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MUTT AND JEFF
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WELL! WHAT
ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
THERE'S SOMETHING THAT 'LOOKS ODD:ABOUT THE LADMIRAL THIS MORNING!.
OH,1 SEE WHAT IT IS, MUTT!
{WHAT?]
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1989.
FOR THE FIRST TIME
SINCE WE KNOW. THE AD, HE'S LEFT HIS MEDALS OFF!
By BUD FISHER
GOOD GOSH! I FORGOT TO TAKE THEM OFF
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NO JUSTIFICATION FOR MISGIVINGS OVER TOKYO NEGOTIATIONS
London, To-day. Claims have been made in Tokyo that a resounding triumph has been scored for the "New Order in Asia" and the press in Berlin has gleefully em- phasized the "supposed humiliation" of Britain, declares the "Daily Telegraph."
The paper adds that these are unfortunate but in- evitable examples of the new technique of diplomacy by tirade overlaping sober negotia- tion.
Although there have been cer- preliminary further talks it has tain misgivings lest perhaps these been agreed to make explicit the tales of the British "surrender" | British recognition of the Japanese might be true, there is no justi-invasion.
fication for them in the official | This recognition, however, im- statement or in Mr. Chamberlain's | plies as an important component, brief commentary on it.
realisation of the strength of Chin- From the Japanese press and ese resistance. Reuter: the spokesman for the Japanese Army, it appears that various sug- gestions had been put forward in the negotiations which would cer- tainly be not acceptable to this country.
SCHEMES DROPPED
The abandonment of the Chinese currency; the withdrawal of the British Ambassador to China; the stoppage of supplies sent through Burma; and the recognition of the puppet administrations these are among the proposals which some Japanese military-politicians seemed to have wished Mr. Hachiro Arita to import into the negotia- tions on Tientsin,
NAZI RADIO PROPAGANDA AGAINST BRITAIN
London, To-day.
question
Answering a commons the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, said: "It is unfortunately true that much propaganda of an anti-British na- ture is published in Arabic broadcasts, and much in- accurate information, especially re-
the German
were
From Mr. Chamberlain's ⠀⠀ state- ment that the forthcoming discus-garding Palestine, but they do not sions will be confined to local appear to contain any direct incite-
ment to violence." issues at Tientsin, it may assumed that if such schemes had been brought forward, they have been dropped and will not be revived.
There is no new feature in the military situation in the Far East and certainly no ground in the re- cent attitude of the Japanese Army to British subjects which would warrant so complete a reversal of British policy?'
AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT “ The settlement of the Tientsin dispute, is presumably desired by the Japanese Government as well as the British Government and in
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of these allegations, which fundamentally untrue, but he did not think that a direct approach to Germany would be likely to achieve desirable results-British Wireless.
JAPS. SURROUNDED
AT CHAOAN
Liuhuang, Kwangtung, To-day. The Japanese troops at Chaoan (Chaochow) are reported to be surrounded by the Chinese,
One hundred Japanese reinforce- ments dispatched from Swatow to Ampow, a small town about seven miles north of Swato in eight aunches on Sunday were in- Chinese laun-
dead éturned to