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CURVES AND TURNS:—The proper way to take a curve or a turn is to slowdown while till on the straightaway approaching the curve, so that the ear can he accelerated around the curve. This procedure givea better control, of steering and. an actual stability and solidity which is lacking when curves are taken too fast The ability to sense the safe speed for taking curves comes, with practice, but it is wise to be cautious in this manner. One never knows what in around the citye, and the force which tends to alue the car off the road la greater at high speeds than most of us realize, This is called centrifugal force, and Is responsible for many mishaps. It multiplies very rapidly na car speed increnara and it can soon reach the point where it will overcome the friction of the tyres on the road and possibly cause the driver to lose control of the car. The careful driver will try to take curves as they should be taken-from a slow start, necelerating around the bend.

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No. 10100

四拜禮,號一十月七英港香

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940.

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WHITEAWAY'S

THEY'RE PRACTISING FOR THE NAZI BLITZKRIEG We Believe Departure from Manila is Imminent'

British troops and sailors are constantly practising -on the sand dunes along the east epast in pre- paration for any attempt the Natis may make to tavado England. This pholograph shows a naval parly climbing a slope during training at an east coast depot,

Hundred German Bombers With Messerschmitt Escorts Intercepted By Royal Air Force

NAZIS LOSE 14 PLANES IN GREAT AIR BATTLE

SPECIAL TO THE,"TELEGRAPH”.

EVACUEES IN MANILA REGISTER FOR VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIAN PORTS

How Empress Of Japan Evacuees Are Being Looked After

FROM THE "MANILA BULLETIN"

MANILA, July 9. The last of the Hongkong evacuees who arrived Sunday was safely taken of the Empress of Japan yesterday noon and quar- tered at Fort McKinley. There are now approximately 3,500 evacuees in the Philippines, 1,300 of them In Baguio,

Fort McKinley is at present, began yesterday morning no milaups taking care of some 1,600 of the were encountered.

Soldiers from McKinley and the evacuees. The remainder are 31st Infantry and Philippine Scouts scattered at various dormitories, lined up on the pler and seemed to apartment houses, hotels and be having a grand time as they private homes in Manila and carried bobles and small children vicinity.

from the ship to the big army trucks Turn to Pago 2, Fourth Column

Military Efficiency Pier 3 was the scene of on excel- Ient demonstration of military e- elency and precision yesterday morn- Ing as United States Army troops disembarked 1,111, women and chil dren evacuees from the Empress, of

LONDON, JULY 10 (UP).—THE NAZIS AIR RAIDS ON BRITAIN Japan quarters at McKinley, Gen- TO-DAY PROVED VERY COSTLY FOR THE INVADERS.

THE AIR MINISTRY HAS ISSUED A COMMUNIQUE DE- CLARES: IT IS NOW CONFIRMED THAT 14 ENEMY AIRCRAFT WERE DESTROYED IN TO-DAY'S AIR BATTLE.

Biggest Raid of the War

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

~LONDON, JULY-10-(UP)--TO-DAY SAW-THE BIGGEST AIR BATTLE OF THE WAR ALONG THE COAST OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.

and,

A total of 150 planes participated in desperate combats according to an Air Ministry communique, eleven German planes destroyed, many more were damaged and only two British fighting planes

150 Planes Take Part In Fight

LONDON, July 10 (Reuter)—A correspondent on the South Coast telephones that at least 10 German planes were seen to crash into the sea in this afternoon's big air battle in which it is estimated that at least 150 planes were engaged.

Three German bombers were shot down by Spitfires in less than three minutes, all falling in vertical dives into the water, Another German machine had Its tall shot off, und bomber and fighter caillded in mid- air.

One fighter dived vertically into the sea after receiving a burst of fire into its tail and several badly damaged raiders, with smoke pouring: from their tails, turned back towards the French coast but seemed unlikely to get home.

$

30 Bombers In Action

CHUNGKING RAID

Japanese Claims In New Operation

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ TOKYO, July 11. (Domel),—An- other rold upon Chungking, bringing the total to 22 this year, was carried (out by the Japanese naval air force ด Beld LONDON, July 10 (Router)-Aton Tuesday, according to

despatch.

Direct hits were scored upon the been shot down in to-day's biggest milliary establishments and munition air battle, which occurred over the factories in and around the wartime Channel.

capital, particularly near the city wail.

least five planes are belloved to have

Dogfight

•

air to

were

eral Henry Conger Pratt, command- ing the Philippine division

at Fort

BY A TELEGRAPH LADY REPORTER.

WITH THE EVACUEES.

MANILA, July 11 (UP).-During

this | morning the 1,700 Hongkong women and children who arrived in Manila by the Empress of Japan and Empress of Asia have formed queues at the British Consulate, where they are registering their names and addresses for the voyage to Australia..

We believe departure for Australia is imminent. but there is no official word yet.

Rumours are plentiful, the general opinion of those "in the know" being that the 81,200 ton

·Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary will arrive from Australia this week or early next week in order to evacuate us to the south. The Queen Mary has more than sufficient accommodation for all evacuees now in Manila, including the 'first batch of Army and Navy evacuees who arrived before us.

DRAMATIC JOURNEY

TO FORT MCKINLEY

McKinley, supervised the proceed IS DESCRIBED

and the last evacuce left the ship at

The disembarkation began at 8.05

11-.m.

United States High Cominisstoner Francis B. Sayre expressed himself

Sav

By BESSIE HACKETT "MANILA BULLETIN“ STAFF

EVACUEES AND THE

NEPORTER

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I was one of the' hundred or women and children who obtained accommodation with friends in Manila,

Yesterday morning, however, I. visited Fort McKinley, the US. Army 1,700 cantonment, where nearly Hongkong women and children are now living.

Their husbanda and friends in Hongkong can rest assured that they are obtaining every possible comfort from the U.8. Army and American Red Cross.

They are enjoying all the facilities we have in Manila itself.

In

cantonment there are shops,

a restaurant and even a cinema house, to which all the evacuees have access.

MANILA, July 8 (By Ship Mail)-Tossed about on a rough as well pleased with the dispatch with sea in cramped quarters for two days, heartsick and seasick. which

the United States Army landing in a strange country in the midst of driving rain, bounc- handled the dinembarkation. Mr.

the came aboard the Empress of ing about in big army trucks on bumpy washed-out roads, more Asa Sunday and again yesterday he than six hundred women and children evacuees from Hongkong boarded

the E

Empress of Japan to see arrived at Fort McKinley yesterday afternoon to find huge cauld-

Licut Col things for himself. Robert W. Carswell, of the High Com-ons of tasty, steaming food and rows of clean beds awaiting

On arrival-at-Fort-- McKinley-to missioner's staff, is acting as co-

where I travelled by ear, I met many mothers and children on ordinating officer for the various

them at the end of a long trail!airy verandahs of their quarters..

the wide agencies engaged in taking care of

As the lorries Jogged along out to the evacuees,

Settled Down Happily Fort McKinley, the women talked All of them seem to have settled over their experiences of the past down happily and are quite comfort- fow days and tried to quiet their able, despite the fact that they are babies, who were feeling the stratnunable to explore the spacious and of the trip and crying with hunger beautiful grounds and the

green and fatigue.

playing fields of the "cantonment owing to the heavy and continual rain.

Tlie organisation at Fort MC- Kinley has been carried out by the U.S. Army and American Red Cross without a hitch and every lady talked to was enthusiastic and appreciative of the treatment shown to them.

Shipboard Conference

The efficiency and smoothness of the transfer was due ini large mensure

to the co-operation on board ship,

declared General Pratt.

Sunday LANDLORDS

night the generat and several officers

boarded the Empress of Japan and conferred with the ship's captain. Slims. were posted, all over the ship and the evacueca were instructed to gather in groups, bringing their hand

were lost.

However, the final check up will not be known for hours!

For more than half-an-THE BURMÁ ROAD hour the rattle of machine guns and the boom of coastal defences rocked the countryside on the south- east coast where the major battle was fought.

luggage. When the disembarkation

A hundred German bombers escorted by fighting planes were attacked by British Spitfires and- Hurricanes which arrived after the Nazi planes had dropped a Turn to Page 2, First Column

THE KING HONOURS H.K. MAN.

TALKS IN LONDON

Rational Settlement Sought By Britain

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Children Excited

The older children shawed an

"Telegraph" Secures eager interest in the new lond they

Legal Opinion

an-

were riding through, especially the calesas, "Look!" one little boy cried out, "there's a harse!" "I see Recently, at the request of him-nad pointing out calesa popfes other," shrieked a little girl opposite several readers, the "Telegraph" became

Mrs. W. Awcock, who evacuated ith her twin sons, told me:

with

asked a Government spokesman and the dr. The flooded streets rain becarne toples of conversation, the women regarding

declaring they've been having a lot of rain kindness of these people is com-

lif the situation

tenancies following the pulsory evacuation

clarified.

Here is the question:

'could

that

much trouble for them."

Mrs.

*The

over-

in Hongkong, too. The rice paddies whelming and nothing has been too be and curabos came in for their share of discussion by the youngsters.

Richards agreed, saying: A bright little boy named Peter, there is any amount of mlik avali

The food is good and wholesome and who's almost eight and who aspires able for the children. "Does Government intend to protect to be in the RAF when he grows up, tenants who have leases and who has been in Manila must now give up their homes? Are through here from Singapore Turn to Page 2, Fourth Column

before, going which I found the evacuees who had landlords entitled to demand

a Hongkong. He and his mother and month's rent in lieu of notice?"

The

3-year-old sister certainly have had Government spokesman said an unusual dose of "evacuation ad- Government LONDON, July 10 (Domel). that Gor

was obtaining legal venturing." Last year his father de- -It is stated that arrangements the best thing tenants could do was sort of a private evacuation. As opinion on the question and suggested cided to send the family to Singapore have been made for Mr. Shige- to obtain private legal advice.

entered their ship, the Sirdana, mitsu the Japanese Ambassador view of the to visit Mr. R. A. Butler, secured legal opinion. The advice and, her two children lost everything In this sub- Singapore harbour, it struck a mine yesterday and sark in 20 minutes. The mother Under Secretary for Foreign tendered to as is that the legal but the clothes on their backs. In Affairs, this evening, to discuss position appears to be as follows. November, they returned to Hong- the suspension of the transport Legally, a monthly tenant is Ilablekong, because everything way "all

in

ject

of

the

to

movie house; INS

Later I entered the barracks, in

LATEST

Shengking Affair Settled

NORTH ATLANTIC in Hongkong," she said, "but this leved she will mail on the return trip

of war materials to the Chung-to give a month's notice or, in lieu right," and now and themselves in

such, a month's rent, king Government.

a wholesale evacuation to Manila. But Manila The law being as it is at present; tlons-young Peter Competent observers believe that

may have its compensa-j the British Government will continue

those who have lenses (and whose Tarzan Estapes is showing at a Pasay The Shengking incident is reported

noticed: that

SHANGHAI, July 11 (Reuter) negotiations with Japan on this Icases, do not contain a clauso Commander

covering such a contingency) can Jumes

question in an attempt to find' Petrie,

to have been amicably settled: About 30 German bombers, escort-

be compelled by landlords

"Just A Nico Holiday" : rational settlement. D.S.C., Commanding Officer of

An agreement has been renched that Pointing out

the British honour the terms of such lease. ed by fighters, wero engaged.

"Did your husband tell you this between the French and Japanese the Hongkong Naval Volunteer Government is also considering the This

amimmunition Guns, and fighters broke up the fighters which took the

a dogfight with ten Chinese Force, has been made an officer maintenance of her prestige, these position uns to be the legal was just a nice holiday?" ono woman authorities, and the

unless Government legislates asked another.. "Mine did." But carried by the freighter was dis- formations and sent the

her chin quivered as she said it and charged this morning at Woosung. enemy challenge the Japanese raiders, two of the Military Division of the observers are paying close attention to the contrary. acurrying,

Chinese planes were shot down.

she hugged her two small children order of the British Empire. The Britain's future attitude.

The vessel is proceeding to her Their aghter escort remained to As a result of the Japanese attacks, granting of the Honour by the

closer "I was born and brought up berth this afternoon, and it is bo- engage... Spitfires,

pliot the water and electric services In King is announced to-day in a manoeuvred so i to encircle the Chungking are reported to be out of Government "Gazette Extra-

NANKING MAY ordinary."

PROTEST Enomy Casualties

Commander Petrie, who is manag- LONDON, July 19 (Reuter) The Egypt To Put On inn) Ltd, has been a member of ing director of Loxley and Co. Air. Ministry stated: "In to-day's confused series of engagements, it is

the H.K.V.NF. since It was founded dimeult to ntsess enemy casualties

in 1034 accurately at this stage, but it is

During the Inst war he served in CAIRO, July-10 (Reuter)-Sum-the R.N.VR, chiefly in motor known that ten enemy aircraft have mer time will be instituted in Egypt launches. He won the DS.C. for his been shot down and the destruction for the first. tirne on July 10 when work in the famous British raid on

Turn to Page 2, First Column clocks will be advanced one hour, Zeebrugge.

Germana.

whose

commission,

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little baby was born in England last to Tientsin on Saturday. MINED

year. My mother and sisters and other members of my family are on LONDON, July 10 (Reater) The the Empress of Japan. I hope Fl SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”.

Admiralty has given notice that the get to see them to-morrow On SHANGHAI, July 11 (UP)—The waters beiween the Orkneys and; One woman listened

proudly Shanghai "Mainich!”, to-day declared Iceland and between Iceland and couple of fellow passengers' discussed that the Nanking regime is expected Greenland are dangerous owing to her baby. It's only three months old

and already has two teeth..... to make important representations to mines, the foreign garrisons, in Bhanghai os

+ Mrs. T. M. Plie, a cheerful Scot- a result of the Marines incident. DUBLIN, July 10 (Reuter) --The Ush, lady with two sons, Chris, three Central Daily News" has so far Waterford to the list of controlled hands full, with Chris crying con-

However, Wang 64-Ching wel's Elrean Government 21:38 added years, and Zon, four months, had her!

completely ignored the Incident.. ports.

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