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The FINAL EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1801.二拜禮 九十月一十英港香
No. 10311
GREEK TROOPS ENTER KORITZA:
NEW
SUCCESSES
Fierce Hand-To-Hand Fighting
Special to the "Telegraph"
GREEK TROOPS HAVE FORCED THEIR WAY INTO A PART OF THE TOWN OF KORITZA.
THIS IS REVEALED IN A "UNITED PRESS" FLASH MESSAGE FROM SOFIA WHICH QUOTES THE ATHENS RADIO. IT IS STATED THAT THE TOWN HAS BEEN ENTERED BY GREEK FORCES ATTACK- ING FROM THE HEIGHTS AT MOROVA. .
THE REPORT ADDS THAT THE GREEKS ARE SLOWLY DRIV- ING BACK THE ITALIANS IN THE COURSE of fierce HAND-TO-¡ HAND FIGHTING..
Greek Forces Irrepressible
BUDAPEST, Nov. 18 (UP).
-There was heavy fighting around Koritza on Monday, but despite the Italian efforts to hinder the Greek advance by aerial bombing and machine-gunning, the Greeks pushed on, and took some Italian positions, as well as capturing considerable booty, according to the Greek radio announcement and to-day's official Greek
R. A. F. Bomb Big Nazi Guns
Successful Early Morning Raid
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” A SOUTHEAST
PORT, Nov. 18~(UP):~RA.F.
communique.
During this battle seven heavy Italian. bombers and two pursuit planes were shot down while two Greek planes are missing.
The Greeks also stormed and took Italian positions in the Kalamas sector.
According to the Greek Radio report the Greeks 10-day shot down ten Italian planes and the Greck offensive has continued in all sectors despite swarms of enemy aircraft reinforcements. The Greeks have driven the Italians from their positions in the mountains with heavy losses and captured a series of new heights.
Summarising the three weeks COAST of war the Greek Radio declared the Italians not only failed to bombers raced in a southwester-enter Alliens on November 4, ly direction and attacked the which was the date set, but they German gun emplacements at have been forced to assume the Cap Gris Nez shortly after dawn defensive everywhere, most of their positions being on the Al- to-day.
banian side of the border. Watchers in the Dover area
British soldiers and airmen are saw. bomb flashes on the French arriving in Athens in greater forces
-coast where the Germans are and are being warmly welcomed by known to have established at TURN to Page 2, Column Four least 24 long range guns between Calais and Bolougne, some of which are reported to have been taken from the Maginot Line.
A battery of 14-inch guns has been cstablished cast of the Cap Gris-Nez lighthouse, and other heavy guns are to the westward of Calais,
Channel Guns In Action LONDON, Nov. 18 (UP)-Hensy gunfire shook the channel towns for hearly un hour this afternoon when British and German long-range guns engaged in a duel across the Straits through a thick mist,
Raids On Germany SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
Berlin Gets Wind Up
Effect Of British
Air Raids
Britain's Growing Optimism
New Defences Will Repulse Invasion
By SAIJI HASEGAWA "DOMEI" STAFF CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, Nov. 18 (Domel). -Britain faces the approaching| winter with increasing optimism
as the trend of the war indicates
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1940:
THE FLAB STILL PROUDLY FLIES
A picture Symbolic, of the courage and deter mination of the London people under the constant and savage bombardment" of the Naze Luftwaffe. Blocks of offices in central London were damaged when bomba fäll on them in c recent all night raid, but the Union Jack still^!
•flies above them, proud and defiant,
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SOUTHAMPTON'S THIRTEEN-
HOUR AIR RAID
Special to the "Telegraph"
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 18 (UP).~German raiders carried out raids for 13 hours here to-day.
Mostly flying high and singly from dusk until dawn, the raiders inflicted heavy damage, mostly on the residen- tial area and small businesses.
Heavy anti-aircraft fire kept the Germans at a high altitude but both high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped.
The black-out interfered with rescue work and numerous casualties are reported, although they are considered light in view of the intensity of the attick.
Coventry Scener
By NED CAMPBELL UNITED PRESS' STAFF CORRESPONDENT
COVENTRY, Nov. 18 (UP). -Time bombs are still exploding here while people stream out. carrying their possessions in porambulators and other means of locomotion.
Thousands of soldiers are pull- ing down walls and the town has begun to look like a vast brick- yard.
I shoved my way into the middlé}
of u crowd around a board en which
Gestapo Agent Tells Of His Work
was posted five pages of at least 500 Admits Espionage In
persons" names who were casualties.
London Quiet
LONDON, Nov. 18 (UP)-With the exception of a recent Sunday
when, the_ail clear was sounded at
United States
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”
CHICAGO, Nov. 18 (UP)—
8:30p.m. and there was no alarm Heinrich Peter Fashbender, who rounded for 24 hours, to-night, has described himself as a former experienced the latest air raid alarm agent of the German Gestapo, for weeks,
arrived here by acroplane, from Los Angeles to-day when he lestilled before the Dies. Com- mitice for the Investigation of Un-American Activities.
All day the raids have been very TURN to Back Pago, Column 3
It Was Touch And Go For Gt. Britain: Blitz Revelations
Special to the "Telegraph”
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UP)-Hitler had England beaten and ready for the knockout blow on Sunday, September 15, but let the opportunity slip, according to Mr. Ralph Ingersoll, Editor of the New York tabloid newspaper "P.M."
Thailand
Indo-China
Fighting
After he had testified, Mr.. Martin Dies the Committee Chairman, said that Fashbender had declared that Germany paid TURN to Back Page, Column 5
LATEST
JAPAN GIVES UP HOPE OF PEACE
Mr. Ingersoll has just returned from 14 days spent in Lon- British pilets don and said that most of London was in flames. were near exhaustion after a week, fighting the German blitz- krieg tactics, while they were outnumbered as much as 10 to 1.
The British A.R.P. forces were staggering after nine days of MCNUTT FOR 1944 Nanking regime, probably at the end
unceasing toil.
He said that continuous waves of
PRESIDENCY
hundreds of bombers were pitilessly Campaign Already Opens!
dropping their deadly cargoes
on
London, which was in flames, and gradually losing the will to fight but
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UP)-Al-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SHANGHAI, Nov. 19 (UP)-Japan has already abandoned hope of direct peace negotiations with Chungking and has decided to recognise the of this month or early in December, according to Informed Japanese quarters here.
The same quarters did not disclose the means by which the Japanese Foreign Minister explored Chiang
wares,
is already under fore the recognition of Wong Ching-
10 the New York wei, in which connection General Abe's return to Nanking this week is
that blitzkrieg plans have been shelved for digging-in tactics in the military, economic, diploma- SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Nov. 18 (UP)-tle and political phases of the
on September 15 the RL.A.F. brought though President Roosevelt has only Kai-shek's willingness to talks peace. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH Two of Berlin's leading theatres conflict.
down over 200 German planes, and been re-elected twelve days, a 1944 However, it is understood that Tokyo Presidential boom for Mr. Paul V.; will remain open for approaches from where the "Merry Widow" and a Strengthening the popular
TOKYO, Nov. 19 (UP)—defcated the blitzkrieg.
McNutt, former U.S. Commissioner Chungking until the last minute be spectacular musical revue are confidence in the prospect of the
to the now playing, to-day announced war, was the recent statement Thailand and Indo-China troops that effective on Monday, their made by the Prime Minister, have been engaged in serious LONDON, Nov. 18 (UP)-To-day's evening performances will begin Mr. Winston Churchill, when in fighting since November 16 in Air Ministry communique says: "The main force of our bomber attacks at 5.15 p.m. and end around 8a eulogy of the late Mr. Neville the jungles along the Mekong Chamberlain delivered in the River in southeastern Thailand, last night were against the oll re- p.m. fineries at Gelsenkirchen.
One of the largest cinema theatres House of Commons on Novem-according to the "Yomiuri Shim "Our planes also bombed industrial targets
ets on the Ruhr, rail and river in the West End of Berlin has nd- ber 12, he expressed regret that bun's" correspondent at Bang- vanced the last performance to 4.45 Mr. Chamberlain died before kok.
the British victory but remark- communications in western Germany, the naval base at Lorient, and aero-P.m., ending at 8.45 pm. dromes in the occupied territories of France. safely."
It is assumed that this is due ed that it was some consolation
Faces
U.S. Big
Crisis
The report said the Thailand
lised
All our aircraft returned the recently unusually strong British
nir raids, which caught thousands of that the former Premier died in Government has already mobl. Frank Warning By
Berliners in the theatres, bringing peace, knowing that Britain has Attacks On Gerlenkirchen : the performances to an abrupt end. overcome the crisis. LONDON,.Nov. 18 (Router)The It will be recalled that, the times Triple Defence Lines
might of the RAF last night was of the performances were advanced TURN to Page 2, Column Soven to 7 p.m. only a few weeks ago,
The confidence over the future is principally attributable to the com- pletion
the of
triple low-const TURN to Back Page, Column 5
100,000 men fricluding
reserves.
The objective of the Thailand troops is apparently Laos rather than Cambodia, the report added,
Pact le Danied SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHU: WASHINGTON, Nov.
Secretary Of War
"Dally
The paper reports that offices are very being flooded with handbills dting
Mr.
11X
Non-Japant
informed quarters McNutt's qualifications are of the opinion that Japan's peace is designed to promote s Federal Security Administrator, as
pact with Moscow Governor of Indiana, as High Comewhere the Japanese Ambassador will missioner in the Philippines, and as Commander of the American Legion. Foreign Minister that Japan has at how probably inform the Soviet terms with tempted to come to London, Nov. 18 (Reuter)-Lord Churigking but found it impossible. Lothian,
British Ambassador to In a simline munner, It is be- America, had a conference with the lleved, Jupan. will make efforts to. Porturusso Premier, Dr. Salazer, on appease the. Untied States objections*** his way through Lisbon to return to to the recognition of the Nanking his post
regime.
Hitler Starts Second Evacuates' Return: (UP)-The Tokyo reports that that the United States faces the openhagen Shows Its
Diplomatic Offensive
Special to the “Telegraph"
New Regulation
Dislike Of The Nazis
Special to the "T aph"
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH'! NEW ORLEANS. La., Nov. 18 (UP). The Secretary of War, Colonel Henry Stimson, 18 told the American Federation of Labour Convention here to-day: Britain, America and Thailand
most far-reaching crisis for 150 have reached a secret agree-years. He assured the workers Further instructions have now been ment for mutual aid in connec
sacrificed in the defence pro- received from the Secretary of State tion with Thailand's demands on that their rights will not, ba
grámmo. in the matter of evacuation in pur- French Indo-China were officially suance of which a new Defence denied by Assistant Secretary of PENG
jured and a number of others arrested following a disturbance Regulation will be promulgated to State, Mr. Summer Welles, to He told the Convention that the COPENHAGEN, Nov. 18 (UP) —Several people were in- crisis is not only a challenge to day whereby the strict control of
Fen day, future. ies into the Colon
entries This Regulation will be administer Mr. Walles sald he had not read the us and our institutions, but to world here to-day when 600 uniformed members of the Danish Nazi reports, but from what he had heard civilization of which we are a part. Party, under their leader Fritz Clausen, marched through the ng might conclude there were Im The Power which would destroy streets to lay a wreath on the memorial to Danish soldiers killed plications without any truth at all in individual and national freedom and in the wars with Prussia in 1848 and 1864.7
Lapis place mankind at the mercy
arbitrary uncontrolled force are Some windows of the offices of "He also sold that the State De abre powerfol than at any time since the newspaper "Fredrelando police through the streats which partment has received (no inter Attila and his Hung knocked at the
The fates of Central, Europe 1,500 years were smashed, but there were no there
serious disturbance
is
BERLIN, Nov. 18 (UP)-What Berlin political observers described as the "second diplomatic offensive, took place to-day na Hitler and Ribbentrop met Clano and Suner at Berchtesgaden, It is understood that to-day near Salzburg.
negotiations with the Spanish Foreigned by the Commisioner of “ Polic
until the new Immigration Bill, offensive was re- Minister; were completed; in qu GfTho
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