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3,000 Special Constables Wanted
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Britain-U.S. To Counter Japanese
FROM PAGE- ONE
Ing are the main conditions of nountainous country is considered
be impossible.
service:
NA
July 24, 1941.:
JAPANESE FLEET ON THE MOVE
› FROM PAGE ONE
Mobilisation
to Japanese Invasion of southern Indo- China, the spokesman said thạt China
Members
enrolled
On the other hand, the Chineso woukl take all the necessary mea- will be
have made military expeditions insures for her self-defence, Special Constables and will report for duty at such police stations in Hong-inpossible terrain before now. kong and Kowloon and at such other centres as may be directed by the Commissioner of Police. In present liable 10 conditions they will be perform three or four hours instruc
tional or other duty at intervals of two or three days as directed by the Commissioner of Police. In case of be mobiilsed emergency they will for full duty.
Applicants must be physiently fit, When mobilised to perform full time duly, rates of pay will be:-
Rate per day. Rank.
$7.00
Inspector...
Sub Inspector Sergeant
Lanec Sergeant Constable
4.00
3.00
2.00 1.50
When on part time duty (le. so long as members are not mabilised fur full time duty) rates of pay will tank. Hale per day on whleb
duty is performed.
be:-
Inspector
Sub Inspector
Sergeant
Lance Sergeant
Constable
$4.00
3.00
2.00
1.50 1.00
Guarantors Necessary
to
It is learned that recruiting will start immediately, and applications to join will be received at Central Police Station, on the ground floor next to the Central Magistracy,
Monday Arbuthnot Road, from Friday between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Applications for enrolment are re- quired to be endorsed by a guarantor. Upon enrolment, members of the Special Constabulary will undergo
a course of training consisting of lectures on police duties and drill parades. Pay will not until completion of training.
No Firearms
commence
It is understood that the Special Constabulary will not be provided with firearms.
Selected men were last year invited to Join a similar body about the same time that the now-defunct Peace Preservation Corps was established. After
B priet perlox of train- but. the few who joined were released from service, and nothing further had been heard of the scheme until now,
Possible Moves By Japan Envisaged
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sultation with regard to all possible developments.
Chiefly Naval Action
SILANGHAI, July 23 (Reuter).--- The Japanese are carrying out mill- tary mobilisation on a scale never Japanese action, if and and when seen before, necording to reporta It begins, is expected to be chiefly reaching Shanghai. A thousand con- unill naval, after which troops might be scripts, previously closed as landed at Safzon and in the areas for active service, have been mobilis- ed, it is stated, while many who hat around Camranh.
Close observers, believe that Japan been discharged after service in hns chosen this moment in a manner] China have again been called up.
Members of the Japanese com- which suggests Axis timing, thinking that President Roosevelt is likely to munity. in Shanghai have also been do ile while he is trying to get the called up and are leaving for Japan.
Extension Bi through Selectees
In Reports received Chunking Congress.
say that three clauses of reservists have already
Jn In Own Interests
been mobilised motor vehicles ure Japan, while It is believed here that Japan is being requisitioned.
Japan According to one report, acting in her own interests rather
Indo- move against French than the Nazis who may benefit in-will eldentally. It is also suggested that China on Friday. Japan rightly or wrongly feels that
7
action against Indo-China is the Smolensk In Hands
maximum aggressiveness which can նը undertaken without rousing America and Britain to take up arms) against her, and if it is successful, would bring her Wita better striking distance of Singapore and | the Dutch East Indies should a pro- mising opportunity occur to attack those places later.
It
Of Soviets
·FROM PAGE ONE
realise that a frontal attack on Mos- seems certain, however, that the cow is a hopeless task and why United States will take some action, they are endeavouring to explain to A high State Department official in the German public that not Moscow private conversation is reported to but the "destruction of the Soviet have said recently that America was Army" before Moscow is their Im- "prepared" If Japan moved aggres-medlate objective,
The whole situation in the Lening. sively against Indo-China, and rad sector is"
seelny Welles
obscure. The Sumner Japanese Ambassador to-night and Russians do not believe that the is believed likely to tell him that German thrust across the highly the result of Japanese aggression fortified Karelian Isthmus or around in Indo-China or elsewhere will be Lake Ladoga, with Its dificult lake
further struin on American- and waterway-cut terrain, cun suc Japanese relations.
A
Even More Serious
Mr the
Feced.
more
the
Leningrad Danger to Leningrad is only pos- WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuter),sible from the southwest but "The International' situation main Soviet troops in 'this sector are even more serious than the general holding on grimly around Pskov and public understands and it is rapidly the position of the Germans here is becoming
serious,
ted not unlike Smolensk, stated
merc
Mr Andrew J. May, Chairman of In any case the whole region be-
Leningrud the House of Representativesween Pskov and Military Commission, after Icaving also between Tallinn and Leningrad an executive session of the committee along the coast is largely composed
marstics of forest and to-day.
roads.
Knox Expects Action WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuter). -There is no "question" but that the recent developments in the Far East, including Japanese censorship, mennt new military developments in that area, san
said Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, at a press conference to-day.
"I look for movement out there--- and very soon,
suld Colonci Knox, but be declined to cliscuss the
The Australian and other Domin-ossible direction of the move.
"No one can tell at this point whe-i
lon governments have also take part ther it will go north or south," be
In these exchanges of views,
Signs of Yielding
said.
In reply to a question, Colonel Knox said that the United States HANOI, July 23 (Reuter). The
do paper "Arip" quotes Paris news-Pacife Fleet was in position to
whatever was necessary to carry out papers advising the French Govern- ment "to take precautions in view American policy in the Far East, of the danger menacing Indo-China should the situation bezome more compileated.
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patch to the offelal Vichy news en enemy convoy, states the omelal crisis in the Near East may arise
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Sokomatsu Kato, recently visited All Japanese shipping companica the ships while destroyers shelled the
morning recalls ecause of the present situation" transports. The enemy vessels ex-
they wou
would stop indicating the ploded and sank. movements of their ships.
Admiral Darlan twice that the relations between Indo- China and Japan are determined by economic and political agreements which are in full force.
The publication of this item in the official government news agency up- pears to indicate that the Indo- China pubile is being prepared very scan for an announcement of agree- ment giving Japan new facilities In 'Southern Indo-China.
Indo-China Shipping SINGAPORE, July 23 (Reuter) According to travellers, all French merchant shipping is forbidden in the last four or five days to leave Indo-China harbours. No reason was given.
No British Designs
Moscow's Good News MOSCOW, July 23 (Reuter).~~A Another announceinent staled that} travellers
from Tokio to Dairen Soviet communique issued to-night Information Bureau could only take small suitcases with by the Soviet them. The reason was to save space announces: and make it possible to cope with a "During July 23 stubborn battles "considerable Increase in the number against the entmy were engaged in Smolensk and of travellers going to Manchukuo." the Polotsk-Nevel,
Zhitomir directions and on the Bes- Vichy Talks Continue sarabian sector of the front. VICHY, July 23 (Reuter).-The
AL
one point of the Bessarabian Franco-Japanese talks are the sub-front, our forces routed an enemy 400 Ject of, a semi-official announcement motorised regiment, capturing made here to-night, but it contains cars, 300 motor cycles, 32 armoured no reference to the Japanese Indo-cors, 25 guns, eight mine-throwers China ultimatum.
and other armaments.
It
says "ecnversations begun in
"Our air force during July
23
two recent visits paid to Admiral delivered concentrated blows upon Darinn by the Japanese Ambassador, enemy mechanised units and Mr Somatsu Kato, are continuing by craft on aerodromes."
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acquire available rubber and before the United States and Britain are able to make pre-emptive pur
chases.
It is stated thai from a total of
"At the same time, Admiral De- coux, Governor-General of Indo- China, has several Umes received Major-Central Sumita, hend of the Japanese mission. These inter-! within the framework of the agree changes of views are taking place! ments concluded a year ago between France and Jepan."
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VICHY, July 23 (Reuter)—"We ; shall ngain perhaps have to defend our colonies," said Marshal Petain, addressing students nt Alx-en- Provence Military Academy to-day.
"If any new adventures should ever be undertaken, I hope that we Sipil face them with the same energy and
vigour as was shown in Syria. "We are obliged to protect our colonles and the whole of Colonial Empire on which our neigh- bours have their oyes. We must be able to defend it. We must be ready
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