1941-06-16 — Page 23

Monday,

HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH

NANCY

THAT WAS A FUNNY DREAM-- I WONDER

WHAT IT

MEANT?

"..YOU ARE VERY

KIND TO ANIMALS” AND ONE WHICH YOU'VE BEEN FEEDING --

--- WILL SOON REWARD YOU. WITH A RETURN IN MONEY! RUN!

DREAM (BOOK)

Came. IMI by Volte&Fratare

Constant Stream Of

Defence Inventions

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP)~A flood of inventions and suggestions on military matters, is pouring into offices of the United States Government. Already about 16,000 have been re- celved by the National Inventors Council, and they continue to come in at the rate of about 3,000 a year.

Although many of the "inventions" are fantastic and entirely Impractical, the Council sald that many have been found to be highly useful for defence purposes and have been adopted by the War or Navy Departments.

The National Inventors Coun-¡ cil was created by Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones with the concurrence of President Roose velt, to nid the military and naval branches of the govern- ,ment by bringing to their atten- tion all such discoveries and mechanisms as appear to have value to the cause of national defence. The Council is com- prised of outstanding American inventors, scientists and busi- ness men having experience in the development and utilisation of inventions. They work at a salary of one dollar a year.

Paris Dawn

Raid On

Pro-British

STRONG moves to halt the spread of the De Gaullist move- ment have been taken in Paris.

Warrants have been issued against 0,200 householders and owners of

business premises for allowing De Gaullist Inscriptions to remain on the walls of their buildings..

To ensure that the more important slogans are obliterated, police are making a round of the streets at dawn (says British United Press).

De Gaullist movement is be particularly strong in

The

All inventions and suggestions re- celved by the National Inventors known to Council must first pass the technical Paris, where the

done

staff at headquarters. When a sup-done thing to enhance the reputa-

of the Germans. gestion gets past this initial hurdle, Travellers from Paris all have the

of approval on an invention or sug-

THAT'S SILLY!

HOW CAN AN ANIMAL LEAVE ME MONEY? --- NOW I KNOW THIS:

BOOK IS

GOOFY!

June 16, 1941

By Ernie Bushmiller

WAIT A MINUTE!

IT WASN'T AS GOOFY AS I

THOUGHT.!

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DANES ACCLAIM KING-King Christian, 70, of Donmark is on verge of tears as people choor him as he leaves Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen, for daily morning rido. Occasion was first anniversary of occupation of Danmark by Gormans.

ENVOY'S ONLY Gibraltar Prepared

SON DEAD

Mr Norton Knatchbull-Hugessen,

at

For Any Eventuality

it is referred to the appropriate same story to tell of silent anger on 28, only son of Sir Hughe Knatchbull- technical committee for closer study the part of Parisians against the Ger- Hugessen, British Ambassador to and possible tests. Those suggestions mans, of people who refuse to sit at Turkey, who wag burled which get past the second searching the same table with Germans in Atherstone, Warwickshire, after an

By Stephen Wall analysis ultimately come before the restaurants, and of subtle demonstra-inquest in camera at Oxford, died at

(United Press Staff Correspondent) tions in favour of Britain whole Council.

and Dolls home at Woodstock Close, Oxford, GIBRALTAR, June 12 (UP)-Britain's mighty rock for Gaulle,

as a result, it is believed, of an over-tress guarding the Western Mediterranean is prepared for any When the Council places its stamp

dose of sleeping draught,

German attack from Spanish soil which a neutral military expert. gestion, it is turned over to the Army Buggestion which meets the Council's attention for some time for sleep-

He had been receiving medical has said would cost the Invaders 150,000 men. or Navy, whichever branch of the approval.

lessness, service is appropriate. If a sugges- Many Inventions which have tion is decided by the Council to be served to enrich the United States of value for defence purposes, it may were the brain children of citizens be adopted if found superior to almi- who lind little if any direct contact lar devices already in use although with the particular field covered but the Idea embodied in the device may who had Ideas and believed firmly in not be new.

them. Therefore, citizens who in this emergency feel that they have Of course, neither the Army nor something helpful to suggest aro be- the Navy is under any obligation to ing urged to bring Ideas to the atten- put into use any invention, device or tlon of the Council.

On Monday,

June 17,

1940

THE BOMBBER FUND

was started.

Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen had been senior assistant at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, since 1938. Ile was on holiday at the time of his death, health and spirits the last time he but he appeared in bis usual good was at the library.

of Balliol College, and took his B.A. He was formerly an undergraduate degree in 1938.

On behalf of the people at Home and the British Government, the South China Morning Post and The Hongkong Telegraph tender grateful thanks to the many firms and individuals who have

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Contributions as at noon

June 14, 1941 $2,190,631.26

·& £100

Total remitted to London £130,939.19.6d

On Tuesday,

•

June 17, 1941

THE BOMBER FUND

Commences Its Second

Reports that the Nazi armies will attempt to conquer the citadel failed to excite military authorities, who believe years of proparation and newly-completed secret defence devices have made the 1,400-foot peak as nearly impregnable as any natural fortress can be.

deck, the fortress is stripped Like a battleship's quarter-

for action. It has long been held if Britain is to keep con- apparent that Gibraltar must be

trol of the approach to North Africa-and-the-Near East, and plans have been completed to defend The Rock against every conceivable form of assault of siege.

A gigantic network of obstacles- many of them deep secrets--has been completed along the sandy Isthmus between the Spanish mainland and The Rock.

All buildings between the frontier and The Rock have been demolished,

The Boy Who Had Headaches

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Lives To Fight In Two Wars VERY nearly 50 years ago a'boy, aged nine, had a fall and dislocated his neck.. Thereafter he suffered from violent

young

so any attacking force would be headaches and grew up to manhood, vulnerable to a merciless shelling by as he himself later told his King, not guns concealed in the practically really ill, but a chronic invalid. bomb-proof calcereous rock. There Then came 1914, and the is nothing to obstruct the view of man hesitated about joining up. He defending gunners.

feared that the guns would bring a The land approach from La Linca, return of those terrible headaches. Spain, is studded with mines. Any But join

up he did, in 1915, in the German invaders would also have to Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and negotiate the Spanish defence line by. May, 1918, he was Lieut.-Com- built during the Civil War by Ger-mander Geoffrey Hencage Drum- man engineers. While the invadera mond, skipper of M.L.254. were manoeuvring through the Spanish defence, they would be wide open to shelling.

Canal System

ML:254, you may remember, was the little motor launch that crept into Ostend Harbour alongside the old crulser H.M.S. Vindictive which was The Spanish press asserts that to be sunk as a block ship across the Gibraltar's chief defence from land harbour mouth. Her job was to take attack is a newly-finished canal sys.off the survivors of the Vindictive's tem isolating the British territory skeleton crew, from the mainland.

Before they got into the harbour Most of the civilian population amid a hail of German fire Drum- of several thousand persons, mostly mond was wounded very severely in women and children, were eva- three places, but not until he had cuated long ago, and the garrison satisfied himself no one was left alive and remaining civilians are pre- aboard the Vindictive did he back pared for an indefinito slege. his crippled MJ. safely out. There is danger of rep

Then he sank down on the bridge exhausted.

repeated bomb-

ing, because The Rock la vulnerable

to air, attack since it lacks and badca

For that he got the VC-they

for planes. But the Inhabitants can called him "Whittington, V.C.," bc- withdraw into the deep catacombs cause his cat sat on his shoulder and lofty chambers carved from the throughout the action. rock where bombs never could touch

them.

Blitzkrieg

Began In America

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP)-Lieut. Col. A. R. Wil son, member of the Army Committee that German blitz krieg tactics are practical ap- plications of warfare methods inught at the Army's General Staff and Command School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., since 1932.

General Staff, has told a Senate

Combat tactics of the blitz- krieg, he said were planned at Fort Leavenworth and tested with the army's single mechan ised brigado at Fort Knox, Ky., before the German panzer divi- sions struck down" Poland in 1039.

"The co-ordination of air forces; and mechanised units was something new in warfare until the German ormles Invaded Poland," Wilson sak. "However, all of those thelles were taught at Forl. Leavenworth from 1032 on.

"We were hampered by a lack of planes and Inck of medchanised equipment. But the army, in its instructions

under Gen, Herbert Brees, Insisted on such tactics.

"A German panzer division is nothing but a type of organisation which we planned back in the early 30's. To-day we are beginning to get the actual equipment.”

The men who lead the .army to- day, Wilson said, are the same men who taught the tactics of the blitzkrieg at Fort Leavenworth.

"We have modified our plans as.a result of the European War, but the basic pattern is that which wo taught," he said.

Surgeons To Meet

In Mexico

The Mexican Legation in Shanghai has announced tho coming Assembly of the Inter- national College of Surgeons (founded in Geneva) to be held in Mexico City from August 10 to 14, 1941.

The Mexican Government has been requested to extend to foreign gov- ernments and medical institutions the Invitation of the, International Colle- go to be present at this

Consequently, the Mexican Lee

Legation has transmitted this invitation to the National Government of China, at Chungking, and has also addressed the hope that they may participate several important medical institutions In the Assembly.

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Mental Tests For Recruits

IS SICKNESS CRUSING DELAY that's up to you!

strain on personnel-requires that Peak load production puts added management talte unusual precau- tions to guard against that biggest "Fifth Column"-the cominon cold.

water by providing clean, Indivi- Encourage men to drink more dual Fuelly Paper Cups at each fountain. This is the natural way to drink and Purity is a natural hand, does not lealc, holds just cup to use. It snuggles into the enough water, and is delivered from a metal dispenser that holdn 300 cups and keeps them cican fu Any surroundings.

KEEP FIT EVERY DAY Drink plenty of water this Sanitary way.

300 "Purity" Cups for only. $2.00!

PURITY

Premier's Cousin Led

Own Army

A Britis "spare-lime soldier," who is a cousin of Mr Churchill, is playing a romanite part in the cam- paign against thin Itallans in Abyssinia.

During the last war he had a dis- tinguished military career, and fater became a District Commissioner in the Sudan.

When the present war began he felt the old urge for action..

So without any outside prompting, he raised an Irregular force from the naked Nuer trioesmen whom he administers,

Uniform they had none, and rifles were their only woupons.

Constant Pain'

But every moment he could spare spent drilling and training his "army,". marching miles. over difl- cult country with it."""

Their commander, whose faded Recruits to the Army ate to under-blue eyes cannot disguise on indomit- Intelligence tests. When the able will, had been suffering for medical boards have graded them months from a tropical skin disease physically, psychological experts will which gave him constant pain. test their mental equipment. It is pointed out that the great variety of employment now available in the

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to make any wastage. In modern war men have to use their initiative, and it is highly important that armoured and motorised units, the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers should re- ceive the best men available.

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By sheer personality ho compelled discipline among tribesmen who are the world's greatest individualists.

The Italians have nicknamed him "hyena" because they never know where he will turn up next.

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When September, 1039, came the Licut-Commander joined up again Gibraltar has been

transformed

At 84 he was into a great subterranean city, with an able seaman. hospitals, supply shops, food and

reckoned too old for a Commission,

In bell-bottomed trousers munitions stores protected by hun- dreds of feet of extremely hard rock. auxiliary motor patrol vessel in the swabbed the decks of a naval Virtually Siege-Proof

Many persons believe that the enormous supplies of munitions and food stored away in underground voulta mako Gibraltar virtually

lege-proof.

man

April 3, Able-Sen- Geoffrey Henenge Drummond, V.C had another fall-ho slipped on the decks of his ship in a Lon-

don deck and fractured his skull. He died in hospital, jal pak

At the inquest at Lewisham, the

Gun emplacements and other de- vices to

ward off attack by sea are prepared in equal strength to those coroner returned a verdict of BC-

on the north face, facing the land cidental death. approach. Anti-aircraft batteries!

have been installed to drive off ul-|

Year: tacking planes, or keep them at a troops train hard all day, then relax

great height.

In cafes or attend the movies or Social-ilfe in Gibraltar ̈ ̈ts now theatres at night.

Every days 1,000 Spaniards come

strictly curtalled, but the populace keeps calm and clivorful, and goes across the frontler to Gibraltar to about its businessin as usual: The recolve food. ^

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