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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1941.

BIG U.S. SUPPLIES ARMING THE NEAR EAST

(By HAROLD DENNY)

PORTS IN THE NEAR EAST have become the real war front of the Near East. American war materials of every description are arriving in this theatre in sufficient volume to promise an appre- ciable effect.

The first ship to arrive after President Roose- velt removed the legal barriers against American vessels' voyages to the Red Sea docked July 4 after a voyage from an American port.

Her captain, a husky Irish-American, was proud of his distinction. While a group of correspondents watched the unloading of his shin, another vessel with the Stars and Stripes nosed into port.

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one side and

fringe off

across

The quay, a narrow strip of her forces, launch a sweep toward sold ground with the blue sea India and the Near East, coming

of down from the Caucasus the Persia or Turkey into Iraq and successful, even desert on the other, was a scene] Syria and, if of great animation. for these to Egypt. priceless stores were being

stringy palms cuiting

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'PLANES

COUNCIL PLAN

A British-American production council to achieve standardisa- tion of 'planes is sug- gested in o Parlia- mentary question by Mr. E. Granville (Lib. Not., Eye).

NAZIS MAKE RUGS FOR US

British women are help-

in

In one district British soldiers and wounded Frenchmen, Poles and German airmen have been

from receiving lessons

village women,

Granted that Adolf Hitler gets ing German airmen loaded at top speed twenty-four the Ukraine and the Caucasus in the art of rug making. hours a day. British freighters in few weeks, it will take at also were unloading.

least two years

to organise the production and transport of the American Experts Help resources he most needs. After he has geared these resources British ofleers and soldiers into his war machine, unless were supervising, while Americanis beaten, he will be the master Technical experts stood by to of the most formidable empire the see that their precious charges world ever saw. were not damaged and to advise on the uncrating and assembling. The stevedores were Egyptian Arabs, who, with dirty cotton burnouses rolled up around their. waists, sweated and shouted RUS they pried out the cargo.

The dock was already a jungle of crates containing Tomahawk engines, fuselages and wing sections ready to bei assembled, motor trucks, tires and spare parts for automobiles and acroplanes.

67. WILL

WED 19

At 67, Samuel James

The ship appeared packed to Lindsell, of Warwick- capacity. Deep in the hold lay square, London, S.W., squat, ugly war monsters. As one feels "fine and 21." And by one they were hoisted by

derricks and deposited on land all because he's going to they received a few gallons of

gasoline and chugged off under marry

Vera Wade

their own power. An American girl of 19. technician fondly patted a gun

a

since

а

muzzle and remarked. "These are "I have known Vera made of steel that is second to she came to my house as none."

housemaid when she was six- The interstices among the, teen," Mr. Linsell told a reporter heavy items were filled with coils the other day. "My first wife of wire, tires, inedical stores, was, so I had to get some- shoe polish and ordinary civil body to help with the work. Vera goods, including American canned never saw my wife-who died beer that has already appeared in 1939. in Cuiro cates at 40 cents a pint,

"When the war broke out Word that a large variety of

business was bad-so I had to American supplies is actually

'sack' Vera. After a heavy air reaching the Near East has spread raid she would always tal! to widely through the troops, who see whether I was all right, and for months have been asking somehow I was touched-and 1 every American they see, "When

was lonely. will your stuff begin coming?"

Near East Hails

Russians

The Near East apparently is secure for the time being. How long it will remain so few ven- ture to predict.

British authorities speak admir- ingly of the courage, tenacity and skill of the Red Army, for it is devouring a considerable slice of Germany's trained man power and destroying much German equipment though at an immense cost to its own men and material. But even though Russia's Te-

than had been hoped for, most,

"I felt my feelings changing— and then I was in love.

"Soon I shall have my little sweetheart with

always. "The wedding will be a quiet, family affair and I can't spare the time for a honeymoon."

ma

AXIS PETROL WASHED UP

Eight thousand gallons

sistance has been more effective of petrol have been wash- observers here have little doubt ed ashore on the coast of of the final outcome. Russia can Tunisia after British at best only delay the German march.

blows at Axis lines of The Germans are driving heav-communication to North fest at the administrative and in- dustrial centres, Moscow and Africa. Leningrad, instead of directly at A report in the Official Journal, Kiev, as first expected, and of Tunis, says that 3,300 gallons evidently intend to paralyse-Rus- had been collected up to March sta's nerve centres and knock out 30, all in 200-litre drums mark- Russia by a blow to the head in-ed "Aeronautica"; 4,700 gallons stead of simply going after grain, has been washed up since then. coal, iron and oil, the resources The marking"Aeronautica" of the Ukraine and Transcau- was understood to mean that the petrol was intended to fuel Italian "planes in Africa.

casus. Wh .I

Should the Germans succeed, It is difficult to age where the Soviet Government could "set. itsalt up again wett ofan tha Uraj Mountains, and how "It could avoid being driven-from Go Europe.

NAZI AIR CHIEF KILLED

Germany's aftacle on Russia makes the war problem greater Colonel General Ulrich Grauert. and more immediate for Britain Commanding General of a Nazi and the United States: If Ger- alr squadron, who, the German many Is able to overrun Western communique says, fell in action Russia in the next few weeks it while fighting against England." after an interval for reorganislas, commanderqu

A group of Germans have com- pleted a thrift rug pegged out of strips of old stockings.

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