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Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881

No. 10347

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1941.

日六月二十

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TAKING PART IN THE BATTLE OF LIBYA

Here are some of the British reinforcements which arrived recently in Egypt to take part in the present Battle of Libya. Top picture shows contingents of the R.A.F., landing from their transport, and below, a happy group of British tommies getting their 'first glimpse of the Middle East.

INTO RAGING FURNACE

WITH

20.000

BOMBS

LONDON, JAN. 2 (REUTER).-TWENTY THOUSAND INCENDIARIES AND A LOAD OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES DROPPED ON BREMEN DURING THE FIRST HOUR OF WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S FIERCE BOMBING RAID BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, TURNED THE GREATEST SEAPORT IN GERMANY-AFTER HAMBURG-INTO A RAGING FURNACE.

in

to

Nazi Raider Pacific said be a Glen Liner

It is reported that one of the German raiders in the Pacific is the Glengarry, a 7,100-ton ship being built for the Glen Line at Copenhagen when the Nazis invaded

Denmark.

This ship, almost complete at the time, was finished by the Count von Luckner, Nazis and was sent to the Pacific under famous sea ralder of the last war, to prey on Allied shipping.

HE RAIDED IN THE LAST WAR

Wiir.

Count von Luckner is re- membered for his exploits in the last

In March 1917 be ran the Allied blockade in the, North Sea in his 4,000-ton armed mer- chant vessel, the Secaller. The ship was disguised as a Norwegian timber carrier. Luckner operated with some .success in the Pacific where he sank many American freighters. A typhoon when the Sccadler-was-at-the- island of Mopelia was res. ponsible for her destruction, and on October 21, von Luckner and five of his men were captured, and interned,

HONGKONG PAYS UP

Salaries Tax Revenue

Exceeds Expectations

.

As the long procession of aircraft of the Bomber Command reached the Zuider Zee on their way to follow up the first attacks, they could see a red glow in the sky over Bremen al- though still 120 miles from their target.

Smoke from the fires reached as high as the clouds and mingled with them, and pilots found the targets they had been detailed to attack so thoroughly ablaze that rather than waste the bombs on buildings already gutted they sought other factories and dockyards in the city.

Armaments Assailed ·

ise.

It was an intensely cold clear night, and a young moon clear- by lit up the targets, chief of which were the great shipbuilding yards in which warships of all kinds, and especial submarines, sire under enruction, the Deutsche

refineries, rallwr gins at tions, ware- The experience of some Nor- wegian captives, which took houses, ribe starch mills, air frame place some time ago, can now and the F..

factory. be related. Their particular ship, the name of which cannot be mentioned, opened fire when challenged by the raider and the German promptly replied, killing nine of the crew,

When the rest of the crew were taken on board, von Luckner, as they belleve, inade them a short address regretting the necessity of firing on their ship and offering them good treatment while they were in his bands.

To defend Breméh,

used all the ground de.. could muster and the RA eported formidable anti-aircrnitate,

Holland Bombed

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH BERLIN, Jan. 2 (UP)-The official news agency's correspondent at The Hague reports that R.A.F. lanes last Tuesday night dropped a "large number of incendiary and ex- plosive bombs throughout" Helland. Many houses were struck."

The men were. allowed to walk

Channel Ports Hit about on the lower deck, were given} - good rations and even had a "com LONDON, Jan. 2 (Reuter)- „plaint" hook in which to volee Flashes and flares in the sky and

grievances.

muffled explosions from the direction Around Sumatra Waters of the French coast to-night indiented that-R.A.F.-bombers-hud-braved the They had been cruising round icy weather conditions in the Straits Suinatra waters at this time but the of Dover to attack again the German raider shortly afterwards left for the Invasion

ports, Indian Oceaa where another Nor- Many searchlights between Calals weglan was captured and sunk. and Boulogne probed the heavy banks)

of low clouds.

The ralder had altered her supers tructure to hide her guns and deck equipment and bore the appearance of an English ship, which indeed slie was. The fact that she was accom- panied by the Norwegian ship pre- viously captured helped to disarm suspicion.

When quite close, the ralder's deck TURN to Back Page, Column 3

"The revenue from laxation Sunk Without

on salaries bus exceeded expecta- tions, but we are still very much in the dark as regards taxation on profits etc.," stated Mr A. G.| Clarke, Commissioner for War Taxation this morning to the "Hongkong Telegraph."

Warning

U.S. Oil Tanker's Fate

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

East Indies Anticipates Attack

Oil Wells Guarded

(Central LONDON, Jan. 1 News). A message from Balik-

Britain To Receive U. S. Cargo Ships

Special to the "Telegraph"

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UP). — Administration quarters indicated to-day that American cargo vessels will be loaned or leased to Britain as one of the first steps in President Roose- velt's programme for providing accelerated material aid to

England.

papan published in the Evening Won't Make

Standard to-day, forecast that

DEMAND APOLOGY FROM JAPANESE Firm Stand By U.S. Marines

PEIPING, Jan 1 (Reuter).-A demand for a full apology, by the Japanese for the incident which occurred in Peiping on Monday when some United States Marines were detained by Japanese police is being made by Col. S. H. Turnage, Comman- dant of the United States Marines here..

GREEKS

ADVANCING ON VALONA

New Heights Gained

It is alleged that four Marines were beaten during their deten- tion and two were forced to sign 1 confession of guilt. Col

Turnage is also demanding the

punishment of the Japanese gendarmerie and officers concern.

ed in the arrests, and an a

surunce that similar acts will not occur in the future.

Falling such an assurance, he adds,

the incident cannot be regarded as closed.

when

applicace 17 hours later. The

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" STRUGA, Jan. 2 (UP).- The trouble giving rise to the de- Reports from the frontier Bay and occurred in a cabaret in Peiping that the Greeks in the Telepini civilians attempted to pick a quarrel It is alleged that a Japanese sector occupied the village of with one of a party of American Ilebani, capturing two Italian guards at whom he pointed a

nese was disarmed volver. The Japanese was officers and 150 soldiers.

Reports regarding the Strada by the Marines and later the pince

was surrounded by.

whole party Bianca clash declare that the dames who arrested the wese gen- Greeks captured seven officers of Amcommandant mode repented

detained them. The 480 (including two majors)

for their release, which soldiers, two light field guns and took

then declared Japanese authorities four machine-guns. -- Reliable sources said there i

The Itallons led along the main the incident closed, but the Comman- д full also some likelihood that the road towards Valona. The pursuing dant disagreed, demanded United States might acquire the Greeks reached the heights in the apology and reported the incident 10 majority of the 133 vessels which Kerauning mountains which skirt the Washington.

coast as far as Valona Bay and are moored in the United States dominate the valley. waters belonging to nations which have been occupied by Another Valona Raid

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" Germany; however, there is no STRUGA, Jan. 2 (UP)—-Reports NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UP) The indication that the United States reveal that six Greek and Biltish Mackay Radio reports that they inter- planes yesterday bombed und damag- cepted a message asserting that the will take over any German ored the port works at Valona, hittingsteamer Galgora was torpedoed In The Netherlands East Indies nu- thorities are reported to be ceaselessly

Italian tonnage.

and setting fire to an Italian ship in Tatitude 22.30 north, longitude 21.00 building defences, heavily mining the

the harbour.

The some planes then bombed the port and sending out gunboats, mine-

Italian barracks at Kanino, three and layers and planes to patrol the Macas- sar Strait.

A high official who will be respon- a half miles southeast of Valona, were Scores of Japanese found pouching i LONDON, Jan. 2 (UP)—A sible for the American operation of TURN to Back Page, Column 5' examiners, who are expected to painted on both sides, leaving the in forbidden waters and masquerad Socialist Member of Parliament, British routes in the Pacific said that arrive any day from Home.

ship a blazing, sinking hulk. "We are making fair progress and "We left Aruba on December 5ing as fishermen, have been arrested Mr Arthur Edwards, said that the most important conditions would

and imprisoned,

Assurance guarantee that the United Sintes have experienced surprisingly little with an entire crew of Americans Recently a Japanese tonker with a unless he received trouble in the collection of taxation, carrying 3,000,000 gallons of oil con-crew of 500 cadets arrived at Balik- from Mr Churchill that muni after the war on the same tonnage could return to the North Atlantle

There has been a good deal of public signed to a British-Mexican Arm in papan claiming to be making ations now being manufactured in basis as that which existed prior to co-operation," he concluded.

Freetown."

training cruise. But the crew was British factories would not be the war.

The first assessments

were

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, strategists believe that in the Jan. 2 (UP).Captain B. R. event of a Japanese attack on went out last June, these being Blomquist of the Standard Oil the Netherlands East Indies, the contined to a few individuals who tanker Charles Pratt, which was first objective of the blow will sunk on December 21 in the not be Java but the rich oil wells were leaving the Colony,

South Atlantic with the loss of at Balikpapan. The department commenced to function on April 1, 1940 with a two lives told the "United Press" skeleton stuff or eight clerks. Two to-day: examiners arrived shortly afterwards

from Ceylon and these were later "The submarine fired two torpedoes Joined by three others, but the de- without the slightest warning despite partment la still short two the Panamanian flags which

of

Discuss Anglo-Chinese Interests in Pacific

Special to the "Telegraph”

LONDON, Jan. 2 (UP)—In his first talk with the Chinese Ambassador Mr Quo Tal-chi, since he became Foreign Minister, Mr Anthony Eden conversed for 40 minutes, and it is reliably stated that they discussed British-Chinese Interests in the Pacific, and surveyed European developments.

Munitions

For Japan

British Workers

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

After War Is Over

not allowed to land and the vessel to Japan, he would ask routes were the world's richest. "If He noted that the North Atlantic

was escorted back to sea.

sent

It is believed that the docks, re-Party leaders to debate the mat- we are able to get them back without fineries, pipe-lines and oil wells will ter in Parliament,

bo destroyed rather than be allowed

they believe

to fall into Japanese hands. Destruc- The workers have threatened tion has been planned so thoroughly to strike because by experts that it is calculated a minimum of two years will be re- that the munitions are destined quired before it will be able to re-for Japan. sume production.

BELGIAN PRIDE

an expensive struggle It will be a great contribution to our post-war economy," he declared.

PLANE MAKES

"

New Warship Every 12 Days

American Production

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UP). The United States navy now has sufficient officers to com

Amand the warships which are

Mr-Edwards has already writ FORCED LANDING being added to the fleet at the

ten to Mr Churchill.

U. S. Planes Flying To London

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Įrato of one every 12 days.

Naval officials said that 15,000 re- BIG SPRINGS, Texas, Jan. 2 (UP), gufar and resorve naval officers are LONDON, Jan. (Reuter); The

—A ́naval plane mndò forced land now on duty including 4,000 reser- Belgian army is firmly determined to

ng here to-day 31 miles northwest vists. An additional 5,000 ore sche- fight at the side of her British friends.

of the town, Several of the crew duled to be commissioned in 1941 for and aliles until final victory liberatesį

bailed out prior to the crash,

the regular and reserve services. Belgium and King Leopold.

Five Bail Out

A special four print programme, During the conversation the be used to protect the Canton- M. Gutt, Belgian Minister of De-

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 2 (UP)-Five including the calling of reserves to Chinese Ambassador. alluded to Hankow railway or could attack Greetings sent to officers and men of Beaverbrook, the Air Minister, to-day hember which was enroute to San naval reserve officers training corns. fence, thus replies to the New Year LONDON, Jan. 1:2 (UP)-Lord men bulled out of D naval PBY active duty, training college men, a the reports of heavy Japanese Hongkong, possibly to be syn- the Belgian army by Capt. Margesson, revealed that a "stream of United, Diego from Pensacola, Florida, but and shortening the course in the troop concentrations in Kwang-chronized with a German offen-British Secretary for War, on behalf states bombers are being flown to the report said the pilot and co-pilot Naval Academy from four to three tung, and suggested they could sive in Euròpo,

us across the Atlantic to London?" remained, with the plane,

of the Army Council.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

and a half years is being introduced.

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