JAPAN AND U.S. 20,000,000
MANOEUVRES
: TOKYO, TO-DAY,
THE UNITED STATES NAVY WAR GAMES IN THE PACIFIC ARE THE
BRANDISHING SAME AS
A BIG ARE SWORD NEAR JAPAN AND "INFLUENCING JAPANESE SENTI. MENT," ACCORDING TO A JAPAN- ESE NAVAL AUTHORITY. :
With reference to a possible British blockade in the Pacific, he said that Japan will oppose such a procedure.
The Sea of Japan was not really Japanese waters, but it was actually looked on as a Japanese lake and the Japanese Government will object to an extension of the European war into Far Eastern waters.--Reuter.
THE "WAR DICTATOR"
MR.
ON RELIEF
IN CHINA
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
CHUNGKING, TO-DAY. THE NATIONAL RELIEF COM- MITTEE YESTERDAY PUBLISHED A REPORT OUTLINING THE WORK OF 23 PROVINCIAL SUB-COMMIT- TEES, 534 MUNICIPAL AND VILL- AGE COMMITTEES IN SEVEN DIS- TRICTS AND 18 HEARDQUARTERS OF RELIEF WORK.
It also mentions 285 "emergency relief for air raid bureaux" which directly depend on the National Com- mittee,
The total refugees receiving relief amount to over 20,000,000, while over- 200,000 children are being given help and Instruction.
The committee has opened 12 fac- tories employing refugees and has as- sisted over 80,000 refugees to agricultural work-Havas.
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DEATH PENALTY FOR "RED" PROPAGANDISTS (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Paris, To-day.
BERLIN, TO-DAY. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S NEW APPOINTMENT BRINGS HIM THE TITLE OF "WAR DICTATOR" HEADLINES, IN
PRESS NAZI
HE WILL WHICH INFER THAT
The Home Minister, M. Henry Roy, President for TOWARDS will shortly submit ADOPT NEW STEPS
Lebrun's signature a decree providing "RUTHLESS WARFARE."
Responsible Berlin circles feel that the death penalty for any person con- his new appointment is an endorse-victed of preparation of or stocking ment of the belief that the Allies will propaganda material for the Third In- wage war "with all means at their dis-ternational. posal against all nations not in the Allied camp."
reshuffle is taken to The Cabinet mean that Britain intends to starve Germany by blockade and coerce the neutral nations.
On the other hand, concentration camps now located in the Paris district will shortly be transferred to North Africa. Havas.
Cabinet the honour of putting it un- The Berlin press has done the new 'der large headlines.-Reuter.
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"The United States are slipping and stepping into war. I hate to 'say it but honestly I bollave it,” declared Senator Holt In the Sonata during angry denuncia- tions of the propaganda following a speech by Mr. Connant, At- torney General of Ontario yestar- day, in which he wild” ́that Canada's .... supreme task in the present conflict was to bring the United States into the war on the Allies' side..
Mr. Holt - also said that Mr. Cordell Hull would have gone further, if he had not. bean res- trained, In his recant rébuka to Mr. James Cromwell, the United States Minister to Canada.-Rou· ter.
Honolulu, To-day.
The R.M.S. Mauretania has ar- "rived at Honolulu. The Mauren- tania left New York on March 20.
Reuter.
Law
As he laid the Standing Committee's report on the table of the Legislative Council this afternoon, the Attorney-General said that since the report - was finished, certain representations had been made about another. clause, Clause 24. The matter now being studied by Govern ment..
He understood that the report will be gone into by the Commit tee of the whole Council at the next meeting.
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