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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Frank German Article Boosting On Difficulties Of The

Russian Campaign

LONDON, Sept. Although

every

11 BWS) quick ending to the Russian cam-

DR. palgn.

inove

GOEBBELS propaganda depart "No one musi compare it with ment in directing Press comment the successes of our acadiers in the West. North or South, since in in Germany, is the result of care ful planning even if the motive is these campaigns ou men tough

Indian Materials

SIMLA, Sept. 11 (Reuter) - Du dians are sending in a wide range of auggestions and Inventions aim ed at improving the present equip- ment of the armed forces and also to increasing the use of Indian materials in the manufacture

A special committee formed

GENERAL

HOUSES MADE FROM AIRCRAFT CASES

(SUNDAY TRICONE STAFF REPOSTER)

SIXTEEN- HE SAW THE WORLD

Imagine building a house solely out of packing cases, not a dolls' house, but a commodious structure. The Army authorities have constructed one, an out-house, solely out of these in pur- suance of the wartime economy drive in Singapore, The idea may seein fantastic but it has been done and what woulu otherwise

have

Cost the of Government almost four times the not immediately discornable, there under European conditions while; war materiala

sum to erect a building has been seeths surprising frankness in an in the East, everything is a fun

for brought into being by the simple article

the In

well-known Nazi damentally different that it seems the purpose is Dow investigating means of putting into use material newspaper, VOELKISCHE BEO as If we are fighting on an un- their usefulness.

which would at one time have BACHTER. 021 the difficulties of known planet.

It is stated that the Committer been discarded. the Russian campaign

The fighting is completely dif- feel that the importance to India This Army outhouse is one facet It refers to the importance ot teren! from all experiences of of growing use to which Indian ma-of Malaya's wartline economy markable position of Private Tom- giving the people on the home Cerman soldiers on other war terials can be put for the manu- drive and the idea of utilising front a real understanding of the fronts. Red soldiers and their offi

facture of store and equipment for what would normally be consider. problems, and says: "Every day cers never react normally and the armed forces cannot be toned waste material would have been brings FL new surprise and the continue #ghting even in hopeless strongly emphasised. people at home must not expect a positions Every moment in baitle, unexpected developments must de faced

Vichy-German Dead-Lock

Negotiations Over Occupation Charges

LONDON, Sept. 11 Heuler, It is learned in well-informed neu

diplomalte circles tral

negollations which had

that

BRUTAL DISCIPLINE

'German soldiers have learned through

whe

cruelty

Red oldiers, their brutal discipline and apparently unending quantities of | war material Why HUIT Hitler

Further suggestions and tions by Indians are invited.

inven-

unthinkable in peacetime.

While the authorities would

By Overseas Daily Mail Reporter

A deserter at 16. That is the re-

my Taylor, Glasgow-born Irish- man who faced a court-martial at witley, Surrey, after a year's travel round the world.

In December 1939 Tommy-he is have found no use for the wood, now just turned 17-went to the material, however, would have Canada to join up because be could found ready purchasers among the not get 1 the British Army or FATAL ATLANTIC scrap and metal vendors and the Navy. He worked his passage to Canada, and, overstating his age. Joined the Halifax Rifles. He be- came a batman,

PLANE CRASHES

forced them to fight Russin, as Errors

otherwise this immense danger would one day have threatene

the homes and wives and childrer of our soldiers within the German borders

The bitterness of the battle 31 the eastern front will finally con- dead lock has been reached in the vince our troops of the necesafty

been in for this war to remove the Russian progress between Vichy and Ger Beril Another difficulty many for the reduction of occupa ten charges.

rastern

'p

the i arises from the in WRI describably bad roads and lines of

{tinerant bottle wallahes.

NAILS EXTRACTED

These purchasers would have

SOT EG and graded the material Four months later he bought a Of Judgment and eventually sold it to domestic sult of "civvies." boarded a ship.

Cause Of Mishaps

LONDON, Sept. 1 (Router) — Errors of judgment were mention-

ed by the Air Minister Sir Archt bald Sinclair in the House of Com mons in giving results of investi- gations into two fatal crashes of

householders for use in the home and worked his passage back to and to innumerable business con- Scotland

cerne to be used again for the He tried again to join up in packing of goods.

Britain, but could not produce a These packing Capes originally birth certificate, so he decided to contained acroplanes, machinery, return to Canada and take his ammunition, etc. Once broken up punishment they are removed to Singapore's Then began a series of adver- saw mills where the nails and tures which he told to the court

WRONG SHIPS

are

Atlantic aircraft in which 44 lives screws

extracted and the were lost.

boards cut Inte convenient sizes. The wood from these cases is

Sir Archibald said that the first

These are being paid at present communications. A high officer of accident is attributed to an at the original figure of 400.000 000 an African corps, who has just ar.in navigation which caused the today franca daily.

rived at the headquarters ul a aircraft to strike a mountain an-cilliären's prams and push carts

bad the der conditions of

visibly are but some of the strange re. such surrections of the discarded pack- vancellationing cases.

"I went to Liverpool and signed error being put into a variety of uses Canada Every ship I got on re- on a ship hoping it was going to Rabbit hatches, fowl pens, fused to tel me where it was going. This one took me to Portugal and Gibraltar.

And

the return i docked Journey

Port Talbot. South Wales

i will be recalled that earlier tank division. stard What in the year. Admiral Dartan

trot. re-general ground conditions in the which were ferred to the "generous" Germans Libyan Deser! for tanks

and in as l have when he announced that the occu fantry are paradise empared with, of the fight petion charges had been reduced

the east front.

Vichy's inability or unwillingness

iwwever,

Justified

The mountain

many miles

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st

"I went back to Glasgow and signed on Wit Warwick Castle.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1941. -PAGE 9

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NO COLOURING MATTER NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS

FAINTS-BUT BRINGS

PLANE HOME

A sergeant pilet, badly wounded in the neck, brought his boniber home safely from one of the recent offensives over Northern France, with his observer pressing his thumb to a retn to stop the flow of blood,

The pilot fainted for a momeat and collided with one of his own format:on, but he recovered to right the plane When at- templing to land later, he went into a spin. corrected the spin with his strength fast failing, and made a safe landing. He is now in hospital, and s

One of the Messerschmitts, hit expected to recover. Here is the in the cockpit, turned over and story.

was not seen to pull out of a long During an altack on Merville vertical dive. It la thought that must have been killed

Thoms front must under fram the track which the aircraft HEALTH EXPERT hoping it was going to Canada, but aerodrome the captain of a Blen- the pilot

to furnish gold for the payme stand the fury provoked

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of These charges appears to be one troops when the people a

failure of suggest that theli advance h 1-4

Past is alw

of the reasons for the the negotiations.

JAPANESE

TROOP TRAIN

WRECKED

Was

How the

recounted

by

B

er should have followed From the vidence available. it is Impossible to expialu how the error occurred The navigation Instruments had be fully and satisfactorily test- ed and the aircraft was properly Inspected before the Might

SECOND ACCIDENT

The inspectors' andmg in the case of the second accident is that

APPOINTED

The Executive Yuan has relieved Mr Yao Keh-fabg of his post as Senior Expert of the National Health Administration and appoint ed Mr. Hsu Shih-chin as his suc- cessor,

The draft of the provisional re-

I went to South Africa.

up."

sergeant-pilot, outright.

gulations governing wartime sugar nearly two hours to consider the plot was able to keep the aircraft was turned upside down by the monopoly and the draft of the re vised regulations governing the col-

Impact Its pilot was able to right

t

helm bomber & left the crew at Capetown and was severely wounded in the neck Throughout this time the obser- signed on a Norwegian ship, which by a bullet from an attacking ver was tending the wounded landed me back in Glasgow. went to Persia, and eventually Messerschmitt. An important vein Blenheim pilot, who, having lost

was severed

much blood in spite of the pres "Unable to get back to Canada. When I went to London and gave myself on the pilot's clothing he moved momentary faint.

the observer saw blood sure on his neck. collapsed in a

across to help. Pressing his His aircraft shot forward among After listening to Taylor's story thumb to the vein the observer the formation of bombers and intently, the court adjourned for stopped the flow of blood, and the collided with one of them, which

sentence. which will be promul on an even keel. gated

Another Messerschmitt attacked. The bomber's rear gunner got In by the Ministry of Finance, were

When the formation arrived over The Beaufort pilot who tora burst and the enemy, with one approved.

Britain the wounded plot, feeling pedoed and crippled the escorted wing torn off. went to pieces in tie was Measures for the improvement of German pocket battleship off the the air.

told unable to carry on, jhis crew to bale out. the livelihood of teachers and the coast of Norway is now revealed granting of food subsidies

They persuaded him to let them to as Might Sergt. Raymond Herbert students in various government | Lovelut, No. 42 Squadron.

The Blenheim was then flying stay while he attempted a land- schools submitted by the Ministry been awarded the Distinguished on the homeward journey.

He has in formation with other bombers ing. The bomber went into Э of Education

They epih. but the pilot retained auffi- revised and Flying Medal in the latest stel, were attacked by nine adopted.

more clent strength to correct 11, and R.A.F. decorations

Messerschmitts.

He landed safely. Complying with a petition of the Ministry of Economule Affairs, the draft of the revised regulations governing the encouragement of Industrial and mining enterprises In wartime was also adopted. (Central News).

CONDITIONS IN INDO-CHINA

Japanese conducted it was due to the bad judgment themselves virtually as the master of the raptain, firstly in taking off A Japanese troop train proceed to French Indo-China and took along a wrong runway, presumably Jection of business tax, submitted Ing westward

the Pelping ppressive measures against the through oversight, secondly in Suiyuan Railway

literally Chinese residents there following allowing the aircraft to swing to hown into his on Aug 22 when their landing in Saigon on July 28 port. with the result that it left it ran over Chinese land mines at was

prominent the runway and took to the grass: The Kungchipan Station west of Chinese merchant who receny thirdly. In not shutting off the saratsi, important Sulyaan rity 28ed here from the French Colony engines immediately this occurred, miles east of Paolow, and was at after the Japanese hat unsuccess -

In neither case was there evi- Lacked by Chinese troops lying in fully induce him to support the dence of negligence on the part ambush there

bogus Nanking regime.

of the authorities, of sabotage or Using hand grenades. Chinese: After their entry Inte souther

of mechanical defects. સમ્મે Artops

Mon the Japanese Indo-China, the Informant caught in the mishup and subject the Japanese lost no time to seize ed them to annihaling atacke. The Japanese hastily sent for re mforcements, but before the lat ter's arrival the Chinese had safely retired after compleling their mis-

6200

Japanese

satd.

the resources there, including rice, CABLE NEWS

IN BRIEF

eval. irun, and rubber For the rice they purchased." they promised to pay one year afterwards.

In Saigon, the Japanese requis tioned etvЛlan

WASHINGTON. Sept 11 (Reiter) houses at will. troeps in northern evicting from them many Chinese The House and Senate conferees Hunan are renewing their activi-Tesidents. At present, the houses considering the $3,584,080.000 tax Ties following arrival of large re- ground the Chinese

bili agreed upon Consulate intorcements totalling over 10,000. there are all occupied by the Ja technical differences in connexion! One column of about 3,000 men on panese. The informant revealed with a difference in the versions Sept 7 pushed toward Mengcheng that one day several Japanese

Nanchung on The eastern ronins came to the Consulate de shore of the Puyang Lake, while manding to "rent" the premises.

ارند

in the same day another column

ان

Bome 5,000 men drove south

from Taulin and nearby points.

A third column of some 2,000 men launched an attack from Changankiao and Kantien.

Besides engaging the Japanese

the

a number

ni

were

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of legislation approved by the two The drawing for the first repay- Chambers. House leaders began ment of principal of the Liberty their efforts to have all members Bonds, which was to be made on The French authorities, the

back on the job by September 18 Aug. 31, 1941, was held by the informant said, could do noth- to expedite final Congressional Ministry of Finance on Aug. 9, ing under the circumstances. action on the bill.

accordance with the governing re for all gold and silver articles. All Chinese patriotle activities were compelled to be suspender

Jade, diamonds, jewels, watches. LAHORE, Sept. 11 Reuter). Four numbers were drawn, viz: fountain pens. Apply Far East tollowing the landing of the Ja The Begum of Shah Nawaz has on 312. 474, 691, and 935, All bonds Diamond and Gold Refining Co.. panese in Salgon, Practically all nounced her decision not to re-bearing numbers which have their Room 621, Chida Building, 6th

by

gulations.

as a Principal repayment and pay-

In frontal attacks, the Chinese

Chinese papers had to cease pub-sign from the Viceroy's National three terminal agures correspond- have dispatched crack units

fication, while the Chinese schools Defence Council in obedience to the Ing to any of these numbers will floor. Japanese rear and are attacking to close down any moment.

which remain open are prepared demands of the Muslim League. be drawn bonds of the present open. them from behind. Severe fighting! Some 25, patriotic Chinese are sociated with the Counc

She points out that she is not as drawing, is in progress in areas east of the learned to have been, blacklisted member of the Muslim League but ment of Coupon No. 4 due on Aug- Canton Hankow Railway In nor- thern Hunanı,

the Japanese. Finding their in her capacity as a representative just 31, 1941, will be effected at any In the triangular area in sou bave left the French Colony

position untenable, many Chinese of the women of India.

offices of the Central Bank of W. thern Shane bordering Shens and

Chins. Ind their Hunan the Chinese on the night that the Chinese Consul in Saigon, The informant further revealed

designated WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (Reuter) agents, the Bank of China, Bank of September 3 launched raids in Mr Yi Fong-teao, had received a deli Hull, at a Press conference said Bank of China, as from August 31. -The Secretary of State, Mr. Cor-of Communications and Farmers several strategic points including threatening telephone message one he had no advice of any impending 1941. Payment for the portion of Tayutsun. The Japanese launched day last August demanding him to agreement or announcement con- bonds sold at Shanghai wil tem- a counter-attack in four celumns close down the Consulate, falling cerning the Japanese-American porarily be made at Hongkong. As in an attempt to surround the which he would be assassinated. talks which had been under wayo bonds sold abroad, the original Chinese at Tayutsun, but the at- had no intention to close the Cor- there was nothing new in the Jap-holders from the Bank of China Mr. Yi replied that he not only several months. Mr. Hull added ming banks will collect such tempt was folled by vigorous

payments on behalf of the oversen Chinese attacks. With the arrivaltain it. The caller threatened to sulate but would continue to main- reinforcements, the Chinese assassinate him "shortly." counter-attacked and repulsed the enemy units (Central News)

widespread Breas and captured

of

DR. HSU MO

SYDNEY, Sept. 11 (Router);DI. Hsu Mo. the Chinese Minister to Australia, will present his creden- tals to Lord Gowrie on September

anese-American aftuation.

and Bank of Communications at NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (Reuter) Hongkong.

It is to be noted that all drawn Mr. Jesse Jones; Secretary of Com Food officials at Southend are merce and Federal Loan Adminis- bands of this drawing and Cou- compiling a list of abandoned gar-trator, announced that the Defence Pens No. 4 must be presented for dens, and the owners will be ask-Plant Corporation is financing the payment within a period of three cd to allow volunteers to strip the additional production of 20,000,000 years from August 31, 1941, falling frult trees..

Ibs of aluminium and 112,000.00 which they shat become null and lbs of magnesium at a cost $72,000/-

vold:-(Contral News),... 000. This wil bring the total alu-

18 at Canberra, where tive houses Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, the Ameri- minium capacity to 1.130,000,000 are already acquired to accommo-can Ambassador, says "We want to lbs. date the party of 24, including ece every Pacific country stand as nine children).

The War Office are looking for 150 girls to train of AXT.6 ele matograph projectlerisis, Tha

ans

courageously and uncompromising- Stoke Newington Council are to girls will tour the country show The Daily Telegraph, in a lesser ly against aggression as the herole arrange a street teat with tearing films to Bervice men on Dr. Hau's arrival and that of people Dr. Hau represents.". goa, The day in being kept secret,women at military camps.

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