THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 28, 1941.
THREATENING JAPANESE "MEDIATION" ATMOSPHERE Both Thai And Indo-China Must Accept Demands!
NATIONALS ORDERED TO EVACUATE IN
WASHINGTON AND FAR
EAST TENSION
State,
The United States Under-Secretary of Mr. Sumner Welles, was to see both the new Japan- ese Ambassader, Ad- miral Nomura, and the Soviet Ambossa- dor, M. Oumansky, in Washington yester- day afternoon, says Reuter.
INDUSTRIAL AREA OF COLOGNE BLASTED
(Continued from Page 1) Wednesday night's operations are now known to be safe. Reuter.
Bang In Centre
One pilot said: "Just before we bombed I made an independent check of our position.
It was 9.50 p.m. when we drop- ped our first stick of high ex- plosive bombs -- that was an hour after we had arrived, By this time there were four huge fires bang in the centre of the target. The navigator and second pilot said they could see surround- ing balding lit up by the light of fires and those which were on five were actually crumbling down,
PRESSURE TACTICS
ACTING ON INSTRUCTIONS from Tokyo the Japanese Consul-General yesterday summoned re- presentatives of Japanese residents in Saigon and ad- vised them to prepare to evacuate Indo-China at a moment's notice in view of the mounting tension over the Tokyo conference.
Japanese in Saigon, totalling 120, immediately started preparations to evacuate.
and at times it was difficult to get away from them. A.A. gun. fire were putting up heavy shells. We also saw an enemy fighter just below us but he didn't sze us.
Heaviest Bomb
Qui Brst stick of bombs burst just to the side of four huge fires ir. the centre of the target and
they started
some more. Then
we turned round, went away a bit and came buck to drop our heaviest bomb
After this had fallen there waя a tremendous flash and a huge sheet of flame shot up high into the air. It seemed as though the whole area had suddenly caught alight.
TWO CIGARETTES
IN THE DARK
Three cases involving a breach o the Lighting Regulations on the Island, were brought before Mr. G. T. Lowry at the Central Magistracy this morning.
Two bus conductors were fined $5 euch, for failing to obscure the lighted end of their cigarettes in Electric Road about 8.25 p.m. yesterday.
A fruit stall foki, Leung Ka- yan, was fined $2 for a similar offence.
posals which Thai would be pre- while smoking pared to accept.
According to Domei
"Smooth progress" in the economic conversations between Japan and the Netherlands East Indies is indicated in a message from Batavia 10 the Domei
HEAVY BOMBERS RAID BURMA ROAD Japanese heavy bombers attack- agency..
the ed the Salween bridge, on The notice is described in Tokyo Mr. Yutaka Ishizawa, consul-Burma highway, yesterday after- as a "perfectly proper measure," general, and Junkheer van Hoog-noon in two waves of 15 and 21 in the event of the Tokyo media-straeten, head of the Dutch East'planes. tion failing.
The French Ambassador to Ja- pan is at present conferring with Matsuoka and it is presumed he will be transmitting Vichy's reply to what is described in Japanese official quarters as Japan's "final
for settlement of proposals' border dispute with Thailand.
Semi-official Japanese reports reveal uncertainty "whether a sa- tisfactory agreement can be reached."
the
THE WITHDRAWAL NOTICE FOLLOWS THE WARNING CHORUS IN YESTERDAY'S PRESS THREATENING DRAS- TIC CONSEQUENCES SHOULD EITHER THAI OR THE FRENCH REJECT THE JAPAN- ESE PROPOSALS.
Looking down we could see a square patch of red with tongues of flames spreading outward. The flames were so bright they lit up thure of our own bombers in the Thai Ready To Accept? sky.
: My rear gunner, as soon as we had turned for home, kept calling me un un the inter-comm to tell ing he could see more bombs going down and more fires starting."
All the time searchlights were sweeping round to pick us up! British Wireless.
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It is believed in Tokyo the Thai delegates are ready to accept the territorial cession pro- posed by the Japanese but that the French have opposed any fevision of the border from the outset.
Government
officials declared in Tokyo yesterday that they were not nervous about the outcome
and said that the orders to. Ja-
Indies delegation, had another Two waves of dive-bombers conference yesterday, it is added, also attacked the tin mining dis- while it is understood that they trict near Kochiu.
The all-clear sounded in Yun- met on Wednesday for over three
nanfu at 5.10 p.m.-Reuter.
hours.
Reuter.
STOP PRESS
panese to withdraw from Indo- "I have received no instructions China was # perfectly proper to advise local Jabanese subjects. measure in case of failure of the to prepare for evacuation," de- mediation effort.
Japanese Bases
The Japanese military forces.
clared Mr. S. Yano, Japanese Con- sul-General for Hong Kong, to the "China Mail" to-day.
Mr. Yano added that "as for as Hong Kong is concerned I do not in preparation for the, Southward | expect such instructions." expansion, have been most active in the vicinity of Hainan and Canton, according to the Chinese military spokesman in Chung- king.
Declaring that the Japanese are using Hainan island be the main basC of the southward, move, the spokesman said that the Japanese are strengthening the harbour fortifications there, particularly at Yulin harbour on the southern tip of the island.
The Japanese are also said t be establishing new supply depols and bases along the Kwangtung coust, including Bias Bay.
China's Interest
The prefix "special" to telegramN CU used by the "Sunday Herald" and The defence of the Southern "China Mail to Indicate news which Pacific with Great Britain, the is strictly copyright under the provi United States and the Dutch East} siona of the Telecommunications Or Indies was emphasised in a spe- dinance, 1936, and may not be reprint ad. under any circumstances, either cial article in yesterday's Chinese official newspaper, the "Central wholly or in part, without prior ar
rangement. Daily News," which declares: There are 10 million Chinese re- siding in the south-east whose lives and property are directly threatened by Japan's southward expansion.
"Therefore China nust have discussions with the powers 'con- cerned with a view to joint de fence in the Southern Pacific.” —
Decisive Stage
The conversations between France and Thailand have now entered a decisive stage, accord- ing to a Vichy report quoted by the Swiss radio yesterday.
The report says the French "Ambassacior-in-Tokyd had several interviews with Mr Matsuoka, while talks are proceeding almost daily at Vichy between the Ja- panese Charge d'Affaires, and the French Foreign Ministry.
A head-on cullision between a tramcar and a private motor_ car, No. 6213, occurred in John- ston Road, near Tin Lok Lane at 2.30 p.m. to-day. A pas- senger in the car was severe- ly injured about the face and sent to the Queen Mary Hos- al. The driver escaped un- hurt.
Japanese residents through- out Indo-China, numbering about 400, have completed preparations to leave follow➡ ing the evacuation notice...
Semi-official "Japanese re- ports allege that Indo-China has decided to stand by the decision reached at the emer- gency conference on Feb. 26, namely to oppose a large-scale partitioning of Indo-China...... Reuter.
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