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FREEDOM OF SEAS

Incredibly Fierce Battle Raging

`FROM PAGE ONE

able to carry on the war owing to Russian resistance and continued

RA.F. ralds, is the opinion of a senior German, air force officer at present stationed at Athens. This frank confession was made to a Greek student, one of many who escaped from Athens recently and eventually reached Syria and Egypt.

Chernigou Evacuated LONDON, Sept. 13 (Reuter).—The Soviet midnight communique states: "Our troops fought the enemy on the entire front. We evacuated Cher- nigov,

"Fifty-three German planca were destroyed on September 10. We lost 32."

Britain's Spitfires To Aid Russia

FROM PAGE ONE

but that his remarks reflected Presi- dent Roosevelt's instructions.

September 13, 1941.

Reactions To Roosevelt Declaration

LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter). The "Now York Herald. Tri- bune," said that the era of half measures is over. There will be no doubt about the way in which the people of the United States will see their way now.'

The "New York Times" says that the President's speech in- volves the risk of an open war and that Germany must choose. The Isolationint Senator, Gerald Nyc, said: "Clearly we are going to have convoys."

Mr Wendell Wilikle supported the President and said that all Americans should rally his support.

Mr Herbert Hoover, former Pre- sident, refused to comment on the speech.

The Keep Amerlen Out of Wor" Association accused the President of an unconstitutional net,

German newspapera adopt this some attitude. And Signor. Gayda makes the curious statement that the Axis does not contest America's right to the freedom of the sens but de- clares that America should exer- else that right as a neutral,

Harriman Reports WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Reuter),

Defensive, Waters The United States Mission to

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Reuter). Moscow would take up soon the question of furnishing Amerlcun sup what areas the United States will --Germany's action will determine plies not only needed by Russia in consider "defensive waters" in which the, immediate future but those American warships will shoot first, quired for "ultimate victory," de darol Mr Averell Harriman lead of the Secretary of State (Mr Cordell the Mission, after President

Mr

TELE LO with Hull) Indicated at a press conference

Ilarsevelt

emphasised that the

to-day

Asked to define 'defensive waters,

New Postal Rates Announced

FROM PAGE ONE

Kuwait Letters, $1.15 per helt oz. Postcards, 32 cents each.

Netherlands Queen

Hongkong's Felicitations On Her Birthday

Colonial

On September the Other places-Letters, $1.20 per

Secretory, the Hon. Mr N, L., Smith, half oz.; Postcards, d0 cents each.

wrote to the acting Consul-General New Zealand and its dependencies for the Netherlands, Mr D. G. E.

the and

Mondaled territory of Middelburg: Western Samoa-Leiters, $1.00 per "I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to convey to you on half oz.; Postcards, 70 cents each.

behalf of this Colony. His Excel- Inclualve rates by air via Rangoon | lency's felicitations on to-morrow's as far as air services available: anniversary of the accession to the Throne of the Netherlands of Her All places except New Zealand Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, and to and dependencies and the express again their confidence in the Mandated territory of Western victory of our common cause and In Samon-Letters, $1.50 per half oz; the ultimate restoration of Her Postcards, 75 cents coch.

Majesty's Sovereignty over all her dominions."

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New Zealand and its dependencies And the Mandated territory of Western Samoa-Letters, $1.85 per half oz Postcards, 90 cents ench.

China And U.S.A.

'Inclusive rates by air to China:

China-Leitors, 30 cents per half oz. (35 cents); Posteneda, 20 cents each (20 cents).

Mr Middelburg replied on Septem- ber 0:

"I have the honour to acknow~ ledge the receipt of your letter con- veying on behalf of the Colony of Hongkong the felicitations of His Excellency Sir Geoffry Northcote on. the anniversary of the accession to the Throne of the Netherlands of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina.

my

USA, and onward by surface trans- Air Mali surcharge by air to

port:

Europe. ati countries. Letters, fail to convey to Her Majesty.", $3.50 per half oz.; Postcards) $1.00 each.

sincere thanks for His Excellency's

"May. I express herewith

congratulations, which I shall not

air:

By sea to USA and onward by JAPANESE TROOP United States of America and TRAIN WRECKED Canada.Letters per half oz., 80 each (40 cents). By air throughous, totally wrecked a Japanese troop

SHANGHAI, Sept. 12 (Reuter),- cents (70 cents); Postcards, 40 cents Land mines laid by Chinese guerillos $3.50 182.30) and $1.80 ($1.50)

train in Sulyuan Province, according Chinese reports received here to-

South America

of Russian aid Mr Hull replied that it must be re- whole programme with the British membered that the United States public, Haiti,

world movement "no confronted a

force for the purpose of conquest of continents and seas.

would be and Russians In Moscow with time limit" on the programme.

The Persian Gulf, he added, would be of the important "entry ports" as well as Vladivostok.

one

to day.

Cuba, Mexico, Dominican' Re-

Many Japanese officers are said to Porto Rico, Virgin have been killed by the guerillos who of Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica and Duteli were lying, in ambush on both sides West Indian Possessions of Saba, St of the railway line and attacked the Eustasius and St Martin, Letters troops with hand grenades after the per half oz.

90 cents (60 cents); land mines had exploded. Postcardnroughout, $4.60 (33.35), and 45 cents each (45 cents). By air $2.30 ($1.70),

He added that "the opposing forces" will have something to say concern- Ing the areas of sea which the United confer States may or may not find it neces- sary to defend in order to protect this Hemisphere.

Mr Harriman said that the Mission is going to London first to with the British Mission,

would

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Do Most Good Asked whether Britain divert some of her American supplies, Mr Harriman replied that it matter which would be discussed in London and Moscow. "It is," he added, "a question of where supplies plan for the will do the most good in the

destruction of Hitler."

Mr Hurriman declared that some materials were already on their way to Russia and predicted that a "size- able supply" would be shipped in the coming months.

ultimate

Colombin, Dutch Gulana, Ecuador, French Guiana, British Guiana, Peru When asked if the United States and the Dutch West Indian P'osse1- many protesting against German at--Letters per half oz., $2.25 ($1.90); will now send a formal note to Ger- slons of Arube, Bonaire and Curacao.

$1.15 each ($1). By air tacks on American shipping, Mr Hull referred questioners

and ($4.50),

$3 Roosevelt's speech,

($2.30),

Guatemala, Nicaragua, Republic of Salvador, Letters per Honduras,

to

*

President through $0

LATE NEWS

|LENINGRAD RAID

MOSCOW, Sept. 13 (Reuter)-A

Press Backs F.D.R. NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (Reuter) half oz., $1 (30 cents); Postcards, 50 supplement to Moscow's midnight "Calmly but grimly, the

national cents cach (50 cents). By Hitler's answer to what is capital. waited to-day for Adolf throughout, $4.00 (3.50) and $3.40

almost ($1.80), universally regarded here as a limit- ed declaration of wor,"

says the

"New York Sun" in a dispatch from Washington.

Canal Zone

Canal Zone

ward

air communique states that on Septem- ber 11. the German afe force repeatedly attempted to raid Lening- rad but were each time driven off.

About 11 p.m. that night, isolated

the

city

and

The Mission comprises 18 members,

(Cristobal), Costa planes broke througis to In powerful words the President including five principal members and

Rica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Re- dropped incendiary and explosive It hends the of the United States has assured the 13 technical experts. The permanent States Puts War up to Hitler."

message "United public of Panama, Barbados, Lee-bombs. The fires that broke out in dwelling houses were extinguished. Islanda

Virgin (excluding stuff is

is headed by Colonel Philip

According to preliminary data, in world that Axis ships will enter Faymonville, an Ordnance officer who

The New York Post" has the Islands). Trinidad, Windward · Is-

"Navy waters the protection of which is will be left in Moscow when the Piracy" over its Wushington dispatch ($1.10); Postcards, 65 cents each (oohan planes were brought down.

hendline,

Fighting

Nazi lands. Letters per half oz., $1,25 the Leningrad approaches 11 Ger- Mission retu

returns.

which Snys: The United States Mr Cordell Hull, at a press con- Navy is engaged in a shooting war ference to-day, said that the United of the kind waged in the early days

By air cents);

air throughout, $5 (3.65) States was doing everything possible of last century when it cleaned out ($1.00): Postcards, $1 each (85

and $2.50 ($1.85).

Venezuela-Letters per half oz., $2 to facilitate all available help to pirates from the Caribbean and cor- cents) and $2.80 ($2.15).

necessary for American defence, at

their own peril. American warships will not parley with Axis U-boats or surface vessels lurking in these waters; they will shoot first.

In confining his speech mainly to

Russia and would continue to do so. sairs from the Barbary Coast."

Russians Received WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Reuter),

Rattlesnake

By air throughout, $5.00

Brazil, Chill, Argentine,

The New York "P.M.", devotes its 2.2. Urnguty.Letters per half

the issue of the freedom of the seas-President Roosevelt to-day received front page to the drawing of a large oz., $3 ($2.40); Postcards, $1.50 each President Roosevelt hus lald his leading members of the Russian Swastika-marked rattlesnake with ($1.23). By air throughout, $6.00 finger on the factor that will still Technical Mission to the United fangs dripping and poised to strike, ($5) and $3.40 ($2.55). win this war for the Allies: the free- Soviet Ambassador, M. Gumansky Roosevelt's "When You See a Rattle-02.110 cents). By air throughout,

States. They were presented by the framing the quotation of

President

British Honduras.—-

8. —Letters per hall

dom

($1.40); Postcards, 75 cents of the seas. That heading who, it is learned, will return to snake Poised to strike. covers the provisioning and arming Moscow in the immediate future to The "New York Sun" SYS

says in an $5.20 ($4), and $2.80 (52). of democracies which can only be make a comprehensive report on editorial, "Not much is left to those Bermuda.-Letters per half oz., 90 done in sumclent bulk by water-

who would like to see war avoided cents ($1.30); Postcards, 45 cents borne vessels. In the drawn out

...save the wish but scarcely the each (83 cents). Dy air throughout, hope that Germany may take-pains $4.00 ($3.36) and $2.30 ($1.70), "war" that "we-are-now-engaged the

to see that the

United States aid.

denial of the spacious waters of the Police to be Militia

Americas to the enemy aids us in

that we can concentrate more escort If War Comes to H.K.

belligerent

seas

vagried into execution."

threat need not be

The "New York Post" says: "We

Great Britain

seek more than was offered last Great Britain, Northern Ireland,

night. We ask for instant action to Elre-Letters per half oz., $2; Post- destroy the Nazt menace once and cards, $1 each. By air throughout, for all."

$5 and $2.50

Europe Northern Ireland, Eire) by

(except Great Lisbon only. Letters per half oz.

The "New York World-Telegram" declares that Congress should speak soon on Mr Roosevelt's poiley as

comes so close to shooting."

ships and offensive ships on the the and hasten

FROM PAGE ONE eliminution of the enemy's sea power.

The President did not exclude the Colony от

against His Majesty's Pacific Ocean from his named free forces. waterways. This slight allusion to

Under International Law the gigantic struggle in the For East In normal circumstances, the Po-

Bee are essentially Peace was more potent in its implications without combulant status but in ab- Officers than in its actual statement. The normal times of war and emergency, reserve shown in reference to the such as the present, where the Far East and the aggressor there im security of the Colony may be com- plied that there was hope of negotia-premised at any time by parachutist or other forms of hostile atlar, it tions between the democracies and 13 necessary to give the pollee, for Japan being brought to some fruitful} their Own

combitant conclusion. While hope remains and status under Intional cozette" after the specch, all but 150 were

Law.

Britain, alr to

ala

Hawaiian Islands (by air through- out).-Letters Per half oz., $2.40 (31.80); Postcards, $1.20 each ($1),

$2; Postcards, $1 each. By Plain English

throughout, $5 and $2.50.

Philippine Islands (By air through- WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Reuter). | out),-Letters per half oz., 40 cents tary, Mr Stephen Early, told a press cents).

President Roosevelt's Press Secres (35 cents); Postcards, 20 cents (25

conference that the "plain English of Guam (By gr throughout).- President Roosevelt's speech is the Letters per half oz., $1.10 (80 cents); only definition that can be made of Postcards, 53 cents each (60 cents). the defence zone in which United States warships will shoot first," | Mr Early said that, of 1,500 tele grams received at the White House favourable. He said that a radio survey indicated that the speech had Vladivostok has been shelved there

audience in history. the

second largest United States It showed that was no need for the President to do the event of war or other time of 07 per cent, or an estimated 60,000,- more thun publicly announce his emergency employed for military 000, heard the speech in the United Orm decision to maintain free naviga liable to be

States, employed tion in these sens as well as in the western hemisphere.

the moro immediate Issue of Ameri- can tankers taking oil to Russia via

The Information in the further points out that rection 50 of the Northern Rhodesia Police dinance, Chap. 46, provides that "In

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and when be subject to such terms arti regulations as the Governor may declare. Such declaration shall be The reaction of the country with by Proclamation published in the the world's third greatest navy will Gazette and shall state the limits within and the period for which the Le awaited with interest.

Corps or any part thereof shall be so To come to the passages which employed."

In the Straits Settlements the President Roosevelt did not pay matter is dealt with by Defence .namely the settlement of Sino-Regulations The Police Force (Mill-

Japanese hostilities, It would be.

tary Service) Regulations, 1941, Nos. wise to refrain from comment on 2 and 4 of which provide that the Chinese anxieties until something Police Force shall, if it becomes necessary or expedient to, engage. in substantial emerges from the negotia-

military operations against armed tions referred to above..

forces in defence of the Colony and This is the second occasion on that in performance of any military duties the Force is to be an indepen- which Mr Roosevelt has pointedly dent military force under the com- left the Far East out of his policy-mand of the Inspector General of announcing statements. There must] Police,

President Roosevelt's Pan-Ameri- can address in the early summer, when he declared an unlimited ur gency, had 70 per cent. of listeners.

Mr Early revealed that President Roosevelt received members of the United States Mission to Moscow to day, and will later see the Soviet Ambassador, M. Oumonsky, and some of the Russian Aireraft Mission who flew across the Pacific recently,

Important Phase Of Battle

FROM PAGE ONE

paign in Russia without fear of in- surniountable difquitics is published by the Berlin correspondents of all Swedish newspapers.

The main part of the campaign will be concluded, in the two months re- malning before heavy snow, the statement declared. Napoleon's campaign is no criterion because Napoleon neglected rear communica- tions while the Germans have care- fully organized these.

the shawed Germans in the last wär ability to withstand the Russian winter,

Increase In Betting The statement recalls that

Duty Announced

·FROM PAGE ONE

Counter-Attacki

Seeking to refute the Russian claims of auccessful counter-offen-

stves, German military circles state

that Gomel is still in German hands.

be an excellent reason. The negotla- The Hongkong Bill is an adaptation resulting by reduction of patronage tions with Japan cannot be easy. of both the above precedents bearing to a lows in revenue.

In mind that Article 1 of Section 1. The Gazette states: "It is the The front now runs 70 kilometres. It means prying her loose from the Chapter 1 of the Annex to Hague intention of the Government that in cast of Smolensk and even further Axis, returning her predatory forces Convention 11 of 1800 dealing with the this case, as was the case with the beyond Gamal. Russian counter- to their own country and providing Qualifications of belligerents provides 1940 amendment, that the increased attacks, these military circles: claim,

medium-financial and physical- that "The laws, rights and duties of by which both China and Japani can war apply not only to armies, butty should be borne by the betting have not disturbed. German progrCES

public. To "achieve that result as or halted the encirclement of

Len also to militia and volunteer corps nearly as practicable clause 2 of the Ingrad. fulAlling the following conditions Bill amends the proviso to the prin News of great successes i pro- they be commanded by a cipal Ordinance of 1931, as amended mised shortly on the Leningrad and responsible for his sub- in 1940. by altering the percentages other fronts which the Berlin corres- That is a tall order that will not ordinates; that they have a laxed cis- of the total contributions or subscrip- pandent of the newspaper Tidninger be reached before many cries of "sell distance; that they carry arms open- duty, must be devoted to prizes for tors in Berlin, bellove that Admiral

linctiva emblem recognisable at a tions which, after deduction of the suggests include Klev ing down the river and shamelessly and that they conduct their opera- the subscribers."

Meanwhile well-informed quar betrayal" from both sides have been tions in accordance with the laws The Kwongtung Handicap Race 1 Horthy's visit to Hitler's Headquarters heard and answered. However, we and customs of wartete kakkonen (excluded from the increase as the is connected with a German demand .can hope that a start has been made

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That the

and that the "no news on this Marshal Petain entertained at lunch

VICHY, Sept. 12 (Iteuter). aspect in President Roosevelt's today. Admiral Exteyaal Vichy Be Fapečeh, means "good news

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