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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

September

1941,

Ulrary, Supreme Court

Wavell's War Speech From Indian Command

SIMLA. Sept. 3 (Revter),—“We have suffered some rude buffets and have undergone som heavy shocks, but we are still upright and stronger than ever," declared General Sir Archibald Wavell, the Cammander-in-Chief in India, in a broadcast message on the second anniversary of the war,

"There is long way to go

and a hard time is in front of

us,

but there are many signs Iranian

that the enemy is

growing

wenker and that from arrogant : confidence he has passed into a restless anxiety which will turn to despair as he sees his ruin approach."

Aller reviewing events in' the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans and

Police

Nip Plot

A plot, allegedly engineered

Russin, he said: "The balance sheet by German agents, to overthrow

I can put before you is, therefore, the government of Iran (Persin) by no means an unsatisfactory one. The enemy is not yet defeated but by an uprising was crushed as wo have Inlet a firm foundation for the result of a series of arrests his future defeat,"

by Iranian secret police, accord- ing to a Cairo message sent before the Anglo-Russian mill- tary move.

General W'avall disclosed that there uro well over 100,000 Indian troops serving overseas with the total of Indians in the fighting forces ap- proaching one million mark.

Among those arrested, it was said, were several cabaret girls Indian Achievements

of foreign nationality, alleged to In the Middle East, Indian soldiers have been in the employ of the have helped to secure our great base Nazi agents, and a group of of naval, military and air power in young Iranian Army officers, Egypt, to clear our lines of communi There was no confirmation of the cation by the Red Sea and overland reported plot from Iran, but usually through Iraq, and forestall the Ger-reliable unofficial quarters in Calro mana In Syria. Teng and Iran, thus said they had received in detail an keeping our frontlers free of the necount of its frustration. menace of Kazi destruction and Advices from Turkey had stated. oppression.

General Wavell concluded: "In the that German agents were moving

constantly into fran

and that 4,000

CW357

READY IN FAR EAST-These Curtiss Inter;optor-fighters, built in St Louis, Mo.. shown

"on the line," ready for action with Royal Natherlands East Indies Air Forca, at Bandoeng, Java. Note orange triangle insignia.

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COLONISING Nazis Want to Fix Fronts MANCHUKUO In Russia Before Winter

First Five Years

(War Commentary by "Annalist”)

TOKYO, Sept. 3 (Domel), -The LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter)-With the last days of sum- Far East also, Japan's southward or 5,000 of them were believed to be first five years of the 20-year plan mer drawing near, the great clash of arms on the enstern front move has been carefully watched and in the all-rich country, perhaps to to colonise Manchukuo with 1,000, is reaching a point where decisions of vital consequence to the Indian soldiers in Maloyn' and Burma incite an Iranian rebellion similar 000 familles is completed this year are ready to play their part in the to that which occurred in neighbour-and with the colonisation of 100,000 future course of the war will be reached, defence of India's castern bastions."ing Iraq.

families. The Overseas Ministry andj

Both sides are straining every them at least six weeks, It is estimat- Four German merchant ships were the Colonisation Bureau of Manchou- reported recently to be in Ironien kuo are completing plans for a fur-nerve and taxing their im-ed, to prepare.

The answer to the threat of fresh Tharbours, perhaps preparatory to ther 200,000 familles during the next mediate resources to the limit German initiative wherever it is:

moving into the Indian Ocean

to turn these decisions to their shown is in the hands of Russia and raiders.

CHINA AIR FREIGHT

Hongkong Inspectorate To Pass on Applications

It is learned that the Ministry of Communications has decided to sei up an Air Freight Service Inspector- ate in Hongkong with Mr Huang Pai- chlao, former Managing-Director of the Nunking-Shanghat Railway and the Shanghai-Bongchow-Ningpo Rall- way. As Inspector-General.

The function of the Inspectorate is to inspect freight transport handled by the Hongkong ofees of the China National Aviation Corporation and the Eurasia Aviation Corporation in order to increase transport eficiency and prevent any Irregularities recently there have been reports that unscrupulous transport agents have been manipulating air freight rates and profitéering by other Irregular methods.

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The Inspectorate will examine, and approve or reject applications for alr freight transport and also decide on the urgency of the freight to be transported. It will also

be cm- powered to examine the freight Transport accounts, bills and other documents of the Hongkong offices of the two aviation corporations no well as the freight handled.

A set of regulations governing the Inspection of air freight service has been promulgated by the Ministry of Communications, effective September

Innocuous Sea Trip Of Mr Roosevelt

STOCK MARKET REPORT

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Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary, issued yesterday is:

Buyers

II.K. Banks $1,440 Chinton Ins. $230 Union Ins. $130 Docks $17.85 Providents $6.65 Lands $36.50

Humphreys $7.10 Realties $3.75

Chinese Estates X.D. $100 Trams $17.20

Youmati Ferries $23,23 Lights "N" $1.85

Electrics "N" $21 Telephones "O" $23.00 Telephones " $9.25

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Cements $15.00 Dairy Farms $19.35 Watsons $11.85

Sellers Providents $0.00 Lands $37 Lights "N" $2

Sales

Docks $18/17.90 Providenta $0.70 Lands $36.90 Lights "O" $0.65 Lights "N" $1.05

Electrles "O" X. Nts X.D. $21.00 Ropes $10

Watsons $12/11.05/00

five years.

In view of the greatly changed own advantage, but the more Britain-and America, domestic and international situation, fierce the oxchanges in the air It is expected that the present coloni-

sation policies will be re-examined and on land become, the fewer the object of attaining self-authentic details rench the out-

Badly Needed

wifetency in foodstuffs in the East side world from the churned up Bottoms Are

Asia Prosperity Sphere and of stress-spaces where the world's two Ing among the prospective colonists greatest armies are at each

the fundamental idea of their im- plantation upon the continent.

other's throat.

Promised

Due to shortage of labour and pre-

Both the German and Soviet High valling high wages, the present man- Commands keep their own counsel WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (Reuter). agerial system for farms will be in very brief two-line communiques. The United States shipping pro- revised

in favour of the system at and in London authoritative quarters grameno is ahend of schedule, accord- present adopted experimentally in declare once again that official news ing to Rear Admiral Emory Land, flokkaido.

is lucking and conument merely that Chairman of the Maritime Commis- Tractor and special farms, includ- there is no confirmation of any blasien, at a Press conference to-day. Ing other large scale agricultural (change anywhere either at the scene

He predicted that new ships total

tons dead weight would be placed in operation between the beginning of last July and the end of 1043. These figures do not include 105 vessels in com- mission in the long range program- theme wilch have been delivered up to steady approach of winter to visualise to-day or the, addition of small ves- the main autumn purposes

projects started this year by the of the German offens.ve around ting about 12,410,000 Munchoukuo Development Company, Leningrad or in the central and will be extended in order to increase southern sectors where the Russians output, such reclaimed land serving are reported to be persisting in also as a guide to future coloulsers. their counter-attacks.

ing

Yugo-Slavia Is Not Yet Conquered

Japan Given One popular support

Year More

Other Campaigni

It is possible however, with

of

theels and craft for which the Commis.

German atrategy. They are to capsion is contracting.

ture Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa and even Moscow with the object of fx- ing a front for the winter with

BRITAIN'S FIRE PREVENTION SCHEME

over-

back to the General Council Its re-

Russian naval, military, industrial and

political

seriously strength weakened so that other campaigns JERUSALEM, Sept. 3 (Reuter),— [con be pursued, notably in Üie

Mediterranean and Finding themselves completely im- Eastern

North polent In the Ince of resolute Africa together, it is even possible,

EDINBURGH, Sept, 3 (Reuter),- | turriila warfare in all parts of with a limited invasion of Britain The T.U.C. rejected by an Serblu, German authorities have designed to

pin down and weaken { whelming majority a motion to refer now hit upon the expedient of form- |lle

e Royal Air Force. puppet Government under The timetable for 11 scrlous port on its negotiations with the General Neditch, thus trying to enlist Invasion of Britain this yenr 1183

undoubtedly been upsel, but it 13 Government on the subject of the German authorities have also an-possible that the Germans plan to

Fire Prevention Scheme

In this report, the General Council nounced the intention of organising a switch back to northwest

Europe Serbian army and introducing com- sumcient of their air force to mount allowances for workers

while contending that the proposed under the WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (Reuter).continue sending aid to China, the prevent able-bodied inhabitants|companied before the winter by the and that the scheme would not be i

If the Unlled States and Britain pulsory labour, hoping by this way another night hlliz on England, ac Fire Scheme were totally inadequate

use of

some air-borne divisions in -Supplementing the White House's last Japanese soldier will be driven from forming into guerilla bands.

Simultaneously they are pursuing landings to destroy selected R.Accessful on its present basis, never- denial that President Roosevelt had from Chinese soil within

latest aerodromes and other vital objec- Union movement to co-operate in the Byent, terrorist measures and the

recommended the Trades received an invitation to meet the Dr Alfred Dip Lum, technical expert troellies, necording to information lives.

Minister Japanese Prime

Prince on foreign affairs to Generalissimo reaching authoritative Yugo-Slav

proposed

under machinery That these divisions will be cer-Scheme. include in Jerusalim, Konoye on the high sciis, the Pre- Chiang Kai-shek's government and ircies

Secretury Mr Stephen Early

No Consultation e only sen trip. projected for cial envoy to the United States.shooting of several intellectunts from ftainly commitlin suicide will be no deterrent to the German High Com- Including said in an Interview in Vancouver Aleksinate, the President is from Annapolis down recently.

cacher and judge charged with mand should they consider the dam- the Chesapealse and up the Fotomuc

Japan

Is in a state of exhaustion, having Communistle sympathies, and are they are likely to infilet before criticism of the scheme itself, a com- to Washington; any suspicious re- Dr Lum sald, adding that China is ordering the exccution of another they are rounded up, killed or cop-plaint was made that the Government had fulled to consult the Trades take porters may hire bouts to follow the preparing to

tured worth the risk. the offensive even

various towns from

for "subversive activities.". The effect The factors against such a venture, Union movement before President's yacht."

the Fire against Japan.

of there measures has only been to however, are the effect that such on Prevention order was lasued.

xacerbate public feeling still fur- indecisive "Invasion" will have on It was stated however, that in the her. und to cause irreconcilable the minds of the sorely-tried German latest negotiations the Government hostility to the alleged "new Govern population and the time required to had already met the General Coun- ment."

mount It. Since their bomber and cil's viewa regarding consultation transport force on the western front and that a joint Advisory Council on is down to bedrock it would take are provention was being set up.

Germans Could Not Stand The Bayonet

In à vivid summing-up of his experiences in the Cretan campaign, Brigadier L. M. Ingles, of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, expressed the opinion that paratroops can be quickly and effectively disposed of by determined men, that the bayonet is not an obsolete weapon, and that the German is not so formidable a fighting man as Nazi successes might suggest. Brig. Ingles is advising the Cabinet and the General Staff on lessons of Crete. "The German soldier is well drilled to his task, he is physically fit, but he is not morally tough," he said:

mented the brigadier.

the

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Woman

Canadians In Britain Reinforced

LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter) Thousands of Canadian troops ar- rived in England to-day to join the Canadian volunteers.

With them

came

American volunteers and more American, nurses.

They were welcomed by Rear-

Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley and The brigadier gave the fol- Brig. Ingles concluded that the im- Major-General T. J. Price, Com lowing examples to prove his purtance of weapon training and riflemanding the Canadian volunteers in hooting was as great as over, ond points and show what ʼn magni- that the bayonet way still effective fcent figlit our troops put up in against the tommy gun..

Equipment Troubles Crete:

A metrage from Mr W. L. Mac kenzie King, the Canadian Prime General Minister, was read by Price. It said: "You have come to Britain to help in breaking the bands that now enslave to many

The majority of cur units taken off Thirty paratroops were dropped 200 from Greece and landed in Crete, he yards from his battailon headquar-said, were under strength, and had ters. The CO.. his batman, the suffered heavy losses in equipment, countries in Europe. In this islund regimental sergeant - major, and Then

a considerable number of you will be defending the citadel three Intelligence officers "sailed troops In Crete were of non-com- of freedom. No greater honour off and disposed of all 30.

batant units and were not tralved in could fall to you."

British Political Propaganda

A platoon of 18 men, jed by an officer. arms.

made a counter-attack at Malemo. While the Corman troops were They killed 140 Germans and took dealt with at Heraklion and Retimo 27 prisoners.

aratroops bad been dropped in two During the evacuation one company areas at Moleme, where our men had been fighting for seven days could not rench them. Even that and

was short of water. Neverthe et desidive, hut whgs # have mountain decisivo result less, when sent up a

was the landing of LONDON, Sept. 3^(Router). peak to oppose a German attack airborne troops and weapons on the Following the report that the British mund

the flanks It accomplished c aerond, and subsequent days.

Government has formed a Political two-hour climb M half an hour.

her, have fought, a Propaganda Department. for foreign battic, At

with

our bucks to the broadcasts, it was learned, to-night the uttle village of Galatas, near losing

houses north coast, or taken retion in enve that on effort is being made to unify. with atone

the direction of

of political drove the two companies four men to fight another day,rid"

-out with their Brig Ingles, During our with Plans bayonets though it was held in drawal our froups showed, cohesion any case, a certain part of the force. You never heard such a

discipline to the last. The ganisation must necessarily be secret, He as was made by evacuation was not forced upon us; and ho announcement will therefore row in your Kɛinu, vérustningaa Germany,

cum it was a deliberate choice.".

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