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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 21.

1941.

RUINS MARK RED

RETREAT

Smolensk And Karelia

of the

ZURICH, July 20 (Reuter).—The thoroughness Russian scorched earth policy is described in detail by the correspondent on the eastern front of the newspaper “Tribunn.“

Smolensk suffered particular-¡

ly though some arms and textile: factories

only partially

damaged..

are

In Karelia, the Russians "have literally razed towns to the ground." Nothing remains of the celebrated Slemena Martin steel-works Vaertsine, which had mi annual pro- duction of 20,000 tons.

Rain Storms

Al

SHIGEMITSU

RETURNS

TO TOKYO

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” YOKOHAMA, July 20 (Domel), The correspondent mentions the In his arst interview upon arrival advent of rain on the castern front.here this morning from London via For the first time since the beginning America, Mr Mamoru Shigemitsu, of the offcnrive, violent rainstorms have occurred in Russia and if these Japanese Ambassador to

continue, mechanised · columns will

have very great difficuity in progress int in districts which easily become marshy.

Forest Fires

LONDON, July 20

London,

said that he was not in a position to comment on his future plans.

· Mr Shigemitsu also declined to hazard any guess concerning the out- come of the Anglo-German war. He said that the Japanese Embassy c5- (Heuter).tablishments in London suffered from Iluge forest fires are raging north of the bombing but fortunately were not Lake Ladoga on the Soviet-Finnish destroyed. frontier following the withdrawal of the Russian troops, says Berlin message to Rome.

Towns and villages have been razed to the ground.

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Defences of Leningrad VICHY, July 20 (Reuter), Leningrad's defensive system

ng between 40 and 50 residents in London, was keeping up an excellent inorale and their casualties thus far totalled no more than two or three slightly injured which Mr Shigemitsu termed most fortunate when compar- ed with the British official casually

The Japanese community compris

number injured in each month,

Met By Son

described as one of the nost. re-averages of 5,000 killed and an equal malable in the whole world by the Stuckholm newspaper. "Nyndaglit Allehanda" quoted by the Vichy Upon his landing here from the

news agency.

N.Y.K.

onometals.

The writer declares that this de morning, Mr Shigemitsu was met by ller Kamakura Maru this fensive system comprises an exten- his 15-year-olt son, Atsushi, and also sive for

forlifed territory bounded on Mr Els Amau, former Ambassador the west by the fiver Narva, Lake to Rome, and other Foreign Once Pelpus and the River Veliknya; the east by the

Commenting on his trip. the Valdau Mamitnins Me Shigemitsu said that he notleed and the Gulf of Hose Ladoga signs of Spanish recovery from the and on the north

jcivil war in Madrid where black-oule Leningrad's fortifications, he says, extend as far as Pleskau. The forti-were absent and food was plentiful. fled belt along the Gulf of Finland is stated to be 50 miles in depth,

All these fortified positions have been recently strengthened. Within this aren, accommodation is provided for 5,000 aeroplanes.

Tram Runs Into Car

Excitement In City

motor ear A collision between and a tram accurred in the heart of the city about 11 am. to-day, re sulting in minor damage to the two vehicles, and a traßte höld-up of over. five minutes.

Copy Cat

GANG GROWS UP-Remember "Our Gang?" Here are originals, at 16th anniversary lunch- gon in Hollywood. From loft: Mickey Daniels, Joe E. Cobb, Mary Kornman, Johnny Downs, and Farina. Downs has just boon signed by Hal Roach, to play romantic lead in "Campus Rhythm,"

Monocle Man

Leads Our Sky Troops In Mock Attack

chute troops. Swiftly, they snapped up the equipment that other para. Raining down out of the darkoning twilight sky camo British para-

chutes had dumped for them. Within a very short time they had located and captured an “enemy” headquarters and destroyed all the telephone communications.

This all happened during the things, as rumoured. But many of realistic full-scale mock invasion fliem can do it all.

Perfect Timing staged in East Anglia recently.

I have just been given the "We wear special boots. On t first inside story of this newest fairly calmn day it is possible to land.

Goebbels Vies branch of the Services--hitherto on the ground without even falling

With Our V

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ace

the

LONDON, July

20 (Reuter).- Despite the severe penalties in Ger- many and German-occupied territory for listening to British broadcasta, the German authorities have abandoned all pretence that

people are not listening to the British y" cam pain launched by Mr Churchill.

On the contrary, they have launch- fed

a campaign to claim An eye witness stated that as a signal of German victory. motar car driven by Lo Po wus pro-

To-night, Ilans Fritscher, who has

described

FIS Goebbels' westward along Des Voeux cen ceeding Road, Central, outside the Bank of commentator, announced over

that in Amsterdam, East Asia, a Chinese man suddenly Berlin Radis

and The Hague, giant banners are dashc out without warning from the pavement to cross to the opposite flying, bearing this symbol. side. The driver jammed on his

Dropped From Air Leaflets containing brakes to avoid an accident, but e

the symbol tram which was following the car have been dropped from neroplanes, was not able to stop in time, and Belgium, he said, cars, lorries and crashed into the rear of the motor locomotives are all carrying this sign. vehicle. The rear fender

Fight

Enormous of the

streamers have been car was slightly dented, and the put up on the Eiffel Tower in Paris. streamers number plate was broken in half. In Oslo, he said, large The rear right window pane was als bearing the symbol have been hung

In and the smoshed,

roadside

railway stations while in Prague, wisower-beds have been Inid out in the splintered with broken glasa

"V" and the shape of the letter letler is printed in contrasting colours on newspapers.

suffered car

little

The tram damage, and no one was injured,

Welfare Of Forces

་་་་་་

The

their work has been kept almost over.

a secret, writes Paul Bewsher that the men land at exactly

"A major problem is ensuring in the "Daily Express."

right spot.

One of the leaders in this mock

with something of a bump.

the

this

Our methods for doing must remain a secret, but I can give

the you general picture.

"Usually there la ง man

LETTERS

Rice Prices

The Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph. Sir-Relative to correspondence, leaders and reports dealing with this

indispensible. article of food,

which

attack from the air was a tall New Zealand officer who always flouts to

I have read recently, in my humble "As we near the landing point the ground with a monocle screwed the men are warned to get ready factors in determining price has been opinion one of the most important ftrinly in his eye. Normally Each man is on the alert. At a si-overlooked. While freight charges wears spectacles, but the monocle does not fall out if he hits the ground! na out they go-one after another affect price to a limited extent, Gov-1

-at rapid speed.

to take crnment possesses powers who over ships bottom for transport, ut counts, calling One-two-three-four, its own figure. and so on, till the whole 'stick is is called a stick, just as if they export. dropped. (Each plone-load of men Then there arises the question of It is stated in certain cir- were bombs!)

cles that Government has allowed the "On the job our men have a hard; "Once on to ground, you release export of certain grades or qualities task. They must work quickly and your parachute, and dash to the of rice under permit, and this is one know how to kill o man swiftly and arms and equipment contalner which of the chief contributory causca to high prices. While stocks are high, silently if necessary. But, war apart, has drifted down near you, on its

prices should be low. It is they are just a very decent crowdown parachute. of men-

"This is opened in a second."

economies questiun of supply and demand,

"We are tough-but we are not toughs," he told me. "An idea has got about that our men are a lot of Langsters. That's not true.

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view of the political tension prevailing in the East, not one ounce, HONG KONG & CHINA GAS COMPANY, LTD. The men who innded in the mock let alone hundreds and thousands of Invasion had only a vague idea bags, should exported under where the rear headquarters they licence. To say the least, the post- were to attack were.

tion

is iniqulious. If rice of They found it, some of them rac-grade or rice in a supposed de- along the roads in a Ford cur teriorated state is allowed out of the which they had seized,

Colony to feed persons residing out- While a number of them attacked consumption within the Colony; or side Hongkong, then it la fit for the headquarters openly, and attrac again, if unfit for human food, then ted everybody's attention, the main fit enn be disposed of in limited quan- body got through the barbed wire-titles and under certain guarantees, all sorts-miners, defences elsewhere, came upon the within the Colony, as food for pigs "They are of grooms, ear safesmen, racing motor- rentries from behind and over-and poultry. ists, youngsters of independent powered them.

The Colony is suffering from.

stand they are encouraged to fers, ond set off to attack that,

They found maps showing the shortage of pigs and poultry, so why "Quite a number are good in-position of the advance headquar-not encourage producers with the deteriorated article nt 悲 nominal

mears.

Yesterday's Campaign LONDON, July 20 (Reuter)-The

unmarried. campaign to-day throughout Europe was a complete success.

Colonel Brition, broadcasting to European countries at midnight, said: LONDON, July, 20 (British Wire- "A victory has

been won. less) The Admiralty, War Office mobilisation of a V Army against and Air Ministry have set up jointly Nazi Germany was a complete suc- a Services Committee for the welfare cess. The results have already surpassed all expectations and a vast The Committee will consider ques-army now stretches from one end tions affecting the welfare of the of Europe to the other." fighting forces and the Women's Colonel Brition added that the Auxiliary services and their families, Germans were standing bewildered including such questions as recrea- and frightened, not knowing which tion, travelling facilities, canteens direction to face. and the like.

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of the forces.

It is intended to pool the resources of the services for these purposes as much as possible.

The Army stood steady, con- Adent and patient. "There will be no mistakes. We are in no hurry."

Almost Equal Fitters' Bravery

In Damaged Sunderland

Air Losses Report. Of Week

LONDON, July 20 (British Wire-

to RAP. 10.

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learn German.

Orchestra Lost All In Blitz-But It Played

Thousands of pounds worth of valuable musical in-

But here the Horne Guards and figure, the quantity sold to producers struments belonging to the London Philharmonic Or "It is not compulsory for them police showed their effelency. The being in relationship to the "heads" chestra were destroyed in a recent air raid.

to be able to ride a horse, and swim parachutists were rounded up and a mile, and do a number of other put out of action.

Norse Gold Taken Out

From Under Nazi Noses

Norway's £15,000,000 in gold has long been safe on. the other side of the Atlantic, and how it got there is an amazing story of bravery and ingenuity in smuggling it past spies to the sea and safety.

women

and children-were

under production?

There are other phases in the rice Only by borrowing instru- Į price control situation which increasements was the orchestra aḥle: cost of the article and which need to fulfil its engagement to give, exploration (charges for this, that, the symphony concert on the other, Government profits, etc), and

IF KWAI-CHUNG.

only to alloy suspicion, restore following day. confidence, and still tongues, Gov- Harps, violins, violas. 'cellos, ernment should turn the spot-light double-bases and drums were hastily of Investigation on this department assembled by musical colleagues of too.

the orchestra within a few hours and the show went on.

instruments lost by the L.P.O, Included three of the best double-

£600 belonging to Mr Cedric Sharpe, the famous cellist, Was almost irreparably damaged.

Comment On New bases in the country. A celle worth

tion

Tokyo Cabinet

£100 To Mend

SYDNEY, July 20 (Reuter),—Str Frederick Stewart, Australian Minis- Jess)-Air losses during the week LONDON, July 20 (British Wire-

The glory was told in London by the cruiser had to slip away toter of External Affairs, to-day des

Mr Sharpe has been told that it ending July 20 total 47 Axis acro- less),--The Distinguished Flying one who helped.

safely, leaving half the cases behind. cribed the reconstruction of the may be possible to pui his cello planes to 44 British.

Medal is awarded Lending Alrerafts- The night the Germans entered More bombers came over during Japanese Cabinet as "exceptionally together again, but it would cost Over Great Britain and its coast, man Milton Grimn of No. 10 Oslo Fjord, King Haakon and the daylight until Molde was a ruging simificant."

£100 and would be a miracle of the Germans lost 10 to R.A.F. nil. Squadron of the Royal Australian government left. Finance Minister inferno.

He said that the strong represents- the Instrument-maker's art. Over Germany and German oc- Air Force.

Oscar Torp sinyed behind with a

of Navy and Anny interests in- The orchestra has given 200-con- cupied territory, the enemy lost 22 The official account

Carried In Boats. says: "In hand-picked company of Norwegian

dicated that the Cabinet would concerts all over the country since last June, 1041, this airman was the Arat SHOWER fort to save

sailors and patriots in a In the Middle East, the Axis lost fitter of a Sunderland aircraft which,

the gold.

That night Norwegian patriots form closely to the requirements of Christmas, playing in music-halls, the armed services. There was church halls and cinemas, as well as Tin 15 to R.A.F. four.

the course of an operation, was The

gold, in 1500 cases, was load-men, attacked by an enemy Focke-Wolfeed on 30 motor trucks and Torp left athered together and told what lay nothing to suggest any change in the concert-tails.

Now it is seriously short of instru- aircraft.

Oslo on the last koldladen vehicle.afloat in Molde was manned and all

In the cases. Every type of craft more permanent aspects of foreign After the

policy.

ments. Somehow these will have to be replaced. losing large quantities of was Hiding by day in forests and lonely set off that night and crept north youfer mats tot 4 Pederick belts of country, and travelling by along the coast until daylight.

The LP.O. is now Matsuoka, Sir said

on tour. In night, they slowly crept north.

blitzed areas. Nazi bombers scoured the fjords, that the German invasion of Russla

there was good reason to bellove| Outriders went ahead advising but the motley little fleet lay tow left the Japanese with a feeling that vatriotic Norwegians of the coming under branches.

At nightfall they started again and they had been misled by their Axla convoy.to prevent its ambush by

partners. Quislings. The goal was Andalsnes, moved slowly across the coast about 300 miles north, where British war- 400

miles to one of Norway's most northerly ports. ships awaited the gold,

Baltic States Not Regaining Independence

wng found that the Shadat it

Griffin crawled into the wing and discovered two largo holes in the bottom of the oil tank. Returning to the hull, he obtained tools, plugs and a two-gallon drum of oil which [no took

Into the wing, and after LISBON, July 20 (Reuter)-plugging the holes and piercing the Reports received from the Bal. top of the oll tank, he poured in the tic states now occupied by by means of a small tin, and in Germany suggest that any idea they may have had of indepen- dence and freedom was ahort lived.

Nationin? thought 'ond action are being subordinated to the Reich. The peoples of Latvia, Lithuanin and to a Esa extent Extonia and Western Ukraine, are plready sensing that they are intended to be no more

provinces than

protectornias within the Reich as part of the plan for a Germanised Europe.

ог

De Gaulle In Cairo

this way succeeded in maintaining a continuous supply of all.

"Griffin mada four journeys into the wing and in all spent two hours nursing the engine in Intense hent and in a very cramped position."

Como Train Smash

LONDON, July 20 (Reuter)-The death roll in the Como train smash

is now. 30, according to the Swiss A CAIRO, July 20(Router)The radio, which says that 50 were in

Free French feader, General de jured and that the train was carrying

700-workmen.-.-.. Gaulle, arrived-hura ta»day;"

Slip Past Nazis.

Nazi parachute troops, informed,

There the last of the cakes were put aboard a merchant ship. Then the freighter set sail for Canada,

The freighter's arrival in Canada

by Quislings of the gold slipping was reported in waterfront circles

that

MISSOURI ALUMNI. CONDOLENCES TO

F

Corvettes Are

Handy Craft

BEREAVED DEAN support in the Navy, where the

through their fingem, dropped be- Halifax recently. Two yachts were tween the convoy and safety. For strapped to her decks and it was four days the convoy lay low, spread rumoured that there was $0,000,000 Vice-Minister out through the forests, Then, one in Norwegian gold stored away in by one, the trucks, Jed by village the trim little craft. guides, alipped through the Nazi lines and reached Andalsnes. '

Criticism of the new naval cor- veites on account of their low com- parative speed, received very little

WASHINGTON, July 20 (Central corvette is considered à very

handy Newa)Dr Hollington K. Tong, little craft.

of Publicity,

Nobody denies many

that additional other Chinese graduates of the Uni-speed would be an advantage, but mean a bigger, versity of Missouri, and the influential more speed would Chinese newspaper "Ta Kung

with bigger engine rooms, Pao"

more ship. have wired mesinges of condolence bollers, and larger bunkers it,

they to Mrs Frank Martin, wife of the were not to be constantly running Denn of the University who died last back to port for fuel when they of the gold was forried across the

Friday at the age jord to Molde, where a cruiser lay.

of 60 at Columbla, wanted to be at sen hunting U-boats, Missouri.

These changes would diminish the Splos were everywhere, and soon A Canadian-born Chinese girl, Mrs Martin accompanied her late extraordinary handiness of the cor- after daylight the cruiser, while Clara Yee Kwong lcd all British husband at the Yenching University vettes, which is desirable both for landing the gold, was attacked by Columbia in recent examinations for in Pelping in 1032-33 when he was attacking, U-boats and dodging, air; waves of Nazi bombers. The whart lle and certificate of Registered serving as exchange professor at the bombs, and it would also reduce the was bombed to n heap of rubble and Nurse,"

Youthing School of "Journalism. * ́ ̄ ̄ number built,

A number of rang were put aboard a British destroyer. The rest

CHINESE GIRL'S EXAM SUCCESS

NEXT CHANGE,

AT THE

KING'S.

FAST!

FUNNY!

THRILLING!

as a wise cracking pilot and his radio- quaon 'sweetie' bottle not only each ather, but sabotage

in the skies!

LLOYD NOLAN

CHARTER PILOT

LYNN BARI ARLEEN WHILAN

GEORGE MONTGOMERY

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