THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1941.
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CONGRESS WARNED Importance Of Army Extension
DANGER TO FOREIGN POLICY
IF CONGRESS failed to extend the ser- vice of the army rank and file it would have an "exceedingly bad“ psychological effect on the international situation, declared the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, at his press conference in Washington yesterday.
Mr. Hull authorised the direct quotation of the words "exceedingly bad" in order to emphasise them. He declined to discuss spe- cific details of the Army Extension Legisla- tion, but said he was considering the general effect of failure to pass some extension would have on American foreign relations.
Replying to a question whe- ther the present dangers to the United States warranted sume extension, Mr. Cordell Hull said that reading the newspaper head- lines should emphasize that dangers do exist.
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When told that some mem. bere of Congress appeared fully unaware of these dangers, Mr. Hull replied that that seemed to be the matter.
He recalled that he had made! Humerous statements over
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period of years warning the peo- ple regarding the objectives of
HOW AXIS
PLAN WAS
FOILED
How the heroic Yugo-
certain nations in the direction of slay decision to resist the
unlimited conquest by force.
No Offer To Japan
Mr. Hull declared as baseless
the report that the United States had offered a plan of settlement, involving certain concessions Japan, if the Japanese would withdraw from the Axis.
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A convoy, including tanker laden with oll, cargo ships ir den with 'planea and food ves- sele, etc., has just reached Brittin after having been escorted by destroyers across the North At antic. Among the escort v sols were two ex-American destroyers and a Free French light cruicer. The safe arrival of the convoy represents another quiet, unspectacular victory, typical of those being won every day in the Battle of the Atlantic. Photo shows -- Ex-American destroyers with the convoy. The 4.7 gun of one of them, and another destroyer on the right of the picture, watches over the convoy. (Copyright, Fox).
AIR ARM
FLEET AIR ARM BERLIN ON RAID IN SYRACUSE THE NEW
HARBOUR
PHASE
According to the Berlin correspondent of the
newspaper, well.
Germans on March 27
AN ATTACK BY THE Fleet Air Arm against a Stockholm- Axis helped to thwart plans to seize the Middle large merchant-ship at Syracuse in Sicily and acti- “Dagbladet,” East and Russian oilfields vity by the Royal Air Force in North Africa are re-informed Berlin circles ported in a R.A.F. Middle East communique issued in Cairo yesterday. It states:-
in the Spring, 1941, was described in a broadcast from London by General Simovich, Yugoslav Primo Minister and C.-in-C.
"Cyrenaica: On Saturday night
declare that the new phase which is now open- ing on the Eastern Front will be decisive for while pressure on the Ukraine is constantly increasing there is no relaxation in the Central and Lenin-
TAXI STRIKE WARNING grad sectors.
Blenheims of the RAF attacked gun repair shops at Bardia, start- Mr. Hull suid the settlement
ing a number of large bright fires. of American-Japanese differences
Enemy landing grounds at Gazala must include ail fundamentul In March, the moin German were also bombed and machine- questions involved in the present
Yesterday, conflict of policies,
Maryland added army of S. E. Europe was in S. F. gunned. and
Bulgaria ready to move into Greek bombers of the South African Air that if the United States took up anything with Japan regard- Thrace and then eastward to turn, Force carried out attacks on enemy
the flank of the Turk defence, ing a
positions, motor-vehicles and per- general settlement, it
Moscow and Leningrad are now Everything seemed favourable. sonnel in the neighbourhood of would be based on all funda-
Russia was on friendly terms, Bardia. mental principles
The Yellow Taxicab seriously threatened, according to which the
Axis United States had enunciated dur- Syria in Vichy hands with
to get posses- R.A.F. bombers demolished bar Company was standstilled Berlin believes that the Rus- ing the past few years.--Reuter. agents preparing
sion of strategic points, the Iraqi racks and a block-house south of yesterday when its entire sans have abandoned the idea of rebellion was timed to begin sim- Misurata and also attacked enemy staff of drivers struck Dniester and Dnieper and are ultaneously April 3rd-on which motor transport vehicles and date it actually started.
petrol-trailers in the same neigh-work following rejection.now seeking to concentrate Airborne troops were to be bourhood. dlanded in Syria so that Turkey "All trailers were holed by by the company of deeast bank of the Dnieper.
machine-gun bullets and several mands for the reinstate The Berlin correspondent of the "Demokraten" says that a lorries were overturned and des- ment of two dismissed war correspondent with the pan-
POLISH MISSION TO RUSSIA
would have been cut off from British supplies and hindered in
making effective resistance.
The German armies were to
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"Tripolitania: Оп Saturday
troyed. The formation then: at-
tacked two large ammunition and employees.
would be knocking at the doors of wounded. the oflfelds of Batum and Baku,
the Germansi
defending-points
between the
tropps..on, the defence line on the"
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zer divisions gave a vivid account sweep along North Anatolia and supply dumps at Buerat. The am- This morning, the strikers had of the Russians' heroism and disregard of death especially across the Black Sea from Ruman-munition exploded and the per- still not returned to their posts.
the Siberians.. ian and Bulgarian, ports and sonnel standing by were killed or The Company yesterday pub The "Demokraten" correspon- Jished notices ordering the men dent added that apparently, the "Sicily: Aircraft of the Fleet Air to return to work otherwise they Russians, still have considerable almost 'before the U.S.S.R. were Arm made a torpedo attack on a would be automatically dismissrair forces, despite the losses, which aware of the danger,
Jarge: merchant vessel at Syracuse ed.
With the Germans claimed they have The operation was planned to on Saturday.A quantity of The Secretary of the Company inflicted. "FORMATION IN RUSSIA OF A begin between March 15 and April bombs were also dropped at told the "China Mail" this morn- POLISH ARMY EQUIPPED 1 and to be completed in six to Augusta, one making a direct hit ing that the since the Taxicab -WITH-THE LATEST AMERICAN eight weeks. A few days before on a gasométer. From these Drivers! Association had ordered MATERIAL, THE BOVIET GOV-It could start, the Belgrade revo-operations all our aircraft, return-the men not to resume duty, the ERNMENT HAB ACCEPTED Alution placed on the German flanked safely."-Reuter. OMILITARY¦ MISSION, HEADED a hostile army, which had to "bej @BYZAGENERAL :SZYSZKO removed.
· AS A PRELIMINARY TO THE
CIBOHUBZ, WHO :18. EMPOWER- SUBSEQUENT. CAMPAIGNS
ED TO CONCLUDE A POLISH-IN YUGOSLAVIA GREECE AND SINKIANG “SITUATION BOVIET | MILITARY LAGREE- [CRETE - THOUGH SUCOESSEUI. MENT.
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IN IMMEDIATE PURPOSE.] ~ KEPT THE GERMAN ARMIES
EASIER
Company was contemplating en- |gaging non-Association drivers,
Later..
An ultimatum by the Yellow Taxicab Company to drivers on strike to return to work within 24 hours expires at 12 noon to day.
Reuter
FREEDOM OF PORTSMOUTH
The honorary freedom of Ports- mouth is to be conferred on Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Harry Hopkins on the Prime Ministér General Sikoraki, Polish Pre- OCCUPIED IN WHAT HAD According to a message from The Company reveals that some in recognition of his eminent ser- mier, disclosed this at a Polish BEEN MEANT TO BE A FRE Peshawar, there has been a con- 30-non-Association drivers are vices to the nation and Empire and military rally in Scotland yester- LIMINARY TASK UNIHIL JUNI siderable improvement in the standing by to operate the com- the great interest taken by him day, when he declared that the UST BY WHICH TIME THE attitude of the Sinklang Govern-pany's fleet of taxis should the in the welfare of Portsmouth and "Polish Soviet agreement has BRITISH HAD QUELLED THE ment towards British subjects men fail to resume work to-day, its citizens, and on Mr. Hopkins, in brushed aside.all. sentimental IRAQ "RISING.
following the Russo-German
recognition of his eminent, ser vices to the nation and British considerations.
A week later, the Allies entered war, states reports receiv Syria and turned out the Axised in Peshawar from Kash-
Empire, as personal representa tive in England of the President The Polish nation took a da. Prvance guard. Thus, said Gen-gar. British and Afghai, sub-
of the U.S.A, for administration oldedly, anti-German stand in veral Simovich apart from the Jects who were arranging to.
of the provisions of the lease-lend Beptember 1939 In a life and moral blow which affected the leave the country have, there--
ActBritish Wireless. death fight, and it will follow prestige of the Nazis, Yugoslavia fore, it is stated, decided to re- Shia road to the end.
thereby saved Turkey, and the main-Reuter. Near East and made impossible": This attitude, is dictated not the envelopment of Russia from only by our own interests. but the South and an attack on it der to reach the oil without which also by the united British, camp from the rear over the Caucasus. hig panzer division and air fleets of liberty and freedom.". Hitler was then forced to limit would become useless. British Reuter.
himself to a frontal attack in or- Wireless.
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CHANGE IN POLICY
IN BERMUDA
His Majesty's Government have decided advise the king that, in chango, the present Governor, present circumstances, it is pre- Lieutenant-General Sir Denis; ferable that the Governor of Ber-Bernard has placed is resignation muda should be a civilian in the hands of His Majesty, who In order to facilitate the has accepted it.British Wireless,