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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 18, 1941.

Sicily and North Africa Raked by Royal Air Force

CAIRO, Aug. 17. (Reuter).--A successful raid on Sielly on Friday night was reported in the R.A.F. communique to-day which states:

"Sielly: Heavy R.A.F. bombers carried out a successful raid on the port of Catania during Friday night, and many bombs were dropped on the central mole, railway stations, Customs bulidings and warehouses, causing one large fire and many, small

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Later, an explosion occurred when

the fumes were rising to a height of Bowlers On Top

100 feet and were visible for 70 miles. Sweeps were made by fighters over southern Stelly yesterday but no combat resulted.

"Cyrenaien: During Friday night I.A., bombers raided aerodromes at Berks and Bening, and the ports of Bardia and Benghazi. At Benina direct hits were registered on hars and administrative buildings. Cone trol offices were set on Bre, and there were a number of explosiona

"At Berku, gruded arerat were attucket, Aircraft of the Firet Air Arm, supported by R.A.F. Bombers, successfully rniclett Bardia and bombed shipplug at Benghazi.

Tobruk

In Matches

At Home

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LONDON, Aug. 18 (Renter)- While bowlers dominated the Lord's match between the R.A.F. and Sir Pelliam Warner's eleven. the Inter-county game at Trent- bridge brought two centuries. “

Nottinghamshire declared with 200 for four wickets and Leicestershire lost two wickels for 55 In the available time, the game being drawn. The first two Nottingham wickets fell cheaply bat Joe Hardstaff, the Junior England "Enemy gun positions south of our pinyer joined R. T. Simpson and the positions at Tobruk were subjected Par sent the bowling to all parts of the to a heavy bombardment by theeld.

Simpson is slower than Hardste in combined forces of the RAF, atic his clever strokes before he was caught South African Alr Forve hambers scored 11. whereas Hardstaff, who and fighters.

reached 100 in nety minutes w "Our Oghters intercepted urid dam-clean bowled with a seare of 120. aged an Italino bomber off Clambat.

Malta

One-day Match

Under the One Day rules, Warner's "Malta: Malta was raided on Fri-eleven beat the Airmen by 20 runs day night but with only minor dam-Batthug first, Warner's did Hille ngainst Frun all these operations, only the grind bowling of Austin Mathews. who bus played for Glamorgon and one of our alperaft is mn.selng.

Northamptonshire, - Matthews took six for 31. getting three In one over and opposition was all-out for before

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MEXICO-BRITAIN

Renewed Relations

Advocated

Mexico City, Aug. 17.

The Airmen however, against rebat tery of fund bowlers, collapsed with only 10), Sergeant Parker, with 22. alune

reaching: double figures.

With time available, the teams but | best main, Warner's declaring 65 for 3. (the Airmen getting 51 for f. and War-

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SIX DEAD IN CRASH-U.S. Army bomber missing three days from Salt Lake City was found on Wyoming plain near Lyman, its six cccupants dead. Ship, broken in two, was believed to have hit a slight rise in the prairie, while in full flight. This wired picture shows the wreck..

Human Touch In Wartime Gifts From Farflung British Colonies

In manpower and money, as well as in gifts to meet particular needs, the British Colonies play their part in the Empire's war effort. Here are five stories of recent contributions,

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His propagandu would precaution seem to fall on slony ground whille planes with such names as Ashan- 11," "Gold Coast," "Northern Ter- itories," and, "Sierra Leone help to ruze German factories to the ground and play havoc with shipping in the

THE names of three tribes in Kenya-Kikayu, Kamba and Meru-are painted on three of the finest fighter aircraft in the] R.A.F., representing their gift to Britain.

North Sen.

JAMAICA can claim to have

ANTI AIRCRAFT gunners[of this for the purpose of siuving, could read it.

heads hygenic Home of the their isolated spots in Britain have taken by every African soldier. But in war-time the supply of broken been adopted by unknown "god- dass in Africa is limited, however, parents" in the Colonies, The plentiful it may be elsewhere. result is that they can now go to the cinemus every week with out moving from their camps.

The "pictures" are brought to them in mobile vans bought by the people

started the first subscription of Ceylon, of Fort Jameson

for the first bomber fund with Northem Rhodesia, Dominica in the

a spontaneous public collection Windward Talands,

other

Pijl prefers bombers, and FINI

of £20,000 NOW increased by colonies who heard stories of these

Fiji I have done their best £10,000. Ceylon, on the other BRITISH DENIAL men who guard iritain.

Another innovation is the gramo-lately to keep the people of a large hand, pridos, herself on having phone vans or "gramovans," to quote German port awake at nights. the Army, of which twe have been Many of the giant bombers which instituted the original "Spit- given by

of Barbados. roar over Germany have a signif- fire Fund" now grown to £165,- the Island These visit the cups, regularly to cunt message for Goebbels if only he 000. give the men concerts of their own

The restoration diplomater re-r's being judged

iations between Britain und Mexienį is urged in a resolution passed by the majority group in the Mexican Senate.

The statement says: "At this grave inoment of the collapse of the human

thest innings

values of civilisation, the resection Demands On Thailand

diplomatle relations between

Singapore, Aug. 17.

Mexico anch Britain would be

logical step between two comfries An official statement was issued which cherish ideals of Democracy: to-day by Air Chief Marshal Sir--choice, and would constitute effective re Roll Brooke-Popham, Comman-

of the ideals." -Reuter.

inforcement of the line of defence der-in Chief of British Forers in the CHILDREN in the colony of

Far East regarding rumours emanat- ng from Japan that he had threaten |ed Timiland with the uses of

uses ut force, MA

London's Awkward Memory

London, Aug. 17.

As regards thé Mexican Senate ren!

said,

Mauritius recently collected £300 for a mobile canteen and sent it to the children of Lon-

solution, it is rembled that dijdoma typical flight of faney." geri don.

His relations between Mexien and Britain were suspended in May 1938 following a dispute over the expro- priation by the Mexican Government of British owned oil fields in Mexico.

-Reuter.

I deny it emphatically. not an atom of truth in it.

dorse the statement made yesterday

This personal concern for those in- j jured and made homeless in air raids]

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'As The Crow Flies" Not The Most Direct Flight

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DALLAS, Tex.-There's nothing direct about the by Sir Josiah Crosby, British Minis-on Britain is su rent in the Colonies way the crow flies, Roy L. Mitchell, operations manager

ter to Thailand, that we have made no demands whatsover on the gov enment of Thailand."--Įtenger.

Force Sufficient To

Deal With Japanese

that incbile canteens have become

the usual expression of their anxiety in charge of flying for American Airlines, believes.

to help.

names of

The United States, and . Great Britain to-day have

the by Ceylon. Kenya

HOW BRITAIN'S STORY IS BEING

TOLD RUSSIANS.

A group of Russians and one Englishman were selected by the British Foreign Ofee to broadenst)

the Soviet was invaded, says Rey

"In fact," he says, "if a transport Liverpool dockers have bern cheered by ኣነ given by Sierra pilot were to navigate as the crow dues, he would draw a sharp re- Leone

in memory of the tong asrimand from the operations office," rociation between the two places. In debunking the simile of the On the morning after the biggest air attack in London's history, the mythical straight flight of the crow, ritizens were heartened by the sight birds more direct in their light.

Mitchell declares there are several the of vehicles bearing Malta, Zanzibar and Fiji. Canteens The American operations chief in the Midlands have been also has some doubts about the and simile "as swift as a bird." "You

can't use the birds any more helped. The ten growers of may be judged," Mitchell said.

"For instance," Ceylon, the workers on coffee plan-

he

"our says, tations in Kenya, the cocon growers familiar friend the robin could save West Indies have ail given travelling migration to the south each autunn of the Gold Coast, of Nigeria, and the considerable time-on-his-annual broadcasters are:-- "coffee stalls to the British people."

by using a luxury airliner. In mer-appointed expert on foreign affairs to sured tests, the robin's speed has the Minister of information, and who was once a political prisoner in the ONE and a half Spitfires have been fixed at 30 miles an hour, a Soviet.

been given to the R.A.F. by proximately one-fifth the speed of a

modern transport plane." the peasants of Kano Province: in Nigeria.

Lateral force with which to he firm in their dealings with Japan. Groups of workers in the Colonies standards by which speed of flight Leland Stowe, "Chicago Daily News" correspondent, said in Manila on arrival en route to his new beat at Singapore.

He said that if there is a powers in the Far East, Japan united front of democratic will think a long time" before attacking either the Philippines or Singapore.

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The paper understands that the Bruce Lockhart, who was recently

A Russian engineer named Gub- kin, who was once associated with the White Russians,

Stowe expressed the view that if Japan attacks with force, she is more likely to attack Russia than risk a

Bird Speeds

A mum named Kuslakin, once an war with the United States or Bel They contributed three-quarters

Russia shows

Mitchell said that the fastest bird attache nt the Russian Czar's London suficient of the total of £10,000 which the weakening Japan is likely to invade Province sent to London to buy and the only one that can compare Embassy. Vladivostok and the Soviet maritime Spitares.

with an airplane is the duck hawki An alleged Trotskyist exile named provinces, he thinks.

This is all the more remarkable which is been timed at 180 miles Lopke.

Baroness Budberg, who was when you consider that the average an hour, slightly under the cruising

member of the old Russian aristo- about the Russo-Japanese income of a Nigerian peasant is £10 speed of a passenger plane. non-aggression Part-will it 1101 a year. And he carhs it painfully Other familiar birds and their crancy. stand in the way?" he was asked.

In salirical vein, the paper declares by growing ground nuts, cotton and speeds, Mitchell said, are the purple Stowe laughed. "No pact ever

other crops,

nurtin and the blue jay at 20 miles that the Foreign Office is apparently stood in the way of a totalitarian re- line," he declared.

When the peasants heard that an hour; the sparrow hawk, 25 miles animated by a new spirit of denu Spitfire Fund bad been opened in an hour: the heming pigeon, 45 ratic fervor.

"It is learned that the group of The Province they rushed to hand in miles; the humming-bird, 55; wild

by the the most the authorities would ne- the swallow, 106 miles, and their contributions of a penny a man turkey, 55 miles; the crow, 60 miles: broadcasters first engaged

B.B.C. Itself was first rate," it suye. 120. engle

"Why let an ignorant Foreign cept from them.

However."

Mitchell said, "you Office endanger the effort to These

men, mainly Houssas of the Muslim faith, "It is a matter of hard fact," he the I.A.F, with the keenest interest. fastest fight ever recorded, although asks Reynolds,

follow the exploits ef have to go back to nature for the Britain's story to the Russians?" raid "that American and British aero- Most of them have kinsmen la then insect instead of a bird, did the plane production will equal that of Nigeria Regiment of the famous

Increase In Production The war correspondent directed attention to the rapid increase in American and British aeroplane pro- duction.

the

The fastest flying speed

By Punch

tell

the Axts by next spring. Before Royal West African Frontier Force, known is 818 miles an hour, attained nest June, American and British armpling production will surpass in East Africa have recently paid in whose mottled wings are still to be

to whose fighting powers the itallans by the male deer fly, a small Insect Passive Resistance

unwilling tribute, matched in effeiency by the pro- During these operations the R.A.F helter." it will be remembered, cleared the skies of Italian bombers.

that of the Axis"

said

he speaks from a personal knowledge of the facts, gained from a tour of American defence plants.

At the present rate of production,

a year by December, Stowe mald. In June the

voluntary and

18,000 to 20,000 acroplates of WHEN all the British officers of a Gold Const company of United States produced 1,500 nero- African troops were killed in planes,

and a year from now the storming a position in Italian output will be doubled, he pointed Somaliland, the men re-formed

Stowe said he will remain in the themselves and rushed Far East about a year, probably shouting their war cries. It longer.

Distinguished Career

out,

on,

On the ground the Cheetah, timed LONDON, Junc 0-A former at 70 miles an hour, Is supreme Punch and Judy showman appearing among living crentures, the opera-at the London Conscientious Objec- tiens head said. "Man's fastest speed tors Tribunal said he believed the

A member of afoot is 21.7 miles an hour, achieved passive resistance.

Tribunal said: "You believed in kill- Jesse Owens at 100 meters."

ing in your Punch and Judy Act. Punch did not offer passive resist- unce."

"Lazy Scroungers

West African sergeant Enjoy. Themselves"

who finally accepted the surren-

have

The Objector, an L.C.C. ambulance driver, said he was not responsible for the story and to the

plet, whereupon the Tribunal men

ber suggested that he writes a new script for his next show and let

Suit Borrowed To Meet The King

As a foreign correspondent he has der of an officer of a crack Ita to sacrifice their lives to enable a Punch offer passive resistance.

"WE have no right to allow scamon reported events from London to Is lian regiment.

large number of lazy scroungers to The man was registered በባ an tanbul, but this is als first assign- These African troops have dis-enjoy themselves," declared Mr Eric objector as long as hd continued ment in the Orient. He Is 42 and proved Goebbels's anger that our Shinwall (Lab.) in the House of ambulance work.

s been reporter for the past 20 African soldiers would not stand up Commons recently, years.

to modern war. Armed with the .He In 1930, while working as Forks. Intest weapons soldiers of the Royal of people attended the Derby, using complained that a large crowd correspondent for the "New York West African Frontier Force fierald Tribune," he won the Pulit several times smashed

up valuable supplies of petrol that attacks by seamen risked their lives to bring to zer Prize for a coverage of the Italian armoured car. On one o occa-Britain. Paris reparations conference, lesion they charged enemy machine- Minister for Hame Security. (Mr! joined the foreign staff of the "Chi-

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cross open country, putting the Herbert Morrison) replied that the cago

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Removal of transport facilities for most brilliant reporterial feats of But I took the men of a unit on meetings like the Darby would come the Kenya const some time to get very near banning recreation and

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