Invaders Heavy Losses In North Hunan Campaign
CHUNGKING, Sept. 23 (Central News). Over. 15,000 Japanese officers and men have been killed and wounded up to Monday in their current drive southward by land and water from Yochow in northern Hunan, according to a Chinese milli ́tary communique.
The Japanese have thrown ab- proximately five divisions into the five-day old battle in ad-
No Mother
dition to more than 20 warships Hubbards In
of various sizes, over 200 steam Launches for landing operations and upwards of 100 military planes.
Britain
Good News Of Food
The present battleground covers 70 kilometres both whys with the LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter),--New nearest Japanese spearhead over 80 improvements in Britain's food rup- kilometres, to the north of Changsheply were announced to-day by the along the Canton-Hankow Railway, Ministry of Food. The price of in Latest field dispatches revealed tiat four-pound white loaf of bread will, in the face of vigorous Chinese with certain small exceptions, be counter-attacks, the Japanese have reduced from 940 to ad from held large reserves in readiness be October 0. hind their frontline and it is too The Miniatry also afinounced that early to predict whether the enemy the United States in Rending onc will pour these in or stage a north-million cases of canned salmon under
ward retreat,
Encirclement
the Lease-Lend facilities while Canada is also sending one mlilton
At any rate, the communique cuses. This with considerable
of imports
sinted, If the enemy does not brenic
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 24, 1941,
·
Jn-
canned pilchards
the present stalemate soon there, lan weerings will mean that during
exceed
several
possibility of the invaders along the the third year of war, the available
will supply of canned fah banks of the Milo River being com- even that of pre-war years. pletely surrounded by the Chinese. The controlled prices of
According to the communique, the kinds of fresh fish are now being designations of
of seven Japanese units reduced. have been discovered although the actual strength of the enemy totals
divisions.
One
Пус
Cheese Promised
that
A Ministry spokesman sald was while it was not desirable to reveal drawn from
from Yochow, one from the total imports of foodstuffs from Sulhsien in northern Hupeh, paris the United States, it could be said of the divisions from the Han River that the United States will be
Wuchong.233.92,000 pounds of cheese. front, northern : Klangsi,
be sending The Lehang and one mixed brigade froíó United States and the Dominions, he Kiukiong.
Isaid, were changing the
their agricultural In The South
methods to suit British requirements, SHUHING, Sept. 23 (Central Thus New Zealand was changing News) The Japanese unit estimated from butter to cheese making, and at more than a 1,000 men who were Australia was making similar efforts lunded at Kwonghe last Saturday while Canada had undertaken to In- morning drove northwart and enter-crease fourfold her export of bacon,
Teishan, home town ed
of many oversens Chinese and terminal of the that the Ministries
The spokesman further indicated of Food! and Tolshan Railway near the southern Health were considering additional Kwangtung coast, the same evening measures to control the price From Taishan they followed the quality of substitutes for eggs railway and continued their advance northward on Sunday, but mutate various trails. In order
quality and to prevent fraud, strong Chinese resistance.
Up to Sunday night, songuinary. fighting had been proceeding to the south of Tolshan
To the Sunwul sector, a fresh Japanese offensive westward was started Jast Saturday following the arrival of some reinforcements at Sunwul and Keng inoon from Canton, The Japanese are striking in three directions west ward and fighting is in full swing.
and and
to recurs
GREEK GOVT. APPOINTMENTS
(Reuter).--
LONDON, Sept. 23 morning
5,000 The Greek Minister in London, Mr W. Simopoulos, has been appointed “Under-Secretary for Permanent Foreign Affairs in the Greek Gov- ernment.
Magnificent Defences Of Leningrad
He will retain his duties as Greeks Minister.
Mr Andrew Michalopoulos, Pre- [sident of the Anglo-Hellente League Athens, has been appointed Under-Secretary for the Press in the | Greek Govemment.
In
George of Hellenes LONDON, Sept. 23 (Router)----- King George of the Hellenes, broad- German Admission
casting to Greece to-night, said that anyone who crossed the Atlantic must ZURICH, Sept. 23 (Reuter)-The be impressed by the absolute control superiority of the Leningrud defence of the seas exercised by Britain and system compared with the Maginot the United States. Line both as regards the number of The King added: "He who finds fortifications and their adaptation to himself to-day in this mighty outpost the swampy terrain is admitted in of civilisation, this impregnable for the German "Militzerische Korres-tress he who witnesses the sleadily pondenz and Deutschland" which says increasing strength of Britain and her that "the French fought with tradl-Allies and the incomparable fortitude tional bravery but without the deep of the British people cannot possibly political conviction
and which
Dussians more slut makes the doubt the certainty of victory."
causing heavy
FOR TROOPS
have proved "extraordinarily severe obstacles" co
consisting of huge tank traps and rows often 10 or 12 miles deep of pine trunks rammed several
LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter)-One yards into the earth as well as pine hundred soldiers have been loaned ground, concrete pyramids and barb-the enormous last-minute rush of ed wire.
RIVERS TO CROSS-Nazi troops get aboard this strange-looking raft to cross a river
⚫ somewhere in Russia. Apparently they are not under fire, or elso they would not bo taking the voyage so casually. The picture was found on a German soldier taken prisoner. by the Soviet forces.
How Frenchmen Are Treating The
Japanese Army
In
In Indo-China
SAIGON, Indo-China.-To the Frenchmen in Indo-China to-day, the Japanese soldier has become "the little man who isn't there." very large numbers, sent into this helpless French colony, presumably' to prevent it Of course, he is here, and in from becoming a "second Syria," to forestall alleged British intentions against it. He is, as the official pronouncements put it, the guardian of Indo-China's sovereignty and independence,
ون
But the French merely ignore him. s There is no rudeness, no outright hear any crude remarks from them, discourtesy, no obvious contempt.nur see as much shouldering or push- The French simply don't see the ing as you find in Japan, itself. Japanese. Something of the same Apparently, they have very strict technique that has been appled to orders about this. the Germans in Paris is being used here to-day against the Nazi run-Frenchman with a little smile, "They ning-mate in the Far East.
tearned that from the Germans. It will succeed here in just about tho same proportion as it is succeeding in France."
It is the only weapon left to the Frenchi.
In a military sense, they were Powerless a year ago when Japan pressed the thin edge of the entering wedge against the colony. They have even less power, or hope, of re- sistence to-day.
"Making friends with us," said a
You can't talk, openly, about these things to-day.
"guardians." Oficially, the French Omelally, the Japanese are here as Vichy governs Indo-China, and the population is greatly relieved that deal to send a Japanese army here the "British mennee" has been end- was arranged in Vichy. The pretext Indo-China is fortunate to have cd.. A newspaper. declared that was to block a purported British plan leaders with the wisdom to save the to occupy Indo-China from troops country from war." That's the of operating out of.Singapore.
ficial attitude.
French Helpless
the man on the street,
U. S. Wants Facts
Britain's Obligation Emphasised
LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter). Whitney, personal assistant to. Major - William Dwight
Mr Averell Harriman (who is tion to the Moscow conference), heading the American delega speaking at a luncheon given in his honour to-day by English-Speaking Union, made
the
It is, of course, far from that of a strong plea for America to be So now a Japanese ai is hore.
my More troops are coming. Japanese
Here you find a welter of conflict-given facts so that they could businessmen are rapidly burrowing ing opinion, all shades and hues of understand Britain's will to Into the rich fabric of Indo-Chind's poitical thought, from staunch Vichy win. economy. American and
to furious Free French. There are British companies are liquidating, reducing a "new world order? Is in the mak- French who have the conviction that staffs, sending their people home.
The French are helpless, but not order in cast Asia," but the one pro- ing. Not. they add, Japan's "new They haven't surrendered. They claimed by Berlin and Vichy.
Bitterness Felt
beate
are not without hope.
We were on a bus, only a few
British expected decisive action from Major Whitney said that the
them a full picture of the situation. Americans, It was necessary to give
It was necessary before an attitude of expectancy might legitimately be assumed at all.
Mr Clement Attlee LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter) "From the moment Russia came into the war we have been doing our best to send help in every possible way," declared Mr Clement Attlee, member of the War Cabinet, speaking to-day at a luncheon organised by ex-officers of the Royal Tank
trees cut down a yard above the to the Army Post Ofce to cope with could see gasoline drums, ammuni- as important to you as the Regiment.
Forta Well Protected
Christmas postings to forces in the Middle East, India and Malaya,
A large number of army lorries Garrisons were able to occupy the have been requisitioned grent ring of forts immediately the that the gigantic mail reaches the squads of civilian workers had finish-ships in time. ed their construction, It adds. The The latest figures
to
ensure
went
"that
und obviously it is common-sense "We are fighting a common battle
way," he added. and right that we should do our utmost to support our Allies in every
miles below Phnompenh, the capitali And you And some bitterness of Cambodia, en route to Saigon, the against the democracles, coupled with principal city near the coast Sud-the belief that the only real hope denly, it It says that the Russian defences CHRISTMAS MAILed by long lines of trucks, writes a the Germans.
groaned
to a stop, confront-for Indo-China lies in a defeat of correspondent.
Frenchmen claim that they asked They were new, American-made.the United States and England for Some
were hauling heavy artillery, help last year, when Japan made her Others carried heavy loads, covered first gestures toward this colony, with canvas, beneath which you!
claim they were refused. "We tion, supplies. Still others loaded with Japanese soldiers, 15 or so much that you need. Ah, there were Netherlands Indies, where there is 20 to the trek.
your attitude was quick and clear." Something like ព sigh
The other
of through the passengers on the bus when Indo-China appealed for help
this story is "Les Japonais." The "protecting" her leaders were asked to
other side army had landed only the day be declare themselves and the fore, and here it was already deep Vichy or Free French? Men who cur tanks not only because of the "We shall beat the Germans with in the heart
of Indo-Chinn, going claim to know insist that no concise aklit and courage of our men but up to the Cambodian capital. answer ever reached Washington and because of the skill, inventiveness
London, that the French here were and devotion of our engineers." Residents' Reaction
reluctant to commit themselves. The faces of the French, for just So to-day, a Japanese army of oc- a moment, were
Indo-China. study in bleak cupation is in
The misery. They started out at the ad-French are down, but not out. Pri- vancing Japanese. There were sud. Vately, they will talk of what they den tears in the eyes of an old lady, plan to do "pres la guerre," or Then she murmured, "Apres la guer- when the opportunity presents itself. re-nous verrous ce que nous ver. In the meantime, the Japanese "is
("After the war, we shall see the little man who isn't there.” what we shall see.")
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Gayda Admits Frenchmen Are
Sabotaging
Vichy Policy
Winter Campaign Preparations
The following telegram which has been received in Hong- kong from the London headquarters of the Free French Move- ment clearly illustrates that the majority of Frenchmen in France stand definitely against collaboration with Germany and are violently opposed to the Vichy Government.
The telegram reads: "An enormous number of Frenchmen are de Gaullists," writes the Italian semi-official editorialist Virginio Gayda in the very in- fluential Rome paper "Glonate
BASLE, Sept. 23 (Router)-De- d'Italia" on September 19, cribing Germany's preparations fr acknowledging the failure of the winter campaign in Russia, tie German, collaboration policy in Berlin correspondent on the Bas
"Ronachrichten" b-day
stress(7 Gayda goes
their effect on the production on, "Anti-German hatred remains unshakeable in the 8oods for civilian use. hearts of Frenchmen. To beat Ger- The correspondent says that sho: s many remains the foremost preoccu-selling furs, boots, clothing, pation of France. All hopes are coats, woollen goods, and body ar! pegged on Britain and de Gaulle; de bed linen lack materials containing Gaullism appeals tremendously to the natural products. whole nation which refuses to re- cognise defcat."
forts are fully protected against all postings are more than two millum
France. Christmas but the heaviest of bombs and shells. lettera" and cards and a quarter Tribute is also paid to the garrisonsmillion parcels, many bearing the formed by the Leningrad factory label "Not to be opened until Christ- workers which "have proved excel- mas Day." lent" despite their very short train- ing,
Alr attacks are of little use in these sectors, the statement concludes.
Officer-M. P.
Disgraced
Captain Sir P. Latham
Sixty per cent contain pudding and cakes and at the Army Post Office the whole consignment is known as "pudding mall."
Britain's 'No' To Token Gesture
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH' ANKARA, Sept. 23 (UP)-Some elements of the Turkish Government LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter), are reported to be trying to secure Captain Sir Herbert Paul Latham, Britain's approval for a small token aged 36, and former Member of sale of chrome ore and
copper to Parliament for Scarborough and Germany as evidence of Turkish Whitby, was recently tried by court neutrality but the British authorities mortinl and hns.been sentenced to be have disapproved the idea as a use cashiered and imprisoned for two less and belated appeasement. The
are without hard labour.
latter point out that Germany ignored Latham was attached to the 70th the Turkish resources last year. Searchlight Regiment of the Royal Artillery,
He WEB found quilly
years
on eleven charges under the Army Act, ten of them alleging disgraceful conduct of an improper kind while
་
Aircraft Workers Threaten Strike
on active service, and the eleventhy...
of attempted suicide,
SPECIAL TO. THE “TELEGRAPH" SAN DIEGO, Sept: 23 (UP)—-Five Latham had pleaded not guilty to thousand day workers of the Con a total of 14 charges, on three of solidated Aircraft Corporation to which he was found not guilty,
for
day voted on a strike proposal. After 6,000 night workers had balloted majorily favouring a strike union leaders predicted a ten to one
higher wages, d
The plant holds $700,000,000 worth of defence orders. S
Negotiations with the union leaders broke, down lust Friday."
Truck Highways In Iraq
Fons."
A lean, tanned Frenchman, with hair prematurely, white, bit his pipe. is teeth grated on the stem, and hard knols bulged at the corners of
his jaw.
And then, very astentatiously, with a great rottling and rustling, he opened his newspaper, and liftedi
London's Thanks
Lord Mayor Acknowledges Hongkong Gift
"Tanks For Russia”
LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter).-This is n "Tanks for Russia" week and preliminary reports suggest that the output will represent the
greatest production drive 'Britain has
ever seen. Hourly reports reaching the Ministry of Supply, confirm this.
Over 2,000 workers in one Midland should have had holidays in factory lieu of holidays foregone at Whitsun. They have again voluntarily deferred
their holiday.
From
another factory, already working at six-and-a-half-day week, with much overtime, preliminary reports indicate that production is likely to be stepped up.
I to read. Never once, during the The South China Morning Post long wait while the Japanese trucks Ltd., has received the following letter went past, did he raise his eyes to from the Lord Mayor of London: ward them.
"I acknowledge receipt of your
Similar reports are coming In The others on the bus followed letter of
the 16th June, enclos from other plants. ing draft for £28.1.11 (equivalent A representative of the workers in And all over
Indo-China to-day of H.K.$453.30) representing
the Midlands. tan dona-
factories to-day French people are
tanic doing the same tions from your tenders for my sent a telegram to Lord Beaverbrook thing
You see them walk past Ja- National Air Raid Distress
break all records from now on in' aid without so much, as a glance. Not "I am very grateful for this fur- of the tanks for Russia week."
head is turned when the Japanese ther gift from your readers, and
Ordnance Manufactura roll past in their cars, or stroll in shall be obliged if you will groups through the streets.
Will kindly convey to them my warmest thahks Japanese enter French coffee for their continued interest in and President Roosevelt's Lease and Lend
LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter). shops. The Annamite waiter who support of the work which I am expert, Mr J. D Biggers, and the is a past master at delay and ob- endeavouring to do amongst our air Chief of the United States Army struction camchow takes long, long raid sufferers. It is most encourag Ordnance Major-General Wesson, moments to get around for the oring to me to know that I have the to-day visited a Her. And then, even if the order is constant sympathy and sustained
a number of Midland given in French (which it seldom is) help of those associated with your was to get further information
armament. factories. Their object ho-seems to have enormous difficulty paper, and I wish to thank you the manner in which American understanding. Eventually, he personally for what you are doing factories can co-operate and has to go and call someone. That to support is humanitarian cause." calls for another delay.
panese sentries, with fixed bayonets, Omelal receipt No. 09315 is aith in Moscow pledging themselves "to
In
Japanese Friendly
The War Fund
оп
Co-
Boon Of Press Cable Rate Reduction. LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuler).Tho introduction on October 10 of a Press rato a penny per, word has been described na "a great event" by Mr Brendan Bracken, the Minister of Information.
ordinate their output in conjunction to In a
Sir Edward
with the Britial output. Wi shaw, Chairman of Cable and Wire-Ind
Both visitors declared themselves Jess
read at a Glasgow luncheon, ME SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
The following donations received saw Mr Biggers said "I was particu
deeply Impressed with what they Bracken stated at when the rate BAGHDAD, Sept 23-(UP) The In their turn, however, they have Bomber Fund to $2,532,105.12. To which British manufacturers, have yesterday Faised the total of the darly impressed by the manner in COMER into
operation the flow of nows Government is embarking on the been behaving extremely well. They date, the sum of £140,930.10.0 has converted their peace-ilme machinery and comment
between Great Britain construction of a system of truck have none of the conquering-anny been remitted to the British Govern-to manufacture war materials, Wo and every corner of the British Com highways in Iraq The British altitude, so manifest in Occupied mental monwealth will be atirgulated and Government is paying the cost and China. Their cars and trucks aren't increased. Every Empire country has already advanced £60,000, roaring through the streets; reckless Mr and will enjoy the same facilities and Thousands of labourers have already empire newspapermen will be free bors engaged for work on the first from the restrictions, which the old road whish;
shwill link Baghdad with
Barran
„The Japanese-got-the-idea/
of trafle and traffic lights, as they loving memory of "James
Millar Und have done In Shanghal
Puncheon)
Thiszeghur bon no discourtesy noodwell's Darthall carousing after dark. Your don't let (second donation)
shall proat by your experiences.
Father Byrne has returned from furlough in Indo-China: He had to
for
over-
Leather goods have been practi-
Emphasising that the "majority of ally unobtainable for a year.
act as propaganda agents Britain," the author
adds, "Petain's statements have not suc- ceeded in shaking the Frenchmen's belief that de Gaulle alone is sofc-
guarding France's honour. This pre- vents' the collaboration polley from bearing frult.”-ni
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