DESERT WAR
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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
FOUR OTHERS KNOWN TO FIGHTING BE BADLY DAMAGED: British Troops Raid CASUALTIES ARE
ARE SLIGHT
Outposts
CAIRO, July 3 (Reuter).— AG.H.Q: war communique states that in the western desert, Sidi Barranc and Mersama Truh were again bombed on July 1
There were no casualties the damage was negligible.
and
In Somaliland, frontier posts at Bestoptimo, near Suramo, held by Italian regulars, were engaged by detachments of the Camel Corps on June 30, Casualties were inflicted.
One Somall was killed on our side,
Heavy Italian Losses LONDON, July 8 (Reuter)With reference to an Italian communique it is learned in authoritative quar ters in London that the facts of the attack at Meiemma are a follows:
A force amounting to a
& company, with some irregulars, attacked, an Italian force, of about a battalion. Our casualties were one killed, 10 wounded and no machine-guns lost.
The Italian losses which were about three times this number
included three Italian officers.
"A Qulot Day"
official announcement states:
LONDON, JULY 3 (REUTER)-FIVE GERMAN BOMBERS WERE DESTROYED AND FOUR MORE WERE DAMAGED BY PILOTS OF THE R.A.F. FIGHTER command WHEN THE ENEMY CARRIED OUT A SERIES OF DAYLIGHT RAIDS ON ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND DAY, STATES THE AIR MINISTRY NEWS SERVICE.
Type of Raids
Hit-and-Run Type
July 4, 1940.
PACKARD
TO BUILD ENGINES
Contract That Henry Ford Rejected
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UP). Mr. William Knudsen, Pre- TO-national defence production, re-
sident Roosevelt's chief
THE RAIDS WERE OF THE HIT-AND-RUN TYPE AND IN MOST CASES THE GERMAN BOMBERS APPROACHED THE COAST SINGLY. Three Spitfires, after attacking a Dornier "flying pencil” bomber, watched it turn on its back and crash into the sea.
They were patrolling along the east coast when they sighted two Dorniers. The second Dornier disappeared in the clouds badly damaged.
HEINKEL PLANE FORCED DOWN
A third Dornier was later hit by a fighter but evaded SULKING,
further attack in the clouds.
Spitfires attacked an enemy aircraft, believed to be NAIROBI, July 3 (Heuler)--Ana Heinkel, off the Aberdeenshire coast. The enemy put
up a stiff resistance but at the end of the fight it glided| down on to the sea and the Spitfire pilots saw two rubber boats being launched.
"A quiet day for ground forces on all fronts,
"Yesterday our aircraft again at- tacked Italian defences at Moyale, directly hitting gun positions, bomb- ing and machine gunning machine- machine-gunning posts and also reinforcements sheltering in a ravine.
explosion suggest "An ex ammunition dump was destroyer.
gun
that an
"It is now clear that a concurrent ar attack did much to break down. an enemy advance in their first ot- tack on Monday after their artillery had fred 350 shells into post,"
British
Axis Plans For Britain
ESCAPE IN RUBBER BOAT
A Junkers 88 bomber was also shot down into the sea off the Scottish coast and three members of the crew were seen to take to a rubber boat.
Two Spitfirea patrolling the south-east coast shot down another Dornier "ying pencil.", ***
Hurricane pilote damaged a
Heinkel 111 over the Channel
and silenced its rear gunner be- fore the machine disappeared in
for cloud.
Shot Down In Flames
Another patrol of Hurricanes at-) tacked a Dernier bomber off the cust
To Sond Hor Back To const. This Dornier escaped into the
Status Of 1802
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
cloud badly damaged.
This evening Spitfires raced out to sea to intercept another bomber. Six minutes after taking off, they hud ROME, July 3 (UP)-One of shot it down in flames. Italy's leading correspondents, Mario Appelius, in a copyright article in
Workmen Injured
Mussolini's newspaper "Popolo LONDON, July 1 (Reuter)— d'Italia," hints that the axis peace Several workmen were Injured when terms to England may restore her to three bombs were dropped in north-. the status she had at the conclusion eastern England this afternoon. of the peace at Amiens in 1002.
Bomb In Garden
Signor Appellus mys: "In the
near future, history will decide to One bomb fell in a garden, smash- which date 'we should return to fixing the front of a house. Two others the starting point of the process of fell in an adjoining roadway and revision against the country most more fell in open country and in the responsible for all the wrongs in sea in to-day's air raids. Europe.
An enemy plane was seen low over the town before it disappeared uver If it is enough to bring England the sea.
oper
The Alternativo
back to the last years of Queen People could see the bombs being: Victoria with some supplementary released.
́adjustment, or if it is more healthy,
to go energetically back to 1850 or, even better, to the peace of Amiens will be the question.
Some suggest a return to the dule of birth of the last survivor of Ver-j sailles, Lloyd-George.” -
Urges Compulsory
Training
Casualties
It is officially announced that two killed and about cix people were were injured in an air raid on a
Suffolk town.
About 16 people were injured in
Doris Duke's Offer To Refugees
NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuter). According to the "New York Post," Mrs. James Cromwell, the the former Doris Duke, has offered to take 600 English refugee children and to spend $250,000 a year supporting them.
The paper reports that 1,000 persons are daily offering refugees homes and already 10,000 in- dividuals have
offered homes while 500 private schools and other organi- sations have offered homes to 5,000 children.
SURLY LOUTS
Nazi Prisoners Make
Bad Impression
NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuter),- Commenting somewhat acidly on the conduct now
of
vealed that Packard Motors have agreed to build 3,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines for the United States Government and 6,000 for the British Government.
Tentative Agreement WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reuter).- The National Defence Commission Company has agreed tentatively to accept a contract for 9,000 Rolls- Royce aircraft engines, of which
announced that the Packard Motor
0,000 are for Britain.
This is the order the Ford Company refused.
The Directors of the Packard Com pany must approve the contract be- fore it comes into force.
Car Drivers Cautioned
Alleged Speeding In Controlled' Area
W. R. Lambert was summon-
of German war prisoners ed before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- in Canada, the "New York fadyen at the Kowloon Magis- Herald Tribune says that behaved exactly
they have tracy to-day for driving a motor as one might
car in the controlled area
of their breed.
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they have ratsconstrued courtesy Tsun Wan on June 16 at 34 miles as a sign of British weakness and per hour. decadence, They have milked and boasted and are insulting, justifying the comment of one of their guards that they are "sulking, surly louts,"
Behaviour Contrasted The paper contrasts their conduct with that of other Germans, the elder men, those who were formerly in German shipping lines, who took their
eir fate philosophically and are em- barrassed asd disturbed at the arrogance of their follows.
of
Despite the current evidence German unity, says the paper, this cleavage is unmistakeable. It may well prove a fatal Joint In Hitler's
armour.
Nearly Lost Life Savings
Woman Robbed, But Money Recovered
The life savings of a Chinese
woman would have been lost if
the culprit who stole over $3,000, ***Chinese currency, from her had not been apprehended on
JAPAN IS NERVOUS
Macae steam boat wharf in Con-
lowing a public car driven by a Mr. Lambert said he had been fol- Hongkong Hotel Garage driver. He denied that he had been travelling at experience of following hired cars the speed alleged and added that his was that, they do not go very fast.
Passenger's Evidence
The driver of the public ear, Hou Wai, was also summoned for a simi- lor offence, and he too denied it maintaining that he had entered the per controlled area at exactly 20 miles
hour.
Mr. A. F. Paul said that he had been a passenger on Hau's car and from his position on the rear sent he could note the speedometer. The ear did not exceed the speed of 31 mues an hour, the average speed having been 20 to 25 miles per hour. Three minutes before the car had been stop- ped by a European Sergeant he had remarked to
his wife how careful was the driver of the car.
Mr. Macfadyen cautioned 'both Lambert and Hau.
Two Clippers Here
Next Week Honolulu this morning on its way to
The Philippine Clipper landed at naught Road at 5 p.m., yester-Hongkong. It will arrive here on day.
raids on the north-east coast of Eng- Fears Anglo-U.S. unemployed, was this morning charg from Wake to Midday where she will
land and Scotland.
Fighters shot down two enemy bombers, making to-day's total three. Delayed Action Bomb When four bombs, of which one WASHINGTON, July 3 (UP) was of the delayed action type, were General John Pershing to-day sent dropped near a group of workmen in a letter to the Senate Military a vilinge in south-cost England, one Affairs Committee urging compulsory man was killed and three injured. military training.
Building Sot On Fire He Bald such "might well be the
LONDON, July 3 (Reuter).- determining factor In keeping the Enemy aircraft bombed south-cost United States out of war."
England this afternoon.
Border: No New
One incendiary bomb struck a building and set it on fire.
Injuries, it
if any, are not yet known. Indiecriminate Bombing
Naval Alliance
WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reu- ter)-Japanese anxiety over future action by the American Fleet. Is believed here to bei responsible for the Tokyo Press reports of Anglo-American naval co-operation.
Sald to be the relative of the woman-he-had- robbed, Tse-11in, 24, ed before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy with stealing $3,790 Chinese money and $61 Hongkong currency.
Tse admitted the theft and was imprisoned with hard labour for three months.
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Tuesday, July D. leaving for Manila und San Francisco on July 10..
The China Cilpper is to-day flying pick up the cargo and passengers of the California Clipper, which was scheduled to arrive at Hongkong this
week,
contact with the California Clipper The Chinn Clipper, after making will immediately turn around and return to Hongkong nzriving here
Monday, July 8.
on
Brother-in-Law's Action Det.-Sergeant Shaw said the wo- man had taken care of Tse who was
This means that there will be two a relative and out of work. Between Clippers in Hongkong next week,
s.m., and um
on July 3 Tsc
one arriving Monday and the other The only possible official reaction woman and broke it open on the day.
took a sultense belonging to the Tuesday, both leaving the following. here is that the reports are untrue. roof, stealing the, money, The Police This, however, leaves a false im- were notified subsequently and a pression on the American position on watch was kept on Maceo steamers, the Far Eastern problem. The State Tse being eventually arrested by the Ministry os droppgi by hostile air-attempts to establish a new order in of Home Securiter) The Department has made no change in
Security announces its policy of opposition to Japanese woman's brother. intensification of the flood conditions that bombs beyond the border are believed to be craft which crossed the south coast the Far East.. causing the Japanese discomfort the this morning were few and do not British military spokesman declared appear to have been directed at any this morning that there were no new particular objective. development at the border where relations were still harmonious.
Developments
Though the persistent rains and the
LONDON,
U.S. Considerations
As far as naval strategy is con-
him, the Chinese money having been
Tse was found to have $800 with changed Into Hongkang notes. He had bought
plece of gold for $100 and rings and chains. Other acces- rories were also purchased and one
So far as is known, only two per-cerned, whether in connection with of these included the pair of shoes sons were slightly injured.
NAZI PRISONERS REACH CANADA
MONTREAL, July 3, (Reuter) —The frat batch of German war prisoners disembarked at Montreal and Quebec over the week-end.
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They arrived in a famous trans-Atlantic liner guarded by 250 British offleers and men, many of whom had seen' action around Dunkirk.
These prisoners including German equipment musical instruments and soldiers, sailors and armen, the cooking utensils. officers ranging from colonels to The Picture In France leutenants.
During their stay, their upkeepLONDON, July 3 (Reuter)-Con-
the Atlantic or Pacific, the United that the defendant was at present
States must take into consideration wearing. possible hostility of the Japanese feel
on one hand, and assured friendliness
of the British fleet on the other, and
adjust her plans accordingly.
The net result of this is almost the same as if an informal understanding existed between Great Britain and the United States.
London Ignoranco LONDON, July 3 (Reuter)- Nothing is known in London of a purported Anglo-American
Applications For Commissions
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS!
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A
ano down like During the last few weeks a num-succession of sleepless nights, and ber of applications for Commissions in these
of nerve
daya
and for employment in the Civilian many complats of Insomnia, Staff of the Military Forces have been received.
Though these offers are appreciat- ed it is not possible to provide employment for such applicants.
Commissions
fence
will be paid for by the United Kingditions in concentration camps in pre-war one of Hitler's, is noted with the ranks of the Regular or Volun
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The only cases in which service in France were described to-day by an Interest in London. With regard teer Forces is not an essential pre- American ambulance worker who has to the reported naval agreement, the mi been a member of a a unit in Paris,
news in the Tokyo papers was the are those of civilians who, being litainary to the grant of a commission Ho
visited several comps where first that British Government circles for one reason or another exempt The Germans expressed amazement fever was raging among the Colonial have heard of it. when their prison ship salled across troops. German doctors were deal-
from the Atlantie escorted, for many of ing with white men first, saying that Burma are being examined with trai
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