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EXHAUSTIVE PROBING OF PWD Men Who Are Destroying EMPLOYEES AT ARP INQUIRY

Issue of Explosives Criticised

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SUGGESTIONS OF INEFFICIENCY IN THE SUPERVISION OF AIR RAID SHELTER TUNNEL BLASTING AND THE ISSUE OF EXPLOSIVES WERE MADE BY THE CHAIRMAN, MR JUSTICE CRESSALL, OF THE Commission inquirING INTO MATTERS AFFECTING THE ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE OF THE A.R.P. DEPARTMENT THIS MORNING. WIT- NESSES WERE TAKEN EXHAUSTIVELY OVER THE ROUTINE OF ESTIMATING, DRAW. 'ING AND ACCOUNTING FOR EXPlosives usED IN THE KOWLOON TUNNELS. THE CHAIRMAN INTIMATED THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR DISHONEST EMPLOYEES, UNDER THE SYSTEM USED, TO KEEP SURPLUS EXPLOSIVES FOR SALE TO FISHERMEN

OR OTHER CONCERNS.

LATEST SOVIET COMMUNIQUE

Nazi Naval, Air, Land Losses

Special to the "Telegraph"

He questioned the amount spent on explosives in a tunnel under Whitfield Barracks which had been examined by the Commission. The earth there was so soft in parts, he pointed out, that there had recently been a collapse.

A suggestion that some of the employces spent their time at nights gambling in the office when MOSCOW, Sept. 23 (UP)-A communiqué issued here they should have been out working was denied. to-night states that Soviet troops fought the enemy along the entire front. Fifty-three enemy planes were destroyed on Sep- tember 21. The Russians lost 16 planes,

NAZIS DIG IN FOR WINTER

Heavy Drain Made

On Reserves

(BY "REUTER'8" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

Referring to official figures of German casualties, M. Solomon

Lozovsky, of the Soviet Infor

mation Bureau, ridiculed the German statistics, citing various orders of the German High

The Commission comprises His Honour Mr Justice P.E.F.

EVACUATED Crassall (Chairman), Mr L. C.

BRITONS

FOR H. K.

Command and the testimony of Coming From Japan

prisoners as basis of calculation which deduced that the German

losses must have reached a

minimum of 2,300,000,

Ind

German Naval Lossca

that there was

no.

M. Lozovsky

As for Leningrad,

Was continuing. "The

that casualties and

the number uf

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH!

TOKYO, Sept. 24 (UP).—AP- proximately 50 Britons and 200 | Indian British are sailing on the

F. Bellamy, Mr S. Hampden Ross and Mr K. M. A. Barnett (Secre- tary), Mr D. H Blake repre sented Kin Lee and Company, contractors for the building of A.R.P. tunnels in Kowloon.

The Arst Winess called was Lo Holt-pul, P.W.D.* foremun,

The Chairman! How much do you get?

Witness: $2.50 a day.

Were you ever in the Waterworks Office -I am working in the Water- works Department now.

Counts The Workers

there in

Here are some of the men-Russian pilots--who are helping to destroy the Nazi Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front. Third from the right in the group is Flying Officer N.A.. Tokarev, who holds the rank of "Hero of the Soviet Union."

President Roosevelt Wants U.S. Merchant Ships Armed

Special to the "Telegraph”

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UP).—Fresident Roosevelt to-day said that America

is probably heading toward the arming of merchantships. He disclosed that the Pink Star, flying the Panamanian flag, possessed one gun for defence but was unable to say how many-if any--other vessels under Panamanian registry are armed.

Military Activity In Bulgaria Increases

to leave their premises without Hongkong Bomber

He left no doubt that he is preparing to ask Congress to modify or repeal the neutrality act to permit the arming-of- merchant ships carrying the American flag, and he'said that a decision on this would be reached next week.

He said that it is possible that America is headed towards the arm- ing of American merchant ships and also the arming of vessels of other American Republies. The Fresident declared that he was going to do everything possible to protect these ships.

Outrageous Movement

He sumined up Germany's naval steamer Anhui for Hongkong the Kowloon tunnels?—Yes.

Are you at present looking after MOSCOW, Sept. 23-On the losses in the Baltic alone in ships] on September 26. These include What exactly do you do in connee Russian central front Major- sunk and damaged in three months many prominent British busi-tion with the Kowloon tunnels-hiy as one armed coast-guard, 21 desness men who have apparently the work there, such us to see that duty at the tunnels is lo supervise General Sokolovsky, representatroyers, 17 submarines, eight. patro adopted the fatalistic attitude the levelling in done properly, and tive of the Soviet Command onships, one trawler. 20 torpedo. this front, tells me there is 82 in the German

and 90 motor-boats. towards the evacuation because such tight jobs. evidence that the Germans are Regarding

ims of the freezing order had paralyzed claims digging in "over hundreds, one armies at Kiev, M. Lozovsky

four Soviet their business. the encirclement of

said: might say over thousands of The Germans made similar claims The British Embassy an- What such light jobs?-To count kilometres. They are taking up elsewhere und were then forced to nounced that first class cabins the number of workmen in the defensive positions with trench

truth in would be assigned on a fifty-fifty tunnels, and to see that these people

work diligently

ANKARA, Sept. 23 (Reuter) —Travellers report that very warfare, mud and winter in pros.

basis between the white Britons

And you do that for all the tunnels? active military preparations continue in Bulgaria and that the pect."

The Com--I am looking after five alics.

Germans are taking over Bulgarian railways for their own use. arc How many sites German réserves are not "ex-ld that fighting of great ferocity and the Indians.

Germans mittee representing the depart-

Kowloon?Five.

All foreigners in Bulgaria, are closely watched by the Police.. hausted but they are approach themselves, though they love bonst-ing Indians indicated their ap- So you look after all the tunnels ing the point where they willing, now do not claim any advance.proval of this procedure which then? Yes.

The staffs of the Soviet Lega- be" he added.

Hostilities have reached such a scope will probably require some of

he workers in Той

every tion and Consulates are unable count the The General thought that the combatants are so great that they the white Britons to travel one,

one of them? Yes. Germans would lose greatly In

What do you do after you have being watched will stand out even in this war." steerage, while some of the

by Gestapo manoeuvrability In winter cam-

counted them? When I come off paign. "They are already beginning

Battleship Bombed

duty I

I would return to the office and agents. There are at present to substituto horses for petrol

there I would make *

note in only four Soviet women in vehicles," he said. "The roads

The following telegram has the bouk which I would later hand Bulgaria, bad and the Germans are un-

to the No. 1.

In Ankara opinion is divided: some been received from the Secretary The British from Manchuokuo onably

suffering from

from a petrol

Do you pero ed a Soviet battleship which began who wished to evacuate have come to you count the workmen7-I do.

make a note at the time observers take the view that German of State for the Colonies by Ils Winter cold shortage.

will create

activities are intended to facilitate an Excellency the Governor: new problems for the Gerinuns, to slok. The battleship, was already Japan and have brought tales of the

Have

you got the book with you | ntinck by sen against the Caucasusj The Russians all have sheepskin damaged in a a previous raid,

hardest sort of trip because of the now?-No, it is in the office at others suggest that they are designed 18th September, 1941.

He disclosed that the Pink Star was A second Soviet battleship, Octo-close surveillance of the Japanese Hunghom." coats and snow-boots. As the Fin-

to bring pressure on Turkey once the

sunk last Friday at 11.23 p.m. GMT nlah campaign showed, the Russianser Revolution, which was severely Customs

polied

When that has been put into the Germans have reached the Caucasus.

From the Minister of Aircraft while in company with a Canadian can stand 50 degrees of frost, if damaged in Kronstadt harbour on authoritles.

bock, do you know what happens A third group is of the opinion Production.

escorted necessary staying out of doors night Sunday, received two new bomb hits

One Britons was detained for 48 afterwards? I then hand the book that the German aim is to bring

convoy which was attacked hours because the Pollee belleved that to the No. 1 foreman. on the stern to-day,

by a submarine 275 miles northeast and đầy while the Germans cannot.”

"Gratefully acknowledge latest of Cape Farewell on the southern tip pressure on Turkey to obtain the the dry cleaner's mark on his clothes Is that George Tsang?—Yes.

passage of warships through the generous gift for bombers. of Greenland, represented an effort to convey to And has he to rely on what you Dardanelles and eventually transit Continued support -affords us He recalled that in 1917 When the the British the estimated number of put in the book is to the number of of troops through Turkey. Japanese troops in Manchuokuo.

workmen actually employed?—He

they do not consider the present nearer day when Hongkong chantmen, President Woodrow Wil- The Turks stress, however, thist great encouragement and brings Senate blocked the enactment of a hill to permit the arming of mer- developments

will in Bulgaria to be on a Squadron

bring new

Bon contended that he had the sufficiently large scale to constitute a strength to our bombing forces. TURN to Back Pago, Column 5. threat to this country.

brc

Reasons For Failure Explaining the reasons for the int-: lure of the German attempt to break through the Smolensk sector in the Moscow drive, General Sokolovsky gave impressive figures of Nazi losses. Since they started their drive against Smolensk, he said, the Germans had lost 1,050 planes in this one sector,

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

BERLIN, Sepi 23 (UP)-Stukos

in the Gulf of Finland to-day bomb-

A large destroyer was also set on

Are.

RETALIATORY ARRESTS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Sept. 23 (UP)-It is un- derstood that the arrest of the

alon the beginning of September. Britishers Mason und Graham Mar- |

Indiana travel first class.

Hardships In Manchukuo

and the secret

At one port, 19. different customs

ofleers examined) and Investigated every single Hem of another Briton's luggage.

Axis-Iran Break

TEHERAN; Sept. 23 (Router)--The

he sald, Russian counter-attacks had tyr in Tokyo represents retaliation trantan Government have recalled. resulted in the recapture of territory for the arrest Of

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two Japanese diplomatic representatives from Ger-

many, Italy and Rumania,

to 30 miles in depth over a 60-nationals in Singapore last week.

mile front. Ten German divisions

White Rajah Agrees To Give Up Absolute Rule

TURN to Fage: 5, Column One

LATEST

Bulgaria-Soviet War Inevitable?

Yet a fourth group considers that the German activities in Bulgaria nim

at obtaining entire contról of the: country to make it a base for opera-: tions against either Russia or Turkey.

Von Papen Back LONDON, Sept. 23 (Reuter). The German Ambassador to Turkey, Herr Franz voh Papen, has arrived; back in Turkey by air from a visiti to Germany and is in the summer residence of the German Embassy at Therapla..

Squadron

The Prealdent said that the sinking of the Pink Star was just another in- cident in the Axia campaign of ruth- less warfare, adding that the world la facing the most outrageous move ment in all history, with certain groups attempting to dominate the whole world,

Japanese Seek Say In S'hai

Bigger Police

Special to the "Telegraph",

by

have been totally or partly destroyed and the Germans recently had been obliged to

throw in ten more divi- slons. These troops had been brought up from other parts of the front but

SHANGHAI, Sèpt, 23 (UP)—-Terroristic outbreaks there was no evidence that they had

alleged pro-Chungking Chinese and directed mainly against the come from the Leningrad, sector.

Japanese both in the International Settlement and the Japanese Superiority of Artillery

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Moscow Allegation occupied arens has brought a Japanese demand for important The Russians are now some 20

ANKARA, Sept. 23 (UP)—II- is LONDON, Sept. 23 (UP)-Radla changes in the municipal police, giving the Japaneso greater me from Smolensk, the General KUCHING, Sarawak, Sept. 24 (Reuter)-Tho 100 years very reliably reported that a move Moscow to-day announced that 400-control. TURN to Back Page, Column 5 rule of the Brooke family as White Rajahs in the Independent

ment of Bulgarian troops northward 000 men have been mobilised in

Oficial circles to-day disclosed that towards the Danube is choking all Bulgaria and thai German engineers The Municipal Council during negotiations are going on in corines. but British-protected state of Sarawak on the strategically Im-roads. Typhoon Grounded partant ell-producing Island of Borneo was celebrated here to

have built special roads, The an- the past two years has steadily tion with changes which have been Observers think that this means bouncement added. "The Germons resisted the Japanese demands proposed by the Japanese' and'li i* Vessel Re-Floated day with full ceremony. services and Malay and Moham-Bulgarian-Russian batilities are in-continue to put Bulgaria, in a state of for greater representation and be reached next month. The negotia

expected that a new agreement will. preparation for drawing up. troops; for war against the Soviets and power in the municipal police, tions are at present revolving around Turkey,"

but the recent outbreaks of the formal appointment of Mr Sakon violence in which Japaneso missioner of the municipal police to

Watori as Japanese Deputy Com RAID ON ROUEN ond daylight, by Chinese gun was murdered by terrorists last June, civilians have been killed in siccoód Mr-Chirayuki Akugt Who

the

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The day was ushered in by a medan communities.

Efforts to refloat the 14.000-ton salute of 101 guns from a Bri- The new constitution provides for British liner, which went aground on tish destroyer shortly after the gradual abolition of the absolute rule Lille Green Island during the Rajah, Sir Charles Vyner which the Brookes have exercised typhooï last Tuesday were successful-

-since-the-Best Rajah, Gir James Brooke, had proceeded through Brooke, was sworn in on September this morning, after d considerable quantity of cargo

go had been taken o guards of honour of British and 24, 1641 after Anding himself fortul to lighten the sulp

Sarawak troops to bestow on his fously on the island on an explora- She was towed through the har subjects a new constitution Intian trip and subsequently helping bour by two tugs at noon to the the presence of representatives "to 'quelf",a native rebellion. Tálköd: Dockyards, where tho. vessel

The present: Rajah Sir Charles will be put inta drydock for exami- of King George, the Governor of Brooke, celebrate his 67th birthdny nation" and repairag

Singapore, the British fighting on Friday

evitable.

VICHY, Sept. 23 (UP) is men in the heart of the Interna Rollable sources, disclosed that officially stated that 14 persons were tional Settlement has given the ones have made preliminary killed and 18 wounded in an RAF Japanese an opening whereby the police system "similar to the

requeste

to the Counell for changes in raid on Rouen Just Saturday after they are seeking equality with modifications made in the Municipal Anoon, Some damage was ',. done. to

Coundland, which fled for establishment of a provisional Couficht

The factories which were working on the present British controlled

man ordera, ma

police,