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POLAND
London, To-day.
EVACUATION
London, To-day.
German police are replac- In spite of the denial by the ing troops behind the lines Nazi Propaganda Minister, in occupied territory in Po- both French and Belgian land, according to German
newspapers yesterday assert
sources.
The police have been given the task of "cleaning up."
According to the Nazi news agency, they have had several fights with "insurgents and franc-tireurs," who were "trying to create disturbances."
The Germans admit that several police have been killed, and say that their attackers were shot.--Reuter,
PITIFUL SCENES AT AACHEN
BRUSSELS, TO-DAY.
ed that the Aachen district is being evacuated.
Neutrals and trustworthy Germans said they had seen long lines of re- fugees who were evacuating on foot. Evacuees had been forced to leave with the the keys of their houses police.
There are a large number of troops in Aachen waiting to go up to the Saarbruecken front.-Reuter.
H.K.N.V.F. TRIBUNAL
His Excellency the Governor has appointed the following to be mem- bers of a Board to be called the THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Refer- BRUSSELS NEWSPAPER, "L'INDE-ence Board to consider and make PENDENCE BELGE," DESCRIBES recommendations upon applications by PITIFUL SCENES HE WITNESSED members of the Hong Kong Naval AT AACHEN (AIX-LA-CHAPELLE) | Volunteer Force already mobilized for DURING THE EVACUATION FROM service or not yet mobilized and by THE AREA OF CIVILIANS BY THE the employers of any such members NAZI AUTHORITIES.
as to the continuance of service or as. to the mobilization of any member as the case may be-
Many of the older people were se- parated from their relatives by the police.
The same correspondent says that food is scarce in the Aachen area.
Many families have little more to eat than soup made from potatoes and other vegetables.-Reuter.
His Honour Sir Alasdair Duncan Atholl MacGregor, Knight, K.C., Chief Justice, (Chairman).
The Honourable Mr. Stanley Hud- son Dodwell. Captain' Francis Cyril Flynn, R.N.
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The recent Russian-Japanese armistice had made no difference. to the fundamental relations be- tween the two countries, declared Mr. Soto Matsukato, Minister-at- Large in occupied China, and pro- bably the first diplomatic repre- sentative to the Wang Ching-wei government when formed:
In response to questions he said that the principles mentioned by Prince Konoye's peace terms in December, that Inner Mongolia must be a special anti-Commun- ist Area garrisoned by Japanese, were unchanged by the Russian Japanese agreement.
"We want to adjust relations with Russia but the Soviet is still the Soviet and the fundamental relations are the same.
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On formation of the New Cen- tral Government he forecast that it will get early recognition, and it will be open to any member of
in- the Chungking Government, cluding Chiang Kai-shek, to come over and join the Wang Ching- wel regime if
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the Chungking Government changed fundamen- tally their views especially garding communists.
Concerning the Anglo-Ja-- panese Tientsin conference, he said it might re-open and it was only adjourned owing to events in Europe and the Japanese Cabinet crisis. He added there were no difficulties at present concerning Police procedure and the mainten- ance of peace and order. Reuter.
Shanghai, To-day. Commenting on an article re- ferring to Sino-Japanese peace rumours carried in one section of and Hong Kong's foreign press the remarks in this connection - concerning the reporting of these rumours by Reuter's, the Agency's the has issued Shanghai Office following statement: "The only comment Reuters have to make in this connection is to point out that rumours were prevalent Shanghai that did affect Shanghai exchange market - that therefore both cause and ef- fect were items, of 'news worthy of being reported."-Reuter.
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