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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICE BUTTER
TAKES
UP JAPANESE CHALLENGE
MISSING EUROPEAN GIRL MYSTERY
Chungking, To-day.
Mapare
"Typical Japanese military swagger and spiritual MASS ARRESTS
.
bravado,” is how the Chinese official spokes- man to-day described the statement issued on Wednesday by the Japanese Government.
BY MILITARY The Japanese statement declared among other IN PALESTINE
things that it would not reject participation of the Kuomintang in establishment of new order in the Far East if it repudiated its anti-Japan- ese and pro-Communist policy.
79.
point made in his recent mani-
Mystery still attaches to
The spokesman to-day termed it a "grave insult to the disappearance of Miss
human intelligence." He said that as far as written Marie Carmichael, 16-year-old.
statements were concerned. hardly European girl, whose failure anything more effective could have
been to return home on Wednesday
conceived to provoke the Chinese people to greater determin- night was reported to theation to carry on the bitter strug- police yesterday morning. -
It was stated yesterday afternoon, on the authority of the girl's parents that she had been located and was return- ing home.
This afternoon, however, the police were still enquiring and were taking steps for in- tensification of the search.
Officially, the girl is still missing, and it is now thought that the intimation that she was safe was made because of a natural reluctance to seè publicity.
It has been definitely estab- lished that the girl was seen in Chatham Road late on the night of her failure to go,
• home, if she
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gle and also to shatter the hopes of third parties for early conclu- sion of the devastating conflict.
COMPLETELY BELIED
festo that the war at present had reached a new stage in which the circumstances ́lay to the advantage of China's defensive warfare.
"Chinese resistance will
Jerusalem, To-day,
The spokesman of the "British military authorities in Palestine in- formed newspaper correspondents yesterday that there was no truth in reports about the alleged dis- covery of German-made rifles and ammunition among the Arab irre- gülars.
Military operations against Arab con-villages in North Palestine have tinue until Japan collapses out of now led to a mass arrest of village sheer exhaustion.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
inhabitants. The entire male popu lation of the village of Sileh in the Tokyo's contention that the loss "The Chinese nation, standing Samaria district numbering about of Canton and Hankow had reduc-solidly behind the leadership of six hundred has been rounded up ed the National Government to the the Generalissimo, whose political in a search for active rebels. status of a local administration, and moral stature has grown with was completely belled by the facts.
The spokesman added: “Al- though the Japanese people will not know this until it is too late to save their country from utter ruln.”
"The Japanese claim to have cap- tured half China's territory, but fail to add that few Japanese sold- lers are safe if they venture too far beyond their precarious lines of communication. *^
HOPELESS TASK
"No less that three-fourths : of the territory behind the Japanese lines is under the effective control of the Chinese Government, and even policing of the occupied areas, not to mention the hopeless task to crush Chinese partisans, is a mili- tary and financial burden of such magnitude that the Japanese people cannot afford to bear
The spokesman reiterated General Chiang・・ Kai-shek's
to include, Austria and Sudetenland. New arrangements are made to Dublin. To,day....... supply, Germany, with egge, meat, The trade agreement concluded cattle and herdings. In the first between Germany and Eire amounts nine months of the current year, n, the main to a prolongation Germany exported to Eire to the further year of the existing value of £1,182,165 and Imported ements between the two coun- from Eire to the value of $705,490, tries, the agreement being extended -Trans-Ocean.
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