1940-07-01 — Page 1

MR. CHAMBERLAIN BROADCASTS FINAL

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CHINA MAIL

OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 310,70

MONDAY, JULY 1, 1940

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All Possibilities Have To Be Considered

UNEASINESS NOT

JUSTIFIED

“THERE IS NO REASON FOR PANIC, CONFUSION

OR UNEASINESS. THE SOLE REASON THAT SOVIET

EVACUATION HAS BEEN ORDERED IS TO BE

FOUND IN THE GENERALLY UNSETTLED CON ADVANCE

DITIONS IN THE FAR EAST, AND NOT IN ANY

EXPECTATION OF TROUBLE IN HONG KONG." "It is felt desirable, as a purely precautionary asure, to free all menfolk engaged in de- tence work from domestic ties, and the evacua- tion will also ease the food supply problem in the event of an emergency arising — which is not expected."

OVERFLOWS

Bucharest, To-day. The Soviet advance into Rumania is reported to have overflowed at some points into Moldavia and Wallachia.

UNEASINESS IN GERMANY: BALKAN COUP

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Berne, To-day.

The Soviet action in the Balkans has caused some un- easiness in the Reich, accord- ing to the Berlin correspon- dent of the Swiss paper “Neue Zuercher Zeitung.

The correspondent asserts that dur- Tension shows no sign of diminishing the Soviet-German parleys held Authoritative quarters this morn-| It was pointed out that in the pre-ing and anxiety is constantly fed by in Berlin and Moscow last March, it ing thus summarised the guiding fac-sent disturbed state of the world, all tors behind the developments of the possibilities have to be taken into con- last two or three days.

JAPANESE AIMS IN PACIFIC

London, To-day.

A "Times" editorial headed "Japan and the Pacific" this morning refers to Mr. Arita's broadcast and says the main feature was a sort of Monroe Doctrine covering the Far East and a great, if unspeci- fied, part of the south Pacific.

Tokyo is obviously taking full" ad- vantage of the preoccupations of Whitehall, It is a development in- evitable after the defeat of France and need cause no surprise.

sideration, however remote, and among them the chance that trouble may oc- cur in this part of the world.......

No Fears

No fear is, however, entertained in the best informed quarters that the Colony is in imminent danger of be- coming involved in hostilities. If the situation had been officially regarded as grave, there would have been no delay in evacuation.

As it was, ships were held over at one time towards the end of last week and later authorised to resume their normal schedules.

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Evacuees leaving to-day and Friday will be taken to Manila, where their stay will be quite short. They will be taken to Australia as quickly as ship- ping facilities become available.

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Other Plans

arrangements for their early evacuo- tion, after Friday. -

Regarding the evacuation

of wor men and children who do not come within the present Government scheme (many of whose husbands are serving in the defence forces of this Colony) significant was Mr. Arita's Inclu- slon It Eastern. Asla of the Southa meeting this afternoon will discuss Beao, a vast area he did not attempt to define but which might Inalude anything from Java tò Tahiti. · He did not define the developments which he appeared to anticipate, and till more lights shed on these it is difficult to assess

the importance of the declaration.

Sphere Of Influence

Should the situation suddenly take a turn for the worse, however, imme- diate evacuation of all who could be moved would be ordered, and the shipping facilities exist, according to authoritative quarters.

It is now stated that the reason for sending British women, away first is: If it means that wilde regions of the connected with the dimculty of ob- Pacific and the Far East are to be retaining permission for persons not pf

as a Japanese sphere of influ¬ ence, where other powers, It, tolerated at all, are to keep their proper. tions, then the fah, will not easily

be accepted by nations which have definite right-in hose parts of the world, but if it means that Japan

pure European descent to land nearby neutral places.

No Parking Order For Three Days

is officially announced

expects, to be consulted in any ulti- order to facilitate the arrival

mate territorial pr political changes sons and badkuge

the dic, the demand. Would be.

enough mat a time when

Jóna, and frontiers in a great: of the world have been shaken

or swept away by lawless violence,

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WE HER FORECA

Tumours.

Rumanian Jews who fled to Bessar- abia were held up near the frontier where they met a counter-stream of German minorities fleeing from pro- vinces occupied by the Reds.

Communists released from pri- sons by the Russians are reported to be paying off old scores. Waggons loaded with wheat and sugar for Germany are said to have been de- tained by Communist committees.

Despite the denial that Black Sea ports are involved in Russia's demands, refugees are crowding into the inter- ior from Constanza.

Rumanian territorial waters have

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was agreed to maintain the status quo in the Balkans.

Hence the Soviet occupation of north Bukovina, which has never belonged to Russia, is considered in. Berlin to be unfair and likely to provoke fermentation throughout the Balkans, thereby shaking - German plans,

However, the paper adds, Berlin is keeping cool and hopes are expressed that Stalin will avoid challenging the

Axis.

Meanwhile, despite Hungarian de- nials, the Bagle newspaper "National Zeltung" asserted Moscow had actually demanded of Hungary that she should surrender the Sub-Carpathian Ukraine, which was formerly part of Czecho- | slovakia.→→Havas.

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