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ACTION PREDICTED IN THE

JOINT ANGLO-AMERICAN

PLAN IS U.S. PRESS BELIEF

First Conference Was Held On Board H.M.S. Prince Of Wales

THAT ACTION IS PREDICTED IN THE JOINT DECLARATION BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT OF THE UNITED STATES IS THE BELIEF STEADILY GROWING IN THE AMERICAN PRESS AND RADIO.

INTERVENTIONISTS AWAIT WITH KEEN ANTICIPATION THE DEEDS WHICH WILL FOLLOW THE WORDS: ISOLATIONISTS HINT DARKLY AT THE SECRET COMMITMENTS ENGAGED IN BY THE PRESIDENT, SAYS A REUTER MESSAGE FROM NEW YORK.

A Reuter Bulletin report last night stated that it was revealed in London that the first conference between Mr. Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt took place aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales on Aug. 10 and subsequent parleys were held on board the U.S.S. Augusta.

Present at the talks were, besides LORD BEAVER BROOK, Minister of Supply who is now in Washington, Admiral of the Fleet SIR DUDLEY POUND,General SIR JOHN DILL (Chief of the Imperial General Staff), SIR ALEXANDER CADOGAN (Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs). Admiral HAROLD STARK (Chief of U.S. Naval Operations). General OEORGE MARSHALL (Chief; of Staff, United States Army). Mr HARRY HOPKINS (Lease-Lend administrator), Mr. AVERELL HARRIMAN (Lease-Lend expediter), and Admirai ERNEST KING (Comniander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet)

Germany And Japan Kept Guessing

"So dramatic was this agree- ment that I can 1

After the initial excitement rous

united in spirit, each in his own] way has put confusion among the enemies of democracy.

History will say that these men led their people through the greatest ordeal to which man has ever been subjected. MR. P.C. SPENDER, Army Min- ister, said that the statement woult have a

vital bearing on futurej events because it represented the joint views of President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill after they had spent some time discussing pro- ble blema affceting every part of the world.

found influence of these eight points in America, France and in

WERE AT CONFERENCE

Left to right:-General Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff; General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chief of the British Naval Staff; Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of U.S. Naval Opera- tions, who took part in the historic conferences between the British Prime Minister and President Roosevelt at sea in the North Atlantic.

22 Dead

In Ferry Command Crash

An official Air Ministry com- morilque sued yesterday morning (says Reuter) states:

DEFENCES OF MALAYA FURTHER STRENGTHENED: LARGEST SINGLE CONVOY TO ARRIVE AT SPORE WITH TROOPS FROM AUSTRALIA

AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ROBERT BROOKE-POPHAM, C.-in-C. Far East, LIEUT.-GENERAL A. É. PERCIVAL, G.O.C., Malaya, MAJOR-GEN, GORDON BENNET, GOC Australian Forces, looked on admiringly as men from Australia filed down yes- terday in one of the biggest disembarkations Singapore has ever seen, according to Reuter.

by

Bren-gun

The only criticism of the Declaration, which has been warmly received in the Bri- tish Empire, the United

MIGHTY WEAPON States and China, comes from

Commenting on the Anglo.

The Air Ministry mach regrets

Here and there, the sombreness of uniforms was broken by splashes of red and the STRAITS TIMES in Sin-American declaration, the EVEN to announce that an aircraft of

white where the Australian nurses' white caps and red cloaks gathered. ING POST in Wellington says:

the Atlantie Ferry Command gapore, which saya: "We had The eight points are a mighty crashed an Thursday evening

Like most of the large Their arrival at this time is an arrival and the rest came hoped for an uncompromis- weapon of war and peace. All the while taking off.

forces leaving Australia the indication of the determination of them,

with hip feeling ing statement and a final jibes that Herlin and Rome can "The passengers and the crew, unit was complete with all Australia to play its full part in tank guns and motor transports carriers, anti- that there is u lot more beħħad |' hands eff' warning to invent cannot destroy the pro-

22 in all, were killed

preventing aggression It

the armed services repre-power in the Southern Pacife, than the

any all gave evidence of Australia's aanuuncement of Japan."

"One of the passengers was the peace alms," said MAJOR ALLEN

RIGHT HONOURABLE ARTHUR

sented -- infantry, artillery,

great strides in war production. MURRAY when he broadcast framed by the news of the meeting of the world at large.

The convoy bringing the troops PURVIS, Chairman of the British army service corps, engineer-was the largest single convoy to ordered from. England in time.to Other essential items had been London last night.

Mr. Churchill and President Roose "Berlin seeks to outmatch the Supply Council in North America.

ing and fleld ambulance.

arrive in Malaya since the war arrive in Malaya in readiness for Of one thing he was quite surevelt, American opinion as refect-eight points with about 80 local

The next of kin have been in- and that was that the agreemented by the Press and Radio appears points will outlast those fleeting states that Captam Harold Bal-reinforcements

The native population greeted broke out."

the troops. successes to Russia, but the eight

the arrivals like old friends and had got Germany and Japan guess to be converging of the bellef that military successes and have a per-four, M.P., and Parliamentary Unsatisfaction when tension in the than

The Air Ministry News Service the sight of thousands of fresh Yesterday's reinforcements, the ing as to what was in the wind the war aims of the Declaration manent place in hustory as deder Secretary of State for Air, ac- Far East

The historic meeting between inadequately reflect

greatest third to reach Singapore In ess 2 month, underline the Mr. Churchill and President

the impor-mocracy's counter challenge to tance of the conference. Roosevelt at sea, in an area that

snapping C-in-C Aff Chief Marshal Sir armed force."

compantext by the Air Ministry's point.

Robert Belief is steadily growing that was obviously dangerous, was the scope of the parley has far

Brooke-Popham's words The AUCKLAND HERALD says: yesterday morning flew to

Chlef Inspector of Accidents, early These reinforcements will have soon after his arrival: "Our de- pointer to the Way: in which

"Almost two years of war the Battle of the Atlantic

transcended the

the the effect of making the already fences are strong, but I shall never war aims and going.

many leader writers and radlo

Cont'd Page 7, Col. 2 more formidable. commentators point out that, that the without a planned action, the De-

Major Murray said

WBS

scene of the meeting was almost claration must mean little and

as historie as the agreement ar- rived at

they, therefore, predict action and this is carried in banner Hits in the morning newspapers.

RAREST SPIRITS

MR. W.M. HUGHES Australian

TOKYO COMMENT TOKYO, Aug. 15 (Reuter) The KOKUMIN SHIMBUN'S specula- on is that President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill have discussed, Attorney-Genera and Navy Minis- firstly, the United States ald to, ter, commenting on Mr. Attlee's England and the Soviet; secondly, broadcast, sald that President anti-Axis reinforcements in the Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill were Western Pacific; and, thirdly, pro the rarest spirits of the age and blems with Japan.

although divided by distance but

Battle Flares Up Along Entire Eastern Front

FIGHTING HAS FLARED UP ALONG THE ENTIRE RUSSO- GERMAN FRONT, says British Wireless.

A Russian communique early yesterday states: "In the course of Aug. 14, our troops conducted fierce fighting with the enemy along the whole front from the Black to the White Soa.

"In the southern direction, our are withdrawing or intending to troops evacuated the towns of withdraw behind the line of the: Kirovograd and Pervomalsk (in Dneister in this area. the Ukraine north of Odessa).

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The situation can be described

"Our aviation, in co-operation as deteriorating to the extent to with land troops, continued to deal which the withdrawal is being car- blows to enemy troops and anni-ried out.

hilated aircraft on his aerodromes.

The Russians in this sector are

"On Aug. 13, 74 Gorman planes undoubtedly in some danger of be- wore brought down in alr combats Ing cut off owing to the very na- and destroyed on aerodromea. We are of forward thrusts in modern loat 27 planes.

warfare, by which advancing "prongs" inevitably cnt of bodies of opposing troops..

"In the Baltic Sea, our ships sank a German submarhis.”

ARE WITHDRAWING

It is not yet known whether the The Rusalan evacuation of Kiro- Russians intend to fight for Odessa vograd and Pervomalsk, Ukrainian or not. A crossing of the Dnieper towns, the former 110 miles north below Kiev would be a hazardous of Odessa and the fatter the same task for the Germans, the river distance north of Nikolajev, is taken being more than half a mile across authoritative eireles in London Just below Kiev and much wider as a definite indication that they in the Odessa region.

Cont'd Page 7, Col. 5,

formed."

caused

seemed

at

WORDS UNDERLINED

German

have aerodrome on which the Atlantic strong defences of Malaya even be satisfied and I am not going to vacinal

The Historic Churchill-Roosevelt Declaration Is Propaganda Of The Highest Order For Victory, Peace

"The historic Declaration made by the President of the United States and the British Prime Minister has resounded throughout the world. To comment upon it is almost to belittle it. IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. It is propaganda of the highest order for victory and peace," said MR. H. WICKHAM STEED, the eminent author-journalist when he broadcast in the "World Affairs" series from London yesterday.

"It means what it says," continued Mr. Steed. "It means that the great Eng- lish-speaking democracies are resolved on their war policies and their peace policies, as pledged under the Lease and Lend Act.

resources

Cont'd Page 7, Col 1.

"By that "Act, the United | human freedom and by their don't mean the reply which the States is giving her material joint declaration Mr. Roose-German propaganda machine may

in the cause, of velt and Mr. Churchill agreed to use this collaboration to end aggression and bring about organised peace."

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2-H.K.F.C. meeting; Basobail

programme; Aquatic meet; Volunteer Orders. 8-Radio programmes; Com-

ing events; Crossword. 4--Popular imagination cap tured by Atlantle confer enco; If Hitler should win in Europe and. Britain, 6-Presentation; Round the

Police Courta, 0-Loading article: Turning Point in World History, Church services.

Eleven Garman divisions mswiped out.

sleep and do not intend to let anybody else sleep."

A token of Australia's deter- mination to treat Singapore as

her first line of defence, the fur- ther reinforcements are a warning that Britain, Austraita and their Allies in the Pacific are committed

Executed

In Tower

JOSEF JAKOBS, a German na-

to an inflexible policy of resisting tional, was executed at the Tower any attempt on the part of any of London yesterday morning after Power to interfere with the free- conviction under the Treachery dom of peoples living in this area. Act of 1940 by a General Court

The many thousands of Bri- Martial, says Reuter, tish, Australian and Indian troops which, have now taken ap stations in Malaya, are the best bulwark against any fur- ther aggression.

The War Office states that Jakobs was a German Secret Ber- vice agent born at Luxemburg on June 30, 1888, and that the court martial was held in camera on Aug. 6 and 6, 1941.

It is understood that Jakobs was

The welcome which the people of Malaya, gave the Australians yesterday, springs from the know-a non-commissioned officer in the ledge that this arca is more secure Gertman Army attached to the than ever,

meteorological service, and was Most of the equipment had al-man aeroplase in the Home Coun

GREAT STRIDES

dropped by parachute from a Ger- Fready arrived awaiting the men's ties area dressed in civilian cicthes,

over which he was wearing a fly ing suit and a parachutist's steel helmet...

Today's News Summary

FULLY EQUIPPED He as

fully equipped for espionage and possessed a wireless

large sum of English money and

Mr. Steed drew a distinction

IT IS REVEALED THAT MR. Winston Churchill and President from those parts of the Declara Roosevelt had their first conference, which led to the joint Declara- tion which referred to the present tion of policies, on board HMS. Prince of Wales, and subsequently transmitting and receiving set, a and the future. The prezent, he aboard the USS. Augusta. Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Harriman, respon Bald,

concerned Anglo-Americansible for the administration and expediting of the Lease-Land pro-emergency food ration, which in- peace sims while an important gramme, were among those present at the parleys. The chlets of cluded brandy and German Bau-"' feature was that the disarmament the British and American Navies and Armies also attended as woll eage, AK of aggressor nations was consider as the Permanent Under-Secretary of the British Foreign Office. ad essential to such a peRES,

PRESS OPINION, ON THE Churchill-Roosevelt Declaration is that it must take the form of Betion against Japan and Vichy ctherwise it will lose its value, One Bingapore paper say that it had hoped for an uncompromising statement and a final warning to the Japanesp.

"It will be interesting to observe the effect of this De- claration upen JAPAN," can- linned Mr. Steed, "for Mr. Churchill and Mt. Roosevelt. did not forget bar RussĒMUM

THE RIGHT HON, ARTHUR PURVES, Chairman of the British Purchasing Commission in North America, was, with 31 others, kill- ed in an air crash,

Jakobe also carried a small hand spade for the purpose of burying bis parachute and flying kit. He was taken into custody by men- bera of the Home. Guard ap proximately 12 hours after his deadent,

The sentence of death wwN DAY- ried out by shooting.. A barrister

PAA GERMAN (LORET SERVICE AGENT was shot in the Tower of at-law, at present "In quite another sense it will London yesterday, under the Treachery Act of 1940 He was stated Helden fordon, 14

be interesting to watch the effect to have been fully equipped kitur esblatters - work, HITAMISVAKI PUR of the Declaration on Germany, TX Joset Jakobs,