Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 24, 1941.
SOVIETS CONTINUE TO STALL HITLER'S FOUR BIG NAZI OFFENSIVES
Special to the "Telegraph"
LONDON, JULY 23 (UP). -THE THIRTY-THIRD DAY OF BATTLE · ALONG THE LONGEST BATTLEFRONT EVER KNOWN FOUND GERMANY'S TERRIFIC MASS OFFENSIVE APPARENTLY SLOWLY PUSHING THE SOVIET TROOPS BACK; HOWEVER, HITLER'S IM- MENSE MILITARY ORGANISATION SO FAR HAS NOT SUCCEEDED IN BREAKING THE ' RUSSIAN RESISTANCE.
MOSCOW REPORTED THAT FOUR GERMAN DRIVES ARE PROceeding AGAINST THE SOVIET DEFENCES WITH UNABATED VIGOUR, ONE OF Which is appARENTLY AN ATTEMPT TO ENCIRCLE LENINGRAD.
The fortnight-long battle of Smolensk continues to
rage, but apparently there is no material change in the HONGKONG
front line positions.
a strong Finn- SCHOLARS'
A Moscow communique mentioned German attack in the Petrogivodsk area, cast of Lake Ladoga, while south of this around Prokov the Germans have launched a smashing attack towards Leningrad, thus endeavouring to pin the city between the encircling
columns.
The Germans have made no specific claims to terri- torial gains, but Moscow has admitted that the Russians along the Kiev front have moved back to the Zhitomid area, 80 miles west of the Ukrainian capital and have retired to about 75 miles from Novograd-Volynsk.
37 Nazi Planes Down MOSCOW, July 23 (UP)-A total of 37 German planes were brought down the two air raids made on Moscow within 24 hours.
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The Editor,
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SUCCESS
News has been received in Hong-
Morrison have passed the
Britain's
5th Column
Under Key
LABOUR
SHORTAGE
LONDON, July 23 (Router), The invasion of Russia has greatly increased Gormany's labour difficulties, according to in statement from the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London, to-night,
Since the beginning of the year, the Nazis have been faced by a grow. ing shortage of workers, and Indus trial workers from all over the con- tinent are being sucked into the vacuum created by the intensive call. up In Germany,
A considerable new call-up for the Army began in January and con- tinued until March. Even the more specialised workers from the arma- ment factories were mobilised, and only a fe
a few key men of milliary age remain in agriculture which has been left mainly to old men, women and children, foreign labourers and pri- soners of war,
the
kong that Gloria June Mosa & Evelyn
There are about 380,000 in
Cambridge School Certinente Exam-when resolution was moved in the placed in the most dangerous spots. building Industries and these, it is stated, are mainly engaged In repair- ing what the R.A.F. knocks down LONDON, July 23. (Reuter) because foreign workers are always ination. Central Dritish School of which both gency powers in operation for a
The candidates were pupils of the continuing the Defence
House of Comnions to-day for Evacuation, their entries were trans-Under-Secretary of the Home Office Act emer- were Prefects and, owing to the further year, Captain O. terred to the Melbourne University, revealed that in all 1,770 people had been detained under the famous Another achievements that of regulation 18 13. Marion Hill, who was recently award- ed a special Singing Scholarship at number had fallen to-day to
Captain Peake intimated that this Bedford High School for 12 months; Of this number, 292
Australia.
or
Peake,
702. permons were
FATE OF GREECE
Burden of Axis Maintenance
of
the
ranton, the Board of Governors detained as members of un organisa-). ZURICH, July 23 (Reuter).-The the form of Free Tullocholarship in tion which was subject to foreign fate of Greece is forming the chief
A second
Tuition remainder of her time at the School, British subjects only by accident of satlong
tion during the influence
control. Some were subject of Italian-Bulgarian conver- Marion was Head Girl Prefect at the birth and there were also others be-Home, according to the Rome cor- which are taking place in Central British School which she left longing to a sort of international respondent in April 1839 having already passed underworld which fluated from flongkong Telegraph. Sir,-Yesterday I received notice deate Examination at the age of 14 strong notional loyalty.
School Leaving Certi-capital Cambridge
to another without from the GPO, that a parcel post years 3 months with such a high puckage awaited me there for da standard that she was granted exemp- enveloping livery. The notice was endorsed and tion from the London Matriculation
coolle sent to pick it up. le re-examination.
A communique slates that German thrust continues unabated on four fronts Including in the newly mentioned Petrogivesisk area north of Lake
Ladoga
German army continues
•The BOL
to
hammer away in the Prokov area apparently Leningrad from the south. After a
ingat fortnight the battle of Smolensk pro- turned and informed me that it ceeded without change.
would be nreessary to get a form TP
the
The central Ukrainian front was 21 marked by fierce fighting at Zhitomir, Office, so he was sent there to get
21 from the Import and Export Anti U-Boat
learns reliably that Smolensk
hands.
Successes
Blenheims Sink Ship
-
Tribune do one Geneve.” any
The correspondent anys! "Daly, which is finding the occupation.of Greece a pure burden owing to war devastation nad economic disorgani- sation, is obliged to husband her own resources in view of the expectation of a very hard winter,
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter)- Blenheim bombers were out this morning and afternoon searching for
"Italy is therefore proposing that Bulgaria should share the task ot keeping Greece alive and reconstruc- ling the country."
the Air Ministry. enemy shipping off the coast for AMERICAN WOMEN France and the Low Countries, states
TRIBUTE MADAME CHIANG
southwest of Novograd-Volynsk.
them. Again he returned and sald. Smolensk Not Taken
that the forms could only be secured MOSCOW, July 23 (Reuter).~
from a certain Chinese printer near "Reuter's" special correspondent | the Western Market and that there has le
would be
be a fee always been and still is in Russian two of the forms for which he had Sir Victor Warrender, Parlia-
connected with it. was sent there and returned with
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter). Salla Sector
to Lo hay 30 cents. These were filed mentary and Financial Secretary STOCKHOLM, July 23 (Reuter), out and presented to the Import and to the Admiralty, refused to be vessel was sunk and another was During these operations, one coastal The German-Finnish advance from Salia is now proceeding rapidly removed to the Imports and Exports tioned in the House of Commons strong force of aghters, bombed ob
Export Office who sta
stamped it "to
be drawn into details when ques- damaged. having passed boggy land, according Office for examination." The The
Other Blenheims, escorted by n to the "Afton Bladet" correspondent proceeded to the GPO, and picked to-day on U-boat losses.
CHUNGKING, July 23 (Central up the small parcel and returned to
jectives near Saint Omer early in Madame Chiang Kai-shek for her of tribute to "While I regret that I am un- the afternoon. The advance is evidently directed the I. & E. Office who, after examin-able to give details of recent at Kandoinks with the object of cut-ing It, decided that the contents were activities against U-boats, I can number of enemy fighters and des- four years has been received here. lendership of Chinese women in the fighters encountered ting the Russians off from Mur-not dullabic,
war of resistance during the past The coolle returned mansk.
to the GPO, and signed for It is believed that the attacking parcel.
the state that the results lately troyed five of them.
British losses In all these operations United China Relief Committee in from leading woman members of the forces are now within 45 mlies of
achievedhave been encourag-were five bombers and five fighters, America on behalf of American wo- Kandulaks.
ing," he said.
but the plot of one fighter is safe.
at Helsinki.
The only one who gained in the deal was the Chinese printer who got 15 cents each for two sheets of paper
HAPPENINGS IN which the I. & E. Office as a Govern
GERMANY
Hess Mentor Held LONDON, July 23 (Reuter), -The continued house arrest of the "geo-political" theorist, Dr Haushofer, who was arrested at
ment Institution should have furnish- ed gratis. The fact that it took the coolie from 8.30 am, until 3 secure the parcel does not count ng p.m. to I am thankful that I had him to do all this running anqurd thus saving my patience, money and shoe leather.
G. E. B.
the-time-of-the-Hess flight, is Wants News Of
reported by a "Reuter" corres- pondent "somewhere in Europe."
The same source reports that the bellef is held in many German circles that the Army is likely to take over control of Germany from the Nazi Party this autumn by then big successes against Russlä achieved.
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The girl asked for a special licence
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The message was addressed on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Sino-Chinese war on July 7.
Prominent among the signatories are Pear! Buck, noted American authoress, Mrs Henry Luce, wife of the publisher and editor of "Time," "Fortune" and "Life," and Mrs Wendell Wilkie,
INVITATION-TO- VISIT BRITAIN
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register omce with a20-year-old Senators to send sity wants to find Miss Sonya Blitz.the Company's documents
The solleflors' report concerning girl friend and a young Dutch sea-body to England as guests of the
result of the university having been Bank of China and tie Co-operative Her address has been lost as a proved; the London Agency of the bombed.
Wholesale Society,
nominated the Company's
Un in London's telephone directory.
Capital shores to be fully sub- Two of them were unobtainable view of subscription coming in a scribed; the capital to be increased in and none of the others knew any-general shareholders' meeting to be Uting about Sonya.
held in August or September;
There were six people of her name
Some of them, obviously, did not care for their name, but one busi ness woman scorned any suggestion that she should change It.
"With a name like mine customers can't forget you," she said.
A panel of consulting experts to fessional technicians and executives be established consisting of pro- in several major engineering and chemical Industries.
One Me Blitz, Mr Charles Blitz, of Purchasing Machines
Clapton, a a member, with his wife, of i Hackney's A.R.P. Service, has, how-raised, more ever, altered his name to Bliss.
marry her Dutch lover. She said she was 10, but the as- sistant registrar made inquiries and told the girl that she could not marry as she was under 16.
British Group of the Inter-Parlia mentary Union and the British Council to obtain first-hand impres sions of British life in all its aspects under present conditions,
The telegram, signed by Sir Mal- colm. Robertson, Chairman of the Rusc Faila ·
British Counell, and Colonel Arthur Her girl friend then began to Group, suggests that the deputation Evans, Chairman of the British cry, and declared that the marriage might travel either by some of the would have to take place as the bombers coming to this country or by Dutchman was the father of the 15-year-old girl's expected chlid.
It was found that this story was an invention.
sea.
The marriage did not take place: Duke Of Kent To
"I am astounded," said Mr J. Worrall, presiding magistrate, "that a girl of 15 could invent such a story
arrange her marriage."
The girl was sent to an approved fabric school.
A sum of £15,000 being already subscriptions to be canvassed; to purchase immediately "We didn't mind our legs being two sets of hand-woven pulled about the Blitzes beating the machines for the Chinese Industrial Blitzes," he said, "But we did not Cooperatives and to secure from the Ike our name being associated with Government priority for mass murder."
materials and export leences in der that orders could possible be executed and shipped to China by the manufacturers;
Smart Rescue By Swordfish
Off N. African Coast (OY "REUTER'S" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
GIBRALTAR, July 23 (Reuter)
raw
UT-
D3 Boon as
Ships For Britain Coming Off Slips
Visit Canada
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter)-The Dominions Omce oficially announced this evening that with the King's approval, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent will shortly be pro- cecting to Canada for a brief visit.
The Duke is greatly interested in the Commonwealth Air Training Plan and is desirous of seeing for himself some of the air training Ways and means to be discussed to NEW YORK, July 23, (Router) establishments where pilots and alr carry out the Finance Minister's
The first of 30 ten-thousand ton cargo crews are being trained. suggestions to establish a £100,000 ships being built for Britain at the revolving credit for
been warmly purchases of Todd shipyards in California is ex-welcomed by the Canadian Govern-
The proposal hog C. C's requirements. Although preted to be launched on August 15, ment and the Royal Canadian Air public enthusiasm and help is keen, four months to the day after the keel Force. it is realised that wartime conditions was laid. render rather dimeult the problem. Three more hulls are now on the OTTAWA, July 23 (Reuter)-H.
talipways,
Thirty similar vessels are being be leaving for Canada, it is an- R.H. the Duke of Kent will shortly built at the Todd yards at Portland,nounced by Mr Mackenzie King, the Maine.
Canadian Prime Minister,
to be fixed 44% which is reasonably of rafaling large sums. The interest In the face of a hail of bullets from low, 200 hostile tribesmen acting as fron- tier guards, a Swordfish plane from for a nation-wide appeal in order tú Finally, o scheme to be prepared Gibraltar, rescued the British bomber which crashed on the Britain. More intensive publicity: As of a secure greater support and ald from North African coast.
crew
The Swordfish was sent out to find the bomber which was spotted and seen to have burnt out. The pilat circled round for ten minutes to investigate and saw 200 tribesmen grouped around the bomber and the crow farther off
Taking advantage of a elight rise in
being planned,
Eden And Maisky
In Conference
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter)The the ground to keep out of sight of Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Mulsky, the main body of tribesmen, the accompanied by Lieut-General Goll- crow dashed towards the Swordfish, koy (who has just returned from zig-zagging as they ran as the tribes- Moscow) and Admiral Kharlamov, what was happening. men opened fire when they realised had a talk with the British Foreign Minister, Mr Anthony Edon, this The pilot turned the Swordfish so
afternoon, that the screw kicked
up a
Military Mission thick smoke screen of dust, partly hiding LONDON, July 23 (Router)-M the crew who scrambled aboard as Meclilov and Colonel Dragun, two the plane took off.
members of the Russian Military Mission, returned to London' to-night after a visit to Moscow to report to the Soviet Government.-
The Swordfish bore bullet marks when it returned to lbraltar with the crew unhurt,
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