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No. 310,68

FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940

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Behind Moscow's Ultimatum To Rumania

CAROL'S KOWTOW TO BERLIN: BULGARIA NEXT?

FOOLISH BLURB

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Shanghai, To-day.

"A foolish blurb" is the headline on a "North China Daily News" leaderette on Senator Pittman's statement that Britain should retire to

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LONDON, TO-DAY.

BEHIND THE SCENES IN TOKYO

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

THE LAST POLITICAL EVENTS IN RUMANIA, SUCH

Tokyo, To-day. AS FORMATION OF A SINGLE TOTALITARIAN

"Chief danger to the Yonai PARTY, CREATED A SITUATION CORRESPOND-Cabinet comes from the fact ING TO THE RUSSIAN DEFINITION OF "IN that it is no longer in favour DIRECT AGGRESSION,” POLITICAL CIRCLES | with a certain country,” Dr. HERE DECLARED, RECALLING THAT MOSCOW Tsunego Baba, well-known CONSIDERS "INDIRECT AGGRESSION” POLI-political writer, declares in TICAL EVENTS PREPARATORY TO THE TAK- the "Yomiuri Shimbun." ING OVER OF A FOREIGN POWER.

"Some people say. Admiral Yonai should resign because a certain coun-

the New World and continue Russia probably asked Rumania not only for terri-try does not favour him. However,

the fight from there as Bri. tain cannot be defended.

"Senator Pittman is almost as in- teresting as Colonel Lindbergh," the newspaper says.

"It is difficult to realise that $0 absurd a statement came from a man who is chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the Senate.

One could

understand it if it came from Goebbels but not from a neutral whose country's national Interests require that Britain should emerge victorious.

"Britain is in an excellent defence position and she is not content with passive defence, as witness the raids on German positions on the French coast.

"Senator Pittman can rest assured the war is only beginning as far as Britain is concerned."-Havas.

FRENCH SOMALILAND HOLDS OUT

{SPECIAL TO "CHINA-MAIL"). Djibuti, To-day. French Somaliland is of immense strategic value as it constitutes the only reasonable access to Abyssinia.

So far it has resisted all attacks des- pite the fact that Italian controlled territory surrounds it on practically the whole land frontier. ---Haves.

GENERAL MOTORS GET CONTRACT

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") New York, To-day. It is reported here that the contract for aero-angines which Henry Ford rejected has been given to General Motors-Havas.

UNITS OF FRENCH FLEET IN ALGIERS (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") London, To-day. Several major units of the French Fleet, prepared to fight on, are report- ed to have reached Algiers.-Havas.

torial concessions "to guarantee the Soviet fron- tiers," but also military and political guarantees to prevent the access of foreign military forces to the Black Sea or the placing of Rumanian po- litics under foreign control.

Most observers are of opinion that Rumani l be compelled to yield as her litary might is insufficient to oppose Russia, and Turkey most probably will not intervene.

It is absolutely Impossible to see whether the

Russian demands on Rumania may Russo-German friction or are part of eventually lead to

a partition plan agreed upon by Moscow and Berlin.

Meanwhile the possibility exista that Russia will not limit her action to Rumania but will seize the op- portunity to Increase her Influence In Bulgaria.

The element of speed would be es- sential in Russian action as Moscow is anxious to consolidate her influence around the Black Sea before Germany gets into that region.

Appeal To Germany, In Vain, Reported

Rumours that Russian troops have already moved into Bessarabla can- not yet be confirmed, and no au- thoritative announcement has yet been received to Indicate whether or not, by 10 p.m., Rumania had accepted or rejected the Soviet de- mands.

There are reports, however, that Rumania appealed to Germany in vain, and that Germany has lodged a protest with Moscow.

The territory demanded by Russia is chiefly populated by Russians, Ger- mans and Rumanians, and Bukovina Is more important from the German viewpoint thah. Bessarabla.

One of the chlef railways between Rumania ·and · Poland (Russian-

WEATHER FORECAST: - South and south-east winds, madarate to frosh; fair to showery, ins

we would prefer Admiral Yonai to

ernment better suiting the fancy of a foreign country than our own.

stay in office rather than have a gov-

"As a matter of fact, I hear every- where the hope expressed that the Yonal Government will continue. This is typical of the Japanese reac- tion to a demand made for foreign Interests."

occupied) runs through Bukovina, giving the Soviet a firmer strangle- hold on Rumanian economy and Criticising the belief that the single further affecting the German over-party system would lead to a funda- land oil route.

mental change in Japanese policies, Dr. Meanwhile, the Hungarian Cabinet Baba recalls it took Hitler ten years met urgently last night and reports to form the Nazi Party and only from Budapest suggest that Hungary "really critical” situations produce men

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like Hitler and Mussolini.-Havas.

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