Thailand Hopes For Neutrality
BANGKOK, July 23 (Reuter).—In view of the present tension in the For East, in which Japanese inten- tions regarding Indo-China and Thailand are the subject of keen world-wide speculations, speclul im- portance attaches to Premier Luang Plbul Songgram's latest pronounce- ment of foreign policy.
Bidding farewell to the Thal official delegation proceeding to Dattuinbonk to take over Indo- China territory ceded under Tokyo Treaty, the Premier strongly emphasised that Thailand will con- tinue to adhere to strict neutrality,
the
AMERICAN WOMEN TRIBUTE
MADAME CHIANG
CHUNGKING, July 23 (Central News),—A message of tribute to Madame Chiang Kai-shek for her leadership of Chinese women in the war of resistance during the part four years has been received here from lending woman members of the United China Relief Committee In America on behalf of American wo
men.
nre
The messure was addressed on the occasion of, the fourth anniversary of the Sino-Chinese war on July 7.
Prominent among the signatories Pearl Buck, noted American authoress, Mrs Henry Luce, wife of the publisher and editor of "Time," "Fortune" and "Life,"
and Mrs Wendell Willkie.
NEW DEFENCE
COMMISSAR MOSCOW, July 23 (Reuter).-M. Stalin Jas added another Vice- Commissar of Defence to the group whom he has gathered around him, bringing the total up to six.
The new Comunissar 13 M. Peresipkin, who was formerly Con- missar of Posts and Telegraphs.
NURSES ABOARD TORPEDOED SHIP
NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuter), The destruction in the North Atlantle of the Norwegian
cargo steamer
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
: UFS
ANNIVERSARY-Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Indiested by arrow, reviews military parade
in Madrid marking second anniversary of end of Spanish civil war. He's under pressure by Nazis.
French Labourers Attempt Strike
ZURICH, July 23 (Reuter).---Commenting on Moscow's broadcasts inciting French workers to strike and sabotage, the "National Zeitung" says that widespread strike movements have been attempted among textile workers and coal-miners in Northern France but they were instantly throttled by the occupation authorities who close food shops and prevented the sale of food to strikers.
The Vichy authorities have harder task to prevent strikes as they ere reluctant to use similar drastic)
measures.
In the unoccupied zone, "staggered" strikes cursisting of stoppages lasting several hours are successfully carried! out by individual gheds, which is sufficient to hold up production in whole
Factories. According
Houses In Safe Areas Popular
July 24, 1941:
Poison Gas Considered By Nazis
Revelations Of Secret
Documents
MOSCOW, July 23 - (Reuter). -Further details concerning the contents of secret documents | (detailing instructions for the use of poison gas), which Soviet Russia "claims were seized from routed German soldiers at Zapadnala and Psychna on July 15 have now been disclosed.
According to the Russian authorities, the captured packets were realed and stamped by the German High Command" and addressed to the 2/52 Nebel Merfer Regiment,
Instructions Widespread
The high series of the numbers on one of the enclosed documents In- dicate that similar instructions were issued to a great number of other regiments.
Britain's
5th Column
Under Key
emer- for Peake,
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter)- When a resolution was moved in the House of Commons to-day for
Act continuing the Defence Kency powers in operation further year, Under-Secretary of the Home Once, revealed that in all 1,779 people had been detained under the famous regulation 18 .
The detalled explanations bore the date, July 11, and were for the concerted use of "withering" Irritant gas shells, the purpose of which is to wear down the physique of the opponent, and then the use of blue- ring and green-ring gaa shells con- taining vesicant (blistering) other lethal, gazes.
HONGKONG
Captain O. SCHOLARS'
SUCCESS
and
Captain Peake Intimated that this News has been received in Hong- number had fallen to-day to 702. kong that Gloria June Moss & Evelyn Or this number, 292 persons were Grace Morrison have passed, the detained us members of an organisa-Cambridge School Certificate Exam- tion which was subject to foreign nation. influence Gr
control. Some were
The candidates were pupils of the British subjects only by accident of Central British School of which both births and there were also others be-were While residential property in the longing to a sort
Prefects 19,000 former officials of the French heart of London has slumped. Lon-underworld which floated from one ferred to the Melbourne University, and, owing to the of International Evacuation, their entries were trans- Communist Party have been arrested doners are paying millions of pounds capital to another without and 9,000 have been interned of affor country houses in safe arcan. strong national loyalty.
the French pro- German weekly paper "Gringoire,"
total of 30.060.
Indian Uuits Thanked By Army Council
Country houses are also in demand as clubs and offices,
Many estate agents, to deal with the business, have opened special de- partments.
Anti U-Boat Successes
any Australia.
Another achievement is that of Marion 11, who was recently award- ed a special Singing Scholarship at Bedford High School for 12 months; In addition, the Board of Governors granted her a second scholarship in the form of Free Tuition during the fee tuition auring the remainder of her time at the School. LONDON, July 23 (Reuter).tarion was Head Girl Prefect at the Centrul British School which she left Purchasers are experiencing dit/Sir Victor Warrender, Parlia-in April 1939 having already passed vessel was carrying Red Cross nurses behalf of the Army Council, I wish flculty in getting starts and are using mentary and Financial Secretary the Cambridge School Leaving Certl-
10 express deep appreciation of the only portion of their houses, contribution modo by Indian troopa
Vigrid, reported to
have accurred
two days ago, has been disclosed in
amaritime circles.
It is unofficially reported that the
to England.
Duke Of Kent To
Visit Canada
SIMLA, July 23 (Reuter)"On
One firm soid seven properties for £50,000, and properties valued at from £2,000 to £4,000 are snapped up as soon as they come on the market.
to the Admiralty, refused to be dente Examination at the age of 14 Rent Racketeering
drawn into details when
years 3 months with such
high- ques standard that she was granted exemp Rent racketeering for flats and tioned in the House of Commons tion from the London Matriculationi Mar- furnished rooms in the country still to-day on U-boat losses,
examination;" "While I regret that I am un-
to the successful operations Lis
Syria," says Captain David
continues.
The premium and key money able to give details of recent
gesson, Secretary for. War, in special message to the Viceroy.
Captain Margesson adds that the abuses have been revived. LONDON, July 23 (Reuter).-The supreme effort of the Indian brigade The Minister for Health, Mr Ernest activities against U-boats, I can Dominions Omee effelally announced at Damascus was, In co-operation Brown, campaigning on behalf of state that the results lately this evening that with the King's with the Free French, decisive in the tenants, has launched hundreds of achieved have been encourag approval, His Royal Highness the capture of that city, while the speed prosecutions against racketeers, but Duke of Kent will shortly be pro-and dash shown by the column ad- the fines are light, ranging from £sing," he said. ceeding to Canudo for a brief visit, vancing from fraq into northeastern to £20.
of which wns officially assessed at
£2.
The Duke is greatly interested in Syria were powerful factors in A premium of £35 and £10 10s. the Commonwealth Air Training bringing the campaign to un early rent were charged for a flat the rent Plan and in desirous of seeing for conclusion. himself some of the alr training
The Viceroy replied: "Your mess- establishments where pilots and air age of appreciation is deeply valued A tenant who rented a coltage for crews are being trained.
In India. We are all proud of the 12s. a week sub-let one room for The proposal has been warmly share the Indian troops had in the 358. a week. welcomed-by-the-Canadian-Govern Syrian-operations-and-count-it ——-a- ment and the Royal Canadian Air privilege that units of the Indian
Army were able to play a Force.
parti
Announcement OTTAWA, July" 23 · (Reuter).—H. R.H. the Duke of Kent will shortly be leaving for Canada, it is an nounced by Mr Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister.
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University In Strip Tease
Girl's Attempt To Wed At 15
No Censorship Say Japanese
FATE OF GREECE
Burden of Axis Maintenance
ZURICH, July 23 (Reuter).-The tate of Greece is forming the chlef subject of Italian-Bulgarian conver- sations which are taking place in LONDON, July 23 (Reuter) Rome, according to the Home-cor "Domel" to-day, commented on Pre-
respondent af the "Tribune do sident Roosevelt's declaration of a Geneve."
on cable and Japanese censorship
The correspondent says:
"Italy, radlo communications. The Agency which is finding the occupation of says that the declaration was based Greece a pure burden owing to war on misinformation
as devastation and economic disorgani designed malicious propaganda. It also de- BECAUSE her daughter, 15, was clores that no censorship has been salon, is obliged to husband her own so much in love that it was feared enforced and that the only festriction of a very hard winter.
resources in view of the expectation | she would run away from home, as that outgoing telegrams must be Liverpool mother signed a form in German or English. giving her consent to the girl's mar- riage.
The girl appeared at Liverpool HAPPENINGS IN
ONE thousand Harvard under- graduates reversed procedure when they disrobed before Sally Rand, America's queen of 'strip tenters.
Juvenile Court on a drink charge. Miss Rand appeared at their un Mr E. II. Sidgreaves, prosecuting, nual smoker in Boston. She had said the girl went to
Liverpool register office with a 20-year-old
promised to do a fan dance, but did
not keep her promise, and students girl friend and a young Dutch sen- started chanting: "Take them off.
Take them off.””
"I will If you will," cried Sally.
to
The girl asked for a special licence)
marry her Dutch lover.
She said she was 16, but the as- Instantly conts, socks, shoes and sistant registrar made inquiries on trousers rained about her, but she told the girl that she could not marry didn't as much as unzip a zipper. n she was under 18.
Miss Rand spent the rest of the
Ruso Fails night being waltzed about by half-. clid Harvard men.
Transformation
In Middle East
Iter girl felebd then began to
GERMANY
Hess Mentor Held
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter), The continued house arrest of
"Italy is therefore proposing that Bulgaria should share the task, of keeping Greece alive and reconstruc- ting the country."
Eden And Maisky
In Conference
the "geo-political" theorist, Dr LONDON, July 23 (Reuter).—The Haushofer, who was arrested at Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan Maisley, the time of the Hess flight, is accompanied by Lieut-General Gall- reported by a "Reuter" corres-kov (who has just returned from Admiral Kharlamov, rondent "somewhere in Europe." Moscow and
The same source reports that the had a talk with the British Foreign cry, and declared that the marriage bellef is held in many German circies Minister, Mr Anthony Eden, this would have to take place as he that the Army is likely to take over afternoon. Butchman was the father of the control of Germany from the Nazi 15-year-old girl's expected child. Party this autumn" if by then big
It was found that this story was successes against Russia arc
achieved.
an invention,
דיי
LONDON, July 23 (Reuter). The marriage did not take place. "The position in the Middle East has
am astounded," said Mr. J. been transformed as if by a miracle," Worrall, presiding magistrate, "That sald the Nawab of Ranpore. in a girl of 15 could invent such a story statement issued to-day and quoted to arrange her marriage." by the Madras Radio.
The girl was sent to an approved
Following the suppression of the school. Iraqi revali, Nazl domination of the Vichy administration of Syria has checked, and the safety of Exypt Is assured. It is a grand thought for all Moslems that such should be the position to-day as compared with what we feared two months ago."
Ships For Britain
Coming Off Slips
Wants News Of
Miss Blitz.
The Sub-Dean of London Univer-
sity wants to find Miss Sonya Blitz.
Her address has been lost nga result of the universitý having been,
bombed
NEW YORK, July 23, (Reuter),— There were six people of her name: The first of 30 ter-thousand ton entga in London's telephone directory.- ships being built for Britain at the
Two of them were unobtainable
Todd shipyards in California in ex- and none of the others knew any
Sonya. pected to be launched on August 15,hing about four months to the day after the keel Some of them, obviously, dil not was fald,
care for their name, but one bust- Three
more hulls are now or the tess woman scorned any suggestion | allpwnys.
that sho should change it. Thirly similar vessels are being built at the Todd yards at Portland,
Malno.
"With a name like mine customers
can't forget you," she said.
One Mr Blitz, Me Charles Blitz, of Clapton, a member, with his wife, of ZURICH, July 23 (Reuter) The Hackney's A.R.P. Service, has, how-
altered his
name-to Bliss.
German Press to-day turned its full ve didn't mind our logs being propaganda fury on President Roo-2- velt who was attacked with in-¡ pulled about the Blitzes beating the procedented violence. Tho news- Blitzes," he said. "But we did not puper reproduced photographs of the like our name being associated with President as a freemason,
mass murder."
Tobruk Sortie
not
London Soccer
Clubs Form League
LONDON, Julý 23 (Reuter). London football clubs which have been unable to accept the League fixture list which necessitates lòng: distance travelling have formed the London War Football League, The Association will be naked to of this now
CAIRO, July 23 (Reuter).—An- other patrol rald was made at Tobruk last night when British troopu pene- Irated to a considerable depth, but co serious clash with the enemy league in which 11 London clubs and occurred,
Ave nearby clubs will be members, A few casualties were inflicted. making a programme of 30 matches.
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"How old are you, my boy ? "
Fourteen and seven monthu, Sir."
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And are you going to stick to it?"
"Oh yes, Sir, I want to go inte reception, then have a year in New York, and another in London." "And then come back and manage en hotel
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