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MEETING.

THE SIXTIETH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers

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SV Fleet Street

Hongkong, JUNE 26, 1941.

RUSSIA'S CHANCES THE MAJORITY of observers

prophesy a speedy victory

for the Nazis over the Rus-

EDITORIAL

CHARITY MAH JONGG DRIVE

sians and they base their! A charity mahjongg drive, spor-

sored by the Hongkong Chinese i judgment of a survey of past women's Club, in ald of the Club's CORRESPONDENCE und Jecent events. They relief funds was held at the In arque that with only sixty ternational Women's Club, Olgu German and Austrian divi- cester Building, yesterday after- About 80 persons attended. sions against them, the Rus-on,

Prize winning tickets were drawn sians collapsed in 1917 and

by Mrs. L The long and they were had to agree to the treaty of as follows: Nos. 102, 152, 77. 36 Brestlitovsk. How can the" and 122.

the

THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1941.

THE WAR IN THE AIR:

|FORCING NAZIS TO FIGHT ON TWO FRONTS: VALUE OF R.A.F. RAIDS ON GERMANY

"Our bombers have been going over in force and Ger- many is being hit harder from the air than in any pre-

OLIVER STEWART, vious period of the war," said MAJ M.C., A.F.C., editor of the London magazine AERONAU- TICS" and authority on aerial warfare, when he broad- cast from London yesterday on the significance of the R.A.F. offensive on Western. Germany.

plans for their attack on Rus- sia

Major Stewart

said that; when the Prime Minister re-

Russia's strength is not known, ferred to the German march

but the tendency is to place it be- against Russia and had de-ow

Germany's strength. By di clared that Britain would verting some of Germany's forces give the Soviet every possible we will be helping Russia. help, he indicated that this "I have not attempted to mini- mise the facts, In this most re- would be as a result of ex- panding the strategy which had been sustained against Germany in the west.

GERMAN DREAD

cen; phase of the war which be- have certainly been successful in estimating the position and fore- Some seeing the enemy's moves, people have said that I am tuo eritical in these talks and that I don't give enough credit to our training staff.

gan with the altack on Russia, we

NAZI CONSULATE

The Editor, H. K. Daily Press Str. I was surprised to read

"A was on two fronts is what your paper of

21st Justant the Germans have always dread under the above heading that a ed," continued Major Stewart Nazi Consulate will shortly make They have belleved that they survive the onslaught of 122

GERMAN CHARACTERISTIC its appearance In the Portuguese cannot be involved in fighting on divisions ranged against them

be staffed by the west and therefore, that they

"Whether these views are right at this moment, consisting,

BOUNDARY STREET Colony, such will

Nazis. with the sole object of were free to attack Russia. Their, or wrong. I can say that our air as a large proportion of this

COLLISION

spreading Axis propaganda.

calculations may be true as far as situation in the past few days has army does, of well equipped:

but It appears your reporter has the land is concerned. rer been well gauged. It 16 charac- Flight-Lieut. A. J. R. Moss, Bu

teristic of the Germans to concen- addition to this, the German drome, has reported to the Police can be learned there is not the and mechanized troops? In perintendent of the Kal Tak Aero- been misinformed, for as far as tainly not in the air.

The Germans have thus trate very strongly on their im Army comes from the fields that

really become involved on two

mediate oblective and they will fronts.

stand up to We do not know what

the most prodiglous

Russian resistance to the Ger-

We may reason that the Germans in Western Germany and mans in the air will be, bui while there is a Russian air oncuple France will take an enor- force in being, the Germans mous amount of bombing without being demoralised they know will have to fight in the east and west.

that their troops are making a victorious march into Russia.

Wr have thus come back to

on Tuesday while driving tiniest truth in it. nor have the Macao Authorities been approached flushed with victory. Then it! of Flanders and of France along Boundary Street his car col

lided with another car which he, on the matter.

ti overtake. undeavouring

Wis

The right is reserved (1) to accept or reject any or all of the tenders, and, in particular (2)

Messrs. Jardine, Matheson in case of equality of rate between Co., Ltd.. Pedder Street, Hong tenders amounting in all to more i Kong, or Thursday, 10th July is linked with the dispossess- Both cars were slightly damaged than the total sum required, to 1941, at noon, for the purpose of |

ed state of Rumania, and give preference to any tenders

receiving Report of the Finland, both of which seek reseived from Government in Directors, passing the Accounts stitutions ar trom the bankers to and

electing Directors T the Treasury Chest.

Auditors.

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"Persons tendering for [BRIs) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III Cap.

45 and 41 George III Cap. 52

the acceptance of any such

the

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Tender is subject to the express Hong Kong, 14th May, 1941.

condition that no Member of

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A FR

! REGISTRY

ceremony

WEDDING

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The following forthcoming mar Jages were announced yester

Mr. Wong Heung foo, student, of

Street:

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Mr. Yip Kat-nam, radio me

"In the west they have not been Their raids

very successful lately. have been very costly and the

of the war

"All indications suggest

that

Germany la now being subjected not only to the heaviest attack in this war. but to the heaviest BI-

ACCURATE ESTIMATE

"It seems to me quite clear now that the British Government has position with a appreciated the good deal of accuracy. They had known that the Germans would attempt to Invade Russia and had decided at once to lift the weight

from the Russian shoulders. The best move was to launch a heavy air offensive in the west.

At this time of the year, the

allacks.

fighting for practical results and our objectives are the same as they were at the begining of the war. Right from the beginning of the Battle of the Bombs we have been concentrating on the enemy's lines of communication and the figures of the attacks we have made show that the weight of our assault has fallen on their lines of communi- primary

cation. These are our Where targets

a huge army

"We are now starting an im mense military operation that the world has never known. At every point in this operation the air will play its part. So It all comes back to the com- mon-sense view that we should throw everything we have into our air assault on the western side of Germany so that we can make the enemy fight a war on two fronts even if he tries to avold doing so.

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If the Germans have weaken- ed their defences in the west to distance attacks Into Germany and

strike more vigorously in the east, the Bomber Command was been the R.A.F. will find it out and pro- striking night after night at Wes-At by 1" concluded Major Stewart. tern Germany. We have little in-

to recover what was ruthless- ers may not like Bolshevism, ly snatched from them. Then but writers like Bernard it is thought that the Finnish Pares. an Englishman and a

The marriage took place at the The Transfer Books of the campaign

Registry. Supreme Court. yester was an excellent distinguished Russian scholar, day of Mr Lam Yun-ming, clerk.

ratio in our favour has been tea to one, which is an astonishingly Company will be closed from the opportunity for testing the who went there prepared to or No. 114 Prince Edward Road.

Our bombers have 3rd July 10 the 24th July efficiency and might of the, condemn the systein lock, and Miss He Yat-tim, et No. 28 Rood result.

Russian War inclusive.

machine, but stock and barrel, had to ad- Sands Street. Mr. J.

Reynolds, been going over in force and Ger-

that campaign proved,

ormit, after listening to con- Deputy Registrar. officiated at the many is now being hit harder from the air than in any previous period seemed to prove, not Russia's versations in the train, tram- power so much as her incom-and in the market place, that;

Further petence.

there

well is the vast majority were that little doubt.

Russia in satisfied with their lot. This day:-- her belief in the might of her must make an important Mr. Lau On, salesman, of No. 428 tacKS she has ever been called concerned, the problem of supply

Road West, third floor. upon to endure. We shall see how

has proved dominantly important. armies. has not sought for difference in the spirit of the Queen's friends in any part of the army of today, as compared, and Miss Mut Wah, of No. 21 Wing she will stand up to it. world, nor has she been able with that of 1914, when re-

Hing Street, ground floor; to acquire new resources and volution was already in the supplies of

man-power by air and merely delayed be- No 183 Lalchikok Road, and Miss conquest to any appreciable cause of the externa: danger. Yee Big kin, of No. 70 Woo Sung extent. She has

seen her

IT IS reasonable to suppose i The provisions in question

doctrines flouted in Germany] that there are no Fifth do not apply to Contracts en

Mr. Wee Tu-keng, teacher, of No and even trampled under! Los Angeles. tered into by any incorporated

Columnists in Russia, ready 199 Hennessy Road, and Mss Lily England--if they survived the foot; her adherents have been to back up Germany, for, as Kwok, of No. 231 Hennessy Road; Сотрапу In its corporated

bombings of London-is family.under

in suspicion every Herr Hitler says, even the capacity and made

for the members of which would receive a country in the world, but by Germans who resided for any chanie, of No. 156 Jaffe Road, and general benefit of the Com substant ai part of an estate worno country were they treated length of time in Russia were: Miss Choi Man-ching, of the same nights are too short to allow long-

But so far all efforts to locate with such cruelty as in Ger- soon lost to Germany, since address, them have falled, and information many and it is with Germany the spirit of Russia seemed at hand indicated that their home she was allied. Another

to master them. While it TRAGEDY STRIKES may have been bombed and all or source of weakness is detect- may be said that the Nazi Treasury Chest Officer, a number of them killed. accorded in the Russian position, troops invade Russia, flushed

WEDDING PARTY

formation of the results, but the chances are that the damage has ing to Attorney George Appell of His Majesty's Treasury Office,

namely, the lack of trained with success in other fields,

A coconut tree, crashing down been fairly extensive. If daylight Los Angeles, Hong Kong.

The estate is that left by dalle leaders, which is due to the it is equally true to say that a little shed in which half a raiding is less massive, in some!

Malay dozen

women were cele- ways it is more serious. A day Cohen, old-times stage actress, why numerous purges that have they go to Russia because of

wedding at brating a

une East bomber may not be able to carry 330 died in Los Angeles last March 20thaken place in recent years. their fear of fallure in Bri-Coast killed one middle-aged wo- the weight of the night bomber,

at the age of 80, and the English

THERE IS another side to tain. There they net with inan outright and seriously in- but it is able to launch its bombs beneficiaries are her son, whom she

With the air disaster in September Jured three others who were re- with greater accuracy." had not seen since he was a babyhe picture however. nne year old, and his family in regard to the Finnish cam- and a diplomatic defeat when moved to hospital by ambulance. cluding his three sons and

3paign it is stated that the they sought, through Herr Fracture of the sun commea was suspected daughter and also two Uf his Russians were deceived about Hess to induce Britain to call 'with spinal injury

the grandchildren..

cases, while the extent and strength of the war off and join in the third, an elderly woman, is thought Miss Coben she used her mal

The Ger- to be suffering from concussion of den name, although she had been the Communist Fifth Column attack on Russia. NOTICE IS

forces then HEREBY married twice-executed her will in Finland and consequently man

advance the brain. GIVEN that an EXTRAORD last July 2nd, and included the fol- despatched small and In-into Russia because they can Two other women in the hut INARY GENERAL MEETING lowing bequests:

ferior forces to deal with the do

other. A short war were also injured, To her son, Fillie Levy, $10,000 in situation. It was only when was essential to Hitler; a long

The shed was a temporary kit- cash plus and interest in a $5,000

chen in which meals were being they realised that Finland war means

starvation and at trust to his children, George Mor

prepared for સ wedding feast, the offices of Messrs. Jardine, ris, Joshua and Dollle, $500 each.

was sold that they sent in the crippling of Europe. Even which was to have taken place in many of their machines to the Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder and

the two grandchildren, their better troops. There now the flow of grain from an estate at the 8 milestone, East Russian frontler." continued Major Urban Areas (Squatters' Camps):

Stewart, "their pressure here will Tal Hang 2,546 against 2,546 Street, Hongkong, on Friday, whose names she said she did ro

can be little doubt that the Russia must be interrupted 'Coast Road.

on June 14, the 27th day of June, 1941 at

Russian army is a bigger and for many months even if The shed was put up under the be less effective. If they have not

Ngau Tau Kok - 804 against 808 tree which, in its fall, moved many planes to the east, finer force than the Russian Germany did triumph. No coconut

the chance will be presented to the on June 14, tion will be proposed as a Special LEGISLATIVE army of 1914, which did, in one knows how to carry out pinned the dead woman right un-

Russians to hold up the German Rural Areas: attack. The strategy we have adopted sects to follow the strategy of common-sense.

N. FORDE,

Colonel, R.A.P.C.

HONGKONG TRAMWAYS

LIMITED.

of HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED will be held

12 o'clock noon, when a resolu

Resolution amending certain of the Articles of Association of the Company, tult particulars of which have been circularised by post to all shareholders.

to

know--$1,000 each.

COUNCIL

in two of

the

any case, fight on until 1917; the scorched earth polley bet-der the trunk. and then it only surrendered ter than the Russians.

At

The Legislative Council will hold because its supplies of am-the beginning of the 17th the Attorney General will move broken down. It is significant Charles a meeting today at 2.30 p.m. when munition had completely Century they did it: when XII invaded the the First reading of "A BID.

The

Honourable

to

war

LIFE-SAVING

CLASS

Major Stewart said that all the British bomber attacks had been made escorted by fighters. The object of this was two-fold: to hit at ground targets and to bring down It now looked enemy aircraft.

as if the British had been striking more heavily than the Germans in the air. COMMON SENSE STRATEGY "I the Germans have moved

can be

Refugees In The Colony

A decrease of nine in the num- ber of refugees and destitutes ac commodated in Government camps, etc., in the urban and rural areas is recorded in the Returns for the week ending on June 21. Urban Areas:

King's Park-1,397 against 1,387

on June 14.

Ma Tau Chung-- 2,006 against

1,997 on June 14,

North Point-1,643 against 1,638

on June 14.

Morrison Hill 511 against 509

on June 14

F

Kam Tin 2,782 against 2,801

on June 14. Fanling Children's Camp 371

against 375 on June 14. Total 11,050 against 11,959 on

UNCLAIMED

TELEGRAMS

(The following is a list of un- claimed telegrams from Shanghat : lying at the office of the Great Northern Telograph Company (Limited) :--t

"With the Germans kept busy Fifteen members of the Hong

in the east, we are striking harder conalsting or in the west. I have already given Juno 14. kong Police Force they burnt down Europeans and Chinese Sub you some estimate of the strength A print of the proposed special umend the Crown Renta (Appor that the White Russians are country

not in favour of the Nazis, everything, and when Napo- Inspectors, have formed a live of the German air force, but no resolution may be inspected at tlonments Ordinance, 1930."

The Financial Secretary will but are hoping for a Russian leon tried it, they left a wil-saving closs with Bergeant Bower air force in the World any time during business hours move the Second and Third read victory; and it is fairly cer-derness for him. If the war as coach

two fronts than on stronger on one. at the registered offices of the ings of "A Bill to amend and contain that those who have should last into the winter,

Among the members ure Ber-

"Some of our offensivo ac- Company, Canal Road East, solidate the War Revenue Ordin been brought up in the Soviet then Hitler will have

geant Channing, Davitt and Pan- to fold, and I's. Wong Wing-yin, tions in the west recently have Bowrington, Hongkong, or at the ances of 1940."

Gen-Lai Kwal-kuen, Lam 'Kam-kwong, been well-planned and well- against Stanley System since 1017, which is wage Mr. affices of the solicitors for ite

timed. Our sustained offen- the 24 Hudson Dodwell will move

ago, and which eral's January and Febru-Ho Bhul-buen and Chan Har- Company, Mcssrn. Deacons, second and Third readings of "A means every soldier under ary. These, then, are some cheong

etve hogan just at the right Prince's Building, (first floor), B to incorporate Trustoce cap the age of thirty at least, will of the factors which tell

moment, when the Germinne were making their final pre- Hongkong,

able of boking property and em-

parations for their assault on powered to administer two trust be behind the Russian army in Russia's favour and may Compulsory Service

Russia and I hope to see lates DR The Chater of today. The present Rus-very

Tribunal

Assaults gelting stronger. If (Cathedral) Endowment Fund and slan soldier is undoubtedly hold out sufficiently long to A publio sesalon of the Com-

we can only 'push on with our The Chater (St. Andrew's Church) superior to his predecessor, make Hitler regret that he

attack on the west and have Endowment Fund for the purpose for he is a member of a Peo-ever sought to emulate the had on Friday, July 4, at 4 p.m. pulsory Service Tribunal will be

enough machines to hit hard of assisting in the maintenance of

at tlin Germaba in Germany, 9. John's Cathedral and 8t. An-ple's Army, and not merely a exploits of Napoleon Bona- in the Connell Chamber, Colonial 287 drew's Church in this Colony."

Bocretariat. professional soldier. Foreign-parto.-(OBSERVER).

we may be able to upset their

By Order of the Board, W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary & Assistant Manager. Hongkong, 4th June, 1941.

funds known

years

woll

her enable

to

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