PAGE 4 HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GENERAL
Bangkok Greatly Impressed CABLE NEWS BATTLE FOR BRITAIN
By Simultaneous Warnings Of Britain, U.S. To Japan
01 Mr.
simultaneous warnings BANGKOK, Aug. (Beuter)-The
Any Jap- Anthony Eden und Mr. Cordell Bull against Abese more in Thailand have made a great impression here.
The general opinion is that Mr. Hull's statement is good as *talement is necessary if far as it Fors. but ma u specific
in dispelling the WILF America
plav riouds an the Far East.
15
to
An
effective part
A claim virts ΠΟΥ tion but the under-curren! abated
prevails in the Japanese-Thui situa
the least of anxiety has put in
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event of an armed confllet in the Far East which indicates the non-belligerency
A Japanes report that Britain. Amer ca
Chill have pre
against TALEHE tegled 1 recogitos
Manchuk uu ገና denied in officist reins whn add
PASSAGE REFUSED
Thailand
ed that anyway Chikin edd not refused the Judge a protest a there are hu dipi mati China at The land
relations
have four- passage us motored Japanese passenger sea
Sa:Bob to Bangkok between plane from
due to pick Than plane is That delegates
Boundary to the SAIGON EXODUS
not Reuter-931- Commission who 8
yel SAIGON AUK though it British Consulate has arrived not give any ordes. a propor Rind the small Brulla colony f Sangs evacuati g
Is reported
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chietly
IN BRIEF
LONDON Aug. g (Reuter¦ Arrangements have been made for
exchange of representatives between the governments of 90- viet Russia and Belg'um following a meeting yesterday of the Bel gian Foreign Mr later. M. Paul Spaak and the Russ'an Ambassa dor, M. Ivan Malaky. The meet. ing took place at the Secretary of State's
#i the Forelyn 100 e
Tom
JERUSALEM. Aug 5 Renter -- Captain Oliver Lyttelton. British Minister of State in the Middle East and his wife, stayed on Wed- nesday night at Government House
High as guests of Commissioner on their Way ED Svrie
.
ui
ON RUSSIAN STEPPES
"The Battle of Brita may conceivably be won on the Rus.
Minister for War Mr. shau Steppes, dec ared the Australian Spender) in a recent statement.
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"Hitler's decision to atta à Russia can only bave been one
dares of utter desperat on." Mr. Spenger continues. "Hiller much in the summer of 1941 because he knows full well that a world still unconquered and free in 1942 will be the beginning of the end for him.
War
af
even
worse
food.
were
"All the
earlier campaigns of have been extremely reticent about? the war have shown it is only un- the working of the plan, but the evidence suggests that der the most favourable conditions available. that a powerlut mechanized army there may be substantial indus-
and transport weakness carrying its allack to the enemy, trial with great force and speed, can be which may have military impor- halted. But even deep penetra · tance. Before the European war we know that Russian Uon will not necessarily cripple broke 1., Russia melitarily or paralyse her heavy industry was meeting diffi. war industry.
The output of fron, steel For some time culty.
coal Compared unfavourably there has been a steady removal and
Russian
Industry
earlier periods, east- with
equipment warda, almost out range, and was overworked, there were labour the distances the German forces troub.es, and much capital invest. must cover and the areas they ment had badly cepreciated Light (textiles and household Soviet Industry must control to put the Jarces completely out of action are goods generally was
un. Primary production of prodigious. JAPANESE VIEW
stuffs and Industrial crops A AUX
WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH
ais encountering troubles. These "dapan has no designs on Thai
"There are many factors both of conditions may have been remedied land. she is on very good trema
strength and weakness in Russia's
in the meantime. One hopes 80 thal ol with
State declares the
position. One of the cbvious, but one does not know. Japan Times, organ of the Jupan.
points perhaps uf unsuspected
"One thing 11 fairly certain. Japatuar ese Poreign Offler yesterday It
strength is that Russia has been, However long t may take the Britain abalik areuses
Ol "raislag troops rough Sing in
dečp.y uneasy over German inten
Soviet to mobilize somewhat giving ris to the sup
Japanese bogey to ramoutrage her;
tionsr years, and we may as
military sense and this will not That Cary
own ale
aggressiv
for! intentions
LONDON. Aug. 8 (Reuters sume has taken precautions, even
we simple m a swift process waterborne traffle ure strengthening Singapore through
if only because of the great risks she will be tree of many the the Mekong mouths
the creation of advance bases at A serious fire and explosion e-
of curred on Tuesday at the premises she ran an earlier clash with complications which beset Austra All ofNelai French Buildings the expense of Thailand,
of a firm engaged in the mana- Germany in occupy.ng protectve ha in organising her economy for Flav suddenly started sporting: Suzuki,
military and neva! facture of oil products on Thame zones
war purposes, PIGEON White crosses of roofs commentator
Balide Seven casualties are report strength in the
Faster: side.
HEAVY INDUSTRY The cause of the fire is being Poland and the Balkans
"Since 1933 her military expen "The proportion of her economic investigated.
over to making diture has risen astronomically.. machinery given
peace-time require- from 1509 million roubles in 1933consumers'
to Singapor¢
conalsts The party wool and children
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Menday
makink
TOKYO.
(Reuter)
the
well-knownL
the
It is understand that this is due Shimbun. writing in the
editorial Yomiur August
WASHINGTON, Aug 8 Reuter) The Far Eastern situation was the subject of a conference De- ween the Australian Minister Mr. R G. Casey and the Secretary of State Mr. Cordell Hut yesterday Mr Casey deelbed to comment On Japan's southward expansion Australia strong- beyond saying 1 belleves that the place to defend Australia is as far away Itum Aus- tralla as possible."
to a Vichy order to enare the issue of the journal "Japan," led.
of receb property in the while admitting that the general situation forbids us to deny the possibility of war between Japan and the United States" expresses the view that it America to to ex tend "effective aid to Great Bri- tain she will "find it imperative to avoid as far as possible any
JAPAN WILL CLASH WITH
BRITAIN
Ti bellet what Japan's South- ward Expansion
Movetnent
ها
antagonism of Japan."
AXIS STRATEGY
8 Aug
LONDON
(Reuter!
W
•
Annihilating Battle
SOVIET RESISTANCE SURPRISE NAZIS
af
narrow
To the peace-estimate of 70,000 ments is actually and relatively million roubles in 1941. Now, In small. For years past inest of her evitably.
it will expand greatly. new Investment has been going No one knows what the rouble istite heavy industry, which will transl- worth, and there is no use in try. presumably facilitate her ing to And a sterling equivalent, tion to a full war footing, if the!
but even all wing for the heavy b.itz warfare gives her sufficient:
inilation of recent years, these breathing space. figures show
"Here we still have a huge mar formidable a most
A magnitude And should, if the g of possible sacrifices which we
German well, point te A faly degree of and non-essentials, before we feel
tions now in progress shows
opera
readiness.
bound to bring her into conficA message from Washington am- LONDON. Aug. 8 Reater -- with Britain and the United States plifies the view that the Japanese commentator on Thursday's she
money has been spent reasonably can make in giving up comforts was expressed by Mr. HJ, Timper pressure on Thailand is part of cial communique of the ley. well-known Australian Journ- the Axls plan to enable Germany High Command, sald over the Ger-
the pinch. The Russians, on the alist and formerly correspondent to get hold ni strategic bases thman radio last night: "The anni-
starting off the "It is unofficially estimated that other hand, are of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, the Atlantic while Japan seizes hilating battle against strongly nearly ten million men have been war much lower down the scale. who arrived in Singapore from similar bases In the Pacific.
ermed Soviet forces is not,
how-trained since 1936 under the con- In other words, they have already Hongkong.
A London comment declares lever, yet over.
scription measure dating back to made in peace-time most of the In a Press interview. Mr Tim-that the Japanese encroachment "The new phase of the
1930. In 1938 the German military sacrifices we are only being asked perley said that China realizes the in Indo-China cannot be consl-
how attache at Moscow, Colonel von to make because of the war, and Importance of taking every oppor-dered as an isolated art of ageres great still is the power rusis Bulow, reported that Russia had are still a long way from making
tance of the now greatly harassed between 15,000 and 17,000 planes of fully yet.
"The condition of the ordinary Soviet forces."
all types, 150,000 trained pilots; SWISS COMMENT
and observers, and at least 28 air people of Russia is kely to be- come hard under war conditions, ZURICH, Aug. 8 Reuter)-Com-craft factories which could with
German out difficulty be expanded to a but we know from their history menting on Wednesday's
fight with stute special communique,
ma- that they wil basis Swiss production
of 20,000 paper Neue Zuercher Nachrichten chines annually. Ana technical bravery. Every hour they lust out It t writes "If the figures given to cor- military
especially in the is an hour gained for us.
see that we use the armoured equipment. for us respondents are the truth. 1t ap-matter
breath.ng space well."—(Malaya pears duubly miraculous that the Russia is an unsolved equation. Red Army is fighting just the "To speak frankly, many of the Tribune). same without sign of exhaustion indications are suggestive of weak and is even hitting back.”
ness rather than strength, at least i
warfare. It
tunity of improving and streng slon but aš vital element of thening her relations with Malaya German grand strategy. and India, adding that China de- This report is an elucidation of stres 10 co-operate with Great Mr Cordell Hull's statement that Britain should hostilities break out present events in Europe and Asia in Malaya
provided the world with proof that of Axis asserted
plans for conques! by China's war against Japan is part force.
Mr. Timperley
of the general wa. against aggres-
sion and China is determined to
keep up the struggle until Anal HEAVY FIGHTING
victory.
Mr. Timperley plans to stay tu ROUND TOBRUK
Singapore for some time before
L
returning
Londen. via the United States--Central News)
JAPANESE TO EXPEL JEWS FROM HONGKEW
Hongkew arc
Italians Put Forward Extravagant Claims
the
sense,
of
to
The Berlin correspondent of the in relation to the merciless tests FOUR AMERICAN
Gazette de Lausanne writes:
blitz "It of mechanical
is natural that the special com.must be remembered however that
unique should ratst
Soviet has most carefully the public the morale after these long weeks of screened its true military position have We can but wait event and give silence but for our part we
in what help la possible. any in anno observed
LONDON. Aug. @ (Reuter Extravagant claims made
new fact
which,
GIGANTIC EFFORT About 4,000 Jews resident in Italian communique in regard to these military statements
the "Industrially the U.S.S.R. is now un however. officially confirmed British troops greatly worried an attack by
Russian Army's Importance and in the closing stages of the third following The Japanese Army enemy positions in the salient
powers of resistance which nobody, Five Year Plan, a gigantic econo- mic effort. The Soviet authorities dared to predict."
spokesman
authorita
at
casual-
Major Kunto Aki-Tobruk are refuted by yama's announcement that alltive quarters in London. Jews residing in that area who It is stated that enemy have not registered with the Ja-ties were heavy although a correct panese authorities will be expelled, estimate is impossible. Says a Shanghal dispatch.
ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL MEETING
TANKERS FOR RUSSIA
Shortage Of Aviation
Petrol In U.S.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (Reuter) Mr. Harold lekes, Defence Pe- troleum Administrator, announced that four American tankers re
Russia being transferred to
to
British casualties were 28 killed. TAKEN FOR GRANTED: OBSERVERS transport aviation petrol. At the
In view of the congestion in the 104 wounded and eight missing. International Settlement and the Heavy Dghting took place round
French Concession it would not be a post on the enemy's left Rank
rf
possible for such a large number Jews to find accommodation there.(Central News).
where 28 enemy were killed.
British troops, after fierce fight ing, entered a post on the enemy's right Hank. The enemy then put mortar and machine-gun barrage, causing many casualties to their Own All necessary military precan troops as well as British. tions have been taken by the Chin-
YUNNAN PREPARED down a very heavy
FOR 'EMERGENCY
ke authorities along the Yon-
nan
border
are
POST CAPTURED
parties
NOW SPECULATING ON OUTCOME
ה!
Influence
same time he told reporters that there was a shortage of aviation petro in the United States which WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (Reuter)-As far as Washington is
might possibly have severe effects concerned, the Roosevelt-Churenill affair has practically ceased
on military and commercial flying to be a mystery. It is now widely taken for granted that they
unless the capacity for producing must be together. It is argued that Mr. Churchin could be
It was increased immediately. absent in only two places-either in Moscow or with President
He added that the transfera to Roosevelt--and it is thought that any arrival in Moscow could
Russia might contribute to a limited hardly be covered by such an impenetrable blanket of secreov.
general petroleum shorture Heuce the conviction that he must be with President Roosevelt.
West Coast areas and declared Interest yesterday, therefore, Churchill was probably not there that a compulsory plan to conserve re- After dark, information was centred on not whether they are because of obvious political reper-petrol on the East Coast might be and the Chinese ceived that a post on the enemy's meeting but why. Some of the cussions in Congress to the Bri-not far ahead. prepared for all eventual- left flank had been captured and best political observers are of the tiah Prime Minister talking to Mr. Icks concluded by saying fics, according to General Lung held by two officers and 17 men.
America's fighting that despite efforts to Yun, Chairman of the Yunnan including eight badly wounded. opinion that the meeting portends the heads of
and momentous events
steps, services.
motorists to cut down consumption, Provincial Government and con-They had eight German prisoners. One theory is that Mr. Harry However, there is fairly con- the amount used on the Atlantic currently Director of the General- Strong Infantry
General evidence that were Hopkins brought back word from vincing
seaboard had actually materially Issimo's Provisional Headquarters sent to relieve the post but they
of full George Marshall and General H. Increased in the last fortnight. Moscow of the urgency In Kunming.
were delayed by fire and
both fishing in The problem of increasing mean- support for Russia to ensure that Arnold General Lung said that Japan's while the enemy counter-attucked she could hold Germany.
Chesapeake Bay, which 18 nowhere America's capacity for producing cccupation of Saigon is merely a and overpowered the garrison.
noar the President's resort at aviation petrol which requires spe- If they are actually moeting. preparatory step toward a south-
Campo Bello, and there is no real cial machinery will be taken up Its Importance seems shown by ward advance and it is not likely
levidence CAIRO, Aug. 8 (Reuter) - Dust
that Admiral Harold Japan will make an Immediate
the fact that no diplomatic atorms limited activities in Libya
meeting here of the Chairman of yesterday. A British Middle East Changes or arrangements preceded Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, by Mr. Ickoo on August 11 at a the Regional Oil Industry Com- There is strong reason to be- and Colonel Knox
mittees. lieve that the State Department
Mr. Ickes added that the attua- knew nothing of the meeting or imited
Therefore, it the arrangements. to attack Vladivostok unto the storms have temporarily
the activities of our raiding partics felt that details are known only presidential yacht Potomac states/tion regarding aviation petrol wan
"causing a good deal of concern." Rus-German war has reached a decisive stage.
in the Tobruk area, but under to three men--President Roose that President Roosercit is keep- General Lung urged Britain, and covor of the dust one of our fight volt, Mr. Harry Hopkins and Mr.ing in close touch with interna- the United States to wize the pre-ing patrols attacked ent Opportunity to crush Japan prst, inflicting casualties and cap- with their Oriental naval forcna turing prisoners and weapons. He declared that Japan's incursion
move
AA
to Japan's northward
DUST STORMS
It
dunt
ivance, General Lung is of the communique issued today states.
"Libya.-Extremely heavy
opinion that she would not daro
an enemy charchul
SERVICES HEADA
CK-
there
аге
have come
FISHING GOOD An official dispatch from the
LONDON, Aug. 0 (Reuter) tional affairs by naval radio.
The dispatch added that tho doering's sister-in-law has arrly- weather is excellent and fishing fed in Switzerland from Bohemia where bor husband Alfred Goor- "In the frontier ares, our artil- It was thought here that if it goo0
been manager of the Into Indo-China constituton alery and machine-guns engaged in true that American Chiefs of, There is no mention of the ruing has
of our grave throat to the nacurity of the onemy and one
Da-Blair and
Colonol Frank Knox. mours of a possible meeting be- Skoda Works for the Inst two the President and Mr. yours. It is learned in Czech small China, Britain and the United Ata-trols, marprising a
enemy Becretary of the Navy, were with tweed
Roosevelt. hen ¡President tor(Central News)
column, took a prisoner."
Mr. 'Churchill,
virties.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9. 1941.
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