1941-02-28 — Page 5

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Of Collecting Boxes

For Bomber Fund

Two Jobs for M.P.s Bill Rumours Of Adopted by Commons Japanese

LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter).—Some controversy tas aroused in the House of Commons to-day when the House debated the "Two Jobe for Members" Bill, officially styled na the Commons Disqualification Temporary. Provisions Bill.

The Bill was originally introduced) to legalise Me Malcolm MacDonald's appointinent as High Commissioner for Canada while Mr MacDonald retains his swot as mumber of Parliament.

The Government Insisted on treat- Ing a division na ʼn vole of confidence, but eventually the Houce gave the

annnimoita rending.

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Italo-German Exchanges

All War Needs Pooled LONDON, .Feb. 17 (Reuter)

Plans

Base Near Hongkong

KWEILIN, Feb. 27 (Central News}, ---Intensifying propuestions for Its puth southward the Japanese War Onice has created speela) sentr |headquarters to take charge of

521 operations

the south-eastern

Pacific, according to intelligence

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reports reaching here.

Mejor-General Hosbirea, stated, has been oppointed Chief of

The Bill only Insts for one year Working of the Axis in the economic Staff, and his headquarters will be and in the interim the Select Com-field is revealed in a dispatch from composed of members to be drawn mittee will seek to clarify the whole Rome quoted by the German news from the staffs of the Formosan Army the Japanese forces In South position of members of Parliament rency, stating that in

accordance and with the Italo-German who accept offlees of proft.

Economic China,

"Meanwhile, another dispatch re- Agreement, which regulates, from time to time, clearing payments for ceived here states that Japanese the current year, Hallan and German troops, under the supervision of the commercial exchanges are expected engineering corps, have been

ATLANTIC CLIPPERS

Ju

be

to reach a total of about one miliard structing a hune airfield at Taipeng. Jon the coast of Bias Bay to the east Relehmarks in bath directions.

sonn the of longkong, which will The guiding

principle LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter), negotiations has been to satisfy all completed.

essential 10 war! It is reported that the Japanese are Five experienced British Over requirements

usc Bins Day as a economic demands, in which the preparing to seas Airways pilots have arrived combined demands of the Axis are servicing station to provision Japan- ese naval vessels in the event of in New York to take delivery of regarded as one unit.

1 Coal Requirements

actual hostililles in the southeastern a number of Boeing Clipper fly-

Pacifc. ing boats, it is learned in The whole of Italy's coal require-

ments, amounting to about 12,000,0 London.

Love lid Germany, e completely U.S. Air Corps For Humber Hund. The hote

They will fly the clippers to Eng-covered by Germany. land, Dhus allowing the Oversens Alr- Germany's deliveries of iron and ways to fulẞl the promise by Sir steel to Italy will Archibald Sinclair, ting Air Minister, | doubled.

that Britain would resume the Atlan tie service in the summer.

The new clippers weigh about 40 tons and curry over 5,000 gallons of petrol.

U. S. Envoy In Incident

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be

more that

will increase her stupments of

This photograph shows one of the 25 collecting boxes, designed like a bomb, which are to be used for col- lecting money for the "South China

graph"

boxes were designed by Mr S. E. Faber, Alaska

AF.C., and manufactured

and pre- WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (Reuter). sented to the Hongkong War Effort agricultural raw production as well Three on Man and three gineering and Construction Co. Ltd. additional U.S. Alr Corps Committee by the Hongkong En- as sulphur and mercury to Germanymore ure scheduled to go there within The boxes are made of brass, The

A special agreement also provides

said Mr months,

Stimson, main body is chromium plated, while for sending to Germany

further two

to-day. 1205,000 Hallan

the Bus are plated copper. The base workmen.

Secretory of War, mainly

He added that the army's experi- | has an oxidised, statuary tronze metal workers, making the total

hnd finish. A chromluin plate is attached Italian wurkmen in Germany in the ments with parachute troops

been so suceeraful that the strength to the base bearing the inscription jeurrent year 315,000,

of this wing was to be increased four "Bomber Fund-Hongkong War Ef- times.

fort Committee." diplomats.

Emergency Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (Reuter).

Mr Earle was the vietim of am Wilhelmstrasse Plaint

assault by Nazis in a restaurant in

Confer With Welles. Sofa when he requested the BERLIN, Feb 27 (Reuter).The rhestra to play the song "Tipper: An emergency bill to provide $1,533 WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (Reuter), official organ of the German Foreignary" which aroused the rage of the million for army and navy construc-

-The United States Under-Seeretary Office to-day sharply attacks the Gernuutis present. A German offer on and development programmes of State (Mr Summer Welles) was to American Minister at Soda, Mr George Earle, for his alleged pro- Earle, who

threw a champagne bottle at Mr was to-day passed by the House of15ce both the new Japanese Ambassa British attitude, and complains of the

retaliated by knocking Representatives and has been sent todor, Admiral Nomura, and the Soviet

Ambassador, M. Oumansky, the Senate, him down. similor attitude of other United States

afternoon.

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February 28, 1941.1

MR WINANT In Agreement On Helping Britain

NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (Reu- ter).Mr John Winant, new American Ambassador to Bri tain, left by Clipper for Lisbon to-day on route to London.

In statement made before leaving, Mr Winant sald that he and President Roosevell were in agreement on the policy of material alt to Britain and he would do his best to carry through

policy,

"Whatever is done must depend on whatever the American people make it possible to do in the weeks and months ahead. We all know what England is doing and we recognise the gallantry, sacrifice and unity of her people under the leadership of Mr Winston Churchill," Me Winant wald.

Letter From Prisoners In Italy

LONDON, Feb. 27 (British Wire- less). Flight-Lleut J. F. Leeming, one of the founders of the Lancashire Aero Club, who with Air Vice- Marshal O. T. 'Boyd was taken pri- soner when the aircraft in which they were flying to Egypt was forced to land in Italy, has written a typic ally cheerful letter to an It.A.F. frlend at home.

The letter is reproduced by the Air Ministry news service,

"We are of course very depressed at what has happened" Leeming writes. "However it might have We are turned out much worse. lucky to be alive and to be so well treated. People here have been very kind and we are comfortable,

Homemade Amusements

We play cards and draughts --- we have minde ourselves a draught board, and we are teaching ourselves Italian, and we walk. It is 05 paces around the garden and It takes 50 seconds to walk them. Yesterday we calculat ed that we walked five miles.”

Leeming is personal assistant to Air Vice-Marshal who was on his way out to Egypt t

to take up dulles as Deputy. Ale Omeer, Commanding R.A.F. in the Middle East when he was taken prisoner. He is the author of

the

a well-known book for children "Claudius the Bee,"

The letter was written on Decem. ber 1, and reached England a few days ago.

Aid Britain Hurry

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (Router),

In order that we shail

not be guilty of a minute's more defny than necessary when Congress passes the Lease and Lend Bill, President Roosevelt will continue his series of conferences with the Chief of the War, Navy, State and Treasury De- partments."

more

The President's secretary, Mr Stephen Early, made this statement 10-day and added that much work runnined to be done in getting the administration to handle the aid lo Britain programate.

Free French

Training

A

College In Africa LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter). milltary college which is destined to become the Saint Cyr of Free France in Africa has been opened at Brazzu- ville by General de Larmenat, High Commissioner for Free French Africa, according to Free French circles.

The college at present houses 125 cadets, most of whom escaped from France to join General de Gaulle. The college is called Camp Colonna Dornano

Martha Gellhorn Back

From Burma

Mrs Martha Gellhorn Hemingway, foreign correspondent for Collier's magazine and wife of the noted American war correspondent and author, Ernest Hemingway, returned last night by plane from Chungking after a visit to Lashio, Burma.

Mrs Hemingway, who writes under her maiden name, Martha Gellhorn, said she left Hongkong at 4 pæn, on Monday and arrived at Lashio at 10 p.m. the same night.

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