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WASHINGTON BELIEVES KONOYE PARTIES WILL PLAY SAFE
Wide powers to deal. with bottle parties" and other night haunts in London
which are consider-
are contained in a new Defence Regula- tion.
THE PLACING OF petroleum and scrap metaled to be undesirable on the list of goods for which export licenses are re- quired has caused considerable satisfaction in Wash- ington circles interested in Far Eastern affairs, who are surprised that they were not included in the earlier list.
Whatever the motivating factor it is felt the Ad- ministration's action, plus the stoppage of tankers going to Spain, strikes a blow, whether intentionally or otherwise, for the Democracies and against the aggressors.
R.A.F. ON TOP IN LIBYA
R.A.F. headquarters in Cairo yesterday an- nounced that a highly successful raid was car- ried out during the day by Blenheim bombers on Dernía, in Libya.
Over fifty enemy fighters and bombers were found on thel ground.
All our bombs fell among them causing considerable damage:
It is felt also be some obser- vers to be an indication that the President, now that more urgent domestic matters culminating in the Party Conventions are past, is again devoting more attention 10 foreign affairs in Hine his known feelings as expressed at Charlottesville and In his acceptance speech.
with
Washington has been read- Ing with Interest the statement] of Prince. Könaye which Is
taken in the American capitali to indicate that Japan will play safe and will act cautiously in international affairs, and that the recent strong German per- suasive efforts in Tokyo have
not been successful.
Little Surprise
Police throughout the country are now empowered to close offending premises al- together or between certain hours.-Reu-
ter,
ITALY
NOW WANTS
PALESTINE
According to a report reaching the Jewish Tele- graph Agency in London, the campaign launched Prince Konoye's attitude has by the Italian Press sug- caused little surprise in Washing-
gesting the inclusion of A rather lower, value Is! Palestine in the Italian usually placed in Washington | than In 'London on Japanese Empire is one of Italy's threats and alleged intentions to war aims. act drastically.
ton.
Apart from the much debated
The Italian Government, says
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The Rome paper, "Tribuna," publishes a detailed plan for the administration of Palestine after the war on lines similar to Al- bania.
Fighter patrols of five Gladia-point whether there is any mo-Reuter this morning, is reported tors, protecting the return
of derate element in Japan, Wash-to be seeking to induce the Vati- our bombers, encountered seven ington bélieves there is still much can to demand "the Catholic Holy
Land. impor- enemy fighters and shot down division within Japan
tant elements pulling in differ- five into the sea. All our aircraft returned safely.ent directions, however similar The R.A.F. in Cairo also an-their ultimate objectives and unification which will nounce that the fighter reported that the missing in a communique issued provide the totalitarinn necessity earlier in the day had been found of instant, unthinking obedience Jews shall be evacuated from and the pilot is safe-Reuter. to one single political head of the
State has not yet arrived in Ja-Palestine in mass, and says that the Jewish problem can only be pan. Reuter,
solved by new dispersals of Jews to sparsely populated territories. -Reuter.
AIR RAID
The newspaper proposes that all
THE BORDER EXTRADITION DURING KING'S THE BORDER INSPECTION
BATTLE
CASE
Extradition proceedings was brought against Dew Kim-yuen, alias Yee Suey-gat, alias- Jew
THE "CHINA MAIL" WAS Siew, 43; before Mr. H. G. Shel- The King spent ten AUTHORITATIVELY INFORM- don, K.C., this morning, when he (minutes in
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was accused of unlawful sale THAT
and CHINESE TROOPS AND THE and distribution of opium, 99. ground shelter yesterday JAPANESE FORCES IN THE unlawful importation and sale when an air raid started AREA BETWEEN SHUMCHUN of opium dross, within the juris- when he had just finished AND LINTONG CLASHED ON diction of the State of Oregon,
U.S.A. WEDNESDAY MORNING. inspecting new extensions The battle broke out at 3: a.m.phy asked for a week's formal Chief Detective Inspector Mur- to a big barracks on the and firing did not cease until 6 remand, which was granted. South Coast.
p.m.
Since then there has been no Men and boys whom the King signs of further military opera- had been inspecting immediately{tions between the two forces, the marched in orderly fashion to Chinese having apparently with- the shelters.
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THIEVES TURN UP WITH LORRY
Some Chinese troops, in regu- Chan Sum, 31, was charged lar Chinese Army uniforms, were before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., observed: from the hillside on the this morning, with larceny of 21 British side of the border, diuing iron girders, the property of the the operations.
The border this morning was described as "absolutely quiet."
War Department, on July 24.
The girders were inside the R.A.S.C. tambér, On Wednes- day, defendant and several others
to a lorry
remove the
RAIDING IN QUEEN WILHELMINA girders. A coolie recognised the
THE RAIN
AN AIR MINISTRY
TERDAY
TO BROADCAST
party and informed the authori- ties. Defendant was arrested in an opium divan.
Queen Wilhelmina of the The case was adjourned.
Netherlands will open a new COM-Dutch broadcast programme on MUNIQUE IN LONDON YES- Sunday at 7.15 p.m. B.S.T. fac- STATED THAT lities having been placed by the HEAVY RAIN, THUNDER B.B.C. at the disposal of the STORMS AND SEVERE ICING Dutch Government for a daily CONDITIONS HAMPERED OUR broadcast.-British Wireless. BOMBER OPERATIONS ON WEDNESDAY. NIGHT,
Despite this the docks at Em-
THREE TRAWLERS
SUNK BY BOMBS
An Admiralty communique yesterday, announced that H.M. trawlers Kingston, Galena and Rodino have been lost as the result of enemy air attack. The next of kin of casualties have been in-
Reuter.
den, Wilhelmshaven and Ham-come. burg, aircraft factories at. Wis- One bomber was hit by a flash
formed: the of, lightning which momentarily mar and Wenzendorf and seaplane bases at Borkum and blinded both the pilot and navi-
Mr. All our gator while the aircraft itself was Texel, were' attacked.
H. A. Taylor, Assistant Superintendent, 1. and monoply aircraft returned safely-Reuter: hot up some 600 feet.
The wireless set in another analyst in the Import and Export bomber was made red hot by Department; has reported the- lightning. Other Instruments theft of a rattan basket containing Reports from pilots talking part were made temporarily, unser- clothing, from his car parked In the raid show that some of viceable and a compass swirl outside the Hong Kong Cricket the worst weather yet encoun- started which took 40 minutes Club, Chater Road, between 5 tered in the summer was over-to settle down-British Wireless. p.m. and 10. p.m. yesterday.
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