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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie Bushmiller.
August 18, 1941.
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Japan Displeased By LETTERS Fleet Air Arms'
Anglo-Soviet Accord
Special to the "Telegraph"
TOKYO, August 18 (Domel).-Declaring that it is regret- inble that the Soviet Union has decided to join in the Anglo- American camp in the war against the Axis Powers in Europe, the "Hochi Shimbun" says, "Japan as a partner of Italy and Germany cannot remain indifferent to the increasing collabora tion among Britnin and the United States and the Soviet Union."
Referring to the projected Moscow conference, the paper
says, "Britain and the United
States are most likely to promise
the supply of arms and ammuni-
Great Lakes
Iron Ore Fleet
tion and other military equip iment to the Soviet Union in re-) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Reuters turn for Russian raw materials The construction of an emergency such as iron ore, coal, oil and at the cost of about $50,000,000 for feet of 25 Great Lakes iron ore boats manganese.
delivery in 1943 "If the Soviet Union accepts such the Maritime Commission by
recommended to the a.deal she may be greatly disappoint-Office of Production Management. ed for it 1 well-known faci Offcials Indicated that the boats: that Britain and America at present are necessary to move iron ore for are not in a position to extend aid the expanded steel programme and
that an ultimately be found necessary.
to others."
The paper further says, "If the Soviet Union's increasing collabora- tion with Britula and Americn bring about
any change in the For Eastern situation, Japan will not be respon sible for any change in its current relations with the Soviet Union which have been improving greatly since the recent conclusion of the Neutrality Pact."
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Dissatisfaction Over Rent
The Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph. Sir-The Prevention of Eviction Ordinance was, admittedly, intended su salutary measure to restrain in- satiable landlords from rapaciously exploiting their unfortunate tenants by
Increasing the renta periodically of their dwellings whose refusal to comply with the demands would, they know, result in the certainty of their being evicted from their homes; for the power of eviction is, in the
Best
Week In Mid. East
LONDON, Aug. 17 (British Wireless)-With the destruc tion in the Mediterranean during, the last 48 hours of 17,000 tons of enemy shipping, to which must be added n 2,000-ton merchantman sunk at Catania and another vessel of 1,300 tons sunk at Syracuse during the last few days, the Fleet Air Arm have completed their most successful week in the Middle East, says the Air Ministry,
To these confirmed shipping losses and a collier bombed at Lampedusa must be added a destroyer and two schooners of
Fighting On West River Resumes
words of the ionourable the 300 tons ench, which were prob- West
Attorney General at the time of the terrible weapon in such a congested passing of the original ordinance, "a Colony as Hongkong.
on the public a great measure of For this Ordinance, which confers torellef and benent, and which is Excellency the Governer, Sir Geof frey Northcute, was undoubtedly responsible for bringing into
being. bered by the public of Hongkong R he will be ever gratefully remem- one of his outstanding achievements. Nevertheless the periodical raising of the rents of the poor tenants by their greedy Inndiords is, unfortun reason that few volees have been ately, as rampant as ever, and the raised in indignant protest against the landlords insatiable greed is that the great majority of the tenants belong to the poor ignorant class of natives, who rather than refuse to comply with their landlords unjust demands would meekly submit to them for fear of being turned out of their homes.
Economic Control WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Reuter). the defence of the United States in
-Trade measures taken to-day for clude:
(1) Placing more commodities under export control. They include wood pulp, metals, machinery and vehicles, rubber and rubber goods, chemicals and related products ex- cept certain pharmaceutical products
not listed in previous schedules.
(2) The United States Army and Nuvy have been given priority on orders for mosquito netting, sewing achines and all types of business machines
On the question of the assessment of rent, on which landlords seem to place much reliance, it is evident that, because of the hazardous way in which it had, in some instances, been made. It leaves much to be de-
Attempted Murder stret
In Shanghai
Chinese engineers and machine- shop workers in the Colony, who have been negotiating for some time past for better standards of pay and employment conditions compatible. with the Increased
cost llying, are
of
CHUNGKING, Aug. 18 (Central now reported to have received coun- News).-An attempt was made ter-proposals from their employers. yesterday afternoon by a gunman on Representatives of the Chinese En-the life of Fan Heng-teh, proprietor gineering Society wit confer this of the Dal Wu Tai, a theatre in the afternoon with the Labour Officer. International Settlement in Shanghai.parison with Mr B. C. K. Hawking. It
Fan was coming out of the theatre is not known what proposals have been when he was fired upon and wound- received from employers
ed, but his life is in no danger. The The Society, one of the biggest gunman killed a policeman after an Inbour organisations in Hongkomt. exchange of fire. acts for several thousand people working for Chinese factories here. o be due to personal grudges.
Take a case point: Exactly six months after the Evielion Ordinance had been passed, the rent of a flat was increased 25 per cent and only last year the old landlord again gave notice of a further increase in cent; but after having pointed out to bim the disadvantage of this flat in com- those of adjoining houses, he was amenable to reason and did not raise the rent; but no sooner had the present new landlord nequired these houses than he im- nedlately raised the rent of every course to the Assessor,
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Rouging in their raids from Gondar tu Tripoll, Sielly and Greece, our
intensity of the air war over Get- mirerati bave Curried out m which, though over-shadowed by the many and decupled territories, has tral News)Japanese troops SHIUKWAN, Aug. 18 (Cen- extremely successful.
from Sanshui, on the West The blitz started on the night of
River in Kwangtung, push- August 8-9 when farge formation ed to Old Samshui City on et heavy R.A.F. bombers carried out August 13 and continued their a concentrated and damaging attack advance on Chinglungkong, via
waterway of the Corinth
on
the
Canal. It was subsequently reveal-Halakong, north of Old Samshul
been caused and that the Canat was and drove them back. inter that considerable landslides had troops launched counter-attacks ed after the second raid a few nights City the next day. Chinese
damaged to such an extent as makes it unnavigable for a long period.
S. Africans Hit Hard Continuous day and night attacks R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm, a South were made elsewhere. With the African Air Force formation of 10 Marylands and Tomahawks added to the weight of the offensive parilcu- arly on Tripolitania and Cirenalca.
Benghazi had a particularly sever raid and one explosion was seen 100 miles away.
During the week. British aircraft also attacked shipping and
acro- dromes in Sicily, and southern Italy.]
Portuguese. Passes On
Mr E. E. Osmund Mr Ernest Edgar Osmund, age 57, kong Portuguese community, died at a well-known member of the Hong- his residence ut No. 1 Liberly Avenue,
Swabue Advance Repulsed SHIUKWAN,. Aug. 18 (Central Swabue invaded Lauchingbu, north- Newa) Japanese force · from
coast, on August 13. They met with east of Swabue, on the Kwangtung stubborn Chinese resistance and re- treated to Swabue.
A Japanese unit from Kongmoon, Hokshan highway, was engaged by pushing westward on the Sunwul- the Chinese at Pingting on August 12. It was driven back after hours of fighting.
Communique CHUNGKING. Aug. 17 (Central New)-A freight train on the Shanghai-Nunking Railway was over- turned yesterday al Anting, 20 miles northwest of Shanghat, where the rails had been torn up, according to a Shanghai report.
Trains could not go through to-day ed. Passengers had to change trains us repairs bad not yet been complet at the spot.
The attempted murder is believed at, and to implement it he had re-long illness "untin, yesterday after / sabotaged by Chinese mobile units.
Capture of Nikolaiev Only A Minor German Success
LONDON Aug. 17 (Reuter).—A commentary by "Annalist" states: "Eight weeks of constant war, in which millions of men, thousands of tanks and any number of guns have been engaged, see the Germans with their first substantial success in their hands, namely the town of Nickolaiev on the Black Sea.
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Raid on Kunming SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" INDO-CHINA BASE,
Aug. 18 yesterday heavily bombed Kunming, _(Domel)---Japanese_naval plonos the capital of Yunnan Province, says
city. Aircraft plants in the city were an official naval communique. Fires were started at several places in the also bonibed.
Szechuen Bases Attacked SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NANKING, August 18 (Domei).— Japanese military air units on Sunday made an intense attack on Tzeliutsing, the greatest salt producing centre in Chungking, the Press Section of the. Japanese Expeditionary Forces 10 China announced.
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The late Mr Osmund worked in due course and without any Messrs Jardine, Matheson's Insurance notice, a party consisting of a Euro-Department-for-35-years-and-retired pean and a Chinese from the Access- ment Department came to the above
not long ago. Hat and began
Cleaver. survived by three brothers, measuring it, which like most corner Chinese tenement and four sisters Mrs A. Perera, Messry A. F., C.H. and G.V. Osmund houses is surrounded by felt gloss LF. Lopes (Shanghai), Mrs. Ber- windows giving into an apology tornardo and hirs C. M. Alves. He was a verandah of only 2 feet 6 inclies in the uncle of Mr A.J. Osmund, the width which served no useful pur prominent local billiard player. pose.
Now, to obtain space sufficient for ment at 5,30 p.m. to-day.
The funeral will pass the Monu- three cubicles, these have to be which, being exposed completely to erected against the glass windows sun and rain, make it impossible to put them in such a position; so they have to be placed against the wall which, owing to the space taken up
A pirney occurred inside British by but
the entrance, leaves just sufficient waters on August 10 when a cargo all the flats of adjoining houses have sunce for only two cubicles; whereas of medicine and other goods was lost. According to a report made by Iteach three, cubicles.
Cheung Kai, of cargo boat No. 4327, the boat was salling' near Nine Pins Therefore. the Cler
it is quite clear that, ne- cording to the dictates of common island about 8 p.m. when it en roll of drums and
countered a small sampon. After a tion of the port of Odessa, which primarily broken with the roads to
world that Russion resistance
be apportioned proportionately, tak few shots fred from the sampan, six was ing into consideration the disabill-robbers, armed with two revolvers may involve a coatly toll if re- Leningrad, Moscow and. Klev de-
ties or otherwise of each individual and two rifles, boarded the boat. duced by force.
Binitely open
flat; but, Instead of such apportion. Some of the crew were put ashore and that the largest ment, the rent of a int containing and the robbers sulled the boat away, the purchase of tanks. portion of the Russian Army was only two cubicles has either made prisoner or destroyed.
been increased
may Kuccess
"It is not a very big prize nor "Intrinsically, Nikolaiev was it fortified like Odessa, but regarded as a miner
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it confirms that the Germans compared to the aspirations and am have
bitious claims of the Germans, over-run the extreme faces into Insignificance, southern portion of the Ukraine "Just four weeks ago, as far as the estuary of the man radio, with Dnieper River with the excep-bursts of fanfare, was telling tic sense, any Increases in rent should
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Front Not Altered
Despite these resounding broad- easts, the front has not altered even
on the German showing at Lenin grad. Moscow and Klev since that date. The German forces have been forced to make their efforts further
and further south in their endeavour
to and a weak spot or outflank the Russian system of defence.
50 per cent more than the increase
in the rent of flats containing three cubicles each, which is reaily what has been done
been done in this case. Consequently, the conclusion is irresistible that, consequent upon the disproportionate
British Waters
Other Army air units also bambed the city of
Kalhsien, In eastern Szechuen, and the salt martufacturing plants there, while the supply lines near Kwelchow in western Hupch were also bombed and destroyed, the communique discloses.
LONDON, Aug. 17 (British Wire- less). The British
community In Sumatra have enbied £1,000 to the Minister of Supply as a gift towards
Sicily and North Africa
chat pattern desires and the Raked by Royal Air Force
rents between the above
ones.
other fats, the assessment is, to say the least, wrong because it was not Friday night was reported in the R.A.F. communique to-day CAIRO, Aug. 17 (Reuter).A successful raid on Sleily on Intelligently
mode. Moreover, the rent of the above which.states: flat has "Even in the drive southeastwards, war already been increased exactly
since the beginning of the "Sicily: Heavy R.A.F. bombers carried out a successful raid which has terminated with the fall of 1024 per cent-n fact which the
on the port of Catania during Friday night, and many bombs Nikolajev, the Soviet forces under person who made the Marshal Budenny seem to have sue-
assessment and were dropped on the central mole, railway stations, Customs recommended the unfortunate in- bulidings and warehouses, causing one large fire and many small corded in evading encirclement and crease in rent did not probably know. their retreat into the arc of the Furthermore, if like the Urban
South African. Air Force bombers Dnieper, and in some cases across the Lounell, which could find it no in- Later, an explosion occurred when and fighters. river, appears
to have been con- convenience to dist
to distribute thousands the ftamics were rising to a height of "Our fighters Intercepted and dam- ducted without loss ог serious dis- of notices to householders informing
ning 800 feet and were visible for 70 miles. aged an Italian bomber aff Cambut. them days in
of the date Sweeps were made by fighters
Malta Russian communique has not
that
Clings would
"be over southern Sicily yesterday but "Malta: Malta was raided on, Fri: yei admitted the loss of Nikolalev, cleansed, surely the Assessors De- no combat resulted.
day night but with only minor dam to the German claims may, as so fre- partment can easily do the quently has happened, be somewhat since it has but a very low notices R... bombers raided aerodromes at one of our aircraft is missing. premature, but it is not regarded tos for distribution; and, by doing so, Berka and Benina, and the ports of improbable or of special importance some proper person may be enabled Bardia and Benghazi. At Bening In well-informed quarters in London. not only to attend the party from direct hits were registered on hangara
Little Material Left
"In any case, the Russians will surely have left very little material of a serviceable character for the use of the Germans and all shipping will have been removed or scuttled.
rest
"On the of the front, the situation remains unchanged al though there are indications of re- newed fighting north of Leningrad al Kexholm and around Smolensk."
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Building. "Cyrenaica: During Friday night age. From all these operations, only
Italian Version SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH the Assessors Department on their and administrative buildings. Con communique states that the British ROME, Aug, 17- (UP)—An official calling at the premises but also to the offices were set on fire, and air force last night again undertook furnish them with
there were a relevant
number of explosions, action against Calanin and attacked facts which they may be unaware of
"At Berka, grounded aircraft wero Syracuse where they were met by a or unable to see for tiemselves Attacked. Aircraft of the Fleet Air derco barrage of Italian ground de- notice; thus much friction and even without being brought to their Arm, Supported by RAF. Bombers, fence.
successfully raided Bardin and
High explosive and incendiary annoyance can be avolded; while
bombed shipping at Benghazi. intelligent assessment should be the
bombs struck a number of dwelling Tobruk result.
houses, Sono damage was caused al "Enemy gun positions south of our Syracuse but there were no casualt- J. M. XAVIER.
positions at Tobruk were subjected les. Eighteen persons were killed *Address of the case in point has been eliminated-Editor,
to a heavy bombardment by the and twenty-five wounded during the combined forces of the RAF and attack on Catania,
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