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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1941.

Big Offensive Sweep By R.A.F.

TWO ENEMY AIRCRAFT WERE DES- TROYED AND SEVERAL OTHERS DAMAGED DURING AN OFFENSIVE SWEEP OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL YESTERDAY AFTER- NOON BY COASTAL COMMAND AIRCRAFT ESCORTED BY FIGHTERS.

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Shipping off the French coast was attacked.

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While carrying out an offensiv between Calais and Dunkirk, one Squadron of Spitfires shut down

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Italian

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Britain's Food Control- ler, Lord Woolton, has come down with a heavy hand on people eating in hotels and restaurants where the food they get is additional to that allowed them under national ra- tioning.

Italian losses in Albania From March, a restaurant meal since the outbreak of hos-may only contain one of the fol- lowing dishes fish, meat, poultry, tilities total 122,000.

game, eggs and cheese No mix- An Balan heutenant-colonel Jure of poultry and meat or poul- recently captured gave this Agure try and bacon will be permissable

the newspaper "Hellenikol Mellon,"

the reports

London "Diely Telegraph" special corres- pondent at Athens.

said

The total was made up. the colonel, of 27,000 killed, 66,000 wounded and 29,000 missing.

20,000 Prisoners Tuban prisoners in Greek hands were to-day sen- total 20,000, including 551 officers, Athens radio announced last tenced to three years' night.

Only 28 officers and 497 other

hard labour by Sir Atholl; ranks were sick or wounded when MacGregor at the Crimin-captured and were being carvi

1 sessions, when they for were guilty of possession of 70,300 heroin pills.

The jury WIN composed Messrs. J. G. Mitchell (foreman)}. J. H. Bascombe, Muk Shui-che, C. E. Tavares, Chan Tse-ying. Hiyim Phoon and Chung Wai-tung.

in Greek hospitals-Reuter.

JAPAN'S NEW POLICY FOR THAI

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Both caterer and customer

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for breach of the new order. Th order may be varied for patients In hospitals and nursing homes.-- Reuter.

FOR FINAL VICTORY

A MESSAGE IS TO BE SENT TO MR. CHURCHILL EXPRESS- ING THE ADMIRATION OF THE

FOR CHINESE PEOPLE

HIS LEADERSHIP AND VOICING HOPES OF FINAL VICTORY, SAYS THE "CHINESE-AMERI- CAN DAILY NEWS," CHINESE- LANGUAGE DAILY IN SHANG-

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Mr. J. P. Murphy, prosecuting. said that a party of revenue of- ficers raided the ground floor of

JAPANESE GOVERN- No. 50, Elgin Street on January 3.

Hundreds of Chinese sympathi - MENT HAS DECIDED ON A

sers to the British cause are re- The door was opened by Yu who, NEW POLICY FOR DEALING on seeing the revenue officers, ran WITH FUTURE ECONOMIC NE-sponding to the newspaper's ap- down the passage towards the kit | GOTIATIONS BETWEEN JA. peal for signatures to the mes- chen shouting something 10 PAN AND THAILAND.

sage, which states: "The Chinese

Cheung.

The second woman tried to close the door of the rear cubicle but was prevented and was seen to throw some keys out of the win- dow. These keys were found to fit the front door and front cu- bicle. In the front room, a heroin factory was found.

When charged, first arcused said she knew nothing and had been working at $3 a month. Second accused said she was a cook.

The Crown sought to prove that Yu was the principal tenant and that Cheung had the keys of the It room containing the heroin. wax contended that Yu told Cheung sonrething when she

The Overseas Minister. Kiyoshi | people, under the national leader- Skita, announced this yesterday ship of General Chiang Kai-shek, but declined to disclose the nature will not lay down arms until they of the measures envisaged under have beaten Japan to her knees."

-Reuter. the new policy.-Reuter.

THE PRESIDENT INTERVENES

(SPECIAL TO 'CHINA MAIL"}

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT yesterday intervened shouted which caused her to try in the drive to kill the proposed amendment to the

to get rid of the keys.

passing sentence, His Lordship

The jury did not relire. and, Lease and Lend Bill designed to prevent the sending said accused had been found guil- of a second American expeditionary force to Europe.

ty on the clearest evidence, He would not depart from the prin- ciple of the court laid down three years ago. Such crimes must be

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The President said it was ob- It is understood that Senator vious that the Administration did Walter George was also present not want that kind of amend- and Mr, 'Harry Hopkins, who ar- ment to the Bill, which would rived with the President. change the Government's prescri- It was later; stated that despite bed policy of giving Britain all the threat of the oppositionists ald short of war.

the passage of the Lease and Lend SZETO TOI, ALIAS SZETO

President Roosevelt SING-KIU, 37, OF NO. 186, HEN- back in

arrived Bull will be secured by:Saturday. NESSY ROAD, WAS SENTENC from New York and Immediately Washington yesterday. ED TO FOUR MONTHS HARD went into conference mediate No Peace If Hitler Won LABOUR BY MR. G. T. LOWRY Vice-President. Mr Henry Wal- THIS MORNING, FOR FRAUDU- lace, Speaker Rayburn, House Ma-ate Murray of Montana said that LENT CONVERSION OF $6,288.50 jarity Lender MacCarthy and IN CASH AND A $300 CHEQUE, Senator Barclay.

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Meanwhile in the Senate, :Sen-

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ing that he used half of the to the Bank. He, failed to re-to the defcrice of America. money to pay debts.

The Police were informed Colonel Henry Stimson, the Se Det.-Sergt. A. F. Cochrane told the sume day, and a warrant was cretary of War, disclosed that. the Court that defendant had issued.

since the evacuation of the Bri been employed in the compradore He was arrested in Anton Streettish from Dunkirk 895 French 75' department as a shroff for twenty yesterday afternoon, after an at-millimetre guns and thousands of years.

tempt to escape,

machine-guns and other guns have A sum of $538, In banknotes, been transferred to Britain.-In- this found in his possession. ternational News Service. Ne

On January 11, he was given the money and a chequé to take