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TEMPLE SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES

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SCOTT LOCKWOOD. MARTIN GOOD RIDER -'1. FARRELL IMo‹DONALD MAURICE MOSCOVICH - MORONI OLSEN VICTOR JORY-LESTER MATTHEWS

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Malcolm MacDonald As Minister For Health

LONDON, May, 18 (Reater). The following additional appoint- ments have been announced:

Mr. L. 9. Amery to be Secretary for Endia;

CROSSING

MC. Malcolm MacDonald to be-Between GOO

and | Minister for Health;

Dr. Ernest Bovin to be Minister

for Labour and National Service;

May 14, 1940.

COMPANY REPORT

Mercantile Bank Pays

Twelve Par Cont.

The annual report of the Mer- cantile Bank of India, Ltd., for the your ending

1030, December N stater:

British Evacuees Reach Home LONDON, May 13 (Reuter).

The balance of Proßt und Loss to and 600 men Acculant for the year amounts. women, the last to be £190,000 135, 10d. and the amount evacuated from Holland, re-ild. brought forward froin last ac- available after adding £177,770 Os. turned to England to-day, cross count is £373,038 148. Od. **From ing the North Sea in a steamer, this sum has to be deducted £63,000, Bovin's Influenco

says "Reuter's" special corres-being the interim dividend of 6 per cent, less Income Thx, on the "A" LONDON, Moy 13 (Reuter)pondent aboard the vessel.

"B" and "C" shares paid in Septem- Chief interest In to-night's minis- terial appointments centres in that

ber last. of Mr. Ernest Bevin, who s an influential member of the Council of the Trade Union Congresa,

Lord Woolton to retain his post as

Minister of Food.

As Minister of Labour and National Service, his work will be closely re- lated to the important question of supply, el which Ministry his Labour colleague, Dr. Herbert Morrison, is

The voyage took 20 hours. The party included members of the British Consular staff at The Hague

The Directors have added £13,000 and Amsterdam, some of the Lego-to the Officers' Pension Fund, written tlon staff at The Hogue, the entire £25,000 off Freehold Banking Pre- Sadler Wells Ballet Company and all mises, and made an additional ülloca- British newspaper correspondentation of £30,000 to Contingencies from Amsterdam.

Account. They now recommend n Three hundred of the party were frul dividend on the "A," "B" and from Amsterdam. They had been " Shares of 6 per cent, less In- summoned to the office of the Con-

come Tax (making 12 per cent. for This will be a strong combinationsut-General on Saturday night and

the year), leaving a balance of and should go far, says "Reuter's" told that if they did not leave by the £170,030 14s. Od. to be carried for- Jobby correspondent, to co-ordinate last British boat the following day,ward. the supply efforts of branches.

he could not accept further responsi- bility for them.

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head.

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's appoint- ment as Minister of Health is clearly

mark of the Prime Minister's recognition of the valuable work Mr. MacDonald has done in his earlier ministerial appointments, He has long been marked out for the control

and his appointment will be extreme- ly popular.

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FIGHTING ON. DUTCH SOIL

FROM PAGE ONE

18,000 prisoners in the operations in the Netherlands.

Cronigen Occupied Meanwhile, the Gems rabu to have thrust forward on all fronts in Holland, particularly in the Zuyder Zee area The occupation

of

Gronigen Province, in the extreme

has been completed.

NAZI ADVANCE WELL CHECKED

FROM PAGE ONE

advance west of Monstricht has been Field up.

by

1.Vigorous bombing of troop columns and supply trains Allied planes,

arlitery fire. 2.-Continuous

the which is seriously harassing German rear, particularly at Liege, where the Belgian foris continue to hold out;

An agency of the Bank has been opened at Jaffna, Ceylon.

The following Directors retire by rolation under Articles 110 and 117

of the Articles of Association, but, re-election: Sir Charles A. Innts,

being eligible, offer themselves for

Mr. P. R. Chalmers.

It will be necessary, to appoint auditors. Messrs. Cooper Brothers and Co., and Messra W, A. Browne and Co., the retiring auditors, offer themselves for re-election.

The report was submitted to share- holders at the annual meeting held In Landon last month,--

ITALY CALLS UP RESERVES

FROM PAGE ONE

3. The clash between French and German mechaniset units, the Germans thus, for the first time in the war, being opposed in kind.

the German forces the Government of the western dia- Holland. hove succeeded in crossing the Yssel riets to evacuate the civil population and Mans (Mruse) rivers at severu of certain towns near the Italian

advance forces points, and the Dutch advance

DASH armed forces sheit with are retreating to the second line colony of Libya, and when con- !

the Netherlands troops in a severe pitched battle

south-west of

St.

Trong, and the Germans (quoted by United Press) claim to have repulsed the defenders by overwhelming nir co-operation.

The

sidered necessary. water defences, across which

"Reuter" adds that anxiety hus the Germans will experience enormous been

British created among the difficulties in attempting to cross, culous in Rome at tile belligerent

The country alrendy Inundated attitude of he Italian Press. completely protects the square form- The British Embassy has advised ed by Rotterdom,

Hague, inquires not to stay in the country DNB claims that a Dutch General Amsterdam and Utrecht from indif they are merely tourists or passing and his sinff were taken

prisoner invasion.

through. near Tilburg.

Orderly Retreat

British residents in Italy are also not being

Ly ck{stcargr<I

the Since there are no Dutch defence Consulate from leaving.

province DI lines in the northern

Following representations by the Groningen (which faces the German South African Chorge. d'Affaires, province of Oldenburg, containing anti-British posters have been Kiel, Wilhelmshoven and Bremen), moved from the wall of the South the Dutch troops arc retreating African Legation. southwards towards the. Zuyder Zee

Gorman Communique SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

GERMAN FIELD HEADQUAR- TERS, May 13 (UP)-The following official communique has been issued by the German High Command:

The German arinies attacked with good wide progress on May 12.

"Our troops are advancing In of the Suhr-Wellim Holland west Canal. They have established con- tact with our troops which landed at Rotterdamn from aeroplanes.

"In Belgium a passage has been forced over the King Albert Canal north-west of Hasselt."

Dutch Communique Radio-Hilversum

hus

broadcast

the following oMelal Dutch com-

munique?

In good order. The Dutch have en- of the Zuyder Zee in order to in- tirely evacuated the provinces east

undate the area.

The German advance into Hol- land is not considerable and it is stated that they have been forced to retreat at different points north and south of the Waal River (the “Rhine`in Germany);"which"empties|

at Dordrecht.

"Fifth Column" Clean-Up

Turkish Precautions

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Turkey is also taking certain precautions, and "Domel" reports this morning that a}). men of military age have been instructed to hold themselves in readiness for any eventuality.

It is believed, says "Doniel" that Turkey_will shortly...móbilisc_all. reservists.

In the Balkans, relations between.

number

of

Gibraltar

In the interior of Holland the Hungary and Yugo-Slavia appear to “German armoured cars have cap-situation is suid to be very much bet-be deteriorating, and Hungary hus tured Lagstraat.

"Fifth Columnists have been called up a large "A small detachment of heavily ter armed German parachute troops are mopped up and parachutists have Reservists. ROAD

been "annihilated."

Spain has reports from still operating in south Rotterdam.

Rotterdam, thanks to the co-opera that the Spanish Government has They are not equipped with artillery tion of the Dutch naval forces, is now called up six navy classes Saya and

being successfully almost entirely clear of parachutists. United Press." now attacked by our forces"

In resume: In Holland tis military authorities are masters of the internal situation, as a result of the rounding up of practically all the parachutists.

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Dutch Withdrawal LONDON, May 13 (Reuter),--A Dutch High Command communique, Broadenst from Hilversum this after- noon, stated that the German troops which crossed the Yssel River were in contact with the Dutch in West Gelderland,

"At the Yssel Lake," continues the ecenmurique, "the Dutch have with drawn with slight losses.

On the front the situation is sding- what lazy as a result of the German] crossings of the Yssel and Maus pivers.

In Belgium the German advance appears to have been

Navy In Action Off Holland

definitely LONDON, May, 13, (British Wie- Admiralty communique

"In the region south of Rotterdam / checked in the north. Further southa, jess)-An

there are still some Germans they are without artillery.

"Dutch aviation is putting up brave defence against a much larger enemy air force."

con-

# violent battle is progressing-o-states:**Since the German invasion but posite

Luxembourg, where the of Holland and Belgium, strong naval Luxemboug, French and Belgian forces

have been operating frontiers meet. The battle arca ex-tinuously off the const of these two tends from Longway to Sterck. countries in spite of repeated bomb- ing attacks having been made on French Communique

them.

"Ailled operations on land have PARIS, May 13 (Reuter) The been supported. Enemy troops land- Germans made a particularly bling from the air on aerodromes and effort in the Belgian Ardennes where beaches have been bombarded. they achieved scene progress.

"Refugees have been evacuated Our cavalry elements (light ma- from the war area and brought to chanised units), having fulfilled the this country." delaying action with which they were charged, fell back on the Mouac which the enemy had reached at a point.

The Berlin official news agency an- nounced to-day that the German Foreign Once had presented a memorandum to the governments in London, Brussels, Paris And The Hague, through neutral representa tives, stating the military position of the German parachute pilots and threatening most violent counter measures

prisoners I Infor- national Law 'Is violated in the treatment of German parachute

on

troops.

The German High Command states that for every German parachutist shot ien French prisoners will be shot. Brighter Nows AMSTERDAM, May 13 (Reuter): While the situation between Rottor- dam and The Hague's still uncertain there is an ericouraging sign in the fact that the Botterdam authorities have called on carpenters, brick layers and building workers to start repair work.

The enemy exerted strong pres- Etire оп Longway X attacks were those launched cast of the Moselle and in the region of the Saar.

Allied and enemy aircraft con- actions of tinued their supporting their land forces, attacking tho ad- versaries' columns

Fifteen enemy aircraft were shot down during these engagements.

Behind the ther memy action; though repeated, caused only damage of little importance from the military point of view.

QUEEN'S ESCAPE FROM TROOPS

Earlier the Dutch, authorities had forbidden the people to gather in streets in groups of three or more. All must have their passes and Dia- identity cards ready to show. obedience may mean instant death.

The Amsterdam-Radio has told the people not to accept arettes or chocolates from strangers, ARE

A bright note is provided by Radio- Amsterdam, which announced at 1.40 am; (4:40); am, J.KT.); that French motorised units ad Intercepted and voyed to England aboard British hold the Carman advance west of warships, which were convoyou Tongres, UEMANG

neross the North Sea by Allled planes Cepetund: destroyers,

FROM PAGE ONE!

PARIS, May 14 (UP)--German in The Netherlands Légation” has-la- fantry action has not materialind vund the following statement: the after the intense artillery bombardy Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina ment with which tije Nazis subjected has the arm intention of returning the Alligs Hines,

ng mouri is possible to her people."

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