THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1940
THE WAR WITH ITALY Italian Port Of Assab Completely Deserted
Glow From Great
Fire Visible For 60 Miles
Aden, To-day.
VISITORS HERE FROM ASSAB, the Italian port and air base in Southern Eritrea, state the aerodrome is burning and the town is completely deserted, as a result of British air raids.
It is stated the glow from the fire is visible for 60 miles. It is added many people fled from Mas- sawa following R.A.F. raids.
1,000,000 MORE
Reuter.
Cairo, To-day.
An Italian plane is understood to have been shot down near Sollum, in
MEN IN A MONTH Egypt, yesterday morning. The crew,
London, To-day. Two age groups are being registered this month and arrangements are being made
who set fire to their machine, were taken prisoner.
Six enemy machines were set on fire during night operations over Eritrea.
air- This brings the total Italian craft lost in the past 24 hours to 15
to register four further age for certain, with five probably lost. groups in July.
This means that by the end of next month, men of 33 will have registered
for military service.
Men of 29 register next. Saturday
in all addi-
Reuter.
KING LEOPOLD'S
EXPLOSION IN GERMAN CONSULATE
New York, To-day. An explosion
red yesterdayur-
the
building in which the German consulate is housed. One person was injured.-Reuter.
TROOPS POUR INTO SWITZERLAND
NEARLY
MONTREUX, TO-DAY.
2,000 DISARMED FRENCH TROOPS AND AS MANY CIVILIANS
AT HAVE ARRIVED NEUCHATEL FROM THE FRON- TIER.
They include an air force contin- gent of 40 officers and 600 men with camouflaged cars. lorries and equip ment.
Six colonels and a complete motor- ised column arriving from Portalier are being interned in the interior of Switzerland. Reuter.
MOVING SCENES ON THE SWISS FRONTIER
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Berne, To-day. MOVING SCENES ARE taking place on the Franco- Swiss border where the Swiss population is doing all possible for the refugees who are arriving on foot and in cars and all kinds of vehicles.
The refugees say they want to earn their bread and ask for work, and Swiss peasants are trying to obtain their release from the authorities who have established internment camps.
tional men will have registered by CHILDREN LEAVE FRANCE The authorities have given permission for some of
the end of July-Reuter.
SECOND N.Y. EXPLOSION
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Madrid, To-day.
The children of King Leopold, ac- companied by 25 Belgian personalities, passed through Irun by car on their way to Lisbon.
the refugees to work in the fields, while trades- men have reduced prices for the refugees.
Polish Troops Cross
Similar manifestations occurred in favour of French troops who crossed
Ten thousand Polish soldiers crossed the border and to whom peasants are the Jura Mountains into the canton bread and distributing of Berne under the protection of a Among the well-known Belgians in bringing
Cau-tobacco.
desperate rearguard action fought by A second New York explosion oc-the party were M. Franzvan
Franco-Polish remnants. curred yesterday in the building welaert, former Minister of Public 、 Zeeland, housing the principal offices of the Works and M. Paul van
former Premier.--Havas..
New York, To-day.
Communist Party, and apparently was also caused by a bomb..
Eight people are now reported to have been injured in the first explo- SMALL FIRE REPORTED sion. The condition of two of them is serious.-Reuter.
THE TURNING POINT - IN
CONVALESCENCE
IN "FATSHAN"
According to a local vernacular, this afternoon a fire broke out in the s.s. Fatshan on Tuesday when the vessel was sailing through Kap Sui Mun on her way to Canton.
The fire broke out on the third class deck at about 8.45 a.m. and caused some confusion among the passengers.
When the crisis is past in illness, recovery may still be a long way off. The real turning point for the better comes when the patient begins to fill-in'. out and pick up noticeably from day to day.
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decisive factor in that quick recovery is good food. When patients cannot take solid meals and have a disinclination for most kinds of food, doctors give them Horlicks. Horlicks. is so light, that the most delicate, stomach can assimilate it, so delicious that the most finicky appetite res- ponds to it. It is a complete food In.. itself, balanced, highly nutritious, full of the elements that the wasted body needs to restore shattered nerves and build healthy tissues."
Keep Horlicks in the house always. You can get it to-day at your store.
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The crew, however, put out the fire, which did not do any serious damage to the structure.
GILT-EDGEDS ACTIVE ON STOCK MARKET
London, To-day.
Gilt, edgeds were actively higher on the Stock Exchange yesterday on con- tinued demand. -Industrials were nar- rowly irregular, Foreign issues were more active on removal of the bail on dealings in certain securities. Oils were easy. Shell Transport declined following the - announcement of no further dividend for 1989, Wall Street was narrowly irregular-Reuter
Many contingenta of French troops have arrived in Switzerland through the woods by mistake after having bravely defended French territory Inch by Inch against the enemy who was using hundreds of tanka follow- ed by motorised infantry and artil- lery,
Among the interned troops are mem- bers of the International Brigade who fought in Spain and Austrian emigres.
French artillery and tanks have been moved to the frontier line with the intention of crossing into neutral ter- ritory rather than surrender them to the enemy.
Bridges and tunnels were, blown up on the French side of the fron- -tier.
Stray French units driven to the border in many cases refused to hand over their arms to the Swiss authori- ties, declaring they wanted to return to the fight.
However, the men'` were almost
Swiss towns in the interior are starving and were faced, with, ar virs showing the same sympathy to the re- tual lack of ammunition if they went fugees, and Berne yesterday morning back to the battle areas, so most of received its first batch of French peo-them finally joined the weary mass ple.
of refugees--Haves.
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