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CHINA MAIL

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No. 92,009

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1940

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RUMANIA FEARS CIVIL WAR

Troops Ordered To Stand By For Any Emergency JAPANESE Generals Reported JUST CAN'T

To Have Resigned TAKE IT...

En Masse

THREAT TO N.E.I.

A new Japanese `move| in the Pacific was on- nounced yesterday,

(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

Japan is to protest to the Gov-

WITH TROOPS STANDING BY READY FOR ANY EMER- ernment of ·

the.

Netherlands GENCY THE RUMANIAN - COUNCIL OF MINISTERS HELD East Indies, says the Domel agency, against a series of anti-LENGTHY MEETING WHICH ONLY ENDED LATE LAST NIGHT, BUT THE DECISIONS TAKEN WERE STILL NOT works owners in Batavia who KNOWN AT A LATE HOUR.

Japanese acts that have occurred there recently.

These include Japanese iran

were attacked and Injured by Dutch policemen on November

11;

"

The military precautions followed the

The Japanese flag in Ban- shooting of more of their prominent foes in

doong" was was burned November 23;

on

A Japanese consular officiat

was arrested on the same day

Bucharest by Iron Guardists during the day.

The victims of the ghastly revenge exe-

outside the official residence of cution-64 opponents of the Iron Guard-

the Governor-General and wrongly accused,

agency, of photographing residence.-Reuter,...,"

Persistent Rumours

the

Bandoeng barber-shop on Nov. 23.1 and other minor assault against Japanese by Dutch sol- diers

adds the are lying on the graves of 13 Iron Guards

who were assassinated two years ago.

The mass execution was cases a reprisal for the slaying of Corneliu Codreanu, Iron Guard leader, and was followed by Fascist warnings that more slay-

There are persistent rumours that crucial developments

can be expected in December re- garding the Netherlands, East Negotiations Off ?

Indies, and it is believed the Ja panese protest will pave the way for decisive action.

First official hint, that Mr Kobayashi, special envoy to the

Reuter. from Tokyo says the Netherlands East Indies, is prob-ings would follow..

alleged incidents include an as- ably not returning to Batavia for sault on a Japanese manufac-negotiations, was given by the turer's wife by Dutch policemen Foreign Office spokesman who on November 11, the burning of sald nobody may go in his stead. a Japanese flag displayed by a-Reuter.

LARGE ITALIAN REINFORCEMENT OF NO AVAIL

Official news from Greece about the oper- ations in Albania are meagre and the Greek authorities are continuing their policy of re- serve and not giving the enemy any informa- tion.

This led General Antonescu, the Promier to take stern mea- ́sures to smash what sedma to

be a veritable revolution.

The emergency Cabinet session discussed ways of coping with the Iron Guard · anarchy," but there are indications that the killers may go scot-free.

No Measures Taken

No measures have yet been taken to punish the murderers and It is reported that General Anton- escu tears such steps might cause civil war:

In a desperate attempt to prevent civil strife, the Govern ment acted to placate, both the Army and Iron Guard whoss enmity is near the point of ex- plosion,

up

A B.B.C. broadcast picked in New York last night declared that all Rumanian generals had

News Service.

The latest communique received in Lon-resigned en masse. -International don merely reported continued successes by Greece.'

Behind this 'lies, a story of .-harassed · Italians falling back

everywhere. ...The

Greek radio, which is a little more expansive, sald yestor- day morning that at least two Italian Divisions about 30,000 men have been a completely smashed and five others about 75,000 men in all have been disorganised. --

JAPAN AND SINGAPORE

Protective Arrest

The special Cabinet meeting in Bucharest ended late last night. The despatch adds that a num~ ber of Rumanian statesmen," and politicians who were arrested during Tuesday night were re- leased yesterday morning and were sent to the Ministry of Interior where they at present tire Frempining "under a kind of volun- The "Yomiuri Shimbun." one tury protective arrest."Reuter,

The exact extent of the Greek of Tokyo's big three leading news- penetration Into Albanlala not clear, but there is no doubt that Papors, in an editorial to-day

the Grocks are north of Podgradirects attention to the Anglo-another permanent military base detz beyond " Moshkopolis: American negotiations for further In the Pacific in the form of

· through- Fiñshorl Im thà' contro; American Esistance to Britain.

* Singapore, which is quite different.

and only: 30 miles from Berat,|The newspaper asks what will from an agreement for a tempor the pivot point of the italian|bo the Americari For Eastern po-" nry use, for doint defence,

"(Continued on. Page: 10). [lídy If the United States acquires. Reuter.

ELEVEN NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN

Eleven enemy craft were shot down. by R.A.F. fighters in a series of engagements Kent yesterday. afternoon, it was offi- cially announced in London last night..

over

Two British machines were lost but both the pilots are safe. —Reu- ter.

LYING DOWN

The crazy British," is the title of an article in the Nazi Party nows sheet which complains that the British are continuing the war contrary to all rules of logic.

The article declares: "No sen- sible person can follow the acro batics of British thought to-day.

"That Germany cannot, be conquered: in the war, which". kas in any case, beón -doalded" on the battlefield, is not doubt- td by anyone in possession of normal mental“ facilities,

"The directors of British po- Ilicy decline to recognise his prim-

ary law of human, lögic”,

After speaking of British "hal- lucinations" the article declares | the problem of finding a solution to this war is no longer one of politics "but of psychology." Reuter.

WEATHER REPORT

The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone appears to the north of Japan and another may be developing over Mongolia,

The typhoon is situated about 400 miles to the east of the Balin- tang Channel probably moving north-eastward.-

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