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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 14, 1940.

FRANCE DECLARES CAPITAL OPEN CITY TO SAVE IT FROM DESTRUCTION CHUNGKING FRENCH WILL NOT OFFER

RAIDS: RESISTANCE IF SUBURBAN ANGER U.S.

Cordell Hull's Plain Hint To Japan

WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuter)-If Japan desires bet-

DEFENCES ARE PIERCED

Desperate "Last Ditch" Stand At St. Denis,

fer relations with the United But "We Are Too Exhausted To Attack”

States, she is. travelling on the wrong road by the ruthless bombings of Chungking, it was made plain at the State Depart- ment to-day.

At a Press conference, Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, spoke with emphasis and feeling when re- Jating his previous stand, strong con- demnation and opposition to the bombing of civilians from the air, and this was followed by descriptions of

strong emphasis was laid on their indiscriminate and ruthless nature.

Significant Silence

BUSY DAY FOR R.A.F. Great Activity On Many Fronts

LONDON, Junó 13 (Reuter). -It la offeinlly announced that British aircraft sank an enemy' motor torpedo boat in Boulogne jand damaged two others.

Says Official Spokesman alla base at Assab

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH",

PARIS, JUNE 14 (UP).-PARIS HAS BEEN DECLARED

AN OPEN CITY.

In response to pleas from several quarters to save its the ralds on Chungking, which famous buildings and art treasures from the destruction that would assuredly follow any attempt to defend the city against siege, the French High Command has instructed the Military Governor to withdraw everything of a military nature.

He said he preferred to say no more at present when asked if an embargo on machine tools and scrap metal was likely to be imposed to underline American abhorrence.

He contented himself with a state- ment that the embargo provision in the Muy B dd not conflict with the policy of reciprocal trade treaties

because the entbargo provision vaa

Tence supplies.

He thus leaves the path clear for possible action when the cones law.

Bill

Germany Notified

Germany has been notified

of the French decision by Mr. William

R.A.F. bombers attacked the Italian on the Red Sea and destroyed a power- house, petrol dump and barracks. Ethiopian Town Attacked Diredawa In Ethiopia

also allacked and an ammunition dump was blown up.

Was

In the course of yesterday's intense

tration the area of Rouen, three enemy banbers were shot down. During the night R.A.F. bombers

tions from the coast to the forest of

road junctions.

bombing attacks on enemy concen Three British aircraft are missing. attacked enemy lines of communica Ardennes, damaging railways, and

Ammunition dumps were blown up and fires were started.

Over the French battle zone, British fighters shot down seven enemy uir- craft. None of our fighters is miss- ing.

The nerodrome at Vaerues near Trondheim and enemy supply ships

atlucked.

for the protretion of strategic and de- Bullit, the U.S. Ambassador to Paris, who has conveyed to the Reich in a port near Bergen were severely

be-Government the information that Paris is now classified as an Open and undefended city and that the French Commander and garrison has withdrawn.

Opposes "Deal"

A writer on foreign affairs of the Scripps Howard newspapers to-day strongly argued against any United Stules "deal" with Jopan, declaring that if it suited. her, she would pay no more heed to a pledge than shu

The decision applies only to the city itself, and fighting will continue

luid paid to treaty obligations when until the enemy succeed in reaching the inner suburbs, :

she took Monchukuo and fortified the

mandated Islands.

Such a deal, he said. would be as fatal to the United States as it was to the Allies, for it would he a tip-of

that third great democracy was "he the run."

Defenders Outnumbered

The official French spokesman, commenting on the decision last night, said that the defenders of the capital were too exhausted and

MAGIC OF DALMATIA

(Continued from Page 6.) same limestone, to which time has given a pale tinge like China tea. And with clumps of purple flowered enper (it is the unexpanded bud we caper satice) growing out of the wall around his head, the patron saint of Dubrovnik sill stares from his niche over the blue and silver A learned book on Dalmatia, by way, decinres that this Svet! Vlaho (or St. Balse) is also patron Bradford.

of the Adriatic.

the

New Barons outnumbered to attempt any counter-offensive and once the Germans erdy doubt where Sveti

Created King's Birthday Announcement

LONDON, June 13 (Reuter). His Majesty the King has

conferred baronies upon Sir

Vlaho feels more at home.

South

* * *

of Dubrovnik the

succeed in penetrating into the suburbs the French troops will retire.

By so doing, said the spokesman, it is hoped that the capital-one of the most beautiful and historic cities in the world-will be spared the horrors of destruction grows richer still. The olive that have befallen Warsaw, Brussels, Amsterdam, Louvain and many of France's own cities.

Onus on

Germans

const

or-

"If and when the Germans start to fight their way into the city, the French shade on the beach, as well as the Charles Barrie, Lieut. Colonel troops will withdraw without offering resistance," said the spokesman.

Charles Kerr and Colonel Harry Louis Nathan.

Sir Charles Barrie, who Was

erealed a K.BE. in 1921, is a direc-

Ltd.,

tor of the London and North Eastern Railway, Cables and

Wireless, nud mony other public companies. He served in an advisory capacity In the last war at the

Depart- Transport ment of the Admiralty and latterly in the Ministry of Shipping. He is member of the Supreme Economic Council, Chairman of the Disposal Lourd and a member of the Advisory Council to the General Post Office,

He has been representing Southamp-

lon in Parliament since 1931.

Labour M.P. Honoured

"The onus will be on the Nazis to spare or destroy Paris," he added. The French forces will make a desperate last ditch stand at St. Denis, suburban fortress on the Seine, two miles north of Paris. The Germans are advancing on St. Denis from Chantilly,

the mountain, and even on the hot- chards and cypresses climb higher on test day a small evening wind rustles down and cools the pension visitors at their dinner under the vines. There are exquisite villages, Mlini, with a giant plane tree throwing its loveliest of waterfalls, "Robinson's," where a German Crusoe dispenses the best wine and salami under his lonely-poplare;-exquisite valleys, the. the Zupa valley, and the Konavle valley, exquisite beauty of tlic now famous for

their women, and the exquisite charm of their embroidered costumes; exquisite towns, Cavtat, with its hed by the mausoleum designed Yugoslav sculptor Mestrovic, in which great angels curry souls in the shape of

babies up to heaven; Hercegnovi,

where

you post-cards among the palms and oleanders from exiled Russian Counts, and perhaps see the young King of Yugoslavia and his brothers and his widowed mother on sum-

At 3 p.m. yesterday, a French High Command communique said, the Germans were still 35 miles from Paris. They were in occupation of Creil, Senlis and Chantilly in the north and of the Marne River between Meaux and Laferte in the enst.

Trains Still Running

by the

con

buy

Although it has been decided to permit the Germans to enter the city Lt. Col. Charles Kerr, D.S.O., M.C., unopposed, no order for evacuation has been given to the remaining populace. the bay of Kotor, winding into the has been Comptroller of H.M. House Trains are still running to the south and south-west.

hold since 1939. He has been M.P. (L. Nat.) for Montrose Burghs since 1932.

Col. Harry Louls Nathan has been M.P. (Lab.) for Central Wandsworth since 1937. He is Hon, Col. of the 33rd (St. Pancros) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, R.E., T.A., Hon. Air Com- modore No. 908 (County of Middle- sex) Balloon Squadron, A.A.F.

One

of the original officers of the Terri- torial Force, he served with the London Regiment in Gallipoll, Egypt and France. He is the repre- sentative of the L.C.C; on the County

None of Paris's famous bridges have been destroyed and it is now intended to leave them intact.

There are unconfirmed reports that German bombers attacked the industrial suburbs of the capital yesterday.

VIVID STORY OF RETREAT

Steat

mer holiday from Belgrade. And to cap Dalmatia, comes the

mountains under Montenegro; and too beautiful by far for all the dock- yards and barrucks which transform much of it into 趙 Yugoslav naval

M M

*

From Kotor, at the head of the bay, the great miltary road bullt by the Austrians twists up the mountain Into what WAB once Montenegro. Cetinje, the capital, has some recom- pense for its lost royal glories in belug the administrative centre on

PARIS, June 13 (Reuter).-It human current for 50 miles he wit- the trek if the engine or the animal which even Dubrovnik (to Dubrov-

of London Territorial Army and is officially announced that Paris nessed the great civilian retreat from failed. Auxiliary Air Force Association. will not be defended.

Paris and other parts of northern France to-day. This means, ns in M. Rey- The endless procession continues naud's words, that the French hour after hour and all day

MOSCOW will fight in front of Paris and night," he says.

ACTIVITY

Diplomats Rush To Soviet Capital

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

MOSCOW, June 13 (Domei).

Inexhaustible Patience®

and

ΠΟ

Franco Defiant

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PANIS, June 13 (UP)~~A Joint meeting of the British and French High Commands and Goverments was held 'to-day,

you are a

nik's disgust) has to depend. Mo- torists-so I have been told-who wish to take out their learner's licence now have to present them-. selves, car and all, at Cetinje, after the fearsome passage of the hairpins. if you get there

good driver, and deserve your licence;. If "The patience of the endless crowds

It has been learned from reliable

don't. you was inexhaustible. There was bickering in the queues which formed quarters that Great Britain promised And south of Kotor there is still 100 yards long at the petrol-pumps immediate and massive support for the Montenegrin coast to explore, which are fast running dry.

still magical small cities, Budva, Bar, France.

Resistance. To Continuo Ulcinj, less known and a little more "There were ready hands to push

primitive than the elties of Dalma- and repair stranded cars.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" tin, but less good to look at, before "Empty petrol tanks were

TOURS, June 13 (UP)-Two Yugoslavia comes to an end on the how always refilled."

According to Router's correspon-intelings of the Supreme War less civil shore of Squipnla (other- West of the capital, now forces dent, the signs of "No more room" Council were held yesterday. They wise but, may be, less appropriately

behind Faris.

n logical The announcement is sequel to the city being declared an open town, presumably to save it from destruction and bombardment,

Battle Becomes Mare Violent PARIS, June 13 (Reuter).An ocial communique Issued to-day states that on both sides of Farls the battle is increasing in violence.

south of touch.

some-

-Considerable diplomatic acti- nitneked and armoured columna / outside hotels and inta were accepted were followed by a meeting of the known as Albania),

Signor Rosso, the new Italian Am- bassador, has already arrived.

They have also started to pour over

French Cabinet.

The Cabinet deelded'. to formally Įdeclare Paris an Open City in order

to save it from destruction.

The Allies have agreed that even Paris falls, resistance will continue France with increased energy.

British Ald SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

vity is in progress, in Moscow.

with a shrug of the shoulders. started to pour over the bridge-heads

Restaurants and shops were drain- Sir Stafford Cripps, the new of Louviers, south of the Seine River, ed of food and drink. British Ambassador, and M. la Bonne, and Les Andelys, north of the river.

Fow Tear the French Ambassador, are due to

and tired arrive on Wednesday,

Eyes that were heavy the bridge-heads of Vernon, south of Les Andelys, in the direction of Pacy were rarely tear-stained. The child-

ren, who were almost buried amid in sur-Eure and Evreux.

Dreux and Evreux have been trunks and parcels, pushed out their tiny atms giving a "thumbs up" sign. bombed.

their cheerful acceptance LONDON June 13 (UP)-Great The enemy have machine-gunned his hardship of long travel

of the

and Britain is despatching all available a column of refugees,

troops and materials to Franco, little food. Utmost Resistance

The old slept the sleep of pure PARIS, June 13 (Router)--It is exhaustion.

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Africa To Fight

CANADA'S Natives In South

BIG WAR EFFORT

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LONDON, June 13 (Reuler) "Reuter" learns that the formation of regiments of native soldiers for service in South Africa is among the SPECIAL TO THE "MELEGRAPHY

now measures decided by the Gay... emment of Southern Rhodesia, MONTREAL, June 13 (UP).

Another measure is the · "conscrip —Although secrecy surrounds tion of all European males between the details of quantities of war the ages of 10 and 15. Other mea- materials crossing the Atlanticures include the mobilisation of the

country's woman-power, Stopped by a constable in a side from Canada, a steady flow is lane off Peking Road about 4.30 0..going forward.

OTTAWA, June 13 (Reuter)-The on Wednesday, Pun Tak, 30, and-

House of Commons unanimously mitted that he had just atolen $20

On May 10, a total of 81,519 passed a resolution pledging loyalty. from house. No. 35 Nathan Road, and $26.00 and a fountain pen from No. men were under arma in Canada, to the King on the occasion of his birthday. At the conclusion of the The money was and the recruiting of appromotion, the House rose as one mas 14-Peking Road. still in his possession.

ximately 50,000 more is now and sang."God Save The King Pun

WOR charged with the thefts

progress. WASHINGTON, June 13 (Router) Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- he appeared before Mr. E. The general la-making a

held a meeting to-night at which they od determination even in repose.

Factorio At Full Blast Inspection of the new Russian mill-decided to continue their resistance.to. Two articles were strapped to smartCommenting on the bombing

fracy this morning, and sentenced to cara and humble surt alike-mar Chungking at a Press conference, Mya total of four months hard labour. the utmost. The newspaper claims that his visit

one was Cordell Hull

One Canadian Division is now actores in Canada are wÕLKIET said, "We whole- "Reuter's" specini

24 hours daily producing armamente, correspondent tresses and bicycles. The

DeL. Sgt. Nolan, who prosecuted, in England, waiting to go into tanks and aircraft. Shell productions was prompted by "Italy's entry into who is with the RAF, somewhere in for sleep, if no other bed was avail- heatlediy

such practices produced defendant's record which action. A second Division is is to be doubled. the war."

France writes that driving against al able, and the other was to continue wherover and whenever they occur."

Resction To Italian Move SPECIAL TO THE "TILEQRAPH" STOCKHOLM, June 13 (UP),— The "Aften Bladet" reports that the Soviet Vice Commissar for General Lokbennov, unexpectedly

War,

arrived at Higa by aeroplane to-day. understood that the French Cabinet Their faces, lined and stern, show-

detalled

tary and air bases in the Baltic.

condemn

when

of

showed one, previous conviction.

expected to proceed oversons in the near future...