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CHINA MAIL

FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 33,000

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941

Price: 10 Cta.

FIRST ED

INSIST ON

Daisy Brand

Australia's Choicest BUTTER

BULGARIAN TENSION GROWS

Germans Take

Take Over Railways Conflict Of View British

Give Facts To America

Major William Dwight Whitney, personal assist- ant to Mr. Averell Harri- man, speaking at a lun- cheon given in his honour 'by the English-Speaking Union in London yester- day, made a strong plea for America to be given the facts.

then

They could

understand Britain's will to win, he added.

Major Whitney said that if the British expected decisive action from the Americans it was neces- sary to give them a full picture of the situation.

It was necessary before an at- titude of expectancy might legi- timately be assumed at all.-

Reuter.

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SIR PAUL LATHAM

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BAYONET CHARGE ON LENINGRAD FRONT

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The Germans have been driven back seven miles after Russian bayonet charge on one sector of the Leningrad front, says the official Russian news agency quoted by Reuter.

Pudding Mail

SENTENCED have been loaned to the

In Turkey

TRAVELLERS REACHING ANKARA RE- PORT THAT VERY ACTIVE MILITARY PRE- PARATIONS CONTINUE IN BULGARIA AND THAT THE GERMANS ARE TAKING OVER THE BULGARIAN RAILWAYS FOR THEIR OWN USE.

Advance

at Tobruk

Yesterday's Cairo G.H.Q. communique an- nounced that the British forces at Tobruk are steadily penetrating be- yond the perimeter de- fences.

All foreigners in Bulgaria, it is reported, are closely watched by the police. The staffs of the Soviet Legation and consulates are unling activities our forces at Tobruk able to leave the premises without being watched by Gestapo agents.

There are at present only four Soviet women in - Bulgaria.

circles'

In Ankara diplomatic opinions are divided regarding Celinan activities in Bulgaria. Some observers take the view that they are intended to facilf- tate an attack by sea against the Caucasus.

LEASE,LEND

The communique stated: “As a result of their victorious patrol-

are steadily enlarging the area defences our perimeter which the enemy is forced night- ly to evacuate.

outside

"In the frontier area aggressive action by our patrols is con-

tinuing."

Reuter.

V

MR. CHURCHILL

FOR RUSSIA LUNCHES AT PALACE

POSSIBLE

The

who was

re-

Mr. Churchill, OTHERS SUGGEST THAT

ceived in audlence by the King THEY ARE DESIGNED TO

at Buckingham Palace yesterday, BRING PRESSURE ON TURKEY

remained to lunch. The King ONCE THE GERMANS HAVE

American administrator also received Lord Halifax. Bri- One hundred soldiers REACHED THE CAUCASUS,

to the United of the Lease-Lend programme. Mr.tish Ambassador A third group la of opinion

Stetinius, has urged the House of States. Reuter. that their aim is to bring pres Representatives sub-committee for sure to bear on Turkey to ob-appropriations, which is consider- tain the passage of warships

Ing the latest Lease-Lend through the Dardanelles and.

reject eventually, the transit of their propriation Bill, to

prohibitions which would troops through Turkey.

aid to Russia, according formation from informed members.

Army Post Office to cope CAPTAIN SIR HERBERT PAUL with the enormous last- LATHAM, AGED 36, .FORMER M.P. FOR SCARBOROUGH AND minute rush of Christmas WHITBY, WHO WAS RECENT.

postings to the forces in the Middle East, India and Malaya.

LY TRIED .BY COURT MAR TO BE CASHIERED AND IM PRIBONED FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT HARD LABOUR.

TIAL HAS BEEN SENTENCED

Not Immediate The Turks stress, however, that they do not consider the present be developments in Bulgaria to on a sufficiently large scale to constitute a threat to this coun- try

considers Yet a fourth group that German activities in Bulgaria control aim at obtaining entire of the country in order to make active Latest figures of Christmas it a base for operations against service and the eleventh' attempt- | postings show more than 2,000,000] either Russia or Turkey-Reuter. cd suicide.

letters and cards and 250,000 the label "Not to be opened until Christ- mas Day."

Capt. Latham, who was attach- A large number of army lorries ed to the 70th Searchlight Regis have been requisitioned to ensure ment of the Royal Artillery, hää been found guilty on 11 charges that the gigantic mail reaches the under the Army Act, 10 of them ships in time. alleging disgraceful conduct of an improper kind while

on

=

Latham had pleaded not guilty

to a total of 14 charges on three parcels, many bearing of which we was found not guilty.

"Reuter.

AMERICANS JOIN ARMY IN CANADA

́ Ten thousand U.S. citi zens are now serving in the Canadian Army.

FIGHTING

Sixty per cent. contain pud- A COMMON

-dings and cakes and at the Army's Post Once the whole consign- ment is Imown as the "pudding -mail. Reuter.

IRAN'S BREAK WITH

THE AXIS

BATTLE

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"FROM THE MOMENT", RUS“ SIA.CAME INTO THE WAR WE | HAVE BEEN DOING OUR BEST TO SEND HELP IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, DECLARED MR. CLEMENT ATTLE E The Iranian Government has SPEAKING YESTERDAY AT A recalled its diplomatic representa- LUNCHEON ORGANISED BY tives from Germany, Italy and EX-OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL Rumania, says Router Teheran.

from: TANK SOME SALLADORA

"We are fighting a common battle and obviously it is commonsense and right that we should do our This was revealed in Quebec monwealth Air Training Scheme, utmost to support our Allies in yesterday by the Minister for while 600 Americans were acting every way

Mr. Attlee added: “We shall beat National War Services, Mr. J. Tas instructors at training cen- Thorson.

tres en dit the Germans with our tanks not that Americans Mr. Thorson the strength only because of the skill and cour- Ho added make up eight per cent, of ali, air of Canada's active servic urmy age of our men but because of the crows, pilots, observers and gun-to-day numbers 30,000 men, skill, inventiveness and devotion

of our engineers.

Reuter mers Training under the Com- Reutch

Ap-

any policy now to extend aid to Rus- barsia through the Lease-Lend pro- to in-gramme but he emphasised that House in view of the uncertainty of the future any restrictive provisions Mr. Stetinius explained that it would be especially undesirable. is not the U.S. Government's -Reuter.

HAVE AN H.B.

HOR

AND THEN TRY!