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May 17, 1940,

COLLEGE GALLANT BLITZKRIEG HELD BRITAIN'S

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EXAM RESULTS Big List of Successful Hongkong Candidates

The following are the results as supplied by the local secretary Mr. J. E. Anderson of the local Practical Examination held in of the Hongkong from May 7 to 14, 1940, under the auspices Trinity College of Music, London. Where not otherwise stated the examinations were for Pianoforte. The examiner was Dr. W. Lovelock

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Examination for Teacher's Diploma

Associate (A. T. C. L.)

Practical Work Only

Cecilia Marla Passos.

Higher Local Division

Fas with merit

May Chan Chun-Mai, Vivian Woo,

Alice Yul (Musicianship).

PAKS

Marlon Cheng. Melba

At

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1/211 1/21

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.522

T.T. Japan

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.8434

Sousa, Emily Yul (Musicianship),

Katherine Ylpp, Virginia Yvanovich

(Musicianship)

Advanced Senior Division

Honours

Chon Yun Yee.

Pass

Lilian Luk. Gloria Woo.

Senior Division

Honours

Chen Mae Ying, Lily Lien Sung (Musicianship), Aurella Wu,

Pas with Merit

Joy Beryl Jean Carey, Mary Ching Ming Yui, Fung Lin Yec, Kathleen Lee Juliuong, Lul Sook Ching. Sister Rachele Piebami, Flazel Seister, Shin Ching Yung, Amy Tsang, TLC Lai Ching, Mona Wong, Anna Wong. Jennie Wong Kook Ying.

Pass

Esther Chan, Vera Dhabber, Vera. , Dhubher (Violin), Etienne Dinh-Van- Do (Violin, Dorothy Luk. Marlon' Liu, Lui Sook Chun, Marina Mac- Kechnie, Norma Tsang.

Intermediate Division HONOURS

folu Margaret Blen, Ethel Ruth

Kun. Mai Fook Yin Edmonds, Hui

T.T. U.S.A.

T.T. Manila

T.T.

T.T.

Bulavin Bengkok

T.T. Saigon

T.T. France

T.T. Switzerland

T.T. Australia

BUYING

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50,000 PLANES

FROM PAGE ONE

tu enter Into contructs $286,000,000.

totalling

the their

LIEGE DEFENDERS

Surrounded Forts Continue To Fight

By WALLACE CARROL (HUNITED PRESS" STAFF CORRESPONDENT)

FROM:PAGE ONE

the position on the Lowland western front.

Two features of to-day's operations were the biggest R.A.Fraid of the war and fighting west of Sedan,

The Air Ministry announced that the RAF. raid lasted the whole night. The planes bombed the enemy road, rall and communications east of the Rhine. Mahy tons of borrabs were dropped and many fires and explosions followed.

EXPORT INCREASES

Chief Coratributing Factor

LONDON, May 10 (Brilish. Wire- less)The Increase of £3,500,000 in United Kingdom experts in April compared with March was due prin- elpally to larger exports of mar

| manufac- tured goods, the total value of which, at £30,000,000, was 10% per cent. higher than the month before.

The

The Nazis have kept fairly quiei LONDON, May 16 (UP)—:

about the raid although a passing King Leopold of the Belgians, reference to it was made by the Ger like his father in 1914, has called man High Command which claims

group showing the largest in- rease was vehicles. Exports of all upon the commanders of his that no military objectives were hit,

much forts to resist to their uttermost. but a number of civilians were kill descriptions of textiles were

The longer the Belgian resisted. They also stated that, the borrabs higher. For cotton goods they were the highest in value sing October, The only rellable news of opera-1937, and for woollen goods and the longer the Allies will have to only did a little damage. strengthen the Belgian secondtions to the north-west of Sedan in

other textiles highest for ten years. line of defences past Brussels. contained in a French communique.

Pottery Exports, ang Exports of pottery and glass were also highest for ten years and those of cutlery,, hardware, electrical, goods and chemical drugs were highest for 20 years.

Each Llege fort has a deep anti- tank moat. The garrisons live under- ground as they do in the Maginot Line, Between the farts there is a chain of pill boxes for continuous network of fire. Inside this ring of modern forces Hes chain of twelve old forta.

»

Finally, inside this line, which is six miles from the centre of Liege, there are lines of pill boxes covering the ronds which wind between the high cliffs into the city.

Situation Serious

The communique states that opera- tions are taking on the characlerli- tics of open warfare. Tanks planes are being used in farge num- bers.

and

Owing to the higher interests of the conduct of military operations the communique could not give any fur- ther details for the present.

Responsible spokesmen do not deny that the position between Namur and Sedan is serious but they assert that the Allied High Command has taken the necessary measures to reduce the pocket French defences at Sedari.

Some of the German molarised

From scattered reports reaching here from the front it appears certain that new efforts are being made to withstand the German pounding.

However, when the Germans cross-units which broke through at Sedan ed the Albert Canal on Saturday got to the rear of the French lines they succeeded in opening a Way but by Wednesday evening the westward to Brussels,

French were able to counter-alluck,

Presumably, the enemy resurned operations to-day but up to n late AO hour this afternoon there was

NEW TECHNIQUE me own that there was a great

FROM PAGE ONE

At great risk, motorised columns push ahead without worrying about communications in their rear.

Thele supply of petrol is limited and there is no possibility of them oblaining further supplies or of being backed up by a wall of Infantry.

Among the tanks which spread out fan-wise through France after the Dangor Of Surprise

brenk-through at Sedan were a large number of 30-ton monsters. said

that The President American people must recast

The presence of these large land- Kei, Queenie Weng

battleships on the west bank of the PA88 WITH MERIT

to which no The element of surprise, he sald, Meuse is a mystery Constance Basto, Yvonne Black-thinking about national protection,

has yet been more dangerous satisfactory answer more, Fung Sik

owing owing to the amazing speed found.

Parls is asking how the enemy sue- with which modern equipment could

ceeded in getting these huge machines reach and attack enemy territory.

"Our

vital interests are over evca

the permanent bridges widespread," he continued, and more which had not been blown up, since than

De protection

the none of the bridges that were left hemisphere standing were capable of bearing the Angela Chang, Stella Ming, Gloria whole of the American June Moss,

against invasion or control by non-weight of the tanks unless they had Junior Division

Americans has the united support of been reinforced., 21 American republies, including the United States.

had become oven Mang, Janet Hall, Laura Ip, Kwok Bik Yiu, Kin Ling Ma.. Betty, Lee, Marion Lee, Luk Lai Sann, Ng Tak Ching, Ng Yuen Ching Maizic Rels, Thuvi Vangtal, Wong Shuk Yiu.

PASS

HONOURS

Au Yang Yee Cho, Margaret Jessic Hume, Destine Mary Horwood (Musi-

ever

own

of

"More than ever this "protection weapons ready-at-hand demands

of great mobility."

cianship), Hul Woon Chuen, Hui Yin president

Kui, Lau Mun Yink, Vera Litter, Billy Moy (Violin), Florence L. Wed- lock, Claire Van Wyllck.

PASS WITH MERIT Lubu Besedish, Antonio Baptista, Crispinn N. V. Carlos, Jenny Chang. Robina Heggie Cheesman, Myrtle Chan, Fung Po Yuk, Elizabeth Jeani Gittins, Fe Grefald-Lau-Shiu-Yan. Liu Nien Si, Betty Lee (Singing); Annie C. Mackenzie, Manuela Nunes, Hellen Chun Tlampo (Musicianship), Wong Man Long.

PASS

Rafacia Co, (Musicianship)

E. Ellis, Betty Slu.

Fern

Advanced Preparatory Division

HONOURS

he

Roosevelt said would like to see the United States geared to the ability to produce at Icast 50,000 planes yearly.

Strong Offensive

The German mechanised offensive has been particularly strong in the vicinity of Sedan, where heavy rein- through forcements are pouring Luxembourg in another attempt to breach the French defences,

With the advent of the war movement, authentic news from the

It is re

of

Furthermore, he said. the nation should plan a programme to pro- vide the country with 50,000 millt front is

is known, however, that several, ary and naval planes.

armoured units The object-of-the-new-defence of the German fund was to equip a-inrger-army vicinity of Sedan, where heavy.rein- pressing modernise the old army sage across the Meuse are replace and and navy equipment, increase the production facilities and accelerate to a 24 hour basis all existing army

navy contracts.

und

50.000 Planes A Year

strongly to the west.

The Germans are throwing every-

into

thing into the battle around Sedan in an effort to blast their way France outalde the Maginot, Line,

Since Wednesday, a continuous "Our defences must be invulner- able and our security absolute," he battle has raged between Sedan and Robert Baines, Alison King said. "But our defences to-day do Namur, the Germans being supported Dorothy

Kwan, (Musiclanship},{ Elizabeth Millar, Patricia Ma, Regi-not provide for security against by a colossal number of airplanes and

potential developments and dangors big guns, nald Henry Martin, Shin St Chuen, of the future. Irls Sun, Young Wai Man. Young! Sook Fun.

Advanced Preparatory Division PASS WITH MERIT Cynthia Lo, Monica Lim, Lail Kwun Wo, Alusuko Shiga, Ronald

Wong.

PASS Fang Miu Wo..

Preparatory Division

HONOURS

"Our objective is still peace home and abroad. Nevertheless, wa stand ready not only to spend mil- lions for defence but to give our service, and even our ilves, for the maintenance of American liberties."

Enormous Losses

Many German attacks in the Sedan region hus becn repulsed with enormous losses and the French, sponded by units of the R.A.F, are

resisting strongly.

is

the melee of troops and tanks in are affected and that the enemy was trying to debouch from the bridge

hends which he had established. ------

The Allied High Command has taken the necessary dispositions which it hopes will be successfat.

French Guns Pound Away

Fast and south of Sedan, the enemy is being held and the only activity there is heavy artillery fire.

The French artillery is banging sway at German munition supply and dumps whlie the German ar- illlery is attacking French forts in the Vorges.

The German attack on Wednesday on the positions held by the British between Antwerp and Low- troops vain were successfully held,

Correspondents with the British Expeditionary Force here state that this push is secondary to the main drive further south.

The line runs down to Louvain and then southwards past Namur and then down to Sedan and the French line,

Namur Isolated Namur,-ĺike-LJege, is now isolated. and is forming another centre of re- sistance behind the Nazi advance.

to "Resist

for

the the utmost Fatherland. I am proud of you.** read a message from King Leopold which was broadcast several times yesterday to the Commander, officers, N.C.O's. und men at the forts at Ilege.

Hoavy Zeeland Fighting LONDON, May 10 (Reutér).The latest Information reaching London. indicates that heavy fighting is still proceeding in Zeeland.

On the eastern side of tho dent which they yesterday forced in the Ilne about Sedan, the Germans are now held.

On the west side of the dent, the situation is slated to be serious but not critical.

Liege is isolated but appears to be holding

out, and information suggests that Namur may be isolated, but the information. Is not definite or this point.

In any case Namur is also holding aut.

"North of Zeciand fighting is pro-, ceeding between Allied and German aid, had

troops. Fighting has been particu- One belligerent, he said, mony

French military sources stated to-

larly heavy in Walcheren and Beve- more planes than ell its opponents day that the Allies had brought up land. combined but it also appeared to

ΠΟΥ to In Belgium the line still runis have a weekly production capacity at allicient reinforcements

enroughly east to Antwerp towards smash the mechanised units which rough the moment far greater than its op-

succeeded in penetrating al three

Louvain and Charlerol and south- ponents.

points between Namur and Mezieres.

ward towards. Mezleres and on to- wards Longwy.

Sophia M. W. Cheesman, Rosalinda The President asked Congress to The Allied defensive positions are S. Chan, Helen E. Fraser, Margaret take no action which would hamper now such, said a spokesman, that any Jessie King, Martha Lewis, Helen or delay the delivery of American fears regarding their rear positions Logun, Marla do Carmo Vargos made planes foreign nations Moniz, Margaret Morgan, Phoon Suet which had ordered them or to seek have been eliminated. Ching, Thoon Sau-Ching, Therese-da

more "from-that-point-of-view of Roen, Belly Tec, Naty Tuason, our own national defence would be Veronica Walker,

Annie Wong, extremely shortsighted."

Young Sook Fong, Renee Yuen,

Counter-Attacks

The most serious part of the line is between Dinant and Sedan.

Violent Attacks

Yesterday · nfternoon, north.

For the first four months of 1040, Imports totalled £417,501,000 against £288,270,000 In the corresponding period of 1939 and re-exports £14,- 120,000 against £18,845,000.

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Inv Mersmans ot Generally speaking, Balde Namur the Germans launched several

AIR MAIL DUE spokesman, the German attacks have

aitacks on British, French and Bel- are now been repulsed, and there Roosevelt Cheared

After a day's delay air mails trom glun troops. At Sedan they began frequent Allied counter-attacks along

violent attacks which, by evening, England and Empire countries PASS WITH MERIT

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuter); the entire length of the Meuse.

acemed checked, and at certain points expected this itemoon. They will Betty Ellen Annis, Mobel Howard,

There have been crowded

number of local

Allied troops made alight. progress probably arrive by 3 pan. Another inward service Is.scheduled for Sun- Maria T. d'Almada Remedios, Hilda Crowded golleries of

along the Meuse. Maria Silva, Shirley Wilke, Jeanne Joint session of Congress enthusias-actions west of the Moselle River and

day afternoon and on outward ser- tically applauded President Roo-German artillery has opened fire on sevell's speech.

the big guna of the Maginot fort!-

vice will leave that morning. Ten days ago such a speech would fleations in this area, have been denounced as war-moY)" gering.

T. Whitecross.

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The applause WaB particularly

heavy when the President requested GOVT. GRANT TO

Douglas Bates, Fanny Chan, Choy that delivery of planes for foreign Lai Sheung, Laureen Ćiemo, Johnny countries be not delayed.

Choa, Donald Chan Pui-Chee, Terest

P. Carlos, Kazuko Fujita, Josephine

FARMERS

LONDON, May 18 (British Wire- Mr. the new Agriculture Minister, Mr.

Hillyer, Ellen Mary King, Aino Liu Tuk Kam, of Kat Hing Street, Icos)The first announcement of Lazzeri, Stella Leong, Mavis Law Tal-o, was charged

before

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In the Vosges, there was heavy artillery fire against the Maginot Line and in the Rhine the French fired It is expected that the battle will

upon the German Lino.

A French message reaching Lon-now lettle down to violent exchanges don stated that between Namur and of utillery fire as the Germans bring Sedan, the situation is very confused, up their guns.

The Germans profited by the ad-. vances yesterday and pushed forward armoured columns which penetrated some distance Into the French line.

It now appears that practically all the oil in Amsterdam and Rotterdam Dawn Mary Rose, Richard Peter South's, Court to-day with, receiving government grant to farmers towards did not fall into German hands Ritchie, Barbara

found the ploughing up Soong, Junko It was alleged that he was

of grassland Tonegi, Julianita Villanueva, Louise inside the Colóny in unlawful posses March next year for the 1914 harvest. Woo, Gloria Woo, Wong Man Ying. sion of 32 4-gallon tins of kerosene The period for such grants for the

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unlawfully Catharine C. Chan, Ivy. Ho, Sylvin have been stolen or Marla dos Remedios,

los, John. F: Shand obtained outside the colony. On the (Violin),

application of Sergeant Nolan, he was remanded until Monday In goo! custody.

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The Heel Of Attila

Hollanders Under Nazi Rule

rence. Graeme Mackenzie (Violin), Cruttwell in the District Officer, R.S. Hudson, is the extensions of the was destroyed bestin Ditch sind 60 place-al-certain-points nl-Bindon Blood, a.c-B., d.CVO, C.D., German-occupied Holland.

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billed to-day French communique

Sir Bindon Blood- states that the battle, continuos na a whole with the same intensity.

LONDON, May 16 (Router)The LONDON, May. 16° (Reuter) Very sharp encounters have taken

doath is reported......of General Sir heel of Attila is already being felt In. Our bombers, anya the

Many decrees have been broadcast que, were protected by fighter planes who had been Chlef Royal Engineer Long Battle Predicted

which successfully carded out and of the Corps of Royal Engineers calling for a censis of cattle, restrict

· LONDON, May 10 (Reuter).

ing the buying" of _clothes," and for- "Renter's special correspondent with vigorously led attacks on the enemy's since 1930.

columns of armoured cars. These

Sidding Nearly ninety-eight years of RC day's supply of fond

anyone to buy, more than a the French Army (elegraphs that the cars had been laented by French re- General Sir Biddon Blood entered tho arent battle in the Sedan sector, connaissance-aeroplanes

Royal Engineers in 1860 and served The decree on petrol states, that which Germans were making a thrust Me Now Threat To Louvain In the Jowaki Expedition, the Zulu there is very lile left and that at the heart of France, is silil raging

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DENEVA, May 6 (Reuter) |Theatre, are requested to note that "Journal”.

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