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四拜禮 ·號八十月七英港香
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940.
Fi四十月
Hitler May Precede Attack with Peace Offer
BRITAIN READY FOR GERMAN BLITZKRIEG
READY FOR THE BLITZKRIEG
ALL OVER THE MOTHERLAND, little armies are in training
RUSSIA WILL NOT
ENTER THE WAR
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
BERLIN, July 17 (UP).-The "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" says: "The decisive battle against England is now imminent."
The paper declared that Mr. Churchill's speech last Sunday was "England's decision for suicide." BERLIN'S “EXPECTANT AIR"
LAUSANNE, July 17 (Reuter).---A strange, expec- tant air prevails in Berlin, according to a dispatch to the "Tribune de Lausanne" from their Berlin correspondent."
The correspondent records that neutral observers are surprised at the delay in the launching of the offensive against Britain which, it had been announced, "would follow immediately on the conclusion of the armistice with France.
The dispatch adds that an expedition against Britain is not a military parade; as time passes, the difficulties of the enterprise appear to be greater than wer
HITLER TO MAKE OFFER OF PEACE?
from
MADRID, July 17 (Reuter).-Dispatches Spanish correspondents in Berlin coincide in the view that Hitler will make a peace offer at the week-end.
Rejection of the offer will probably be followed immediately by an attack against Britain.
Talk of a peace offer was apparently started by an article by Virginio Gayda in Rome but the idea has evidently been fostered in Germany, where the au- for Hitler's oft-threatened Blitzkrieg invasion. Col.-W. Mthorities "neither confirm nor deny" the rumours." Tickler, son of the famous T, G. (Plum and Apple) Tickler, whose jams were known on every battlefield in the last war, organised one such local army in the defence of Maidenhead, Berks. These men, trained by military instructors, are given 'time off from the work each day to enable them to undergo military drill.
"Golden Opportunity" Cabinet
has
Konoye Seeks Complete
Identity of
Views
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, July 17 (UP).-Prince Konoye, in his first Premier-designate, press statement since he became said that in order to secure complete identity of views regarding the future course to be followed by the new Cabinet, the fundamental principles concerning Japan's foreign and defence policies will be thoroughly discussed among the Foreign, Army and Navy Ministers. These Ministers will be de- signated before the formation of
Surprise Move the Cabinet is completed.
By Lloyds
Portugal-America War Risk Ratos Up
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHÚ LONDON, July 17 (UP). Lloyds Underwriters have sud- denly raised war. risk rates for cargoes under the Portuguese flag between Portugal and North and South America.
He said he had no condition or
BRITISH PRECAUTIONS
of
BELOW the policeman clamber- Ing through the window of an eastern England town is a wrecked bed. Half-an-hour earlier Nazi bombers had passed overhead. Bomb were dropped. Mollfe, aged 10, and Len, aged 5. the two chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. Len Palmer,
HONGKONG'S FOOD
andre SUPPLIES PROBLEM
were sleeping peacefully in the col, clutching their dolls. They never
LONDON, July 17 (Reuter).-It is officially an- nounced that the Regional Commissioner for the Eastern Civil Defence Region has issued directions dealing with
heard the shattering crash of the; Although Hongkong has succeeded in accumulating a record traffic in the event of an in- should send one thousand its bombs, because they were dead-storage of rice, sufficient to feed the population for three months
finest pilots to the British Isles "to
or more in case of an emergency, It is not so well placed in regard turn the tide of war”, declared victims of the arch-murderer in em-Colonel Henry Breckenridge, former Berlin who once said that he would to other foodstuffs. If circumstances are such that regular Assistant Secretary for War, in a not make war on women and chil- communications with outside sources of supply are disrupted, dren. Mrs. Palmer was taken to the Colony will almost immediately be robbed of many rems speech here to-day.
"We would rather fight Hitler in hospital with both legs broken. the air over Berlin than over New York," he said.
vasion,
Chief Constables are powered, at the request of the Corps or Divisional Commander, to exclude all traffic from specified roads.
also
cm-
Chick Constables are powered to require the immobilisation, or vehicles within an area at short: I notice.
Blitzkrieg Prediction
Russia To Stay Neutral SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, July 17 (UP).—It is reliably stated that M. Stalin, in his conversations with Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps, cmphasised
determination to remaln Soviet's
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 17 (UP). -Mr. Harper Sibley, former Pre-neutral. sident of the United States Chamber It is reperied that M. Stalin said of Commerce, in speech to military that German domination of Europe. experts to-day expressed the heilet presented no problem for Russia and that England could stand only thirty he refused to believe that such
days
of the German blitzkrieg.
He predicted that when a truce is reached, it will be between "a battered England and an exhausted Germany,"
American Aid Urged SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY,
domination menaces the Soviets.
Air Minister Confident
AIR RAIDS ON COAST
Nazis Cause Damage
And Casualties LONDON, July 17 (Reuter). -It is officially announced that bombs were dropped by enemy LONDON, July 17 (Reuter) The aircraft during the day at a few Air Minister, Sir Archibald Sinclair, points in south-east England and in an Empire broadcast, said that any falso near a town in Scotland.. great onslaught on Britain...by air, These caused some casualties. Some lond or sen will tall,
damage was also caused to houses, The sooner we pass from the de-
which make up the daily diet ofits citizens.
Important among these articles.ure. beef, pork and Ash. Prices, which
| had steadily risen with the extansion |of the Sino-Japanese hostilits to these parts, and the greater demand. caused by the increase in population, have in recent weeks reached a new [high level as the result of the uncer- tain pollileal situation and greater transportation difficulties.
May Be Able To Speak To
Our Wives In Manila
has
Variations In Prices
The price of beef, which varied between. 25 cents and 30 cents per eatty before the Sino-Japanese war,
The Colonial Secretary and had this year risen to about double, jumped to $1 per catty during promised to investigate the pos- the Indo-China tension. The price sibility of allowing the
radio. has not gond down very appreciably telephone service between Hong- since.
About 250 heads of cattle are kong and Manila to be re-opened, slaughtered dally in Hongkong ur
at least temporarily, chiefly in 7,300 per month. The New Territories Two Raids In Four Hours supply only about 20 to 30 heads order that husbands in the
daily, the majority being imported Enemy aircraft to-day made two from Kwangchouwan, French Indo-Colony may speak to their ralds on one area in south-west China and, to a lesser extent, from evacuated families. England within a space of four hours, Thailand.
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particular desire to impose upon the July 17 (UP). The United States! Turn to Page 2, Seventh Column four of which were wrecked.
military. He has asked the outgoing War and Navy Ministers to commend the most suitable
Ko
can-
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LATEST
Roosevelt Nominated
CHICAGO, July 17 (UP).—Mr.
THIS IS WHAT WILL STOP BLITZKRIEG
LONDON, July 17 (Reuter)It is now possible to reveal how R.A.F. bombers have raided and severely damaged one of the most important links in Germany's internal transport sys- tem-the Dortmund-Ems Canal, states the Air Ministry 'news service.
Large barges big enough to carry Following the damage caused to two trainlouds of goods were being The new rate is Avo per cent.,.com- Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been pared with the previous rate of three placed in the Democratic Convention's German trains and railway junctons used in conveying munitions.
presidential by R.A.F, ralds, enemy communica per cent.
Job Well Dona tions were becoming considerably election.
Reconnaissance aircraft Row over rail The Democratic Party has also disorganised. To relieve the adopted the Convention platform.
congestion, the German transport the Dortmund-Ems Canal, in parti authorities began to make increasing cular the double aqueduct where the use of the elaborate canal ystem Canal crosses the River Ems, atid which was already heavily occupied photographed its various stretches, Modela of the aqueduct were con in carrying. iron ore and other essen-. tial commodities to the Ruhr fac-structed and picked crews were given torics..
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No explanation is given for this Ingresso.
BUCHAREST: July 17 (UP)~~A report from Galatz atates that an ex- plosion destroyed the electric power plant there? Flye are known to be dead and many are injured.....
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no damage.
In the first attack,two heavy bomba Suppiles are still coming to Hong- were dropped, and a few bombs kong from these sources, but they dropped on unoccupied ground, doing have been less on account of trans- The suggestion was first raised in portation difficulties. Morover, the a letter to the "Hongkong Telegraph" The raiders were met by heavy Chinese authorities have pinced a ban and the technical authorities werd gunfire and were finally driven off by on the export of cattle, and this has approached. They said that the
naturally affected 1 supplies.
equipment was available for the
still fighters.
No bombs were dropped in the
arbitrarily It is estimated that, at the rate of service which: had 'been' rald and the raiders were 20 to 30 heads each day, Hongkong Government on the outbreak second
closed down again driven off by British Bghters.
can rely on the New Territories periai. supply for only two to three months.
SWITZERLAND'S RAID ALARM
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI GENEVA, July 17 (UP)—Switzer-
Fower Pigs
on orders of the Im-
of war. The cable officials were of the opinion that a system of control could be devised to enable the radio-
About 500 pigs are slaughtered each day in Hongkong. The evacuation has tween here and Manila. enused a drop of about 100 head daily.: Before the European war, with 'the Increased
Hongkong population,
telephone to remain in operation be
The Hon Mr. R. A. C. North was approached on the subject and ho land had its first air raid alarm since required between 500 and 1,000 pigs explained that the difficulty of cen
soring telephone conversations... WAS the Franco-German armistice to-day, per day.
For its pork, the Colony again has responsible for the closing of the The warning sirens were sounded
service. It was possible that some at 1.52 pm, and the All Clear, was to rely to a large extent on Kwang-censorship could be devised, at least chouwan, although supplies are also for the purpose of meeting the pre- not given until 2.14 p.m
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There is no explanation.