1941-03-12 — Page 16

KING'S

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HEW YORK

MURDER OVER

...with Charlie Chan battling deadly splej

in the case of the stratosphero bomber!

Marjorie Weaver Robert Lowery Ricardo Cortez · Donald MacBrido Molvillo Coopor Joan Valerio Kano Richmond Son Yung SIDNEY TOLER.."Charlie Chan"

Executive Producer Sal M. Wungal Directed by Harry Lochman • Original Screen Play by Lester Zilhan

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Britain's Air Force ROOSEVELT SIGNS

total.

Goes Up Aloft

FROM PAGE ONE

This expansion will be enormous 10 ly accelerated during the coming

year.

THE AID BILL

FROM PAGE ONE

March 12, 1941.

Matsuoka To Talk Military Matters

FROM PAGE ONE.

strength of the whole RAF by House Foreign Affairs Committee, nearly 60 per cent, while two other making his closing speacia in tile of the men who participates in the Commands have a strength equni to House debate on Senate amendments: constructive work on which the pact more than the peace-ilme R.A.F.This Bill is the voice of a roused is based."

Expected In Rome America, sounding the trumpet call

victory for free.

governments ROME, Mar. 11 (Reuter). Mr Matsuoka is expected to arrive in everywhere.

"By this action, the United States Rome early in April, according to He British science stands in the fore-gives the lle to the cowardly, defeatist the official Italian newsagency. front of aviation and medical research cry that democracy is powerless in will have conversations with Mus- and despite the fact that flying train the face of aggression.

solini and Hitler during which, ques- ing in Britain has to be carried out

arc now proving that tions relating to collaboration between withlon in the standard of training. effect Lincoln'a high resolve that

we accept no democracy can and will carry into the Axis Powers will be examined.

No Secret Mission In some schools, training is now being government of the people, by the SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH carried out not only in double shifts | people, for the people shall not perish TOKYO, Mar. 11 (UP)-Mr but even in four shifts.

from the earth."

Matsuoka anid he had wished to make the trip. he was now under- taking ever since the tripartite puct

war

Amount Sought

Training Scheme "The success of the Empire Train- WASHINGTON, Mar. 11 (Reuter). ing Scheme has surpassed all ex-Congressional authorities discioso was concluded.

Jen trained under the great

organisation In South Africa and Malcing steady strides to establish the cussiona.

"I have never

K

ccessful.

pectations. In Canada, the output of that President Roosevelt will ask "As Japan's Foreign Minister I am pilote and crews is well ahead of Congrees for an appropriation of going on, an important mission," he schedule and there has been a great $7,000,000,000 to carry out the British said. "However, there is no special- expansion in training in Australia and Ald programme.

ly hidden mtasion. For the sake of New Zealand.

Key Men Called

tripartite alliances of the future Men

the fullest dis- WASHINGTON, Mar. 11 (Reuter). intend to conduct

Rhodesia are, like others trained over-machine with which to, operate the

met Herr Hitler, sens, fighting to-day and are brilliant-British Ald programine immediately Marshal Goering or Herr Ribbentrop the Lease and Lend Bill becomes and I have wanted to meet them to Governments of Malaya, law, President Roosevelt called a have heart to heart talks with them. also intend to see the most im- Trinidad and Bermuda have them-White House conference this morning.

Germany and selves

made arrangements to give Those attending were key members portant persons in elementary flying training.

of Congress who will handle the laly to preach my long-cherished world peace opinions, based on the full scule training organisation billions of dollars in appropriations

principle of 'hakko ichiu' which in being formed in India for pilots to finance America's war effort.

means 'eight corners under one roof" for the RAF. and the Indian Air

Final Voting

or 'universal brotherhood'.". WASHINGTON, Mar, 11 (Reuter). Force, while another training or- ganisation established in Burma, the -The voting in the House of Re- Youths Air Training Corps, launch-presentatives on the final passing of ed five and a half weeks ago, has the Lease and Lend Bill was 317 to

enrolled already

130,000 boys and 71, has formed over 1,000 units.

Civil Aviation "Considering the total number of boys aged between 16 and 18 is only 750,000, this is A great achievement. "The war has necessarily restricted civil aviation but a service la running from Durban to Khartoum and Cairo and thence across India to Australia which links with the United Kingdom

י

ITALIANS LOSE HUNDREDS

FROM PAGE ONE

by flying boats via Lisbon and West transport concentrations and enemy Africn.

camps.

"It is hoped to resume the trans-

Bottai Killed Atlantic service in the near future. ATHENS, Mar. 11 (Reuter). The The R.A.F. is now on the threshold Press Ministry confirms that the of its period of greatest expansion Fascist Minister of Education, Bolial, and during the coming 12 months we was killed in the recent fighting at ahall absorb in rapidly increasingly the head of a Blackshirt battalion. numbers the products of American. He was engaged in firing on his as well as British Industry."

own troops in retreat when killed. Aid Not Late

No Proposals "Goebbels tells his German dupes ATHENS, Mar. 11 (Reuter).An that American help for Britain will authoritative denial was given here arrive too late, but I tell you that to-day to the reports that the Ger- these formidable keraft, the choicest man Minister in Athens had handed fruits of American design and crafts- to M. Korizis, the Greek Prime manship, will get here in time," Sir Minister, "certain proposals". No Archibald continued.

proposals, in stated, have been presented.

The Air Minister, however, would not be optimistic about the menace of the night bomber. More severe attacks than ever may well be in store but our methods of defence and counter-attack are gradually improv- Ing and we shall exact from the night) bombers, as we have already begun to exact, an increasing toll.

Fighting Two Fleets

BIG ADVANCE IN ABYSSINIA

FROM PAGE ONE

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Charlie

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After pointing out that Britain has been fighting and still to some extent closing in on Keren. Several enemy is fighting not one air force but two, un positions" were bombed and the Air Blinkler said that we have machine-gunned. A bridge on the PRICES: 60 ets,, 76 cl., $1.50 & 2.20 destroyed half the Italian first line Keren-Asmara rond .was henvily and have certainly destroyed much bombed and a large petrol dumpi more than half of the first line with was destroyed south-west of Asmara, which Germany entered the war. At Azonzo, R.A.F. fighters machine-i

Sir Archibald declared that the gunned and destroyed two enemy strength of the R.A.F. is very much bombers on the ground, greater now than when the Battle off No aircraft was lost in these Britain began last August. The war, petitions. however, is about to enter a grimmer phase. "It will be no easy task fo Scient Nazi Germany, but it can, must and will be done." (Cheers).

Meantime, our pilots so far have maintained their individual ascen- dancy over the enemy. Their chief difficulty to-day is to bring the Ger-] min pilots to battle.

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