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NANCY

AUNT FRITZI'S. BEEN MAD AT · ME ALL DAY...

EVERYTHING I DO. LATELY SEEMS

TO BE WRONG!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 11, 1941, '

By Ernie Bushmiller

HO HUM--- GUESS I'LL GO UP TO BED SOON!

SANTA- PLEASE WIPE YOUR FEET BECAUSE I GET BLAMED

FOR EVERYTHING AROUND HERE

nancy.

One Time Ogpu Chief Found Dead In U.S.A.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Reuter). --- General Krivitsky, stated to have once been Secret Police Chief in Soviet Russia, has been found shot dead, according to Louis Waldman, un attorney.

The General is said to have of been going under the name Samuel Ginsberg. Waldman said that he obtained the in- formation from detectives, who told him that Krivitsky shot himself, but the attorney did not believe this.

Krivitsky, he said, flad been co- operating with the United States Federation Investigation Bureau. He came to the United States several years ago and later visited England, but returned to America last Octaver. Krivilaky gave evidence on October 10, 1930, before the Congressiono】 Committee on un-Americans activities. He said that he broke with because he refused to take an active part in the purge of the Communist Party in 1930 and 1937.

Stalin

Exchange At A Glance

T.T. London

T.T. India

TT. Salgon

SELLING

.1/27%

Demand London

1/27

T. T. Shanghal

430

T.T. Japan

1021

624

TT. U.S.A.

23

TT, Manila

87

T.T. Batavin T.T. Bangkok

.44% 149

302%

TT, France

Norn..

T.T. Switzerland

.100/4

T.T. Australia

.1/6/

BUYING

4 m/s L/C London

1/3 S

4 m/s D/P London

1/3

4 m/s L/C U.S.A.

4 m/s France

30 d/s India

2414 Nom. 0414

out

CHINA FIGHTING

REPORTS

SHIURING,

Feb. 10 (Central News).-Fighting hus broken ogain the Chungshan-Sunwui

on border regions.

About 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops from Chungshan mide a forced landing at Yushkong, Namao un' other points under protective aerial and naval

January 6. They acement on

stub-

barn Chinese resistance and with- drew towards night.

U.S. Cross rate in London 4.02 U.S. Cross rate in N.Y....4.03

STOCK EXCHANGE STRENGTH OF GILT EDGED HOLDINGS

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CAR THAT STARTED RAFFLE

Lady Howard Of Effingham

Reported Detained. Under Defence Regulations

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Feb. 10 (UP)The "Press Association" fearns that Lady Howard of Elingham is being de- tained under the defence regulations. Lady Howard is a Hungarian, the daughter of a Budapest business man The following morning they made

LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuler)...--On | who acquired British nationality by at Pakao, and Won the Stock Exchange to-day, general, her marriage to Lord Howard. an attack yeungshan in the dimrict of Chuck strength of gilt-edged holdings and of Her maiden name was Maria Mul- shin, but met with equally strong resistance and suffered heavy causal-on the mobilisation of Invin Gertler and she was married in

with India- 1930. ties. Falling to make any headway dated issues, provided the inain fea- they sent column in the afternoon to attack Wangshan in the Sunwuture in the marketa. district.

Federal Debt

DEC-24

Probably Messrs Gilman & Co., Ltd:, did not fully realise what they started when they gave this beautiful Sunbeam- Talbot Car to be raffled on behalf of the War Fund inaugurated A re- by the "S. C. M. Post" and "The Hongkong Telegraph,' cord number of additional prizes have been donated, the total value being approximately $40,000.

More Dominion Airmen

Reach British Shores

LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuter).—The latest contingent of the Dominions' air crews and pilots to arrive in Britain under the Empire Air Training Scheme was welcomed to-day by Lord Cranborne, Secretary for the Dominions. Treachery Act Appeal LONDON, Feb. 10 (Reuter).—Mrs Lord Cranborne snid that he more Elsewhere everything was quiet; Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, who was could imagine nothing the early buoyancy following Mr. previously sentenced to death on Churchill's brondeist mostly was not charges under the Treachery Act, 10- exasperating or discouraging to fully maintained owing to the quiet-day heard Lord Caldevote in the Hitler and his collaborators than Court of Appeal announce that con- to see "this increasing and WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Reuter).ness of trading.

viction quashed.

inexorable wave of the finest Her life is spared but on other -The Federal debt limit was in-

pilots in the world coming. creased to $05,000,000,000

only to defend this island but to strike at the vital parts of "Germany"

and

Industrials were narrowly irre-

Federal Tax exemptions were regular, home rails attracted small buy- charges, sentence of 14 years' penalsteadily across the Atlantic not

moved from future issues of Federal ing while among foreign bonds, Bel-servitude was imposed. Government obligations by a vote of glan and Japanese issues improved. the Ilouse of Representatives-to-day_

These men are making their

contribution !

Won't you

make yours?

(A.S.T.)

Please send your donation

to

WAR FUND:

S. C. M POST, LTD.

Collected to dato $1,576,886.49 and £5.12,94,

Remitted to London £96,389.19.6d.

(Readers are invited to send suggested text for this appeal)

Wall Street was firm.

Both the triat at Winchester and the appeal were held "In camera."

FROZEN ASSETS

Held In U.S. For Nazi Victims

Lord Cranborne observed that they

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Reuter). came at the right moment ns by all-Foreign assets valued at $4,390,000,- appearances, the spring campaign was nearly upon us.

Africa War Fronts

British Surprise

CAIRO, Feb. 10 (Reuter). The British occupation of Mersa Teclai and Karora in Eritrea is announced: in a Middle East G.1.Q. communique, Meanwhile pressure on the enemy position about Keren is being con-

tinued.

South African troops have now! advanced 30 miles inside Italian ter ritory

in southern Abyssiniu in the Hobok area,

The communique adds that the clearing up of areas up to El Agheila in Libya is proceeding satisfactorily and that intensivo patrol activity in Italian Somaliland continues.

New Location LONDON, Feb. (Reuter).-Mersa Tactal in Eritrea, which has been occupied by the British, is a village on the Red Sea coast forty miles from the Sudan-Eritrea border.

Karora is a small town lying inside

000 are "frozen" in the United States, according to a Treasury estimate.

These assets belong to countries

count which are completely or partially occupied by Germany with the excep tion of $20,000,000 belonging to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which are now Incorporated into the Soviet Union.

Figures, for other countries are: France, $1,593,000,000; Netherlands, $1,019,000,000; Denmark, $92,000,000; Norway, $175,000,000; Belgium, $760,- 000,000; Luxembourg, $48,000,000 and Rumania $53,000,000.

Cost of Living

In Britain

LONDON, Feb, 10 (British Wire- leas)-The cost of living index figure: in Britain, according to the Ministry of Labour figures, shows a rise of 12 per cent, during last year.

At the beginning of 1040, the Index figure was 74 per cent. above that for July, 1014, as compared with 55 per cent, immediately before the outbreak cen of wor in the previous September.

By March 1, the figure had risen to 79 and on July 1 had again risen sharply to 87. It declined to 85 on

the Eritrean border forty miles in-August 1 but by January 1 this year,

land.

It is pointed out in London that this advance into Eritrea from the north would constitute a new movement as to-day's communique is the Arst

to make any mention of this direction.

It had risen to 80,

Oil And Royal Navy Subdue Italians STOCKHOLM, Feb. 1b (Reuter), The British Fleet is the foremost

BELATED REPLY Italy, says the naval correspondent

TO A PROTEST

U.S. Mission Säid Bombed

cause of the apparent paralysis of of the Swedish paper, "Stockholmi Tidningen."

It is not known, he declares, whether the Italian Flect and Alr Force have taken measures to deal WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Reuter). with attacks like that on Glenoa. In reply to the United States One Impression of the paralysis, protest against the bombing of an gained during the last three montis, American mission in Anglo-Egyptian is probably a shoringe of fuel, but Sudan lost August, the Italian Gov- the foremost la the presence of the ernment has denied that the attack British Fleet. was made by Italian planes.

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