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No. 32,178
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1941
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NAZI-SOVIET CLASH RUMOURS Persist Despite Formal Denials GERMAN War Of Nerves PRESSURE Races Up To
ON SOVIET New Crescendo
• [SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL"]
The London "Daily
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”)
EUROPE'S “WAR OF NERVES” ROARED TO A NEW CRESCEN- DO LAST NIGHT WITH FURTHER UNCONFIRMED AND LARGELY Mail" yesterday reported DISCOUNTED REPORTS THAT GERMANY AND RUSSIA ARE increased German pres- ALREADY TRADING BLOWS ON THE UKRAINIAN BORDER. sure on the Soviet as the
The British newspapers displayed the first result of the German- Turkish Pact, and says reports under banner headlines but they were the reported new Russo- flatly denied in Berlin and ignored by the German trade agreement Kremlin, and also lack official confirmation
is the first fruit of the anywhere. new drive.
THAT THE PERSISTENT RE-
MATUM TO RUSSIA, WHILE REMAINING UNCONFIRMED.
The
rumours
are attributed to pro-
THE "DAILY MAIL" SAYS paganda aims or even to outright hysteria, PORTS OF A RUMANIAN ULTI- and an electric atmosphere was later intro- duced by a frantic broadcast from Tiflis, in EMANATE FROM SOURCES the U.S.S.R., of an actual clash between It is reported that Finland is Soviet forces and troops "of a certain power" Helsinki prepares evacuation on the Bessarabian frontier of Rumania. plans while the streets are crowd-
USUALLY RELIABLE.
prepared for any eventuality, as
ed with soldiers.
There is growing Tho "Daily Herald" quotes opinion that Europe is on an official of the German Em. the verge of some kind of bassy in Ankara as saying: "All! signe point to a war against showdown.
Russia but we hope to obtain
(Continued on Page 16)
Another item in the welter of
'FLYING CANNONS' TO BE THROWN INTO ACTION
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IT WAS LEARNED IN New York yester-
„day that Britain in a few days is expected to
H.K. BOY POSTED AS MISSING
The announcement that a well-known Hong Kong boy, Albert Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Moss, has been reported "miss- ing" was received by
morning.
DAWN OF cable in the Colony this GREATER AGE
The circumstances have not. been disclosed, but it is known that Moss went to Greece with the
Australian Division of the BEF..
In the House of Representa- tiyes in Canberra yesterday, Mr. Spender announced that 9,000 Bri~ tish, Australian and N.Z. troops, The Rev. William Huds- are prisoners in Greece, and that 5,591 Australian troops have not
ISPECIAL TO "CHINA MẠIL”
peth, American mission- returned from Greece and Crete, ary, in a speech to the and have been posted as "missing." Shanghai Rotary Club, Efforts are being made to ascer- tain who among them are prison- said: "The spirit of New, ers of war. China is unconquerable
Mr. Albert Moss is the young- rumours was a report that the and is rolling along like est son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Moss, who are now in Australia, alleged Rumanian ultimatum to
Mr. Moss having retired as Super- Russia for the immediate return the Mississippi.
due to expire of Bessarabia, is
"It will be rolling along for a intendent of the Fire Brigade Albert months ago. thousand years on Sunday night.
and about, 12
joined the Australian forces soon- Other radio and press reports happier days."
outbreak of war and told of mobilisations In Russia RELATING IMPRESSIONS OF after the and Finland.
VISIT TO CHUNGKING, went to Egypt with the first con-
"THE tingents. In Washington, it is estimated MR. HUDSPETH SAID:
GREATER AGE│* that Germany has 1,500,000 blitz DAWN OF A
The speaker said he was im- troops poised on the Soviet❘ HAS COME, AND THE PEOPLE!
vlours" bcrders from Finland to the OF THE WARTIME CAPITAL pressed by 'the'. people's
TO ENDURE light-heartedness: and "stoic in- HAVE LEARNED
Interna- INTOLERABLE HARDSHIPS IN difference" to danger.
tional News Service. THE DRAWN-OUT WAR."
Black Sea ready to march into the Ukraine unless Russia meets the Nazi demands.
Capitulation?
Despite Moscow's present, out- wardly stubborn front, sufficient information has reached Wash- ington that the Soviet will pro- bably accede to the German de- mands, which call for vastly In- creased supplies of wheat and oil. The White House is watching the situation with the closest at- tention.
"Berlin, meanwhile yesterday denied reports that Rugão-Ger- man_fighting' had broken out. The rumours, a Wilhelmstrasse
British "whispering campaign" to Internationat News Service,
unleash against the Nazis eleven Bell Air-official claimed, resulted from a cobras, the first shipment of the deadliest stir up trouble. fighting 'plane ever built.
Literally flying cannons," they are
designed to destroy anything on the face of the earth. They are the only single-seater
'COOLIDGE RECORD
[SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"I "A record number of 200 pas-" sengers boarded the “President Coolidge in Shanghal yesterday for a direct run to Honolulu and Initial tests moved both Br-the United states as the vessel is the United Statom to skipping the Japan call to place i) ordera for 800 each.) itself at the disposal of the US. 50 have been deliver | Government.
United States and 11
fighters which carry cannon.
Sources close to the Bell Experts agree the new 'plane berger is faster, more smashing and more factory which now pro- manoeuvrable.
Aircobras daily, sterday that soon to use Aircobras to Germans from sea and to arry invasion to the
Conkment.
to It is learned that 3,000 British nnon have been assigned for installation in Airoobran Inter national News Service.
American... husbands waved good-bye to wives going on one of the last President liners to, be seen in the Far East as a result of the commandeering order, in Washington International News servi
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