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NEW YORK, Juna 10° (Reuter)-—-—--- When Ben Stmor faced. Joe Louis last March, he was regarded as just acother victim but put up such a fine "fight carrying the champion for 13 rounds that he was promised a return fight later.

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Colonial Aid Is Constant Source Of Encouragement To People In Britain

"The point I want to make is that what the Colonies are doing is no longer-just a matter for the history book. People all over the ment to all kinds of people here and we are all very grateful for country see it in the streets. It is a constant source of encourage-

it," said

Colonial

MR. NOEL SABBINE, Public Relations Officer to the Office when he broadcast from London in the serles "MATTERS OF MOMENT."

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1941.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 11th JUNE, 1941.

GENERAL HOLIDAY

On Thursday, 12th June, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 sm.. Sheungwan Branch Post Office will be open from 8 am to 9 a.m.-and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed..

There will be one collection from the pillar, boxes as on Sun- days, one delivery of registered and ordinary correspondence 10 a.m. a.m. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley. Taipo and Un There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at

Simon has not been seen in the ping since, till last night, when. with a weight of more than six stone heavier than the 12-stone Pete Tamalcris, he,knocked out his

Mr. Sabbine said he had been island far away; but present in rival after 56 seconds In the reading a book on the war by Sir name and thought. He went to

Charles Lucas, in which there was another part of Sussex to an anti-11 second round.

Simon nowadays is the Deputy & very full account of the part aircraft and searchlight station Police Commissioner.

Long. of Long the Colonies playea, in the Last and found that, one or two of the Beach but is looking forward to war. Passages here and there re-Colonies had presented cinema the day when he again gets Louis Atalled to mind the efforts that vans for the A.A. command. One to the ring.

were crowned with success 23 was from the people of Dominica. years ago. History had repeated After that, he went to see the

Fighting In Shansi And Suiyuan

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.

The usual weekly Air Mail tó Rangoon to connect with" itself in the second East African Colonial mobile canteens presented the British Overseas Airways" will until further notice

by the people of Malta, Nigeria; be closed on Mondays instead of Fridays.

campaign.

COLONY ACTIVITIES

As in the last war the Colonies were manning their own defences

Ceylon, Malaya, Hongkong and

every Colony in the Empire.

of thanks."

One of the first of these mobile An experimental service providing sea transit to USA and air and sending volunteers Home. canteens reached Coventry and transit from USA to Lisbon and United Kingdom has been institut- In this age of total war, con- the Mayor sent a special message ed. The inclusive postage rate is H. E. $2.00 per oz, for letters tinued the speaker, everything

and K. $1.00 each for postcards. Correspondence for this ser- was on a much bigger scale. The EFFORTS APPRECIATED CHUNGKING, JUNE 10 (CEN- troops had to have more equip

vice should bear the usual blue air mall label with the superscrip- Mr. Sabbine said he remembered tion "By sea to U.S.A." TRAL)—THE CHINESE 93RD ment and more intensive training seeing one of the huyu canteens ARMY MADE A FIERCE ATTACK There was a difference from the th AGAINST THE JAPANESE troops last war in that, in this war, the He learnt that its adventures, dur- a particularly cheerless place.

The public are reminded that it is a breach of postal Lingskih on the Tatung-Puchow brought home to the people of to Hull, Manchester and Liverpool regulations to enclose in a postal cover communications intend- Railway in Shansi on June 3, put-Britain

and the psychological and it had received its baptism of ed for persons other than the addressee. ting them to fight.

effect had been very great indeed. fire in the heavy raids on London On the previous night troops of It was quite as importanut to the in 1940. the Chinese 10th "Division attack-ordinary man and woman," up He had spoken to the workers ed the Japanese south of Chieh against the biggest personal and who all told him of the interest hslu. Fierce fighting Broke out, national crisis of their lives, to feel the customers showed in the can- resulting in heavy casualties on that they were pot altogether teens. They asked all kinds of both sides.

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questions about the inscriptions. According to reports from Sul- AID FROM COLONIES These gifts made the people think yuan, an eastbound Japanese mili- Mr. Sabbine then tule of a tour kindly of the distant Colonies. tary train on the Peiping-Sulycan he made to find out what the aid "We. in this country, do know Rallway met with disaster on the from the Colonies amounted to. I something of the way in which night. of May 31 when it struck a He started his tour one evening you are helping us," concluded Mr. Chinese mine at a point about five by visiting a civil defence depot Sabbine: "This war, like all wars, miles east of Sarats. 27 miles east in a quite heavily raided district, has brought much of Paotow. The locomotive and There he found West Indians and great tragedies, but if, at the end, misery and three coaches were destroyed and west Africans and he talked with it helps us to understand each a number of Japanese were killed. them all. Same had gone to Eng-other a little better, this will be .Japanese troops hastened to the land at their own expense to do no mean reward. It will provide spot in a number of army lorries war work and they were happy to a sure foundation to the task that were attacked by Chinese guerillas do it.

les before us: the solving of our

morning.

and driven away the following Mr. Sabbine next went to Sus- common problems and the build- sex where he saw a mobile can- ing up of, a better world in which teen which was presented by in this can never happen again."

On June 3 Chinese guerillas in- tercepted a fleet of Japanese army lorries loaded with military sup- plies at a point near Anpei. 581 miles northwest of Paotów. Three of the lorries were wrecked.

JAPANESE REPULSED

Units of Japanese troops at Shaohing, wine-producing town on the south bank of Hangchow Bay about 35 miles southeast, of Hang- chow, made a westward' thrust on June 7 but were driven back by the Chinese with losses.

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Arab Reaction To Arrival

Of British Is Favourable

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CAIRO, June 10 (Reuter)-THE PENETRATION OF ALLIED FORCES INTO SYRIA IS PROCEEDING SATISFACTORILY AND THE GENERAL IMPRESSION IS THAT THE ARAB REACTION TO THE ARRIVAL OF BRITISH FORCES IS FAVOURABLE, Estes a Cairo communique, which adds that in Libya there has been some patrol activity in the frontier area.

TURKISH COMMENT

Turkish newspapers comment very ANKARA, June 10 (Reuter)

favourably upon the allied move Into Syria which they consider timely, and say that it had become inevitable.

CLOSING IN ON FOOCHOW

About the Tobruk area, the Syria is emphasised by the DAILY Tightening their ring around situation remains unchanged. In MAIL. Foochow, Chinese forces are rapidly Abyssinia, as the result of the converging

the city from battle of the Lakes and the battle different directions, with the for- of the River Omo, a further 45,000 ward units fast approaching the square miles of Italian territory outskirts.

have fallen into British hands. Under Chinese pressure, the

In spite of great difficulties, due Japanese on the left bank of the

to the mountainous country, bad Min River dave been forced to re-roads, and heavy rains; at least treat to the Tungkow-Bhangliao-four Italian divisions have beer Kuankr line west of Foochow.

destroyed or dispersed in battles. Chinese troops advancing east- ward fought the Japanese in All major opposition in front of serious battles in the hilly regions Jimma has been overwhelmed and of Kuanyuan during the past few operations are proceeding favour- days resulting in over 1,000 casual-ably, concludes the communique, Yesterday, Chinese pursuit adding that there is no change in columns, assisted by local militia, Iraq. again engaged the Japanese in severe ghting and inflicted an- other some 500 losses

tles:

COMMUNICATIONS DISRUPTED

Japanese communications on the southern Klangsu-Anhwei border

3-POINTED DASH

The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China is temporariis suspended:-

YunnanTM Szechuen Kwelchow

Hunan

Fukien (except Amoy and Kulangsu)

Kwangsi

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 dafe, 10th June,

Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct 8er-1

vice" San Francisco date, 24th June.

Due

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1st July.

OUTWARD "AIR

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Date and Time

MONDAY

For

Air Mail by Air to Bangoon to connect

"British Overseas Airways."

TUESDAY

Mon. 16th June

"K.P.O. Reg.

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Ord.

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Ord. 4.30 PM

Tue, 17th June

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The newspaper, CUMHURIYET, Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolult, U.S.A. says that the British and Free Europe via "Pan-American Airways and French forces tactics, are not only Atlantic Services".. clever but loyal, because they are

TUESDAY carrying out a solen undertaking to restore Syria's and the Leban- on's independence after 20 years

of longing.

JAPANESE VALET

OF CHARLES CHAPLIN CAUGHT

and Trans-Reg. 5.00 PM 7.00 PM

Tue, 1st July.

K.P.Q. Reg. 5.00 2x Ord. 5.30 PM

G.P.O..

Ord.

5.00 PM 7.00 PM

JAPANESE CLAIMS

DENIED

It praises also the urung of the Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and blockade which was strangling the

Earope via "Pan-American Airways and Trans-Reg. country. It says that the allies!

Atlantic Services" Reuter's Special correspondent enter Syrta as saviours. with the British Imperial forces in The YENISABAH says: "If on Syria reports that infantry, sup-the morrow of the armistice Mar- ported by armoured vehicles, made shal Petain had not imposed a a three-pointed dash into Syria, bridle an the national feelings one along the coast via Ras Nagura, which boiled spontaneously are being disrupted due to Chinese two up the fertile valley of Lake through the French Empire, the sabotage activities.

On the night of June 4, a Chl-Hul through Natala, and three, Free French would have long ago nese raiding party from Tangtu mainly Indians and Free French been installed in Syria, and the-Charlie

valet and attacked the Nanking-Wuhu Ralf-across the Jordan east of Gallee Present unpleasant situation would secretary for 18 years, a 65-year denied

bearing directly towards Damascus.not have arisen.

fold Japanese, Torzichi Kono, has! At the same time, cavalry pat and Syria saved from the -spiring to

"Now the fault will be redeemed been arraigned on charges of con- of telegraph poles between Tangtu rolled deep into Syria preventing minent danger, namely, a German against the United States, affecting eral Tseng is still directing opera-

commit an offence invasion which lately had become defence. unquestionable.”

way destroying many sections of the line, and also feli hundreds.

and Wohu.

The Chinese retired safely to their base before dawn after com- pleting their mission.

PLANS TO PROTECT KEY PORTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES

an outpost of resistance.

In the Matuala. sector, French forces, mostly Coloniala, are "put- ting up some resistance.

NO STATEMENT

OFFER TO VICHY

A Japanese broadcast that Gen- LOS ANGELES, June 10 (Reuter)eral Tseng Wan-chung, Chinese

Chaplin's

Commander in south Stansi. Was killed in action was categorically by 0 Chinese military spokesmen in an interview with the Central News,

The apokesman said that Gen-

itions on the front. Kono. la alleged to have obtain-

A Japanese claim that Brigadier- ed confidential reporta.

General Tam Code books and other documents mander of the 30 Provisionni Lien-g Com-

NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuter--- The German occupying authorities were seized in the raid on Kono's Brigade of the 33rd Army, has The Prime Minister, in the in France made an outright offer residence. He has been released on surrendered to the Japanese also House of Commons yesterday said to Vichy for the immediate execu-bail, he could not make any statementtion of a Peace Treaty, according on the situation in Byrta yet, but to the Berne correspondent of the

British

(entre)

drew an emphatical denial-from the spokesman who declared that from various reports received the NEW YORK TIMES, quoting diplo Darlan's broadcast to the French nese Army-

there is no such person in the Chi- advance of the Imperial troops was matle quarters at Berne. LONDON, June 10 (Reiter)-

The spokesman characterised Plans to protect key ports of New and Beirut.

going on steadily towards Damascus The Treaty, he says, would de-people this evening."

fine the limits of territorial con-

LONG TALK

the Japanese reports as another. South Wales, industrial heart of

LONDON, June 10 (Reuter)-The "rumour offensive." cessions to be made and would Australia", against gir raids were SYMPATHY FOR FRENCH

guarantee territorial integrity of

Ambassador,

Sir Hugh News). discussed at a conference yesterday Recording the warm applause of the remainder of the French Em-

Knatchbull-Eugessen had a long between Mr. Heffron, Minister for the United States for the British pire

talk at the Turkish Foreign Office National Emergency Services, and and French action in Syria, (THE France would agree to use her.

fon Bunday according to a message Mr. P. C. Spender, Minister for TIMES says, "Sympathy for the feet and armed forces to drive yesterday from Ankara War.

French nation has not diminished, the British from Byria. Mr. Spender said that he had "Respect felt for Marshal Petain To this end, he continues, most been Impressed by New Bouth and his colleagues have almost of France's confiscated useful war Wales' case for financial assistance entirely dissipated.

material would be returned when from the Commonwealth in carry- "Americans are taking no chances. needed; especially parault planes ing put the protection of there There can be little doubt that a and heavy artillery. ports.

very close watch is being kept on Over £1,000,000 will be needed the situation in Dakar.”, to give effect to the plans,

Whe need for speed of action in

The correspondent adds that diplomats In Berne believe this offer will be hinted at in Admiral

CLEVELAND

blame,”. says the PLAIN DEALER VICHY TO BLAME ·

It continues: "If there is ever NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuter) a Free France again, It will come Frenchmen, only. Vichy is to forces." "If Frenchmen refighting through a victory by the allied

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