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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1940.
NEW MEASURES FOR CONTROL OF SWEDISH WATERS
(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL ")
STOCKHOLM, TO-DAY.
NEW MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO CONTROL
ISOLATION
SWEDISH TERRITORIAL WATERS, NOTABLY IN U.S.
OFF THE SOUTHERN COAST, WHERE AN EX-
TREMELY TENSE SITUATION MAY DEVELOP LOSING OUT
AT ANY MOMENT.
The constant possibility of incidents is created by the fact that German reinforcements are sent
to Norway through the Kattegat, just outside TRUTH,"
Swedish waters:
German convoys pass under heavy aeroplane escort and the Kattergat is constantly patrolled by German mine- sweepers.
The vigilance of the Swedish air control is to be reinforced while every.. ship entering Swedish waters, even if it carries the Swedish flag, will be stopped and submitted to the strictest control.-Havas.
KWEICHOW FARMING EXPERIMENT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Chungking, To-day.
The first returns regarding large scale agricultural experiments carried out in the last two years in Kweichow have been released here,
The Kweichow Agricultural Im provement Bureau runs three experi- mental farm's which serve to demon- strate to the peasants modern thods.
me-.
bore
First efforts of the Bureau upon persuading the peasants to plow in winter. As a result wheat and rye production doubled, ..........
In the following-year-the campaign Seeds dealt with cotton cultivation.
varieties were of the best American distributed and it is expected this year's harvest will be increased.
JAPAN'S
RECORD NOTE ISSUE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Tokyo, To-day. The Bank of Japan's note issue in history, April
highest in was the totalling 3,266,000,000 yen, and break- ing the record established last Decem- ber. The size of the note issue be- comes clearer when compared with last year.
At the beginning of 1939 the aver- about ran to age monthly issue 400,000,000 yen above the correspond- ing period in 1938...
During the first four months of this year the average note issue" has run from 800,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 yen above the corresponding 1939.-Havas.
months in
TOUR OF JAPANESE ECONOMIC MISSION (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Peiping, To-day.
RUMANIA CLAMPS DOWN
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL"). Bucharest, To-day!”.
Strict .control of outgoing press -telegrame has been Insti- 'tuted.. Foreign pressmen were summoned yesterday to the Pro- paganda Ministry and informed by the Minister, M. Gluresco, that no message would be allowed to leave Rumania without the Ministry's stamp of approval.- Havas,
LONDON, TO-DAY FRENCH
COMMENTING ON AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "TIME TO FACE THE BY COLONEL FRANK KNOX, PROPRIETOR OF THE "CHICAGO_DAILY NEWS," THE RE- PUBLICAN-AND ISOLATIONIST JOURNAL, GRAPH" SAYS:
THE "DAILY TELE-
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CHASER WINS AIR DUEL
A duel between a French "Eight months of war seemed to fighter plane and a twin-en- have awakened obstinate questions in gined Nazi reconnaissance
the minds
of some of the stoutest isolationists in America, who begin to machine which ended in vic- realise that the issue of the conflict tory for the Frenchman was concerns the United States very vitally described by members of a French party who brought back and buried the bodies of the German crew.
and that the defeat of the Allies and
the triumph of Germany would pre- sent the United States with anxieties and dangers which mere isolationism would be powerless to dismiss."~-~--Reu- ter.
BALANCE IN BALKANS
LONDON, TO-DAY.
LEADER "THE TIMES, IN A HEADED "CAMPAIGN OF LIES,"
STATES THE GERMANS ARE PAR-
...
A French official in an observation of planes post heard the whinning high up and scanned the sky with his glasses.*****
Finally he located a machine- just a dark speck. Gradually the machine came lower, and he saw a French chaser plane' on the tail of
a Heinkel, criss-crossing forth like an angry bee,
back and
By this time he could hear the rapid burst of shellfire of the French ma- chine. The Heinkel was in trouble.
Just as it passed over the officer's head the Heinkel burst into flames, which shot back along the fuselage, leaving long, dark smudges.
The pilot managed, to
pull his plane up,...... skimmed a hill with one side a mask of flames, which spurted back off the tail. The rear gunner was hanging over the side of his cockpit.
TICULARLY EXPERT AT TAKING SOME SINGLE FACT WHICH FORMS A SMALL PART OF THE TRUTH .A IT INTO AND EXPANDING FANTASTIC TALE WHICH LOSES
· ΤΟ THE ALL RESEMBLANCE TRUTH
has Pointing out that Germany done her 'best to create trouble in
The plane crashed in No Man's south-east Europe, the leader adds: "Despite the incitements, false ac- Land. 'Two members of the cusations and wilful exaggeration of were burned to death. German agents, the Balkan leaders. are preserving a sense
of balance considerably
Other experiments were made in corn and tobacco. Connecticut, Man- ila and Havana varieties were intro- duced in Kweichow.-Havas.
and they know that British and
The Japanese economic inspection mission has left for Tientsin, where it will stay two days and then proceed to Shanghai via Tsingtao. During the visit to central China the 'mission is scheduled to call on the "government" genuinely concerned to help them re- at Nanking in order to exchange views main stable, and keep aggressors
bay." Reuter. on economic problems. Havas.
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FOR HITLER
Victims of Nazi horrors in Poland who, in spite of persecution, flock to Mass have to say, a special prayer for Hitler, according to the "Apologische Blaetter," official organ of the Swiss Catholic Popular Association.
Thousands of Catholics have been shot and familles torn apart in Ger- many's depopulation drive in Poland. An article based on documents from the Polish Archdioceses of Guesen and Posen and quoted by Reuter says:
"Districts with purely Polish popu- lation, such as Szubin and Ironoclaw, of all non- have been 'cleansed' Germans. ROKI
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horrible. Thousands were shot, the remainder imprisoned and deported. Families are systematically torn apart.
"The aim is to break the morale of why the subdued people, That is marriages are forbidden. The fate of the deportees Is indescribable." NEW FRENCH MINISTER ÎN SOFIA
16PECIAL TO
JINA-MAIL"). Sofia, To-day? Ew French Mini- rday handed his Boris:
aid he main taak would
trade between the two" 15:Boris exprèssed satin- the improvement in com
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