1941-09-16 — Page 2

THE CHINÀ MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941.

Germans In Iran Displaying Refusal To Go Quietly

Hint That Shah May Have To Go

AUTHORITATIVE QUARTERS in Lon- TO ADOPT

don yesterday stated, according to Reuter's

Diplomatic Correspondent, that the Germans PRISONERS

in Iran are displaying all the tactics typical

of men under arrest who refused to go quiet- OF

ly.

WAR

An "adoption" scheme They are impeding the Iranians by a dis-recently started in the play of futile silliness but the British and So- viet authorities have every intention of see- ing the job is done speedily and thoroughly.

of

During the week-end, they in-; sisted that the Iranians should their get the Germatas Legation and anywhere else they happened to be lurking and that they shoul! be concentrated barracks at Teheran ready dispatch to Ahwaz in the British zone or Kasvin in the

zone.

in for

Russian

CZECHS

BOYCOTT

NEWSPAPERS

AS AN

OF

United States is already providing numbers of Bri- tish prisoners of war with extra parcels of food and

tobacco. One American woman has adopted all Welsh Guards prisoners. They number about 200.

a series of

sar-

These are now despatched

ATTEMPTED RAIDS ON THOSCOW

German 'planes yes- terday attempted to raid Moscow but were driven off before reaching the city.

This was announced by the Soviet 'Informa- tion Bureau yesterday. -Reuter.

Air Raid

Casualty

Figures

COAL STRIKE THREAT IN UNITED STATES

ABOUT 37,000 SOFT, COAL MINERS ZEMPLOYED IN THE "CAPTIVE" MINES OF SEVEN STEEL CORPORATIONS, OPERATING TO CAPACITY ON DEFENCE ORDERS WERE OR-

GO DERED TO

STRIKE ON YESTERDAY IN PITTSBURG.

in- The corporations affected clude the nation's three largest steel producers the United States Steel Corporation, the Bethlehem Re- Steel Corporation, and the public Steel Corporation.

The strike order has been is sued in support of the demand for closed shop-Reuter.

are mines ("Captive"

whose coal is used entirely the parent organisation),

those

by

QUEEN MARY TIDIES

A CAMP

"You take this," said

Queen

One hundred and sixty-Mary handing some branches she

under- and

Each man receives cight packages containing dines, cheese, honey, chocolate, milk. tobacco canned vegetables. and cigarettes. It is not known for certain

and packed being

out of the in London how many Germans

The donor, who nine persons were killed had pulled

to the small boys from Lisbon, EXPRESSION have packed themselves in the Legation but is evidently a THEIR INDIGNATION AT THE wishes to remain anonymous, has

girls surrounding her.

Matloss, the Queen auddenlyg ATTITUDE OF THE GERMAN family associations with the regi- or are missing and believ-growth

ed killed as a result of a CONTROLLED CZECH NEWS meni.

walked into the rest camp for: babies and THE

mothers blitzed GERMAN

prisoners German air raid on the About 250 other

which the Lord Mayor of Bristol) INCREASINGLY adopted by Americans are being United Kingdom during

has opened in the West Coun try. THEIR sent regular parcels direct from

REAL the THE

HAVE Tuck, wife of the

matter of several hundreds.

PROTECTORATE."

United States. Mrs. Alec August.

IN Generally, the position is that PAPERS while the Iranian Government is "CZECH

ARE well-intentioned and shows every WHICH

IN being, CONTEMPTUOUS desire to collaborate, it is

possible by REFERENCES TO impeded wherever

United States This number includes 56 men, the Germans themselves and veryį CZECH LEADERS AND

and 13 not 15 years of age, probably by certain other Iranian ADOPTED TOWARDS THE SO Consul at Buenos Aires, is send- 72 women and 28 children under elements with partiality for the VIET UNION AND THE UNITED ing parcels to 50 prisoners.

classified. Axis autocracy.

STATES, AN ATTITUDE EVER

period 136 Another successful group adop- During the same

de. MORE VIOLENT THAN OF THE

been organised:

persons were injured and INtion scheme has PUBLISHED NEWSPAPERS

Ian of Capt.

tained in hospital. This figure 51 women THE REICH ITSELF.

66 men, THESE by schoolfellows

includes ARE NEWSPAPERS

BE Campbell, heir presumptive to the TO'

of Argyll, who BOYCOTTED BY THE POPULA Dukedom TION, SAYS REUTERS DIPLO. prisoner in camp 7C, Bavaria, MATIC CORRESPONDENT,

The Shah

The Iranian Government, there- fore, requires a good deal of stif- fening from the British and Soviet quarters to strengthen their hands| in clearing up the situation. The Allies have no intention of allow-

on ing matters to drag inde- finitely.

from News and reports

Iran which speak of growing and widesprend dissatisfaction among

with the Iranian people autocratic regime of the Shah are fully borne out by official infor- mation reaching London.

According to information reach- ing London, the Czechs

h for whole week will refrain from

borrowing buying, reading, opening any Czech newspaper.

Of

The boycott began yesterday, the the fourth anniversary of the death of M. Thomas Masaryk the Brst President of Czechoslovakia.

What is very significant is the This public feeling doubtless fact that the Slovak population serves to increase the difficulties has agreed to boycott its own of the Iranian Government. The German-controlled newspapers

Shah, moreover, allowed official for the same period.--Reuter. expression to be

Iranian paper to friendship with

tries.

given in an sentiments of the Axis coun-

All Necessary Measures

The paper in which he did so has since been suppressed by the Iranian Government and the

V

WELFARE OF ARMY

article repudiated on the Teheran IN H.K.

Wireless of which the Iranian Government has taken control.

is a

and 19 children under 18 years of age. During August last year, 1,085 persons Prisoners Cheerful

were killed seriously injured.

Old

School, boys of Milton

Massachusetts, where Boston, Capt. Campbell was educated, are now looking after 100 of his fel- Bavarian low-prisoners in the camp. Capt. Campbell writes to his wife in Lisbon that "parcels in from every are now coming corner of the United States, from Baltimore to Seattle."

various Other letters from camps show that the prisoners are cheerful and well provided with necessaries.

The conditions of the so-called reprisal camp at Posan appear to The men write, have improved.

that they are now allowed out for a walk three times a week. They

are recewing parcels, including some forwarded from the Bavarian

She told them she had come to clear away the undergrowth under the treen' so that the mothers at the camp could sit în' the shade.

One her previous visit she had noticed that there was no clear space where they could take their chairs and rugs.

She brought two soldiers with- rakes to do 'the' Job and got the children to help.

and 1,265 her with Reuter.

SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN OF THREAT TO KIEV

(Military Comment By "Annalist”)

A SERIOUS VIEW IS TAKEN IN LONDON

camp where they were previously OF THE GERMAN THREAT TO KIEV.

interned.

A party of 150 men have re-

prisal camp to Stalag 20A, in the

It is obvious that the German High Com- cently been removed from the re-mand is making another attempt to use A Command Welfare

and same district, which they report pincer offensive which has not proved con- Meanwhile, the British and So-Amenities Board has been form- to be more comfortable. viet Governments are determineded with the object of obtaining

spicuously successful so far. that their requirements must be and distributing to the Troops fulfilled and will take all necesradio sets, gramophones, records, sary measures to strengthen the

books, papers, pictures, playing hand of the Iranian Government cards and any other articles to in securing their objectives. Reuter.

Y

"WIFE MY WISEST COUNSELLOR"

improve the comfort of British, Indian and Chinese. Troops in Barracks, forts, and Camps. The Board will administer funds grant- ed from time to time by the Home

V

MYSORE POWER PROJECT

although

In the territories where the fight completely encircled, ing hitherto has taken place there seriously, menaced.

BUT KIEV IS NOW DIS- are no towns of sufficient impor tance to call for their defence to TINCTLY THREATENED AND the last and as a conséquence the THE RUSSIANS APPARENTLY INTENTION OF Soviet forces always evaded the HAVENO orms of the pincers while inflicting: EVACUATING THE FLAGE the maximum loss on the enemy BUT WILL RELY ON THEIR

DEFENCES, ON THEIR INDO as they advanced.

MITABLE SPIRIT AND ON THE RIGOURS OF THE WINTER TO KEEP THE GERMANS AT BAY:

and Indian Governments and It is learned that the Govern will be most grateful for any ment of Mysore State has sanc gifts in kind such as old books tioned £2,100,000 for working and magazines, records, ratton the Jog Falls hydro-electric has proved exceedingly successful In his will Sir William Henry chairs, etc., for which the owners scheme for generating 32,000 h.p.

Car- have no further use. Such gifts preliminarily. Seager, the ship-owner, of

will be gratefully received by the

ed.

war work.

This system of "elastic defence" and the only cases where the So- viet troops did not clude the Gor man encirclement were at Tallinïï. and Odessa.

All Weight

It is obvious that the Gormans are throwing all their weight into Both these places, however, the scale to try and effect a decl- Séould be reinforced and supplied sive success in the few days lef

from the sea and Tallinn was before winter sets in. finally evacuated when "rasje- tando was no longer possible. Leningrad Position

sooms confident of its ability to do Odessa is still holding out and

so indefinitely.

Already the first snow has Taller at Murmansk and low temperatures further south point to a severe winter,

diff, referred to his wife as my Garrison Adjutant who will a It is understood that the power helpmate, best friend and wisest counsellor." He left £180,418, of range to collect them if so desir-thus generated will be utilised

for accelerated which £153,702 was net per-

Reuter. sonalty. Estate duty of £52,571

The Board is composed of the was paid.

D.A.A.G., the Senior Chaplain and In a bequest to his wife, Sir the Garrison Adjutant and will William stated: "I rejoice ex- have the advice of Indian army the money grants reforred to ceedingly that her love for and officers when questions regarding above and of the giftsin kind confidence in me has not boon the welfare of Indian troops, which are from time to time so unrewarded and that my deter- arise. It is in no way intended generously made by local peu mination to make good, accom to interfere with the activities of ple. panied as it was by much an- the philanthropic bodies in Hong xiety, has brought its own ro-Kong who do so much for the ward of duty done and I by cour-services. The object is rather to this opportunity of thanking those Age and faith was enabled to win provide a central authority to who have in the past made tirely analogous because, accord-equipped for the extreme, varl through against big odds.

secure equitable. distribution of glits In kind to the troops.

The Board would like to take

The advantages conferred by "General Frost" will all be on the side of the defenders who not only The case of Leningrad is not on-will be better sheltered but bett

ing to Russian claims; it is not tions in temperature.——Reater.