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CHINA MAIL
FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 33,008
FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1941
Price: 10 Cte.
LATE
NIGHT FINAL
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
SECRET OFFER TO DECOUX Democratic Guarantee Ignored
BRITISH VIEW OF EVENTS
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Astounding Hanoi POSITION
Admission Of CLEAR TO Japanese Aims
The British authorities in London do not regard the Japanese move in
A PRESUMABLY INSPIRED EDITORIAL Indo-China as an imme-
IN THE HANOI DAILY, “LA VOLUNTE INDO- diate threat to Singapore.
CHINOISE," MAKES THE FIRST PUBLIC but it is believed the Ad- miralty is closely watch-REFERENCE TO THE CONTEMPLATED
GIVING AGREEMENT
JAPAN BASES IN
ing developments.
Britain is expected to appeal SOUTHERN INDO-CHINA.
to the United
Stales for econo-
mic assistance in coping with the;
situation, probably sanctions,
where the Japanese are most vul-
nerable, but only if the United States carries out parallel action
A
GOVERNMENT BRITISH
Emphasising that the agreement is not directed against any one country and that the arrangement is only "temporary,” the daily asserts that the question of French authority
SPOKESMAN SAID: THERE in Indo-China is not affected.
SEEMS NO LIMIT TO THE HUMILIATION VICHY IS PRE- PARED TO SUBMIT TO IN PUR-
The paper emphasises to the Dutch East Indies SUIT OF ITS COLLABORATION the geographical position and to Singapore!
INTERNATIONAL of Indo-China, on the way JAPANESE POLICY OF SOUTH-
POLICY."
NEWS SERVICE.
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SEVERE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE POLOTSK-NEVEL AREA, WITHOUT ANY IM- FORTANT CHANGE ON OTHER FRONTS, AND GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO BREAK THROUGH TO KIEV HAVE PROVED UNSUCCESSFUL.
Moscow radio says 10 German troopships and a tanker were sunk in the Baltic by Rus- sian destroyers, "planes and shore guns.
in
taken prisoner The Russians have captured | officers were
to Leningrad much booty on the Bessarabian the approaches
after a battle lasting several days front, it is also reported..
STATEMENT and ending in German triumph A RUSSIAN SAYS THAT FIERCE FIGHTING against numerical superiority. MUST BE EXPECTED TO CON- "In accordance with a careful TINUE SOUTH OF PRIPET FOR plan the German troops are seek- SOME DAYS,
ing to cripple the Russians beyond a major Wild German claims of suc-repair before launching cessas continue, the latèxt besweep against the Urals."
Ing, the trapping of Red forces Saljent Blunted
west of Moscow, "with
more
the
than 13,000 captured "and total Increasing hourly. ** Careful Plan”
"Thousands of troons, and high
Fulfilling A Bargain
the
IT POINTS OUT THAT THE
ERN EXPANSION CANNOT BE CONTINUED FROM SUCH DIS- TANT
AS HAINAN, FORMOSA. OCCUPIED CHINA OR JAPAN!
The
BASES
agreement, it said, reached directly between
was
Vichy
and Tokyo and was dictated by the French wish to prevent Indo- China becoming a battleground "even at the expense of certain concessions which may appear momentarily painful."
Reuter.
Significant Comment
JAPAN
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SHANGHAI RUMOUR DISPELLED
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The State Depart- ment in Washington... yesterday denied a Shanghai report that American consular officials in the Far East are packing re- cords and personal property preparatory to transfer to Manila. -International News
Service. oo
U.S. CABLE
CENSORSHIP
Mr. Sumner, Welles,
| Acting Secretary of State, revealed in Washington yesterday that the Amer. Indo- ican position on China had been conveyed to Admiral Nomura, the Japanese Ambassador.
ton
Mr. Welles, refused to comment when queried if America would impose economic sanctions.
Diplomatic officials in Washing- believe Japan is ready tu Bay, seize Salgon and Camranh
State Department with the confirming that Vichy has agreed to Japanese occupation of addi- tional territory.
not
Admiral Nomura called on Mr. Welles previous to the latter's de- nunciation of the Japanese action, seeking to justify the Japanese moves and forestalling economic reprisals by America and Britain, possibly the freezing of credits and an oil embargo.-Internation-
of
ship on outgoing cables.
the House Simultaneously Representatives Appropriations Committee revealed that the Army has greatly augmented the
(By Kenneth Selby-Walker, Reu- [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"] coastal defences and the protec- It was reported in Washington | tion of large cities by the acquisiz ter's Chief Correspondent in the Far East)
yesterday that President Roose. tion of aircraft detectors and A.A. News Ser- ask Congress guns.--International The leader in Thursday's Hanai velt will shortly newspaper **La Volunte Indo- for authority to impose a censor-vice. Chinoise" is regarded in Singapore
as the most significant comment
on the Indo-China crisis yet made
by the French or Japanese.
that south
Firetly, it states cicarly Japan
in wants bases
of Indo-China for continuation the zouthward expansion mova. ment, and hints openly at actio̟nj against Singapore and the N.E.. which Japan and Vichy godul- the outly pretended was not
сабе.
Secondly, it states categorically that the concessions were forced on the Indo-China authorities by (Continued on Page 16)
TATUTA WAITS
The Russian High: Command announces the defeat of a German mechanised regiment on the Bes sarabian frontier west of Odessa. There was, daylong fighting in the central area where the Nazis failed in their effort to drive a (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]|
Moscow.
wedge between Leningrad and The Japanese “Tatuta Red-counter-attacks blunted the Maru" is eight hours Nazi, salient aimed at Moscow-
— overdue in San Francisco.
International News Service... Intense Fighting
The belief is held that she has ISPECIAL TO "CHINA-MAIL"]
received orders from the Japanese Japan has been granted! right to station warships and Soviet communique issued Admiralty, but no information can troops at temporary, bases in yesterday afternoon states: There be obtained from the N.Y.K. Indo-China from the treaty dated was, intense Oghting throughout offices in San Francisco.. August last year, and the Japanese the night in the directions of Japanese sailings to the U.S. are merely fulfilling the bargain Porkhov, Polozk-Nevel, Smolensk were ordered halted a week ago but there has been no informa- "by defending" Indo-China and Zhitomir,
tion since, against possible attack;
p
"In other sectors there was no
It is estimated that 42 Japanese This extraordinary statement large scale activity. was made by the Vichy spokesman The Red Air Force attacked ships are constbound and 10' are yesterday. International New alchemy, mechanised units and in American territorial waters--
aerodromes," British Wireless: International News Service. Services
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