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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941

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BULGARIAN TENSION GROWS Germans Take Over Railways

Conflict Of View TURKS REJECT

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

Reuter.

be assumed

at all.-

SIR PAUL LATHAM SENTENCED

CAPTAIN SIR HERBERT PAUL

BAYONET CHARGE ON LENINGRAD FRONT

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

AMERICANS

JOIN ARMY IN CANADA

Ten thousand U.S. citi- LATHAM, AGED 38, FORMER zens are now serving in M.P. FOR SCARBOROUGH AND the Canadian Army. WHITBY, WHO WAS RECENT. EY TRIED BY COURT MAR..

This was revealed in Quebec

by the Minister yesterday

for

TIAL, HAS BEEN SENTENCED National War Services, Mr. J. T.

Thorson,

"He added that Americans make up eight per cent, of all air crews, pilots, observers and gun- training under the Com- ners monwealth Air Training Scheme, while 000 Americans were acting

at training as instructors tres.

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..

All foreigners in Bulgaria, it is reported, are closely watched by the police. The staffs of the Soviet. Legation and consulates are un- able to leave the premises without being watched by Gestapo agents.

There are at present only four Soviet women in Bulgaria.

A third group is of opinion that their aim is to bring pres-, sure to bear on Turkey to ob- tain the passage of through the

GERMANS HAVE circles' ONCE THE In Ankara diplomatic opinions are divided regarding REACHED THE CAUCASUS. German activities in Bulgaria. Some observers take the view that they are intended to facili- tate an attack by

against the Caucasus,

OTHERS SUGGEST THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED ΤΟ BRING PRESSURE ON TURKEY

sea

British

-

Advance

at Tobruk

TO BE CASHIERED AND IM- PRISONED FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT HARD LABOUR.

Capt. Latham, "who was attach- ed to the 70th Searchlight Regi- ment of the Royal Artillery, hari been found guilty on 11 charges under the Army Act, 10 of them alleging disgraceful conduct of an

en G.H.Q. communique an- improper kind while on active service and the eleventh attempt Mr. Thorson said the strength nounced that the British of Canada's active service army forces at Tobruk are ed suicide.' $

to-day numbers 30,000 men, Reuter.

Latham had pleaded not guilty to a total of 14 charges on three of which we was found not guilty.

-Reuter.

FIGHTING

A COMMON

BATTLE

TO

'

Pudding Mail

Yesterday's Cairo

steadily penetrating be- yond the perimeter de- fences.

The communique stated: "As a result of their victorious patrol- ling activities our forces at Tobruk are steadily enlarging the area outside our périmeter defences which the enemy is forced night- ly to evacuate.

V

con-

One hundred soldiers In the frontier area aggressive "FROM THE MOMENT RUS have been loaned to the action by our patrols is

tinuing,” Reuter. SIA CAME INTO THE WAR WE Army Post Office to cope HAVE BEEN DOING OUR BEST with the enormous last-

SEND HELP IN EVERY

minute rush of Christmas SPEAKING YESTERDAY AT A postings to the forces 1 LUNCHEON ORGANISED BY the Middle East, India EX-OFFICERB OF THE ROYAL TANK REGIMENT. and Malaya.

AMANG BAWAYANATEE

in

IRAN'S BREAK WITH

THE AXIS

The Iranian Government has Vetswe are fighting common battle. A large number of army lorries rocalled its diplomatic representa- and obviously it is commonsense have been requisitioned to ensure tives from Germany, Italy and and right that we should do our that the gigantic mall reaches the Rumania, utmost to support our Allies in ships in time, Teheran,

every way

Mr. Attlee added: "We shell bent the Germans with our tanks not only because of the skill and tour nge of our men but because of the skill, inventiveness ond, devotion

Reuter of our engineers."

Reuter from

Latest figures of Christmas postings show more than 2,000,000 letters and cards and 250,000 parcels, many bearing the labol dings and cakes and at the "Not to be opened until Christ Post Office the whole consi

ment is known as the mas Day."

pud- mall. — Reuter.

Sixty per cent.

|1000

AXIS DEMAND,

SAYS REPORT

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"I

The "Daily Mail" said yesterday that the Turks have rejected an Axis demand for the passage of Italian ships under the Bul- garian flag through the Dardanelles.-In- ternational News Ser-

vice.

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LEASE LEND FOR RUSSIA POSSIBLE

The American administrator: warships of the Lease-Lend programme. Mr."

and. Stetinius, has urged the House of eventually, the transit of their' Representatives sub-committee for troops through Turkey.

Dardanellos

Not Immediate

any'

appropriations, which is consider- ing the latest Lease-Lend · Ap-7 propriation Bill, to reject prohibitions which would bar! aid to Russia, according to in- formation from informed. House members.

The Turks stress, however, that they do not consider the present be developments in Bulgaria to on a sufficiently large scale to Mr. Stetinius explained that it constitute a threat to this coun-. is not the US: A Government's try.

policy now to extend aid to Rus Yet a fourth group considers sia through the Lease-Lend pro- that German activities in Bulgaria gramme but he emphasised that aim at obtaining entire control in view of the uncertainty of the of the country in order to make future--any-restrictive provisions" it a base for operations against would be especially undesirable. either Russia or Turkey. Reuter, Reuter

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