1941-08-27 — Page 41

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1941.

CHINA GIVES WARM APPROVAL TO ALLIED POLICIES

THE

CHUNG KING

NEWSPAPER "SAO TANG PAO," ORGAN OF THE CHINESE ARMY, HAILS THE ENTRY OF BRITISH AND RUSSIAN TROOPS INTO IRAN AS AN IM- PORTANT STEP TOWARDS STABILISATION OF THE SITUATION IN THE NEAR EAST.

The action is seen as ensuring continued supplies of oil to the Allies from Iran and removing the danger of German penetration, enabling Britain and Russia to establish a common front and strengthening Turkey's position against German pressure.

DARING R.A.F. ATTACK

Diving low over an, enemy aerodrome near Cherbourg yesterday, a fighter pilot saw a bomber being serviced inside a hangar. He headed his aircraft straight for the open doors firing all the

time.

The paper sees the pos- sibility of a new Japanese move in the Pacific if Bri- tain, Russia and Germany |

WOULD NOT

LOOK AT HER OWN FACE

to

"I do not wont see my face now that I am getting on in years, said Granny Eliza Kirk. She gave away all her mirrors and never again look- ed into a glass.

She died recently, aged 103, Lincoln- shire's oldest inhabit- ont. She lived at Owmby, near Market Rasen.

are engaged in a bitter GESTAPO

struggle in the Near East.

The full text of Mr Churchill's Intet was prominently dis- | the Chungking press | plaved m under banner headlines.

THE PAPERS EMPHASISE THAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA ARE READY TO FIGHT SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN

SEIZE 1,000 CZECHS

TE FAR EAST AND ARE DE-

CHECK FUR- the TERMINED TO

THER AGGRESSION

Mr. Churchill's reference to Japan is termed a "fjoal warm. ing."

Observers are not surprised at

the unfavourable reaction in Japan since they have always maintain ed that there was little hope of

Men appeared to fall out Japan's abandoning her fixed mat Junkers from il angles."| poley of expansion.

and the pilot afterwards

This was only one culent in

* attack on the aerodromo, in

schach Whirlwind, as

Splines took part.

well as

Japan's Choice

(By A Czech Correspondent)

The latest news from Czech Protectorate reveals that a determined new effort is being made by the Nazis to subjugate the Czechs and to break their stubborn resistance to German rule.

The Gestapo has carried out the largest round-up for severa months. More than 1,000 Czeeńs have been arrested in Bohemia "Central Daily and Moravia and sent to cuneen- ofimal New: particularly is pleased attration rumps at Buchenwald and

Breslau

The

A number of bombers, parked; the clear-cut statements on

the stand the landing ground were! Far East which are regarded as set on fire and a line of M 5.1097%; reficeting Mr. Churchil's thorough understanding ol the situation

was shot up.

The attack was such д sur prise to the enemy that not single fighter was encountered In the air by our forces

More fighters escorted bombers; na hipping raid off the Dutelii coust and others attacked shipping off the French coast.

here.

"The Roosevelt-Chinchill meet og ended the chances of a fun- there opportunist poley on the puri

Japan," the paper says

Among them were many pro- mument Czechs, theluding the uni- versity professor Vaclav Halfert. tie former deputy Richter, 20 drector of the Zbrojoka arma- ment works in Brno, many county fofficia's, radway ofleers, and pro- vinetal Sokol leaders All have been subjected to brutal exam-

"Japan must either leave the Axis and abandon aggression or |tions. fight it out with the combined The Gestapo claims that the forces of Britain and the United, action was a heavy blow against States."

! President Benes's underground Czechoslovak cir- Chinese organisation,

London, however, state the eles 1 alinch great importance to on, conference, the daily states that that the contact with their under-

Un # Belgian aerodrome a South African Spitfire orlot DA

our M.E.109's ined up and gave them a long burst with hip can- non and machine-guns. che collapse and run over its wing. British Weeless,

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SURGERY IN MODERN WAR

Declaring

that

the

interrupted.

If the Democracies are determin-ground organisation has not been ed and united, the Eastern diffi- culties can be liquidated within

Reuter. Six months,

WOMEN AS AIR FERRY PILOTS

HOW SWIFT COOPERATION BETWEEN THE ARMY AND R.A.F. SAVED THE LIFE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN REAR-GUN. NER, WHO WAS WOUNDED

WOMEN FERRY PILOTS AND HAD TO BALE OUT

MA- HIS AIRCRAFT, IS DESCRIBED HAVE DELIVERED 3,000 BY THE AIR MINISTRY NEWS CHINES OF WHICH ONLY 14 SERVICE.

WERE DAMAGED.

OF

The wounded man was picked This was announced at a lun- in London yesterday at up by the Army and immediately, cheon

which the Minister of Aircraft the report was received by the

to R.A.F. a bomber, with a medical Production paid high tribute officer and equipment was sent to the work

a forward aerodrome.

of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary,

It was while serving with this Johnson organisation that Amy

tributes

A blood transfusion was neces- sary and this operation was car- ried out in a tent. The man was! was killed

a

then flown to base and taken to: hospital where he is making good recovery.-British Wireless.

*AIRGRAPH MAIL SERVICE

At the

President same time. Hacha, the puppet leader of the Czechs, has announced in Prague a far-reaching reshuffle of the leaders of the National Solidarity Organisation, the only Czech party the Nazis allowed to be formed after the occupation. He dis- missed Nebesky, the leader of the party, and his deputies Hruby, Sitorsky, and Baron Beleredi, and nominated a farmer, Jan Fousek, who was formerly an officer the Austrian Imperial Army, as the new leader.

CONFUCIUS' BIRTHDAY

in

The birthday of Confucious and Teachers' Day were celebrated by Chinese educational and cultural circles in Hong Kong to-day.

ut

Yen-tsing.

and many were paid to her memory.

Miss Pauline Gower, who start- A meeting in observance was ed the women's section of the ser-held by the Teachers Union vice, recalled that a memorial the King's Theatre. scholarship was being formed A culogy on the great sage was whereby women could learn to read by Mr. Huang fly not at their own expense Speeches were made by Messrs. Miss Gower said that at first Kan Yau-man, Chow Shang and the women's section was only allowed to fly moth machines but now there was no limitation to the types of aircraft they could fly. British Wireless.

The airgraph service to the Mid- dle East is proving an unqualised; success, 170,000 letters being re- ceived for photograph in London during the first week of the ser- tion and many thousand film let- vice. Both inward and outward ters are on the way to the Mid- services are now in regular opera- dle East forces.-British Wireless.

Chan Tih-yat.

At the conclusion of the meet- ing, the Chinese picture "The Baptism of Fire" was shown.

Many Chinese commercial estab- lishments declared a holiday while pictures of Confucious formed the subject, of displays at the Sincere, Wing. On and the Sun Companies and the China Emporium.

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