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SOFTBALL

Under the distinguished patronage of Hon. Commissioner of Police, President of the Kowloon Football Club and

Chairman, Hongkong War Effort Committee

Grand Softball Matches

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on

BOXING DAY

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K.F.C. Members under 40 years

V.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 23, 1940.

High French Officials In Detention

A DESCRIPTION of the “Ufo of members of the former French Government now do tained in Chatean Chazeron,” was recently given by the official German news agency.

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

"The four men detained there, MM. Daladier, Reynaud, Mandel and General Gamelin, are in separate quarters. They are allowed out in the grounds, but] at 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 Rom. They talk polllles with their warders, who are cautioned to be friendly but reserved.

Threatens Revelations

"According to reports," continues the agency, "M. Reynaud is the most tepressed. M. Daladier is very talka- tive. Ile threatens sensational re- velations at the trial.

Daladler

"Bom

und Reynaud ride blcycles in the park

"Gamelin is said to be the quietest. Besides preparing for hi defence, bo

writing a book

1 engaged in

on

tilltary selence. In talks with his

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Drowned During Heart Attack

Messerschmitts For Sale

Just Missed Goebbels

TWO Messerschmitt sighters, 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.

The Ministry is asking 125,- warders he is not in any way res- into a stream after a heart attack ponsible for the turn of events and was recorded at the Swansea quest 000 dollars ($31,250) for each that he

betrayed by hlson Sir Harold Carpenter, the distin- enerals."

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,

is described as the "enfont stream in Clyne Valley, Swansea. tween prospective buyers, the terrible.

Dr. Vyvyan Davies, In evidence, planes will go to the highest "He criticises his food and com-sald that Sir Harold's heart was in plains of cold. He has already er-such a condition that he might have bidders.

dled at any moment. He thought The Ministry has guaranteed de- dered three dentists to attend

Sir Harold had had either a fainting livery of the machines in New York him."

fit or a heart attack.

The money from the sale of the machines, a spokesman of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production ex- plained, would be used to build more British fighters--which would, for sale. turn, bring in more Gentin prizes

to

husband's.

Lady Carpenter Bald that Clyne Germans Have Wool a favourite walk of her

Talks With Finns

Historic Monastery Damaged By Fire

Representatives from the official German Sheep Farming Association are visiting Finland to investigate Fire has damaged the Cistercian ! the possibility of developing local Monastery on Caldy Island, opposite sheep farming and the export of wool Tenby, South Wales. to Germany.

The Abbey was built by a com- The Reich claims that Europe's munity of Anglican monks and after- woollen industry must be self-wards passed into the possession of supporting.

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

by French Cistercian monks.

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Major A. D. Wintle, M.C., of

A 15-pound incendiary bomb fell ten feet from Dr. Goebbels" house during the R.A.F. raid on Berlin recently.

Nazis Lose Plans For New Berlin

Hiltier If ho over gota the chanco,

-Will have to begin all over again with many of his plans for the re- construction of Berlin and provincial

arcas

For in the destruction, as the result of a recent big raid by the RAF. of the Academy of Arts building in. the Praiser Platz, Berlin, there perished also the greater part of the models and plans for the Nazi ren building, schenie.

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

piclely ruined.

Chancery Court Demolished

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

The Lord Chancellor's Court on one 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 smashed.

The bomb appeared to have broken through to the ground floor,, where the blast chattered 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

As twelve-year-old Ronnie Eid- ridge was rescued from the ruins of It tore a deep crater in the his bombed home in East London re- garden, spoiling a bed of rose cently, a deon, wearing an Army news agency reported. bushes so the German official chaplain's uniform, recited the Lord's

lo. Prayer, bystanders Joining

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

Though injured, Romnle smiled Berlin also alleges that the Reich-gamely as he was laid on a stretcher slag was bombed.

and taken to hospital.

The fury of Goebbels is intenso. One Nazi spokesman said:

The bomb which scored a direct hit

on his home killed his mother and a

"I wouldn't give a farthing for the lodger, Miss Vincent, and two other the 1st Royal Dragoons. the Houses of Parliament. Now that our people in an adjoining house, Mr. and Officer in the Tower, who was Reichstag has been bombed there is Mrs. George Smith. court-martialled on August 27 no reason why we should not bomb after being detained since June the British Parliament out of exis 22, was recently notified that his pay had been restored.

tence.

Professor Killed By "Enemy Action”

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

government has undertaken to give 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 Cooke, seventy-two- which is to be erected in America, the court-martial, but on only one, year-old professor of music at the if required, The Financial Times" civil offence alleging that he assault Guildhall School of Music and asserts that there is no possibilty of ed Air Commodore Boyle was the Drama, was announced recently. ultimate condict after the war be- major found guilty. The court or His. house in a London suburb re-tween British and American smeling dered him to be severely reprimand-velved a direct hit several days ago, companies, ed.

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

of a smelter in Ame÷lcá.

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