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› THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1941.

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JAPAN

BY

MIGHTY MIDGET'S

SHARP ANXIETY OVER POSSIBLE FUTURE CALL TO ARMS

EVENTS IN THE REGION OF INDO-CHINA SUD- DENLY RETURNED IN SAIGON WITH CIRCULA- TION OF REPORTS, THE ORIGIN OF WHICH IS NOT KNOWN, THAT JAPAN WITHIN A FORT- NIGHT IS PLANNING TO SEND 100,000 TROOPS FROM HAINAN ISLAND ACROSS MIDDLE INDO- CHINA INTO THAILAND.

After travelling through Indo-China, the re- ports continue, the Japanese expedition will either proceed to Bangkok toward the northern border of the Malay States or turn north-east toward the Burma border in an alleged attempt to isolate Chungking from vital military supplies now moving on the Burma road.

It is commented In Singapore within circles competent to judge and which profess to believe the reports contain substance that the alleged expedition as outlined is going overland across Indo-China to eliminate the sea risk to an expedition further south. The

OBJECTOR

IS WOMAN

HATER

Dve also would elimmate any threat from the British navy based at Singapore as well as allegedly A conscientious objec- ensuring a safe and dependable supply route for the maintenance tor said that he wanted

of the huge force.

Loval observers interpreted the

A midget Army cook he's only three foot tall-scared his par- ents at a Northern Rhodesia native re- cruiting meeting by bellowing greetings through a studio microphone 100 miles from the meeting.

The parents thought their son had been killed, when they heard his radio voice, and they de- clared that it was "his ghost speaking from a magic-box."--Ex- change.

to escape from women, BOMB ON

reports as meaning that it might but "if I went into the be Thailand's payoff for her gaits Army I would run into in Indo-China resulting front them."

be

GIRL'S HEAD

An incendiary

bomb

Japanese meciation in Tokyo. It is also upined this alleged mili-

"The Army," he said,

His tury undertaking might

crowded with women. Let them Japanese retaliation move against|fight if they want to." Australians who are now report- The objector was Robert Arthur fell on an eighteen-year- ed to be on Thailand's southern Payne, thirty-one, a builder's la- old girl's head when a -

border.

bourer, of Brookmill Road, Dept-

it is believed in Singapore ford, London, S.E. He applied to lone enemy raider was the South Eastern local tribunal over the Home Counties

at Bloomsbury, W.C., to be regis- tered as a Conscientious

2

any

tor.

Impossible that the Japanese will capture Singapore with naval action. Therefore, attempt to take Singapore must be done by land forces. It is also believed that the Japanese have aufficient forces and faci- Titles on Hainan island as well as Tonkin to undertake such a project.

Details Reported

Objec-

and killed her instantly.

Other incendiaries from a single enemy raider fred cottage pro- perty, but the fires were speedily put out.

A high-explosive bomb shat- tered windows of the village school, but none of the children Iwas hurt.

The girl was Mavis Williams. "I am scared for my life by myShe was walking in a village street own sister," he went on.

"The

when the bomb fell on her. women seem to take to the Army. Let them go. Anyway, I hate them.

"Let the women chasers go Into the Army. It is just the thing for them. I

want to es- cape from women, but i would Reports on details of the alleged

run right into them in the Army. expedition say that a

Japanese

"I do not want wine, women transport will leave Hainan island

and song. I want to get me and move 150 miles southwest to away from cursed humanity." the semiinodem port of Tourane.

Payne said that ten years ago From Tourane the expedition will he was in the Army, but was in move northward by ratiway over valided out because of his health, the important mountain pass at

The chairman, Judge Davies, Dongha, five miles above Quang- K. C., told Payne that his objec- tri where the troops will embark tons did not come within the Act on trucks

west 125 and removed Payne's name from and move miles over a good road to Savan- |the register. nakhet. From there the expedi- tion will move on two good roads to the Siamese city of Oubon at the end of the railroad leading

diary bombs included two men, a Four people injured by incen-

woman and six-year-old Ronald Frith, evacuated from London.

Left Kitchens

When an

raider enemy dropped fire "bomba In a town on the out-skirts of London, women Inter- rupted their household work, got buckets of sand, spades, shovels and stirrup pumps, and in a few minutes had put the 'bombs out The Director of Air Raid Pre- It is pointed

and were back in their kitchens.” out in Singapore cautions announces that the that any attempt by the Japanese Air

After a raid-free night for all Raid Syren in Navy Britain Lo:ion had thice Alerts

will, for

the caused by Ione 'planes flying above exercise, be sound- | low clouds.

11 a.m.,

direct to Bangkok,

AIR RAID SYRENS

a

to send forces through south Indo-Establishments China by railroad means a long purposes of delay, where there are no rail- ed

at 10 a.m., roads, only slow canal boats, be-7.45 p.m., and 8.45 p.m. on each Anglia and

Single raiders were over East fore meeting the railway.

'plane four times It is of the following dates:--Tuesday, machine-gunned one town and also emphasised that there are no 1st April, Wednesday, 2nd April, then dropped a stick of bombs. French troops in mid-Indo-China and Thursday, 3rd April, along the alleged proposed route,

There was only one casualty. while there are numerous French

troops hereabouts.

It is claimed in Singapore that the alleged Japanese projected move is part of the understanding reached at the recent Tokyo con- versations.--Associated Press.

BOYS STOLE, DRANK

WHISKY

GIRLS, 16 TO 18,

"RUNNING WILD"

DIOCESAN MORAL Welfare Associations all Two fifteen-year-old boys over Britain, under their bishops, are pressing for were sent to an approved school stricter supervision of girls in their teens who are by the Oxford Juvenile Court for spending days and nights loitering around military

stealing mail bags, whisky, port

and sherry. They took the mail | camps, aerodromes and naval harracks. bags from a station, opened Commanding cfficers› are "back- them and removed parcels.

ing them up in their efforts to They drank some of the whisky clean up the districts in ques and told relatives that the par- tion. cels were presents.

MAILS LOST

(London: Moral Welfare. Associa. tion, under the Bishop of London,: is also urging the Home Secretary to take action.

But in a large number 6 "cases they have left their town nhomes flansthair cown"" and in Zooppies Shave "gone ŝto "liva · In

Voountry ígrean,

They are under no supervision whatever-just “running wild.”

The Postmaster General announ-

When not foltering around.... ces that letters by surface.

(camps, they are÷sitting in "road- route for United Kingdom,

side" cafes, or staying oût tfl)/tha' via United States of "Amer. Many of these young girls-the early hours of the morning, danc ica, posted in Hong Kong | chief offenders seem to be batween | ing and, drinking. between 4th and 18th. Qatöber | fifteen and eighteen-- are. Relatively few police forces 1940 and letters superscribed "by evacuces.

have acted on the advice contained Air to USA. and thence by Sea” In some cases, they have gone in the circular which the Home." posted between 17th and 23rd with their mothers from London | Secretary issued, urging them, to January 1941 "have been lost by and the other big towns to the appoint women police to desi -ersemy action::

country --districts:

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