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報西

No. 35530

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Box No:1

SOVIET

CHUNGKING

RAIDED

CHUNGKING, June 30 (Reuter)-Big, fires at a lumber yard along the bank of the Yangtse River were started when 80 Japanese bombers, in three groups, subjected the western suburbs of Chungking to yet another severe bombardment at noon yesterday.

. The Chinese claim that the squadron leader of the first group of Japanese bombers was shot down by Chinese fighters in an aerial battle above Chungking.

NO DAMAGE

IN RAIDS

LONDON, June 30 (Reuter)-- Planes, believed to be the enemy, "were reported in the north-east, south-east and the midlands Some bombs were dropped in the midlands but no damage was re- ported.

Five or six bombs tell in the centre of a. south-west England town. Daniage was done over a wide area but there was little or no casualties.

One bomb fell on the edge of an air raid, shelter and wrecked some shops and houses in the vicinity but the shelter was not damaged.

ON WAY. TO SHANGHAI

CHUNGKING, June 30 (Central) Mr. Halmar Collin, new Danish Minister to China and concurrent-

·ly Minister. to Thailand, who pre- sented his credentials to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government on June 18, has left for Kunming by plane, From the Yunnan provincial capital he will proceed to Shanghal by way of Hanol, Saigon and Hongkong.

HONGKONG, MONDAY JULY 1, 1940.

MOVE INTO BESSARABIA

STALIN ACTED TO FORESTALL COMRADE ADOLF HITLER!

THE DUCE, ALSO, IS NOT QUITE --PLEASED ABOUT DEVELOPMENT

LONDON, JUNE 30 (REUTER)—DOUBT IS EXPRESS-

ED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES WHETHER SOVIET BUS- SIA'S MOVE INTO BESSARABIA WAS MADE IN AGREE- MENT WITH GERMANY.

Under the heading "Russia's Move," the paper writes, in a leading article, that after France's collapse one of Hitler's most likely moves was to go east; and Stalin had been anxious to forestall it. That seems to be the most probable explanation of his brusque annexation of Bess- arabia, and also of his tightened hold on the Baltic States.

"But the Balkans are a more explosive area than the Baltic. Countries from Rumania to Greece, in- clusive, form a sphere in which Germany, Italy and Russia each have separate. and rival interests.

"There is no evidence that these rivalries have yet been adjusted. within the scheme of the partition. Eventually there is no doubt that they may be; but at present it looks as if neither Italy nor Germany either anticipated or welcomed Russia's move, th

When three cats sit, watch- mg each other round a coveted prey, the sudden extension" of one paw is apt to be followed by Liat of the others. The re- percussions may soon 20 ར far as to our ally, Turkey. She will be in a much stranger she situation it before now had come out actively 'en 'our side."

ONLY THE BEGINNING

On the same subject' T. L Garvin writes in the Observer that "we are witnessing the beginning of the Rumanian question, not the end. The tempo of that complicated drama cannot be reckoned.

There may be several acts and intervals. Russia has no

FORTHCOMING AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

REPUBLICAN CHOICE OF MR. WENDELL WILLKIE

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IS MUCH WELCOMED

LONDON, June 30 (Reuter)-The adoption of Mr. Wendell Willkie as Republican candidate for the American Presidency is welcomed by the Sunday Times which states editorially that in some respects the best news is the adoption of Mr. Wendell Willkle, for it banishes the dan ger that at the forthcoming election the United States of America should be asked to vote on Party lines for or

against giving help in material to Great Britain.

Had an isolationist like Mr. Dewey or Mr. Taft been adopted, isolationism would have become the issue; and even if its standard bearer were defeated the conflict might have gone far to crip- ple America's help to us.

But there is even more In the nomination than that. Mr. Willkie was not a candidate of the Republican Party bosses. Their favourites were Mr. Dewey and Mz. Taft,"

sentimentalism about the pre- sent but no illusions about the future. She is doing what she is certain to do in any case, at the first sure oppor- tunity, but at the same tine she looks far!

"To force a war with both Axis Powers either now or later is not her aim. To suppose otherwise is nonsense or wish- ful thinking. She knows that a trick of accommodation is worth two that are for the moment. She knows some other things.....

The more fundamental principles of Mein Kampf and Its taster decisions can only be realised by a resumed drang“ nach osten of a Enal scale.": That is, by an epic Teutonic expansion from the Balkans to Caucasus and Baku.

***CLEAR CONDITIONS

*Germany's prodigious con- quests in the west and north have gone much too fast and - too far for Russia's interests. To limit Italy in the Balkans is essential

the fall of

France and Russian coutisel have persuaded Turkey to keep

ITALIAN LOSSES ARE STEADILY MOUNTING

LONDON, June 36 Reuter)-The Italian losses are steadily mount- ing. Nine submarines and one destroyer shave been sunk and they have just lost three planes, one of them in a futile raid oh Malta, and two which were forced down and captured in Africa after a combat with a British fighter,

*

The Royal Air Force bombed two Italian aerodromes, one In Libya' and the other in Eritrea. petrol dumps were set un are and much damage, was done.

The

out of the wars pant, un "clear conditions. Turkes's defence

in not to be wellmed in any way by the AZIE

The security of the Dar-

danelles and the Bosphorus must not be eatened by direct

呀 indieci: mEANA Syria and Palestines must not fall into Italian, rasselalu

***These reasons are not dis-

serviceable to, Budain, In the Eastern Mediterzihijan they are safeguards against the -spread of chaos wonce more; Russia, under, hekaylets 85 under Tsarism, as he hop all Slavs. This gill the element of ing the Nazi doctrine" feriority.

FIXED MINI

"The more Eris change the more. same thing. He onl methods, and

programme. Severa principles in Lien Kamps long to the fixed basis of his mind and his purpose. By might, and the might of numbers and racial pre...... eminence, Hitler is to create the greatest Expire that his- tory has yet seen. It must be so solidly established as to re-

dominant main

and im pregnable for many centuries."

"For that purpose every possible rival in its neighbour- "hood must be struck down and kept down. The olls and cereals in Rumania could never be sufficient for this. No less than when Mein Kampf was: written, the colossal vision of conquests and long supremacy demands the soil of Ukraine. and the ofl of Baku."

President Port

But

Mr. Gandhi who had his sixth interview, with the Vicè. roy of India in.

since the outbreak of war.

GANDHF'S LONG

TALK WITH THE VICEROY

COLLABORATION

پانچ یا د در

OF POLITICAL ELEMENTS

SIMLA June 30 (Reuter? A communique here BAYS Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, and trandhi held a three-hour Prerence on Saturday,

This is the sixth interview

Price

ENEMY CAVALRY PANTO ~ AND LEAVE WOUNDED

Native Battalion Routed In

Eritrean Territor

* CAIRO, Jun 30 (Beater)--British patrol

""have" continued 36"haram enemy" cafiber

Bőrder withsmterked, suencia, necord

an unofficial statement issued

The statement reads in the

country fringing the border wo vehicles encountered groups of

Advancing towards them, the vehic chine-guns, The enemy cavalry panicked

tions taking cover, in" the adjacent-hills and leaving fifty behind

In the same ares amall detach ments and units repeatedly enter ed Eritrean territory, encountering enemy

ola Mand Inficting

casualties without any losses.

NO DAMAGE IN

PORT SUDAN

CAIRO, June 30 (Reuter)A

It is recalled that of our digiting patro battalion ofoare ints area, inflicting, mere and demolishing, seve | gun: nests,”

NO CLAIM BY THE RAF

CAIRO, June 30 Reater)

communique, issued by the Royal claim to have shot dower Marshal Air Force states that two cars Balbao has so far been matters we by enemy aircraft on Fort Badan Royal Air Force here. caused no material: damage One

It fatated that the

enemy three-engined homber was concerned in the attac

on Friday did not shot down.

menger carrying pian

RAF bombers. raided M. Ghibli, (Libya), za Ing diretta fits on note tent

Baruaft and smatr

Mf machines was shot down, in names

Gandhi had... with the Viceroy] while the second was badly” dams | since the outbreak of war,

aged. Two of our “aircraft were

It is generally assumed that the lost in the night. Interview was mamly devoted to The witage of an enemy air- the consideration of the position craft was ashed up at Mersama- of India in the light of recent trub. Various reconnaissances were developments in Europe, the pos- successfully carried out. sibilities of gaining support from the Congress Party in assisting the country's war effort and the question of adopting provisions! elements in this object without subsequent Con- prejudice, to stitutional developments After the

It is thought that the Viceroy's

THIRD TERM FOR

ROOSEVELTE

NEW YORK, June 30 (Ren- ter)-Apoll taken before Mr. Wendell Willkie's nomination as Republican candidate shown that 92 per cent of the Deino- cratic votes" questioned favour

discussions with Mr., Jinnah, Pre-a third term for President sident of the Muslim League-on Thursday covered largely the same ground, with special re- ferance to the Mostem League.

Roosevelt. This compares with 57 per cent in July 1939, 78 per cent in January 1940 and 84 In -May 1940.

Coolidge Returns To

American Officials

State No Explanation To Offer

Stx hours after leaving: Hongkong for Manila yesterday morning, the ss. President Coolidge was recalled and re-berthed at the Kowloon Wharf shortly after 630 pm

Mr. Addison Southard, United States Consul-General, informed the Hongkong Dais

we suffered no losses. The Royal the recall was presumably on Instructions from Washington for the finer to stand by for the purpose Air Force also made widespread of evacuating American citizens from Hongkong raids over Germany and Holland, again without loss,

Japanese Allegation Of

British Breach Of Trust

allegation that the authorities in Hongkong were "passing Japanese military secrets to Chungking whenever notified 24 hours before

CANTON, June 30 (Reuter)The

JAPANESE ISSUE STATEMENT

NANKING" Fine 30Center)

any operations along the Border The High Command of the Japan was contained sin ja statement issued by the Japanese Southese Force in China, in a communi- Calna Army Command this morn-que issued today, claims the com

plete suspension of the supply, routés – from Hongkong" and the

“The Republican Convention ing

passed over these well recommend. The charts, according to the British leased territory of Kowloon

ed gentlemen and chose a dark statement, is based on an alleged to the Chunking Government. horse because of the conviction written order by Generalimimo that swept over it that American Chiang Kai-shek to Chiness troop national interests must be pura- to evacuate the border regions, mount, and those interests neces

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in future no in- ormation will be even ing from our opera

the

Germans Now Change Tune

- LONDON, June-20%Heu Germans bare now.

their

Mr. Southard added that he was tary and naval families here for in telegraphie communication with general evacuation and ordered Washington and, way awaiting the liner back, to be in readiness instructiona

to take away the American resi "No orders have been fened for dents, evacuation American en In addition, Mr. Southard sald he stated and

he that a broadcast commentator in was awaiting instructions from Manila said last evening that the time about then NC NC Washington on the matter.

Americans In Hongkong were Channel Islands which have been clamouring for evacuation might have possibly been the causes for iner's return.

NOTHING FREES

"WE'LL STAY RIGHT HEREY

Addison E. Southard, Cons *At 9:15 pm, last night, Mr.

for the United

America

AT LEAST THEY

ADMIT OUR PLANES GOT THERE!

BERLIN, June 30 Pugh Command commu that on the night of J

man aircraft bombed parts and munitions works in England cand Scotland.

In many places explosions WIKI fires were observed, especially in the harbours in Cardin and Bristol where "several tanks were LEG firg="

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on the air blaen at Linchin, Not- tingham and York

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