1940-08-14 — Page 23

NANCY

YA MEAN YA MADE ALL.

THAT MONEY

IN THE TAXI-

BUSINESS!?

YEP

AND WITH

THAT THING FOR A CAB!

YEP!

BZZ11.

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 14, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

TAX

"TAX

TRAINS

Of Internees

Rome Starts Campaign Against Athens Getting Rid

ITALO-GREEK TENSION MOUNTS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

ROME, Aug. 13 (UP),~The Italian Government, following proof of the assassination of Daut Hoggia, the Albanian patriot, by Greeks, calls upon the Government to answer its guilt, says Signor writing in the “Giornale di Italia" to-day.

"In this decisive hour of European history such errors cannot be tolerated," Signor Gayda sald,

guilty

British Government's Decision

LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuter)-In the House of Coininons to-dny, Government were questioned regard-|

the

Ing the sending of refugees and Internees abroad.

VICTORIA AWAITS HONGKONG EVACUEES

800 WOMEN, CHILDREN DUE SOON

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

of

MELBOURNE, Aug. 14 (UP), -The secand contingent Replying for the Government, Mr. Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, evacuees from Hongkong are Greek that in view

of the

new strategic scheduled to arrive in Sydney Gayda iuntion arising from the occupation to-day. uy Cermany of the Low Countries and half of Northern France, the Melbourne passengers who Government came to the conclusion arrived by the first ship on early in June that in the interests of Sunday will tranship to the national

security, it was desirable to

Die Dutch liner due in Sydney to transfer overscas numbers of enemy Similar comment appears in Feeling runs high throughout Italy

view of the pro

general daruge likely to arrive in Melbourne on Friday. other Italian and Tirana newa-as well as Albumin. Daut Hoggin aliens out of the United Kingdom in day and the two partics will

Is described by Italian Press as a

arise In an

attempted invasion of

The Hongkong Government has "patriot netive in Clamuria Prothese istands by having large numbers vince (Greece) where 50,000 Alban-e Inn inhabitants are anxious to join of enemy allens concentrated in a now informed the Australian Govern- comparatively small number of camps ment of the numbers coming to euch

port.

papers.

The "Popolo di Roma" also declares that the Albanian Fascist lender, Leonardo Ciurcovich, was murdered on the Dalmatian count last Saturday. "His death made him the first Fascist martyr' for the liberty of Dalmatia," the paper asserts.

It is noteworthy that Italians for the last ten years have been cam- paigning for Dalmatia to be a from Yugo-Stavia,

The Fascist press generally

Ilaiton

for the phosise

plans "re-organisation of the Dulkans."

Relations Worse

free

em-

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

(Domel)-The ROME, AUL 13

Greece Denies Responsibility in various parts of the country,

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHÁ

It was decided to send abroad ATHENS, Aug. 13 (Domel),120 Germans and Austrians Greece has denied the responsibility British Internment camps to Canadin for the slaying of Daut Hoggia, the and Australia,

Albanian nationalist Jeader.

Oficials here disputed the accuracy lof the Italian Press accounts of the Lunair.

SON BORN TO EVACUEE

relations between Italy and Greece

News was received in the Colony have taken a definite turn for the worse as nuthoritative sources Use this morning that Mrs. Ivy Curtis. one closed that the Italian Government of the Hongkong evacuees, gave birth will send a strong prolest to Greeze to a son regarding the slaying of Daut Hoggia, Albanian minority leader, in Clamuria Province, Greece, on the Albanian- Greek frontier on Sunday,

Manila yesterday.

Airs, Curtis is the wife of Mr. Eric Curtis of the Hongkong Dairy Farm. Both mother and child are reported

to be well.

In

As a result, the Victorian State

plete all arrangements

Government has been able to cona-

Arst contingent arrives

before the

It is expected that 800 Hongkong residence in Victoria.

STOCK EXCHANGE women and children will take up

BUOYANT

LONDON, Aug, 13 (Reuter).-On the Stock Exchange to-day. favour- able news of the recent air netlvity was responsible for a marked im- rovement in the market sentiment prices in all sections under the lead with a consequent up meaient of of gilt-edged und industrials. practically all groups.

reported in

More buying was

Wall Street was Irregular.

Some of the evacuees who travelled by the Brst ship have already arrived, travelling from Melbourne to Sydney by train and air.

BUDAPEST, Aug. 13 (Reuler).- It is learned that negotiations be- tween Hungary and Rumania over Transylvania will begin this week at Sinals. The greatest reserve is being maintained here regarding details of the conversations.

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Maintaining Our Exports

Encouraging London Statement

LONDON, Aug, 13 (Reuter)-Mr. Harcourt Johnstone, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, in a

statement on the Government's new measures for alding the export trade, said that the Export Council hitherto had formed about 270 export groups, and as a result, could claim for the first time in our economie history that each of the principal

export sections of industry possessed a cen- tralised and completely representa tive body for discussion and negotia- tion.

Primary Object

The primary object of these groups was to provide the allocation of ruw materials for Arms manufacturing for export, and to arrange the pool- ing of any sacrifices that may be entailed comparison with

1 normal times.

more

It was really remarkable tint In view of our total war effort, we should nevertheless have been able to maintain export trade on a scale on which it was maintained in re- cent months.

Our exports in the critical, month

of June to countries not subject to the direct effects of the invasion were maintained and in some cases actually increased with muny markets in North and South America.

FORGET THE WAR

(Continued from Page 4.)

verts into bed complete with mattress as "the world's won- der" and yourself as "a grand woman."

You take it as a compliment that she expresses herself, as glad that you are not at all the great lady some feared you would be.

. "They Ray you've done everything here with your own hands like any workman! Ah, and I like ye for it!"

She departs invoking God's. blessing on you, and you feel that she, anyhow, doesn't be lieve the nine-husbands-and-a- spy story. Or that if she does it doesn't matter.

So you lug a few more stones out of the wilderness, feeling as you do so that you know now how the Pyramids were built, and you set them along each side of a path made with sand from the seashore, so it is full of shells. It's all the "gravel” we know in these parts.

But Connemara is full of stones, as Cromwell knew when he drove the people here crying "to Connaught, or to Hell!" What he didn't know was that people can live among stones- stones as old as God-and love

it.

INDIAN PILOTS

FOR R.A.F.

SIMLA, Aug 13 (Reuler) Twenty-four Indian Pilot Omcers of the Indian Air Force Volunteer Re- serve are being seconded to the AF. by the Government of India at the Invitation of the Air Ministry,

They are undergoing preliminary training and are expected to proceed to England in November with a view to participating in the air fighing.

The Indian Air Force is being quadrupled and it is understood that the British Air Ministry has extended the invitation on the ground that it In desirable for Indians to have actual experience of the air wartore in Europe.

DESTROY

Fleas!

Dead lase don't bite. Sprickle... Routing an wherever thara syu lasam and sleep in porcombat street, ba A. Konings.

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