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TOUNDED 1831
No. 16478 三拜禮號四月六英港香
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1941
日十初月五
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SED CARS
AXIS BELIEVED PLANNING TO Damascus, Syria's Key City
FORCE U.S. INTO THE
Latest Version of The Hitler- Mussolini Brenner
Battle Dress For Civilians In England is Predicted
Special to the "Telegraph"
HARROGATE, June 3 (UP)-Mr Morris May, President of the Leeds Wholesale Clothiers Association to-day predicted that the Government will be forced to adopt "battle dress for civilians" either worn with. collar and tie or buttoned up to the neck.
Mr May declared: "That is the only way clothing for the workingman can be placed on the market at prices within reach and of hard wearing quality which is now completely beyond reach. Such battle dress would not need a lining, therefore it could be produced on a large scale much more rapidly than ordinary lounge suits. By a buttoned up neckwear the worker could dispense with a shirt which would require laundering."
French Move To Resist Attack
Syria Situation Said Grave
Special to the "Telegraph””
VICHY, June 3 (UP)-It is reported that the French have shifted armed air force units to Syria and Tunisia ready to meet any new British attack with force. It is understood that they acted with German permission.
Daring Daylight Raids
-By R. A. F.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, June 3 (UP)---The Air Ministry announced, "during daylight yesterday aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked shipping in the Kiel Canal and objectives in Schles wig Holstein. Ore vessel was direct- ly hit.
"Of Norway enemy supply ships were sunk. Two of our aircraft are missing.
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an ex-
Events have taken. tremely grave turn. The plan of Empire defence which has the approval of Admiral Darlan, General Huntziger, General Weygand and Marshal Petain is now ready.
Beirut dispatches, received while the Cabinet' met to-day, stated that British bombers flew over Aleppo, Syria, but did not drop bombs.
of
Syria has dozens of excellent air- fields in addition to thousands acres of high flat hard platenu. Bel- rut is only 270 miles from the Suez Canal and Mosul ollfleing and ro miles from the eastern border of Syria.
Pass
Special to t
Talks
"Telegraph"
WASHINGTON, June 3, (UP).—Mr William Simms, the Scripps-Howard commentator to-day asserted that the United States belièves that Hitler and Mussolini may have decided at Brenner Pass to take the initiative against the United States- to force her into war before she is ready. Some Axis leaders, including Japan, are convinced that now is the time to involve the United States.
They declare that the ammunition output is so slim that the United States at war could not send more than a dribble of supplies to Britain because she would need all for herself..
The power of initiative is clearly in the hands of the Axis. Hitler can pull the United States into the war, at any moment that would suit his purposes to do so. President Roosevelt has pledged himself not to send American soldiers to war unless we are attacked but declares that he will see that American aid 'E
reaches Britain regardless..
Germany and Italy have want- ed the United States in the war for months and they have been trying to persuade Japan to take her on. Japanese statemen were not such fools and wanted the. war situation to develop further. But now, Germany has rescued
COMMUNISTS CLASH WITH JAPANESE
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
cording to reporte from the Eigh-subdued Britain's lifeline has CHUNGKING, June 3 (UP).—Ac-Italy; the Balkans have been
WAR
Considered the oldest inhabited city in the world, Damuscus, now chief city of Syrin, with population of 200,000, guards n fertile patch in the desert.This picture of Damascus shows the Mos em graveyard of Bah" Zgħir," while in the background is the snow-tipped Anti-Lchanon mountains.
Hitler-Mussolini Scheme To
Give Syria "Protection
Special to the "Telegraph"
LONDON, June 3 (UP)-It is now revealed that during their Brenner Pass the Communist Once at Chungking, for her fleet, and now that of Syria. It is stated in the most authentic quarters that both Germany and Italy techin Army Group Headquarters to been rendered unpracticable even conversations, Hitler and Mussolini considered a plan to take over the "protection" on May 30, one thousand "Japanese France has promised to co-
and puppet troops" moving south-
and
It is noteworthy that the German-spokesman In Berlin said that Franco-German con sultation might take place if the British attacked Syria, VTES.
Authoritative circles state that there is no official confirma- tion of reported landings of German mechanised units at Latakia on the Syrian coast, 65 miles from Cyprus. This report. appeared in the "Daily Mal from the paper's Madrid corrÉS» pondent.
wards from Pelping met a detach operate in the Atlantic, the may soon land troops in French Syria at the "request" of Vichy. ment of the Eighteenth Army 20United States can be drawn into iniles south of Peiping between the the war at any time the Axis Peiping-Hazkow
'Peiping- Tientsin rallwoys.
desires. "The report said that the Eighteenth that Japan will not have any excuse Hitler is reported to be determined Army Group attacked the Japanese for not entering the war and argues and puppets and Inflcted 300 casual-that-the-Axis will eventually have tes, killed, wounded or captured as to fight the United States and it Peiping-Hankow railway well as supplies and later cut the would be better to do so before
between
America is prepared. Peiping and Proting.
This victory menaces the enemy. 31 Feiplo the report added.
Nine other battles between the Eighteenth Army Group and Japan ese troops were reported between May 22 and 30. In eastern and northern Shans and Hepel west of the Peiping-Hankow railway near Baoling and Shihchiachuang.
30 BRITON ON TRIAL
The British bases, at Haifa, mulen, and Jaffa 80 miles, from the border of Syria are at a point where there are five British major airfields within a radius of 40 miles.
Vichy Encouraged
SPECIAL TO the "teleGRAPH"
"Last night, the R.A.F. attacked
BERLIN, June 4 (UP) —Authoriz- Duesseldorf, the inland port of ed German quarters stated that Dulsberg-Ruhrport and other objec- France will probably receive "full tives in the Ruhr area. Many fires German co-operation" under the pro were started among the Industrial visions of the recent negotiations buildings. The dock at Ostend were also bombed.
sho takes up arms in resisting a Four aircraft are. missing.
British attack on Syria.
Aircraft of the Coastal Command last night attacked the docks at Saint Nazaire without loss."
Enemy Troops Raided
LONDON, June B (Reuter).—--A columui of enemy troops and an arm- ed trawler wore attacked by R.A.F. fighters operating" over Northern France and the Channel to-day,
Our aircraft returned safely, states the Air Ministry.
Nanking Man Assassinated Shot While He Slept
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" - SHANGHAI, June, 4 (UP), An
unidentified gunman killed Wang Nio seng 32, while he was sleeping in his home the French Conces sion: last nights Want le reported to have been- connected with the Nan- king Ministry of Overseas Affairs
Previously, with the Minin
They :indlented " that Germany would relax the armistico provision TURN to Back Pago, Column
AFTER COOLIE KILLED BY TRAP
Taking Over
Our Shipping Services
WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reu-
ter)United States merchant-
men are to take over all British shipping services from Canada and the United States to Aus-
tralia and New Zealand. M
Announcing this arrangement, Maritime Commission
SPÉCIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" SHANGHAI, Juno 3. (UP)-Mr the
formally charged this afternoon wien British vessels for Britain's own R. C. Turner, a Briton, will be states: "This will release 12 the "unlawful killing" of his garden coolie, Kau Kwang-tsoong on May war efforts."
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"Mr Turner bullt a spring tray with a 22 calibré ríflo‘in an effort te catch thieves. The coolie sprong the trap while trying to obtain his toou
to begin his morning work.
LATEST
Hankow Club Boy A Govt House
Political
Gangster
Collapse
DAMASCUB
Mobile Units to Protect
Aerodromes From Invasion
However, according to a Cairo: message, Radio Ankara to-day quoted a news source as alleg ing that large numbers of Ger mans, with Bulgarian passporte. are travelling to Syria where the Germans are rapidly taking oyer control,
Still In-Control -- (DY "REUTER'S" MILITARY COMMENTATOR)
LONDON, June 3.Although the loss of Crete is unpleasant and adds to the dimeities facing the British Navy, Britain remains master of the Mediterranean Effective air support
adjunct to naval opera
is a
tions,
air
Bless in its turn on ample
Special to the “Telegraph”, *LONDON, June 3 (UP)-Hard-hitting mobile units to appreciated than in the British Navy.
and This is
his is nowhere more guard British aerodromes against a repetition of the Malemi
The British disaster may be one of the first results of the astonishing air Alexandrin is
haval
base conquest of the Germans on Crete and the growing chimour in stretches of coast line along which is backed by long nerodromes sire located, the way of defence.
while the the sun bere
Britain to meet Nazi ingenuity with something Imaginatives as are nece difer
Crete taught more conclusive-
ing the war the lesson that air ly than any other campaign dur-
power simply must be
Protest To British Consul when to pie saundene thee ordinated with land power,
3.The?
Co-
Defence units at aerodromes has
Rumania Undisguised Dictatorship
dement of ns many
of-the
more
Moreover, the line of rancan With
and
Cos 198 Ruth and Palestino Tonning "n" sharp" angle
to the east Forms two fanks from which
covered
well be
The mouth of this
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air.
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willch the aerodromes Beithir aft contro
Club, who is stated to be a member of the Chungking Blueshirt occurred despite the but the Crete experience makes it according to a Bucharest dispatch to But this control will be h
A serious collapse of part of the rear verandah jat Government House occurred about 8 o'clock last night, main pillars spilt
Another SHANGHAI, June 4 (Renter)The Japanese Consul Gen-to the main back doorway then gave pillar on the opposite of the entrance eral at Hankow has protested to the British Consul General over way, and this was followed by the long been under consideration in LONDON, Jung 4 (Router)-Ru-
•hold hold and on a "very regrettable incident” involving a Boy, of the Hankow collapse of
first floor England and late last summer there mania is shortly to become a totall-strengthening
tah:elio:56 situated Chus anormously were at least some such operations, tarian state without Parliament, over the Eastern Mediterrano Organisation, revealed a Japanese Army spokesman at yesterday fact
was the worst herandah, which mattor of extreme urgency, P. General Ion"Antohëscil, the agency, permitted to allow the establimi
the Italian news agency, weakened if the Vichy French afternoon's press conference. Zen las Arme, Round
part of the patient siden He said that the Chinese boy, ya ve handmades and two heavy wood beams Workmen atrodroma protection.
buildings when If frat began to
It considered essential that in adds, will rechal his Government dromes and Naxi troopers to confio" named Liu, 36, who had been in bombs were found under the floor this morning were tatily endeavour should include, firstly, light tanks far with technicians and politicians.
crack, was solidly shored up with addition to a trained force of men, generals who have been holding Syrian poris.
of Nazi air force on. Byxian a more normál form, replacing the the Club's service for ten years, behind the bar counter and also re
defences ministerial office inte: last January ing to add more shoring before other fast mopping up; secondly, the was Zoluid to be à member of - volver bullets, and revealed that the
Nite Time For Action parts of the verandah gave way the Blueshirts, be
dins belonged to terroristic agents of Becals that Rod been recent heaviest batteries Including not only of organisation, which w
He will then prodalm
Tornew state
This must bo | On the night of May 10 the Police introsted, TAU? Who - confessed that accordi
ording to Dus spokesman, Liu sleds of furtier movement was burge, guns fo
pears for
"the abolition of a arma were concealed within the com-Juped Information Bureau, which is
aliaison officer of the hoped that Government House
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