THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 14, 1940.
JAPAN
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DISSEMBLES
Admiral Yonai Says Nothing In Long Speech
MR. EDEN ON HERR HITLER
London, To-day.
The Dominions Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, speaking in London yesterday said that his personal knowledge of the Nazi Fuehrer did not
GRACIE FIELDS
TO MARRY
Los Angeles, To-day. Monty Banks, who directed three of Gracie Fields' films, stat- ed yesterday that he and Gracle aro to be married shortly.— Reuter,
make him unduly depressed NAZI COAL
by the knowledge that Hitler
considered his opponents un- BY RAIL
worthy of him.
His own reflections on his meetings with Hitler had been that he was constitutionally incapable of under- standing the working in mind or spirit of a free democracy.
Mr. Eden wished that some of the leaders of Nazi Germany might have shared his experience of work with the Dominions Gov rhments for then they might have been spared some of❘
FOR ITALY
ROME, TO-DAY. GERMANY AND ITALY SIGNED A COAL AGREEMENT FOLLOWING BETWEEN THE CONVERSATIONS SIGNOR MUSSOLINI AND NAZI FOREIGN MINISTER RIBBEN-
OMITTED ALL IT IS ESSENTIAL TO KNOW
London, To-day.
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ALTHOUGH THERE HAS not yet been time for newspaper comment, official and Far Eastern circles told Reuter they agree that the Japanese Premier's statement on Tokyo's support of Wang Ching-wei says nothing new and omits every- thing the other powers want to know.
They point out it contains no mention of the terms Japan grants to Wang Ching-wei, no repetition of Prince Konoye's pledge that Japan demands neither territory nor indemnity, and no indica- tion of the exact nature of "Japan's new order in East Asia.”
Reuter learns that Tokyo has been insist Wang Ching-wei will never get
the mistakes they made and the world TROP, STATES AN OFFICIAL COM-frequently pressed to explain what any reputable following if Japan
might have been spared war.
MUNIQUE.
The agreement provides that. fu- the new order means and has always wishes to continue the war in China. ture coal supplies. from Germany refused to be explicit will come by rail.
This, adds the communique,
will
to
be
It was quite impossible to exagger- ate the measure and spirit of the col- laboration received from the bverseas Dominions.
Dealing with the Empire Air Train-enable Italian requirements ing Scheme, Mr. Eden said that when covered "almost entirely."-Reuter. in full working order the output of and observers was pilots, air crews estimated at 50,000 in a year.
Referring to his visit to the men of the overseas forces, Mr. Eden said: "All of you would been impressed by their attitude of quiet determination. They are men with a mission and with a purpose.
The Dominions voluntarily decided to enter
on thé wär to overthrow Nazism.
They knew perfectly well that "this was not a European' quarrel. They had no mercenary motives. They knew it was not a contest be- tween two Dynasties but between two distinct, antagonistic conceptions of life -a conflict of standards of wholly divergent moral and spiritual values. British Wireless.
FINAL ROUND OF WELLES' VISITS
London, To-day.
Mr. Sumner Welles, at the end of his visit to London call- ed upon the Prime Minister last evening with the Ameri- can Ambassador.
Lord Halifax was present at this second interview as at the Arst on Monday. Mr. Welles was Mr. Cham- berlain's guest at dinner.
He leaves London to-day. ...The United States Assistant. Secre- tary of State has made a large num ber of contacts in the three days he has spent in London; and the general feeling is that he cannot fail to have' been struck by the unity of outlook among personalities, differing politi- cally and in other ways, on the essen- tial purposes of the Allies in the present struggle.
The British Government's aims have been proclaimed to the world 60 clearly that. Mr. Welles must have had to seek many fewer elucidations InTandon than in Berlin but it is certain that any questions which he mox, have had to ask have been Bawered with the utmost frankness by the British ministers, the cordial- fty of whose reception of Mr. Welles has been, as genuine as it has been evident-British Wireless:
DECLINE IN
ROAD TOLL
LONDON, TO-DAY. THERE HAS BEEN A FURTHER THE NUMBER OF DECLINE IN ROAD ACCIDENTS. -DURING FEBRUARY, THERE WERE 419 DEATHS, 44 LESS THAN FOR FEBRUARY LAST YEAR, DESPITE THE BLACKOUT..
Referring to. Wang Ching-wel's anticipated "government." official ciroles.recall that both Great Britain and the United States have made it they perfectly plain to Japan that adhere to the Nine-Power Treaty. and that there is no likelihood they will change their attitude.-'
Chinese circles received the Japanese Premier's statement with derision, and
half of December's 1,150, the largest on record.
Some of the reasons for this im- proved state of affairs are: The 20. miles an hour speed limit; the cam- paign for greater care; the snow and This Agure is only two-thirds ice, which reduced traffic in the ear- January's total and much less thanly part of the month.-Reuter.
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