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BUTTER

AMERICAN STEAMER TORPEDOED

Sunk By U-Boat In South Atlantic

Vichy Admits Snags

The Vichy News Agency states that the Allied Forces are advancing into Syria from three direc- tions.. Two columns are converging on Damascus through Dera and Safed, and the third is following the coast road to Beirut.

It is admitted that the coast advance has reached the River Litani, north of Tyre.

After referring to French re- sistance "against the British and Agency de Gaulle Forces" the adds:

"The British forces are, however, markedly superior, especially in armoured

equip-

fending

ment. The difficulties of de-

territories the

of

the Levant for an army whion its has only weak forces at disposal are pointed Vichy."

in out

TWO JAPANESE ARRESTED BY G-MEN

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}

Three men, includ-

ing two Japanese, have been arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion for conspiracy to violate the Espionage Law.

One of the Japan- ese claimed to be the chauffeur of Mr. Charles Chaplin for the last 17 years. International News Service.

SURVIVORS TRAGEDY PICKED UP

TURNS TO

IN LIFEBOAT LUCKY BREAK

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

THE TORPEDOING OF AN AMERICAN STEAMER, THE "ROBIN MOOR,” BY A GER-

Impending tragedy for MAN SUBMARINE IN THE SOUTH ATLAN- 60 tuberculosis patients TIC, IS REVEALED IN A REPORT RECEIVED of the "Shanghai Hospi- BY THE UNITED STATES NAVY DEPART-tal” has turned into MENT LAST NIGHT, PENDING CONFIRMA- TION OF WHICH THE DEPARTMENT DECLINES TO PUBLISH THE EXACT TEXT OF MESSAGES WHICH WERE INTERCEPTED BY COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS CRAN- NELS.

News of the torpedoing, first of an Amer- ican vessel during the present war, originat- ed in a radio message sent by the Brazilian steamer Osorio, which was then relayed by the steamer's flags and again relayed by the s.s. Deer Lodge.

VICHY NOTE TO

LONDON Reuter learns that the note re-

The messages reported in Syria lating to the events

the French that the Osorio had found by "Sup-communicated

with Ambassador in Madrid with British Ambassador, Sir Samuel a lifeboat with survivors food and fuel is practically im- Hoare, has reached London and clinging to it.

is under consideration-Reuter. possible."-Reuter.

The Agency continues: plying this army ot only arms and munitions but

to the

A

HITLER NOT IN

PEACEFUL MOOD

MR. JOHN

CUDAHY, former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, whose newspaper articles on the last days of King Leopold were read all over the world, has just returned to America from Germany, where he had a 30- minutë interview with Hitler.

The State Department and the Maritime Commission in Washing- ton say they have no information but the latter, in a statement, de-. clared it was understood that the Robin Moor was owned by Seas Shipping Company, Incor- porated in New York.

the

boom by public response to American doctors ap- peals for beds. ***

Seizure of the hospital's: equip- ment and furniture paradoxically places it on a stronger basis than

ever.

City Government represents- tives threatened to remove the

very beds used by the patients, saying they were the property of the Chungking Government, and thus now belonged to them. beds" by the public. A hundred

The hospital was “flooded with

have been donated and 50 more cars, steel and other materials, promised, and even the Shanghai but no war munitions-Reuter. Papers launched a concerted at-

tack on Mayor Chen Kung-po for, Though the Robin Moor is not the "callous" act in seizing the listed in Lloyd's Register, other Robin vesse s, owned by the same equipment being used to help

company, are all of about 6,500 tons register.

FRENCH TANKER SAID SUNK

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") An unconfirmed report re- ceived in New York yesterday

Chinese tubercular patients in charitable hospital.

Dr. Lee Hui-zeng, American' Superintendent, says that dona- tion of the new equipment and beds places the hospital on a firm- basis. International News Service.

er

The vessel was carrying gen-stated that British warships offer. eral cargo,

motor- Syria have sunk a French tank | vice. including

Molotov Trip To Tokyo?

Despite the absence of. official Soviet confirma-

Mr. Cudahy, who saw Hitler as a journal- ist, reports that Hitler's attitude was most unfriendly. "He gave me the idea he didn't tion, the Tokyo Nazi like me at all because I was American,fa

Germans and. Hitler, sald Mr. come into the war soon. Cudahy, believe America will

TURKEY CUTS SYRIA LINES

"CHINA MAIL")

ECATIONS

organ "Hochi" said to- day that Mr. Mototov's

quite

"If the war is not brought to rumoured visit to Japan a military conclusion by October, this.... summer is I think we are going to have something like the Thirty Years likely.

War"

AND SYRIAT Mr.

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Hitler, said Mr. Cudahy, did would go far to clearing lon that he outstanding Japanese-Soviet

blems and cementing friendly relations.

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