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FROM PAGE ONE |
Nations Lining Up Against Japan
FROM PAGE ONE
July 29, 1941.
Angry Evacuees Meet In Sydney
FROM PAGE ONE
from the main headlines in all located that the United States would wel- and 400 children in Hongkong," sal come parallel action by other Amer!-Mrs Dewar. "Nineteen returned in newspapers lo-day.
Citizens in Shanghai were dazed all can countries in the economic con- the last three boats. We are justi- day long as wild rumours succeeded to measures against Japan, Stresa ed in asking to return, if only from uspect, otherwise our one another in rapid succession nnd ng that the Latin American counthe moral
any way homes may be irrevocably broken." the value of tlie Chinese dollaries were free to act in
they deemed advisable he cited steps
More Letters fluctuated violently."
already taken to ensure access by the
More letters from Hongkong eva- There is, however, not the slightest United States to Latin American de-
cuees have also been appearing In among Britons questioning
and
fence materials and to prevent the
two of them de- the Sydney the parallel Allled nationala over
States.
"Lancashire Lans" is perhaps not aware of the fael that quite a few of the evacuees are still in love with their husbands. A women who fins not yet learnt in this world that you cannot run away from, danger and thinks she is safe in Australia needs
nction by the United States and the export of such goods from the Uniteding here reprinted. British Empire against Japan despite
the about Asked specifically fears that it may end Shanghal'a non-
possibility that Venezuela might re- Japanese trade for the duration.
fuse to sell oil to Japan, Mr Welles The fecilng
Shangha among Britons andl Allied nationals is fairly replied that it was solely a question accurately summed up in an article for Venezuela to decide.
Views Exchanged well-known British Journalist United Press" ads that Mr Welles
Who
und
Relator
it may
result in
writes: last een asserted that the United States Rod
pens.
our from the Old Country. The
I am having ut
Governments Old Country wouldn't be "taking it," Instituted, it will be hoped by all all other interested Britons and Americans that it will had frequently exchanged views and with its back against the wall, it the utmost limit, have been in constant communication "Lancashire Lass were an example people, sitting snugly back notwithstanding the probability that in order to penis parallel action of its
Pacifle with her £31 and one child. She ing against Japan in the South in temporary suffering
have gone to Hong- and inconvenience in centres where whenever such nelion was deemed should never
Kong. One goes to the East to stand desirable. the Japanese Army holds swity.
He declined to comment upon the by one's husband, whatever hap- "It in now the eleventh hour and nothing is to be gained by tempering possibility of Japan getting vital sup-
urder
Incidentally, we don't all get £31 toplies of oil from Venezuela and other with this retallation in
month. I get £20, with two avoid offending Japanese susceptibll-oil producing Lath American coun- Itles. The sooner its full effects make tries, but said that as sovereign - children under three. Quite a num
the Hongkong Itselt felt upon Japan, the more likestions, these would probably proceed ber get less, isk thood there is of an earlier appreci- under their own natamai potley. Henance Maison ufleer for a few sta- denied that any agreement had beentistles; then try finding accommoda- ation by the Japanese of the
go back to our homes, astrous consequences of their army's policy."
even if it is a short-lived happiness; our children will at least know they have a father.
Noteworthy Comment
y's
reached for the United Stutes totion for two children under school
purchase the entire surplus oll outage. Let's put of Mexico.
Welles talked over the Far The most noteworthy comment by Eastern situation with Lord Iniifax newspapers supporting the puppet the British Ambassador who had just west Nunking regime appeared to-day in returned from a tour of the the "Kuo Min Hein Wen." which says const. Lord Halifax told newsmen that Japan can only adopt economie that he had no fresh Information re-
and reprisals against the British
garding
the newly at rived Soviet Military Mission began consultations with the State Depart ment on the problem of co-ordinating American aid to Soviet Russia.
the
American action in freezing Japanese Far East. "evetopments in the
assets and that war in still for off.
The newspaper suggests that Japan may retallate by confiscathig Ameri- ean and British assets in Occupied China which are estimated at about $500,000,000.
ru-
Among many unconfirmable mours etreutating in Shanghal to-day was one stating that the Japanese controlled Customs here had imposed restrictions on certain categories of exports from Shanghai, These were listed as metals, machinery, cotton, pieregoods, colton yarns, chemicals and provisions.
if this rumour is true, it means that the only future possible buyers of such articles will be the Japanese and the only payment which will be received will be in the Japanese military, yen.
According to local banking and commercial circles, a Japanese ban on non-Japanese goods from Shang-
Effects Already Seen
ان
MAID OF KENT. Not Against Australia I am not a growler, but ke hum- dreds ut others, I am most anxious to return to my husband and home in Hong statement that "a large Hongkong, and I dispute "Loner- shire Las
number, if not the majority" of Wo- men would prefer to remain here. Had we been given cholce of evu-
cuation many of us would have NEW YORK, July 28 (Reuter).chosen to stay, and let those who w Pearson and Robert Allen, in wanted to and who have the means their Joint column in the "New York to support two hones easily, Mirror" on July 26 stated: "The "Lancashire Lass" is lucky to have double barrelled dode economic LAN
month, and should, be per warfare--the freezing at Axis assets very comfortable on that amount. and the black list-have played-real and hundreds of others only have havoc with Axis operations in South
LA20 per month, and
too, Alicantial
have one child to keep and look Government cables after, and besides that my husband report that as the result of these has another son to support at school measures, 25,000 Axis ipationnis have in England. We And it very dir- been uprooted wholesale from their feult, and there are many others in thriving enterprises and have become the same boat. We do find things refugees, getting a dose of the bitter expensive in Sydney, much more ex- medleine Germany meled to pensive than we expected, and millions of European victims,"
thlok everything is dearer than even in wartine England. I was in Eng- and for the first five months of the war, toe, and know how well prices Sumner Welles about. the freezing! were controlled there.
out
Nomura On Ships WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuter), hai, if not yet introduced, is almost-Before conferring to-day with his
inevitable.
of Japanese assets In the United Our grouse is not against Ausira-
NAZIS BROUGHT States, Admiral Nomura, the Japanese lia or the people. We are fed up Ambassador in Washington, told with the way the evacuation was run TO A STANDSTILLermen that he understood and the very unfair discrimination,
FROM PAGE ONE
that Japanese ships were not subject to the freezing order.
He hoped to clarify this and other questions at the State Department, he added.
PRESSURE RELAXES
FROM PAGE ONE
T am sure Australian women will
with us. How sympathise
would they like five days notice to pack up and be deported out of their own country, leaving behind husbands, homes, and hundreds and hundreds of women of other nationalities, who can still stay in Hongkong and come and go as they wish.
HONGKONG-BORN.
The Other Side
On the other hand, another evn- cuce writes to her husband in Hong- kong in the following strain:
are terribly cold and damp. The l days are frightfully hot while mil- lions of torturing mosquitos swarm round the labouring soldiers' heads,
Wading Through Swamps "Often the soldiers must wade knee-deep through black swamps.
"These forests provide the
best cover for the Russians, for the Ger-
There have been quite a number mans enhot see the enemy. As 1,800-mile front enters its 37th day; of letters in one of the evening pa- soon as the Germans enter n forest,
The Nazi High Command said that pers, from evneuces, airing their they meet with a withering fire from all attempts by the Soviet forces to views and grievances on the evacua- the Russians from trees here, there, break out of the encirclement around | tion
and tion. The same old story.
It is a everywhere,"
Smolensk have ended in disaster and pity the particular paper bothers to -Another-difficulty, the correspoa-that-the-buitle-will soon be over publish them, but I suppose it gives.
continues, is Soviet forls con- there. The ometal German news the majority' of the evacuees sta- structed as part of the landscape, agency presented detailed reports of tioned in Sydney some consolation, They are so well camouflaged that the mopping up of Soviet forces to re-rend all over again what has they caslly overlooked. The aruund Smolensk and claimed been hammering in their brains since ground in front is sown with mines." capture of 35.000 prisoners, and they left. What good does it do
Stalwart Defence
750 machine guns around Mogilev to anyway? Here we are, and here we Describing an attuck on one such the South. It said the Russians have to remain until some such time to break arrives for us to leave. It in not
dent
fort, the correspondent attempts an attack on
Eust Indies or Singapore.
says:
The
The inade senseless"
the
Dutch out of the Nazi cu tine and very complimentary to Australia 10
Hint to Latin America
suffered heavy losses.
Another D. N. B.
report claimed division
from
section of the
WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuter). that a Nazi
be forever grumbling, and one of the
hate hav they
Bessarabia Casons.is, I imagine they all con-
ing to work. I Mr Sumner Welles to-day Intimat had broken through Bussten fire was first opened from a Stalin ne on the southern front regate at Bondi and have never gol friends amongst the, Australians and neighbouring farm building so that capturing 21 Soviet tanks in the out of the rut. They have made no the Germans thought that the fort course of the operation. The reports don't intend even to try,
*****id not indiente the location of
exact Was abandoned. When they proached more closely, a murderous the break-through, and it is recalled blast of machlite-gun
this connection that about three from the fort itself. Only after the weeks ago the German High Com-
Bre
opened
German artillery,
shooting at hundred yards range, had opened breach in the fort's walls were the Germany able to enter.
AXIS PLOT
mand clained that the Stalin line had BECOMES A FLOP been broken "at all decisive
points."
A Moscow dispatch from the front reported a 13-day battle in an un- Identified sector of the Finnish front as having ended with the annihila
lon of one half a German Infantry often division and the routing of the other constructed of three floors with half.
Underground Passages "Even then the dangers were not ended as Russian forts arc
'numerous underground passages.
"One Russian posted outside said that they had nothing to fear as the few surviving Russlans were anxious
to surrender. The Germans, enter-
ing unsuspectingly, were met with a fierce Are side and only captured the fort after killing every Russian defender."
Eight Airfields For Japan In Indo-China
Continued From Page 1
Tokyo Seeking New Money Agreement
Continued From Page
FROM PAGE ONE
was received by the Japanese Em-
peror.
Germany's immediate objective was to force Russia into a two-front war by producing a Japanese attack across the Manchukuo frontier. But Japan's forces had been withdrawn from that frontier not because of the non-aggression pact concluded with Russia on Hitler's suggestion wher his other tactics dictated it but be- canso Japan was afraid of a Russian air attack on Takva,
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Spain was saved from starvation The "Chugal" mid the Foreign only by the British relaxation of the Office in seriously watching develop blockade In, her favour and by direct ments.
Anuncial
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7*stspended pending, TOKYO, July 28 (Reuter)-Fol-Spain's decision,
"After five weeks, therefore, of the fence of Indo-Ching was concluded lowing the Netherlands East Indies' last Wednesday," it was announced crezi cition conomically ex-milters attack on combining a Wheeler Hits Back At Indian Association Of
with a complete isolation on Russia
ས་་་་ by the Japanese Military Mission incept in Japanese dominated areas of subtle, thrust in political warfare Administration
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range Japan, Spain and According to a "Dome!" dispatch It is expected that this situation Turkey against Britain; the result is SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" MADRAS, July 28 (Reuter).—An. from Saigon qunted by the Tokyo will be borne silently at present but
fallure to crush Russia qulekly, fal- WASHINGTON, July 20 (Un) emphatic dental that the Central Radio, "negotiations for the conclu-an explosion is imminent as soon as sion of this detailed agreement were adverse effects are noticeable
Gurean pinetblity quickly Senator Burton K. Wheeler, speaking Indian Association of Malaya had
Invincibility, and suc-
do with subversive started last Wednesday morning and tenswhile the present tendency is were brought to an amicable conclu- to be as lenient as possible according
condensation of his anti-war post-activities as implied in the sloni on 8 pan the same day.”
to, the policy followed by others. The campaign is not over but the card mailing campaign was part of statement by Mr G. H. Hall, Colonial
Indo-China.
The agreement was reached bes tween Major-General Sumita, head of the Japanese Military Mission, and Vice-Admiral Decoux, Governor- General of Indo-China,
the Asiatic continent.
TWO JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED Lord Rennell Of Rodd. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, July 28 (British Wire- CHUNGKING, July:28 (UP),—It less)The death was announced to- is rellably reported that two Japan- day of Lord Rennell of Rodd who eso planes were shot down by Chin- wng British Ambassador in Rome eso pursult planes in a severa air during the last war.
battle in the vicinity of Chungking.
The wreckage of both machines was found near the city of Pishan, 40 miles west of Chungking.
Lord Rennell, who, was 62 years old. spent some 40 years in the dip lomatic service.
Iura to the
coss in galvanising half the world from the floor of the Senate, to-day anything to
charged that the Administration's
against Germany,
first German plan at any rate seems
to have miscarried.
INDIAN TRADE WITH IRAQ
SIMLA, July 20 (Reuter)-It is announced that the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, decided to depute Mr Mohammed Hashim Ismall, Indian Trade Commissioner of Mombasen, to visit Iran on a short exploratory trude mission,
recent
can people to price spokesman in Parliament, was into submitting to parmade by Mr N. Raghavan, President ticipation in
in a foreign war.
ot the Association, to-day. He accused Secretary of War Stimson of acting witis "cold, cal- He added that Mr Hall's statement culated cunning" to create the im-was the result of representation by.. pression that the postcards were interested persons who did not like the association, and circulated in army campa, adding the existence that only three out of the million he affirmed that they had never been cards maffed actually renched a party to subversive or any agitation soldiers.....
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