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Provocative

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Driving Japan And U. S. Into War

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Aug. 10 (UP), The "Japan Newsweek" to-day editorially stated that the United States and Japan must immediately find means to halt the provocative actions which at present "scem destined, under their own momentum, to drive them into war. At this very moment, the United States is apparently toying with a course of action which will, if continued, precipitate war-name- ly, the virtual stoppage of oil ship. ments to Japan."

Tit For Tat

TOKYO, Aug. 10 (UP).The American Embassy to-day informed the office of the Financo Ministry that the United States la prepar to un-freeze funds for officials in the United States pro- vided that American officials in Japan are treated in a reciprocal manner.

Japan has already released British funds on a similar basis and it is expected that she will accept the United States proposal.'

Soviet Guerillas

FROM PAGE ONE

They destroyed eight German tanks, 25 trucks, 12 light and heavy guns and much other qulpment.

Queen Elizabeth Speaks To America

FROM PAGE ONE

enemies, and it is only now that wa are beginning to murahtal around us in their full strength the devotion and resources of our great British family of nations which will in the end, please God, assuredly provali.

Courage of People Through these waiting months, a heavy burden is being borne by our people. As I go amongst them. 1 marvel at their unshakeable con- stancy. In many cities, their homes are left in ruins as are many of those ancient buildings which you know and love hardly less than we do ourselvey,

Women and children have been killerk

and even sufferers. hospital have not been spared. Yet hardship has only steeled our hearts and strengthened our resolu tion. Wherever I go, 1 ree bright eyes and smiling faces, for though our rond is stony and hard, it is straight and we know that we fight its a great cause. It is not our way la dark days to turn for support to others, but even had we minded so to de, your instant help would have forestalled us,

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August 11, 1941.

Nazi Peace Offensive In America

LONDON, Aug. 10 (leuter),—The Nazi pence offensive due to start in America to-morrow is doomed be. fore it is born, sald Quentin Reynolds, the American Journalist, broadcasting to-night.

Orders have been given to con→ tinentat newspapers To publish speeches by American "Isolationists,**

Reynolds. said

Addressing Hiller throughout as "Mr Schleiegruber-a name which was yours until you changed it be- fore the last war," Reynolds said that Britain knew all about the new, peace offensive. It had died before it was born."

Publicity by Goebbels' agents was arranged to begin to-morrow. "They will say now that a new order has been established, that there is pence In Continental Europe and that American aid of Interference would result in civil war in countries which are now happy under German pro- tection. I Amerien persists in hip- ing Britain, it will inean chaos on the Continent,"

The American journalist concluded by saying to Hitler: "In the countries in which you hold temporary sway there is not peate but paralysis."

us living and fighting in these islands. Vichy To Make Final

We can never and shall never for gei that in the nour of our greatest need, you came forward with clothes for the homeless, food for the hungry, comfort for those who were sorely picted.

Bridges Blown Up One guerilla detachment blew several bridges and annihilated the German-Finnish garrisoners at three frontier settlements and destroyed

Finnish Ammunition trains. The detachment established connee- tions with Revetal other guerili Kroups.

A revolt of Albanian peasants against tallan usurpern broke out in several villages north of the town of Zergyan. Detachments of troops were sent by the occupation authori- iles from Greece to suppress the revolt, but were smashed by the in- surrectionists. The Albanians слу tured four Italian mountain guns,

and

large eight machine-guns number of hand grenades.

Late Communique Moscow, Aug. 10 (Reuter),—The following is the text of a communique issued by the Soviet Information Bureau at 10.30 p.m. G.M.T.

con-

Canteens, ambulances and medicul supplies have come in an unecasing flow from the United States. I find it hard to tell you of our gratitude In adequate terms though I ask you to believe that is deep and sincere beyond expression.

Unless you have seen as I have seen just how your gifts have been put to use, you cannot know perhaps the solace which you have brought to men and women of Britain, who ure suffering and toiling in the cause of freedom.

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with General Weygand, It was not a full Cabinet meeting but nost Cabinet members met at the Pare Hotel to continue negotiations with General Weygund which begun yes- terday.

While Marshal Petaln was at the race track, he was joined by M. Capini, the French Ambassador to Germany who is in charge of pri- soners' affairs and who

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ieved, he negotiated with the Ger- (See "The Return From Crete” At the Queen's)

man authorities for the liberation of Here in Britain, our women more categories of prisoners. working in the factory and in the

Bonnet In Vichy fold, turning the lathe and gather LONDON, Aug. 10

(Reuter)-M. ing the harvest, for we must have

the former French Paul Ronnet, food as well as munitions. Their | Foreign Minister, hus arrived in courage" magnificent, their endur ance amazing. I have seen them in Vichy, reports the German radio.

The announcer added: "Bonnet different activities. They are many

Maralal Petain has always pressed "On August 10 our troops serving in their thousands with Navy to collaborate with German," tinued fighting stubbornly against Army and Air Force, driving heavy

A Vichy dispatch quoted by the the directions of Sultsi, lorries, cooking, cyphering and typ German radio states that according to enemy in Kholm, Smolensk, Bycin-Tserkoving and everyone of them is work-

rumours prevalent

Vichy, and Uman.

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Darlon is to be made "Our uir force

co-operation

conditions. Many are on the land,dmiral of France" owing to his dur precious roll, driving the plough "quistuning merits." He will also with the land forces inflicted blows on

and making a

Job grund enbmy punzer troops and infantry.

of it. On August our air force brought clon 45 German alreraft and lost 25 of our own,

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Others are air raid wardens or am be raised to a milltary rank giving regard to bulance drivers, thousands of un-him greater authority in daunted women who quietly and milltary matters:

calmly face the terrors of night "According to precise data *now

bringing strength ani avaliable, during the German rald bombings, on Moscow an te night of August

courage to the people they protect nircraft 0-10, len German'

and help. were brought down and not eight as pre- viously reported,

five in

"During the day of August 9, our fighters destroyed addition Gerinan reconnaissance alrerafi the Moscow civil defento zone.

Nazis' Silence LONDON, Aug. 10 (Reuter).— Following their recent claims of great military • Ruccesses agninst the Russians In the Ukraine, the Nazis about lo-day fell strangely silent the operations on the eastern front,

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I must give a special word, to the nurses, those wonderful women whose devotion and whose herolam will never he forgotten. In the black horror of a bombed hospital. they never faller and though often man lines, sabotaging and wounded, think always

their farms and even villages.

Northern Front patients and never of themselves.

And I need not remind you, who STOCKHOLM, Aug. 10 set as much sture by your home life-The cutting off of several Russian as we do, how great are the diff divisions is claimed In culties which our house-wives live communique. to face nowadays and how gallantly

The German mitl-day communiquer \ they are tackling them.

their

holding

(Reuter).

a

Finnish

resurrected the well-known phrase about "operations contiguing accord- |ing to plan" but made no specle utary claims. Even Goebbels Confial news agency-usually SO that whatever the nature of their losses of men verbose had little to say about the daily or nightly tasks, they are cheer- obstinate resistance..

fortified It says that the enemy's positions have been broken through almost and that wedges have I could continue the list

driven indefinitely, so manifold Is the ser- on far as Lake Lodoga. Several

progress of the fighting.

Where Battles Raging According to the Moscow com- munique, battles are still raging in. the same sectors of the front, namely: Smolensk, where the Nazis have now been held up for weeks Bfter driving ugly wedge

an

the Into Russian lines: Korosten, an important Ukrainian railway town ទទ miles northwest of Kiev, the capture of

Korosten) the Germans re- claimed; and the Estonian sector where the Germans are trying to soush

their Way through to Leningrad.

grad. A message from Stockholm

سلام

| night indicates that the Germans are now trying to modify the sensational claims they made yesterday of the trapping of Soviet forces In southern Ukraine by an encircling movement alming at cutting off the Black Sea port of Odessa and Nikolalev.

Meanwhile Soviet guerilla bunds, It is offelally announced in Moscow, are continuing their work in the Gerinan rear. Some of them are operating as far baek 35 Lwow in Poland over 250 miles behind the German lines.

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vice which our women in Britain enemy divisions have been cut off, -are-giving.-Jjut-1-want-to-tell-you-There -have-been-great- enemy.

and material

owing to

It adds that the completion enerelement and destruction of the enemy is continuing, but does not mention a single place.

Memorial Service

ed by the evidence of your thought for them.

Woman To Women We like to picture you knitting on your porches, serving in your com- mittee rooms and helping In 窳 hundred ways to bring relief to ou civilian garrison here. Though speak for us all in Britain in thank- ing all of you in America, I feel that would like to send special niegasge of thanks to American

Mr Lofei Pai-hong, late Managing- women, It gives us strength to know Director of the Chung Hwa Book that you have not been content to Company and member of the People's pass us by on the other side. To us Political Council, who died on July

the time of our tribulation, you 9, was honoured at

inemorial ser- have surely shown that compassion Vie which has been for 2,000 years the Hall in Hongkong, states "Central vice held yesterday at the Confucius mark of the good neighbour.

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Beileve me, and I am speaking for

The service was attended by over millions of us win know the bitter 1,000 persons including Government but also the proud sorrow of war, and Party officials visiting in Ilong- we are grateful. We shall not for-

cultural kong, representatives of get your sacrifice. The sympathy from our common speech and tradi- friends and relatives of the deceased. which inspires it springs not only organisations, the entire staff of the Chung Hwa Book Company, and tions, which we share with you, but even more from our common ideals,

Sinful Tyranny

To you Lyranny is as sinful as it is to us. To you, the things for which we will fight to the death are 10 less sacred; and to my mind at any rate your generosity is born of your conviction that we fight to serve a Cause that is yours no less than ours; of your high resolve that, however great the cost and however long the struggle, justice atal freedom, human dignity and kindness shall not perish from the earth. I look to the day when we shall go forward hund in hand to build a better, kinder nud happier world for our children. May God bless you all."

MENZIES SENSES

CRISIS

ADELAIDE, Aug. 10 (Router). "Developments which brocked no dielny" was the reason given by Mr

by many Government leaders, pro- Scrolls of culogy were presented

minent among whom were Mr Lin

Chairman Sen,

of the National Government, General Wu Te-chen. Secretary-General of the Central Party Headquarters, Generals, Poi Chung-hsi, Li Taung-jen, LI, Chi-sen and others.

Mr Ma Chao-chun, Kuomintang C.E.C. member, oficialed at the cere mony while Mr Y.-W. Wang, Mon- aging-Director of the Commercial Press, culogised the life work of the deceased,

Alexandria Raider Is Forced Down

CAIRO, Aug. 10 (Reuter)—]} } now, revealed that German plone made A forced landing. at Lake Borellos, about 50 miles Cart Alexandrin, during an attempted raid on the Nile delta last week, The four occupants were taken-pri-

R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime soner. Two of them were wounded. Minister, for the cancellation of his tour of Australia and his decision to

return immediately to Melbourne Boxer Fund Studies

for a full meeting of the Cabinet, called for noon to-day.

U.S. Cruisers Move

DRISBANE, Aug. 10 (Reuter) The two heavy United States crufs- ers Northampton and Salt Lake City, which arrived here unexpectedly last Tuesday on a training cruise, salled to-day. Their destination is not dis- closed.

Are Postponed

.CHUNGKING, Aup 10 (Inter- national) The Board of Directors of the British Boxer Indemnity Fund has announced that ・ owing to the European war no Chinese studenta will be sent to England to pursue advanced studies this year.

Those who have left Hongkong are recalled.

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