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EASTER IN ENGLAND

Bank Holiday Is Enjoyed

LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter). --Although there was no let-up in war production anywhere and armaments

Caste Cleavage

In India

Muslim Policy.

MADRAS, Apr. 14 (Reuter), factories belehed,Muslims would never agree to forth smoke as usual,, those any constitution for the whole workers and servicemen off duty of India providing for one gov- celebrated Easter Bank holiday ernment at the centre, declared in something approaching peace- Mr. M. A. Jinnah, President of the Muslim League, speaking at time style to-day.

the League's annual meeting,

London's West End was crowded from an carly hour with holiday- makers, many from provincial cen- tres, and theatres and cinemas did tremendous business. By 11 nm, it was impossible to secure a scat in the principal cinemas excepi a hand- ful at top prices, and queues formed outside awaiting the later perform

anccs.

Allied Soldiers

A feature of the day was the large number of Allied soldiers and airmen

in

the uniforms of Poland, Free France, Czecho-Slovakia, etc., on leave from their posts in the defence the sights of London areas and seeing with British girl friends, many of whom were also in uniform.

At Nottingham, the Easter race meeting attracted a record crowd and hundreds had to be turned away, missing the victory, in the Southern colt now Plate, of Selim Hassan, a Taneled as the Derby winner, and trained by the Duchess of Norfolk, the younit wife of Britain's, achlor Duke.

Incident In Balkan War

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He advocated the "establishment of completely independent states" in the

and eastern zonea north-west India with full control over defence, finance and foreign affairs.

Ha declared that Muslims were an and that independent nationality any attempt to get them to merge into a national and political identity with the rest of the population would be resisted.

One government at the centre would mean Hindu communal rule.

The Muslim League's policy, he added, was to promote good will and harmony on the basis of equality, fair play and reciprocity.

Seizure Of

Axis Ships

14

WASHINGTON, Apr. (Reuter)-Italy delivered a new note to-day to the United States Government protesting against the seizure of Italian ships.

Details of the note are not published but an Italian ofcial said that it further explained the Italian viewpoint regarding the seizure of the

R.A.F. Pilot's Escapeships.

LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter). -Chased by the Germans after making a forced landing in No Mun's Land between the Nazi and Allied lines in Greece, an R.A.F. Hurricane pilot sprinted three miles over rough ground before being rescued by an Ause tralian patrol.

After an exchange of shots, the

Germans withdrew.

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His escope, the first recorded from the ne Balkan war front, was told by the Air Ministry news service to-day. Returning to his squadron, the plot cald that he was just about dead beat at the time he was picked To an Intelligence Omeer, he is reported to have said: "We had been ground strafing the German motorised columns and had done the deuce of a lot of damage. Fire from the ground was pretty intense and a lucky abot stopped my engine."

New Iraqi Cabinet

LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter). Sayld Rashid Ali el Gallantl, the chief civilian in the Iraqi coup d'etat, succeeded in forming a Cabinet under his Presidency on Saturday.

The Cabinet, announced by the Royal Iraqi Legation, shows that Sayid Rashid is Prime Minister and includes Sayid Musa al Shabander as ni Forclan Minister; Sayid Naji Suwalda as Finance Minister; Sayid Naji Shawkat os Defence Minister and Sayid All Mahmud al Sheikh All na Minister of Justice.

Two Nazi Bombers Shot Down At Sea LONDON, Apr. 14 (Reuter)--Two German bombers have been shat down by British and French naval unita.

Early this morning, a Helaket fell to the British trawler, King's Tonam- ber, while a Junkers nose-dived into the sea after attacking and meeting a sharp rejoinder from a Free French submarine-chaser on Saturday.

Neither vessel sustained casualties or damage.

Pearl River

Movements

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 15, 1941.

Yesterday's Cash Sweep Numbers

:: RACE 1

onles 1950 each); Nos. 402, 02493076, 778, 383, 20253.

AS IT IS IN MILAN—British Royal Air Force bombers ro- cently cracked down on Milan, ancient city of Italy and important shipping and manufacturing contre.

search the ruins for possible victims.

Fireman

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Private Killed Corporal:

Six Years

Years Sentence

A PIONEER CORPS private, Arthur Burrows, aged 36. was at Sussex Assizes recently sentenced to six years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of Provost Corporal George Thomas Brown, an ex-pugilist.

SHIUKWAN, Apr. 14 (Inter- nation)-Japanese naval activity on the Pearl River, which is closed to shipping of third Powers, is likely to; conclude to-day. At present Japanese transports are steaming up and down the river in the periodical reshuffle of reduced from one of murder. troops.

Burrows said he had often

Brown was shot with a ser- vice rific. The charge had been

troops reached Canton over the week-loaded the rifle to frighten him.

Burrows sald that one day Brown

It is reported that several thousand | been attacked by Brown, and he end to cope with a Chinese counter- offensive announced by General Yu Han-mou last Monday in a weekly memorial speech here.

Manila Meeting

Of Officials

BATAVIA, Apr. 14 (Reuter).—Mr H. Ritman, head of the Government Information Bureau, who took part

begun sparring with him.

more than did about the thing i packed up" he added.

"When I saw he knew something

Later Burrows saw Sergeant Kent and asked Kent if he could get him out of trouble. He had lost two rounds of ammunition.

"Beat I Can Do❞

Kent later gave him two rounds of ammunition and said, "If this in the recent meeting at Manila of will get you out of trouble, it's the the Netherlands East Indies Foreign best I can do for you." and Colonial Secretaries

with Ar Brown sent him to collect four Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke rifles and on the way back he put

British Commander-in- one round into one of the rifles. Popham, Chief, For-East, emphasised in an in-Brown-saw him when be returned terview that the meeting was of a and remarking "Where have you "purely incidental" character and not been?" went to get up. a farmal "conference of Powers" as the press had inferred.

"I thought he was coming for me," said Burrows. "I picked up the rifle with the intention more or less

MALTESE ENDURE to ward him off."

Many Bombs Dropped

MALTA, Apr. 14 (Reuter).-A large number of German aircraft dropped many bombs when flying over Malta in waves during Sunday night. In

one area a few elvillan houses were demolished but there were no casualties. In other areas, there was elight damage,

An enemy offensive reconnaissance was made to-day but no bombs were dropped.

New Vichy Envoy

For Free China

Lady Without The Lamp

Nurse Susan McGinley, of Hall Hospital, South Clare Mimms, Middlesex, fined 10s. at Barnet (Herts) recently for riding a bicycle without lights,

wrote:-

WEDDING RINGS

MAY RUN SHORT

No:

RACE Z

1,409,000

402.00

20140

Unplaced ponies (458 each); Now; 3308, 033,041, 1568, 78% 3147, 1758, 1875.

·RÁCE Y

`27o. P48% and 2757.

$941.18 each

*200.13 Uni-ced nonien ($50 aach): Nos, 1629, 847, 2491, 3178, 8325, 2495, 870, 2001, 2341, 2062.

·RACE 4

No. 18

$1.004.09

143050- 2007

220.15 Unplaced ponies (150 each): Nos, 1467, 3303, 2208, 903, 530. 2350,

RACH S

No. 4189 3027 4150

$2,017,40 376,40 208 20 Unplaced ponles ($50 each): - Nos. 008, 2001.

RACE:S

ראל,No

2425

203.40

Unplnend ponies' (#50 ́ench); Nos. 3420, 1098, 4200, 2033.

No, 3007

4307

4302

RACE ?

$1,038,20 533.220 270.00 Unplaced ponies ($50 each); Nos. 432. 781, 447, 2454, 000, 000, 2000, 1800, 3263.

RACK

No. 1

$2,041.20 643.26 201.00

Unplaced pontes (950 each): Ños, 3315, 3594, 3450, 2003, 4318, 3862, 3234.

RACE`D

No. 243

320

**

3197

$2,070.65 891.00 295.BO

Unplaced portes (850 ench): Nos. 279. 1960, 2001, 2184, 530, 400 2772, 418, 67.

No. 4089

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RACE 10

$2,125.00

$287

607.40 3004

303.70 Unplaced nonies ($50 each): Nos. 1710, 4200, 040, 2410, 3359, 1881.

.RACE 11

No. 1416

2241 2017

$2,035.45

20033 Unplaced ponies ($50 onch): No. 4337. 120, 1834, 2050, 1040. 2323, 4020, 3412, 4073.

RACE 12

No. 3428

1990... 4070

$4,010.50 1,317.40 159.70

Unpleeed ponies ($100 each): Nos. 3363, 1700, 3170,

DINNER TO CELEBRATE SOCCER SUCCESS

In celebration of their fourth consecutive championship In the senior football league and their winning of the Senior Challenge Shield and the Kolewall Charly Cup, the South China Athletle Association held a dinner at the Because of the restriction on Ying King Restaurant last night.

There was a large gathering present, gold supplies, jewellers in Bril- including Hon. Mr N. L. Smith, Presi tain. are preparing to make 9-dent of the Hongkong Football Associa- carat wedding rings instead of the traditional 22-carat ring.

And so the advice of most London jewellers la;

"If you are planning to get married; buy your wedding ring now."

The manager of one London shop said to a reporter: "We haven't had to disappoint anyone so far, though I'm afraid we haven't been able to supply the particular design they sup wanted in every case. Restrictions on supply mean that in this branch. where we usually sell something like four thousand wedding rings in a year, we shall have only a thousand for sale."

Britain To Get 99 U.S. Warships

war

United States plans to transfer 99 warships to Great Britain this year, authoritative sources said in Washington recently.

Eighteen mosquito torpedo boats are on the list of "As a nurse it was my duty to get

which President to work at all costs to attend to Hit-equipment ler's wounded and mutilated victims. Roosevelt has approved for re-

"With Herbert Morrison's words lease. CHUNGKING, Apr. 14 (Interna- Go to it' surging through my cars tional)The National Government 1, unlike Florence Nightingale--the has Informed the Vichy Government lady with the lamp-went to it with that the appointment of Count Robien out a lamp, thus falling foul of the as French ambassador to China islaw in the honoured purpose of alie- approved. The count is to succeed Mylating pain and helping my country Henri Cosme.

defeat to

Hitler's death-dealing (Inter- KUNMING,

Apr. 14

The new ambassador served in a blows." national)A Hanoi report stated that the Japanese have pressed the similar capacity in Argentina and is

The magistraic's clerk: "She might authorities in Indo-China to restrict now attached to the Foreign Office the departure of Chinese residents in Vichy. Another French diplomat have dealt a death-dealing blow with

of a similar name was attached to her bicycle." from the French colony.

the Tokyo Indo-Japanese parley.

Restrictions On Chinese Refused By French

This demand is said to have been rejected by the French.

Dr Quo Tai-chi Says Farewell To Churchill

Tired People Turn To Countryside In Spring

The other tentatively scheduled or release, are 17 over-age des- troyers, 55 submarine-chasing patrol boats and nine overage submarines.

Small Vessels First

The transfera will be timed so that only a short period will elapse before each ship is réplared by vessels now under construction. The mosquito boats and patrol vessels will be trans- ferred Arst, since they will be re- placed most quickly.

Mr Roosevelt has not revealed the

but author'tative Information was that it included also some Enfield and Springfield fes, 75-millimeter guns, ammunition and bombs..

SUICIDE TO END equipment on the list he approved.

TORTURE SAID JUSTIFIABLE

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Apr. 14 (Domel)-Taking LONDON, Apr. 14 (Central News). advantage of the bright and warm Dr Que Tai-chi, outgoing Chinese morning on Sunday, an estimated Ambassador to the Court of St. 4,000,000 people left the capital to A Southampton coroner recently Jumo's, to-day bede farewell to Mr visit the countryside.

expressed approval of a man's sul- Winston Churchill. He remained Bent on viewing the cherry blos- clde, with the British Prime Minister for some, which are now in full" bloem, |

"It was the soundest thing he could about half an hour.

Jammed the Odawara some. 450,000 alcetric railway facilities seeking to have done," he said.

The inquest was on Edward Leach, reach the banks of the Tama river

37, ship steward, who was said to have suffered intolerable pain and another mental agony. He was found gassed, many horse-racing "The evidence, left no doubt that fans bound for the Nakayama meet, the man, because of his agony, want- strained the facilities of the Keisei ed to die," said Mr Emamiel, the electric train system. Most of the coroner. holiday makers, however, beat a hosty retreat for home when heavy rain swamped the Tokyo area at 3 p.m.

Baseball In Japan

Tokyo, Apr. 14. In the last game of Sunday's double header, Keio University nine swamped Tokyo Imperial University 10 to nil, while the Meiji and Rikkyo teams were rained out in a scoreless tie in the sixth inning. In the second game of the Six, University Baseball league Domel

OUR LOST SEAMEN Casualties during the first year of war in British merchant ships and dshing vessels are officially given as Tollows Deaths, 1,028 and 89;, ns- fumed lost, 150 and 182; presumed Jail (cause not yet determined), 135

and points beyond.

Ueno station was also thronged by

while 400,000 ∙on close 400,000, including

Pole Vault Record

Ban Francisco; Apr. 12. Cornellus Warmerdam, instructor at the Param Iligh School, to-day estab lished a new world pole vault record by clearing the bar, 114.04, metrou Dome

Boston's Battle

Of The Angels

MIRIAM HOPKINS, stage and alin star, thinks the City Council of. Boston, Massachusetts, is run by n set of "dirty old men.

She would have them all flung into the harbour-like the tea-over a hundred years ago. He puno p

The cause of her rago Is The Battle of the Angels," a play: in which she is appearing there.

The

Police

Commissioner, ensor, and several coundllers went to see it. 10B

And they thought some of the angels were a bit solled, re

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tion, Hon. Mr W. N. Thomas Tom. Hon. Mr Li Tse-long, Mr Wong Ka- trun, Chairman of the Football Council well as representatives from other clubs.

The occasion, was also taken to make presentation to Mr Leung Cheuk- wan, football manager.

Home Racing

Odds-On Favourite.

Places Third

NOTTINGHAM, Apr. 14 (Reuter), -The first real test for turt classic candidates to-day furnished a sur- prise when Keystone, formerly known Rossetta illy, ridden by Gordon Bichards, started an odds-on favourilo and Anished third in a field of six in the Southern Three-Year-Old Plate over a mile.

The winner was Mr Goodbody's Selim Hasson, trained by the Duchess of Norfolk, which beat Mr Basset's Mr. Sawyer by three lengths with Key- stone a further one and half lengths behind.

The belting was-Selim Hassan 7/2:

Selim Insson's brilliant perform-

Me Sawyer 7/1; Keystone 4/9.

ance will probably result in him being

mado favourite for the Derby,

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