HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GERMAN DRIVE ON LENINGRAD
by
HELD BY
BY RUSSIANS IN DVINA SECTOR
Guerillas Seriously Impeding Supplies Of Oil To Panzer
Panzer Units
MOSCOW, July 7 (Reuter) - Russian troops are firmly holding the sector, up to the western Dving area, of the attempted German drive on Leningrad, where thousands of dead Germans and Many damaged tanks and planes are left on the approaches to the river. according to this morning's communique from the Soviet Informs- tton Barean.
The communique adds that a greater part of the attacking The commu- enemy troops found death at the bottom of the Dvina. nique presents a picture of continued stubborn Russian resistance to the German onslaught in all sectors. During the night of July 5. heavy fighting continued in the sectors of Fuck and Novograd Vollusk and in the Bessarablan sector,
ANTI-NAZI SLOGANS IN
SHANGHAI
CABLE
ARMOE
CARS
BLOWN UP
CHINESE SUCCESS IN SUIYUAN
CHUNGKING, July 8 (Central)-- The Soviet emblem, ve sick Chinese mobile units operating in and hammer,
slogans of western Sulyuan scored a signi- : Down with Her appeared on ficant success on June 29 when a the walls of the Kaiser Wilhelm train of Japanese armoured CITA Schule, local German school and on the Peiping-Sulguan Railway the meeting place of the local struck a Chinese mine and was ; Axis organisatious recently, reports blown up. The train of armoured the North China Daily News. Tra- cars bore the number "Meng" 3183. vellers to town notleed this early
In the morning when they say "U.S.S.R.," the emblem and slogan painted in red on the wall.
This anti-Nom display was painted over later in the morning. Who did this and how to was done
remained one
лttle DI the
mysteries that crop up in this city. but it was thought that it was painted in the early hours of the morning.
The incident resulted in heavy
Japanese losses caused by the ex- plosion of munitions aboard the train which, besides wrecking the cars, destroyed น considerable length of rails.
YUHWAN ISLAND EAST CHEKIANO, July 7 (Cen- Chektang coast is now cleared of tral)-Yuhwan Island off the east
Japanese traces following vigorous Chinese attacks on the party of Japanese marines who landed at GERMANS ATTACKED
Tungsha on the south-eastern part Meanwhile, It is arso learned of the island. The landing was Recently the Nazis made a simi- that news of Germany attacking first effected in the afternoon of ed forces of the enemy.
lar claim saying that the Rus-Soviet Russia resulted in an attack July 1 under a protective barrage Bessarabian sector, asian had first "shot their poll-upon two Germans by a group of from the
warships. Inter
large concentration of
At Novograd Volinsk. Russian German pincer move from the west troops are stubbornly resisting the of Minsk. advance of considerable mechanis
In
J
Japanese
I Germantical commissars" at which time it Young Russians. was reported cepted, the Japanese were engaged and Rumanian infantry, cavairy was pointed out that Russia had that the two Germans, both dia- in severe fighting by the Chinese and tanks tried to advance in the abolished this office some time playing Nazi badges, were walking defence and finally driven back to direction of Bleitzi, which is being aku.
along Avenue Joffre on Sunday their warships on July 3, checked by the stubborn resistance CEASELESS STRUGGLE
when they were confronted by the of the Russians,
MOSCOW. July 7 (Reuter) --- Russians (it could not be ascer The Russians launched & coun- Behind the Soviet lines a ceaseless jtained whether they were Soviet ter-attack in the Borla sector on struggle is being waged between or emigrants). the evening of July 5 and heavy Nazi parachutists
After a brief exchange of not mostly sabo. fighting continues
teurs-and Soviet troops, civilian words. the Russlans, according to In the Borbruisk sector, the Ger- defence unile atid private citizens. an eye-witness hit the Germans. mana repeatedly tried to attack, The German parachutists are They were subsequently all stop- but all attempts were beaten off, generally dropped in small groups ped by the police with heavy German fosser
were
whose main task is to wreck com-
LABOUR UNIONS'
Mr. J
SERIOUS FIGHTING IN FUKIEN
NANPING, July 7 (Central) Serious fighting is occurring in Shaoan on the southern Pukleb
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coast following the landing of GENERALISSIMO
over 1,000 Japanese oops. The Japanese pushing to Kungkotan,
a point south of Shaoun are Mr.
being intercepted and heartly engaged
It may be recaned that the Jap
Shaoan
ori
Owen Lattimore
On Way To China
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Central)
According to revised figures of munications, destroy fuel dumps the air battles on July 4. the Soviet and guide their aircraft to their air force brought down 61 German targets by ground signals. Some
CONFERENCE planes and not 49 As previously wear women's clothes, others the
the Lee, speaking at reported Boviet losses
29 uniform of the Red Army. Nearly Federation of Labour Unions con- anese first landed at planes.
all speak Russian
ference, said that only the German February 1 of last year but were-Mr. Owen Lattimore, personal According to Colonel Spirin
the stain promptly repulsed and driven off Russian guerilla bands are seri-writing in the Zvestis the Soviet people cid wipe out ously impeding the supplies of methods of tackling parachutists which they themselves had allow-i
ed the Nazis to place on thelc jcharacter
GUERILLA BANDS
l for German tanks at the front have prevented the Nazis from according to a statement by a Ger repeating the surprises they carried man prisoner, who said that gueril-out in the las are hiding in every village and year. hillock, forcing the German Com-
Low
Countries last
MASS DESCENTS
para-
ANNOYANCE OF MOTORISTS
Waterloo
political adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, left Washington for San Francisco by plane yes-
After terday afternoon.
arriving at San Francisco be will board
the China Clipper on Tuesday to fly to Hongkong en route to Chung-
At the National Fallwaymen's Union conference, a speaker criti- elsed the Government and
said Traffic police in Kowloon yes- that there was still room for im- terday had instructions to keep king. provement in rationing, shelters all small vehicles in
Interviewed at the airport, Mr.
and evacuation.
Road and Argyle Street in the Lattimbre declared: "In the midst The speeches followed the Minis- small traffic lanes, à number of of all speculation occasioned by:
two ter for Labour, Mr. Bevin's appeal complaints having lately been re- the international situation
as things are certain. Britain wort workers, and Mr. Herbert cetved of small traffic such drivers and setting fire to the of, as seventy miles.
Morrison, the Home Secretary's tricycles, bicycles, etc., using the give up in the West and China These attacks are so sudden that "The malevolent and eunning the tanks are unable to help. enemies are up to many sly tricks," tributes to the Home Guard and main roadway to the annoyance won't break in the East."
mand to use un increasing number During the first days the of tanks to protect the oil columns. chutists were dropped in the im
The prisoner said that the gue- medlate rear of Soviet military ras let the tanks pass. then shoot units at the front but latterly at the of vehteles, killing the they have been dropped as far back
O columns are suffering many says the Colonel. Often they Bre casualties and German soldiers use dropped from transport planes any pretext to avoid night journeys bearing the distinctive red star of to the front.
the Soviet nation. But most of them are rounded up before they ean do any damage. So far, says
DEFECTIONS CLAIMED LONDON, July 7 (Reuter)
A claim that 52,000 Soviet soldiers the Colonel, not a single success- had "deserted" to the Nazis is ut operation of any importance made in a special announcement has been carried out by Nazi para- from Hitler's beadquarters, ac- chutists.
cording to the officia! German He is of the opinion however, news agency.
that mass descents may soon be The incident is sald to have attempted especially with gliders occurred under the pressure of a which so far have not been noted,
CAPTURE OF ITALIAN ISLAND IN RED SEA.
SIMLA, July 7 (Reuter)-Further details are now avallable of the combined operation in which a sloop of the Royal Indian Navy and a few men trom the Mahratta Light Infantry worked together in capturing an Italian island in the Red Sea.
On a morning at the end of April, a party of Mahrattas went aboard the sloop in Massawa harbonr, setting out for the island of Nokra
to
to Northern Ireland,
of motorists.
"Tokyo Today Offers
Vivid Testimony Of Power Of The Fifth Column"
LONDON. July (British Wireless)-The methods by which the Nazis build up support for their policy in countries allled to them are described in an article in the New York Herald Tribune which has aroused great interest here.
Written by DR. SPINKS, former editor of the American news- paper Japan Newsweek, published in Tokyo, the article describes how Fifth Column activities ofthe Nazis have invaded every phase of Japanese political and social life.
The Nazis have studled every bow when the Emperor passes in method of making their penetra-¡the street or when some speciál
The German Invasion of Russla serves to emphasise the Importance which Chinese re- sistance bears upon the United States, Mr. Lattimore said, add- ing that China is one of the great steadying influences in the world situation and the United States' has Dome to count on Chinese resistance. With reference to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Mr. Lattimore sald The Generalissimo is man of modern time who has grown in importance until he is
the rated today among
great statesmen of the world and
£1 very conspicuous symbol of the whole Chinese nation.
tion effective. The following in-service is held to which they have AMERICA
stance is evidence of Nuzl atten- been invited. tion to detail.
EFFECTIVE INSTANCE
The article says: "Ordinarily, t "A particularly effective instance
ARSENAL OF
would be difficult to establish that was when the Germans taken by DEMOCRACY
intimate basis necessary for Fifth
Column work. Yet the Germans were quick to discover that na- actional vanity is weakness to te- exploited to the fullest.
On arrival of the island, the The Governor's word was sloop found white flags flying "cepted (alter a search bad from every available flagstaff, vealed that the safes were bare), .The party went ashore and a but subsequent events proved that long parley took place a rather he had not maintained a strict one-sided parley in which all the regard for the truth. demands were backed up by guns An Italian prisoner, who had a pointing menacingly at the Gov Krudge against the Governor, told a story about a party of high About 900 Germans and Italians Black Shirt officials who were 29- were collected to be shipped to caping in a dhow from the other Massawa as prisoners and also a side of the island with AM the is~ considerable quantity of rusty land's treasure.
ernor's hûUS®
arms
Demands for the surrender of
A pursuit party set out.
An
"Since the outirak of the war in China in 1937 the out- ward display of Japanese pa- triotism has been considerably mtensified. Two of the more current forms are bowing be- fore the Imperial Palace and making pilgrimages to the shrines associated with the growth of nation and milltary power.
JAPANESE VANITY
be
a British cruiser from the Assma
Maru were later released aid re-
turned to Tokyo. Their first act ROOSEVELT was to parade to the Impertál
Palace and with bows and Nazi PLEDGE NOT salutes express gratitude for dell EMPTY PHRASE verance. The effect on the JapanNDON, Multy 7 (British Wire-
ese was tremendous.
Dr. Spinks adds: “Tokyo to- day affords vivid testimony of how Fifth Column has pushed Its way into power. But for a » small handfal, British and Americans who formely consti-> tuted the great majority of the foreign community have moved. out to
tess) Prince Bernliard of the Netherlands, who has just return- ed from Canada and the United Btates, interviewed for the Dutch "Radio Orange" programme trans- mitted by the B.B.C. to Holland sala:
Thanks to the kindness of the "Bat the Germana have moved Bittish authorities I had a very
in. There are more than 3,000 Quick Journey. I went to Canada
all money on the island were met by how was secured, sall was "Here was an opportunity to Germans An Japan the largest by plane direct from Great Bri set and the dhow manoeuvred to play on Japanese vanity which foreign group. In the last three
tain and I returned in one" of by the piteous explanations that wards the Italian dhow. As the the Germans did not no money had been recolved for a two ships approached, a Havildar German delegates,
igure,,months some 2,800 Germans have
thoné American-built bombers which now leave Canada for Great long time'
business checked in and out of the country. In fact, none. bad had trained 11 machine-gun on any pay for several months,
the groups, Hitler Youth Missions and They come and go as business, Britain in ever increasing now. Italians. Soon white flags ap- others coming to Japan to swell technicians god scholars. peared on the mast of the stern the rants of the Fifth Column SOOLAL CENTRE and a prize crew of one boarded methodically assemble in the The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo the enemy ship.
plaza before the Imperial Palace has been taken over and is now Aboard was the Italian Gov- and bow in true Japanese fashion the Firth Column's social contro. The 13-ton yacht Orion, belong ernor, a General, two colonels and towards the abode of the Heaven No fewer then 200 Germans are ing to Mr. A. 1. Stevens Stevens, various A.D.C.'s and many canvas y Bovereign. Bowing over, the studying Japanese in Tokyo. went into bad weather in Rocky bags filled with Maria Theresa cerembar la capped with the Nazi "A detachment of Nazi counter Harbour on Bunday afternoon.nars, the local currency.
saluta, big bolagsst
espionage experta from the Gea- damaging her rigging and Bulls,
"Reporters and newsreef camo- tapo is now attached to the Jap
YACHT'S SAILS DAMAGED
A motorboat wens ous to bor The prisoners were transferred rämen are diways on hand to re- anere Military Pollen training aid from Balkun Police Station to the British dhow and a prize card this ostensible manifestation, them, in the latest fast methode, taking off Mr. Blovons and party, crow called the captured chow with of German respect and humility. There are 200, Derman: technical) The boat faalf was not badly nfl ite booty mound the island to No other foreigners over go akdera working in Japanète)" war. damaged.
... the sinon
Cross through tu ribal although they, Indusitles,
It was a great experience to be al- lowed for a time to pilot this mar- vellous plane."
Referring to his short trip to the United States, Prince Bernhard said: "The Fröelden- tfal pledge that Americs w}]] be arsenal of Demberaty is not, an amply phrase. I was im-
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