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First requirement was to place; damaged ships in service again. This was done in spite of the ship- building and repairing industry which had been allowed to drop to too low a level in peace time, which meant the organisation of additional workers and the train- ing of workers. in itself a large task.

Nevertheless the ships came out and though we did not build. to the extent we desired, it was amazing how much we had done to stiffen the strength Fleet in Eucceeding months.

French Defection

In addition

WAR ON

SHANGHAI

ELECTRIC

SHOCK FROM TELEPHONE

о

Using a telephone in the Argyle Street Chinese Soldiers' In- ternment Camp dur- ing the height of thunderstorm yester- day, an Indian Con- stable (B366), Me- han Khan, received an electric shock and has been admitted to the Kowloon Hospital. His condition this morning was stated to have improved.

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The murder of Mr. of the Chikayuki Akagi, Japan- ese Deputy Commissioner in the Shanghai Settle- ment Police, is expected to result in the shattering

to new destroyers

and cruisers there had been added of the large terrorist gang to the Fleet tremendously impor-

tant ships known as Corvettes, responsible for many kill- "which we have now in very large ings. numbers and I hope to get in in- creasing numbers."

One of the pair of assassins has been handed

to over

ROAD

CRASH

The Conduit Road resi- dence of Mr. K. Kuizumi, "the a member of the staff of Mr. Alexander added that the Japanese gendarmerie, together the Japanese Consulate- defection of the French fleet re-with three suspects arrested

expected General, was hastily eva- gaged in escort duty in the Atlan-they will give information lead-cuated this morning at tic to the Mediterranean, to take ing to the discovery and appre- about 9.20 am, when

quired the drafting of ships en- police raids, and it is

the place of casualties, which made hension of the entire ring. the task of other escorting ships more difficult.

"I will say, despite any criti- clams, that the work was being. done with such a measure success as to enable all of us not!

in

Mr. Jack Liddell, Chairman several tons of rock, the

af the S.M.C., has written

"tail-end" of a serious and landslide higher up the

chill,

came crashing

letter of condolence tą the Japanese consul-generat ordered Municipal flags to flown at half-mast. of:

Attacked in his car while tak-through the roof to know anything of the pangsing his sick wife to hospital, Mr. Although the building, a two-

second Akagi was the

Deputy storey house, No, A7, was, badly Commissioner to be shot recent damaged, there were no casual Dealing with the Battle of the ly. Deputy Commissioner

Y40 ties. wa$ Alexander said it Tseng-moo

assassinated. Atlantic, Mr. was quite certain that in the last several months ago-International four months improved organisation News Service.

of hunger.”

in the north-west approaches had resulted in a weight of attack 011

submarines

which had

enemy meant that the enemy could not stop there and take it but had to go to other areas.

Air Menace

Regarding the menace from air attack, he pointed out that in the whole of the last war when the huge tonnage of 12: millions were sunk by enemy action, only 8,000. tons succumbed to air attack.

To-day we had to face air, at- tack on our shipping not only in aur own coastal waters but the Mediterranean as well.

AIR TRAINING CORPS SUCCESS

.

Higher up the hill, some hun- dreds of tons of earth and rock 'were brought down by the for rential rains of the last few days, sweeping down the sharp, slope crossing: the path above the and house, and pouring rocks rubble into the garden and on I to the roof, Windows were, smash, Led and the ground-floor living rooms were covered with, earth and stones.

Replying to a Commons, ques- The damaged house is one of tion the Air Secretary said the a group in close proximity to the progress of the Air Training Corps Japanese Consul General's continues to give cause, for satis-sidence. faction.

Te-

Careful: watch is now being kept The number of units formed is as there appears, to be danger of now 1340 with a total strength of further falls from the precipi- about 190,000: cadets.

tous slopes above the houses.

Over 5,000 candidates for com- missions have been accepted for inservice, with the Corps and some 1740 units have been affiliated to R.A.F stations.-British Wire-

What the Royal. Navy rejalo-| less. ed, to see was the extent, to. which our Air Force, In the last few weeks, was beginning|

to take toll of enemy, shipping, FOUR SHOT DOWN

of which we had already sunk or captured- 3,200,000- tana, sinca, war started.

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SHANGHAI PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL" The Shanghai Consular Body has approved new Municipal by- It is now known that a fourth laws dealing with public health enemy aircraft was shot down measures, and land taxation which the Annual over Britain on Monday: hight were approved by says a. British Wireless message. Ratepayers Meeting in April The, Alr Ministry and Ministry. International News Service, of Home Security stated inst night, "Up to 7.30, nothing to report!

British Wireless.

AIR SUPPORT. FOR: In a tribute to the work of the Merchant Navy, Mr. Alexander

• THE ARMY concluded: "It is perfectly grand when one hears of a morchant

Replying to a Commons, ques». ship putting down a submarine or of a little ship off the north- NORWAY QUESTION tion the Secretary for War stated that for the past 18 months there east coast of Scotland coming into part with the remains of two Approximately 11,700 French, has been a section of the. War aeroplanes on its decks, or heartroops were sent to Norway at Office whose sole task was co- ing of the shooting down of a the time of the Nazi invasion, it operation with then Air Ministry great and powerful long-range was stated in the Commons yes on all aspects of air support for

the Army-British Wireless. Nazi bomber."British Wireless, terday-British Wireless.

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