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BUTTER
LAST CHANCE TO
LEAVE
HAIFA PAYING PENALTY
Jerusalem, To-day..
All Jewish. cinemas, restaurants and dancing halls in Haifa have been closed indefinitely by the au- thorities as penalty for the bomb outrage in an Arab cafe on Mon- day afternoon when an Arab was killed and 35 injured.
All motor traffic to and from Haifa has been prohibited.→ Trans-Ocean.
MOSCOW HITCH
Soviet Intrigue Scented
FOOCHOW
Jap. Ultimatum NAZIS COLLECT
Expiring This Evening
With the scheduled launching of the Japanese at- tack on Foochow at dawn to-morrow, the China Navigation Company's s.s. Yunnan,, which is calling at that port to-day, represents the last opportunity third party nationals in that treaty port will have of evacuating to safety. As revealed exclusively in the "China Mail" this morning, the Yunnan has been instructed to call at Foochow to-day to take off a number of foreign women who are temporarily evacuat ing to Shanghai.
In a virtual ultimatum to foreign residents of Foo- chow, the Japanese naval authorities gave them until this evening to leave the port. A passage was to be left in the boom to enable them to get through...
SCRAP
Berlin, To-day.
A campaign of
scrap-iron col- lecting is to be carried on through out Germany during the next three months by the Nazi Party and its branch organisations.
The German requirements in scrap-iron which have increased from 814 million to 411 million tons 90 per cent by collections in the Reich and it is planned through the new campaign to cover the re-
are now covered up to practically
quirements, completely, and thus to eliminate the necessity of import-
Trang-Ocean.
ene
from abroad. —
strongly contested
battle.
The Chinese have rushed rein- In contradiction to reports ap BIG BATTLE EXPECTED forcements to the scene, and it is pearing elsewhere, the "China Should to-morrow's bombardment expected that the Japanese will
This decision remains unchang-
London, To-day. ACCORDING to some Mails on Thursday last carried prove too fierce, it is probable have to strengthen their own forces the first account of the decision many will cross the bridge to possibly with the assistance of London diplomatic by the several hundred, foreign Nantai Island, which the Japanese army units brought up by trans- correspondents, the lat-residents of that port not to leave have indicated may be more or less ports before they are able to
considered a safety zone.
make a landing of any propor- est hitch in the Moscow Foochow
Foochow is expected to be the | tions. negotiations is due to ed, the "China Mail" learns, al- Soviet reluctance to though a few women are to board guarantee Holland and they will be returning to Foochow the Yunnan to-day for Shanghai; Switzerland against ag- as soon as possible, vit is under- gression, although Bri-Although the local naval au tain had conceded to the thorities have no information con- Soviet demand to guar, cerning the launching of the Ja- antee Finland, Latvia believed that this is projected for panese attack on Foochow, it is. and Esthonia.
stood.
to-morrow.
GAP IN BOOM
The "Daily Express” says that the last British communication A boom has been built across- agreed to.
the Soviet's the mouth of the Min River and hbours provided the gap in this to be closed partite agreement early to-morrow morning. ed, to Holland, and
hack that
in
addition to ready guaranteed by
namely
Gredder
The attack, it is expected, will
be heralded by a fierce bombard-
both from the air and from
Japanese which naval, tempt to effect a landing.
rships, fol-
will abs
mpta, at
HAVE AN H.B.-
HB
AND THEN TRY!