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六拜禮 號六十月九英港香 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
Battle of
of the
16, 1939. 日四初月八
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the SaarNow Assuming Major Proportions
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ADVANCE
Nazis Evacuate Rich Coal Areas: Planes Playing Big In Operations: Germans Fall Back on Siegfried
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, SEPT. 15 (UP).—OFFICIAL REPORTS HERE STATE THAT THE FRENCH TROOPS HAVE PUSHED DEEPER INTO GERMANY IN THE EASTERN SECTION OF THE SAAR BASIN.
THEY HAVE CONTACTED THE NAZI TROOPS BE- FORE THE SIEGFRIED LINE.
Unofficial reports state that the French have held their new positions, despite heavy artillery fire. The new advance, it is believed, will result in a new series of local operations, between Saarbrucken and
the Blies River.
Big Jump In H.K. Liner Fares
TOWNS EVACUATED
It is also reported that German troops and civilians have evacuated Bubengen, Klemeblittersdorf, Blicsrans- back, Bebelsheim, Bliesmedgen and Auersmacher in the hills east of Saarbrucken, thus losing control of the very rich Saar coalmines.
Field dispatches said the Germans have greatly increased their artillery fire and have also brought many more airplanes to the western front.
It is officially reported that the Germans are contest-
British Companies ing every inch of the French advance.
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BRUSSELS, Sept. 15 (Reuter).—French troops Hongkong to Europe by attacking in the Moselle region have captured the village British ships have been in of Perl, just inside the German frontier,
creased by 33.1/3 per cent.,
They are now advancing along the road to Saarburg,
and British services to Aus- according to reports from tralia are likely to go up im-Luxemburg. mediately by 25 per cent.
This decision was announced this morning in confirmation of a message from "Reuter" that, owing to additional expense due to war risk insurance and other factors, passenger fares on Eastern routes, including to and
the
Official Communique PARIS, Sept. 15 (Reuter).— communique states: "We have strengthened the positions taken the previous day and have re- pelled counter-attacks, inflicting losses on the enemy.
from India, Australia, New Zea-the enemy's aircraft and artillery o
"There has been strong reaction by land, and South Africa, had been a part of the front. increased by one-third.
NEWS FLASHES
DUKE SEES THE PREMIER
LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter).
"Our pursul planes repulsed enemy-The Duke of Windsor saw the front Prime Minister at Downing
Street to-day.
To the Hongkong Government this machines which attacked our will probably men: $120,000 increased | Unes at a low altitude.” expenditure from $180,000 this year to $600,000.
So far neither the B.I.S.N, Com-
pany nor Jardine's have increased their fares on the India-Japan run.
Japanese Services
Straightening Salionts
15
PARIS, Sept. 15 (Reuter)The Soviet-Japanese agreement over the PARIS, Sept. 15 (Reuter),--A French plan is still the straightening Mongolian border fighting is imminent of the various salients of the winding frontier line, with Saarbruecken
according to reports from Moscow. the immediate objective.
Military observers here consider President Roosevelt told 4
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Reuter). On the N.Y.K. London and Bombay
press services all round-trip fares and ex-huit the French could airrady have conference to-day that he thought but they are his recommendations to the special cursion rates have been abolished taken Saarbruceken, except between Itongkong and Japan. refraining until the encircling move session of Congress would be confined
and Hongkongnent is complete and the possibility to changes in the neutrality law.
per
Between Bombay fares have been increased 20 cent. N.Y.K. fares on these services are quoted In
President, C.P.S., and N.Y.K. Paci-
rates
have
sterling.
t
Italian Line Increase
of a setback la eliminated.
Front.
Base Positions Taken PARIS, Sept. 15 (Reuter).-French been increased; but infantry have occupied German buse they were always quoted in gold positions in a sector north of Sterek, dollars, which, with the present ex-according to a semi-oficial review of chunge variation in favour of the the mi
milliary situation on the Western gold dollar, represents a 15 per cent.) Increase in Hongkong currency.
Infantry battalions, supported by tanks, have taken various important positions on the Soar front, including A general increase of 30 per cent two villages and an observation-post has been made in Lloyd Triestino The survey states that in the course fures. Qualations are also now be- of yesterday and during the night, ing made in gold dollars, which is, in French troops continued to advance, effect, an additional increase of 18 in spite of bad weather and long per cent. in Hongkong currency. range fire from enemy artillery,
Messageries Maritimes have
In addition to reaction by German yet been notified of increases in furtillery, the defenders of the outpusts French Mail fares.
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President Roosevelt will deliver his message to Congress, probably in the form of a speech to both, Houses in joint session.
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Volklingen, from the air:
JAPANESE ASSURANCE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UP). -
The Japanese Am- bassador to-day "called on, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secratary of State.
He said he is not presenting any proposals or material re- lating to the International Settlement in Shanghal.
However, it is reported that he and Mr. Hull discussed
affairs in the Orient.
AIR FORCE PRISONERS
May "Inherit" Part Of Poland LONDON, Sept. (Reuter). According foreign observers in Berli
Part public opinion is being pr
Line
A centre of industry in the Saar, now in French hands.
Gallant Resistance Nearing End
LAST STAND BY
pared for the possibility th Soviet Russia may “inheri
those sections of Polar
containing the White Ru sian and Ukrainia minorities.
These would be given to Sovi Russia for her benevoler neutrality, if not actual partic pation in the conflict on the sid of Nazi Germany.
A
semi-official German new agency discusses the editorial in th Soviet paper "Pravda" on the allego terroristic attitude of Poland toward these minorities,
The news agency says that foreig diplomats in Poland would not b love until now that the Soviet poul interest herself in the plight th minorities in Poland..
Mobilisation Rushed
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Sept. 15 (UP)—It is re ported that Russia is rushing f mobilisation.
Although Moscow has given n reason for the massing of troops alon Poland's sastern frontier, It generally baileved here that 15 military precaution to Sutro the Russian recovery Occupation of the White Russia
bn
strip of the Ukraine which Russia los te Poland under the Versailles Treat and which the Poles are convinced i to be returned to the Soviet Govern ment under an agreement for the division of Poland.
the
This is believed to be the price o German-Soviet non-aggressio)
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barren region, mostl swampa and impassable river valleys
There is no pil, no farming general possibilities, but the White Russian Ukraine Is an excellen natural barrier, and would serve as a division between the two States The Germunoperations--to-dia. showed clearly the General Staff desire to encircle the Polish Army be fore it can retreat into those swamps where the German mechanised columns could not penetrate.
LATEST
20,000
UNHAPPY POLAND CIVILIANS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
PARIS, Sept. 15 (UP).-Hopes for a Polish' "Battle
of the Marne" to halt the German motorised columns encirclement of dimmed to-day.
Warsaw
The Polish General Staff have
admitted their inability to halt
the German penetration on the
Polish right and left flanks.
AIR RAID HORRORS
which are being turned south of Systematic Destruction the Bug River, near Siedlce to the east of the Capital, across the San River and through the Galician oilfields Bouth Przemzyl and Lemberg.
of
KILLED
Awful Massacre By Nazi Air Force
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PARIS, Sept. 10 (UP)——The Transcontinental Press quotes th Lwow radio station as announciņa that 20,000 civilians in the city have been killed by German air raids. A
The civilian casualiles surpass the military.
"Numerous
LOW LE
have beet wholly destroyed by air raide, ing cluding Sledice and Czestochows. Lublin has been seriously damaged. "The German planes few barely above the trees, machine-running thi civilian refugees.
"They also machine-gunned --- Lif crew of a Polish plane after it h
Survivors Of Kiel Raid
Of Open Towns In Novel Broadcast
LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter). LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter).
-The Polish Telegraph Agency announces that the bombing of Three Royal Air Force men BERLIN, Sept. 15 (Reuter)--Herr who were captured by Germans Polish wings there is grave danger of systematic destruction of built-been-forced down," the report a
As the Germans bend back the Polish towns now amounts to, a Hitler has decreed cancellation of
on after the raid on the Kiel Canal the Polisi main army being sur- certain legal penalties imposed civil offenders, states the omcial and Wilhelmshaven, to-day rounded in a German news agency.
gigantic pocket con-up areas, and cities without These include fines up
broadcast from the German tuning Kutno, Warsaw. Ludz and reference to military operations, FIVE DOCTORS
Lublin marks and prison sentences of no
The towns bombed include three in an eastern province · removed " (more than three months.
from the fighting area.
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to 1,000
for
CENSURED
station at Zecsen.
Immediate Menace.. They gave their names ns Plot- LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter).The Sergeant-Observer E. Booth, York-security of the main Polish Army in Omcer Edwards, a New Zealander, The most immediate menace to the
Indiscriminate
Following inquiries held by, the Stock Exchange passed through an-shireman, and Aircraftsman Slattery, the Vistula, Vailey comes from, the
Medical Board on August fiv LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter)The Chinese doctors, registered in Hon other quiet session; with oils further
an Irishman. improving, though other groups were
nbruli-cast, where the East Prussian Polish radio station at Lwow an-kong, have been censured for signin They said they were picked up in Army Corps, heavily reinforced by nounced to-day that German planes and issuing certificates against choler somewhat irregular.
the sea and had been asked to testify mechanised units, has passed a strong bombed Lwow and Warsaw through which had been anti-dated. The recent decline in tobaccos that they were being well treated. moblie column to the south appears to be halted.
across out the night.
The certificates were found to be the Bug River to Siedlce, thereby Wall Street was irregular.
R.A.F. Rald Sequel.
The announcer's voice was drown-uny
untrue and misleading in that the cutting the main eastern communica-jed by the sound of air raid sirèns. enabled persons to
whom they PARIS, Sept. 15 (Reuter)-In-tions with Vilna and Brest-Litovsk.
Issued to LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter)-A habitanta at Bergsled (near Basel) The Nazis have also pushed ahead announcer said that extra precautions been inoculated on certain date
When the all-clear was sounded the
represent that they biz German mission of 11 experts have have been arrested by the German southwards towards Lublin arrived in Brussels to follow up the
and would have to be taken, as the Ger-
in fact, they had not been police German-Belgian trado negotiations
for circulating pamphlets Radom,
The famous Polish mud has, how-criminately in an attempt to break
This was revealed in the started on September 3, which Gers directed against Nazi leaders, accord
Gover German the people's morale.
mont
"Gazetle" to-day, andha many insisted should not be droppeding to the 'Havas" correspondent at ever, slowed down the
Amsterdam.
march. Intermittent rains are con-
The five -censured doctors were. MOSCOW, Sept. 15 (Reuter).The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. despite the war. Togoh and the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Molotoff, held a four-hour alonera to London, Paris and Berin those dropped by the Royal Air Force,
Cheung Shiu-fan, Dr. Chiu Chica The Pamphlets are believed to be tihuing. Belgium, may send trade commis-
Dr. Leung Rem-leny, Dr. Liu R conference to-day, and agreed to stop the fighting on the Manchukuo in order to keep open her flow of
Ngan-and Dr. Tal Tong-tum Mongolian;border.
akorda trada during the war.net Y It is believed this arrangement is a prelude to the algning of LONDON, Sept. 15 (Reuter)-A appointed to be a Master, Education Mr. K. J. Attwell, B.A., has bean a non-aggression pact.
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RUSSO-JAPANESE PACT BELIEVED IMMINENT
Department.
mans were
now bombing indl, I trained. -
In the absence of Mr. J. R. Reyes, French military experts recall Consul-General for Panama in Hong that Napoleon, after his campaign kong, Mr. F. A. Xavier, Consul for in Poland, wrote down the Polish the Republics of Dominica, Nicaragua mnd as a fourth element" to be and El Savador, will be in charge of taken into serione consideration in the Patamanian Consulate-General,
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Sou Back PRZ Further Late