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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 18, 1940.

China Takes Heart Volunteer

From Recent Events Bowls Final ALHAMBRA THEATRE

CHUNGKING, Nov. 17 (Reuter)—The appointment of a British Commander-in-Chief for the Far East, the Soviet donlal of an agreement with Japan, and Colonel Knox's speech pro- mising greater assistance to China, are halled by the official "Central Dally-News" in a leading article this morning as "guaranteeing a Chinese victory"".

FROM ESTONIA TO AUSTRALIA

FROM PAGE ONE

therefore agreeably surprised when we found our four-berth compart- ments extremely comfortably ur- ranged, complete with table-lamp.and night-lights, with more ample space or lugnage over the corridor than we had been led to expect.'

Luxurious Meal

Theap International develop

ments are taken to indicate the determination of Britain, the United States and Russin to re- alat further aggression on the part of Japan in the Pacific.

W

The Chinese paper conciuues, " now dawn in Breaking for in- Dipendent and free new Ch na.

must selze. Ühis great'opportunity to

for

Angl make the greatest effort

ictory."

HUGE GUNS ROAR

Meal-coupons for tely distributed IN CHANNEL DUEL days were hmmediately

> FROM PAGE ONE.

and, scarcely had we set off at 2 p.. than lunch was served. It was a luxurious meal consisting of cuvlare, chicken with rice, salad and grapes. Loter ju

the afternoon

we discovered

Cologne, aeme comforts in the form of a boll- the oil refinery plants at

the Dortmund- Ing tamovar at the end of each coach, Bremen and along where the conductor made us tea at Ems canal.

The Air Ministry sad the KAF. almost any

Lime for a few kopeks or,

ety, made effective destructive attacks" a stronger variety, If we take we could

our own on Saturday on the serodromes at brew, The conductors Rouen, Abbeville and Cambrai, all in particular were not only attentive, but friendly, nosih France. and even tender towards the sick; they were also equipped with first- ald apparatus in case of accidents,

dry

A Nazi Denial

5TH. A. A. BATTERY

BEAT A. S. C. "A" -

The 8th AA Battery (L/Bdr. W. Melrose, Gr. R. Main, Gr.. R. M. Keown, Gr. V. C. Chalmers) beat the A.B.C. Company "A" (Cpl. F. Cullen. Sgt. W. Hyde, Sgt. J. Q. Meyer, Plo. E. Kern) 10-13 in the final of the Volunteer bowls competition for the China Mall

Challenge Cup at the Kowloon Bowling Green' Club yesterday.

The A.S.C. Company had a slight ad- vantage after. 14 heads when the scare was 12-0. A three for the other side

made the scores level and a dive in the 19th. hend helped the Battery to lead 18-14 and Anally win 10-15. The last head was played in darkness and the winners added a single to their tally. Presentation of Trophy Capt. A. W. Brown, welcoming the Commandant, Colonel H. D. Rose, and Sir-Atholl MacGregor, sald. there were 150 mloyera and 30 rinks in the com- petition and they were abia to contri- bule 8190 to the Bomber Fund and thero was a sum of $51 stili to be sent,

Close presented the trophy to dr.

Chalmers.

H.K. Stock Market

The following quotations were issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this morning.

BANKS

H.K. Banks

H.K. Banks £

H.K. Banks (HK.)

Chartered £.

Mercantile, A. & B. £.

.1,205 b. 00 n. .72 n.

.25% n.

on

Mercantile, C. £.

.10 n.

East Asla

Canton S..

185 n. ,300 b.

1.

DERLIN, Nov. 17 (UP) in denied here that the R.A.F. carried

daylight raids Saturday We had three substantial meals aut

Dinner consisted of meat, Cologne, Bremen and the Dortmund- vegetables, kasha (a sort of bolted Ems canal, the London reports being

usually tea; for termed as "sheer invention." meal), fruit and breakfast, hum

eggs, cheese, white, black and a sour kind of brown

and tea. bread, butter, cake

De-

and

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Plane

Downs

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and at first we all ate heartily of chicken, duck, goose, turkey, grapes cavlare, especially caviare until some began to suffer from train- sickness and others caught cold with going out to walk on station-platforms missed and fruit was much in demand in exchange for unused coupons.

As time went on, coffee parties become a regular feature of the deyintimate parties within the pre- cincts of the compartments. But on the whole we lived communally in the corridor, only retiring to compartments to rest or sleep.

Embarrassing

to

the

the

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our

LONDON, Nov. 17 (British Wire- less).-The Admiralty announces that the paddle mine-sweeper Sauthsea attacked her this morning.

There were no survivors from the aircraft..

ILM.S. Southsea damage or casualties.

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child. He had the misfortune to possess a British passport, though he spoke no word of English; and, Although there was some attempt according to the Soviet Inw of 1935, to keep the refugees from the three his wife had to retain her original Ballic States separate, no serious Russian nationality and therefore had attempt seemed to have been made to remain behind, while the husband,

sexes-with segregate

with being a British subject was com- curiously embarrassing results. Apelled to leave even his own wife rried couple found themselves in and child, though he was longing married the company of two elderly men in to remain.

The local inhabitants who were aume compartment and one cligible young bachelor was even visible at stations we passed through placed with three no eligible seemed generally adequately dressed young girls. No distinction between and fed, but ignorant as to events of clasets was observed on the train, the outside world. We were asked, Directors and workmen hobnobbed at for instance. If the war between the same table in the dining-car. All Soviet-Russia and Finland were over. were treated alike, and everyone was Recruits in passing trains took us for given 15 roubles pocket-money to circus performers, and apend. When hot running water was generally eyed curiously, as if we had available for washing, we all had to been first-cines artistes or strolling

At Chatting uct and players.

we SALV await our 'turns

crowd of they in the

of

a local we all indulged

People train; the station was full,-aseeth- clean bedlinen every third day.

Our journey was of necessity ing mass of humanity, mothers feed-

their infants at that direct,

the breast, naked had little ing their opportunity of a close-up of Soviet-babies asleep on sacks.

At Iritutsk, we had already passed Russia, though we travelled from

blizzard to milder weather, Rig

the extreme westerly point to through

window

was silli Vladivostock, the extreme easterly though our carriage

to

into go

the corridor point. Even at Moscow, the train re-frozen and had mained a minimum of time; and we of the next coach to see the unique were very disappointed not to be view over Lake Baikal, a mountain- where the rallway. of engineering

We

able even to have a rapid view of lined inland ece of

Ilne..

We were

the new capital. But we were told a magnificent to remain in our coaches while the work, winds so tortuously that we, in train was shunted on to a different the sixth coach, were often catching sight of our own locomotive. Here, We had some twenty minules en we went through about fifty tunnels

while the locomotive bored through the mountains. the platform

We had been behind time and now and dining-car were changed, when we all tried to steal a brief interview reach Vladivostock when the train was were fast gaining and expected to with Sir Stafford Cripps, who stood due. But the movement of the train there without his hat, trying to satisfy going round the bends resembled the exigencies of everybody in the

As we approached very much that of a rolling sea, and

fell sick. some passengers Siberia, the nights became colder and

We did not go through Manchuria,

freezing cold. NAZI SPY”

the windows oze, although our but passed through colder climes

Pathetic Farewell

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and sea At Novosibirsk, the climax of cold eventually Voroshilov, where Wo was reached, and we ran out through were at last able to promenade the

our hats an icy wind into the warm station, platform without

and a magnificent building more like a shawls. Promptly at eight o'clock in sky-scraper in the centre of New the evening of November 6, the York than a towering edifico amidst lights of Vladivostock appeared in the low-built houses set in the centre of distance, drew nearer and hearer, the Siberian prairie. Here, one until we at Inst reached the end of member of our

bid

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