1940-07-08 — Page 19

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 8, 1940.

DONALD DUCK

By Walt Disney

COOLING

SUMMER

Copí, 1740, Walt Diarky Prod

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JAPANESE PRESS AND THE EVACUATION OF HONGKONG

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ TOKYO, July 7 (UP).—Quoting

well-informed

quarters, Japanese newspapers state that the Japanese RADIO

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BRITAIN BUILDING "DICING WITH

UP AIR MIGHT

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter)-Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, has issued a statement, that aircraft pro- duction during June was more than double the number pro- duced in June last year,

We also produced more than double the number of engines, thus increas-

the surplus alock.

American aircraft arriving here represent a considerable contribution

Foreign Office has issued a statement to Britain saying ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) ansing that "further delays in replying to the Japanese represen- 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) tations regarding the closing of the Burma route will Variety Programmes And harden the Japanese attitude and that Japan will be compelled to take drastic}

measures."

The Oran Affair

Newspapers state that the FRENCH

British Ambassador yesterday · telephoned the Foreign Office to

info:in the Foreign Minister that VERSION

the British reply will be again |

delayed this being the second REFUTED

such notification in a week.

Newspapers exprenz the view that the evacuation of Hongkong and the "further fortification of the Crown Colony is regrettable."

Dance Music

Broadcast by 2DW on a Frequency of 843 k,c's, and on short wave from 0.52 1-2.15 pm, and 8-11 p.m. on m.e's per second.

HKT.

12.15 p.m. Short service of inter- cession.

12.30 A Variety Programme, 1.0 Local Time Signal und Weather Report,

1.03 Ambrose and His Orchestra. 1.20 Reginald Dixon (Organ).

and Rugby 1.30 Reuter

Press, Announce

Misrepresentation Of Weather Forecast and

The Facts

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter)-It. Is Mr. pointed out in London that "Trans-Ocoan" Version

Winston Churchill (Prime Minister) SHANGILAI, July 5 (UP)-Ac-and Mr. A. V. Alexander (First Lord, of the Admiralty) have already re- cording to a Trans-Ocean (German) report from Hainking, the Japanese futed M. Provost's reiteration of the Naval Attache. Vice Admiral Koorlie that the French Admiral at Oranj has issued a statement saying that was presented with a "brutal ultima- "the slightest provocation by the tum" and his complaint that the British in the Pacific will be answered British Government did not "enter by action by the Japanese Beet."

War In The Desert

Patrols Cut Italian Water Line

CAIRO, July 7 (Reuter).-A

ments.

1.45 Kity Masters and Roy Fox'S Orchestra

2.15 p.m. Glose down

6.0 Lalo-Symphonie Espagnolo ifor Violin and Orchestra.

Played by Bronislaw Huberman (Violin) and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

0.20 Conchilla Supervla (Soprano), Some Popular Spanish Songs (De Falla). contact" with the Petain Government. 0.30 Closing local stock quotations. 6.32 Moldan (From "My Count- As Mr. Churchill said, in his speech

****)-Smetana. on' July, the French Fleet was offer ed an opportunity of going to the French West Indies.

Studiously ignored

has This fact

been studiously ignored by the Petain Government, only which han represented the alternatives as being between "aur- render or scuttle.”

It is equally incorrect to suggcat! that the British Government did not get in touch with the Petain Govern- ment.

Played by the Czech Philharmonic Orch. cond, by Kubeli

6.45 Webster Booth (Tenor), As I sit Here (Sanderson); Love Paeses By (Schertzlinger); Romance (Feher).

0,55 Musical Comedy Sélections. 7.30 London Eclay-The New 8.0 Local Timo

Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

9.0

to our air feet, and if the seau remain

as free to us as they are at present, American shipments will soon give an additional output in every month of real value to us.

More U.S. Materials The total value of aircraft orders

$1,000,000,000.

HARASSING

DEATH

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AGENCIES AND BRANCHES:

Rangoon Hongkong

Baigan

Alor Star

Bangkok

scalding hot sweet tea the colour Toll Of Shipping In

of mahogany. He shared his Amritsar galley with a small dog of un-Batavis Norwegian Waters

certain lineage. Every now and Bombay LONDON, July 7 (Reuter), again he picked it up and ex- An Admiralty communiquetracted a match-stalk or a cin-

der from its mouth much mother extracts objects not We also bought over $50,000,000)

"Our submarines continue to harass meant to be eaten from worth of aireralt and parts in Canada, from where deliveries of certain types and inflict serious losses upon German fant's gums. have come forward in increasing sea communications with Norway. quanlitics,

pinced in the United States exceeds

Lord Beaverbrook sald: "These are hard facts. Books of account tell the record. There is much to do be- fore we can be satisfied with our achievements in production.".

DEMAND FULL INDEPENDENCE NEW DELHI, July 7 (Reuter) The Working Committee of Congress have

adopted resolution demanding a British declaration giving India complete Independence, and es a first step, that Britain shall constitute al Provisional National Government.

The resolution declares that these measures are adopted, Congress will be able to throw, its full weight; Info the effort for effective organisa- tion of the country's defence.

4

PETAIN'S NEW ORDER

states:

Convoy Attacked

·"The submarine Snapper sighted a convoy of supply ships, escorted by an armed trawler and aircraft. The Snapper attacked and hit two ships with torpedoes,

the shelter of a fjord,

Harbin

Ipoh

Semarang

Follo

Seremban

Karachi

Shani

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Bingapore

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Hobe

Bitiawan

Cunta

Bourabaya

Lumpur

Taiping

Kuching

Tiwotain

čebu

Cawnpora

Madrar

Tongkah

(Bhuket)

Medari

Tilngiao

New York

Yokohama

Perping

(Paking) Perang

an in Colombo

Delhi Haiphong Hamburg "IIe do be a terrible one for match-tankom

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and · General stalks observed the.cook, eyeing his hanking thinners transacted." companion with proud solicitude.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened When we came to the end of our | FIXED DEPOSITS Teceived for. One Year beat the Lieutenant jerked the syren er shorter periods in Local or Other Cur lanyard and our consort slowed rentiates which will be quoted on down,

eased her heim over and round we came. She kept perfect station jon us all day. We towed a magnetic The remnants of the convoy acattered and made, in disorder, for aweep between us, and what kind of a mess it would have got into if she

I [hadn't, tremble to think. Yet "Later the Snapper sighted a large there was no signalling except a foot convoy escorted by armed trawlers of the syren at the turn. and aircraft. A successful attack was carried out and three ships were hit

with torpedoes."

"Signals!" cjaculated the skipper. "Signals wi fags and that!

What does a man want wi' flags when he has a syren to gle a bit loot wi It Is indeed the customary mode of amongst fishing trowlers and it is astonishing what a subtle range of algnificances can be conveyed by the strength of the jerk on the Inayard,

“UNCLE EDDIE" communication

EVACUATED

Which

the

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Epplication.

And

BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened ta Local Currency and Sterling with interem allowed at raŭce obtainabia on application. The Bank's Head Offer In Landin undertakes Executor & Trustee business. and claims recovery of British income Tax, overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of its Agencies and

Branches

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Scapa, Base Of Memories

(Continued from Fage 4.)

crofts. and

"Uncle Eddie". (who was really an Auntie) was one of the ladies who

We passed the day yarning. The had to evacuate Hongkong last week. deckhands stood huddled on the fees are dotted with little.

explains to

many side of the upper deck smoking and farmhouses and flying over them by children who have written letters watching the sea. From Stornoway acroplane one notices the patches of about the absence of the Children's Peterhead they came, Hartlepool, bright green and brown which de- VICHY, July 7 (Reuter)-The 8.93 This Week's Programmes.

Corner in Saturday's lasue why their Shields and Lowestoft. They had no note cultivation. Petain Government is reported to 8.07 Some French Sonrs,

have forbidden British warships and usual weekly competition didn't op-illusions concerning their job. They Dance Music.

The Orkneys lie in Latitude 59* 8.25 p.m

had seen a nister trawler strike n London Relay The News and planes to come within 20 miles of the The "Telegraph" hopes to have an- mine the previous week. There was North, 450 miles north of London, Mr. Alexander said that he himself Topical Talks.

French coast, according to usually

to conduct well-informed unofficial

the one survivor, of the rest and the and the spring and summer, with its quarters, other Auntie. to Bordeaux, where he had) wend

9.45 New Light Symphony

states "Havas."

Children's Column this week. Last little ship not a trace remained. Yet sun, clear atmosphere, and absence British war communique states interviews with M. Lebrun, Marshal Orchestra. that in the western dosert our Petain, M. Baudouin and Admiral Turkey in the Straw

It is added that vessels and planca week's prize winners will then be they were undismayed; soft-spoken, of darkness except for about (Quion);

a new competition gentle-mannered, just carrying en hour-and-a-half on each side of patrols again penetrated the Darlan.

Melody in F; Romance in Flat entering the banned zone are labie announced and After the armistica terms became (Rubinstein); Spring Song (Men- enemy front, cutting the water "pipeline" "from" Bardia to knows, Mr. Alexander and Admiral

of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound delshson): Narcissus (Nevin).

10.0 Richard Tauber and Grace addressed fresh personal appeals to

Moore. Further

particulars of enemy Admiral Darlan. casualties at Kassala on July 4 are eight light tanks, two aircraft and 300 men.

Capuzzo,

Big War Booty CAIRO, July 7 (Reuter). The considerable amount of itallan war

"With profound regret." added Mr. Alexander, "we had to admit that those appeals were without result."

Bordeaux And Oran Battle } VICHY, July 7 (Reuter)-To the Dunkirk, Mr. Winston cple of

10.15 A Variety Programme. 11.0 Close down.

Northern

material captured by the British dur-Churchill has replied by assassinating Ireland's

ing recent engagements was seen by

"Reuter's" special correspondent dur the Dunkerque," said the French

ing a tour somewhere in the Egyptian High Commissioner for Information,

desert.

M. Prouvost, in a broadcast.

The broadcast was made in reply It included over 60 brand new anti- aircraft and anti-tank guns captured to Mr. Churchill's speech on the in Crateds, 4,000,000 rounds of am-action taken by the British Fleet at munition as well as binoculars and Oran, feld telephonic equipment.

M. Prouvast reproached the British i A considerable number of tanks Governnient with having "presented also fell into British hands in Libyan a brutal ultimatum instead of having

with the territory some 200 miles west of entered contact

Government."

Mersa Matruh.

The Arch-Criminals in Conference

Petain

Italo-Nazi Plan For Attack On Britain

BASLÉ, July 7 (Reuter).-According to the Rome correspondent of the "Balser Nachricten," an offensive against England was discussed at the meeting of Count Ciano and Hitler in Berlin to-day.

The correspondent adds thai Ireland Is naturally the first act

official Italian

In the attack against England and this point was discussed.

the matters dealt with, the west, anys Other according to this correspondent, news agency.

The trip will be

Position

Neutrality Said Unthinkable

on

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter). -Attention ig focussed Ireland's position during the present anxious moments by the visit of Lord Craigavon to- day to London, where he has had "wholly satisfactory" talks with Mr. Winston Churchill and other: Ministers.

The Ulster Finance Minister. Mr. Andrews. in the course of a speech at Belfast, declared that if Northern Ireland abandoned partition and join-

would become neutral histead of

ed Elre on Mr. de Valera's terms, she being actively engaged as now in the

gt belde Britain,

He added that such neutrality was unthinkable.

NO LOSSES. SUSTAINED

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter) An over the most Admiralty.communique states: included "common regulation of important sectors of the former In the official Admirally com- future continontal relations and Western Front and will probably last munique announcing the second de- policies."; "qV

two days.

tion by Fleet Air Arm aircraft ngainst Count Clans is accompanied by the the French battle-cruiser Dunkerque "Complete Agreement" Chief of Protocol at the Reich Foreign at Oran on July 6, it was stated that LONDON, July 7- (Reuter)—A Offco and several high officials of the two of our aircraft failed to return. message from Berlin to Rome states German Higli Command.

"Further reports now establish that that the Hitler-Count Clano tale has

none of our pitcraft is missing as thg revealed that there is "complete ZURICH, July 7 (Reuter)The result of this engagement. agreement" both as regards the con- correspondent of the "Neutezuercher "There were no casualties to per tinuation and development of the war Zeitung" states that the Clene-Hitler sonnel."

Another Possibility

and, as to the construction of a new meeting is probably connected with. Europe.

developments in south-east Europe, The message adds that Count when Cinno will visit the western battle wherealy

equally

Ciano Leaves Barlin

and Germany", "are interested in a peaceful solu- tion of all questions.!!

He adds that it is considered less

LONDON, July 7 (Reuter), Count probable that Count Ciano's visit Was Clano left Berlin this evening to visit connected with the Petain Govern- the : German-occupied territorios in ment's new attitudo.

Election Riots: Ten Dead

MEXICO; CITY, July 7 (Router); In clashes during the presidential election polling, @ten persons were killed and 33 injured:

to attack.

published.

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midnight, may be wholly delightful. We renched the area where the At midsummer the transition period sunkenship --had met her doome There might be another mine there.

horizon.

sunset to sunrise is marked by luminous "glow

I

ow above the northern tha

The sweep might pass over it. on books can easily unclouded

be

read or photo the other hand it might be our ship's graphs taken at the hour of mid- bottom instead. Either would dc-

tonate it. In that event a man stand-night. Even in summer, however, it sometimes blows fiercely for days on ing

on the upper decks had perhaps end with sheets of driving rain.

a chance in a million. But down

below in the engine room It was

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certain and instantaneous death. I

IT is the winter that is really

went to the head of the ladder leading trying, almost numbing to the to the engine room and looked down. senses when the weather is really The two engine men and the two at its worst. stokers sat on a bench facing the

next

crankpit. They were naked to the The night Insts from about three wolst and the light reflected from the in the afternoon until ning machinery made play on their shoul- morning. It is usually bitterly cold, der muscles: and they were singing with much snow, slect, rain and fog. During strong gales from the west

in harmony, singing come old Scot

tish ballad at the tops of their voices. and north-west the wind whistles

down the bleak hillsides, and con- I went back to the bridge verts the great expanse of

Land- where the skipper and the locked water which is Scapa Flow Lieutenant were yarning about into a maddenied weiter which makes boatwork dangerous, it not altogether shoals-and ship-wrecks.

linpossible,

The skipper let the names of But bleak and unsophisticated the East Coast lightships ripple Scopa Flow, covering the northern off his tongue, for the security exits from the North Sea, played its of the very words, as if he were uniforgettablo part in the war of running a rosary through his 1914-19 as one of the chief buses of the mightiest float the world hns fingers. The Germans had been ever known. It is now playing the bombing them and machine-same dirt in another struggio gunning the crews. That to a whieh Sea Power is of equal im- war effort of the scaman is the ultimate achieve-portance in the

Allica. ment of bestiality:

I asked him if he had ever suffered shipwreck.

"Aye" he said "but over for want

1r

heart but the whole structure of the

of a lightship. But I was in a gaic body contracted with terror and re- off the Gundeet when I was a lad, laxed again. There was a roar that filled all space. The trawler shuddered and it split the mainsail and we druvlike a living thing reprieved from down onto the sands."

death; as we all were, because the Ho pondered over his memories. sweep had done its woric and the Between the map peak and collar mountain of water collapsed. Kar

of us. A dead' gull: uttle of his face was visible but his away astern

falling eyes and nose. "I mind I had my camo eddying down like a best suit on board and I went below Icaf. bafore she broke up and I put it on. A fine suit, it was. His eyes wist- fully contemplated through the mist of years the sartorial magnificence of that suit.

"But why?" I asked.

The skipper turned from conter-. plating the upheaval. The. Uttle Christmas tree wayed its branches bincit against the broken water.

"Another of tho he paused and

"I had a mind to look respectable eyed me mischievously, "I forgot yo when my dead body was washed were a raleegdous man," nahore," he answered.

In that moment the mine want up; It is hard to describe in any sequénco a confusion cf events or impressions that happen almost simultaneously. The trawler lifted as if a glant had kicked her. There was a mountain of water nater, white on the summit and black at the base with a fringe of fambent flame. Not merely one's

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