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VICHY'S BETRAYAL DISAVOWED BY GEN. DE GAULLE
A COMPLETE DISAVOWAL of "agree- ments" between the Vichy Government and Germany is contained in a declaration by General de Gaulle to the British Government and the chiefs of Allied Governments in Lon- don.
It states that the Vichy "government' hor placed itself in a position which deprives it- self of all independence with regard to the invader.
The source
of the Vichy so called government lies exclusive- ly in the person of an old man
U.S. AND FRENCH
1 who for many years had been known to be enfeebled by age.
declaration continues: France cannot and
The "Firstly must not be held responsible for acts supposedly committed In her name by rulers who usurped power and subjected themselves to the enemy. "Secondly the French nation is continuing the war by means of all her military forces and ter- ritories outside enemy control, and should therefore be consider- ed a belligerent nation by all THE U.S. SECRETARY OF
slates and as an ally by those STATE, MR. CORDELL HULL, TOLD HIS PRESS CONFERENCE who fight the common enemies." YESTERDAY THAT NO CON- SULTATIONS WERE
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A n R.A.F. pilot, who had been wound- ed was about to go on sick leave when a a warning came to his squadron.
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PRETENDED TO BE A POLICEMAN
How a man impersonat- ing a Police officer, threatened to pull down huts in Kowloon Tong, was related before Mr. H. C. Macnamara this morning, when Yim Chi- man, 26, appeared on three charges of imper- sonating a Police office.
Tsang Wai-keung, one of the three complainants. testified that accused came to his hut about 3 p.m. on Sunday, and explained to witness that he was a police- from the Shamshuipo Police Station to pull down the
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Accused went to another hut and told second complainant, Pang Fung, 28, a woman, a similar story, adding that the problem could be settled on payment of $5 to the interpreter as "tea money."
Accused visited the third hut and repeated the same story Lo Chau Royal 35, woman. Yeung Choi, 32, Royal Engineer, husband of second complainant, overheard the conversation, came out and took accused to the Police Sta- tion.
Accused, who has a previous conviction, was fined $50, от а month's hard labour on each charge, the sentences to run con- secutively.
Detective Sergeant A, Shaw was in charge of the case.
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The Thai Government official- ly contradicted another Tokyo Radio assertion that the British authorities in Bangkok have protested to the Thai Government against the report of a Thai- Russian agreement for the ex change of Thai ores and rubber for Russian oil.-Reuter,
TAXATION DOUBLED
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