THE CHINA MÁIL JULY 1941
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Allied Forces Remain On Guard During Armistice
Signing Expected In 24 Hours
AFTER THE TERMS OF THE SYRIAN ARMISTICE HAS BEEN INITIALLED, THE RE- PRESENTATIVES OF BOTH THE BRITISH AND VICHY GOVERNMENTS
REFERRED
BACK TO THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERN- MENTS, IT WAS OFFICIALLY STATED IN CAIRO LAST EVENING.
Result of the final decision is still await- ed, and meanwhile the military standstill in Syria continues.
Though the boom ef
artillery and the crack of KWANGTUNG
machine-guns in Syria
has given way to a peace- COASTAL TOWNS
ful stillness, the Allied;
forces remain in a state RETAKEN
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MR. CHURCHILL
TO BROADCAST
a
It was officially an- nounced in London yesterday that speech by the Prime Minister at a public luncheon to-day will be broadcast in the B.B.C. home service.
The speech is ex- pected to begin same- time between 11.55 a.m. and 12 10 p.m. G.M.T.-Reuter.
U.S. ARMY SERVICE
Unless selective service trainees are retained in Tunglung and Cheunglam, south-east Kwangtung coastal service beyond the pre- towns, have been recaptured by the Chinese.
of constant vigilance, and gunners continue to stand by their positions.
It is generally expected that the
be signed armistice will
within al the next 24 hours, and the cites: slaughtered many civilians on the of the terms will be that the Allies way, retired to their warships an- will take over Syria both poin-chored off cally and militarily.
Last night the lights of Bernt blazed down the coast while The beams of the Beirut lightnews swung across the Lea
Return To Normal
business
mcn
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News.
alleged, plundered
and
The Japanese, who, sent limit of one year, the de- outlying American fence bases cannot adequately manned.
the coast.-Central
RUSSIANS DETAINED
be
This opinion is understood to have bren expressed by the United States Army Chief of Staff, General Marshall, to Con- gressional leaders.
He is reported to have said that
additional service
large
numbers of
to be brought August because
With the prospect of norma!!
INDO-CHINA THE FRENCH conditions being reestablished in GOVERNMENT HAS DETAINED | unless Syria in the near future, mer-ALL SOVIET NATIONALS authorised, chants ind
inSINCE THE
OF troops will have SEVERANCE Palestine, many of whom had DIELOMATIC RELATIONS BE- from Hawaii in branches in Syria, arc looking TWEEN VICHY AND SOVIET of the approaching expiration of forward to an early resumption RUSSIA, ACCORDING ΤΟ A their spell of 12 months, and that for some time to come the army of businces relations.
TRANS-OCEAN REPORT, Similarly it
About 800 Communists who are will have to maintain virtually a service" between the that the summer resort. among not Soviet
to "shuttle nationals are said
may be assumed
Lebanon's cedar-clad mountains have also been detained.--Central | mainland and offshore bases.
which
annually attract many News.
thousands of visitors from Egypt.
Iraq and Palestine ure anticipht-
ing a busy season which is due to start shortly.
Dentz's Full Powers
A
clear statement that General Dentz has full powere to sign whatever armistice terms he thinks fit, at any time he chooses, was issued by the Vichy news agency.
The fact that he "preferred" to seek advice from Vichy on "cer- tain technical points," agency, "makes no difference to the situation."
adds the
The statement explains thal
when the Government "refused to London, it gave General Dentz fuli
consider the terms presented by
whatever deci- power to make sions he judged necessary from the military point of Reuter.
view." --
ANTI-FASCIST INDIAN BODY
.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ANTI-FASCIST AHL- INDIAN TRADE UNION COUNCIL WAS ADOPTED AT A CONFERENCE YESTERDAY OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF 30 TRADE UNIONS OF BOMBAY CITY.
to
The objects of the Council will be to assist the world Democratic alliance against Fascism and achieve the effective and conscious participation of workers in the war effort of India.-Reuter.
GENERALISSIMO'S CONDOLENCES
General'asimo"
Reuter,
GERMANS BEGIN TO LEAVE FREE CHINA
THE FIRST GROUP of three Germans, including Wilhelm Trendel, manager of the Transocean News Agency, F. Otto, Wolfe re- presentative, and possibly ·the manager of the D.N.B., will leave Chungking for Lung- chow, on the Kwangsi-Indo-China ́ border, to-day by trucks supplied by the China Auto- mobile Company, Sino-German concern.
The second group consisting 135 DOWN
chielly of German merchants will
is
will
IN WEEK
leave on July 17 by 'plane for
accommodation Kunming if available. Otherwise, they go by truck.
25.
will
leave
by
For the fourth succes- The last group of German
enemy air| evacuees, mostly members
or sive week the German Embassy in losses in all theatres of Chungking
Eastern *plane for Kunming on July war, except
Europe, have topped the It is understood that all Ger-century mark,
newsmen and A total of 135 aircraft was man diplomats, merchants, including employées destroyed last week-22 qvor Bri- of the Eurasia Aviation Corpora-tain and 82 over Germany and tion, will withdraw from. Free German-occupied territory, China, while all missionaries will-Axis and Vichy bombers and ing to remain may stay, as dur-nighters in the Middle East and ing the first World War.
one brought down by the Navy,
30
For the evacuation of 50 Ger- The R.A.F. lost 100 planes, man nationals in Yunnan,. mostly | Widespread day and night|| Chiang Kai-missionaries and employees of the raids. over Germany and occupt- shelt yesterday sent a telegram Eurasia Aviation Corporation, Dr. ed territory cost 85, but eight of the pilots are safe, and 11 machines of condolence to the family of Heinrich Northo, head Loh-Fel Pak-oong, founder of Germany Embassy office In falled to return during the Middle the Chung Hwa Book Company, Kunming, has come to Chungking East operations. who passed away recently in to negotiate with the Ministry of Not one plane was lost in the Hong Kong. Central News, · Foreign":"Affairs.-Central News.defence of Great Britain.-Reuter.
ANOTHER HOSPITAL HIT~Another hospital was hit/In
nurses busy salvaging in the wreckage.
a recent London raid.
with
Here is a view of the damaged wards
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