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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 17, 1941.

HITLER WILL BLOW HIMSELF UP, ACCORDING TO HOOVER

THE VIEW THAT HITLER will collapse as a result of his own over-reaching and that the United States should become the bulwark of freedom at home was expressed by Mr. Herbert Hoover, ex-President of the United States, in a radio address to the American nation yesterday.

"The President's policy of sending our warships into danger zones and sending American merchant ships with contraband are steps to war not approved by Congress and not in accord with the spirit of represen- tative government,” he added.

TYPHOON

POLICE

OFFICERS INJURED

Contending that neither isola- tion nor intervention were wise or possible for America, Mr. Hoover asserted that the U.S. should fol- ' low the constructive policy of building an impregnable defence and the bulwark of freedom at home and reserve its strength to help in reconstruction and stabil- ising peace "when Hitler collapses us the result of his own over- reaching."

England, he declared, could prevent invasion "if we give her the tools and even warships without sending our boya to death either in ships or on land.

"Hitler is on the way to crushed by victorious forces within

“Example”

be

Mr. Hoover said that the way to

Reports continue to trickle in to police sta- his own regime." tions of incidents during yesterday's typhoon, and it is now learned that three police officers, two of whom were Europeans, were injured, though not seriously, and that a Por- tuguese vessel went ashore on Ching I Island.

The European policemen were Sub-Inspector Kellett, of Gough Hill Police Station, and Inspector E. G. Post, of Kowloon City Police Station.

SYRIAN

REPUBLIC RESTORED

General Catroux, C.- in-C. of the Free French forces in the the Levant, acting in. name of the Allies, has ̈ restored the Syrian Republic, vesting it with authority.

This is in accordance with the promise made by the Allies when the British and Free French forces entered Syria to stop German activities there. Reuter.

HOOD

CASUALTY

LIST

When an enemy shell exploded in the magazine spread the ideals of the western and sank the 42,000-tons world was by the example of "our British battle-cruiser own country, as it has been prove Hood in the battle of May futi.e for us to impose freedom 24 with the German bat- and justice upon the world by tleship Bismarck-which

ed by bitter experience that it is

war."-Reuter.

V

survived only three days before British warships

be-

LIGHTNING sent her to the bottom- STRIKE

Sub-Inspector Kellett while Nanking Road, Shanghai's main

1,418 men of Hood came casualties, “all miss- ing presumed killed."

Their names occupied 43 pages

on patrol yesterday morning street, and the Bund and other of an Admiralty casualty list issu- blocked by a long ed in London yesterday consisting was blown over by the force of streets, were the wind and taken to hospital | row of tramcars as the result of a of 94 officers, 1,152 ratings, 161 with leg injuries. He was not sudden strike this morning of tram Royal Marines, four Australian

conductors and drivers.

naval ratings and seven members detained.

{ of the Navy, Army and Air Force * Inspector E. G. Post was on Reason for the lightning walk-Institute.

Four Polish midshipmen-and 90. patrol near Kowloon City Police out cannot yet be ascertained" al- station with Indian Constable 413, though it is unconfirmably report- British boys (ratings and Marines) both men being blown over with ed it followed the slapping of one figure in the list. leg injuries. They are still in of the conductors by a policeman Officers lost include the noted expert Vice-Admiral Kowloon Hospital.

whose dismissal is now demanded. I gunnery

The strikers abandoned the cars Lancelot Ernest Holland, aged 53,

Police Launch Damaged as soon as the strike call came, who has been described as one of leaving thousands of hapless pas-the most outstanding officers of Two police launches, No. 9 and sengers to find the best means of his generation, and Captain Ralph 8, were badly damaged while at reaching office-Reuter. anchor in the Yanati shelter.

were

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TYPHOON THEFT

ran aground pear Ching I 10-

For stealing a copper sign board, land, where it was found by No. the property of the Peninsula 3 police faunch. All the crow Hotel, Wong So, 19, was fined $10 are safel

or one month by Major A. «N, Macfadyen at Kowloon this morn-

The Coxswain of a Yaumati ing. ferry boat reports that he sighted At 2.20 p.m. yesterday while two men drifting in the sea at the typhoon was still blowing. 9 o'clock last night. Owing to accused was seen carrying the [the heavy sea no attempt at res- board in Hankow Road.

cue could be made.

A junk which sank in the typhoon yesterday about 500 yards off the Socony-Vacuum installation at Laichikak is a danger to navigation and mariners are warned to give the area a wide berth,

Beach Matsheds

It is learned that two bathing sheds at Repulse Bay, Nos. 71 and 99, were completely blown out by yesterday's typhoon: while. 15 others were badly damaged, including the Army Officers' Club shed. The raft was washed while the barbed wire ashore. entanglements also suffered dam-

age.

1.

Kerr,, who. commanded Hood.

The three survivors picked up included “a midshipman aged 17. who was making his first voyage.

-Reuter.

DEATH OF A. B.

HOUGHTON

THE DEATH WASAN- The board was blown from the NOUNCED IN NEW YORK by YESTERDAY (SAYS REUTER) wall of the Peninsula Hotel the typhoon and defendant picked OF ALANSON BIGELOW it up.

HOUGHTON, WHO WAS UNIT- ED STATES AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN FROM 1925 TO 1929 AND THREE YEARS BEFORE THAT AMBASSADOR TO GER- MANY

USE THE FAMOUS. "ER HUDSON",

LATHES

Solo-Agent: H.K, Mall "Order Col China Bldg., Olh Ficar," Tööm ̈010.“

Soon after he succeeded. Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, as Ambassador to Britain in 1925, Mr. Houghton attracted attention by a striking statement which is recalled in the light of present events.

This was “I believe the safety, peace and happiness of the whole world depend on peace between the United States and Great Bri taln. If we cannot get along who can?"Reuter.