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BUTTER

LAST CHANCE TO

LEAVE

HAIFA PAYING PENALTY

Jerusalem, To-day..

All Jewish. cinemas, restaurants and dancing halls in Haifa have been closed indefinitely by the au- thorities as penalty for the bomb outrage in an Arab cafe on Mon- day afternoon when an Arab was killed and 35 injured.

All motor traffic to and from Haifa has been prohibited.→ Trans-Ocean.

MOSCOW HITCH

Soviet Intrigue Scented

FOOCHOW

Jap. Ultimatum NAZIS COLLECT

Expiring This Evening

With the scheduled launching of the Japanese at- tack on Foochow at dawn to-morrow, the China Navigation Company's s.s. Yunnan,, which is calling at that port to-day, represents the last opportunity third party nationals in that treaty port will have of evacuating to safety. As revealed exclusively in the "China Mail" this morning, the Yunnan has been instructed to call at Foochow to-day to take off a number of foreign women who are temporarily evacuat ing to Shanghai.

In a virtual ultimatum to foreign residents of Foo- chow, the Japanese naval authorities gave them until this evening to leave the port. A passage was to be left in the boom to enable them to get through...

SCRAP

Berlin, To-day.

A campaign of

scrap-iron col- lecting is to be carried on through out Germany during the next three months by the Nazi Party and its branch organisations.

The German requirements in scrap-iron which have increased from 814 million to 411 million tons 90 per cent by collections in the Reich and it is planned through the new campaign to cover the re-

are now covered up to practically

quirements, completely, and thus to eliminate the necessity of import-

Trang-Ocean.

ene

from abroad. —

strongly contested

battle.

The Chinese have rushed rein- In contradiction to reports ap BIG BATTLE EXPECTED forcements to the scene, and it is pearing elsewhere, the "China Should to-morrow's bombardment expected that the Japanese will

This decision remains unchang-

London, To-day. ACCORDING to some Mails on Thursday last carried prove too fierce, it is probable have to strengthen their own forces the first account of the decision many will cross the bridge to possibly with the assistance of London diplomatic by the several hundred, foreign Nantai Island, which the Japanese army units brought up by trans- correspondents, the lat-residents of that port not to leave have indicated may be more or less ports before they are able to

considered a safety zone.

make a landing of any propor- est hitch in the Moscow Foochow

Foochow is expected to be the | tions. negotiations is due to ed, the "China Mail" learns, al- Soviet reluctance to though a few women are to board guarantee Holland and they will be returning to Foochow the Yunnan to-day for Shanghai; Switzerland against ag- as soon as possible, vit is under- gression, although Bri-Although the local naval au tain had conceded to the thorities have no information con- Soviet demand to guar, cerning the launching of the Ja- antee Finland, Latvia believed that this is projected for panese attack on Foochow, it is. and Esthonia.

stood.

to-morrow.

GAP IN BOOM

The "Daily Express” says that the last British communication A boom has been built across- agreed to.

the Soviet's the mouth of the Min River and hbours provided the gap in this to be closed partite agreement early to-morrow morning. ed, to Holland, and

hack that

in

addition to ready guaranteed by

namely

Gredder

The attack, it is expected, will

be heralded by a fierce bombard-

both from the air and from

Japanese which naval, tempt to effect a landing.

rships, fol-

will abs

mpta, at

HAVE AN H.B.-

HB

AND THEN TRY!