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FRIDAY, DOTOBER 11, 1940
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BUTTER
JAPAN'S SUPPLIES
RAISE COMMONS STORM
No Oil On Butler's SUPERB
Troubled Waters
KRUPPS GETS IT AGAIN
at
The Krupps works at Essen, aluminium works Grevenbroich “and an oil storage plant at Cologne were the princi- pal targets of the R.A:F. Bomber Command in at- tacks on Wednesday night.
the
Other places... visited by R.A.F. were Rotterdam, Amster- dam, Flushing, Le Havre and Calais, and rail communications in Germany and Holland.
"After. ten minutes. bombard- ment of the Krupps., works, says the Air - Ministry service, two large fires broke out in the factory area.
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In the meantime tons of high „explosives and hundreds of fire bombs had been dropped on the 'altíminium works at Grevenbroich and also on a foundry and factory. in the same area. The attacks here lasted two hours and explo- sions and fires were seen at the factory. Reuter.
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PILOT WHO SHOT DOWN
15 IN 19 DAYS
Among awards on- nounced to R.A.F. pilots by the Air Ministry yesterday is a bar to the D.F.C. for Pilot Officer Eric Stanley Lock, who in
· 19 days destroyed 15 enemy aircraft.
Last month, while engaged on patrol
over the Dover area, he engaged large forces of enemy and shot down two-Reu- ter.
PUPPET MAYOR
OF SHANGHAI
MURDERED
MAYOR FU SIAO-EN, OF THE JAPANESE- SPONSORED SPECIAL MUNICIPALITY OF SHANGHAI, WAS ASSASSINATED THIS MORN-
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MATSUOKA
CASUISTRY
The Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, yesterday criticised the British ac- tion in reopening the Burma Road as in contra- diction to Britain's ex- pressed wish of restoring peace in East Asia.
"If the British Government
really wish, as they profess, to see peace restored in East Asia as quickly as possible, I have to con-
IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY MR. GEOFFREY MANDER (LIB. WOLVERHAMP- TON). ASKED WHETHER IN VIEW OF THE AP- PROVAL RECENTLY GIVEN BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO THE EXPORT OF CARGOES UP TO A MILLION BARRELS OF OIL TO JAPAN, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD CON- SIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF MAKING REPRE- SENTATIONS TO THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FOR CONCURRENT ACTION BETWEEN THE BRI. TISH AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS TO PRE- VENT THE FURTHER SUPPLY OF OIL TO JAPAN.
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreignfess that it is past my compre Affairs, replied that His Majesty's Government understood the prohibition placed by the United States on the export of oil related only to certain grades, and they were and had been in touch with the United States Government on the matter.
Mr. Mander: May I possibility of American protec- take it that both Govern- tion of the Netherlands East In- ments are determined to
Is There Consultation ? refrain from supplying Japan with everything Mr. Butler: I assure the Hon. they possibly can of a contact warlike nature?
Sir J. H. Morrie-Jones (L.. Nat, Denbigh): Can't the Minis ter assure the Houss that the
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same sentimental policy which adopted towards Italy won't be repeated in the case of Japan and that we shall refrain from supplying com- moditles of war to Japan?
The Best Policy
on.
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Mr. Butler: His Majesty's Gov- ernment can be relied
to adopt the best policy in each circumstance as it arises.
Mr. Mander: Can't we have an assurance that the Government is not going to supply warlike materials to Japan?
Mr. Butler: This point is ob-
viously important. The Hon. Member can be satisfied that we fully realise its importance. Mr.Mander; 'What I'
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It or not?
the
Col. J. H. Wedgwood. (Lab, Newcastle), asked what progress had been made with, "Anglo-
Russinh,
ING IN HONGKEW, THE JAPANESE OCCUPIED: answer? Are you going to do PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT.
NO ARRESTS HAVE SO FAR BEEN MADE."
Fu was killed at 51 and they are now being ques- American cooperation in the o'clock this morning while tioned by Japanese investigaters. Pacific, whether the asleep in his house in Hongkew.
Japanese troops, says Reuter, converted the whole portion, of the Settlement under their con- trol, into an armed camp,
Cordons and barricades were
Mro. Fu was in the room Chinese and Dutch Governments when the assassination occur- were cooperating or being con- red but did not wake. till 1sulted, and whether there was a was all over. ·
Servant Suspected
The Japanese believe that the assassin was Fu's personal ser- vant who had been with him since Manchuria.
SHIPPING
erected at every important street 1027, when Fu was an exile in HAVOC
corner while all approaches to the main body of the Internation al Settlement were barricaded off so that only one person, was able to pass at a time. These were
subjected to rigorous search,
Jugular Vein Cut
Lator it was? rávaniós that,
The servant was with Fu In
the house last night but dis. SO MUCH WRECKAGE FROM appeared this morning, and Ja- SHIPS HAS RECENTLY BEEN panese and Settlement police | WASHED- UP ON THE DANISH are searching for him all over COAST THAT IT HAS BEEN Shanghai.
FOUND IMPOSSIBLE TO STORE
The servant, named Zung IT ALL,' - ACCORDING TO AN Eu was not shot but died after f Tsuen, had a private house in ANNOUNCEMENT OVER THE hie jugular vein: had been cut Nanking Road but when the po- DANISH RADIO, by the assassin, ett
lice raided It this morning they. It is proposed to hold auction Twenty guards, Japanese and found. Zung had moved three sales to get rid of timber and other thingse, were on duty at the timo weeks ago,
Buch materials —* Router.
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hension how the British Govern- the realisation at such a wish by †ment could hope to contribute to re-opening the Burma Road: which ing Chiang Kai-shek.
will have the effect of encourag-
Mr Matsuoka, followed the newest line of argument and insisted that the Tripartite Military Alliance between Tokyo and the Axis Powers was not directed "against the", United States' but wps a "peace påct!?"" />
Member that the importance · of
He added that the signatories wished the United with friendly govern earnestly
at mente on matters of common In-States and all other nations terest in fully appreciated by His present neutral would not become involved in the European War or Majesty's Government,
Col. Wedgwood: Is consulta come into conflict with Japan be- tion taking place at present in cause of the China Incident.-
Reuter. connection with the Pacific? -
Mr. Butler: The Hon. Mem-
« TRAWLER SUNK ̈ber la, aware that certain, con- versations have taken place which are of considerable. Im- The British trawler, Kingston portance..
| Sapphire, has been lost by U-boat. Col. Wedgwood: Are they con-action and the majority of the cluded or continuing?
landed, according to an Mr. Butler: I would not say Admiralty announcement. Reu- they are concluded.-Reuter. - ter".
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