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FRENCHMEN KEPT IN IGNORANCE

LONDON, June 24 (Reuter)-The French people have still not been told about Hitler's peace terms.

Most of them do not yet know that Germany will occupy over half the country and that France will be totally disarmed.

There is ample evidence that at present the true voice of France is

outalde the country.

General de Gaulle has formed a provisional French National Com- mittee which will act in Britain as a true representative of the French Ration.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Fierce Raids On Chungking

Foreign Embassies

Demolished

CHUNGKING, June 25 (Reu- ter).A 500-pound demolition bomb crashed through the Union Jack-painted roof of the British Consulate-General and destroyed the building in yesterday after-

Biggest Bomb noon's air raid.

Proof Shelter

The staffs of the British Diplomatic Mission and the Consulate-General reside In the building, which houses the offices of the British Em-

It will continue war with the Allies. Can House About basy, the Air Attache and the As-

There has been a quick response to

his call to fight on,

Frenchmen in London, from all)

walks of life, have been calling at

vicca.

11,000 People

LONDON, June 24 (Reuter).

lits office all day to offer their scr-Within the next few weeks or The first of them started to arrive days, Britain will be getting a even before the office furnishings were taste of German frightfulness, In position.

said Captain E. Wallace, M.P., Senior Defence Commissioner for London.

All through the day, telephone.mta sages and cables have been coming

ft.

There has been an equal response only from the from overseas, not Colonies but from all over the world. N.Z. Disapproval One of the most recent was from French residents in New Zealand who to-day recorded their disapproval of the Bordeaux Government message nt their Consulate. They stated that they were determined to fight on for! liberty and freedom.

Illuminating Facts LONDON, June 24 (Reuter)An indication of hon news was kept from the French people was given in a broadcast talk to-day by Miss Monica Stirling, who has been work ing with the French radio.

She has reached London by way of

Ilordeaux.

Since the beginning of the war, she' says she has been working in Paris with the French short-wave station. Last Sunday she found a message asking her to be at the station that night.

Thought Paris Safe

Many people were there, the guns everyone were a little louder but

wok, cheerful, talking about how close to Parls the. Germans got in the last

war.

ile said this when he spoke to-day at the opening of what will be the biggest bomb proof shelter in Britain. The Germans, he said, will in- timidate and terrify the civilian popu- lallon which could beat back such attempts by remembering what to do when an air-raid came.

Courage Neoded

"On your courage, coolness resolution depends the defeat Hiller, he continued.

nit of

Attache.

Embassy

sistant Military

The blast blew in the doors and windows of the Consulate-General.

House Wrocked Diplomat's A bomb demolished an motor car, turning it upside down.

Another wrecked a house newly leased by a diplomat but not yet oc- cupled.

June 25,

1940

Lord Woolton Confident Adequate Stocks Of Food

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LONDON, June 24 (Reuter). -Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, gave

assurances to-day that Britain has adequate stocks of food.

Some of the most vital stocks were greater than ever before in Britain's history,

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Polish Armies

Still Intact

Return To England

From France LONDON, June 24 (Reuter). -The Polish armies fighting in France are landing in England.

He knew, he said, that German propaganda would do its utmost to spread uneasiness by suggesting that all was not well.

those who doubt

"Ask the village grocer what his stocks are like," ho tinued.

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He had been asked, he went on, it he would reveal the amount of stocks. The answer was that food stocks were only second in importance to stocks of munitions.

Will Not Toll Enomy

"We would never dream of telling the enemy what we have in the way of munitions nor will we tell him what we have in the way of food," he continued.

Introducing a

somewhat lighter

note, Lord Woolton said that he had been asked if he were going to ration ten.

It had been pointed out to him that when people came out of their shel- ters after an air raid they generally made themselves a cup of tea.

If that were true, he went on, the consumption of tea was going up very heavily.

An incendiary bomb landed five yards from the window of the office where the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Kerr, worked during his recent stay at Chungking.

The bomb did not explode. It made a crater six feet in diameter.

Embassy Staff Escaped Members of the Consulate-General Broadmead, R. Messrs. staff, Bumstead. Crofton and Warburton, were safe in a dug-out during the rald, in which 54 Japanese planes participated.

Mir. Broadmead said that they rushed into the dug-out when they

This was revealed to-night in a saw the Japanese bombers coming broadcast by General Sikorsici, Prime It has two large steel-lined tunnels the south bank of the river, Minister of Poland and Commander- of tea at such time but he would ask

heading straight for the Embassy.

in-Chief of the Polish armed forces. the people to go a little slower at Though between 50 and 60 feet below ground

bombs landed near

General Sikorski said: "At a time other times in order to make up for with concrete flours. The entire dug-out the occupants did not feel when the main body of our armies it. shelter will house 11,000 people.

unusual discomfort as uny

the safely back from France, is landing Thero arc large number

"baffle" just erected at the entrance on the shores of Great Beltoin, entrances.

look away the force of the explosion. would like to declare solemnly in the Six Chinese outside the French name of the President of the Polish Consulate dug-out were killed. Republic and the Polish Government The Union Jacks, freshly painted that, animated by an indomitable will the roofs, were pininly visible we shall continue to fight shoulder to even from the south bank of the shoulder with the powerful British Yangtze River. With exceptionally Empire for a free and independent good visibility yesterday, it is dill-Poland. cult to believe that the Japanese alr-

The new shelter is an old tube- railway working built in 1892 and never used.

EL

Command Of The Air

of

British Superiority Is Prophesied When the Director arriver he asked

LONDON, Jun 24 (Reuter). them to get ready to move os the Germans were near enough Paris to-"The day will come, and not make it necessary for another radio so far distantly, when

air station to be made ready in case of superiority will be in our com

declared need.

Mr. Harold They did not expect to be away for mand," long. She was asked to take only one Nicolson, Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Ministry of Informa- The tion, in a broadcast to-night.

"Our resources are fur greater than

suit case.

then about an. It was exodus started next morning.

women, children and dogs.

Miss Stirling saw two Siamese cats,

far better quality.

on

the

Fulfilling Alliance

men missed seeing the Union Jacks.' "To the task of evacuation of our

Littered With Debris

Hsu

The Embassy and Consulate mises were littered with debris.

Immediately after the "All Clear" signal, the Vice-Foreign Minister, Dr. Mo, visited the Embassy and viewed the damage,

To safeguard the staffs and ar- chives, the British Diplomatic Mis- and Consulate-General are sion

offices establishing

irt the Navy cten on the south bank of the Yangtse.

His

He understood the need for a cup.

Very Dark Blooze

"Kindly rest on your cars, Timothy. That contraption is getting you nowhere. And it squeaks. And the Eton Boating Song is not in the key of D."

"What's up, Peter? Got a head?"

"Like a gasometer. Very pain-" ful. And that noise you're making goes through it like a pacumatic drill."

"* Wam't I on the warpath by your side? And look at nie -- 110 more hangover than an innocent little child."

"Well, it's not natural. It just

proves that the Devil looks after. his own."

"I look after nuelf, old son. Last night I took a sizeable suig of Rose's Lime Juice before hitting the hay. That's how to kill off the aftermath of alcohol."

"You wouldn't lead me up the garden, Timothy 7."

"Peter, you wrong me. I've seen the light and I'm passing on the tip."

. "Then, if you will kindly step ashore, we will seek out a vendor of Rose's. It's time I fell into good habits."

The

Dual Task Of Hongkong Telegraph

Republicans

Foreign Issues To Be Predominant

24

PHILADELPILLA, June troops from France, I devoted all my

Republican (Router). — The Party Convention, which opened here to-day, is faced with the dual task of selecting a candi- date for the Presidential elec- tion in November and fixing a policy to offer to the country.

pre-energy, fully supported by

Majesty's Government, who gave all their help.

"Our place to-day is in, the line of battle.

"The Polish nation will persevere in the struggle against Germany to the end. The Polish Army, which was reorganised in France, faithful to its great traditions, fought for its freedam like those of the Allied countries,

"Two divisions of General Duch

With the removal of tlie offlees of

predominant in the Party's "plat- Foreign issues, it is certain, will be form," which promises to be what is way between Isolationism

and

the

The trains were packed with men, the Germans and our pilots are of the British and French Embassies to and General Prugar were 9ghting known as a "straddle"that is, half "That will be the day of victory" the south bank, only the Soviet and near the Maginot Linc. One part of policy of the Roosevelt administrn-

a canary and squirrel.

She sat on her sulteaze in the cor- ridor scribbling on orilcle in a dirty

Hunger Lie, Warning Mr. Nicolson warned the publie

German Embassies remain at Chung king proper.

"Consular Street" is a shambles.

night.

the

in Norway.

ilon.

A

Outstanding Points

Its outstanding points are likely to be:

(1 A strong stand against Involve- ment of the United States in war:

(2) A powerful national defence programme and aid for those resist-

of International Law." ng aggressors but "within the terms There will, in addition, be a strong

Mnezeck

armoured division of General operated on the most threatened sector of the front. highland regiment fought herolcally Thoy Broke Through "While at the front I gave orders to the First and Second Infantry Divisions to break through towards Switzerland in case of the collapse of "According to reports received, our elements of the First Division, ground that he is a "war-monger" succeeded in carrying out this order who is trying to get his country into attitude. and won general admiration by its

were given a heap of atras to sleep their will cut down their food ration | In spite of inclement weather, tw the French front.

on.

note-book to fill in the programme if that anollier Hitler le was coming-It was pitch dark and deserted last

u hunger blockade lie. there was a shortage of news.

"Laving seized Austria, Czecho-; The city was subjected to exten- No Rooms Available Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, sive altacks. Bombs were dropped There were no rooms avaliable in Holland and France, Hitler intended

in nearly all sections.

Chinese Air Raids Bordeaux, but site and several others to rob the people of those countries of

dally bread.

CHUNGKING, June 24 (Central), squadrons of Chinese planes raided

Ichang

yesterday One

bombed and strafed squadron the Japanese positions at Tungshanssu nd strated (East Hill

Temple) and the other attacked the Japanese squadron mechanised units at Chenchingshan and on the highway east of the city Over ten fires were started on both sides of the highway.

Next morning the

full orchestra to just above starvation level so men-and-women-strewn about the workers-and-tell them their hunger. is the fault of the British Govern- place, burst loudly Into "Carmen."

They were called to work at once ment. If only Britain wouki sur- and they knew that Paris was in render, he will say, the war would danger although they still had no be over for everybody.

"But we shall prove to Hitler in the They were told nothing. The peo-end by the pressure of our Navy that ple got very irritable and interrupted butter is more important than runs

arrived and, taking no notice of the to feed his armies and munition the Japanese in the outskirts or Second Division, together with some attack on Prealdent Roosevelt on the

news.

to ask: "Is Parls taken or not?"

Smoll newspapers carried speeches

by various people but no news of any armistice.

In her programme, Miss Stirling read extracts from Eve Curie's life

NAZI CANARDS SCOTCHED

of her mother. She is now in Lon- CAIRO, June 24 (Reuter),-----The

don, Miss Stirling was glad to be able to say.

News A Day Old

Next morning, Miss Stirling got un urgent message from the Consulate advising her to leave for England on n boat which was going in two hours,

She tried to object saying: can't as I've got to do this

British Government has "never naked. either órally or in writing" that Egypt should declare war on Italy.

This stutement was reported by the Egyptian papers to-day to have been made by Ali Malier Pasha, the Prime "Minister, at a meeting of Egyptian

elder statesmen held on Saturday,

The meeting was held under the nuspices of King Farouk.

She was not being brave or any- thing like that. She just could not visualise a state in which England and France were even partly se- parated,

The newspapers interpret the state- ment as putting an end for once and for all to "manoeuvres palpably de-

When she got to the boat, she was signed to indispose BP"

usked if she had heard of Mr. All Maher Pasha

All Chinese planes returned to their

base safely.

Anglo-Nazi Dictionaries

For Invaders

Latest Example Of German Thoroughness

LONDON, June 24 (Reuter)--Thé Germans are planning the invasion of Britain with typical thoroughness, one example of which is to be seen yester in the English-German phrase books Churchill's offer to France. She read day but he is carrying on with his which are being distributed to the some of which have fallen thorities.

"Poland was the first country to fall victim to the enemy's invasion, To-day in spite of tremendous losses and enormous hardships, Poland re- mains loyal ally of Great Britain naturale for the ideals of liberty

in

Britain's Iron Will

He said he knew how great a shock the surrender of France was to his countrymen, but, he continued, "We have unshakeable confidence that the war, the result of which has not yet been decided, will end with the victory of our common and sacred

ccurse.

"The Iron will of Britain to con- tinue the struggle is subject to no doubt, Standing unyieldingly at her side and at the side of her numerous friends and allies, we shall win, bringing to you and to Europe your deliverance.

INDIAN NAVY LOSES SHIP

wor.

Threo Candidates

As to the personality of the He- publican candidate, there is little un- animity among the pundits as to who

Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition June-September, 1940.

Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.

For the best and second-bost entrics,

Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO.

First Prizes in each of the four Sections.

$250 CASH PRIZES $250

SECTION-ONE-

General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes: Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.

is likely to secure nomination except 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50,

that it seems generally agreed that selection will be between Mr. Robert A. Taft, son of the late President William Taft, who has been a figure

SECTION TWO.

in national politics only since his Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. election as Senator for Ohlo in 1938. Ist. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30, 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50. Mr. Wendell Willkie, Electric Utill- ties magnate, and former President Mr. Herbert Hoover.

The first ballot is expected to be taken on Wednesday,

CANADA'S BIG RESPONSIBILITY

OTTAWA, June 24 (Reuter).—Un- til the British Navy is free to act, Canada must ensure her own protec- tion against her enemies from with- out, and possibly from enemies from within her own ranks, said Mr. Lapointe, Canadian Minister of Jus-

the news and sighed with relief un-duties pending the appointment oftro the hands of the British military The Government of India announces tice in n'broadcast to-day.

til she found that the news was a day his successor. old.

suid in conclusion.

London Pleased

That sort of thing had been going LONDON, June 24 (Reutor)— One of the most struiting things on in the last fortnight in France, she official circles in London have noted about the books is that the German, with satisfaction the declaration by when facing the British civilian, the Egyptian Prime Minister that the suddenly becomes a stickler for the British Government

asited, truth. All through the, book he is never

told to say: "if you do not tell me the truth you will be shot,"

Wellington Star

Crew Landed

either orally or in writing, that Egypt should declare

war against Italy. It is to be hoped that this official which and categorical declaration,

For All Eventualities Some of the questions seem to be

confirms the statement already made intended for use when cross. examin LONDON, June 24 (Reuter):-All to thro Press in Lontion, will put an ing civil authorities such as: "You, the crew of the Wellington Star, end to a manoeuvre which is pain- Mayor, open 'which was torpedoed near Copelably designed to mislead ibe Egyptian there is

Finisterre to-day, have been landed public

from two boals.

Captain Williams and 51 members of the crow reached Casablonen in one bent!

Seventeen

Oporto!

others

all cupboards where

NEW DELIII, June 24 (Reuter)~~

that the 000-ton escort ship, Pathan, at the Royal Indian Navy, has been ratings were killed. One officer and lost on patrol. Two officers and two seven ratings were wounded.

In peace-time, the Pathan was used for training. She carried a normol complement of 60 and was armed with one 4-inch and two 3-inch guns.

DETERMINATION

OF AUSTRALIANSİ

The comfort of the German troops SYDNEY, June 4 (Reuter).-Even is not forgotten. If he feels ili or off-if the British Empire in left to fight colour the German soldier, by turn alone we shall still fight, says Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister.

NEW EXPORT BAN Ing to the right page will be able to

landed near *******

No passengers were aboard. The Wellington Star was completed last year for New Zealand.

STOCK EXCHANGE

QUIETLY EASY

IMPOSED

me pilla" or "I have a any "Cive stomach ache,"

The fall effect of the German de- It is also interesting to note that mands cannot be judged until the fate LONDON, June 24 (Reuter)-The personal standards of cleanliness are of the French Colonial Empire is Board of Trade has made an Export to be maintained. People are order-known, he points out. Control Order, toking effect to-day, ed to wash two shirts, a pair of panta under which export of all classes of and three pocket-handkerchiefs. goods to French territories in Europe,

including Corsten, in prohibited.

A revocation Of outstanding

licences for exports to the territories

In question has been issued at the

LONDON, June 24 (Router)The same time. Stock Exchongo was, quietly easier

to-day owing to the disappointment Churchill To Speak at the Petain Government's accep- tance of the German armistice terms. LONDON, June 24 (Reuter) Mr. Prices mostly eased but gill-edged Winston Churchill is expected to ' holding showed signs of rallying near make a statement the louse of

Argentina's Big

Arms Programme

He does not think that this means the end of French resistance every- where.

Two U.S. Envoys In London

BUENOS AIRES, June 24 (Reu- ter)-A naval armisments program- me providing for the expenditure of WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuter), 27,000,000 was, submitted to Con--The United States Ambassador to gresi to-day,

Poland, Mr. Anthony Biddle, who The construction of n'big' naval lately had been in Bordeaux, has dockyard forms part of the scheme, been ordered to go to London Commons to-morrow of the Govern the execution, of which will take resume duties with the Polish Gov- Gold-mining shares encountered ment's view the German armalalice several years.

ernment. small local sales,

terms accepted by the Petain Govern-

A sum of more than £32,000,000 Wall Street wan-steady.

ment.-

will be needed for the army..

The close.

Mr. William C. Bullitt is remaining us. Ambassador to France.

SECTION THREE

Still Life and Table Top Studies.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30, 3rd: $20. 4th. $12.50.

SECTION FOUR

(Craftsmen's Section)

The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who Each will be required to make a declaration to this effect. entry must have pasted on the back a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society, Subjects at the discretion of competitors.

neighbour like the United States com. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd, $20, 4th, $12.50.

When Canada an a powerful

adds must have failed in her duty pletely after her national polley, to build up her defence, he felt that if she had not ordered general mo- bilization, which alone could ensure the protection of her territory.

DIET FOR FINICKY CHILDREN

It isn't always naughtiness that makes children go off their food. It is more often "Nerviness," tired digestion and the need for the stimulus of a new, palatable easily digested food.

Finicky children respond very readily to Horlicks. They love its flavour, it keeps them regular: and provides abundant nourish- ment in a form that the most queasy stomach can take,

Soon you notice a wonderful change. The little body begins to fill out, colour returns to the checks, peevishness goes and ap petite becomes keen. Horlicks gives a child all the energy needed for rapid growth and strenuous play,

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RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1The Competition is 'confined ex- clusively to amateur photo- старлети

2-No employee or member of any.

Arm in the photographic trade is permitted to compete.

3--he prizes will be awarded to the competitor sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- graphs in each Section

Each must be accompanied by A Say which will be publiated during the period of the Com- be petition, and which must pasted on back of entry. 4-The right to publin any or all of the entries is reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph.

·BALL

photographs entered must have been taken to the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been already entered in other Competitions are ineligible -No responalbility will be accepted for non-delivery of, loss of, or damage to entries

SECTION

NAME

ADDRESS

-All entries to be either black, sopia. ar toned pictures, and musi De mounted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible. A-Pictures submitted in sepia tones should be sccompanied by a smaller print in black and white. -No pleture to entered in more

than one Bection.

10--Mounts to be only white or cresini, must be of one of the following sizes:-10x12 10x20.

11 No correspondence will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.

12-Members of the Staffs of the Flongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.

13-The decision of the Judges shelt

be anal A

14 the conclusion at the Com- petition, entries will be returned la competitors on application, at the Telegraph, offices within seven days.

ENTRY FORM

Please use block letters and paste this on back of each Entru in Sections 1, 2 and 3: