that the Germans do No Air Raid Shelters

not greatly exceed 3,000 men, of There are no air raid shelters in whom 1,000 are occupying tunnels Rocros and the population, which and bridges on the railway to Sweden, numbers about 2,000 are completely while the other 2,000, in two separate at the mercy of raiders.

groups, are holding out around the town with their backs to the sea.

Their positions yesterday

were bombarded by loud arullery and naval guns.

When later the Nazi bomber made a second appearance, all telephone communication with Stockholm was cut off.

Roores Fall Confirmod STOCKHOLM, May 6 (Reuter), According to‘a communique issued by the Norwegian telegrapli agency, German troops entered Rocron after the town was bombed from the aur for the first early to-day.

A German plane dropped seven high explosive bombs, hitting two houses, and then opened machine- gun fire.

The population fled towards the

suburbs. No lives were lost. Rocros for some days.

Norwegian soldiers had been in

Civilians Resist

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" STOCKHOLM, May 5 (UP),—The "Social Demokraten's" correspondent on the Norwegion frontier claims that one of the main reasons why the Germans have been unable to nd- vance south of Rocres and at Os is because of the resistance put up by Norwegian farmers and other civil- lans.

Farmers are taking up rifles and pistols and are joining the Norwegian regulars in resisting the invaders.

Small patrols of two or three ski guerilins are continually barassing agency states the Nazi lines.

The Tidningen's" correspondent confirms that motorised units have entered Namsos and Bangsund,

The King and the Norwegian Cabinet are reported to be somewhere

is a longly distelet with its northern boundary about 18 miles north of

Garrison Surrenders Professor Koht emphasised that the Norway WAS

LONDON, May 5 (Reuter)-The LONDON, May 5 (Reuter)-The maintenance of peace and brder in thought out in advance the help is no truth in the German claim that that the Norwegian fortress of Hegre,

As for the problem regarding the German attack on

LONDON, May 5 Reuter).-There German official news Canadian regiments al Aldershot the concessions in

in Tientsin, a basic planned, and he referred to were reviewed on Saturday by the treement was reached between Mr. of Britain and France. He said that they have sunk one British battle which was surrounded by German was also ship and cruiser of the York class Alpine troops, surrendered to-day Earl of Athlone, the new Governor Hachiro Arita, then Foreign Minister the Polish Government General to Canada, and Princess in the Baron

Cabinet, sending 4,000 men and concluded by operations at Namsos. This denial with 15 officers and 100 men. Alice, the Countess of Athlone.

Narvik Situation They inspected 48 Canadian High-conference In Tokyo last year, the Norway from the German grip and Paris, where I hope to meet leading There is nothing important to ve-

and the British Ambassador at the saying that the Western Powers had has been issued by the Admiralty.

pledged themselves to liberate

"I shall proceed from London to LONDON, May 5 (Reuter) in Finmalk or Nordland. The latter Innders and then watched. the Royal Regarding the silver question,

Wur Offcc communique states: Montreal Regiment carry out ma-Nichi Nicht" continues, the British that they would carry it out.

statesmen. After visiting Paris I will port from Narvik, where operations Narvike. chine-gun training.

Government seems to have conduct- Closest Collaboration

return to Norway, We are keeping are continuing. There has been slight SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH

up the night and my place is in my Later, they inspected three other negotiations with the Chungking

LONDON, May 5 (UP)-Koht, the Fatherland.

enemy nie activity in this arcu." regiments-the Canadian Seaforth Government and France, and to have

Heavy Fighting necessary

King To Remain Highlanders, the Edmonton Regiment completed the

armage- Norwegian Foreign Minister. fold newsmen to-day that he had travelled) and Princess Patricia's Light Infan ments with them.

"Tumours that His Majesty the Heavy Oghting is reported to be pre STOCKHOLM, May 6 (Reuter)- The French Government has com-to London to consult the

British King and the Norwegian Govern- ceeding to-day round Narvik. Allied pletely agreed to the British formula, Governineal.

ment are going abrond are absolutely forces are the paper adds.

My Government decided to send false.

Bald to be bombardinit me here before the withdrawal from

"We will stay where the fighting la

German positions both by land and ROTARY

south Norway," he said.

to be done,

sua amid a snowstorm,

LONDON, May 5 (Reuter).- "The visit has no connection with

The Norwegian telegraph agency "I think, at the moment, that the chances are in Norway's favour in states that a big German bomber George Lansbury, the venerable the fighting

yesterday flew over Kirkenes and pacifist, who is seriously ill in a "Hut we must not under-estimate dropped bombs without doing much London hospital, is reported to be Germany. We are up against a very damage or causing any log of life. clever enemy."

It is suggested here that the mo- sinking rapidly..

try.

The Rt. Hon. Mr. Vincent Morsey, Canadian High Commissioner In London, and the Rt. Hon. Mr. Norman'

Canadian Minister Rogers, the

1

CLUB

of Rotarian Max Gavin of Canton) National Defence, were also present. will speak at to-morrow's meeting the withdrawal from south Norway. of the Hongkong Rotary Club on thef The whole intention is that there The purly was conducted by Major subject-"A Trip by the Greyhound," should be the closest possible colla- General McNaughton, the Canadion I talk will be illustrated by colour-boration between the Norwegian and Commander-in-Chief.

led cinema filmi.

and British Governments,

LANSBURY DYING