THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1940.
Nazi Campaign Seeking To Stir Trouble In Yugoslavia
ZAGREB BOMBING
INCIDENT
(By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent).
A SUGGESTION THAT THE GERMANS ARE RESORTING TO THEIR USUAL ME- THODS TO STIR UP TROUBLE IN YUGO- SLAVIA IS CONTAINED IN THE LATEST: NEWS FROM THAT COUNTRY.
The Germans are doing so because they failed to induce the Yugoslav Government to enter the Axis orbit in the manner of Rumania.
QUISLING GETS A HUSTLING
It is generally believed that the bombs which exploded on the doorstep of the Vice-Premier, M. Matchek, were supplied by Ĝer- man agents, even assuming that they found Croats to do the dirty work,
Fortunately the bombs do not appear to have caused loss of life and the incident is likely)
have a contrary effect to that sought.
to
There has been a noteworthy tendency on the part of the three
races in Yugoslavia-Serbs,, Croats
and Slovenes-to draw closer to-
Major Quisling is com- ing in for a rough time at gether since the agreement reach- the hands of his fellow Paul, and M. Matchek. countrymen.
As he left one public meeting. he was met by a large and hostile crowd. Someone threw a bomo,
which exploded near 'him;
The same day, posters attacking him were stuck 'up "all over building where he was to speak.
ed between
Clearing the debris after a heavy air raid finds many willing hande coopérating. This pic- ture 'chowa the 'Rev. Father Archer In charge of 'a wheel-barrow of an A.R.P. demolition squad.
VILLAGE PRAYED...
Every evening for two the Regent, Prince months the people of the little Devon village of Ide- Beginning Of Campaign ford have gathered in the church to pray for their It is possible that the explo- sions in Zagreb mark the be-rector, the Rev. Charles ginning of a German campaign by King, reported missing which they hope to wear down after the collapse of it is not thought likely they will France: succeed any more than the Ita- lians succeeded with the Greeks.
the nerves of the Yugoslavs, but
Now, the rector, who was ser-
Indeed the example of the lat-ving as a chaplain with the 7th He addressed the meeting, ter has had an inspiring reaction Norfolk Regiment, has sent n was violently-Heckled and the in the Balkans and will go a long postcard to his wife saying he is police had to provide an escort way towards defeating the Axis alive and well in a German pri for him and his henchmen manoeuvres. Reuter.
when: he left.
Demonstrators outside wore
the badges of
old political parties and clashed with, Quisling-sur- porters who tried to tear down' the posters.
Reuter.
HIT BY HALF-TON,
SENTENCES HURT ARM
WERE JUST
son camp.
"Our rector seems to have been born for adventure," a parishioner said: "He is the son of an Army officer and was brought up on in lonely outpost on the North-West Frontier.
"When he came to be ·rector of our village he recounted his career in a letter to parishion- ert ending with All of which has made me not quite the ac- cepted idea of a parson."
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INCREASE IN TAXI FARES TO BE SOUGHT
The Blue Taxicab Company in Kowloon are preparing a peti- tion requesting Gov- ernment to consider another increase in taxi fares owing to the recent additional petrol tax imposed by Government.
TO GATHER WOOL D HEDGES
Children are to be encouraged
to gather wool from fences, hed- "Yet he turned out to be the ges, trees, etc., as was done
had.
ROUND-UP
During the hasty evacua- tion of some bombed Lon- don areas, hundreds of petschiefly cats, dogs, rabbits and poultry have been left behind,
It is often difficult to round up animals during a rald, and many inevitably escape in the confusion.
As I walked through ore East London area (writes a reporter), I saw cats walking delicately over piles of bricks and dogs wander- ing aimlessly round street corn- ers looking for masters: never came.
One man arrived to feed his hens and arrange to have them moved to safety. He gave his lunch to a couple of cats, which refused to go away. after they had been fed.
Steps are being taken by the. Royal Society for the Préven tion of Cruelty to Animals and by other societies to round. up. 'thase: homeless "animāla,
Lives Risked
Scout Donald Day went to bed in the kitchen of his home in a Kent town, His parents were in bed in most popular rector we have ever the last war.
We were all sorry when the front sitting-room.
he joined the Army, but realised This is one of several tasks. An official of the R.SP.CA. said: that he was just the type of man which can be undertaken by "Our inspectors are going round Suddenly there' was a bang for a chaplain."
with vans and collecting as many outside a bomb had “exploded
school children in the autumn as possible. It is a big task, just across the road.
states a Board of Education me- morandum..
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The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed ap- plications for leave to ap- peal brought by Llewellyn Cadwallader and Thomas
Mrs. King said: "It has been Fa wonderful relief to learn that George Jackson, who were it catapulted a half-ton-block he is alive." convicted at Manchester of concrete high up in the air. Assizes on charges of con- spiracy and endeavouring coiling and fibor of a bedroom to cause disaffection plunk on the scout, bringing the among his Majesty's upstairs furniture and floor with troops.
Cadwallader was sentenced to four years' penal; servitude; and cson, his nephew, to two years-imprisonment.
The concrete dropped through the roof, crashed through - the
it
'Underneath it the Boy Scout was pinned to the floor on the be
"When the second crash came," Mrs. Day told a reporter, "my Mr. Justice Stable, giving husband said "It's in the kit judgment, said that at a critical chen and ran in time in the fortunes of the Army | gha
the two men frequented Preston "I followed him. There was Road Station and stood drinks to Donald- with "the", huge picce of Army recruits. There was concrete on him and the bed. evidence that they spent a conWhen we spoke to him he siderable sum on the drinks, did not answer. We thought he They told a lieutenant that Hitler was dead:: would not have made a bad boss, and said to other soldiers that they were not getting adequate remuneration for the services they were being called on to render.
Such offences were serious in these days, and there was no reason to interfere with the ap- propriate treatment that Cad- wallader und Jackson had re-
Buddenly he awakened and naked, in a dreamy dort of way, ^{{What's all the row about?'
Then Scout Day wriggled from under the concrete."
He looked at the bed, etc., and felt himself carefully all over. KANG
Ho had a badly-bruised arm. They now call him "Lucity
SHOOT AT SIGHT SABOTAGE LAW
'Gathered. wool should. bá días. patched carriage pald-in bage preferably containing not tess than fifty pounds in weight to the Gathered Wool Officer, Cum, berland Works Wool Control, Bradford, There the wool-would be appraised at market value and the proceeds remitted.
We complain about people who have to leave their homes because of delayed-action bombs. leave their pets behind, and than come to us to aak, if we -will. rescue them, t
"Already several of our in- spectora have riskod thele livor to save animals trapped in threatened houses, but it la not fáir that "they should over bó insked.
so that they can escape,
In one county where this scheme was first suggested over We ask that people who have 000lb. of raw-wool was gathered to leave their homes, and who by school children in a short time cannot take their animals with. and the sum to be remitted is like them, should at least free them Guards protecting ly to be as much as £6 'plane and arms plants in The Board of Education the New York and New suggests that actions soundelion
ganise the collection of Jersey areas have been in-roots, autumn crocus roots and structed to shoot at sight seeds, acorns and beach mast, and
horse chestnuts. any trespassers. **
also
AMBUSH SET FOR ITALIANS
The order was issued following The corms and the seeds of A British patrol in the Kassala the G-men's revelation that Nazi the autumn crocus, or meadow sector of the Sudan successfully agents were planning more ex- saffron are used in medicine for ambushed a party of Italians on plosions similar to that which making into preparations for gout the night of Nov. 20, capturing destroyed the Hercules powder and rheumatism. The corms are an Italian officer and nine other. plant, Kenvil; New Jersey, with dug, up at lowering time in the ranks, according to a communique the loss of forty-seven lives: autumn, the sceds are ready in issued in Cairo yesterday.
"Shoot first, ask question the spring
·East of Gallabat parties of tho after." was the order given tho panifes
enemy were successfully engaged guards, who were told that Dandelion roots are also re- by British artillery special, mapa Warplanta quired for their medicinal value.
tora” hands. · ·
On other fronts there is
were known' zoon the plot-Acorns, beech mast and horse change in the situation. Reu-..
chestnuts are used for pig food.ter.