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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 1, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
HEY NOT DAT SIDE! D' WAR IS OVER HERE!
BUT TH RAILROAD
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AND
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FRANCE NOT TO FIGHT BRITAIN
M. Laval's Assurances.
Special to the "Telegraph”.
VICHY, Oct. 31 (UP).-M. Pierre Laval to-day indicated that France would have no part in 1 against Britain.
U.S. To Build Ships U.S. Interest In Vichy
For Britain
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UP). The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, said the Brlilsh| Government has placed orders with American builders for a "Iargo num- ber" of new freight ships.
Won't Disclose Details WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Reuter).
Policy Answered
French Ambassador, to-day gave the State Department renewed WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Reuter).-M. Henri Haye, the assurance that the United States had nothing to fear from possible developments affecting French possessions in the West-
ern Hemisphere.
The fact that the Brilsh Govern- Mrs. Earl Browder ring with Mr. Sumner Weiles, M.
warment had ordered a large number of freighters from the United States was disclosed by Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, to-day.
He stressed that collaboration with Germany would be colonial as well as economic, but he emphasised that "collabora- tion excludes all ideas of aggression.”
Talking to pressmen after confer- Haye said he had delivered assurances To Leave
that negotiations between France, WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Reuter).the question of any cession of terri- Germany and Italy did not involve tory or a separate peace with Ger-
A message received from night, he said, devied that Vicity Just hud inade any proposal for formal
He said that he did not know The Department of Justice has order- whether the orders involved the con-ed deportation to Russia of Mrs, many
truction of a new shipyard in the Raissa Berkman Browder, wife of The Vichy Foreign Minister, ing France taken at the Florence United States for exclusive British Earl Browder, the Communist leader, stated this when he received the meeting between Ilitler and Musso-use and declined to give details be-on the ground that she entered the press at the llotel Matignon in ini, are likely to be the subject of yond saying that the British had United States illegally.
a speech which Hitler will shortly standard-type freight ship.
ordered a large number of one Paris to-night.
make at a specially convened meeting, of the Reichstag
He warned his hcarers that negotiations between France and Germany would be very diillcult as long as military operations continued. However, he declared that France was preparing a preclse answer to the German questionnaire and hoped to be able to give an answer soon,
Florence Meeting
Viceroy Of India To Stay
10,000-Ton Vessela
The Browders were married in Moscow in 1926.
31
British Garrison In Mr. Arthur Purvis, head of the
Iceland Visited British Purchasing Mission, later ex- plained that he was trying especially;
LONDON, Oct. to buy 10,000 ton cargo vessels.
(Reuter) General Viscount Gort, Inspector- The number to be purchased would General of the Forces for Training. LONDON, Oet, 31 (Reuter).-Lord depend largely on the number avail has returned to England after a Linlithgow's term of office as Viceroyable. Some might be purchased in fortnight's visit to the troops In lee- ZURICH, Oct. 31 (Reuter)-Bed-of India is extended for a further Canada but the bulk of business was land, according to a War Omee an- sions of capital importance concern-period of a year from April, 1941, expected to go to American ship-nouncement.
yards.
Refreshing!
U.B.
BEER
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peace in the negotiailans,
M. Haye added that he had not yet celved any reply from Marshal Petaln to President Roosevelt's message with regard to French possessions in the Western Hem!s- phere..
Former British Judge In China Dead Sir Frederick Bourne, Judge of his Majesty's Supreme Court at Welhalwei from 1904 to 1916, died at the Firs, Mayfleld, on August 23,
Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne was born on October 3, 1054, his father being the Rev. S. W. Bourne. He was educated at St. Edmund's School, Canterbury, and in became a clerk in the Wor Three years later he joined the China
Service and in 1885-80
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service exploring
the country ban Tonking.
1800 he
For ha services at Chungking in he received the thanks of the President of the United States.
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In 1890 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn
Inn, and three years later was appointed vice-consul Canton. He was consul in charge of the Blackburn Commercial Mission in 1800-907. Before being elevated to his judgeship at Welhaiwel, he had been from 1901 to 1916 Assistant Judge of his Majesty's Supreme Court for Chinu und Corca Shanghai,
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In 1889 he married Isabel Alice, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. J. Chalmers, and had two sons and daughter.
MR. KENNEDY'S FUTURE
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NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (Reuler). The U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, may become head: of the Defence Commission, the "Barnie Baruch of the new War." if President Roosevelt is re- elected.
World
This is suggested by two noted columnists in the "New York World- Telegram."
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