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Moscow Prepares OBSTACLE For Long Siege
MOSCOW, Sept. 4 (Reuter), - Moscow authorities are taking all steps to ensure that the city's population shall have na comfortable a time na possible during the winter. Huge re- serves of food are being stored, including 100,000 dons of pota toes, and 214,000 tons of other vegetables,
Last night, Moscow City Council's President, M. Pron n stated that the work of fixing up Moscow's underground stations as air-raid shelters was being completed.
children,
Thousands of bed for and a double layer of bunks for grown-ups are being provided on
atations which have also been pro- Vided with running
waler, good sanitation and even a radio net."
The
TO NAZIS
Leningrad's Forts STOCKHOLM, Sept. ter).An unconfirmed report that the army of Marshal Ritter von Lolb has contacted Soviet defence lines between ten. and twelve miles west and south of Leningrad was telegraphed to-
"Svenska Dagbladet."
Realistic
Singapore
Exercises
SINGAPORE, Sept. 4 (Rou-
September 5, 1941.
FOUR NEW ENGLISH BISHOPS
Former Soldier
LONDON, Sept. 4 (Reuter)The
(Reuter)-Defence exercises with four new Bishops whose nomination "effects" will be held hero in the is approved by the King include the middle of September lasting two Right Reverend Noel Daring Hudson, days. They will be no realistic who became a Brigadier-General in that the population has been won the DS.O. and Military Cross the last war at the age of 23 and warned in advance not to be each with a bar.
Bishop
Iludson, who becomes
alarmed. LETTERS day by the correspondent of the
Evacuation Representation
The Editor,
Committee
sar
These defences are slated to consis! of a series of forts remaking from heivil war of 1019 which have been supplemented
strengthened. Hongkong Telegraph.
These forts, the correspondent con- tinues, are regarded as a serious Sie-With reference to the state-obstacle by the Germans, calling for ments made of the General Meeting strong air attacks If they are to he
DV:rcome committee by the
Crediting the Germans with The w'sh to spare Leningrad the horrors of war, the correspondent mentions that there are 110 pors of re- bombing attacks on the city itself.
Dual Attack Likely
nbove
tin
R.
A communique announcing the Bishop of Newenstle, is Secretary for exercises dreiares that the measures the Society for the Propagation of need crise no merely a contribution towards
alarm. They are Cospel.
Other new the
Bishops are Canon training of services on whose work Frank
Burry, Sub-Dean of the community will depend in
Westminster, who becomes Bishop of emergency.
Southwell: Dr R. G. Parsona, Bishop of Southwark, who becomes Bishop of Hereford and the Rev. W. W.
General Secretary
of the Society,
who becomes Bishop of Worcester.
Bishop Cash was previously the Seciety's Secretary for Palestine, Egypt and North Sudon. He served ne Temporary Chaplain to the Forces rem 1016 to 1920 and
FALL OF FOOCHOW EXPLAINED
D.S.O.
effects of bomb blast. All this work by my committee to textione hour which the weather permits the Ger. An attempt to explain the Jap-U.
M.
1 is understood, how.Ver that
TOKYO, Sept. 4 (Reuter), sino
mona are making an attack on the anesc withdrawal from Leningrad define line and the great chow, the capital of Fukien the city.
naval use at Kronstadt protectins Province and Treaty Port, is
The House Committee
have of the ranged special corners in the shelters Chairman and mysen wata regard to with beds for children, and in dis-the article which appeared in your Irlets where there are many wooden issue of the 29th August, I am given dwellings
10.000
dug-out shelters have been constructed with bunksing has occurred.
ers to understand that a misunderstand and stoves. Soine 3,300 houses are
A eunmittee meeting was held on being strengthened lo resist the the 28th August and I was instructed scheduled to be completed by and refute the statement in its October 17,
entirety. Pronin urged the utmost economy in the use of wood and coal, the harbour to a member of your 1 spolce from the Kowloon side of although Moscow han considerable staff and asked him to refute it in supplies.
The Rizalans are reported to be made by the "Japan Times," the next edition of your paper, this carrying out extensive as I understood it then, he promised attacks in the central sector of the Office.
counter-organ of the Japanese Foreign to do.
vasl batlle-front. These counter- Information has since reached meattacks, it is stated, are proceeding that a note was left for your perusal along a line running routh from asking you to refer to me with re- Viazma (halfway between Smolensk | gard to the telephone call, which and Moscow) but a claim is made in done, in fact several Berlin that they are not checking the but contret with men Gomel and designed eventually to Gerinon encircling movement based With Little Effect was unsuccessful. CAIRO, Sept. 4 (Reuter).-have arisen between the word "re- misunderstanding: seems to "There was
Beyond claims of the establishment an air raid last fute" and the member of your staff of bridgeheads on the lower Duteper night on Cairo and Suez Canni who I now believe was under the reports renching Berlin about the areas," states the Ministry of pression that the word I used was situation in the Ukraine are sennty.
"refer the Interior, "Bombs were drop-Iegre
It is songested, however, that there ped on a suburb of Cairo, killing committee necessary to publicly denying of a big German offensive 10- I regret that it was found by my will very soon be news of the launch- one and injuring 21. There was this article but had the acts of the very slight damage,
raze been completely before it, as not have occurred. they are now the references would
Cairo and Suez Canal Bombed
"Slight damage was also done in the Suez Canal brea but no casualties were reported.
"Alarins were also sounded in the greater part of the Delta,"
It is understood that the damage in the Calro suburb did not affect private property.
NAZIE WONT FEED THEIR VICTIMS
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH ZURICH, Sept. 4 (UP)--The "German principle by which the occupying government is in no wise obliged to feed the population of the occupied countries" was stressed by a Wilhelmstrasse spokesman secard- ing to the Berlin Correspondent of the "Gazette de Lausanne,"
Delve was
Thie
occurred.
personally
mally regret that this mis- understanding should arise as in my dealings with all sections of the local courtesy and help. press have received nothing but
You are at liberty to publish this letter if you so desire, and so erase any particle of doubt which might further tend to feletion between the press and my comm.ttre.
shut in Kiev.
wards the important Donetz industrict region, which is considered more important than Kine and Leningrad.
Wo
the
S.
Weapons For Poland's Soldiers
It says that there is no longer any strategly necessity for the continued
Lease-Lend Order Occupation. It further remarks that WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (Reuter), "Chinese citizens of Foochow have President Roosevelt has authorised shown themselves capable of ad- the first Lease-Lend ald to the Polish selves mid adds that the Japanese equipment to go to Polish soldiers ministering Japanese reforins them-Government, permitting military withdrawal
has
"provided the world now train
training in Canada for action with a coperele ense of respect for overseas. territorial integrity and sovereign White House announcement said rights such as the Atlantic Charter that under the President's order, required."
inachine-guns, rifles, artillery, equip- Mamoi Recaptured ment. lorries and other supplies will News)Mamol, 10 miles southeast
CHUNGKING, Sept. (Centra) be sent to these troops in future.
The statement udded that Pre- of Fuochow on the Min River, was sident Roosevelt had "stressed the recaptured by Chla:se troups p. yesterday.
importance of this new old to the Government of Poland as a continu- ing expression of the policy of the United States to aid nll who resist
xgression'."
4
Finnish Claims
On the northern bank the Chines Besides claiming to have reached following their entry into Lienklang the former Soviel-Finnish frontier at are pursuing the Japanese all points on the Karelian Isthmus, toward Kuanwanglow, while on th
Beetr Helsink telegrams report an inten-southern they are faunching
bank sification of the drive towards the spirited attacks on the Japanese P Murmansk-Leningrad Railway in the Halkow where they are boarding drive northern part of the front. This their warships,
seems to be based on three Severe lorses are reported to have sectors in the "waist of Finland" beca sustained by the Japanes: in where the
railway runs nearest to their retreat from points along the the Finnish frontier.
Min River.
•The"
W. V. TAYLOR, Honorary Sccreary, Evacuation Representation Uktua In this area in eleimed by the capture at Salla. Kuuzzmo ord Committee,
Finns. These places were ceded to the Soviet Union after the winter war of 1940,
NAZI-CATHOLIC COMBAT IN HOLLAND
The spokesman added that the Reich solemnly declared tiat at Monseigneur would not take any responsibility for such feedin::.
LONDON, Sept. 4 (Reuter). Dlh of the Netherlands, has been tic Feng, Cattolic
lined 500 guilders by Die Nils for wilfully falling to obey a German
Kerr Wants Aid To Nederland, les to-day's "Vrij
China Unified
a Free Dutch paper Published in London.
Although the contents of the crder were not disclosed, the decision of Dr SHANGHAI, Sept. 4 (Reuter) Seyss-Inquart to prorectite the head Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British of Helland's Catholic Church brings Ambassador to China, has appointed to-head-the-streined relations be
special committee to unify all tween the Nazis and the Cathele British organisations rendering old to community. China.
The committee will be authorised
here to-day.
It is added that the Flens have new reached their old frontier every- where except in the Fishermen's Peninsula on the Arctic Ocean,
Crete Wounded Pass Through
New York
were
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (Reuler),- Sold.ers and sailors were very heart- ened to hear how well the Russian were still holding out when they ar aved In New York to-day on the Empress of Asta.
Most of those
Loard on wounded from Crete and elsewhere on their way to England to recu- BANGKOK, Sept. 1 (Reuter)-Mrperate, and among 397 passengers, to take direct control of all British Tei Tsubokamt, the First Japanese mostly soldiers, sailors and airmen, ald services to China, according to Ambassador to Thailand, arrived! reports in the Chinese press here,
were also men who took part in the naval battle at Matapan.
Shortly after the vessel's arrival, the State Department in Washington announced that it had waved the ordinary requirements for visitors' elsas and had allowed the passengers ashore while the ship was in dock.
The ship's rails were Hned with troops khaki shorts, who cheered Justily as a boatload of newspapti- men swarmed aboord, bringing with them copies of newspapers which were eagerly shared by ile somers and sellers hamery for the latest news from Europe.
Summary Of War Fronts: Finns' Decision Awaited
(War Commentary by "Annalist”) ·
LONDON, Sept. 4 (Reuter)—The most complete reserve on the progress at nighting on the eastern front which continues to be maintained by German and Soviet communiques cannot hide the fact that there is crystallisation of the situation in three directions.
shadows for the moment, but should Marshal Mannerheim has annot be allowed to block-out other nounced that the Finnish forces that the misgivings of the military
interesting considerations. One have reached the old frontiers leaders as well as private cit zens in the Kare.ian Isthmus and it Gennany on the way will not be long before it is going for them are now being freely known whether his Order of the expressed.
the
War
Henry-Haye Leaving U. S?
Former M.P.
Charged
at a
the
Vital To U.S.A. President Roosevelt declared that was "vital to the defence of the resistance of the Pullsh fores United States," added the authorisa- tkun. Lease-Lend aid demonstrated the United States Government's in- ntion to give material support to the "fighting determitiation of the Polish people to establish once again the independence of which they are en inhumanly deprived,"
OIL TANKER AT VLADIVOSTOK
U.S. Shipment Arrives
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, Sept. 4 (UP)-Captain Sir Herbert Foul Latham, 36, weanhy SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" ex-M.P. was to-day accused
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4 (UP),— court martial on 38 charges to the Union Oil Company to-day an-. which he pleaded not guilty. The nounced that its tanker L. P. Saint charges included "disgracelul conduct Claire
resched Vladivostok Latham, who is tail and fair with gasoline the first delivery of such carrying 90,000 barrels of aviation an artifletul leg also pleaded guilty to charges that he attempted gramine to aid tussia.
fuel under the United States pro- to commit suicide when a letter from a Gunner exposed him.
at an indecent kind,"
First Australian-
not
פרh
The precise time of arrival was not revealed,
And the announcement regarding the arrival was withheld for 12 hours until the Maritime Commission authorised its publicas. tion.
due Vladivostok, next Sunday and Mon- BATAVIA, Sept. 4 (Reuter). The day, one carrying 06.000 barrels of Arst Australian Minister to Chung- Wich netane fuel and the other carry- king Mr Frederick Willam Eggks-ing 75,000 barrels. The Saint Claire ten, who is at present in the Euch left Los Angeles on August 15. East Indies, to-day paid a visit to
Envoy To China Two other tankers pre
the military authorities at Bandunt.
at
SIMLA, Sept. 4 (Reuter).-It is In press Interview Mr Eg leston understood that the Raj has decided raid that his nomination was the to give financial assistance to gliding third of a series of appointments in the country and will be granting which demonstrated Austra's £7530. spread over two years. A ncere desire to develop relations g'lding centre was recently started in with other Preifle countries.
. Poona.
South America Leaders Urge Continental Unity
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 4 (Reuter).The importance of present war was stressed in speeches made at a banquet given
to the delegations of Paraguay and Argentina.
The Chief of the Brazilian
Pan-American unity in the face of dangers arising from the
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (Reuter), The "Washington Evening Star to-night mys that it is rellably re-
urted that the Vichy Ambasa. or 10 General Staff, General Monteiro, MALTA BAGS SIX Washington, M. Gaston Henry-loys tribute to the admirable will be leaving Washington this
is not likely to return,
Day reminding his soldiers that Danger In Conquests the time has not arrived for General Kablsch, In a remarkable month for V.chy and Versailes and spirit of collaboration on the turning "swords into plough-article in the "Derneuetur," it i shares" means that they are to learned from Prague, points to th continue to wage war for Ger- quering enemy
teachings of Clausewitz that con- many's benefit, or whether they substanital gains could lead to the territory without will rest on their laurels and weakening of Germany's own post- remain on guard over the tion, restored Finnish territory;
General Kabisch, with an eye on Russin's reserves in manpower and
The
WITHOUT A LOSS
MALTA, Sept: 4 (Reuter).—
American continent which had He will be accompanied by Co- been given expression to by the 'onel Bertrand Vigne, who was re-
It is officially announced that six
Vichy activities in the United States. iternid Tribune of underground pro- cently accused by the "New York poley of good neighbourliness.
He urged the necessity of intenst- enemy fighters were shot down ying the unity of the American con- [over Malta to-day. tinent so as to make it inaccessible to
Last night there Purchase Of Rice In Szechwan
The
Was
and at the same time un-succession of raids on Malta, conquerablent war, he said, afforded enemy raiders operated singly, A tranentous battle is now rag-material, adds: "This applies ing for Leningrad. Aguinist, those especially to a war in the cast where
many lessons; umong them that a and dropped bombs on land formidable rings of outer defences, our aim must be to defeat the Red
weak Power which did not unite in causing slight civilian damage the German forces
CHUNGKING, Sept. 4 are throwing Army to such an extent that our
(Central time and with sincerity, or which Nown)
Szechwan's farmers masses of troops and hundreds of force can resume
and thought that it could safeguard itself but no casualties. offensive landlords will receive from the Gov nere-inex without so far, it appears, against England or in the Near East."
On Thursday, morning a large from being drawn into conflict by crnment 70 per cent, of the rales making any real Impression on the Another
various excuses would end by be formation of Italian fighters consideration is great air defences and military and under cover of Germany's preoccupa Notes and Su 1er cent in cash trailed fury of the belligerents who by RAF. Aghters and six
that value of their grain in Food Treasury coming trampled upon by the uncon-prouched Malta. They were engaged citizen army which Marshal Voco- tion in Russin, the emigration of the cording to new regulations of the admitted no right except their own enemy were definitely shot into the
urmies of the British Empire and
province for. 1041. Britain-from Canada 10
The Ministry of Reed bar entpret- England, from England to
South Africa ed the Farmers' Bank of
shilov has assembled.
Counter-Attacks
interests.
tack on an entry salient. In the East, from India and Australia to the heir branches and agencies in dif. / should unite In order to be ready 10
"
op-
of the
sea. At least three were badly It is believed that the Soviet at-Australia and Indin to the Middle
Vital Spaces'
damaged and are unlikely to have reached their base. We sustained no continent losses. too Szechwan Frovanaf China and The South American central sector of the front; in which
Congratulations they hurled the Germans back 30 Far East has reached formidabe ferent elties to make the payments alims of those who sought the domina plying to a message from General Sir
face the danger resulting from the MALTA, Sept. miles and captured, 22 villages is Proportions, and must soon be ready
(Reuter)—Re- for the grain. The two bunks must probably the runter-attack which to meet all
tion of vital continental and occan John Dill, Chief of Imperial General eventualtics on the
announce in public the names of the was seen by Lieut-General. Mazon existing and potential bottle-felds. sellers, the amount of purchazes and Macfarlane, head of the Brit sh
Mackenzie King
he payment in cash or in Food Irea- Mitary
somewhere north- That Mr Mackenzie King, one of
Lury Notes every ten days. the leading personalities of the Em Thin although
considerable pire and very close to Presideni operation, was not on the scale of Roosevelt, has been instructed in
Türko-Russian Clash the counter-attack for the pratee these eventualities in the highest Report By Nazis tion of the Russian sallent at Kiev British counsels concerned with " NEW YORK. Sent, 4 (UP)-The about which detalls are walled in questions of strategy and war which Columbia Broadensting System hears Lordon.
are pending" was one of the most a German redio broadcast saying! The dream of the vast struzzio Interesting references to the Canadian had "unconfirmed reports" of clashes in Russia which is rapidly approach- Prime Minister's visit to England and occurring between Turkish and Rus- ing decisions of vital consequence Canadian forces made by Mr Church-sian troops on the Turkish-Iran bor- to the future course of the war over-fill at Mansion House to-day,"
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Even If the pessimistic forecasts Staff, on entering the third year of
ted to
the recent speech of Mr. War praising the conduct of Malta's Henry L. Stimson, the United States Harrison, the
the Governor of» Malta Secretary of State for War, were not (Lieut-General Sir William Dobble) realised, that should not discourage vald: "Your message has been great- them from protecting their own ly appreciated by all troops of the ntegrity by action clearly conform=| garrison who are fully prepared and
to be. American spirit.:.
aro supremely confident in ⠀ their The Argentine Minister of War, ability to carry out whatever tasks eplying, said that when an Ameri may lie ahead of them,"
American continent, he did not feel the Minita Rellef Fund has been con- an went to another part of the It is announced that £500 towards that he was loaying hu own tributed by the Ceylon Planters A
sociation One Day's Pay Fund.
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