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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY

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HIS MASTER'S VOICE"

B 9880 You, You Darlin' So Far, So Good

FROM

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH 10>November 21 1940

USED CARS

Mako

Buick Sedan :

1035

Miles Reg. No. Price

36847 5285 $2,100

Morris 10 Saloon M

1034

35403 6067.000

Humber 12 Baloon

1034

32420 54, $1,000

Singer 11 Saloon

1935........ 31864 3015 $1,400

Studebaker Champlon Coupe

1940...

Studebaker Champlon 'Sedan

1040

2302 300 $3,900

1643 6417 $4,200

35213 3202 $1,300

1038 ..... 10887.

Vauxhall 14 Saloon

1934 Studebaker Sedan

All cars serviced the same as for now cari ADDITIONALLY

Capt. FREDERICK L. OLIVER,

RETIRED,

Says The United States Can Ill Afford To Neglect Singapore, as-

PACIFIC BASES ARE

All units of $1500 and over in value carry the Hongkong Hotel Garago whether the United States is

guaranico for three months.

Inspection and trial invited

TEL. 20016.

SEPTEMBER

RELEASE

(Foxtrot)

What did I do to be so Black & Bluc.

Sweet Little Sweetheart

Duke Ellington.

Muggsy Spanter.

Joe Loss & Orch.

B 9067 Dinah

(Foxtrot)

BD 5403 No, Mama, No

(Quickstep)

BD 5003 When I Dream of Home

Moonlight and Mimosh

(Quickstep) (Slow F-T)

Joe Loss & Orch.

(Tango)

DD 5605 Hear My Song, Violetta

El Pescader

BÐ 5608

Say It

My My!

MN

11

Secrets in the Moonlight

(Foxtrot)

(Foxtrot)

From 20th Century-Fox "Star Dust"

GV 101 Siboney

I want my Mammy.

(Rumba)

S. MOUTRIE & CO.,

YORK BUILDING,

Joe Loss & Orch.

Glenn Miller.

Bob Chester & Orch.

Xavier Cugat.

LTD.

CHATER ROAD.

WHY NOT START A

SHRAPNEL BOX

Hongkong Hotel Garage

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

JUST

AS VITAL AS ATLANTIC

their use,

For many years, the Navy has

mon.

79 51,750 THE sudden increase in Consequently, it may be safe- there been ampie warning of the a,hot restricted aren, with fittle if

tension in the Pacific ly assumed that the strategy of coming attack, every available any diversion. through American and Bri- an enemy power with respect to defence weapon would have been

the Canal, will be based upon ready to deliver its heaviest of vainly pleaded for the development of adequate bases at: Guam and Sa- Did we possess proper basCS tich warnings to Japan over the element of surprise, and the fensive effort. Indo-China has focused in- most promising method of sur-

The arc of the Pacific opening at these places, the entire strategy.. terest on the vital question prise is the use of the acroplanc.

off Panama is approximately 120 of the Parlie would be different.

And now the United States. is Must Be On degrees, or a third of a circle.

greatly interested in the disposition, One-third of the circumference any, to be made of French posses- The Alert of a circle whoso radius is 1,100 slons in the Pacific, especially the However well supplied with miles, amounts to some 2,300 Marqueses and Society groups, which Canal and the anti-aircraft batteries and pur. miles. To patrol this distance form important stepping stones be- Marshall Islands, that are held under suit planes the Canal defences with vessels placed at maximum tween the Panama

.. Japanese mandate. A recent disclosure in The may be, a certain amount of scouting intervals of 50 miles,

The key to the Far East sea- Tinies, of London, that strategic warning of enemy approach is would require the use of 46

lanes is the excellent British base at plans of broader implication necessary to attain maximum ships. than those revealed in the recent

from protection

Should the scouting be as- Singapore, and the United States, in view of its own deficiencies in the naval

deal Manifestly, it is impossible to sisted by ship-based planes from matter of bases in the Pacific, can Phone 27778/9. American-British

were afoot would indicate that keep all of the batteries fully cruisers and carriers, the num- 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 sironghold. 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 ons particular area. air bases in Canal is at dawn. Such a flight what a difference Rican Government,

can arrive from a carrier that Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, and Except for the strategically is far 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 is used as the whongkong Telegraph to waiian group of Islands, and the less, a heavy patrol of the Canal's leave only a small hole to be filled 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 Telecommuni-ka, the United States, with vital in the air at dawn, and all of the approaches to the Canal, would be so interests in the Pacific, is tragic- batteries would then be manned. well guarded that ample information of an approaching enemy could be ally deficient in bases in that

However, months of such pre- obtained. area.

cautionary measures would tend

Stubbs Rd.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

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

Telephone: 26615

*

THE prefix "pecial to the Telegraph"

cations Ordinance, 1976. Suck news an

bears the indication "Up" is reculted in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who fo serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.

HONGKONG CAN HELP TO PROVIDE THE ANSWER

that could then be undertaken, would

Lack Big Stick To begin with, the all-impor- to take the sharp edge off of tant Panama Canal does not alertness, and the personnel, of There are vital United States in have proper outposts in the a morning just like yesterday, terests in the Far East, and so far would not be on their toes the there has been no indication that the Pacific.

The local defences of the way they would be should there country proposes to surrender any of treaties and customs of long, stand- Canal have been developed to be definite information of enemy the rights accorded it by various

Ing. THE 'Nazi ··· Luftwaffe is such an extent that there is little planes on the wing."

How would the enemy proceed

However, it is an undeniable fact ruthlessly raining down death probability of damage being

Britain's done the Canal by gunfire from in launching such an attack?

that the United States, because of and destruction on

There is a wide expanse of lack of suitable bases, is in a poor fairest elties and incomparable surface ships.

age to military and industrial-

targets, but taking frightful toll'

Vital

1 Cent Buys Percussion Cap of a .303 repayment in kind. We-too, portation of which could not be point at dusk, say-8. p.m.

unless an enemy

RUSSIANS.

ARE MORE FRIENDLY

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

These attacks, which reached their climax during the Finnish conflict, have in the last three months given way to efforts to

e of stri follow a line of strict neutrality. ›War mports from Allied and German sources are printed im partially.

Since the arrival of Sir Stafford

countryside, causing little dam-Control of Pacific Pacific Ocean off Panama, 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 signa, vague and intangible same reason, the defence problem in though they are, of an improvement that includes several carriers, to the Pacifle presents considerable dif-in Anglo-Soviet relations

Feare. that, after, the French sur- have come undetected over an ficulty. of British homes, public build- Nor could the reduction of

A start has been made in provid-render, Hitler might march his armed ings and churches. There is these defences be attempted by unfrequented sea route to within 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. ping places of the trans-Pacific and by the Soviet Government's decision New Zealand Cilpper ships, such as to carry out a drastic reorganisation though it is not our nature, must attempted

It then steams, say at 25 Wake, Canton, Palmyra, and other of the army.

Ready For Anything and small blands are easy prey for any knots, adopt the Bismarkian philosophy power had secured absolute con-

until midnight, trol of the Pacific.

It would be unwise to 'as time the of blood and iron; it is the only

launches the bombers. If there raiding force sent against them. remains five hours of darkness, As a matter of fact, the defence the possibilty of the Soviet's entering. control, the convoys, as long as language which the belligerent. Even when assured of auch 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 room for the installation of the bat-mined to be prepared for anything, Nazia want total war shorn of tion, would be in danger of at- over the Canal at 5 a.m., and cult to provide. There is hardly it is clear that the Kremlin is deter tuck by uncontained forces as they will have made the flight teries of heavy guns necessary to fate of Denmark, Norway, Kolland, One Piece of R. A. F.ethics; they shall have it.

The Royal Air Force has al-emerging from the Atlantic. at high altitudes, the listening repell attacks by surface ships, nor Belgium, and Franice. Forest Confetti

S.A.

5

A Bullet

12

**

25

A Complete .303 Round A Complete .50 Round

50

Movi

ready given Germany and Italy

so that Russia shall not suffer the

There are signs, 100, that the Inasmuch as no ememy could posts in the Gulf of Panama to base any great number of bombers

Then the matter of supplies, especi not working over smoothly. a pretty good idea of its poten-hope to operate the Canal for could give little or no warning with their attendant fighting planes. Soviet-German trade agreement is

the purpose of serving its own of the approach.

ally water, for any considerable

German officials, experts, and en- tialities as a powerful striking ends, its interest in the Canal

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 planes 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 [refusal to co-operate. let the Nazis know that they States.

Dollar

1 Bomb Fuse

5

1 Parachute Flare

*

"1

10

"

1 Incendiary Bomb

25

*

1 Complete Set of Spark Plugs

have made a Frankenstein mons-

ter which turns to destroy its

50

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100

督管

goodly effort has already been

250

500

"

1,000

"

5,000

Bombs & Petrol, for a

*1

警察

10,000

Squadron of Fighters

100,000

1 Spitfire or Hurricane

500,000

1 Flying Fortress

1,000,000

7,000,000

40,000,000 160,000,000

1 Small High Explosive own creator. Bomb

in equipping our intrepid airmen

1 Large High Explosive with the machines they need. A

Bomb

1 Bomb Rack

1. Stick of Bombs

A Bren Gun

Visit to Berlin

1 Day's Upkeep of

2 Coastal Motor Boats

1 Destroyer...

1 10,000 Ton Cruiser

a

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 wish! to start

Shrapnel Box.

made through the "Morning

Beauty in Australia

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 iden There is lakes which have been scan only that here was something to add ply as a first effort. Coventry to avenge; do not let twice in the last 54 years. They to the blank maps of the us forgot 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 area of from 26 to 30 square Hongkong cannot build planes scapes.

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 Central been commendable enthusiasm Inkes, 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 in forwarding this five-months' when first observed from the century ago...

air it was thought they were a "Bomber Fund" campaign discovery.

people have given willingly and,

Some of the arms of one of the lakes are from 20 to 30 feet deep, and when the newspaper plane was

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in many instances generously. The fact, however, that in at the spot the water was probably Nevertheless it is fair to believe these distant lands there are many inct lower as the rate of always stockmen and gold fos evaporation is 10 feet a year. Framed that Hongkong has by no means

In the warm red and typical of the desert country, and with surface re exhausted its spending powers in

fecting the lutense blue of

of the sky

With this great and urgent cause: monsters-money and yet more he takes have a

hye avluld raro and His Excellency the Governor money for the only weapons the occurrence birds and animalé)

ence of these which will teach them that bountiful yesterday gave a new and en-

callous slaughter of defenceless have appeared in large numbers, courg lead with a munificent men, women and childron and making these fresh water expanses an animated rendezvous dimus, and personal donation; this is the wilful despoliation of non-mill cranes in stately squadroris; numerous answer.

"kong can give to take offlectives earn, thole. Just us, wadi akakaa

àflocks of du Goebbels and hind

and mobe of kangaroos,

Hongkong has a part to play

Rains form

Lakes

of

FUNNY SIDE UP

1.2.

By Abner Dean.