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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941.

MR. ATTLEE CAUTIONS AGAINST ANY

UNDUE OPTIMISM: HOME DEFENCES STRONGER THAN A YEAR

YEAR AGO:

AGO: THE INVASION THREAT STILL REMAINS

A CAUTION AGAINST UNDUE OPTIMISM WAS GIVEN BY MR. CLEMENT K. ATTLEE, LORD PRIVY SEAL, WHEN HE OPENED THE DEBATE ON THE WAR SITUATION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY. One outstanding fact of the position today, as compared with a year ago, was that Hitler was now fighting on twe fronts which the German leaders had always striven to avoid,

Hitler had (says Reuter) attacked Britain furiously by air and he had waged war unceasingly at sea but the invasion, which at one time seemed imminent, had been postponed.

BUT, said the Lord Privy Seal, NOTHING COULD BE MORE FOOLISH THAN TO IMAGINE THAT POST- PONEMENT MEANT ABANDONMENT.

The possibility of the attempt remained, and must remain, a constant factor in our considerations. Instructions had been given to all forces in the British Isles to bring to the highest state of readiness the preparations against invasion.

THE BRITISH ARMY AT HOME WAS WELL EQUIPPED AND READY AND ALL STRENGTH WAS IM- MEASURABLY GREATER THAN TWELVE MONTHS AGO.

Points

From

Speech

Heaviest Bombs On Mannheim

LONDON, Aug. 5 (BWS)--It 1s learned in London that in gale

Seventy

Attacks

By R.A.F.

The following are points wind last night a force of aircraft Doring Joly, the Royal Air Force from Mr. Attlee's statement, of the Bomber Command attacked made 70 attarks on Germany and objectives at Mannheim, Frankfurt 76 on towns in occupied terri- and Karlsruhe with conspicuous tories. SUCCEES,

as cabled by Reuter's Bulletin last night:-

DEFENCES

This was disclosed by Mr. Attlee,

On the outward and return Lord Privy Beal, in the course of Our Army at Home is well Journeys, very bad weather was his review of the progress of the equipped and well led. Our encountered, but over the targets war in the House of Commons

It was clear and a great weight yesterday, says Reuter. of the heaviest bombs was dropped

In the Middle East, 128 attacks! inflicting severe and widespread were made on various targets at a

loss of 285 aircraft. We had des Aamage.

troyed for certain 410 enemy planes.

ground defences are incom- parably stronger. RUSSIA

cam-

Nine of our aircraft are missing.

An

ON SMALL SCALE

The German plan for a rapid victory in the paign against Russia had not

over the east coast of England and succeeded. Tremendous fight-for

Alr Ministry and Ministry Scotland. Home Security communique "Some damage was done at a ing has taken place in the states: "Enemy activity last night few points and the number Smolensk area and the road was on a small scale and mostly casualties is small,"

to Moscow is still open. In

the south, Kiev still stands as!

a bastion of Russia.

BOMBING

will be

Attacks by our aircraft on Western Germany and enemy occupied territory continued and intensified. ATLANTIC

Though the Battle of the Atlantic was not yet won we were holding our own. WAR AT SEA

In July, 93 enemy ships, totalling 459,000 tons,, had been put out of action, not counting warships. U.S. AID

The stream of material from the United States ex- ceeds anything we received in the last war. U-BOATS

Thailand Is Watching Developments Unshaken

! The Commons cheered lus- tly when Mr. Attlee referred to the magnificent fight of the Russian Army and the people.

Mr. Attlee stressed the very heavy losses in men and material by the German forces.

There were, he said, satisfactory features in the present phase of the struggle which made it dif- philosophical to prevent cheerful- fcult for even the most

ness from breaking in.

THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG IN SEING CHEER- FUL PROVIDED WE DID NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO RE- LAX OUR EFFORTS. Continued Page 7, Col. 3

Committee To Advise The Govt. On H.C.L.

Official recognition of the rising cost of lying is shown by the ap- pointment, by His Excellency the Governor, of a Committee to "ad- vise Government on the matter of a high cost of living allowance for dollar-paid officers, other than those who are drawing salaries not exceeding $36 a month who have already obtained an allow prises

The Committee. It was learned

BANGKOK, Aug. 6 (Beuter)—THAILAND is watching develop- meute most vigilantly and is unshaken in her determination tu de- from authoritative sources, (end the independence that is the keynote of the situation, as seen prises by competent observers.

The Japanese-Thai situation continues undoubtedly grave, huti the tension is now slightly cased. Observers point out that an

anequ.vocal pronouncement by,

Britain

and America that

they decisive'y react to any evidence

EUROPEAN

Com-

Mr. Justice P. E. F. Cressali, M.C. (Chairman), Hon. Mr. Lá Tse-fong, Mr. A. J. C. Taylor, Mr. Ng Chak-wing and Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen, with Mrs. W.

A. Jones as Secretary. Interviewed yesterday. Mr. Jus tice Cressall said that it was the

of undue Japanese IN HARBOUR top of the Cominittee, that ruem-

pressure on Bangkok will be opportune and go a long way to rellevo the tension.

Meanwhile, Thal opinion 13 re- flected in the prominence given in

news from British sources. the Thai Press to Far East crisis

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LONDON, Auge. 7 (Reater) - ANY ACTION WHICH WOULD

DENCE AND INTEGRITY OF THAILAND WOULD BE A MATTER OF IMMEDIATE CONCERN TO THREATEN THE INDEPEŃ- BRITAIN, MORE PARTICULARLY, AS A THREAT AGAINST THE SECURITY OF SINGAPORE, said Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, in the House of Commons yesterday when speaking on the Far Eastern situation.

Mr. Eden said that the British Government had not failed to note that the Japanese news- papers have recently been using the same kind of language regarding Thailands they had em- ployed before the Japanese demands for bases in Indo-China,

The British Ambassador in Tokyo had pointed out to the Japanese Foreign Minister that if a step of this knd were taken, IT MUST INEVITABLY GIVE RISE TO A MOST SERIOUS SITUATION BETWEEN BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

FIRST SHIPMENT OF ARMS FROM THE UNITED STATES TO RUSSIA Only Single Enemy Planes Nazi High Succeed In Breaking Command Through Moscow's Defences Claims 895

THE UNITED STATES HAS SENT RUSSIA THE FIRST

SHIPMENT OF ARMS, it was announced in Washington, Thousand

says Reuter.

The United States has acquired from Canada between 400 and 500 Burricanes with guns and war material, ac- cording to a report from Ottawa. It is said that they will be sent to CHINA, the NETHERLANDS: EAST INDIES and probably RUSSIA,

Russian Prisoners

Several groups of German The enemy, were scattered by German High Command claims

night

BERLIN, Aug. 6 (Heuter)-The planes attacked Moscow on anti-aircraft. fire and

fighters. Tuesday night, according to

that 895,000 prisoners were taken the Moscow Radio.

The mid-day Soviet communique

in the Russian campaign and" "he yesterday stated:

the number killed was "far greater". "Txiring Agam only single planes suc-night of August 5, our troops con- Russian asses of materials, said. ceeded in breaking through the thued the fighting in the direc- the German High Command, total elty's defences and no important tions of Kholm, Smolensk and 13,145 armoured fighting vehicles, damage was done.

Continued Page 7. Col. 4 10,388 guns and 9,082 aircraft,

Following are the chief points of four communiques:

British Navy Tours The

Mediterranean At Will

FIRST: The capture of dstrov, Porkhov and Pskov has created a pre-condition for a push to the north and an initiation attack in the direction of Leningrad.

Meanwhile, the army operating InEstonia took Dorpat, Fellin and

Broadcasting on the news from London yesterday, MAJOR ALLEN Peru and threw enemy divisions, MURRAY, B.B.C. commentator, said that the Fleet Air Arm and after numerous violent skirmishes, Royal Navy toured the Mediterranean at will and the Italians appear back north of Taps. ed to be quite auable to prevent attacks by sea and air ar to anti-of this army group are not yet Operations cipate them.

British destroyers entered two harbours in Sardinia and caused concluded.

much damage with little or no opposition.

SECOND: In the south, our troops had to overcome particular THERE WAS NO DOUBT AS TO ly difficult conditions of terrain, WHO WAS "TOP DOO" IN weather and a numerically superlor MUSSOLINIS SO-CALLED MARE NOSTRUM.

STRANDED AMERICANS

IN JAPAN

OCTOBER ADVICE STILL APPLIES SHANGHAI, Aug., 8 (Router)

The Italians had suffered very heavy shipping losses during the past year and as far as the Fleet went there could not be much left) to stand up to a fight.

The British Navy swept the

seven seas and proof of this lay

Jenemy.

One force succeeded in Continued Page 7, Col. 5

Tobruk Area

Action

CAIRO, Aug. (Reuter)-More

in the safe arrival, without in-aggressive

action 1s being cident, of further reinforcements taken in the Tobruk area, and

and inflicted casual-

of British and Indian troops at raiding parties last night seized a The American evacuation advice of Singapore. We were able to move German post, in spite of heavy The first meeting of the Com-last October, and efterated in reinforcements to vital points at resistance, Despair over a sum of $6.30 hemittee will take place today in the February, still applies only to non- the vital moment when we wanted ties,

Court, while further meetings will HAI EVENING POST learns from Pulene Judge's Chambers, Supreme essential Americans, the SHANG- to. take place from time to time,

an unimpeachable high quarter in All meetings. will be private Washington.

It is a well-known fact that de- spite the demilitarisation clause of the That-French treaty, adequate facilities had been placed at the increasing disposal of That armed forces for number of U-boats but we the defence of Cambodian pro-harbour off the ferry Northern vinces recently taken over by Thalland.

There

is an

are turning out more anti- submarine craft, mainly cor- vettes.

TANK DEPARTMENT

led a young man, Loung Fu, 28. had stolen from his jacket pocket employed on an AR.P. tunnol con struction Job, to, jump into the Star about 8.35 last night,

He. was already · unconscious when pulled out and had to be re- It is officially announced that a

vived. tank department of Thaland's covered, however, by the time. he He was sufficiently re- eastern forces has been establish was brought to Central Police Sta

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Pages

2 Baseball

League Cup: Crossword puzzle.

notes; Tennis fixtures: Hockey

3 Radio programmos; Coming

events: Cinema, notes.

HONGKONG IN ed at Battambong. Contingents of tion and was permitted to go Page

mechanised troops, as well as a home when he expressed, a wish NO IMMINENT

large polles force, are already to be allowed to do so. dispositioned in the newly ceded

Participating In territory where the troops will re-were Mr. R. L, Barkis, of Kow the rescue DANGER

main for a month under the loon Dorks, and a seaman of the SKIUKWAN, July 31 (Centra by Tokyo treaty, Airmail)-The belief that Hong-

Star Ferry Company, both of MANCHUKUO RECOGNISED whom dived off the ferry the mo-; kong will be in no Imminent danger! BANGKOK, Aug. 9 (Reiter)-Itment the man was sighted. The was expressed by GENERAL YU is officially announced that Thal-Northern Star was held up overal HAN-MOU, Commander-in-Chief land has recognised Manchukuo minutes in the search for the of the Kwangtung war zone, when The recognition was made from, man overboard. naked about his opinion regarding a telegram from the Premier Questioned at the Central Police Japanese troop movements in the Luang Pibul, to the Manchu Pro Station as to his motives for leap :mouth,

mler, saying that the Thai Gving into the harbour, Leung ald General Yu said that Japan emment is pleased to recognise that be, had been robbed or his would not dare to have a head-on the state or Manchukuo "whost wager-totalling 20.30-and dared columion with Britain in the nor trade relations with Thailand bot o home as he thought his

have all along been cordial." story would not be believed.

4 Chinese confident of ably to bold the'r own; Anglo- Russian collaboration dis turba Ax's; Japanese troops from Canton sens to French

0 Leadug article: Where will 5. Lealitative nuncli agenda.

Japan-strike next?

5. Robbery (caan | Round the

Police Coula AR Ordere

Continued Page 7, Col. 6

The British brought back number of prisoners,

• The paper thought that clarifi cations ware necessary because of the considerable anxiety aroused In-Americans. In the Far East by the reported statement of Mr. Cor-

MAKING A STATEMENT in the House of Commons yesterday. dell Hull on Monday when, at a,

the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Attlee, cautioned against undue optintam Press conference, Bald he

He said that Britain was in a much stronger position today them a was studying the problem of

year ago. Cheers met Mr. Attlee's tribute to the magnificent struggle stranded. Americans in Japan and

put up by the Russians against the invader. The Lord Privy Seal then reminded the acrrespondents

also disclosed that during July, 410 enemy planes were destroyed that. Americans had long ago been advised to return from the Far STATEMENT ON THE Far Eastern situation was made in the for certain in the Middle East.

Today's News Summary

East while transportation Was avalable. As

Through its associate Editor, |Randall Gould, in the United

States, the Evening Post learna' there la no change whatsoever in

February the American policy onunelated last October and re-emphasised in

It la added that Mr. Hull spoke Pinformally and intended to recall earlier statement, not to revise or expand them;

House of Commona yesterday by the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who said that any action which would threaten the independence and integrity of Thailand would be a matter of im- mediate concern to Britain,

SOME OF THE HEAVIEST bombs wore dropped by aircraft of the Bomber Command on Frankfurt and Mandibeim during raids on Tuonday night,

THE FIRST SHIPMENT of my has left the United Blains, for Russia, it is announced. With regard to the Russo-German war, the Na High Command claims the capture of 835,000 Rusalan troppe

THAILAND, ACCORDING TO latest reports, to watching lopments with unshaken determination to defend her fade sanidendal