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OFFENSIVE PETERING OUT? Russians Report Quieter Day
Japanese NAVAL PROBLEMS Brigade IN THE PACIFIC Transfer
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The Chinese military! spokesman in Chungking| declared to-day that brigade of Japanese troops has been transfer- red from Shanghại.
Meanwhile numerous rallway cars are concentrated at Hsu- chowfu for the withdrawal of troops either to Tientsin, en route to Manchuria, or to Nanking, he added.
The spokesman said that. evidently, the Japanese are still uqdecided whether to
move
pending a decision on a definite State policy.-International News Service,
ICKES RETORTS
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IN HIS LETTER TO PRESI- DENT ROOSEVELT, IN WHICH HE DEMANDED AN APOLOGY FROM SECRETARY OF INTER- IOR HAROLD ICKES FOR HIS SPEECH ATTACKING HIM, MR. CHARLES LINDBERGH OFFER. ED SUGGESTIONS FOR A COM-
INVESTIGATION PLETE
HIS ACTIVITIES.
OF
Meanwhile Mr. Ickes replied by demanding that Lindbergh give back his German medal, and re- peated the charge that Lindbergh is preaching "appeasement and disunity.' International News Service,
H.K. BOY
DISCUSSED
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The conference call- ed by President Roose- velt with his chief naval advisers in Washington lust even- ing is stated to have centred on naval pro- blems in the Pacific.
Nazis Only Press
In North-West Sector Of Front
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WHILE BOTH THE GERMAN AND RUSSIAN, OFFICIAL HAND- OUTS CONTINUE UNCOMMUNICATIVE, IT IS REPORTED IN MOS- COW THAT HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE REGION OF FSKOV AND PORKHOV, ON THE NORTHERN SECTOR.
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Russian quarters, however, add that there have been 'no important developments" elsewhere on the long front, though an earlier Red Army communique admitted the Ger- mans had approached Smolensk.
The conference fol- lowed a visit to the White House by Mr. Sumner Welles, Un- der-Secretary of State, who handed to the President a report from Mr. Joseph Grew, Ambassador in Tokyo. Interna- tional News Service. ........................................ | Rumanian oil-fields.
A German tank battalion retreating near Rogachev was surrounded and destroyed by Red Army units, it was declared in Moscow last night, while the Red Air Force is continu- ing its devastating raids, particularly on the
KONOYE BELIEVED
TO FAVOUR QUIET
LIFE FOR PRESENT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”) SPECULATION IS running rife in Shang- hai over the Japanese Cabinet resignations,
ESCAPES though informed quarters predict there will THE HUNS Prince Konoye, the Premier, is expected
be no immediate change in foreign policy,
THE RECENT CABLE AN-
to select "unknowns," which would permit NOUNCEMENT THAT A HONG the Government to coast for several months SON OF MR. AND MRS. G. C. until the international situation is clarified.
KONG BOY, ALBERT "MO99,
MOBS, HAD BEEN POSTED AS "MISSING"" AFTER GOING TO
.Reports of imminent
drives
in
GREECE WITH THE AUSTRA: against Indo-China and Siberia
· LIANG, HAS BEEN FOLLOWED continue but they overlook the BY THE HIGHLY GRATIFYING logical possibility of a dummy NEWS THAT HIS NAME HAS Cabinet marking time until BEEN STRUCK OFF THE LIST favourable opportunity to jump Konoye's reappointment indicates OF "MI88ING."
No details have been received, but it appears that Moss, who is the youngest son of the former Superintendent of the HK. Fire Brigade, made his escape and has since rejoined his unit in Egypt
'a' Chungking
rapprochement with Japan, and believe the Army will lead the now Cabinet In Tokyo. Competent Chinese circles
think that Prince
Japan's policy of watchfulness is Washington, however, unchanged, and that Japan will diplomatic: offiolala are posal! neither immediately drive south mistic over
possible nor launch a northward attack,
off the fence.
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Watchful Waiting
before the Senate: Military Com-
The fact that Prince Konoye mittee yesterday, hinted at the has again been asked by the rosaibility of an attack on the
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Emperor to form a Cabinet re- flects the Palace agreement with the Konoye policy of watchful waiting.
Time Limit S
Given
General George. Marshall, Chiel
the US Army General Staff, | in the course of his testimony,
He said that legislation keeping draftees in Lie Army should be enacted by August 1, or else, the Chungking circles awalt 'the' Army would have to withdraw new Cabinet list before making troops" from Alaska and Hawail further comments-International
International Nows Service, * News Service....
Sulina, Tulcea, Saccea and Ploesti, the centres of the Rumanian oil industry, have all gain been subjected 20 intense aerial bombardment.
The Naz's, meanwhile, are making their usual grandiose claims, latest being the capture of Smolensk, Kishinev and Polotsk.
The Germans also claim that five Ruenian counter-attacks in the Klev area have been re- pulsed.
All Precedent According to Berlin circles
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TOKYO'S NEXT FOREIGN MINISTER?
It is reliably report- ed in Tokyo to-day that Admiral Teijiro Toyoda, Commerce and Industry Minister in the former Konoye Cabinet, is likely to be appointed Foreign Minister in the new Government. Reu-
ter,
Admiral Toyoda is said to have pro- American leanings.
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