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GERMAN ENCIRCLEMENT OF LENINGRAD IS NOT CONFIRMED IN LONDON
LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter)--There was no confirmation here yesterday of the German claim to have surrounded Leningrad and captured Schlusselburg.
The capture of Yelnya, announced by the Soviets, is regarded as proof of the strength of the rannter-attacks, of the Russians in the central region, Yelnya is a few miles south-east of Smolensk.
The German radio is still referring to the Soviet counter-attacks as "launched with minor forces and being repulsed with severe Josser."
Behind the German lines unre-
U.S.
BELATED
CABLE
Vessel Torpedoed Off Iceland
REPORT OF INCIDENT: TWENTY-FOUR MEMBERS OF CREW
MISSING AND PRESUMED LOST WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Reuter)-The former Danish ship SESSA which the Maritime Commission look over and which is now flying the Pan-American flag, has been sunk 300 miles south-west of Iceland, the State Department announces.
The announcement said the State Department had been in- formed by the Navy Department that on Sept. 6 the Navy pleked up three of the crew from the Sessa who said that the Sessa was torpedoed and sunk on Aug. 17. There were thus 24 of the crew missing and presumed lost.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941. -PACE
BLITZ ARTISTS Working
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By Overseas Daily Mall Reporter British artists are busy putting blitzea London
Working Together To Do Our Bare Duty
Continued from Page 1
resident
on canvas. The Geoffry Northcote. You have, I am communities American demand for such paint-sure, already
tuts ings is rising, and they hope to your regrets and your hopes for incessantly claim the fulfillment of expressed to him Colony. I shall constantly and capture this market.
Inis speedy and complete recovery.that promise, for I am convinced The ruined Temple-known and 'I associate myself very fully with that it is only by working together, loved by thousands of American these sentiments and join with and by working with all our might, visitors to London-is a favourite you in expressing every good wish that we can do our bare duty in spot with these blitz artists.
both to Sir Geoffry and Lady this ecrisis of human affairs, and Northcote.
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WIFE IN CEYLON
it is only so that we shall be able to stand up as free men in the
Mr. Frank Beresford. the por- trait painter. did an interior of Middle Temple Hall before the I have enme to Hongkong, se years to come, joint bearers of the wreckage was cleared away. He you know, unaccompanied by my grievous burden that Hitler's ag- The announcement said there swer Mr. Churchill's plea for lur has also painted the damaged part wife who, with my daughters, re-gression has laid upon the world, wis une unidentified American ther naval assistance.
of St. Paul's,
mains in Ceylon awaiting a day to worthy to help our comrades to among the missing crew
Clearance work in the Temple which I know many of my listen-bear that burden, worthy to play The Sessa, which was acquired |<wered before he spoke for the still goes on, and the demolitioners are looking forward with ana part in this vital struggle, and from the Danish Government when speech was completed for delivery men have unearthed many valu-
eagerness equal to my own.
worthy to share in the coming Idle foreign ships in the United on Monday.
able legal documents, which at
The subject of the enforced victory. States waters were taken over, was
first were feared to be lost.
absence of the wives and familles transporting supplies to the le
of the British community resident land Government.
The announcement added that
the cargo included "food-stufis, cereals, lumber and other general cargo and did not include arms, ammunition
Implements or War."
STEEL SEAFARER
of
Indeed, Mr. Churchil Was an-
INVIOLABLE SEA LANE
It is understood here that the
The famous Inner Temple li- President with state that owing to brary and its 70,000 law books
Nazi attacks on American vessels Practically unharmed. there will be a change in the Ar luntic putrol policy.
Well-informed
in Hongkong, is, I know, exerising are the nunds as it is affecting the
lves of many of you. Ti le a sub Ject of which much might be said but for today I will confine myself.
WIN FOR HOME SECRETARIES
He is Mr. John Roland Smeaton and he sued Sir John
befteve AN UNINTERRUPTED to giving all those on whom the tamed under the Defence Regula
an ex-Army officer who was de- circles he will announce an inviolable sea
order for evacuation has brought tions for 164 days lost his action DELIVERY SERVICE lane between the United States
hardship, including those who feel the High and Iceland and declare any hos- According to one
Court against two of the latest that
there may have been in Meanwhile, the Maritime Comte warcraft found there will
Home Secretarles. be anecdotes from Norway, a young equalities in its incidence, an as- Inission reported the Steel Sea-eliminated." in other words. any sator in Bergen was sitting on his surance of my very lively interest Stuart Farer which was sunk in the Red German submarine, surface craft front porch reading a day-old copy and sympathy, and of my hope Anderson for wrongful detenti n Sea was bombed on Friday. The or plane entering this zone will of the London TIMES when along that
the separations which crew, comprising the Captain and do so at the risk of instant des came an agent of the Gestapo. many of us are required to endure revoked the detention order, for So and Mr. Herbert Morrison, who 35 men. are officially reported truction by American naval forces. The mere sight of this newspaper may be quickly ended.
A met entry into the zone, it was enough to enrage the Ger-
A week ago it must have been ing him to report changes of ad- limiting his movements and oblig- The Secretary of State, Mr. Is understood, would be regarded man, but when he discovered how recalled to all your minds that dress to the police. Cordell Hull, at & Press conference as an act of hostility calling for recent its date was, his wrath we are entering upon the Bald
third be thought there was no destruction of the invading craft boled over in gutteral invective. year of the war. Your memories question about who attacked the The width of this sea lane is "How did you get possession of must have carried you back to that undesirable to go into the merits Bessa which was owned and oper- now known but it is fair to guess it that verboten and verdamt day in 1939 when,
that there with anxious of the case, but ated by the United States but will be generous enough to ensure paper?"
hearts, and yet with a feeling athlear evidence on which the Iome udded that he wanted to obtain absolute safety For all supplies for complete facts before making any Britain. between the United States sallor, I didn't GET pronouncement.
was
He added that there
nationals variety of
aboard - cluding a few Americans, but not yet ascertained how many.
GERMANY RESPONSIBLE? There is reason to belleve that the loss of the two American stupe --the Steel Seafarer and the Bessa were at German hands and the attack on the Greer are jeadine t changes in the American po- licy.
The Sessa Incident is regardeo here as even more important than the other two.
and lerland
I sub-
Mr. Justice Tucker
said it was
11 calinly repea the to rellef in our minds. we realised Secretary might properly have
that there was to be no more par exercised his discretion. ley with the monstrous evil that is Nazi Germany.
scribe to It."
State Of Emergency Proclaimed In Oslo
OSLO, Sept. 10 (Reuter)—Severe restrictions on the NORWEGIAN public are laid down in a decree issued in OSLO by the Reich Com- missioner. Herr Terboven, where a state of emergency is proclaimed.
According to the Stavanger Radlo, I ordered that henceforth, in the districts of Osló, Asker and. Veron, where "Communists and Mari- ist elements in trade unions, and particularly in their administra- tion, have recently been disturbing and who work in a criminal manner by the preparation of strikes," a curfew will be introduced trom 8 p.m. until 5 am.
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The Sessa was undoubtedly ear- rying food-stuffs and lumber to Iceland and the Feclandic Govern- ment who owned the cargo and not to the British American garrisons tion of a state of emergency. the there,
In connexion with the declara-
following regulations have been
"It is forbidden to interfere with
The fact that she was carryins issued:-- the flag of Params was likely to make little difference to the reac tions in the United States as she work in any way, to Instigate American-owned and In the strikes and to take part in them.
wus
process of changing from Pana- manian to American registry.
There was much speculation as to why the news of her loss was held up so long.
LONG OVERDUE
MORTUARY FOR RAID VICTIMS
Mr. Stuart had not satisfied him ́ that the Home Secretary did not apply his mind to every essential
matter in the case.
WIFE GAOLED FOR AIDING DESERTER
A wille of 22,
COURAGE AND TENACITY Since then, through two years of varying fortunes, of the deepest disappointments and then again of success beyond our expectations, of sympathy with the sufferers froan German hideous methods of waging war, and of unbounded ad- miration for the superb achieve- Mary Lathom, of Sussex-gardens, Mrs. Catherine menis of our fighting forces and W., was sentenced at Horsham, for the courage and tenacity of Sussex, to three months' hard 18- our civilian population-through all bour for helping her husband to these experiences Hongkong, her- desert from the Army. self hitherto remote from actual conflict, has, I am assured, been cuart how his cab was engaged by A London taxi-driver- told the standing in singleness of purpose Mrs. Lathom on a recent morning. and readiness of hand to take They had breakfast together, and every opportunity
presents itself in sharing in the common burden.
that
he then drove her to linford,
near Horsham.
get in. The soldier fumped out later and vanished into a field, left the cab
It will be my task to familiarise to return in 20 minutes. He did She left the cab and told him myself with all that is being done so, and Mrs. Lathon and a soldier by the people of this Colony to assist the Empire in its need, and it will be my privilege to join you, as far as lies in my power, in and Mrs. Lathom "All transport, excepting rali-
Setting an example to the other maintaining and augmenting the shortly after. sections in Perak, the Larut ARP. Colony's war effort. ways, is to stop at 7 p.m.
"The sale and serving of aleo-tuary for air raid victims in the whether war Itself comes to our Department is providing a mor-
Whatever the future may bring, holic drinks is prohibited. All
event of war coming to Malaya. dancing entertainments are probl-
waters and our shores or whether
C.I.D. MAN PRISONER The mortuary will be bited. Cinemas and theatres are
at thit remains far off, there is a clear Musafar Khana, Upper Station call for everyone of us, and in our East since early April, Staff- Reported missing in the Middle to remain closed.
Road, Talping, where the recep response to it no effort can be too Sergeant J. A. Barker, R.A.B.C., a tton and identification, of corpses great, no burden too heavy for our former C.ID. official will take place.
CROWDS FORBIDDEN
Reuter learns that last Thurs day, the American Marine Radio Station In Iceland broadcast that the Sessa was long overdue and buildings or in the open.
"It is forbidden to foregather in believed to have been
The torpedoed.
formation
4 burial ground for Identified corpses is also provided at No British or American station ap-streets and squares is forbidden.
of crowds in public Hospital Burial Ground. pears to have picked up this item
announced the loss yesterday came as a bombshell,
the sur-
Herr Terboven's order concludes.
the at Ayer Kuning Road. A special staff of and when the State Department "Instructions from officials res-workers will be set aside for the itponsible for peace and order are purpose of carrying out the work
to be obeyed under a circum- of burials, 7 It is thought probable that the stances. Opposition will be broken A.R.P. wardens lenting warfare continues and Mos news was held up pending receipt by force."
have been in- formed that it will be their duty cow radio says that in many dis-or further details fron
to inform Divisional wardens, tricts masters of the situation are vivars. guerlilas rather than Nazis,
"Anyone resisting these orders will through senior wardens, of any The town of Porkov, scene of source that the President would I appeal
Reuter understands from a good be brought before a court-martial. corpses which have not been ren severe fighting some weeks ago have announced the loss in
to the population to moved by relatives or friends
The divisional wardens will re-. when the Germans were making a broadcast on Monday night which carry on with their daily work, Pors such
his maintain peace and order and to
cases to A.R ". Singapore's supply of firewood south of Lake nmen, has just been of his mother and when he broad-order is under the protection of
thrust from Pskov to the reglen was, postponed owing to the death Anyone who deatres peace and quarters immediately. and charcoal is being seriously visited by guerillas. threatened by an abnormal in..
casts tomorrow he is likely to an- the authorities." - crease in exports,
RESTRICTED EXPORT OF FIREWOOD
They destroyed the German am- munition and fuel aumps and set It has therefore been decided fire to the Nazis' hay stores.. that with effect from Sept. 1. ex- An alarm-was sounded and Ger- port of firewood and charcoal mans ran to the spot where they
from Singapore to places abroad saw the fire and heard shots but shall be restricted on the basis no one was there. The guerillas of average monthly exports in had entered the town from the 1939-1940,
fother end in force and this was
Removal of firewood ur char only the decoy party. coal to the mainland of Malava While the Nazis were dealing er to Penang will be legal, and with the fire the main party was permits for export by sen to places despatching German guards and be granted only in shortly afterwards there was a ter- accordance with allotted quotas rifle explosion as petrol dumps
abroad will
Permita will be granted only on presentation of duly completed ex-. port declaration at the Import and Exports Office
All intending exporters of T
and ammunition stores blew up.
Dr. Cotton, of a British vessel. made a report to the Water Police: Station yesterday that he lost bls.
wood or charcoal should apply. to passport between Hongkong and the Imports and Exports Office nut Kowloon during the night of Sept. rater than Rept. 15, for allocation 7/8.
ut their quotas, submitting u
statement of their actual exporta Wong Sing, District Watchmat during the Jantary/August 2030 N 29, was bitten in the right leg period
by a stray white chow dog at Wing:
An order under the Defence Lok Street. He was treated at Regulations pola being ganotted, the Queen Mary Hospital but not
• giving u force to the above doel detained. The dog could not be
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CALLING HOME ACROSS WORLD
The B.B.C. microphone visited a stately English country house, where wounded New Zealand soldiers and sailors are cons valescing. This photograph shows them in happy mood in the grounds of the convalescent homies sending cheers acrom the world to radio listeners at home.
Hend-
SLAUGHTER & EXPORT OF GOATS
The slaughter of goats within, and the export of goats without, the boundaries of the Island or Singapore and the Settlements or Penang and Malacca, except with the requisite permit, are ̈pre hibited.
the
An exception is made in fcase of the slaughter of goats fo
the use of troops.
These prohibitions are made un- der the Defence Regulations, and another ruling under these Regu- Tations empowers the Veterinary Officers of the three Settlements | to requisition any goat,
Any goat so requisitioned must,
if required by the necessary au-
thority, be delivered at a spoolned firm, date or placed
shoulders.
CLAIMS CO-OPERATION
of Wood Green police, has written to his parents at Palmer's Green and to
I have been promised today the his wife that he is a prisoner of co-operation of all members of the war in Italy.
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