1940-04-18 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1940

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"QUISLINGS WITHIN" Neutrals Take Action Against Foreigners

THIRTY

SHIPS

DETAINED

London; To-day. The Ministry of Economic Warfare announces that in view of the situation in Norway and Denmark, 30 ships are detained on orders from the Ministry, Includ- ing 14 Norwegian, seven Danish and alx Swedish-Reuter.

GERMAN ATROCITIES

IN POLAND

London, To-day.

PRECAUTIONS

THROUGHOUT. EUROPE

London, To-day.

WANG COLLECTING INCOME TAX

(SPECIAŬ TO “CHINA`MAIL")'

Shanghai, To-day.

The Nanking rogima has be gun' to collect Income tax in tha

According to a deoroe-signed by Wang Ching-wel the collection should have started on April 1.

Although Shanghai Chinese have never paid Income tax proš viously, except on bank deposits," It is feared: the Nanking authorl- tles will seek to take over these receipts-Havas,

THE "QUISLINGS WITHIN," or Nazi "Fifth Co

lumnists" operating from within a country conte interior. tinue to be the subject of much watchful care and attention by the various neutral countries. Here are some of the latest moves:—— Switzerland: The Basle police have arrested a man caught posting several mail-bags of German pro- paganda. He told them he was acting on the orders of the German Consulate and that, there- fore, he claimed diplomatic immunity. He was released.

was

Guards have been placed over tele- Holland: A naturalised German en- birth was given a An Anglo- Franco - Polish graph offices and bridges all over Swit-gineer of Dutch

simul-zerland, while reports from the fron-sentence yesterday of five years' im- declaration, issued

tier state that the German troopsprisonment in Rotterdam. He taneously by the French and withdrawn last week have returned. accused of having given a foreign British Governments last night, expresses the pro- near the German frontier which con- Reuter. found shock of the three tain a German minority. Governments at reports of A Belgrade communique. announces

measures against foreigners- crimes committed by the severe

who spread leaflets from speeding: German authorities in Po-motor-cars. The permits of all for- land:

Yugoslavia: House-to-house searches government' information about Dutch are being conducted in several towns troop movements and Dutch ships.--

The declaration states the crimes leave no doubt the German Govern- ment is bent on destroying not lives and property but also the cultural and religious existence of the defenceless Polish population and clearly reveal a policy aiming at the destruction of the Polish nation:

The declaration also refers to the "atrocious treatment Infilcted on

they can

All will

Amsterdam Watch On Cafes And Hotels

Amsterdam, To-day. The reintroduction of ex- eigners are to be revised:

in the have to leave within 10 days unless traordinary leave

prove that their presence

army marks a slight allevia- benefits the Government.

Turkey: The Turkish Governmenttion of the tension in which has decided to expel a considerable Holland has been living for number of foreigners. A careful watch the past week.

the is being kept on all foreigners com-

However the tightening up on home front has been given new im- ing from Central Europe under guise of merchants, actors and tour-petus by continued revelations of how

members of the Jewish community." ists.

the

Belgium: The Belgian Government The

make a three Governments

is reported to be setting up a large formal public protest to the con- science of the world against the action camp near Bruges, in which to intern of the German Government and its people who illegally cross the frontier agents, and reaffirm their determina-Into Belgium... More men have been tion to right the wrongs thus inflicted called up to guard. strategic points in.

the interior of the country. on the Polish people.

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Reuter.

OFF THE RECORD

'Mrs. Newly'

EDREED

treachery helped the Germans capture Oslo, while the press repeats that such methods will not succeed in Holland.

The police are overhauling the system of chooking up on all for algners..

A special watch is kept on cafes and hotels and special attention paid to gatherings which the Nazis hope to hold at the week-end to celebrate Hit--|

By ED REED. ler's birthday.

"I didn't have any glasses for my jelly so I put it in these nice bottles."

Here's Luck

EWO BEER

Tel 30311

The Rotterdam court yesterday passed a sentence of five years' -impri- sonment on a German-born Dutchman convicted of sanding to-Germany-in- formation about troop movements and shipping-Reuter...

DOMALA BOMBING.

REVELATION

London, To-day

The 143 Indian seamen

on board the B.I.

la

(bombed by

plane in the

Channel on March 2) who were being repatriated Germany, were asked by the Nazis to give an undertaking not.

to serve in British Their united-reply was King wanted them to serve Impossible to refuse.

The Nazis retorted they did not guaran rival and later the

This was au

AMMUNITION PLANE

INTERNED

Stockholm, To-day.

containing

A German aeroplane machine-guns and ammunillon for the German, troops in Norway, has made a forced landing in Swedish territory 25 miles from Norway.

The crew has been interned. Reu- ter.

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