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FAR EAST UNDER DISCUSSION? Roosevelt-Churchill "Meeting"
HUNDRED JAPANESE LEAVE H.K.
LESS THAN 100 JAPANESE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, HAVE LEFT HONG KONG FOLLOWING THE FREEZING
OF JAPANESE CREDITS IN
• THE
COLONY. IT WAS AUTHORITATIVELY LEARNED BY THE "CHINA MAIL" THIS AFTERNOON.
Most of them left for where they are awaiting
Canton ships
to take them to Formosa, Shang-
hai and Japan.
This morning
the Shirogane
Maru left for Canton with a full list of passengers who Included some 20 Japanese nationals, mostly women and children.
IMPORTANT MOVES IN TOKYO. EXPECTED
The British Ambas- sador
to Japan, Sir Robert Craigie, called at the Foreign Office in Tokyo yesterday afternoon.
With both Sir Robert Craigie and the American Ambas- sador, Mr. Grew, in Tokyo, important de- velopments
are ex-
pected very shortly.- Reuter.
ANOTHER INTENSE SPASM OF EFFORT BY GERMANS
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WITH BITTER fighting rising to a new
in-
Heavy Programme For President In Washington
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WHO, IN WASHINGTON, IS BELIEV- ED TO BE IMMERSED IN STRATEGIC DISCUSSIONS WITH MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AT A RENDEZVOUS SOMEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC, IS EXPECTED TO BE BACK AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO-MORROW OR THURSDAY.
According to the German-controlled radio PAI GIVEN of Paris, American defence chiefs have join- ed the President and Mr. Churchill and that a decision "regarding Japan" may be expect- COMMAND?
ed to-day.
KEY
[SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"] According to Japanese news- paper reports in Shanghai this morning, General Pat Chung-hsi has been appointed to command over some 300,000 crack Chinese troops which are being assigned
Washington officials continue to take the line that they know nothing about secret Atlantic meetings, but it is said that the Pre- sident will have some heavy work awaiting to him on his return, both in the international and national sphere.
One issue will be America's relations with Vichy.
Congress Battle
There are indications that the President Roosevelt. on his re- United States will extend direct turn, will also be confronted with Lease-Lend aid to General de other imposing problems on the Gaulle's forces in Africa If Vichy world and national fronts, in- takes any further steps in "col- cluding the task of providing
capitulation to German demands
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with
. crescendo of violence on the three main bat-laboration" with the Axis, which war aid to Russia without bring-
tlefields of Russia, expert observers are in-
is indicative because officials con- ing closer the risk of war sider that virtual complete French Japan. clined to believe that it represents the last
is imminent. tense spasm of effort by the Germans to
Reports from Vichy achieve decisive victory before the front set-given for "transport privileges" ́tles down to quiet from sheer exhaustion.
According to Berlin, in an official state- ment, the Luftwaffe has now launched an- other giant offensive on all sectors of the front, in order, they say, "to hasten the col- lapse of the last Russian resistance," but which means another desperate attempt to blast a way through for the ground forces.
Acknowledging the weight of trucks, and long transport trains. the new German onslaught, high | They claim that "Odessa is quarters in Moscow indicate that threatened with encirclement" (as fresh reserves are being thrown Kiev was five weeks ago), 'and in to stem the offensive, and that that Kiev is (still) gravely men- the German attacks are every-aced. International News. Ser- where, solidly held except in the vice. southern Ukraine, where some progress continues..
The Red Army, however, is hitting mightily at the huge Ger- man forces in this area, and-nip- ping off the Nazi mechanised spearheads systematically, with powerful flanis attacks,
On The
Verge"
Relations
With Mexico
seem to be agreed that facilities will be
a
to Germany, which in Washing- ton is regarded as opening wedge for German use of French bases for use against Britain.
Hitherto, de. Gaulle has receiv- ed his military supplies entirely from Britain.
If America breaks off diplo matic relations with Vichy, as seems highly probable, fighting 'planes, bombers, tanks and machine-guna will be supplied to the Free French forces from America in large quantities.
defence positions along the Yunnan - Indo China - Kwangsl borders.
These troops, it is further alleg- ed, will cooperate with the British forces in Singapore and Burma in the event of hostilities break- ing out.Our Own Corresdond-
ent.
In
A.R.P. IN SAIGON The Municipal Authorities Saigon are taking steps to repair and extend the present air raid shelter facilities. Reuter:
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TO STRENGTHEN THE FRIENDLY UNTIEST BETWEEN. The Daily Express' in London THE TWO COUNTRIES," IT this morning says that a resump- WAS LEARNED IN TOKYO The German statements follow, tion of Anglo-Mexican relations YESTERDAY, A their customary, tone, The Rus will be one of the first things dis- The Vichy Government has acr stans are on the verge of col-cussed when the Mexican Concepted this Japanese proposal lapse at all points, and the huge gress resumes its sessions shortly, which in the words of a Hanol Russian military forces in the Diplomatic relations were sever- official statement is in keeping Ukraine have been "split up."-ed after. Mexico had expropriated with the spirit of the joint de- Terrific Stuka attacks" have British-owned oil properties in fence of Indo-China as concluded demolished, says Dr. Goebbels, Mexico, International News Ser- between Japan and France.
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