THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1940.
GERMANS SOUND AIR RAID WARNINGS TO PREVENT PUBLIC SEEING WOUNDED
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PARIS, TO-DAY.
GERMAN LOSSES OF MEN HAVE BEEN SO GREAT THAT THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES HAVE ADOPTED ALL SORTS OF MEASURES TO KEEP THE POPULACE AWAY WHEN WOUNDED ARE RUSHED THROUGH, RELIABLE NEUTRAL OB- SERVERS FROM BERLIN REPORT.
In certain towns, these observers report, the air-raid sirens are set going to make people seek shelter instead of coming out and looking at the wounded!
While, in spite of the seriousness! of the situation, neither in France, Britain, Belgium or Norway nor among the refugees from Belgium and northern France is the morale low, the contrary applies to Germany.
The bombing raids of Allied 'planes, say these observers, has created alarm in certain towns In central and western Germany, For four days, petrol dumps in
PETROL CUT
IN JAPAN
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA. MAIL") TOKYO, TO-DAY.
HAVE DECIDED ON A FURTHER
ISOLATED
UNITS IN
HEROIC FIGHTS
London, To-day. don speak of the determined
Accounts received in Lon-
resistance offered to the enemy by small British de-
tachments.
One unit of Royal Engineers THE METROPOLITAN POLICE of only 300 men armed only Hamburg were on fire and it was im- RESTRICTION IN THE ISSUE AND with rifles were attacked by USE OF GASOLINE. AT THE SAME 100 enemy armoured cars TIME ALLOTMENTS OF GASOLINE and motor-cycle machine-
possible to deal with the flames. Havas.
AMERICAN REPORT ATTACKED
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Moscow, To-day.
The newspaper "Izvestia" indignant- ly comments on a report in the "Chi- cago Daily News" asserting that con- sultations have taken place in Peiping between the German, Soviet and Ja- panese representatives regarding the disposal of the Dutch East Indies.
"Izvestia" declares: "The valets of the capitalistic press are spreading canards that Russia has designs on the Dutch colonies.
"This only shows that their masters are determined to seize the Dutch legacy.
"It is a well-known custom of the capitalistic press and diplomacy to ac-. cuse others to dissumulate their own robberies."--Havas.
ALLEGED DISCOVERY IN MOSLEY'S HOME
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London, To-day. According to reliable, semi-official} quarters, many prominent Britons have been implicated by documents found. in the home of Sir Oswald Mosley, head of the British Union of Fascists, who, it will be recalled, was promptly arrested when Britain's new measures against "Fifth Columnists" were put into effect-Havas.
FOR JUNE WILL BE SMALLER THAN THOSE IN MAY.
During June the amount permitted to taxis will be reduced from 75 gal- lons to 61. Large trucks will be al- lowed 101 gallons, four less than this month, and small trucks 87 gallons, three gallons less.
The allotment for private vehicles will be reduced from 10 gallons to seven. Havas.
RIDICULOUS RUMOUR
guns.
They fought a successful action for several hours, and the survivors were able to withdraw.
British anti-aircraft batteries have been the object of particularly. fero- cious attack. In one case, a unit of 170 men was attacked by the enemy the advance guard moving towards Channel ports and preferred to lose almost two-thirds of their number rather than surrender.
The survivors managed to with- draw and .rojoined larger British forces In the rear.
Nazi Ruthlessness
CANADA MUST
GIVE ALL
Ottawa, To-day.
- Mr.. Ian Mackenzie, the Cana- adlan Defence Minister, In a broadcast last night, sald:
"Canada must give all if all is needed," and
for
"This war must be won Canada as well as for the British Empire."
He foreshadowed conscription of the nation's resources-Reuter.
FUTAN UNIVERSITY BOMBED
Chungking, To-day. Futan University, which is housed on the same campus as Futan Middle School, was hit by 20 bombs during the recent raids on Chungking by Japanese bombers, it is
now learned.
The school buildings, including a dormitory; åre said to have been wrecked, while hundreds of inhabitants in the vicinity are reported to have been killed or wounded. It is not yet known if any students were among the casualties.
A printing press nearby was also hit and demolished, 20 printers be- ing killed.
Many bombs landed in a crowded village nearby, killing and wounding hundreds.
Actual number of casualties has not yet been ascertained.-Reuter.
As evidence of German ruthlessness, NEARLY TWO
six
each
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.
an eye-witness reports seeing RUMOURS CIRCULATED IN
enemy tanks proceeding down SHANGHAI THAT THE JAPAN- side of a road in Northern France ESE HAVE DESPATCHED 150,000 which was choked with refugees. TROOPS TO HAINAN. ISLAND PRE- The tanks machinegunned the fugi- PARATORY TO INVADING THE tives and ran over those who had NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES ARE fallen on the ground.-Reuter. SEEN BY MILITARY OBSERVERS AS UNFOUNDED, SAYS THE “SHUN PAO."
It is pointed out that after the de- feat at the hands of the Chinese in Honan and Hupeh, the Japanese have found it hard to call reinforcements, much less to send a reserve of 150,000 troops to Hainan Island, the paper says. Reuter.
AIR RAID WARNING
NEAR PARIS,
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Paris, To-day.
The air raid warning was sounded in Northern France at 1.50 p.m. yes- terday and the all clear at 2.30 p.m. No enemy planes appeared.-Havas.
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AUGUSTA SAILS
Shanghai, To-day. The Augusta, flagship of the
U.S. Asiatic Fleet, sailed for northern ports yesterday. It is reported she is going The U.S.S. to Tsingtao and Chefoo. Gold Star and the U.S.S. Finch also left port. The U.S.S. Marblehead is expected to arrive, from Manila in a few days.-Reuter.
TIENTSIN BUYS WAR LOAN
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Tientsin, To-day. The French Municipality has sub- scribed a million francs for French armaments bonds-Havas.
BRITISH STRENGTHEN
NARVIK AIR FORCE (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"," Stockholm, To-day. Considerable reinforcements of Bri- tish 'planes are reported to have reached the Narvik sector-Havas.
INCHES RAIN
TOTAL RAINFALL REGISTERED BY THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY IN KOWLOON IN THE 24 HOURS END.......... ED AT 10 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING WAS 1.89 INCHES. TOTAL FOR THE YEAR IS NOW 6.84 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL,
The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is highest over the Pacific to the east and south-east of Japan, and in a ridge extending from the lower Yangtse eastward to the Bonins; it is relatively low over Manchuria and in a trough between Indo-China and the Carolines.
The depression has moved north- ward to the Gulf of Tongking.
DEATH OF KAISER'S
· GRANDSON ··
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Berlin, To-day. Prince Wilhelm, grand-son of the ex-Kaiser, who has died following an operation, for abdominal wounds re- celved in Flanders, is the second of the Kaiser's grand-sons to be killed in action.
The other was Prince Oscar, who was killed in Poland last September.
Havas.
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