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Japanese

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1941.

Delegates

Decide To Leave Batavia

NAZI BOMBER CRASHES

IN PORTUGAL

who

Portuguese officials examined the wreckage of a 'plane which crashed

in

flames close to the Spanish frontier early on Sunday say it was a four-engined Ger- mon bomber presum- ably returning from the Gibraltar raid. Reuter.

THE ROBIN MOOR CASE

YOSHIZAWA HAS FINAL

INTERVIEW

THE JAPANESE DELEGATES have decid- ed to leave the Netherlands East Indies fol- lowing the impasse in the economic talks, according to a Japanese telegram from Batavia.

Prior to this announcement, Mr. Yoshi- zawa, head of the Japanese delegation, had final interview with the Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies.

The telegram adds the delega- tion will leave Batavia for Japan on June 20.

news-

The prominent Tokyo paper "Hochi" says the Japanese nevertheless Government should continue to urge the East Indie,, to cooperate with Japan in build- 111K

sphere."

"Enst

Asia prosperity

Declaring that the Dutch Gov- ernor-General's

speech to the

says Japan

LATEST FLYING

FORTRESSES FOR R.A.F.

Numbers of the very

NEW ZEALAND TO BUILD

KING HEARTENED

MINESWEEPERS DYING BARRIE

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The placing of contract for building four minesweepers at Port Chalmers to Bri- tish Admiralty plans, was announced yes- terday by the New Zealand Minister of Supply, Mr. Sullivan, says Reuter from Wel- lington.

WEDDINGS IN RAIDED CHURCH

Two couples were mar-

It is fairly common knowledge that Sir James Barrie, while writing his Boy last play, "The David," worked into the dialogue two remarks made to him by Princess Margaret, and promised to pay the Princess a penny for each stage per- formance.

ended has not How that story been told till now, when it ap- pears in Denis Mackail's official biography, "The Story of J.M.B."

Barrie, old, ill, dispirited at the comparative failure. of his play. Margaret, now a King's daughter, and perhaps feeling that Princess was less informally approachable, had not the heart to carry his jest through.

The King diecovered this and sont

docu- an official-looking ment saying that if the obliga. tion was not met his oilcitors Prople's Council on Monday in latest type of four-engin-¦ Married Amid Ruins

would take up the matter. The basic charges directly implied that Japan was

This put new heart into Barrie. against Germany

foroch

one of the colony's enemies the ed "Flying Fortress," the

as it was intended to do. He had must nke Boeing B17C, have rea- ried in the charred porch

a magnificent legal document sinking the Robin Moor! this into consideration and take

the of a London church which made out, and obtained a bag of are not affected by the determined steps to make the Estched Britain from

Indies realise Japan's ideal of a United States.

was destroyed by incen- take them to the Palace and pay bright new pennies, meaning to arrival of the missing sur-Greater East Asia ---Reuter,

They will soon be in service diary bombs during Lon- Royalty's royalties in person. vivors at Capetown, declared Mr. Sumner

Welles, United States ARMY FASHIONS

Under-Secretary of State, yesterday.

The United States Government would very soon be able to reach

a final decision on action to be

Meanwhile the

FOR FUR COATS

with the R.A.F. alongside British and other types of United States don's second heavy raid four-engined "bombers.

in four nights. Despite their vast size, the

Developed from

the

the

When the time came, however, he was much too ill to go. Once again the King came to the res- He sent for the agreement, where to sign, and sent it back to Barrie on his death-bed.

CHINA-BURMA FRONTIER FIXED

B 17 Cs, the first of their type to The weddings were solemnised cue. the delivered here, have beaten while the ruins were still smok-showed the Princess

firemen were at work. all records in their Atlantic cross-ing and

Guests stood on the steps. lings.

The first

were Boeing

couple

Mr. Oxford and Miss 17 B, they are four-engined Arthur Ernest The Marchioness of Willingdon aeroplanes capable of

Ivy Wright and good Georgina 2 laken, he said.

were Cpl. Christopher American consul at Capetown had has sponsored a pre-view of Brit- 'deal more than 300 m.p.h. They second

full load of Morrison, of the Canadian Forces, been instructed to cable a sum-ish fur coa's to be sent to Can- have a range with mary of the survivors' deposi- ada shortly with a trade delega- more than 3,000 miles and a ceil- and Miss Helen Fowler.

ing of 36,700ft.

These "Flying Nearly all the furs shown were! of skins from various parts of the which carry Empire.

Even the few made up seven and nine from South American or Ameri- wingspan of 103ft are 1,200 h.p.

Wright Cyclone R 1820s. can skins were processed or dyed: in Londen.

tions.

be

Although Mr. Welles did not in- dicate what action would taken, it is considered that at the very least a stern protest would be lodged.-Reuter.

A

"FLEECED"

WOMAN ALLEGATION

means,

When John Houlden, 34, des- cribed as of independent Cumberland Mansions, Hyde Park, was remanded for two weeks at Marlborough Street Police Court on charges of fraudulent canver- sion and forgery involving £665, Mr. C. Humphreys prosecuting, said:

"This is a story of a clever rogue battening upon a woman with money who early fell under his influence-I might say almost his spell--signed almost anything put in front of her, and was slow- ly but deliberately fleeced of large amounts of money.”

the

tion.

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Scorched beams and heaps of Fortresses," tiles had to be removed from the crew of between porch.

men, have Д

New Gun Turrets

One of the most striking out- fits was a soldierly coat and field

They have special gun turrets service cap made in flat otter. An- other mannequin wore a lamb in place of the "blisters" of the earlier types. Every square foot coat dyed scarlet as one of the

carries a load of components of the British colours. of the wings

26.11b under normal conditions, Another unusual coat

23 was and with full bomb load 33lb. British moleskin dyed dark green, cut like the uniform of a Hussar. Gross weight is 47,500lb.

Sables and minks from Canuda, dyed ermines, Indian lambs and combinations of ocelot and beaver all showed the remarkable fash- ionable styles. The display was Ex- arranged by the Fur Trade port Group.

RETALIATION

BY GERMANY

The Boeing is bullt entirely of metal, and the trailing edge flaps, which give a low landing speed, are electrically operated. The Boeing plants, which have been enlarged by more than 250 per cent, since 1939, are now turning out one aircraft every two days. Some of the versions have exhaust-driven superchargers for sub-stratos- phere flying.

later

Delimitation of the frontier be- tween China and Burma has vicar had Earlier, the

said been finally settled after prolong-

ed

learned negotiations, Reuter

sources in Mating and called the banns of marriage from the doorstep. Two from well-informed Communion services and three Chungking yesterday.

that an agrée- baptisms, with

bow! оп

It is expected A

Chinese and wooden pedestal as a font, took ment between the place in the drawing-room of the, British Governments will be sign-

ed shortly-Reuter. vicarage.

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SECRET WEAPON"

AGAINST

ENEMY AIRCRAFT

“DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH promise in many directions" in the detection and destruction of enemy 'planes, was mentioned by the Lord. Privy seal, Mr. C. R. Attlee, în answer to a question in the House of Commons yesterday.

Liberators, Too Britain is also receiving num- AMERICAN PROPERTY IN bers of

Consolidated Liberators United States. These. GERMANY IS THE OBJECT OF from the

RETALIATORY too, are four-engined aeroplanes, IMMEDIATE

BY THE GERMAN and both types are superior to ACTION

anything GOVERNMENT,

yet produced by the

both types are tion.

in numbers of the heavy-

Mr. Attlee was invited to amplify the recent statement by the Canadian Defence Minister, Col Ralston, announcing Canadian help in this direc-

.: Berlin announced yesterday: enemy. It was stated that

The fact that £665 "By order of the President, the was the money of Mrs. Ethel Ger- Government of the United States beginning to arrive trude Miller-Mundy, Viceroy on June 14 announced the freez-is an indication Court, Regent's Park.

When arrested Houden was alleged to have said: "This is a plty, as Lord Tredegar and Lord Annerley were going to see Mrs. Miller-Mundy to-morrow and put the matter right.”

ing of all Germán assets in the weight air striking force which is the brilliant work of our scien- PORTUGAL

for Britain. by United States: by order of the being built up German Government, therefore, United States factories. the necessary steps will immedi- The American aircraft industry

responding the is

magnificently to ately be taken concerning property of American citizens in continually increasing British de-

the German Reich."-Reuter.

'mands.

DINE AND DANCE--WHERE THE FOOD IS

UNSURPASSED

FRED CARPIO'S

SWING ORCHESTRA NORTH POINT

'THE SURROUNDINGS UNEXCELLED

The Ritz

OPEN-AIR BALLROOM BY THE SEA.

TEL. 34196.

Mr. Attlee said that thanks to

tists great progress had been made in devising means of helping, the Fighting Services in locating and destroying enemy 'planes,

British Industries – ware now turning out: Increasing quanti- ties of an Ingenious apparatus maintenance demands

REINFORCES

whose THE AZORES

large numbëra of skilled men, ]... especially radio mechanics.

A DETACHMENT OF SAILORS-

LISBON

Training is being given by the HAS LEFT LISBON FOR THE Fighting Services assisted by uni- AZORES TO REINFORCE THE versities and technical colleges NAVAL BASE AT PONTA DEL all over the country.

|GADA, STATES A

DESPATCH RECEIVED THERE WAS' STILL NEED

VICHY LAST NIGHT. FOR MORE CRAFTSMEN AND

The "sailors took with them A BROADCAST APPEAL WAS BEING MADE TO TECHNICAL quantity of war materials. MEN OVERSEAS, TO COME" A contingent of troops from FORWARD TO JOIN THEIR Lisbon has already arrived in SKILL AND KNOWLEDGE TO" the Azores, according to n des THAT OF OUR SCIENTISTS patch from Angra do Herolamo, *REUTER:

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