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RUSSIA AND

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 16, 1940

BALKANS

Obvious Anxiety To Avoid Clash With Hitler

Faced Now WithChallenge To Interests

RUSSIA'S WHOLE diplomacy in the past twelve months has been marked by an obvious anxiety to avoid conflict with Germany, says the "Daily Tele- graph" in a leader on Russia and the Balkans.

Russia, says the paper, has tolerated a good' deal of German. high-handedness rather than en- gage in a dispute, but Germany on the Straits would be a challenge to her interests and security which must surely compel her to think again.

Indeed, she may well be con- sidering whether she was not seriously wrong in the apparent

not

Schulenberg Returns

The German Radio

asbassador to

Moscow,

announces

complacent assumption that the that Herr Von Schulenberg, Am- Pact with Japan was much directed against herself as against the United States.

It is probable that she will be compelled by the march of events to show her hand be- Is fore long and her attitude naturally receiving the keen attention of Turkey.

returned there after several weeks in Ber- lin. - Reuter.

CHINA CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS

The National Government yes-

The "Daily Telegraph" con- terday appointed Mr. Teh-ming cludes by declaring that the long to be Chinese consul at Penang, arm of British sea-power and and Mr. Shen Wel-fan

to be

the growing strength of her land Consul-General at Khabarovsk in and air forces in the Middle East the U.S.S.R. will assure the Axis of a hot ad- reception in any Levantine venture it may have in contem- plation.-Reuter.

Mr. Huang Ting-kai, outgoing has Chinese consul at Penang, been recalled to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.-Central News.

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Russell and Brian Fairly bursting with pep, Rosalind Aherne have joined hands in Universal's zestful comedy, "Hired Wife." Working together for the first time, the stars are hav- ing the times of their lives. And they look it in the above

as they photo, which the cameraman caught of them strolling around the studio.

were

NO FRESH BRITISH LOAN NECESSARY

BRITISH RULE THE CHANNEL

A young American war correspondent, Daniel A. Campbell, representing the United . Press America, came back from |Boulogne the other morn-

ing with a thick ear.

"I've been within two miles of the Fatherland," he said, "and I in- have seen nothing of any vasion plans,"

Nevertheless, he told how the small naval vessel in which he was a passenger was shelled from · the French coast.

"I was on the top deck when a ten feet," he shell burst within said, "and I have not heard any- thing with this ear ever since. It fiung me ten feet on to the lower deck."

war

Mr. Campbell was the luckiest correspondent in Europe. For months the entire British and Empire Press have been seeking permission for such a trip, but always they have been refused.

In Possession

Mr. Campbell, who was grant- ed permission to sail, said the voyage was uneventful until they got near Boulogne, and then, in his own words:

"If Hitler had come troops awaiting a chance to make a landing, the B.A.F.. mucked up the whole thing. You've no idea what a bombardment those aeroplanes of yours put up.. "I am quite certain that it will be impossible for Hitler to invade Britain so long as the R.A.F: can unload, their stuff over there in the way that I saw them do it.

"We were so interested in the firework display that we went in within two miles of Boulogne. Harbour, and the shore batteries. opened up on us,

"You can see for yourself --...what a cauliflower.ear. I got.

"So far as my left ear is con- cerned I have no doubt that the

No fresh loan by the British Government to China is under consideration at the present time, declared Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Ex--- chequer, when asked in the House of Commons yes- terday whether Government would consider suchBritish own the Channel.” loan to China under an Exports-Credits Scheme

similar to that recently granted China by the Ameri-LORD

LORD LOTHIAN

can Government.

MOSCOW CONTRADICTS BERLIN

Sir Kingsley, however, pointed out that China had already re- ceived assistance from Britain under the Exports-Credits Scheme

FLYING HOME

Lord Lothian is flying.

and as the sterling available un- to London on Government der this scheme had not been ex-

hausted and only a small part of instructions, for consulta- the export guarantees had been tion, it is said in Washing- taken up, the question of further sterling assistance did not arise at present. Router.

The statement that CHASE THAT

the Soviet Govern-

ment was informed in advance of the aims

WON BAR

and of the number of TO D.F.C.

troops sent to Ru- mania by Germany does not correspond to the facts, the "Tass" news agency was authorised to state in Moscow yes. terday. 000000

SHANGHAI STRIKE

ton.

It is not known how long he will stay in London. A spokesman of the British Embassy said that Lord Lothian is going on a rou- tine visit his first since the out- break of the war.

There was no special signi ficance in the trip and It does not involve any negotiations proceed- ing or projected with the United States. Reuter..

ART

A PILOT OFFICER WHO WON. THE D.8.0.; M.C. AND DF.C. IN THE LAST WAR AND WHO 18 AGAIN ON ACTIVE. SERVICE, 1. v ALTHOUGH BO YEARS' : OLD.

FORCES TOLD THE

IN A BROADCAST TALK HOW HE RECENTLY WON A BAR TO HIS. D.F.C.

TREASURES SEIZED

THE MINISTER OF ECONO· He was asked, he said, that a MIC WARFARE CONFIRMS RE- Hurricane should be taken back to PORTS THAT OVER 600 PIC- England from France before night- | TURES FROM. VICHY WERE fall. He had never flown this SEIZED AT BERMUDA A FEW 'plane before and had had no time DAYS AGO WHILE THEY WERE' to repair its guns.

EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK. Soon after he had taken off The pictures include paintings tracer-bullets began coming down by Renoir, Cezanne and Picasso, at him from the hillsides. "Foolish- and pre probably from a well- ly," said the pilot, "I shot up known Paris collection.

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to about 8,000ft. to sail straight The question is now being con- into a perfect pattern of horribly sidered as to how best to store noisy, black, anti-aircraft bursts, them so that they will not be dam- An unorthodox manoeuvre got ine aged and at the same time be seen out of this, but not before a Mes- by large numbers of people -Reu- serschmidt flight commander had ter. dived to the attack..

A Shanghai, dispatch states that the tramway and bus em- $1.56

ployees in the French Concession $2.00 resumed their strike owing to the $5.60 refusal of Mr. Yu Ya-ching to

continue to act as a mediator. "Thereafter the chase" went on off Boulogne opened up on the

Two other prominent Chinese up the village street and down a pack at my heels," lenders, Wei Ting-yung and Keng chateau, drive and once almost The speaker was recognised as. |Chia-chip-are now negotiating | through the chateau front door, Pilot Officer Louis A. Strange, who with the tramway and bus com-until, suddenly twisting down-retired from the RAF in 1021 panies for an amicable settlement stream in a wooded valley, with the rank of Wing Comman

Central News..

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