THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 24, 1941
Matsuoka Affirms Policy
The Tripartite
Tripartite Alliance
Of The
CLANDESTINE
NAZI MEETING
IN SANTIAGO
A clandestine con- ference in Santiago of the German Am- bassadors to Argen- ting, Chile and Peru has deeply disturbed public opinion in Peru, according to O Lima despatch.
The despatch quotes a press de- mand that the Peru- vian Government should "Investigate what plot was hatch- ed at
Santiago." Reuter.
GERMANY'S
AMBASSADOR
TURNS UP LATE!
MEMBERS OF THE diplomatic missions
of all countries which so far have adhered to the Three-Power Pact met Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, on his arrival in Moscow yesterday afternoon, en route to Berlin.
The Soviet Government was represented, among others, by M. Lozovsky, Vice-Foreign Minister, and M. Parapkin, head of the Jap- anese Department of the Foreign Commis-
sariat.
The German Ambassador, von der Schulenberg, arrived late. He apologised to Mr. Matsuoka in English.
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Mr. Matsuoka will pay a cour- tesy call on M Molotov, the So- viet Foreign Cominissar, to-day. and leaves for Berlin and Rome t-night.
Japanese circles in Moscow indicate he is expected to re. turn via Moscow on Apr 16. The crowd at the station plut- form yesterday had a long wait, for the Japanese Foreign Minis- ter's arrival was delayed two hours by a blizzard which has been blowing for the past two days.
Mr. Matsuoka, in a press in.
General Smuts, photographed on his arrival in Kenya for a tour of inspection of the South African forces,
SEEING THE BLITZ
FROM A NEW ANGLE
TO SPEND EVEN a day or two with A.A. gun- terview, said: "The fundamental Ders is to see the aerial blitz from a new angle, writes
a London correspondent.
interests of nations decide their policy in the long run. but peace or war may sometimes be decided by personal acquain- tance,"
He then recalled he was in- vited during a
telephone, call from Ribbentrop to visit the Axis capitals after the signature of the
Tri-Partite Pact last September.
During a visit I have just paid to a gun crew in the West I found myself commiserating with gun crews who had watched the heavens for a cold month without so much as seeing a single German aeroplane, and rejoicing with the lucky ones who. count on going into action at least twice a week.
bed during Mr.
the rest Matsuoka mentioned
While it lasts the operation is, baths and he had a lengthy conversation with intense, but, as a rule, It is over period. One farmer's widow calls
all too soon and the enemy ma- her house, "The Garrison," Mussolini elght years ago and also met Count Ciano in Shang-chines have passed into the range hai, but had had no chance of making the acquaintance of Ger- man leaders.
Pact As The Pivot
He continued: "The foreign policy of Japan will revolve round the Tri-Partite Pact as pívol.
"It is natural for me, as Japan- ese Foreign Minister who helped conclude the pact, to visit the the German leaders.
"I have no particular aim in mind in coming to Europe. may
make have a chance to personal observation ол the situation in Western Europe and ospecially of the war now going
on."
Mr. Matsuoka said he had
по
hard and fixed itinerary but did not want to be absent from Japan longer than six weeks.
Soviet Courtesy
He had been shown every pos- sible courtesy in Moscow. He would like on his way back to stop in Moscow and see the Soviet leaders too.
Mr. Matsuoka stated that no tour of the Western battlefields
his was yet included in
pro- gramme but he would like to see them if he had time. - Router.
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of other batteries. Below ground on the gun site and immediately. adjoining the gun and the predic- of tor, with its uncanny power discovering the height, direction, speed and location of an aeroplane and automatically fitting the shell fuse, is the operation room,
Here, on a square chart, the pro-
of
acroplane bable course crossing the Channel is plotted. it approaches shells seram into the darkness.
As
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Not Losing The Cook
The most precious possession of a gun-site or searchlight posi- and such tion is a good cook, treasures seem more abundant
It was than one might expect. heartening to hear again, "We've got a first-rate cook and we don't mean to lose him." Of course, there are complaints; there would be something sus- picious about a soldier who did not grumble. That most frequent- ly heard concerned the delay of The heavy A.A. gunners
Too contractors in erecting huts. convinced to a man that
many huts still have only mud bring down or wing more ma- floors. In one camp the men, in chines by far than they are ever desperation, had taken the dump- credited with. The light batteries ed material and erected the hut have less practice, for they are themselves. mainly concerned with low-fly- ing aircraft and dive-bombers.
Community Life
are
they
Gunners live a lonely life. Many sites are on hill-tops or far from town or village, and the men have to provide their own entertainment, although occasionally an ENSA concert] party visite them.
I
In spite of sepuration from the outer world and continuous ex- posure the A.A. gunners are ex- traordinarily fit.
IF ENGLAND FALLS....
"If England falls there.
The chaplain is a welcome visi- tor. I heard it said that whatever day he cume it was Sunday. He holds a service in a hut, but the moment an alarm sounds every will be no freedom for the body, runs. One service the other day was interrupted three times in this way, but each time all the
men came back.
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He added: "It would be neces
The New Zealand Government plete rest each week and 48 hours ary for the people of America to assure for ten generations the Zealand once a month, 1.50 has de ided that New
freezing works shall, from to- Twenty-four hours is not lòng burden of armament so that the tó 6.50 day, accept for freezing for ex- enough to enable some of them to dictators shan't be permitted
port only lamb, prime beef and get to their homes, but officers strike down liberties and insti to tutions which Irishmen every porker pigs up to 120 lbs-Reu arrange with local people ter.
"adopt the men and provide where revere."-Reuter.