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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

CABLE

TROOPS MASSED FOR INVASION OF Terrorists EGYPT SHELLED BY NAVY

First-hand Story: Italian Fort Blasted To Pieces

LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter)-Router's special correspondent with the British Navy somewhere at sea in the Mediterranean gives an eye-witness account of Saturday's naval action against Bardia and Fort Capuzzo.

He says that naval forces, acting on information from Bri- tish land forces on the Ibyan border, steamed throughout Fri- day afternoon and night, and at dawn took up positions a few miles from the Libyan coast

· Hatches were battened down | GAIRU. Aug. 19. (Reuter) and no light showed throughout Detalls of the R.A.F. part in | warding off enemỳ air attacks on the voyage.

Reuters correspondent climbed the British Fleet bombarding a steel ladder to perch beside a Bardia yesterday announced here

VICHY REPORTS

DISCLAIMED CHUNGKING, Aug 19 (R ter)-Authorlative quarters here yesterday rave a denial to the reports from Vichy which staté that Chinese troops have crossed the Indo- China froniler.

It was also denied that a protest had been sent by the Indo-China authorities.

GRIM PICTURE

OF FUTURE

funnel abaft the bridge on which show that ning enemy aircraft American Envoy Urge

destroyed and two

the Commander and staff stood. were

clad in overalls and probably lost

Gun crews

more

tin hats clustered around pom- It is stated that "our fighters, who were escorting the fleet while battleships bombarded Bar-

poms Immediately below the cor. respondent,

가

EAR-SPLITTING CRASH dia and Fort Capuzzo, first en

A med "stralis his eyes towards 'the coast and then comes mear- splitting crash and a cloud of acrid smoke.' ..

"We are thrown off our balance by the terrific explosion. A few seconds later, flashes followed by great clouds of sand and smoke on the escarpment. Indicate the shell's arrival,

8.3

the i 15-Inch

"Crash follows crash fleet fires six-inch' und guns on Bardia. The battleship reels with concussion as the 15- inch turrets go into action. ---UUT knees almost give way under the sudden displacement of air and the back blast almost wrenches

the hats from our heads.

SUPERB GUNNERY

U.S. Conscription

"

Strike Again

In Shanghai

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Several bombing attempts were also made in the past few months on the paper's premises which is now a virtual fortress protected by a police pli-box, three armoured cars and a large squad of police- men, day and night.

The deportation of Mr. Randall Gould, American editor, and Mr. C. V. Starr, American publisher, of the Evening Post and Mercury was recently demanded by the Nan- king regime för alleged anti- Japanese activities.

-One

KIDNAPPING FAILS

CHUNGKING, Aug. 19 (Central)

unsuccessful kidnapping and two attempted murders took PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19 Reu-place in Shanghai yesterday. ter)-Mr. William C. Bullitt, U.S.

At 11.30 am. six gunmen broke Ambassador, to France. urged Americans to telegraph thetr Con-into the house of Chen Yen-In, countered an Italian flying-pongressmen and write to newspapers merchant at No Lane 389, Han

demanding conscription for the kow Road in the International Whipping out their United States and the despatch of Settlement. old-age United States destroyers to pistols, they tried to forca Chen into a motorcar which was wait- ing outside.

shadowing uur naval force.' It was shot down in Tiames.

FLEET ATTACKED "Shortly afterwards, the feet a formation ol was attacked by 79's, which our fighters Intercept- ed and dispersed. Twg enemy plaries were shot down into the sea,

Britain.

"Agents of the dictators are. already here preparing a way for their armies in the same way for they prepared a way in France," said Mr. Bullitt,

He painted a grim pleture of the future of the United States of

An alarm was given and police arrived. Shots were exchanged between the gunmen and police in which two gunmen were wounded" and arrested while the other tour escaped.

His

"Then large formations et 79'5 attacked the fleet. Two were was chased by a fighter until it under." sent down in flames and a thira America. "If the British Navy goes Chen was wounded in the ribs

Ee declared that all

and was sent to hospital. broke up in mid-air”

Europe, including Britain and Elre, condition is not serious. Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arnwould become one sonomic unit accounted - TOT another "5" 79 controlled, from Berlin with the which crashed into the flames.

sea in result that many countries of Latin Another is believed to America would come under a de- have been destroyed,

gree of Nazi control PLANE CAPTURED

"The fighting line and the way

spirit. is nearing our shores. Our fate and the fate of our children depends on what each of us does now," he added.

"Bardia could be seen gleaming A further encounter your for the enslavement of the human In the dawn sunlight and perfighters. with the enemy resulted ched at the edge of a precipitous in another Italian bomber being escarpment. Ton after ton shut down, the shooting down of metal und explosive trom the one more being unconfirmed. mighty guns rent the enemy positions.

"A Fleet Air Arm spotting plane hovering over the bem- barding area reported-that- every single 15-Inch sheil fanded in the target

BICZ.

One scored a direct hit on Fort Capuzzo eight miles iza land. CAUS'RE very Severr damage. Another landed on, the native troops compound.

The sinal Italian fort of

Finally another "9" 79 was com pelled to make a forced landing in the western desert, the aircraft being captured intact. The crow were made prisoner.

We suffered no aircraft losses. One pilot was slightly wounded but was able to bring back hla aircraft safely to the base.

POSSIBILITY OF TERRITORIAL

CONCESSIONS

.. MERCILANT MISSING

Hu Hai-yuen, 43, merchant, who returned to Shanghal after a trip to Chungking in the middle of July has been missing since August 11.

Prior to his disappearance, he had received a letter from Wang Ching-wel's agents Inviting him to Nanking to open a bank with $100,000 as his share of the capl- tal.

WANG AGENT WOUNDED

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1940. —PAGE 7

ALLSOPP'S

Beer

ME./MACKENZIE KING

BRITISH

PILSENER BEER

Chen Kung-liang, 40, native of Focchow, who, is an Intelligence egent-under-the-Wang-Ching-we! ROME Aug. 19 (Reuter)-Nego-dition in hospital after he recely- regime, is lying in a critical con-

When patrolling over the tiations between Rumania and Kamaran Island in the Red Sea, Hungary and "Rumania and Bul our aircraft met an enemy 381garia were resumed this morning,

While he was still in bed, three' bomber, which was shot down in according to the Stefan! Agency.

gunten broke into his house at The head of the Rumantan de- No. 4, Lane 419, Yy Yuen Road, in TROOP HARASSED

légation handed to the Hungarian the International Settlement, at One of the enemy aircraft delegation a memorandum insist-7.30 a.m., and fred at him.

ed serious wounds in an attempt US. SYMPATHY

Ramla, it is belleved, no longer (lames,

exists to mark the frontier"

FRESH TARGET

الدار

on his life.

WITH CHINA

Chungking Broadcast "After several minutes of inteu- which raided Alexandria on Fri-ing on ethnical principles as the was hit in the arms and stomach. By Mr. Ben Cowles

He

100% BRI

BRITISH

BE BRITISH

BUY BRITISH

BOLE AGENTS;

CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

IMPORTANT AGREEMENT

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The New York Times 6ays that the agreement, which potentially has far more importancë-than- many formal treatles. is extra- prdinary, in view of the fact that this country, while at peace, seeks to cement an effective union-with this country, while at war,

MONROE DOCTRINE

A correspodent of the Associated Press says that the statement was interpreted by some members of the President's party to mean Canada will be ander the pro- tecting folds of the Monroe Doctrine.

Reference to sea, land and air problems has given "em« phasis to the speculation that the United States might acquire strategie bases on the soil of the British Empire to

help guard the approaches to He adds that the mention of

North America.

while walking on Brenam Road CHUNGKING, Aug. 18 (Central) [personnel and material opened a

sive fire, the great guns swung day night was compelled by our bases for discussion, the principle The marauders escaped. to a fresh bearing and begun defences to make "a forced land which implicitly admits the pos- plastering an area where large ing in the western desert. The sibility of territorial concessions. concentrations of enemy troopa machine is intact and the стех The Hungarians asked for time were reported to De massing for captured.

to consider this and the discus, an invasion of Egypt

Various raids, the object of sion was adjouned until the even "Four' salvoes scored direst hits which is to harass enemy troop ing there

movements in Somaliland, were carried out on Saturday. Direct

The barracks at Bardia were also damaged.

MR, ROOSEVELT

FREE BELGIANS IN ENGLAND

Resources Pledged

To Aid Allies

LONDON, August 19 (Reuter)

In the Western district at 6.30- a speech here yesterday, M. conjecture of whether the two The hard work" of all Belgian a.m. Liang Chang-hai, native of Ben Cowles, member of the Ameri-countries, through a joint board, refugees in England is being Yangchow, was fired upon by can Fellowship Mission, regretted would develop the use of their offered to help to win the war. three gunmen four bullets strik-the fact that while continuing to armed might under a unaed This determination of all free ing him in. the chest. His condi- supply Japan with scrap iron and command, if war seemed likely to Belgians to put their entire mill- tlan is understood to be serious. petrol, the United States stili spread across the "Atlantic.

Liang is a member of the Bast hopes to maintain the Open Door

hits were registered on buildings PEOPLE FLEEING Astatic Anti-Communist League, and Equal Opportunity in Chins,

~An incessant bombardment at Hargeisa.

continued for half an hour and then ceased as suddenly as began."

One of our

aircraft was com- pelled to land in the sea but the crew were saved.

Plane Shot

First Enemy Plane

Down By Rifle Fire

LONDON, Aug. 19 (Eenter) The first enemy plane to be brought down in England by rifle fire was shot down yesterday.

The incident is recounted in a War Office statement... which “says it now transpfres-that-dosing the raids on Sunday, 2 ter Home Guards in South London were attacked by machine-gun fire from an enemy dive-bomber.

They retaliated with rifle fire and trapped, were rescued and taken after firing 180 rounds, caused the to hospital, enemy aircraft to crash and this is

Buses were damaged when-in- the first occasion on which the¦cendiary bombs struck a large gar- Home Guard has succeeded in jage.

... LITTLE DAMAGE

NEW ORDER

WAS IN HONGKONG”

SHANGHAI," Aug. 19 (Intl)-In

failing to realise that she has bren deprived of her trade by Japun,

FROM CANTON

Mr. Cowles revealed that 95 per SHIUKWAN, Aug, 19 (Interna- connexion with the shooting of cent of the American people are tional)-Owing to the wholesale Chen Kuo-liang. It is learned that sympathetic with China's cause. drafting of coolles, many people he returned from Hongkong only

Mr. Cowles will shortly leave are fleeing from Canton to the country, while others leave, the

three days ago and was ready to for the Northwest to study the

"CANADA, I

SALUTE YOU”

tary economic and moral resources at the disposal of Great - Bri- tain la expressed in a ̈ statement issued by a number of ex-Minis- ters and Parilamentarians now in England.

city owing to the high cost of 80 to Nanking to submit a report conditions of the Chinese studentant Secretary of War in President of the Congo, mobilisation of Bel-

rice, which is sold at one national dollar a catty; according to press reports.

to Wang Ching-wel.

found Britain

Several dead

bodies were in the streets every day, being victims of the famine. Apart from the principal streets, danger lucks to the side alleys et..bight=

The rounding up of coolles ́for transport work presages some military move in Kwangtung.'..

BLOCKADE OF EIRE?

The

there.

Looking To Future With Sober Confidence

LONDON, Aug. 19 (Réuter)—The Nazi announcement that a "total blockade! will now be imposed on Britain because of her firepeated violations of international law” has occasioned nothing- but surprise in London. Why, it is, asked should the Germans make such an‹ announcement at this Juncture, especially since they have frequently claimed they have sunk millions of tons of our shipping and to be starving us out?

(Reuter)- OTTAWA, ' Aug. 19

The statement says that: the Capada, I salute you. You have Belgian representatives will do cast cut doubt and fear," declared everything in their power to put Colonel Henry Breckenridge, Assis-on Britain's side the resources

Woodrow Wilson's cabinet.

gian public and private assets, My hope for my own country is and all avaliable Beigian soldiery, that the United States may draw ships and seamen its sword for freedom and human- ity."

Colonel Breckenridge made this statement in the course of a nationwide broadcast at the in- vitation of the Director of Public) Information.

ed aid,

CANADA'S EXAMPLE

WEST RIVER RISING

SHIUHING, Ang, 19 (Int'l)—the Wert River is rapidly rising owing

He said that self-interest, intel- to heavy rains flooding many Ugence and courage all directed Japanese garrison posts

the

- Snemy...bluejackets have retired- that nations of

Western Hemisphere should follow Canada's to their gunboats, and the out The New Statesmen yesterday. On the subject of the air war, example and give Britain unstint posts are manued mostly by tap bringing down a German bomber. Afterwards, the town was sha-

pet troops housing themselves to ken as a delayed action bomb, ex- LONDON, August 19 (Reuter suggested that when winter comes the New Statesman says that if

"If America sleeps and Britain boata The Al Ministry and Ministry ploded but no serious damage was "The German Foreign Office is the war will relax into a struggle Hitler has no secret weapon we of Home Security commanique done.

considering whether Eire is to be of Dicchade and counter blockade, can look forward with sober con-falls, America will wake up to its A Japanese armed launch was doom. The world cannot survive, sunt at Shanghal, on the West included in the blockade of BM:progaganda and counter-propa-fidence to the battle of the next half slave and half free." Hitler River delta, on Aug. 15 by ■' shore states that later information con firms that, in general, little dam- The Ministry of Home Security tain," stated a German broadcast probably run on these lines:

gande. Hitler's propaganda will five weeks,

Discussing the Italian and Nazikows that and has relentlessly gun, which replied to the armed age was done in the raids in this has made an order bringing the to America.

He will endeavour to persuade claims, the Catholic paper Tabletursued his ravaging in a race to vessel attempting to sweep the country yesterday. /

whole of Britain within the scope

broadcast added: The the British people and on those says that these claims make it destroy the last citadels of tree-area of Chinese forces

dom." said Colonel Breckenridge. The flock at the West River A number of high explosive of the Defence Regulation No. 16. latest information is that Irish living in his newly-founded empire necessary for them to continue the

spreading as far as Nanning,"189 bombs, however, which fell on a The effect is to give regional ships flying the flag will be per- that if it was not for a few sel- raids, no matter how costly, since town in South-East England dam- commissioners in Eng and, Scot-mitted to pass through certain ash imperialists and international they cannot stop them without navigational warning that a "total miles from here. aged some houses and caused a land and Wales authority, subject lanes at certain times."

financiers who should be liquidat-giving away the truth. While blockade of Britain having been small number of casualties, some to the control, and direction," of the

ed" the war could end,

rashly claiming air supremacy, proclaimed, every ship in the mill-GEN CHEN CHENG being fatal.

... MARKETS IN DANGER which they do not possess, they tary zone round Britain will be at-

SATISFIED Outside Europe, he will try to arouse expectations which they tacked and destroyedAMEN convince Imperialists and inter- cannot possibly fulfi,

"Any ship's master entering the CHUNGKING, Aug. 19 (Int national financiers of the New

"TRIALS AHEAD

ares does so at his own perf."** Returning from the West Hupch World that their markets are in The Sunday Times points out The war zone was described as front after an extensive inspectie danger of being cut off by the that the Germans have many an area comprising roughly a line tour, General Chen Cheng, Việg-- Little damage was done and only

Milan, Cuneo and Turin were British Navy. He would try to planes and plots to lose, and the drawn from about 50 miles north Minister for War, stated that the ‚a few peonie' sustained injuries. “

The new order is a precaution bombed last night by British convert the United States into an nation must steel itself to the of Bogne Ford, Norway, passing situation is well in band and

bombers. LONE RAIDER

ary measure and it places no fresh

accomplice of his plans, causing, a more severe trials yet ahead. Peo- near the Faroe Islands, sweeping praised the high morale of the Ambulances, rescue squads, fire-restrictions on public freedom but

moral, if not a physical, blockade ple must avoid risking life without out some distance into the Atlantic Chinese troops men and police tolled early this enables any measures which might NAIROBI, Aug 19 (Reuter)-A of Britain

need and must endeavour to lay and then in a semi-circle to well "Recent Deace rumours are in- morning after, a lone raider had become necessary, through the communique dated Saturday says This "mcral" blockade is the the least burden on hospitals and below the south of England, then tended to undermine our mora showered, bombs on a south-east enemy landing by air or sea, to that there was no activity by more dangerous one and we must doctors. WORRY

turns east into the Bay of Biscay Gen. Chen said, “All military met coastal town demolishing a house be introduced without delay in around troupe.

prepare to meet the Nazis on both LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuter)All The route which the American

are determined to keep up the and damaging a theatres.

any part of the country in which Normal air - reconnaissances grounds and give equal import news bulletins broadcast from Ger- Legion is taking runs through the struge tnd the crems as driven man and woman.. who were they are required:

ance to both in our calculations many and Italy have contained a northern part of this zone,

out of the country

Ministry of Heine Becurity, to issue

Last night enemy air activity any directions or order required

on a large scale, but for the purposes of defence with-- was not "bombs were' dropped on a num by their respective areas. ·

ber of points in England and South Wales.”

The commissioners will act in

close co-operation with the mill tary authorities.

MILAN, TURIN BOMBED

ROME' Aug. 10 (Reuter)-An Italian communique "admits that

were-Curried out.

1.