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Reviving In France
Neutral Reports
A REVIVAL of pro-British feeling in both German occupied and unoccupied France is revealed in reports reaching neutral countries.
Burma Road Opening By Britain
Crisis Expected Shortly
Tokyo, Och. 8... The Foreign Office announced to-day- that the British Am- bassador, 8lr Robert Craigie, acting under Instructions from London. hed Informed the Foreign Minister, Mr. Malsuoka, that Britain would re-open the Burma Road on October 18,
indications are that Anglo-Japanese relations will grow much more acute as a result of the decision, inasmuch as it was taken after Japan's con- clusion of the pact with the Axis and the announcement of her determina- tion to reject all nations assisting Chungking, The British decision 1 therefore regarded as a challenge to Japan.
It la apparently very strong In parts of the French Empire.. It is viewed with apprehension by the Petain Government."
For instance, Ex-Air Minister Mar- cel Deat has complained on the radio about the persistent "Anglomania" of large sections of French public opin-
ion.
This, he declard; might result in new "misfortunės“ for France by "envenoming", Franco-German |"Intions.
"White-Headed Boy"
-01
October
1940.
Women's
Petition
Abandoned
Evacuation Protest
Not Supported ¦
signed by whose
Through lack of support, the plan for forwarding a patillon of protest British women in the Colony
applications for exemption from evacuation have been refused, has been abandoned,
Although members of the Women's Evacuation Protest Committee walted from 9 am to 6p.m. yesterday for signatures at the offices of the South China Morning Post, Ltd., no women came forward to sign. The petition bere the names of 41 women who had signed at the Committee's 'meeting held on Monday. Of these, about 10 had been granted exemption.
"We are disgusted with the failure of the women to support the petition. They keep on writing to the news- Deat, a white-headed boy" to the papers and denouncing evacuation, Nazis, 13 prospective secretary-but when anything is started to general of the only authorised Party oppose it they won't give their up
don't deserve any in France, the totalitarian principles port. They of which he recently outlined in
months ago the masses In France naively hoped that the armis- tice would bring an end to their sufferings.
sympathy if they are forced out of the Colony," one, representative of the Committee said.
Members of the Committee sald that they would speak for themselves Even at that time, however, there in the public session of the Evacua- tion Advisory Committee in the but they was no real bitterness against Britain Supreme Court to-day, among the ordinary people.
would not speak for the others who When I left France after the
nce being evacuated. armistice opinion was deeply divided on the wisdom of that surrender.
But everybody, I spoke to thought it quite natural that war would con- tinue between Britain and the Axis Powers.
Deeply Entangled Japan-American relations are also| Even those who boileyed then that expected to become worse because on armistice was inevitable expressed the general opinion in Japan is that the hope that Britain would win in Washington is largely responsible for the end, the British stiffening from the con- ellintory attitude demonstrated at the time the Burma Road agreement was reached in July-United Press.
who do not wish to see France saved There are men in Vichy, however, a British victory, which would menn their own end.
by
They are becoming every day more deeply entangled
distasteful "solidarity" with Hitler for their own
Renter adds that the Japanese be- lieve the British notification will not affect the ban on the transport of supplies Chinn through Hongkong. sake, The decision is nscribed by the Japan Times to a desire to save face in China and support Chungking na the only force restling Japan, to- gether with America. The decision
is stated to be an unmistakable in- dication that Britain"Ts taking, with America, common front Japan.
against
Commons Announcement
London, Ocl. & The decision to re-open the Burma Road was unmounced in the Commons"]
Winston Churchill, today by Mr. Prime Minister.-United Press.
In
Bayonet Threat
Story. Of Soldier_Waiting
For "Other Man"
A soldier, bayonet in hand, stood at the door of his wife's flat where she was living with another man.
The story was told at Brighton when Private Harold John Healey
charged with (20);" wRS
causing to his wife, grievous bodily harm Sarah, the previous day. tated
Detectivo-Sergeant Pelling
to
Busmen Told To Defy Air Raids Order
The Central Bus Committee of Transport and General the Workers' Union has instructed members to stop their buses at the nearest shelter, when the sirens sound, advise the passen- gers to take cover, and do sq themselves.
This is contrary to regulations 15sucd by the London Passenger Transport Board, which state that buses must continue to run.
The committee has given a pledge to support any member against whom disciplinary action is taken as a result of the decision to cease running.
Board Surprised
A Transport Bourd official said that Healey went to the flat where "We have not heard officially of this his
£1,250 For Leg Not ms wife was living with another resolution and cannot understand it.
Enough, Says Judge
מון
admission. He
"Our regulation is that when a siren is sounded buses and trams shall stop to allow people who wish to do so to allght. The vehicles then proceed on service.
was swinging a bayonet, and told his wife that he would stick the bayonet In the man if he saw him.
Mrs. Healey attempted to snatch When a claim for personal injuries the bayonet away, and received cuts "If raiders are in the immediate by Kraneth James Deon (10), of the
one hand which needed six vicinity or even if gunfire is heard! Kennels, Dagnall, Bucks, was settled
stitches.
drivers should pull up near a curb for £1,250 in the King's Bench Divi-
Healey told a police offices, "I care or into a side street if possible and sion, Mr. Justice Oliver said that did back from the hell of Dunkirk to find with the conductors seek shelter not seem enough for a lost leg.
my wife. Alving..with another men. immediately. They may use their Mr. C. L. Henderson, for
for plaintiff,
1 did not mean the bayonet for my own discretion when to stop and take said Dean was pillion passenger on wife but for the man."
a motor-cycle when it collided with Healey told the Bench that he was:
one of 20
who men
ol came out
cover."
of 1,100 men in his battalion. Nazis Serve Up New
a car owned by defendant, Mr. Pawell Bayralne, of Luscombe Road, France Dunstable.
Не had no intention of using the Mr. Tristram Beresford, K. C. (for bayonet. He would have put it defendant) said: There may be aaway and given the підп a. good second retion by the cyclist, in which thrashing with his fists. case I don't think defendant will be He was bound over for twelve quite so generous.
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Lt. Huth As Air Hero
to
cookers The Nazi communique having perfected, the technique of going into reverse and clalaing British air successes as their own, to provide be scem now
trying their public with a national air hero. They have produced a figure de- scribed us. Commodore-Li. Huth, leader of the Horst Wessel Squadron, as a successor to Richtofen, German bir nce of the last war. This Lt. Huth, if Indeed there is such a per- son. is credited by the Nazi pro- pagandists with bringing down, with the old of his squadron, BL British "planes
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