THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1939
Nazi Government Puzzles Over Queerest "Mystery
HOMILY TO NEUTRALS
CANNOT UNDERSTAND
LACK OF WORLD SYMPATHY!
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London, To-day.
THE NAZI GOVERNMENT, through the official news agency, has issued a long homily to neutral states, in which it complains of the lack of sympathy for Ger- many. The neutral states, says the commentary, have always been faithful supporters of the League of Na- tions, yet show a lack of enthusiasm for National So- cialism,
Since the outbreak of war, the statement goes on, the neu- tral states have displayed anything but a benevolent attitude to German interests.
"Scandinavian journalists and poli- ticians have assisted the British war- mongers in forcing the war on
the German
people!" announces the statement.
Coupled with this is a denial that the German Government is responsible for the Soviet invasion of Finland.
"MOSCOW MIGHT"
At the same time, an article appears in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" which admits that when the Nazi Govern- ment entered into its agreement with the Soviet Union it realised that Mos- cow might "take the opportunity achieve her national aims."
TAJANDOEN EXPLOSION CAUSE NOT ESTABLISHED
London, To-day.
to
the
The captain of the Dutch steamer Tajandoen, interviewed by Reuter, said the explosion oc- curred in darkness and he did not know whether it was a mine or torpedo.-Reuter.
There was not, however, says paper, any special understanding about how far the Russian aims might go.— Reuter.
WILL TO KILL LOVE
Green-
Mrs. Florence Williams, of Priory Way, North Harrow, learned that her schoolteacher daughter, Joan field Williams, had friend..
TOMMIES GO FROG RACING
of Gloucester.
to
The B.E.F. has invented
a new game-the frog-in-the-barrow race- a German boy according to Major-General the Duke Fearing the couple would fall in love and marry she made a will leav-put live frogs in them, and start
"The soldiers take wheelbarrows, ing everything she possessed to Joar race," said the Duke to war corres- on condition that she did not marry a pondents he met accidentally yester- German.
Joan's father, Mr. George Alfred line on the Western Front.
day in a roadside cafe near the front Williams said "My wife's will
"Each time the frog jumps out you no doubt
upset Joan have to halt and catch the frog and much.
She is work- ing at Tonbridge. The international on.
put it back before going on," he went situation last September worried my wife just before her death.
LEFT 623 "She was found
of her daughter, but when she heard that she was keep- ing company with a German boy she a will to try to finish the
has
very
made romance."
Mrs. Williams left £523. She left everything she possesses to her daugh- ter.
"But the £150 invested in the house goes to Frank my son," she stated.
"It is my wish that if my daughter, Joan G. Williams, marries a German, she takes only the interest on any- thing I leave until she is Afty."
FIRE ALARM
"There was some heavy betting on this race. The soldiers also borrowed French farm dogs and had dog-rac- | ing."
sport among American correspondents The Duke was told that the chief
was crap-shooting. He then asked for instruction.
of limericks, the correspondent asked Knowing that the Duke is a collector
recently. He recited one now going him if he had heard any new ones round the Army:-
"Life may be long, It may be short,
It all depends on Viscount Gort." The meeting occurred as the Duke was going about his duties as a liai- son officer in a downpour of rain. He and the war correspondents chatted in a tiny parlour which was reeking with RECEIVING AN ALARM OF A tobacco smoke steaming with FIRE, STATED TO BE AT NO. 80, odour of wet trench coats.
the CHEUNGSHAWAN ROAD, KOW- The Duke revealed that he LOON, TWO FIRE ENGINES AND talked with his brother, Major-Gen- THE EMERGENCY POLICE UNIT | eral the Duke of Windsor, twice since SPEEDED TO THE AREA AT 9 A.M. | he came to France to serve with the TO-DAY ONLY TO FIND THAT | B.E.F. THERE WAS NO OUTBREAK.
The police investigated and dis- covered that a small fire had occurred in one of the cubicles on the first floor of No. 88.
The inmates managed to put it out before the arrival of the fire engines.
had
His Excellency the Governor has appointed the Honourable Mr. R. A. C. North to be Labour Officer, in addition to his other duties, with effect from 1st December, 1939, until further notice,
Capt. Von Rintelen, who was imprisoned as a spy during the last war, but who has now made his ho me in England on Nov. 18, attend. ed the wedding of Miss Joan Brand on and Mr. F. G. Adams at Chelsea Old Church. Miss Brandon's father was imprisoned In Germany in last war on grounds of naval espionage. Photo shows the bride and 'groom with Capt. Von Rintelen receiving sprig of heather from an old flower seller.
(Copyright Air Mail).
FIFTY PER CENT. RISE IN BRITISH EXPORTS
London, To-day. THE 50 PER CENT. rise in a British exports in Nov- ember means a further addition to the strength of the Allied financial position, which is already very strong.
The nominal value of Britain's foreign, Colonial and Dominion securities is estimated by Colin Clark at £3,500,000,000.
The market value is estimated by eign investments of both 000,000, which is equivalent in value 000 and U.S.$10,000,000,000. the "Economist" as well over £1,000,- to amount to between U.S.$7,500,000,- countries
tion of investments in the last war, to the sum raised by the
mobilisa-
and Schwob at about £1,250,000,000. The value of France's foreign se- curities at par is estimated by Rist
STEADY NAZI DECLINE
ex-
reserves of gold
Compare this with Germany, whose
and foreign change, even after the seizure of the assets of the Austrian and Czech na- tional banks, were estimated at U.S.$250,000,000 at the most, and whose position has been steadily de- teriorating since the war as a result of the progressive decline of exports.
The October bulletin of the National City Bank of New York puts British gold holdings at home and abroad at U.S.$2,200,000,000, and French gold holdings at U.S.$3,025,000,000. "The Round Table" estimates that the gold and easily mobilisable for--Reuter.
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