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To Visit Roosevelts

PRINCE BERNHARD "an, PRINCESS JULIANA of the Netherlands are going from Ottawa to the United States for a short holiday and have accepted in invitation to spend a day with President and Mrs. Roosevelt. **

The Prince arrived yesterday in Canada from England on a visit to bis wife and their two daughters.

VICHY DENUNCIATION OF BRITISH ACTION IN SYRIA

VICHY. June 9 (Reater) Marshal Petain, in a message to the French people in Syria, said the attack was led "as at Dakar, by Frenchmen serving under the dissident flag."

"Supported by British Imperial Forces," the message continued. "they are not hesitating to spill the blood of their brothers defend- ing the unity of the Empire and French sovereignty.

STARTERS AND JOCKEYS FOR DERBY

LONDON, June 9 (Reuter)-The following are the Derby probable starters and Jockeys:-

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1941.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, TUESDAY,'' 10th JUNE, 1941.

GENERAL HOLIDAY

Mister Sawyer (Gomez), Royal

On Thursday, 12th June, the General Post Office and Kowloon Academy (Carey), Cuerdley Central Post Office will be open from 8 s.m. to 10 a.m., Sheungwan (Jones), Mazarin Bartiam), De Branch Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 am, and the other vanlan (Perryman, Selim Hassan Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.

(Beary). Sollum (Cliff Richards), There will be one collection from the pilar boxes as on Sun- Valdavian (Herbert), Starwort

(Taylor). Firazedin (Lowrey), An- days, one delivery of registered and ordinary correspondence 10 am. There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at

Long.

E

natom (A. Wragg), Morogoro (Harry Wragg), Owen Tudor 18, 11 am from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley. Taipo and Un Wragg) Suncastle Dersey), Or thodox (D.

Ray Smith, Bun

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed. (Mallins), Ptolemy (E. Smith), Camperdown (Bridgland), Lam- bert Siminel (Ellott), Fairy Prince (Lane).

Single Court, Fettes, Thorough- fare. Chateau Larose and Sunny Island have no "jockeys.

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BELMONT STAKES

the

The usual weekly Air Mail to Rangoon to connect with British Overseas Airwaya" will until further notice

be closed on Mondays instead of Fridays.

An experimental service providing sea transit to USA" and air transit from U.S.A to Lisbon and United Kingdom has been instituŝ- ed. The inclusive postage rate la H. K. $200 per † os, for letters BELMONT PARK, New York, and H. K. $1.00 each for postcards. Correspondence for “this” ser- 2 (Reuter)-Mr. Warrenvice should bear the usual blue air mall label with the superscrip- Wright's Whir Away won the Bel-tion "By sea to USA,”

June

mont Stakes to become the 17th

American horse to score a treble of the Kentucky Derby. Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes,

The public are reminded that it is a breach of postal regulations to enclose in a postal cover communications intend- ed for persons other than the addressee.

Yunnan

Szechuen

Kwelchow

Hunan

Paklen (except Amoy and Kulangsu)

Kwangsl

.

CRAIG WOOD WINS

The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China FORT WORTH, TEXAS. June 9

Wood won the temporarily suspended:- "Painful as is the event France. litical circles in Vichy, telegraphs (Reuter)--Craig

Golf Champion- faithful to her word, can proudly the correspondent of Neue Zuer-American Open

ship by scores of 73, 71, 70 and 70, declare that she did not take the cher Zeitung. initiative in striking the blow

that aggregate 234, beating Densmore The correspondent adds against her former Ally either to- Vichy considers the situation ex- Shute (287). Johnny Bulla and day or previously at Mere Etremely tense and suggested that Ben Hogan were equal third with

went events in Syria may have "unex- 289. "Kebir, Dakar or Sfax. Guile

before the force."

pected consequences" on Franco- Refuting the allegation that the British relations,

be- Germans were landing large num-

The same paper, in an editorial, "The marriage is announced

2nd/Lt. tween

William Elliott bers of troops in French Levant says the probable cxplanation why

go Grieve, Indian Cavalry, youngest 'ports and that France- was pre- General Weygand refused to paring to hand over French Co-to Syria is that he opposed any son of the late Mr. Rotert Grieve lonial territory to the Germans, action against General De Gaulle's and Mrs. Robert Grieve. Welrgate, Marshal Petain said a few dero- forces holding that such action St. Boswells, Scotland, and Peggy planes which had landed tempor-will lead France towards war with arily in our territory has left Syria with the exception of three or four which are not air- worthy:

now

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UNJUST AGGRESSION! "You know that there is not single German soldler either in Syria or Lebanon." continued: the aged Marshal.

"You are therefore the objects of the most. unjust act of ag- gression which revolts us. Today for the first time French sovereign- ty in Levant is threatened.

"Fight for the just cause and for the integrity of territory entrusted to France by history. You will know how to defend it,"

VICHY COMMUNIQUE Denunciation of the British action is contained in a Vichy com- munique which described it as the British plan to profit by France's defeat and "to seize" her Empire."

The communique, which is vir- tually a repetition of Marshal Pe- tain's message, says that French Government circles are watching the situation and its development calmly and coolly.

EXTREMELY TENSE

ZURICH, June

9 (Reater)

Britain.

eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bridger, 20 Pine Walk, Surbi- ton, Surrey, and late of Eongkong.) | The wedding took place in Bom- bay at the end of May.

CLOSER: CO-OPERATION The Zurich newspaper Die Att reports from Berlin that it is be- leved there the British action will

LONDON, June 9 (Reuter)-Tw bring France to closer relations with Germany and adds: "France of Germany's latest type of Mes-

to enter into serschmitt aghter-the ME-109F- is expected now closest military and diplomatic re-were shot down, apparently by a Iations with Germany regardless igle Spitfire, during an offensive of the opinion of Great Britain sweep over the Channel this after-

noon and the Tinited States."

BERLIN 'PRESENTS A PERFECT TARGET

BY BASIL CARDEW

(In the Daily Express).

The Nazis screamed that R.AF. fire bombs had been drop-

yed on the diplomatic quarter of Berlin.

If they did they fell in the centre of a mile-long rectangle of the world's greatest in the heart of the city that is one bombing targets.

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The rectangle is tipped at one end by two main railway "stations and at the other by a third of Bellin's main railway

iermini.

Bay

North and East of Kwangtung.

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

INWARD AIR MAILS

From

Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-

vice" San Francisco date, 10th June, Ar Mall by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-

vice" - San Francisco date, 24th June,

OUTWARD AIR MAILS

MONDAY

For

Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect

"British Overseas Airways,” ·

TUESDAY

with

Due

17th Jang

1st July.

Date and Time

#

Mon. 16th Junej

EPO.

Reg. 4.00 PM Ord." 4.30 PM

OPO.

the Reg Ord.

4.000 4.30 PM

Tue, 17th June K.P.O. Reg. 6.00 PM

Ord.

5.30 PM

Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A and G.P.O.

Europe vis "Fan-American Airways and Trans-Rag. Atlantic Services"

Ori.

5.00 FM 7.00 PM

TUESDAY

Tue. 1st July, EPD.

:|

Reg. 5,00 PM

Ord.

5.30PM

GP.O.

5.00 PM

Ord.

7,00 PM

They may have been the high-the world, are twenty-five first- The entry of British and French spot targets of the RAF bombers, class military objectives,

For the squeamish let me troops into Syria caused con- bus, between them, huddled, to- sternation and indignation" in po-gether as in no other country in this is the wealthy quarter of Ber-|

Hin. If more British bombs drop Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, Ù.S.A, and

Europe via "Pan-American" Airways" and "Trans- Reg. here there will be no poor men's

Atlantic Services" houses hit, no women and children torn

Directs

Singapore

War On Disease

"The Singapore Heath Fortress has been fighting this inter- national battle against disease for the past 16 years, and its work is a demonstration of the possibilities and value of inter- national co-operation in health and the international war. against disease." declared Dr. S. Dakshinamurty, acting director, Health Organisation, Eastern Bureau of the League of Nations

Disease" to Singapore Singapore, in a talk on "War Against' Rotarians at the Rotary Club's weekly luncheon,

'.

"Just as wars have become rapidisease are waged on several fronts- with mechanisation, the spread of in the air, sea and land. disease has increased considerably " "Constant vigilance must be kept with improved facilities of travel." [on all routes going in and out of Dr. Dakshinamurty said, referring a country, and this is the aim of co-operation all health regulations at porta, to to the necessity of among the nations to prevent the be effective at the same time give least annoyance ta normal spread of disease from one coun-the

trade and travel, try to another.

"People have realised long ago that the health of ore country depends to some extent on the health of its neighbours,

from homes they cannot afford to replace.

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At the south end of this bomb spot are the Potsdamer and Ah-

TOKYO, June 9 (Reuter) en STOP PRESS

been appointed Inspector-General

halter stations, which take the eral Ken Dolhara, a member of War Council, has place for Berliners of our Bt. Fanthe Supreme cras and King's Cross.

In the north the broad Friedrich of the Army and Air Force, con- Station stands as it stood before currently replacing Leutenant- the war without a bomb mark or General Hobun Yamashita who even a scald from an incendiary have been appointed Supreme War It is Berlin's Victoria or Waterloo. Councillor, it is anounced by the And all three stations have-large, War Office. rambling marshalling yardą, "

But the meaty bits are in the centre. Goering directed what the Nazis called "the heaviest raid the Luftwaffe made in the waron London -from his air palace in this quarter. His Air Ministry of quarter spreads for

remember that a mile-for Goering thought and Fald when he built bis edifice that R.A.F. bombs would never fall on Berlin.

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LONDON. "June 9 (Reuter) - Trains to the number of 163, among them six non-stop trains and 12 express trains, have been suspend- ed from serylce in the Rumanian railway system since yesterday. states a Bucharest report quoted by the Ankara Radio. The reason given is that preference is to be given to commodities of first class importante.

"In this battle against disease. Singapore has been since 1925 the

tangle), on the Adlon and the Kai- Here, too, arc. Hitler's Charcel-serhor hotels, where Hitler's war health-hub of a hemisphere that embraces Egypt on the west, Aus-lery, Admiral Raeder's Admiralty tords usually put up for the night. tralia to "the south, Vladivostock annexe, Ribbentrop's Foreign Bomb-aimers, slightly of the "International co-operation into the north, and Hawaii to the office, von Keltel's War Office anmark but still in the hot spot, health matters is now about a east,

nexe, and a score of lesser State might also hit the underground

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burg Tor, which is the Nazi capi- tal'a Hyde Park Gate, or the war

century old, the first international "Within this hemisphere are buildings that form the core of the stations and perhaps the Branden- sanitary conference met at Rome peoples of continenta, nations Nazi war machine. "In' 1851, and later on several times islands, all of whom have the same

such conferences drew up con- common urge to survive and keep The point about this rectangle museums and the night clube ventions, the international sani~ healthy.

le that so inanıy Government where Hitler's military chiefs relax tary conventions with the idea of

This urge

the welding buildings are so close to so many from plundering neutrals, securing uniform methods, of con- material thing joins a billion people raffway stations which set the pate trol of the spread of infectious in a solid front in their battle for Berlin's civilian life. diseases between countries,

against disease, and Angapore is And If the RAF bombo were the centre of this health strategy not so scurate they might fall, Incidentally (stil in the rec

ON SEVERAL FRONTS "International wars against di. and technique.”

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