1941-07-17 — Page 16

GRIMMEST

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 17, 1941.

PART

WAR YET TO

OF

COME

Mr. A. V. Alexander's Warning In London

BRITISH Threat Of

PLANS IN ICELAND

THE QUESTION OF WHEN THE BRITISH TROOPS ARE GOING ΤΟ LEAVE ICELAND WAS RAISED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY BY A QUESTIONER WHO CITED THE STATEMENT BY THE ICE-

Invasion

Remains

SPEAKING AT A LONDON LUNCHEON

LAND PREMIER THAT THE YESTERDAY, MR. A. V. ALEXANDER, FIRST

BRITISH TROOPS WOULD LEAVE WHEN THE

CANS ARRIVED.

Mr. Anthony Eden,

AMERI LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, SAID THERE WAS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR ANYTHING BUT GRIM DETERMINATION TO FACE THE

Foreign Secretary, replied it was really a

question of time.

The quest on was governed by POSSIBILITY OF A LONG WAR WITH THE

President Roosevelt's statement to |

the Iceland Premier that he was GRIMMEST PART YET TO COME. prepared to send United States troops to supplement and

even-

tually replace the British troops

there.--Reuter,

CODREANU BROTHER SHOT DEAD

The The threat of invasion remained. call for a yet greater and more intense national effort remained as dominant and insistent as ever.

"It is on the Atlantic that our life depends and if we defeat the U-boat and long-range aircraft our strength will steadily become

overwhelming.

of highly scoptical- almost sald cynical-officers | who refuse to accept any doubt. ful

to claime

of destruction U-boats.

ZELON CODREANU

number "As to the defeat of the U-boat. BROTHER OF THE CHIEF OF THE PROHIBITED RUMANIAN I am not going to give you facts SHOT and figures, for which the enemy

ON Intelligence Service would A many thousands of pounds. IN

TO

IRON GUARD. WAS DEAD IN BUCHAREST SUNDAY, ACCORDING MESSAGE PUBLISHED BERLIN YESTERDAY FROM THE RUMANIAN CAPITAL.

The official account says the affair occurred in a park wher a quarrel broke out among # crowd. The policeman who shot Codreanu has been arrested. Reuter.

pay

"I WILL, HOWEVER, TELL YOU THAT DURING A RE. CENT PERIOD I RECEIVED A SERIES OF REPORTS WHICH WOULD ENCOURAGE ANY FIRST LORD.

"There is another thing I can also tell you. There is a room at the Admiralty containing

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"The gentleman who had the job of passing a camel through the eye of a needle was on an easy wicket compared with the captains of our little ships who hopefu ly report an attack upon a U-boat.

"When I am informed by the Staff that a U-boat has been ac- cepted as destroyed, I know there is no shadow of doubt she is in Davy Jones' locker.

"I am certain there are many more which do not get back to Germany and Italy.

"Recent enemy

shipping losses

have been highly satisiactory.

"The American move into Ice- land was a most significant event.”

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"I am

Mr. Alexander added: certain myself that by this action the United States will be able to fulfil her declared intention of

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The First Lord said he read the American presa In cable: form each morning because he regarded it with such impor tance.

and

STOP PRESS

The

inhabitants of Syrian towns cheered and waved as а large force of R.A.F. bombers escorted by fighters carried out

in

a goodwill mass flight yesterday over the principal towns Syria.

The aircraft circled over Beirut the where thousands thronged

squares

principal waving a Reuter.

streets

and

irantic

welcome.

NAZIS MAKING ADMISSIONS

(Continued from Page 1)

One description of the occupa-preparing to depart. The report tion of Ice.and, giving the meet- is attributed to the observations ing of Americans and British, of Finn airmen. German panzers said the British knew the are reported to be moving along Americans were soldiers after the western shores of Lake Peipusi their own hearts and had been towards the north. ordered to see that armaments

Berlin Radio last night stated: should arrive safely,

"Germany has no intention of the Americans knew they were

concluding a separate peace with meeting men who knew how to *Russia. Mr. Churchill's worries use that armament and were not

are unfounded." world's going to stop until the enemy was beaten so completely that he would never again' cause trouble.-Reuter.

CHINA AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE

Stockholm Report

"During the day our air force. destroyed..motorised units, at... tacked enemy aircraft on aero dromes and operated against river troop concentrations оп crossings and bombed Plocul and transport and oil' tankers at Sulina, Tulcea and Saccoa. "An enemy tank battalion re treating from Rogatchev was sur rounded and destroyed."

1

re

Crucial Days Regarding the Russo-German Another Stockholm despatch, war, a military observer in London received in London, reports that yesterday stated that the next a general counter-offensive by few days would be crucial for the the Soviet armies on all fronts Russian bold strategy of defence is beloved to be under prepara-in depth.. tion. This report alleges, it is not known on what authority, that Marshal Voroshilov ha. massed a million men in the

German Claim

The Germans claim to have cap-

A proposal that Mr. Quo Tai-Leningrad area, and the Red tured Tallinn and Novgorod, says chi, Chinese Foreign Minister, Army is expected to strike along a message received by the Stock- should immediately take up nego- the iront in a series of tremenholm "Aftonbladet" from Helsinki tiations with Britain, the United dous counter-attacks."-Interna- quoting a Berlin report. States and possibly Russia, to tional News Service.

The message adds that Finnish devise concrete plans for mutual

reconnaissance planes on Sunday assistance in the present war

found Tallinn ablaze and ships against the Axis powers and for

busy evacuating troops-Reuter. the reconstruction of the world A Soviet communique says that had bat after the war, was made yesterday heavy battles continued through by the "Ta Kung Pao, influential out yesterday in the directions of Chungking daily, in: leading Pakov, Smolensk, Bobruisk and article.---Réuter.

Novograd-Volinsic.

“Heavy Battles"

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