1940-03-27 — Page 14

STOCK MARKET QUIET

The Stock

** London, To-day. Exchange was quiet

little acti yesterday, and there was

vity except in home rails which were higher on reports of the large Easter holiday traffic.

Indian Government stocks tended to haiden, but elsewhere movements were very small.

Wall Street was steady. — Reuter,

COMING TO THE

KING'S

The Story "That Women Tell

in Whispers!

RETTE

DAVIS

MIRIAM

HOPKINS THE LD MAID

GEORGE

BRENT

JARNER BROS

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 27, 1940

BRITISH LOAN AGREEMENT

WITH FRANCO SPAIN

LONDON, TO-DAY.

A LOAN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND SPANISH GOVERNMENTS, PUBLISHED HERE YESTERDAY, REFERS TO THE BRITISH DESIRE TO ASSIST THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT IN OF RECONSTRUCTION THE PROMOTION

WORK.

The British Government undertake to advance to the Spanish Government a sum not exceeding £2,000,000, to be paid into Sterling current account.

ALL SAINTS'

BAZAAR

Sir, I shall be very grateful if you will allow me to express - my hearty thanks to all those who have contributed to make our All Saints' Church Bazaar a success. It was rain- Ing quite heavily but a great number of people came.

The result was beyond our expecta- tion. We achieved `our' object and got.!. over $2,000. In these hard times, such a result must be considered very satisfactory. Unquestionably this is wholly due to the help and generosity lof our friends and well-wishers, whom

we are thanking now.

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(Continued from Page.12) tions or had sought to cast doubt in the public mind one of the rare met- hods of contamination in a country where Journalists could not be bribed, Consequently, the German army, on Its arrival in Poland, was able to avail

found others among the itself of valuable auxiliaries. It also

German

| minorities of old standing. In a mili- tary order issued by a German chief, reinen Polen in verschiedenen Geble- one can read: "In Polen leben neben ten noch deutsche Minderhelten und Volksgruppen- “ mit nicht- deutscher Sprache, die aber mit den andere

Deutschen sympathisleren." This is to

say that in Poland, in the various pro- The Spanish Government will un-vinces, there are German minorities and others who do not speak German, Govern- dertake to pay the British ment interest in Sterling at the rate but who sympathise with the Germans. With that pre-occupation for accuracy of 42 per cent. per annum on sums

and details by which they are charac- the whole advanced, and to repay loan in 20 half yearly instalments be- terised, the German leaders have minutely described how to enter into ginning on June 30, 1942,

The trade and payments agreement, these circles. Here it is that the agents fore the hostilities have played their the text of which was also publish.inhabiting Poland for many years be- ed, will come into force on April 1.

of a certain The Anglo-Spanish clearing ar- principal part together with less im-

portant missions, but yet c importance. rangement is re-established by trade and payments agreement.

NORMAL RELATIONS

the

To understand this, it is necessary to refer once more to Prefect Kowalski concerning the role of the Gestapo in

Reuter learns that the occasion of Poland: "After occupying half Foland the inauguration of the loan agree-and offering the other half to the ment is regarded in official quarters Russians," he says, "Germany has or- as the commencement of a period in which the friendly economic relations between the two countries have been placed on a normal basis.

war

a,

The agreement is regarded as dove tailing, into the Anglo-Spanish trade agreement which it is hoped will be merely the beginning of much more considerable volume trade between the two countries whose economies are in so many respects complementary-Reuter.

LORD MAYOR'S FUND

of

dered her agents to finish off the Polish intellectuals and to inform the Reich with regard to the most prominent persons of the country." It can be said that these sinister, instructions have been executed to the letter. Scientists, students, high officials, politicians, great landowners have been dragged away from their activities to be mur- dered or tortured in concentration lists which are camps. To this end, the Gestapo agents in each town have kept up to date and contain the names of all persons opposed to the Nazi gime; they have been hunted down ever since the beginning of the agres-

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Bion. London, To-day. The Lord Mayor's Red Cross and St. Fortunately, it must be stated that John Fund for sick and wounded in despite this methodical preparation, the war now stands at £1,260,000, re- the German police has not been quite. présenting an increase of £18,000 over so efficient as hoped by its chiefs. AI- though its agents have reached the the Easter holidays.

limit of bestiality and inhumanity, they have occasionally been accessible to bribes.

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The Secretary of State for India has forwarded £7,500, representing the Sterling equivalent of two sums of 50,000 rupees contributed by the States of Dhar and Barwani for seven am-

Reuter.

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"There

Mr. Kowalski; concludes: were also lists of the towns where an insurrection had to be put down. The were leaders of these movements executed in the street, before the eyes of the crowd, in order to give an SUDETEN GERMANS

example to strike the imaginá

and DESERT TO HOLLAND | tion. Then the invaders went on to

Amsterdam, To-day.

the systematic destruction of libraries, Two Sudeten German soldiers who works of art and the sacred vessels, deserted into the Netherlands have what they could not steal was des- told villagers than many more Ger-troyed on the spot, rendered unfit for mans would desert if it were not for use and unrecognisable. Here, the in- formation collected before the Invasion the severe penalties and the close watchTM kept on.

was of great value.” Reuter. them.

The Prefect terminated the conver- sation on a very serious note: Can it be doubted that, in other countries bordering upon Germany, the Ger- mans can refrain from pursuing the same methods? The conclusion to be drawn from the Polish experience is that an end must be made of all forces tempted to work for the Nazis. There must be no scruples, for such scruples will have to be paid for with the blood of the peoples after irresparable losses."

(To be continued) (World copyright 1940. Reproduction in whole or part strictly forbidden).

EVEN FOOTBALLS RATIONED IN GERMANY

Berlin, To-day.

The latest thing to be rationed in Germany is footballs, Ha

Just as in,

and so on,

Reuter

case of food, clothing will now be issued recognised football

LOCAL DOLLAR

demarid

on the Hong Kong

oted at 20-1/16