1940-06-06 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1940.

COOPERATIVES SET UP FOR MUNITIONS

London, To-day.

A meeting of several hundred garage owners in London yes- terday set up a committee to co-

operate with the Institution of Motor Engineers in preparing munitions and aircraft compon-

ents.

arors

of

The Institution suggest the di- vision of the country into 17 suitable collection of machine tools. The scheme is planned on a co-operative basis. -Reuter.

SEARCH FOR FORTUNE IN SILVER

GERMAN ASSETS IN BELGIUM

1

London, To-day.

The Ministry of Economic Warfare announces the Al- lies were able to remove all stocks of radium and cobalt from Belgium and most of the stocks of petrol were des- troyed.

Many other articles were also destroyed but the steel industry and iron ore mines in Belgium and Luxem- burg may not have been too heavily damaged yet, although the latter coun> try's mines are still within range of French guns.

It is probable that large stocks of gold and securities In private hands in Holland and Belgium have fallen into German hands, and stops have been taken to prevent their realisation In other countries. Most of the Dutch petroleum. stores have been destroyed and most of the Hope of salvaging $150,000,000 Dutch ship-building industry met a worth of silver embedded in the I-similar fate.-Reuter. Kiang near Chengtu is rising higher

Shanghai, To-day.

as progress is being made

salvage company

"Ta Wan Pao."

by the

there, says the

The silver is said to have been buried in the river by Chang Hsien- chung, notorious Chinese bandit, when his he retreated to Szechuen with plunder. Salvage work with the aid of up to date apparatus is now being carried on and results are expected before long, the report concludes.

Reuter.

JAPANESE IN TRAINING AS PARACHUTISTS

Shanghai, To-day.

The Japanese are training

parachute troops, according to reports received here from Chinese sources.

It is stated several thousand Japan- ese troops are being drilled as “para- chutists" in Hankow, Nanchang, Sing- tze, Hofei and Nanking.

General Chang Fah-kwei, famous leader of the Chinese "Ironsides," and now in Kwangtung, is said to have re- ceived orders to prepare counter-mea-

Reuter, sures against parachutists.

20 PLANES DOWNED

AT NARVIK

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

Stockholm, To-day. Twenty German planes have been brought down in attacks on Narvik in the last few days:

TEN-MILE ADVANCE AT NARVIK

Stockholm, To-day.

A new advance of nearly 10 miles along the iron ore railway from Nar- vik towards Sweden has brought the Allied forces to Sildvik, where the re- treating Germans are in strongly en- trenched positions, says the "Afton- bladet" correspondent on the Lapland border.

The railway is being bombarded by naval and field artillery from positions on the heights of Narvik.

The Allies are closing in on Bjoern fjell and a final assault on this posi- tion appears imminent. Reuter.

AMBASSADOR STILL MISSING

London, To-day. There is still no news of the where- abouts of Sir Launcelot Oliphant, Bri- tish Ambassador in Belgium.

The military attache, Lieutenant- Colonel F.A.A. Blake, and the Assis- tant Commercial Attache, Mr. K. E. Mackenzie, are also still missing.

With these exceptions the staff of the British Embassy in Brussels are all known to be safe.-British Wire- less.

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GERMAN CASUALTIES

London, To-day. German casualties announced the German High Command garded as a considerable under-state- menf, and authoritative circles press the opinion that the

are re-

ex- correct

Nazi planes have sunk about 30 vessels in Narvik harbour, of which six were Swedish. The docks have figure is in the region of half a mil- been destroyed and railway tracks lion. badly damaged.

Infantry divisions must have suf- The civilian population is evacuat-fered very heavily as did parachutists ing, fearing Narvik may be razed to and airborn troops. British Wire-

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