FLEECY COTTON
BLANKETS
BE
THESE BLANKETS ARE TO THOROUGHLY RECOMMENDED. MADE FROM FINE QUALITY COTTON THEY GIVE THE MAXIMUM OF WARMTH WITHOUT UNDUE WEIGHT. IN CREAM ONLY.
Size 60" x 80" Price 750 Each. WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
AT THE
HONGKONG HOTEL
ON
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23rd
• SPECIAL DINNER IN THE "GRIPPS" AT 8 P.M.
FOR THOSE ATTENDING THE
OPEN AIR CONCERT
AT THE H.K. CRICKET CLUB GROUND
IN AID OF
BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR FUND
ADJOURN TO THE
A
HONGKONG HOTEL
AFTER THE CONCERT
DANCING TILL 2 A.M..
WITH
NICK KORIN AND HIS SWING BAND
Reservations 'phone 30281
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
HEIL HAWKINS I.
"Heil Hawkins | Well met. How nicetoseeyour honest countenance once more.”*
"Welcome home, Mr. Gerald. May. I venture to observe that you appear remarkably bronzed and fit ? And to what, Mr. Gerald, do we atua this modicum of unexpected leavs ?"
To the fact, Hawkins, that I have been promoted. I have my stripe. The man who stands before you is a real live Acting Lance-Corporal (uppaid)."
*** I do, Hawkins, and in a big way. Turn out the cellar while I go to the phone and beat up a few of the lads. Let there be enough festivity to float a battleship."... “Very good, Mr. Gerald."
“And Hawkins, see that there's plenty of Rose's Lime Juice. Can't risk hangovers-in wartime,- you know, Rose's for Gimlets, and to wind up the evening. Atten- tion to detail, Hawkins that's what makes the good soldier." **So I discovered, Mr. Gerald, when they made me Quartermaste Sergeant in the latter half 1917
There's nothing orsale about Rose's Lime Julta, "Ask. for Rose's and enjoy the pure juice of the 'Ime,
· I congratulate you warmly, Mr. Gerald. Doubtless you purpose 20 celebrate the occasion in the appro- priate manner.
|
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1941.
Chungking Plan For Cooperation
THE ANTI-AGGRESSION POWERS SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MAP OUT A WORK» ING PLAN FOR POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND
AIR
MILITARY COOPERATION AND ALSO A MORE BLITZ
EFFECTIVE TACTICAL PROGRAMME FOR
THE UTTER DEFEAT OF AGGRESSION, THE SUCCESS
OFFICIAL CHUNGKING “CENTRAL DAILY NEWS" DECLARED IN AN EDITORIAL.
With the destruction in the Mediterranean in 48 hours of 17,000 tons of enemy shipping, to which must be added a 2,000 tons merchantman sunk at Catania and another
The daily pointed out that the hope re cently expressed by an observer in London for on early materialisation of a four-Power alliance, including China and Russia, is com- patible with China's national policy of enlist- ing all anti-Japanese aggression forces to suppress the aggressor in order to safeguard Arm have completed a permanent peace in the Far East.
Such utterances from England amply reflect British alarming concern over Japan's especially after her occupation of suuth Indo-China.
menace.
For the past decade Japan has been resorting to force to back up her aggression. China and Russia, being Japan's neighbours, have repeatedly been invaded by Japan while Britain and the Unit- ed States have been constantly menaced in the course of Japan's southward move.
Japan's Aim
Japan's aim, the daily further
Moscow
Talks
Purpose
vessel of 1,300 tons sunk at Syracuse, the Fleet Air
most successful week in the Middle East, states the Air Ministry news service.
To these confirmed shipping losses and a collier bombed at Lampedusa must be added a' des- troyer and two schooners of 800 tons each which were probably destroyed.
Ranging In their raids from Gondar Tripoli, Sicily and
to
Greece, our aircraft have carried out a blitz which, though over- shadowed by the intensity of the air war over Germany and occu-
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") pied countries. has nevertheless
Diplomatic quarters in proved extremely successful. said. is to utilise the manpower Washington see in the conquered coming Moscow Confer-
and resources of a China for further aggression and
in this connection Generalissimo ence a three-fold purpose. Chiang Kai-shek said: "The First, to draw Russia, Britain enemy wants the resources of our and America closer in the new vast country and the fresh blood world era;
southward and northward vances,"
the
1
The blitz started on the night of Auguet 8/9, when a large formation of heavy R.A.F. bom- bers carried out a concentrat- ed and damaging attack on the waterway of the Corinth Canal, after a second raid a few nights It was subsequently revealed later that considerable landslides had been caused and the canal
an extent damaged to such makes it unnavigable for a long
of our people as means for his Second, to ascertain the strate- ad-gic positions of the Russian armies and to sound out Stalin on For the past four years China possibility
British of
military has been engaging in a life-and-advisers aiding the Russian Gen-period. death struggle to shatter theeral Staff; dreams of the aggressor while offering adequate time to Britain. the United States and other anti- aggression countries for an even- tual reckoning with Japan.
As soon as Japan joined the Axis, China urged the United States to take measures to check the spread of aggression.
Weakest Link
It may not be necessary to faini a forinal alliancee between the Democracies to attain this end, the daily thinks. However, the anti- aggression bloc must cooperate politically, economically and mill- tarily with a central planning or- ganisation.
Furthermore, Japan, link of the Axis, should first be crush- ed' in order to safeguard the rear of the anti-aggression bloc for its gigantic onslaught against the Nazis,
The dally stated that the recent.
Russo-British agreement as well
Third, to seek assurances that the Russian Far East Forces will be maintained to check
Japan regardless of west front developments.
us
Continuous day' and night al- arks were made elsewhere.
With the R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm, the South African Air Force, added to the weight of the offen- flving Marylands and Tomahawks,
sive particularly on Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.
Benghazi
had
a particularly raid and one explosion was seen 100 miles away.
severe
The extent of Stalin cooperat- ing would bear on how America and Britain are prepared to grant more aid to Russia.
Washington and London are
During the week British air- most eager to learn the true position of the Russian armies on aerodromes in Sicily and southern craft also attacked shipping and Tthe west front. International
News Service.
WORD OF
WARNING
TO IRAN
Italy. British Wireless.
BALANCE SHEET IN THE AIR
During the week end- ling dawn on August 17 Britain's widespread air
as the Anglo-American joint de- Although the British offensive by day and night claration clearly clarified the anti-and Russian representa aggression and aggression camps,
over Germany and Ger
ns to the Iranian Gov-man-occupied territories
and it is now the time for concert- tions to
ed action between the anti-aggres-ernment, regarding the ex-cost her 53 bombers and
sion countries.
The daily added that well-plan- cessive number of Ger-18 fighters. ned aid should be given to Russia
The week's operations included
in order to check Hitler, and de-mans in Iran were very clared that as Japan is creeping strongly expressed, it is power stations, the use
a daring daylight raid on Cologne of "300 toward Thailand, Burma, Malaya
and the Netherlands East Indies felt in London that it machines over Germany in one are already within the claws of should be hardly neces-ping and ended with sweeps over night, and attacks on enemy ship- aggression and therefore it is
high time for these countries to Sary to emphasise to any France on Saturday when the R.AF., making offensive attacks at take up arms instead of awaiting small power the danger the same time, shot down 10 Ger- the Japanese challenge Central of permitting such Nazi man fighters losing four of their
News.
ATTACK ON CONVOY FAILS
“penetration.”
owned
Total loss of the Nazi defence The Hitler regime has brought was 30 fighters during the week. this method to a fine art and it Over Britain, where the Ger is obvious that once he is allowed man Luftwaffe carried out what. to place his foot in the door-might be called "token raids" to as happened in the case of Syria impress their own people that
nothing but disaster is likely they were not entirely inactive", to ensue.
when the RAF was increasing Hitler promises are likely to the pressure, one German Gomb be more dangerous than his er was brought down.
threats and playing with fire in In the Mediterranean the Axis the shape of the Nazi is inevitably lost six machines to the RAF's An Admiralty communiqué i followed by a conflagration, five," British Wireless. states: "One: Germambomber Ir it is not fully realised that was destroyed and twa thers the aim of Britain and Russia is severely damaged when num merely to prevent the Nazis mok three ber of enemy caircraft made a ing fresh trouble in the Middle tree determined but unsuccessful at Ease by this type of Invasion" tack on one of
countries desire a world:
Nazi domination, tha
convoys of Iran, the eight-nnint declara- be cas, placing 3,000° The enemy was met by gunfiretion of Mr Churchill und Pre- in Iran.
make from ships in convoy and then sident Roosevelt makes it abun at their
bidding escort, One bomber crashed into dantly clear in the first state ally as they pythe the seaumongst the convoy and ment of all that "their countries vulnerable positions in the of the damaged aircraft ona was seek now aggrandisement; ferri” burning when Jast seen,
térnal -- administration and are therefore in a position to do in-. calculable, harm-British Wire-
torial or other ”
There were no casualties
in
our ships."--British Wireless.
Russia is categorically in agree ment with this sentiment: All less: