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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1941.

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Mediterranean Fleet Active Along Syrian Coast

BRIEF CLASH NEW U.S.

WITH VICHY DESTROYERS

IMMIGRATION POLICY

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Establishment of a new immigration policy was announced by the US. State Department yester- day.

AN ADMIRALTY communique states that units of the Mediterranean Fleet are giving continuous and active assistance to

All immigration visas will be our armies along the coast in Syria by carry-

in Washington centralised

with ing out bombardments of military objectives emphasis on the suitability of immigrants to the national and strong points of resistance.

detence prograinme.

In the early hours of Monday morning, two Vichy destroyers attempted to interfere with our operations. They were at once heavily engaged by our ships and both were seen to be hit several times before they retired under cover of a smokescreen to the shelter of their shore batteries.

HOLLAND ENDORSES BRITISH POLICY

Under the new procedure, which comes into effect on July 1, visa applications will come be- fore inter-departmental commit- tees which, it is understood, will comprise representatives of the State, War, Navy and Justice De- partments, instead of visus be- ing granted by immigration of ficials on the spot.

BUCHAREST

AIR RAID ALARM

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Bucharest had 20-minute air raid alarm at 6.40 last evening, says a mes- sage to the German official news agency quoted by Reuter.

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AIRCRAFT FACTORY DISPUTE OVER

order's

was

NEW

BOMBER IN ACTION!

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The first of the new big-load bombers has been in action. It is the Short Stirling, one of the larg est military aircraft in the world. This machine is a four-engined mono- plane, with air-cooled: en": gines and strong defen-.

ces.

· Mr. Leonard Engel,” in his arti- Ce in the American berjodičāl "Popular Flying," stated that the Short Stirling' had a "gross, weight of 71,000lb and a top speed of 250 miles an hour at 10,000ft.

8,800lb Loád

The War Department announces that the troops have been with- drawn from the North American Aviation factory at Inglewood,

Before the war Short Brothers California, where the strike hold-

were building large trans-Atlantic'. ing up big defence

aeroplanes, and it is supposed that settled recently. It is announced that the new

the Stirling is based on the At least one other Vichy des-

Following the failure of media- same general lines as these, modi- troyer of the Chevalier Paul class, procedure is the result of "the de-

efforts, and necessity, tion

President which had been operating against clared emergency

Roose-fied for military work. They wete us in Syrian waters, had already from the standpoint of national velt had sent troops.to the fac-

to have a gross weight of 71,000 supervision tory to ensure there should belb. while the payload plùs the been hit, and almost certainly hitdefence, for careful

to the no interference with the resump-| crew was to be 8,800ĺb, This by torpedoes from naval aircraft. I over the entry of aliens

United States."--Reuter.

tion of work.-Reuter.

gives some indication of the bombload that machines of this size could carry.

Naval aircraft have also car- ried out successful attacks on the ports of Beirut and Tripoll (Syria) and on warships and shipping in these ports. Throughout the eastern and cen- tral Mediterranean our submarines continued to inflict losses on the enemy.

Admiralty Thanks

has

A supply ship in convoy been sunk and a successful attack

lian liner of about 20,000 tons.

on

their increasingly successful oper-

Qué en Wilhelmina, has been made upon a large Ita- broadcasting last night, This ship was hit by two torpe- said: "We are full of com- does. passion for the Russian A message has been sent to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterran- people, who have to ean, asking him to convey the con- undergo such a terrible gratulations of the Board of Ad-

miralty to our submarines ordeal.

"To-day, it is Russia but weations,-Reuter. know, that to-morrow or the day after, those mighty bulwarks of our civilisation and principles which are holy to us, the British Empire and the United States, will have to withstand the main might of Hitler's war machine.

"For this reason, which circum- stances may lead to this, we shall fight side by side with the Rus- 'sian people We shall do this re- maining aithful to our view- point in respect of Bolshevism, which is th eresult of our prin- ciples, for we may never forget

Sinking Of The

""Ganda""

FINLAND DECLARES

RIGID POLICY OF NEUTRALITY

ONLY ATTACK FROM without can in-` duce Finland to abandon her neutrality, the Finnish Foreign Office spokesman declared yesterday.

"We are neutral," he asserted, "and are remaining so until attacked:"

Hitherto,

he claimed, not a single Finnish soldier had crossed the frontier.

Asked his view on Hitler's statement that the front extended

to from the Arctic Ocean

the said Black Sea, the spokesman

front as Finland regarded the

Concerning the tor-political not military. that we reject absolutely the principles and practices of Bol pedoing of the Portu-

shevism."

Queen Wilhelmina paid Д tribute to the “flìm and cour-

ageous attitude and wise statos- manship displayed by the Bri- tich Empire towards this new conflict." ·

Her Majesty said: "They, like the United States, will never tolerate a wedge being driven be tween our mutual cooperation for freedom and justice by Hit Ier's treacherous policy, or that slackening should occur in the worldwide co-ordinated effort to bring about the victory of our arms," Reuter.

GERMAN PEOPLE THIN AND PALE

or

Finland did not recognise the guese steamer "Ganda," term "non-belligerent" but she

only neutrality the British Embassy in recognised Lisbon yesterday issued the following statement:

"With regard to the sinking of the Portuguese steamer 'Ganda,' the British Embassy is in a post- tion to state that no British or Allied submarine was, on the date in question, in the waters in which the incident occurred."

war.

An official communique in fired Helainkl mentions shots. across the frontier and other

incidents concerning which the

Foreign Minister has, verbally

protected to the Soviet Minister.

The latter has promised to obtain explanations..

Despite a diligent search by 'sea and air, no trace has yet Communications between Fin- been reported of the second land and Russia are almost nor- lifeboat which, it is belleved, mal. The telegraph is working \contained 40 survivors of the although with less regularity and "Ganda."

rall communications are un-

It will be recalled that the changed. “Ganda” was torpedoed en route from Lisbon to East Africa" and that 23 survivors, mostly injured, were landed on Sunday, by a trawler Two persons were killed.

The dreary lot of civiRouter: lians, sin Germany, was

Russian transit across, the Gulf of Finland between the Soviet and Hango continues as usual.

Reuter.

With a payload of 8,800lb., the commercial cruising range of the machines was to have been a little over 3,500 miles at 250 miles an hour.

Britain has other large bombers since come into service. They are enabling the Prime Minister's pro- to mise of an increased weight our air offensive to be fulfilled.

CALL-UP IN N. Z.

CALL-UP

A FURTHER TERRITORIAL

IN NEW ZEALAND. INVOLVES 18-YEAR-OLDS AND THOSE WHO HAVE BE-~

THE COME 19 OR 41 SINCE

LAST TERRITORIAL GAZETTE.

A similar call-up will be made again in about a month, bring- ing in the 18, 19 and 41-year-olds,

The age limit for overseas ser- vice is 21 to 40-Reuter.

WIDESPREAD

ACTIVITY BY R.A.F. IN MIDDLE EAST

THE DESTRUCTION of eight Vichy air craft on the ground and damage to a very large number of others during raids on Syria, were announced in yesterday's Cairo R.A.F. communique..

A number of hits on flyingboats at Syracuse and the discovery of 15 burnt-out Italian aircraft at Jimma (Abyssinia) are other highlights of the communique.“

It says that in Syria, R.AF. and two shot down while a number Australian Air Force aircraft were of others were damaged active in Syria.

- Bombers attacked Fort Soueida.

A large force of aircraft machine-gummed the aerodromes.

at Baalbek, Talia and Rayak, dés-

Sicily Attack

Labour Call-Up: SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

troying eight Vichy aircraft on In Sicily, the RAF attacked Following the Finnish oral the ground. A very large number flyingboats in Syracuse harbour

of others were damaged and an- A number of hits were made on other was attacked and severely the boats as well as on a hangar damaged in the air.

described by Dr. Herbert GREATEST HANDICAP Spencer, senior surgeon to the United States pub- A father who wrote to the protest against the Russian bomb court at Scarborough opposing the lic health service, on remarriage of his son, a corporal: of Ing of Finnish naval, and merchant shipping and territory, the Fin turning to New York the Royal Signals, aged 21, to a nish radio yesterday announced after a tour of inspection aged 18, gave us his reason that all men between 18 and 65

his belief that marriage was the have been ordered to register im in the Reichs

greatest handicap to a young mediately with the Labour Minis- soldier working for..promotion,

trysko The court gave permission for the couple to marry.

It is intended to mobiliso Finnish labour at the side of the

To in medical officer," he said, "it is a sad thing to see those thin and pulo people walking Uistlésaly in the streets of Berlin and in glafs, an absolute lack of vita- | Finnish army which has beam villages, throughout Germany;

mins,

This appearance betrays what "Of course, German officers and you never hear from German off-soldiers show no such deficiency."

mobilised for the first timeɛsinate its defeat by the Red Army. International: Nowa Servico.

and barracks, we wen

An Australian squadron.car In Cyrenaica, Benghazi harbour.

and enemy transport in that area wore bombed on Sunday night;

rlod, out a machine-gun attack on an aerodrome-near Home One hangary and a number haf other buildings, word burnt out," (several motoru transporte vehins

clos damaged and ono. Vichy Gionn-Mantin bombor destroy- od on tho"ground""

In Abyssinia, 11 Caproni air. craft and four. CR 32's were found burnt out when our troops. entered Jimma van d Eram all operations two British aircraft are missing and u third A number of fighters were in-mode, a forced landing | tercepted over the perodrome and territory-Reuter.