1940-05-24 — Page 9

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IL from Runnin hippud nerois the Black Sea and reaches Germany via the Danube.

This route cannot bo blockaded by the Allies because the provisions of the Montreux Convention signed in 1936 alose the Dardanelles.10 our warships.

GERMA

FALY

REAR GUNNER

it Tanker: Route

❤ - Russia to Ger muting -

The Convention pro- hibits the entry: af belligerent warships Into the Black Sea un- less they are executing, obligations under the League Covenant, or under a mutual assist. arico part to which Turkey is a partner and which is recog ¡nised by'the League.

RUMANIA SULINA

Danube

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 24, 1940.

Make

At On Town Wonder

Sea

Queer Goings

If

Monster Is About

FOLKESTONE.

THE people of Folkestone are wondering what happened one day recently about a quarter of mile out to sea off the Warren.

GROZN

BLACK SEA

CONSTANZA

DARDANELLES

TURKEY

CASPIAN

IRAN

SYRIA

OBSERVER

PILOT OFFICER

WIRELESS OPERATOR

FLEET MAINTAINING

ITS TRADITIONS

THE

NEW FACE MOULDER

THIS WONDERFUL NEW APPLIANCE IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ELIZABETH.... ARDEN'S NEW FACE MOULDING HOME TREATMENT.

There is a Loch Ness Monster atmosphere hanging THE NEW FACE about the whole affair. You shall hear the evidence, and return whatever verdict you like.

First witnesses were two small boys who went to a look-out station and said: "Oy, Mister, the sea's boiling.

The look-out looked out but saw nothing. He con- cluded that the boys had seen a strong tide breaking over some rocks: We shall recall the look-out later.

A man who was travelling by train from Dover to Folkestone was more explicit. "I saw a big disturbance on the surface of water," he sald. "It WDB the frothing and clouds of steam rising from I. It insted minutes."

Here is one of the many"

BOMB CREW

OVER NAZIS

PILOT NAVIGATOR

R.A.F. bomber crews now Haw-Haw 6ghting so splendidly on

Was Too

the Western Front.

VALUE OF A Much For

THIS official picture of Britain's record-of-naval GIRL'S HAND achievement since the war began shows how the Fleet is maintaining its traditions.

developed Aggregate power by the main engines of the horse Flect was.. 12,000,000 power-equal to the total gen- erating capacity of all the power stations in Britain.

One man who joined up was en-

A GIRL'S hand is worth £250 man's according to more than

at Manchester langes

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thought Another person sold he that some seals that had been seen neur Folkestone were holding a mos meeting out to us and were throwing up a fine spray

Most people reject this theory. "Mr. J. Fogg, a boatman, snid. con- fidently that he saw a spout of water shcot up in the air. He suggested facetiously that someone on board a patrol vessel wanted fresh fish for Leu and had dropped a depth charge. A man shing with a red and line on the pier said that in his ophien It was a miniature tidal wave!

Smoke Float Theory

Another bi of evidence is In |·favour-ui-en-eruption orvost dis

turbance on the sea-bed. "There have been three big landslides on the coast during the winter," sold ene of this school, "and probably this had some effect on the sea-bed. The chalk may have slipped eausing ur to shot up through the water and throwing a line spray which looked like stem,"

The lonk-out, recalled, is con- vinced now that he knows the actual reason for the boiling sea.

There is no doubt about it," he said. "I was a smoke itoat dropped by an aeroplane. I have seen them before. The ellect of the water on a stewplug these things produces and a vapour."

14-Hour Day For Germans

AMSTERDAM.

The extraordinary demands made on German ronds and railways for the transport of troops and coat al bther goods are relected in a new decree published in the Reichsar- beitsblatt, organ of the German Ministry of Labour,

14-hour work-

M

MOULDER

HAS

BEEN PLANNED

ΤΟ DUPLICATE THE

MOVEMENTS OF HU-

MAN FINGERTIPS.

IS

THE NEW FACE MOULDER INVALUABLE BECAUSE IT IMPARTS FIRMNESS TO THE CONTOUR, DOES NOT LEAVES STRETCH THE SKIN AND THUS

'TISSUES.

NO

LOOSE

OR

SACCING

Elizabeth Arden

PERFUMERY SECTION

MEZZANINE FLOOR

LANE CRAWFORD LTD.

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THE HOUSE OF QUALITY & SERVICE

PARLOPHONE

RETURN OF OLD FAVOURITES

R 2583

Blue bells of Scotland

My Boaulo lles over the ocean.

RL 2578

Artistes life.

Vienna Boubens

I 2075

Begin the Beguine ("It'way Mejady of

I cried for you.

R 2686

My blue heaven

Because X-love-you-

2685

1 2633

Arkansas Blues. St. Louis Blues

One day when wo were young. Millicent ~Sweethearts-Walin.

R 2656 Acceleration waltz (Strauss).

Budapest Wallz.

By the black sea.

My dream tango..

Twe sleepy people. New Orleans, R-2404-Blue Daube Swing Night ride,

Ella Logon with Qich;

con-with-

Mildred Ballby pich

Art Shaw, all his musjed

Mildted Bailey & Oreh,

Phillips, The girl septano. Orchestra Mascotte. ..George Boulanger & Orch.

Ella, Logan & Hongy, Carmichael.

Eddie Carroll and his Swingphonic orch.

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

19. Queen's R. C.! Marina House Essen railway

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This introduces a ing day for all German transport. I 2629 workers over 10..

The

incusure.

it is explained, R 2011 due to the necessity of "utilising all means of transport to the utmost

An announcement in the National Zeitung of Essen showed that

count TWENTY-FOUR nations strain is being placed on railway

paper printed more daily rolling stock. The

recommendation of titled to wear the Boer War medal Assizes, when a giri aged eighteen broadcast. one or

was awarded €1,500 for the loss of talks in English and other lan-authorities that for Journeys up 10 three Angers of her right hand.

Later it was announced that a guages. Most of this is propa- 60 miles goods trucks should be given claim by a man for a similar right-ganda. Some of it is news. To a load weighing one ton more than hand injury and been settled for gift it London newspapers em- their registered capacity.

I hese two items of news throw Her 28,000 Miles

£1,250.

further light on the causes of the Miss

Annie Hindle, of Heyes- ploy expert listener-reporters.

neeldents

on German rail- During December one of our older

One of them calculates that in frequeal neck battleships steamed 9,500 miles at an street, Blackburn, awarded the £1, Battleships have averaged 25 days average speed of 161⁄2 knots, and 600, sued the Rose Hill Laundry, of three months he has heard and sifted ways. Both men and material are

them from "Jarmanny."

A different picture is provided by at sea every mouth during the past during the brief time available utkbuen, for damages for personal 3,000,000 words more than half of being worked to death.

Her hand, caught in machinery, Recently he again tuned in to the new wage scales for the German four months, the, average mileage the end of each patrol was only able injuries.

to clean one-ninth of her boilers.

was seriously crushed and burned. Bremen. This, he reports, is what mercantile marine, issued last Thurs- 8,000 and

One cruiser travelled 28,000 miles steamed being between

Three of her fingers were part-am- happened when he turned the switch. day by Dr. Voeltzer, special labour

trustee for the merchant navy, in the first three months of the war.

of the putated and a fourth was stiff and

Noises, On And Off 10,000 miles.

These are concerned solely with useless. Another steamed North Atlantic.

ic ve turner bleary the working time of watchmen em- George Sellers, of Trevelyan-| The magic eye Twenty thousand betive service mainly in the heavy sons

at an GEOS

10 "special circumstance men and 8,000 reservists and non- 12,000 miles in September

Watchman on sioners were engaged aflat in en overage of 174 knots. Yet another street, Eccles, In a claim against his green, winked drunkenly, and then ployed on ships laid up in port gineering duties in the Navy in the was at sea in tropical waters for 102 caloyers, M. Esteln, manufue- went out. Lord Haw-Haw, who was wing

turers of unholstery, of Cambridge-apparently in the middle of de- created by the war. street Mills, Lower Broughton. was nouncing Mr: Churchill, coughed, ships lild up for longer-than-vigist early days of the war, and as the days in the first four months."

awarded £1,250.

purpled, made a noise like a man weeks are to be allowed two free Three of his fingers were sliced off with shbone stuck in his throat, days a month. Fleet expands 'the number ricreases.

The cruiser Exeter, which bore the by a circular saw of the works. The and went out, too.

find the exit brunt of the battle with the Admiral tops of his thumb and remaining! From inside the set cune a series reperter, trying to

black smoke followed by flames. The electricnl expert's verdlet is reft, while the Achilles hnd steamed

After this the set also went out that the accident was caused by the 125,000 miles willout being refitted.

clutched in the orms, of an agitated main, transformer burning oul..

Since the outbreak of war only! Graf Spee, was a year. overdue for figer of the hand were also cut off of crackles, then a cloud of dense through the snake.

Had the three cruisers burned coul insleuel of cll fict they could not have done their job, for with coal it would not have been possible to work up to full power se rapidly or to maintain that power continuously. rus-

Dockyards' Responso 'cult to tic after many years

one ship has been delayed by main engine trouble-and that delay was only for an hour and a half.

Reservists and pensioners ponded nably to the Colours, sonic

HITLER'S AMBITION

A

Berlin, May 23. military spokesman to-day In the dockyards the response to factory. In two cases special com-prime objective was the conquest of In une esse a ship had three en-aendation has been earned for the Britain: gineer officers whose cornbined ages

war demands has been equally satis-emphasised to the Press that itler's

ushore.

totalled 101 years.

NEXT CHANGE NEVER SHOOT A MAN, GIRLS -

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THEY'RE

completion of repairs well in advance Latest reports from the front maice WORTH MORE TO YOU ALIVE THAN DEAD!

of scheduled time.

Doran's Last Flight Was Over Stavanger Base

SQUADRON Leader K. C.

The perfect weather favoured

no enthusiastic claims of successCR but merely say that in the face of Jurious counter-attacks the GermANG ath spreading a new thrust to the north on the French coast in order to close around the Allies in west Belgium.

Reports paint a picture of despair and near punte in Lendon and Paria because of the initial success of the Hitzkrieg which swallowed Holland. and two-thirds of vini-Luxembourg

and

into France ip create a serious threat Doran, first officer to win the butty, but it also hampered the Belgium and pushed a huge bulge D.F.C. in this war and the first British raiders in their escape,

The I.A.F. planes were engaged that the war might be soon brought to receive a bar, is bolluyed to by four Messerschmitt 110's. One to Britain.

Inland have been killed when he let Blenhetin was".hit, but the pilot It is claimed that the Germans have

Another sent a thrust about 30 miles force of Blenlleim bombers over manoeuvred away.

Mesterselumitt 109 spinning into the northward and that eventually they tip of Stavanger.

Belgium and the Dutch border. It is Hia aquadron was, starting a new sea with smoke streaming from its will reach the north-west

engine.

pointed out that after cutting the series of ralds-the, first daylight Takis of the wit--Jotencied to reduce Bit-Doran's plane was one of two Allied troops the Germans will be the German-occupied Norwegian air which have not been seen since the able to concentrate on their push base to temporary Impotence formation, broke up to deliver thiele, across the Channel:

in the face of interase anil-alrchaft separate attacks on the aerodrome, Auhorised quarters, after querying Are the British planes ruked the base With Him as observer was Sergeant the High Commant, faly deny the with high explosive, and Incendiary R. H. J. Baltelek, and as air gunner report that the Allies have recaptured bombs, causing havoc on the dero- and wireless operator: Pilot Oncer FAbbeville, Amiens, and

M. N. Searle, fluke • United Prese;"

drome.

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