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British Cabinet Changes Forecast
SPECIAL TO THE "YELEGRAPH"
A Look Through. The Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO
Juna 19, 1030.
It has leaked out that the reason why the longkong Electric Company has not yet started to set up its posts and wires, In order to keep faith with the general publie by luminating a portion of the city not later than Grinber next, is at tribulable to the fact that the "powers that be are racking their scanty brain over the question of reputed dangers
consequent upon "over head lighting" and
during typhoons.
LONDON, June 18 (UP)e alleged very serious Further changes in the British Cabinet are reported to be pend. ing.
It is understood that Mr. Lloyd George, the vettran Liberal leader who was Premier when the Germans capitulated In
consequences
We learn that the pins of the Electric Light Company have been for nome weeks past in the hands of the Burveyor General, whose failure to grant permin slon has practically stopped work and causing grievous annoyance in all lu- terested in the welfare of the enterprise, and, of course, a considerable loss of time and money. It will be remembered that at the general meeting of the Company bed at the Hongkong Hotel on the 24th the Manager promised to have
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 19, 1940..
RAIDS ON GERMANY
R.A.F. Attack Dozen Naxi Citios
LONDON, June 18 (Router). Details of R.A-F. bomber raids in north-west Germany last night are given in an Air Minis- try bulletin.
The bulletfa says that military objectives were attacked at Gelsen- kirelion, Ilomburg, Wanne, Elckel, Essen, Dollbergen, Hamburg, Aachen, Duisburg, Rheydt Cologne and Coblenz.
Strong forces of aircraft made-a- series of attacks on oil storage centres at Gelsenkirchen, Homburg. Wanne and Eikel,
Many Fires Started
Many fires were started In Hom- oll tanks, culminating in a
1918, is reported to have rent in full wwing not later than Oc-burg celved an invitation from Mr.tober of this year. Churchill.
As to the question of actual danger Ereat conflagration. accruing from "averhead lighting", any
Two fuel installations at Gelsen- were repeatedly hit. Ou
It is stated that Mr. Lloyd argument about it is simply beyond the kirchen George has been offered an in- of consiste discussion as regardstanka were act alight, while buildings, Hongkong, seeing that it will be decades
ines and funellons were before our "island horne" becomes railway
A network of heavily demolished. covered with charged electric wires such as are com
Fires were started at Wanne find plained of in New York.
Fickel. 25 YEARS AGO
portant post in the inner Cabinet.
War
French Don't Like New Government
LONDON, June 18 (Router) "Reuters" special correspondent with the B.E.F. writes that he has found a widespread feeling that the new French Government may not lang continue to receive the support the French people.
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This correspondent has just reached port in west France. Britain from
He wrlles as follows:
June 19, 1915.
The French authorlites are wipplying Thatr trooms with glit slee! helmets, recalling at ancient headpiece. In order
to protect the men from spent fragments French and bullets. (The ntitis
the first
10 introduce the "tin hat"-Ext.)
TO YEARS AGO
were
June 10, 1950, The Hongkong Government has taken Jura- the wholesale netion to prevent portallon if Mextran Huilars,
Increased taxes tobacco have been rapidly followed by the Government's sunouncement that it intends to impuse
lax of 15 cents per gallon an oils. In chiding petrol, which will send the prles of sooter spirit up to $1.15.
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the op
Shanghal will shortly have portunity of welcontag two of Italy's inont distinguished people. Count Galeazzo Cano di Cortellazzo and his wife, the Signoring Edda Mussolini,
Support Unlikely "In talking to French navy officers (former
daughter of Signor Musolini. Dictator of and elvillans during a 300-mile tour italy, Comit Linna Bak been appointed from the battle zone to the port of Consut-Ceneral for Italy in Shanghal and embarkation, I found a very wide-is expected early in September to take sprend feeling tint the new Govern-int Consul corner
present General, who has reut might not long continue to re-ren transferred to the Foreign Office ceive the support of the French in Rome. Count Clann is by no means La newcouser to China, having for a num. people.
ber of years been attached to the Italian I gathered that there is a wide-rpation in Peking. spread feeling that the Pelain regime Dwes too nucli 10 pro-Fascist elements, and that
he is divorced |
5 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1035. The Anglo-Gerynan bayal agreement in from the will of the French people welcomed in principle by most of the and Parliament.”
London newspapers.
NAZI INFLUENCE
IN DUBLIN
*
The two rebel Chinese warships, the Tai Chi and fai Shen, which after en- ggling in an artillery duel with the Bocen Tigris forts on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, escaped from the .control.of the Canton authorfiles, steamed Into Hongkong harbour this afternoon.
LONDON, June 18 (Reuter).-Mr.
Parts unfolding a superb Visina of G. H. Shakespeare, Under-Secretary for the Dominions, in the House of nagnificent free-bordered avenues and its labyrinths of crooked little lance. Cominens to-day, said that he under-melly but picturesque, is two cities. One stood the official stair of the German of them is a tribute to the architectural Legation in Dublin consisted of stxivision of Georgen Eugene Baron lause- inan, that great city planner in the persons and three typists.
reign of Napoleon . The other is the
Mr. Henderson Stewart asked if the city which laughed and wept at the tyrie tinofficini stair numbered some poems of Francola Villon, bowed obse-
qulously as the equipage
hundreds.
Oil Stores Attacked Large oil storage plants at Dell-
ulso and Hamburg were bergen attacked,
The flames and Ares started at Dolibergan were visible 35 miles away and a great blaze staried at Hamburg, where one of the largest of storage plants in north- west Germany was hit. A particu- larly violent explosion occurred.
was also
Other formations of night raiders attacked marshalling yards and busy rallway junctions from Hamm, in the north, to Aachen, In the west, and along the Rhine from Duisburg to Coblenz.
A big fire was started in the midst of a crowded marshalling yard at Hamm.
Goods Yards Hit
Goods yards at Anchen, Rheydt und Cologne were repeatedly hit and Coblenz and Essen, mainline tracks as well as marshalling yards
at
were hit.
A series of fires was caused in the centre of the malu marshalling yard at Duisburg,
Three aerodromes In Germany
were also bonbed.
where night-flying was progressing
Large ares were started among the at the
Berodrome buildings near Bremen.
Hangurs and buildings Schiphol aerodrome in Amsterdam aircraft were were hit and enemy machine-gunned and sent headlong to the ground.
Two of our aircraft are missing.
Clarion Call By Labour
Mr. Shakespeare suggested that the ici che ti imperiously falloped brand "We Stand As The Last
question should be raised again as was difficult to get information.
BRITISH EMPIRE
NEVER DIES
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met in the of the gifted witty
it Madame de Sevigne. One of the Wonders
of Paria is that so much of the latter city
I retasing.
A French adage pridefully reads, "Paris was not built in day" Neither will
blestones of its tortuous streets the world
cities that are Paris.
Bastion In Europe" LONDON, June 18 (Reuter).
its charts soon disappear. Along its-Following a meeting of the "Elysian Fields" and upon the very cob National Council of Labour, held will continue to read the tale of the two in the House of Commons this evening, a statement was issued. After paying tribute to the herole struggle of the people of France against overwhelming odds, stalement says:
That there is real need for the esta- blishment of children's hospitals in Hong kong and Kowloon was the opinion ex- pressed at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Protec- tion of Chlidren.
the
"A great ordeal now lies before The full weight the British people. of the enemy is now certain to fall As the last upon us. We stand
CAIRO, June
(Reuter). "Dictators fade away. The British Empire never dies," declares the or- der of the day by General Sir Archibald Wavell to the troops in the Middle East.
"We shall
Europe from tyranny as we have before.
"Dimcult times lie ahead but they of fis Majesty's ships, was bitten by bastion in Europe against the menace will be faced with the same spirit of a dog. The animal was seized and of tyranny. Let us meet the
with calm resolution." calm confidence in which we faced taken to Kennedy Town for obser- stand Armel vation, while Mr. Handericl: was such crises before. We whatever happens."
trrated privately.
save
While in the first floor of No. 21 Juffe Road, Mr. E. Handerick, of one
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The statement describes it as a proud privilege to sustain the hope of civilisation throughout the world in the darkest hour Europe has over. known and says:
"We know that countless millions of subjugated peoples now under the way of the dictators are with us in spielt und only await the opportunity for action.
The statement concludes by ex- that all pressing full confidence members of the Labour movement will give to the utmost in every neid of production the energy and efforts for which the crisis calls.
"Let us slow the tyrants of Ger- many and Italy that the will of the common people of Britain is beyond their power of destruction."
Japan And The Axis
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” ROME. June 10 (UP)-Rome- Radio announces that news from Tokyo Indicates that politieat currents In Japan which favour closer ties with Italy and Germany have been reinforced by events of the past few
days
It is now deemed probable that Japan will align itself closer to the Home-Beriln axis," the announcer declares.
Rumanian Cabinet Resigns
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
London, June 18. LONDON, June 18 (UP).D.N.B. (Official Germant Nows Agency) quoted by "Exchange Telegraph" 10- day sald the Rumanian Cabinet has rosigned, but nothing is yet known regarding the formation of a new Cabinet:
LONDON, June 18 (Reuter),~The Ilajah of Sarawak has donated an additional £80.000 for the prosecu tion of the war.
Rheims Cathedral after its destruction in the last war.
Loans Without Interest
Chancellor Appeals To
British Public
FRIML IN COURT.
Comes To H.K. With No Passport
LONDON, June 18 (Reuter). Rudolph Friml, the famoUS In the House of Commons to-composer of "The Firefly", "Rose day, Sir Kingsley Wood, the Marie" and other well-known Chancellor of the Exchequer, operoitas appeared at the Kow- was asked whether the Govern-loon Magistracy this morning. ment would consider raising a He was charged with entering the public loan, free of interest, for Colony without a passport,
Mr. Friml, born in Hungary 60 war purposes.
Sir Kingsley Wood replied that the years ago, is a naturalised American Government had already received subject. For some years past ho has Auch money from many public mind-resided part of each year in Hong-
kong. ed citizens and institutions.
Disobeyed Police Many people had "Indicated their anxiety to show their patriotlom this In court la morning, the Magin- trate, Mr. Edle Himsworth, was Informed that Frimi arrived in the port 'yesterday and was informed by the police aboard the ship that he could not be permitted to land,
Similar Instructlóns were given to Friml's secretary, Miss Kay Wong- ling.
way.
Repayment After War He therefore now appealed to any person or company who were willing to advance money to the country without interest for the term of the war, to send it to him.
He sold that a certificate would be issued entitling the donor to receive re-payment three months after the conclusion of the peace treaty,
The
alternative. procedure, particularly for those wishing to lend under £100, would be to make a Post Omeo Savings Bank- deposit with instructions
When the police visited the ship this morning Frimi and his secretary were missing.
Subsequently they were located at the Peninsula Hotel.
Friml pleaded guilty to the charge. "We are only passing through and
to Bur- did not realise there could be any
render the Interest to the Treasury, harm in stepping ashore for a few He invited persons and companies, minutes," he said.
Mr. Himsworth imposed a ne of
who were willing to make loans for
a lesser period than specifled above, $24. Miss Kay was fined $10.
to communicate with the Treomiry,
RHEIMS CATHEDRAL FRENCH COUNCIL RAID LAST NIGHT
AGAIN DESTROYED
HOLDS MEETING
ON ESSEX
LONDON, June 10 (Reuter).—A SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" number of planes, believed to be BORDEAUX, June 18 (UP).—A] enemy, machines, were heard over
Ministers Council of
under the Essex to-night. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
presidency of President Lebrun was June LONDON,
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held to-night. (UP).-Famous Cathedral has been completely destroyed, according to refugees arriving in London from eastern France.
Rheims
The Germans occupied Rheims three days before they entered Paris.
The city, which is about 80 miles north-east of the capital, was subjected to a terrific aerial bombardment completely destroyed and, subsequently, was almost when big German guns were brought to bear.
Countryside A Mass Of Ruins
The refugees state that almost the entire surrounding countryside has been razed by the German total warfare.
Rhoims was entered by the Germans-in-the-last-war-dur- ing the famous Battle of the Marne in August-September, 1914. Most of the city, including the Cathedral, was destroyed. The now Cathedral rose on the ashes of the old, mainly through public subscriptions in which many Americans participated.
Offer For French Fleet, Report
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP).—
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Sum.
The U.S. Navy Department has or- dered the U.SS. Quincy to proceed
No detalls are given:
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General Weygand, Admiral Darian and Air Marshal Villamin, lenders of the three French Services, partick
pated:
It is reported that the Council reached several "historie decisions."
AIR SERVICE IS
SUSPENDED
Searchlights and anti-aircraft guns were in action.
Some bombs were dropped.
EMPIRE TRAINS
AIR PILOTS
OTTAWA, June 18 (Reuter),--Mr. Duncan, Acting Deputy Minister of Defence for Air, in a speech here to- day, declared that the first pilots SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH"
graduating from the Empire Air LONDON, June 18 (UP) The Training Scheine would proceed over- British Overseas Airways' service sens immediately,
He added that thousands of young connecting with the Fan American! Airways trans-Atlantic service at men were being called up for servico
with the, nir force. Lisbon has been suspended.
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