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四拜禮 號七十月七英港香 THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941.
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WHITEAWAY'S
SUDDEN RESIGNATION A U-Boat Is No Slackening In
OF KONOYE
CABINET:
NEW POLITICAL CRISIS
Special to the "Telegraph" _
TOKYO, JULY 16 (UP),—THE JAPANESE CABINET RESIGNED EN BLOC THIS EVENING IN ORDER TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT IMMEDIATELY TO STRENGTHEN ITS POLICIES TO COPE WITH DO. MESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATIONS; HOWEVER, THE EM- PEROR COMMANDED PRINCE KONOYE TO REMAIN IN OFFICE PENDING FURTHER ORDERS.
The Konoye Cabinet assumed office exactly a year ago and resigned 30 minutes after the Premier had returned from Hayama where he had informed the Emperor of the Cabinet's decision reached at an emergency meeting held at 5.30 p.m.
If Japan Moves Southward
Britain & America
Will Reply
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, July 16 (UP),
Prince Konoye went to Hayama at 9 o'clock and he convened a special meeting at 11 p.m, when he informed the Ministers of the Emperor's command to remain in office.
.
A statement was issued by the Cabinet saying "It was felt exceedingly necessary immediately to strengthen Japan's internal structure, and to that end the Cabinet! deemed it a vital necessity to effect a complete change.”
DETAILS
Matsuoka Indisposed
It is understood that Mr Matsuoka, the Foreign Minister, did not attend the special meet-
OF TOBRUK. ing at which the decision to re-
SORTIE
Responsible quarters here be lieve that if Japan Inunches a LONDON, July 16 (Reuter). large-scale invasion of Indo--A raid made by British forces China, as now appears probable, from Tobruk which the enemy the United States and Great mistook for a major attempt to Britain may reply by proclaim-break out of the town took place ing a complete embargo of all on July 12, it was disclosed in trade with Japan, cutting off ex-London to-day. ports and imports alike.
The raid was carried out A crisis of unparalleled
astride the road from.Tobruk to severity appears to be brewing El Gobi, about 38 miles south of in the Pacific. Observers be-Tobruk. The operation was the lieve that the next few days may work of a patrol of 40 men and witness Japan's establishment of a tank-hunting platoon support- val and air bases in southern ed by artillery and machine-gun Indo-China, probably with, butfire from the British positions on possibly without, the consent of the Tobruk perimeter.
sign was reached in view of his indisposition; however, he turn-! ed in his resignation earlier to Mr Kenji Tomita, Chief Secre- tary of the Cabinet.
ness of the situation, the Emperor Meanwhile, Indicaling the serious- unt Empress counced an interrup- Hayama and are returning to Tokyo. to the Imperial vacation at
to-morrow.
assumed
The
Konoye Cabinet office July 17, 1940 upon the resigna- Adiniral Mitsumasa Yonai,
Cabinet headed by
thon of the
Events In Office.
"Reuter says-that-the-outstanding: events in Japan's history during the year-long tenure of Prince Konoye's cabinet included, firstly, the dissolu- movement for the inauguration of a tion of all political Parties in the totalitarian national structure which resulted in the creation of National Service Association.
Vichy. Japan's. principal imme-casualties to the enemy and to secure totalitari
The object of the raid was to cause
diate objective appears to be Camranh Bay.
Meanwhile, Hitler is reliably said to be exerting the utmost pressure
identifications.
.
Casualties
-
over 50 Ave
The British inflicted. casualties and brought back
the
on Tokyo to launch a large-scale Prisoners, who gave the identification 2 Le conclusion of theį
ten
Alliance which bound to-. Japan with Germany and
Destroyed Soviet Offensive:
The Battle of the Allantie goes on with undiminished intensity, but slowly the Brit navy Is cbtaining the upper hand of the Nazl submarines. Here Is a Ferne; whitel has become familiar: the picture shows a U-boat, with its cunning tower wrecked by shells, going to lis doom while' lie crew start to abandon the ship.
Centre of Main Fighting Shifts
R.A.F. Sink Enemy Ship And
Stage Night Raid on Messina
MALAYAN WAR TAX
Commons Question
and
on
Nazi Cities
Devastated
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" MOSCOW, July 16 (UP)— There is no slackening of the Russian offensive towards the west from the Dnieper River,
It is stated that the centre of hostilities appears to have shift- ed to the northwestern Baltic sector in the direction of Pskov and Porkhov.,
The three-day battle which led to the Russian recapture of fogacher and Zhlobin is con- tinuing.
Foreign military observers report there is confidence in Russian quarters as the rate of the German advance has been considerably reduced compared with the first onslaught in western Ukraine,
There is other evidence of.-in- creasing Russian calm In the stacken- Ing of the evacuation of women and children, while there is no evidence of disruption in transport.
Defence In Depth
LONDON, July 18 (Reuter).- Regarding the Russo-German war, a military observer in London to-day stated that the next few days would be crucial for the Russians' bold strategy of defence in depth.
Pacific Water Mined MOSCOW, July 16 (UP)-Dipio- matic nuthorities report that the Soviets, on July 12, advised the Japanese at three danger zones in the Pacifle where minefields have been laid. One these is off Kunchatka. Ambassador Tatekawa has transmitted this information Tokyo,
to
Tallinn Ablaze STOCKHOLM, July 16 (Reuter). The Germans claim to have cap tured Tallinn-and Novograd, accord- ing to a message received by the "Aftonbladet" from Helsinki quoting a Berlin report.
The message adds at Finnish re- connoissance planes on Sunday found Tallinn ablaze and ships were busy evacuating troops.
ANGLO-RUSSIAN
By Bombs PACT APPROVED
CAIRO. July 16 (Reuter),-The R.A.F. Middle East communique morning, Bomber Command aircraft successfully attacked a convoy of enemy shipping off the says: "Early this Tripolitanian coast. Two heavy bombs struck an 8,000 ton vessel amidships and completely destroyed it, and another was damaged in the bows by n direct hit.
Enemy-aircraft whichat- tempted to drop bombs British merchant vessels off the Libyan coast yesterday were engaged by R.A.F. fighters and six Junkers 87's. and one Mcs- serschmitt 100 were shot down.
"During the night of July 14-15) our heavy bombers attacked enemy LONDON, July 16 (Reuter).-It occupied aerodromes at Eleusis and naval blockade of Vladivostok. Ob-
sought. No tarks were encountered. Italy.
is estimated that the total yields from Hassani (Greece), The British casualties were
Heraklion servers surmise that Vladivostok men wounded and three missing.
Thirdly, the signature of the basis and the Federated Malay States for made on hangars and runways and war tax in the Straits Settlements (Crete). At Eleusis direct hits were comes after Indo-China in Japan's
of the time table but they are not sure.
The enemy's description of this Nanking Government headed
Sino-Japanese Treaty with the the current year are respectively dispersal points, causing
LONDON, July 16 (Reuter). small operation was a determined
number of President
by $10,000,000 and $4,000,000 said Mr large fires and explosions, Want
-Over 2,000 tons of bombs were Attitude Stiffens
sortie to break out of Tobruk."
Ching-wel November 10 last year.
on G. H. Hall, Parliamentary Under- "Similar results were reported dropped in the Ruhr area bo- Fourthly, the conclusion
Secretary for the Colonies, answering from the other two objectives. of n
tween June 16 and July 10... Neutrality Pact with the
queation in the House of Commons Soviet to-day.
Over Messina
Further examples showing the with Bolshevik doctrines and prin. Union on April 13 while the Foreign
"During the Mr Hall added that the yield front bombers of the R.A.F. carried out a the dropping of 1,000 tons of bombs anyone who kills the Nazis is a truc same night, heavy weight of British night attacks are ciples, they realise that in this war Minister, Me Yosuke Matsuoka, was war taxation on rubber exports in highly successful attack on docks on Cologne and, over 500 en route home after his state visits to 1941 is estimated to be respectively, and Extremists Versus Moderates but since those estimates were made, dropped and great fires were started successive nights, con brought back Hitlerism and Fascism has been fur- Berlin and Rome.
friend of the British.. tons on Straits Settlements $510,000, and the Messina. Several tons of high ex-
other. military objectives at Bremen during the same period. Heavy German losses und reassur- Federated Malay States. $3,000,000; plosives and incendiary bombs were the German town recently bombed on deeply impressed the tribesmen and Photographs proving that Munster, ing news from other fronts have LONDON, July 16 (Reuter)-It is the rates of duty had been doubled at the ferry rail-head, engine sheds, objectives have been generally believed that the Japanese
confidence in the final defeat the Atlantic and in Europe.
both the Government
territories. have been sharply
transformer plant building and ware- by RA.F. reconnaissance aeroplanes, ther strengthened. The question asked for the approx-houses,, four lines of trucks were set German propagandu described funs- Nevertheless, If Japan establishes An official account states that the view of the German invasion of earning incomes respectively between milies distant.
divided as to what is to be done in imate number of Malayan residents ablaze and the fires were visible 65 ter as a "Cathedral town with no with satisfaction the news
The tribal chiefs have received key naval and air force bases in affair occurred in a park where a Russia. says Indo-China, she will possess a sort quarrel occurred among
industry except breweries,"
Syrlan armistice and are glad that of the crowd.expert and "Cutter's". Far East) £576 and £720, £720 and £3,400
-- Photographic Proof
the
insk undertaken by the British Photographs showing the effect of Syria and through Syrin on
of thwarting the first night of the RAF rald Muslim countries has been accom- Nozl designs in TURN to Back Pago, Column 4 plished.
other
between
SHOT DOWN BY POLICEMAN-
Diplomatic exchanges London and Washington in the past few days are reported to have dis- closed a stiffening of attitude toward Japan. President Roosevelt is stil! believed to be anxious to avoid action Zelea Codreanu, brother of the chief
LONDON, July 16 (Reuter), which the Japanese could miscon-of the prohibited Rumanian Iron sirue as provecation and to prefer, Guards, was shot dead in Bucharest though within limits, to shun Pacille diversion from the battles inunday, necording to a message
published In Berlin Rumanian capital.
from
D
of springboard to Thailand, Singa-The policeman who shot Codreanu "N. C. D. News" TURN to Back Pago, Column 3 has been arrested.
War Can be Won in A
Year says Ingersoll
Russian air line.
Special to the "Telegraph"
The
fn
editor of the Lund over £3.400,
Mr Hall replied that no information extremist party led by Mr was at present available. Matsuoka, the Foreign Minister, and General Tojo, Minister for War, are! believed to have strongly urged that TURN to Back Page, Column 3
NAZIS IN AFRICAN PORTS
HONOLULU, July 16 (UP),.—Mr Ralph Ingersoll, publisher of the newspaper “PM," arrived here to-day aboard the steamer Mariposa and is leaving for Singapore by Clipper on Thursday from where he will proceed to Rangoon and Chungking. Ho LONDON, July 16 (Reuter). expects to be able to fly to Moscow from the latter city via the -German activity at French which were left behind to police the naval bases in Africa is, so far Mr Ingersoll stated that the occupied areas. He asserted that he as is known, confined to those United States must double its thought reports of the Goering purge on the north and northwest production.
to be quite likely. "The democracies
African coasts, sald Lord Moyne, now have their first real chance He felt that Japan would probably replying to the Labour peer, move in whichever direction tint she Lord Strabolgi, in the House of feels it least likely to disturb the Lords to-day. United States, adding that it was a hurd question for Japan to decide. This activity is
to win the war and if all pull together they can clean it up in a year" he declared.
concentrated in The United States programme will
He did not believe that the United Armistice Commission and no doubt
the delegation .of. the
German be more aggressive. It is not neces- States navy would move to the At- is as widely extended as they can sary to invado Germany or the Con- Inntic where patrol boats and planes induce the French tinent, for Germany will break up are the best defence against sub allow.
authorities to from within. Two lines are already marines. He was optimlatic over the noticeable; firstly, the trouble be-Russian chances and was of the opin that there is a tween the Nazi party and the army lon that Germany had misjudged the Armistice Commission at Dakar and and, secondly, the fil feeling between Russians as they had misjudged the no evidence that enemy submarines the biliz troops and the police troops British.
are using any French African bases.
The Government has no knowledge delegation of the
LATEST
Suez Canal Arca "A number of enemy aircraft flew. over the Suez Canal area Inat night. One came down in the Great Bitter Lake and another crashed south of Port Sald,
"From the above operations two of qur aircraft are missing.
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PESHAWAR, July 10 (Reuter).- widely approved by tribesmen along The Anglo-Russian agreement is the Northwest Frontier.
Although they have no
sympathy
Alexander's Encouraging
Australian Labour Words On U-Boat Losses
Takes Firm Stand
B London
SYDNEY, July 16 (Reuter)—A LONDON, July 16 (Reuter).-Speakingnt demand that the Government should Juncheon to-day, Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Ad ect immediately against monopolies mirally, said that there was no justification for anything but and "assume control of the Broken grim determination to face the possibility of a long war, with Hill Proprietory Company in
the
Interests of the nation" was made at the grimmest part yet to come.
the
sitting of the Advisory War
of
Council to-day by Mr Forde, Deputy The threat of invasion remained. The call for a yet greater Leader of the Australian Labour and more intense national effort remained as dominant and
Admiralty containing a number of
on behalf of his fellow Coun- insistent as ever.
Beasley and Dr Herbert Evait.
ors, Mr N. J. Makin, Mr J
A.
in minor disputes which may lead to craft, our strength will steadily major stoppages," Mr Forde sald.
Mr John Curtin,
the Australian
Labour Leader, concurred with I
of The gentleman who had the fol
"It is on the Atlantic that our highly sceptical-I can almost say "We have been disturbed by the life depends, and if wo defent cynical-ofleers who refuse to accept apparent disinclination of this com- the U-boat and long-range air-ny doubtful claims of the destruc pany to submit to speedy conciliation
U-boats. become overwhelming.
of
passing a camel through the eye "As to the defeat of the U-boats, of a needle was on, an easy wicket Alr aim not going to give you facts and compared with the caplains of our figures for which the enemy Intelli-Hitlo ships who hopefully report an The Broken Hill Proprietory Com-ence would pay many thousands of attack on a U-boat. When I am in pany is a well-known mining com- pounds. I, however, will tell you formed by the staff that a
that during a recent period I received has been destroyed, I know there U-boat series of reports that would can be no shadow of doubt that she CAIRO, July 16 (Router).--A Bri-encourage any First Sen Lord. La ins Davy Jones" locker. tish Middle East communique states
Proving Claims that there is no change in the situa "There is another thing I can tell tion on all fronts.
you. There is a room at the
Fordo's statement.
pany,
Seo Back Page For Further Late News'
"I am certain that there are many more which do not get back to Ger TURN to Back Page, Column 3
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