THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1940.
ITALIAN FORCES IN NEAR EAST DOOMED TO SURRENDER Only A Question Of Time, Says Cairo Newspaper
British Naval. Domination In
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PETAIN MOVING TO VERSAILLES?
THE BELIEF THAT the Italian forces in the Near East are doomed to surrender, whether they fight on or peacefully and resignedly give them- selves up," was expressed by the newspaper “Al Balagh," one of the most responsible Egyptian news. papers, in Cairo yesterday.
"It is only a question of time," says the news- paper, "until the British Navy definitely cuts all their lines of communication.
"At France's collapse the British forces 'suddenly found themselves alone and had to assume the de- fensive until they were redistri- buted and' reinforced and ready again to take up a strong position.
"That Is now accomplished, especially as regards the land forces."
Blundering Aggression
CHINESE NEWS
AGENCY IN LONDON
The Central News Agency, the well-known Chinese news agency, es- tablished a London office yesterday.
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"We find it hard to under-: stand how a country-that- is always outraging others should find its own innocence = so outraged over recent al- leged incidents occuring in East In- the Netherlands dies," declare's the press in the N.E.I., commenting Japanese newspaper threats of action against the N.E.I.
recent unless the
alleged outbursts anti - Japanese The Chinese Ambassador. Mr. Quo Tal-chi, in the opening
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not ceremony, expressed pleasure at "Not only will Italy suffer great the establishment
disturbed by these threats in by Central material damage but the moral of News of their first branch abroad
the Japanese press. her people-never very strong and its significance when the in-
The newspapers adds that Italy's blundering aggression in Greece
enables Britain to utilise Greek air bases to launch attacks on Italy,
Marshal Petain, "Head, will crack before long under the of the French State," is strain."-Reuter. transferring his seat of Government to Versailles, yesterday. in German-occupied terri- tory.
The communique stated that Ministers "discussed various matters arising out of the forth- coming installation of the Chief of State at Versailles." No further information on the subject was forthcoming. Reu-
This appears to be the only possible conclusion to draw from cryptic communique issued in Vichy after a Cabinet meeting ter.
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THAI CAPTURES FRENCH GUNBOAT
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A French gunboat has seized by Thailand troops on the Me-Kong River, between Thai- land and French Indo-China, ac- cording to a Geneva dispatch to the German news agency yester- day,
It is believed a number of lives were lost in the incident. Reuter.
BILL OF HEALTH
During last week, 197 cases of tuberculosis with 141 deaths; 38 of dysentery with 14 deaths; 17 of typhoid with two deaths, 12 of diphtheria with five deaths; six of cholera with three deaths; "four of meningitis with one death; three of measles with one death; and one (imported) of chicken-pox, were notified...
Yesterday 30 cases of tuber- culosis, four each of dysentery and chicken-pox, two of diph- theria and one each of "typhold and measles, were registered.
WESTERN DISTRICT OF SHANGHAI BLOCKADED
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was enforced following (lie shoot- ing of a Japanese gendarmie on November 30, according to a Shanghai despatch.
The blockaded area has been widened to cimbrace' Edinburgh, Yu Yuen, Great Western, Chaou- foong and Jessfield Roads, which are being cordoned off by barbed- wire entanglements. Japanese soldiers armed to the teeth are standing on guard and strict searches are conducted by Japan- ese gendarmes and Chinese pup- pet police.
It is reported that Chen Kung- po, so-called Mayor of Shanghai, was among those, confined in the area on November 30. He was allowed to leave only after re- vealing his identity and satisfy-
Ing the Japanese: with, an -ey/M
planationCentral News,
ANGLO-SPANISH AGREEMENT
An Anglo-Spanish financial agreement was signed in Madrid yesterday by Sir Samuel Hoare, tho British Ambassador, and the Spanish Foreign Minister, Senor Serrano. Suner-Reuter,
cense.
One of the most conserva- tive newspapers says:-
"Japan is full of vague threats, but what really is Japan prepared to do about it?"
The Japanese Government appears to be so over-awed by these outbursts in the Japan- ese press that it has gone so far as to protest to the Nether- lands Ambassador in Tokyo.
One paper comments: "We hope his reply will be more to the point."-Reuter.
The Mackay Radio in New York yesterday intercepted á message from the British cargo steamer "W. Hendrik" (4,360 tons) saying she had been torpedoed 240 miles west of Ireland. Reuter.
An attempt to assassinate an alleged agent of Wang Ching-wei was made in Macao yesterday afternoon.
The city was disturbed by a number of shots coming from the vicinity of the Tai Kwun Restaurant and a man dressed in foreign style clothes was found lying in a pool of Blood, shot through the chest. A woman pedestrian was also wounded in the leg. Both were removed to Hospital.
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