THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1941.
Possibility Of New Diversions In Axis
War
(By Reuter's Military Commentator)
THOUGH THE CENTRE of interest still lies in Russia there are other directions which call for attention and may soon call for action.
THE NAZI THREAT TO TURKEY AND SPAIN MAY STILL MATERIAL- ISE. WE ARE ON THE VERY VERCE OF WAR WITH JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC, AND IT IS NOT EASY TO SEE HOW JAPAN CAN AVOID WAR WITH RUSSIA AS WELL AS WITH AMERICA.
PEAK RESIDENT FINED
MRS.
ETHEL
ALTON, OF NO. 451, THE PEAK, Į
Hitler is bringing heavy pressure to bear on his "sponges" in Vichy and is trying to squeeze out of them the possession of ports and air bases on the West African coast.
We must be prepared to act in any or all MURIEL these directions. Our resources will certainly WAS CHARGED BEFORE MR be called on to support an additional strain, but it is not one beyond our powers to deal with, and fortunately we are prepared and with reserves at hand in each case should an
H. G. SHELDON. K.C.. THIS MORNING, WITH FAILING TO REPORT HER ARRIVAL IN THE COLONY WITHIN 48 HOURS.
Mrs. Alton admitted the charge.
Detective Sergeant J. Hill, or emergency arise.
the Special Branch, sald that
en-
had withdrawn some of the air perhans
Mrs. Alton, with her children, On the Russian fronterally. It seems as if the Nazis left the Colony on December 26 the Germans are again force from Libya, and last year, for Shayuchung route to Waichow. She arrived making vast claims but some divisions as well.
as they are known to us show so far
in Shayuchung and stayed there the facts for some time as the route was blocked. She returned
to the
Colony on January 10, by ferry ser-nothing to support them. vice to Taipo, and had been in the Colony since. Her arrival in
Hong Kong was not known to
the authorities until yesterday. A fine of $50 was imposed.
MURDER ARRESTS
CLEVER POLICE WORK BY DET.-SCT. N. B. FRASER FOL- ! LOWING THE DISCOVERY OF
IT IS IMPORTANT FOR BRI-
TAIN TO STRIKE A DECISIVE BLOW HERE AS SOON AS POS. SIBLE.
Air
If the North African coast can The Germans, with their allies be cleared of Germans and Fas- the Finns, are still struggling on cists while our Navy and the north-western shores of Lake Force can be solidly established Ladoga and have not even reach-on the north coast of Africa, ed its eastern end.
far west as Tripoli, then not only will the naval position the
Mediterranean be greatly
25
in
There are no advances to- wards Leningrad.
They claim to have captured Kholm but this, strengthened but our command of
the air in that area as well. la a very doubtful claim and is not
at present.
in a direction seriously NOR IS THAT ALL-OUR threatening the Russian position FLANK CLEARED AS FAR
FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEST AS TRIPOLI, ALL OUR
WOULD THEN BE FREE TO WOUNDS ON THE CHEST, IN NAZIS ARE CONCERNED, BUT SUPPORT TURKEY IN CASE THE COLONIAL CEMETERY THE ROAD TO MOSCOW SEEMS OF ANY ATTACK BY THE LAST SATURDAY AFTER-JUST AS FIRMLY CLOSED AND BULGARIANS AND GERMANS. NOON, LED TO THE ARREST IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT --REUTER. OF THREE MEN IN THE WEST THE BATTLE MAY REOPEN POINT DISTRICT ON WEDNES-SHORTLY-THIS TIME, HOW- DAY EVENING.
THE BATTLE OF SMOLENSK A DEAD BODY, BEARING STAB HAS CLOSED, AS FAR AS THE
EVER, ITS REOPENING WILL
The police have now establish- BE DUE TO RUSSIAN INITIA- ed that the crime took place TIVE. three days before the discovery and that scissor blades were usert.
The only clue found on the body was an Immigration permit, issued in Shanghai, and bearing the deceased's name and photo.
The men arrested in connection with the case are all from Chiul
Chow.
AMERICAN AID
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
The importance of American aid in deliver- ing the final blow against
Held In Ukraine
In the Ukraing the Germans are
not making any vital progress--il indeed they are making any pro Bress at all.
The successful defence of Mos- cow from attack by the Lufewaffe must be another cause of anxiety to the Germans, for it is clear proof of the power of the Russian Air Force,
READY FOR PARALLEL ACTION
The United States and Russia's great reserves of Britain are preparing to troops and 'planes have not, yet take parallel action and Indications that the Germans joint military measures to have anything other than tired resist further Japanese
been thrown in. There are no
and beaten troops with which to
meet the Russian onslaught penetration as a Thailand showdown is expected
when it comes.
In spite of the very gloomy out-
the Germans was emphas-look facing the German armies in momentarily, we 11-in- Russia it is still very possible the formed circles in Wash- new adventure in Northern and ington declared yester- Western Africa.
ised by the official Soviet agency, Tass, yesterday.
Tass said: "The blows against the Fascist military machine are still most devastating.
Germans might launch out on B
Gibraltar
day.
There is obvious tension in "Economic cooperation between Russia and the United States "is This might be combined with Washington official circles over strengthening this basis of friend-the march of five or six divisions the Thailand, crisis, since the_ro- ly relations and consolidating the through Spain for a siege
of Ceipt of reports from the Far East Democratic front."-International Gibraltar and in order to establish that the Japanese forces are be News Service.
a shorter communication line with ing dispatched to the Thailand Morocco and Dakar,
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Il Duce's Loss
A successful move in this direction would give the Ger- mans very great advantages in their Atlantic battle against England but would also conati- tute a very real threat to all the AmericaO,
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(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL").
MUSSOLINI AND CIANO:YEB GIS is not litely, the United
border.
· Mr. Cordell Hull's warning to Tokyo that the United States views the Thailand situation with "increasing seriousness" is regard- ed as most significant because the statement was made simultanously with Mr. Anthony Eden's warn-. ing to Japan. TERDAY FLEW TO THE AIR States wou'd be content to idly There a FIELD NEAR PISA WHERE THE watch this move. It would be
is no indication¦¦what DUCE'S SECOND SON, BRUNO, necessary from the military view steps the United States Govern- WAS KILLED DURING A TEST point to act quickly and not to ment is going to take but it is FLIGHT, Ä
allow the Germans, and their generally believed that an undig Special condolences have been Vichy allies to consolidate them-closed number of United States sent to Mussolini by the King selves strongly. at Dakar,
warships are already somewhere In the South Pacific,
A and the Pope, de
Bruno Mussolini leaves a wife Tobruk Activity
and infant daughter. He was a
* Administration critics opine that the time for bluffing is over.
Contral
veteran of three wars, although We are displaying some en- and the United States Govern- only 23.-International Newscouraging activity around. Tobruktment must act firmly, Service..
and in the Mediterranean gen- News,