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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 21, 1941.
Vichy, Allied & Turk Forces Fraternise
FROM PAGE ONE
ferrain to a Turkish frontler post, of ahadled trees with the Red Crescent of the Turkish ng fluttering in the breeze. A little fountain, was play-
151 the court-yard. AL the Customs house, a Turkish Captain "and" Lleutenant and Customs officials offered us coffee, cigarettes and iced water. The almosphere was most cordial.
To rench Syria's oldest elty, I have motored some 250 miles through the heart of the country and found the ronds to the north. humming with Allled transport.
Released Prisoners.
We passed many Vichy military cumps being dismantled and a convoy. of released British prisoners who cheered hustily.
Rows of Vichy transports, guns and ammunition dumps lay dejectedly on the roadside white soldiers Were packing their kit and preparing to leave for the Tripoli area, which is nt present a neutral zone and re- zerved for Vichy troops.
Tynk aerodrome showed evidence of R.A.F. bombing. Hangars were smashed and large ammunition dumps were blown sky-high.
Aleppo airport, atrendy occupied by the RAF and buzzing with activity, still shows the shattered re- mains of burned-out planes and damaged buildings,
In "Aleppo itself, there are still several thousand Vichy soldiers and sirmen. It is rather strange vitting in restaurants next to Vichy Air Force officers who hud probably
been ground-straßing one a few days earlier.
No Animosity
However, there are no outward signs of animosity although Vichy soldiers seem deeply affected and de- pressed after the campaign,
Here I contacted for the first time mysterious
and British
Indian columns who had plunged a thou- sand miles across the endless desert from Iraq'via Deir ez Zor to Aleppo from the flank. Looking very fi and sun-burned, these troups are in the finest fettle. They said that some of the worst times they had were due to enemy aircraft. They had little protection nguinst alc attacks.
BAD WATER - Germans made a rhyme to let inhabitants of unnamed area in occupied France know water in tank was not for human consumption, without first boiling. Cartoon sets off rhymo,
SHIGEMITSU
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JAPANESE LEAVING
S. AFRICA
VICHY, July 20 (Reuter).— On one occasion more than 30 YOKOHAMA, July 20 (Domel) The Japanese colony in South bombers escorted by fighters ground-In his Brst interview upon arrival strated them en route, but they do here this morning from London via Africa is preparing to return to clared that all they needed was a America, Mr Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan, according to a Johannes- both. "We have not had one for two Japanese Ambassador to London,burg report to the Vichy news months."
Kald
that he was not in a position to comment on his future plans.
Mr Shigemitsu also declined to
Efficient Indian Troops Although full detalis of the part played by Indian troops are not yet
agency.
Well-informed etrcles" are quoted order to return hazard any guess concerning the out- stating that the revealed, Britishers are full of praise come of the Anglo-German war, lle came from the Tokyo Government.
I It i5 added
that the Japanese for the manner these forces, starting sold that the Japanese Embassy - Legation would not comment on the from Basra, assisted in cleaning up tablishments in London suffered from report. Habaniyah and Baghdad in Iraq and the bombing but fortunately were not then carried on in the Syrian cain-destroyed. paign.
The Japanese community compris. They never complained and showing between 40 and 50 residents in ed a very high degree of discipline, proving ideal troops for such tiring warfare.
There no doubt that the Syrian campaign was handled in a masterly manner and great credit is due to these phantom desert columns in regard to the eneiny morale breaking down so early.
Axis Nationals
London, was keeping up an excellent morale, and their casualties thus far totalled no more than two or three slightly injured which Mr Shigemitsu termed most fortunate when compar- ed with the British official casualty overages of 5,000 killed and an equal number injured in each month,
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Japanese Transports Allehandin," quoted by
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anti-aircraft fire.
The single-engined machine was assembled near a small village. Dur- Ing the day he camouflaged it with branches and leaves and when night foll, he worked by the light of a torch to complete it.
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He had to wait for a tail wind to help him across the Channel as tho markable in the whole world by the limited amount of petrol he was able Stockholm newspaper, "Nyodaglit to obtain was barely sufficient. It the Vichy took him an hour and a half to get
The writer declares that this de- Du Fretay is now under training fensive system comprises an exten-as pilot at an R.A.F. flying training sive fortified territory bounded on school. the west by the River Narva, Lake Peipus and the River Velikaya; on the cast by the Valdau Mountains
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Leningrad's fortifications, he says, extend as far as Plesknu. The forti- fed belt along the Gulf of Finland is stated to be 50 miles in depth.
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OTTAWA.-Britain is not going to All these fortified positions have been recently. strengthened. Within be allowed to suffer for need of bacen this area, accommodation is provided to the States or high consumption at either because of Caradlan exports
for 5,000 acroplanes.
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While it has not yet been applied,
U. S. A. AND INDIA an order has been secured to prevent
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At the same time, pressure bas India Office announces that the Bri-
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Sir Girja Shanker Bajpai, a mem-hume.
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India In the United States,
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KWEILIN, July 19 (Central News). COATES-On July 21, 1941, at St.Dr H. Bidder, Counsellor of the Teresa's Hospital, Gladys Han-German Embassy, and a number of nah, beloved wife of A. E. German newspaper correspondents Coates. Aged 31, Funeral will including a representative of the pass the Momument to-morrow "D.N.B. arrived here to-day from at 5.30 p.m. (Shanghal, Tien-Chungking. They are proceeding tsin and Manila papers please presently for Indo-China "on copy).
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