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MILITARY MOVES
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BRITISH ASSETS
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Washington Conference WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Reuter). The liquidation of British market- able securities in the United States was the subject of 'a conference bé-
Lend and Lease Bill Fortifications At tween the Secretary of the Treasury
WASHINGTON; Jan. 24 (Reuter). --- General George Mar shai, Admiral Harold Stark and Major-General Breit, Comman der-in-Chief of the Army, Chlef of Naval Operations and Acting Chief of the Air Corps respectively, have declined to give evid- ence before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Lease and Lend Bill except in a secret session.
Announcement of this by the Committee Chairman angered
Mr Hamilton Fish (Republican) Burma-China
who told the press that he would
insist that the service experts
appear before a public session.
He declared that the Democratic majority were trying to arrange to
Highway
Shumchun
NORTH KWANGTUNG, ` Jan. 25
(Central News)--The Japancao
and British here to-day.
Sir Frederick Philips, of the Brush
Drury,
is quoted by the Dow-
rate.
Agency as saying that Hqulda- are proceeding at a satisfactory
Command in Canton has made special
The Trensury estimates that at military preparations both on land December 31. British holdings 3:1 and In the Pearl River,
marketable United States securities The Garrison Headquarters of the amounted to $610,000,000. Bocen
Tigris Forts has been instruct- Other quarters state that British ed to take extra precautionary men-clals will shortly reach the United sures in the Pearl River while about States with a list of direct invest- 2,000 Chinese able-bodied men have ments which may be sold to United been commandeered and sent to Stales interests. construct defences,
their at mints of Chaoan (Churchow) smart recovery of Kaflrs on recent
Mutual Satisfaction CHUNGKING, Jan. 25 (Reuter)—~ hear the service men privately, odd-The opening of the Burma-Yunnan Ing, "the majority are afraid of what highway and of direct relations they might say after what Colonel between China and Burma have Lindbergh said yesterday about the necessitated · adjustment of Impossibility of this country being mutual relations inn number of invaded."
directions, said Mr 11. Craw; leader The Committee rejected by 13 of the Burmese Mission here.
againat 10 a motion by Mr Fish to save General Marshall, Admiral Stark and Major-General Brett from testifying publicly and decided to in vile them to testify in secret.
Coal Burning Car Tested In China
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All these questions have been dis russed with the Chinese Government in a cordial friendly atmosphere and the results can be regarded as satis- factory, he added.
Attack at Chaoan
STOCK EXCHANGE HINGNING, Jan. 24 (Central: Kaffirs' Smart Recovery News) Chinese guerilla bonds
LONDON, Jan. 24 (Reuter)-One operating in the Chaoan-Swatow area of the outstanding features, of made a sudden attack at the outer Stock Exchange to-day was defence
an January 18. The sellers turning buyers. Japanese troops stationed at these Elsewhere business was mainly points were put to rout and iwo slow. Industrials, after hesitation, bridges and many telephone wires became steady un the announcement outside the south gate of Chroan city that Woolworth's dividend for the were destroyed.
year was maintained at 65 per cent. Aircraft Bomb Japanese Among foreign shares, Belgian four
January 25, 1941.
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CHANGTEH, Jan. 24 (Central per cent, and San Paulo seven per News) —Japonese troops at Kiang-cent, coffee loan were prominent. The Mission has been studying kow on the north bank of the Yangtze Wall Street was steady. trade communications here. It lenveativer below Ichang were heavily to-morrow for Rangoon,
tion at the fortitude of the Chinese
in Chungking who, despite air raida, KUNMING, Jan. 24 (Central have rebuilt their lives and bust- News)-Mr. Chang Wei-yung, Hie nesses. inventor of a coal-burner engine fur
the
Oxenham Dead
Mr Craw, who is Chancellor to the of Chinese planes, resulting in a num-
bombed on January 20 by a squadron Mendoza Becoming A Burma Governor, expressed admira- ver of casunities.
Pan-American Issue RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 24 (Reuter)-A joint protest by all American republics against the deten LONDON, Jan. 24 (Reuter)--John tion of the French stearner, Mendoza, the most prolife authors of best-the Pan-American neutrality zone is Oxeniam, the novelist and one of by a British armed cruiser within sellers for over 30 years, died to-day the Foreign Minister of Panama to suggested in a communication from
all Chancelleries of the American re- publics
trucks, has been granted a five-year Hon. Mr R. A. C. North monopoly of his invention by
As Col. Secretary
Central Authorities.
To-day's Government "Gazelle" the
at the age of 80.
His Excellency the Offer Adminis-
Only four ounces of coal ore required for a distance of one 11; thei coal-burner engine can reach 150 carries the announcement that per hour. The engine does not dum-Hon. Mr R. A. C. North, Secretary tering the Government has been At the origin of this communication age the cylinder and is adapted to for Chinese Affairs, has been ap- pleased to appoint the Honourable Mr was a note addressed to the Govern the use of both cual and charcoal pointed to act as Colonial Secretary Alexander Bruce Purves, Director of ment of Panama by the Brazilian
with effect from January 25. The
the Public Works Department, to be
Foreign Minister describing the appointment has been made by His Excellency the Officer Administering Accommodation Officer, vice Henry seizure of the Mendoza as
from January 19.
New Vichy Council
Nortvernment, Lieut-General E. F. Joseph Pearce, Esq., M.c., with effect)
VICHY, Jan. 24 (Reuter) ~A body There is also an announcement that called the "National Council" and Mr B. C. K. Hawkins has been "Gazette states that Mr. Seik! Yano, A notification in the Government comprfaling some 200 members is to pointed nct as Secretary for be co
constituted
ted by law, according to Chinese Affairs. In addition to his Consul-General for Jupan at Hong- the "Gazette" to-day.
other duties, with effect from January kong, resumed charge of the Con- 25.
Its funcions will be purely can- sultative. Members will represent all "essential elementa“ of French Hfe, Meetings will be secret with the head of the State, Marshal Petain, deckting on any details for publication.
ARE SEA MARIA KIT MATKATE
MARTIAL law will be enforced in Canton from January 23 to February 3 on the occasion of the Chinese New Year says "Ta Kung Pao."
sulate-General on January 23.
LONDON. Jan. 24 (Reuter),—A United States delegation has arrived the United Kingdom 10 discuss leased bases, it was officially an- nounced in London ils evening.
act."
"hostile
Willkie At Lisbon
The Yankee Clipper, with Mr Wen- dell Willkic aboard, arrived at Lisbon this morning. Mr Willie is en route to England,
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Reuter).--
Mr D. P. Legge has been appointed 2123 acting Sub-Lieutenant in the Hungkong Naval Volunteer Force with effect from January 5,
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