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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1940
STRICKEN ADJUSTING
PARIS ITSELF
Bombing Planes Roar Overhead All Day
Two Pictures Of "Dead" City.
Paris, To-day.
PARIS, UNDER GERMAN occupation, is trying to get back to a normal life (states a neutral cor- respondent there). Food is plentiful, gas, elec- tricity and water are not interrupted and the Underground railway is running.
Shops are open and German customers are using credit certificates at the rate of 1 mark to 20 francs.
HEROES OF FLANDERS BATTLE
London, To-day,
A further list of 45 imme- diate awards made by the Commander-in-Chief has been issued by the War Office, and includes 15 M.C.'s, 12 D.C.M.'s and 18 M.M.'s.
M.C.'s include 2/Lt Francis Robert Newsam Kerr, Royal Scots, for cover- ing the withdrawal from the River Dendre although severely wounded;
Lt. Patrick Hunter London, Royal Engineers, who led a small party of Sappers who completed the destruc- tion of a bridge in full view of the enemy;
German cars and lorries are in all the streets, and bombing 'planes roar overhead daily. In this, the Germans -are following--the--psychological__tac-
tics they adopted in Brussels.
On the day of the occupation of Paris, German bands played military music, while regiments goose-stepped along the Champs Elysee.
The Swastika Flag which flew over the Arc de Triomphe has now been removed, but another is fly. ing over Napoleon's tomb.
Girl Guides in Australia have sent many large cases of clothing to Britain for the purpose of distribution among the evacuated children in the reception areas. They raised over £2,000 with the aid of bazaars, etc., to enable them to purchase the material. (Copyright, Fox)..
SOVIETS SWAMP
!
THE BALTIC
Stockholm, To-day.
CAMPAIGN IN EAST AFRICA
Nairobi, To-day.
Soviet troops have occupied A communique says: On Tallinn and other places in the whole front there is little Estonia and Latvia, accord-ground activity. ing. to the "Aftonbladet” cor- respondent at Tallinn.
Several Suicides The Germans are everywhere with cameras and are spreading Goebbel's frequent pronouncement that they that Britain is Germany's real enemy." "did not want to fight France but
The correspondent added that The French people are maintaining Lithuanian ex-President Smetona is a wonderful calm.
reported to have been inferned by At the same time, there are dis-the Nazis at Koenigsberg ostensibly tracted and resentful expressions on because he had no visa for Germany. all sides, and there have already been The report adds he will probably
be deported to. Lithuania.
some suicides. Reuter.
2,000,000 Fled
The Latvian - President, M, UI. manis, and other anti-Soviet Lat 2/Lt Robert John Hyde-Thomasón,
vian Ministers, are reported to Durham Light Infantry, who, when
Berlin, To-day.
have cancelled preparations to flee M. all the men in the post he
The French capital is like a city of com-
to Germany on hearing of manded were killed or wounded and the dead, says a Paris despatch to the Smetona's internment. the enemy called on him to surren- German News Agency..
The "Aftonbladet" says the occupa- der, shot the enemy leader, disper..
Approximately 2,000,000, of the in- tion of all three Baltic countries is sed the remainder with ́hand-gren- | habitants fled before the entry of reported to have occurred without in- ades and then escaped, assisting In German troops or were evacuated by |cident. A portion of the population organising a counter-attack and fat-
the French Government.
is stated to have welcomed the Rus- or bringing in a wounded man un-
All those that had any vehicle at sians.-Reuter. der heavy fire;
their disposal left the capital. The better-class residential quar- ters were thus quite déserted.
tank
Lt. John Malcolm Thorpe Churchill, Manchester Regiment, who, when his company was surrounded, fought his two machineguns until all the ammuni- tion was finished, when he destroyed the guns and extricated his command. M.M.'s include L/Cpl Jackson, Cam- eron Highlanders, who during a attack on battalion headquarters May 27, when the order to withdraw had been given and buildings were blazing, showed great courage and complete disregard of his own safety in the evacuation of many wounded under heavy fire. Reuter.
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LESSON IN FALSE ECONOMY
"Go home and figure out how many months of free travel you could have with the fine Impose on you,” said Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this morning to a 21-year-old student, Cheung: Man-kin, who was fined $30 for avoiding payment of ferry fare, and Tofcunlawfully using another per- son's "ticket AC
Ritz Open
The hotels and restaurants are closed, except the Hotel Ritz.
TWO AMAHS ARRESTED
CLAIMING TO HAVE SOLVED The underground is not workingTHE "GONELLA” ROBBERY · CASE and no bus services are running, all IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS, DETEC- TIVE INSPECTOR W. N. DARKIN, means of transport having left.
The water supply is assured" and", ARRESTED AND DETAINED THE electricity services are still func- TWO AMAHS, EMPLOYED IN MR. tioning. No Important acts of U. GONELLA'S RESIDENCE, AND A sabotage," the Edèspatch " declares, MAN LAST NIGHT, have been ommitted by the popu̟-· Jation.
Special French detachments fired
the oil tanks.....
The French Police have placed themselves at the disposal of the Ger- man authorities. and are continuing to control traffic-Reuter.
Ambassador's Message (SPECIAL" TO "CHINA MAIL")
Washington, To-day.. Mr William Bulllit, U.S. Ambassa- dor in Paris, has sent an oral message through the German military authori- ties to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin Accused was alleged to have pro- stating the occupation of Paris was duced his brother's monthly ticket effected entirely without disorder or whilst travelling from Hong Kong to loss of life."
Mongkok on board a Vehicular ferry. All members of the U.S. Embassy Accused stated that he thought it in Parls are "in excellent health.' was transferable.
Havas.
The stolen jewellery, valued at $2,- 525, property of Miss Murray, sister- in-law of Mr. Gonella, was recovered. It is alleged that the robbery was carried out with the assistance of the two amahs, the man being admitted to the house by the amahs after Miss Murray had left.
The Police, after detaining the three persons, went to the ground floor of No. 17, Lower Lascar Road, and found the-jewellery in a hole in one of the walls of the building.
HEINKELS OVER MALTA
British fighters.
kel bombers near Reuter.
A reconnaissance from the Southern Rhodesian contingent of the R.A.F. bombed a concentration of enemy troops and armoured cars and lorries near the Abyssinia-Kenya frontier on Sunday with most excellent results. one lorry Two armoured cars and were destroyed and the troops scaf- tered.
Successful air attacks were carried out on Sunday by the South African the aerodromes at Air Force on
At the same Neghelli and Yavello. time an entrenched camp in Abyssinía and direct hits was also attacked obtained on the wireless camp and barracks.
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Meanwhile a' reconnaissance over Bardera, seeing the wireless mast still standing, blew it out of the ground. The aircraft engaged were from the South African Air Force. Further details of the Neghelli and Yavello raids are still awaited. All our machines 'returned safely-Reu- ter.
SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Before Mr. T. J. Houston this morn-
ing, Chan Fuk, 39, was charged with stealing a chicken.
Sergeant Pockson said defendant was seen with the chicken, and when chased, threw it away.
Defendant stated that his mother
was in the Queen Mary Hospital. He stole the chicken to raise bus fares to visit his mother.
He was sentenced to three months” hard labour, but the sentence was sus➡ pended for one year. He was given $5 from the poor box...
YOUNG WOMAN GRAVELY INJURED
Chán Leung, 18, of No. 149, Des Road Central, wig admitted the Queen Mary Hospital in Jour
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rom the second, four of - with the intention of
iting suicide,