:
CHEVROLET TRUCKS
"1940 Fuel System"
AUTOMATIC HEAT CONTROL BALANCED CARBURETOR
OCTANE SELECTOR BLUE FLAME COMBUSTION
Apply for literature for further detall.
FAR EAST MOTORS
26 Nathan Road
Kowloon.
RINTED PUBLISHED BY
Frankl
Dollar TT--I». 21⁄2d. Munager T.T. on New Yorklowaking Telegraph" Bioke Fal hom-SouMdhin 081ing Post, Ltd.,
Hiie WieWhübim Street, Hongkong.
The
FINAL EDITION
Court.
Hongkong Telegraph.
YOUNDED 1881
No. 10177
五拜望 號四十月六英港香
FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940.
日光初月五
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
*3000 PER ANNUA
HIGH COST OF PETROL
DEMANDS
GAS Economy!
So buy a MINX GILMAN'S -the car
DISTRIBUTORS:
people
French Capital Threatened with Fate of Warsaw Unless Unconditional Capitulation
Is Agreed Upon: Germans Refuse To Recognise Paris As Open City
HIGH COMMAND
NAZI
RADIO
TO SEND ULTIMATUM TO PARIS
IMMEDIATE SURRENDER ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO DESTRUCTION, SAY NAZIS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
Despite the declaration by France that Paris has been proclaimed an Open City and that all troops have been with- drawn and defences abandoned, the German High Command has decided to send a radio ultimatum, demanding the im- mediate surrender of the city.
The city, says a "Domei" message from Berlin, will be reduced to ashes unless the French immediately comply with the German demand. NAZI WARNING OF FATE
The High Command quotes the fate that overcame Warsaw and Rotterdam when they refused to surrender.
The German Government admits the receipt of the report through the U.S. Ambassador, that Paris is now an open and undefended city, but refuses to state whether the German High Command will accept this French notification.
Defence Of Paris Reaches Crisis Stage
250,000
battle
on 20-mile front,
give no quarter
BY MILES HANDLER United Press War Correspondent
WITH THE PARIS DEFENDERS, June 14 (UP). -The Defence of Paris has reached the crisis stage.
Entrenched in the last remaining line between the
the defenders capital and the invaders,
are to-day meeting an attack that has had no parallel even in the early days of the German offensive.
Last night's late communique clearly indicated that even the Seine stronger enemy mechanised units have crossed both
from and Marne, and they are now converging on Paris directions.
four
A quarter of a million men-180,000 Germans and 70,000 Frenchmen—are now jammed in a narrow 20-mile front between Senlis and Betz, where neither side is giv- ing or asking quarter.
The casualties are colossal.
~COLOSSAL CASUALTIES-
CA
Montdidier
Astonvillers
Gulscord Chauny
assigny NOYON
Piemont
Bruges Sempidiy
Ribecourt
COMPIÈGNE
Clermont
DENIS
Earlier, it was reported by - both "Domei" and "United Press" that the PARIS Germans would ignore the French claim that Paris had been rendered an open city, and would demand the im mediate capitulation of--the capital on pain of destruc-
0
Batzu Nanteuil
Carl
commodifrancourt for.
Awdignicourt
JULAS Epagry.
Nouvron
ATTICHY and
Juvigny
SOISSONS
Corbeny
Craotine)
Berry au Bac
CORMIER „Bermericouri
St Thierry-
Vegnemes
Ville
Ville Mes Commang
paumsty hunigay
arcours Av Chatdion
Damery
CHENIN'DIY
Pentarcit
Pont
Greine
Chaudun
Villers
Crépy:
Jong
Chouy
Bilmente re XHartennes
Outchy.
FISMES
Fère
Reuilly Sffrent
Verneuil
Jautgonne in
CHATEAU
Lizy-
Varreddes
1.staur
Nogent Lumišta Montig *kogentv/rand
Maniceers
S.gry Signeti
AFERTÈTM gous Yoverve
R. MAREL
Lagny
Crécy
Rebais
Villeneu
Coulommiers.
"emoutiers
Laferie
Dammartin
In Haudouin
SCALE or
Heights in Metres (10Matte)=32SFO
tion.
This procedure was adopted Britain
by the Germans in Poland when Warsaw was surrounded.
Refusal of the Warsaw garrison to surrender led to the destruction
of the Polish capital,
"The fate of Paris depends en- tirely upon developments," a Nazi spokesman said In Berlin this morning.
I!
No Troops Loft In City
announced
in Is officially Washington the U.S. diplomatie inter- mediaries have informed the Reich Government that all French troops have been withdrawn from Paris and un- that the city is now completely defended,
The Parls garrison and its Com- mander are understood to have left the city for an unspecified front, Capture Imminent, Claim The German High Command claim- ed last night that the
capture of Paris was imminent.
The opinion is expressed in Berlin that General Weygand will not find. Turn to Page 2. Fourth Column
LATEST
Senlis, which is on the Paris-Soissons Railway, is 22 miles GERMANS
north of the capital. Betz is a small railway town between the
Olse and Oure Rivers.
Last night's French communique stated that the Germans now. Have more than 2,000,000 men in action
Along the twenty mile front *between these two towns is con-
centrated the flower of the along the entire front between Rouen
which enters France from Belgium at Sedan,
IN PARIS, REPORT
AMBASSADOR TO PARIS, HAS
French Army and the Paris į (on the Sele) and the River Mouse, MR. WILLIAM - BULLITT, U.S. garrison.
Outnumbered five to two and Despite their numerical inferiority,REPORTED BY URGENT CABLE overwhelmed by the superiority of the German mechanisation and air states the communique, the French TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT force, the French line is being armies continue to fight magnificently. INWASHINGTON THAT THE At 10 the French High_Com- TROOPS BEGUN
Calls Up
More Men
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, June 13 (UP).—It is officially an- nounced that the 1910 and 1911 Clauses-the 29 and 30 year olds—are to be called up for Military Ser- vice.
The 1911 Class will be required to register for Military Service on Satur- day. The 1910 Class must register before June 22.
Grand
Gaucher
Michau
„Brimpnt
Bichary REIMS
noty
Auberive
150
SUR MARNY
Montmort
Montmiral
Soigny
Haile Selassie's Standard raised near Ethiopia
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
CAIRO, June 14 (UP).—International circles- presumably the League of Nations-are about to constitute a new Abyssinian Government headed by Emperor Haile Selassie.
It is believed that this Government will be proclaim- jed as the legal government of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian tribesmen, who have,
been waiting three years for a WAR IN AFRICA, opportunity to strike back at
INHERITANCE their aggressors, are rallying at
TAX IMPOSED
4
on
many points the Kenya frontiers, under the command of
Sudan and British Somaliland
SHANGHAI, June 14 (Router) the former tribal chiefs
All Chinese whose movable property
has been tranferred from the interior served under the Negus,
who
to Shanghal are liable to a payment With modern arms, these tribesmen
of inheritance tax to the Chinese are now joining the Allled operations and Government from July 1, 1010, stated against the 250,000 Italian
Eritrean troops in Ethiopia, the "Sin Wan Pao." 1
The paper adds that the local Haile Selassie's Standard now flies! Chinese District Courts have been again over the native armles led by Instructed by the Ministry of Justice Fituararl Bieru, who has temporarily In Chungking to this effect.
assumed command,
FORD TO BUILD ROLLS
steel.aving hell of shell and mand issued an Order of the Dag to ENTERING PARIS HAD MORN ROYCE PLANE ENGINES
Panizers Cross Marno
An equally violent baltis is raging east of the capital, where the enemy's Panzer units have crossed the Marne between Chateau Thierry and Dar- mans, and are now advancing south- wards in the direction of Montmirail,
·Petit Maru River.
the troops, ordering them to continue |ING, STATES A “DOMEI" FLASH |their resistance fat all costs."
FROM WASHINGTON,
Counter-Attack By Chinese
Roosevelt To Define US. Stand
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” ‚· WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP),~~Mr. William Knudson, President of the great General Motors Corporation and a mem- ber of President Roosevell's' recently created Special Defence
INITIATIVE BY ALLIES ~Daring British-Raid- On Libyan Frontier
SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH" CAIRO, June 14 (UP).—In a rald carried out by daring British troops under, cover of darkness, British patrols took the initiative against the Italians on the Libyan frontler last night. The British patrol crawled ecross the night-cooled sands of
barricades which the Italians have constructed along the 250- mile frontier. ".
the desert to the barbed-wire
In addition to cutting through the
New Threat To Maginot
· Line Seen
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the drive on Paris, Germans have opened a new offensive in the Aisna+ Marne sector which ap1- parently has as its object the flanking of the trus Maginot Line.
A spokesman of the Ministry of National De fence stated this morning that there are distinctive German signs that the forces now attacking with considerable strength in the Rheims sector are directing their attacks north-eastwarda towards the Maginot Line.
The German onslaughts along the Aisne in the Argonne Forest area, -coupled--with-the-furious. onslaughts in the Rheims area, have compelled the French forces to with. draw towards the front extending from Verdun to Vitry in order to prevent themselves from becoming outflanked and encircled.
South of Rheims, the Germans claim to have occupied Chalons, on the Marne River.
America Launches Battleship
chemy's barrier, the Britons captured several Italian and native prisoners.
and Simultaneously, the British Board, is negotiating with Mr. Henry Ford for the mass output South-African älr forces ́ate con- the rallway junction clly, on tho CHUNGKING, June. 13. (Reuter).
at the Ford factories at Dearham of British Rolls Royce air-tinuing their air raids on Italian SPECIAL TO THE "TELEQRAPM",
possessions, A Chinese military spokesman NEW YORK, June 14 (Domel) plane engines, dit onder M Other armoured divisions have states that the Chinese have Inunched ferald-Tribune reports that Prest Great Britain has wolved potent to turn out 1.000 planes a day within
Diradawa Bombed" :: crossed the Marne near Epernay and a heavy counter-attack-north-east of dent Reservell will-okke important rights in order to permite maniacs fix sonths of receiving inliad offler Blenheim
bombers yesterday dvancing along the south bank Ichiang and are attempting to seize pooch in imminent future, enunciature of these famous engines in the to go ahead, will turn out the Rolls allocked Dicedawa, errome, a towards Chalons, capital and one of a crossing on the Han River to cut ing U.S. pollion vis-a-vis European United States.
Royce englucs for both the American of one of the fiercest battles in the the principal railway centres of the the Japanese retreat.
Mr. Henry Ford, who has promised and Allied air forces.
Turn to Page 2, Fourth Column understand.". ¿Marno Province.
War.
NEW YORK, June 14 (Router); Amerlen's Intesi battleship, the 35,000 tonUSS. North Carolina, was Jaunched at the Brooklyn Naval Yarde
esterday,
Governor. Hoes, at North Carolina declared that the battianhip "spekt n language, which oven a dictator can