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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
By No Means Hopeless
Victory If We Hold Out Until The Autumn
He Is 90 But He Applies For Rise Williton (Somerstt)
Rural Council recently re-
LONDON, June 16 (Reuter).ceived an application for In spite of the gravity of the hour, the British public and Press unite in taking a long view.
It is felt that the frenzy of the German effort must exhaust self before the piling-up of the Allied re-
sources.
The "Observer" says that the cap- 1ure of Purls and Versailles still leaves the Gemans far from being masters of France or dictators of u conqueror's pence.
Empire Still Solid
The Allies have their Empires be- hind them as never before. If the Allies can battle until. autumn, their final predominance in the war of ma- chines will be assured. Every day our factories and workshops, backed by the unlimited
supplies of the world's materials, are raining an in- dustrial output on Goering's huge but
tinted strength.
The
"Sunday Times" suys that our
an increase of salary from Mr. John Reed, 90-year- old rate collector for Woolton Courtney,
He pointed out that there had been a consider- able increase in the rate- able value of the parish in recent years, that he had been rate collector for 62 years and that at the age of 90 he could not expect to carry on much longer.
June 17,
1940.
Four Boys With Big Ambition
They Wanted To Be Real U.S. Gangsters
FOUR Ispwich boys,hind an am- bition to get enough money to take them to America to be real gangsters. They called themselves the Dend End Kids, and set out on an expedition of plunder. First they stole bicycles and left Ipswich on them. These they "fater abandoned and replaced with stolen cars. Their es- capade landed them at Bury St. Edmunds in two days, And it landed them at West Suffolk Quarter Sessions where they were sent to Bor- stal for three years. *** Three of them are 16 years old One was and the other 18. said to have broken his mother's heart by his be- haviour. The mother of an- other blamed "the pictures."
The application, was re- ferred to the Finance Committee.
BRITONS IN
duty is plain. We must all this sum CAR WERE
BOMBED
Then Mistaken for Parachutists
mer do our utmost. We are strug- gling against time. We must throw away all leisureliness. The calling- up of men must be quickened. There are too many young men who re- Ristered months ago but whose ser- vices have not been called upon be- cause they registered for the Air
AN Englishman who has re- Force or Navy which did not require cently returned from Belgium them at the ilme.
There should be no consideration revealed how he escaped back nightmare now for preferences of Individuals. to England after a Pubile safety has become more im-journey. portant,
"Four of us flew to
Brussela
on
Calling-up, too, should not be May to inspect certain works in- delayed by the shortage of uniforms stallations," he said. or other non-casentials for training. It is vital that any increase in the the military forces should be in quickest possible way.
THE YEAR'S MOST THRILLING DRAMA OF ESPIONAGE ! is folly at this time that men, con-
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Two visits were completed on that day. But the following morn- ing the Nazis crossed the frontier, and we were awakened at 5 am. by heavy gunfire from a machine-gun In the next street and several quickfiring pieces of light calibre. "We got a car to drive to the air- port. Five-miles out of Llege a Nazi airplane dropped two bombs on each side of the car, but we did not stop.
LATE NEWS
NO SEPARATE PEACE
REPORTED:
URGENT
Homo Front Criticism The "Sunday Express" says that it
"UNITED "PRESS" FROM BORDEAUX IN crete-mixers and steel should be
5.15 P.M. II.K.T. employed in building a bridge across
MESSAGE AT THAT FRENCHI GOVERNMENT the Thames or extending a rollway
HAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED: ne. Men, mixers and steel should
"FRANCE DEFINITELY CANNOT be taken away from this sort of work
Waves of Bombers
AFFORD TO NEGOTIATE A UNI- to-day and be employed night and "Brussels had been heavily bomb- | LATERAL PEACE WITH GER- day building fortifications on those
ed. Waves of enemy aircraft kept MANY." parts of the coast most vulnerable to
coming over, and a dense cloud of This disposes of rumours that assault.
smoke rose from the airport. With France may conclude separate peace. Writing on the subject of the
an aleplan Italian tragedy, the Catholle weekly no prospect of getting "Tablet," says that the Italians will back to England, we turned to the coust and made for Dulabergen,
be used against France and Britain. about twenty intles from Ost We Count On France!
"the.
perman-
Roman
where we had friends.
LONDON, June 17 (Reuter),-"It
but they are not considered ent partners in any German scheme. "We arrived there in the late after-
It is a great pity that the Italians should read so little of the literature on to find that it, too, had been is only by fighting on that any flaws
heavily bombed.
which may exist in the fighting of the Nazi movement. Every "The following morning I went machine of an apparently victorious observation and writing of Signor with another member of our party enemy can be tested," writes the Gayda shows that they still greatly to interview the Consul at Ostend "Times" to-day. The "Times" odds: under-estimate the destructive eye #trxl the Nazis turn
we took all four passports. "Not for any selfish reason do we ngainst
While there, we heard that Duinber-count upon our hard-pressed ally to civilisation of the south.
The history of the Italians and the gen had to be evacuated at once as continue the resistance, but because Catholic Church shows that a breate Intensive bombing was expected, and we feel convinced that such a course is in her own interests, and that we with religion is not practicable or my friend went back to bring the
me with the four know that only by taking it can she desirable. Yet some Italian leaders others, leaving
hope to profit by support, either from buve tried to bring this about.
us or other forces which are being UN OF But in the meantime my marshailed day by day to
come to friends had been mistaken for her aid." parachutists and arrested.
The "News-Chronicle" points out
The
A Moral Warning
passports.
Tablet" recalls the sneer by su arranged to meet at the Con-:
var Italian paper that these are no times for people obsessed in moral
"At last I became weary of walt-that the French Armies are not at -pre-occupation. It is the old lesson) of history that man cannot put aside ing-chartered a car and drove back the end of their immediate resources moral issues without incurring the to Duinbergen, For four hours I too and the Allies, holding on and hold- pénalty sooner or later, the "Tablet" was under arrest, and then we were ing together, will have at their com- all released and told to get out at matid resources of all kinds which continues.
once."
The disregard of the Italian Gov- ernment for the interests of every other people will prove no foundrilon for the greatness of the state.
HEAVY
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can in time turn defeat into anal victory.
The "Dally Herald", referring to The party (and
the danger in which the Allies stand, Ostend where they went aboard says: "It June 17 is a day of great ship with about 1,000 others. They did not sail that night, but the ship was attacked by raiders with bombs and machine-gun
"Next day."
continued,
C
day
de-
adversity for mankind it is also
of great opportunity. On the courage and endurance of the Allied people and their leaders in the days just ahead hand issues that are im- were suddenly ordered to leave all mensurably vast. One thing is eer- LONDON, June 10 (Reuter).-The our luggage and get as far away na tain. The British people are now a Air Ministry has issued the 34th possible from the alip. We got a car thousand times more grimly Casualty List, containing 297 names, to drive down to La Panne, in the termined to carry on
the struggle The list includes 23 officers and hope of getting across the French than they were before the devasta- tion of France began. We were airman killed in action and seven border and so to the Channel ports. previously reported missing and now
fiercely determined before. We are fanatically determined now.” stated to be killed in betion, a killed on active service and 138 missing.
Included in the list are 14 pre- viously reported missing and
to be safe, wounded or are pri- stated
soners.
now
The list includes Pilot Officer A. M. Dillion. of Shanghai, who is reported missing.
"We had to queue for long periods for petrol. Every frontier post had miles of cars waking and streams of pitiful people on fooL Seven of us slept in the ear ene night-the only sleep we had had In three days.
"At last we reached Le Havre, and two days later were in a South Const port."
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MOSCOW, June 17 (Reuter).---- An official Russian communique claims that Latvia violated the Soviet-Latvian Mutual Assistance Pact by "not only refraining from cancelling its military alliance with Estonia but by extending it to Lithuania and attempting to Include Finland.
The communique states that identical demands were made to Estonia,
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