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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1988.

BRITISH SHIPPING BAN

London, To-day...... In the House of Commons_yes- terday Mr. R¡ A. Butler, replying to Sir J. 8. Wardlaw Milne, re- garding the anxiety of British shipping companies trading in the Yangtse to resume their sailings, either by convoy or other naval protection, said: "Lord Halifax un- derstood the position to be that Arms would be glad of convoys if they could take the ships, through the Kiangyin boom-Reuter.

POPULARITY OF ARMY

London, To-day.

The high level at which army re- cruiting has been running for some time past has created new records which are disclosed in a statement| issued last night by the War Of- fice.

The number of recruits enlisted into the Regular Army during the quarter ended 30th June was 10,- 233, compared with 5,517 in the same quarter last year-an increase of 4,716 or 85.4%. The total of 10,000. has never before been ceeded for this quarter.

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The quarter ending 31st March yielded 10,504 recruits, and there- fore there have been two consecu- tive quarters yielding over 10,000 recruits each which constitutes an- other record.

The total intake of recruits for the three quarters of the current recruiting year was 27,584. This is 3,314 more than for the whole of the recruiting year, 1937, and 5,609, greater than for the whole recruit- ing year, 1936.-British Wireless.

NAZI INCIDENTS

IN TANGANYIKA

Dar-es-Salaam Tanganyika,

To-day.

SERIOUS

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HANDICAP TOUEENS

GUERILLAS

Shanghai, To-day.

The well organised Chinese guerilla units which are har assing the Japanese in the Lower Yangtse Valley region are facing a serious menace. This threat to their activities is presented, not by a Ja- panese "punitive" "expeditions, but by roving gangs of armed bandits whose number nearly equals the strength of the gue- rilla units.

The bandits, it is emphasised, will in no case attack the parți- sans, whatever their numerical superiority. The harm they do, however, is the generating of an acute distrust of all armed men by the unhappy farmers." Posing as 'bonafide guerillas, the bandits attack and rob the small villages, depriving the inhabitants of whatever pit-· tance the war still has left them and frequently torturing and killing the villagers who show any hesitation in divul- ging the hiding place of their remaining wealth.

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SERIOUS OBSTACLE The guerillas, dependent they are almost entirely upon the confidence and the goodwill of the villagers, find the coward- ly attacks upon the villages by the bandits a serious obstacle in the their operations against

of Japanese outposts and line communication.

The villagers, thus raided by the robber gangs, some of which camouflage their attempt to true character behind Chinese Army uniforms, are finding it increasingly hard to distinguish between friendly guerilla bands and the bandits. The result is that the rural folk suspect all:comers and are refusing as- sistance to the guerillas for fear that to shelter them might mean a sudden and treacherous attack upon the village during the night.-Reuter.

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The Governor of Tanganyika GERMAN PROTEST

has been asked by the Colonial Office to reports on the recent trouble in Salaam, when the Nazis clashed with the authorities.

AT REPORT

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London, To-day. It is understood that Nazi lead-

The Prime Minister in a ers appeared in the town during the King's Birthday celebrations mons answer said the German Am- wearing brown shirts and Nazi bassador called at the Foreign Office ́emblems and when the British on 13th July and stated that he had National Anthem was played, been authorised by his Government they gave the Nazi · salute, Ccally to deny the truth of in the British press on 12th Reuter.

July, containing what purported to be an account of a lectura delivered by a German General on German aims in the Iberian Peninsula.

OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT STUDY

"London, To-day. The Select Committee on the Offi cial Secrets Act sat for 41⁄2 hours yesterday and adjourned pending, it is understood, the preparation by the chairman of a draft Report. The Report will, in all probability, deal with only the first part of the Committee's terms of reference: British Wireless)

The R.M.S. Empress of Asia” left Yokohama

at: 8.00 a.m. and is due.. Hong Kong next Thursday at 7.00

The Ambassador stated, that no such lecture had ever been deliver- ed and added that his Government were issuing a formal denial of these reports. British Wireless.

NEW ZEALAND'S BUDGET

Wellington, To-day. The New Zealand Finance Min ister, the Hon. W. Nash, estimates a surplus of £58,000 sterling re- venue over the expenditure for the coming fiscal year. The revenue expenditure is estimated to be about the same as last year and of the total revenue one-sixteenth will be allotted to defence, Reuter.

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