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STRANGELY ENOUGH GERMANS ARE NOT POPULAR!

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL ”)

Amsterdam, To-day.

A frank admission of the Germans' complete lack of popularity in Poland Is given in the Nazi “West- deutscher Beobachter.”

The correspondent of the newspaper is accompanying Germans who are being evacuated from Russian- occupied Poland into Germany.

BAVARIAN STEEL PLANT ABLAZE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day.

One of the largest steel plants in Bavaria is reported to have been vir- tually destroyed by fire.

The outbreak, cause of which is un- known, has now been raging for 36 hours and the rolling mills have been completely destroyed.

The plant will be out of action for months at the most favourable estim- ate.--Havas.

'AID MUST COME FROM CONGRESS

Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt reiterated press conference yesterday proposals for giving

at a that all assistance to

Finland must come from Congress

Reuter.

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He writes: "Przemyslt lles right on the frontier bridge separating the two countries.

"The Soviets keep a close guard on the bridge and do not allow anyone to cross. Special efforts are made to prevent the transmission of news.

"The Soviets provided a strong guard for column of trucks transporting German emigrants.

THREATENING ATTITUDE "When we passed Lwow the pre- cautions proved useful, as this city is full of Jews and Poles who adopt a towards Ger- threatening attitude

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hard

"The Bovlet soldiers had a time to keep away from the trucks a crowd calling us German swine and other even less decorous names." Havas.

SOVIET ORDER FOR WHEAT BLOCKED

Ottawa, To-day.

A recent Soviet order for 1,250,000 bushels of Canadian wheat will be wiped out following an Order-in- Council just promulgated empowering the Government to license the export of goods to countries adjacent to the

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Shanghai, To-day.

In view of the approaching an- niversary of the Shanghai war of Jan. 28, 1932, the Japanese mill- tary are reported to be enforcing martial law in the surrounding Nantao, occupied areas such as Chapel and Woosung, from to- morrow. Meanwhile the police authorities and the Volunteers in the Settlement and Concession have received mobilisation orders for Jan. 28, when all principal roads will be barricaded and searches for arms instituted. Local Chinese public bodies are stated to have decided to suspend all forms of public amusement on Jan. 28.-Reuter.

Kwang Chow Wan, To-day. Braving the intense cold pre- vailing for almost a week now, further successes by the Chinese around Nanning are reported in official despatches.

The harassing of Japanese com- munications between Nanning and the coast continues and this morning the Chinese were report- ed converging on Siutung near the Kwangtung-Kwangsl border. -Our Own Correspondent.

Macao, To-day. Brief messages this morning from Canton state that Canton is Ja- a hive of military activity. panese troops are being mobilla. ed at different points In the city ́and “despatched-in-trucka.—- Chinese troops are alleged have clashed with outposts on the outskirts Our Own Correspon- dent.

DEATH

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TARRANT.—Suddenly, on 23rd Janu- ary, 1840, at Kowloon Hospital, *Cecilia Tarrant, beloved wife of J. A. Tarrant, and beloved mo- ther of Bertha Cecilia. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.15 p.m. to-day.

London, To-day. There will be no difficulty in giving the full and valid explana- tion for which Japan asks in con- · nection with the removal of Ger- mans from the "Asama Maru,” de- clares the "Daily Telegraph" in a that leading article, which says the rather excited language of the Japanese Note and the agitation in the streets and Press of Tokyo do not touch the question at issue.

Already voices have made them- selves heard in warning against attempts by third parties to em- broil Japan with Britain and the 18 well Japanese Government aware of the Germany Embassy's efforts in this direction.

The case is one for calm consi- deration and acceptance of pre- cedents and established practice.

Under the German system of conscription, every man to an ad- vanced age can be called up for military service, The British cruis- er which stopped the Asama Maru did not claim the full rigour of the last war precedent (in which Já- pan had concurred) but only re- moved technicians and skilled rat- ings of special value in the Ger- man war effort. Japan, which has her own experience in war, would not contend that there was obligation on one belligerent observe rules which another had never recognised. In the first month of the present conflict, Ger- many had taken British fishermen from a neutral vessel and they were still held as prisoners.

an to

"We have no cause for com-

be plaint that neutrals should watchful and strenuous in pro- Whatever tecting their rights, objections they may make we shall examine with a friendly desire to remove any grievance.

"The protests, however, should be sent to the right address.

̈“Japanese shipping and prestige- are not harmed when a score of of Germans are taken from one ber liners, but her flag is contemp- tuously insulted and her mercan- tile marine has suffered a heavy loss in the German war on neu- trals. Doubtless, the Japanese Government will see that for such wrongs and indignities Japan receives adequate, atonement.”—~~ Reuter..

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