1941-06-18 — Page 41

THE CHINA MAÏL, JUNE 18, 1941.

GERMAN THREAT TO RUSSIA: LONDON CAUTION

CONFLICTING TALES OF GERMAN

TENTIONS REGARDING RUSSIA ARE RE-VILLA FOR AIR

CEIVED IN LONDON WITH RESERVE.

Reports of German troop concentrations on the Russian frontiers, which are not specifically denied by official Moscow state- ments, may be accounted for in various ways,

Hitler may be following his 1 "well-known technique of

to

trying

enforce economic concessions by a show of armed might with- out the need of fighting at all.

Alternatively he may be carrying to a logical conclusion the plan laid down in "Mein Kampf" for the shattering o? Russian military power.

There may be other entirely valid reasons in the Nazi mind. One of them might conceivably be an effort to confuse not only

IMPORTANT TOKYO

TALKS

British and American leaders but The Japanese Ambassa-

also their peoples by K'gantic successes

in the East and thus dor

battle in the west.

Such a manoeuvre is doomed to failure, as it is well under

stood by the Democracies that their task is the destruction of Nazism-nothing less,

in London,

Mr.

MARSHAL BOYD

News of Air Marshal O.

T. Boyd's life as a pri- soner-of-war in Italy has

been received from a Bri- tish airman, who is act- ing as his servant.

by

the ap-

The Marshal was captured the Italians when flying to Middle East to take up an pointment last winter. His 'plane made a forced descent in Sicily.

In a letter home from a camp at Sulmona, about 80 miles east of Rome, Leading Aircraftman Arnold McWhinnie, whose mother lives in the Isle of Man, states:

"Air Marshal Boyd arrived at Sulmona on Christmas Eve and, being the equivalent of a General in the army, is well looked after.

and also

weaken their resolution in the Mamoru Shigemitsu, has "They gave him a posh villa, left on the first stage of formerly owned by a nobleman, scnt two Afr his journey to Tokyo. Force sergeants to look after

According to present arrange- him.

One sergeant is the ments the Ambassador will re- cook, the other a kind of turn to his post in London when butler, and I am a butler-cum- his conversations with the valet to the Marshal and his Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. his A.D.C. As we were bearded Matsuoka, have been completed, and wearing Italian clothes, the The decision to go to Tokyo Marshal and his A.D.C. believed was taken when it was proved we were Italian soldiers. impossible for Mr. Shigemitsu | "It was very amusing when to see Mr. Matsuoka during the they found out we were British. latter's visit this year to Mos. It happened when I was serving cow and Berlin.

dinner on the first night.

The Main Task

Imposing feats by Hitler in other fields, even if followed by spectacular results, leave that task unchanged and unimpaired, Relentlessly, in the Premier's words, Britain will fight the Ger- mans wherever she finds them.

Whatever the result of the pre- sent situation in German and Russian relations, Britain, while! interested to see whether Hitler succeeds in દા fresh "double- cross," will not permit her war effort to be affected in the slight- est degree.-British Wireless.

SOUND NERVES IN BRITAIN

sum- Britain in to

Surprisingly good health and wonderful nerves is the marised verdict on war-time brought back Washington by Dr. Thomas Par- ran, Surgeon-General of the United States Public Health Ser- vice, after spending a month and a half there.

Not only had there not been any epidemics in England, he said, but influenza was less pre- valent than in the United States. The British character, he con-

The Ambassador is to fly across the Atlantic and America and will complete his long journey by sea.

don,

Perfect English

"I had not previously spoken He la accompanied by the to them, and when I eventually Firg and Third Secretaries of did say something to the A.D.C., the Japanese Embassy in Lon he turned to the Marshal in amazement and said: 'Doesn't the The First Secretary has been

man speak perfect English, Sir?' appointed to a post in South I told them I was a British air- America and will proceed thither man, and didn't they laugh!" from New York. His place as First Secretary In London has been taken by Mr. Ymada.--Reu- ter.

Irish

Channel

Heroism

Survivors from the s.s. sidered, was the chief factor Saint Patrick, bombed

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on aircraft, have told of the pilot in the Air Transport CASANOVA'S WOMEN their nerves. There

were very heroism and bravery of Auxiliary, who was killed

in a crash.

few cases of shellshock.

Dr. Parran pra sed highly health the wireless operator and Constance Loxton said she saw

a stewardess.

in the

and sanitary measures adopted

'a 'plane flying very low. It went in air-raid shel'ers, correcting the impression prevalent

The wireless room was wreck- out of sight behind a hedge, the ed but the wireless operator, R. engine stopping. She thought the United States that they were bad. N. Campbell, groping his way in machine had landed. The engine

There was not any shortage of hospital beds, but the hospitals complete darkness to the wireless started again and the 'plane re- It was tipping side- "could use some of our American | debris and sent off two messages ways with the left wing sticking |

emergency set, stood amongst the appeared.

doctors," Dr. Parran declared,

NAZIS FEAR BRITISH FIRE BOMBS

for assistance.

up. It disappeared behind some Directly the ship was attack- trees and crashed.

Pilot Off. Francis, A.T.A., said ed a stewardess, Miss Owen, at once collected the women and that Mr. Loewenstein was an ex-

The and perienced pilót.

machine children from the cabins

would have been tested before led them to the boatdeck. When a boat had been launched he left in it. she took charge of the boatload of Mr. Loewenstein was the son of children and looked after them the late Capt. Alfred Loewenstein, who fell until they were. picked up and the Belgian financier, taken to port.-British Wireless. from his 'plane into the English

Channel in 1928.:

Hungarians returning to NAZI

NAZI AGENT

Budapest from the Leipzig

Fair say the new British ATTEMPTS BUCHAREST

incendiary bombs are

greatly feared in Ger- SUICIDE

many.

Films are being shown to teach people how to deal with the fire bombs, but the methods depicted are said to be useless.

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BLACKOUT

REINTRODUCTION OF THE BLACK-OUT IN 'BUCHAREST 18 Guenther Tonn, assistant direċ- REPORTED BY THE BUDA. tor of the Trans-Ocean news: ser- PEST CORRESPONDENT OF vice in the United States, attempt- THE "BASLER NACHRICHTEN." ed suicide on Ellis Island yester-¡. The correspondent adds: “Short- day where he is being held on age of several, important food- by Keitel, Seven Years Bitzkrieg a Federal warrant while waiting stuffs and other articles in com- against England??” ME,

deportation.RAT

mon use is beginning to make.

The current joke in Germany is: “Have you read the new book

Throughout the country Italy Meanwhile the Federal Bureau itself felt in Bucharest.

is now referred to as occupied of Investigation has banned. The shortage, he says, involves territory, and t the greeting Hell Trans-Ocean from the presiden meat, fats, oll, coffee, tea, rice, Hitler is now generally dispensed tlal press conferences. Interna- flour, soap, textiles and leather, with, bay- the Hungarians,

tional News Service.

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H. M. PULHAM, ESQUIRE GERMANY: Jekyll & Hyde AUTHOR. IN TRANSIT

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