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MAILS VIA AMERICA

London, To-day.

Mails to Britain from Japan are to be routed via the United, States, whence they will be tak. on to their destination by Ameri. QDN and other neutral ships. Router.

REBELLIOUS SLOVAKS DESERT

(From Our Own Correspondent) By Telegraph. Telegraphic Com- munications Ordinance, 1894. Received, Sept. 13, 1.45 p.m. Delayed by Censor)

It is reported from Amsterdam, in connection with the reported mutiny of a Slovak battalion, which refused to entrain for the Polish front, that the spirit of protest and rebellion goes right through the Slovak army.

GERMAN ALLEGATION REFUTED

London, To-day.

An intercepted Berlin radio statement alleges that.

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This is quite untrue.

As stated in a public notice broad- cast on September 3rd, and reproduc- ed in the English newspapers the following morning, no obstacle has, generally speaking, been placed in the way of foreigners of any nationality who wished to leave the country. In fact, large numbers of Germans have left.

Of the many thousands of Ger- United mans remaining in, the Kingdom, a few hundred have been arrested for reasons of na. tional security.

RIGHT OF APPEAL

Each of them has the right of ap-

The report states that at least ten thousand Slovak soldiers have desert- ed the German forces since the war opened and have passed into Hun-peal to an independent legal tribunal

which will commence work shortly. gary. Our Own Correspondent.

ät The cases of those remaining liberty will be investigated by nearly a hundred independent tribunals of a legal character to be set up in each locality.

TWO CZECH

DIVISIONS

London, To-day.

Radio Paris reports that the Czechs in France are expected to constitute two divisions, and that this is based on the frame-work of 600 officers and N.C.O.S. who fled from Czechoslovakia in March.-British Wireless.

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Germans wishing to leave the coun- try require an exit permit, quirement which also applies to Brl- tish subjects.

In the absence of special reasons they will receive this permit without In no case has the pro- difficulty. perty of Germans in this country been confiscated.-British Wireless.

Macão, To-day. General Cheung Wal-cheung, Chungshan District Magistrate and Commander-in-Chief of the with other Chungshan Forces, military leaders, left for the front last night to take personal com- mand of the situation.

have troops

been Japanese landed on both south and north sides of the Wangmoon Channel, where they are now being held by the Chinese militia.

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at Wang.. anese cavalry landed moon, but have not yet been sent into action,

Japanese transports and armed trawlers landed troops along the east coast of Chungshan at Chung- chau, with the object of cutting the Shek-ki-Macao Highway.

Sharp fighting was reported this morning in that neighbour- hood. Planes were active. — Our Own Correspondent.

Tokyo, To-day. It is authoritatively stated that the British Embassy last evening sent a Note to the Foreign Office protesting against the enforcement of the use of Hua Hsing notes for the payment of Customs dues, on the ground that it undermines Chinese currency and is therefore detrimental to the interests of foreign Powers, including Japan --Reuter.

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