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CHINESE GOODS NEW TREASURY
IN INDO-CHINA
Shipping Services
To Be Resumed:
SHANGHAI, Oct. 7 (Reuter)—~
Local
ORDERS
U.K..Bolivia Payments Regulated
JAPAN ALONE IN PACIFIC
Tripartite Pact Of No Benefit
which stands alone in the Pacific," de-
"
FINANCE & GENERAL
DAKAR MAY BE USED AS BASE TO DEFEAT BRITISH BLOCKADE
Britain's abandonment of the attack on Dakar, due to the magnitude of the local resistance against the "Free France" movement, raised the serious question of whether the Petain Toverument intends to use Dakar as a bass for trying to break the British food blockade, writes J. W. T. Mason 'in the Manila Bulletin.
The most pressing present pro- blem facing Petain is to obtain
Anglo-U.S. Use Of Bases
In Pacific
LONDON, Oct. 7 (Reuter)-New arrangements for regulating pay- Despite the conclusion of the enough food for the inhabitants Chinese merchants E-
alliance between Ger- of unoccupied France for the nounced that cargo, valued atments between the United King-tripartite tens of millions of dollars strand-dom and Bolivia are given effect many, Japan and Italy, Japan still coming winter.
RIOT THREAT ed in Indo-China as the result of by two Treasury orders
* {r clared the Ta Kung Pao yester- the closing of the railroad to come into force today.
Rationing is already in effecti Henceforth payments to persons day." Kunming, would be brought back.
in the After signing the pact, Japan's and if the food shortage becomes It has been decided to send rem Bolivia from persons
United Kingdom may be made responsibility for the Axis Powers, grave, cloting may well result in resentatives to Haiphong and
sterling in a Bolivian the paper sald, has been increas-throwing of unoccupied France Saigon to seek the services of the only in
special account with A
United ed and she is exposed to a graver into confusion, threatening stabi- Chinese Government.
alles.lity of the Petain government, It is also reported that regular Kingdom bank but special ar-situation. Neither of her
Britain's announced attitude is shipping services between Hang-rangements have been made for Germany and Italy, is in a posi
Germany must bear the relating
Favourable" comments are made to certain tion to help in the Far East that kong and Haiphong are resuming payments
responsibility for feeding all con by the leading Chinese dailies in kinds of personal expenditure into because of the great distance. of Oct. 8,
and America's
Russia's non-quered territory whether occupied Shanghal in sympathy With Bolivian sterling area accounts.
The Chungking over the question of co-operation with Japan under by German troops, or not.
circumstances indicates only way
meet this the joint defence of the Pacific, present
គង friends in situation as it exists at present for which exploratory discussions that Japan has
to challenge the British blockade have been held between Great the Pacifc.
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Volume of Business Transacted on Monday, Oct 7, 1940. SALES
H.K. Tramway,
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Realties, $3.15.
Petain can
CHINA'S INCLUSION IN DEFENCE
Britain and the United States,
MAY EISH WAR
but they unanimously express the opinion that without the particf- If Fetain follows his announced pation in such talks of China and intention of providing naval es-Soviet Russia, defence
measures
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1940 -PAGE 9
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paper said that loss of American corts for food ships Great Britain would be incomplete, states the CLARK RELEASED SABOTEURS BUSY
macy.
LONG WAR IS PREDICTED
North China Daily News.
ON
£12,000 RANSOM
by use of warships, DIPLOMATIC BLUNDER Recalling that since the out break of the Sino-Japanese hosti- Hties Japan has been assiduously favour, the courting American friendship in the Pacific is the must decide whether allowing the greatest failure of Japan's diplo-ships to pass will thresten less serious results than battling the
CHINA AS PIVOT. French warships on the high seas. "China. now engaged in resist. in the background' is the post-ing Japanese invasion, serves 45 bility that British attacks by the pivot of co-operation between BUCHAREST, Oct. 7 (Reuter)- blockading warships on French Great Britain, the United States Sir Reginald Hoars went to food convoys might cause the and Soviet Russia in the Far East. Ploeste on Saturday and Baw Vichy regime to declare war!.....
Besides helping China to win the Percy Clark who was still in bed Vichy reports that the British war, other measures for pacifying hardly able to move as a result Dakar the situation in the Far East will of the limb-twisting to which he has moved southward. It may not be successfully carried out," had been subjected during his have headed for Freetown in the states the Shun Pao in the cul-abduction. Are On Britain
British colony of Sierra Leone.cluding paragraph of a long (Reuter) De-which is 600 miles from Dakar editorial entitled "Joint Discus- SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION claring that air forces alone can- and would serve as a watching stons between Great Britain and
not conquer an open city. Mr. post and base for operations in the United States on the "Fari
Kinoshita, the ennent the south Atlantic. Selca ordinal Hanji
Japanese authority tional politics. expresses the view, fr an article in the current issue of Thoroughfare of "Politics that the war between Germany and Britain will be long. `..
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KURUNG TE DO
German soldier cannot be trans- ported from the shore of the een tinent to England.
De Gaulle is primarily re- ponsible for the Dakar mis- adventure, and his interest must now be centered on not allowing Equatorial Africa to be influenced by the action at Dakar.
It is learned that his exp⠀ 'fors offered to release him for 10,000 Lei (about £12,000) and. Clark paid the money and was allowed to go.
Eastern "Situation.” The paper believe that the "fire" spread in
When he was a short distance the Far East in the past chiefly from his captors mare young men because of lack of co-operation fired at him with revolvers but among the Powers concerned. without hitting him.
CHINA'S CONTRIBUTION
That China and Soviet Russia
The major effects of De Gaulles should participate in the Joint years, and Soviet Russia can leadership and the muddle that Pacific defence discussions is ad- handle Japan single handed, the
IN CHINA
Japanese Military Trains Wrecked
CHUNGKING, Oct 1 (Central)- Two Japanese trains were dyna- mited on the Nanking-Shanghai Railway within three days."
for A military train bound Shanghal struck a Chinese mine. near Tanyang, 19 miles southeast of Chinklang and 61 miles south- east of Nanking, "on September 3. The front half of the train was totally damaged
Another military train going from Shanghai to Nanking was blown up by a Chinese mine at "Waikatang, five and half miles east of Boochow on September "several 5. The locomotive and. coaches were wrecked:""
The
occurred at London, can not he vocated by the Chinese American paper says. known until the intentions of the Daily News, which asserts that in Commenting on the. same sub.
of the French fleet are revealed.
editorially, the National situation in the Pacific. order to complete the defence Ject measures. Great Britain and the Herald says that in order to paper considers Japan's possible SHOWS LACK OF FINESSE
United States should invite the "surround" Japan it is best for occupation of Indo-China as a:: However, the British may be two Far Eastern countries to take Great Britain and the United "South Pacific's September 18. expected
to use caution if the part in the parleys. China has states to co-operate with China Incident," giving a direct threat situation threatens to become aiready made great contributions and Boviet Russia, since Japan is to British and American interests, grave. Some sort of compromise towards defending the Pacific by in the middle of the two groups while affecting the Chinese only.
the to, a small degree. with Vichy must not be ruled out fighting Fapan, for the past three of countries interested in of future possibilities for military. strategy .... suggests that French antagonism be not allow jed to reach the stage of actual
belligerency.
"Taking advantage of speed and superiority of numbers, Chancellor Hitler may send men across the Chan
like nel
# storm of grass- hoppers but the power of the British fleet of small-sized ves- sels, which have been reinforc- ed greatly by 50 destroyers from America, would stop the
of march
German U-boats ---half-way-across the sea
"Besides, America may parti cipate in the war on the side of Britain next spring, making the situation more favourable forment of Gibraltar and ordering Britain."
Anglo-
Actually, Petain's attitude authorizing retaliatory bombard-
court martial of de Gaulle's sympathizers In France shows, à WEATHER REPORT serious lack of military finesse. While Britain and Germany arc fighting to prevent being con- quered, Petain is fighting to keep France conquered,
10 a.m., Oct. 7. Barometer, (at sea level), 29.96 ins. 1'einperature, 84 F. Humidity, 66 per cent. 331 Wind Direction. E
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