THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1941
Honours List Issued For Chiefs Of Fighting Services
SINKING OF LINER CONFIRMED
The Navy Department
KNIGHTHOODS FOR WAR ACHIEVEMENT
MEN IN ALL THREE OF THE FIGHTING
UP in Washington has con- SERVICES PROMINENT IN BUILDING firmed that a foreign flag| BRITAIN'S HOME DEFENCES, SHARE WITH steamer, conveying THOSE ON ACTIVE SERVICE ABROAD THE American marines to!
AWARDS ANNOUNCED IN THE SERVICES London, has been tor-
SECTION OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING'S pedoed but up to the pre- sent has given no figures BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST PUBLISHED. TO- regarding the loss of life. DAY.
Miss Mary Beard, Director of the Red Cross Nursing Service, stated that the Navy Department had notified her that six nurses were safe, but she added that "if it was the Maarsden that was sunk
we had many more than that
aboard."
erican
For the first time, Home Guards" afficers received Awards.
Awards
are
The principal Knight Commandership of Bath to the following eight officers: --
Vice-Admiral
Royal Marines, and for some year's was Colonel Commandant of the Portsmouth Division thereof;
Lieutenant. General Charles Noct Broad, who is one of the pioneers of mechanised warfare In the British Army, having played a big part in tank
de velopment. General Broad was appointed General Officer Com- mander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command in India just over a year ago;
Mt. Sumner Welles had earlier Vice-Admiral John Henry Cun- told a press conference that Am-|ningham, cousin of the Comman- Red Cross nurses wore | der-in-Chief, of the Mediterran- aboard the ship that was surk usean Fleet. He relinquished com- well as American marines, one of mand of the First Cruiser Squa- whom was feared to have been dron last April to become Chief Jost,
of Supplies and Transport at the Reports stated that the ship was | Admiralty: the Marsden former Dutch vessel
William Jock how in service of the British Mer-Whitworth, who directed the vic captile marine. - Reuter.
torious action in the second naval battle at Narvik when seven Ger- mim destroyers were sunk. Last December he was appointed second in command of the Home Fleet.ick, who is and in May, was made Lord Com- missioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Personnel:
QUINTS SPOKE FRENCH IN BID TO TOURISTS
Fine Strategist
A.A. Barrage Expert
DECISION
JAPANESE FOG
SCREENS FROM 'PLANES
TO-DAY
Completing a week's intense deliberation
an extraordinary con- ference of members of the Cabinet and High Command will be held to-day (Tuesday) to formulate finally the Japanese Govern- ment's basic policy towards the interna- tional situation aris- ing from the Russo- German war, states the Domei news agency.
A regular session of the Cabinet is later to report the decisions reached to the Em- peror.-Reuter.
Messages reaching New
from
neutral
York sources in Berlin say that German armed forces have carried out military manoeuvres recently in- volving extensive use of
of new types
smoke
screens developed n the laboratories of the Reich Defence Council.
One form is to be a grey sandy material, with particles. of diffèr- ing sizes stored in air-tight con- tainers. It can be strewn from 'planes
heavy and develops a screen on contact with oxygen in the air.
The larger particles fall farther than the smaller. It is thus pos- sible to control the depth of the shielding cloud by varying the sizes.
Another type, these reports state, is in the form of pellets which may also be dropped from 0000 | planes. They give off smoke';
when they come in contact with water. Experiments have alyo been carried out with coloured smoke more blinding than ususal grey variety.
STRATEGIC TOWN
CAPTURED
issued in Cairo yesterday.
the
Lieutenant-General Sir Freder- Anti-Aircraft Com- mander-in-Chief developed an effective anti-aircraft barrage system. He began a varied career as a gunner;
Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald
It was also announced that Forbes Adam, who stands high
American R.A.F. fighter planes the Acting Vice-Admiral Tom Spen-among
"brams" Of CANADA'S TOURIST BOOM-
the
|SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" shot down a group of Vichy fight- 1ETS. THE
Vaughan DIONNE QUINTU- cer
Phillips. who is modern army. Sir Adams succeed-
ers in aerial cabat-above Palm- PLETS HAVE SET OFF described as "one of the smallested General Gort as Commandant
The capture of the strategic yra when the French aircraft at- ANOTHER CONTROVERSIAL and eleverest officers in the Ser-of the Staff College at Camlærley Syrian town of Sabaiyar about 60 tempted to machine-gun a British
vice." He has a reputation as in 1937, and in 1939 was Deputymiles south-west of the Vichy and Free French column. Cave Pully rehearsed by their fine strategist and was appointed Chief of the Imperial General French air base at Palmyra, is | R.A.F. 'planes were lost.-Inter-
speak by Mr. Winston Churchill as Ad-Staff; the best English in a bradrast miralty Commissioner soon after General Eric de Burgh who
nvation to Ameans to visit Canpola.
PUZZ
Government
[ II.
French
*
Bar-
the outbreak of the war:
until recently was Chief of the stepped Lieutenant-General Alan
General Staff in India and who poke ways Bourne, who is former As-led a brilliant campaign against
sistant Adjutant General of the
the Fakir of Ipi in the Khyber Pass region;
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AIR MARSHAL WILLIAM SHOLTO DOUGLAS WHO 18 CHIEF OF THE FIGHTER COM- MAND,
One of his most chief and most dificult tasks has been lo combat night raiders, and the improved results of night light- ing tactics are રા tribute to his skill and initiative.
Rapid Rise
Alr-Marshal William Lawrie Welsh who rose from Wing-Com- mander to Air Marshal (acting)
in less than nine years and who
as member of the Air Council
played a prominent part in con-
nection with the expansion of the Royal Air Force.-Reuter.
MASSACRE AT JASSY
claimed in a British communique national News Service.
No
AMERICAN SPY ROUND-UP; SOME OF THE NAMES
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
SOME OF THE NAMES of the 29 persons who were arrested as foreign spies following the destruction of what was described yester- day as the biggest espionage organisation in United States history, were disclosed by Mr. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington last night.
Best known among those arrested is Joubert Duquesne, described as a writer, lecturer and professional spy. He is charged with murder and insurance fraud.
....
Russia has dropped spies and terrorist agents alleged to
During the world war he was it
is learned authoritatively, have been connected among those arrested in the big from parachutes for the with the sinking of the British round-up of spy suspects, am- In a book, he nounced by Mr. Edgar Hoover, purpose of entering into liner, "Tennyson."
was once called "the 'man
who head of the Federal Bureau of In- contact with Jewish com- killed Kitchener."
vestigation. munists living in Rumania, in order to organise acts of aggres sion.
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This allegation is made in a communique issued by the Rumanian Prime Minister's office in Bucharest, according to a Bucharest telegram published in Rome,
The communique adds what is the real point of the communi- que, justification of a mass mas- sacre, that five hundred Jewish residents have been shot at Jassy "for having fired on soldiers." Reuter.
The arrests were the climax of a two-year campaign of an Intensive counter espionage drive by the F.B.1.
Twenty-two of the arrested per- sons were born in Germany, two in the United States, one cach in France, Russia, Moravia, Africa and Austria, the majority being American naturalised citizens.- International News Service.
They are Herman Lang, 43, German-born' draughtsman, who is stated to have worked since 1934 as factory inspector of the Norden Bombsight Organisation and. Everett Roeden, 47, New! York born and reported to have been since 1927 draughtsman at the Sperry Gyroscopa Worka ut Brooklyn, where tho famous Sperry -Bombeights are made; Yesterday Federal agents boarded the liner Uruguay, from Buenos Aires; on its arrival at Sandy Hook and removed a:50- Two technicians, reported to year-old bedroom steward, de- have been closely associated for scribed as a naturalised', United years with the manufacture of the States citizen of German Birth | American secret bombsights; pro, Reuter,
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Technicians
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