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ASTOUNDING RECEPTION To Put Japan

ACCORDED IMPERIAL FORCES IN BEIRUT

the

BEIRUT, July 16 (Beuter)--An astounding reception from Syrian Fronch populace was accorded the Imperial forces which entered Belrat yesterday, writes Beuter's Special correspondent with the British forces in Syria.

Throngs of people cheered and clapped hands as the long convoy of advance troops entered the suburbs.

The formal entry took place to 1 day when Australians marched YELLOW RATION into the centre of the city.

BOOK

Lord Woolton Lifts Veil of Secrecy

LONDON, July 16 (Reuter) --- Lord Woulton, the

From a point near

and

the radio

On Total

War Footing

TOKYO, July 16 (Reuter)---A call for "stronger political leader- ship" to put Japan on a total war

CABLE

COMMENT ON R.A.F. Raids ANGLO-SOVIET On Benghazi,

ALLIANCE

SENSITIVENESS CLEARED

Derna, Bardia

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941. —PAGE 71

U.S. MISSION IN

GIBRALTAR

CHINESE ENVOY RECALLED

Mr. Wu Nanju, the Chinese Minister to Denmark, is at present en route to” Chungking via the United States.

GIBRALTAR, July 16 (Reutery Reuter has been authoritatively The situation In the western informed that the Chinese Govern- Mediterranean was the subject of ment has recalled te diplomatic ehnferences between General Lord representatives from Denmark, LONDON, July 16 (Reuter)troit, Governor and Commander- though not severing relations with The Italian port of Messina was in-Chief here, and the Unlten Denmark. raided on Monday night by the R. States Government Mission to the A.F., according to a Rome com- Middle

Fast and Mediterranean, footing was made in a leading Broadcasting from London yes-munique,

which has now proceeded to Ene article in the newspaper HÓCHĨ terday. MAJOR ALLEN MURRAY,

RA.F. raids on Benghazi, Derna, land after three days' stay. HOCHI SHIMBUN which says that¡ B.B.C. news commentator, said Bardia and the Gondar arca fr The Commission flew to the the Cabinet must be strengthened that when the agreement between Abyssinia are also admitted. Middle East and remained there as early as possible if it wishes to Great Britain and Russia was an-

The communique claims that the five weeks. It is headed by Mr. achieve this alm.

nounced Some circles were reluv British attacks at Sollum and To W. G. Harriman and other me faut to call it an alliance.

bers are bruk were repulsed. Mr. Churchill's statement in the

Brigadier General R. House of Commons on Tuesday

Boyce, of the United States Air had cleared away any sensitiveness RAF. bomber aircraft on Monday tank expert

CAIRO, July 16 (Reuter)-Libya: Force, and Colonel A. Green. purpose, it is understood, of med)- ·

sal treatment at Home.

The task of the present admin- ! station. showing marks of the Istration is not only to reorganise British artillery fire some eight Japan but to permit ner to play a miles outside the capital, Araba leading role in creating a New

Syrians gathered in little Order in East Asia as in the whole! knots by the roadside and on the world, states the paper, tops of houses, waving, and some saying in common "Hello, good morning."

Minister of Young girts on bicycles hung on

Food, yesterday lifted the veil secrecy which has hung over yellow ration book which issued in conjunction with new edition of the ordinary tion book recently.

SINO-AMERICAN

of the back of the lorries talking to FRIENDSHIP IS

the the Australians and giving them was, sweets.

the

ra-

Up to now the purpose of this yellow book was unknown: the

to public.

F

Lord Woolton told the House of Lords that America was going to provide Britain with greater variety in diet but that these new foodstuffs would have to be equally distributed

Families with plenic luncheon baskets under the cedar trees out for the day's holiday joined in the i greetings

ROOFTOPS CRAMMED The Arab house rooftops and balconies were crammed to the bresking point.

STRESSED BY CORRESPONDENT

on the subject.

OVER LIBYA

Nobody would be surprised that carried out an attack on an aero- the Anglo-Russ an alliance had drome at Zuara in Tripolitanie, brought forth a burst of hysteric says a Middle East RAF. com- rage from Berlin. The agreement had brought together the two an tagonists that Hitler feared most. One of the chief benefits of the agreement to us, said Major Mur ray, was the welding of nations agalust Hitlerism.

unique, Bombs were seen to hit the aerodrome buildings and a number of enemy transport air- craft on the ground were damaged by machine-gun fre

in-cont operations,

our

Barota-78 aircraft

One Junkers-52 was set on fire. During the night of July 13-14, heavy bombers raided Bardia and SOURCE OF WOERY There was a reported increase in Benghazi causing a number of ex- NEW YORK, July 16 (Central)

guerilla warfare in Rumarila which plosions and tires

source of worry for the

Junkers-88 and A number of foreign writers and was a

German and Rumanian correspondents including

uthori- were shot down by Henri

tles Berustein, Countess Alexander Tol-

Bit by bit, Germa. disap-In the Western Desert during re. pointment and dismay was sky, Edna

Faber and David Lucreasing at the Russian resistance.

SYRIA There is evidence, however, that participated in the broadcast pro-

In Russia there was no dia- Syria: Our fighters attacked and the Vichy forces had been deter-grammę entitled "America Pre-

unity to defend the home sol) severely damaged a Savola - 79 mined to defend the capital until ferred" sponsored by the United

and there was no fifth column. which approached the Syrian coast the last possible moment.

States Treasury Department over

of the actual fighting. Maj. on Monday. The enemy aircraft a nation-wide hook-up from New Murray said that the German was seen out at sea emitting clouds York on Sunday,

drive on Leningrad looked like of black smoke and appeared un- The participants extended greet-developing into something serious, likely to reach its base. ings from their respective coun- The attack was from the south- tries, making short statements west and by combined German from these operations about their countries' contributions and Finnish troops from the to Democracy,

Karelian Isthmus which would

"That," said Lord Woolton, "is partly the explanation for the Just short of the town, I saw yellow book." Lord Woolton sald sand dunes south of the city laced that there were fewer people suf- with barbed-wire while ammuni- fering from malnutrition at the tion dumps spread among the end of the second year of war than crees on the roadside. in the days of peace and that Britain could face a third year of war with "much confidence."

NAZIS BELIEVE AMERICA WILL ENTER WAR ON

the

expres

Contrasting with sions of reilef of the civilian po- pulation, some Vichy soldiers look- ed dejected and depressed.

I called at the barracks, in the centre of the town, and found black 8pahi soldiers rolling up the French Tri-colour preparing evacuate

to

All our aircraft returned safely

David Lu, Central News corres- constitute a threat to the Boylet LEGLESS

pondent in Washington, who re- Fleet in the Baltic, presented China stressed the tradi tional Sino-American friendship. Declaring that China has been

Aghting for the Democratic na- tions for the past four years, he urged freedom-loving nations to

NO HITLER PEACE PROPOSAL

WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuter) |

are.

He

day.

was

PILOT WINS BAR TO D.S.O.

RADER, D.F.C. (with bar), the leg- less pilot, has been awarded the bar to the D.S.O. this being his fourth award during the war. He has an individual "bag" of 15 enemy machines.

They sprang smartly to atten- unite and share the defence of "There is no Hitler peace pro-FOURTH AWARD tion on our arrival and were ex-Democracy immediately.

posal officially before this governIN PRESENT WAR SIDE OF BRITAIN tremely amiable.

Stephen Early, He concluded by quoting General-ment," said Mr. At the chief military hospital, Iissimo Chiang Kai-shek's state- President Roosevelt's Secretary, ACTING COMMANDER D, R. S. ZURICH, July 18 (Reuter) - The question whether the United States contacted 40 British wounded prtment on March 18 to President addressing a Press conference.

soners of war. is going formally to declare WAI

Roosevelt that "The Chinese

referring to Mayor on Mon- now on the side of Britain and

KIND TREATMENT

immeasurably heartened by the LaGuardia's statement Russia has suddenly become the Lying in the hospital beds, many

impressive reamrmation of the will

SUMNER WELLES: COMMENT centre of interest in Germany were seriously wounded and they of the American people to assist

Mr. Sumner Welles at a Press according to the correspondent of told us that the French treated them in their struggle for free-

praised and COITO- Ten years ago, Bader lost both the National Zeitung.

conference borated Mayor LaGuardia's slate-legs as the result of an accident ments that Hitler atents were when practising for the annual seeking to promote peace propo- RAF display at Hendon.

A sensation has been caused, he says, by the prominent publi cation there of a report from a pro-Axis Swedish paper suggesting that President Roosevelt intends to push his hostility to Germany to the extremis and has therefore

ordered the American fleet to fre without warning on Axis ships.

Authoritative circles in Berlin declared, continues the correspon- dent, that "after a careful exam- nation of the circumstances the

report can be regarded as per- fectly accurate and authentic."

STAB IN BACK

German newspapers at the same

them magnificently and could not have been kinder,

One ward contained mostly Aus tralians but there were a few Bri- tons, nearly all of whom

were wounded in the Litani River.

dom and for the resumption their march to Democracy."

RESERVIST IN MISHAP

of

sals in the United States.

The Distinguished Mying Cross Mr Welles said that reports of has been awarded to PILOT-OFFI- the proposals had been reaching CER A. ASHWORTH, of a New Zea- hi ocessionally, but be emphas- land squadron, for an attack on were not official the German cruiser Scharnhorst

United States at Brest last month.

the French nuraca had been kind. The wounded Australians sald

Shun Koon-wing, Police Reser- ness itself and had given them 325

vist No. 375, and residing at No. 1sed that they

proposals to the Shanghai Street, top floor.

He was forced to remain over anything they wanted but they reports that while driving motor

Government

the area for one-and-a-quarter were longing for a cup of tea and cycle No. 178 along Jordan Road: could not get it.

hours during which time he made There faces lit up when told the about 7 p.m., Cheung Mau-ho, 64, near Watching Street yesterday

eight surveying runs in the face of Australians

Intense A.A. fire. were already there widow, of No. 60 Watching Street.

The George Medal and soon they would get as much top floor, suddenly ran across his women, aged about 50 years, and awarded to BERGT. G. HL. ELLIS, tea as they wanted,

with the left wrist of one tied to who, in spite of Я The town itself was pleasantly peaceful.

BODIES TIED

The bodies of two Chinese

has

been

dislocated

vehicle and was knocked down.

She received injuries to her the right wrist of the other, were shoulder, burns and other injuries. head and was sent to the Kowloon found by the Police on Tuesday helped a trapped pilot to escape.

Boating in the harbour.

time publish attacks on the Pre- Already many Free French flags Hospital. sident fur, 28 they allege, "pre-flutter from the rooftops. paring to atab Europe in the)

Only a few Inhabitants had back" during its struggle against evacuated. All were sure that the

British the Bolsheviks,

would not attack the

Political observers suggest that capital.

stir

up

by

and

this latest propaganda outburst There 18 an air of galety about. has been launch firstly in order to the capital seemingly showing re-

lief felt American Isolationists,

the Syrians secondly in order to press Japan, Frenchmen alike at the final end- and thirdly in order to Inspire the ing of the Next intrigue and in- German pubile to fresh exertions fluence throughout the country.

in the face of American vention,"

Inter-

OFFENSIVE PATROLS IN TOBRUK

CAIRO, July 18 Middle East communique "Offensive patrols tish forces in Tobruk have been active.

(Reuter)-A states. from the Bri-

CHIVALROUS TERMS

Major Allen Murray, in à broad-

"Ultimate Reunion" Of China Under The Democratic Principles

cast from London yesterday, des- CHUNGKING BROADCAST BY SIR

cribed the Syrian armistice terms as generous and chivalrous. The results of the hostilities have been to prevent the Germans from en- tering Syria.

"The French soldier, at the end of a five weeks' campaign, which he has lost, finds himself -a free "In a recent hand-to-hand man," added the commentator. counter, the British captured pri- soners and many casualties were inflicted on the enemy who were surprised in their positions. "

·· “So successful was one of those raids that it was incorrectly des- cribed. In an enemy, communique as a serious attempt to break out ni Tobruk.

"Abyssinia.--No change.,. "Syria.-Action is now in pro- grees to give effect to the terms of the Convention signed yester- day?"

HEALTH BULLETIN The following 16 the Returns of noitfiable diseases noted having occurred in the Colony during the 24 hours onded at mid- night on July 15-PAC A

JAPANESE AT SWABUE

HUBERT WILKINS

CHUNGKING, July 16 (Renter)--In his travels in China, he had ssen widespread faith in "ultima te reunion" of China under the principles of Democracy, said SIR/ HUBERT WILKINS," the famOUS explorer, in a broadcast here yesterday,

SECOND BAR Squadron-Leader Roland Tuck, the first R.A.F. airmen to receive two bars to the DFC was de- corated by the King with the second bar at an investiture at Buckingham Palace this week.

], Tuck, according to Reuter, sald that His Majesty asked him how many German planès he had brought down and he replied that the official number was 27. --

MALTA "ALARMS MALTA, July 18 (Beuter)—Three air raid alarms souvided on--Mon-

day night

when a number of

enemy aircraft ralded the island. Bombs were dropped causing some damage to civilian property. but there were no casualties. There

| were no Services damage or

casualties.

COLLAPSE IN PREFECTURE

“On my way around the Pacife, I have so far visited Man- churtą, Pelping, ofiles in Eastern and Southern China” he said.

I have heard not only from under the direction of Generalis- officials but through the lips of simo Chiang Kai-shek and his able the men in the street the voice assistants data of China reiterating the bellef and The spirit of confidence - and. faith in an ultimate reunion of determination to win is expressed 831. Obiria under the high princi- in many places, but doubtless the ples of democracy exemplified so example of courage and deter That the Japanese are still a wall by Dr. Sun Yat-sen and sommation to stick it out is evidenced Gocupation at Swabue was confirm bravely carried out by General nowhere greater than it in od by news received by shipping Ohiang Kai-shek.

. Chunging siroles in the Colony yesterday

Here in China. 1 have seen an The city has been bombed ex afternoon,

ridiculously and earthquake. Some withdrawale of Japanese example of fortitude enacted to a travagantly,

age of the people is amazing,

-cour-

TOKYO, July 16 Reuter)-Five people were killed, over dozen injured and more than 30 houses collapsed in the Nagano Prefecture

last night as a result of a strong

forces at Bhumchun and Namata degree, incomprehensible to any futilely. The fortitude and See Frailway line between Nagano and

NOTABLE ENDURANCE

"In North-East and Southern

had taken place but there are no one who has hot seen it with his Indientions that the Japanese are own eyes? comtemplating evacuating the re- on, while fresh batches of coolles have been recruited to work on Tim Tin,

Bar

There is a display of human, endurance, personal fortitude. and Government efficiency.

If the example shown in

the road between Shafaukok and China, a temporary subjugation is Chungking can he dar out in

Cholera, nite oarea; Diphtheria,j»--

borne with notable endurance and this attitude is sustained by the faith in the future indepen dence, the ballet in eventual rep

one Casey Dwentory, 14 duado * E- Dr G 1 0 Herkk of the I dom and in individual terid Fever, clažit cases; Tubbrey- Hongkong University, has left the "This, Alle Toals 84 casGRANI

Colony on a short visit to manija, und dah onlyz. be

the

-A temporary interruption of the

Nigāta” was also caused,

GERMAN CONSUL

Mr. John A. Smith, of the American Red Cross, has left the Colony for San Francisco for, the

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