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"Hongkong Daily Presa”—June 4, 1940.

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"RETREAT UPON DUNKIRK”

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1940.

CEN. BLANCHARD AWARDED GRAND

CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR: GEN. PRIOUX ALSO DECORATED

FURTHER MEASURES IN EGYPT

NAZI CITIZENS

MUST CHOOSE

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PARIS, June 3 (Reüter)-

A Reuter message from Paris states that, on the recom-- mendation of General Weygand, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, the following awards have been made:-".

Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour-GENERAL BLANCHARD, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Flanders.

Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour-GENERAL· PRIOUX, Commander of the First French Army.

Two British

A Cairo despatch says that Hospital Ships

further precautionary steps are being taken.

A special bureau to deal with espionage will be ap- pointed with extensions throughout Egypt.

Attacked By Nazi Planes

LONDON, June 3 (Reuter)| Two British hospital ships

No vessel can leave any were bombed and machine Egyptian port without a pass gunned by German planes from the authorities and Ger-this morning, off the French man citizens must choose be- tween leaving and intern- ment.

coast.

There were no British wounded aboard and both the vessels suffer- ed no damages, but bomb splinters killed one of the ships' crew.

The two ships were the Worthing.

The handling by Generals Blanchard and Prioux of the retreat upon Dunkirk re- sulted in the saving of the Allied armies," the report adds.

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ENTRY INTO CONFLICT

TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN FRENCH

PRESS: LORAINE SEES COUNT CIANO

Yona Cabinet

Downfall Seen

RESIGNATION OF

MR. YUASA

SHANGHAL June 3 (Intl)--The resignation of Mr. Kurabel Yua- General Blanchard; an excellent sa. Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, cavalry soldier, was a member of is regarded as a victory of the the Inter-Allied Mission of Control military faction, which harbours Berlin. He is 83 years of age a strong dislike of this official be- and a grim fighter.

cause of his anti-Fascist inäuence The "situation which confronted on the throne.

hopeless but he faced it with in- General Prioux when the Belgian Army capitulated last week seemed domitable courage and resolution He brought his army intact across the line of the Flemish hills to Dunkirk in the face of furious German attacks.

SLOW ATTACKS BERLIN. June 3

(Reuter)-A

Mr. Yuasa who is closely con-

Salonj. the last of the nected with Prince Kimmochi

statesman, was responsible for elder

securing the premiership for Ad- mirai Mitsumasa Tonal when the army had fixed the War Minister, General Shunroku Hata, for the post.

The resignation of Mr. Yuasa

UNBRIDLED NAZI and Paris which, were formerly High Command communique states may bring about the fall of the

west.

well-known cross-Channel steam- that the attack against Denkirk Yonal Cabinet, the official reason ers, according to a later Reuter from the

south and FRIGHTFULNESS

east being its failure to dispose of the message which also states that the continues slowly. The difficult "China incident" despite the crea- German tactics of unbridled only casualty was an" 17-year-ole terrain. flooded and trenched by tion of a puppet regime in Nan- frightfulness continue to be the boy who was killed by machine- hamerous ditches, impedes opera-, NO FRACE theme of stories of evacuated un bullets.

troops.

The Worthing returned to port

RAID WARNING IN PARIS REGION

tions.

Fighter planes continued to at tack Dunkirk yesterday and "sant two destroyers and damaged some warships and merchantmen. The alt rald warning *W23 According to Interim gures sounded in the Paris region at 33,000, British and French troops 1.15 p... yesterday and lasted 45 were taken prisoner in the battle minutes, according to Reuter. of Flanders and Artois."

A party of N.C.Os. who returned but the Paris was abandoned. related: "While thousands of as were waiting for ships to take as of last Saturday one party of twenty found a rowing boat and put off. They were doing fine when German dive bombers came, "Bombs were dropped all round but when no hit was achieved the Germans sed machine-guns. Then, apparently furious at fal- lure to sink the boat. the Nazis dropped petrol or oil all round and then fred into it with tracer bul- lets. In a few moments the sed round the boat was ablaze and there was no escape for the poor devils." (Reuter).

GERMANY REORGANISING FORCES FOR NEXT MOVE

FAILURE FRANCE has

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PARIS, JUNE 3 (REUTER)—GERMANY'S ENCIRCLE THE BEF. IN NORTHERN them. slow down operations on that front and they are reorganising their forces for the next move.

to

Today's French communique states there was no new p in the course of the night.

event

This was one of the shortest communiques for some time. MEXICO'S REQUEST M. Paul Reynaud, French Pre-;abled the French co take im-

mler. accompanied by ON LAND ISSUE

Marshal portant positions, fortify them and | Petain and the Minister for Arma-¡ re-establish the situation. Special to HK. Dally Press

meat, visited the Somme front French congratulated the WASHINGTON, June 3 (Havas) and -Mexico has requested the Taited and Allied forces for the energy States to postpone, until June 30, and rapidity in the building up of the final settlement of the ques- strong defences against the enemy. tion of expropriated land. belong- ing to American citizens.

H.M.S. NELSON

He added that the morale of the forces has never been higher.

APPALLING NAZI LOSSES

POLITICAL CHARACTER Bombing attacks are being con- tinted against certain regions in France.

German reconnoitring flights yesterday were concerned with eastern and south-eastern France and the Paris region.

Stresa is laid in Paris on the A special correspondent attach-obvious political character at the LONDON, June 3 (Reuter)-Theed to the Havas News Agency, who present International Juncture of has just returned from the Rethel the choice of the Rhone valley as that there was no vestige of truth/area gives a vivid description of the scene of aerial operations.

Ministry of Information announces

In the German report that the battleship H. M. S. Nelson has been sunk

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PAGE 2 Lawn bowls tourney; Crown land auction; Refugee Girls' Home bazaar; New- settes.

PAGE 3-Radio programmes: Coming events: Crossword .puzzle... PAGE 4-French polley, stands firm in China; Early cables PAGE 5–West Point murder trial: R. E. O. C. A, annual "meeting: Marriage market boom BW.O.F. donations: Police Reserve orders; Air- port news.

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the appalling German Josses there, says Renter.

Describing the re-establishment

of the front after the German break-through, he BAYS, **The French frst retreated and then reassembled and attacked," aur-

Germans. prising the

At one point the whole German division was annihilated, affording a ter- rible spectacle of thousands of inert bodies lying in the brilliant sunshine.

The German Command, how- ever, paid no heed to the losses, but unceasingly poured into the battle new waves of troops whom we destroyed.

The French found them- selves fighting veritable sana- ties who shouted the name of the Fuehrer to each other in encouragement.

The superiority of the French tanks was demonstrated whenever they went into action and the magnificent spirit of all ranks en-

DERBY WILL BE RUN JUNE 12-

The Derby and Oaks will de- finitely be run at Newmarket on June 12 and 13, saya. Reuter.

A denial that the French Am- bassador, M. Heart Cosme, is en gaged in any peace negotiations for China and Japan was made by spokesman of the Embassy in Shanghal.

He said that the French Am- bassador came to Shanghai from Chungking on £ routine visit without any special significance. and that by the end of the month.. M. Cosme will visit Tientsin and. Peiping.

Red Cross Flag Day

Tomorrow

Her Majesty the Queen has sent a letter to Lord Luke, Chairman of the Flag Day Committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund, expressing her pleasure at the in- auguration of a Red Cross Flag Day throughout the Empire tomorrow (June 5) and thanks to all helpers, states a Reuter message from London.

Over 18,000,000 flags will be on sale.

Congress Of Portuguese World In Lisbon

King To Be Represented

By Duke Of Kent

Left to right:-SIR PERCY LORAINE, British Ambassador in Rome; SIGNOR MUSSOLINI; COUNT CIANO, Italian Foreign Minister, with whom the British Envey had a conversation during the week-end,

London Still Hopeful Duce Will Realise Grave

•

Responsibility

THE ENTRY OF ITALY INTO THE WAR IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN THE FRENCH PRESS. THE QUES TION ASKED IS WHEN WILL "SIGNOR MUSSOLINI CHOOSE HIS TIME?

LEOPOLD'S CHILDREN IN FRANCE

CA CAPITULATION WAS PREMEDITATED PARIS, June 3 (Reuter) A. REUTER REPORT FROM LONDON SAYS IT IS UN- DERSTOOD THAT SIR PERCY LORAINE, BRITISH AM- The children of King Leopold BASSADOR IN ROME, SAW COUNT CIANO, ITALIAN are in France. It is stated FOREIGN MINISTER, DURING THE WEEK-END BUT that they have not been told` NO INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ABOUT THE RESULT of their father's capitulation. OF THE CONVERSATION,

Members of the Belgian Govern=” Reuter learns that hopes are still entertained in Lon- that the King's capitulation was ment state, as evidence of the fact don that Il Duce will realise the grave responsibility of go- premeditated, that Leopold, on ing to war against Italy's former allies.

May 25, ordered that the children As for Spain there is good If the Germans attack. England should be sent to Spain · from reason to believe that the proper, Japanese ships will not be France. Government desires complete calling at English ports but will go The next day he ordered that neutrality.

they be sent to Portugal The demonstra- to Lisbon. tions that occurred-in Madrid The N.X.X. Hiner Hakone Maru, Members of the Belgian Govern-

at present landing at Marseilles | ment expect to visit the children. are not thought to represent with about 100 passengers, is due the views of other than ex- at Aden on July 3. It by then REPORT - DENIED tremists of the pro-Fascist Italy enters the war, she will sail

LONDON June 3 Party,

(Reuter) around the Cape.

Dutch circles in London denied the The ship is carrying a large report that Queen Wilhelmina, un supply of gas masks and is pre- the advice of her military leaders, pared for any emergency.

had decided to leave England for the Netherlands East Indies.

Sir Stafford Cripps is still in Athens, but it is understood that he will soon continue the journey to Moscow since it is expected that the situation will shortly be satis- factorily cleared.

NO INSTRUCTIONS Reuter's Diplomatic Correspon- dent says there are nine Italian journalists in London.

They Are carrying on, their duties and have neither received instructions, nor taken any stepy, such as request for visas,

ONLY MEDITERRANEAN? Special to H.K. Dally Press BUDAPEST, June 3 (Havas) ——— Diplomatic quarters are of the opinion that eventual Italian ac tion will probably be restricted to the Mediterranean and will not directly affect peace in south eastern Europe, at least in the near future.

The same "quarters are also of the opinion that Italian action may be merely parallel and sychronise with

Germany's, but this means it will be .common Italo-German action.

JAPANESE SHIPS Special to H.K. Dally Press. LONDON, JUNE 3 (REUTER)-HRH. THE DUKE OF KENT will

TOKYO, June (Havas)—Itállan" represent HIS MAJESTY THE KING at the Congress of the Porta-Participation in the war will - guese world to be held in Lisbon at the end of this month to cele brate the eighth centenary of the independence of Portugal.

The Duke of Kent will be accompanied by ADMIRAL OF THE SHAL LORD BIRDWOOD, GC.B., G.C.V.D., G.C.M.G.. G.O.8.1

FLEET LORD CHATFIELD, G.C.B., O.M., K.C.M.G., and FIELD-MAR-

The" announcement was made by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, when addressing the Anglo-Portuguese Society, in London.

Lord Hallfax declared that through all the crises that had con- vulsed Europe, Britain' and Portugal had been faithful alles and friends for, 550 years and “there is still no cloud on our horizon,"

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CHINA'S WAR AGAINST OPIUM NEARING END

Generalissimo Chiang Gives

Six Essential Points

CHUNGKING, June 3 (Central)-One of the nation's important achievements during the present war is that despite manifold difficulties, the six-year oplum suppression programme has been vigorously pushed towards a success- ful conclusion, declared Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in an address on the 101st anniversary of the first destruction of oplum by Viceroy Lin Tse-hsu at Bocca Tigris in 1839.

The six-year programme will end this year.

In reviewing the opium, suppression work it is satisfac- tory to note that although there are still cases of opium smoking in remote parts of the country, the energetic steps taken by the authorities have reduced the number to a minimum, and these will be completely eradicated by the end of 1940:

Despite the tremendous in~{ crease the danger for all Euro- pean-bound Japaness liners, in-road on the Government by cluding the NYK. OBK., Yama-the-war, the authorities have JAPANESE FLEET

shita and Kokusai...

Previously, the N.Y.K. operated seven ships on the European route.

BOMB KILLS A CHICKEN!

never wavered in their deter-

mination to stamp out the drug evil, which is equally the bitterest foe of the Chinese people as the Japanese mil-| Itary

SUMMONED TO FORMOSA

Over

ten Japanese warships stationed in Hollow were transfer- Generalissimo Chiang warned

red to Formosa, where they disem LONDON, June 3 (Reuter)-Two that although the six-year PID barked several thousand blue- bombs" were dropped by a plane in gramme was nearing conclusion. Jackets and wounded landing The Portuguese Ambassador Dr. Moneiro expressed profound a forest in Ester early this mora-efforts must never be relaxed and parties as a result of the opera gratituds" for Lord Halifax's announcement and referred to the Ing. The bombs fell near a school ever after the drug evil is com- tions in Hainan Island. presence at the gathering of the Brazilian and Spanish Ambassadors, on the edge of the forest, shatter-pletely stamped out, the combined

It is said that the majority of "the two nations which, with Britain, we look upon as members of ing the windows...

vigilance of party, political and the Bouth China Fleet is summon- The only casualty

one military authorities our family."

in each led to Formosa to stand by for fur It was

Portugal's desire to live with Spain as brothers, he said. chicken.

Continued On Page 6 de ther orders, says International,

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