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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1941.
STRONG INDO-CHINA RESENTMENT OF THAI AGREEMENT
"TO-DAY IS A DAY OF ANGER AND SAD- NESS," DECLARES THE SAIGON NEWS- PAPER “L'OPINION” IN AN ARTICLE TYPI- FYING INDO-CHINA'S REACTION TO THE PEACE AGREEMENT WITH THAILAND.
THE ARTICLE, headed "Day of Mourn- ing,” appeals to Marshal Petain to remember the Indo-Chinese plight.
WHAT GLADSTONE
SAID IN 1940
THAT
GLADSTONE, THE GREAT HAS LIBERAL STATESMAN, DECLARED
BRITAIN WILL ACHIEVE "VICTORY SOONER THAN YOU BELIEVE."
! it add "Indo-China will bow to the yoke but will live for the day when justice will be done."
The article was punctuated by many blank spaces where it had theen out by the censur.
The man in the street, while appreciating that the French leaders are in no position to re sist Japan's "enforced arbitra. tion," is nevertheless indignant regarding the way the agree ment has been handled.
For example, Indo-China of- Claims that this message was feials have not even yet been ad received through a Bath spiritua-vised of the terms of the settle- list meditim have been made by ment, while Thailand appears to Sir John Anderson, CH Rivers have been given much more than Street Bath
was ever originally contemplated
Siz John, who is no relation to the present Lard Privy Seal, said that the message came during a et ng of a spritualist circle in his home.
was:
I
The text of the message "Good evening, ny friends. Once more return to your earth. 1 am William Ewart Gladstone. have just this last day been with your Premier in the House of Commons.
th
! My friends, you are going
victory sooner than you believe. Good night."
REWARD FOR FOKI
one
For shutching an ear-ring from
Resentment Strong
201
The area ceded totals some 30,- 000 square miles, meluding area in Cambodia which is one of the richest rive districts in Indo- China, and resentment against Ja- pan, which is regarded as the pow
responsible for the double- er dealing, is widespread.
French-
It is expected that men residing in the ceded area,
BOTHA 1-QUR
NEW TORPEDO BOMBER
ล
Britain has a new type of 'plane light twin-engined bomber, Botha 1.
It is a torpedo bom- ber.
To some degree it resembles the Blen- heim aircraft. Its performance and armament are secret.
The Botha
was designed by Messrs Blackburn.
It is powered by two Perseus engines, and has o
span of 59ft., is 51ft. long and 18ft. 3ins, high.
N.T. TIMBER
FOR FIREWOOD
of whom there are some 250, The "China Mail" learn-
will move
into unceded parts ed authoritatively this
as soon as it is arranged.
It
is understood that a joint morning that commission, including Japanese,
Govern-
is proceeding to the border short- ment is now engaged in ly to demarcate the new boundary cutting down timber in
and arrange for the withdrawal of
many Indo-China troops in the the New Territories to re-
coast areas. -Reuter.
Heavy Censorship
lieve the present firewood situation in the Colony. a woman who was waiting on the
The areas being cut are above first floor landing of a house in
Camp in Fanling, Reclamation Street yesterday, (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" the Volunteer
and may be released very soon Chan Fuk, 20, was sentenced to
INDICATING HEAVY CEN-at price fixed by Government. hard
15 month's
Jabour.
SORSHIP, YESTERDAY'S EVEN- Government's second shipment strokes. and two years' police
4,000 tons, is supervision by Mr. H. C. Macha-ING NEWSPAPERS IN SAIGON of firewood, some
WERE FILLED WITH BLANK expected to reach Hong Kong mara at Kowloon this morning.
within the next three or four days. After the snatching, accused COLUMNS.
from Borneo But despite this, the papers Regular shipments was chased and arrested by Chan Ngai, 35, shop foki, who was com- continued to condemn the "apan-and Penang have been arranged mended by the Magistrate, ese in connection with the Thai- from the beginning of next month.
Agreement, which Sergeant H. Danbrowsky in- Indo-China
the was signed in Tokyo on Tuesday. formed the Magistrate that
One of the leading newspapers, shop foki would be entitled to $10 reward from the police for arrest- "Le Soir" expressed the hope that
the French Colonial Army, under The latest manifestion of Italian ing the snatcher,
General Weygand, would grow in nationalism is a movement to re- British strength to "prevent disarma-place by native phrases ment in other parts of the French shipping terms such as "bills of Empire." International News lading" and "f.o.b.," which Service.
used internationally.
The "Popolo d'Italia" says: "The patriotism of Italian seamen is THE UNKINDEST CUT- proverbial. They deserve, there-
C. Imenohl's Cigar
C.INGENOHL'S
Cigar Stores
La Perla del Oriente”
SEA "SLANG"
are
slang
fore, to be freed from a Columbia Radio, New York, re- which continually reminds them ports that the selling of ice- of a people from which they re- cream in Italy has been restricted ceive the worst of alfronts and to three days a week.
the most bitter humiliations."
ARCHITECT'S IDEA
OF REBUILT LONDON
Cheapside as a gay b oulevard with wide. co- lonnaded pavements, where citizens could · watch their Lord Mayor in appropriate state and sur- roundings pass from Mansion House to Guildhall, was one picture of a vastly improved post-war Lon- don drawn by Mr. W. H. Ansell, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, yesterday.
fine open There should be a piazza leading from Cheapside. to Guildhall, in place of the pre- sent narrow way, and round St. Paul's n clearance free from its jostling neighbours to provide a close worthy of Wren's master- plece.
extended. embankment... 50 that a view of London's earliest ob- glory-her river-will be tainable from. the transeptal steps of St. Pauls."
a
Mr. Ansell dissociated himself from those, who would make "new" London. "I want a vastly "Terraced gardens with drop improved London-not improved from the Cathedral down out of recognition."-Eritish Wire- the river, linking up with an' less.
to