1940-12-30 — Page 28

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NEW YEAR'S EVE CARNIVAL

at the

GLOUCESTER HOTEL

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT

of

DANCERS AND PIPERS

of the

2nd. BATT. THE ROYAL SCOTS

(By kind permission of Lt. Col. D. J. MCDOUGALL, M.C.)

Also Presenting

THE "SERENADER?

”

COMMUNITY. SINGING, SPOT WALTZ AND

OTHER DANCE NOVELTIES.

Dinner $8.00

Cover Charge $2.00

After Dinner

EXTENSION 3 A.M.

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New Year's Resolution

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1940,

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Nazis Have Division In Spain

Colonel Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary for the Navy, said re- cently that Germany is reported to have a "division and more in

civilian clothes in Spain, and other divisions of troops on the Spanish border."

His speech began with reiteration of President Roose velt's pledge of continued aid to Britain.

The US, he said, does not intend to be intimidated, and will “continue

December 30-1940.

CHINESE GIFTS TO THE ROOSEVELTS

The presentation of a Mongolian wille fox fur coat to Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, and a Foochow lacquer plaque to the President, was made at the Unlied Stales Embassy in Chungking recently, Top picture shows the scene at the Embassy. Right to left:-Major-Gen. J. L. Huang, “whó, made the presentation on behalf of the Chinese People's Foreign Relations Association, Ambassador Jolinsön,' Dr Klan- wel Shaw, representing the Chinese-American Institute of Cultural Relations, and Mr Everett Dranwright, Second Embassy Secretary, Right: The Ambassador wearing the coat at a reception. The plaque shown below, depicis Confucius teaching the Six Arts. (Photos by Norman Soong),

Old People's Plot To Oust Mussolini

Hospital Hit: Many Killed

SOLDIER CHARGED --Friendship With Schoolgirl

It was alleged against a. Wate ford schoolgirl at the Old Balloy that she not only declared her love for a young soldier and spent some time with him Inn wood, but that she tempted him to do wrong.

The young soldier John.. Edward William Downard, 20, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, was found not guilty of commit- ting an offence against the girl,' and was discharged.,

For the prosecution, Mr R. E Scalon stated that the girl, who lived with her parents at Watford, was 13 on Nov. 10 last year.

The girl, giving evidence, denfed. inviting Downerd to be Intimato with her, or that she had been with boys before. She also declared that sho never mentioned her age to Downard.

A ́detestive stated that when Dowoord was told the girl's age, he exclaimed: "Thirteen! I must have been crazy."

Wanted To Marry

Subsequently, · Downard (mado" a statement in which he was alleged to havo sald: "She told me she loved me and wanted to marry me na' soon as possiblo, Eventually I forgul everything except that she was a girl and we were alone Downard 'stated

Giving evidence,

that he met the girl on Sept. 17 when she went to the Hbrary and they went to the park together. The next day they met again, and going to the park, he was intimate with her.

The girl, he said, was wearing a jumper, blue skirt and blazer, and ho thought she was 17 or 18.

Second Time

Downard asserted that when they went out together the second time, the girl invited him to be familiar, "I was' a'bit frightened," he added. Cross-examined; Downard afflemed that the girl had a reputation among the chops," but ho, spoke to her only because he wished to be friends. She did not tell him that she was still at school.

Philippines Freedom Danger

DESPITE strict censorship, details of a round-up of Italian Fear of Axia power expansion in aristocrats have leaked out.

When American journalists {. in Rome spilled the news that 14 members of old and re- nowned familles had been ar- Fascist authorities

MANY patients were killed rested, when a high explosive bomb | denied it, made a direct hit on a London hospital in a recent night rald.

Two nurses on duty were also killed.

old.

was struck.

FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP)—

the Far East will cause the Philippine Islands to give up their 40-year Oght for indepen

Japan Shortdence. E. S. Turner, for 25 years

Of Food

The arrests came after discovery Hard Winter Is In Prospect toernts to get rid of Mussolial and of a plot by a group of Italian arla-

SHORTAGE of clothing und his Foreign Minister (Count Clano), food will be Japan's most seri-

The leading spirit in the plot was

Torlonla, whose third wife was tho

ex-King Alfonso of Spain.

to help England and China, regard- some of the debris away the trapped document proving that Italy would less of what Hitler er Mussolini be-Patients were unable to help them-be 'Germany's next victim it Huer day.

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selves.

Tank Burste They had to be taken on stretchers

won the war.

Balbo

National Secretory in the Islands, has predicted.

- Serious "ropercussions" may, be expected if the United States- withdraws its support of the Islands, he said.

Under the Commonwealth BII! the Philippines were to become Indepen- dent In 1040.

Turner believes the United States pines home rule, will postpone granting the Philip-

The hospital is for the aged and infirm, and some of the vic-60-year-old Prince Carlo Alessandro Ous problem this winter. tims were more than 80 years Infants Beatrice eldest daughter of tial report by the Tokio repre- This is stated in a confiden-

sentative to the Carnegio

Social Problems A block of four wards, in a

Soon after Germany invaded Po-Endowment for International

"Withdrawal of our, free market," which there were 108 patients, land. Torlonia formed the Resoluil, Peace, states

EL New York he said, "would destroy the present a group of Italian aristocrats, deter- message.

standard of living and create soelal, As the bomb crashed through the mined to prevent Italy from becom

problems which

would imperil roof it burled the patients under aing a German tool and being forced "Most luxuries are almost unob- Philippine progress of the past 40

as of plaster, beams and bricks. into war against Britain.

tainable in Japan," the report says. Yn addition, he said, Fülpinos know Even when rescue workers cleared

Torlonia laid before Mussolini a "Sugar is railoned, and each per-

son is allowed only five matches a that they would be the prey of any. expanding power in the Pacife if tho United States armed forces left the lieves."

Anti-American Feeling islands. Recent formal adherence of Sketching the position In the

Tokyo to the Rome-Berlin axis Mediterranean, he sald the fall of in the darkness to a first-aid post for Torlonla proposed that Marshal "Anti-American sentiment is ris heightened fears in the Philippines Gibraltar would be of "Immeasur-treatment before being removed to Balbo, Governor of Libya-whom ing rapidly in Japan," the report over possible Japanese expansion, he able" importance to the U.S., if it another hospital.

Mussolint feared--should be ap- adds,

sali. There has been no direct action should result in German movament Rescue work was complicated by pointed president of a newly-con-

Isinnders, themselves, Turner sald, down the West Coast of Africa. the bursting of a water tank at the stituted Fascist Grand Council after against Americans similar to recent

are now working toward deferment top of the building.

removal of the existing leaders,

espionage of the independence decrees. Mediterranean Window

Roxas Appeal Balbo, although unaware of the "But a powerful group in Japan,

Indicative of the sentiment; ho plot, and innocent of any con- which has been responsible for these spiracy Brainst Mussolini was arrests, would be gind of the chance kald, was the radio appeal made a few weeks ago by Manuel Roxas, killed, when his plano was mysteri- to deal with Americans in the same

Secretary of Finance In the Philip- ously shot down in Libya on June way,

"The extent to which a sort of pine National Cabinet. Roxas urged 28. a couple of weeks after Mus- solini declared war.

gang rule prevails to-day in Japan that,

Independence. Congress postpone Is almost unbelievable.

and application of visions of the Commonwealth Pro-

But if the British Fleet can į maintain control of that great Inland sen, as it controls it to-day, then the line of British Empire communica- tion will remain intact."

Broke Barriers

To Bathe

A man who, said the police, persisted in breaking down the barriers on the shore to batho, was at Folkestone recently sent to prison for three months for failing to comply with an order requiring him to leave à defence

area.

the

Doctors and nurses alded A.R.P. squads and soldiers in the area who were sent to help,

One of the leaders of the rescue work was the "matron, who carried on, although she had been badly cut 13 result of the explosion.

D

Young nurses climbed over the de- bris to help patients who seemed to have a chance of being brought out Mussolini, Clano, and Muti in their

alive.

Guided By Cries

They had to grope over piles of wreckage in the darkness, guided by the cries of the trapped men and wo-

men.

The Resoluti decided to arrest

offices in the Palazzo Venezia. After arrest they were to be shot..

Secret police arrested Torlonia at home, in the Bocca di Leone, Rome and the others as they were trying to enter the Falazzo Vene-

Intervention by

One old man trapped in thexia. debris could bo heard singing Only personal shortly after the explosion, and he King Victor Emmanuel provented

went on singing popular songs of

of the last war as rescuers made death sentences being carried out.. their way slowly towards him. Fifteen hours after the explosion

he was rescued uninjured.

Nazis Want More Foreign Workers

U.S. Sends 500 Planes Monthly

arrests of charges.

·Britons on

Husband Tests

Cigarette Ashes To Build Case

PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia. Finding a cigarette ash'on a sofa in his home, a husband in Prague

dive

Bil

Congress, Turner belloves, would not discuss, the Philippine Issue until 1944 in view of pressing international and domestic problems.

Decree For Lord Mountgarret

A decreo nisi was granted in the Divorce Court recently to Viscount Mountgarret, of Nidd Hall, Harrogate,

turned gelentine sleuth with the because of his wife's adulter, with result that he petitioned forward Allerton, against whom costs awarded. The suit was not de- fendest findy: Mountgarret wating Ho amokes only cigars and he de-. · Lord- ducted That the ash was not from married in Ocu

October,

1931. The Bus- The United States exported cigarettes smoked by his wife. He band's case was that they were on Germany claims that she still needs Describing Dean "a perfect. According to

another million foreign workers. 748 planes to Britain during the carried out chemical experiments affectionate terms until bis wife re- ifrom?1⁄2 [vidii "to" Gibrilite în the

ed in

h laboratory," 'nhd

1930. She then became bat hand and

He was Vernon William Deon, of Sandgate, near Folkestone.. He said he had no money with which to leave the district, but the police sald ho had been told he could have a free railway voucher.

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"Berlingske first 12 months of the war, the which he had learned when cold towards him. Lady Mountgar nuisance,”! Chief Inspector Hollands Affenavis" of Copenhagon; there are United Státés· Dòpartment ‘Of convinced him that the by List went to Paris in June 1930, and...

said:

จ

Germany,

whe

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A number of times he has now one million war prisoners and been arrested by the

autho- over ma millon, foreign labourers Commerce announod recently.dence" was from a a brand rities.

May he was fined £10 for employed in commande better than state, ahipments have been nearly ftud muaband or that he Hild Lord Allerton he taxed her about

August, however, it a student boarded at

lighting offence, but be elected to go slave, labour, since the wages and 500 a month.

established, by his tests, that there An Amdavill by a waller at a Paris to prison for a month Tather than rations are much smaller than those The number of planes sent to was an association between his wile | hotel was read: in Nauppárt út, the rav. Jha, fine. Underprosent.condle allotted to Clethanez (*** Britain rose from three in March to and the boarder." The Júdge, how. I adultery charge. Mr. Justice; Henn tions the man is a real danger to him-. Unemployed Germans are said to 27: in June' and 178, in August, sald|ever, has asked an expert to report Collins gave the custody, of the two | wolf and others."

mumber only £9,000..

| New York radio..

on the value of the tests.

* children to. Lord Mounigarret.