LORD
NO
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 9, 1941..
TURNING BACK
ON PART OF JAPAN
WILLINGDON SERIOUSLY ILL
Lord Willingdon, former Governor- General of Canada and Viceroy of India, is seriously ill with double pneumonia at his London home, where his wife is in constant ottendance.
Last night's bulletin recorded a slight im- provement.- -Reuter.
ADMIRAL TOYODA'S STATEMENT
"NO ENCIRCLEMENT, WHETHER AL- READY REALISED OR IN PREPARATION, CAN TURN JAPAN ASIDE FROM THE ROAD IN WHICH SHE IS TREADING. JAPAN WILL NOT REMAIN INDIFFERENT TO ANY NEW MEASURE THREATENING HER SECURITY
AND THAT OF EASTERN ASIA,”
This statement was made by the Japan- ese Foreign Minister, Admiral Toyoda, in a written reply to a series of questions put to him jointly by the Tokyo correspondents of the official Italian and German news agen-
FAR EAST AFFECTS cies, according to a despatch published in
STOCK EXCHANGE
despite
some!
Rome yesterday.
The question to which he was in particular replying was "What are your views on the economic encirclement of Japan?"
Asked
if "the
and
The London Stock Exchange yesterday continued to maintain
political firm undertone week-end profit-taking influenced military agreement concluded be- by the Far Eastern uncertainties. | tween Great Britain and the So- to mention the Gilt-edged securities were fully viet Union, not
industrials are
States," was considered steady and
sul United moving generally upward, espe- contrary to the spirit of the Pact cially breweries, while
Japan South of Neutrality signed by American rails were again firm and the U.S.S.R., "especially after on good traffic, but home rails the last declaration of Mr. Eden," no direct and Kaffers recorded small losses Admiral Toyoda gave though they were mainly steadier answer, merely remarking it was the attitude of Britain and at the close. Foreign bonds were
which preoccupied steady, including Japanese. Wall America Street was very quiet. Reuter. Japan.
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Japan was watching the situa'ion with "extreme atten. tion" as "she cannot and will indifferent to the not remain evolution of the political and military situation which might develop in the regions which surround her."
"I take this opportunity of re- peating that the so-called Japan- ese expansion in the south is in reality a policy having a purely pacific character and aim."
Ridiculous
It was destined, Admiral Toyoda continued, to establish between Japan and the southern region, whose collaboration would be otherwise called for by ethnical and geographical reasons, relations advantageous for the whole world.
"It is simply ridiculous and in- comprehensible the
way some countries misunderstand the real intentions of Japan and make false accusations against her," Admiral Toyoda concluded. Reuter.
SUPPORT
FOR U.S.S.R.
The National Executive of the Mineworkers Federation, at a meeting in London yesterday, decided that in order to demon- strate friendship and solidarity with Russia, districts should be asked to contribute the sum of 2/6d per member to assist Rus- sian workers and miners of the Soviet Union, Reuter.
NEWS PICTURES FROM MOSCOW
Arrangements have been ‚com- pleted by the new Minister of In- formation, Mr. Brenden Bracken, for wirelessing news pictures direct from Moscow to London, says a Reuter telègram.
AMERICANS LEAVE
SAIGON
The liner "Marechal Joffre"!'left Saigon for Manila yesterday carry- ing 52 American evacuees, prin- cipally missionaries-Reuter.
The prefix "spacialę to telegrame is Jured by the Sunday Herald" and "China. -Mäli” to indiosta. news which is strictly copyright under the provi |sions of the Telecommunications..., OK dinance, 1930, and may not be reprint" Ad under any circumstances, alther wholly, or in part, without prior ar rangement,
STOP PRESS
Despite Germany's an- nouncement that the Smol- ensk battle has been victor- iously concluded, the Berlin the "Die correspondent of Tat" of Zurich writes that further German progress to- wards Moscow depends "how far the Red Army able to bring fresh reserves into the Beld. Apparently the Russians have succeeded in the technical feat of bring- ing up reserves from Asiatic Russia.
on is
"It is known that the Rug- sians dispose their strongest bodies of troops in the rural regions."
are
Germans Stating the again prophesying an early defeat of the Russian Army the correspondent adds: "It is realised that such a defeat would by no means imply the end of the Russo-German war. Even then prolonged local re- sistance on a big scale of guerilla warfare is expected. The Russian resistance has been far stronger than pected and the Bolshevik General Staff appears to oper- ate skilfully. The Russian Army has caused big sur- prises both through unexpect- ed quality
and of tenacity quantity of material."—Reu- ter.
ex-
Mrs. Hilda Selwyn-Clark, secretary of the China De- fence League in Hong Kong, arrived in Chungking yester- day morning by 'plane for a short visit. - Central News.
President Roosevelt is hav ing an "uneventful trip," says a despatch from the yacht: Potomac,
Président Roosevelt is des- cribed as having spent most of yesterday working on official napera,
The message said: "Cruise "uneventful, weather condi-
tions fair."Reuter.
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latoria, Hong Kong,
enemy
Few
aircraft flew over the Eastern coastal areas of Britain yesterday, says an, Air Ministry and Ministry for Home Security com- munique. One was shot down by R.A.F. fighters.
No bombing had been re- ported up to 8 p.m. G.M.T. on Friday.
In offensive operations over the English Channel on Thursday, the R.A.F. destroy- ed seven enemy aircraft and .not four as previously an-
nounced. Reuter.
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A Soviet communique yes- terday stated: "Our troops fought the enemy in the direc- tion of Kexholm, Smolensk, Korksten, Byelya-Tserkov and and in the Estonian sector of the front.-Reuter.
It is notified for general in- formation that permission for European British women to re-enter the Colony after
· temporary absence will norm- ally be given only to those who are members of one of the two voluntary nursing organ isations or the defence ser- vices or who are engaged on- other work directly connect- ed with the furtherance of the war effort.
Applications, for re-entry permits should be made to the Colonial Secretary, full par- ticulars of any essential work in which the applicant is en- goged being given. G
The length of time and rea- spns for which it proposed to, leave the Colony should be clearly stated. Permits in res pect of periods of absence in excess of sixteen weeks will not normally be granted;