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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
́ ́August 23, 1940.
Vichy Threat: "France Will Take Necessary Steps” Against Britain SPECIAL STORY Blockade of
OF ATTACK
FROM PAGE ONE
minutes, but the ships still pushed
on without altering their speed.
Continent
Special to the “Telegraph” VICHY, Aug. 22 (UP). Britain's refusal to lift the blockade of France is an Then I saw smaller boats moving "act of hostility." at a terrine speed which appeared.
This
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THE PEAK
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Grants To Religious And Charitable Bodies
Grants totalling $800 to religious and charitable bodies, were approv ed at the annual meeting of wor- declaration W&S shippers of the Peak Church held at
the Cathedral Hall yesterday. the chair and others present were the IL Rev. Bishop R. O. Hail, the
British destroyers and they made a made in Vichy to-day by the "Petain Government's Minis- Some of the shells fell about 2ter for Foreign Affairs, M.
dive-bombers Paul Baudoin.
miles from the French coast. -
Soon
afterwards
| streaked from 'the French shore and
The Hon. Mr. T. H. King was in
Rev. K. Mackentle Dow
the Rev.
A. P. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. B. Hancock, Lady Pollock, Mr. D. M. Richards, and Mr. M. F. L. Haymes. The Rev. Mr. Rose, Acting Hon.
He announced that the British began attacking with bombs of a Government has replied to Vichy heavy calibre which went up spouts of water hundreds of feet into the representations regarding the Secretary, reported that during the air.
blockade, after delaying its year the Church had four weddiog The warships and merchantmen answer for three weeks.
and Ave baptisms. Services were replied with a savage anti-aircraft] It has refused to lift the blockade. Mr. Richards, and the
held every Sunday, most of them by attendance barrage and apparently prevented.
"The French Government will take the bombers from diving low enough the necessary steps to ensure that the was slightly higher than the previous
year, to nim atcurately.
country will not suffer,” declared M. On the suggestion of Lady Pol- British fighters then climbed into Daudouin.
lock, the Chairman expressed appre- the air and engaged the raiders in} The French Minister called the ciation to the Scandinavian com- blockade "Inhuman." Il was. he munity for their services to the All the planes vanished suddenly said, unworthy of a Christian coun- Church, into a rain squall and I did not see try. them again.
a fierce battle.
JAPAN'S CHANGE IN POLICY
FROM PAGE ONE
difference in basic relations with
Continuation of the blockade would
The report of the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Haymes. showed a balance in be "danstrous for those who apply it, hand of $1,067, which was slightly warned M. Blaudoin.
Minister
The
fronis.
to
the
higher than that of the previous referred to
Mr. year. Collections were up by $100, Winston Churchill's speech In the while subscriptions showed an in- House of Commons,
¡crease at $90. 550. France, he declared, had sought an Mr. G. Makin was appointed a armistice with Hiller because she trustee in succession to Mr. King could no longer continur Oght, who resigned La view of his forth- either on her metropolitan er colonial coming departure from the Colony.
The following were elected M. Baudoin stressed that Britain's members of the Committes-The share during the height of the fight-Itt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall, Tokyo.
ing on the Somme front consisted of Very Rev. Dean J. L. Wilson, the Not Prepared To Join Axis Informed quarters are Inclined two divisions comprising 50,000 men. Rev, K. Mackenzie Dow, Lady Pol- to regard the new shakeup as He declared that only one tenth of lock, the Rev. K. Reichelt, Mr. D. restare merely for home consump-Dritain's available air force was used. M. Richards and Mr. M. F. L tion. Unofficial authorities here He denied that France could have laymes moxity do not believe that Japan helped Britain in Somaliland and Mr. Richards was also appointed is prepared to cast in her lot with revealed official statistics showing Secretary, subject to the concurrence the Axis
that France had only 5,000 troops ut of the Dean, the previous holder, whi They said Japan will be cautious Djibouti, 60,000 troops in Syria and is at present away from the Colony, About her adventures in Indo- twe divisions in French Africa.
It was decided that the following China and the Dutch East Indies
grants be made: $200 to St. John's Cathedral: $100 to Christ Church; $100 to Scandinavian missionaries in Chinn; $100 to the New Territories Evangellation Society: $50 to the Society for the Protection of Chil- dren; and $50 to the Boys' and Girts Club.
until the outcome of the Battle for Britain is more certain,
600-Mile Tramp By Soldier
Landon, July 0. Private D. Mountain. reported missing on April 23 in Norway, has returned to his home at Ibstock, Leicestershire, after tramping 600 miles in 58 days: He got away from Norway in a fishing boat with water for five days and food for two days.
Not
he said, while he was eluding the Germans, one woman giving him 50s.Į
Firing Practice
He urged the cessation of the blockade "before ali Furope collapses and warned that all nations on the Continent would be bound solidly together by a common hunger.
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Belgian Congo LONDON, Aug. 22 ·(British Wireless)-Mr. R. A. Butler, in
mons, eaid:
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The meeting concluded with 2 vote of thanks, proposed by Mr. Hancock, to Mr. King, coupled with "all sorts of luck wherever he and his family may be in the future."
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"Since June 18, the Belgian Minis- ter of the Colonies, who is in London,
Vichy, Aug. 22. has been exercising the full powers The armed for in Morocco, with which he has been invested as Alferia, and Tunisia have been split Kowloon residents will hear the Administrator-General of the Belgian into three parts. General Wergand sound of big guns firing on Tuesday ones local administration in the divisional generals to succeed Gene
colontes.
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forces in The military authorities announce 25 that the resources of the that arullery Aring will be carried were at the entire service of the Morocco, General Audet taking com- out in the neighbourhood of Kowloon alliance,
mand in Tunisia, and General Deynet "Cerlan economie problems arising in Algeria, between 8 p.m. und mid-night.
from the Congo as the result of enemy His retirement does not Affect occupation of Belgium are under dis-General Nogues' status as Resident- cussion with His Majesty's Govern- General in Morocco.-United Press, |ment."
LATE NEWS
Alleged Demands
On Thailand
Minister Arrested
Vichy, Aug. 22. M. Jean Zar, Minister of National Education in the Daladier Cabinet, who resigned to full his duties an LONDON, Aug. 22 (Brilish Wire-a lieutenant in the reserves, has been less)Mr. R. A. Butler in the House arrested at Rabat and court-mar- of Commons to-day said the Foreign talled on charge of desertion Secretary had no information that M. Zay embarked at Bordeaux on uny Japanese demands lind been June 20 at the same time as
BL. Dals- made on the Government of Thai-Idler. The Military Authorities term This departure desertion because M. No communication on that subject Zay was still mobiilsed and did not bad in consequence been addressed have the permission of the regiment to that government by the Boftish to sall.—United Press. Government:
land,
The situation in Thailand was being watched.
County Meetings Ban
London, Aug. 22. It is pointed out that with regard) The Lyons Radio to-day staled that to the advertisement in the "Tele- the Vichy Government had cancelled graph" that the closing time for the all meetings of county councils as a issue of permita for the export of precaution against their being used Bank of England notes is 5 pm. on for political agitution.—Reufer Bulle- August 27, 1940, and not 8 p.m. i tin.
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