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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH↔ TOKYO, July 8 (Domel).--The Emperor has been pleased to confer regular decorations on 4,800 military and civil omcinis to-day,
Recipients of the decorations in- clude Lieut-General Fuxozo Adneli! who has been decorated with the First Class Order of the Sacred Trea- sure.
Second Class Orders of the Sacred Trensure have been granted to Mr Yasuya Ino, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Major-General Yuitsu Tuchihashi,
Gen- Major-General shiro Hishida, Major-General Hal- shiro Sumita (in Indo-China), and Major-General Iyonli Katoh, Mr Chiyukichi Bata, Naval Engineer, and! Rear-Admirals Kiyoyasu Sosaki, Shigeru Dukudome, Sadakichi Shim- Shigeru Dukudome, Sakakichi Shimo- be and Eicht Mizuno.
Reds Release Axis Consul
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" HSINKING, July 8 (Domel),—- Signor Jarnel, Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, detained by the Soviet kuthorities near the Soviet-Manchouktio
border while
travelling across Siberia with Lieut- Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita and other members of the Japanese Military Mission on June 22, will be released to the German Consul at Manchoull' on July & as the result of diplomatie negotiations, it was learned to-day.
Litvinov Defies Nazi Might
FROM PAGE ONE
the part of non-aggression between the two countries, confirmed by Hiller in repeated and solemn de- clarations,, ins furnished the world with frush and Overwhelming evidence that no country, whatever its politics, can feel secure as long as Nazisin and Hitlerism exit.
One At A Time
Hitler's chict aim is to strike one
adversary at a time. That is why we should strike together and simul- taneously and untiringly. Each blow struck now will be ten times more Effective and will entall infinitely less Biture and sacrifice than it de
later.
WARSAW TRAFFIC — Log-drivon bicyclo-taxis have replaced mator vehicles on stroots of Warsaw, Poland, because of lack of gasoline. Here are two Nazi airmen on leave, looking over ruins Nazi Luftwaffe made of capital city..
Girls Share
In In Saving Bank In Fire Blitz
A remarkable story of the courage and endurance of an office fire-fighting party of eight men and seven women who saved a bank building in London in the big fire blitz on the night of May 10 is related in a report to the Ministry of Home Security.
Cripps With Stalin
LONDON,
July 8
(Reuter).
The party, wrined with three gar- den hoses fed from storage tanks, and Ave stirrup pumps, saw building! after ballding catch fire, and a ring
to-day of flame advancing upon them from Moscow Radio announced all sides.
that Sir Stafford Cripps, the Brilish After paying tribute to the states- They had the cholee of abandon-Ambassador, was received by M.
revealed manlike acumen
in Mr
Ing, while there was time, the bulld- Stalin and had over an hour's con- Or the ing in which their office was situated, versation. day of the Gernuan nitack, 1. Litor of staying on with the risk of
Churchill's announcement
vinoy suit that "we no less recognise their retreat being cut of. The LATE NEWS
what the menace of a Hitler victory | stayed on.
In the West World would constitute for us."
No Insurance In Peace M. Litvinov soit, "No peace that could be made would be protection Against a renewed attack at any time. Without war, Hitler can see no point
in
Eventually, the roof of the next- door building burst into flames, and the party began the long night's! battle.
Leader's Story
The leader of the party tells the story" in these words: "I tell four men to look after this job, while the aked in blood, towns re- rest of us turned to the south to de- duccil to smoke and heaps of ashes; tend ourselves on that side- By the hunger and poverty, the tears of mothers, wives and sisters-all these me I had got to the other side, the compose the element in which Hiller girls had the sparks
under control. feels happy and_comfortable.
"The Soviet Government was al- most the first to realise the danger
to the world of Nazi aggressiveness,
appealing to all nations to curb and organise resistance to it. This is not the moment to go into the question why these repented appeals of the Soviel Governnient did not yield the desired result."
on
roof
the
"I put two porters to drenching the end of the wall of the building on the east side, and they had not been long at this work when the entire roof caught are and smoke and Hames started to flow over usin waves. After a while, we had to start retreating from the fire. Then part of a neighbouring bullding fell in on our side of the wall.
Girl Falls Into Fire
Accident On The Taipo Road
Vichy-Berlin Policy bearing better on the fire, Marjorie Road at Shatin inst night, the soldier
To Split U.S. Unity
Sergt-Major Woods of the Royal Artillery was discovered by a pass- the Taipo "In her eagerness to get her Jeting motorist, lying in one of the girls, ran forward with having apparently fallen from his a nozzle and fell off the roof into motor cycle, the fire. We immediately turned
Woods was taken to the Kowloon our hoses on to her. I realized that Hospital, but it was found that he FROM PAGE ONE
the men Inside the next building was not seriously injured. might not have heard her scream. It was useless to shout,
but, in a were which would be far-reaching in the matter of seconds, porters diplomatic field,
there and they carried her inside to Many German leaders consider a policeman, who had come to our that the Russian campaign will be help and who looked after her while
on.
ended with the occupation of Mos-e else had smoke got more
cow, Leningrad and Klev, in order to avold German forces being involved intense. in a kind of Chinese war.
New Peace Offer
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roof and walls of The warehouse got so hot that the water we were pouring on dried off as quickly as it fell. Suddenly, the re- mainder of the roof of the next building fell in, and portion of it fell
"Daphine,
another of the girls, went the forward too far with one of nozzles, and the fell off the roof into the fire. She, too, was carried out and the police rendered first-aid. The rest of us carried on."
The Franco-German peace would be accompanied by new Hitler offers of a general peace in which Vichy diplomats would play a part and on our side. which relied on to produce a deep cleavage in American opinion.
French publle opinion remains hostile to the policy of reversing al- Hances, but Vichy has decided on re- course, if necessary, to dictatorship. methods, concludes the despatch.
Making New French
Constitution
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" VICHY, July 8, (UP).—A commis-! slon of the National Council charged with writing a new French constitu; tion has received directions direct from Marshal Petain.
The Minister of Justice, M. Barthelemy
who la presiding, in- dicated the general lines of the new State as outlined by, M. Pelain by stating, "The French State of to- morrow will not be totalitarian. It will be be authoritarian, social and hierarchic."
SEASON TICKETS
Cost To Be Increased Next Month
The cost of senson tickets by bus and tram will be Increased next month, though the exact amount has not yet been decided, it was offelnlly learned yesterday.
The present charge for a tram sea- son ticket is $0, and that for buses, both in Hongkong and Kowloon, is
$0.
Eventually, with assistance from neighbouring fire watchers, the fre was fought off.
Looking round, the leader of the party found a telephonist in the omer, still at her post.
Hemisphere Limits
WASHINGTON, July 8 (Router). President Roosevelt at his press conference to-day, in effect removed any hemispherle boundary on United States defence operations.
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