THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 29, 1941.
JAPANESE BUSINESS IN COLONY ALMOST AT A STANDSTILL
THE JAPANESE Foreign Office has not yet communicated with the Japanese Consulate- General in Hong Kong in regard to the Hong Kong Government's freezing of Japanese credits in the Colony, it was officially learned from Mr. S. Kimura, Japanese Consul, this morning.
A visit to Japanese banks and some of the chief and bigger business concerns in the Colony to-day disclosed that business was virtually at a standstill.
None of the focal branch offices. et Japimese firms in Japan have yet received
instructions. trom
the heat offers, and 11 was
learned that the Japanese com-
nututy preparing to hold
meeting within
the
21
next few
thys to decuss the situation
At the meeting It 4 learned,
the Japanese
cor-mimiy
denote wh ther to Tema
will
and
adopt a "want and sec" policy,!
to park up and go home. Japanese firms and individuals
experiencing difficulty in drawing money from even their own banks. permission for which must first be oblamed from the
Colonial Secretariat's Office.
From Japanese shipping circles it was learned that all Japanese shups have been diverted from routes leading to British and Am-
erican territorial waters, and that the vessels will not visit British and American ports unless the Governments give a guarantee that the ships will not be confis- cated or detained.
PERUVIAN FIGHTING
Fighting continues on the Peruvian - Ecuador frontier, according to an official communique issu- ed at Lima, Peru, yester-|
day.
It was reported from Queito on. Sunday that fighting ceased on Saturday evening. following an agreement between the two parties sponsored by the Argentine, Unit- ed States and Brazil.
FINLAND
BREAKS OFF
RELATIONS
Finland has requested the severance of diploma- tic relations with Great Britain, it is authorita- tively stated in London.
The Finnish Foreign Minister yesterday handed an aide- memoire to the British Minister at Helsinki, informing him that as Finland is a co-belligerent with Germany, normal diplomatic re- lutions between Great Britain and Finland can hardly be maintain- ed.
IT'S THAT
SONG AGAIN
The old Australian anti-Italian song about the Southern Tyrolean hero, Andrew Hofer, was sung over Deutschlandsender.
When Hitler occupi- ed Austria, the sing- ing of the song was forbidden by the Nazis so as not to annoy the Axis part-
ner.
AWARDS TO R.A.F. HEROES
Dominions airmen are
among the recipients of awards for gallantry dur-
In reply to Mr. Vereker's ques- tion as to whether this stateinent meant that Finland was requesting recent heavy raids on ing the severance of diplomatic
the Finnish Foreign cities in Western Ger- relations.
many, thrilling stories of Minister replied that this was so.
which are now told.
Reuter.
PHILIPPINE C.-IN-C.
Sergeant N. Williams, born at Dunedin, New Zealand, who re- ceives the Distinguished Flying Medal. took part in the daylight bombing of Bremen on July attacking the centre of the town a height of 50 feet, flying through balloon barrage and ex- tremely heavy A.A. fire.
at
4,
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
The aircraft received direct hits, YESTERDAY FORMALLY NOM- Williams and another member of INATED DOUGLAS MAC-the crew were wounded, but the The communique, quoted in a ARTHUR TO BE LIEUTENANT-| crew, with Williams navigating, Lima despatch to the Vichy news GENERAL IN COMMAND OF "displayed great courage and de-
UNITED STATES AND termination under agency, states that the Peruvians THE
de THE PHILIPPINES.
extremely
on Sunday recaptured the island COMMONWEALTH FORCES IN harrassing circumstances" and suc- of Matapalo, near Boca Capones
"Meanwhile, negotiations ending the hostilities continue." Reuter,
The nomination was sent to the
for Senate where Senator Claude
LORD RENNELL OF
Pepper told the Press that Presi- dent Roosevelt could make “no better selection" of a command-
ing general of the forces in this
troubled Far Eastern arca.
RODD PASSES
The Senate in Washington yes- terday confirmed without dissent The death was announced yes- President Roosevelt's nomination as Lieu- terday of Lord Rennell of Rodd, of General MacArthur who was British Ambassador in tenant-General Commanding Rome, during the last war. Lord United States Army in the Rennell, who was 82 years of age, East, thereby giving a vote spent some forty years in the confidence in the President's Far diplomatic service.-British Wire- East policy-Reuter. less.
AXIS EMBASSIES
SEALED
The German and Ita lan
Em-
bassles in Chungking were
the Far
of
ARCHBISHOP IN PALACE BOMBING
cessfully brought the aircraft back to a crash landing at the aero- drome.
a
Squadron leader R. P. Wid- dowson, Winnipeg. receives the Distinguished Flying Cross, for bringing back an aircraft which was attacked by Mosser- schmitt while returning from a raid on Muenster and was severely damaged and set on fire. Tremendous efforts were made to subdue the fire, all loose articles being jattisoned.
aircraft was Tho
successfully brought back despite reduced speed and loss of height. Sergeant M. H. Ross, Quebec, who received the D.F.M., was a gunner in a night fighter. One night last March, an enemy. bomber was intercepted but the cannons jam-. med repeatedly. Ross cleared the stoppages four times under dim- cult conditions at a height of 12,000
officially sealed yesterday follow- THE ARCHBISHOP OF CAN-feet, enabling the pilot to destroy ing the departure of the last batch TERBURY WAS AT LAMBETH the bomber. He has helped to des- two other night of Axis diplomats yesterday by PALACE WHEN IT WAS BOMB-troy at least
bombers. air for Indo-China. Central ED AGAIN RECENTLY. News,
of "The experience
Flight Lieut. H. Speke, Bloem- crashing bombs and crackling flames was fontein, gets the D.F.C. for con- operational service day and night. "Canterbury Diocesan Gazette,"
He states that five large bombs He has destroyed four and dam- The King and Queen yesterday fell in the Palace precincts. The aged at least two enemy aircraft
-British: Wireless... visited the Royal Merchant Navy library, chapel and the Old Lol- by night. School where some two hundred lards' Tower were badly damaged. boys and one hundred "girls - orphans of merchant seamen
MERCHANT: NAVY l'a trying ordeal," he writes in the tinous distinguished, successful
ORPHANS
are being educated. →→ Wireless.
British
SAVOIAS SHOT
LONDON'S AA. DOWN OFF MALTA
DEFENCES
SHANGHAI
SURPRISE ARREST
Mr. Wu Tseng-yu, Manager of the RAE fighter aircraft inter-Sung Shing Cotton Mill No 9 in |cepted two Savola 79s off Maita Shanghai, and his son Wu Chung- The Yugoslav Prime Minister yesterday and shot both down in 1, department chief of the mül, put to sea, were arrested by Japanese gen- yesterday visited part of London's flames 50 milog air defences and inspected gun. Heavy bombers again raided Beng- darmes and French Municipal and searchlight, stations. General hazl harbour during the night Police at 1.45 o'clock this morning Simovitch took lunch with the of July. 26/27: and obtained hits when the Japanese raided the Wu C-In-C. AA: Command Brion the moles and Julian Point house on Rue Pershing in the
British Wireless.
French Concession. Central News, tish Wireless,
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