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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.
ANGLO-ITALIAN PEACE RUMOURS PERSIST
General Franco
And Mussolini
Meet In Secrecy
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") DIPLOMATIC EVENTS IN EUROPE ARE
200,000,000
MOVING SWIFTLY WITH REPORTS REACH BUTTONS---AND
ING THE UNITED STATES THAT GENERAL FRANCO HAS ALREADY MET MUSSOLINI.
Close secrecy is being maintained regard- ing the object of Franco's visit, but rumours are still current that General Franco is being asked to mediate in a British/Italian peace.
Meanwhile, reports from Vichy state that alter Conten ing with Musolini, General Franco has ar. ved in the South of France to intet Maushal Petain, and canvas French Teeling on the Europea
Adalat Nata
After leaving the station the
NOT A SHINE
Contracts have been
the largest! signed for single order for serge bat- tle-dress placed since the war started 5,000,000!
MALAYA
WEYGAND
REINFORCEMENT FIRST TO
URGE PEACE
IN THE AIR
Following the de- spatch of formations
of Blenheim bombers to Northern Malaya some days ago, it is officially announced in Singapore that similar formations of modern bombers of the Australian Air Force have also taken up a station in that area.--Reuter.
to his estate at blouses and 6,000,000 CHINA LOOKS TO
Marshal went Villeneuve-Loubet on the coast! road, about nine miles from Nice.
At midday. Marshal Petam left
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trousers.
Nearly 250 clothing contractors and in England, Wales, Scotland Northern Ireland will be engaged
YUNNAN DEFENCES
The bitter tone of re crimination against Bri- tain which characterised so many earlier French utterances and writings is absent from a Vichy Government approved pamphlet telling the in- side story of events lead- ing up to the French col- lapse.
M. Charles Riebel, a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission the Senate, is the author,
M. Riebel reveals that it was Gen. Weygand, successor of Gen. Gurnelin as Commander of the French forces, who, as early as June 7, first urged the Government to ask for an armistice. Weygand hoped to save Paris, avoid" the. evacuationi of the Government, and forestall a declaratior, of war by Italy. On June 12 Weygand again urged an armistice.
Divisions were reduced The 9,000 miles of serge re- According to a Chinese des!
two or three battalions and men quned. taking 10,000 tons of patch from: Kunming, a high-
were dropping from fatigue and Wool, will be manufactured. by Tankin Chinese Commander is
tack of sleep. The Cabinet, how- i visiting various strategival ports
ever, "remained unɛhakable." Nure thousand miles of lining along the Youn border atul
The next day, alter the Supreme material will also be used.
addressing Chinese offeers and ↑ Cauneil had met and learned that More than 200.000.000 brass trends guarding the Indo-Chin. Mr Churchill was unable to pro-
on the work. his estate for Cagnes station when Beran reports that is ex pected that meeting belwery i private coach, he received offi General France
Marshal eals and personal french Petum will contribute much to ter
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Pmproving! French Spin relationis Internationaud!
Servier.
Petain's Midday
Reception
Et reported leon Vohy that Alshad Petral atrevend at Cagnes Mer, Front Riviera, yelerday, n a special tram which; leit Vichy the paren mus maght
Reu
RUMANIANS TO GO
HOME
According to an official of the Itanaman Lepation in London, the Rumaman: Government has 13- fructed at Charge d'Affaues and the Rituanian Legation staff [2] London to return to Ruman Reuter.
150 Arms.
buttons will be sewn on to the Tender, blouses and trousers As these buttons are hudon, the modern During the past fortnight, the Foldier dues not have to clean, Canes Commander has vaated hort-line positions and been ob-
eving en ny pasts acros Werder Reuter,
them
And the modern soldier is not) Sorry, either.
WARSAW
It isn't so much APPEAL
how much you get
how
It's
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WOMEN TO U.S.
"We Are Living In Hell"
A HEART-KENDING APPEAL by a group of Polish women living in Warsaw to the women of the United States begging them for help in their strug- gle to throw off the Nazi yoke was published in New York by the Committee of Polish-American Women. The committee vouches for the authenticity of the
sure you are document, which was smuggled from Poland.
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Declaring the Germans are trying to extermin- ate their race, they declare that 3,000,000 Poles have perished already, and the figure increases daily as famine grows apace. Swearing that their words are true and not exaggerated they say:
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to
mise more than three divisions and 72 guns, M. Reynaud's Cabinet [sull refused to accede to Gen,
Weygand's demand.
Flight To Africa
M Rubel says that the Cabinet hed two plans. It intended either to the to Brittany and be ready to leave for the United States, if TRCUSSITY, or go first to Bordeaux and then to Africa.
The pamphlet says that France rejected the British plea not to surrender her fleet be- cause, on that condition, Ger- many would never have granted an Armistice.
Gen. Gamelin's incompetence is branded as chiefly responsible for - defeat, President Lebrun is stated to have said to M. Riebel after the Government's flight to Tours: Would you believe it? Gamelin came to see me only a few days before we left Paris, praised his own strategy, and said that he would have done exactly the same if he were beginning the campai over again."
Weygand's Plan
An Associated Press message- from New York states that, In dis- cussion with a diplomat who had talked to Gen. Weygand. sent to | North Africa by the Vichy Gov- ernment, it was learned that the general had intentionally placed himself in a "trading" position in Algeria.
His object was that, if the Ger- man terms, in his opinion, went too dishonourable, he could "wh the military forces in Algeria and "Listening to those cynical lies possibly Syria, too, in a new we tremble Inst the world might direction." This would not, how believe them. This hell is allever, be a matter of. joining Gen. around us. It is smothering us | de Gaulle's forces.
"We are living in hell. Our hus-, been delivered by the German bands, brothers and fathers have Government from playing the perished in masa murders which part of England's flunkey. have wiped out tens of thousands. They die slowly in dungeons OF cold perish from starvation and in war prisoners camps.
"Daughters Abducted"
and we are its hopeless victims. We endeavour not to abandon ourselves to despair. We believe
KUNMING AIR RAID
ALARM
"Our sons--the future and pride of the nation-have, either in Divine justice. We have faith in the victory of the Allies and parished like their fathers-boys
Air-raid alarm sirens sounded We wait for the day of their of 12 and 14 were by no means triumph. Should this day be slow through Kunming yesterday morn lacking among those who were in arriving Poland may be free, heavy bombers
ing when two waves of Japanese shot or are registered and taken but there will be no Poles."
attacked objec away to alleged labour camps in
[tives on the Burma road. Germany, whence there is
Another formation of 11 Jap- anese dive-bombers dropped return.
several bombs near Kunming.
The all-clear sound was heard. at 2.45 p.m. — Reuter.
no
"Our daughters--our little girls, SHANGHAI PISTOL
INCIDENT
dearest joy of our lives are be- ing apprehended on the streets or abducted from their homes under cover of night, imprisoned in company with prostitutes, and
A Chinese youth fired a pistol deported to German orothels. at a motor car outside Paramount "Dr. Frank, Governor-General Hotel'in Yu Yuen Road in Shang-
UNIFORM ORDERS
IN INDIA
It is understood in New Delhi
of German Poland, informs neu- hai yesterday afternoon but missed that orders have been passed and tral newspapermen that Poland it. Police of the Japanese-spon-are already in operation that uni under the German administration sored Shanghai' Municipal Gov-form be worn by all ranks in prospers freely, and that the ma-ernment arrived at the scene and the army in India at all times jority of Polish people cheerfully arrested him. The motive of the except when on leave from sta cooperate with the German ad-shooting has not been ascertained. tions or engaged in sports. Reu- ministration” “satisfied at havingCentral News.
j.ter.