THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1989
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Japanese Army In North "Determined To
GENERAL HOMMA AND SILVER DEPOSITS
Tientsin, To-day.
General Homma, commander of the Japanese Tientsin garrison, in an interview, said that the questions affecting currency and silver re-
Have Way"
R.A.F.
NIGHT FLIGHTS OVER FRANCE
London, To-day. Royal Air Force squadrons will be flying over France by night for cises which are beginning at 5 p.m.
serves had become fundamental in the minds the first time during air exer- of the Japanese negotiators-in Tokyo. Asked whether a compromise was possible, on the basis of Britain agreeing to suppress Chinese National Currency within the Tientsin Conces- sion while retaining, until the end of the war, the silver deposited in the banks of the British
Concessions, General Homma replied in the
negative.
Although admitting that a silver
reserve to the amount of $48,000,000 NEW EFFORT TO
in the Concession would not go far to support Federal Reserve Bank notes issued to the amount of over 330,000,000 yuan and now circulat- ing in those parts of North China under Japanese control, General Homma insisted that the silver re- serve belong by right to the Pei- ping Provisional Government.
Its return, he said, had become a matter of principle.
FIND FORMULA
London, To-day.
The bombers of the Eastland" force, after leaving their home bases, will fly as far south as Beauvals before returning to raid the defended area of "Westland." -Reuter.
MORGENTHAU ON HOLIDAY
ROOSEVELT'S SON ON NEUTRALITY BILL
Broadcasting, Mr. Elliott Rooms- velt, the President's son, urged that America should make a declaration that her sympathies are overwhelm- ingly with Europe's democracies.
Such a declaration, he said, would do more to end the risk of war than all the talking over neutrality.
Mr. Roosevelt said that he was surised at the glee over the neu- trality impasse expressed by some who hated everything his father's Administration did.
"I don't believe this Neutrality, Bill is worth the paper it is writ ten on," he said. "If war came it would he torn up overnight.
"That being so, we should let the London, To-day. world know what you and know, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secre- that we overwhelmingly sympathise tary to the United States Treasury, with Europe's democracies. We landed from the Normandie at should sell them everything and Southampton yesterday morning anything they want if they pay for and left Harwich in the afternoon it and carry it away in their own for Denmark.
ships."--Reuter.
Mr. Morgenthau made it clear to New instructions now being reporters that he was in Europe drafted by the Foreign Office for on holiday only, and said he would bassador to Moscow, are character-mandie on September 6, British Sir William Seeds, the British Am- be returning home by the Nor- The bulk of the silver reservé is to overcome the last obstacles to a
ised by "The Times" as an attempt Wireless. deposited in the French Concession political and but since France is following the with Soviet Russia. British lead, it is likely that pres-
sure will be exerted here also.
military agreement
BEAVERHILL
QUOTAS FOR PHILIPPINES
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt yesterday The Japanese military authori-quarters in London hope that a for-
between the United States and the ties, added the General, were fully mula acceptable to the Soviet Un- The Canadian Pacific 10,000-ton jected independence of the Philip- Montreal; To-day. Philippines preparatory to the pro- determined to have their own way ion can be found in the question of liner Beaverhill, which struck an pines in 1946. in the matter.Trans-Ocean. the definition of "indirect aggres-iceberg off Newfoundland yester-
sion."-Trans-Ocean.
The Times” says that political RESUMES VOYAGE signed the bill readjusting relations
TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE
FRENCH BOMBER IN
WHILE BEING ESCORTED TO FORCED LANDING
THE POLICE STATION YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON, TWO CHIN- ESE PRISONERS ESCAPED.
Copenhagen, To-day.
They were Lau Hon. 40, and A French bomber with a crew of Cheung Ming, 35, who were arrest-five which, with the permission of ed in Sa Po Village, New Terri- the Danish Government, was flying tories, in connection with the Dan-over Denmark on the way from gerous Drugs Ordinance.
Paris via Amsterdam to Warsaw The two prisoners; on their way had to make an emergency landing to Au Tau Police Station at about near Horsens, Jutland, on Sunday 3.45 p.m., managed to escape from the Chinese detectives in whose custody they were, and are still at liberty.
SUNSHINE CORRESPONDENTS
OF THE EXPRESS
London, "To-day,
evening.
The French 'plane encountered a storm and lost its direction.
After minor repairs, the 'plane will take off for Copenhagen, where
intermediate landing
an
scheduled. Trans-Ocean.
was
The "Daily Express yesterday PLANE CRASH OFF
announced that in reply to a query,
"whether peace will be maintained" addressed by the Editor to 12 for- eign correspondents of the paper no less than ten declared they were certain that there will be no
Two corresponden declared were not
peace Would
DANZIG
day, has resumed her journey and expects to reach London according to schedule, state the company's of ficials-Reuter.
The bill
establishes duty free quotas for cocoanut oil, embroidery, tobacco and pearl buttons from the Philippines until 1946. Reuter.