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Enemy Strongholds In Mid. East Battered

CAIRO, Aug. 27 (Reuter).Libyn, Several targets in Cirenaica and Tripolitanla were attacked on the night of August 25-26. Tripoli harbour and dumps near the town were again heavily bombed. A particularly violent explosion was seen to hurl masses of debris high into the air and was followed by a number of other fires were started near the bright Are and

fort and power station.

At Benghazi several bombs were dropped or railway slidings and an enemy encampment. The same night, aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm bombed the harbour of Bardia and obtained direct hits on ships and started fires among petrol dumps.

transport vehicles yesterday.

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POPULATION

OF INDIA

Substantially Below 400,000,000

Bombers of the South African Alr SIMLA, Auk. 27. (Reuter}.—— Force bombed and heavily damaged The preliminary census returns enncentration of enemy mechanical for India's populations taken

Resvennu

early this year disclose an Mediterranenn-Medium bombers increase of 16,000,000 over the of the R.A.F. altacked enemy slips figure for 1931 and possibly an In the Central Mediterranean yes- terday. Direct hits of heavy bets (actual increase of approximately were obtained on one vessel and 60,000,000.

population

annthe ship was hit and left sinking. Although generally it is unofficially

nasumed that India's Malta Defended

400,000,000, the census numbers reveals 300,000,000. The 1931 census gave 353,000,000 but this included Burma with about 14,500,000,

A number of Macchi 2003 which approached Malta yesterday evening were engaged by K.A.F. fighters and hosed back to Bleily, where three of them were shot down, one falling in

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Several other enemy fighters were badly damaged.

Cyprus.-R.A.F. Aghters intercept-

ed and not down one Savoin-09 off Fimagusta yesterday.

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New Zealand Mechanisation

WELLINGTON, Aug. 27 (Reuter). Abyssinfo.--Enemy positions Wolcheft and Gondar were bonabed--The Defence Minister, Mr Jones, to-day the propused and machine-gunned yesterday youneed

formation of a New Zealand Amy aircraft of the R.A.F. and S.A.AF.

stablishment of

From all these operations three of tank brigade for overseas, and the

armoured

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 28, 1941.

HE GOT AWAY—It looked liko suro death for Cy Roberts of Salamanca, N. Y., as his racing car overturned in a midget auto race spoed ovent at Little Valloy, N. Y. But Roberts stopped from his wrocked car and walked away, only to collapse later from fractured ribs and body bruises.

N.E. I. Native Conscripts In

Arms In Sept.

that the native

scheme

Dutch Conscription

In Britain Valid

Dutch conscription of Dutch subjects in Britain was held to be valid by a 'King's Bench Divisional Court, which recently refused an application by Mr. Jean Jacques Amand (34), bull merchant, of Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, for a writ of habeas. corpus. Mr Amand is a Dutch subject who has lived in Britain for thirteen years

BATAVIA, Aug. 27 (Reuter)—It is officially announced to-day that acessary steps for putting into effect the law for native conscription ro- cently passed by the NEI, Weapons Convention have been carried out so smoothly and rapidly conscripts will be called to arms s

His case was that, answering a broadcast request that early as September 25.

Home Guards will be organised in Dutchmen should report to their Consul in London, he was Sumatra, according to

ordered to join the Dutch forces in Britain. He reported to the already operating in Java. vehicles Aghting school.

The N.E.I. Government have more- Dutch military authorities and served for a time, but, deciding Experienced personnel returning from overseas net officers are being over adopted preliminary measures that he could not be compelled to serve, refused to return from

whereby all persons "of no nation- leave and was arrested as an absentee, lent by the British War Ofive to sealty" between the ages of 16 and

160 residing in the NEI. or employed Arguments in the application The training of the Brigade, sturt on N.E.I. ships or slips belonging lasted three days and many fu soon, wil be continued Into the N.E.I. will be liable to com- points of English and Dutch: advanced form when the Brigade pulsory civi defence work.

Expeditionary WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (Reuter). Asked whether any raval aid waste of the officers will be officers being prepared for Hussin, the of the Royal Armoured Corps:

our aircraft are missing.

STALIN STALLS U. S. REQUEST TO

OBSERVE WAR

Secretary of the Navy, Colonel

as instructors.

the Joins

Frank Knox, replied at a press can- ! American

ference that he and nothing in mind.

He replied negatively to questions whether he planned to send a nuval offeer to the forthcoming Mi-cow talks or on additional Naval Attacke

to the Museow Embassy.

Force.

Tankers

Pooled

Exports Last Year LONDON, AUR, 27 (Reuter)-The United States took first place in ex- ports to the Netherlands East Indies

law were debated. One was of thu whether the Queen Netherlands, by decree in Bri- tain, could conscript Dutchmen

in 1940, according to the Chairman living here,

of the Council of the British Chamber Mr Amand had been on ball pend-

of Commerce for the N.E.I. to-daying the decision.

Hol-

Japan retained second place; land took third and Britain went from Arth to fourth place.

Germany fell from fourth to eighth place, shipping goods to the value of NEW YORK, Aug_27_(Reuter),ume 9,000,000 guilders.

operation of

As regards the war tr Itussia. Colonel Knox said the Government had made repeated futile requests to send American observers tu the The

American

bahting zone. "I wish you fellows tankers has been brought under gov. British Forced Down

would try to work on Joe Stalin toerrunt direction through the opera- get some observers to the front."

SIMLA, Aug. 27- (Reuter)-Tire Government of India have announced that owing to a severe shortage of supplies, no iron and steel will be of TC- buildings and

available for the erection sidential

office OF places of amusemeul.

tion of the Tanker Control Board, it was announced to-day.

The Board will co-ordinate their allocation and utilisation.

An official staled that there is no intention to commandeer tankers but the Board would pool the ships and view to direct uperations with ensuring greater efficiency.

f

Over Portugal

Greatest

Fisherman

In R.A.F.

The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Caldecotte)

As far back as the oldest said the Netherlands

and the authority Government

ot stomach in a desert squadron of Queen Wilhelmina were recognised the R.A.F. could remember, it Britain. He had no reason to had had nothing in the way of doubt the reliability of Mr Amand's food that had not come out of statements when he said that at Ho

one had he exprends force, and blue Mediterranean, lapped the time willingness to tins. But, close at hand, the seemed that he was not a member sands of the North African

the LISBON, Aug. 27 (Reuter).-Two of

by voluntary enlist coast. forges

With a sudden flash of ment. That, however, did not dis- British twin-engined planes down in Portugal to-day. One made poze of the case, It had been con- insight, one or two of the more forced landing on the coust close tended that the Queen of the Nether- astute minds grasped the fact to Lisbon and the other at Foreira lands could not make a decree out- that this blue water, Mussolini's side her own country. That would in Oporto distrist,

came

Boll planes were burned out but seem completely to render impotent very own Mare Nostrum, could the crews were saved.

Netherlands Government resolve the problem of gastronomic cognited in Britain and would lead monotony.

Nine of these Blenheim Bombers

will carry a message to Hitler from Hongkong.

How soon depends upon the raising of

approximately £24,000:

DO YOUR BEST TO RAISE

H.K.'S BOMBER SQUADRON

Remitted £151,939.19.6d

Required £24,000

the

to the conclusion that the Dutch Fish! Lashings of fish, on Government could take no steps to the doorstep so to speak. Grilled legislate to recover their violated soles for breakfast. Lobsters territory

The Lord Chief Justice added that for lunch. Herring, cod, turbot, he accepted the submission that there prawns-maybe even a caviar- was nothing in the constitution to stuffed sturgeon and an occa make the law not applicable to asional turtle for the soup. All Dutch subject outside his country,

and he thought the decree conscript they had to do was to get a few ing Mr Amand was valid and that he lines and pull the fish out of the could properly be detained for ser-sea, vice in the Dutch Army.

Bible In Style

Of Newspaper

They got the lines, made hooks, opened--tins-for-balt and fished as- siduously, with watering teeth, for hours on end. The fish sniffed at the bait, sneered and swam off.

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It was therefore somewhat tough on the fish that on I.A.F.V.R. officer, a one-time Kenyn gold miner, was working nearby, blasting trenches out of the rock with high explosives. "Fisht " He said, "I'll get you some Ash."!

Next day he was seen walking down to the beach with a number

Pictures Of Aeroplanes LONDON (UP).-The Bible is to be presented as news. All the ari of modern newspaper presentation has gone inlo the publication, "The Bible for To-day," published of beer bottles in his hand and by

posse of stout swimmers at his heels. the Oxford University Press,

The bottles contained 1.E. and fuzes, July 17.

Shortly afterwards there was dull Headlines and subtitles us might rumble, the sea heaved slightly, the be seen in a newspaper are used, with illustrations

wwtamers plunged in and returned of modern life with schools of stunned fish in their

and warfare to bring the familiar urms.

words to new life.

There was fresh fish for everybody Pictures of lanks and planes, that night. The loast in the Mess the scattered ruins of burbed and was: "To the greatest Asherman the Ulusted cities, the never-ending R.A.F. has ever known."

SECRET WEAPON

erling masses of humeless refu- gees, all these are used as a com- imentary on the sacred text for the

The British Army now has its modern world.

Straightforward Style own secret weapon, Invented by a There are pletures of well-known Cambridge graduate now a regular London bulldings, peaceful streets officer in the Royal Engineers. This and friends meeting, of the micro- may wel! prove the answer to the phone and moving camera, and of Nazi panzer division. It is an anti- children playing with their fishing cheaply and in tests has proved re- tank device produced easily and Captions ally the picture with themarkably effective. It is both dead- ly and invisible. The device is be- text.

John Stirling, a chaplain in the ing produced in the command in

work of which the inventor is serving. last war,, started on his editing "The Bible for To-day" three

nety.

years ago.

the

In a straightforward way, Bible is presented as news-revela- lon news of God's Interest in and work, for the common people.

Week-end Lawn Bowls Teams

The following will represent the Hongkong Football Club in Second and Third Divisional Lawn Bowls matches on Saturday:

Colo

2nd Div. v, Talkoo (away).-A. man, J. D. Thomson, J. A. R. Selby and W. G. A. Watson, J. H. Geiling, C. F. Needinin, and W, Macfarlane: R. 1. Sunw C. B. Robertson, A. Brooksbank and K. H. Robertson.

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3rd Div, v K...C. (home)~~T. Pearse, C. G. Solis, D. T. Bickford and D. A, Mansell; A. Gratton, C. Carı,, JC, Forrow and G. B. Graver: A, Dalicy ul. 8, Strange and J, Italston.

Electric R.CO.

Rinka representing the Hongkong Electric R.C. v. Recreio (away) will

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