SIAM DISTRUSTS JAPANESE
Ex-King Fears Invasion
Ex-King Prajadhipok of Siam broke, his long silence about Far Eastern affairs and talked to me in his Virginia Water home of his country's position and his forebodings for the future, writes a "Dolly Telegraph" reporter.
Throughout our conversation the ex-King spoke of Simm, not of Thailand, explaining that he had not become used to the new name: He insisted that the views he gave me were his per sonal ones.
He denied that Siamese poli- tles are dictated by the Japan- ese, and said that Slam's claim against Indo-China, which
amounted to not more than a rectifiention of the frontier, was a long-standing one and was not made at Japan's instigation.
He thought it possible thut, despite the armistice between Simm und Indo-China, Bghting might break out again. Then the Japanese might NOY! We must have peace there," and occupy Indo-China.
Japanese Found off
Naval Base
E. SAKAMOTO, owner of n Japanese fishing vessel, was fin "But I do not think Japan wants ed $100 in a Singapore court to fight there yet," he continued. "1 recently when he was convicted think she would rather wait to see on a charge of entering Admir- what happens in Europe before courting G night there. But she tity waters with aliens aboard might count on no one helping Indo- without permission in writing Ching and the French alone could from the King's Harbour not do much to stop her.
Master.
Japanese "Friendship”
"If the Japanese want to use the land route to Singapore they must occupy French Indo-China aud then invade Slam. We know that Siam figures 118 Japanese schemes of expansion. The Japanese try to make out that
they the friends of Slam. They said to the Chinese, We love you very much, and look what happened there.
the
Bre
"Siam does not want to be under
direction of
nation. I am of any sure that that is the policy of the present
n! Government. It has been the traditional policy of all the kings of Slum to be friendly with Great Britain and the British Empire, That
Sgt Thomas Moran, of the Naval Water Police, said that on the afternoon of April 16 the sounds of the engine of a vessel off the Naval Bage attracted his attention.
There was a heavy downpour of rain at the time, but he went out and saw a vessel, a motor launch circling
around
Admiralty
waters. He boarded, it and found Sakamoto steering the launch. Sakamoto could not produce a permit for cruising in Admiralty waters.
Claimed Licence
Making an unsworn statement,
is the keystone of all Siamese Sakamoto said he had a licence for] foreign policy and I have no reason the last six or seven years to cruise to suppose that policy has been along the Johore coast.
That morning the engine of his launch had just been repaired and he was trying it out.
changed.
To me it would seem that Siam would be behaving almost suleidally if she were to make herself Brituln's encty,"
Austria Has Artificial Fog Creator
He did not know he was commll- ting an offence, he said, by steering the ship to that part of the Straits,
Africa Duty For Seized Internees
Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRA
May 14, 1941;
BRITAIN'S MIGHTIEST-Gonoral drill takes place beneath the turret of quadruplo 14-inch guns aboard Britain's newest and mightiest battleship, King George V. It was this ship that took Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, to the United States. The ship has secondary armamont of 5-inch guns,
Raschid Ali Reveals
Terms
For Mediation By Turkey
ANKARA, May 13 (Reuter).-Raschid All's terms for Turkish mediation, delivered by Haji Sayid Shawkat, the Iraqi Defence Minister, are reliably reported to be as follows:
(1) British troops landing at Basra should not remain there but proceed to a
destination outside Iraq;
(2)
Raschid All, while agreeing to an increase in the number of British troops in Iraq. insists that such increase and the manner it is carried out must be determined and settled by a joint Anglo-Iraq Commission.
Since these two points are: contrary to the terms of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty, it is felt in Ankara that there is very little chance of Shawkat's visit being successful to the rebels.
Mission
Royal Empire Society
Concluded Building Hit In
The Iraqi Legation at Ankora has refused any statement other than
Blitz
that Shawkat's mission has concluded. LONDON, May 13 (Reuter).-The Royal Empire Society's nifhough he is stuying on for a few building in London, which is well-known to visitors all over the days, probably to see fierr von world, was severely damaged in recent air raids. Paper, it is
suggested.
Library, involving between 12,000 and 15,000 books, was destroyed. In addition, be-
Raschid All's attempt to declare a Practically the entire Law holy war against Beltuin is ridiculed and makes the rebels doubly gulity against their own people, who owe their independence to Britain.
Egypt's Offer Rejected tween 10,000 and 12,000 books CAIRO, May 13 (Reuter)—Ac-] were destroyed in the newspaper knowledging Egypt's offer of media- room, including the whole of the tion, the Raschid Ali administration, British Empire section. while thanking Egypt for the offer, state that they are avalling them selves of the Turkish ofter which was received - first.
Evacuates Reach India KARACHI, May 13 (Reuter) — Sixty British evacuees, women and here.
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The Famous 51st Were at Arras
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Hongkong Telegraph...
ARTIFICIAL fog creators have been fitted up at Wiener į
One hundred former members Neustadt, in Austrin, and other of the International Brigade precautions against R.A.F. raids which fought on the Govern- have been taken in this area. ment's side in the Spanish civil where 60,000 people are
the Argeles internment camp ployed in war industries.
One works there is turning and sent to North Africa, re- out 250 various aeroplanes aports Associated Press from month, in addition to tanks and other weapons, and employs 32,000 hands.
Other losses involved were the The complete section of foreign colonisa- tion, as well as irreplaceable foreign periodicals and official, journals of. Sir-In reply to "51st Division" I former German and other colonies may stale that I was a member of The entire Hind collection of books the 4th Gordons 154 Brigade (51st December, 1917 and braltar and Maltu sections were also Christmas Day at Mount Saint Eloi
recollect clearly
that I spent Gbout 11 kilometres from Arras) so The administrative quarters 10- gether with its india Hoom, Newtherefore the 31st Highland Division Zealand Room and social rooms were must have been in the Arras Sector
nl the Line then. gutted.
cm- war were forcibly taken from children from Iraq, have arrived concerning East Africa and the G Division) in
Vichy.
It is presumed that the men will be put to work on the Trans-Sabaran Railway which the French Govern-
Wiener Neustadt is probably Germent has ordered to be built. many's-largest-production-area. Pilot schools and dlve-bombing and
parachute training grounds are also and members of the youth group,
in the neighbourhood.
The report said gendarmes, soldiers Compagnons de France, encircled the camp and barracks while four gen- darmes took each man to a truck,
Woman Internees threw sand
A specially roticeable recent pre- caution in Germany is the evacuation
In of children from large centres to Austria and Italy. A group of such, the funds' eyes, children tried to children went to Italy recently. fight the police and some of the men These moves seem to belle the Nazi resisted and were knocked down and party prophecies that the war will dragged away.
soon be over.
Gold-Bearing Australian
Fish Found
Cabinet's Dilemma
Morrison Rebukes Lady M.P.
The girl was posing as a Czech re-
lost,
Sold Torpedo
To U.S.
Good OLD 51st."
Hess Popularity Fund Suggested
suggest
Sir,-As a means of augmenting the Bember Fund, may I that you be kind enough to insert the following in your paper.
Rudolf Hess Popularity Fand
out for a walk. A dantor, driving The total will be Herr Hess' donation
St Nicholas-terrace, New to our Bomber Fund.
MRS TATE, Conservative
Inventor Found Shot M.P. for Frome, was rebuked in
Colonel Michael Borisslavsky, the House of Commons recently
information formidable-looking White Rus- for blurting out that she should have given sin, told his friends that he
The above Fund has as its object privately to the Home Secretary, had sold a new torpedo that he the valuation of Hess' popularity in
She
have had made allegations had been working on for months Hongkong. What would you
Was taken against a German domestic ser to the American War Depart-given to hear that he
ment. It would mean £100,000 send in the amount or as
prisoner, before he was? Please vant, Sophie Spielman.
close 05 to him, he said. These were that:-
you can get, in order that this He was so excited about the news gentleman's valuation muy be fugee when she arrived. In Britain that he could not sleep. So he went published in Saturday's "Telegraph.” In 1938;
was engaged to She had been sent from Berlin to York, found him dead, shot through
Prague for three months only to one eye. kew, Japanese-occupied section. Mr W. M: Hughes, the Austra- qualify as a Czech; and of Shanghai's International Set-lian Attorney-General and Minig. While employed in officers' billets that had passed through the colonel's
here she had expressed,
licad. Their only cluic is an anony- deep tlement, is reported to have ter for the Navy, has admitted
desire to engage in espionage for mous warning that the colonel re- bought a frozen fish containing that the Government had no
eclved in his mall three years" ago. the Nazis. 13 ounces of gold in its stomach. power to compel Lady Blamey, Mira Tate, asked the Home Secre- Japanese gendarmerie officials, to wife of Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas tory to state where and how the whom the gold was turned over, be- Blamey, Commander-in-Chief of was registered as an enemy
tirl had been employed since lieve that the gold was part of a small fortune smuggled from Chefoo the Australian Imperial Forces on reaching her 16th birthday. into Shanghal by some Chinese.
In the Middle East, to return to
Under Auspices was discovered while Mr Australia from Egypt.
Mr Herbert Morrison repiled that
Reminiscent of some of Rip- ley's "Believe It or Not" tales, "R} Japanese restaurant in Hong-
She
Naz) officer;
ulong
she
allen
Police could not find the bullet
H.C.
DEATH DUTIES AMELIORATION Persons Killed By Enemy
LONDON, May 13 (Reuter). -Estates of civilians killed by
enemy action will henceforth not
be liable to death duties on the normal scale.
ITALIAN BRASS HATS SEE INDIA SIMLA, May 13 (Router).It is Sato, proprietor of the restaurant, Lady Blamey, after leaving a girl named Sophie Spielman, now officially announced that Italian war
prisoners
India include 20 of raw fish lovers. Slitting open the Sydney to visit her husband in 1ged 172,arrived in Britain in June, encrals and one admiral while stomach, Mr Sato encountered a hard January, was asked by the Aus- British Committee for uefugees, but second admirul is shortly to be ex-of the armed forces killed on active.
The gold was set about preparing a succulent dluh
ment
weight.
Jack Benny Gets Salary Raise
was
the
In
Rellef will be granted on the samo terms as those applying to members
service.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer accom told the House of Commons to-day made rostrospective to the beginning Four that the new arrangement would be
WHITE HOUSE PICKETS
Dr
camps have
are
being
1939, under the auspices ol substance, and then to his astonish tralian Cabinet to return to Aushe knew of no grounds for suggesting
pected.
Camps are designed to drew out three pieces of tralia, on the grounds that they that she had posed as a Czech. gold, each neatly labelled with its wished strictly to adhere to their had a Ciech passport and she was sured by two infantry battalion
Later It Later
nscertained that she modste 3,000 prisoners each. decision not to issue passports re-registered ES being of Czech guarded of the war.
Seven such groups of to wives, flancees, women rela-nationality. Since her arrival in
been established tives or friends of the A.I.F. Enginnd she had been employed established, abroad.
as a domestic servant.
"Your Duty" Jack Benny has signed a new radio of Lady Blamey being allowed to
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI contract which will pay him $17,500 proceed if she were selected to assist the girl was engaged to
·SPECIAL TO THE ""TELEGRAPHIE.
WASHINGTON, May 13 (UP). a week, officials of the National, in the management of a women's officer, was now working in officers'
VICHY, May 13 (UP)—The Vice- The American. Peaco Mobilisation Broadensting Company said.
canteen service which might be billets here, and had expressed
Premier,
Admiral Darlan, arrived desire to be a Nazi spy, Mr. Morri-
group continued its, Ofth day of here from Paris at 6.15 p.m. on a picketing before the White House son said sternly:"
"I think if Mrs. Tate had Ust special train and immediately under a special police guard. Information in her possession she Ported the details of his conversations should have given It privately. with Hitler, Ribbentrop and Abetz It is the duty of a citizen, let to Marshal Petain with whom he was alone an M.P., to convey informs- closeted alone.
IF YOUR BREATH HAS
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CAN'T FEEL WELL
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There was some question, however, Dealing with the allegations Ua
established in the Middle East.
Members of the War Council and the, Cabinet are reported to be very concerned lest Lady Blamey ignores the Cabinet's request to retum.
Smaller Newspapers
In Britain
tion to the Home Office.
Nozl
է
7 will take note of the allega- tions, but it would be more useful if Members having information convey it
In order to reduce Imports of pulp against people should
pulpwood and newsprint, all British privately, instead of blowing
newspapers, have, at theʻ request of whole thing up in public," the Government, agreed to make a
the
DARLAN RETURNS
SWEDES FIRE
ON PLANES
of
South, Sweden,
Last night, 20 soldiers, sailors and Marines attacked the marchers and one man was injured.
STOCK EXCHANGE
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