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"OPERATIONS BY GERMANY AGAINST RUSSIAN-POLISH AGREEMENT IS
THE SOVIET UNION WILL REQUIRE TRIUMPH FOR MR. ANTHONY EDEN THREE MONTHS INSTEAD CHRIST CHURCH
OF THE SCHEDULED TWO
Forced To Add 50 Divisions To Original Four Hundred
A special NICHI NICHI SHIMBUN dispatch from Softa reports that German military experts are now of the opinion that
SOVIET RUSSIA' WILL REQUIRE THREE Firstly, OPERATIONS AGAINST MONTHS INSTEAD OF THE SCHEDULED TWO MONTHS;
Secondly, THE UKRAINE HARVEST MUST BE ABANDONED
YEAR;
UNTIL NEXT
Thirdly, THE SOVIET RESISTANCE HAS FORCED GERMANY TO ADD 50 DIVI- SIONS TO THE ORIGINAL 400; and,
Fourthly, ALTHOUGH THE LUFTWAFFE HAS SCORED OVERWHELMING VIC- TORIES THE CONSIDERABLE SOVIET AIR FORCE REMAINS.
German planes raided Moscow on Thursday night but only a few aircraft managed to penetrate the cl.y's outer defences, says Reuter.
A number of bombs were dropped but no military damage was done.
VICAR GOING
TO AUSTRALIA
Glowing tribute to the Rev. H. D. Rosenthal, B.A <Dub.), Vicar of Christ Church. Kowloon Tong. was paid by Mr. } A. Tarrant. Warden of the Church, at a pre- sentation to the Vicar by the con- gregation on his departure on leave for Australia next week where he will be joining his family
Mr. Rosenthall was the recipient of
set a canteen silver
and П portable typewriter.
There 1/83 a large gathering present at the Vicarage. Major R. J. L. Penfold presided.
Making the presentation, Mr Tarrant referred to the Vicar's family having been evacuated from the Colony and said that an opportunity had been presented to Mr. Rosenthal to proceed to an- other field in God's' service.
The speaker wished Mr. RoseD- thall. in his new sphere of work The Russians continue to in Christ's service, every happiness
THAILAND-JAPAN BANKING hold the German advance on and success
AGREEMENT:
DESCRIBED
AS PURELY ECONOMIC
TOKYO, Aug. 1 (Brater)-The THAI BANKING SYNDICATE and YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK have concluded an agreement whereby the latter will be granted a credit of 10,000,000 bahts (about 15,000,- 000 Yen), the Ministry of Finance revealed.
The agreement is described as purely economic to allow Jap- anese purchases of Thai products under the present exchange dif- ficulties.
Informed circles beteve that the have been in fact half frozen since credit will serve to revive and the outbreak of the European war. maintain normal trade relations!
A NEW BASIS between the two countries which wire interrupted by Britain's freez- ing of Japanese assets, 33 the baht is linked with the sterling
all fronts with fierce counter- attacks.
In the Smolensk area the Ger- mans have been held and flung back with considerable loss.
The Rey. David Rosenthall, Vicar of Christ-Church, Kowloon Tong, is proceeding on furlough early this month. His departure makes a further serious, gap in the
MR. EDEN
GEN. SIKORSKI
M. MAISKY
Steed On Important Achievements Of
Three Outstanding Personalities
The important achievements which three outstanding personalities MR. AN- THONY EDEN, GENERAL SIKORSKI and M, IVAN MAISKY-had brought to fruition this week formed the subject of a most interesting talk by MR. H. WICKHAM STEED, the well-known commentator on international events, when he broadcast from London yesterday in the series "World Affairs."
"Mr. Anthony Eden, Britain's Foreign Secretary, has been mixed up with impor- tant events this week," began Mr. Steed. "He is a hard working fellow whose head seems to be screwed on the right way and for a man who is just 44 years of age he has had wide experience.
16
In the Ukraine area the Ger- already attenuated line of English
When the last war broketary Secretary to Sir Austen categorical assurance that nothing, mans are meeting with very fierce clergy in the Colony, says The out he was just a schoolboy Chamberlain.
of the sort would take place as resistance and the Russians are Andrian. It Is good that the but he went through that war "He attended many meetings of given by the Japanese Government fighting Bercely in the Latvian
Cathedral has secured the tem-and came out of it with the the League of Nations at Geneva on July 5. border.
the friendship of "Nevertheless, Mr. Eden careful- On the Finnish front the Nazis Dorary assistance of our old friend. rank of a Brigade Major. He where he won and Finns are making very little the Rev Charles Higgins, who was was in Parliament in 1923 and in 1935 he became Secretary for word to Japan and he pointed out men with whom he is now dealingly abstained from using an angry progress and the Russians have helping Mr. Higgs as Honorary
Assistant for sume months last visited Australia in 1925. In Foreign Affairs and, disagreeing that it was Japan herself that by inflicted heavy losses on them.
1926 he became Parliamen-with the late Mr. Neville Cham-aggression had drawn closer and
The Russian Air Force, in spite year.
of Dr. Goebbel's assertion that it
has been practically destroyed. 18
It is declared in Bangkok that it still an active force and is inflict-
GREATEST TASK
is impossible to think that Thaling heavy damage on Nazi ground land could be threatened or cajol- troops and communications. ed by British interests into over- A Japanese report from Bang-
throwing its economic policy to- kok quotes inf rmed circles as pre-
ward Japan, and emphasised the dicting that the extension of the 10,000,000 baht credit by the Thai probability that Thailand would Banking Syndicate to the Yoro- find a new basis of trade relations hama Specle Bank would be fol- with Japan calling for a settlement lowed sooner or late, uy an aban- independent of the sterling. donment of the policy of economte dependence on Britain in favour of voluntary economic co-opera- tion with Japan.
The report adds that if Britain insisted on exerting pressure on Thailand because of the loan, the latter would cut loose economic report continues that bonds with London and upset the though the baht is pegged with independent policy as a member of the sterling. Thai funds in London the East Astatic body of nations.
The
Secret Vichy Orders To Dentz Revealed Forbade Reinforcements
To Indo-China
LONDON, Aug. 2 (Reuter)--A sustained German inter- vention to prevent the VICHY GOVERNMENT in sending reinforcements to Indo-China while encouraging, on the contrary. the strengthening of Vichy military forces in West Africa are confirmed in the secret instructions given by the Vichy War Ministry to GENERAL DENTZ while the latter was still in authority in Syrla.
In
"As the war in Russia ap- proaches the end of the sixth week the Germans find them- selves facing the greatest task
all
sald their history," MAJOR ALLEN MURRAY when he broadcast a commentary on the news from Louodn yester- day. The German people had been told that the war would be over in a few days and they were confident almost to a pitch of apathy. Everyday as the
Outspoken Vicar Of St. Andrew's Resigns
Rev. J. R. Higgs' Reasons For Not Returning
THE REV. JAMES ROBERT HIGGS, B.A., F.R.G.S., Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, since 1934, and who is at present in New Zealand where he took over a ceaseless flów temporary post a few months ago, has resigned and will of hospital trains arrive the Ger- not be returning to Hongkong. mans become more nervous and
the news is anxiously devoured.
The
in
St.
Mr. Higgs, it will be recall-in the current issue of The An- drian. "Maybe some of you can There was also the great num- ed, strongly criticised the
It is some- ber of troops engaged in the fight Evacuation Order both from times unwise to be too outspoken:
guess what they are. to be remembered. The growing the pulpit and in his parish One has to suffer for it. uneasiness in Germany might de-
"Anyhow, I magazine, THE ANDRIAN. *
am sure that velop into an open denouncement
Preaching of the invasion
Andrew's Andrew's Russia.
both you and St. of
would people generally
not only way to counter this was for Church on July 28 last year. Mr.
Higgs, Hitler to pull off some sweeping
1 have had me do otherwise. of dis-
have always spoken out against victory, but the German people
what I considered to he wrong did not see any reason for a sud- den change in their favour.
and I shall always do so. ".... I offer you now my signation with very real regret." CAME AS SHOCK Writing in The Andrian,
THIRD ASSAULT
On
the charges
crimination in the evacuation of women and children from Hong- kong, said, "It will take a long time before the Colony lives this down."
"Although finance has been the
berlain's policy in not agreeing to sanctions against Mussolini, he re- signed in 1938.
UNIQUE ADVANTAGE
"In the present Government he has been Secretary for the Do- minions, Secretary for War and then Foreign Secretary again. He also had the unique advantage knowing Soviet Russia when he visited her leaders in Moscow.
"It aller that experience he is unable to get a right idea of international · affairs he
must be a duffer," continued Mr. Steed. "But nobody cau call him that and many peo- ple think he has the full ad-. vantages of British tradition
of men who go into Parliament early and get a hang of inter- national affairs while their minds are yet receptive. "Though Mr. Eden cannot have known much of the world as it
was before the last war he had a chanco of learning much of the world since the last war endea. He has a strong sense of respon- sibility and he has learn the value of words. There is never a flat note or a false note in his public statements. They can be re-read with a magnifying glass and
still bear scrutiny.
the
DIRECT CONF." ICT
"This week Mr. Eden said some
eyes.
INDEMNITY OFFER
BY JAPANESE
The Japanese Government has offered to pay indemnity to the United States for the bombing of the U.S. gunboat Tatulla, lying off, Chungking. states a Reuter message from London.
closer together the countries that lay in her path. He concluded; 'I cannot believe that statesmanship in Japan is entirely deaf or bind and I sincerely trust that thuse responsible for the destinies of Japanese affairs will yet reflect while there is still time on the course where their present poiky Is leading them.'"
Mr. Steed declared that this statement had been made by a Foreign Secretary other than Mr, Eden it might have been said that there was a touch of appeasement about those words. These was left that
way, however,
were seriously mistaken. It was he.. cause Mr. Eden believed that statesmanship was not dent or blind in Japan that he ex- pressed this hope and that there was still in that country opinion strong enough to di- vert Japan from her present
Curse.
"What Mr. Eden meant: to Im-
As far as the actual fighting was concerned the drives to Leningrad deciding factor for my not return- and Moscow had gained nothing ing, yet there are other factors Acting Vicar, the Rev. H. A. Withing that made people, rub their decisive. The Germans may be too," writes-Mr. Higgs in a letter tenbach, B.A., Th.L., says: expected to plan a third and des- to the Church Council, published
He was speaking of the Ply was that the British Common- The Vicar was due to return at Japanese move in Indo-China and wealth was not looking for troo perate assault.
Major Murray said he thought the Russians were probably capa- Free French Headquarters of men and material for the de- ble of launching a big counter- in London yesterday publish- fence of Indo-China."
ed extracts from the secret document found among the archives of General Dentz's headquarters when Allled troops occupied Byrla, ·
offensive.
FINAL DECISION
All this mude good reading but Another report to General Dentz there was the other aide to the dated a month later, Feb. 15, plcture and that was that we must Armistice guard against thinking that be- reads: "The German
cause the Russians are Agliting Commission has informed us of its Anal decision to forbid all re- well we could sit back and watch. This way force Hitler to take some men and material either from desperate action against Britain.
We must redouble our efforts
Among numerous of such in- inforcements structions, Lwo are typical.
Indo-China to
They both emanate from the France or Madagascar." "Armistice Department" of the Vichy Ministry of War.
of
In another secret roport, Vichy and there was no time for com- told General Dentz, "The German placency, he concluded,
One dated, Jan. 15 this year, Armistice Commlsalon has refused reads: "Reinforcements both
In all refforcements of dolence Tokyo, Aug. 1 Heuter? The meri and material granted by the forecs in indo-China. This re- Foreign Offico disclosed that it has Gerano and ItsBan Armlatice funal applica in particular to send-received, a report from the Jap- Commission have been sent or are ing to this Colony of Amerlean-ancse Embassy in Hsinking that being sent chiefly to French West built pinnes on board The Bearn the Thailand Government has ex- Afrien but the German Commission at present immobilised at Martini; tonded de jure recognition to alil refuse to allow reinforcements que."
Manchoukuo,
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Pago
2-Swimming and baseball notes; Lawn bowls sweep draw. 3-Radio programmes; Coming events; Crossword puzzle, 4-Titanio battle for Sticlensk; American nie to Russia; Nazi londors alarmed; Anglo-Finnish relations; Japanese troop withdrawals from China. B-Wholesale prices in the
Colony: Round, the Pollee Courts,
Leading articles: Another Promise of Victory; True' të
was in direct conflict with the
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the end of September and there- stated that the Japanese action ble but that she was not frichtig fore this letter has come as a shock for us all... We must face the fact that it will not be casy to find a new Vicar in these days of war.
I think that Church people have a right to feel concern about the the position that has arisen in Colony, The incumbencles of the Cathedral, St. Andrew's and Christ. Church are now all vacant at the game time. When the Blahop goes to America at the end of August, we shall have no Bishop, no Arch; deacon, no Dean and no Vicars. .. Naturally I do not think that the "business"¡will suffer severely under our temporary di- factory arrangement and it is up rection, but it is not a very satis.
to the Church of England trustees to take steps to see that such. `j position cannot occur again in the futuro.
Today's News Summary
WHILE FIERCE FIGHTING is still raging in the Smolensk sector where the Russians are reported to have made strong counter- attacks, it is now reported that the German military authorities are now mying that the Russian campaign will take three months instead of the scheduled two. The Soviet Air Force is still a con- siderable striking power.
AN ECONOMIC AGREEMENT has been concluded between Japan and Thailand.
THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT hea agreed to pay indemnity for the bombing of the American gunboat Tutulla.
THERE WAS A DEBATE ON INDIA in the House of Commons yesterday when Mr. L. Amery, the Secretary for India, made a statement.
SECRET VICHY WAR DEPARTMENT order to General Dents, in Syria, are now revealed.
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