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FINAL EDITION GILMAN'S
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Hongkong Telegraph.
No. 16543
FOUNDED 001 五拜禮 號二十月八英港香
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1941.
日十三月六
HITLER SUSPECTED OF PREPARING NEW FRONT: BIG THREAT TO TURKEY
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH"
· GERMANY APPEARS TO BE PREPARING FOR A NEW BATTLE FRONT WITH INCREASING REPORTS FROM VARIOUS CAPITALS DECLARING THAT THE NAZIS ARE CONCENTRATING TROOPS ON THE BULGARIA-TURKEY FRONTIER. SIMULTANEOUSLY ITALY IS REPORTED TO BE MOVING AGAINST THE CROATS AND ALSO TO HAVE LANDED TROOPS IN THE AEGEAN ISLANDS.
HERE ARE THE LATEST "UNITED PRESS" MESSAGES, EXCLUSIVE TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ON THE NEW SITUATION which is REPORTED TO BE DEVELOPING.
From Ankara: Authoritative military experts from Germany, and which have not yet seen any action declare that advanced elements of two German infantry in Russia.
At the same time considerable reinforcements for divisions are in Bulgaria. arranging billets and supplies
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JAPAN TOLD TO
HALT Britain-U.S. Ready to Act
for fresh troops which, it is believed, will be sent directly the Luftwaffe in the form of ground crews for manning Roosevelt are believed to have decided that any further Japan-
Reds Say Nazi Gains Have Cost Them 2,000,000 Men
Special to the "Telegraph"
MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (UP).~Reviewing the fighting on the Eastern Front, M. Lozovsky, the official spokesman asserted that flerce fighting is going on in the direction of Odessa which is costing the Germans tens of thousands of lives.
RUSSIANS ABANDON GOMEL
"Odessa is neither a Dunkirk nor a Tobruk," declared
the the
spokesman, adding that U. S. Policy
Germans are nowhere near Kiev. "We are realistic politicians and we realise that the expiring Fascist beast can inflict several more severe blows; that danger
army.
In Pacific
Restated By Mr Hull
aerodromes which the Germans have been strenuously multiplying and extending throughout Bulgaria since the Greek campaign have arrived in Sofia, while Italian troops are occupying the east Thracian frontier and are
Special to the "Telegraph" LONDON, Aug. 21 (UP),Mr Churchill and President ese southward move will meet with material British forcible resistance, which is assumed to mean that automatically the ABCD Front will halt Japan.
active both in reconnoitring and improving base supplies. Indo-China
Deny Abuse Of Lend
And Lease
British Reply To Allegations
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Additional Italian reinforce-1 ments have been sent to, the island of Samos, while between ten and fifteen thousand Italiane, concentrated just off the Turkish coast, arrived there a few days ago.
Report Is Denied
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEDRAPH"
It is learned that the Turkish Am- 'bassador to Berlin, Husrev Gerede
recently called the Fuehrer's end-press
Hiller elaborately quarters where nssured Turkey that she had nothing to fear from Germany.
the
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It appears to be the continued determination of the democra cies to avoid any provocative action concerning Japan which would lead to war in the Pacific, but from a strategic viewpoint It is thought that the United States and Britain had concurr. ed that Japan had now reached the deadline in her southward lebensraum push.
ed.
It is reliably reported in London that in the course of retent weeks informal diplomalle conversations have been held in which the United States proposed to Japan
the neutralisation of Indo-China and Thailand-the idea being to give both a status similar to Swit- zerland. The Japanese response was negatively evasive.
VICHY, Aug. 21 (UP).The Paris
Regardless of the firmness of the American British and prints
American an Hanoi dispatch diplomatic conversations with. Japan officially denying the reports publish- which are being pursued, the present ed in Manila that since the Japanese calm around the Pacific powder key occupation, Japan has taken over all is not regarded as meaning that the ports, navigation and transportation; danger of explosion has been lessen- New Border Reports
also that Admiral Decoux, the Governor General has been dep Istanbul: Arrivals from Sufia of all but administrative powers; deprived
Given Every Chance asserted without confirmation that and that the Japanese have disarmed remains as evidenced by the
Yet Washington and London are German troops are concentrating on the French forces and ousted the willing to give Japan every chance LONDON. Aug. 21 (UP).the Bulgarian-Turkish frontier, there- French from the Bank of Indo China to abandon her aggressive ways. It Latest Communique ardent and patriotic proclama-
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" tion signed by Marshal Voro-1
It is learned here that the Bri Cermany has not abandoned her ese control been taken under Japan-is unconfirmedly reported that the
by
United States has fixed a time limit MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (Reuter). shilov regarding Leningrad,” WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 tish Embassy at Washington allegedly original plan to delve on
(UP)The Secretary of State, hus presented a note to the India across Turkey. The impression troops have kept all their arms and -The following is the text of said M. Lozovsky: -
The statement insists that French of several weeks for Japan to reach her decision, after which it will be the communique issued by the
Mr Cordell Hull, to-day reiterat United States Government re-exists that Germany's future plans 2,000,000 Casualties
awailing the
considered useless to continue the Soviet Information Bureau at
ed that the United States policy futing the rumours that Britain
outcome of the war materials.
American-Japanese parleys. The spoltesmon appraising the
Russian campaign, 10.40 p.m. G.M.T.:
German successes said that the Nazis in the Pacific is in opposition to is abusing the Lend and Lease
It is estimated that 200,000 Germun
It also denied that Japanese troops had suffered two million casualties intervention or the transfer of supplies.
troops in the vicinity of the frontier are landing at Fort Bayard and have "In the course of August 21, our including more than half killed, territory by force.
It declares that Britain is not and that additional troop trains are occupied Kwangchowwan. troops wazed stubborn battles with "Humanity has not known a war This comment occurred in connee-exporting Lend and Lease arriving. Fresh materials are also the enemy along the whole front, es- during which such a short period an tion with the reports published in material; secondly, that no pro- the fortifications
arriving to reinforce and supplement pecially Berce in the directions of has suffered similar tremendous New York that Japanese maps now fiteering is allowed in connection Kingisepp, Novgorod and Gomel. Jossea."
show the onnexation of certain small
Diplomats arriving from After heavy „fighting, our troops He asserted that after two months, islands within 70 miles of the Philip with the distribution of Lend Balkans are of the opinion that if evacuated Gomel,
Hitler had seized, a small without pines, including Snt he was not fully thirdly, that Britain promises Germany plans in the Balkans Spratley islands. and Lease supplies in Britain:Turkey enters the war against "According to incomplete data, in Sovlet territory,
Mr the course of air combats, 21 German food reserves and he had found ruin acquainted with the facts of the that no Lend and Lease goods where the Slay elements are report- that
to the aircraft were brought down. Welcd cities and villages, exploded publication, but reminded his ques-will in the future be used for ed to be restive. They sold that lost 12.
plants, a guerilla movement and the loners of the standard United States) "In the afternoon of August 20, hatred of all sections of the occupied policies regarding forceful
export.
the Bulgarian Government particu- five German scouting planes were regions.
It is understood that Britain ex-larly would be faced with the grave brought down by our fighters on the
War Summarized
tion of islands in the Pacific or any plained to the United States that problem of the growing sympathy of An attempt by Tokyo and Washing-and her encroachment there is other ocean, He said that he would British steel and other materials ex-the masses for Russia and the Shay tan to negotiale a "modus vivend!"sidered to have swept the approaches to Moscow and not three
Investigate the matter before menting specifleally. as previously reported."
ported to South America under con- cause.
to bring about a temporary relax States proposal into the ash-can. tracts which were signed months be- It le reported that Rumanian forces tion of the present terision in Japan- However, us the Washington and fore the Land and Lease act became will not go beyond the Bug river, ca-American relations has ended in Tokyo talks have continued, Japan a law, left Britain bef
before the passage
Neutral diplomats at Bucharest es- fallure, according to Vichy news reported to have suggested the drastic of the act. They admitted that cer- tinuate that 90 per cent. of the agency reports from the Japanese Imitation of armaments in Singapore, thin Lend and Lease commodities in Runanian people oppose the
capital quoting well-informed sour- NEI, Australla and the Philippines. which the ingredients were finished against Russia and favour Rumania's ces. In Japan.
and the termination of the Sino- in British Industrit products, like falling out at the first opportunity.
In all, 16 talks are reported to
Japanese war. machinery, had been exported.
have been held during which both American and British authorities
Japan's Ideo, It Is. stated, ia to parties are stated to have refused to enlist United States collaboration for anid that they had agreed that it fresh German troops. As well as air move from their respective positions. the purpose of preventing further re would be mutunity disadvantageous units are moving into Bulgaria, sou- The outcome was that United States armament in the regions mentioned. If the Empire ceased to be a commer-pled with the italien activity in Government Informed the Japanese Washington is reported to have con- clally going concern.
Thrace and the Aegean Islands have Government, rough its Ambassador sidered the Japanese suggestion as revived the belief of the possibility Mr Joseph C. Grew, that it saw no "preposterously comical.” that the Germans will demand the possibility of achieving results AN passage of troops across Turkey, fall-long as Japan failed to modify her
Germans Said Within
13 Miles of Leningrad
but Was
NEW YORK, Aug." 21_(UP),—The Aghting between the Russians and the Germans has been intensified. Berlin chimed that staggering blows [have been inflicted on the Red army NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (Domei)at both ends of the front and said The Stockholm Radio quoting the that the Nazis are driving against Berlin correspondent of the "Afton- the "immediate defences" of Len- bladet" reported that the Nazi troops advancing via Gatchina reached' 13 miles south of Leningrad,
Redqubled Fury BERLIN, Aug. 21 (UP)-On the southern front, the Germans with redoubled fury continued their drivej on Odessa throughout yesterday and
higrad,
Moscow asserted that Marshal Budenny has succceded in withdraw- ing 500,000 men to the eastward across the Dnieper river and that the German tosses in the Ukraine fight- ing were three to one
UFC Russian losses.
Over
sakd
annexo-
com-
Air Services Here To Be Increased
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
CHUNGKING, Aug. 21 (UP), -American and joint Ameri- can-Chinese commercial air ser- Small Dams Dynamited Jast night. German bombers and Berlin admitted that the Russians vices in the Far East are ex- Stukos continued to pound the Soviets had successfully dynamited severni pected to be increased shortly. TURN to Back Pago, Column 3 TURN to Back Page, Column 3 Both the Pan-American Air-
British Planes Fill The
Skies Over Nazi Cities
Special to the "Telegraph"
LONDON, Aug, 21 (UP).—It is authoritatively reported that Britain has had more planes over German cities at night than the Germans ever had over England during the darkest days last winter.
fighters were lost to-day, while Replying to a question as to the enemy lost one. whether the present British air
offensive against Germany livea It was stated that the fighter ex- un to the promises made several corts fought a number
of engage-
weeks ago, the source said that which was destroyed.
ments with enemy fighters, one of
the R.A.F. attacks are heavier
and ways
Sino-American C.Ñ.A.C. are expecting to re- ceive new planes to increase all services west of Manila.
LATEST
Americans Leaving Japan For S'hai
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Ankara: The
wor
reports that
Far East Compromise Failure
Comical Suggestion
This development is reported to have occurred before Japan assumed SHANGHAI, Aug. 22 (Router) her effective control of Indo-China cori-
ing which Germany will attack Tur-political stand.
key.
Other
Initiative Changes
The United States is believed to
United
Jersey -Ship Strike Impasse Continues
developments supporting this belief are firstly the growing evidence that the German offensive have maintained a most energetic against Russia will drag on untilstand throughout and it is becoming WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (Reuter). winter without a decision.
increasingly clear to neutral obser--President Roosevelt has called in Reliable sources stressed the fact vers in Tokyo, the dispatch adds, that C.I.Q. Union representatives for dis- It is reported that- Pan-Amerlenn
that is expecting four now S-43'B to
TOKYO, Aug 22 (UP)-12 is about two months of good cam- the situation has now reversed itself cussion of the sluipbuilding strike in
paigning weather remains in Bul-
In the Far East,
the Kearney, New Jersey, Yards, operate on the Manila-Hongkong learned that the NYK apparently garla and Turkey before the autumn It is now the Anglo-Saxon Powers
has rains bog the Russian roads
The President has requested that enable the running of a twice-weeldy accepted booking for 20 American mud, hence, Hiller may try a diver-is on the defensive and is becoming with the Shipyard management and Singapore lines which expected to under Foreign Offles pressure
with who are taking the initiative. Japan the C.I.O. hold further negotiations service on those fines instead of omelala by the Tokuta Maru which TURN to Back Pago, Column 4 more and more isolated. fortnightly as at present.
is sailing from Kobe for Shanghai on
If possible end the deadlock as the The C.N.A.C. is expecting six new August 26.
Government do not want to take over The
Includes nine navy, two party
the yards If this can possibly be Douglas DC-3's, three of which will
nvolded. be put in operation on all C.N.A.C.marine and four army officers, plus lines in China.
ja pair of consulate clerks, due home
on leave, and nine consular ployees who are evacuating Russia.
Most of these are expected to ob- toin trans-Pacific passage by the transport ship Henderson.
Wanted By Sat:- $7,156.16
em-
The N.Y.K's action is along what I believed to have been the original
It is hoped that before noon Embassy suggestion for the evacua- E bonts in the Channel were at- to-morrow, the Bomber Fundtion of officials, when the Japanese
Alleged
Monster Plot
To Usurp Vichy Govt.
Special to the “Telegraph”
VICHY, Aug. 21 (UP)—The Paris weekly “E'Appel” an-
mysterious association of polytechnicians and high functionaries of Ministry of Finance, it is claimed ; that the insurrectionists were plotting to seize power on behalf of a secret society called [ "synarchy" as the anthesis of anarchy,` grouping religious, cul-
tural, ethnic as well as political groups.
than anything the Germans ever tacked by fighters with cannen and will have reached the $2,500,000 saltings were cancelled. Three other nounced to-day a monster anti-Vichy plot. Pretending to be a produced over Britain and machine-gun dre and a large exple-mark. A second donation of Americans are also leaving.
there will be far more in the slon caused ono to sink and another $1,000 received this morning futuro"
was left smoking. 14 Planes Lost
from "Q" reduces the amount Other fighters escorted Coastal needed to achieve this aim to The Air Ministry in a com-Command planes and attacked enemy munique stated that 14 British shipping off, the French coast. $7,156.16.
Seo "Back Page For Further Late News.
Exports For Russia
And China
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UP)— The State Department to-day issued a general license authorising the ex- port of chemicals, machinery, non- ferrous metals, iron, steel, vegetable products such as rubber, wood and. paper to Russia and Chind "(whore they are sent via the Burma Road), the British Empire, Latin America, Dutch and French Indies, Liberia and other countries,