1940-06-25 — Page 20

FRENCH FLEET

UNLIKELY .

TO SURRENDER

LONDON, TO-DAY.

"I HAVE REASON TO THINK THAT THE FRENCH FLEET WILL NOT SURRENDER TO THE ENEMY," STATED GENERAL DE GAULLE, IN- TERVIEWED IN LONDON YESTERDAY. HE WAS CONVINCED THAT ALL PARTS OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE WOULD GO ON FIGHTING. Exact position of the French National Committee in London, he said, depended upon the arrival of certain important personalities.

U.S. POLICY IN FAR EAST UNCHANGED

Shanghai, To-day.

"United States policy in the Far East remains unchanged and every effort will be made to safeguard the country's vital interests here," de- clared an official American source in Shanghai yesterday, says the "Shun

Pao."

It was stated-only-Washington_could decide what measures would be taken to that end.

There was no doubt that M. Paul Reynaud, the former Premier, would be here.

If the response developed as they expected in the French Colonial Em- pire, the National Committee. would seek to form a French Government somewhere on French soll.

That Government would continue to be represented in London.

organise France.

If Britain were attacked and re- sisted, the French would resistance somewhere In Asked about his reported liability to a court martial, General de Gaulle said he had received no communication of Marshal Petain's decision but "what- ever happens it won't change anything in my position."--Reuter.

ΟΙ French-Indo-China, blockade threats to the security of Hong Kong the The interview was granted in con- and the Japanese demand that nexion with the conclusion of the Burma-Yunnan highway be closed to to Anglo-Japanese Tientsin agreement, transportation of war materials the Franco-Japanese agreement, the Chungking, the report says.--Reuter.

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Tokyo, To-day. The Navy Ministry announces it has arranged to despatch a por- tion of warships of the Japanese to fleet in South China waters

time Haiphong "to watch for a over the conditions of transporta- tion of goods to China through French Indo-China."-Reuter.

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in the situation on the border," stated an official to the "China Mail" this afternoon. He refuted Chinese reports that the Japanese are establishing artillery positions on the Chinese side of the border.

As a result of Miss Phyllis Har- rop's raid on an alleged brothel in Wanchai at about 2 a.m. last Friday, a widow, Mary Tse, alias Mary Tse Ribeiro, was charged this at the Central Magistracy afternoon with aiding, abetting and compelling the prostitution of two girls, aged 15 and 16 years, respectively, and with living their earnings..

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January 1939, and two months.

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In the witness-box this after- noon Anna said that she was not forced into prostitution by cused.

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The other girl, Shek Po-chi, to 16, said she was introduced. accused five months ago. Accused brought, at different times, sailors to the house and made associate with them.

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She was sentenced months' hard labour.

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