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Change In American Sentiment
CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, June, 8 (Reuter)—AC- | cording to The Times, nine-tenth's of Belgium's Army als plot are in France, with infantry divisions and a cadre of omcers.
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LONDON June B (Rediter)—
WASHINGTON June 3 (Reuter Commenting on the change in Mr. Louis Johnson. Assistant. American sentiment the Daily War Secretary, announced today Telegraph points out that what that the Army would send one of the temper of the American people its fastest pursuit planes to the now is may perhaps most accurate Ford factory on Monday following ly be estimated from. President Mr. Henry Ford's request to inspect Roosevelt's public statement that the machine.
of he approved the principle universal compulsory training. In the United States.
WASHINGTON.. June's (Reuter) The United States may supply the Allies with number of the famous French 75's, which have been in storage in America since 1919 and are identical with those now being used by the French with great success.
LONDON. June
(Reuter)-
MONDAY, JUNE 10,
FOREIGN MAILS
BONGKONG, MONDAY, 10th JUNE, 1940, 9.30 a.ş.
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS
Halphong Canton
Japan and Sharighal.
Searchlights in a south-east const town picked up a German plane last night and the anti-aircraft Manila, guns went into action Machine- Shanghai.
A guns also engaged the raider. Shanghát motorist reported that the plane Amoy, NAIROBI, June 8 (Reuter) People all over East Africa have machine-gunned a beach "from a welcomed the telegram from the height of two hundred feet, Secretary for the "Colanies In which he outlined the economic "If the Naz win, our country's financial measures by which they freedom in our entire way of could best contribute to the war living will be in the greatest dan-jeffort. ger, said the Governor of New York recently,
There is growing realisations that America's security depends on an Allied victory.
MARKED INCREASE
"
and
FARIS, June 8 Reuter)-Amiens Cathedral has so far escuped the
fires that are now raging in that city. reports a French plot who has just flown over Amiens.
"(Reuter
The marked increase of support for this view, says the Daily Tele- graph, is shown by the fact that publicists who have been far from favourable to American interven- tlon European affairs are, now Work 13 starting in Canada today urging it would be a grave error on the construction of 300 tanks. of policy to refuse all material help for Britain. to the Allies which can be given,
OTTAWA, June
A number of competent judges The Trinidad Legislative Council belleve that public feeling has has decided to give £300,000 to moved much more rapidly In the British war effort. Trinidad than has already donated £200,000, says favour of positive action Congress has yet perceived,
INSIDE. GERMANY:
SPECTRE OF
Reuter.
INFLATION
GROWS ALARMINGLY
The Spectre of Inflation grows more and more alarming as the German note circulation increases each month. The Reichsbank re- turns for the week ending April 30 show week's increase heavier than any experienced since the last inflation of evil memory, and dis- play a rise to a new high level of 12,479 milion marks.
"This figure, which covers Relchsbank notes only, does not include the 1,100 million Rentenbank notes only, which had been called in, but which have been re-issued in recent months.
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The Australian war loan of £20,000,000, subscription lists for which were to have remained open for another week, has been over- subscribed. The lists, therefore, closed on Saturday. This achieve- ment follows the complete sub-
scription of the loan of £18,000,000 last March, says British Wireless..
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date 5th Jane, Sandakan
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Dozens of formerly well-known | Manila business houses are included in Alr.. Mall by "Imperia) Alrwaşı Direct the new list of enemy arms pub- London date, 5th June lished in the Government Gazette Canton on Saturday.
It la now forbidden to trade with more than 200 arms to the The firms affected in China
Far East.
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ABO, China Electric Co., Agía China Co. (Otto and Co. Bayer Pharma Co, Behn Meyer China Co., Ltd.. Belersdorf and Co.. A.G.. Bohler Bros, and Co. Ltd., Carlo-u, S. A, Honolulu, Japan and Manila (San Fran-
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Francisco date, 24th May). Japan, Shanghai and Formosa ..... Shanghai.
witz and Co., Chien Hsin En- gineering Co., O.m.b.H., China Ex- port-Import and Bank. Co., AG Ltd), Coutinho Caro and Co. Dau, Hugo and Co.." "Defag" Deutsche Farben Handelsgesell- schaft (Waibel and Co,), Demag. News of Popular Reaction in
A.G. (Duisburg), Deutsch-Asia- Germany to the war news which
tische Bank; Deutsche Farben La pouring from the German press
("Defag". Handelsgesellschaft and wireless is still scanty, but the walbel and Co.), Deutsche Gold- few available fragments indicate und-Silber Scheldeanstalt (vor- that even the breaking of the mais Rossier). Deutsche Handels Registered and Parcel Mail are, closed 15 minutes earlier than storm did not arouse the populace | AG.
Lufthansa A.E. the time, given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are from its apathy. The American
(Vertretung China), Deutsche advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel malls, are commentator William Shirer. Stickstoff Handelsgosellschaft. closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to broadcasting to the United States Krauch and Co., Deutsches Nach-close after 5 p.m. Registered and Parcel malls are closed at 5 p.m. from Berlin on May 10, reported richten Buero, Elckhof and Co.,
that:-
It is small wonder that the rush calm.
Deutsche
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Mon, 10th
10.30 AM Parcels 10.30 AM Letters 13.30 AM
HUGE INCREASE Together, the two note issues to circulation amount to more than four times the total average" note circulation at the time, when the 1933. Naz's came into power in
"News of military operations is meister and Co., German China
The increase
last lacking here in Berlin, ten hours Shippers (Schater, Nimphius and during the twelve months alone is 5,081 mile after the German invasion began. Co.).
German Forwarding & Stevedor- | Swatów, Amoy and Formosa. lion marks, or more than the whole. People in Berlin are taking this note circulation in any year up to phase, which may be the decisive tng Co., German State Railways
Gisthe
& Witt: Straits and Calcutta. one in the struggle, with great Travel
Before the Chancellery an Gleue, Adolf & Co., Grotpahn & Parcels only for Haiphong.
Ober-Halphong to invest in goods continues apace | hour ago, I noticed that no crowd Co., Gutehoffnungshuette wherever the purchaser can lay had gathered. Few people bother-hausen AG, Haeusing, W., Ham-Strafts, Ceylon, India, East and Sotth hands on "articles of permanent ed to buy papers which carried the value.
In this connection, one of first news and no extras were sold the most revealing news items of in the streets." recent weeks was the case brought!" against "a famous antique dealer His impression is confirmed by Krauch & Co-Deutsche Stickstoff for selling spurious, antiques. The that reliable observer, the Berlin Handelsgesellschaft, Krause, Ernst, Batavia and Sourabaya enormous prominence given to the correspondent of the Swiss paper & Co., Kunst & Albers, Kunst & affair, particularly in the Nazi Neue Zurcher Zeitung (message Albers, Lee's General Store (Aug. Fair, China Michels), Leipzig paper Das Schwarze Korps, sugdated May 10):-"
Lübecker Office
Maschinenbau 'Gesellschaft, M.AN, Works, China Branch Maschinenfabrik (Augs- Air Malt for "Imperial Airways Direct Service" Ord.
CURRENT OF HOPE
burg-Amerika Linie "Hapro" Han-Saigon, delsgesellschaft fuer Industrielle Canton Produkte m.b. Euepeden & Co., Bangkok Tilles & Co. Jahan & Co., Klingeln-Shanghai and Japan,
Koreska, &- Wieder,
W.
TUESDAY
berg
gests that the Nazis are hard "The German pubile, after a mo- pressed to prevent a fight from mentary show of curiosity, has the mark into antique" furniture lapsed into its usual indifferet.ce.
Mannesmann- which is one of the few stable com- There were no manifestations. All
burg-Nuernberg),
G, roehren-Werke A. Komotau modities left to buy.
that one notice is a current of hope China Branch), Mee-Yeh Handels SHORTAGE OF PERSONNEL
that the war will be shortened."
Compagnie, Melchers & Co., E. Almost the most revealing, in- The explanation of this indiffer-Merck, Chemical Co., Ltd., "Miag" nouncement of recent weeks was ence is left to a Finnish correspon- Muehlenbau und Industrie A. G. an appeal sent out from Deutch-dent. (Uusi Suomi, May 111:- Braunschweig), Aug. Michels, W. "It seems that the fight for daily Niggemann & Co., "Uoessler, Max landsender (the German broadcast station) on the night of April 30 bread dominates their minds more & Co. GmbH, for men to train as "eficient naval than war news." officers." This is the only in- timation, so far, of the vast losses in naval personnel which were in- curred at the outset of the Scan- dinavian campaign,
CONTRIBUTING FACTOR ··
DROUGHT FEARS
IN SHANGHAI
Norddeutscher
Lloyd, Bremen, Orenstein & Kop- pel A. G., Ostasiatischer Lloyd, Otto" & Co.
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WEDNESDAY
Parcels only for Tientsin. Fort Bayard, Holhow and Haiphong....
Airmall for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris
and Northern Provinces only) by the "Air Reg, France Airways Direct Service".
Agia China Co., Poggensee, Christian" (Hamburg), Poldi Steel Works (China Branch), Poldi Steel Curiously enough, the new re-
Works, Rehtus, W. F., Reuter, CHUNGKING. June 9 (Central), Brockelmann & Co., Rheinmetall crults are not to report for service
Roech- üntil January 1, 1941-a timelag-Grave fears are entertained for Borsig, Rickmers Linie, which suggests that a shortage of a "severe drought and around lingstahl China G.m.b.H., Rohde & iron-ore (due both to the Norwe-Shanghai as extremely dry wea- Co., Schering. Ltd., Schlieper, Carl, glan campaign and to the hard ther has persisted for several 8chmidt & Co., Ltd., Schnabel & Co., Schoeller-Bleck- Farmers on the outskirts Gaumer winter in the Baltic) is holding weeks.
of Shanghai are waiting in vain mann Steel Works," Ltd. (Vienna), up the building of."replacements.
for rain to start muca-belated Schuster, Nimphus & Co.-Ger-
man China sowing.
Shippers, Siemens Lack of Skilled Labour may be It is feared that unless sowing China Co., Stemssen & Co., Stahl a contributing factor, for, judging conditions improve in time. the Union Export G.c.b.X., Steel by advertisements in the German price of rice in Shanghai will fur-Union China Co., Studt & Co. Shanghai, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and South Parcels 10.00 AM press, shipyards as well as other ther soar. key war industries--are finding increasing difficulty in sécuring competant. workmen, daily appeals. for engineers, shipwrights and craftsmen of all kinds de- monstrate that skill la everywhere at a premium, while the Reich
JAPANESE DEAD AND WOUNDED
Telefunken East Asiatic Wireless
Canton
...THURSDAY
Swatow and Parcels only for Shanghai.
America via Vancouver B.C., (Parcels for Cana- Reg. dag
FRIDAY
Telegraph Co. Transocean News Service, United Upper Bleslan Iron Works (Vereinigte Oberschlesische Bangkok. Huettenwerke, A. G. Gleiwits), Van Sandakan.. Reekum Paper Company (Shang- hal) Ltd., Wagner Gunther (Pell Shanghal and Farcels only for Tintain/ kan Werke, Hanover), Waibel & Yungyun, June 9 (Central)-At-Co.-"Defag" Official Gazette of April 18 reveals testing to the heavy casualties suf- Handelsgesellschaft, Wolff, that the shortage extends even to fered on the Tsungia sector, about Koeln (Far Eastern Branch), Yung Stralle, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden. Reg. professions: "The Reichs Chan 800 wounded and the bodies of 700 Zeng Peppermint Oil Co. cellor has issued an amnesty re-dead Japanese soldiers were sent ducing fines and court costs as back to Canton from Shenkong in well as sentences, passed on doc forty. Junks on June 6.
tors, dentists, and vets."
Yet the Nazis continue to cur-
tall classes in science. No one of consequence
seems to have put
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Radio and Postal Club will now be known as the Fost Office Re creation Club. Their ground at Caroline Hill will be converted into
This wil | Amoy. grass tennis courts. mean that the Radio hockey team, Shanghal. ": ed the present lamentable lack of A public notice: posted at the champions of the Association talent to the Party's insistence on Ferry states that the Castle Peak tournament, will have to play all rallies and labour service rather Road is impassable at Tai Lam their home gamea away next sea- than higher education.
Chung, Mile 16.
two and two together and ascrib
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