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DEBATES "BRITISH
ESPIONAGE CASE"
A CURIOUS SIDELIGHT IS THROWN ON THE RECENT JAPAN- ESE ACTION IN ARRESTING SEVERAL BRITONS BY THE DISCLO- SURE IN LONDON YESTERDAY OF GERMAN ACTIVITIES IN JAPAN, REUTER'S DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT LEARNS.
At the time of the conclusion of the Anti-]
Comintern Pact a German who was a member OFFICERS
of the Gestapo was given a post in the Japan- ese Home Office.
His influence on the internal affairs of TO TRAIN
Japan was very considerable and he exercised considerable pressure on the Japanese press.
TEL. 20616
There is a branch of the Nazi
·00000000 Party in Japan which 'controls all aclivities of German residents and in this the Japanese authori- ties acquiesce.
REGIMENTAL BADGE BROOCHES.
There has been a considerable increase in the number of Ger- man tourists and businessmen in)
son for being in the country.
Death Of Mr. Cox
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A new method of re- cruiting and training for the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and Royal Corps of Signals is an- nounced.
Candiites for a commission, between the ages of 18 and 18%, will be chosen by examination. The successful candidates will fol- Officials of the Ameri-low the modern Army custom of and on the so-called "British can Export Line stated in being trained in the ranks for espionage network in Japan" was New York yesterday that
on the death of Mr. M. J. Cox
ter.
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Those who pass this test will given at yesterday's Cabinet meet- ing in Tokyo by the War Minis-the Duchess of Windsor go to selected Universities for a six-month course in mathematics, had booked passage in the mechanics, physics and so on, at After the meeting the Minister exchanged views
with United States liner Excali- the Government's expense. the Foreign Minister and Navy bur which was due to ing in the O.T.C. before joining They will later be given train- Minister regarding "pending leave Lisbon on Thursday their regiments.-Reuter.
diplomatic issues."
Wai
Then Mr. Matsuoka, the For- and arrive in New York on! eign Minister, saw
Prince August 9.
Konoye, the Premier, and they
discussed what diplomatic ac- Meanwhile. Mr. Sumner Welles, tion could be taken in regard Acting Secretary of State, told to the "British espionage case." his press conference in Washing- A round-up of alleged foreign ton that if the Duke and Duchess
DE GAULLE
AND VICHY
sples is reported from Kurume applied for a visa to enter the BETRAYAL
in Kyushi, and Keijo, in Korea -Reuter.
Lord Halifax Makes Statement
United States it would be grant- ed speedily.
Gaulle,
Questioned in regard to pos- General de sible objections to the Duke and Leader of Free France, Duchess travelling in an Ameri-
of the armistice terms ac- cepted by the Petain Gov- ernment would be the dis-
SECRECY DISCUSSED affection and probably re-
IN SECRET
volt of the natives of the French Empire.
can liner on the ground it might speaking in the B.B.C.'s make the ship liable-to-seizure French service last-night, In a statement in the House of by the Germans, Mr. Welles said Lords yesterday on the arrest of that phase of the matter had not said one of the first results British subjects in Japan, the For-yet been considered.-Reuter. jeign Secretary, who had in the morning received the Japanesc Ambassador in London, said was hardly
necessary to stat there was no foundation whatso- ever for the allegation by the Ja- panese Government implicit in the joint announcement of the Minis- tries of War and Justice connect-
He declared: "These people, ing the arrests with "the increased in the Commons yesterday he France and respectful to France, Mr. Winston Churchill indicat- true to France, confident in ing activities of foreign organs of espionage and conspiracy" in Ja- would leave it to the. House whe-view with indignation this capi-
ther they would like the foreign tulation of the Empire pan.
without affairs debate to be secret
or fighting." open.
General de Gaulle concluded: The House went into secret ses-"Since it is obvious that the men stances of the death of Mr. Mel should be secret and the galleries Vichy are subservient tools. sion to decide whether the debate who are saving their skins ville Cox, Reuter's correspon. dent in Tokyo.
Lord Halifax went on to re- fer to the further Japanese an- nouncement on the circum-
Totally Unwarranted
that
The announcement states in the light of the note addressed to his wife which was discovered on his person, "it seems that with the progress of the investigation deceased became aware
of the fact he could not escape convic- tion."
The British Government are unable to accept this totally unwarranted assumption of
quilt.
Strong representations have al-
at of
were cleared.
the enemy's wishes, I affirm in The secret.session of the Com-the name of France that the Em- mons ended and the House. ad-pire must not submit to their journed-Reuter,
disastrous orders."-Reuter.
WOMAN HANGED AT STANLEY: LAST
NOTE TO HUSBAND
ready been made by the British A WOMAN WAS EXECUTED by hanging at Ambassador at Tokyo to the Ja- Stanley Prison early this morning for the first time panese Minister for Foreign Af-recorded in the criminal history of Hong Kong.
fairs,
I myself asked the Japanese She was Kwan Lal-chun, 31-1 Part of the letter reads: Ambassador to call this morning year-old wife of Chiu Chuk, who "In view of our past.relation- when I left His Excellency in no was found guilty and sentenced ship as husband and wife, I beg doubt as, to the serious view last month to death by the Chief you to visit me just once. which the British Government Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, "Now that I am awaiting death took of these arrests. I would for the murder of her husband's I have been informed of the prefer to say no more at the pre-concubine, Lam Lin-kwal, She date of execution — and will be sent stage-British Wireless. was also responsible for the gone soon, I wish to reconcile
death of the concubine's 11-year-myself with you.
DIES OF WOUNDS
Mr.
Chien Hung-ych, Chief]
Criminal Judge of the First Spe-
old son and of her mother-in-] "All Il-feeling and hate should law, all of them Intally hacked be washed away under these with a chopper.
circumstances, so, please will you come; and bring me, some of my new clothes,
A Last Letter
-"If you decide not to come, cial District Court in Shanghai, The woman wrote a last letter will you please send someono who was critically wounded by while awaiting execution. It was else; and, finally, I beg you to two gunmen on July 29, has suc-to her husband with whom she give me a proper burial and cumbedu, to his wounds.-Central wanted to be reconciled before fater send the ashes to the News.
Igoing to the, gallows.
Ivillage."