1940-10-25 — Page 72

Page 16 France To

Start Peace HITLER

Offensive?

PETAIN

SEES HITLER

Rumours that France

may launch a new peace move on behalf of the Axis are circulating in diplomatic circles in Vichy, according to Vichy advices received in New. York yesterday.

These rumours are linked with reported impend ng further

between Pierre Lavál. mceting French Vice-Premier, and Hillar in Paris.

Meanwhile Marshal Petain has left Vichy for an unknown des- tination attired in full State uni- form and accompanied by leaders of his Cabinet, according to Vichy a Berlin des.. reports quoted in patch-Reuter.

HIS

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 25, 1940:

SPREADING TENTACLES

WIDESPREAD RAIDS IN

Glib Tongue For

France And Spain SOUTH FRANCE

May Not Be All

(By Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent)

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA. MAIL")

WIDESPREAD COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN SOUTHERN FRANCE

THE AXIS NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND SPAIN MAY NOT BY ANY MEANS BE THE WHOLE STORY OF THE EXTENT OF CUR- TOTAL NUMBER OF ARRESTS RENT GERMAN DIPLOMATIC MANOEUVRES.

It is probable that secret feelers are also East.

ARE SEEN IN THE FACT THAT THE NEW POLICE CHIEF OF MARSEILLES, CAPT. DE PORTZIC, YESTERDAY OR- DERED THE ARREST OF 13 SUSPECTS BELIEVED TO BE PROMINENT COMMUNIST LEA- DERS, BRINGING TO 78 THE:

IS THE LAST FEW DAYS.

The police confiscated many

Ed men at the disposal of the military authorities. Widespread searches were also carried out im Lyons where important documents pertaining to Communist propa-

in ganda were discovered

the house of a woman worker.

A few days ago searches were

announcement in London yester- in the Loire region, well-known day. Reuter.

for its heavy industries. Havas.

being put out in the pamphlets and placed the arrest-

."

TWO TRAWLERS

SUNK BY MINES

The curtain of silence enshrouding all re- cent Axis moves are easily explicable in the Two trawlers, Velia and Lord light of the well-known Nazi policy of avoid-Stamp, have been sunk by enemy ing committing itself to any course in case it mine eceding to an Admiralty carried out and many arrests made fails to achieve success.

Hence precise indications of German desiderata vis-a-vis Laval and Franco are lacking.

Barest Communique

Whatever form Germany's Hitler and Marshal Petain mei yesterday at an undisclosed place proposals may have taken how- ever, they have apparently en- in France.

opposition in. A communique issued in Berlin countered some after the meeting says: "The Vichy despite Laval's compliant Fuehrer to-day received the Chief atitude. of the French State and President of the French Council of Ministers, Marshal Petain.

"The Foreign Minister, von Rib bentrop, and the Vice-President of the French Council of Ministers, Laval, were present."

Reuter.

First Result First tangible result of. the Hitler-Laval meeting will be the

transfer of the Petain Government to Paris, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Yugoslav newspaper "Politika" quoted yes- terday by Belgrade radio.

According to a Rome despatch to the same paper the situation in Syria was given special attention at the meeting-Reuter.

Autumn Tailoring

It is interesting to note that the veteran Marshal Petain. Is still able to make a stand in honour and obstinacy, even though he is able to be cir- cumvented by some of the as- tute politicians around him. As to the sudden Hitler-Franco meeting, the fact that the Fuehrer put himself out to the extent of a 500-mile railway journey proof of the importance of issues involved.

Italy In Dark

is

the

Belief that an attempt was made to obtain from the Spanish Caudillo, what the Axis failed to secure from Senor Suner In his. Berlin visit, still holds.

The attitude of the Italian press to the latest developments--in- dicates they are as much in the dark as the rest of the world but that they are determined not to be overlooked or admit they have been slighted. Reuter.

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STARTLING DROP IN TEMPERATURE

An amazing drop in temperature was recorded in Hong Kong last night, with no less than 31 de- grees Fahrenheit differ-j ence between the maxi- mum and minimum tem- peratures of the day.

The winter now stems to have really arrived, with the Observa- tory forecasting that to-day will be considerably cooler."

The maximum temperature re- corded at the Observatory yester-. day was 88 deg. Fah,, while the minimum last night was only 57 deg. Fah. ONE

At 10 o'clock this morning, the thermometer was still-down- In the dumps, recording only two degrees above yesterday's" (minimuma

With another..two months to go; Hong Kong is now only some six Inches off the all-time rain re- cord set in 1889 of 119.715 inches. Total rainfall since January 1, 1940, was 113.77 inches, as com- pared with an average of 81.59 inches--and it was still dr zzling!

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