1941-03-07 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 7, 1941.

JAPAN'S QUEST IN MOSCOW

Sphinxlike Kremlin In Powerful Position

FLAME OF REVOLT IN ETHIOPIA

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

(By Theodore Dogany)

Once-conquered Ethio- pia is now flaming in re- volt against Fascist Italy and independence IS

MR. EDEN RETURNS TO CAIRO

Mr. Anthony Eden and General Sir John Dill have returned to Cairo from their visit to Athens, says a Reu- ter cable this morn- ing.

again in sight, the Crown SPEEDING Prince of Ethiopia told

me in an exclusive inter-

view granted yesterday INCIDENT

somewhere in Abyssinia.

Prince User Assel heir to Haile Selassie's thrine, received me in h. tent at a military encamp - ment in the shadow of Ethopra's rugged mountains.

News we have received from General Headquarters of my Imperial father in most satisfac. tory." he declared.

"AL the moment the entire Abyssinian nation is fighting by Has sade of the Emperor with in- Pleasing strength and in miness,

INTERNA-

ENEMY

BOMBER

SHOT DOWN

An enemy bomber was shot down into the Eng- lish Channel by R.A.F. fighters yesterday after- noon, states an Air Minis- try communique.

Inherent Rivalry

To

Be Overcome

THE LONDON "TIMES” yesterday pub-

lished a special article dealing with relations.

THE COMMUNIQUE SAYS between Japan and the Soviet in the For

THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE ACTIVITY BY SINGLE ENEMY East.

AIRCRAFT DURING DAYLIGHT YESTERDAY, HOMBS BEING DROPPED IN EAST ANGLIA.

KENT AND ONE POINT IN THE

LONDON AREA.

A FINE OF $30 WAS IMPOSED only damage was to buildings in

ON MR. NG TIONG-BENG, OF NO.

24. CONNAUGHT ROAD WEST, SECOND FLOOR, BY MR. H. G. SHELDON, KC, THIS

FOR DRIVING MORNING, WITHOUT DUE CARE AND CAUTION IN HENNESSY ROAD ON FEBRUARY 9,

Detective Sub-Inspector W. N.

Casualties were small and the

town o.; the coast of East Anglia.- Reuter.

CALLED "SPY," SAYS

SOLDIER'S WIFE

The present phase of Russo-Japanese re- lations, the article declared, can be traced back to the autumn of 1931, when Japan achieved the conquest of Manchuria.

been the object of Japan had suspicion to the Soviet regime ever since the prolonged occupation of Russian territory by Japanese troops during and after the Kol- chak episode, eastern Siberia not being finally evacuated till 1922 und northern Saghalien not until 1925, when Japan first officially

the Soviet Govern-

These suspicions were rec!- procated at Tokyo, where the supposed designs of the Comin tern were a favourite bugbear. But there was little contact be- two countries during

* Darki was driving out from i After complaining that neigh-recognised

Fleming Road into Hennessy, bours had accused her of being a ment. Road, when he saw in front three spy and a Afth columnist and had THE ITALIAN OCCUPATION | vehicles, a private car, H lorry, forced her to give up her home, a { HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT A and accused's ear. No 2325. He woman, fined 10s. at Bedford for SERIES OF CRIMES AGAINST granted accused's car, which black-out offence, burst into tears OUR PEOPLE

was traveling at 40 m.p.h. Accused and said. "This is the las! straw.

The woman, Mrs. Mabel Grè. TIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

slowed down near Arsenal Street!

Road, Bedford, tween the to 37 miles. He signalled acrus- !gory, of Kennedy

to stop, but he paid no atten- jaded that should could not pay these years and official relations, TEOFTL The vehicle was held up by the Bue as she was only receiving while formally correct, were whol the traffic signal at Garden Road, an Army allowaner froin her hus-ly uneventful.

Accused and his speedometer and. She was given seven days in was not in good conditon at the Which to pay. Time of the nenient.

NO CONCRETE HITLER OFFER TO TURKEY

ALTHOUGH NO DEFINITE DETAILS ABOUT THE

MES. SAGE HITLER SENT TO PRE. SIDENT INUENU ARE YET AVAILABLE. IT WAS RU- MOURED IN ANKARA YESTER. DAY THAT THE MESSAGE IS FULL OF GENERAL ASSUR- ANCES BUT CONTAINS NO. THING OF A CONCRETE TURE,

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NA.

MAN BEATEN UP

Suffering from Serious head mjuries, Tsoi Shun, 24, was pick- 11 Wang ed up by the Poler Street, Kowloon City, it

7.15 am. 10-day.

The man is said to be in it critical condition. It is believed that he was attacked by a gang.

BOUND OVER

Two shop fokis, Muk Wai-pun Not a single Turk pt well-17, and Mun Hung-cheung, 21, informed foreigner in Ankara be- were each bound over for one year

She said that the gossip of her menghemours was compelling her to!

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deposit on Fonse, which she had to leave.

Frontier Incidents

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of Russia have gradually tipped the balance in favour of the Soviet Government,

Soviet help to China has been and intermittent but substantial Japan has never been able to se- cure its cessation.

Nomonham Clash

Most intensive of all outbursts of frontier warfare between Ja- pan and Russia during the past 10 years occurred in the summer

of 1939 in the region of Nomon- han, on the frontier of Outer Mon- golia, and ended in a fairly deci- sive victory for the Soviet troops,

JAPAN ADMITTED NO FEW- ER THAN 18.000 CASUALTIES IN THE TWO MONTHS' MINIA- TURE WAR.

All this changed when Japan, hethrough the establishment of the

A truce was patched up in Sep- puppet state of Manchukuo, ac- tember. 1939, after the conclusion quired a long common frontier of Stalin's part with Ribbentrop with the Soviet and with Mos-and the outbreak uf War in cow's vusal state of Outer Mon= | Europe. golia. Frontier incidents became the order of the day.

SUCCESS OF GREEK SUBMARINE

A GREEK SUBMARINE HAS

In the next years official cog- SUNK AN

SUPPLY nizance ITALIAN

was taken of no fewer THE ADRIATIC, AC-|than 184 such incidents. SHIP IN

AN OFFICIAL CORDING TO GREEK COMMUNIQUE ISSUED IN ATHENS YESTERDAY, SAYS REUTER,

WEDDING TO-DAY The marriage took place at the Registry Office this morning be- tween Mr. Lee Wing Vor,

mer-

Most famous of them the clash on the Amur River in the early summer of 1937-was prelude to Japan's undeclared war on China, which opened in July, 1937.

All-Clear Signal

Soviet Russia got the worst of lieves the message will in uny by Mr. D. J. N. Anderson at Kowchant, of No. 2, Maple Street, and the incident militarily and failed

11, way alter Turkish policy.

loon this morning, for posting ad-Miss Chen Po Kan, of No.

to react diplomatically and this vertisements on telephone poles Tung Cheong Building.

revelation of weakness, popularly in Canton Road yesterday without Mr. J. Reynolds, Deputy-Re-attributed to the recent purges in the permission of the S.C.A. gistrar of Marriages, officiated.

Tur-

11 is significant that the kish newspapers ignore Hitler's message--Reuter.

C. Ingenohls Cigars

C.INGENOHL'S Cigar Stores

La Porta del Oriente

the party and army, was taken by Japan as an all-clear signal to embark on the great Chinese ad- venture.

Since that

time Germany has not relaxed her efforts to bring about a detente between the two friendship and countries whose support she simultaneously covets; but the position between Japan and the Soviet is no longer that of the thirties."

Japan The Suitor

now the suitor Japan is

for a has pact and non-aggression agreed to 'reconsideration' of the Asheries question and might even come to terms prepared to be which did not include the aban- donment by Russia of aid to Chipa. Meanwhile the Kremlin holds its hand, says nothing and no doubt the much- awaits with curiosity canvassed bid for rapprochement with Japan and will not miss an opportunity of making its power

The fundamental rivalry be- tween the two powers in

the Far East will, however, remain. Each side has weaknesses and strong points.

In the Russo-Japanese nego | felt. tiations throughout this period Soviet Russla was the sultor for a non-aggression pact, which was more than once proposed by her and rejected by Japan, The high-handed seizure by Ja- pan of the Russian-owned Chines Eastern Railway was safely li- quidated by the sale of the rail-

Inherent Rivalry Whether this real and inĥer- way to Japan, or nominally to the Lent rivalry of the great Asiati state of Manchukuo.

powers will preclude a bargain Apart from recurrent frontler between them, or whether Stalin clashes the other principal ap- will think it worth while to buy

ple of discord was fishery rights temporary ease and some con- In' Russlan waters which had erete advantage in Asla by.com- originally been conceded to Ja-pounding Japanese felonies, is an pan by the Treaty of Portsmouth In 1905..

Perpetual Friction

open question.

It is improbable that Russia would in any case offer any ob- tacle to the southward progress of Japan; she has no incentive These were the subject of per- to impede it and may even ter petual friction and of claims per- sistently asserted by Tokyo and gard as advantageous to herself the increased tension between na less persistently contested by

Japan and the English-speaking Moscow, and of temporary agree world which would ensue from ments which refused to last. One such a policy. — Reuter, of the many attempts to reach a settlement was rejected by Rus- sia when Japan signed the Anti- Comintern Pact in 1936.

GIFT PLANES FOR BRITAIN

Soviet Russia had, however, not been idle in these years. The Amur frontler was fortified, the track of the Trans-Siberia Rall- The Mararajah of Travancorê way' doubled, the Army of the has given £11,260 for two: Spit Far East reinforced and a power-fires, to be named Travancore One ful air force built up-some based and Travancore Two

on the Arctic Islands,

The Imperial Order of Daugh-

Binde 1987. Japan's preoccupators of the Empire, New Bruswick tion with the Chinese campaigh | Chapter, have given £5,844 109. and the partial military casovery British Wireless.