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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 14, 1941

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SOVIET-GERMAN RELATIONS

Rumours Devoid Of Foundation, Says Moscow

Pact Terms Faithfully Fulfilled

“ALL RUMOURS OF SOVIET PREPARA- TIONS FOR WAR WITH GERMANY ARE DE- VOID OF FOUNDATION,” STATES THE OFFI- CIAL SOVIET NEWS AGENCY TASS IN AN AUTHORISED STATEMENT BROADCAST BY MOSCOW RADIO LAST NIGHT.

The statement specifically says: "Firstly, Germany has not presented any demands to the U.S.S.R. and no negotiations could there- fore have taken place.

"Secondly, Germany is fulfilling the terms of the Soviet-German Pact just as un- failingly as the Soviet Union.

"The movements of German troops on Germany's eastern fron- tiers must be due to other reasons which have nothing to do Soviet-German relations.

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vists and checking of the working of the railway system, carried out, as is known, every year, in view of which to represent these mea- sures of the Red Army as inimical to Germany is absurd, to say the has least."--Reuter.

"Thirdly, the Soviet Union observed and intends to observe the terms of the German-Soviet Pact and all rumours of its pre- | parations for war with Germany

BOMBING

are devoid of any foundation. BOATS FOR

"Fourthly, the recent mobilisa- tion of reserves and manoeuvres had for their objective the train. ing of reserve contingents and checking up the working of the railway system, and to represent these operations as hosti e to Ger- many, is to say the least, absurd,"

Clumsy Propaganda

PRACTICE

A speedboat which is built to be bombed, and not answer back, sounds something of a contradic- tion. But the armour-plated forty-footers of the R.A.F. built by a famous British constructor of racing craft, really are designed to withstand hits with light practice bombs without serious. damage to the boat or injury to the crew. And they afford ex- cellent practice to the pilots and bomb-aimers of the Royal Air Force, training for more serious work against enemy targets on the move.

To make these target-boats "bomb-proof" an ingenious com- Since promise has been evolved. rumours

armouring the entire craft would for speedy make it too heavy

Pointing out that these rum- ours have been particularly in- sistant since the arrival of the British Ambassador, Sir Staf for Cripps, in London, Tacs des- cribed the rumours as "clumsily concocted propaganda by forces hostile to Germany and the U.S.S.R."

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The English-language version of the Tass statement refers to "intensive spreading of about the proximity of war tween the U.S.S.R. and Germany" which have appeared in "the Bri-

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RESTAURANT BOMBED IN BLITZ, The blitz returned to London recently and many high explosives were dropped. A · restaurant and ballroom were among places hit. Photo shows damaged band instruments at the biltzed restaurant.

RED ELEMENT IN MANCHESTER DOCKS WALK-OUT

TO TAKE DELIVERY FROM U.S.

The Air Ministry in London yesterday an- nounced the appoint- mént of the Coastal

air defence chief. Sir Frederick William Bow- hill. to command the Bri- tish end of deliveries of American-built aircraft

to Britain by air.

Sir Frederick's duties, according. fo' an Air Ministry statement, will. Be to command the organisation which will fáké delivery from the recently formed-ferry.command of the U.S. Army Air Corps and fly to the United - Kingdom" the air- craft produced in American fac- toriés for the R.A.F.”

Since August 1937. Alr Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill has been Commander-in-Chief of the Coastal Command, whose operations have received consid-33 erable extension to cover the pro- tection of shipping as part of the Battle of the Atlantic.

Born at Gwalior, India, and now aged 60, he has been a mi itary flier since 1913, when he joined the naval wing of the old Royal Flying Corps.

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He held commands in Africa and the Mediterranean

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In 1919 was Chief Staff Officer in the successful expedi- tion against the Mad Mullah in Bomaliland.

Sir Frederick is, succeeded as Commander - in - Chief, Coastal Command, by Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte, whose appointment becomes effective to- [day.

Air Marshal Joubert held the same post for a year before 1937 when he went to India to head the RAF there, until the beginning of the war. He was then recalled for service in Britain and later became Assistant Chief of Air Staff. Air Marshal Joubert born' in Darjeeling. Now, aged 54, he is a former Artillery officer.-. Reuter.

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FIRM ACTION AGAINST what the LINDBERGH

work, if it would float at all, the Regional Port Director, Mr. Gibson Jarvie,

assembled closely described as the "Communist element in im- AND

crew of three and vital parts and controls are

armour pinte, mounted on rubber ported dock labour," was threatened yester FRANCE

tish and foreign press before, and especially since the arrival of the British Ambassador in London.” amidships, and hooded with stout

The English-language version buffers.

The rest of the hull is day as the majority of Manchester dockers continues: "Tass declared that unprotected, but is packed with a Arstly Germany did not present special buoyant substance termed resumed work following a one-day lockout in any demands to the USSR and onazate, one fifth the weight of does not

Direct hits elsewhere than the big Manchester docks. propose any new and Cork. closer agreement.

No negotia- on the armour plating simply drill tions on this subject could

holes clean

the through taken place.

ness of the boat. A special

German Troop Movements

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bull

Regular workers were back yesterday but without affecting the seaworthi- several hundred members of mobile dock method of hull construction makes squads have been suspended on refusal to

"mendng the holes" a compara- tively easy matter.

The armour itself will resist the impact and explosion of a prac- tice bomb dropped from a height of several miles.

work until 10 in the evening.

Blaming Communist elements,

Only those who were in Paris at the time of Lind- tic flight can appreciate bergh's great Transatlan- the tremendous enthus- iasm of his welcome and the intense disappoint- ment of the French at the really shabby way he

eclared yesterday: DUCHESS LEARNING treated them.

"Secondly, according to inform ation at the disposal of the U.S.S.R., Germany abides by th

Mr. Jarvie provisions of the Soviet-German Modern high-speed armoured "We know some of those Com- Pact of Non-Aggression as un target boats now in use by the munists and I have every inten- swervingly as the Soviet Union, in R.A.F. are a considerable advance view of which, in the opinion of on the somewhat sketchy pioneer tion to run them off the docks. It Soviet quarters, rumours of Ger- craft associated with the late has come to light that they have many's-intention to denounce the Aircraftman Shaw better known been very busy under the surface Pact and undertake, an attack or as "Lawrence of Arabia.”

TO CATCH MOLES

the Soviet Union are devoid of Every possible safeguard for the trying to cause discontent and any ground, whereas the despatch safety of the crew and the affici-seizing any excuse fór causing from destruction." ing of German troops relieved ency of the ship, evolved as trouble. from operations in the Balkans to: the result of experience, is

the eastern and north-eastern dis- employed Gas masks protect the "The trouble has caused no ser telets of Germany, which is now crew against the fumes of bursting in disguise if it results, as I

lous delay and may prove a bless taking place, is connected," it ing bombs, armour glass windows should be assumed, with other give the helmsman a good view intend, in the eliminating of some motives having no bearing on fore and aft; radio keeps the craft men we can well afford to lose."-

Soviet-German-relations.

Communist Trouble: Makers

With tact the French hid the rudeness Lindbergh displayed in The Duchess of Atholl is learn-

aimost openly disdaining the ing to become a molecatcher. She honours the French wanted to do confessed this in a broadcast, him, not only in 1927 but later saying: it was "to protect the pre- when he made a sudden landing clous vegetables in our garden at Les Ormeaux, pear Paris. All he would allow was a small enter- Later she told the Dally:

tainment on the latter occasion hy Mirror" "I'm being taught by

a number of French fffers, Lind- our head. gardener before he isbergh, did not shine at that party. myself: yet. That's a thrill still called up: I haven't caught one said one who was present.

A French journalist, in London to come."

puts much of: Lindbergh's strange: attituder to the account of loyal: (Continued. from „Next? Odlumn) observance by the British press per corespondent, "and Lindbergh of Lindbergh's desire for privacy has been able to déclare that, when he came here to seek re- France, and England are respon tuge. Like so many frontpage

in touch with the attacking” aircraft and ;a ́safety, tender lying “No Other Purpose” near at handl; and triplo 100 h.p. engines, each driving a séparate "Thirdly, the U.8.9.R., as fol. propellor, insure against a hit in- An official of the Dockers. Union,sible for the war, then he can be heroes who ask for sile lows from its peace policy, abld capacitating the speedbont, as well Mr. Jack Donovan,, after a final safely left to the judgment of bergh did not like ed and Intends to abide by the ag giving it a high degree of conference with the Port Authori- the citizens of the United States: it and found himsel provisions of the Soviet German manoeuvrability and a wide speed ties yesterday, declared that the When the history of the war Mt. Anybody, said l Non-Aggression Pact, in view.ofi range."

chief grumble, that canteen facili- comes to be written it will be critic. But the Germ ¿which rumours to the effect that; By suitably working the engines, les are inadequate, will soon be found that the Germans used sized him up in matrice, and

the U‚8.8.R.`ls preparing for war the target boat can not only be settled "as Mr. Jarvie promised to Lindbergh also to fly their first he's visited? Germany, with Germany-aro # mare pro turned in her own length, but put things right immediately." Bignals of distress when they, made medals on him and made hi vocation, « KORE

him reiterate before the Senate the British had neglected

made to reproduce the movements diso

thly, summer camp drills of any, likely target, from that of Referring to Communist trouble | Foreign Affairs-> Committee--that greatness.......... “If the the Red : Army, førei held a steam train proe dings on a makers; Mr. Donovan said: "We he believed the war would end, his own coun

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r moves have a way to deal with this-type.] by, compromise. - It will not, end aright," said my destroóne or They will cause no more trouble."" "by compromise-but) by, vlofory of (Coniji