THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
OFFICER! WHICH THAT WAY! 50%
WAY IS IT TO
FORTY-SECOND
STREET?
DOWNTOWN!
RESTAURANT
OFFICER, CAN YOU TELL ME WHICH WAY IT IS TO FORTY-SECOND
STREET?
THAT WAY! UPTOWN!
WELL, I'LL BE -- I WAS JUST UP THERE AND THE COP ON 50TH ST. SAID IT WAS
·DOWNTOWN!
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By BUD FISHER-
FIBBER!
Free French Give Warning About
FEEBLE
VICHY EXCUSE
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]
In a feeble effort to justify the surrender of bases in Indo-China to Japon, the Vichy spokesman yesterday claimed that there had been no response a year ago to the Indo- China petition for
United States protec- tion. International
News Service.
Indo-China
"FREE FRANCE will never recognise ces- sions in French colonies to which the Vichy Government has agreed," says a statement issued yesterday by the Direction of Political Affairs of Free France, referring to the agree- ment with Japan concerning Indo-China.
The statement, issued in London, declares that the agreement delivers Indo-China in advance to the Japanese, and expresses the indignation of the French people as regards "this fresh squandering of the national herit-
age.
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The statement recalls that in March, General de Gaulle and the Council of Defence of the French.] Empire declared that any cession by Vichy, particularly in the case sovereignty of Indo-China, would be sidered null and void.
con-
It then continues: "The Vichy Government decided to fight the Free French and the British In Syria. In Indo-China they
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has al- "Japanese 'protection' ready cust France effective over Tonkin last territories and vast of Cambodia and Laos ceded to Siam in March."
September
Instrument of Axis
After declaring that Vichy has used the Japariese intervention as a pretext for trying to incite French public opinion against Britain and China, the statement says:
The new cession takes place the very day following Marshal Petain's solenn undertaking to defend ยง territories of the French Empire.
"Vichy has never ceased, voluntarily or otherwise, to be an instrument of the Axis. "COMPARISON OF THE
VICHY ATTITUDE IN INDO- CHINA AND SYRIA FURNISHES PROOF OF THIS.
"The alleged sovereignty of the Vichy Government is no anything more than
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Soviet
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The latest Soviet air hero
is Sergeant-Pilot Tomin who single-handed tackled 10 German 'planes.
Eight Nazi JU 88 Bombers es-! corted by two Messerschmitt fight- approaching a Soviet ers were aerodrome.
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Tomin-flow Into battle. poured machine-gun bu:lets into the Nazi bombers and all the bombers and one of the Mea- Borechmitts fled.
Tomin desperately hung onto the tail of the remaining Mcs- serschmitt, getting nearer and nearer. In despair the Nazi pilot overturned his plane and fell to the ground.-Reuter.
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