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FROM

Thursday

USED

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1035

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1034

November 21, 1940,

Capt. FREDERICK L. OLIVER, U.S.N. RETIRED,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

CARS

Miles Reg. No. Price

38847 5285 $2,400

35593 0007, # '000.

Humber 12 Saloon

1034... 32420 54 $1,000

Singer 11 Salton

1935

31884 3016 $1,400

Studebaker Champion Coupe

1940 Studebaker Champion Sedan

2302 300 $3,000

1040

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1934 Studebaker Sedan

1030

1543 0417 $4,200

... 35213 3202 $1,340

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All cars serviced the same as

for now cars

Says The United States Can Ill

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Neglect Singapore, as-

PACIFIC BASES ARE JUST AS VITAL AS

ATLANTIC

HE sudden increase in THE

Consequently, it may be safe- there been ample warning of the a hot restricted aren, with little if tension in the Pacific ly assumed that the strategy of coming attack, every available any diversion. :.

an enemy power with respect to defence weapon would have been For many years, the Navy has through American and Bri-

the Canal, will be based upon ready to deliver its heaviest of- vainly pleaded for the development tish warnings to Japan over the element of surprise, and the fensive effort.

of adequate buses at Guòrri and Sa- тол Did we possess proper basen Indo-China has focused in- most promising method of sur- terest on the vital question prise is the use of the aeroplane. All units of $1500 and over la value whether the United States is

Must Be On

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properly equipped with air and naval bases in the Paci- fic, no less than in the Atlan- Įtic. ··

Canal and the

بعد

matter of bases in the Pacific, can

The are of the Pacific opening at these places, the entire strategy off Panama is approximately 120 of the Paclite would be different.

And now the United States degrees, or a third of a circle. One-third of the circumference greatly interested in the disposition, if any, to be made of French posses- The Alert of a circle whose radius is 1,100 sions in the Pacifle, especially the However well supplied with miles, amounts to some 2,300 Marqueses and Society groups, which anti-aircraft batteries and pur- miles. To patrol this distance form Important stepping stones be suit planes the Canal defences with vessels placed at maximum tween the Panama A recent disclosure in The

may be, a certain amount of scouting intervals of 50 miles, Marshall Islands that are held under

Japancae mandate, Hongkong Hotel

Times, of London, that strategic warning of enemy approach is would require the use of 46

The key to the Far East sea- Garage

plans of broader implication necessary to attain maximum ships.

lanes is the excellent British base at than those revealed in the recent protection from their 1180. Should the scouting be as- Singapore, and the United States, in Phone 27778/9. | American-British naval deal Manifestly, it is impossible to sisted by ship-based planes from view of its own deficiencies in the

were afoot would indicate that

keep all of the batteries fully cruisers and carriers, the num ill afford to neglect any possibility this issue is already being scri- manned at all times, or to have ber of vessels required would be that presents itself for securing the ously gone into between the two all of the fighting planes in the considerably less, but neverthe use of the facilities at that strategic- countries. Point is given to air continually.

less, an undesirably large num- ally located stronghold. this by news that lease of the

The most probable time for a ber of ships would be needed for Cocos Island base has been of- fered to America by the Costa bombing attack to strike at the the patrol of one particular area.

Canal is at dawn. Such a flight What

air bases in a difference Rican Government.

can arrive from a carrier that Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, and Except for the strategically is for at sea, and with but little Nicaragua would make! The patrol located and heavily armed Ha- warning being given. Doubt by long-range shore-based planes THX preßx "Spectal to the Telegrapwaiian group of islands, and the less, à heavy patrol of the Canal's leave only a small hole to be Alled that could then be undertaken, would indicate news which is strictly copyright partly completed bases in Alas- fighting planes would always be in by surface ships, and the Pacific under the provisions of the Telecommunka, the United States, with vital in the air at dawn, and all of the approaches to the Canal would be so bears the indication "UP 1 received in interests in the Pacific, is tragic- batteries would then be manned, well guarded that ample information Hongkong on the date of publication rally deficient in bases in that

of an approaching enemy could be the United Press Associations who re-

However, months of such pre obtained. serve all rights and forbid republications, | area.

cautionary measures would tend elther wholly or la part without previous

To begin with, the all-impor- to take the sharp edge off of strangement,

Lack Big Stick tant Panama Canal does not alertness, and the personnel, of have proper outposts in the a morning just like yesterday, terests in the Far East, and so far There are vital United States in- Pacific.

would not be on their toes the there has been no indication that the The local defences of the way they would be should there country proposes to surrender any of various Canal have been developed to be definite information of enemy the rights, accorded it by

treaties and customs of long stand- THE Nazi Luftwaffe is such an extent that there is little planes on the wing, ...

ing. ruthlessly raining down death probability of damage being How would the enemy proceed

However, it is an undeniable fact and destruction on Britain's done the Canal by gunfire from in launching such an attack?

that the United States, because of surface ships. fairest cities and incomparable

There is a wide expanse of lack of suitable bases, is in a poor

Thursday, Nov. 21, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20015

It used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

cations Ordinance, 1936. Buch news

HONGKONG CAN HELP TO PROVIDE THE ANSWER

age to military and industrial targets, but taking frightful toll

Vital

.

RUSSIANS ARE MORE FRIENDLY

The Soviet Press is no longer making the bitter attacks on Britain that were being publish. ed at the outbreak of war.

These attacks, which resched conflict, have in the last three their climax during the Finnish.

months given way to efforts to follow a line of strict neutrality..

War reports from Allied andi German sources are printed im- partially.

Since the arrival of Sir Stafford

countryside, causing little dam-Control of Pacific Pacific Ocean off Panania. Sup- position to project a military effort Cripps as British Ambassador there pose an enemy striking force very far beyond. Hawali. For the have been signs, vague and intangible same reason, the defence problem in though they are, of an improvement: that includes several carriers, to the Pacific presents considerable dif-in Anglo-Soviet relations. have come undetected over an feulty.

Fears that, after the French intr- of British homes, public build- Nor could the reduction of

unfrequented sea route to within ings and churches. There is these defences be attempted by

A start has been made in provid-render, Hiller might march his armed only one answer to this; tenfold any but an expeditionary force 1,100 miles of the Canal, timing ing for the defence of Midway Island, forces cast instead of attacking Bri- of major proportions, the trans-its movements to arrive at this but as far as known, the other stop-tain have by no means been calmed 1-Cont-Buys-Percussion-Cap-of-a-303. repayment in kind. We too, portation of which could not be point at dusk, say 8 p..

attempted unless S.A.

power had secured absolute con- trol of the Pacific.

Even when assured of such

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ping places of the trans-Pacifle and by the Soviet Government's decision though it is not our nature, must

New Zealand Clipper-ships, such as to carry out a drastic reorganisation It then steams, say at 25 Wake, Canton, Palmyra, and other of the army. adopt the Bismarkian philosophy

knots, until midnight, and small Islands are easy prey for any Ready For Anything of blood and iron; it is the only

launches the bombers. If there raiding force sent against them.

It would be unwise to assumie the language which the belligerent

control, the convoys, as long as remains five hours of darkness, As a matter of fact, the defence the possibility of the Soviet's entering dictator States understand. The the Canal remained in opera- 200-mile an hour planes will be of one of these small atolls is dif-the war against the Axis power, but Nazis want total war shorn of tion, would be in danger of at- over the Canal at 6 a.m., and ficult to provide. There is hardly it is clear that the Kremlin is deter- room for the instaliation of the bat-mined to be prepared for anything. tack by uncontained forces as they will have made the flight teries of heavy guns necessary to fute of Denmark, Norway, Holland, ethics; they shall have it.

at high altitudes, the listening repell attacks by surface ships, nor Belgium, and France. The Royal Air Force has al-emerging from the Atlantic. ready given Germany and Italy Inasmuch as no ememy could posts in the Gulf of Panama to base any great number of bombers

There are signs, too, that the a pretty good idea of its poten- hope to operate the Canal for could give little or no warning with their. Sittendant fighting planes. Soviet-German trade agreement is

Then the matter of supplies, expect not working over shibotnly. the purpose of serving its own of the approach. tialities as a powerful striking ends, its interest in the Canal

ally water, for any considerable

German officials, experts, und en- The result will be an attack number of men, is a serious problem,gineers have been loud in their com force; but the R.A.F. needs more per se, is to inflict damage that and more plunca with which to will deny its use to the United before the maximum defence as is maintaining the morale of an plaints of Russian Incompetence and

can be brought to bear, but had isolated group of men crowded into frefusal to co-operate. let the Nazis know that they States.

have made a Frankenstein mons-

ter which turns to destroy its

1 Small High. Explosive own creator.

Bomb

Hongkong has a part to play

Rains form

Lakes of

FUNNY SIDE UP

in equipping our intrepid airmen

1 Large High Explosive with the machines they need. A

Bomb

100

250

1 Bomb Rack

13

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500

1 Stick of Bombs

1,000

A Bren Gun

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160,000,000

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1 Day's Upkeep of Squadron of Fighters.

1 Spitfire or Hurricane

1 Flying Fortress

2 Coastal Motor Boats

1 Destroyer

1-10,000 Ton Cruiser

Beauty in Australia

goodly effort has already been made through the "Morning

Three unusually wet seasons sickers moving about; and no Post" and "Telegraph" War have caused the reappearance reports had been sent, to the Fund; but let us regard it sim-in Central. Australia of huge authorities, discounted the idea ply as a first effort. There is lakes which have been seen only that here was something to add Coventry to avenge; do not let twice in the last 54 years. They to the blank maps of the us forget the systematic terrori-will become almost a tourist at

¡traction, so picturesque is this interior. sation of London and the entire!

phenomenon in the brown im- These are fresh water lakes, southeast of England. We in mensity of these lonely land-estimated to have a combined a Hongkong cannot build planes scapes.

area of from 26 to 80 square for the pilots, but we can see,

A pressman, who made a miles. The "old hands": told that there is enough money for special flight to the western the right story of the effect of their construction. There has Macdonnell Ranges to see the recent great rains in Contral been commendable enthusiasm lakes, records that they present-Australia, and then recalled the by all sections of the community ed such a remarkable scene that, other occasion more than half a

when first observed from the century ago, in forwarding this five-months", "Bomber

air It was thought they were a Fund" campaign; discovery. people have given willingly and

1 35,000 Ton Battleship

The South China Morning Post, Ltd. will be pleased to supply cards 14′′ x 11" of the above list, with the name printed thereon of any Firm or Club wishing to start a Shrapnel Box..

in

In many instances generously. The fact, however, that Nevertheless it is fair to believe these distant lands there are that Hongkong has by no means always stockmen and gold fos- exhausted its spending powers in

Some of the arms of one of the lakes are from 20 to 30 feet deep, nad when tho - newspaper plane was at the spot the water was probably

in the

red sind typical of the

many feet lower us the rate of evaporation is 10 feet a year, Framed desert and with, surface, re this great and urgent cause, monsters-money and yet more ecting the intense blue of the sky. the lakes have a vivid beauty. With His Excellency the Governor money for the only weapons the occurrence of these rare and yesterday gave a new and on- which will teach them that bountiful rains, birds and animals courging lead with a munificent callous slaughter of defenceless have appeared in large numbers, men, women and children and making these. fresh water expanses personal donation; this is the wilful despallation of non-mill- animated rendezvousmus, and erones in statoly squadrons, numerous anawer Hongkong can give to tary objectives earn their just ittle wading birds, docks of ducks Goebbels and his inhuman serin - reward.

Fad" "miðb# of Kargardos,

so that Russia shall not suller the

By Abner Dean

Hat the police said not to touch any

Harrivä.: Däär

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