1941-06-27 — Page 13

NAZIS LINES OF ATTACK

Pen Picture of Operations

On

(By "Reuter's" Military Cortespondent) LONDON, June 20-Although the German attack Russia is less than a week old and news, apart from official communiques, is very scarce, it is already possible to form some iden of the German lines of attack.

Judging by the news to hand

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 27, 1941.

Simovitch || Exchange At Finnish

Sees Mr Churchill

Explains Collapse Of Yugo-Slavia

LONDON, June 20 (Reuter). -MrWinston Churchill this afternoon

General received.

and the topography of the FEAT THAT Simovitch, the Prime Minister

Baltic

country, the Germans may be expected to attack in four direc tions to the east of the In addition to a direct Leningrad attack from Finland across the Karelian Isthmus.

Two main attacks at present, are developing through the Baltic states and North Poland, the former with Leningrad and the latter with Mos cow us the main objectives.

Along the Baltic,

their

their

the

Germans will

WON V. C.

Indian Dared Death To Clear Minefields

of Yugo-Slavia, who has just reached London via Egypt and en taken the first opportunity meet the British Prime Minister, rays "Reuter's" Diplo. matic Correspondent.

CO

It is understood that Mr. Churchill LONDON, June 11-The story be- hind the first award of the Victoria and General Simavitch reylewed the Cross to an Indian soldier in this whole international situation and at war is told in London to-day. The the same time General Simovitch ex- The other two thrusts may be ex-recipient, Second-Lieutenant Premincased thanks to the British Gov- pected to be on Klev and Odessa,

dra Singh Bhagat, of the Corps of ernment for the pledge contained in A movement has already started indien Engine:st, serving with the Mr Eden's recent note which recog to take these four separate lines,

Royal

Bombay Suppers und Minera,nized the present government as the enly representative government of And the flat parleultural country toon the award for most corupicuous Yuko-Slavia and declared non-

gallantry on.

on active and most

service in the Buitable for Mkidle East."

recognition of the Axls partition of mechanisc

divisions.

the country. Bhagat detected and supervised the are not too clearing of 15 minefields over a period of four days and over a dis- heavy londs. Pakov is likely

tance of 55 miles following the fall of be their to

Mctemma (Abyssiula) and in pursuit prior to the final objective of the enemy, objective of Leningrad. At the same time us this direct attack, it is possible that

column will Alrendy

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good and may avell

weather

hot

one movement to

fighting

under

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Account of Collapse

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Battle

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VICHY, June 26 (Reuter)-Sinco the beginning of the Russo-German war, the main forces of the Finnish Army, under Field Marshal Manner- helm, have been holding a 'dofensive line on the Karelian Isthmus betweer. the Baltic and Lake Ladoga, Buys a Stockholin dispatch to the Vichy news agency to-day.

This lire is longer than during the

of

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recent Russo-Finnish war and it no longer comprises the fortress Viipuri, formerly the bastion Finnish defence, which was ceded to Russia under the peace treaty.

The dispatch adds that it is be- leved In Stockholm that the first of German troops from operation Finland will be directed towards Kandalakselin, the sea port where the railway from Leningrad to the Arctic pert of Murmansk passes nearest to the Finnish frontier,

QUESTIONS IN Amends For

HOUSE

Madrid Incident

General Shinovitch niso gave A count of the unsuccessful resist-

BOMBING: THAILAND ance to Germany and, H is under- stood, threw new light on the LONDON, June 26 (Reuter), carrier with a column of mobile tell the story of Yugo-Slavia's part Knox asked in the

He was in the leading Bren gun collapse of the Yugo-Slav forces.

To-morrow, General Simovitch will-Major General Sir A. W. F. House of a flanking troops and twice his carrier was

LONDON, June 20 (Reuters.-The blown am and once ambushed but he the war in a broadcast which will Commons what information was Spanish. Government have under- been fierce still curled on his work, it high be radioed abroad in the B.B.C. available about anti-British pro- taken to give Britain full satisfaction ing in Kaunas and Vilna regina.nes

overnens service. pressure from dawn to dusk each General Simovitch, who will be paganda by Japanese agents in regarding the anti-British demonstra- the Russians can afford to give #hough one eardrum was plerendPeaking In the Serb-Croat language, Thailand and what steps were on which took place, on Tuesday

outside the strong

British

in Embassy some ground as they have line of defence along

being taken to counter-act it.

"Reuter" earned in London Dvina, along the old Soviet-Estonian by the explosion and he worn out

Mr R. A. Butler, Under Scerctary with strain and fatigue, he refused

learned for Foreign Affairs, replied that hel

the was also

that Russo-rellef on the grounds that he was Polish border. They may be expect now better quailled to continue his ed to put up very fierce resistance task to the end.

was aware that certain Japanese in Spanish Government have also given Thailand were circuinting slortes Britain full assurances against a re- once the German reach these SCC-

calculated to enure H-feeling against petition of such demonstrations. Britain but he was salisiled that no This action follows the energetic Lovs.

credence was attached to them by protests made by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Government or by the people of the British Ambassador in Madrid. Thailand.

pr

the River

frontler and along the old

Napoleon's Route Films With

Punch Planned

The second fine along which the the Germans are already attacking Is north of the famous Pripet marshe through Baranovitch Gap and on to Smolensk and Moscow. This is the took.

to

Napoleon

route

The territory here is also suitablo major operations and mechanised vehicles as for south as Bialystok.

Owing to the Pripet marshes, the

Germans

FILMS with a punch are being planned by the Ministry of Informa- tion. The first one, the screen story of the victorious Libyan campaign, will be out shortly.

It will be released as 2 feature Alm, running for about 30 minutes.

Production is by the Crown Film Unit, which is part of the Film Division of the M.O.I.

will be heard at 3.15 p.m.

Monument To Famous Flyer

Mysterious Crash

Civilian Bombing

Mr Robert Morgan asked whether;

a British protest had been sent to Japah against the bombing of civil- lans in the district in Chungking sot apart for non-combatants.

Mr Butler replied that he pre-

IL

Morgenthau's Fairness To

sumed Mr Morgan referred to the U. K. Holders

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, June 20 (Domel), hardly make the thrust

Japanese troops have erected a south bank of the Yangtse against unt taking the point where the

monument at the place near Sha- which the Japanese Government NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuter).- river Bug leaves the frontier near

yangchen, to the north-west of stated last year that they would not Great Britain would do, better at Sokal. From this point along a line

Hankow where the

the carry out attacks. During the at-present to secure a loan on her hold- some hundred miles southwest

More to follow

late Col Yuzo Fujita, Major-General tack on June 15, Tour, hombs fell enings in the United States instead of through Prezemysl to the river Son

Shots of the desert fighting and Kotare Watanabe, and four other this "safety zone" but no informa-selling them, Mr Henry Morgenthau, appears to be the danger, spot for long lines of Italian prisoners will men were killed when their plano tlon had been received of any casual United States Secretary of the Trea- the Russians on there is no nutural convey the story of the swift advance crashed in February, 1939.

iles.

declared at a press conference Sury of defence.

of the British tanks and mechanised The late Col Fujita piloting the

spokes- to-day, Mr Eden, continued the

according to a Washington The German aim would be a 'cap-columns across the sandy tracks of gigantic test plane of the Imperial man, le salisfied that the British message the Dow-Jones agency.

10 said that the (Lemberg) and make Cyrenaica. ture Lvov

University's Aeronautical Institute Government's attitude towards the Mr Mergenthau their way on to Kiev. They may be Storming of the coastal road strong-established new world records for indiscriminate bombing of civilian ket had been such that it had been expected to launch a minor line of holds up 10 the capture of duration and circuit fights in the populations elsewhere is sufficiently attnck in southwesterly direction. Benghazi will be shown.

Although this seems to be the obylous line for the Germans, It has not yet been strongly developed and the Russians now claim the recapture of Prezemysl.

ine

on

Fourth Line

|

Later films dealing with the East African campaign are to follow.

Sea and air feature films, as well as those of land operations, will also portray British successes of the past few months.

Letter to Minister British flim writers feel thạt

the

spring of 1937.

after

Detalls of how the late Col Fujita and his group were killed leaving on an aerial mission in ក Army transport plane were not known for some time until in spring. last year,

the Japanese frontline troops located their graves from Chinese statements of local

the

A fourth line of attack_may be expected along the rivers Pruth and Duclater into Southern Ukraine and to Odessa. The German and Rumanian attack here, however, up- In letter to the Minister of pears to be helil.

Information they outline their ideas North of this line

the for the overhaul of run

wartime filmi Carpathians, and it is unlikely that policy.

attempt any

major the Germans will operations over this difficult and -mountainous-terrain.

entire cinemu industry needs co-intinbitants, ordinating with the war effort.

The country in the north of Bukovina is also hardly suitable for military operations on a large scale

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it is hilly and wooded, but given

good weather the rich soll of Bessa-

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SAYS CHILDREN WERE ASKED

TO FIRE-WATCH

that

rabia would be favourable to the Suggestions that some teachers Russians, The Russians will parti-feared victimisation if they did not cularly have to look out for attacks children had been asked to do fire

do fire-watching and

senior #cross the Dniester from north

which,

duties Blacablu,

in schools were successful, watching cut off their troops fighting to made recently at the National Union the northwest.

of Women Teachers at York. The Dalester, however, is usually only, fordable after July, and the only bridge is near Tiraspol in middle Bessarabia.

Rotary Club Officers

The nomination of officers of the Hongkong Rotary Club was made this week, Dr Arthur Woo retiring from the post of President, and the Vice-President, according to custom, succeeding him. The new officers are:

Miss A. A. Kenyon, a trustee of union, moving a resolution demand ing that the re-watching of schools should be incorporated in the general scheme, complained that teachers were being drawn in to schemes at

AUSTRALIANS TAKE A REST

CANBERRA, June 20 (Reuter) -

Must of the Australians evacuated

well known.

China Fronts Enjoy Lull

mur-

very difficult for the British to re- alise a fair value for their direct Investments and marketable United States securities.

Maximum Amount

The United States administration, he said, were anxious that the Bri- tish Government should realise the maximum amount of money on these CHUNGKING, June 28 (Reuter).assets.

tho Mr Morgenthau expressed Alull prevails on all Sino- Japanese war fronts as the Japanese opinion that direct investments and are unable to decide on their nation securities will be placed with the out-Reconstruction Finance Corporation al policy following upon the break of the Russo-German fighting sold on a fair market to liquidate a na loan collateral until they can. De sold a Chinese milltary spokesman lo-day.

On the north banks of the Yellow

Ioun

River in couth Shansi, Chinese forces CHINESE-HOSIERY from Crete and Greece are enjoying are still holding out despite the re- rest in Palestine, Mr P. C. Spen- cent large-scale Japanese drive into der, the Australian War Minister, the Chuntlao Mountains, he added.

stated lo-day.

A cable from Lieut-General. Sir German Broadcasts

C-

Off The Air

stations were badly Jammed.

The only medium wave station to

TRADE WITH UNITED STATES

Thomas Blamey, the Australian

WASHINGTON, June 0 (Central great heart and had been reorganised in-C, said that the men were in

News by Clipper)The United States Department of Commerce report and re-equipped during the pause. LONDON, June 26 (Reuter)-All Issued

that this week..reveals German long-wave stations went off America is becoming an increasingly Mechanisation

'nkr to-night. Short-wave Important outlet for Chinese cotton CANBERRA, Jime 20 (Reuter)—| The mechanisation of the Australian

Chinese

Customs Imperial Force is being urgently be heard was Breslau and that also figures, the total exports of cotton pressed forward, Mr P. C. Spender, was badly jammed.

socks and stockings in 1940 were the Army Minister, stated to-day. Firmish broadcasts In English, 2,878,000 dozen pairs, of which 41

Many thousand motor vehicles German and French were heavily have already been sent abroad to the jammed. It is not fair. It is not just," she Australian Imperial Force and Uss S. M. Burls, hon. treasurer several thousands more will be sent. Mr Spender added that Britain sold a teacher who did fire-watching would equ at night was not fit to teach children next morning.

The resolution was carried.

Her Prayer: To 'ell With itler

"I reads my' Bible, I mys my

President-R Robertson; Vicc- President, Lam Ming-fon; Hon. Secretary, E. S. Doughty: Hon. Trea prayers, then I says To 'ell with

N. J. Perrin; Directors-Witler, and goes to sleep." surci, Brown, E. Denison, E. J. R. Mitchell,

This saying of a London woman,

J. H. Montgomery, Ngan Shing-kwan, when asked how she got on in air

John Yuen.

J. H. Van der Laan, E. M. Raymond, raids, was quoted by Dr L. H. Hough, famous American theologian, wher visiting Auckland, to indicate British

82,000 Communal

Meals A Day

plomb

Another woman, mentioning salle- faction she got out of her Hillo radļo [set, said. "I like to listen to Mister

British Restaurants, formerly. the Winston, because he seems so in- communal cooking and

feeding terested in, the war,"

centres, are now serving an averagć

of 82,000 meals a day. Moat were INDIAN BUYING

mid-day dinners.

Yet there are

still only 248 SIMLA, June 20 (Reuter)-It is

restaurants in 119 towns. Almost gathered that the Lease and Lend every town in Great Britain might Act contains provisions under which have one for the asking, and at the India can make purchases from Government's expense;"

America," and the Purchasing Com- mission, led by Sir Shanmukam Chetty, will endeavour to utilise

Earthquake Tremors

BOMBAY, 26(Reuter), these provisions to the best advan= |

Earthquake tremors lasting a few, toge, seconds were foltŊat Madras, and' Cal-

culta between 5.30 p. and 5.55 p.m.

neveEnormous

• Indian time-to-day,--

LONDON June 20

20 (Reuter)

Late 10-night there were still rio de-

New Zealand Journalist Missing In Greece

tails of the earthquake described by LONDON, June 20 (Reuter);

additional trucks and re-

cent went to the American market. In 1939 exports of such items were 1,731,000 dozen pairs, of

Pope Will Broadcast which 20 per cent were sent to this country while in 1938 only 512,000 Force with Adat Australian Imperial To World On Sunday dozen pairs were exported with pincements.

LONDON, June 28 (Reuter) only vo per cent coming to the Thousands of vehicles of all types is the theme of a message which the

"Divine providened in human events" United States,

China's cotton hostery exports in were also being bought for the land Pope will broadcast from the Vatican 1040 were valued.

at U.S.3001,000 forces in Australia.

City et 12.30 p.m. next Sunday, says with the value of shipments here. the Stefani Agency.

at U.S.$214,020, or 31 per cent put The occasion is the feast of Saint of the value, indicating that Peter and Saint Paul, and the United States buys the cheapest message will be addressed to the grades exported, the report states. whole world.

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Summary, bsued yesterday, is:

Hongkong Stock Exchange Omcial

Buyer's

H.K.. Banks $1,817 Banks of East Asia $72 Canlon Ins, $215. H.K. Fire Ins, $180 H.K. Steamboats $8 To-Chinas (Prof) $80 Wharves $88 Ducks $16.30 Providents Hotels $35.00

Lorkis $33.26 Chinese Estates $80 Realties $3

Star Ferries $52

urdat. Ferties $21.35

$1.30

Lig Tits 30 cts. ECO”: X. Nts. $2175.

"N"! $20.75"

"O $22.25

Cements $14.10

HopesTM $8

Dairy Farma ̈$17,25 Watsons $10.35 Entertainments $0.30

Mr Shaw, the West Bromwich: sela-Bert Holl, the well-known/ Newdan Sellers mologist," as "anormous" and the big- Zealand journalist, has been, inissing. Ropes 38.60

gest he had Zealand'

beyond estimating the war correspondent to the Dominion's

force and not on

HOA Mora Tasted nearly four (He was, appointed Now

Docks $16.50

PREKO AREG Sales

Providents $6.50/0.00 Trams $16.30

epicentre at about 4,600 miles away. Expedition made Public Relations Mr Shaw was unable to say whether ago was it was in the east or Westray * f Omcer with the rank of Captain

"Even in a big earthquake, tremors, The New Zealand Command" pre- lart about an houry;

sumos that hele, a prisoner of war,, |--Wasons 110.28/80–

Electrics. Ris:$11 Cements $14.25.154 Ropes 38/0.25EKEN

Eucharistic Congress LONDON, June 20 (Router)The Pope broadcast an address in English to-night to the United States National

Eucharlatic Congress at St Paul, not forget

Minnesota,

He said: "You must

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