1941-02-03 — Page 13

Antonescu Holds Axis Leaders Up As Ideals

LONDON, Feb. 2 (Reuter),—The band of rebel Iron Guards who massacred 92 people in the Forest of Jalava near Bucharest on January 21 have been arrested, says a Bucharest despatch. They will appear before a military tribunal.

An official communique issued

in Bucharest to-day states that

all is quiet in the country. The Fighting In

authorities, it adds, are still]

seeking out and arresting "those Southern

responsible for the trouble."

A large quantity of materiala and merchandise stolen by the rebels has been seized.

de-

"In future, I will be implacable and will not tolerate any disorder," clared General Antonescu, the Rumanian Dictator-Premier, in

Interview to-day. Nobody would dare to repeat the recent attempt to overthrow the established

press

order.

Honan...

Chinese Counter Attacks CHUNGKING, Feb. 3 (Central | News),—Chinese troops in southern Honan are launching heavy attacks against the Japanese on both banks

He added, "I swear that nobody in the world will hinder me from de-s fending the honour, rights and pence Classe. Following

of the Rumanions.

Addressing Rumanian youths, he

asked them

to "examine their con

sciences, give up thoughts of violence

the Hung Htiver in south Honan, exacting a heavy toll of liven.

Fighting in the Talhu Lake regións

for developing favourably the A series of recaptured of

Thing). of Changhing), (north-west Hunkiklao, (west

(south (north

of

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HITLER IS CHECKED

No Time For Harsh Action

.Against Vichy

MADRID, Feb. 2 (Router).- Hitler's reply to Marshal Potnin's Christmas message is probably in the form of a short letter couched in cold terms, according to Spanish correspondents in Berlin.

are

Wilhelmstrasse circles

p- parently extremely non-committal on the subject, but mast Sppalsh ob. servers in the German capital scem to agree that in spite of rumours of a possible renounecment of the armils- tie by the Naxis, Germany does not contemplate any drastle action, at least for the present.

Petain's Strength

In this concetion, the Berlin cur- respondent of the Spanish agency, "Efe," says: "It must not be forgotten | that a great deal of Petain's strength lies in the discipline and calm shown by the French Colonint Army and the French Fleet," The corre

correspondent of "Alcazar" de- elared that "Germany has no interest in complications that distract her at- tention in the critical hour of her pre-

Vichy Veraus Paris

against the State and collaborate in Changhing), and Nantienktag (south-arations for attaining victory." the econstruction of the country."

west of Changling). They are now He concluded by asking all Rumanians to take as their example driving directly toward Changhing.

According to military advices from

the "great struggles and magnificent

sucrifices of the Fuchrer and Il Duce the Shantung froni, Japanese troops many may be on the verge of an in- and the National Socialist and Fascist at Lini in south Shantung revolutions.

LEVINSON DIES Lawyer And Writer On Political Science

CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (Reuter).The

death is announced of Salmon Oliver Levinson, the famous American law-1

yer.

pushed toward Tsangshan, west of Linl) last week.

The Berlin representative of the "A.B.C." expressen the view that Ger- portant decision vis-a-vis France. (south-The affair is being expressed, he adds, in the German press as a struggle be- tween Paris and Vichy.

The "Arriba," which has always championed France German colla- boration, to-day writs wenttenlly on "these programmes of national re- volution shouted from the radion and the Press,"

Arsenals Of India

Full Blast For Allies BOMBAY, Feb. 2 (Reuter), Born in 1805. Levinson gradunted Black smoke was belching from from Yale in 1880 and was admitted all chimneys in Jubbulpore gun- to the Illinois bar in 1991. He had carriage factory as I passed its since practised in Chicago, being carefully-guarded gates to be member of the firm of Levinson, shown

workshopa

ecker, Gilbert, Peebles and Swiren,

Becker

the huge

He specialised in reurganisation of where carriages of India's guns Industrials and railroads. He was a are constructed, writes "Reu- member of the American, Illinois ter's" special correspondent.

Levinson was chiefly known as the

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Relative Of

Queen Weds Laundress

February 3, 1941.

40 M. P.s BOMBED

-Dining At The Carlton Club.

While

forty Conservative ¡M.Is were dining at the Carlton {Club in London's West End dur- Ing a recent air raid, the place was hit by a bomb. ·

The M.P.s were covered in dc- bris as the glass dome over the

dining-room was shattered, but

not one of them was hurt.

Mr Sauntel Storey. M.P. for Sun- derland, remembered next morning that a cheque for £21,700, which the

SHIRTS

Mayor of Sunderland had collected to measure to buy Spitfires, was debris.

under

the

It has been sent to Mr Storey that he could hand it to Lord Beaver- brook, Minister of Aircraft Produc- tion.

"Me Storey went back to the club at once and searched among the wreckage-and found the cheque safe among bis other belongings, Mr Herwald Ramsbothom. Prest- dent of the Board of Education, was In the club when the bamb exploded, with Captain David Margesson, War Secretary, Mr J. S. C. Reld, K.C., Solicitor-General for Scotland, Lord Hailsham and his M.P. sọn, Mr Quin». tin Hogy

Windows Broken

The windows were blown out, caus- A 20 YEAR-OLD Ayrshire | Laundress, Miss Jean Crawford, Margesson pushed his way through Ing a flood of light outside. Captain whose father is a builder's the wreckage and turned off the labourer, has married Captain lights. Patrick Drummond Scott, 27, whose mother, a cousin of Queen (spilled and glasses of wine remain-

upright. Elizabeth, was formerly Mias Ernestine Bowes-Lyon.

They were married after a fort.

Indians Tonight's courtship. They met at a

Be Trained

In Britain

A new industrial link between

and Chicago Bar Associations. When I entered the workshops the author of the Levinson plan for read-or of powerful machinery was the East and the West which

almost deafening.

workmen

He outlined his big scheme recently to the South Wales Regional Council of Labour at Cardiff.

justment of German reparations,

Amid the fierce glow of numerous of all the teeming millions of may raise the standard of living Allied and inter-Allied debts, Euro-

furnaces skilled Indian ent and world perm appeasement

peace, issued in 1927: A writer on the out-were manipulating red-hot metal India is planned by Mr Ernest

with a casualness born of long prac- Bevin. lawry of war, he was the originator ice. of the palindrome:

"Deliver evil I saw one of the latest guns com- deed, live reviled."

In 1831 he was plete with a new carringe. The old presented with the Rosenberger wooden spokewheels are abolished. medal by the University of Chicoro, The formidable weapon that I saw for his contribution to the improve-was fitted with heavy pneumatle ment of intemational political rela- tyres. All the guns fitted with car- ringes in the factory are made-In India.

Since the outbreak of war, the VALONA RAIDED output of the factory is two or three times the pre-war production while Despite Bad Weather the number of workmen is more than

doubled.

lions.

ATHENS, Feb. * (Reuter).— Bomber aircraft of the RA.F. again attacked the Albania port of Valona

He said that as India required an organized force of skilled men, be had asked the Secretary of State for India to allow him to bring several hundreds of Indians from their work- shops to Britain to be trained,, and

dance and became affianced on Dec. 4.

Plates of soup on the fables were

The portraits of Disrnell d Sir Itabert Feel looked down un the wreckage with their glass unbroken.

The only

casualties in the club were four people who suffered minor eurts,

The Carlton is the leading Con- Captain Scott called several meservative club in the country and was at the Crawford cottage to ask the founded in 1832. father's permission to marry

the

girl, but her family opposed match on the ground of the difference

the

He had 24 hours leave for

the

in their social stations,

wedding, after which he returned to

duly. laundry jab.

The bride may 1

return to her

"We love each other," she says,

Bob Pastor Next Opponent

and will be happy. My lisband For Joe Louis

wants me to give up work while he to fill up the time,"

in away, but I would like something

Japanese Embassy In Thailand

lo live in the homes of our people.

"The men will be paid the came Constant Production

par as our own trainees from the Production is almost continuous.in India will receive allowances.

Ministry of Labour, and their wives yesterday. The raid was carried out shops to nearly 24 in others.

ranging from 20 hours a day in some

New Link

The Japanese Finance Ministry desplie bad weather, and warc- While the main work is the produs-

This is forging a new Industrial has approved the Foreign Office's houses, a munition dump and timber depot were among the targets makes a wide variety of other articles,

tion of gun carriages, the factory also link between the East and the West. request for Y.150,000 for eleva- "We have decided to get instruction of the Japanese Legation in effectively bombed. Direct hits were including field cookers for the Indian tors in this countrymen, I hope, Thailand to the status of an registered on buildings.

Army. These cookers are now being who will come from the Trade Union produced in thousands.

Movement with big outlook-to Embassy. train-hundreds-of-people-in-india- Among-olier-Foreign Office pro

He told the Conference that he lects approved by the Finance created a special sub-committee to Ministry for the budget was Y,50,000 cater for Indian seninen.

for estabilshment of a Japanese Con- sulate at Deli on Timor Island.

Theft Of Copper In Shanghai

Civil Claim Started CHUNGKING, Feb. 3 (Central) News).--In connection with Lie

Loss Of French

Citizenship

Muselier and Rothschild

VICHY: Feb. 2 (Reuter).--Vice-

זיי

"I am not going to allow them to be called lasers any more," he said.) "They are Indian scamen."

Link With Scott

Printing Firm's Head

A link with the historic house

grand larceny ease in Shanghai in Admiral Museller, Commander of the which Elly Widler, a Swiss, removed Free French naval forces, has been approximately 500 tons of copper in deprived of his French nationally; colns and Ingols estimated to be according to an announcement made worth $20,000,000 from the Com-here to-day. mercial Express and Storage Com- Several other prominent Frenchimen pany, and fled into the Japanese were also named. Among them are controlled Honghew brea, a Shanghai

Baron Eugene Rothschild, of the dispatch states that the American famous banking family; M. Richard of James Ballantyne (1796), Şir Trading Company, Federal Incor-Brunot, formerly governor of porated U.S.A., owner of the copper French Cameroons who was dismissed ter, has been severed by the the Walter Scott's friend and prin- stolen, has filed a civil suit with the by the Vichy Government and is now death of Mr Robert William U.S. Court in Shanghai agalant the nt the headquarters of the. Free Commercial Express and Storage French forces in London; and M. Hanson in Edinburgh. Company.

Jacques Meyer; Professor at the

The American Trading Company Hanoi School of Medicine. demands US. $165,077,60 compensa-

tion:

It is learned that the US, Couri will hear the case on February 11.

It may be recalled that Wilhelm Bendler, a German alleged to be the accomplice of Willer, was arrested by the S.M.C. police.

Police Inspector Robbed

A thief, who is clearly no respre- ter of persons, has stolen the wind-

serten wiper from Chief Inspector

Hourlhan's car.

Australia And Far East Axis

MELBOURNE, Feb. 2 (Router),- Australian defence preparations must go ahead at full speed, declared the Air Minister to-day. He added, "A powerful country in the Pacific has joined a military alliance with the enemy and we are not facing our responsibilities if we do not make ourselves cafe,”

The newspaper "Nichi Nichi" den- cribed the Foreign Offee's decision relative to Thailand as a move for closer relations between the 1wo countries and as a sign of a realign- tlon toward the establishment of a co-prosperity sphere in East Asia."

M.P.s Are Not On Contract

NEW YORK. Feb. 2 (UP). Miko Jacoby has announecil that Bob Pastor will meet Joe Louls for the world's heavyweight boxing title at Los Angeles on April 15. unless Aturo Godoy withdraws Immediately or requests a postpone- ment until early May.

Seeking p September opponent for the champion, Jacobs has arranged a baut between Lou Nova and Max Baer, challengera, at Madison Square Garden on April 4.

Yesterday, Louis knocked mit Clare ence "Red" Burman In the 5th round

of the scheduled 15-round bout.

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petitions will be held on the Old and Kowloon Showroom 216, Nathan Rd., (Corner-of-jordan-Rd.); New Course at Fanling on Tuesday, February 4.

During February a Bogey Com- petition will be held on the New Course.

Owing to the absence of co, many

lady golfers, the Annual Spring Meeting will be confined to one day, the date fixed being Tuesday, March 11,

Particulars will be pasted later.

COMPETITIONS

The Monthly Medal Competition (Bronze Division) on the New Course was won by Mrs. Greaves, 100-20-77.

No cards were returned in the

Silver Division.

The suggestion that a constituency ing its member was made in Parlia should have the opportunity of change the New Course on January 21 was The Bogey Competition held on

ment recently,

won by Mra Eldon Potter-1 down. (13 Lieut-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore entries).

Mrs Redmond qualified for the Born In 1957, a native of Yorkshire,

(Con, Ayr Burghs) oaked the Prime Mr Hanson early lost his parents,

Minister whether, in view of the ex- Captain's Cup on the Old Course, and was brought up by his uncle, tension of the life of the present-182, and Mrs Margrett on the

New Couric, 00—–2172. Mr Edward Hanson, who became a

Parliament, he would take steps to The Running Medal on the New sole partner in the firm of Ballantynensure that where the electorate in a Course was won by Mrs Redmond, constituency wished to terminate the

& Co.

In 1914 the effects of the war upon five-year contract entered into with

or memorial to the Speaker. who could then declare the seat vacant,

the business were such that Mr Han-Election they could do so by petition their member at the Inst General son negotiated. an amalgamation with the still older firm of Messra Spottis- woode, London, the firm now become ing Spottiswoode, Bollantyne & Co., and Mr. Hanson one of the directors. Old Press

All the plant was included in the transfer, ninong which were the old press on which Sir Walter's novels were printed, and his chair and desk

correcting his proofs for Jaines

Great Canadian Army which he used in Old Paul's Work

that to speak of a Ave-year contract

Mr Attlee, Lord Privy Scal, sald was not an apt description. Parlia ment, for reasons well known, had decided to prolong the life of the present Parliament, and it would not be practicable or desirable to graft on to that decision the proposal put

forward."

OTTAWA. Feb. 2 (Reuter) Ballantyne. The press was recently Cannot Beat Britain

Mr Hourihan is Chief Inspector for treat army of airmen, infantry and Kowloon and the windscreen wiper armoured units is going oversens this was taken from his car while it was year, declared Mr Mackenzie King, parked outside the police officer's the Canadian Premier, in a broadcast residence at 262 Prince Edward Iond, to-day.

No Radical Effects Of

Action Against Reds

·

pre

while

presented by the firin to the Albert and Victorin Museum.

Mr Hanson retired four years ago to Edinburgh,

Says Nazi General

88-1672,

Club Team For Quadrangular Tourney

The following will represent the Club against the Indian Army in the quadrangular hockey tournament on the Club ground at 4.45 p.m. to- morrow:

V. M. Benwell; D. Taylor, V. c. Bond; D. McLellan, W. A. Reed, N. Whitley; D. T. Smith, T. Whitley, E. Fowler, A. E. P. Guest, J, M. Morgan.

Umpire, Mr Pyaa

Girl Of 15 Tied Up Grandmother

The raventing statement-- contrary to the trend of opinion of all other articles on the same

A grandmother,.71 years of age, FIATS DOWNED

her back almost doubled, was helped subject in the German Press-into Southwark Juvenile court to tell OVER MALTA that the German Air Force call- the story of a girl of 15, her grand- not win the war is made by child, who was sometimes "as good CAIRO, Feb. 2 (Iteuter)A num- General Kabisch In the "Kocinis-

of enemy aircraft flew over Malta, and were attacked by British che Zeitung." fighters, and two Flat biplane fighters were destroyed.

ber

New Gifts For The Monster Raffle

DS

Hold

other times," she said, "she fa extremely obstinate and a bit of a CHUNGKING, Feb. 2 (Reuter),-Chinese circles are not at

The war, says the general, can be brute. This is the second time she won only by the Army, adding: has tied me up." all perturbed over the Communist situation following the High

"This_worning becomes necessary as A policeman said he saw the girl Command's decision to disband the Communist Fourth Army

the German people Indulge in the loftering in shop doorways In Wool- Last month.

optimistic view that the war can be | wich at 1.55 am. She refused to gressing between the Government

won by the Air Force. The fact re- give her name and address, but said. and Communist authorities for on After the brief fighting beamicable settlement of differences,

The latest gift to the Monster Raffle mains that the only way of winning "Take me to granny. Sho needs me.

I left her tied up." being organised by the Hongkong is by bringing troops Into England. tween Government and Com-

The Chungking Government is not War Effort Commillee in aid of the

The people of Germany often The grandmother told him: "Take munist troops on the south bank | Involving

Party with the Bomber Fund is a single stone dia- | think that the dive bombers won the her away. My life is in danger. She taken against of the Yangtse, no major fight-measures

the New mond ring, value $500, from Messrs way in Poland. This is quits untrue, has been lighting matches while 1 was bound and throwing them at ing is reported to be taking place Fourth Army and is maintaining the Sennet Freres.

Our Air Fores, 'carlainly gave the usual relations with the Chinese One Pair Marble and Bronze Book greatest support, but it could not de-

mo," in any other areas.

Communist Party and other political |Ends, value $100, donated by Messrs feat the Polish Army, which was de-

The girl was remanded for a Meanwhile negotiations are pro-groups.

Raoul Bigazzi.

feated only by our Army."

psychologist's report.

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