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U.S.A. Appeasement Rumours .Scotched
THE INFLUENTIAL "Washington Post" declared editorially yesterday that the re- affirmation in the Hull-Quo Tai-chi corres- pondence of close ties between Washington and Chungking will scotch the reviving talk favouring appeasement of Japan at China's expense and remove whatever apprehension that may be entertained at Chungking.
The "Post" branded the appeasement talks "journalistic think pieces" which re- vived the waning spirits of the Japanese expansionists enabling Hitler's stooge to
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Catering Japan with playing both ends agated the middle, the 32 and that Japan intend to keep on explothing her nuisatier value and therefore "epox Tacom America will enable the Japanese) to talk on to their Axis Ppaper. pwn! without staying
the f off vadelmes However, Mr. Hull better the Chinese Foreign Min ander will return the Japanese to Ta state of perennial suspense
Deelarum America's pledge lo end extraterritoriality after the WHE and other as mitions of Tull the sovereignty, the paper said. plain mimation to Tokyo is that the plan to hold China in leading
strines will never have the Unit- ed States' sanction.
Should Be Decisive
acts
has
"Not until Japan shows and not words she liquidated her overweening am bition to be the mistress of Far
Aela, Eastern
lot alone the Pacific. can our Government afford any overture for sweep reasonableness,
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VICHY DENIES
BASES REPORT
Reports published abroad that six French naval bases had been set aside for joint occupation by Franco - German forces, were formally denied in authorita- tive circles in Vichy yesterday, says the official French News Agency. Reuter.
U.S. NAVY'S PART IN
Downed ANTI-SUB
Two latest fighters
were
of
Germany's CAMPAIGN
Messerschmidt
THE UNITED STATES NAVY
TIONS.
the ME 109F HAS NOT YET BEEN ABLE TO THE DETERMINE WHETHER were shot down into
EXPANSION OF THE UNITED the English Channel last STATES NAVAL PATROL HAS BUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED evening.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GER. SUBMARINE OPERA.
by This was stated yesterday Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary of Navy, in Washington.
he said, were The Germans, claiming a tremendous number of sinkings but "hitherto the British have generally been right" in con- tending that the true figures were much less than the German claims. Reuter.
They
MAN among a number by which attempted to cross the Kent coast above the cover of cloud but
tackled were
by cammon-Bring Spitüres.
One British fighter is missing. The Me 109F is a development of last year's ME 109, chief new feature being bigger engine power.
Reuter.
to
"Nothing is more calculated tart the Japanese on the rampag” than the sight of hesitațion in
Washington. The more delicate the NEW ZEALAND NEWS
situation, the more decisive
should be.
We
pledge "Mr. Hull's
tu China indeed should be accompanied by the Alling in of one notable omis- sion in the President's freside chat namely, the declaration that
Singapore is part of our stake long with Dakar and other west- ern approaches to our Continent in our scheme of aggressive de- fence
Hiller against
and his allies."
LEAK "NAZI BLUFF"
PENNY A HEAD-FOR ENEMY AIRCRAFT
A Chelmsford
Road car com- German surface raiders which
decided to give to sank many ships in the Southpany has
year had
no secret Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund Pacific last
one penny for each enemy air- information from New Zealand.
Their commanders were only craft destruyed.
to Each month a return is made of losses, whether bluffing when. they claimed
of ship-enemy aircraft prior knowledge have ping movements and were merely German or Italian, in all theatres cheque for that exercising a taste for melodrama. of war, and a
These are the Andings an-number of pennies is sent to the
in Wellington. New Secretary of the Benevolent Fund.
of a commis- This excellent lead will help Benevolent Fund to
Asserting that Japanese econo- mic conditions are worsening, the nounced "Post" added there is no doubt the Zealand, recently joining together of Britain and sion of inquiry into the sinking the R.A.F. America in comprehensive econo- of British vessels late last year. meet the increasing calls on
mic sanctions against the Axis Powers would reveal Japan's feet) of clay and puncture for all time the nonsense of her grandiose dream of a "Greater East Asia Prosperity
Sphere." Central Newe
GERMAN KULTUR AT WORK
British United Press.
Resources.
CLOTHES TO BE RATIONED IN BRITAIN
THE GENERAL system of clothes ration- ing just introduced into Britain is very much the same as the German, according to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, both being. based on freedom of spending by coupons Ignoring German and mainly having no relation to the price threats, the inhabitants paid for articles.
in the
of the Greek town of A point of difference is that shirts, Britain 9.1, Germany. 9,3; Levadia, 60 miles north-boots and shoes are not included socks, Britain 5.5, Germany 2.7 German special rules. to four, according to the material west of Athens, began whereby a permit is needed, and used.
Women's overcoats, Britain 25.5, unloading a goods train owing to the leather shortage is Germany 26.7 to 50 per cent; carrying supplies which not easy to obtain. had been seized in that
area.
As the total of coupon points stockings, Britain 3.6, Germany is different, in the two countries 2.7.
the only possible method of com- General conclusion is that the parison is by percentage of British consumer is better off in protective outer garments, in- It was, authoritatively learned coupon points available.. in Cairo yesterday that German Thus in Britain, an overcoat cluding those made of wool, and cent of total the German can obtain a larger, police opened fire, killing and needs 29.1 per wounding many, including women coupons while in Germany 373 quantity of low quality under- and children.
up to 80 per cent is needed, the wear, particularly hosiery, the Following, this incident the amour varying with the, type of latter because. Germany produces... German
ordered coat
raincoats being most of her own synthetic materi- kommandatur
quired,
al while Britain has to import the shooting of anybody attempt covered by a lower amount.
cottons and the like. ing-to-approach goods trains or
warehouses. D
to
Emergency measures have been decreed in Athens, and hundreds of citizens are being sent courts-martial there to receive the death penalty. Reuter.
Britons. Better Off
It is estimated that a British suit is likely. to last three times Other percentages are: men's as long as the German, qwing,to, three-piece suit, Britain 47.3, the superior material used Germany 56.3; woollen, shirt, Bri- only in cloth but also accessories.
British Wireless tain 14.5, Germany 18; other
not