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REASONS WHY AMERICA WILL NOT Mor United, TEMPORARY
TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL TAKE ACTIVE PART IN THE WAR: PUBLIC OPINION: NOT PREPARED
THAT AMERICA IS NOT LIKELY TO TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN THE WAR. WHETHER IN THE EAST OR IN THE WEST, was the opinion expressed by MR. HAROLD CALLENDER, of the NEW YORK TIMES, when interviewed by a representa- tive of the Hongkong Daily Press on his arrival at Kal Tak by the California Clipper yesterday afternoon..
Mr. Callender gave two reasons for his bellef that the United States would not become involved in war at the present time.
“THE FIRST REASON,” HE SAID, “IS THAT PUBLIC OPINION IN THE STATES IS DEFINITELY AGAINST IT, AND THE SECOND IS THAT WE ARE NOT PRE- PARED.".
A road block of barbed wires one of the types of defence
PIRACY
measures in Britain.
IN BRITISH
WATERS
Certain Of Victory
LONDON PRESS ON ANNIVERSARY
LONDON, NS25t. 4 (Reuter). Twelve mons of war Ends the
British Emp
of strategic
despite a number jacks strong, united and certain leeventual victory This is the heme of the London Press this bring on the first anniversary The declaration of
"Our navy may be all right," he Summing up the year, THE said. "But we have no army to TIMES saya that we can see send anywhere, and we have not where the dence is adequately made adequate preparations for equipped with destructive possibi- any overseas engagements.”
war.
OF
JAPANESE ULTIMATUM
TO FRENCH INDO CHINA
SINGAPORE, SEPT. 4 (REUTER)—WELL-INFORMED QUARTERS HERE STATE THAT INFORMATION FROM SAIGON IS TO THE EFFECT THAT THE JAPANESE ULTIMATUM HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN FOR THE TIME BEING
message.
Tension, following the rejection of the Japanese demands for permission to send troops through French Indo-China, is rife throughout the Colony, states a Saigon
Owing to the present very strict censorship, it is impossible to discover for certain what is happening or what the immediate future. holds in store.
It would appear, however, that the die is not yet cast, for despite the open re- jection of Japan's demands, negotiations between Japanese and French Indo-China anthorities continue in an outwardly friendly and rational manner.
PEARL HIVER CLOSED
SHANGHAI, Sept. 4. (Reuter)—
General -Nishihara remains on Ities and were aerial bombard- Mr. Callender emphasised, howment has been exaggerated.
Indo-China soll. ever, that America would continue In general the loss of life in to give Great Britain every pos- this war was much less than any- sible support by way of supplies. one would have dared to forecast
Mr. Callender is one of the ten a year ago. The man power of Uneasiness over the situation in American Journalists who have the nations therefore, not French Indo-China is heightened been "dying around the Facine" seriously depleted by the casual- by the action of the Japanese in and who are now on the way thee of the flext year our no again alosing the Pearl River, back to the United States after tonal resources are substantially which was only recently opened to
Intact, On the other hand, we navigation visiting New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies and sin have suffered a series of strategic disasters than the most pessimis- gapore as guests of the respective
tic imagination could have con- Governments, i
templated a year ago.
The party, It will be recalled,
We know now for certain that few from San Francisco to New when our rising aircraft produc- Zealand on the inaugural fight of tion has given us numerical Pan American Airways Bouth parity, as they will do within a Pacific route.
Leader of the party is Mr. Roy Howard, publisher of the Scripps- Howard chalp of newspapers. Mr. Howard let the party at Singa- pore and dew tó Rangoon, from wadre nettaviusd. to Kunting and Chungking... returning to Hongkong last night by C. N., A. C.
known time, or attacking forces of barbers." ready doing heavy damage, will become irresistible.
Cont'd. Fige 7, Col. 2.
WAY FOR
plane to join the party who are INVASION
leaving for U. S. A. today by
INTERVIEW Clipper
WITH ROY HOWARD
Two others. members of the party went home from Manila. They are Messrs. M. Forstadt (King's Feature Syndicate) and W. Morehouse (N, Y. Sun). The re- maining eight arrived at Ka Tak Mr. Roy Howard, head of the by Clipper from Manila yesterday. the Water Police last night. One famous Scripps-Howard publishing They were received on arrival by
Two attacks on trading junks
by pirate crait were reported to
of the piracies occurred in British
waters.
The Arst report, concerning the robbery in British waters, was made by a man named Yuen Yeung-hing, master of Junk No.
T4037H, who stated that his craft was stopped by the pirate Junk off Sau St. Mun about 8 am yester
day.
There was a large crowd walt-
CLOSE COLLABORATION
BLOCKED
As a result, river traffic between Hongkong, Canton and Macao is suspended.
Messages from indicate that the Chinese forces concentrated on the frontiers of French Indo-China are ready to go into action at a moment's notice..
According to Chinese reportš from Indo-China, people in the various parts of the Colony are organising petitions, for an arm stand against Die-Japanese.
NO SUMA'S HOPE ....
„TOKYO, Sept. 4 (Reuter)——“We hope that everything will be well managed in French Indo-China notwithstanding the various run- ours to the contrary, and we hope that matters, will, be smoothed out
NAZI "KNOCK in a few days time." stated Mr. Yakichiro Suma, the Foreign Office OUT" CLAIMS
spokesman today at a Press con EXAGGERATED ference. NEW YORK, Sept. 4" (Reu-
The spokesman said that he had
house in America, leader of the by Capt. R. E. T. St. John, A. D. C. party of American journalists to HE Major-General A. Eter)--The London correspon- no information regarding the al- touring the Pacific, arrived in Grasett.
dent of the New York Times, leged revolt in French indo-China Hongkong, close on midnight, last
Questioned regarding negotia- who toured the British air night, by air from Chungking.
In conversation with a Dally ports, said that the German ions with the Petain Government, the spokesman disclosed that they ing to greet him, and many shouts Press representative, Mr. Callender claims to have knocked were progressing though the final
stressed the importance of them out" were exaggerated, stage had not yet been reached of "Hello Roy" rent. the air as the "short, dapper, moustached, the handing over to Britain of adding that all fields are be-
NO INTERRUPTION cigar-puffing American newspaper 50 U. S. warships in return for He lost money and goods to a magnate stepped from the plane air and naval bases as significant ing used when the R.A.F.
VICHY, Sept. 4 (Reuter)—An total value of $120 Chinese cur- All smiles, and amiable, Mr. Ho- of the close collaboration between consider it wise.
The correspondent says, hov-authoritative statement by the rency and HK$95. His cargo, ward replied with a cheery "Hello, these two great democracies and which was taken, consisted of there."
added that it was but only the ever, that British fighters are not Havas Agency states that there eight baskets of salt fish.
Many of the voices that haled beginning of many steps to follow now engaging German bombers has been no interruption in the the publisher were Chinese, for of similar importance and con-until they get into the London negotiations proceeding for some
patrol area whereas they were time between the French and Jap
anese Governments in regard to Mr. Callender was at Narvik formerly met over the Channel.
He concludes that though it is their interests in the Far East when
the Germans over-ran
evident the Germans have not
A EUMOVE Cont'd. Page, Col 4. cleared a way for their invasion, one is impressed by the lack of
It is rumoured that the Japan- shipping in the English Channel ese will despatch troops across In a trip from Dover to Fal-French Indo-China border to mouth he saw very few merchant-
· EMPTY BOTTLES
The second robbery was report- Howard has many Chinese friends sequence. ed by Kwok Kan, master of an both here and in the United unlicensed fishing boat öf Tal states,
Ping Tung Kun district. He lost
a cargo of "5,500 empty Japanese
beer bottles and also his junk,
which was taken by the pirates. The bottles were valued at $350 and the Junk at $200...
The piracy occurred close to. the shore of Lung Klu Tan about 2 am on Monday. In either case there were four men involved in the robbery two of them carry- *ing firearms.
Adm. Yoshida May Resign Navy Post
Cont'd. Page 7, Col. 3.
WOMEN EVACUEES FROM HONGKONG WILL BE FORBIDDEN TO RETURN
Five local British women, whose names were on the register for evacuation to Australia, dodged the last eva- euee ship that left Hongkong on Saturday, Ang. 3. *
New regulations dealing with the subject of evacua- tion, to be Issued by Government within the week, will furnish an answer to what it is proposed to do with them. The regulations, drafted at the question of costa and a new a special meeting yesterday estimate may have to be made on
cost of maintenance morning, will also forbid the the TOKYO, Sept. 4 (Reuter)-Vice-return of women who have
evacuee, families In Australia, Admiral Zengo Yoshida, Minister
been evacuated from the of Navy, who has been suffering
and intestinal Colony. from gastric
of
The Rt. Rev., R. G. Macintyre, Chairman of the Reception Com- mittee for the evacuees from
troubles since the end of last These facts were established by month, entered hospital at the the Hongkong Dally Press yester Hongkong at Sydney has been Naval Medical College yesterday, day in an Interview with the quoted by a Press report from Aus- His complaint has been diag- Colonial Secretary, Hon, Mr. N. Ltralla as having said, on this sub- lect The Hongkong Coverziment nosed as angina pectoris, Smith.
A prolonged hospital trentinent
A public notification dealing has limited me to a certain amount: will possibly necessitate Vice-Ad- with the question of costs of ac of money, and you cannot get mital Yoshida resigning as Minis-commodation and board for the much in the way of board in Byd ter of Navy.
evacuees in Australia will also be ney for 30 a week “
Vice-Admiral Yoshida has been Minister of Navy in three succes- sive Cabinets since General Abe's administration in August, 1939
issued within the next few days. A statement attributed in the
QUESTION OF COSTS E
Information from Austraila hay Bame report to Mr. B E Maughan
Cont'd, Page 7, Col, 4.
necessitated a further study, of
men.
On Other-
Pages
PAGE 2 Baseball and lawn
bowls notes, Training gal lops; V.R.C. gala; Crossword ✓ puzzle.
PAGE 3-Radio programmes:
Coming events. PAGE 4 Anglo-American Naval Treaty; Italians raid Malta; Czech squadron downs rälders.
FAGE 5 Precious stone lost; - Bordid story, Police Courts.
PAGE 6 Leading article: War
⠀⠀⠀ Hongkong's ... Waning
Efforts: W PACE B Bummonses with.
drawn: DHS. students' part in arrest, Weather of Aug, Marriage announcements. PAGES 9 and 10-Finance and
commer FACE täin
morrow.
Meanwhile, it is learned that an agreement has been reach- ed between the Chungking Government and the French Indo-China Government S06- cerning defence" measures to be adopted in the event of an⠀⠀⠀| Invasion
NO THREE-POINT LANDINGS HERE
Upper: Derelict cars in a large field ""somewhere in England” to prevent enemy planes from landing. Lower: A field on a farm in England which has been dug up by the owner in co-opera- tion with the Government's programme for making as many fields as possible unsuited for airplane landings. Both pictures passed by the British censer,
MALAYA, DUTCH EAST INDIES ARE FULLY READY FOR INVADER
As Americans in America they had never pictured to themselves a Malaya and a Dutch East Indies as thorough- ly primed and prepared to challenge the entry of an in- vader as they had found these places to be on their recent visit.
On an extensive tour of defence stations and defence works on the peninsula and throughout the islands they had become thoroughly convinced at this preparedness to meet and resist an attack.
It is reported that Admiral Dé- coux, Governor-General, has given an assurance to the Chinese Cen- tral Government, affirming that under no circumstances will he permit the passage of Japanese armed forces through the country opinion of the party of tour-
Such was the unanimous
Further reports state that Jap- ing American journalists who Moscow Calls
anese warships are cruising out arrived yesterday by the side Indo-China territorial waters California Cupper.
and are blockading the north-east const
DEFENCES MANNED
The Dutch were armed with the
More Men To Colours
best of modern weapons; and had honeycombed Java and Dutch Borneo with depote for arms and MOSCOW, Sept. 4 (Router)— Defence positions in the French supply bases. Bren guns, manned More men were called to the Colony have been manned and by determined men, challenged colours by a decree summont native troops have been mobilised the entry of a stranger even in the whole of the 1920 class most to meet any eventualities. Pre- the most unassuming of places, of the 1921 class and all in tho parations are also be'ng made to Arrivals at Dutch East Indies 1022 class who had ten year evacuate all women and children ports were subjected fo Pachte-Cerv
to & schooling, from ports and towns near the thoroughly scrutiny. This was coast
Cont'd, Page 7. Col. 5.
Men in older classes, previously exempted, were also called up