THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 15, 1940.
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MASSES OF GERMAN TROOPS PASS
PASS BUDAPEST "Dagger Deep Into LONDON
Flank Of Soviet" AFTER SIX
IT IS BELIEVED in unofficial circles in
Budapest that the German occupation of GERMAN Rumania will be considerably extended this week.
many towards Hungary is con- sidered to be indicated
RULE IN
Columns of German troops en route to Ru-PARIS mania passed the outskirts of Budapest at the week-end.
A description of life in Paris under the German The equivocal attitude by Ger- occupation has been given by the by a distinguished Portu- disappointment Hungarian guese woman resident in Transylvania would be added to the French capital. She the areas already ceded by Ru- has just arrived in Lisbon, the German Commandant having permitted her, as a neutral, to return to her home.
OFFICIAL AIR LOSSES
While official R.A.F. Agures show that 855 British machines have been lost since July 1, with 364 pilots safe, German
..pro- pagandists are finding some dif- ficulty in deciding the particular high figure they themselves shall announce in reply.
of
hopes that the remainder
monia at the Axis dictation.
of
Harchness of the terms of the commercial agreement just con- cluded between Germany, and Hungary has also startled the Hungarians.
to
This agreement is believed The Germans, she said, carried settle the scale of Hungarian ex-out the occupation of Paris next with their usual thoroughness. Their troops had bivouacked in the Bois de Boulogne.during the night, but they did not look in the least like troops who had been fighting
· A Deutschlandsender broad-ports to Germany for the cast in the German-home pro- three years. Reuter, gramme, relying on "well inform-
red German sources," claims 3,950 British machines destroyed, while simultaneously a German talk in Portuguese, giving as its own special soures "German High Command Communique figures" gives a total of just over 2,000 planes.
fused in their reckoning by the Probably the Germans are con-
fact that they themselves have ac- tually lost 2.612 machines brought down by British fighters in ine same period.-British Wireless.
JAPANESE ROB JUNK
70 Britons Leave
Forty members of the British colony in Buchar- est and 30 members of the British Legation in
by train for Istanbul. Rumania left yesterday
The British Minister is still Bucharest.
Road Signs In German
Once the Germans, had installed themselves order prevailed in the streets. Traffic control was estab lished and road signs in German
were put everywhere.
WEEKS
PROPERTY INSURANCE
"
IN BRITAIN
Greut interest is taken in London in the expected publica- tion this week of the Property In- surance Bill, which follows Mr. :
In a despatch to his Churchill's recent statement that paper, the London corres-"everyone should be assured that compensation for loss of home or pondent of the Swedish place of business will be paid to "Stockholms him in one form or another at the newspaper Tidning" says that after where accessity arises in the in-
end of the war, if.not..sooner, and. six weeks of attack from tervening period, means of carry- the air, London has been
ing on will not be withheld."
The weekly press warmly wel→ still remains the centre of low insurance against risks to pro- so little damaged that it comed the announcement, "Econo-
mist" saying the decision to al the Empire war effort.
น
perly is a very welcome change of mind as réluctance to consider, Destruction to residences and such a scheme before was based on factories is less than one per cent. muddled thinking, but adding
He is, he reports, more than ever warning that the Bill will ob- convinced that bombing from theviously be a severe test of the air cannnot decide a war unless skill of the drafters and that it is one side is so superior that the of the utmost importance that the
delences break down which is not the quate time for Parliamentary dis- oppusing
completely measure should be allowed ade- case with London.
bombed parts of the East End of Leaving out the more heavily London, it is possible to take a quarter of an hour's bus, ride in almost any direction without see ing anything more than some broken glass and crapters in, the
road. -Reute}.
KENYA WOMEN'S UNIT IN ENGLAND
Lord
Office yesterday afternoon,
In the quadrangle of the Colonial
Lloyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies, inspected the Kenya unit of the Mechanised Transport
The Germans seemed to have a incomplete list of every Parisian re- sident of note, particularly of Another 3,000
Jews. German officers immediately German troops arrived at Galatz on Sunday night. took over the homes of all wealthy Most of them are men connected Jews and installed themselves in Corps, numbering about sixty wo-
with anti-aircraft units.
luxury. The next thing they did
cussion.-British Wireless.
WANG CHING WEI
IN SHANGHAI
Wong Ching-wei is reported to have arrived in Shanghai from: Nanking yesterday. Our Own Correspondent.
FRENCH EMBASSY FOR PEIPING
According to a reliable source,
maneiitly.-Reuter.
The total number of German was to re-open all the fashionable. men in khaki uniforms, on some the French Embassy in China is
of which were to be troops now in Rumania
seen shortly returning to Feiping and is bars and restaurants. Café ter- estimated to be around 30,000. races. the Champs Elysees and decorations for service in the last is re-opening in the north per
such
War. British Wireless. As is to be expected, the Berlin boulevards,
as the Rue press is full of jubilation over
Royaie were densely packed with how once agaip Germany "forn- German officers. TAINED BY A JAPANESE MO-stalled" a British move to seize TOR-BOAT AND LATER ROB-control of Rumania. BED WAS DESCRIBED IN A REPORT TO THE POLICE LAST NIGHT BY CHEUNG KAM-HO.
HOW THEIR JUNK WAS DE-
Italians Also
STEERSMAN OF TRADING In addition to the German troops JUNK NO, T2362H.
building a base at the Rumanian
The junk with a crew of seven, port of Mamia, it is now reported 30 bags of beans and 60 bags of that Italian engineers are expect- salt, left Tai-O for Man Kinged shortly at Constanza to begin-j Shan (Chinese Territory) on Oc-the construction of a seaplane tober 5.
basz.
Soviet Interested
They brought their wives and families from Germany and the big department stores were soon crowded with officers and their wives buying articles of all kinds. The German women were particularly enger · to, purchase Parisian lingerie and under-
wear
Press Campaign
At midday the following day,
The sinking by Britain of French four miles west of Lin Tin Island.
warships to prevent them from they were stopped by a Japanese
falling into enemy hands was ex- motor-boat which had "82" paint- Commenting on the German plotted to the utmost by the Ger- ed on its side.
putsch into Rumania, the Turkisin man-controlled newspapers. The →IDE-JUNK-was-towed-to-a: Ja--newspaper-"Tam"-says-that-most-Matin," "Paris-Soir" and other panese warship alongside which important factor to prevent the newspapers were compelled to the night was passed. On October Germans from even dreaming of launch a violent Anglophobe cam- 7 it was towed away by the mo- a route to the south-east through paign, and this is continuing. It tor-boat to a trawler, to which | Anatolia is the presence of in-had .a profound effect on the the cargo was transferred,
vincible Turkish forces on the masses at first, but thoughtful frontier.
people were not deceived, though The paper also suggests that they had to pretend they were. Soviet Russia will not allow the "I heard many remarks from Dardanelles to pass into other Germans in Paris," she said, about what they called the ruth- A Bucharest report says that less bombings of Hamburg, the Soviet Russia is taking precau-Ruhr, and other places in Ger- tionary measures" in Bessarabia | many. These seemed to have pro- and northern 'Bukovina,
duced a deep effect, particularly among German soldiers hailing «Serious View Taken from those parts."
The Japanese sailors then cut away the masts and sails and al- lowed the junk to return to Hong Kong.
POLICE AND SERVICE AUTHORITIES
A protest against the alleged Incit of cocperation by the Service Authorities in police inquiries into
hands.
in Turkey
"The Axis Powers have "FOR THE
th theit of Government food begun a-large-scale move- stores was made at Cambridge ment, the ends of which
Police-court by Insp: Lilley on,
behalf of the Chief Constable, Mr. are still unknown, but the
CHILDREN"
PARENTS WHOSE ***"CHILA
CANADA UNDER THE CHIL- -OVERSEAS - RECEP:
DRENS
R. J. Pearson. The Inspector first phase of which has DREN HAVE BEEN SENT TO stated that two members of the R.A.S.C. had failed to appear as heen devoted to placing a witnesses, although their com- harrier between Russia TION BOARD SCHEME ARE manding-officer had been informed
TO BE GIVEN · AN OPPOR-
their evidence would be needed and the field of events.” TUNITY OF SPEAKING DIRECT
The mayor, Councillor W, 3:Wing, said thy matter avould be reported to the War 'Office.
The "ause concerned': £35 worth of stores, Lalg. A/C. Kenneth Wal-
This is the comment of the Is-'TO GIRLS AND BOYS IN THE tanbul newspaper. "Yenisabah,", DOMINION. - ... which ads,
Princess Elizabeth's message
By: the occupation of Rumunia," inaugurated at the week-end a Germany has reached the Black new weekly programme in the ter (Barr; 23, /ration storekeeper, Sea and has pushed herself -like B.B.C. North American - service was...bound over, and „Charles a dogger into the flank of the called "For The Children,” Green, 30, a civilian messing clerk | Soviet Union.
In part of this programme each cmployed by the R.A.F., was sen- "From that fact one may daweek, children from every part tenced to six months' imprison- ! duce that the Axİs contem- of Britain will be given a chance ment for theft. On a receiving plates : raising questions" iin,of hearing their parents' voices charge William Arthur Plumb, 00, which the Soviet Union is very and it hoped to be possible to of Sleaford Street, Cambridge, was i closely interested.
let the children know in advance; sentenced to six months, and`] "It is evident that theso ques that someone from their own. Christopher Almeric Townsend, | tlons can only be the "Balkons;"district will be speaking to them 28, of Norfolk Street, Cambridgo. | Istanbul, and he Struits."--acus in the next week's programme. to one month.
ter.
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