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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 12, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
YOU SEE HOW THESE SHOULDERS, PULL!
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Jel. 28151.
Ford to Start Producing WAR STARTS New U.S. Secret Weapon
Planes
In The Mass!
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuter)—Mr. Edsel Ford, Presi- dent of Ford Motos, states that the firm's engineers had inspect- ed the United States Army's P40 pursuit plane and had found it suitable for mass production
The company was ready to begin
whenever the contracs were received, WAR GIFT FROM
The company had previously stated that within montis it could pro-
duca 1,000 planes dally.
Shuflar models to the P40 are already in service with the French Army.
MAURITIUS
PORT LOUISE, June 1 (Reuter), The Mauritius Legislative Council has approved the gift of £150,000 to the Imperial Government from the
"STRAITS TIMES" Colony's reserve fund.
WAR GIFT
The Legislative Council has also placed the balance of the fund, amounting to £500,000, at the dispo sal of the Imperial Government when
LONDON, June 11 (Reuter).—It is required, Jamalca newspaper "The Gicaner"i and a Singapore paper, "The Struits)
SOFIA June 11 (Reuter). Slr Times" have each offered £20,000 to Great Britain for the construction of Stafford Cripps, the newly-appointed British Ambassador to Marcow, left a bomber.
Their gifta have teen most grate-Soda to-day for Moscow in a Soviet
plane, fully received.
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IN AFRICA
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
UNITED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
11
ROME, June: (UP). The Italian Army struck out along several fronts to-day.
Blackshirt infantry "and native troops are Italian reported by sources to have pene- trated into British and French Somaliland.
It is claimed that the Italians who penetrated into French Somaliland are heading towards Djibouti.
May Be Offered Allies
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuter).—It is being suggested here that President Roosevelt's plan to give all help to the Allies means that the Allies will probably be granted America's most jealously-guarded secret-the new bomb sight.
United States nirmen declare that with this sight they can "hit s pickle
EXTENDING SIZE barrel at 10,000 feet."
OF U.S. NAVY
American circles say that the secret would be sale in Allied hands because if the sight tell Into German hands It would take 19 months to make the WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuter) delicate machine tools with, which it The House of Representatives has is constructed, passed the Naval Expansion Bill There is, however, mechanism by which has been sent to the White which the sight can be blown to bits House for Presklent Roosevelt's in certain circumstances,
signature.
The Bill empowers the increase of
:
the Naval Air Force to 10,000 planes, IF YOU FLY INTO
10,000 pilots to be trained and 22; new combat vessels to be built.
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Retter). The House of Representatives has passed and sent to the Senate the ******: $1,000,000,000 tax bill.
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TO-DAY the great battle rages.
I wonder what happened to the suitcase 1 left there, and if a Nazi is wearing one of my FIOW khald shirts with G. M. on them. (I hopo It chokes him.)
The hotel people moved all the suitcases into one room to wait for the reporters* return. Then one night French major came in whic So they was asleep on his feet. cleared the suitcases off the bed and put them under the Russian billiards table downstairs.
Next morning the major walked out of the hotel and was killed by a bomb before he had crossed the street. Most of the hotel come down on top of the billiards table.
THAT restaurant where we had dinner has becin smashed. I wonder what happened to the little sharp-faced waitress who was about lo marry the white-coated Italian walter. And I hope mudame whe did the cooking has been preserved for posterity and for her husband who fought at Verdun in "la der- niere" and is Bghting comewhere again.
And I hope the young doctor at Ho Bar-le-Duc is getting better.
to die-that thin doesn't deserve
young man just through his medical exams. He was out in an ambulance pleking up refugees who had been bombed and ma
and machine-gunned by the Germans, the wounded. Founded
Among
sants lay some dead and Germans aviators. One of
them
was moaning "Doktor, doktor." The doctor went to dress his wounds, and ns he bent over the German shot him in the stomach. Refugees beat the German to death. I hope the doctor is alive.
WONDER how the German Panzer He lay in a white sergeant is. hospital bed not far from the French frontier, one arm and one leg crushed by German tanks that had driven over him. He explained, "A bullet struck my helmet, and I fell out of our armoured lorry." Panzer divi- sion orders when the advance 1s Kiven are: "Carry straight on over anything, even over vour wounded."
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JAPANESE DRIVE -WELL HELD
LONDON, June 11 (Reuter)-A message received by the Chinese Embassy from Chungking says that the Japanese drive towards Ichang was being strongly held yesterday ont the Chang River, about 35 miles AWAY.
The telegram adds that the Japan- eze suffered heavy losses in the violent Aghting.
Japanese Claims
TOKYO, June 11 (Reuter). A Japaneso fleld despatch claims that Japanese vanguards have penetrated Ichang, the Chinese treaty port on the Yangtze River, 150 miles west of Hunkow.
Ichung has been the main objective of the present Japanese drive into Central China and tho. Interlor.
It is also claimed that the Japanese effectively bombed military establish ments in Chungking..
Expressions Of Sympathy
LONDON, June 11 (Reuter).—The Government of the United Kingdom has pont a message of sympathy to Canada over the death of Mr. Norman McLeod Rogers, the Canadian Defen- ce. Minister.
Mr. Rogers was killed in an aer plane crash at Belleville, Ontario,
Hë endeared himself to all when he vialled Ditális ånd did very fine work in organising the Canadian forces which were sent o
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