1940-08-17 — Page 13

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OF

PICTURE HIGHLIGHTS

August 17, 1940.

WORLD'S NEWS

FOUR

HE WAS MASTER of one of Ger- many's finest liners. But a British cruiser sighted him, he scuttled his fine ship. Now he is a war prisoner in Canada.

MEN

GENERAL HALDER, the Nazi Chief of the General Staff and brains. behind the blitzkrieg. An artillery specialist he presides over Nazi Operations Council.

AND

GENERAL VON BRAUCHITSCH, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army opposed Hitler's plan to push west. He had not Fuchrer's know- ledge of Fifth Columns.

SIXTH COLUMN

Troops with fixed bayonets patrol one of the backways of East London as a precaution against any Fifth Column attempts.

WAR

SECOND LIEUTENANT C. A. M. Moody is the first negro to hold a Commission in the British Army. Son of a doctor, he has been gazetted to Royal West Kent Regiment.

AMBASSADOR

Sir Samuel Hoare who has been appointed British Am- bassador to Spain steps on the plane which took him with his family to his new post.

These PLANES Battle OVER ENGLAND

The Boulton Paul Defiant is Britain's newest fighting plane; has brought down scores of Mes- serschmitts. Picture at left shows close-up of the famous power operated gun turret. Picture be low shows a German bomber which met a Defiant over the East Coast and will never meet an other.