Chrary, Sincente Cost
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4, 1940.
BEGUILING MARSHAL PETAIN
Hitler's New Tactics To Achieve Objective
BRITISH TANKS IN GREECE
Photographs in the Bri- tish Press yesterday show- ed British tanks passing through
Veteran Likely To
Be Flattered
Into
Submission
(By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent)
HAVING :
Greek towns HITLER'S FIRST APPROACH TO MARSHAL PETAIN
FAILED IT WOULD SEEM THE FUEHRER IS NOW ATTEMPTING TO REDEEM HIS FAILURE BY GUILE.
amid the cheers of the populace.
The arrival of these tanks has had a great heartening effect, and Greek morale is high despite the Italian "terror bombing.”
By arranging for the veteran French lead- FORT ADI er to return to Versailles the Germans, with The Greeks are confident in the the aid of M. Laval, are pursuing a double port will be given to them, not object.
knowledge that all possible sup-
anly by Britain but also by the United States.
General Metaxas, the Greek
Premier, has sent a telegram to the newly formed American "League of Assistance to Greece,"
expressing Greek - gratitude
for
American help and declaring that the Greek and American peoples
are united by common ideas und a common heritage. — Reuter.
SAVED DOG IN RAID
WHILE BOMBS WERE DROP- PING ON A SOUTH-EAST TOWN TWELVE-YEAR-OLD HUBERT HUSKIN RISKED HIS LIFE TO. SAVE HIS DOG.
He rushed to a conservatory!
At Versailles Marshal Petain will not be able to exercise the same control over all branches of the administration of unoccupied France, thus leaving M. Laval a freer hand, and at the same time he will be exposed to the attention of his German masters, who may be expected to use all their arts to flatter him into agreeing to their plans.
URGI RAIDED
East Africa, was raided by Fort Adi Urgi, in:Italian the R.A.F. on Monday and considerable damage done to motor transport and Italian personnel. :
CONTROL OF R OF RETAIL RICE PRICE
The "China Mail" logrned authoritatively this morning that active steps to deal with the situation created by the sharp increase in rice prices - under urgent considera- tion.
is morning, a further in- crease was imposed by. many retailers and rice which sold last week at eight-catties for $1. cost $1 for five cattles.
The price of Siamese rica this morning rose to $18.20 per picul. as compared with the closing rate. of $17.20 per picul yesterday.
Scheme Under Study
It was officially stated at -noon to-day that Government is considering a scheme for the control-of-the retail price.. of rice. which does not condict
with the varied interests of importers and consumers.
The details of the proposals are now being worked out and the final scheme will, be put into operation as soon as possible.
POLICE SERGEANT'S ¿HARBOUR RESCUE
Zula was also attacked, while puppet government in Nanking, is were carried out over enemy ter
numerous reconnaissance flights Hitler's efforts at the moment (not likely to. facilitate von are reminiscent of a juggler try-bentrop's aims to bring about
Rib-ritory on all fronts and valuable ing to keep several plates spin- Soviet-Japanese agreement,
a information: obtained.
· Sergeant. – C. S. Pile, of the ning at the same time.
From all operations British-air- Woter, Police, rescued a 15-year- craft returned These two plates seem both to without loss, says the Air Ministhe harbour. off the Railway Pier to their bases old Chinese lad who jumped into be wobbling out of control,
Italy, Japan, Spain and France -all have to be kept soinnine in rhythm and the task le proving more and more difficult,
in wh.ch his pet was cowering. Italy appears to resent the ef- picked up the dog, ran back to forts to win France, as the offer the staircase cupboard in which to M. Laval is. largely at Italy's he had been sheltering, and pro-Expense and Mussolini must real- tected the dog with his body.
ise that his partner feels him to For that heroic act Hubert is to be a liability rather than an receive the medal of the Canine set at the present moment, Defence League.
Hubert had barely reached his sanctuary when a bomb blew the!
No Help To Italy...
Molotov Failure
There is nothing to show: that' any change whatsoever' in Russo- German relations has resulted from M. Molotov's visit to Berlin.
as-iation: in Russia's attitude to Bri- Neither has there been any var-
conservatory to atoms. Regard-| Despite the desperate straits of less of his safety Hubert left the the Italian armies in Albania there dog in the cupboard and went has not been the slightest gesture into the garden to see if his fowis of help or even sympathy from
Berlin.
were safe.
Every bird had been stripped of its feathers, but only one was dead,
INVIDIOUS EIRE
FOR
WARTIME PURPOSES THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS DEPARTING FROM THE PRE- VIOUS INVARIABLE PRACTICE OF SENDING ALL IMPORTANT CABINET DECISIONS TO ALL THE DOMINIONS.
The Dominions Secretary Indi- cated in the Commons' yesterday
that such communications were
not being made to Eire,
This assurance was made in re- ply to a questioner's suggestion that there are German and lia lian Legations in Dublin: In con- stant touch with Berin sana Rome-Reuter.
AR.P. MAN IN WRONG FEAT
Awakened by the switching on. of a light in the bedroom of her Knightsbridge flat, Margaret Com, the wife of a naval officer, saw a man by a cupboard.
tain but there has been a slight improvement in the Soviet Un- lon's. relations with the United States; and in the circumstances this is very significant, seeing that the Tripartite Pact was ostensibly directed against America,
Finally the position of Spain' would appear to be unchanged and for the moment the. position .of Morocco is no longer being
ventilated.
Japan, whose association with the Axis was described as the greatest diplomatic achievement in history, is also not running as the master juggler would like.
This would also seem to have been sacrificed to the more imme- The open pact against the Com-diate aims of winning France.- munists, entered into with the. Reuter,
HUSBANDS WILL COOK DINNER FOR WIVES
ON WAR WORKB
WIVES ON WAR WORK may soon find hot meals waiting for them when they come home in the evenings - meals cooked by their husbands. The husbands, on their own initiative, are to attend cookery classes to learn how to cook simple and nourishing dinners.
These kitchen-conscious hus-
"You see, most fathers finish hands live at Brackburn, Lancs.heir work earlier than their Mrs. Dorothy Clarke, domestic women folk, who have to travel selence Jecturer, who already has several miles to the munition: a full time job teaching school-factories. girls, has welcomed... this-war-CA lime extra duty of teaching hus bands too. The classes will be held on the town's communal kitchen.
I
"It's just my little bit towards the big effort," she told a reporter. "Nobody knows better than how difficult it is for familles to Asked what he was doing there, got nourishing food in their own he said he must have entered the homesnow, that husbands and wrong flat. Later, a cigarette light-wives: are, at work. er was missed, c
At Westminster William Joseph. Hughes (39), A.R.P. worker, of George's-square, S.W.,' was: com- mitted for trial on a charge of en- fering the flat and stealing the lighter.
!
**The children nearly all tall tho¦ came ŝatory about father struggling along in a noble af, tempt to get a meal ready for them and for mother when, she comes in worn-out in the oven ing.
Will Show Wives How-
"I am sure that the men with [specially outshina-thoir wives in handling the pots and pads, and that every member of the [family will doon be showing us that the Idea Was woll "worth while.”:
Mrs. Clarke says there is a great deal of waste in every home at present.
There'a, a right und wrong way évén in peeling potatoes and carrots," she said, "And what a lot of nice things can be "made : from a stale lont
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