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MATSUOKA'S DIRECT CHALLENGE TO

TO U.S.A. Irving Wallace's SPAIN

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SHANGHAI TRANSPORT

STRIKE ENDING

the

After nearly a fort- night's inconvenience to the public, trams and buses in the French Concession of Shanghai resumed

proatically normal. Service on Saturday, although 'bus routes are not yet fully served.

The resumption of traffic was preceded by negotiations. be- tween the workers, the management and the Concession authori- ties. Reuter.

BRITON BRUTALLY TREATED

SAYING

Pointed Interview NOTHING

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”). .

By Larry Smith, I.N.S. Correspondent in Tokyo IRVING WALLACE, A CONTRIBUTOR TO "LIBERTY MAGA- ZINE" OBTAINED THE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MR. MATSUOKA, JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER, WHICH CAUS- ED SUCH A SENSATION THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, IT IS NOW. DISCLOSED.

Wallace told the I.N.S. correspondent IL DUCE

that Mr. Matsuoka stated, without mincing

words, that Japan would declare war on the INSPECTS United States if she entered the European TROOPS

conflict or insisted upon the preservation of

o the status quo in the Pacific.

Troops of Italy's North-

Before leaving Rome for Spain yesterday, Senor Suner is reported to have had forty minutes' con- versation with Count Ciano, after Ciano's re- turn from Brenner, says Reuter's Madrid corres- pondent.

Messages to the Spanish capital from both Berlin and Rome continue to assure Spain that the Brenner meeting was neither. preliminary to

peace offensive nor denoted weakness of the Axis.

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The Spanish-papers all make much of Senor. Suner's "return.' but no indication has been given of the nature of his conversations in Germany and

cations: in Italy. "Arriba," the cfficial organ of of which. is the head, counsels

the Falangist Party

"I FLING THIS CHALLENGE AT AMERICA," ern Army massed in the STATED MR. MATSUOKA, IN THE FIRST OFFI- vast Plain of Parma were CIAL CLARIFICATION OF THE TRIPARTITE inspected yesterday by Suner

against speculation, making it AGREEMENT. "IF SHE IN HER CONTENTMENT Mussolini who flew to clear that nothing will be publish- IS GOING, BLINDLY AND STUBBORNLY, TO Placenza for the purpose. ed about the talks Reuter. STICK TO THE STATUS QUO IN THE PACIFIC,er corps and auxiliary services of The infantry, artillery, engine-

THEN WE SHALL FIGHT AMERICA. IT IS BET- TER WE SHOULD PERISH THAN MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO.”.

Sir Reginald Hoare, the Mr. Matsuoka, stated Wallace, He made it clear that the pact expressed the hope that the Unit- with Italy and Germany compell- British Minister in ed States, despite her desire to ed Japan, in black and white, to Bucharest, went to Ploes-aid Britain, would hesitate before fight in such a contingency. Ja- entire world into pan's national word had been giv- ti on Saturday night to throwing the conflagration.

en and the country's national hon- see Mr. Percy Clark, who

our was pledged to uphold her end of of the bargain. is still confined to his shock. He is over 60 years

bed, hardly able to move as the result of brutal treatment during his ab- duction.

age.

it is learned that his captors offered to release him for ten thousand lei (about 12,000) and that Clark paid the money' and was allowed to go. When he was a short distance Apparently he was subjected from his captors, more young to violent limb-twisting by his men fired at him with revolvers, capters and is suffering from but without hitting him.-Reuter.

DRAMATIC RESCUE OF WOMEN ON RAFT

DRIFTING HELPLESSLY on the grey waters of the Atlantic, two boatloads of people, survivors of a lost ship, suffered severely from thirst.

Suddenly a Sunderland flying boat searchin for submarines while escorting a convoy, swooped down.

"Frankly," said Mr. Matsuo. ka, "Japan, Germany and Italy entered into this pact to pre- vent the United States from be- coming Involved in the Euro- pean War.

Wish To Avoid

"All fear," he added, "that if the United States comes in, there will develop a vital and disas- trous conflict, We wish to avoid this international conflict and this pact is an eloquent expression of Japan's wishes.

"Definitely this pact is for peace and the American people must understand it as such!” Mr. Matsuoka displayed marked impatience with the United States attitude, says Mr. Wallace, and was particularly angry about the new American embargoes "which

threaten the peace of the Pacific."

He threw down the challenge to the United States that she must recognise the new order in News Service states that nearly the Far East or face the respon- 600 survivors of ships fast in albility of war in the Pacific and the Atlantic had been saved in the last few months by the good the entire world, g

The crew had spotted two dots | on the ocean: The survivors signalled that they had food, but no water. The flying boat crew dropped their own fresh waterwork of the Coastal Command supply and then went off to fetch

a rescue ship to the scene,

A low days later two women

afroraft...

-Sunderland flying boats - both the Royal Air Force and the Royal on a raft were, sighted from the Australian Air Force and other

•·air and they also were saved," aircraft, patrol far out into the

Tolling these stories yesterday: Atlantic overy day escorting con- In London, the Afr Ministry - voys, Reuter,

Matsuoka Grieved

have always considered America my second homeland. I have always know the Amer|- can people as a good and do. cont people, so it-grieves me

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the Littorio Division, which had ed batteries. their, baptism of fire" in the Spanish campaign, were drawn day had inspected at Trieste the

up in serried array.

of armoured cars and motoris-

Mussolinl, who earlier in the"

motorised division --- which took Standing on a platform, part in the fighting in the Alps Duce watched the famous in June, took off later in hls “rapid _march" of the Bersag- private 'plane for an fieri, followed by a procession destination-Reuter.

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