HORSE blindfold
of water Ford tot tart
mathe exhaunted
Two Helter
But find the firt berab
Thre hundred
down in one bariarks
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The War Office and the Prime Minister's office and most of the other Ministries had gone up in flames by noon of the first day Helgi ade's Trading htt
Serbuk Krul, was razed
Liar
arad
The German, Ameruat Greek Legations were destroyed
Mass Attack
Some hundred Griman plants | attacked Belgrade in the first raud Divebombers. swooped down to within 500 feet to drop their bombs. The citizens of Belgrade standing in the streets, seemed un- able to grasp that the war We al ready upon them. It was nothing less than a massacre
After a further day and night of bombing. Belgrade presented a picture of one vast inferno. confined within the angle form ed by the
the intersection of Save and Danube Rivers, Serbian fighter pilots shot down eighteen German bombers over Belgrade alone.
In the absence of anti-aircraft guns, soldiers fred at the raider: with rifles.
German Losses
As I left the city, 1 mrt Serbian troops who had received the first
STABBING IN SCHOOL
"LIMPETOCRATIC SODOM OF THE FAR EAST"
¡SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") NOW THAT the ratepayers have accept- ed the scheme for the Provisional Council, attention in Shanghai is centred upon the local Consular Body and the Chungking Gov- ernment, both of which must yet approve the scheme of "better goodwill and international cooperation.
"
Because of the strength of "Axis influ- ence" on the new Council, the approval of the Wang Ching-wei puppet government may also be asked, leading to possible friction.
Lune opposition was staged at the Ratepayers' meeting by Ranald Eagle" MacDonald, the "Lone well-known British lawyer, who ran unsuccessfully at the last efec- tion as an independent candidate For the S.M.C.
He warned his "brethren of this Mammonistic limpetocratic Sodom of the Far East" that he saw "the writing on the wall' behind them, and that "Death" wou'd be their fate if they vot. ed for the Provisional Council. He was the only one young
HOW A 14-YEAR-OLD PUPIL. OF PHI CHING SCHOOL IN! WATERLOO ROAD STABBED ANOTHER STUDENT WITH A PEN KNIFE IN THE SCHOOL agumist it COMPOUND. WAS RELATED BEFORE MAJOR A N MAC- Citing the Old Testament he FADYEN IN THE KOWLOON warned Shanghai against flying to JUVENILE COURT TIUS MORN- new masters, presumably meaning ING.
the Japanese, and recalled the au- The Boy was accused of
cient Hebrew tribe whose old flicting bodily harm upon a 16- masters "chastised then with year-old fellow student, by cut-whips" but whose new masters ting and wounding him with a "chastised them with scorpions pen knife on April 1.
The Incident occurred when Uve two were playing. The elder lad put a rope around the ¦ younger's neck so that he lost his temper, took out
Den kaffe from his pocket, and stubbed the older boy on the chest.
The injured lad was removed to St. Teresa's Hospital, and de- tained for two weeks.
Pleading guilty, the 14-year- old student was fined $75.
RED CROSS AID
TO VICHY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"
International News Service.
Council Problem
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U.S. TAX PAYERS
WARNED
United States taxpayers are to be asked to
pay $3,500,000,000 more dol- lars next year.
The Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, antoude ed yesterday that the Admumis- tration are asking for this amount of new taxes.
at
That figure, he added, was reached on the basis that least two-thirds of expenditure ought to be raised by taxation. Expenditure for the fiscal year Although just voted into office, ¦ beginning July 1 is estimated at foreign members of the provision- | 519,000,000,000. al Shanghai Municipal Council are already facing a highly delicate question, namely, the selection of the four Chinese members.
Both the pro-Chungking and the pro-Nanking bodies have sent in nominations to the Council.
"EXISTING
TAXES WILL BRING US JUST OVER $9,000,000,000 LEAVING ABOUT $3,500,000,000 SHORT OF THE AMOUNT OF TAXES WE | OUGHT TO RAISE," HE SAID. Apart from these rew taxes the Treasury will have to borrow to meet
In addition, the Nanking group S300,000,000 a month have addressed a letter to the expenditures on defence and the Council alleging that the Chung-Lend and Lease programme. king group's procedure was ille-Reuter.
gal, as their nomination was made
The American Red Cross has from Hong Kong, to which the DESERTER FINED announced that the French Line pro-Chungking Chinese Ratepay- freighters "Ile de Ray" and "Leo-ers' Association was recently] A fine of $200, or two months' pold" are leaving Stapleton, N.Y., transferred to avoid Interference | hard labour, was imposed by Mr. to-day for Marseilles with wheat, from the Japanese and from Wang H. G. Sheldon, K.C. this morn- flour and condensed milk for Ching-wei supporters;
Ing, on Wong Yun, P.C.C.807, for women and children in unoccu-- The four Chinese names men- desertion from the Force on April pied France.----International News tioned in earlier messages are not 20 last year. Service,
offcial.-Reuter.
Inspector Portaillon prosecuted.
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