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NEXT SAILING FROM HONGKONG THIRD WEEK'IN MAY
(Omitting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Ma- jestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-600 miles of travel through. Marvelous Mountain Scenery. Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
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Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Seaway, and quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Paci- fic's Atlantic fleet.
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ANGLO-SOVIET
TRADE NEGOTIATION
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1940.
LONDON, TO-DAY.
IN THE LIGHT OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE SOVIET AM-' BASSADOR WHEN HE CALLED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE A FEW DAYS: AGO. TO CONVEY THE RE- PLY OF HIS. GOVERNMENT ON
HIS QUESTIONS,
MA- TRADE JESTY'S GOVERNMENT ARE GIV- |ING THEIR MOST CAREFUL CON- SIDERATION TO WHETHER AN AN- GLO-SOVIET TRADE AGREEMENT CAN BE ARRIVED AT WHICH WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE PRE- SENT WAR SITUATION.
Any suggestion that any final de- cision has been reached is premature and has no authority.
The latest Soviet communication is having to be studied in more than one department.
When Lord Halifax saw M. Maiski on April 19, he informed him that the considered British Government had
the Soviet suggestion for a resumption of trade talks and that they were pre- pared to discuss in an exploratory man- ner whether a basis existed for a trade agreement and, he invited him to ob- tain, from the Soviet, concrete sug- the gestions which took account of condition upon which the British Gov- ernment have had to insist in all war trade agreements, namely guarantees in the matter of supplies reaching the
enemy.
Parliament, on April 10, Mr. Butler stated that should trade nego- tiations be resumed with the Soviet, it would be made, clear that Britain still condemned Russia's aggression against Finland. British Wireless.
CONTRABAND CONTROL
London, To-day.
On April 30, there were 29 neutral ships in three contraband control bases of which 19 had been there for 6 days or less.
In addition, 36 ships had been brought"in" or were detained by order of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in view of the situation in Norway and Denmark.
TIENTSIN SILVER
London, To-day. Mr. Philip Nool-Baker ·(La- bour) naked In the Commons. yesterday if the Prime Minister Gould assure the House the Gov- ernment would agree to no new arrangement concerning 'the' sii- ver deposits in the banks of the International Concessions In Tientsin without the consent of the recognised Government of China.
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Becrè tary for Föreign Affairs, in reply sald he presumed Mr. Noel-Bak- or referred to the silver deposited In a Chinese bank in the British Concession in Tientsin.
The Government had consult- ed the Chinese Government at material stages of the negotiations ́ ́on this subject and were-continu»
Ing to do.ao-Reuter.
SHIPPING LOSSES IN THE WAR
(SPECIAL, TO “CHINA MAIL") Stockholm, To-day.
A magazine printed by the Swedish banks has published an account of the losses of merchant ships during the first six months of the war. The total loss in gross ton- nage amounts to 1,357,000 tons, namely: 857,000 tons from the belligerents and 500,000 tons from neutrals.
The highest losses were by Britain and Germany. Following them are France, Sweden, Holland, Greece and Denmark..
sustained
If the losses are considered in rela- tion to the tonnage belonging to each country, Sweden incurred the heav- lest loss, namely, 4.8 per cent. of her total tonnage. Denmark: follows with 4.6 per-cent, and then Finland, Greece and Belgium.
The belligerents are sixth and eighth, respectively.
The losses in human lives were: Sweden 285 men; Norway 350. The losses in goods, although · dif- During the week ended April 27, the Contraband Committee consider-ficult to estimate, were considerable ed the cargões of 83 ships which had especially for the small countries - arrived since April 20 and 52 out- Havas, standing cargoes week.
from the previous
In 56 cases, the entire cargoes were released either on first consideration Some 57 vessels or after enquiries,
PROBLEMS OF THE NEUTRALS
Bucharest, To-day.
The newspaper "Semnalul" in an were dealt with under the advance manifest system 14 of which were re-interesting leader on maintaining a neutral to-day is leased subject merely to formal neutrality, says checking of the original manifests.-threatened not only militarily but
economically and by propaganda. British Wireless.
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NOTICE TO THE NAVY French now at the International Lan- guage School, Whiteaway Building, Private lessons daily, also Saturdays till 6 pm. Special terms for the Navy.
WANTED
WANTED-One second-hand upright Piano, please state Price and Make. Write Box No. 152 c/o "The China Mail":
PUBLIC AUCTION
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at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd Floor. Quantity of Teakwood Filing Cabinets, Showcrass an
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"The economic blockade may con- stitute to-day the decisive and final factor in totalitarian warfare, the great consumer of raw material."
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