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GLOOMY PICTURE OF CONDITIONS IN

BELGIUM

· HOLIDAYS WITH PAY --IN FRANCE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}

Annual

holidays

with pay, provided for in legislation passed

before the war and suspended on May 12, are re-established by an order issued by the Petain Government in Vichy yesterday. Havas.

LORD GORT'S DESPATCHES ---LATER

MR. JOHN CUDAHY, former United States Ambassador to Belgium, painted a gloomy picture of economic conditions in Belgium to a meeting of newspaper represen- tatives in London yesterday.

Mr. Cudahy suggested that supplies of foodstuffs, which were already severely rationed, might last from eight to ten weeks after which he implied the situation would be desperate unless supplies were imported.

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He observed much would de- pend on what happened to Bri- tain, adding that it was only an academic" question for Britain

to consent to the shipment of rations to Belgium.

Mr. Cudahy declared that when the truth was known, King's Leo- pold's decision to surrender would be applauded.

"I think it will be known that the Allies were fully informed -not less than three days before-

hand," Mr. Cudahy asserted.

$

INDIAN P.C.

SHOT DEAD

IN STATION

It was disclosed this morning that Police Con- PUBLICATION AT SOME

stable Narza Singh (B669)| LATER DATE OF LORD GORT'S DESPATCHES ON THE OPERA-

was fatally wounded at TIONS OF THE B.E.F. IN

Belgian Sympathies 4.55 p.m. yesterday when FRANCE AND BELGIUM IS UNDER CONSIDERATION BUT

He said he did not propose to it is alleged, he was fired THE WAR SECRETARY TOLD

over the at by Police Constable. THE COMMONS YESTERDAY IT nter any controversy WOULD NOT BE IN THE PUB-French and British claims which Merhan Singh (B611) in LIC INTEREST TO ISSUE THEM are in opposition to this state- his quarters in the Yau-

ment, notably M. Reynaud's as-mati Police Station. HE ADDED THAT PUBLICA-:ertion that the French were not TION OF AN ABBREVIATED previously warned. DESCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE

Mr. Cudahy said personally he CAMPAIGN, WHICH WOULD PUT IN PERSPECTIVE THE was convinced that the sympathies PIECEMEAL STORIES AL- Belgians were still with Britain. READY IN CIRCULATION, HAD-Reuter. BEEN CONSIDERED ALSO BUT THE "DIFFICULTIES ·AT. THIS

AT PRESENT.

Chief Inspector M. H. Hourihan and District Inspector Wright, sit- ting in the former's office, heard four revolver shots.

the floor.

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1940

A new career is being opened to women. At the Galety Thea- tre, Manchester, they are learning to control the projection of films from start to finish and as men are called for National Service the girls will replace them as cinema operatives. 'It will be the first time in screen history that woman has done this type of work. Photo shows girls learning how to project films. (Copyright. Fox).

GERMANY'S NEW ENVOY.

IN FRANCE

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL!!)`

The 'Paris radio an- nounced yesterday

that Hitler has ap÷ pointed Otto Abetz as new German envoy to France. Abetz-up- to now has held the of.

post of delegate the

The Indian interpreter rushed into the Indian Constables' Quar- ters and found, it is alleged, Mer- han Singh, with a revolver in his 2,000,000. Refugees hand and Narza Singh lying on TIME ARE RATHER EXCEP-| TIONAL, ESPECIALLY IN RE- In Belgium, Mr. Cudahy sald,

He caught hold of Merhan] LATION TO WHAT HAPPENED all industry is in a state of stagna-Singh, dragged him out of IN FRANCE AND EVENTS INtion.

Quarters, and, with the assistance REGARD TO THE FRENCH NA- There are still about two mil-of other constables, disarmed him.

ITSELF." — BRITISH tion refugees in France. Rationing Narza Singh was sent to

is very severe.

Kowloon Hospital but died He also stated that in unoccu-hour after admission. pied France thousands had been Narza Singh was attached swept into the south with the re-Yaumati Police Station.

TION WIRELESS.

the

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WEATHER REPORT sult that harvest fields are neg- Merhan Singh was attached to lected and there is no one to Taipo Police Station and had been The Royal Observatory reports gather in the crops. Mr. Cudahy sent to Yaumati to escort a pri- that weak anticyclonic areas cover expressed keen apprehension re-soner. Manchuria and the Pacific to the garding the food situation when south and east of Japan. De-existing supplies give out. pressions are situated to the north His remarks to reporters, re- .of Hokkaido, over south west produced in the press, convey a

YOUTH

China, and the western Carolincs: strong impression that in his view EDUCATION

"WHAT IS "THE MAN WITH THE UMBRELLA' DOING THE ABOUT 'CLOUDS OVER

EUROPE?'

Ralph Richardson of

"The Citadel" fame.

COME TO THE KING'S THEATRE TO-MORROW. AND.

FIND OUT!'

the Nazi Foreign Ministry attached to the staff of the Ger- man military gov- ernor in the occupied zone.-Havas,

LATE TRAMS FOR PEAKITES

ALTHOUGH THE TRAMS

PEAK

NORMALLY STOP SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT, HAVE SPECIAL LATE, CA S BEEN AVAILABLE, DURING THE PAST TWO OR THREE DAYS UP TO AROUND 2 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE

MANY PEAK RESIDENTS MORE

OR LESS CUT OFF BY THE IN MAGAZINE

LANDSLIDE

GAP ROAD.

An. official of the company told the "China Mail" this morning that this was a special emergency ser- vice for the benefit of the general public and would last as long as the circumstances require it..

A fare of 30 cents a head, is

charged, with a minimum fáre for the whole car of $2. There is no fixed schedule, so that the car waits until $2 worth of fares or more have arrived.

at

A party of seven arriving, once, therefore, would not have Ito wait more than a minute or two before the "next car" leaves.

TRICKS OF THE

IN FRANCE GOEBBELS TRADE

the Germans have no plans for meeting or mitigating the cruel disaster which their aggression has orought upon these unhappy people and that the Nazis are sim- ply looking to some outside aid to (SPECIAL TO "CHINA „MAIL") solve these problems for them Akin to the C.C.C. youth groups States, outdoor and to relieve the forces of occu-in the United

FURTHER DETAILS of tricks played by

pation of the responsibilities they camps for 70.000 Frenchmen of the German propaganda ministry headed by consequences of a neglect to dis-blished, according to yesterday's Dr. Goebbels have been received in London.

have incurred and of the political 20 and 21 will shortly be esta-

charge them. '

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German Behaviour

"Le Temps".

The youths will comprise those who formed part of the 1940. mili-

tary, classes and whose term of At the same time, Mr. Cudahy military service has been brought said, the German army itself had to a close by the armistice. behaved with a great deal of res- The youths will receive no mili- education but traint in Belgium and so far as tary or political his personal observation went the "complementary moral and virile

Belgians were not complaining of education." The men will work

their treatment by the military. on irrigallon, forestry, road, build-

But they were not being gering, etc.-Havas.

manised in spirit and he was cer- tain they wished for and had con- fidence in the final success of Bri-

tain and the Allied cause,

Mr. Cudahy also spoke of King Leopold who, he said, it was no secret was a prisoner of ...” war...

R.A.F. RAIDS IN REICH

In Denmark, a common feature of cinema programmes has been a German newsreel showing the enthusiastic reception supposed to have been given by, the Danes when the Nazis marched in last April.

were "Wh

not understand

"One Dane 'was horrified to seep The Nazis had got hold of it his wife standing in the front and converted it to their

own, of the crowd, cheering and way-use. ing.

News of another "dodge" has When he got home and taxed come from France, where work- her about it, she told him she had men in à factory just outside Paris not left the house that particular were ordered to gather to hear day!:

a statement by an official.... So, he took her along to the His first words He gave his personal opinion An Air Ministry communique cinema to see for herself. She those who do that the King's act of surrender states that R.A.F. night bombers could not deny it was her-but German please hold up their would be accepted by impartial carried out attacks on military ob- saw that she was wearing a hat hands?" history as a conscientious decision jectives In Holland and Northern that she had not worn for based on the conviction that there Germany, including targets at years. was nothing to be gained by con- Wismar, Kiel and Hamburg. Unued resistance in the chreum- Goods-yards at. Humm, and stances of that hour of despair aerodromes at Schifoland Bor- för Belgium or her allles commen-kum were also, damaged,, surate with the sacrifice of life All our aircraft returned safe

[ly:- Involved British Wireless.

-Heuter,

two All but a few workmen held

up their hands..

The film was actually made] A photographer promptly in May, 1937, during the colo-"snapped" the scene and the brations of the 25th anniversary picture later appeared. In the of the accession to the throne German press captioned "Frerich of the King and Queen of Denworking-men shout 'Hell Hiller!'"

-Reuter, mark!