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February 5, 1941.
Chungking Has Need JAPANESE Nazi Hit And Run
Of Much More Aid
·FROM. PAGE: "ONE|
urgent Importance of more than mere credits and more than mere materials, (although theso alone are credited by Informed Chungking circles with having recently enabled Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek's government to survive more than one internal crisis.
BELLIGERENT
RIGHTS
May Yet Declare
War On China.
Raids Few Results
.FROM PAĆE ONE
[brought down this month without loss
to the British.
SPECIAL TO THE “TELEĠRAPHY sorlous
London Raide LONDON, Feb. 4, (UP).~An air Įrald alarm was sounded in the London aren at 7 pm. after which the anti- throw TOKYO, Feb. 4 (Domel). The aircraft guns
up a heavy The encouragement lent by tangible Japanese Government is contemplat- barrage. The alarm followed fine American assistance was cited to me ing the exercise of belligerent rights weather over the Siraits of Dover, as the Generallaxiino's strongest wea- which will be hivoked if the mill-It was possible to see the cliffs be-
tween pon against whisperings of the Chin-tary deem necessary, the Foreign Boulogne and Calais.
Minister, Mr Yosuke Matsuoka, de-
At 8
8 p.m. riders were over a West ese peace porty, against the serious
by Inflation and clared problems created
at the plenary session of the Midland town. commodity hoarding and even against House of Representatives Budget recalcitrant Chinese Communists who
who Committee
to-day.
Intai had asked almost succeeded a few weeks ago
Gave Shinzo in precipitating a large-scale civil
4nment how to deal with war. While the seriousness of these internal dangers was great at times
slackened her efforts in this
Advance Into Abyssinia
·FROM PAGE ONE
Al 8.40 p.m. the barrage in London was resumed after a lengthy lull. the Kalders were over Liverpool and the another northwest town, as well as of materials by third, Powers over the East Midlands. to ald the Chiang Kai-shek regime, The Ale Ministry announced; during the last quarter of
of 1040, there urging
enforcement of "thorough-Small-scale attacks were carried out appears to be ample evidence that going measures" In invocation of hel- last night by aircraft of the Constal strong measures adopted by Gen-lgerent rights.
Command on Brent followed by fur- crolissimo Chiang Kai-shelt saved the The Foreign Minister-added, how-er attacks on the same scale fust situation for the time being, at least. ever, that it was still under contem- before dawn to-day."
Russian Aid
platipa whether the exercise of bel- Soviet Russia, America's principal gerent rights would go to the partner in supplying material aid to
extreme
Asked by Mr Yusuke Tsurumi direction during the latter half of
whether the influence of Communists 1910 but this apparently was due
in China would not have, malicious mbre to Russia's own requirements effects even when an understanding resulting from the European situation is reached benveen Nanking and the than to any serious change in Sino-Chiang Kai-shek regime, Mr Yosuke, Russian relations. Moscow may have Matsuoka sald that it was because of been motivated also by a desiro
sire to
this possibility that the Sino-Japanese cut off small groups of stragglers in emphasize (through their temporary
basic
has provided for the the mountains,
Mule Tracks absence) the usefulness of various stationing of
of troops on the Mongolian
The difficulty of making progress aviation and other technical missions Frontler and in North China, which were withdrawn from
rom China
Questioned by
by the
same interpella-along the mule track which they have last year, but the best informed
Chin-
tor, the Foreign Minister asserted that to follow has obliged the enemy to ese circles express satisfaction with the assistance
Russla
is extending now and apparently are
ally are confident of in- crpased assistance in the future. There is no
no fear among Chinese lead. ers of a Russo-Japanese rapproche- ment which would interfere with this. and the Intest remarks of the Soviet Ambassador at Chungking, whom I saw last week, tend to support this view.
Vast Improvement. From China's viewpoint, the inter- national situation
vast improvement in the last
It was doubly Important for opera- cast aside their surplus equipment, for including a number of tanks and to secure Kund.
lons against wall and
Japan's southward the understanding of the overseas In northern Abyssinia, the Italians Chinese In
the South Seas. He continue to retreat towards Gondar. claimed that the Chinese the They are putting obstacles in the way
in South were gradually realising of the pursuing British forces, but it Japan's aims and changing their past is learnt that these have reached a anti-Japanese attitude.
point some 30 miles from Sudanese frontier.
Publish Assetu
Mr Tsurumi suggested that recent aggravation of anti-Japanese feeling in the United States might be attri buted to under-estimation of Japan's
Chinese Consular Changes
the
has und three national resources. He asked whether: months, The apparent turning of the tide in the European war to the detriment of the Axis position, the stronger policy in old of both Britain and China adopted by the United States, the extension of additional American credits and the reopening of the Burma Road are the outstand~| Japanese-American relations are as the Executive Yuan yesterday. Ing developments which have given the Chinese fresh hope and hardened their determination to reject Japanese
it would not be possible to give de Anlte- national resources.
figures Indleating Japan's New Minister To Brazil
CHUNGKING, Feb. 5 The Foreign Minister reiterated that
(Central Japan's foreign policy in futtire would News) -Mr Samuel Sung Young be conducted with the three-Power (Halung Chung-chih), Minister to pact as its axle. "It is rare that Brazil, was relieved of his post by
peace offers,.
The vicissitudes of travel and trofe over the Burma Road, by the way, are typical of conditions preva-
seriously affected
by
10
American
Dr Tan Shno-hua, Minister declared, adding that efforts would be him while Mr T. K. Cling (Cheng [husion as nowadays," Mr Matsuoka Mexice, was transferred to succeed continued hereafter to make clear to Tien-ku) was appointed to succeed the American people Japan's true in- Mr Tan as Minister to Mexico. tentions, national strength, and C3- the determination of the
lent to-day throughout Free China. } pecially alon. "Ve hope to make Kwanglung, graduated from the Uni-
Japanese bombers bused in Indo- China had succeeded last week in again making impassable both bridges across the Mekong River. A foreigner who arrived at Chungking a few days ogo, having driven tram Lashio to Kunming, described the serious con- gestion of trucks which has resulted on both sides of the river. While the bridges are being repaired, a single ferry is carrying automobiles and heavily-laden trucks across the river. It is quite inadequate to the task but it is keeping a trickle of cargo moving both ways along the road, and meanwhile the work of repairing the bridges is being rushed under the direction of the Chinese military.
The traveller Interviewed by the writer at Chungking said that Japan- ese bombing of the bridges, which eventually had made them tem- porarily Impassable, was far from accurate and that scarcely one bomb hundred bud found its objective. The hills both sides of the river were heavily marked with craters caused by bombs dropped Inaccurate- ly from Japanese plates attacking from high altitudes,
Foreigners who have studied the ourstion of transport vin the Burma Road
seem to be unanimously of the opinion that the present system transport and the existing measures for defending the vitally important bridges are both capable of vast im- provement. As this road now pro- vides the principal channel of trade between the United States and Free China, questions concerning expected to be among those claiming Mr Currie's attention during his forthcoming visit,
of
clear to the American people the fact that our nation is firmly resolved to fight for the realisation of their great Ideal,
Dr Tan, a native of Toishan,
versity of Shanghal and the Chicago University. He was a member of the Treaty Commission of the Minia try of Foreign Affairs, senior secre- The Foreign Minister agreed with tary of the same Ministry, and then the Interpellator in the advisability Minister to Mexico since February, of giving figures indicating the status 1937. of Japan...
Heroism In Retreat
Mr Ching, born in Kwangtung in 1800, attended the University Chicago and the University of Call- fornia, graduating from the latter in 1913. Upon returning to China, he joined the revolutionary movement time as secretary to Dr Sun Yat-sen. Later he was ap LONDON, Feb. 4 (Reuter)-After pointed
Publie all brother officers had been killed Works In
Boulogne Street Fighting
and acted for
and was at the
or wounded, Captain J. C. W. Lewis, same time, Managing Director of the of the Welsh Guarda, held the rem- Star Leather Co., Tal Sing Copper in the streets of Boulogne last May nants_of_his_company_for_36 hours Mill, and the Sand-Lime Brielt Co. despite intense enemy fire until he too was wounded.
After resigning his Commissioner-
ship, he became Dean of the College He was later captured-he was of Law and Political Science of the believed killed-but managed to es- University of Kwangtung. At the expe. Capl Lewis is now awarded same time he served as legal adviser the D.SO. for gallant and dis- to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. tinguished services in the field. $
After the formation of the National Government In Nanking, he was op- HOME, Feb. 4 (UP).—The Stefar pointed Director of the Board of news agency reports from Vichy that | Customs of the Ministry of Finance TM. Baudoin has been named Pic in 1927. He was for a time secretary sident of the Administrative Counell to the late Mr Hu Han-hin, cx- of the Bank of Indo-China,
President of the Legislative Yuan.
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