1940-05-27 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1940

PEACE

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OR WAR FOR

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ITALY? GRIM

"Natural Sphere Of The Mediterranean

Mussolini Confers With General Graziani

ROME, TO-DAY.

THE QUESTION OF PEACE OR WAR FOR ITALY RE- MAINS THE PARAMOUNT PREOCCUPATION OF EVERYONE IN ROME.

Signor Ansaldo, editor of Count Ciano's newspaper "Telegrafo," concluded his weekly broadcast yesterday by saying "For every blow Hitler strikes against the Allies we shall strike a cor- responding blow in our natural sphere of ac-

tion in the Mediterranean.” Mussolini yesterday, conferred with General Graziani, General in charge of mobilisation, and the Chief - Air Raids Precautions officer, and also saw the heads of armament factories re-

garding faster and more extensive production. Reuter.

TIME COME

FOR

DECISION

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Rome, To-day. Intervention on the side of Germany is urged by the semi-official paper "Relazioni Internazionali.”

ITALIAN CONSUL IN INCIDENT

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Tientsin, To-day.

The new Italian Consul, Signor Brigidi, was involved in a barrier incident at the entrance of the blockaded Concession last night.

While exact details are unavailable, it is understood the Japanese sentry slapped the Chinese driver from a consulate car wearing Italian police The paper says: "Britain and France uniform because he did not halt for maintain an obstinately negative at-examination. The driver slapped back titude and the Italian people know the sentry following which the Japan they must use arms to realise their legitimate aspirations.

ese military arrested him.

Signor Brigid, driving in the other "The time for a decision has come

car, alighted and followed the Japan and there is no room for cowards ese soldiers and the driver into the or people obsessed by moral pre-examination hut, where he remained occupations..

for several hours negotiating for the driver's release.-Havas.

"The Italian people await the Duce's order to open the way to security and development of the Empire.

"Germany is nearing her objectives CONTRABAND

and so is Italy. The Italian people will break their Mediterranean chains and find the open ocean before them." -Havas.

TRAPEZE CRASH AT CIRCUS

A serious accident occurred at the Circus, Mongkok, during the performance yesterday afternoon. While Serge Potoff was per- forming a particularly dangerous feat of the trapeze; looping the loop; a wire broke and the acrobat hurtled fifty feet to the floor of the ring.

He was taken to the Kowloon Hospital obviously badly injured and it is feared that his spine was broken. The result of the X-ray examination is not yet known.

The performer is 35 years of

age.

BLACK-OUT ORDERED THROUGHOUT EGYPT Alexandría, To-day, The authorities have ordered black-out throughout the country E tween 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Hitherto the black-out has only been imposed along the ses front-Reute

PEACE?

London, To-day. Sir Wilfred Greene, Master of the Rolls, who has been to Rome to at- tend a meeting of Anglo-Italian Joint Standing Committee on matters re- lating to Contraband: ¡Control, was due to return to London last evening.

Proposals made by the Italian, au- thorities in this connection are re- garded by him as affordingva -very: satisfactory basis for agreement. The British and Italian: representatives:} are engaged working out the details in Rome.-British Wireless. :

PARACHUTISTS GET.. HOT RECEPTION"

London, To-day.

A wounded soldier who has just returned from the Front tells of how.. his unit turned Bren machine-gun on German parachutists as they floated down..

"A score of them were dead before they hit the ground," he says.

"I saw a dozen in women's clothes. "We got them all."Router:

AMERICANS SOUND

ALARM IN MALTA.

Malta, To-day.

The American Consul yesterday advised all-Americans to lenye Malta for the United States at the earliest possible moment-Reuter

HEALTH DRIVE IN PEIPING

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Polping, To-day.

A large-scale campaign for the prevention of the spread of con- tagious diseases in the summer is being conducted by the local au- thorities. Vaccination units are- posted at the city gates and a fly elimination campaign is in full swing.-Havas.

RALLY AT HOUR OF DANGER

BERNE, TO-DAY.

THE NOIVE OF THE MAN

London, To-day.

"I found a fat old Junkers shooting at me. What do you think of that? A fat old Junkers!" said an R.A.F. pilot in an interview with a British correspondent.

The pilot, who is from Toronto, Canada, said that he got lost in his "old Hurricane” somewhere behind the German lines. He flew on to the west.

"After a while, I decided I must be getting back on our side, the blitzbrelg doesn't move that fast!". So he came down to look and sud- denly found machine-gun spattering around him."

bullets

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"I looked around and it was.

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IT 18 A PECULIARITY OF THE ENGLISH CHARACTER, SAYS THE "BASLER NACHRICHTEN", THAT a fat old Junkers shooting at me. IT ONLY DEVELOPS ITS FULL went up and shot him down. A fat POWER IN MOMENTS OF GREAT old Junkers! What do you think of

DANGER.

The spirit which pervades the En- glish people in all crises was well ex- pressed by Lord Roseberry: "At the time of the greatest Napoleonic peril none thought of yielding or of

possibility of asking for peace."

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Can it be that this spirit is any dif ferent to-day, asks the paper?-Reuter.

N. Z. FORMS NEW WAR CABINET

that?”—Reuter,

"GIVE PLANES TO THE ALLIES"

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New York, To-day. Senator Pepper's suggestion that the United States should "give all pos- sible 'planes to the Allies" finds a wide echo in the American press."

: Commentators like Mr. Raymond Clapper and Mr. Walter Lippman, the Assistant Secretary of War, Mr. John- War Ace Captain Eddle ston, and Rickenbacker all support the sugges

Wellington, To-day. Mr. Fraser, the New Zealand Prime Minister, announces, the formation of War Cabinet, made up of Cabinet Ministers, members of the Opposition and representatives of the employers. Trade Unions and farmers.—Reuter. Ition.

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