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ENCOURAGEMENT TO THAIS
Situation "A Little Better"
Atmosphere CANADA TAKES
RED AIR
FORCE BOMBS Still One
BERLIN
Moscow radio yes-
that
terday stated Russian 'planes were over Berlin on Thurs- day night and that a number of incendiary bombs were dropped.
All the Soviet 'planes returned safe- ly.----Reuter.
YUNNAN
DEFENCE MOVES
Of Suspense
“A LITTLE BETTER” IS HOW DIPLOMA- TIC QUARTERS IN BANGKOK YESTERDAY | GUARDEDLY DESCRIBED THE JAPANESE- THAI SITUATION OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS.
These quarters are of opinion that the statements of Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr. Anthony Eden have encouraged the Thais but emphasise that the atmosphere is still one of suspense.
Provided the slight im-
provement in the situa- JAPANESE
tion is maintained they believe it not be
too rash to hope that this SPOKESMAN'S
storm will blow over in
Persistent Japanese re- the same way as the re- Netherlands East ports of Sino-British cent
a military agreement, were Indies storm, though the are not exactly denied in well-informed two quarters in Chungking parallel. yesterday.
MILDNESS
"All Japanese ships for the United States have been stopped and there is Meanwhile, Luang Vichit no fresh development," a Vathakarn, prominent member of The reports had probably arisen the Thai Cabinet, told the press Japanese spokesman told pre-in Bangkok yesterday that foreign correspondents in parations along the borders of "Thais will fight to the last drop Kwangsi and Yunnan which had of their blood to preserve their Tokyo yesterday. been going on since the Japan-national ese occupation of Northern Indo- whichever direction China, which is regarded as amay come." threat to China's south-west pro- vinces.
from the Chinese, military
It is pointed out that the pre- sence of high Chinese military leaders in Yunnan is for the pur- pose of supervising the defence arrangements and the destruction of the roads near the frontier, where the Chinese forces are ready to meet any eventuality.
independence,
the
Determined On Neutrality
PRECAUTIONS ON PACIFIC COAST
All necessary pre- cautions were being taken on the Cana- dian Pacific coast in view of the Far Eas- tern tension, Colonel Ralston, Dominion Defence Minister, de- clared in Ottawa yes- terday.
The 6th Canadian Division of the active Army was now being mobilised, he added. -Reuter.
Japanese
Troops In Saigon
Mr. Hull Replies To Axis
A statement that Ger- many was looking with longing eyes to the Wes- tern Hemisphere for fur- |ther conquests was made. by Mr. Cordel! Hull, Unit- ed States Secretary of State, at his press con- ference yesterday.
He added that Japan alone was responsible for any encirclement of herself in the Pacific:
Mr. Hull was commenting on the statements by the official spokesmen in Berlin and Tokyo in which the former referred to the German campaign to expo90 President Roosevelt's "ruthless power politics" in Latin-America and the latter asserted that Great. Britain, China, the United States and the Netherlands were encir- cling Japan.
Mr. Cordell Hull described the Berlin claim as a "trans- parent piece of propaganda which would, not deceive any country in the Western Hemis- phere."
It came, he added, from group representing a government which had ruthlessly seized
IT IS UNDERSTOOD IN SAI-countries in Europe.-Reuter. GON THAT TWO-THIRDS OF cUPATION
OC-
THE AGREED- JAPANESE
FORCES HAVE
ALREADY ARRIVED IN THAT
CITY AND THE REMAINDER ARE DUE INSIDE A WEEK.
POLISH MISSION.
IN MOSCOW
15
ar-
A Polish military mission from He added, however, that Japan attack might consider reciprocating If The Japanese are arranging to rived in Moscow yesterday, head-
American vessels
for establish sailed
permanent efficiented by the famous General Bohusz Japan.
landing base in Saigon.-Reuter. Szyszko; says Reuter.
He declared the
Govern- ment was determined to main tain strict neutrality. What the Thai press thinks of the utterances of Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr. Eden on the Japanese-
A complete understanding, it Thai crisis can be gauged by the is stated, exists between the fact that the majority of the Central - Government .and the Thai morning papers hit up, the
No oil had been received from the United States since the freez- ing of Japanese assets but, the spokesman added, trade relations | between Japan and the Nether- lands East Indies were "more or less hopeful."- Reuter.
RUSSIAN
Yunnan Provincial authorities statements with front-page strea- RELATIONS
regarding the defence arrange-
mento Reuter.
TURKISH DEFENCES
The Turkish Government is to widen the scope of the law pro viding for a state of siege in the pren of the Dardanelles and Tur- kish-Thracembe
mers.
Meanwhile from opposite press WITH U.S.
quarters in Singapore yesterday.
came a. demand for a stronger. FEDERATES A Anglo-American attitude towards THE RECENT EXCHANGE OF Japan and, on the other hand, NOTES BETWEEN MR. SUM- Japan is urged to be prudent. NER WELLES AND M. The "Straits Times," demand- OUMANSKY, SOVIET AMBAS- ing that the United States and SADOR IN WASHINGTON, IN- Britain should announce forth- DICATES A RAPPROCHEMENT with they are willing immediate-BETWEEN THE UNITED ly to go to the aid of Thailand, STATES AND THE SOVIET BUT writes:
DOES NOT MEAN THAT A PACT OF FRIENDSHIP HAS Would Avoid War BEEN CONCLUDED.
| This statement' was made... by.
A special court martial is to be "WAR IN THE PACIFIC WILL M. Lozovsky. Deputy-Chief of estabhed in Ankara to deal with BE AVOIDED FROM THE MO- the Soviet Information Bureau, cases of treason and spring-MENT THE BRITISH AND replying to a question at his Reuter
AMERICANS MAKE IT ABUN- press conference, says Moscow DANTLY CLEAR TO JAPAN radio
ENEMY DISPERSED
IN LIBYA
THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO M. Lozovsky added: "The ex- WAGE WAR AGAINST HER" change of Notes shows the United The Japanese-owned "Singa States has decided to give econo- pore Herald, frequently, the mic aid to the Soviet Union-in Yesterday's Middle East com- mouthpiece of the Japanese her struggle against armed aggres munique briefly stated: "In Libya authorities, says it would be sion. This assistance results from our patrols in the frontier" area "madness! for the Japanese to the common cause of the two shelled and dispersed smally par attempt to move southward either countries that of destroying, Hit- 2012: MOTOBLOTTEROBter ; ng Blangal Thang Regter, (leris ce and for all—Router.
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