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4-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Astronomical Figures Quoted In German Command Claims

RUSSIANS FULFILLING STALIN'S "SCORCHED EARTH POLICY”

HELSINKI, July 11 (Reuter-Faliilling Stalin's "scorched earth" polley, the Russians in the Ukraine are destroying as much possible, says the correspondent the Helsinki

of Sanomat with the German troops in the Ukraine."

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The Russians are specially concentrating on rendering ust- Not less gas and water services and electrie communications. all grain stocks were destroyed because some were stil green.

All signs point to sanguinary fighting having taken place and German s idlers confirm ceports of Russian soldiers' bra-

very.

and

The correspondent, who WAS a large scale fighting continued in

Polotsk directions of member of a party of ten foreign the Journalists who made the Jour Novograd-Volynsk bey, says that the Germans were surprised by the quality of the Russian armoured cars.

GERMAN CLAIMS

"In the Ostrov direction our troops repelles all attacks by the enemy with great losses to him.

"In the Polotsk direction stub- fighting continued, Qur "With the conclusion of the born double battle of Bialystok and troops carrying out resolute coun- Minsk the greatest amount of war material in world history has been captured," according to a special German High Command commun- que issued last night.

ter-attacks,

LEPEL FIGHTING

GENERAL

BOMBING Enemy Ships In Cherbourg, INCIDENTS Havre Blasted By Blenheim Bombers Of Royal Air Force

IN S'HAI

CHUNGKING, July 11 (Central) -A handgrenade was thrown into the Japanese Gendarmerie Head- quarters at Nantao shortly after 6 p.m. on July 7 and exploded, causing some damage, according to a Bhanghai dispatch.

The Japaneze Immediately cor doned off the area, barred WO- trance mto and exit from Nantao and instituted a close search,

LONDON, July 11 Router)—An Air Ministry communique states that early yesterday afternoon formations of Blenheim aircraft of the Bomber Command, escorted by fighters, atta’ked enemy shipping in the ports of Cherbourg and Havre.

Six ships totalling over 30,000 tons were hit by bombs and it is considered that each of the vessels is a total logs. Quays, dockside buildings and gun emplacements were also bombed.

rallway siding at Choques hear Bethume.

AACHEN RAID Aircraft of the Bomber Com mand did great damage at Aachen on Wednesday night, states the Air Ministry.

In the course of these operationa the escorting fighters had flerce However, no arrest. was made.

engagements with enemy fighters Around 6 o'clock in the morning

This town on the frontier be which were unable to prevent the an explosive was also thrown into tween Belgium and Germany, bet British bombers from hitting their the bogus Nantao Police Headquar. ter known as Alx la Chapelle, was targets.

Twelve enemy aghters were dea.. ters but did not explode. Puppet cleared for modern Industry and

the development by a huge conflagra-troyed in these combats, ten Brl- policemen made a chase for

tion in 1855 which destroyed 90 tish fighters and two bombers are thrower but failed to get him

per cent, of the bulldings. It les missing.

AXIS EMBASSIES IN CHUNGKING

In a district rich in mineral wealth,

has many Industries, and is an

important railway town.

It has been attacked by the CHUNOKING, July 11 (Centrais R.A.F. before but not very often -The German and Italian Em- and certainly never On such! bassy staffs will leave Chungking scale as last night.

fires.

R.A.F. ATTACK ON NAPLES

LONDON, July 11 (British Wire- leas) Yesterday's Italian

com-

on July 25 and 15 respectively As the attackers, undeterred by following China's severance of incessant artillery ст patrolling munique states that the RAF bombed Naples during diplomatic relations with German fighters, passed through the de- heavily and Italy.

fences, the town was brightly lit, Wednesday night, They will be "In fighting in the Lepel direc-

escorted by the first by the moon and then by Although na claim has yet off- tion our troops destroyed a mu- Chinese Government as far as the drifting flates, and last by great cially made by the British Air Ministry it is authoritatively stated torised division of German troops border.

LINES OF FIRE

that the R.A.F. did attack Naples "A total of 324,818 prisoners. In up to 40 guns and a great quan- It is learned that German and

The attack was all over in about during the night of July 9/10 but cluding several generals and divi- tity of transport and special Italian residents in China are also

an hour, and by that time the that details have not yet been sional commanders, fell into our vehicles.

preparing to leave China but no hands, and 3,332 tanks and 1.809 "In the direction of Borisov our definite date has yet been fixed railway junction bad bean hit and fully received in London.

factories were set alight. There It is presumed that an announce- guns, as well as an innumerable units inflicted a serious defeat on for their departure.

were parallel lines of fire ment on the rald will be made quantity of other war material

one of the enemy divisions.

across the town and towards soon from the R.A.F. headquarters were captured.

Whe end, it was often diff-in the Middle East in the usua) cult, in the confusion of fire and way. smoke, to see how much damage! each new bomb had done.

"Thus the total number of pri- soners has been incrcased to over

400,000,

"m the direction of Bobruisk our troops are firmly holding oc- cupled positions.

N.Z.-CHINA

"In the direction of Novograd- IDENTITY

"Material captured or destroyed Volynak our troops includes 7.615 tanks and 4.432 the

advance

KUNS

"The Soviet Air Force nas up to now lost 8,233 planes,"

SOVIET COMMUNIQUE

are checking

of large enemy

forces.

BESSARABIA SECTOR

"In

the Bessarabian sector

on the

LONDON, July 11 (BWS)-Walle enemy is meeting with Lop latest German communique resistance gives no details of recent fighting troops. on the Russian front, a Soviet

OF IDEALS

WELLINGTON, July 11 (Reuter, "Although the Chinese and New of Zealanders are not engaged in the

"In other sectors of the front

uyer

After one aircraft had showered Its Incendiaries across the railway, there were 12 vicient explosions,

SECRET DEBATE ON

HOME DEFENCE LONDON, July 11 (British Wire- CHEMICAL WORKS ATTACKED less) --- Announcing the forth- Another Air Ministry communi- coming Parliamentary business the

the front the offensive of the same theatre of war I feel certain que issued early yesterday after. Lord Privy Seal stated that on the are nearer cach other, 40on states that heavy bombers last of the next three sitting strong that they

before in thought, with a fighter escort attacked the days there would be a debate in part of Our than

ideals and spirit," declared the chemical-works and the adjoining secret session on Home Defence. Chinese Consul-General, Mr. Wang Chinese citizens here yesterday.

"At the beginning of the fifth "Our air force destroyed up to year of the Sino-Japanese War I 100 enemy tanks during the second expressed deep gratitude to New half of the day of the 9th and Zealand for the

moral support fighting continued

communique broadenst at midday there were no large-scale fighting Feng, to a gathering of

yesterday gives a run account of the position on each of the various troats.

The communique shows that all German, attempts to break through

to Leningrad, Moscow or Kiev are still being frustrated.

Text of the Russian communique is as follows:---

"During the day or the 9th and

1 night between the 9th/10th

operations.

of

GERMANY'S NEW BLITZ WEAPONS

BY FIERRE HUSS

operations given to China in the last four

Berlin-Developed and improved tenfold since the World War against enemy troops in the direc- 'years."

and adapted in 1940 battlefields to blitz tacties, Itquld fire and arti tion Ostrov and Novograd- He assured New Zealanders official fog was employed as shock weapons against the Allies in this Volynsk during the night between his great sympathy in their year's offensive by specially trained units of Hitler's armies. the 9th/18th."

struggle and said that they must envisage the day when the British and Chinese would lead the way to world Democracy and a

“LUFTWAFFE IS AS GOOD AS BEATEN the Red Army.

As

1 reuter)----

good

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Moscow

International order.

new

Both proved their military value, special units, but in the tactical SURPRISE FOR JAPANESE

contributing in important manner application of this weapon, MOSCOW, July 11 (Reuter)

to the crackup of Polish resistance Very careful German observa- "A nasty surprise for the Japan

and last May and Jane to the col- tion of the effects of such artif esc," was the Moscow radio an-

lapse of Dutch and Belgian fortificial fog implanted in the enemy's nouncer's comment on Germany's

ed lines and finally to the down-midst has produced vital con- fall of the Maginot's keypoints. clusions, as summarized by an ex- latest propaganda film meant to illustrate the operations against recognised by anyone who knows blitzkreig tactics has been kept fusion not far from panie. In fact, Their almost Indispensable aid to pert: "It provoks immediate con- the region as being pletures taken purposely in the background and the morale effect is tremendous The film purports to deplet during the bombing of Kansu by out of the limelight but the Ger- and must not be underestimated. "atrocities" of the Boviet Air the Japanese fleet air arm.

man High Command now has seen These fog shells last long and aviation Force against "defenceless popu- "Details of the landscape and 'at to lift the lid somewhat, The therefore it is not a matter of

but the Intions,"

radio of the operations carried out leave information contained below is holding out for some minutes on announcer pointed out that the no doubt as to the origin of the therefore published with the Ger- the part of the enemy. On the con- "pleture

immediately be flim."

man High Command as its source, trary, the, fog gets darker and As early as a year ago it became darker. Soon the enemy is wrapp- evident through" newsreels and

ed up in seml-darkness and over published photos that German him creeps a feeling of helpless- AMERICAN WIFE IS UNWILLING troops, in practicing attacks on the Maginot, were making extensive TO RETURN TO BOMBS

use of liquid fire In looking at the man next to him. He loses his Maginot and also Belgian fortified sense of direction and therewith keypoints after their capitulation he must hesitate. The prospect of last spring. noticed repeatedly losing himself and getting separat that the outside face and steel ed from his comrades and the op- comes of the great underground posite prospect of enemy soldiers points were usually charred black.

LONDON, July "The Luftwaffe is beaten," the prominent journal The Aeroplane declared yesterday.

The publication said that evid- ence of the unwillingness of Ger- man airmen to engage the British when finding themselves Out- numbered had been given by * wing commander following German claim that on a recent daylight ratd 25 Brits bombers were escorted by 200 fighters.

✡

Commenting on these ralds The Aeroplane says they are already a matter of deep anxiety to Ger- many and are rapidly assuming the quality of a menace.

a well-placed explosive charRO.

The RAF seems to be laying set of excellent foundations"

could

Nazi bombing has put a British matrimonia) problem in front of Judge Is dor Wasservogel in New York Supreine Court, and the crux is this: Is It a wife's duty to remain on duty with her husband, even in danger? This news item appeared recently in the Daily Ma'l’

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ness.

"He can't see his officer or even

or tanks Jumping upon him begin. Mr. F. Hugh Treherne-Thomas, The husband's attorney pleaded

The direction of attack was to play havoc with him. He hesl a manager at the Swansea works for dismissal on the grounds that always identifiable through a black tates, or gets rattled, and as was They aim at the creation of a of Richard Thomas and Co., the the New York courts have no patch of burned ground leading shown every time on the battle technique of ensuring to the big steel and tinplate manufac- Jurisdiction.

from some distance to the fort ned fields last year, he soon is a ripe. R.A.F, local air supremacy on 30v turers, wants his American w te to Mr, Treherne-Thomas deried his poult

victim for the advancing German special occasion

return from New York, with their wife's allegation. She refused to The explanation lay therein, of soldier" EXCELLENT FOUNDATIONS two children, to their home near come home, he said, despite an course that Equid fire had been

TWO SHAKE HANDS "If by this method bombers can Swanses.

agreement to return promptly, played on the firing loopholes and Artificial fog 18 Bred until be protected while carrying out Judge Wasservogel reserved his after leaving England last June. thus had compelled those inside to advancing soldiers agral their ar- their attack, similar immunity decision yesterday on a sult for Yesterday I visited the home quit shooting and close the slide, rival in front of enemy position. It might be secured for other forms legal separation brought by Mrs. Fairwood Lodge, a picturesque old Trained German soldiers then here that liquid are shokes of destructive military undertak-, Treherne-Thomas

house, with its own home farm, rushed up and placed high ex hands with artificial fog and by ings.

The wife claims that. her hus-about five miles from Swansean. plosive charges, against the turrets the time the blind clouds have "Some military and naval olr-band's letters, accusing her of not I found that only a few chance and gave the keypoint its death-lifted from around a keypoint, the Jectives are harder to destroy by doing her duty, are "cruel, In-bombe have fallen in the district. blow or otherwise compelled those red tongue of flames is already bombs than shells, torpedoes or human treatmerit."

EVACUEES THERE

inside to surrender.

licking the firing loopholes arð “STATE OF EXCITE ENT"

Children evacuated from Eng-

FIRST USED IN 1915. covering the final dashes of dyna- She declared in the particulars land are living there, under the Liquid Are staged its entry on miting squads. Dozens of polits of her suit that Nazi bombings care of Mr. Treherne-Thomas's the scene for the first time in the may be and at time were under have placed the "people of Great mother, who keeps house for him. woods of Melancourt in front of attack at once, and scores upon CHINESE SYMPATHY Britain in a state of excitement, Mr. Treherne-Thomas who Is Verdun, February 28th, 1915. The scores of fiquld fire tongues were tansion, and apprehension" There one of the divisional heads of the French were panic-stricken and shooting away in almost melodra- FOR SOVIET

was, she said, "great danger, risk, Swariped Special Constabulary, has fled their trenches to a depth of matic form at the Maginot ed CHUNGKING, July 11 (Central) and hazard of the life, welfare, done conspicuous service during 1800 feet, Batalled with the effect, banks of artificial fog lifted away the German High Command of and German troops ran forward The Sino-Soviet Cultural Asso and happines of the children," recent air raide. elation, the China branch of the Their home at Kilay, near Swan- He has been much upset by His that time decided to expand the for the final work of conquest, funn International Peace Campaign and sea, was continuously threatened, wife's action, I am sorry that I liquid fire company of 60 men into Barbed wire can be cut, mines the Chthese People's Foreliai Re by bombing, she added. One cannot make any statement," he one battalion and later even made hameless and bridges crossed "I am amazed that organized one regiment of them, while fog enwraps the enemy. Like lations in Association

the letters said to have been sent said to me. yesterday

such an action bas been filled, and Artificial fog is the twin of liquid, liquid fire units, the artificial fog jointly sent a telegram to the by her husband read:

I shall fight it,”.

Ore in blitz attacks of the present companies of the German Army people of the Soviet Union, ex-

HOME NO LONGER"

A close friend of the family told war, particularly where fortified are everywhere on hand" where Lending Lympathetic concern over My home to home no longer, met "Last year, because of the positions of the Maginot type are battle foema, their fight against Nael invasion, and never will be until you return invasion threat, Mr. Treherne. In question. It was used in the They are motorized and equipp The telegram expressed the and we can live happily together. Thomas sent his wife and two World War to hide troop move ed to meet all kinds of geogra” hope that China, Borlet Russia, ilke 40,000,000 other people, more children-Rhods, aged 18 and monts and often was spread by phie requirements. Among these Britain and the United States wil especially with all the favours of David Hugh, god to Canada, planes Hitler's bitskreis brain special troppe, liquid fire and arti batablish a strong united anti- wealth and luck that have boom "Mre Trehome-Thomas was be trust has worked maglo since then, foal, tog alike, are everything from aggression front and place greater abovored "on" us in providing a fore her marriage Miss Margaret not only with the encouveness of weastier experta to hose wizards crust in each other in order beautiful home and all the wherry, dahgiter of Mr. Willam, the aridñstal: for in la chemiosi Tary, Have Lis own technical to rush to the world aggressora chatices of a happy family life" Wherry of New York."

nature, and ŝatauminated throuma zobserver, and ombers,

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