„THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER .1939.
BARRAGE BALLOONS HANG IN HUNDREDS OVER CITY
JAPANESE SHIPS TAKE NEW ROUTE
Tokyo, To-day.
Ten Japanese steamers in European waters have been ordered to return home via
Panama Canal instead of the
Suez Canal.
Vessels bound for Europe will.go via the Mediterranean for the time being, but in the event of hostilities spreading there, the Panama Canal route will be used for outward and homeward. voyages to and from Europe.
London, instead of Hamburg, now the terminus of the Japanese steamship service to Europe in view of the blockading of the North Sea by the British Navy.--Reuter.
ATLANTIC CABLE OUT
'London, To-day.
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POLISH
•PLANES OVER BERLIN
Warsaw, To-day.
It is announced over the radio that over 30 Polish aircraft flew over
Berlin on Monday.
THE CONSPICUOUS REDUCTION in the size of newspapers by a half and the scarcity of taxi- cabs, a large number of which have been reserv- ed for the emergency fire service, are the chief outward signs of London at war. Overhead, hundreds of barrage balloons shine like globules of mercury against the azure sky. ́`· Over 650,000 schoolchildren and other priority
classes have evacuated London in the past three ZIONISTS
and a half days without hitch or casualty.
INDIAN
ARMY TO BE
MODERNISED
London, To-day.
Twenty thousand volunteers inde- fatigably helped.
The rush of young couples to mar- ry began on Friday and beats the re- cords of the last War.
Long queues wait at every Re- gistrar's office, either to bẹ mar.... ried or to give notice of marriage. There have been numerous appli- cations for special licenses.
QUEUES OF ALIENS
All the planes return- ed safely. Reuter:
OFFER AID
TO BRITAIN.
London, To-day.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Pre- sident of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, has sent a let-
Similar queues of Germans and ter to the Premier pledging The Imperial Government Austrians can be seen outside police the co-operation of Jews in has approved the recommen-stations, where they are registering the fight for Democracy. dations of the report of the their names and addresses.
Germans and Austrians will not be Indian Committee on De-
allowed to moye five miles without authority.
fence.
The Commercial Cable Company of The total cost of the new sweeping New York reports that its cabled ser- plans will be £34,000,000, of which vice between Camden and the Azores three-quarters. will be a gift from was interrupted, owing to some unex-Britain, the remainder being interest-
free for the first five years. plained cause.----Reuter.
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Official notices' emphasise · that Czechs are not required to regis- ter.
He writes: "In this hour of supreme crisis the consciousness that Jews have a.contribution to make to the defence of sacred values impels me to write this letter.
I wish to confirm in most explicit manner the declarations which I and my colleagues made during the last months and especially in the last week
that the Jews stand by Great Britain and will fight on the side of the De- mocracles.
The offices of the women's volunteer services at Westminster are crowded The plan will take five years to with girls seeking war employment. complete and includes the mechanisa-Many of them are shopgirls, since the tion of cavalry, transport and a large stores are now cutting down staffs. portion of the infantry, enabling the
LAND ARMY
Our urgent desire is to give effect latter to be more efficient with: less Applications for the Land Army
to these declarations. We wish to do. have been particularly keen.
-The Women's Auxiliary Air Force so in a way entirely consonant with is now on a war footing, and is be-the general scheme of British action and therefore would place ourselves ing increased to 25,000 needed 'as
in matters big and small, under the cooks, orderlies, clerks, store-keepers, supply drivers, fabric-makers and co-ordinating direction of the British
Government. first-ald.-Reuter.
men.
British troops in India, for instance, can be reduced to one-quarter of last year's figures under the new scheme. --Reuter.
PARLIAMENT TO ADJOURN
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London, To-day, Mr. Neville Chamberlain announc- ed yesterday that the House adjourn from September to unless special circumstances warrant- ed its recall-Reuter.
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GERMANS ESCORTED FROM CANTON
Shiukwan, To-day. Gerinans in Canton ale reported to have left for Macao under the escort of Japanese troops.-Central, News."
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JEWISH OFFER
The Jewish Agency is ready to en- ter into immediate arrangements for utilising Jewish man-power, technical ability, resources and so on.
The Jewish Agency, has recently had differences in the political field with the mandatory. Power. We would like these differences to give way before the greater and more We ED REED.pressing necessities of the time..
ask you to accept this declaration in the spirit in which It is made."
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The Prime Minister has sent a letter expressing warm appreciation of Dr." Weizmann's declaration. British Wireless.
GERMAN DIVERSION TROOPS
Warsaw, To-day, Further attempts on the part of Germans to descend by parachute on Polish terri- tory, in order to create diver- sions, are reported in an off- cial Polish statement.
It is stated that several men, wear- ing the uniform of Polish soldiers, came down by parachute on Monday. The statement adds: "This is not the first case of flagrant violation of the rules of war."-Reuter.
COLONIALS VOLUNTEER
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London, Tarday, Formation of a station in the 'Lon- don Volunteer. Ambulance. Service, composed entirely of volunteers from India, the Straite Settlements and other -- British Malayan States,"". has been ap oved by the L.C.C.—Reuter.