AUSTRALIA
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.
PREPARED
STOP PRESS
Japan Encroachment And Infiltration
Sydney Speech By Minister Of War
HEAVY RAID
ON SUEZ
CANAL ZONE
An
were
official com- munique issued in Coiro states: "Air raid alarms sounded last (Sun- day) evening by the Governorates
and several provinces of Egypt. Bombs were dropped in the Suez Canal area, causing the death of seventeen people and injuring 58. Slight damage was done to property.'
-British Wireless.
INTERIM DIVIDEND BY H.K. ELECTRIC
Messrs. Gibb. Livingston & Co. Ltd., agents of the Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd, mnounce that Board of Meeting of the Directors held this morning ab
at a
Interim Dividend of 40 cents per share was declared in respect of ended 30th June
MR. P. C. SPENDER, Australian Minister for War, in a speech in Sydney yesterday, said that Australia was looking at the rising ten- sion in the Far East with calm but determined
eyes.
"Our most earnest endeavour is to pre- serve peace in the Pacific, but we are not pre- pared to give up, at the gunpoint, the inter- ests and imperial possessions which is our joint responsibility to guard, nor see them whittled away by stealthy encroachment and infiltration.
to
"Indo-Ching, Malaya and Thal- land are as close neighbours. (Australia as to Japan.
"We look with misgiving on the arrival of Japanese forces in Indo-China
"Indications are not lacking that Japan intends going even further. The talk by Japan of protection is only a cynical pretext for unblushing aggres
■lon.
"Australia, it necessary. will give ringing proof that she means to control her destiny. The ninety thousand Australian troops already abroad will be substantially creased.
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the weakness of the
The New Zealand Prime
The newspaper declares "there]
ist view regarding the future Minister, Mr. N. Fraser, is certainly no need for an alarm- is dangerous to ignore has cabled to Wellington it stating that the United signs."
Examining these signs, the Kingdom has agreed to newspaper says "the only com- population buy for the duration of fort about the present situation is Japanese Americans, the war, and for a year home front which is in no condi- after that, New Zealand's tion to stand the strain of a war against Great Britain, the Nether- linen-flax
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EXCHANGE CONTROL OFFICE
The Exchange Control Office moved into its new home this morning when the Department's business was, for the first time, conducted in the north- west corner of the main hall of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Mr. D. Kelvin Stark, Assistant' (Exchange). Financial Secretary in: an interview with: the "China' Mail" said that, as a result of the change-over, the smoothworking of the Department has been greatly facilitated. • -:
"The work is progressing very satisfactorily. It is like being in apart a new climate hero, but from that, I am afraid I have been much too busy to be able to give any sort of statement," he said, adding, however, that he would
At a meeting held in the Peninsula Hotel of the Eva- ruation Representation Com- mittee it was decided to send a letter to the Senior Unofficial Member of Legisla-. tive Council placing the post- tion before him of the hus- bands in all its aspects, moral,
financial etc; physical,
and instructing him to place the whole before the Council. It having come to the Commit- tee's notice that women are still entering the Colony under one pretext or another, certain names were given to The Hon. Secretary by a Mem- ber of Committee and en- quiries are in progress.
Fifty-two Japanese planes raided Hunan and Kwangsi towns yesterday. Nine enemy 'planes came over Hengyang, dropping a number of bombs, while the rest attacked Chenhsien, Lelyang, Kiyang, Yangshiutan and Kweilin in separate groups. Central News Service.
A 35-year-old Chinese sol- dier made a successful escape from Argyle Street Internment Camp shortly after 6 o'clock this morning.
The belief that if the United
China, States, Britain and Soviet Russia make the economic blockade against Japan watertight, Japan will ⠀⠀ collapse economically expressed by Dr. Quo Tai- chi yesterday.-Central News,
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