THE CHINA MAIL, APRÍL 26, 1941.
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AXIS FORCES IN GREENLAND!
The Possibility Announced In Washington
President Not
Yet Ready To Give Order For Convoys
BATTLE WITH THE NIGHT BOMBER
over
Britain
One hundred enemy aircraft have so far been shot down this month and round the coast, it is officially on nounced. Seventy five of these destroyed at night. Reuter.
were
British Loan To China
A Sino-British agree- ment is about to be signed allocating £5,000,000 for stabilising Chinese cur- rency.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT that it was pos- sible that Greenland has been partly occu- pied by Axis forces caused a sensation in Washington yesterday at President Roose velt's press conference.
The President added that he had no de- finite information on the matter, and he re- plied in the negative when asked whether the occupation might be by Fifth Columnists.
He said that the United States was taking steps to counteract any occupation of tireenland and he hoped that there would be "no further act of aggression."
time He added that it was the Administration gave Ameri
the ca the facts and then took lead instead of following public opinion.
It is necessary to protect there
President Rooseve't also deslupments by what the naval am! clared at the conference that military experts consider the most American neutrality patrols effective method.— Reuter, would operate "as far into the waters of the seven stas" до may be necessary for the fence of the Western Hemia- phere.
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The United States was not thinking of escorting convoys of merchantmen at this time, the President added. He declined to be drawn inte specifle comments designed to amplify his views on convoys, but said that for a year and a half neutrality putrol ves sels had been operating as far as a thousand miles from the Atlan- tic eastern shore.
a convoy.
extended and would
Patrol And Convoy The Maryland patrol, he said. had been continue to be extended from Time to time. He emphatically declared that the patrol was not The President defined a convoy British experts in banking er- as escorting merchantmen in a eles in London opine that further group to protect them from ag- allocation of funds by both thegression, He defined a patrol as
Govern- British and American
a reconnaissance of an area to ments to stabilise the Chinese cur- find if there were any aggressive rency will have the following fav-ship entering or approaching the ourable effects upon China:
re-
First, it will considerably inforce the exchange reserves the Chinese currency;
Secondly, the uncontrolled de- preciation of the Chinese dollar need not be expected in the near. future;
in
Thirdly, it will enable the American and British banks Shanghai to take over such official activities as were previously cen- tred in the Chinese Government banks, whose offices in Shanghai have been temporarily closed as a consequence of terrorist acts. thereby enabling China to reassert control.---Central News,
SOUTH-EAST COAST TOWN BOMBED
THERE WAS LITTLE ENEMY ACTIVITY OVER BRITAIN YES-
TERDAY.
One bomber dropped bombs on a town near the south-east coast causing a number of casual, ties and some damage.
Subsequently, the bomber was
shot down
tish fighters,
HONEYMOON
'PLANE IN
DOG-FIGHT
Mat Show at the Mrs. Ronald organised
the
The Ministry of Shipping is running a Ritz Hotel in ald of the Naval Comforts Fund.
has Shipping. Cress, wife of the Minister of Ehow. Photo shows Lady Marguerite Strickland, daughter of
of the latest creations.
the Earl of Darnley, wearing one (Copyright, Fox).
POLYGAMY NEUTRALITY WAS RIGHT SHE SAYS
PACT
RATIFIED
MODERN MARRIAGE IS A MUCH WORSE ARRANGEMENT THAN THE POLYGAMY ONCE PRACTISED BY THE MOR-
THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN MONS, SAYS MISS MAURINE
RATIFIED THE WHIPPLE,
AU-YESTERDAY AMERICAN Three hours after 22-THOR, WHO IS A MEMBER OF NEUTRALITY PACT BETWEEN THE CHURCH OF THE LATTER SOVIET RUSSIA AND JAPAN years-old Irene Tulloch DAY SAINTS, AS THE MOR-AND APPROVED OF THE RE- LATIVE DECLARATION SIGN- had become Mrs. Noel L. MONS CALL THEMSELVES.
ED IN MOSCOW BY THE PLEN- Costain, she and her 25- To understand what 1 mean | [POTENTIARIES OF BOTH years-old bridegroom you have to look back to the be- POWERS, ACCORDING TO THE
ginnings of polygamy," she said MOSCOW RADIO. watched the honeymoon "The Mormons didn't have more
On the Soviet side, the Presi- 'plane they were awaiting than one wife Just for the fun of dlum of Supreme Soviet U.S.S.R.,
--some people do to-day.
ratified the Pact in Moscow. mixed up in a dog-fight|
the "The women outnumbered
The announcement added that over a north of Scotland men by four to one because of the Pact comes into force as from plagues and wars. Brigham Young district.
(the Mormon leader) was faced with the problem of having dozens of useless old maids, and he turn- ed
30 to polygamy as economic
ful arrangement that it has been held up to be all these years. experiment, hot as a sex sensation,
"Don't think I advocate poly- "Marriage to-day is taken light- would be gamy. There is no necessity for ly. Such an attitude
Mor-
They watched the machine that was to take them away dodging bullets and
'planes as duelling Western Hemisphere.
President Roosevelt attacked Spitfires attacked a formation of American appeasers at the con- German lighter-bombers,
A few ference and named Colonel The civil plane landed.
the air battle Lindbergh. He indicated that minutes later, as the United States Army has veered seawards, the newly-weds not recalled Lindbergh to ac- were in the air on their way to tive duty because of his views Birminghain, ол the international
situation.
The bride's only comment was: "This is a thrilling start for our) Col. Knox's Speech | honeymoon."
He said:
With them was the best man. Two points emerge clearly Mr. Stanley G. Costain, the bride- from the speech of Colonel
groom's elder brother. Knox, Secretary for the Navy:It was pretty lively but Irene was in the opinion of observers in
not a bit scared." Washington,
"She was more
worried about The points are that the United
whether our machine was all right States navy will decide to convoy materials in Britain and that as and how many Nazis the Spitfire As we flew far as Washington is concerned, pilots shot down. Russia is considered to be in the south we saw the tail end of the Axis camp because she is assist-battle still going on."
"Shc ing the Japanese to become more menacing towards the United
States in the Pacific.
The speech is regarded as the delivered by most outspoken
Cabinet any member of the Apart from President Roosevelt since the beginning of the war.
Clear Indication Doubtless. public reaction
to
Another passenger sald: was absolutely indifferent to the danger."
Mr. Costain is the son of Mr. G. W. Costain, Birmingham con- sulting engineer. The father said: "My son has been stationed in the north with the Air Ministry There he met Miss Tuloch."
into the sea by Bri- this exceedingly plain speaking CURFEW ORDER. IN
Afr Ministry communique.
Reuter.
according to an will guide the President in mak- ing his next public announcement which is likely, to be fairly soon. Colonel Knox's statement that "we cannot allow our goods to Testing the new Bell Airacobra be sunk in the Atlantic. We (P.39). Pilot Andrew McDonough shall be beaten if we do" is re- gave it a final power-dive over garded as the clearest Indication Buffalo Airport.
that convoys are coming
Mr. Willkle Favours
Instrument readings recorded on a fixed movie film showed that hour, P.30 had hit 620 miles an fastest speed ever attained by મ man-controlled machine.
Pilot and machine were check- ed in as perfectly sound.
*.
Convoys
"It is no use speeding up pro- duction here if our supplies for over there are to rest
at
AHMEDABAD
Curfew has been imposed at Ahmedabad, between
7 p.m. and 5.30 a.m., as a consequence of the (recent communal rioting.
Sit
The Governor of Bombay, R. Lumley, warned citizens that action will follow the sternest further breaches of the pence.- Reuter.
London has 242 police horses the and, although they, ato. regularly. Mr. on duty, not one of them has been
at hurt in air. raids. They are on the more worried. by guns and bombs than by cheering crowds and brass
Under new B.B.C. plan thirty- bottom of the ocean," said three different languages will be Wendell Willkie in a speech broadcast on six, separate wave- Pittsburgh, commenting lengths for a total of 54 hours earlier speeches of Colonel Knox
and Mr. Cordell Hull. every day.
bands.
no
it
yesterday. Reuter.
it to-day. But while it had its considered sinful by the faults it wasn't the evil, unlaw-'mons."
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