THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1941.
FALL OF DAMOUR
Vichy Troops Now In A Desperate Situation No Surprise In LASH TO
Request For Armistice
THE
IMPERIAL FORCES
HAVE OC-
CUPIED DAMOUR, SOUTH OF BEIRUT AND VICHY'S MOST IMPORTANT PORT.
General Dentz's request for an armistice caused little surprise in London, in view of the imminent fall of this town, and it was pointed out that from a military viewpoint the Vichy troops are in a desperate position.
"REDEEM HONOUR"
cat-o'-
For forty-five minutes two pretty girls merciless- ly lashed with a nine-tails the bare body of Max Caldwell, prom- inent university athlete, "as redemption of hon-
our."
This happened at Camdenton, Missouri. Standing near, urging Dr. lash hard, stood Robert Murrell, fance of Hilda Rhodes, one of the girls whom be- Caldwell is alleged to have trayed during a gay party a year ago.
The capture of Damour is a crippling them to blow because elsewhere in Syria the position of the Vichy troops is equally serious.
The British and Imperial troops are also threatening the remain- Aleppo, advancing ing city of
Istanbul-Aleppo-
parallel to the
Baghdad railway from the south-
east and east.
At
the
Бате time Allied columns are steadily advancing at Nebec and Furqlus and threaten the vital road and rall Junction of Homs from
South and east.
Furthermore the Vichy troops in Jezzine are now in imminent danger of being isolated as a re- the Allied push up the sult of coast.
Armistice Talks
Authoritative quarters consider that recent rumours of strong Vichy reinforcements reaching Syria are largely only propaganda intended to bolster up the morale of the troops and impress the local population.
Pending an agreement on the armistice terms, it la emphasised In London that hostilities will continue actively.
reported in
is
GERMANS IN DRUG TRAFFIC
THE
When Murre!! proposed the other day to blonde Hilda, she whispered to him the story of the betrayal.
you!
"Then before I marry want you to avenge yourself," Murrell told her.
"Pull Off Your Shirt"
In-
...................OR CAU
NO BRITISH FEELINGS OF ENMITY
Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, Minister for Informa- tion, speaking in Lon- don
yesterday, said Britain had no feeling of hostility or enmity against the French- men who obeyed the orders of the Vichy Government.
"We only hope that this unfortunate hos- tility will be forgotten as soon as possible," he said.-Reuter.
RESERVOIRS OVERFLOW
THE
PRIME MINISTER'S So the other day Murrell
RETURN ISSUED BY STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS vited Caldwell to his home. "Pull REGARDING THE SYRIAN off your shirt and lie on the floor,"
THE WATER AUTHORITY THIS MORNING REVEALS THAT ALL ARMISTICE DISCUSSIONS | Murrell ordered him.
Hilda and her close friend. DRAWS ATTENTION TO GER-
RESERVOIRS ON THE ISLAND MAN ACTIVITIES SMU Aldythea Keith, entered the room.
ARE OVERFLOWING AND the cat-o'-nine- GLING OF COCAINE AND Murrell handed
THAT ON
THE MAINLAND, Hilda, and she lashed HASHISH
AND tails to INTO EGYPT PALESTINE FOR THE PUR- CaldweI until she was exhausted. ONLY JUBILEE RESERVOIR IS LEVEL. BELOW CAPACITY UNDERMINING THE Then on Murrell's orders Aldy- JUBILEE IS STILL 15 FEET
POSE OF HEALTH AND MORAL LOCAL INHABITANTS.
OF thea continued the lashing.
All three were arrested. Cald-INCHES BELOW OVERFLOW.
Total in storage on both sides of well denied having betrayed Miss
the harbour is 5,419 million gal- lons. Rhodes.
It is well known in informed quarters in London that this traf- file, which provides Germany with precious foreign exchange, is con- German armistice ducted by the delegation in Syria.
The traffic is operated by gangs in fishing motor-boats plying be- tween Haifa,
Gaza Sidon and These gangs bring in for cash as much as one kilo weekly, cocaine predominating,
and one
kilo of
of pounds sterling.
C.C. WANG'S POINTED LETTER
cocaine is worth many hundreds Dr. C. C. Wang, former- Meanwhile, an admission that the French Government cannot
Procedure is that cocaine, which ly Director-General of the continue the struggle in Syria is very largely produced in Peru, contained in a communique issued is carried to Europe by the Latin- Chinese Eastern Railway yesterday and
Italian air service operating be- and now Director of the Vichy despatch to the official Ger- tween Brazil and Romeard is man news agency.
then dispersed all over the Con- Chinese Government Railways Purchasing Commission in London, letter to the wrote a
Guardian" "Manchester on July 7, drawing atten-
Authorised By Vichy
tinent.
This German trick may suffer an abrupt cessation if the Syrian The Vichy communique says armistice discussions reach a fav- that despite all efforts the French ourable conclusion.-British Wire- Government was not able to send less. its troops in Syria the reinforce- ments they required to continue
* the struggle.
а
more
With a desire to avoid "parti- cularly painful bloodshed in struggle that is growing painful every day," the French Government, states the com- munique, "have authorleed Gen eral Dentz to ask for the imme- diate laying down of arms."
A demarche to that effect was made at Beirut on Tuesday through the United States consul- general, concludes the communi-
que.
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That the American consul. general at Beirut had acted transmitting agency between thei British and French in efforts to secure an armistice, was also an- nounced in Washington by Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State.
Mr. Welles emphasised that the 'U.S. had confined their activities' to transmitting Notes and informa- Hon. Reuter. Main Positions Overrun
A communique issued by G H Q. Cairo states: "Libva-there has been renewed patrol activity in the frontier préa,
Abyssinia-nothing of impor- tance to report.
GIRL GIVEN tion to "an Anglo-Ameri.
CHANCE
cán puzzle which has been torturing our mind,”! namely, the oil supply to Japan.
A YOUNG CHINESE GIRL, LI "The Chinese people are grate- YING, RESIDING IN RECLAMA- ful for the English-speaking TION STREET, WAS CAUTION- people's sympathy and help," Dr. ED BY MR. H. G. SHELDON, Wang wrote. "The principal rea- K.C., THIS MORNING, WHEN
son why Japan hesitates to march CHARGED WITH STEALING A to the South Seas is because with GOLD RING.
the China war on her shoulders, According to the prosecution, she finds it dangerous to grab accused who is a friend of com- the golden fruit, even though plainant, went yesterday to bor- ripe and near at hand.
money from her,
"For four years the two best because of her father's illness. friends of China have been sup- Complainant refused, and accus-plying all oll used for the pur- ed stole a gold ring from а poses of 'beating China to her jewellery box, where some $400 knees, and slaughtering the Chin- worth of jewellery and $300 in ese people: If there were any rea- cash were kept.
son of the high polley in the past Defendant told the Court that for appeasement, certainly such she was forced to steal because reason must have lost all validity she could not get money by other, now."
row
means.
some
A
.:
Dr. Wang, concluded by point- not to do it again.
Mr. Sheldon warned the girl ing out that the Indirect harm is no less serious, for it takes the wind out of the sails of the great Democracles' declared purpose.of fighting anti-aggression wherever It be." Central News,
SOVIET SPEEDS UP HARVESTING
Collective farms throughout the Soviet. Unlon are. training every
VICEROY VISITING
PRESIDENCIES
Syria the advance of our nerve to gather in the unpre- It was announced, in Simla columns towards Alevoo and cedently bountiful harvest in re yesterday that the Viceroy who "Homs is proceeding satisfactorily cord time, states, the official Tass-is anxious to renew contacts and sce the progress of the war effort In the central sector further agency,
coastal sector Australian well ahead of schedule. In the the two presidencies. He will troops have overrun the main Crimea, for instance, four times probably leave Simia for this Vichy positions and are now aver- mere. wheat has already been purpose at the end of July, re- turning in the third week" of ating north of the town of Dam reaped than this time last year.
August, Reute)
Se Caligoins have been made, On In many districts harvesting is in Madras and Bombay; will visit
British : Wireless,
Router.
from
DE GAULLE AND DENTZ REQUEST
The Political Director ate of Free French states, regarding Generat Dentz's request for a Syrian armistice; “It wasi- only under the necessity of freeing the Near East of Nazi influence that Allied forces entered. Syria.
"For the Free French forces, who fully endorsed this action, it was
extremely unpalatable, because they knew they would find in
French front of thern misled troops
by
bad the shepherds of Vichy who were ex- pected to fight for Germany.
"In consequence, Free French were particularly happy to hear of the request for an armistice. "They hope it will be possible to conclude the hostilities, over- throw the German threat to the Middle East and bring indepen- dence to Syria and Lebanon with- in the framework of the treaty
connections with of alliance with France, whose historical Levant will thus be preserved.
Fraternal Feelings
the
"It is with the greatest fraternal welcome into Consumption during June totall- feelings that they
their ranks their brothers who ed 1,012 million gallons.
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25.18 have been deceived by the pro- and who inches recorded at the Royal Ob-paganda of falsehood servatory to 16 inches at Tytam, are now resolute in pursuing în the struggle eight inches at Fanling, 14 inches common with them
Germany, the eternal 14, against in the Shing Mun area and
enemy of the French people." inches in the Kowloon Reservoir
Reuter.
area.
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on the ball to-day!"
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