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"THE "CHINA MAIL," AUGUST 20, 1940
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Some of the first consignments of "Tommy guna" from Amèrica have been handed to a famous Guards regiment. These pictures, taken recently show Guards in training with their latest weapon. Photo shows Guarda, complete with gas-masks, and Tommy Guns, making their way through a smoke screen. (Copyright, Fox).
"GLORIOUS"
HUNGARIANS RETURN SINKING HOME DISSATISFIED
DEATHROLL
Casualties in the air- |craft-carrier Glorious, lost
It is understood Rumania has proposed off Norway in June, total- the cession of four departments in Transyl-led 1,204, it was revealed in a casualty list issued by vania, in reply to the Hungarian demand for
the Admiralty in London 13 departments.
yesterday.
M. Hory, head of the Hungarian delega- D.S.O., D.S.C., in command, was Captain .G. d'Oyly-Hughes, tion, was reported to be returning from Turnu-among the 33 officers killed, as Severin to Budapest last night.
AMERICAN TRIBUTES TO BRITAIN
American
newspapers continue to pay more at- tention to the Battle of Britain than to domestic politics.
The Rumanian reply to Hung Jary's proposals is considered in Budapest to be entirely unsatis- factory.
was Lt.-Comm. C. H. Wells, son of Sir Richard Wells, M.P.
In addition, 43 officers are post- ed missing.
Of the ratings, 71 wäre kill- ed, one died of wounds and 869 are missing.
R.A.F. casualties were five kill-
Calm prevails in the Hun-ed and 36 missing.
The N.A.A.F.I. canteen staff and garian capital, however, and no Maltese ratings also figused in the immediate action is expected.
Meanwhile the Rumanian and Bulgarian delegations met negatiations which are expected to lead to an agreement, ceding southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
at Craiova for
question of
The agreement involved, it is believed, the cession-to-Bulgaria. The "Miami Herald" . in an of areas of Cilistria ina strate- editorial yesterday declared: "The gic position on the Danube. British are not merely on the de- Technical details to be worked: fensive, waiting for an invasion.jout include an exchange of po They attack and that is the pulation and the method of victory.
[compensation-Reuter. "This resistance, this offensive, Jarouses the hope that Britain may show the hollowness of the great German machine when once it confronts a prepared, determined people who are not afraid, whose inorale is high and who fully realise. what it would mean should Nazidom conquer and en- slave them."
It Must Be Us
The "Atlantą Constitution," commenting on an article by “Taffrail" on Dunkirk, says: "Somewhere in that tremendous.
list-Reuter.
KIDNAPPED
FROM A BALLROOM
Two Chinese dancing in the Paramount Ballroom in Yu Yuen Road in the International Settlement,
NAZI AGENTShanghai, were kidnap-
FINED IN PANAMA
ped yesterday.
Four gunmen dragged them out of the ballroom, and forced them into a motor car waiting outside,
Chen Kung-liang, an
intelli-
gence agent under the Wang Ching-wei regime, who was ser- iously wounded by two gunmen at his residence on Sunday morn- jing, died in the Paulun Hospital
yesterday.
Emil Wolff, described Ku Chih-chung, chief reporter
hell was forged the spirit that the as a automatons of Hitler can never
wounded last Saturday has
was
German chemist, of the "Sin Wan Pao," who beat, No men of the playing was sentenced in Panama the bullet, which lodged in his fields of Eton these. They were yesterday: something greater, something
to three
had
left shoulder extracted, and is ex- [pected to recover soon.--Central more. They scorned death that months' imprisonment on News. might live. These are the men a charge of being a Ger- who hold fast to-day the bastion man without being BRITAIN
something greater than they
of Britain."
The "Charleston News-Chroni-gistered with the U.S. cle remarks: "Gomething seems Secretary of State. to be holding. Hitler up. and it must be the British.”—Reuter.
Magnificent Capacity
"Britain has demonstrated a magnificent capacity to resist the
mightiest waves of bombers and fighters, from across the Channel," caid the "Washington Star" in an editorial yesterday.
Wolf was fined U.S.; $1,000 on
TO BE WARNED
charge of being a Nazi agent.
The gaol term was suspanki- ed, however, on condition that Germany, through the, the fine was paid, and this le Swiss Government, has from the $10.000 ball depgel sent a Note to the British od by the German ¡Legation. Government describing Wolff was arrested and taken!.
to bs forthcoming.
seven weeks
The "Christian Science Moni-kuni Maru
off the Japanese steamer Yasu- the uniform and distin- tor" commented: "There is in when it arrived in Panama.from]
aga guishing marks of para- British resistance, a morale, Los Angeles-Reuter.
chute troops. unity and a determination which]
the Nazi arms have not hereto- fore encountered:" Reuter.
TWO-OCEAN NAVY VOTE APPROVED
:
After referring to, previous in- stances in which it alleged Ger- man parachute troops were ill- used, the Noto states that if they receive any treatment not in con- - formity with international `law, the reply wil be “serious reprisals. The Senate" appropriations against members of the British committee in Washington yester-Air Force." Several Iners, carrying about day approved the Appropriations Authoritative circles in London 700 children from Britain, en- Bill providing a fund for a two-state the British Government has tered an eastern Canadian port ocean navy and equipping an not yet received tho Note. Flato yesterday-Reuter,
Tarmy of 1,200,000 men-Reuter. Reuter.
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