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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

-December 23, 1940,

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Officials

In Detention

A DESCRIPTION of the 'Mo of members of the former French Government now, de- tained In Chateau Chazeron,” was recently given by the official Gorman news agency.

Chazoron Castle, says tho agency, is a fortress dating from the Middle Ages. It is surrounded by a deep moat.

"The four men detained there, MM, Daladier, Röynaud, Mandel and General Gamelin, are in. separate quarters. They aro allowed out in the grounds, but nt different times.

They must share their meals with the warders.and must pay for them out of their own pockets.

"They spend part of the day pre- paring for their defence at Riom. They talk politics with their warders, who are cautioned to be friendly bui "reserved,

Threatens Revelations "According to reports," continues the agency, "M. Reynaud is the most depressed. M. Daladier is very talka- tive. He threatens sensational re-

velations at the trial.

"Both Dalndier and Reynaud ride blcycles in the park.

to be

"Gamelin Is

Is said

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NEWSMEN HONORED-For fostering cooperation among Americas, Columbia University award- ed Maria Moors Cabot prixes to nowspapormon abovo. From loft: Rafael H. Valle, Moxico City; Agustin Edwards, Chilo; Doon Carl W. Ackorman, Columbia; Enrique Santos, Colombia, and James Irvin Miller, Buenos Airos, vico prosidant; United Press in South America.

Drowned During

the quietest Heart Attack

Messerschmitts For Sale

TWO Messerschmitt fighters, in perfect condition, are being offered for sale in America by the British Ministry of Aircraft Production.

They are a Messerschmitt 109 and a Messerschmitt 110. Death from drowning by falling The offer was recorded in the American newspapers recently. into a stream after a heart attack

The Ministry is asking 125,-

preparing for his defence, he is engaged in writing a book on military science. In talks with his warders he is not in any way res ponsible for the turn of events and was recorded at the Swansea innest 000 dollars (£31,250) for each that he

was betrayed by hison: Sir Harold Carpenter, the distin generals,"

terrible."

dered three dentists him."

to attend

to

Dr. Vyvyan Davies, in evidence,

Just Missed Goebbels

A 15-pound incendiary bomb The Ministry has guaranteed de- fell ten feet from Dr. Goebbels' livery of the machines in New York. house during the R.A.F. raid on

The money from the sale of the machines, a spokesman of the British Berlin recently.

Nazis Lose Plans For New Berlin

Hitler if he ever gets the chance -will have to begin all over again with many of his plans for the rom construction of Berlin and provincial arcas.

of

For in the destruction, as the result a recent big raid by the RAF

a

of the Academy of Arts building in the Praiser Pigts, Berlin, there perished also the greater part of the models and plans for the Nazi zom→ building scheme.

They were in the office of Professor Speer, general inspector of Reich constructions. The office was com pletely ruined.

Chancery Court Demolished

One Chancery Court was de- molished when a high explosive bomb crashed into the west wall of the main Law Courts building during recent air raids,

The Lord Chancellor's Court on ono side and another Chancery Court on the other were extensively damag- ed. Windows in all courts in the West Gallery on the first floor were

mastied,

The bomb appeared to have broken through to the ground floor, where the blast shattered some of the valu

able stained glass windows in the great hall,

The west window of Westminster Abbey has been alightly damaged, a few small squares being broken,

Prayers As Bombed Boy Is Rescued

guished metallurgist, who was found of them, cash down-although, M. Mandel, former Minister of the lying face downwards In a small in the event of competition be- Interior, described, as the "enfant stream in Clyne Valley, Swansea, tween prospective buyers, the, "He criticises his food and com-aald that Sir Harold's heart was in planes will go to the highest plains of cold. He has already or such a condition that he might have bidders.

died at any moment. He thought Sir Harold had had either a fainting at or a heart attack.

Lady Carpenter said that Clyne Valley was a favourite walk of her Ministry of Aircraft Production ex-i It tore a deep crater in the husband's

plained, would be used to build more garden, spolling a bed of rose British fighters-which would,

in bushes so the German official turn, bring in more German prizes! for sale.

news agency reported.

Rescue pariles had worked for The report does not mention where three hours to release Ronnie, as guns Dr. Goebbels was at the time. It roared and a raider hovered over- was known that all the Nazi leaders) head, have deep underground shelters.

Berlin also alleges that the Reich alog was bombed.

Germans Have Wool Talks With Finns

Representatives from the omit

Historic Monastery Damaged By Fire

German Sheep Farming Association ure visiting Finland to investigate the possibility of developing local sheep farming and the export of wool to Germany.

The Abbey was bullt by The Reich claims that Europe's munity of Anglican monks and after- woollen Industry must

self-wards passed into the possession of supporting.

Fire has damaged the Cistercian : Monastery on Caldy Island, opposite Tenby, South Wales,

be

n com-

The Germans promise to absorb number of years it has been occupied the Roman Catholic Church. For a "entire Finnish wool surplus."

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The fury of Goebbels is intense. One Nazi spokesman said:-

"I wouldn't give a farthing for the Houses of Parliament. Now that our Relchstag has been bombed there is

Gets Pay Back Major A. D. Wintle, M.C., of Officer in the Tower, who the 1st Royal Dragoons, the court-martialled on August 27 no reason why we should not bomb after being detained since June tence. 22, was recently notified that his pay had been restored.

the British Parliament out of exis-,

Professor Killed By

As twelve-year-old Ronnie Eld-. ridge was rescued from the ruins of his bombed home in East London re- cently, a dean, wearing an Army chaplain's uniform, reelted the Lord's Prayer, bystanders joining in.

gamely as he was laid on a streicher Though Injured, Ronnie smiled

and taken to hospital.

The bomb which scored a direct hilt on his home killed his mother and a

lodger, Miss Vincent, and two other people in an adjoining house, Mr. and Mrs, George Smith."

BRITAIN AND U, S. TIN SMELTERS It was not until his court-martial

Revealing that, the United States. that Major Wintle learned his Army pay had been stopped during the

Great Britain a call of one-third of ilme he was a prisoner in the Tower. The death of Professor William the production of the new tin smelter There were three charges made at Waddington Cookie, seventy-two-which is to be erected in America, the court-martial, but on only one, a year-old professor of musle at the if required, "The Financial Times" civil oftence alleging that he assault Guildhall School of Music and asserts that there is no possibility of ed Air Commodore Boyle, was the Drama, was announced recently, ultimate conillet after the war be- major found guilty. The court or- Hle house in a London suburb re-tween British and American smelting dered him to be severely reprimand-ceived a direct hit several days ago, companies,

and the death announcement stated: It has been stated previously that Before sentence was promulgated, "Previously reported missing, now the British Smelting interests are Major Wintle was ordered to report declared to have been killed as a ținterested financially to the erection to a depot for service oversens. result of enemy action."

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