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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 6, 1941.
GROWING UNEASINESS
REPORTED
FROM
Japanese Hints Of MARY CHURCHILL
"What Is Coming
Soon"
THERE IS A GROWING
UNEASINESS
AMONG THE THAIS OVER THE STEADILY MOUNTING INSTANCES OF JAPANESE NA- TIONALS GOING ABOUT BANGKOK DROP- PING BROAD HINTS AS TO WHAT IS CÒM- ING SOON, ACCORDING TO AN UNOFFICIAL THAI VISITOR WHO ARRIVED IN SINGA- PORE YESTERDAY.
ANOTHER TEST?
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") THE SOVIET FREIGHTER "PISCHEVAYA INDUSTRIAL" ("FOOD INDUSTRY"), ONE OF FIVE RUSSIAN VESSELS TIED UP IN SHANGHAI FOR RE- PAIRS SINCE MARCH, IS RE- PORTED TO BE LEAVING FOR MANILA SHORTLY,
The vessel is expected to load a cargo in the Philippines for Vladivostok.
It is believed another Soviel freighter is
In due
Shanghai
to Manila. International News Service,
"The Japanese strut about Bangkok as if they owned the place,” he told Reuter. "They shortly from Vladivostok en route visit restaurants, run up heavy bills and then produce Yen notes in payment and when asked to pay in Thai currency turn round and coolly assure the restaurant keepers 'Yen notes will be alright here very soon."
The visitor revealed that he personally wit- nessed at least one inci- dent at Bangkok in
N.Z. FLAX
A PRIVATE
IN THE W.A.T.S.
Mr Churchill's youngest daughter, Alary Churchill, who hitherto has been working at a large hos- pital, this week joined the Women's Auxili- ary Territorial Service as a private.
Duties of members of this service include, office driving cars, work and operating the predictor for A.A. guns. Reuter.
THAI CRIME OF
KINDNESS
The Nazis' policy punishing Germans for any act of kindness, how- ever trifling, to a Pole is applied also to the treat- ment of French prisoners.
Two German papers (the "Kas- seler Post" and the "Essener All- have report- gemeine Zeitung") ed cases in which Germans had been
four sent to prison for months for giving bread to French prisoners of war; one of the offen- ders was a German girl of twenty who had sent the bread by her little sister.
A similar case is reported in the official Nazí paper in Prague.
A baron and his daughter were punished, with ten months' Imprisonment in one case and two in the other, for breaking the regulation that forbids con- versation with prisoners of war. A wounded prisoner had been given an emergency dressing and 000000004 breakfast; another who had re-
ENEMY DESTROYER
SUNK
BY
which, when Japanem EXPERIMENT FLEET AIR ARM
baggage was being put | Reports received
through the Customs an show that a welcome addition to impatient traveller told wartime Empire supplies is
the examining official:
"Don't trouble yourself so much,
the
remarkable progress in the linen
flax industry in New Zealand.
DURING THE NIGHT of September 3, Before the war no linen fax aircraft from the Fleet Air Arm torpedoed was grown in the Dominion but long instead of annoying me like when the war reduced supplies to and destroyed an enemy destroyer outside
you will be saluting me
this,"
The visitor emphasised
before
ex-
other sources Britain from that periments on a large scale were those were not Isolated cases. undertaken. So great was "Of course
because of our success that the British Govern-
Tripoli Harbour.
In addition a large mer- the chant ship was bombed and hit, says yester- policy of neutrality, our newspa- ment has now undertaken to buy day's Middle East Royal Air Force communi-
pers cannot say all this but these the crop of 25,000 acres, during disquieting reports go the round the war and for one year after- que. of Thai society and are inevitably wards at agreed prices most disturbing."-Reuter.
HOLD-UP SHOOTING
Six additional factories are to bel erected, making a total of 17 in the Dominion.
year's export was £35,000.—Bri- tish Wireless.
Other aircraft from the Fleet Air Arm
paired the electric light had been given a few cigarettes; a third had been lent a book.
It is curious to reflect that Dio- dorus Siculus, the Greek historian, gave in his account of the fum-
Athens ous war between
and
Syracuse the report of a speech by a leading Syracusan, who had lost his two sons in the war, in which he begged his countrymen to treat the Athenian prisoners with mercy.
We know from Thucydides that the Athenian prisoners were treated very cruelly, and the in- cident may be fictitious. But Dio- dorus, writing in the time of Au- the Sicilians gustus, thought would regard this speech
forefathers,. to their honourable whereas the Nazis would think it a disgrace.
RAID ON
CANAL THE
as
High explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped in a raid on the Suez Canal area on Thursday night. There were five casual- some damage was done
to pro- according to an official
Value of the first bombed and machine-gunned the Sicilianties, two of which were fatal, and
aerodromes of Gerbini and Catania where two perty, enemy aircraft were set on fire and others damaged.
while riding in a ricksha to the (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") store. The gangsters tried to halt
The communique also says that SHANGHAI'S CRIME HAS the vehicle, in an effort to steal: SWUNG BACK INTO ACTION $10,000 which Ching was carry- "a strong force of Italian fighters
WOUNDING WITH THE
OF ing, but the victim ordered the approached Malta yesterday morn... CHING FONG-LAI, 87, PRO- coolle to run faster, whereuponing and were intercepted by PRIETOR OF A LARGE CHIN- the ruffians opened are, wounding fighters which shot down six Mac- 2
Ching in the stomach, and escap-chi 200's, and badly damaged
Another International News Service, number of others.
ing aircraft was damaged by anti- aircraft fire,
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afternoon a further force of Macchl 200's was Inter- cepted-off the coast of Sicily and three were shot down and others; damaged.
Two of our aircraft were lost in this operation.
communique.
Alarms were also sounded in northern Egypt, including Cairo. -Reuter.
NAZI AGENTS LEAVE EVIDENCE BEHIND
GERMAN AGENTS in the Iranian town
:༣.::
Cyrenaica.-Bomber aircraft of of Pekhlevi fled precipitately when they
the South African air force bomb-
during the night of September 3|
ed enemy dumps north of Gambut learned of the approach of Russian troops, and 4, and scored a number of according to a Soviet correspondent with the
Yesterday fighter aircraft Red Army in Iran.
hits.
machine-gunned à German camp
near Capuzzo, setting fire to tents)-
and destroying a motor transport. From these operations, with the
The correspondent says the Nazis left exception of the two mentioned behind important documents, snapshots and movie cameras, steel helmets, Nazi emblems
above, all our aircraft returned safely Reuter.
STOCK EXCHANGE and even cards of membership of the Nazi
Party.
-The--London Stock Exchange yesterday was quietly steady with business restricted by week-end Describing the scene on the road bridges and roads over which the considerations.
to Pekhlevi the correspondent tele Russian troops passed on the way- Gilt-edged, securities were firm-graphs: "Now and then we glitop-to Pekhlevi were constructed by or on renowed investment de- God among the trees the white Gorman contractors. mand, as well as Indian stocks, walls of luxurious villas standing while Canadian, Pacific was a good in sharp contrast, against a back- feature among foreign ralls, ground of clay huts of the Iranian Amongst the home rails. Juniors people.
"These highways, fed to tha ̈ davide frontiers, and warë "algned for a rapid advance"
German troops," he says, were easier on profit-takingewand "These were, the summer rest- Soon after the Red Army men Industrials moved narrowly, detices of German -agents. The entered Pelchlovi life began to re- apart from continued Interest Germand lived in grand style in turn to normal. Shops opened, among tobaccos, and breweries. Iran, They modestly called policemen ere back on their Oils were steady while shipping themselves engineers méchantes, beats in uniform, and Iranian. improved, with rubbers firm and builders and merchants but "In troops in the town and the civ Kafirs supported towards the oloso reality all were acting as spies" fun population made the So The correspondent alleges that troops very welcome.-Router of the market-Reuter.
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