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FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST. ESTABLISHED 1845.

No. 32,088

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1941

Price: 10 cts.

NIGHT FINAL

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BUTTER

BRITISH ATTACK ON NAZIS

IN BULGARIA FORESHADOWED

EFFORT Greece

TO CLEAR FAREAST AIR

For the second time in

Diverting

JAPAN

Forces To

To Thrace ASKS FOR

(By Earl Reeves, London Correspondent Of

International News Service)

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

A VIRTUAL PROMISE THAT BRITAIN WILL ATTACK THE GERMAN FORCES IN BULGARIA AS SOON AS ANGLO- BULGARIAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS ARE SEVERED, CAME FROM INFORMED BRITISH QUARTERS IN LONDON LAST NIGHT.

a fortnight Mr. Winston Churchill last night re- ceived Mr. Mamoru Shige- ABSURD

mitsu, the Japanese Am- bassador.

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FOLLOWING THEIR MINUTES' CONVERSATION IT WAS UNDERSTOOD IN WELL- THAT INFORMED QUARTERS THE TALK GREATLY CLARI- FIED THE AIR AND HAS RE- VEALED THAT GENERAL PRO- BLEMS IN THE FAR EAST ARE RESPONSIVE то UNDER- STANDING TREATMENT,] LEARNS REUTER'S DIPLOMA- TIC CORRESPONDENT.

Mr. Shigemitsu handed Mc. Churchill a communication from Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese

Foreign Minister.

It will be recalled

that Mr.

Matsuoka sent a direct message to. Mr. Churchill to which the latter replied on Monday, February 24.

- Mr. Matsuoka has now abnt a response to Mr. Churchill's ob- servations.

"The conversations yesterday were therefore a continuation of the talks which have been pro- ceeding for some time.-Reuter.

RUMOURS ABOUT KING OF GREECE

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

Informed quarters in Athens last night branded as "absurd," foreign reports that King George of Greece is "retiring" to Crete. -International News Service.

WIDE GAP

BETWEEN

MINISTER VICHY AND

LEAVING TO-DAY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Mr. George Rendel, the British

to leave Sofia_to-day.

Unconfirmed reports state that

TOKYO

They stressed there will be no need to de- clare war on Bulgaria, since it is already oc- cupied by the Nazis, making it enemy occu- pied territory.

The British quarters predicted strong British counter-action in the Balkans, eastern Mediterran- ean and Tripolitania against Nazi activities.

The possibility that 'planes may ALL TURKISH NAVAL RE- be locked in combat over the SERVISTS HAVE BEEN CALL- Black Sea region shortly, may be ED UP TO ACTIVE DUTY, hastened by the anticipated An- glo-Bulgarian break.

War Danger Mounts GREECE DIVERTED PART OF With at least 13 German divi- HER HARD-FIGHTING

totalling FORCES,

almost 200,000 already in Bulgaria and TO THE THRACIAN FRONTIER men, LAST NIGHT IN ANTICIPATION more en reute, threats of war in OF AN IMMINENT GERMAN the Balkans mounted steadily.

DRIVE AGAINST SALONIKA.

of

Simultaneously Turkey con. centrated large contingents crack troops on her side of the Thracian bordér and transferred territory on each side of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus into an armed camp.

BRITISH COUP ADMITTED

Light British

naval

Minister to Bulgaria, is expected With the fate of the forces carried out a raid Indo-China parleys hang- on an “unfortified” island Britain has already broken offing in the balance, the off northern Norway yes- diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. final French reply ex- terday morning,

It is expected. that Mr. Rendel

states

will announce that Mr. Earle, the pected to-day in Tokyo, the official German news, United States Minister, will where political and diplo- agency. henceforth take over British in-matic circles are charged terests in Bulgaria.—International| News Service.

with an atmosphere of keen anticipation and an

"After a short bombardment, which destroyed-flying boats, noldiers landed and took pri- ... goner 'some Germans and aoma

Norwegians.”

BERLIN AND undercurrent of tension. THE BRITISH VESSELS, IT

MOSCOW

IS STATED, LEET NORWEGIAN WATERS AFTER A 'SHORT

"The press states that last even- ing's talk between M. Arsene Herr! STAY and Mr. Matsuoka revealed a wide No. official statement on the gap between the French and Ja-report is so far available in Lon-

don. Reuter,"

The "Acah!" emphasises that France's failure to accept the standing..

The

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Berlin quarters yesterday, com-panese viewpoints. menting on the. Russian note to Bulgaria on the latter's adherence to the Axis said there was noth- ing Russia could do about the German entry: Into Bulgaria and that the protest from Moscow was simply intended for outside con- sumption. — International News Service

nationalist

"Kokumin"

· proposals without reservations would bring a danger of hostil- lashes, the French "baseness," ties again flaring up between alleging that M. Henri again sub- Thai and indo-China, an au-mitted the intermediate counter- thoritative sources hold that an proposal which had already been other extension of the armistice rejected as unfair to Thailand...... is Impossible without an under-Reuter.

Bulgaria has staled all her frontiers As internal clachos between Communists and Fas cists have followed her capitula- tion to the Reich.

It is reported that the Foreign

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FINAL REPLY

Mr. Matsuoka, the Jap- anese Foreign Minister, is reported to have asked Vichy to give a final renly to Le Japanese media- tion proposals by noon to-day.

The truce in the frontier war I between Thai and Indo-China

ends on Friday.

MR. MATSUOKA'S REQUEST. MADE IT IS STATED, WAS WHEN HE SAW LAST NIGHT M. ARSENE HENRI, FRENCH AMBASSADOR.

.THE

have M. Henri is stated to been non-committal in attitude towards the plan which pre- viously was reported to have been accepted "in principle" by the French Government.--Reu- ter.

Minister, M. Popoff, will resign WEATHER FORECAST: East

shortly, with the Premier, M. Filoff, taking over his duties. International News Service.

winds, fresh; overcast, with some drizzle or ́rain late warmer.

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