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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 6 1940

GRIM LIGHT ON CONDITIONS IN FRANCE

GRIM LIGHT IS thrown on conditions in unoccupied France by an article in the Swed- ish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter” which says that official French figures of one and a half million refugees in unoccupied territory only includes those registered and supported by the Government.

There are also a large number of refugees trying to support themselves and unregister- ed. They struggle against inhuman difficul- ties.

CHINA PEACE ¡RUMOURS

Well-informed Chinese sources in Shanghai to-

Biggest refugee centre is at Toulouse where, during the past months, ten to twelve million re- fugees passed through, At present Toulouse's population is still 900,000 instead of the

250,000.

pre-war

Thus all indispensable goods such as food, medicine, clothes, and bed-sheets are terribly scarce The harvest

was bad and com- munications very difficult.

French, Swedish and other re- lief committees try to find work for refugees.

Toulouse Provisions Toulouse expects to have at

least 70,000 refugees to support

thousands of women and children,

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Bay...

PORTUGAL NEXT ON THE LIST?

Foreign circles in Rome expressed the opinion that Axis pressure would soon fall against Portugal in a diplomatic drive to secure. control of the whole west coast. of Europe and Africa as well as in prepara- tion for the possibility of the United States entering the war. Associated Press.

AERIAL BLITZKRIEG

RENEWED

German air attacks

day flatly denied wide-this winter, among them tens of on Friday were resumed spread rumours regard- Committees are organising enter shortly after darkness on ing the alleged possibility tainment, school and education.

All nationalitics are represented Monday night; they were of an early peaceful settle among the refugees-French, Ger- fairly widespread and on ment of the Sino-Japan-man, Polish, Belgian, Czech and ese hostilities.

a fairly heavy scale. A half hour trip from Tou. louse a State-organised camp London's alert lasted through-| shelters five hundred women out the night but in the Midlands and twenty thousand others are and eastern and southern Scot- soon expected for which space has to be found.

These rumours, which are de- scribed as completely without foundation, alleged that Germany is exerting pressure on Japan and China for ari early peaceful set- tlement of their dispute.

The rumours added that Ger-

many is asking Japan to withdraw

a8

her troops from South China well as the Yangtse Valley in or- der to pave the way for peace ne- gotiations

Jewish.

land the main attacks ceased In Lyons are about twelve shortly after midnight. thousand people evacuated or ex- Bombs were dropped at many pelled from Alsace-Lorraine,

.

A difficult problem is also to points but an Air Ministry and find work, clothes, food and spiri- Ministry of Home Security com- tual assistance for twenty-two munique states, damage was not thousand Paris girls aged 14 to and anable China to

18 unable to support themselves. heavy and casualties

·Join the Axis so that China and Japan may participate in the war against Britain in the Far East.— Reuter.

FIGHTING SENUSSI

-British Wireless.

Reuter.

small.

'PLANE TO BRITAIN'S

TRICYCLE MIGHTY

To get his patient to hospital, Australia's famous "Flying Doc-

tor," Dr. J. G. Woods, had to leave his plane and the help operate a railway tricycle.

TASK

DURING THIS MONTH 500,-

The report that various leaders of the Islamic world have declared Railway men had worked from 000 SOLDIERS THROUGHOUT themselves in opposition or near Kalseenha siding about FROM TENTS TO MORE CÓM- early in the morning on a pad- BRITAIN WILL TRANSFER to Mussolini has an im-110 miles east-south-east of Bro-FORTABLE

portant military bearing. ken Hill to prepare a landing

ground for the "Flying Doctor's" TERS.

WINTER QUAR-

The Moslem spokesmen plane, but Pilot Bond was unable The finding of winter bille's for are the ruler of Bhotan, to land there, as the ground was so many men has never been ne- in north-western India, was made some distance farther tory. They will be accommodat- full of rabbit burrows. A landing cessary before in England's his- [the Grand Mufti of Jerus- along the line.

ed in large and small country alem, the Emir of Trans-Hazel Brow, aged 4, rode to meet buildings which must be largely. Mr. Brown, father of the patient; houses, halls, garages. and many

re-equipped.

The Senussi are

Even so, it will be impossible to find enough space for all the sol- diers in Britain, and many will remain in tents, which will be fitted with brick walls, fireplaces,

| jordania, and the head of the doctor on a tricycle. On the

the Senussi sects...

return to the siding, Dr. Woods had to assist in working it. He probably the examined the girl and found her most important Mohammedans in suffering. from bronchitis, and im- so far as the present fighting is mediate arrangements were made concerned. They form the great for her removal to Broken Hill. and floors. desert secret societies or con- fraternities. Their influence radi-

ates outwards from the oases in

that

EIGHTH RAID ON NEGHELLI

were

Italian Libya. Their military. im-gent Islam, the Senussi opposition portance is seen from the fact is likely to make the Italians that, when they were induced by adhere to, the coastal road. 'This the Turkish Caliph to attack the fact would be most important,'. If English in Egypt at the ond of the Fascists can frid no safety 1915,

they started a campaign along the oases. road and if they continued until February, cannot attempt diversions on the Neghelli (Abyssinia) was at- 1917.

tracks joining the coastal rond tacked for the eighth time by The tribesmen were induced to with Siwa, they will be subjected South African Air Force bombers attack the English, only because to continual harrying from Bri- yesterday and direct hits their inveterate foes, the Italians, tish naval units. Further, they scored on the target area, it was had joined the Allied cause. Now will be deprived of the two big announced in Nairobi. that position is reversed, and the aerodromes at the ouses. These Senussi loathe the Italians more aerodromes are midway between sive reconnaissancés over "Abys-" This was in. addition to exton- than ever, because of the breach the Libyan 'bases and Alexandria, sinja and Italian Somaliland, of faith on Mussolini's part and and much too far inland to be states the communique, which de- the forcible occupation of their menaced from the sea...

scribes South African Air Force cases in the years after. 1923. For. Lastly, the Italians are very aircraft as, "again busy on Nov. seven years they waged a guerilla afraid of Senuss! prestige. They 3 and Nov. 4."--Reuter, warfare against the Fascists. In cannot forget that they had to deed, the oases have never been fight the Senussi for over 20 years, completely pacifled.

and that, on at least two occa An important part of Marshal slons, these nomad fighters of the Graziani's present plan is to fnove desert forced them right back to along the inner line of Egyptian the coastal strip. In Libya itself. oases, from Glarabub across the The Sonussi". "Ikhwan," or border to Siwa and thence past-brethren, cannot be excluded from R.A.F. bombers, again attacked wards to the Nile delta: But it is any military picture of northern the invasion ports and occupied precisely along this line that the Africa, quite apart from the fact France, but it is officially stated followers of the Senussi are parti- that their missionaries are the that adverse weather conditions cularly strong; and, quite apart leading advocates of the Holy War did not permit the usual heavy- from its wider effects on a resur~ ¡in the Mosłomic world.

scale operations. — Reuter.

INVASION PORTS BOMBED