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Thongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1031

No. 16210.

五拜禮 號二月八英港香

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"Difficult

To Imagine

Good Relations

With England," Says Molotov, As-

U.S.S.R. DEFINES HER FOREIGN RELATIONS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

MOSCOW, AUGUST 1 (UP).—THE SOVIET PACT WITH GERMANY HAS NOT ONLY ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE BUT "IS ALSO AN INSURANCE FOR GERMAN SECURITY, IN THE EAST," DECLARED THE SOVIET COMMISSAR FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO-DAY.

M. Molotov began his speech with a review of international affairs during the past four months. He said France has no peace despite the Armistice with Germany. RELATIONS IN BALTIC

"Relations with the Baltic States will now go on a new basis to ensure the rapid develop- ment of their economy and culture and also to increase the might of the Soviet Union. In addition, these new territories give the Soviet Union a total population of 193,000,000," he said.

After reviewing the events leading to the annexation of Bessarabia and North Bukovina

The said he expected Soviet relations with

Rumania would become "perfectly normal."

Colony's All-Time

Rain Record

SIR STAFFORD'S MISSION

"It is difficult to imagine good relations with England considering all her hostile acts against the Soviet Union," the Foreign Minister declared. "However, Sir Stafford Cripps' mission reflects the fact that Britain desires to improve rela- tions."

M. Molotov said England alone is fighting Italy and For the first time in history, Germany. He said the cause of the French defeat was

Hongkong's rainfall for the first military weakness. seven months of the year has! reached a total exceeding 90 inches.

Nothing but a drought for the remainder of the year can now atop a new high record aggre- gate for 12 months."

"The French leaders were afraid of military tradi- tion," he asserted.

FINLAND WARNED

Future relations with Finland, he said, would depend

Between 10.30 nm. yesterday and entirely on Finland, but he warned strongly against certain

8.30 this morning.

further

inches of Fil were added-to--this

four circles "who will not discontinue their attacks against the year's remarkable total, which now people and support friendly relations with the Soviet

stands at 91 Inches.

New Rec

Record. Cortain Only 20 inches of rain are now needed for the Colony to establish n new record for the year, and as the average rainfall for the next five months is 41 inches, there seems but little doubt that the 188

1860' figure of 110.715 inches will be passed.

The first seven months of 1880 pro- ducerl

only 70 inches, though 18 Inches were recorded during August. However this year, with only one day of August passed, the aggregate rain- fall amounts to 01 inches, only six inches below the full eight months rainfall 5) years ago.

Heaviest

downpour during the night was 855 inch which fell be- tween 130 and 2.30 am. During the

Union."

"Such acts might be prejudicial to Soviet-Finnish re-`

[lations," he warned.

Two Italian Submarines Sunk

Success By British Aeroplanes

Referring to Turkey he said relations with the Soviet Union have not changed substantially but the German White Book Indicated that Turkey is "en- gaged In anti-Soviet acts.".

Russia And Rumania MOSCOW, Aug. 1 (Reuter).- Speaking at

the the opening of seventh session of the Soviel Parliament this afternoon, M. Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Com missar, referring to the cession of

Rumania, said: by Rum Territory

fronters of the Soviet have

LONDON, Aug. 1 (Reuter), following hour a further .450 inch-Details of the sinking of two was registered. There was another Italian submarines by British severe storm between 6.30 and 7.30 when 950 inch fell, while during aircraft were released in Cairo thus been advanced to the west to

the next hour 7 inch was recorded to-day.

by the Royal Observatory.

Boats Year's Normal Total

the Danube, which, after the Volga.

BRITISH TROOPS LAND IN ICELAND

1595

THOUGH ICELANDERS had never before seen troops in full battle dress, British Tommies were warmly welcomed.. Here crowds are seen greeting troops ns they drove inland on a forry.

TIN HAT SAVED NURSE'S LIFE

Was

one of the British nurses who SISTER GUTTRIDGE, evacuated through Dunkirk, showing her tin hat to other sisters In London. The damage to her tin hat was caused when she was machine-gunned as she was escaping with her four patients to the const. She was the last of her unit to leave.

is the biggest European river and one Good News For Hongkong Husbands

In the first case, British planes on of the most important routes for patrol sighted an Halian submarine commercial exchanges between The rainfall of 51 inches up to half on the surface of the water. Their number of European nations." past eight this morning is 38 inches first Enivo of bombs dropped close to above the average, and is, in fact, its stern and probably damaged its Russo-Rumanian relations should seven inches higher than the normal screw and hydroplanes. aggregate for the entire year.

M. Mololov added that in general,

from

All of the Colony's reservoira, in-1 The submarine tried to submerge course. cluding Jubilee, continue to overflow, stern first.

and this guarantees that there will be The British Squadron Leader drop- no water shortage this winter.

ped a salvo of bombs when only the was visible. The

conning

tower

BRITISH GENERAL bombs fell very close to it.

CAPTURED

Attack Maintained

The submarine submerged but the jattack was kept up. Oil bubbles then LONDON, Aug. 1(Reuter). It came up to the surface for some time announced that Major-General G. A and a large patch of oil formed on D. Harvey, C.B., C. M. G., is ʼn prl- the surface. roner of war. Ho served in the

Great War from 1014 to 1019 In the second case, two saivocs ot bombs were dropped on the conning (despatches, C.M.G., two medals).

He was Deputy Director of Medi- tower. Nothing more was seen of cal Services of the Western Com- the Italian submarine. A large patch mand, India, from 1938 to 1936. of all over a square mile in

arca

now on take a perfectly normal

TWICE WEEKLY AIR MAILS TO AUSTRALIA

Referring to 'the relations between the Soviet and the Baltic countries, Good news for husbands whose wives and children are he said that it was found that the mutual assistance pacts concluded evacuating to Australia.

As from August 28, Imperial Airways are to inaugurate two with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonla did not lead, as was expected, to a air mail services per week to Australia. rapprochement between these coun- tries and the Soviet. On the con- At present only ono service perf

who week is available, leaving Hongkong trary, the bourgcosle group, Turn to Pago 5, Third Column on Tuesdays.

ነገሮ

As from August 28, Imperial Air- ways planes will leave. Hongkong on Wednesdays and Sundays. Inward' Give Warships To malis from Australia will arrive on

Tucadays and Fridays. Britain, Urged

twice-weekly servico will apply to alr mall to Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies, Indin, Egypt NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (Reuter)-

Mail can be forwarded to the United statement urging the United States to make available at least 60 "over age" Kingdom by sen via South Adrien.

This increase in frequency will be destroyers to Britain have been dis- made påssible by operating two flying tributed to the nation by the Com-boat services" per wock between mittee to Defend America by Aiding Sydney and Durban instead of one, the Allies

as at present.

U.S. Maintenance

R.A.F. CONTINUES DAYLIGHT RAIDS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH". LONDON, Aug. 1 (UP).-The Air Ministry announces that in daylight on Wednesday Royal Air Force planes launched daylight attacks on German military objectives and shipping off the German and Dutch coasts.

They battled German fighting planes, two of which were brought down. One British bomber is missing.

On Wednesday night the Royal

Air Force bombed the Missburg

and Emmerich oil refineries, BRITAIN'S

eupply depots on the Zuyder Zec, and Dutch and German airdromes, during which opera- tions two British aircraft were! lost--

Naxi Roport

BERLIN, Aug, 1 (UP),--The Nazl Command states: "Bombs were dropped from enemy planes on the night of July 31-August 1 011 northern and western Germany. They caused slight damage,

"One enemy plane flying at a great height above the clouds dropped a number of bombs in the rentre fo the city of Hanover far from any military jobjectives, severely damaging a num- ber of houses and killing or wounding

-number of persons."

Wo'ro On The Job

ATTITUDE STIFFENS

Japan Must Release Detained Subjects

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

LONDON, Aug. 1 (UP)-It is reliably reported that the release of six of the Britons arrested in Japan has failed to satisfy the British Government.

Unless the Japanese authori. tics promptly free the remaining seven British subjects who are under detention, it is believed that Britain will be forced to LONDON, Aug. 1 (Reuter)-The take action exceeding the mere following are quotations from recent German newspapers,

"Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung", July 17: "English incendiary bombs

making of representations.

Japan's Foreign Policy SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

are of grenier power and penetration WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UP), than usually presumed. The range American newspapers make sensa and penetrating power of the splintlonal play on the Tokyo pronounce-

bombs have

ters of the explosive

The ment on foreign affairs. been much under-estimated.

None, however, has commented distance at which such splinters can

bring death and destruction is in editorially as yet. credible. We have seen one splinter the story in its largest front page The Washington "Star" streamered

the size of

fst, come clean through heavy onk door and two compact headlines with "Japanese Move to

Dominate All the East." walls of a safe.

Д

Even thick walls do not offer any definito protection. The air attacka which are repeated night after night aro a heavy strain on the nerves,

The same paper on July 14 in an article entitled "Dombs on Hamburg" "It is only natural that to states:

in air-raid shelters has become a nightly habit. Already people are most surprised if such visits by the English have for once not taken place and they make guesses as to why WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Router), the night was quiet.”

asked The Munchrier Neuste Nachrich- -President Roosevelt has Congress to appropriate Immediately ter" on July 17 said: "Of late there $125,000 to be used for a Children's hos hardly been one night when Bureau to establish and maintain enemy aircraft did not approach fugee children.

drop bombs somewhere."

For Evacuees

From 1937 to 1939 he was Honorary formed the scene and air bubbles Fitty thousand copies of a printedAnd Central and South Africa Alr standard dt.care for European-re-] Germany on a stratosphero flight and

Physician to His Majesty the King.

* He returned to England in 1930 sixi

months before war, broke out. Ho

has been 35 years in the Army Medical Corbs.

Medical Supplies

Via Burma Road

came to the surface for a long time,

Libyan Frontier Casualties

Under the heading of "Destroyers To-day or Destruction To-morrow." the statement says: "Destroyers may LONDON, Aug. 1 (Reuter)-It la decide the issue this summer. If learned in London that casualties on Britain falls to keep command of the LONDON. Aug. 1 (Reuter)-to-cach, side on the Libyan frontier seas, she will fall. That would mean plying to a question in the House of since the beginning of the war with grave peril for America." Commons to-day, Mr. R. A. Butler, Italy have been as follows: Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, British-Killed and missing, 20; sald Red Cross and medical supplies wounded 10; vehicles, 10. were not within the categories of

-

Italians, Killed, 20; wounded, 20; goods, the passage of which is for-leaptured, 472; vehicles, 00, inchiding

en bidden by the Burma Road.

16 guns.

Australia's Income

Tax Co

Collection

LONDON, Aug. 1 (Reuior)—Aus- tralia will adopt the same method jas Britain in the collection of income

HITLER'S CHANGED PLANS SPECULATION

Turn to Pago 5, Second Column The Washington "News" headlined

LATEST

JAPANESE SHIPPING DIVERTED?

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH ROME, Aug. 1 (UP) (De- Stockholm |layed). The

Correspondent of the "Lavore Fascista” reports that all Japanese shipping en route to United Kingdom ports has been ordered to proceed to Lisbon instead.

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH!" LONDON, Aug, 1 (UP)-Has Hitler decided to abandon his blitzkrieg in favour of intensified air attacks on British ships?

This is the question Britain is nek-ftaunching bis invasion... ing herself to-day.

Londen newspapers point out that ~~ There is considerably. Increased here has been a sharp "about turn” LONDON, Aug. 1 (Reuter)The tax, which will be collected at the speculation on the subject some by the Axis powers during the past quarters holding that Hitler will 48 hours and it is now being stressed Royal desent to the Emergency The possibility of Instalment pay-attempt to bring Britain to her knees that a land invasion of Britain is not

ments is being investigated.

Royal Commission has algmined the

Powers Defence' Bill.

source."

by air and submarine attack before necessarily a part of German strategy

See. Kack Pars. For Further Late News!