1940-07-22 — Page 16

BALTIC

STATES

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1940.

TO

ENTER SOVIET UNION Lithuania Gives Lead To Latvia, Estonia

First Canadian Destroyers arrive.

Men of the R.C.N. com- ing ashore from Canadian destroyers on arrival in England. (Air Mail. Copyright).

An

TWO NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN

enemy fighter Was

shot says an official announcement. One down yesterday morning near the enemy bomber was shot down in south coast by British fighters, the afternoon.-Reuter.

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Unanimous

Vote In Latvian Parliament

THE GERMAN NEWS agency correspon- dent in Tallinn stated yesterday that the Es- tonian Parliament has unanimously voted for únion with Soviet Russia.

NATURAL

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OPTICIAN

ARMY CASUALTY LIST ISSUED

The names of 74 officers and 901" other ranks appear in a War Of-

This development followed an earlier an- nouncement by the same agency that the Minister of Interior declared. Lithuania to be fice casualty list issued in London a Soviet Socialistic Republic at the meeting of Parliament.

The Minister is reported to have added that the Soviet Constitution would be introduced Immediately. The Lithuanian Parliament sub- sequently unanimously agreed to: this course, the report adds.

Four Proposals

-

are

The following proposals stated to have been placed before the Lithuanian Parliament:-

Firstly, the question of accept- ance of the new Constitution.

Secondly, the question of Co- operation with the Soviet.

Thirdly, regulation of the land. question..

Fourthly, the question of dis- possessing big banks, factories and large enterprises.-Reuter

Latvia Follows Suit- Latvia has also decided to be- come a Soviet Republic and-join the Soviet Union by unanimous vote of the Latvian Parliament. yesterday, stated the German news agency's Riga correspon- dent.-Reuter.

FLEET AIR

ATTACK ON TOBRUK

AN ADMIRALTY COMMUNI- QUE STATES THAT EARLY ON} THE MORNING OF JULY 20 SWORDFISH AIRCRAFT OF THE FLEET AIR'ARM CARRIED OUT ANOTHER ATTACK ON THE ITALIAN BASE AT TO, {BRUK.

A direct 'hit on an oiler was followed by a heavy explosion. Other hits were scored on tran- sports and supply ships.

All our aircraft returned safe- ly-Reuter.

Cairo Communique

A communique in Cairo yester- day stated that in the Western Desert the daily harassing of Jenemy columns attempting to ap-

proach Capuzzo continues,

Our

In Somaliland on July 19 our Camet Corps pony patrol success- fully raided the Italian

post at Farenji inflicting casualties. casualties were nil,

There is nothing to report on other fronts.-Reuter:

Nairobi Reports

en-

A Nairobi communique said: our reconnaissance patrols countered in enemy battalion of mounted infantry in the northern frontier district .on. Saturday evening and inflicted casualties| on them.-Reuter.

yesterday.

The casualties include .16 officers killed and 40 wounded, and 47 other ranks killed.-Reuter.

STOP PRESS

Halifax's reply to Hitler will deal less with military considerations than the great moral issues that forbid all compromise in the struggle between the free community and the concentration camp, between the hopes of Chris- tianity-and-the-open glorying.. in Paganism.

The explicit British answer, says the "Times". correspon- dent, was given a month be fore Hitler spoke, on June 18, during the worst days in France, when Mr. Churchill gave the "solid *grounds whereupon we base our in- flexible resolve to continue the war."

He said: "The professional advisers of the three services unitedly-advised-us-that-we should do so and there are good reasonable hopes of final victory,"

"The Times" continues that the Services' view was given when much was uncertain. Could the British regiments return from France? How quickly could they and other regiments be re-equipped? Would the German assault come straight away on the first of the days prophesied by. Berlin?

:

Since then, questions have been answered to our ad- vantage. Months of solid work have been put into the the country's defences and R.A.F. has more than held recent its own during the heavy, dispersed raids.

Probably Hitler will hold back until he thinks his prè-. parations are as thorough as they can be, but gains from delay are not on his site

British alone. The

Service chiefs have certainly no rea- son nor any inclination to change their quietly confident view of a month ago.

German resources are net- ther so plentiful as Hitler suggested nor so straitened as many people in Britain have supposed.

In a leading article, "The Times" says that Hitler's speech may be the prelude to the long-delayed assault on Britain. It may. mean- though this 'seems unlikely that Hitler has reconciled himself to a war of attrition.

In any case, we are prepar- ed. In the air, the offensive has already passed to our

SYDNEY" ACTION aghters and bombers, who

DECORATIONS

It was officially announced in London yesterday that Capt. John Augustus Collins, of the Australian cruiser Sydney, has been made a Companion of the Order of the Bath; and Com- mander · Hugh Nicolson, Senior, Officer of the destroyer force, has been awarded a bar to the D.S.O. following the sinking of the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Col leonl, Reuter,

will retain it, whatever on- slaughts may be in the course. of preparation against us. On the seas, our mastery remains uncontested-Reuter,

Two, or possibly three, German bombers are believed to have been brought down by anti-aircraft fire at a south-west town in England this morning.“ Reuter

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