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JAPANESE
CLAIM ICHANG
Tokyo, To-day.
A Japanese field despatch claims that Japanese van- guards have penetrated Ichang, Chinese treaty port on the Yangtse River 150 miles west of Hankow.
Ichang has been the main objective of the present Japanese drive into the Central China interior.
It is also claimed the Japanese ef- fectively bombed military establish- ments in Chungking,
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Chinese Report
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London, To-day.
a The Chinese Embassy publishes
the message from Chungking saying Japanese drive towards Ichang was being strongly held on Monday the Chang River, about 35 miles away. The telegram added the Japanese suffered heavy losses in violent fight- ing-Reuter.
STOCK EXCHANGE COMMENDABLY FIRM
London, To-day.
The Stock Exchange was commend- aply firm yesterday. Italy's entry the discounted by was previously
market. Gilt-edged were fractionally higher while industrials, oils and gold minings moved narrowly, mostly Indian Government Bonds were irregular, gains and losses being about equal, Wall Street was firm.-- Reuter.
lower.
EMPIRE AIR TRAINING IN SOUTH AFRICA
London, To-day,
Air Chief Marshal Sir H. Robert M. Brooke-Popham, head of the British air mission investigating the progress of Empire air training in South Africa, states that he is extremely satisfied with the work of his mission.
"I was very much impressed by the high physical and mental standard of the young South Africans offering to join the R.A.F." he said.-Reuter.
CONDOLENCES WITH CANADA
London, To-day. The United Kingdom Government has sent a message of sympathy to Canada over the death of Mr. Norman Rogers, the Canadian Defence Minis- ter, who was killed in an aeroplane crash at Belleville, Ontario,
Mr. Rogers endeared himself to all when he visited Britain and did very fine work in organizing the Canadian forces sent overseas.-Reuter.
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1940
Mr.
GERMAN BOMBS DROPPED IN SOUTH OF ENGLAND Hebditch, owner of a poultry farm where bomb dropped, examining the bomb crater. (Copyright, Fox).
BRITISH
TONNAGE LOSSES
London, To-day. Total British tonnage lost during the week ending midnight on June 2 was 78,715 tons, whereof 24,000 tons were lost during operations at Dunkirk and are not therefore mercantile losses in the ordinary sense.
Mercantile losses comprise eleven British ships totalling 54,715 tons, and three neutral of 7,923 tons.
Up to June 5, 23,000 British, Allied and neutral ships have been in British convoys with the loss of 32 ships, or one in 719.
Neutral ships convoyed totalled 3,183 with a loss of three or one in 1,054, British Wireless.
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FATSHAN CARGO
SEIZURE
A fine of $100 was imposed by Mr. R. Edwards this morning, on Tao, Wah, shop måster, for importing unmani- fested cargo on board the s.s. Fat Shan yesterday.
Two sacks of shellac and 10 tins of varnish were found in his possession on board the s.s. Fatshan.
The goods were confiscated.
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SHELTER UNDER MONUMENT
King William-strect Tube Station, 70 feet below the Monument, in the heart of the City of London, has been con- . verted into an air raid shelter. It will accommodate 2,000 of the employees of the offices in Regis House and King William-st. House.
The idea of putting the station and tunnel to practical use as an under- ground shelter after they had been closed for 40 years has been carried out.. by Dron and Wright, managers of the United City Property Trust Ltd.
As there was only one entrance to the shelter from Regis House they ob- tained permission from the London Transport Board to construct a new shaft, 64ft deep, with a spiral staircase connecting King William-street House at the other end of the station.
This provides a necessary alterna- tive entrance or exit, and at the same time utilises the old station for the oc- cuplers of both properties. A feature of the reconstruction is a mezzanine floor of steel and concrete in the old station portion of the scheme.
Something like £20,000 has been spent on the provision of the shelter.
LOCAL SHARES
Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations to- day:-
BANKS
"Hong Kong Bank $1315 b.
DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS,
ETC.
Providents $31⁄2 b.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
H.K. Tramways $16 sa.
LAST DAY'S SALES ·
5 Canton Ins. @ $200
500 Trams @ $16
MANILA SHARES Antamoks Ps. .08 sa. Atoks Ps. .13% sa. Baguio Gold Ps. .14 sa. Batong Buhay Ps. .0075 sa. Big Wedge Ps...142 b.. Coco Grove Ps. .001⁄4 så. Demonstrations Ps. .052 sa. East Mindanao Ps. .001⁄2 sa. I.X.L. Ps. .22 sa.
Itogons Ps. .15 sa.
Masbates Ps. .06% sa.
Mind. Mother Lode, Ps. .071⁄2 sa. Mine Operation Ps. .051⁄2 b. North Camarines Ps. .023 b. San Maurico Ps. .51 sa. Surigao Consol. Ps. 14 b. Suyoc Consol. Ps. .09% sa. United Paracales Ps. .151⁄2 sa.
LOCAL DOLLAR
Port Louis, To-day. The Mauritius Legislative Council has approved a gift of £150,000 to the Imperial Government from the fund. It has also colony's reserve
balance of the fund,
The demand rate on the Hong Kong placed the amounting to £500,000, at the dis-dollar to-day was 1/2 7/8.
London silver was quoted at 23 for posal of the Imperial Government when required.--Reuter.
Spot and 21-3/8 for forward.
The cross rate London/New York was quoted at £-U.S.$4.0250 and the New York/London rate at £-U.S.$3.80.
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