THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1941.
WELL, MR. MATSUOKA? 'Daily Express' Message To Japanese Foreign Minister
Will Sense
SUBMARINE
SINKS ITALIAN What Is Going
TRANSPORT
Greek Army Head- quarters confined the war news last night to a brief announcement of normal action by patrols and artillery, together with a suc- cessful bombing at- tack by Greek aircraft on Italian installa- tions. It adds all Greek aircraft return- ed safely.
According Athens radio a sub- marine has destroyed a 5,000-ton Italian transport and serious- ly damaged another smaller steamer. Reuter.
HEMINGWAY OFF TO THE FRONT
On In Europe
THE LONDON “DAILY EXPRESS,” IN A LEADING ARTICLE YESTERDAY, SAYS **WELL, MR. MATSUOKA, YOU HAVE CHOSEN AN INTERESTING TIME TO COME TO EUROPE.
"You are here the very day that this Con- tinent has made one of its rare discoveries. A nation has found its soul.
"You are an astute man, Mr. Matsuoka. You will sense what is going on.
"The same week a pact by which the British Empire lenses sea and air bases to the United States is signed.
"For years in a tired and puzzł- } "A Nazi pact with Yugoslavia ed world the people have not is announced and goes up ins.ant- I counted. In Germany, Italy and ly in the blistering smoke of a
Japan itself, the rulers have made people's anger.
It paid to hay of old frontiers. have a dictatorship in the 1930's. "Amid all the pandemonium peoples are stretching themselves What and are waking up again,
"Both sides to this pact has a determined that it shall be a last- happens in one country
the ing reality. way of happening all over
Much more depends world at once.
on it than the safety of either." -Reuter.
Tide Turning
When peoples get thoughts of their own they sling out the dictators, who can't think of any- thing but making war.
"THE TIDE IS TURNING. A HELMSMAN WHO WANTS TO KEEP THE WHEEL WILI. AL- Ernest Hemingway, well-TER THE COURSE. known American journalist and
Mr.
correspondent for the newspaper
P.M..
who arrived at Shiukwanitary headquarters. from Hong Kong a few days ago, Mr. Hemingway is expected to left yesterday for the front on spend a week at the front and an inspection tour, accompanied, then to resume his journey to by a number of officers of the Chungking.-Central News.
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WARSHIPS?
A possible hint of the real purpose of Mr. Mat- suoka's current visit to Berlin the loan of Ja- panese warships to Ger- many
is seen in com- ment by the conservative Tokyo newspaper Asahi."
The paper says: "Germany has great expectations of the future role of the Japanese navy.”
Obvious technical difficulties in transferring Japanese warships into German and Italian hands could easily be overcome, Ger- man crews could be transported via Siberia to some North China
port, which remains technically
neutral and outside the Axis al- liance, and there board such war- ships as the Japanese navy might feel it could spare.
It would not be necessary to sail these vessels to German ports or even into the Atlantic, as there is enough British and Allied ship- ping in the southern Pacific to afford a tempting target for Axis naval depredations. Reuter.
RAIDS ON ETHIOPIA RAILWAYS
A further heavy bomb- ing attack on the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway
on Thursday is described | in a British Middle. East G.H.Q. communique is- sued in Cairo yesterday.
Fifty miles east of the Abyssin- ian capital, the communique says, a troop train was machine-gunned and damaged...
South African aircraft also suc cessfully bombed an enemy camp: | north of Lake Rudolph. ·· Į
Rhodes Raided ·
In air operations over the Dode- canese Islands, in the eastern Me- diterranean, the R.A.E. attacked aerodromes at Calato, on the 18- Band of Rhodes and set fire to buildings on the aerodrome and petrol, dumps, causing a smoke Cloúd visible 100 miles away, -*
At least one aircraft was des- troyed on the ground, while the R.A.F': suffered no losges—Reu- [ter
STOP PRESS
The following appointments are gazetted:-
Hon, Mr. S. H. Dodwell to be an Unofficial Member of the Exe- cutive Council.
Mr. C. K. S. Smith to be Acting Sub-Lieut. in the H.K.N.V.F.
Miss Lo Chung Fai to be a Tem- porary Public Vaccinator.
Misses Bessie Cheng and Mel Ying Yung to be Inspectors of Muitsai.
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