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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Abend Declares War Inevitable
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drift toward war by the United States.
Girl Freed From Forced Marriage
Japan is termed the prototype of
The marriage of Consuelo Nazi Germany-"arrogant, greedy. Fernandez, instructor at Adam~ scornful of the rights of others, and son University, in the Philip with the temperament of a bully,
Listing speelfe causes for war pines, to Francisco Genato, om- which he says cannot be avoided, Mrployee of the Cebu branch of Abend names Japan's violation of the San Miguel Brewery, was treaties concerning China, and then annulled recently on the ground argues that even aside from ethical reasons the United States cannot per- that it was forced and the mit Japan to be permanently suc-couple did not live together cessful in her campaigns of aggress after the marriage.
Success, he fore- jon and expansion. costs, would make Japan so powerful within two decades that American would be en- geographical safety
dangered, the Japanese tempers
ament being what it i
Cannot Turn Back
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August 20, 1941.
Stubborn Red Army
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port of Odessa were occupied after a two weeks drive. The Iigh com- mand said that ceaseless air-bombing hod reduced Odessa to an "inferno" and that the final assault will soon be launched.
German advance lines are said to
stretch along the Dniester from Kiev to the Black Sea where the bridge- heads over which the remnants of
the Russian forces are trying to reach the cust shore, are being blasted by Gorman artillery and bombers,
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May Release Dam Waters Miss Fernandez and Genato were
SPECIAL TO THE "YELEGRAPH"
(UP)- married on May 3, 1939, and since
NEW YORK, · Aug. 19 that time lind not lived together an
here NEXT CHANGE man and wife. The court adduced There are reports circulating that Miss Fernandez submitted to the from London and Moscow that the marriage under threats and intimida-Russians may break the tremendous tion of Gennio and his relatives.
Dnieperstrov dam for the purpose Miss Fernandez has been teaching of flooding the Germans at Adamson for the past four years.
lower
river After two Genato did not contest the complaint
months of the Russo- German war, the Nazis claimed to no filed against liim.
all the Ukraine have taken
west from the Dniester, comprising about 130,000 square miles, and to have captured 180,750
In the past
It is now impossible for Japan to article her policies, the reverse
the argues, not only because of question of "face" but because appeasement would satisfy Amerien and Great Britain which did not ins
clude the withdrawal of Japanese NEW YORK'S
armed forces from all of China,
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ten days. However, tera In London and
deprecate
Berlin's allegation that the Red NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (Reu-Army in the Ukrainian area is in the process of dissolution, and indi- cated that the Red forces are intnet. London experts assert that 400,000 withdrawn Russian troops have across the Dnieper in the past four days.
Moscow clalms counter blowa
the descrilon of Japan's puppet re- economic and there. For gimes political reasons Japan does not dare to call home her army of more than 1,000,000 men, it is stated, for could not give them employment ter).-The latest known casualty nor afford a dole, and the returned list in just night's dock fire is armies might easily be stirred to aseven dead, 55 in hospital and about 40 missing, including Fragility of Treaties
longshoremen, some of whom article argues thot The Japan's adherence to the German were working in the hold of the If they have escaped deter Panuco, Italian Axls pact would not Tokyo's opportunist statesmen if they they have failed to report them- thought they could appease America and
Britain, and still keep what they selves; they may have been have conquered. It also charges that burnt to death.
นอ The damage is estimated when the time seems opportune,
Japan will carelessly break her $1,500,000. treaty of friendship. neutrality and
sion concluded with Soviet
non-aggression
| xussia on April 13 of this year.
sean wil!
Japan
But Vassar Sophomore
attack Russia unt
Hitler has first broken the Soviet -Dead In Car
power of
resistance.
Japan's military
loses victory, and
at
Mass. A medical examiner reported
against the, Nazls on the Smolensk fient.
95 Miles From Leningrad The Nazis are now about 95 miles from Leningrad-the, central front defending Moscow reportedly holding Arin.
Russian losses In connection with the Dnieper withdrawal are un- officially estimated at 150,000 men.
Aerial warfare continues with German and Russian bombers up- parently attempting to raid enemy capitals without particular success..
New Fighting Planes SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" MOSCOW, Aug, 19 (UP),.--Russia's
It is prophesied.
Greene, clique,
The body of Anne M.- trying etumsily to
at diplomacy, have
have missing: 10-year-old Vassar College rought the Empire to the puss where sophomore, was found in an autorno- its whole future is tied up with the bile in an isolated section of Lexinton, hupe Gera
Mr Abend says she had committed suicide with car-latest fighting planes, reported to be Germany Japan will be so soundly beaten by bon monoxide the Unlied States that her naval forces will be gone and her merchant fleet lost. She will then be an im- poverished and embittered second or even third class power.
Miss Greene had been searched for throughout the east since she drove away from her Cambridge home on June 11 after leaving a suicide note. She was the daughter of Professor William C. Greene of Harvard Uni-
faster, better armed and capable of nying higher than any machine hitherto available to the Russian air force,
is to go into action to-morrow
sday)......
was announced in Moscow America Will Win
to-day, when it was revealed that the Mr Abend is nevertheless confident versity, ihat America will win the conflict. The girl was said to have been de- Soviet aviation industry had now enable them to go into planes to Victory will be followed by the trans-pressed because she had failed in her prepared sufficient numbers of these ferring of most of the United States studies at Vassar and was on pro-combat. Fleet to the Atlantic. Possibly 30
30 bution.
Simultaneously a Moscow dispatch submarines will be left in
The automobile was found parked was released regarding the south- the China to Seas
prey upon Japanese trans in a wooded section of an old rifle
western Ukrainian front which re- fighting in ports and supply ships bound for range. The car doors were locked ported violent street
China, This will so seriously cripple and a rubber bose had been run from cities and vina Melal, Red Army
the Japanese Army on the Asiatic that then General Chlang
armies can stage counter-offensive, and drivė
Figante them into the sen
Although the United States will be seeking no territorial gains by warring against Japan, the author closes by urging that at the final peace conference Japan be permon- ently deprived of some of that long chain of islands extending down the Pacific and into the South Seas, for so long as she holds and can fortify those islands, he argues, Japan will be in a position to bar American trade from eastern Asia..
"The bad neighbour should-ba made to put up at least that much of a bond to keeps the peace," Mr Abend concludes
Mystery Murder Of
Woman Censor
Bermuda nuthorities have called in U.S. G-men to help solve the murder of a woman member of the censor's staff at Hamilton (Bermudn).
The victim was Margaret Staple- ton, a 43-year-old English-woman.
Only clue. to the sinying, which occurred recently is a sawn-off base- bail bal.
Miss Stapleton was killed as she wus cycling along a moonlit road on her way to n railway station.
Doctors declared that ahe been assaulted and beaten to death, The body was found with most of the clothing torn off.
The killing is Bermuda's first "mystery murder."
Flung From Plane, Clings To Tail
Flung out of a training plane, a U.S. Army cadet lodged on its toll and hung on until his Instructor land- ed the plane mafely at St. Louis (Illinois). said:
The
Victor Woodrick, 23, wasn't frightened until we were on the ground. Then I realized
what had happened.
14]
was adjusting the belt around me when the plane dived and somer-
saulted me out.
"I clutched the plane's talpiece in
a grip you couldn't have broken with
a crow-bar."
the exhaust to the ear's interior.
The medical examiner said the girl probably had been dend 10 days.
LATE NEWS
Remoulding England Nearer To The Government's Desire
LONDON, Aug. 19 (British Wireless)-Planned re-building of towns which had suffered heavily from air raids was men- tioned to-day by the Chairman of the War Damage Commission.
The "Red
newspaper, reported that a cavalry regiment has outflanked Germans at a point in the "K" counter-attack at night and had destroyed two Nazl battallons.
"Pravda" also announced the nn- nihilation of two German battalion of the 88th Regiment of Count you Zengen's division which fought in France, Belgium and Greece.
Latest Communique
MOSCOW, Aug. 19 (Reuter)-The following is the text of the Soviet midnight communique issued by the Soviet Information Bureau:..
During August 19, our troups waged battle against the enemy along the entire front, especially stubborn- ly in the Kingisepp. Novgorod, Gorpel and Odessa directions.
now
"According to Information available, on August 17 in the course of air combats, 28 German planes were brought down and not 22 as previously reported.
"On the night of August 17-10, our planes bombed Placsti. Our filers observed large fires and ex- plosions.
"On August 18, 30 German planes were brought down in the course of nir combats. We lost 12 planes,
"In the Black Sen, our bombers sank two enemy transports und set are to another transport."
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following day showed that it had been beached at Lampedusa Island. The ship was there attacked by Blenheims of the N.A.F. and a direct hit with a heavy bomb set it on fire, with volumes of black smoke pour ing from it.
Libya Raided
In Libya, heavy bombers of the RAF. ralded Benghazi and Tripoll during the night of August 17-18. At Benghazi, the harbour and shipping were attacked. Bombs were observed to burst on the bases of Juliana, the Cathedral and Central moles and en zallway sidings. An explosion and several fires resulted,
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Special to the "Telegraph"
TOKYO, Aug. 19 (Domei).-Japan's shipping industry will
At Tripoll, the harbour was bomb-be placed on a complète wartime footing as a result of enforce- ment of the shipping centrol plan which was formally approved the Spanish Mola and fort caused a number of explosions. by the Government at the Cabinet meeting this morning.
Hits on
Repelled By Tomahawks
The plan, which was original- tinue their employment contracts An attempt by a large force of Messerschmitt 100's and 110's to at-ly drafted by the Ministry of with their employers; fourthly, com-. tuck shipping off the Egyptian coast Communications, will be refer- pensation for ship owners.for losses |resulting from Stato control, of yesterday was folled by Tomahawk red to the General Mobilisation shipping, and orthly, the Govern- Aghters of the R.A.F., which gave combat to the 100's and compelled Inquiry Commission before be-ment to be authorised to control the
shipbuilding industry. the 110's to drop their bombs some ing legalised.
Taken Over miles from the target.
The principal-points of the plan,
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" Abyssinia
which aims at placing shipping
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (UP)/~The In the Wolchent, Debarech and under exclusive State control, include Mr Trustram Eve said that he, Liverpool, Plymouth and Sheffield. Gondar areas of Abyssinia, aircraft|rstly, authorisation for the Govern-National Broadcasting Corporation ment to requisition vessels; secondly, to-dhy, hear the B.B.C. report that had just completed a tour of the power given by Parliament to of the R.A.F. and the South African the Government to execute supervi- the Japanese Government had talten these towna, and although prohibit re-building except by per- Air Force have been co-operating in sion ever transportation schedules over the Japanese merchant marine
mission of the authorities had been machine-gunning and www.everyone would wish it had exercised with the result that no
bombing well as the bottoms allotment pro- for use by the Japanese navy. enemy positions. Direct hits were come about another way, a long re-building could take place until scored on nuts and buildings and the grammes, through a special Juridical needed opportunity, had been ing plan: had completed, their A number of fires ware started.
those conterned with Á
person to be appointed for the pur- good re- Fascist Headquarters was destroyed, pose, thirdly, the Government to be Four unused blue twopenny stamps, given by the air raids to carry buildi
scheme,
Operating off Malts, a Hurricane authorised to mobilise crews, whe, of 1940 of Great Britain have been out a very necessary, measure of
Mr Eve stated that.comprehensive aircraft intercepted and shot down a however, will be permitted to con- sold at a London auction for £0. re-planning.
legislation dealing with us whole Caproni seaplane, Part He revealed, that in soma 10 cities, subject of planning was contemplat From all these operations, ty Including Ve Eöndón; « : Birmingham, Fed;
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