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Former China Station Ship
Sinks Italian Submarine
H. M. submarine Parthian (1.475 tons) formerly attached to the China Station in Hongkong has sunk an Italian submarine
in the Mediterranean, according to a Reuter message..
Lieut. Cmdr. M, G. Rimington, who is still in command of Parthian, is very well known in Hongkong.
An Admiralty communique on fire in the hope of checking the. the encounter between" submarines withdrawal of the Italian force. states that the Italian vessel was "An Italian, communique issued sighted on the surface at close today admits that one un15
presumably the capital ship- Lieut Cmdr. Rimington inan- was hit by a 15-inch shell from .oenvred into position and fired tor. our forces.
range.
pedoes at the enemy submarine. "As previously announced, there The subsequent explosion threw were no casualties among the quantities of debris high into the | British ships engaged yesterday.” air. The Italian vessel's bows rose
to an angle of 70 degrees and shel
sild to the bottom of the Mediter
ranean stern first.
GENERAL
AWARDS TO Roosevelt Asks For $4 MEMBERS Billion More For Defence: OF-B.E.F. Five Purposes Outlined
R.A.M.C. OFFICER
GETS D.S.O.
Recognition of military services in Belgium, Dunkirk and clo- where in France during the recent campaign is given to a number of members of the British Expedi- tionary Force in the new War Omce List says a Reuter message from London; “.
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Renter)--President Roosevelt. in special "message" yesterday, asked Congress to authorise an additional $4,818,000,000 for defence,
The President declared "We will not use our arms in war and aggression. We will not send our men to take part la European wars. So rent a sum means sacrifice. So great a programme means hard work the participation of the whole country in the total defenes of the country.”
The President's
request the European war, but we new brings the total amount he asked repel an dggression against the from Congress this session for United States or the Western rearmament to approximately $10 Hemisphere. Unguished Service Order include 000,000,000,
Stx recipients of the Dis-
Major P. H. Newman, FR.C.S., RAM.C., whose skill as surgeon was equalled by his unremitting keenness Major Newman cheer- fully accepted a ballot whereby he was left at Dunkirk in charge of wounded who could not be evacuated.
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"People and their representatives According to the President'i in Congress know that threats to message it is for the following our liberties, threats to our securi purposes
ty, threats against our way of Firstly, to carry on the naval ille, threats to our constitutions rearmament until the navy is of religion and democracy and in- { ready to meet any possible comternational good faith, have in- bination of hostile naval forces. creased in number and gravity Secondly, to provide a complete from a month, from a week and equipment" for the land forces to almost from a day. approximately 1,200,000 men. though this army would not be in the army in time of peace,
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CHAPLAIN DECORATED Fourteen Military Crosses include the Rev. J. E. G. Quinn, who acted 0% chaplain to a battalion throughout the operations. in Bel- glum and France and was out- standing for the cool manner in Thirdly, to procure the reserve which he tended to the wounded stocks of tanks, guns, artillery and without thought for his own ammunition for another 800,000 safety. On Keveral" cecasions men (thus envisaging an army of owing to medical ofcers becom- 2.000.000 men if necessity for it ing casualties he took charge of should arise). the regimental aid post.
Eleven "Distinguished Conduct Medals and 23 Military Medals are also awarded, ́i
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· I.S.M. AWARDED TO GAOLER LONDON July 11 (Reuter)—The Imperial Service Medal has been awarded to Ramalingam Rassala- la, senior Tamil interpreter in thi Federated Malay States, and Samuel Wright, gaoler in the | Straits Prison" service.
NAZIS CLAIM ATTACK ON CONVOY
Declaring that, because the
·Americans maintained the de- mocratie and political institu- tions, did not mean that the country was weak, and Mr. Roosevelt added that free men and women of the United States, are determined to be strong as well as tree. "Apologists for despotism and Fourthly, to provide private "and those who aid them, by whispering Government owned manufacturing defeatism or appeasement, assert facilities necessary to produce that because we have not 'devoted equipment for the land army of four energies to arms and war pre- now incapable 2,000,000 and the manufactureparations, we are ordnance required for the army of defence. and navy aircraft, programame.
Fifthly, to procure 15,000 new
armament and the most modern planes, necessary spare engines,
equipment.
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and Mr. Roosevelt
the American nation fully under-` stood the "threat of a enslavement wherein one may not speak, may not listen and may not think
"As these threats become more numerous and their dire meaning clearer, it deepens the determina- tion of the American people to BERLIN, July. 11 (Reuter) Tne meet them with a wholly adequate German, High Command claims defence, We have seen nation that in. an air attack on a British after nation, some of them wear- convoy in the Straits of Dover ened by treachery from within. yesterday afternoon, one cruiser succumb to the force of the aggres- und four merchant ships were 401. We see nations still gallantly sunk, and one cruiser and three fighting against the aggression merchant ships were left burning encouraged by high hopes of ulti- with a heavy list,
mate victory.
Ten planes protecting the con- voy were claimed to have been shot down, while four German planes falled to return.
ར་གན་་བསྟད་བར་བག་མ་ག་དམ་པ་ཟད་ཡང་བཤད་དང་གས་ང་དང་ RUMOURS ABOUT
PARACHUTISTS" LONDON, July 11 (Heuter) A Ministry of Information an- nouncement states that keep de- termination throughout the coun- | try to be fully prepared against an invasion has produced a crop of rumours about "Barachutista,
Although these, rumours "can: in one sense, be regarded as symp- toms of mental preparedness, they do cause widespread alarm and unxiety
It is authoritatively stated that no enemy parachutists have yet landed in this coun-
try
GROUND DEFENCE OF AERODROMES - According to the pre-war Hong- kong naval list Parthian had LONDON, y 11 (Reuter aboard, in addition to Lleut. Cmdr. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Becretary Rimington, Lleuts. J. B. de B. Ker- for Air, said measures were being shaw, H. D. Verschoyle, A., C. Hal- taken for the ground defence of liday and Lieut. (E) HDT aerodromes against air attack, as Dufts
well as against attack un the Lieut. Cmdr. Rimington, who is ground by the landing of troons attack single, joined the ship in May, from the air, 1938. He is a well-known member
OPPOSED TO WAR "That we are opposed to war, îs known not only to every American. but to every continent in the world. We will not take part in
Statement On Hongkong In Commons
POPULATION" IN EXCELLENT HEART LONDON, July 11 (Reuter
In the House of Commons gesta- day, Mr. Robert Morgan, Conser- vative" M.P. for Stourbridge, 1- The many branches of the Cvited Mr. G. H. Hall, Under-Secre- Defence services can be relied on tary for the Colonies, to make a to maintain their constant is statement on the political, finag- lance against an enemy surprise cial and eronomic situation of
Hongkong.
The general public must do their A Director of Ground Defence bit by being continuously on guard
Mr. Hall said that, while the
of the Hongkong Club where, has been appointed to co-ordinate against false rumours such as evacuations of women and children carlier this year, he won the Kemp the detence actiozi Cup in the club's English bowling
tournament.
The Parthian has one 4-nčh gun and was with the Fourth Bubmar- ine Flotilla on the China Station. The Parthian was commissioned at Chatham on Oct. 8,1930, as ten- der to HMS Medway.
"DISAPPOINTING” LONDON, July 11 (Reuter)An Admiralty communique fast night stated:
thesu
CHINESE ATTACKING
SUIHSIEN
CHUNGKING, July 11 (Central)----Chinese, troops are unles-- shing a vigorous attack at Suibsien," "Japanese, stronghold fo north Hupch, 105 miles northwest of Hankow.
Leikatun, Maanshan (Saddle HU) and Lianghatanshan (Two Fairies HID), outer defence points, have been recaptured from the Japanese. The Japanese at Tungksomiao (East High Tem- pla)" were wiped out, and those at Tuchungshan suffered over 200 casualties.nob
and other measures had caused some feeling of disturbance the population of the Colony is in ex- cellent heart.
A
CARGO DIFFICULTY Trade statisties and revenue figures, according to the latest information are buoyant although there was at present some diffi-..
culties in finding cargo space for the shipment of the Colony's' ex- ports...
The Government had also im proved the position of its liquid" reserves by the recent flotation of a balance loan authorised in 1934. The cost of living. added Mr. Hall, still shows an upward trend due to circumstances beyond our control
"The engagement between Bri- tish and Italian naval forces in the Mediterranean is described by the Commander-in-Chief of the
East of the Han River the Chin-¡ northwest of Nanning, on July 8 Mediterranean as a disappointing action.'
nese are assaulting the Japanese at The Japanese garrison troops This is due to the fact that the Talapchiatet between Kingmen and there were annihilated. British Fleet had no opportunity Tangyang, and its neighbourhood. ABORTIVE AIR RAIDS of dealing effectively with the Six Japanese observation posts enemy in close range action.have been destroyed
To the east of the Peipinging 30, Liew over Ezechwan DEMOBILISATION OF "The Italian Fleet was in fact, pursued until our Fleet were in Hankow Railway in Hapeb the from Hupeh at noon yesterday.
4.20
Three nights of Japanese pinnes.
One night of 27 machines came DUTCH ARMY sight of land, but unfortunately Chinese have launched a fresh at near Chengtu but turned back in LONDON July 11 (Reuter) the enemy could not be overtaken back at Shuangho. The Japanese view of the preparedness of Chin According to the German wireless before they were able to reach the closed the gates but the Chinese shelter of their shore batteries forced their way in and challenged se dighter planes. The two other demobilisation of the Dutch Army
"One enemy cruiser was hit by a them to street nighting Over 100ghts circled over south Sanch will be completed b
wan and the area west of Camg- The Gen torpedo during an attack by tor-Japanese last their lives
King
pedo bombing aircraft of the Fleet According to a Kwangat report,
broke into Yangmel, katels
Air Arm which was pressed home Chinese troops operating around All Chinese in the face of heavy anti-aircraft, Manning
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"I refute that imputation." con- cluded Mr. Roosevelt.
24,000 PLANES WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuter) ---Mr. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for War, estimated that under the expansion programme proposed by President Roosevelt, the army would have 24,000 planes on hand by next January.
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