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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

China's Needs In Medical Supplies: Difficulties Of Transport Explained

Hundreds of tons of medical supplies are reaching China today, but the country's needs are so great and transportation so difficult, that a good deal more help 18 needed and needed immediately, stated Mr. John Whitney Webber, of the American Bureau for Medical Add to China, when interviewed yesterday by the Hongkong Daily Press.

Mr. Webber came to China brought these in that far and died about 15 months ago and has about a month later,

the stretch of country

CABLE

DUFF-COOPER WARNS OF

BIG GERMAN EFFORT

LONDON, June 16 (Reuter) --- MR. ALFRED DUFF - COOPER, MINISTER OF INFORMATION, sald, in a speech last night, that he was quite confident of victory but he warned the nation to ex- pect a big German offort this summer.

KISWE NOW IN

ALLIED HANDS:

SIDON ENTERED

LONDON, June 16 (Realer)— KISWE, 11 nutes from Damascus, is in Alled hands and SIDON bas

In Syria, 2,500 square miles are

ing to a message from Jerusalem quoting મ radio commentator there.

Another missionary, who came a in turn been connected with

few weeks later to retrieve these the China Relief Unit, Ameri-suppiles, also caught fever and lay can National Red Cross, the seriously for а considerable also been entered. Chinese Industrial Co-opera-period, tives and the Bureau of Mediproving very inhospitable to rellenow under British control accord-

He is from cal Aid to China. Camden, Maine, and has re- sided many years in Boston. He is on his way home, and may be returning.

MOST DIFFICULT JOB One of his most difficult jobs while out East came in September and October last year when with Mr. Wilym Jenkins be had trans ported over the burder from French Indo China luto China a large consignment of medical sup plies held up in the Japanese oc cupation

workers.

Most of the medical supplies des Bred for China that had been caught in the French Colony at

Merchants are allowed to send the time of the Japanese occupa

food unto the occupied area, it is tion were eventually carried over

said, and there are indications of the border. two carloads at the

few

casualties among the least

going through after the very bridge over the border been Vichy troops. blown up

NO EASY TASR

had

This transportation was by no means an easy task and was car - ried out in several stuges First, the goods had to be carried by Annamite coolles from the French

"GOT SOMEWHERE"

speaking oi events in Greece ana urete, he stated these should be set in proportion to the whole. The Germans, too, had Dad their disappointmentə and disasters, he declared,

Mr. Duff-Cooper said these were things worth remembering when you heard too much being made. of the defeat in Crete.

"Long may the day be dis- tant when we shall refuse to give battle unless we are con- fident of victory",

and

Mr. Dulf-Cooper went on said that the Germans knew they could not afford a long war and they would make a far greater effort this summer.

KK Ve "But", he added "we

at

both materia! 3 well present jas morn: supertorily. and we have never had a Prime Minister

The Allied advance in Syria has who enjoys so great a measure of

"now gol somewhere". stated confidence of the people." authoritative quarters in London yesterday.

The Alles hold the north bank of the Awaj River and troops are

train on the border to the top of moving towards Sasaa which is in

central Syria in the direction of the coast.

STIFF RESISTANCE

Spectacular Escapes

"Vichy French in Syria under New Zealand Pilot

It Wan necessary first to Ket

the bank of the river. Other permission from the French to

coolies had to be engaged then move the goods. This came after

for the next lap of the journey, some delay, the while it was neces sary for him to travel constantly from the river bank to the sam between the port o! Haiphong and pans, and across the river on the orders

bank coolies had to be ment, is putting up stiff resist Tells Of Adventures

In Western Desert

the China frontier.

nese

Chinese

consider.

Lor

of the Quisling Govern-

Hanoi, the seat of the French found again to carry it up to ance." writes the NEWS-CHRON Colonial Government and by train where the railway had formerly ICLE -14 hours travel to Lackal on been. The further prospect of a "To smash the resistance, we

LONDON, June 16 (BWS) - A journey by Fout of 18 kilometre; must put forth all the strength at

from New was then a very depressing one to our command. Compared to the young ex-bank clerk

.great issues at stake. the casual- Zealand. now serving as Sergeant famous fighter squa- As the river followed the railway ties that the French must suffer pilot in a

number of miles it

was through shortsightedness are as dron in the Western Desert, 18 in found possible later to pole the nothing.

hospita) after a series of spectacu- lar escapes in the past two weeks.

"In the first, I found myself on my air- His trip. on the whole, had been France will be put back a great a landing ground with

"Oer- very interesting, instructive and,d'stance: if we succeed

be said the east craft destroyed." an Inspiring one Mr. Webber in Vichy lives will have been well mans, armed with Tommy guns. summarised it, and he had seen worth whille for the Bake of were only half a mile away. I got much that was being done in every France's future. direction to ease the life of the

The bridge across the fron- lier was blown up by the Chi- on Sept. 10. and the Chinese made a very thorough Job indeed of tearing up the rallway tracks leading into China. These were pulled up a distance of 14 kilometres, and the rails were ripped up at the rate of about a kilometre a day.

goods up the swift stream in sam "If we fall to take Syria and

pans a certain distance,

toke it swiftly. the cause of Free

the

ап-

out of that by squeezing into "The whole world is watching cockpit of a Hurricane with homeless, the wounded and the jour progress in Syria. The only

other pilot who flew me 360 miles to safety.

way we can impress opinion in the world-including France and even Vichy itselfie to be sue- cessful. We need victory and we must move faster vigorously to achieve it

and more

"A day or two after my return. I was ground straffing an enemy landing ground and had set fire to two German aircraft when a couple of Breda gun shells hit my radia- tor. Fume poured into the cock- pit and two ME109s were hot on

The road bed was made of hand broken mck m large pieces, and was quite difffeu.t to walk along To make it even more difficult of destitute. travel, the Chinese authority in In Kwelyang he had visited the district had seen to it that. Dr. Robert Lim, in charge of Chi cuts of about 15 feet in depth had nese Red Cross work, and had seen been dug at regular intervals along! disabled soldiers learning to make the road to hamper the progress of artificial legs and arms for other an invading army.

soldiers who had lost their limbs

Disabled soldiers were being trained also to work

ISTANBUL, June 16 (Reuter)→→ with the Industrial Co operatives General Delhomme. lately Gever-my tail. One got a burst into my aircraft and I began to lose alti- Oct. 4, Mr. Webber said, he had He had seen much of the work nor of Damascus. arrived here

tude. thug to slog. 18 kilometres or foot the Chinese Industrial Co-opera- today en route to Vichy to take to reach the railway tracks agam tives were doing, and heid in great up his new post as War Minister. "The elevator control began to About eight kilometres from the admiration Mr. Rewi Alley. frontier there were piled some 200 was directing this effort.

ABANDONED TRACK

When he crossed the frontier on Chinese

cases of medical supplies bestde

the abandoned track. A inission-

ary. worker, who had taken some i

AID

FOR CHINA

four months

MEDICAL to get them into

Chira had taken when he had

SOLLUM FRONT

LONDON, June 16 (Reuter)

"The British attacked on the Sol

|

who

NEW WAR MINISTER

He refused to comment on the

situation in Syria which he left from Aleppo

FINANCE PARLEY

SKIMMING CLIFFS

misbehave and I

a

Was skimming along the top of the cliffs trying to shake off the Germans when J saw the outer defences of obruk. Just as safety seemed within reach, CHUNGKING. June 16 (Reuter, my aircraft flattened out into -The rational finance conference dive and burst into flames which opened here this morning with were licking round my legs before over 250 delegates attending re- I could clamber out.

"I thought I was still in In response to the appeal by presenting 20 provinces, under the Madame Chiang Kai shek for medi chairmanship of Dr. H. H. Kung. territory and dragged myself into cal aid to China, it is learned that Vice-President of-the--Executive a cave where I lay for hours. A the Australian Red Cross has de- Yuan and concurrently Minister of party of English troops, out on

CHUNGKING, June 18 Reuter,

lum front yesterday with strong cided to send £25,000 worth of Finance. forces," says the official German medical supplies.

News Agency.

"Fighting is still in progress."^

"LOCAL ADVANCE” LONDON, June 16 (Reuter} -- "Local advance" In the Sollum area is made by forward elements of the Army of the Nile. it is learned in London.

How far advance reached is not yet known, but it is stressed that the advance was local and not general

On the night of June 13/14, an

Powerful Short-wave Station Is Seized

Italian column in the Gambut area, IN COMMUNICATION About 40 miles west of Bardia was apparently surprised by the British forces and 12 Italian motor vehicles were destroyed.

enemy

skirmish, took me into Tobruk."

Prime Minister Honoured By Rochester University

Continued from Pagė 1.

our hands are joined across the tellect has been grounded down ocean and that our pulses beat as under a mechanical barbarism and

organised hostile, horror,

"For over a year we British have

one.

"Indeed I wil make so bold as

to say that here, at least, In my stood alone, uplifted by your sym-1 mother's birth State at Rochester. pathy and by the increasing growth I hold the latch-key to American of your massive aid. In

these hearts.

British Isles that look so small "Their strong emotions and their upon the map we stand the faith- surges of passion sweep across the ful guardians of the rights and nation in their year of trial.

"The world is witnessing the birth throes of a supreme, TG- sult. I can confess to you that I have, no doubt of what that result will be. But we have learned that we have spirit and are not animals and 'that something is going on space and time and beyond. space and time, which whe ther we like it or not, spells duty.

in

dearest hopes of a dozen States and nations now gripped and tor- mented in a base and cruel' ser- vitudes Whatever happens we ishall endure to the end."

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WITH BERLIN MEXICO CITY, June 16 (Reuter) -The police: last night seized a BATTLE CONTINUES

powerful short-wave station in the LONDON, June 18 (Reuter)—The centre of the elty, says the Inde- British advance in the Sollum arca pendent French news agency. yesterday in North-Afrion, describ- It adds that the station was in ed in London as local, figures in direct communication with Berlin,

Mr. Churchill went to say that The report that Sir Stafford Cripps. Italian and German High Com-and that the staff have been im-

the enslavement of Europe by who is visiting England, has de- mand communiques, both of prisoned.

the Nazi regime had come about eltned to return to his post has. which state the British attacked in It is also stated that the Mexi-

because of the disunity of the nano confirmation in official circles force and the battle continues. can President, Senor Camacho, has |

tlons on that continent. One by in London, says Reuter's Diploma powerful radio The Berlin communique reports expropriated

one they had allowed themselves tio correspondent. that the "offensive" collapsed station at a villa at Acuna, neari

According to presentarango“ against the Italo-German detensive, the United States border charging "A wonderful way is unfolding to be cut down and one by one artillery co-operating with the that it communicated with Berlin, before our eyes. How it will end they had fallen under brutal vio- ments, Sir Stafford will return to

lence, is The American Government is we are not allowed to know but "Now, alone, the old Hon, Luftwaffe and, according to early reports, 60 British tanks wore des, reported to have informed the on both sides of the Atlantic we troyed.

Mexican Government that the all feal that we are a part of t The Rome communique, reportactivites, -

station was engaged in pro-Nazi and that the future of many gen-

erations is at stake, ing, that the British "offonsive" has been prepared over a number

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of days, says that, the enemy was LONDON, June 18 (Router) We shall not bewall the fact repulsed overywhere with Geon. According to the Hungarian news that we are called upon to face siderable losses.

paper: FESTER LLOYD quoted by such responsibilities. Wickedness

with her lion cubs at her side, ‚stands against bestial hunters who are armed with doddly woagsins,” kid Mr. Churchill. end of Chall

the tale, the one

be barred, Not so Treedem die

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EFFORT TO END STRIKE FAILS

BAN FRANC1300 June 16 (Router)an effort to end thờ five-week strike in shipyards fall-

dividda weled,

Rome also states that the To the Lyons Radio, Montenegro will has cast its shadow over Europe. bruk harbour works and fortinca, soon be prodiaimed an Inde Justice has been overthrown tions and ... Marsamstruk supo'y pendent state and a member of Rights have been trampled upon tal. Divided, the hamon sad fortidantions were ham the old Montegrina Dynasty: will and the whole chapter of man, Väited, we can sure and guide mered from the air.

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