JAPANESE POWER MONOPOLY (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL
Peiping, To-day.
Aiming at the development of elec- trical business, the North China Elec- tric Company has taken over 19 elec- tric concerns near Paotingfu.
- Many other plants at Tsinanfu and Tsingtao are expected to be placed under its management shortly.
The company will also induce for- eign managed firms such as the Tung- chow Electric Company and others, to join it and will secure their rights in capital investment in order to assure the electrification of North China. Havas.
THREE JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN
Chungking, To-day.
The Chungking Air Defence Head- quarters announced that three Japan- ese planes were shot down in the enemy air raid over Chungking yes- terday.
Over 130 raiders headed for the wartime capital. Part were inter- cepted and driven back by Chinese fighter planes. The rest broke into the city limits and met intense anti- aircraft fire.
Bombs released indiscriminately did further damage to foreign properties. Two bombs landed near the American
ECUADOR Einbassy but caused no damage.
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Quita, To-day. Non-recognition of the occupation of a country being one of the fundamen- tal doctrines established by the Pan- American Conference, the Government of Ecuador cannot recognise the occu- pation of France by the German and Italian forces, the official spokesman said here yesterday.
He added that, since the Governmen' of Ecuador had not received from the French Government notification of the armistice signed between France and Germany, Ecuador still considers France a belligerent country.-Havas.
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Other foreign properties damaged included the Y.M.C.A., a mission building and a hospital. Central News.
JAPANESE OCCUPY
LUNGCHOW
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the Japanese
It is revealed that forces operating on the Kwangsi side of the Indo-China border have occu- pied the important frontier town of Lungchow. - Havas.
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The National Executive of the Miss S. Hyndman, of Leung
Labour Party met in the House of Yeung Terrace, walking in Tung Commons last evening and studied the Street yesterday, was victim of a situation arising from the latest snatcher who stole a gold bracelet.'events in France.-Havas.
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New York, To-day. According to a Philadelphia despatch to the "Daily News" a gigantic Red bomb plot to destroy the greater part of the leadership of the Republican Party is alleg- ed to have been unearthed by G-Men and the City authorities. Eight bombs are stated to have been planted in the Convention Hall and other strategic points, and nearly 12 arrests were made. --Reuter.
Montreux, To-day. According to the "Gazette de Lausanne," about 50 British sol- diers entered Switzerland on June 23 and were interned in the vill- age of Boveresse.-Reuter.
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London, To-day. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supply, told the Commons yesterday that every effort will be made in co- operation with the Canadian Govern- ment to use the maximum industrial resources of the Dominion.-Havas.
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The situation along the border has not changed, the Japanese have not entered Shataukok.
London, To-day. More rigorously than any other form of fighting, air warfare is a con- flict of peoples, says the "Daily Tele- graph."
Victory can only be won by morale, endurance, energy
and will power. The experiences of many long, danger- ous struggles, and most recently, of the breaking point of the Germany of 1918, assure
that the British will not fail.
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No-one should think of the air war as a series of raids on Britain. Our Air Force day by day and night by night takes the offensive. Reuter.
Tokyo, To-day. News of the detention of the Sumatra Maru by the Indian au- thorities in Karachi, which reach- ed Kobe by cable, has caused sur- prise here. The telegram stated the ship was preparing to leave Karachi for Bombay on June 24 when she was suddenly detained by the port authorities. The mess- age added there was no prospect. of the vessel being released for at least five days. The Sumatra Maru is owned by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha and is on the Cal- cutta run-Reuter,
GERMAN BOOTY
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London, To-day. Commenting on the German occupa-
The prefix "Special to telegrams la usad tion of Northern France, officials de- clared that although many French by the "Sunday Horaid” and “China Mall” to indicata nows, which, lạ strictly copyright, mines were flooded and fuel reserves under the provisions of the Telecommunica destroyed before the Germans could tlons Ordinance, 1936, and may not be re- seize them, large quantities of both printed under any. "circumstances, either fuel and minerals fell into German wholly or in part, without prior arrange- hands Havne,
ment.