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U.S. Warplanes May Head Of

Defend Hongkong

FROM PAGE ONE

shock of tousled sandy hair. Muddy shoes and burrs on his socks sug- gested a strenuous day in the open with, his troops.

Liked Him Instantly

I liked him instantly. And so does everyone I've talked to about him especially military men. He's a man's a soldier's soldier, who isn't afraid to dirty his hunds, A man to inspire confidence; and the man necessary to counterbalance civillanı Hongkong's ostrichiam.

I asked him what he thought of Hongkong, and her chances If war military to her doorstep. came to m man, he answered in

in military terms; "Hongkong has the greatest con- centration of guns in the British Em-

from the pire of all types,

biggest of large-calibre coastal defence guns to high-altitude anti-aircraft And from what I've seen during my

I round, of inspections, can say that I am more than satisfied with the

President

Lines Due

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH HONOLULU, Aug. 13-(UP)Dr of tho Henry Grady, President American President Lines arrived by Clipper to-day en route to the Für Eust

In an interview he slated that "keeping the flow of essential raw materials trom the Far East for the national defence programme in my main objective but it also entails materials from keeping these same getting into the hands of nations that we do

want to sec get such materials,"

He said that he would study the repercussions of the export control act on the Philippines and then go to the Dutch East Indies, British Molayn, Burma, India, Ceylon, Singapore and Hongkong.

degree of efficiency, training and Sarajoglu Dines With

thent

accuracy of fire of the gunners in their practice shools, More pleased, too, with the men them- selves, who are mostly seasoned troops of extraordinary high morale. conndent," he concluded, "that we'll put up a jolly good show, coine what may."

I'm

British Ambassador

ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuter)-Slr Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen, British Ambassador to Turkey, entertained | M. Sarajoglu, Foreign Minister, and

Cabinet Ministera four other Wednesday.

Satisfaction ANKARA, Aug. 13 (UP)-The and

August 14, 1941.

COUNTER-ATTACK BY SOVIET

FROM PAGE ONE

division' tried to outflank the Russians. -The latter counter- attacked and in the course of three daya killed or wounded 7,600 Germans, cuptured 10 tanks, 27 eungen und much other materint,

Estonia Fighting According to a Helsinki repart, 100,000 Russians are now fighting in northern Eatonin, but are being hampered by tens of thousands of civil refugees, including men, women and children. The refugees aro mostly Communists from other Boitie

countries and are homeless. They are reported to be constituting great hondleap to the fighting Soviét Troops and are a heavy drain as for as supplies are concerned.

Well informed circles belleve that the fall of Tallinn now imminent as a great many refugees are imped- ng militaty operations.

"Nothing Important" (BY "REUTER'S" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

LONDON, Aug. 14-Nothing in- portant occurred "on the war fronts, yesterday" was the reply given by the Soviet military headquarters in Moscow to-day to German claims of a sweeping advance in the Ukraine.

the

would be absurd for the Russians to use such phrases it comes in very important had happened absence of new place names in to. indication, in view of practice, that there has been no al- vance by the main German forces.

Grain Stocks

Two Important Weapons Well, in my opinion, blitzkrieg war has proven the value of two Import-Foreign Minister, M. Sarajoglu, today's Soviet communique is a clear ant weapons-the tonk and the day expressed to the British warplane. For Hongkong, the prin- Russian

cipal part of which is built on a com- paratively small island of stcep- sided hills, the tanic is immediately ruled out, But with Japanese aero- dromes

occupied Chinese territory only

distant by air, the threat of an air-blitz, here, aliould the balloon go up, is a grim one Indeed.

minutes

Apparently, Hongkong has no air force stationed here to meet this Ureat. The Nipponese, however, are suspicious of this, All signs here point clearly to a British determing- tion to defend this place strongly-- threat or

no threat of Javanese blitzkrieging planos.

In Singapore some weeks ago, Air Vice-Marshal Fulford, Commanding

the R.A.F. in the Far East, corn- mented on Britain's air power in

ya, Sald be: Malaya.

In

"Do not

not imagine the air force hero

Is solely for the defence of Singapore.

last

year pleted a chain of military nerodromes that stretch the northern frontiera. of Molayn; and in Burma, to the frontiers of China."

or so we have com-

good idea

Ambassadors Turkey's greatest satisfaction over the notes presented yesterday and agreed that they were a very important devian-

menti.

Informed circles regarded

the Russian and British notes as definite of British proof of the alignment and Russian political as well as military policies.

LATE NEWS

Democracies Debating Big Issues

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

past Soviet

This does not mean that advance German units may not again have ventured to push ahend, possibly to- wards Nikolaley, the Black Sens port 70 miles northeast of Odesan, whose gigantic silos doubtless conjure up for

the Germans visions of vost grein stocks.

Actually there is every reason to suppose that in accordance with M. Stalin's policy, the Russians would move this grain inland if Nikolaiev were seriously threatened, which is not yet the case. At all

ni, should even!, strategle retreat be necessary, the Russians, can afford, after the har- vest has been gathered, to abandon part of the Ukrainian farmland and may be expected to take up strong

the positions inside bend of the from an industrial Daleper which paint, it would be very important to

preserve.

Slaughter Goes On STOCKHOLM, Aug, 13 (Router), The Russian armies are not yet out of the game, although months ago Berlin declared that organised Soviet military formations no longer existed, that the ronds to Leningrad, Moscow and Kley were open, and that huge breathes has been made in the Stalin line", writes the newspaper "Mandel- stidning" to-day.

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'Japanese May Get Surprise

Now, I have a pretty that in the last few months Kerally hundreds of American warplanes Lend-Lease stuff-have been pour- Ing into Molaya and Burma, and mysteriously disappearing up coun- try. And a haunting suspicion must he beginning to form in the minds of

assertion was made. When the al- envious Japanese across Hongkong's

LONDON, Aug. 14 (UP)-A eleaf sacker reached the former Russion borders that should they, attempt an division between the Axis and | frontler he was mel by a living wall alr-biltz here, squadrons these Democratie worlds is regarded as of Russians and a

massed army. American wat-planes may suddenly imminent in informed neutral circles Against this wall the Germans have Dally At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30, 9.30 p.m. appear at their backs-operating from as a result of consultations under dung column after colunin which were "Somewhere in Free China," stream- way. ing in along a dotted line of secret al bases

:ll bases reaching

the way back to Burma and 1 Singapore.

Hongkong, then,

may no longer be the isolated outpost of Britain in the Far East. And perhaps the growing defensive strength of Britain

The solution of the mystery of whether President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill have been conferring may be announced in Mr. Atlee's broad- cast on Thursday which will last ten minutes and will deal with matters at of the highest imp

broken Inte binady scraps of humanity against the Soviet break- water. No sign of the end of the slaughter la yet in view."

Bulgars For Front MOSCOW, Aug. 13 (UP)—The press tu-day gave prominence to a

Singapore has by now reached pru- and other nationee to Britain dispatch from Berne reporting that

portions where its defensive sphere

I now return you to NBC.

German demands have been made on

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While Germany and her Allies Bulgaria to send two "reliable" of influence has already been ex-pounded the Ukraine, Axis diplomats divisions to the castern front. tended to include Hongkong.

-and their colleagues elsewhere ap In order to avoid a formal declara-

Siberia Bait Held Out Mozambique Loyal peared to mark time pending devetlen of war, the divisions lopments which would "revent how sibly consist of volunteer The--TOKYO,-Aug-14-(Reuter) The MADRID. Aug 13 (Reuter)

called the Democratie world expects to dispatch added that Bulgaria has not highest German representatives In The Portuguese Ambassador DEPRIVED OF

shape its policy henceforce. Vichy's yet answered the request, trying to Tokyo are telling Japan that Russia's at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs new lurch toward totalitarian ways of convince the Germans that they could Siberian Army is a more mob of un-to-day and strongly denied a report LIVELIHOOD

to published in the Spanish press that thinking, with the implications It assist better with foodstuffs while trained

irregulars, according

of the Goverment Pleading that the Cholera Regula carried of further concessions to entry into the war against the Soviets three articles concluded in the news-seven members

of Mozambique bad called on Marshal urgency to

lo- might lead to internal disruption, Anglo- come, added

paper "Kokumin Shimbun" to-day. tions had deprived them

forn to their American efforts

"Irce to solidify the

The series consisted of a round-Smuts, offering lo former means of livelihood of collect- united front of Powers willing to re-

talk between the Japanese government" in the colony as soon table ing cockles and mussels from the sea sist the Axis, and to work out paine-

lender political

Tyutaro Nugal, as Marshal Smuts wished it. and that they were forced to dredge thing to offer

The Ambassador and that the re- the world in the

Major-General Eugen Out (German for goal from the sea bed, Chan Pat,

future.

Ambassador) and the German Milit-port was vulgar and fantasie and 36, and Chan Nga, 30, both fishermen,

pointed out that never before had current discussions presuma-

ary Attame

Attachn. were fined $7 or in default seven

The

Dakar and touching on questions li which is more directly England's than flussia's concern.

days hard labour by La Coindrly embrace all continents, centring on obvious dunger spots like Thul- Jolly at Marine Court this morning. land, the Amur border, Tunts and

Sut Stewart, sold the Defendanta used grappling Irons to lift coal and other articles from the sea bed at Wanchol Bay yesterday. First De- fendant had 85 lbs of coal in his sopan, and second Defendant had about 130 lbs.

Convincing aid for Russia is na- turally on the agenda.

Vlowed from London, the For Eastern crisis seems to have lost some of its urgency during the last few sure Just what the West is about produce from up its sleeve.

The Russian situation is accentuat-

TWO HOUR RAID

ON BERLIN,

FROM PAGE ONE

dromes in Holland and docks at Le Havre were also attacked.

"From all these operations 13 bers, are missing.

ANOTHER $5,000 days, probably because Tokyo is not territory,

FROM 'BLOW-INS'

Anuther cheque for-$5,000 has been sent to the Bomber Fund from the Fellowship of the Bellows, thus bringing the total subscribed to date to $35,000.

MAM to his denial.

a

In this the Ambassador asserted the bond between Portugal and her that the present campaign against colonies been so close.

call the Soviet Union fulfills all the us this evening's papers give prominence

aims Following the Ambassador's of the Tripartite Alliance. With angelic harmony, the conferees

The message originally published agreed that a Soviet collapse was bominévitable, that the United States which gave rise to the dental was official, Spanish news agency was hypocritical in supporting "dictatorship" while hiding the truth message from Lisbon which alleged from its own people and that Amerl that the news was "of an authorila-

from Pretoria. can action in Iceland was prompted ve origin" and had been received only by greed for more territory. NE TERASEN,

ed by the Ukraine drive which harbours and on Hues, is on Ger-

drom

Snatcher Gets Broken Nose

Settlement Of Strike Sought

Fighter Command "Fighter Command aircraft attack cd an enemy aerodrome in occupied "Aircraft of the Coustal Command to

on patrol off the Norwegian coast during

shipping. the night

Giving details of the Air the muny,

stated that in Ministry almost all areas heavy cloud and

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" bad weather were encountered. The

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 badness of the weather kept the bam-

With broken nose and bruises on bers over Beriln for a long time look his face, Lok Wan-heung, unemploy (UP)The Navy Department ing for targets. One of the worst barrages yet encountered faced them.ed, appeared before Mr D. J N. has not yet taken over the Anderson at Kowloon Magistracy Kearney, New Jersey, plant of this morning on a chorge of snatching.

threatens, from the ground and air, some of the biggest Soviet industrial plants.

So far as neutrals here are aware, Vichy has not agreed to any conces-

Dutch Exempted

The Receiver af Windfails informs įsions In Africa, us that the "Blow-ing" for July have not been as promptly remilted as in previous months, but this he attri butes to the effect of the hot speil. ilo requests us to express the hope that the weather will not be per- milted to interfere with the activity

of members.

Incidentally, this latest windfall for the Bomber Fund brings the total

to within only $14,000 of the $2,500,- 000 mark.

SPANISH ENVOY TO NANKING

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” SHANGHAI, Aug. 13 (UP).—Wang Ching-wel's "Central Press" reports from Nanking that the Spanish Government has decided to appoint Senor Alviro de Maldonado, former Spanish Consul General at Manilo na Minister to Nanking.

Gib. Plane Crash

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH ROME, Aug, 13. (UP)-A dispatch from Tangler to the "Giornale d'Italia" states that an American war plane which was incorporated in the. British air force crashed into the sen while on, o", training" "flight, over Gibraltar. All members of the crew. were killed.

From Freezing

simultaneously exempting the Dutch TOKYO, Aug. 14 (Reuter). diplomatic and Consular officials from the freezing regulations, the Finence Ministry to-day is gazelting the addition of Uganda and Kenya to he list of designated nations and territories aubject to freezing.

Berlin Off · Air.

LONDON, Aug. 13 (UP)Nodlo Berlin went off the air at 10.45 pm. to-night..

Japan Watchful- And Waiting

FROM PAGE ONE

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4.

purse from Mr A. H. Ismail, of the the Federal Shipbuilding and Dalry Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Co. Dry Docking Corporation be- Defendant Was alternatively cause the Governor of New charged with receiving stolen pro- Jersey, Mr Charles Edison, ask-

perty

It was stated that Complainant was ed for a delay, saying "There. alighting from a bus in Prince must be some other way Edward Road about 8 pun, yesterday settle the dispute." when he felt a movement in his hip The strike has tied up nearly u pocket. He boarded the bus again half billion dollars worth of naval. and saw Defendant holding the purse defence construction; in his hand

to

W

During the struggle with Com- obtain

plainant, Defendant received a broken SOUTH AMERICAN

noso and bruises.

at present is apparently, to means for evacuating her nationals.

Why Japanese Delay, Some observers believe that the Japanese are delaying settlement of the shipping and de-treezing ques- tions pending further study of the Anglo-American attitude whether Important Statement they are threatening merely tional short of war measures or the worst eventuality.

Convicted on the second charge, Defendant was sentenced to three months' hard labour.

addi-

It is not noteworthy, that the special dispatches from London and Wash Ington to the vernacular press em phasise that Britain and America will not take the Initiative unices Japan moves,

TROUBLE

SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRṀPHY QUITO, Aug. 13 (UP).-A.com- munique Issued to-day says that Peruvian Innd, and air forces attark- ed and took Zapotillo on the border between. Peru and Ecuador on August 11, but later retired,

Confirmed

By Mr Attlee: LONDON, Aug. 13 (Reuler)-Mг|

Aug.. 13. (UP)The Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal and LIMA, Deputy Prime Minister, will broadcast Foreign Ofice to-day stated that two through all stations of the British Peruvians and eight Ecuadorians Broadcasting Corporation an Import were killed and five Ecuadorians near Zapotillo. ant announcement on behalf of the taken prisoner Government at 2 pm. G.M.T. to-Twelve Ecuadorian officers were cap- Miss Santos, of No. 71B Wong Nai morrow. This will be heard in tured near · Roca^^; Fuerto, as The Chung Road, has reported that Hongkong at 11 o'clock tonight.Ecuadorians

at both places, while she Was walking. along Nathan Road, near Hamilton Street,

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