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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1941.

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CHINA AND PACIFIC CRISIS

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May Be Able To Lend Effective Aid. To Britain Issue Under AID BRITAIN

Discussion In Chungking

CHINA'S PART IN possible further de- velopments in the Pacific is being so eagerly discussed in Chungking as to push the Chino War into the background.

It is realised that the future of the world now depends on whether Britain can hold out in Europe against the German onslaught and whether the combined British and United States forces in the Far East can defeat any eventual Japanese drive in the southern Paci- ..fic.

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The report that fresh evacua ཧཱུྃ་f1】 advice has been given tu United States citizens in the Ears attracted much attention in Chungking

SLACK DAY ON STOCK EXCHANGE

The

l'imminence has also been given to the statement made by Presi- dent Roosevelt on Tuesday to the effect that If the United States

Stock Exchange London were forced into war in the Pacific

yesterday was dul with it would not mean curtailment of

business pending Balkan war supplies to Britain and added small that he thought there was no dan-developments but there was 19 ger of the Uarted States getting ing Gilt-edged were inclined

into war.

London cables mentioning the porsibility of a Japanese move In the Pacific to support a Ger. man attack in Europe are also being discussed in Chungking.

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Nazi Activity

These developments confirm information reaching Chinese headquarters in Chung- king that Germany has been very? active in the last three weeks urging Japan to move in the Paci- fie against Britain and the United States, also that Japan has agreed to support Germany.

Many Chinese quarters con- s'der China will not remain +dle

if Japan attacks in the southern

very

BILL LITTLE CHANGED

THE MEASURE PASSED THE SENATE FOREIGN

BY AF-

FAIRS COMMITTEE REGARD- ING THE LEASE AND LEND BILL IS SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME AS THAT PASSED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA - TIVES.

A proposal to restrict presaden - tal authority under the Bill to send armed forces tait ot the Western lemnisphere was rejeeles! by the Committee

The Senate debate will begin on Monday, and is hoped tes an-

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Reuter tortight

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GIFT FOR JERVIS

BAY DEPENDANTS

The Basi Betish War Fund has sent £5,000 to the Ad muralty for distribution among the dependents of seamen who Just their lives in the sinking of the Jervis Bay which saved a colivoy i by herorally drawing the full fire of a heavily armed German raider.

British Wireless.

CHINESE ATTACK

NEAR SHASI

Chinese troops who pushed their to be heavy, while Indian bonds mct with profit-taking. Indus- way to the suburbs of Shasi, 110 miles above Hankow, have been trials cased on some provincial

attacking The Japanese selling. Oils also tended lower Shapaotze, only three miles from while Kaflirs were barely steady, Shasi, with considerable success. Japonese bonds rec.ded 30/-. Fighting is still in progress in Wall Street was quiet. Reuter. that area.--Central News.

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HIRE MEN ON INSTALMENT

SUGGESTS

M.P.

THE GOVERNMENT is to be asked to subsidise.

Pacific, since China can effecwages after the war so that employers may hire

tively old Britain in

de- the fence of Burme and Singapore,

either by sending troops into Burma and Malaya or by laun- ching

counter-offensive a

in China.

workers on a kind of instalment system spread over three years.

Mr. W. Craven-Ellis, Conservative M.P. for Indication that the British Am-Southampton, is the author of this three-year plan. bassador, Sir Archibald Clark-

He proposes that it should apply to workers who

king in the Immediate future

Kerr, is unlikely to leave Chung-have exhausted their unemployment benefit, includ- scen in Lady Kerr's arrival ining men demobilised from the Forces.

the Chinese capital from Hong Kong yesterday morning by 'plane.

THE AMBASSADOR ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED LEAVE THIS WEEK BY FOR HONG KONG ΤΟ LADY KERR, REUTER.

COST OF COVERING THE WAR

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If the level of unemployment in WAS an industry exceeds three per cent. | TO over a period of three months, he AIR says, the Government should con- JOIN tinue to pay the unemployment al- lowance and the employer should make up the worker's wage to the standard rate.

COMPLAINT MADE AT

And here's where the "instal- ment idea comes in:---

BREAD

SHORTAGE IN FRANCE

York

"At the end of two years the

Reports reaching New Government's contribution shall from neutral sources in Vichy say be reduced by one-twelfth for that France, faced by a winter each month during the third which like all war winters will your, until at the end of the presumably be hard, is engaged in

tration in Paris.

"France is threatened with B

YOUTHS OF NINETEEN TO REGISTER

Youths of 19 and just over, born be- tween January 1 and December 31, 1921, are to register for mili- tory service on Satur- day, February 22.

This will be the first registration under the Proclamation of Janu- ary 29, extending the age limit to men who had then reached the age of 18 but had not reached 41.--Reuter.

CUBA BANS AXIS

PROPAGANDA

Regulations prohibiting the disschuination of fetalitarian pro- paganda of any kind by the press, radio, films or through the post. approved by the Cuban Cabinet in Havana yesterday, says Reuter.

were

U.S. Gives 6,000 Stovas. --- The American Red Cross has 3.000 heating and 3,000

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JAPANESE THE AIR LINER CARRYING THE LATE

BARON ADMIRAL OSUMI AND FIVE OTHER JA PANESE NAVAL OFFICERS WAS SHOT DOWN BY CHINESE GUERILLAS, WAS RIDICULED BY THE SPOKESMAN OF THE JAPANESE SOUTH CHINA SFAS FLEET IN CANTON YES- TERDAY.

The spokesman pointed out that made the announce - Chungki ment of the alleged successful attack an

8 February several hours after the Japanese Navy Ministry announced, at noon on that day, that the 'plane had crashed on February.

The spokesman contended that the commander of the guerillas who was credited with shooting down the air liner was in Mação with his staff.-- Reuter Special,

TURKISH DEAL WITH RUMANIANS

Turkey is to receive 160,000 tons of petroleum from Rumanía under an agreement just conclud-

two countries. ed between the according to an Istanbul despatch to the German news agency yes - terday. Reuter.

Congratulations to Eton.-Penn- given.sylvania University, celebrating its cooking 200th anniversary, has sent con- stoves for use in emergency hos gratulations to Eton College; which last pitals, rest centres, first aid posts, reached its 500th birthday and army medical units.

week.

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three-year plan Industry will outlining the principles of her new THE ANNUAL MEETING OF be responsible for the full stan-economy and taking an inventory THE EMPIRE PRESS UNION dard" wage." THAT "MESSAGES FROM

of her diminished agricultural sup- Mr. Craven-Ellis considers this plies. EGYPT ABOUT THE GLORIOUS will avoid abnormal unemploy- ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ment after the

Two rather pessimistic notes. in all, or wa. ARMY OF THE NILE HAVE selected, Industries.

were sounded by the Minister of BEEN COSTING ABOUT THREE TIMES AS MUCH AS THEY House of Commons, declares that "a

and the His motion, to go before the Agriculture, M. Cazlot,

German expert, Fritz Reinhardt, WOULD BETWEEN TWO PARTS fuller employment of the people section of the German adminis- who is head of the agricultural OF THE... EMPIRE," - WAS UN- DERLINED IN AN EDITORIAL will result in the creation of grea- IN THE YORKSHIRE POST ter wealth and purchasing power. YESTERDAY.

General industry will beneft and The newspaper says: "It would therefore a condition of the three lack of bread, which is serious to be an advantage to the Empire year plan should be that it will big bread-eaters like the French,' press and Empire readers if Gov-end Immediately if unemployment said M. Cazlot, who revealed that ernment could persuade Egypt to falls below 3 per cent. for six the "free" zone must import about adopt the Empire flat rate of months."

8,000,000cwt of wheat from the *2%d à word for press messages

occupied region, where crops have sent outside that country"”.

been slightly better. Réference was diso made at 'the Mrs, Vijalalcshmi ¡Pandit, ja ‘sisë"

Reinhardt said that France had meeting to the bendicaps of theter of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, lost over 40 per cent, of her potato press censorship. which delayed the Congress leader, was sentenced crop. For fats the situation was QUEEN'S BUILDING vital news and gave an advan- to four months" imprisonment un- worse, as France imported 50 per lage, to broadcasting. Reuter. der Defence of India Regulations, ceft," of her needs.

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