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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 19, 1940'

AMERICAN SAID THREATENED BY WIDLER

THE ACTION of the Japanese gendarmes in preventing the arrest of L. A. "Elly" Widler by the Shanghai Municipal Police accompanied by police officers of the Japanese consular police despite a warrant issued by the Swiss consular authorities more than a week ago will be the subject of repre- sentations made to the local American consular au- | thorities by the lawyers of the American Trading Company Inc., it was learned. Widler is wanted on a charge of grand larceny connected with the theft of more than U.S.$100,000 worth of copper ingots and coins stored by the company in the godown of the Commercial Express and Storage Company in the Settlement.

It was learned that Widler had not only openly defied his own Consular authorities by resisting arrest, but has telephoned to he manager of the American Trading Company threatening him with dire consequences for pursuing the matter further.

CAR HEADLAMPS

PUT OUT

RUSSIAN MILITARY MOVES

Well informed Buchar- est quarters reported that the Russians have mount- ed long-range guns at the junction of the Pruth and Danube rivers on the Russo-Rumanian border,- have concentrated a large fleet of speedy naval craft along both streams and are moving great masses of Soviet troops into the frontier zone,

The informants said that Soviet river monitors recently sank two

Rumanian patrol boats during simultaneous attacks near mouth of the Danube.

the

Refugees from Cernauti, in the far north, reported that the whole area has been turned into a vast

military encampment. They added that civilians have evacuated the region and that thousands of la- bourers are leveling the ground for a huge Soviet military airport. All homes in. Cerriauti have been converted into military quarters for army officers and the sur- rounding area has been made a huge camp site for the Russian Under, the Order made recently troops which are pouring into the This Soviet troop con- The copper was secured by the English police have taken at district. the American Trading Company tion to have vehicle headlamps centration was reported to have as payment for the sale of min- extinguished during air-raid war- started about the time German Trams, 'buses and cars forces began moving into Rumania. ing machinery to the Chinese Na- nings. tional Government three

were stopped in some areas, but-Associated Press.

were allowed to ago. Recently it was ascertain their owners

journey using ed that if had been removed from continue their boxes stored in the godown and sidelamps. Precautions were also sand and cement bars were sub-taken at factories to put out ex- terior lights which are normally stituted.

allowed.

Space Rented

years

The plan alleged to have been conceived by а gang of which Widler is alleged to be the ring- leader, for the theft of the copper, was ingenuity itself and the bold- ness of its execution took every- one by surprise. Widler is alleged

17 EXECUTED

IN SZECHUAN

The Szechuan opium suppression

TENSION EASED

High Athens circles sald that Italian-Greek relations have "im- proved." Foreign diplomatic quar- ters agreed that tension between the two nations has eased up con- siderably but the Greeks con- tinued to prepare for any even- tuality.

Reports that a Turkish military to have rented godown space office announced

in Chungking delegation was in Athens to con- from the Commercial Express that 17 violators of the narcotic fer with Greek Premier General and Storage Company for the manufacture of bullet-proof steel laws were executed during Sep-John Melaxas could not be con-

tember. Among those executed armed officially vests.

but generally it During the past three

Three of the was believed that Greco-Turkish months he gained access to the were two women. godown and it is alleged numer-offenders who were executed durities were tightening in the face of ing September were chronic ad- the threatening..Balkan 'situation ous nocturnal visits were made

d'cts while the others operated including the arrival of German to the place by trucks which in-

troops in'Rumania. variably left for a destination in

opium dens.-Associated Press. Hongkew_in_cach-instance.

The circumstances of the at- tempted arrest of Widler were startling. Officers of the Settle- ment of Japanese consular' police ascended to the 17th floor of the Broadway Mansions in Hongkew. where Widler himself confronted them.. Before the warrant was exécuted he was permitted to tele- phone to his lawyer. Soon after several members of the Japanese gendarmerie appeared or the scene and, it is reported, prevented the arrest from being made,

Agent For "Certain

Power?!

INDO-CHINA WAITS

JAPANESE

MOVE

INDO-CHINA IS AWAITING the arrival of a Japanese economic mission in the expectation that it will foreshadow the extension of Japan's active interest beyond the Tonkin areas of the country adjacent to China.

The Annam coast northward of Saigon has' long, provided the French' with naval bases. French. quarters at Hanol were

According to a reliable source Widler claimed immunity -from It is expected this extension, ed necessary the garrisoning of arrest by declaring that he was will be in a southward direction troops in Tonkin to protect the the agent for a certain power. He to Annam and Cochin-China air bases granted them to operate is an old resident of China and within the economic and geogra- against China. it will be recalled first came into phic sphere which includes the the limelight when he wrote a British Malayas, the Dutch East book entitled "Six months pri- Indies and the Philippines.. ・・ soner of the Széchwan military Japan has demanded and re- authorities" following his in-ceived military bases in northern generally more optimistic thun a carceration in Chungking, on a Tonkin for the announced purpose | week ago when the fear was charge of trafficking in arms and of striking a fatal blow at China's widely expressed that "Tonkin is ammunition. He figured conspi-vital lifeline to British Burma finished for us. Their optimism cuously in the criminal prosecu Beyond this region and the area was based not upon a lessening |tion instituted in the local Ameri- around Hanoi they have not yet Con court against ✨ an American extended, their military-opera- charged with obtuining money. tions.:-

through the fraudulent sale of Japanese, spokesmen say their bullet-proof vests. The case economic experts are en route to aroused consideráble. interest at Hañol to seek an increase; in: the the time and Widler was charged | heretofore: unimportant Japanese In the Swiss Consular court with trade with all of Indo-China.. being an accomplice; -.

A declared arch-enemy of Chl "Necessity"

of Japanese military activity but upon the belief that the activity was at least, directed for the present solely against the Chinese.

Rotential Threat

The three-way conflict which threatened several weeks ago when Chiang Kai-shelt announced China's determination to send Troops across the Indo-China

nese-gerierais following his trial: Observers point out that Tonkin border should the Japanese enter and imprisonment in Chungking could provide Japan with quan- the area under any pretext has he was next heard of in connec- tities of high-grade anthracite and not materialised, tion with the kidnapping of a some tin and zinc, but for their Observers report that the Chin- Chinese general in Shanghai for, a rice and rubber requirements ese are not preparing for an considerable ransom. He was Im Japan must go to Cochin-China: offensive but are concentrating plicated by a Greek accomplice the southernmost of five states their energies on strengthening whose trial and sentence in the forming French Indo-Ching, whose the defences between Indo-China locul Chinese court at the time excess of rice production goes and Kunming, the Chinese ter was given considerable prominen-chiefly to the British possessions minal of the Burma road, ce in the local press, it being the and its rubber to the United No quarters, however, minimise in first time in the crime annals of States.

‚ the potential threat the Settlement when foreigners Both the Fresch and the Ju- the establishment renthese were participants in a Chinese panese deny that any military troops at Haiphong, gateway to kidnapping case. The case reached facilities have been granted to northern Indo-China, at a strate a sensational climax when the Japan outside, northern Tonkin, gic point on the railway system Greek was given a long term of but observers see the possibility centring in Hanol, and the day- imprisonment His subsequent that the Japanese might con- long flights of formidable Japan- appeals for release on the grounds ceive the "necessity" of "protect-ead warplanes over the seat of of ill health were rejected by the ing re-born trade with southern the Franch administration, As- court,

Indo-China;"even as they deem- Isociated Press,

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