YUGOSLAVIAN PEOPLE DISOWN POLICY OF SURRENDER
BERLIN 'PHONE TO BELGRADE CUT
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DRAMATIC CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT IN YUGOSLAVIA IS JUSTLY APPRECIATED IN INFORMED QUARTERS IN LONDON.
Widespread popular demonstrations had made it clear that the Government which on Tuesday signed the document in Vienna (SPECIAL TO "CHINA mail") || pledging Yugoslav adherence to the Tri- partite Pact was out of touch with popular sentiment.
Telephone com - munication between Berlin and Belgrade was disrupted yester- day.
German authorities profess ignorance on the situation in Yugo- :lavia and state that the position in that country is not clear.
They *1owever,
maintain, that Ger-
many regards the pact signed by former Pre- mier Tsvetcovitch and Foreign Minister Mar- covitch as valid.--In- ternational News Ser- vice.
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Growing evidence in the past strict neutrality hitherto Tew days that the people would no longer tolerate a Government which did not express their will, prepared the way for the coup d'etat.
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have been received the Serb. Croat State, are regarded as mdation that the new Government has the uroval of the country
served stunned the people. For two days. country cooperated with
many.
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Yesterday's events disown that policy.
Germany's Attitude
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The bloodless character of this resounding event and the satis- faction with which the assump- Two Courses are now open to tion of power by a government Yugoslavia. Time will show reflecting national aspirations whether Germany's attitude will throughout! permit a continuance 1; her
Slovene former rutral policy wi sufficient impel Yugoslava tu
emperate National with Britam and her Alles
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with which the Germaan news Papers recorded Yugoslavia's ad- 1e-00 to the Pac, describing it as diplomate Dunkirk for Bri- turn, the reaction in Berlin to the latest developments has been awaited with interest. So far
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Foreign Policy?
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maurs to be seen
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1941.
for
Scenes familiar wherever the Dictators of Germany and Ita-
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Europe, shows houses in the little Greek town of Kastoria, bombed by the Italians with many casualtice among civilians.
CHEERS FOR FELIX,
THE CRATER CAT
(By A Special Correspondent)
FELIX DOESN'T KNOW he has made cat his- tory in the City of London. For seventeen and a half days he was trapped at the bottom of a smouldering crater which was once a five-storey city building, where he was champion mouser. survived.
DEFENCE
AGAINST TYRANNY
there appears to be an under- Primarily, of cource this latest standable silence. development is a domestic mat- It may be assumed that Ber- ter, but it will nevitably be con-lin's visitor, Mr. Matsuoka, who
Wednesday isniered abroad against the back; only on
issued a to the German people! ground of the most recent events. message
Yugoslavia's departure on declaring that the Japanese na- Tuesday from the policy
tion would be with them in joy and sorrow, scarcely reckoned on. American Leased ELEKKEUNDISTIEKELDUFU this swift disturbance of Nazi Agreement, signed in Lon-
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ONLY WOMAN
WHO FOUND GOLDFIELD
A new goldfield has been discovered by natives in the dense forest country of the Cape York penin- sular, far to the north of Brisbane.
It is reported to be yielding about an ounce and a half to the ton. at a time when the price of gold is higher than it has been for years.
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He doesn't know that when at last he crawled wearily to the rim of the crater the Pioneer Corps men waiting to dynamite the walls were so surprised at the sight that they gave him a great rousing cheer all for himself. Felix just collapsed.
When I saw Felix at the ware- house offices of Raphael Tuck and Sons, the calendar firm, he was sitting on the knees of the manag- Anglo- ing director. Mr. Desmond Tuck.
Bases
don yesterday, has been issued together with an official statement.
The statement says the signing of the agreement, coming so soon after the passing of the Lease and Lend Act, "marks one more stage in the development of the policy of good neighbourliness and friendly cooperation to which the two Democracies in their com- mon interests have devoted them
selves.
In the days before the fire, Felix seldom deigned even to notice Mr. Tuck.
"Now," said the managing director, "he seems to have adopted me. He sits on my knee and won't be moved." In the tall building, which was the frin's pride before the fire, Felix scorned managerial offices.
Now nothing will move him beyond the second floor level. "How on earth he fell from the top floor to the depths of that. crater and then got himself out, after seventeen and a half days, with only a singed coat, one burnt eyebrow, and the loss of 3lb. in weight, only Felix knows," said
"BRITISH INTERESTS ARE NO LESS THAN AMERICAN. AND Mr, Tuck. THE INTERESTS OF THE CO-
LONIES THEMSELVES WHERE THE BASES ARE SITUATED,
AND
CONVOY
THREAT IN
OPERATION?
CANADA AND NEW- FOUNDLAND, WILL BE SERVED BY THE ARRANGEMENT UN- DER WHICH THE FULLEST AND FREEST FACILITIES POSSIBLE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE UNIT- ED STATES IN ORDER THAT! THEY MAY ENSURE WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER DESCRIBED The field is close to a missionary AS SECURITY AT THE reserve, and is be.ng operated by DANGERS OF THE FUTURE,' coloured workers under the direc-
"The leasing of e.e bases re-
tion of one
It is presents further and very ral SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") white mine.
territories said to be the first field in Aus- contributions by the tralia to be worked by natives. concerned to the Al led cause and Their keen eyes
defence against tyranny." are far better equipped than the white man's to recognise good-bearing stone,
Many a white prospector owes his wealth to a native "boy," and money as fast as she made it, and a surprising number of Australia's when he died he let only £80 major fields were discovered by in the local bank. natives.
Picked Up Gold
The Reuter.
announcement from the Vichy Govern- ment of a Franco/Ger- man agreement for an ex- change of foodstuffs be- tween occupied and un- occupied France has been received in Washington very unfavourably.
close the door for further
France.
food
Found Another After his death Kitty refused Cape York itself is proof of to stay in the village, She started this. native ability to spot gold, off down the Batavia River and
Washington officials are shocked The fact that payable deposits caused a sensation by discovering were to be found there at all another rich field, two miles away. at the action of the Vichy Gov- might never have been suspected This brought another village ernment which, it is stated, may but for a native Pluto and his into being, Lower Camp Diggings, supplies from the United States to wife Kitty..
but Kitty refused to stay or even During their honeymoon, at a to stake a claim. She moved on spot, alongside the lonely Batavia another two miles, built herself It is thought, however, that the River, the husband picked up a, a bark hut, and lived there for first shipment of foodstuffs sche- lump of gold. To-day the town seven years, eating the bush foods du'ed to leave the United States, of Plutoville stands on the spot. and whatever the miners gave for France will not be held up.
Meanwhile, the Columbia. One of the richest claims was her until the was persuaded to go taked by the couple and register- to Lockhart River. Mission Station. Broadcasting Corporation reports Lud-in the name of a white friend... There she still lives, pensioned interception of a message that Ad- Government miral Darlan's threat to convoy For some years. Kitty was by the Queensland the only woman on the gold- as the only woman in the world French ships has already been put
She worked from dawn' to have discovered goldfeld in operation. to dusk, wielded pick and shov-1 To-day her find on the Batavia It is stated that a big French el, tolled underground, raised River Is un Important mining vessel has left French West Africa buckets of ore and did her share centre. More thon £300,000 for Casablanca under an escort of of washing for gold.
worth of gold las been taken, units of the French Navy.---Inter- Pluto and his friends spent the from it.
national News Service.
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