THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 25, 1940.
BURMA ROAD CONTROL Exclusive Use For Munitions And Medicines
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CHEN KUNG-PO
NOW "MAYOR"
OF SHANGHAI
Wang Ching-wei's. newspapers in Shang- disclosed hai
last
night that Chen Kung-po, President of the Legislative Yuan in the Nanking Pup- pet regime, has been officially appointed "Mayor" of Shanghai.
For Period Of
Two Months
FOR THE NEXT TWO months the Burma road will be used exclusively for the trans- portation of Government goods and medicine, in order to avoid congestion, it was officially announced in Chungking yesterday.
With the arrival of more trucks and spare parts, freight capacity on the road is expect- ed to be doubled. Its present capacity is 300 tons a day.
-Our Own Corres-POLES MAN
pondent.
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ITALIAN FORCE AMBUSHED
A remarkable action in the Sudan, in which very heavy casualties were in- flicted upon the enemy, with no British casualty, was announced in GHQ.communique is sued in Cairo yesterday.
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The communiqué says that in the Sudan one of our motorised patrols in the Kassala sector sur- prised and attacked at close range:
SCOTTISH COAST
The Ministry of Communica- tions has erected a machine-shop in Szechuen for making spare parts while a tire-treading plant in is already producing goods Yunnan.
While prohibiting private trucks. frem operating on the road, the Chinese communication authori ties are also refusing permission to hire trucks from Burma and elsewhere for the shipment of Polish forces have taken commercial goods to and from over a sector of the Scot-China for the next two months
at least. tish coast in the coastal defence scheme.
This was announced in a com- mun que issued from General 'Sikorski's headquarters last night, describing Mr. Churchill's visit to Scotland on Wednesday.
The soldiers who have taken First over this sector are the Polish Army. Corps in Scotland.
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very heavy casualties. Our casual-
ties were nil.
In Egypt, during the night of Tuesday/Wednesday, an enemy camp.east of Sidi Barrani was successfully raided: One prisoner was taken
and
In doing so the Government hopes to get the maximum of goods in and out of the coun- try during th: chortest possi- ble period.
The Minister of Communica- tions has formulated a plan for A.A. defences along the road which has been submitted to the Government for approval.
Supply Of Drugs
Mr. John Earl Bakery repre- Red sentative of the American
the in
Cross, declared yesterday that 630 tons of drugs sent by American Red Cross were Rangoon awaiting transportation! to the interior. Fifteen tons of quinine had also been purchased by the American Red Cross for
from the rear a party of approxi-eight motor, transport vehicles distribution in China-Reuter. mately 1,000 enemy, inflicting destroyed-Router.
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RECORD TRIP ON! BURMA ROAD
THE FIRST CONVOY OF CHINESE LORRIES TRAVELL- ING ALONG THE BURMA ROAD SINCE THE RE-OPENING ARRIVED' AT YUNNANFU IN RECORD TIME.
They left Lashio on October 18 and made the 720-miles trip in under three days..
Before the closing of the road
it took at least five days to cover
'he Journey-Reuler..
GERMANY WORKING
WAR PRISONERS
News has just reached Polish circles in London that Polish war prisoners are now being employed by the Germans in the reconstruc- ton of German Baltic ports des- troyed in air raids by the R.A.F.
Another despatch received in London yesterday said the first! batch
German of
children, numbering 700, evacuated from Berlin on account of air raids, has arrived at Poznan-Reuter,
POWER RESOURGES IN ST. LAWRENCE
The appointment of a tempor- ary four-man commission to work with a United States committee on the early development of the pow er resources of the International Rapids section of the St. Lawrence was made in Ottawa yesterday by the office of the Canadian Prime: Minister. Reuter,
Queen Mary visiting the "Spare a Trinket" Fund, the sub- Elduary branch of the. Duchess of Northumberland's Comforts Fund for the A.T.S. H.M. Qu'en Mary is looking “over the,
Gordon Barry, Mrs Brian· · Trinkets and with her are AFS. Thursby Pelham, Chairman: ard Founder of The Trinket Fund, and the Marchioness of Townsend. (Copyright, Fox):
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