1940-05-25 — Page 23

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 25, 1940.

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FIRST PICTURES FROM WAR-STRICKEN FRANCE LETTERS

NANCY, one of the first French towns to feel the scourge of the Nazi air- bombers, was practically reduced to ruins. In this picture, rushed to Hongkong by air mail, we see French soldiers and civilians clearing debris after a flerce acrial. attack-on-the-town:-

DOVODE PRISONER OF WAR Official figures reveal that hundreds of German benzyladecowmobyćestham Alliga duluth ET

France. In some cases the pilots are fortunate mough ́o escape with their lives, an in this plcture, which shows a young Nazi pilot captured by French troops after he had been forced to land. Another air mail, picture received in Hongkong- this morning.

Erbert Iggs And The Fift Column To The Editor,

The "Hongkong Telograph." dear mister oditer, a bloke wo 'arakin me the uvver day why e dont mi I kollum in the bonkong telegraf

moro.

eny

ased peeple wos sayin the senser chucked. It becos 11 was in the. Af collum corlavaduck wota blinkin

iervel :1

mine aint no ffi collum guvnor wot abast ole 'árgus alilin on is perch and robby macquirter chewin aggle'i and little ole vinegar wat rites abart

pickels

why aint one of them po. 5-i araks

cerius though mister editer Alrikes me a lot ov honkong prepla oint got the ang of the Ideer at orl. try for tell em abart the aft collum and they finks yu means one oy them. wots oldin up the dance floor in the grips

I tried ter tell mi girl frend ethel abart it the uvver, nite an she larfed an sed veerd that one befor and ole alf cum ome the uvver nite wiv black eye becas o got mixed up twiv n collum outsile olo dutchis place

, but I dont spect theres-eny, fift collums mhonkong do yu mister editer corlumns evrybody ere getmis ter be doing their bit in fack sum of em 'doin more than their bit

'I never been to such a blinkin place befor the way people works in honkong in

in this cro ooomidity an all it fair beats me

1 knows one bloke wot does threa blink Jobs e as ter urry ome tako "orf-is sallers sult put on is brokers- sult dosh darn the orfice ter break sumone dash orf ter the pariter plonk the dough in and then dash ome to wait fer is missus ter cum ame from work an Jest flak of the poro biznismen cóclumendi knows, ond wot-as-ter-ava-six visky roders-at- 330 pip amma or arf past three ovry urternoon becos is nerves is orl up- sent the

stono.

Cor o. me, sideways i carnt derstand

sum honkong people why sum

aint in the cabnet yu only got ter

ere em tork. ter find art they knows wels wot wen it cums ter fightin wars spose they must ave ad expeerunco in the spot of bother about 1914

its a blinkin shame though wot honkong people as ter put up wi jest imajin wet ju would feel ico sposin: hd, a 1

a lot of these ere shares en linge

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an abart the pore lidies wot. no ter pack up playin bridge an ange becos the govment makes em" go in fer war work.

onest mister editor i feels sure little ole, Itle; cient know wot ard- thipois inficktin' on honkong uvverwise c' would pack... up... the blinkin war an go in for keepin rab- bits

no sir there aint no fit collums In honkong Yu can collum wotą yu like

yores trewly herbert dres ps: contushus sez man wot, ewaller silver, doller musnt pass the buck

Rounding Up

ENTREPRISE DE PEINTURE ET DE V The Suspects

· PAPIERS-PE

TAPETE

Britain Guards Against. Fifth Columnists LONDON, May 24 (Router). Further action against fifth columnists and other exemplos, of LHOLEW

the state is,boing taken: FALLAIX-PUNKTwo more Fascists are reported to

have been arrested in Manchester.

The London District Committee of the Communist Party

Tethe

MEANING OF WAR Here we have two pictures which vividly illustrate the meaning of war. while fasilly erect-

ed barricades are left by the facing citizens If an attempt to stop the Invaders. Below a Nazi bomber, a mass of wreckage, after it had been brought down by Allied anti-aircraft guns on the French front. These two pletures were also received In Hongkong by ale mail to-day.

meeting

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Secretary of

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alondonderry, 12 men i

arrested.

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They are believed to be members of the IRA in Belfast. On Thursday night, 78 IRA. s pects were taken into custody,

Cairo

Fifth

• CAIRO, May 24 (Reuter)-Tho police Here have loated. a secret radio transmitter which is putting out German propaganda.

Several foreigners have prrested. Investigations are pro- Seeding

G-Mon Aid In U.S. WASHINGTON,, May, 24 (UP) The Department of Justice plans to add 100 more G-mea: to, tha, 150 already employed in combating the fifth column in the United States,

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50,000 PILOTS

"A YEAR

!

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuter};- Plans, to give basic training plate to. 50,000 men in the year Bo- ginning July 1 were disclosed, by President Roosevelt at a Press; con- ference.

The President-added that Congress would be naked for a supplementary appropriation to handle the pilot pró- Mén, taking, the COLICO will be drawn from schools, colleges and many citizens holding pilots', ilconces, and from men between the ages of 16. and 25. who are not in college, but who desire training in nylation.,

HONOURS LIST PUBLICATION

LONDON," May (Reuter)===If im oficially announced that the publica-- tion of the Honours List, which would-In the ordinary course, HavemE

nicen

place on the day appointed for

(June 13} ["necessarily poriporo for a few weeks owing to the change in administentiorn: