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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 7, 1940.
JAPANESE EXPERT SEES ODDS FAVOUR BRITAIN
DECLARING THAT air forces alone cannot conquer an open city, Hanji Kinoshita, an eminent Japanese authority on international politics, ex- presses the view in an article in the current issue of "Thoroughfare of Politics," that war between Ger- many and Britain will be long.
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"Without the use of ships; whe- ther large and heavily armed, or small and unarmed, even single German soldier cannot be transported from the shores of the Continent to England.
Taking advantages of speed and superiority of numbers, Chancel- lor Hitler may send men across the Channel like a storm of grass- hoppers, but the power of the Bri- tish fleet of small-sized vessels. which has been reinforced greatly by the fifty destroyers sold by the United States, would stop the march of the German U-boats
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NOTE ISSUE sterbo, in southern
IN JAPAN
'SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
THE AVERAGE NOTE ISSUE OF THE BANK OF JAPAN
DROPPED SLIGHTLY DURING SEPTEMBER, DUE TO THE GOVERNMENT'S DEFLATION POLICY, THE TOKYO “ASAHI” REPORTS.
Scania, on Saturday afternoon.
Warning shots were fired and the aircraft disappeared.-Reuter,
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SIR W. CITRINE. VISITING U.S.
Besides, America may parti- cipate in the war on the side After reaching a record peak of of Britain next Spring, mak- Yen 3,329,000,000 in August, the retary of the T.U.C. and president Sir Walter Citrine, general sec- ing the situation more favour-figure dropped to Yen 3,303,000,- of the L.F.T.U., is leaving for the able for Britain."-Reuter. 000 in September.
United States soon at the invita- Two main factors for the droption of the American. Federation are the Government's policy of of Labour, cutting down expenditure and the He will attend the annual "on- new taxation system, which is vention of, the A.F.L. and hopes collecting money from the people to meet members of the various more rapidly than in the past European trade unions who have Havas.
taken refuge in America-Reuter.
** It would seem that Mr. Kinoshita wrote his article before the Tripartite Tokyo-Axis Pact.
SHANGHAI'S LITTLE ARMY IN FETTLE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
"All members of the British China volunteers contingent which left Shanghai on September 22 are in excellent health and spirits," writes one of the volunteers, R. G. Woodhead, son of the well-known editor of "Or- iental Affairs."
Travelling in one of the crack liners of the British Mercantile Marine and making use of faci- lities for getting into really good training, we, use the swimming bath every day and a physical training class is held before breakfast on the sports deck when one of the volunteers puts the men through their paces.
"B.B.C. broadcasts are close- ly, followed. All are anxious to get into uniform and down' to serious training.
"We have work to do and in- tend to do it to the best of our ability; one of the things cheer- ing us up no end is the certainty that we have the backing of all Britons in China."
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The letter was published the Shanghal "Evening Post and Mercury" yesterday. Woodhead. was formerly Reuter's correspon- dent in Pelping-Havas.
NEW MASTER OF
TRINITY
Trinity, the famous Cambridge University College will have an il- lustrious. historian and man of letters as its new master in Pro- fessor. G. M. Trevelyan, OM, Regius Professor of Modern His- tory at Cambridge since 1927 Many of Trevelyan's historical books are standard works;
He
Is Trustee of the British Museum. ord the National Portrait Gallery. Appointment is in succession to the Inte Sir JJ Thomson, O.M. -British Wireless.
RUMANIA—IN
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