1941-01-21 — Page 5

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

The Sunbeam-Talbot ten horse-power Sports Car which has been donated to the Bomber Fund by Messes Gilman & Co., Ltd. The value of the car is $5,950, and it is to be raffled by the Hongkong War Effort Committee. Many other valuable prises are being offered which will make the raffle, ono of the biggest over held in the Far East. All work is being done voluntarily so that every dollar received from the sale of tickets will go towards the purchase of bombers.

Italian Indian Inland

Prisoners

In Export Of Rice

To Japan

Camps

'BOMBAY, Jan, 20 (Reuter).-Four hundred officers were included in the second contingent of 4,000 Italian prisoners who arrived from the Western Desert to-day and were sent to inland' camps.

One Italian officer paid tribute to the British mechanised forces, saying that Italian anti-tank guns were useless against the British tanks, and most of the prisoners had had than three days of fighting.

Libyan Bad Weather CAIRO,

Jan. 20 (Renter).—

Weather conditions in eastern Libya yesterday restrictedì air operations considerably, but R.A.F. aircraft carried out a number of

recon- naissance and fighter patrols in the forward area. It was announced in a! communique from R.A.F. quarters in the Middle East,

In Albania

head-

no

more

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Indo-China Agreement Is Reached

on

ROOSEVELT SOUNDS CALE

FROM PAGE ONE

is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoplex, it blazed anew in the Middle Ages, it was written in the Magna Carta.

"In the Americas, its impact has been irresistible. Those who first came here to carry out the longings at their spirit and the millions who followed and the stock that sprung from them, all have moved forward

January 21, 1941.

CHINESE HELPS SAVE LINER

THE 26,000-ton Empress of Japan steamed triumphant-. ly to her anchorage in a British port recently with two new, war heroes on board.

One was Captain Thomas, the constantly and consistently towards liner's commander from Vancou an ideal which in itself has gained in ver whose--namo' is known stature and charity with ench general wherever men sell the seas.

tion.

""We know that we still have far The other hero was a Chinese to go and that we must more greatly quartermaster, Ho A-Kin, whose bulld security and opportunity, for

the knowledge of every citizen is in name, by contrast, is unknown

a measure justified by the resources outside the ship's company.

and capacity of the Innd, but it is not

enough to

achieve these purposes

alone, for there is also the spirit.

If The Spirit Died

"If the spirit of America were killed even though the nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the American we know would have perished. That spirit, that faith, speaks to us in our daily lives in ways that are often un- noticed. It speaks to us from other nations of this hemisphere and from those across the sen, enslaved as well as free.

"Sometimes we fall to hear or heed these voices because to us the pri vilege of our freedom is such an old, ofd story."

Recalling President Washington's first Inaugural address in 1780 when he spoke of the "preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican inodel of govern- Mr Roosevelt declared, "If we smothered with doubt or fear, then lose that sacred fire, if we let it be we shall reject the destiny that Washington strove so

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH"

ment" 21 (Domel) -An TOKYO, Jan. agreement of views on the problem of the export of French Indo-Chino rice to Japan,

reached Was January 20 between the Japanese nad French Indo-China delegations, according to a communique issued yesterday evening by the Board of

Japanese Dive Information

Bomb Train

ש.

so triumphantly to establish and "The preservation of the spirit and faith of nations does and wifi furnish the highest justification for every sacrifice we may make in the cause The communique (read: "Continu- of national defence. In the face of

discussions ing their

of economic perils never before encountered our questions regarding French Indo- strong purpose is to protect and to China, the Japanese and French de-perpetuate the integrity of de- legations headed by Ambassador Mfr mocracy. For this we must muster In Kiangsi Province

Hajime

and

M. Rene the spirit of America, the faith of to-day Robin respect

reached America, TOKYO, Jan. 21 (Reuter),~Jan agreement of views on the pro- Japanese naval aircraft yester-blem of expart of French Indo-China day morning blew up a freight rice to Japan. Discussions on other

matters are being continued," train west of Kwangsin in the north-west of Kiangsi province, it was announced here.

In Albania, a successful raid was made on Berati, where high explosive and incendiary hombs fell on military concentrations and motor transport. The Japanese dive-bombed on the Bulldings in the east of the town train, blowing up several cars as wel! were also hit, several Ares being as destroying railway trucks and atorted.

In Italian East Africa an nitoek was warehouses near the town.

made on motor transport and gun

All

positions south-east of Tessenei oni the night of January 18-19. bombs fell in the target area but the results could not be fully observed.

Massawa was twice ralded.

Insult To Nazis

In San Francisco

Vichy Policy Unchanged

Forward By Will of God

་

"We do not retreat; we are not content to stand still. As Americans we go forward in the, service of our country by the will of God, to the end (Cheers).

Ho A-kin, Chinese Quartermaster of the ship.

These two, the famous cominander Mighty cheers swelled up from the and the obscure Chinese sullor, were multitude in the Plaze beneath the on the bridge of the liner as she drove through the Atlantic sweli Capitol's sun-flecked dome as the bringing war supplies to Britain, President reached the concluding passage of his inaugural speech, when suddenly out of the sun dived Pétain-Laval Meeting After the speech, the President, be-a roving Nazi bomber.

fore re-entering his car to return 10,

Captain Thomas stood out on the VICHY, Jan. 20 (Reuter) the White House, waited in the wing of the bridge and watched for

which had white-pillared pavillon The Petain-Laval meeting in been specially erected in front of the shouted an order to the quartermas

the first bomb to fail, Then he Offenders Prosecuted volves no change in policy, Capitol for to-day's ceremonies and ter at the wheel. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 (Reu-according to well-informed quar-stood with the multitude as the band NAIROBI, Jan. 20 (Reuter). SAN FRANCISC States Navy sea-ters here as reported by the South African troops have captured men. were convicted to-day of "Havas" agency. prisoners in the El Yibo area north | "malicious mischief" by cutting down of Dukana on the Kenya-Abyssinia | 1| Nazi

The the

well- nag from

German

agency says: "In front, according to an official com- Consulate.

informed quarters it is declared that munique issued here,

"This is an aftence against another the evergrowing prestige of Petain nation," said the Municipal judge throughout France has allowed him to after remanding them in the custody take such on initiative while in no of the naval authorities. He will way modifying the internal or

อาบ pronounce sentence, on....... Thursday. ternal policies.

Kenya-Abyssinia

R.N.R. Officer's- Appeal Ends

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

OSAKA, Jan. 21 (Domel).-The six-day appeal hearing against the B-year hard labour sentence imposed on January 20 by the Kobe District Court upon Vincent Oswald Peters, 40, Lieutenant of the British Naval Reserve, upon conviction of violation was concluded yesterday afternoon in the Osaka District Appelate Court,

The judgment will be pronounced on February 3,

The appeal hearing was heard in

camera.

ex-

the national anthem.

The huge ship swung round ng if

Roosevelt looked more than usually and the bomb fell harmlessly in the serious before he took the oath. He sea where only a moment before the was also unusually strong in em- ship had been. phasis throughout his address, but Six times the Nazi tried to hit the afterwards he greeted friends gaily liner and six times the skill of Cap- and appeared to be in the best of tain Thomas and his Chinese quar- spirits.

termaster anved the vessel.

observers noted at President she had been but. 1 little lug-boat,

Several members of Mr Roosevelt's The German rodio to-day referred "It is added that the Marchal, who family, including his mother, wit

nessed the historic inauguration from the hend of France, to the "impudent and provocative remains at insults to the German flag" in an occupied or tree, as well as beyond the pavilion, over which the Pre- nouncing that the German Charge the sens, lins complete and absolutesident's own blue and gold flug Affaires in Washington had lodged authority which is recognised by waved with the Stars and Stripes. a strong protest with, the United." States State Department about the incident.

JC-

BOMBAY, Jan. 20 (Reuter).—The Governor, Sir Roger Lumley, ceived and inspected a unit of 20 ambulances subscribed for by private donors within a few weeks of the Governor's appeal on behalf of the St. John's Association.

GREEKS SINK SUBMARINE

R. N. R. Officer Dismissed Ship

When machine-gun bullets began to rip round the bridge the quarter. master lay on his back and con- tinued to steer with his hands above his head.

He could see nothing in this posi tion and steering was extremely dimcult.

With all its bombs gone the Ger Iman raked the liner from end to end with Its machine-guns, ridding life- jboats and sending the chips flying Ifrom the deck.

But no one was injured and the janiy visible damage was caused by a heavy bomb which inude a near miss and exploded in the sea many fathoms below.

SMALLEST PILOT,

LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter).—-—-An Italian submarine has been sunk by

Lieut. Francis Henry Tanner, anti-submarine defences. This R.N.R., of H.MS. Tamar, was tried announced by the Minister of Marine by a disciplinary court on January 17 quoted by the Athens radio,

and found guilty on four charges.

He was charged with an act to the prejudice

lee of naval discipline in strik ing a temporary Lieutenant, R.N.R.; One of the R.A.F. fighter pilots disobedience of a lawful command; who brought down a Dornier over an net to the prejudice of naval dis-Suffolk is only 4f1. Jin. high-the cipline in violently resisting an e-smallest pilot in the Air Force. cort; and with being drunk on board When he landed close to the Dornier, an examination

launch.

to people hurrying congratulate him Defendant pleaded guilty to the halted in surprise. After learning first three charges and the fourth that the four members of the Dor- charge was proved against him. He nier's crew had been taken prisoner was dismissed, his ship and severely by a searchlight crow, the diminutive reprimanded.

pilot took off again.

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The talented'Chinese dancer Miss Ai-lion Tai is shown above in, a gřáceful pose from her pastoral dance "Ruth" which is one of the numbers she will present at the China 'Hospitals” Benefit show at the 'King's Theatre to-morrow at 9.30 p.m.

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Ship Sends Out An S.OS.

Polish Submarine Is Replaced In Britain LONDON, Jan. 20 (Reuter)—A now submarine named Sokol ta

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH?? place the famous Pollsh submarine Orzel has been launched "somewhere MANILA. Jan. 21 (UP) Tho in the north."

Globo Wireless has intercepted a dis.. General Sikorski, the Polish Pre-tress message from the steamer mier

taking

it over, advised Polish Agsiup Halassini in longitude 161 salters to emulate the virtues of the east, Îutitude 20.20 north. British sailor.

The Orzel escaped from Gdynia

The ship said she had encountered and reached Britain after a month of bad weather, had been damaged, was hair-eadth escapes. She was later partly flooded

and

broken "presumed lost,"

with

Helm.

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