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報西
No. 35530
·幾拾磨佰伍仟伍高式作
刺孖
„Honu) – Cusan's Road Cent
Box No:1
SOVIET
CHUNGKING
RAIDED
CHUNGKING, June 30 (Reuter)-Big, fires at a lumber yard along the bank of the Yangtse River were started when 80 Japanese bombers, in three groups, subjected the western suburbs of Chungking to yet another severe bombardment at noon yesterday.
. The Chinese claim that the squadron leader of the first group of Japanese bombers was shot down by Chinese fighters in an aerial battle above Chungking.
NO DAMAGE
IN RAIDS
LONDON, June 30 (Reuter)-- Planes, believed to be the enemy, "were reported in the north-east, south-east and the midlands Some bombs were dropped in the midlands but no damage was re- ported.
Five or six bombs tell in the centre of a. south-west England town. Daniage was done over a wide area but there was little or no casualties.
One bomb fell on the edge of an air raid, shelter and wrecked some shops and houses in the vicinity but the shelter was not damaged.
ON WAY. TO SHANGHAI
CHUNGKING, June 30 (Central) Mr. Halmar Collin, new Danish Minister to China and concurrent-
·ly Minister. to Thailand, who pre- sented his credentials to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government on June 18, has left for Kunming by plane, From the Yunnan provincial capital he will proceed to Shanghal by way of Hanol, Saigon and Hongkong.
HONGKONG, MONDAY JULY 1, 1940.
MOVE INTO BESSARABIA
STALIN ACTED TO FORESTALL COMRADE ADOLF HITLER!
THE DUCE, ALSO, IS NOT QUITE --PLEASED ABOUT DEVELOPMENT
LONDON, JUNE 30 (REUTER)—DOUBT IS EXPRESS-
ED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES WHETHER SOVIET BUS- SIA'S MOVE INTO BESSARABIA WAS MADE IN AGREE- MENT WITH GERMANY.
Under the heading "Russia's Move," the paper writes, in a leading article, that after France's collapse one of Hitler's most likely moves was to go east; and Stalin had been anxious to forestall it. That seems to be the most probable explanation of his brusque annexation of Bess- arabia, and also of his tightened hold on the Baltic States.
"But the Balkans are a more explosive area than the Baltic. Countries from Rumania to Greece, in- clusive, form a sphere in which Germany, Italy and Russia each have separate. and rival interests.
"There is no evidence that these rivalries have yet been adjusted. within the scheme of the partition. Eventually there is no doubt that they may be; but at present it looks as if neither Italy nor Germany either anticipated or welcomed Russia's move, th
When three cats sit, watch- mg each other round a coveted prey, the sudden extension" of one paw is apt to be followed by Liat of the others. The re- percussions may soon 20 ར far as to our ally, Turkey. She will be in a much stranger she situation it before now had come out actively 'en 'our side."
ONLY THE BEGINNING
On the same subject' T. L Garvin writes in the Observer that "we are witnessing the beginning of the Rumanian question, not the end. The tempo of that complicated drama cannot be reckoned.
There may be several acts and intervals. Russia has no
FORTHCOMING AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
REPUBLICAN CHOICE OF MR. WENDELL WILLKIE
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IS MUCH WELCOMED
LONDON, June 30 (Reuter)-The adoption of Mr. Wendell Willkie as Republican candidate for the American Presidency is welcomed by the Sunday Times which states editorially that in some respects the best news is the adoption of Mr. Wendell Willkle, for it banishes the dan ger that at the forthcoming election the United States of America should be asked to vote on Party lines for or
against giving help in material to Great Britain.
Had an isolationist like Mr. Dewey or Mr. Taft been adopted, isolationism would have become the issue; and even if its standard bearer were defeated the conflict might have gone far to crip- ple America's help to us.
But there is even more In the nomination than that. Mr. Willkie was not a candidate of the Republican Party bosses. Their favourites were Mr. Dewey and Mz. Taft,"
sentimentalism about the pre- sent but no illusions about the future. She is doing what she is certain to do in any case, at the first sure oppor- tunity, but at the same tine she looks far!
"To force a war with both Axis Powers either now or later is not her aim. To suppose otherwise is nonsense or wish- ful thinking. She knows that a trick of accommodation is worth two that are for the moment. She knows some other things.....
The more fundamental principles of Mein Kampf and Its taster decisions can only be realised by a resumed drang“ nach osten of a Enal scale.": That is, by an epic Teutonic expansion from the Balkans to Caucasus and Baku.
***CLEAR CONDITIONS
*Germany's prodigious con- quests in the west and north have gone much too fast and - too far for Russia's interests. To limit Italy in the Balkans is essential
the fall of
France and Russian coutisel have persuaded Turkey to keep
ITALIAN LOSSES ARE STEADILY MOUNTING
LONDON, June 36 Reuter)-The Italian losses are steadily mount- ing. Nine submarines and one destroyer shave been sunk and they have just lost three planes, one of them in a futile raid oh Malta, and two which were forced down and captured in Africa after a combat with a British fighter,
*
The Royal Air Force bombed two Italian aerodromes, one In Libya' and the other in Eritrea. petrol dumps were set un are and much damage, was done.
The
out of the wars pant, un "clear conditions. Turkes's defence
in not to be wellmed in any way by the AZIE
The security of the Dar-
danelles and the Bosphorus must not be eatened by direct
呀 indieci: mEANA Syria and Palestines must not fall into Italian, rasselalu
***These reasons are not dis-
serviceable to, Budain, In the Eastern Mediterzihijan they are safeguards against the -spread of chaos wonce more; Russia, under, hekaylets 85 under Tsarism, as he hop all Slavs. This gill the element of ing the Nazi doctrine" feriority.
FIXED MINI
"The more Eris change the more. same thing. He onl methods, and
programme. Severa principles in Lien Kamps long to the fixed basis of his mind and his purpose. By might, and the might of numbers and racial pre...... eminence, Hitler is to create the greatest Expire that his- tory has yet seen. It must be so solidly established as to re-
dominant main
and im pregnable for many centuries."
"For that purpose every possible rival in its neighbour- "hood must be struck down and kept down. The olls and cereals in Rumania could never be sufficient for this. No less than when Mein Kampf was: written, the colossal vision of conquests and long supremacy demands the soil of Ukraine. and the ofl of Baku."
President Port
But
Mr. Gandhi who had his sixth interview, with the Vicè. roy of India in.
since the outbreak of war.
GANDHF'S LONG
TALK WITH THE VICEROY
COLLABORATION
پانچ یا د در
OF POLITICAL ELEMENTS
SIMLA June 30 (Reuter? A communique here BAYS Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, and trandhi held a three-hour Prerence on Saturday,
This is the sixth interview
Price
ENEMY CAVALRY PANTO ~ AND LEAVE WOUNDED
Native Battalion Routed In
Eritrean Territor
* CAIRO, Jun 30 (Beater)--British patrol
""have" continued 36"haram enemy" cafiber
Bőrder withsmterked, suencia, necord
an unofficial statement issued
The statement reads in the
country fringing the border wo vehicles encountered groups of
Advancing towards them, the vehic chine-guns, The enemy cavalry panicked
tions taking cover, in" the adjacent-hills and leaving fifty behind
In the same ares amall detach ments and units repeatedly enter ed Eritrean territory, encountering enemy
ola Mand Inficting
casualties without any losses.
NO DAMAGE IN
PORT SUDAN
CAIRO, June 30 (Reuter)A
It is recalled that of our digiting patro battalion ofoare ints area, inflicting, mere and demolishing, seve | gun: nests,”
NO CLAIM BY THE RAF
CAIRO, June 30 Reater)
communique, issued by the Royal claim to have shot dower Marshal Air Force states that two cars Balbao has so far been matters we by enemy aircraft on Fort Badan Royal Air Force here. caused no material: damage One
It fatated that the
enemy three-engined homber was concerned in the attac
on Friday did not shot down.
menger carrying pian
RAF bombers. raided M. Ghibli, (Libya), za Ing diretta fits on note tent
Baruaft and smatr
Mf machines was shot down, in names
Gandhi had... with the Viceroy] while the second was badly” dams | since the outbreak of war,
aged. Two of our “aircraft were
It is generally assumed that the lost in the night. Interview was mamly devoted to The witage of an enemy air- the consideration of the position craft was ashed up at Mersama- of India in the light of recent trub. Various reconnaissances were developments in Europe, the pos- successfully carried out. sibilities of gaining support from the Congress Party in assisting the country's war effort and the question of adopting provisions! elements in this object without subsequent Con- prejudice, to stitutional developments After the
It is thought that the Viceroy's
THIRD TERM FOR
ROOSEVELTE
NEW YORK, June 30 (Ren- ter)-Apoll taken before Mr. Wendell Willkie's nomination as Republican candidate shown that 92 per cent of the Deino- cratic votes" questioned favour
discussions with Mr., Jinnah, Pre-a third term for President sident of the Muslim League-on Thursday covered largely the same ground, with special re- ferance to the Mostem League.
Roosevelt. This compares with 57 per cent in July 1939, 78 per cent in January 1940 and 84 In -May 1940.
Coolidge Returns To
American Officials
State No Explanation To Offer
Stx hours after leaving: Hongkong for Manila yesterday morning, the ss. President Coolidge was recalled and re-berthed at the Kowloon Wharf shortly after 630 pm
Mr. Addison Southard, United States Consul-General, informed the Hongkong Dais
we suffered no losses. The Royal the recall was presumably on Instructions from Washington for the finer to stand by for the purpose Air Force also made widespread of evacuating American citizens from Hongkong raids over Germany and Holland, again without loss,
Japanese Allegation Of
British Breach Of Trust
allegation that the authorities in Hongkong were "passing Japanese military secrets to Chungking whenever notified 24 hours before
CANTON, June 30 (Reuter)The
JAPANESE ISSUE STATEMENT
NANKING" Fine 30Center)
any operations along the Border The High Command of the Japan was contained sin ja statement issued by the Japanese Southese Force in China, in a communi- Calna Army Command this morn-que issued today, claims the com
plete suspension of the supply, routés – from Hongkong" and the
“The Republican Convention ing
passed over these well recommend. The charts, according to the British leased territory of Kowloon
ed gentlemen and chose a dark statement, is based on an alleged to the Chunking Government. horse because of the conviction written order by Generalimimo that swept over it that American Chiang Kai-shek to Chiness troop national interests must be pura- to evacuate the border regions, mount, and those interests neces
quoting information from the Bri
sitated help to Britain,LA
It remains to be seen whom
he Democrats all nom
thether it is
Fitain ser
The com
der
in future no in- ormation will be even ing from our opera
the
Germans Now Change Tune
- LONDON, June-20%Heu Germans bare now.
their
Mr. Southard added that he was tary and naval families here for in telegraphie communication with general evacuation and ordered Washington and, way awaiting the liner back, to be in readiness instructiona
to take away the American resi "No orders have been fened for dents, evacuation American en In addition, Mr. Southard sald he stated and
he that a broadcast commentator in was awaiting instructions from Manila said last evening that the time about then NC NC Washington on the matter.
Americans In Hongkong were Channel Islands which have been clamouring for evacuation might have possibly been the causes for iner's return.
NOTHING FREES
"WE'LL STAY RIGHT HEREY
Addison E. Southard, Cons *At 9:15 pm, last night, Mr.
for the United
America
AT LEAST THEY
ADMIT OUR PLANES GOT THERE!
BERLIN, June 30 Pugh Command commu that on the night of J
man aircraft bombed parts and munitions works in England cand Scotland.
In many places explosions WIKI fires were observed, especially in the harbours in Cardin and Bristol where "several tanks were LEG firg="
There were also suc
on the air blaen at Linchin, Not- tingham and York
Britishplanes military objectives" {west" Gerbang at 1
damage done to prop considerable,
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