NANCY
I SURE AM, LUCKY TO
HAVE THIS LITTLE
FAN ON A HOT
DAY LIKE THIS!
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BUT I FEEL SO SORRY. FOR
THE POOR ANIMALS
IN THIS AWFUL
HEAT!
September 8, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller.
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BATTLE Nazi-Turkish
FOR LENINGRAD Issue Remains In Balance
Trade Talks Delegation To Ankara
ISTANBUL, Sept. 7
[ure
(Reuter).—
Dr Clodius the German trade negotia- ter, has now arrived here by air at the head of a large delegation in- cluding nine, economic experts. They proceeding to-morrow to Ankara where talks will take place. The Turkish delegates will be headed by
Counsellor M. Kishmir
the Ministry of Commerce.
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(War Commentary by "Annalist") LONDON, Sept. 7 (Reuter),—Throughout the week-end, the battle for Letingrad continued unabated. The issue re- mains in the balance: the Soviet communique is reticent, report- ing only that fighting continues, while oven the Germans merely
It is believed that the new agree fall back upon the accustomed formula that operations continue
ment envisages transactions valued "according to plan."
Without the capture of these, It Isnt about £20,000,000 based on the burter system. In view of defects in Despite the huge effort the pointed out, it is nonsense to talk of Germans are making, it seems the city being isolated even though the means of transport and the dint- come railways may be put out of vulties of communications by Jand that they have nothing concrete action for a short time.
and sen it is considered that the Germans will be unable to derive all to report since their claim two
the advantages hoped for from the days ago that Leningrad was
agreement. under shell-fire.
Even If this clalm is true, it is not particularly significant for it may be
Chrome Surplus. ANICARA, Sept. 7 (Reuter).→→ It is learned in Turkish business circles that the Germans are likely to press for chrome which Germany does not need ot present but wants to purchase in order to strike a dip- lomalle blow at Britain who accord- He described the attack of yester-ing to an agreement which however, doubt it is just because the Russians day when 40 German dive-bombers expires shortly unless renewed, was realise the strategic importance of attacked an unidentified bridge, caus- granted the right to purchase all that clty they are now exerting such ing small damage which was im Turkey's exportable surplus strenuous efforts to defend it.
Air Attacks Fail MOSCOW, Sept. 7 (UP).-Despite their air attacks, the Germans have not succeeded in wrecking the rail- way bridges on the approaches to Leningrad according to * special noted that Odessa, Tobruk and even correspondent at the front. He said Dover all along have been under that crews are standing by on the German shell-fire, but are far from river bank repairing the slight dam- being in German hands.
Nevertheless it would be foolish toge and enabling the maintenance of underrate the seriousness of the Ger-communications. man thrust on Leningrad
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no
Diversion Of Strength 'Should Leningrad fall at any time before the winter sets in. It might leave a section of the Nazi army free
S repaired, while the village chrome.
It was in flames.
He said that in the same sector, Colonel Donskov is retaining the initiative by counter-attacks which are forcing back the Germans. Fifty
to sweep inwards towards Moscow German parachutists landed in the and in addition would give them in rear of his unit. All were rounded the port of Leningrad a valuable up and killed, supply base free from mud and snow though not from ice, for it should be noted that the Gulf of Finland is Ice-covered throughout the winter months.
Arc
The defences which the Germans are now facing In Leningrad formidable. Indeed the three con- centric rings of fortifications around its southeastern approaches (the only direction from which the city seriously be threatened) have been, compared in strength with the best In the world. They may not be im- will certainly pregnable but they
can
CEASELESS ACTIVITY
BY R.A.F.
Foochow Is Returning To Normalcy
nt
(Central
FOOCHOW, Sept. 7 News) Conditions in Foocliow are gradually returning to normal. With the rehabilitation of the city under way, former residents are re- turning in large numbers.
To relieve the acute shortage of food the Fuklen Provincial Food Bureau has sent here a considerable
Tripoli And Derna quantity
Attacked
CAIRO, Sept. 7 (Reuter). to try to The R.A.F. communique says: per picul
exact a disastrous toll of German lives if the Nazis decide
by storm. take the
of rice for distribution among the refugees. The price of the staple is now quoted at $100 per picul; at the time of the fall of the city it rose to as high as over $1,000 Communication on the Min River "Llbyn-Heavy bombers of the was restored yesterday when a ship the R.A.F. attacked shipping along-left here down river amid scones of very outskirts of this city of 3,000,- side the Spanish Quay at Tri-wild enthusiasm. Thousands of per- 000 inhabitants, their problems will poli on the night of September sons lined the banks and cheered the have only begun for the boundaries B-6. A medium-sized merchant-were let off. are a network of rivers and canals. The southern sector alone is thread-man was hit by bombs and many
ed Outskirts
Even if the Germans reach
ed by five canals while the 400-yard direct hits were obtained on the wide River Neva-protects this quarter Quay.--- from the cast.
"Other RAF. bombers raided a
departing vessel and fire-crackers
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Supply Vessel On Fire
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Barelegged
Women In
St Peter's
"An enemy fighter was destroyed by Bur escorting? fighters. Our fighters also carried out several offensive
Northern sweeps. over France in the course of which they destroyed a second enemy fighter.
"In these operations we lost two Blenheims and two fighters."
Fires Across Channel LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter).- Flames from a chain of fires redden- ed the sky above Boulogne last night and watchers on the Kent coast belleve that R.A.F. bombers gave the Invasion ports a 90-minute bombing in brillant moonlight.
Thousands of people from Rams- gate to Dungeness had a grandstand view of attack; for visibility was exceptionally clear.
President Roosevelt's
Aged Mother
Passes
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (Reuter). President Roosevelt's mother Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt is dend.
The President and his wife spent Saturday night at his mother's bedside and they were with her when she died at 11.15 return to Algonac she married In a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Mrs Roosevelt had been un- 1830 James Roosevelt, who was a distant usin. In December, 1900, conscious for 12 hours following when the present President was 18, what the family physician, Dr his father, led and from then on Searchlights tried to pick out the Scott Smith, called "acute cirward Mrs Roosevelt's affection was centred on her son, whose meteorl: aircraft guns flashed into action allculatory collapse duo principally career she followed step by step with the way from Boulogne to Cap Gris to advanced age."
great pride.
R.A.F. ralders and batteries of anti-
At 11.30 p.m. after the last of the
raiders had re-crossed the Channel, big fires were burning more fercely
BERNE, Sept. 7 (Reuter). Nez. It is learned from the Vatican City that shortage of women's stockings in Italy has caused a minor revolution in Catholic traditions.
than ever.
Daylight Operations
LONDON. Sept. 7 (Reuter). To-day the Vatican authorities Three British fighters were lost in permitted women to enter St Peler's | to-day's daylight operátious, the Air without stockings,
Ministry announced,
The decision, which was based on the almost complete lack of stock- ings in Italy except for women able to pay exorbitant prices, will prob- ably be
to all Talian oppilda churches,
Envoys From Canberra
Japanese
Withdraw
From Syria
The Consul General, Mr Salto, and
The first intimation of this develop- ment came on Friday night, but Mrs Sara Roosevelt's condition did not become alarming until late on Satur- day,
The funeral at Hyde Park on Tucs. day will be private.
Visit To Paris
In September, 1937, at the age of 83 Mrs Roosevelt went to Paris-B the Invitation of the French Govern- ment. She vialled the Paris Exhibi- tion where she was entertained ot
entere luncheon, She an offeini the luncheon room on the arm
who WON the The old lady spent most of the M. Paul Bonnet,
Finance, and summer at her cotinge at Campo French Minister of
She previously Ambassador in Washing- Bello Island, New Brunswick,
ion. left there for Hyde Park on August 31.
Met King And Queen
Mrs Sara Roosevelt was the wife of James Roosevelt, fourth cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1030 she met the King and Queen during their stay at the Hyde Fark residence of the President and his wife during the Royal tour of Canada
and
miles from Newbord,
It is
will presumed that Mrs Roosove?! be burled at St James' Eplacop:] Church, Hyde Park village, where the President's father is interred. Mr.
attending Roosevelt was very active, many charitable functions and state occasions but it is known that th Park for the week-end, wanted his President, when he went to Hyde mother to have a "check up" by her
doctor.
the United States,
few Born in 1854 at Algonac, a
Broadcast Postponed New York NEW YORK, Sept, 7 (Router).- spent her According to the Columbia Broad- her casting System the broadcast is post- business.-On-her-poned-to-Thursday.
childhood in Hongkong where father was in
BEIRUT, Sept. 7 (Reuter).- The Japanese Consulate-General To Britain And China here, which has jurisdiction over Booty Captured
SYDNEY, Sept. 7 (Reuter). Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, NANPING, Sept. 7 (Central
Up"-Sir Earle Page, who is shortly will close on Monday owing to State, Mrs Roosevelt "mopping News)Chinese operations on both banks of the Min going to London to represent the the existing circumstances. River have yielded
a statement to-day regarding his Tungkow, AL
heavily-guarded.
Df Foochow Japanese post about seven miles west mission.
where the decisive battle! for Foochow was fought on the night of September 2, the Chinese captured 300 shells abandoned by the Japaneso when they hurriedly evacuated the point.
waterway number of objectives in Cirenalca, and a number of prisoner war booty Australian Government, issued the Vice-Consul are leaving Beirut,!
with the 13 easy
With the Russians determined to fight from waterway to
At Derna, Iarge fires broke out and and house to house and winter coming soon, it
to in one of these an explosion took Imagine the formidable task and huge place followed by showers of sparks. toll of human lives awaiting the A number of enemy alrcraft on the Nazis before their communiques will ground are believed to have been be able to claim that they have taken destroyed.
"A motor transport camp south of Leningrad. "according to plan."
Deran was also attacked and fires re- Nazi Nonsense
7 (Reuter)-Itsulted from our bombing. MOSCOW, Sept.".
"At Martuba, bombs fell among was stated here to-day that the
the dispersed aircraft and motor trans- Germans are nowhere near southeastern approaches to Lenin-ports and the glow of the fires could grad, still less the eastern approaches, be seen all over the target area.
attacks "Other
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"On the night of September 6-7, enemy aircraft attempted to raid the Suez Canal area. shot down two ralders and damaged others.
Other Japanese officials and civilians
Catroux Consultations DAMASCUS, Sept. 7 (Reuter)-
leader, General The Free French
have already left for Japan,
He said: "My function will be to, establish personal Cabinet liaison be- tween the two governments. I am stili directly responsible to the Aus-Georges Catroux, has proceeded to Aleppo for consultations with leading tralian Parliament and people.
concerning Syrla's "The primary purpose of my personalities In Futsing and Lenklang, Japan-mission will be the presentation of future. esc stragglers are being rounded up the Australian viewpoint in certain immediate and and nuperous prisoners taken. They major problems are being escorted to Foochow for strategy. trial.
One heavy gun and some 30 machine-guns were seized in the Llenklang sector.
Our night fighters Texas Head Office
"From all these operations one of our aircraft in missing."
Greer Sequel Inflames U.S. Opinion
Nazi Charges Ridiculed WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Reu- ter).-German charges against President Roosevelt over the Greer incident are treated as
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that the Greer had any orders to do anything but defend her- self.
Morcover, the destroyer was
submarine plainly marked that no
periscope above commander with the water could possibly have mis- taken her for one transferred to Britain.
appeared
"The second-purpose will be to arrange the best plan for maintain- ing the system of direct Cabinet representation_in_London,"
Sir F. Eggleston
SINGAPORE, Sept. 7 (Reuter).—
New Incidents In Paris
LONDON, Sept. 7 (Reuter).—The Swiss radio under the title of "New Sir Frederick Eggleston, first Aus-Incidents In Paris" reports a fire al- To Be Transferred Singapore, Chungiting, has leged to have been started maliciously
arrived in
The head office of the Texas Com-
He
In the garage of the 18th Arroundis-
pany (China) Limited in Shanghai appointed: The policy of my sement of Paris which was requisi-
will be shifted to Singapore sometime the this month.
The transfer will involve only part of the staff of the Cornpany which will continue to operate in Shanghat for
the sale of petrol and oil. The transfer was ordered by the main office of the company In New York owing to the slump in business the In Shanghai. Mr LeFevre, general manager of the Company in Shanghai, will be general manager of the new head office.
ANGLO-SOVIET TRADE TREATY
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH" MOSCOW, Sept. 77 (UP)~~A technical agreement between the Bank of England and the Soviet State Bank has been signed imple menting the trade pact and regulat ing the mode of payments and sex- changes. -
Japanese Silence
On Oil Tankers
is gradually to extend toned by the Germans. Firemen diplomatic representation
extinguished the fire. Australia to all countries in the
Investigators found in the garage Pacific with which we have diploma-
quarter ro- tic contact. This does not involve bombs which had not exploded.
Ger- any breach if we are in unity with volver shots were fired at a the Brillsh Commonwealth of
slightly พอง Nations.
"Those appointed will regard their task as one of co-operation with British Ministers. It is, of course, true that Australia may have differ ent interests on certain points but there will be constant consultations so na to beat cut a common policy,"
One Mad Man
& His Dog
Hitler In The Woods MADRID, Sept. 7 (Reuter). The Berlin correspondent of "Ele" sends a graphic description of Hitler's headquarters about which silence up
to now has been maintonger the
1
The headquarters is no
In the Eiffel Tower
soldier
who
man wounded.
In the Bourse district-a civilan was ill-treated, the radio adds.
Gurman Swiss
Civilian Slightly Hurt SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH VICHY, Sept. 7 (UP)~A German civilian was slightly hurt when set upon and overthrown while walking lute last night near the central market in downtown Paris. His assailants escaped.
MEN OF SCIENCE IN WORLD OF TO-MORROW
LONDON, Sept. 7 (Router)-Re-
SHANGHAI, Sept. 7. (Reuter) group of lorries which are trans- | three-day scientific conference in
The arrival of two American, tankers campment," he says,
The incident, which fairly Innocuous at first, now
train sect in newsreels. "The presentatives of Britain and the threatens to develop into a serious
diflculties of rollway communien- Empire, the United States, Soviet diplomatie' issue and while no, one
tions have necessitated a cllange to Russia and China will meet at a still believes that it enn lead America. into war, it will intensify relations
into a kind of automobile en- Londen on. September 20-28 "to and similar incidente in future will
demonstrate the common purpose of unqucationably infiamo opinion here. at Vladivostok with all for Russla "Camp La
In always pitched near men of science in ensuring a post- Reports from Hyde Park that Presi
has not so far been reported in dny mountain or wood so that Hitler can war order in which the maximum dent Roosevelt is considering convoys Japanese newspaper as the result of take the solitary walls he le accus- benefits of science can be secured for as a result of the Greer, incident are netlon taken by Japanese censorship, tomed to at Berchtesgaden, At all people.” - received here with intense interest according to foreign reports reach-present it is near a large wood where Mr. John Winant, M. Mainly, and but no further information on thising Shanghai.
iller walks alone with a dog. Dr Wellington Kog are the American, hend is available here.
thousand precautions are taken to Russian and Chinese Ambassadorą
A memorial service for the late keep the situation secret. Mails who will preside at some of the 3 Czecho-Slovakio, Poland, Norway, then by car to the camp.de
Ex-President Dead Mr Yi Chartong, General Manager sent by air to different aerodromes, sessions, its
of the Farmers Bank of China, who
"HAVANA,⠀⠀⠀ Sept"|-} - (UP)—The former Fresident of Cuba, Senor Mario Garcia Menocal, 19, died here to-day.
passed away in America on. July 18, The Press chief Dr Dietrich has Holland, Belgium and France will was held at Confucius Hall, Caroling a special mobile office where world also be represented, and exiled Hill Road, by a group of prominent news is received so that Hitior is scientists from Germany, and Austria Chinese here yesterday.
kept informed of current events." "I will probably also be present.
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