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DOMEI NEWS AGENCY IN H. K. SUSPENDED Sudden Action By Authorities This Morning
POSITION OF TYPHOON UNCERTAIN
The Royal Observatory reports that pressure remains highest over the Pacific to the east of Ja- pan, and is relatively low from Indo-China to the Pacific east- ward of Luzon.
Two typhoons are indicated, one in the Southern Formosa Channel and the other about 300 miles east of Luzon; both appear to be mov- ing W.N.W., but the position of the former is very uncertain.
Forecast:-E. and N. E. winds, moderate; fair.
SHOWERY. OVERCAST,
Reason For Ban Not Yet Officially
1
Disclosed
The Japanese semi-official news agency, Domei, was
suddenly placed under suspension in the Col- ony, on official orders, this morning.
Reason for the action is not known, as Government
circles are reticent on the matter, and the Jap- anese news agency have declined to disclose the cause for an official ban.
It is thought possible, however,. There is no official sanction for that the step is connected with the this theory, but none other seems
TEST FORECAST despatch from Hong Kong to Ja-to offer.
LONDON, TO-DAY.
MID-AIR- COLLISION
Lyons, To-day.
Six occupants of two French bombers were incinerated when their machines collided in mid-air, then crashed and burst into flames, six miles southwest of Lyons-Reuter.
FOURTEEN STOW AWAY IN NORMANDIE
As many as
cluding 11 Frenchmen,
Paris, To-day. 14 stowaways, in- Americans and 3 were on board the Normandie when she arrived at Le Havre from New York: yesterday. Discussing the matter with the Seven of the 11 Americans de pan of a message, based on a trivial incident, t
the throwing of an em-"China Mail" an official of the Do-clared that they intended to join WEATHER TO-DAY IS pty bottle through the window of mei News Agency stated that the the International Brigade in Re UNLIKELY TO BE HELPFUL the Vice-Consul's
residence, and Government were being interview-publican Spain.
Among the French stowaways: Madame Beatrice Dussane, TO AUSTRALIA IN THE HER- suggesting that anti-Japanese sen-ed concerning the ban, and it was was
of the "Comedie Fran- CULEAN TASK
HAS timents in Hong Kong were in-hoped that arrangements would be member BEEN SET FOR HER BY ENG-
made for restoration of the agency's caise" who had been a guest per creasing.
right to function in the Colony this former at the French Theatre at LAND IN THE TEST.
afternoon.
| Middlebury in the State of New
York-Trans-Ocean,
THE
WHICH
The overnight weather forecast was: Very cool, overcast, showery, which means an easy wicket, with a liability to break up later on.
The morning papers express the opinion that England is now in an impregnable position and shower bouquets on the record-breaker, Hutton, who broadcast to the nation last evening.
Howard Marshall, in the "Daily Telegraph," says that "Australia must be reflecting uneasily that a new Sutcliffe has arisen.”
That England must go on piling up the runs to the bitter end is the consensus of opinion.-Reuter.
M. DALADIER ENDEAVOURS TO EXPLAIN
Paris, To-day.
The Premier, M. Daladier, in a declaration to the Press, explained his attitude to the forty-hour week,
The Premier said that France, as an enterprise was working at a loss with the forty-hour week in effect. He cited an example of a 15 million francs order from
the
JAPANESE SHANSI United States which the French
OFFENSIVE
Tokyo, To-day.
to
firm in question was obliged turn down because, with the forty- hours week, it could not make de- livery in the stipulated time.
The Premier emphatically stated, Japanese troops have occupied that he was not opposed to the Hanyangchen, four kilometres
forty-hour week
of
to any social south of Puchow, and are at present legislation which would make the] bombarding Fenglingchen on the lot of the worker more pleasant, northern bank of the Yellow River but he wanted to see the factories opposite Tungkwan, a report from work under normal conditions. Taiyuan states.
The Japanese are reported to In the meantime, a wave of in- have captured two fieldguns, "four dignation against the Premier is mountain guns and three howitzers. growing in left wing circles and
Tranz-Qpean.
the trade unions-Trans-Ocean.
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