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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

ON BENGHAZI

CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE

DAMAGE CAUSED IN NIGHT RAIDS DERNA AND EL GAZALA

Fleet Air Arm Bomb Oil

Tanks At Amara

CAIRO, May 18 (Reuter)-Extensive Aghter patrols were carried out by R.A.F. and South African aircraft on Friday, says an R.A.F. communique. Enemy mechanised columns and troop concentrations were machine-gunned and considerable damage was caused"

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Two Messerschmitts were shot down by R.A.F. fighters and a Junkers 87 was destroyed by South African aircraft in Akroma.

APPREHENSION FELT

Continued from Page 1

CABLE

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TO MUSLIMS

MORRISON'S NIZAM APPEALS STATEMENT ON HESS

Continued from Page 1 entertain on the subject, F con- sidered it necessary to issue this brief message.

LONDON, May 18 (Reuter)-Ru- dolf Hess. "this gangster" is going "am fully convinced and wish to stay m British hands, declared it to be known and realised by Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Home all-Muslimas and others who may Secretary.

be interested in "Drag that the It is understood that some addi-

The question of the hour was British Government have no other tional German aircraft have arriv", "what's your Hess guess" and we desire than to maintain the friend- ed in Syrian air bases in the past could, at least, be grateful to the liest relations with that Kingdom, planes, it was stated in authorita- Deputy Fuehrer for providing the the creation of which they took

ANKARA, May 18 Reuter) British people with a good deal of such a prominent part. Several train loads of war materials entertainment in the midst of grim were sent from Syria to Iraq on times. Friday and Saturday.

The railway passes through. Tur key and, under the terms of the convention, the Turks must be noti- fed of passage of all war materiais,

Mr. Morrison said that he had no Hess guess but "Hess was a brutal thug whose hands, like his master's, are · stained with some of the worst politica! crimes in modern times.”

"Their sole purpose in Iraq is to maintain essential lines of communication with allies of Egypt and Turkey."

"The maintenance of those lines of communication la expressly pro- vided in the treaty alllance with the independent "kingdom of Iraq The main thing was that no mat. which was negotiated in 1930.

"Once essential requirement is

RAF. bombers had pre-At Menidi LWO aircraft were exceeding one truck, but they have viously been active with night destroyed on the ground, and di- no power to impede such traffic. raids on Benghazi, Derna, El "Gazala, and Barge. At each place considerable damage was" done and fires and ex- plosions caused.

rect hits were obtained on hangars "It is considered this traffic is notter what kind of animal he was, in the hangars. and buildings. Fires were started likely to continue as it is known whether a trojan horse or rac num-secured, the British Government,

that stocks of ammunition

"ber one, he was caged. and petrol in Syria are low.

Detalls of the heavy raids on Greek aerodromes in Menidi and Hasan on the nights of May 13, 14 and 15 are given, Nine enemy aircraft were destroyed at Hasani and many others badly damaged Large fires and explosions were also caused.

ENGLISH TOWNS

FELT FORCE OF R.A.F. ATTACK ON INVASION PORTS

SET ON FIRE

In Iran a

fran

FRENCH FIGHTERS number of German aircraft were machine-gunned. On

VICHY, May 18 (Router)---French the aerodrome in Mosul one Hein-fighter aircraft went up when three kel was set on dre and destroyed British bombers appeared over the and other aircraft damaged.

Petrol and oil tanks were suc- Fleet Air Arm aircraft. 'cessfully bombed at Amars by the

Damascus area yesterday, according to a statement issued here.

Nothing was sald as to the sequel except that the "British planes re- crossed the Palestine crontier."

Before appearing

Over the

STATEMENTS BY HESS Continued from Page I

It is reported that the wife of Hess was arrested two days ago in Berlin, Many arrests have taken place. Anyone who talks about

I have no doubt, will be ready to resume close and friendly re lations which have subsisted be. tween them and Iraq ever since the country has achieved the sovereign status.

"The immediate cause of the present trouble Is the treachery of Rashid All who became a party to German designs.

"He began by seizing power and | ousting the lawful Regent who had

formation of Damascus area the British planes the Hess affair in public is im been placed in omice according to

The R.A.F. station at Habbaniyah' was raided by a Heinkels

the

Syrian aerodrome

supported by Messer- bombed schmitts. The damage caused was at Palmyra on the Tripoll branch slight, and there were few casual- of the Mosul pipeline.

tles. The Messerschmitt also ma- chine-gunned' an ambulance

the plateau

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They also flew over Aleppo.

DENTZ PROTESTS -- CAIRO, May 18 (Reuter)-It Is

mediately taken into custody. that Hess was not a victim of The latest Berlin statement is

hallucinations but idealist."

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fanatical

the constitution and compelled to fee the country.

MISGUIDED MINORITY "Supported by a small, but mis- guided minority, he next violated

STATEMENTS STUDIED

shamelessly the solemn treaty his been mainly confined to recon- Governor and Commander-in-Chief Rudolf Hess after landing in Seat- Operations in. Abyssinia have learned that Gen. Dentz, French reports of the statements made by

LONDON, May 18 (Reuter)Full country had made with our Em

pire by treacherously, surrounding naissance flights and the bombing of Syria, has protested in the name land have now been sent to No. 19, under the explicit treaty provision. and attacking, the alr base of of enemy positions.

Habbaniyah which was maintained of the Vichy Government to the Bri-Downing Street, for the Prime Min- From all operations reported, six tish Consul-General at Beirut

vision. British aircraft are missing but the against the British bombing of TELEGRAPH political correspon- severe repulse from our gallant ister to study, says the DAILY "As was inevitable, he met Straits of Dover were rocked last lot of one fighter is safe.

Syrian air bases.

LONDON," May 18 (Reuter)—

Towns on the English side of the

night as wave after wave of RAF. bombers dropped their bombs on

targets on the French coast.

It was a side of the consecutive night that the R.AF. had raided Invasion ports and the explosions were the heaviest yet heard in southem England during these at- tacks.

"COLOSSAL FLASHES

Doors and windows of houses

Fluid Mobile Warfare

In Western Desert:

Amba Alagi Fate Sealed

CAIRO, May 18 (Reuter)-In the Western Desert, focus on the rattied and many a treasured fighting now centres around the frontier, and though few German family ornament was shaken from parties are still on the Egyptian side of the frontier, the main fight its shell. Colossal flashes (lumining occurred between the frontier wire and Fort Garuzzo, a mile- ated the starry sky above the bank and-a-half on the Italian side,

STUBBORN FIGHTING

dent.

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troops, both British and Indian. It is a long account of all Herr!

"The action which the British Hess had been saying in his talks forces have been thus compelled with Mr. Ivone Kirkpatrick of the to take is in self-defence and for Foreign Office.

the purpose of keeping open the The examination of Hess was lines of communication which are conducted in German and the iso vital to the defence of India translation was prepared.

CLOSE SECRET

and Egypt.

"It is also best for the interests Contents of the report are being of Iraq itself." kept a close secret but there is

room

"I strongly appeal to the Muslims to believe that Hess' has in India to join with me in ex- thrown interesting light on condi-pressing our unqualified disappro- tons in Germany.

ival of the action of Rashid All Everything reported being, and his clique who offended carefully examined and minutely against one of the most solemn checked by intelligence officers to precepts of Islam which is an test the value and reliability of honour of the pledged word”. Hess' statements.

Meanwhile. Hess is still a patient

MONDAY, MAY 19, 1941. -PAGE 7

For Fun In The Sun!

Manhattan

SPORTSWEAR

NEW SHIPMENT JUST UNPACKED

China Emporium

LATEST DESIGNS

DASHING COLOURS

ALL SIZES

in the military hospital in Scot- GERMAN ADVANCE ON EGYPT IS

of mist over the straits which were "The fighting is not a big offen- taken by watchers to indicate that sive but fluid mobile warfare and It is a strong position and stub. the R.A.F. were using Britain's new it emphasised that the actual born fighting is in progress for the powerful bombs.

battleground matters little provided heights" with the British taking The spearhead of the attack "ap-

we make the enemy lose men and prisoners and deserters every day. peared to be the stretch of coast machines out of action.

The fate of Amba Alegi, with its land where his status is that of an between Dunkirk and Boulogne.

Prisoners taken are mostly me- Italian force of 10,000 to 15,000 ordinary wounded prisoner of war. Scores of searchlights swept the sky chonised infantry tank crews, many men, is virtually sealed and there and German ground defences put of whom were captured, afoot after than remains only the outposts of up one of the most spectacular vehicles were smashed up by our Gondar. Jimma and concentrations

NO SOVIET PILOTS barrages of shells and flaming fire"

neary Weimma.

IN IRAQI AIR onlens

FORCE-MOSCOW

ing the raid.

NIPPED IN THE HEAD BY GENERAL WAVELL

The Tabruk counter-attack must TERMS OF SURRENDER German ground long-range guns have been an unpleasant reminder LONDON, May 18 (Reuter)-

LONDON, May 18 (Reuter)-News of the recapture of mounted at Cap Grimex and Calals to the enemy of the presence be- officially learned that the

LONDON; May 18 (Reuter)-The Sollum is encouraging. Sollum itself means nothing, and appeared to be the targets which aind

him of this big fortress. Duke of Aosta is seeking terms of Moscow radio broadcasts à Tass General Wavell may just as easily decide to withdraw his were the most heavily bombed dur- Steady Aghting continues around surrender for the Italian forces in agency, denial of the statement men as exploit the present success by a further advance,

Amba Alagi where the Italians have the Amba Alagi area.

Issued by the Baghdad broadcasting writes Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent. a position like Keren with the road)"

station alleging that the Soviet rising 10.000 'eet with hairpin BRONX VILLE, New York, May Government is permitting Soviet bends and sheer drops making mad 18 (Reuter) The death occurred pilots to volunteer for the Tragr air obstruction easy.

here of Dr. Harry Whitford, the force, septuagenarian international au- The agency says that the state- thority on crude rubber production, ment is a product of imagination.

REMARKABLE FEAT

"Continued from Page 1 and the danger of eruption was

impending."

SURFACE RAIDER

NEW RULING FOR ARGENTINE SHIPS

hey thin

BUENOS AIRES, May 18 (Reuter -The Government has taken "Off the Santorin, we sighted a new step to protect the mercan- foreign motor vessel which appear-tile fleet.

ed to be an Italian surface raider. Ships flying the Argentine dag We contemplated capturing her.. may no longer be sold to persons

"I crdered action stations to other than Argentine citizens.

-manned immediately. The

be

enemy turned tail,

MOSCOW. May 18 (Reuter)~

"Engine trouble was added to Mass Home Guard' manoeuvres in our worries and we had to deal which 250,000 Osoavlakhim (Civil with a fire which broke out aboard Defence Volunteers) participated from a bursting Diesel engine.

were just concluded in the Moscow "Eventually, we sighted Suda Province. Bay in Crete as a storm smashed the great seas against it.

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Hamburg Shipbuilding Works Heavily Raided

LONDON, May 18 (Reater)The port and shipbuilding works of HAMBURG, the industrial area of MANNHEIM and LUDWIGSHA- FEN were again objects of specially heavy raids during the week ended at dawn on May 16,

He has shown himself such a master of desert war- fare that it would be presumptuous to predict his plans. He seems to have nipped.off the head of the German ad- vance very successfully and it will probably be found that enemy losses were substantial.

SINO-RUSSIA AGREEMENT

CHUNGKING, May 18 (Reuter) The official Central Daily News' states the Chinese and Soviet at thorities have reached an agree- ment in principle for a further ex- tension of the barter agreement concluded last year whereby the Chinese Government undertook to send raw materials to Russia in ex-. change for arms and ammunitions.

Special significance is attached to this Agreement in Chinese circles

Meanwhile his forces at! These leaks in the pipes must be because it follows closely the con-

and more Tobruk have been keeping the more

appreciable inclusion of the Soviet-Japanese Neu their effect the nearer one gets to trality. Pact thus leading to the enemy fully occupied by at- tacks with strongly armoured mer advances.

the front and the more the sum belief that the Pact would not

effect Soviet assistance to China. raiding parties and British 'planes have been making life uncomfortable for all columns bringing up supplies and re- inforcements.

K

tance lies in the fact that the

On the night of May 10, the whole dock. area of Hamburg was The moral effect of this success once more set ablaze.

will be most, wholesome in Egypt Hamburg received two further, and HANOVER were raided once and in Syria but its chief impor- raids during the week, BREMEN each, and three small raids were Germans will have to put forth and EMDEN were raided twice, also carried out on industrial tar-

mych greater efforts if they are COLOGNE, COBLENZ, CUXHAVEN gets of BERLIN.

Another feature of the week's to maintain their pressure on the activities was the highly successful the end of a line of communica

Egyptian frontier-great efforts at daylight raid on the naval bare and fortifications" of HELIGOLAND tions stretching across the desert which, one of the pilots described, from Tripoli and Benghazi, not to mention the Mediterranean cross- as "a perfect theoretical rald car-

irag. ried out in practice”.

Attacks continued on docks and shipping in occupied territories,

LONDON, May 18 (Reuter) "On May 5 we sought sanctuary The King drove one of Britain's there.

"We spent one day when I had newest heavy tanks at a testing

ground near a Ministry of Supply ANOTHER

to give up the Evangelistria and factory somewhere in England yes- substitute It with A 170-ton

terday. He commented on the ease schooner.

We sailed for Alexandria. The south wind hit us but we kept moving as fast as we could.

STAYED BEHIND

of handling and the surprising com- fort of the tank

U.S. STRIKE THREATENED

ISTANBUL," May 18 (Reuter)—| NEW YORK, May 18 (Reuter)-

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new contract

to ran the gauntlet.

Appeal For Tuberculosis

Sanatorium

For H.K.

Above the signatures of Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, Sir Robert Ho Tung. Hon. Sir Robert Kotewall, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Hon. Mr. W. N.- T. Tam, Hon. Mr. Li Tse-fong, Mr. Fung Chi-ying, Mr. P. Gockchin," Mr. Shou J. Chen, Mr.T. N. Chau, Mr. Tang Shio-kla,^- Mr. M. Y. Tang, Mr. T. Lo, Mr. Ho Kom-tong, Sir. Vandelegir· Grayburn, Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Mr. D. Benson, Hon. Mr. Stan-- ley H. Dodwell, Mr.. S. T. Williamson, Hon. Mr. R. A. G. North, Hou Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Mr. B. Wylie and My Im Ming-loo, we pub- Iish the following appeal for a sanatorium for Hongkong:-

We appeal to you to give gener-toriumvery city requires such ously to the Anti-Tuberculosis an institution, but because of the Association,

Mae appallingly overcrowded · housing TRANSPORT LOSSES

We realise how great the desire conditions of Hongkong, here is to help Great Britain and China, sanatorium is essential. The cap The Yugoslav Minister at Bucha- The United Mineworkers of Ameri- ST. NAZAIRE, OSTEND, CALAIS

British submarines and aircraft but, we must also meet the urgent tal cost of the institution we have Half-way between we encoun-rest, accompanied by the Legation ca have ordered 100,000 hard coal BOULOGNE, LJMUIDEN and ROT-recently have been taking a needs of our own community. We planned amounts to $50,000 and tered a West Mediterranean cargo and consular staff, arrived here miners to leave their jobs on Mon-TERDAM being the main objec-heavier toll of transporte trying are asking you to join with us to further sum of $12,000 per annum. convoy who offered to escort, and yesterday from Constanza. They day because the Union and tives. 11

aght the most serious health will be needed for its upkeep, and protection, but as we were unable will proceed on Monday to "some. Pennsylvania Anthracite owners British bombers again raided

problem in Hongkong-last year maintenance." to keep up we stayed behind. where in the Middle East" to join failed to reach

Cologne on Saturday night, it-

there were 8.443 cases of tubercu- This is only a small sum, but "Finally" we made port un-the Simovitch Government,

agreement.

1s learned authoritatively,

losis reported with 5,751 deaths should be the means of saving molested after 18 days since we

Mr. William Davis, Vice-Chair- It is also confirmed that the

Year by year the Incidence rapid much suffering and many lives. ́embarked from the Greek beach." LONDON, May 18 (Reuter)) man of the National Defence R. A F. attacked ports in occupied CANBERRA, May 18 (Reuter)-ly increases.

Concluding his odyssey, Lieut.-During the week ending dusk on Mediation Board, earlier yesterday areas.

The Australian Defence Minister,

Donations, however small, will be Tuberculosis is no respecter of very gratefully received and should Comdr. Willmott paid high tribute May 15 at least 27 enemy aircraft had called a meeting for tonight of - SLIGHT ACTIVITY Mr. Spender, annuounced yester-persons, it attacks every section of be sent to the Honorary Tresmirer,"" to Skipper Crawford, who during were destroyed in the Mediter. the negotiating committees of 'sou- Slight enemy Air activity over day that the Federal Government the community: the coolie suffer, Mr. D. Berson at the Mercantile peace-time, was a first class fisherranean theatre of war and many thern soft coal owners and the Britain on Saturday night was re- bas agreed to accept a number of ing from mal-nutrition may be the Bank or to Mr. T. N. Chau, C.B.E man, and also to the parties' others damaged on the ground. Union because the Board felt ported in an omelal communique war prisoners from the Middle East nrst victim, but the spread of the 8, Queen's Road, West. Cheques splendid behaviour, to face the ap-Eleven British aircraft failed to re- "some uneasiness" in regard to the which reads: "Enemy air activity of which the first batch, Italians, disease among all classes of society should be made payable to the palling weather which prevailed turn from all Mediterranean and possibility of another stoppage of over this country last night was are due shortly. It is expected that is inevitable unless we act, now. throughout.

Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis Asso¬- African operations.

the bituminous Industry.

on a very small scale;

later batches will include Germana. One of the first needs is a bana- ciation.

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