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was recently intercepted The 5,000-ton German Hamburg-Amerika freighter [DARWALD by a patrolling British warship off Cuba. The German crew at once scuttled their ship, set har on fire and took to their boats, The British ship fought the fires and took the IDARWALD in tow, but she shortly afterwards had to be cast off and sank. The blazing bridge of the IDAR- The German freighter however, WALD burns furiously, but the fire la brought under control.
cannot be closed.
is gradually sinking as her geacocks have been destroyed and
MAYNARD KEYNES TO
MAKE
OFFICIAL
TRIP TO WASHINGTON
THE FAMOUS BRITISH ECONOMIST, MR.
REQUEST
J. M. KEYNES, MEMBER OF THE ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL, IS MAKING A BRIEF VISIT TO WASHINGTON AT THE OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. He will confer with the United States Ad- ministration and the British Supply Council on the operation of the Lease and Lend Act and other related matters.
been
The name Keynes has much before the British public since the outbreak of wor in connection with his plans for compulsory savings, aimed at cur- tailing private expenditure,
General idea of this plan was borrowed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his now Bud. get, which provides for credit- Ing to taxpayers a portion of
WAR ZONE
COURTS
their Income Tax for use by War zone courts, to
them after the war.
Mr. Keynes was a Civil Ser- vant for 13 years and is now
operate in any area in-
GERMANY THINKING OF COLONIES!
Preparations are be-
ing made to form а German Colonial Ministry, said the Wilhelmstrasse.
spokesman yesterday, Germany regarding her colonial claims as "irrevocable." Reu-
ter.
NORWAY'S
back vaded or heavily bombard- LEADERS
at the Treasury. He drafted some
intricate agreements for the in- ter-Allied loans in the last War
and was the Treasury's principal
udviser at the Peace Conference. --Reuter.
THE VON WERRA INCIDENT
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
ed, have been formally
established throughout GAOLED
England and Wales.
An Order was made yesterday
Included in the latest by Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Min- list of 143 political pri-
ister of Home Security, under the
Defence Regulations, dividing the soners in Oslo's principal country into 12 districts broadly gaol are many well-known, corresponding to the civil defence regions.
A number of High Court
Norwegians ship-own-
judges will be appointed to act ers, editors, teachers and ав presidents of the courts, a supreme court judge.
which cannot function until an aroa has been declared a war zone by the Minister of Home Security.
Only cases of crime, calling for speed, will be dealt with, and EL
This is according to the Nor- wegian telegraph agency in Lon- the don yesterday. which adds gaol also holds two British pri- soners of war and several Ĝer- man and Spanish: refugees.
The prisoners also include three
THE GERMAN EMBASSY IN panel of judges will review death WASHINGTON YESTERDAY IN- sentences or other cases where the German S.S. men and a German FERENTIALLY ACCUSED THE president of a court has certified
ter.
frequent internal quarrels in the German civil and military: forces.
Reuter.
U.S. GOVERNMENT OF VIOLAT-there should be a review. Reu-major, apparently as a result of ING INTERNATIONAL LAW IN ITS TREATMENT OF GERMAN PRISONERS WHO HAVE ES- CAPED TO AMERICAN SOIL FROM INTERNMENT IN CANA- DA,
The Nazi Embassy contested the treatment by Federal officials of von Werra, the German air ace, and challenged American right, as a neutral, to apply its domestic Immigration laws to such German nationals.
CUSTOMS ABOARD "TOMISLAV"
RICE SOARS TO
NEW HIGH LEVEL AN EARLY SETTLEMENT IS (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")" EXPECTED OF THE ITALIAN Despite the Shanghai Municipal SEIZURE IN SHANGHAI OF Council announcement that it will
YUGOSLAV THE
STEAMER ship rice from Hong Kong and sell to retailers at cost, in order to re- TOMISLAV."
Following Japanese-Italian dis-lieve the food crisis, number; one cussions eight members of the Saigon rice soared $10 per zahra They contend that von Werra Chinese Maritime Customs police over the week-end, reaching an acted within his international boarded the steamer yesterday and all-time high of $138. per zah. rights in fleeing the United States will share watch with the Italian Other grades increased accord- by Jumping his $10,000 bond-In-guards until the incident, is set-ingly-International News Ser- ternational News Service..
tled-Reuter.
vice.
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