1941-07-14 — Page 35

THE CHINA MÁIL JULY 1941

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Allied Forces Remain On Guard During Armistice

Signing Expected In 24 Hours

AFTER THE TERMS OF THE SYRIAN ARMISTICE HAS BEEN INITIALLED, THE RE- PRESENTATIVES OF BOTH THE BRITISH AND VICHY GOVERNMENTS

REFERRED

BACK TO THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERN- MENTS, IT WAS OFFICIALLY STATED IN CAIRO LAST EVENING.

Result of the final decision is still await- ed, and meanwhile the military standstill in Syria continues.

Though the boom ef

artillery and the crack of KWANGTUNG

machine-guns in Syria

has given way to a peace- COASTAL TOWNS

ful stillness, the Allied;

forces remain in a state RETAKEN

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MR. CHURCHILL

TO BROADCAST

a

It was officially an- nounced in London yesterday that speech by the Prime Minister at a public luncheon to-day will be broadcast in the B.B.C. home service.

The speech is ex- pected to begin same- time between 11.55 a.m. and 12 10 p.m. G.M.T.-Reuter.

U.S. ARMY SERVICE

Unless selective service trainees are retained in Tunglung and Cheunglam, south-east Kwangtung coastal service beyond the pre- towns, have been recaptured by the Chinese.

of constant vigilance, and gunners continue to stand by their positions.

It is generally expected that the

be signed armistice will

within al the next 24 hours, and the cites: slaughtered many civilians on the of the terms will be that the Allies way, retired to their warships an- will take over Syria both poin-chored off cally and militarily.

Last night the lights of Bernt blazed down the coast while The beams of the Beirut lightnews swung across the Lea

Return To Normal

business

mcn

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News.

alleged, plundered

and

The Japanese, who, sent limit of one year, the de- outlying American fence bases cannot adequately manned.

the coast.-Central

RUSSIANS DETAINED

be

This opinion is understood to have bren expressed by the United States Army Chief of Staff, General Marshall, to Con- gressional leaders.

He is reported to have said that

additional service

large

numbers of

to be brought August because

With the prospect of norma!!

INDO-CHINA THE FRENCH conditions being reestablished in GOVERNMENT HAS DETAINED | unless Syria in the near future, mer-ALL SOVIET NATIONALS authorised, chants ind

inSINCE THE

OF troops will have SEVERANCE Palestine, many of whom had DIELOMATIC RELATIONS BE- from Hawaii in branches in Syria, arc looking TWEEN VICHY AND SOVIET of the approaching expiration of forward to an early resumption RUSSIA, ACCORDING ΤΟ A their spell of 12 months, and that for some time to come the army of businces relations.

TRANS-OCEAN REPORT, Similarly it

About 800 Communists who are will have to maintain virtually a service" between the that the summer resort. among not Soviet

to "shuttle nationals are said

may be assumed

Lebanon's cedar-clad mountains have also been detained.--Central | mainland and offshore bases.

which

annually attract many News.

thousands of visitors from Egypt.

Iraq and Palestine ure anticipht-

ing a busy season which is due to start shortly.

Dentz's Full Powers

A

clear statement that General Dentz has full powere to sign whatever armistice terms he thinks fit, at any time he chooses, was issued by the Vichy news agency.

The fact that he "preferred" to seek advice from Vichy on "cer- tain technical points," agency, "makes no difference to the situation."

adds the

The statement explains thal

when the Government "refused to London, it gave General Dentz fuli

consider the terms presented by

whatever deci- power to make sions he judged necessary from the military point of Reuter.

view." --

ANTI-FASCIST INDIAN BODY

.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ANTI-FASCIST AHL- INDIAN TRADE UNION COUNCIL WAS ADOPTED AT A CONFERENCE YESTERDAY OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF 30 TRADE UNIONS OF BOMBAY CITY.

to

The objects of the Council will be to assist the world Democratic alliance against Fascism and achieve the effective and conscious participation of workers in the war effort of India.-Reuter.

GENERALISSIMO'S CONDOLENCES

General'asimo"

Reuter,

GERMANS BEGIN TO LEAVE FREE CHINA

THE FIRST GROUP of three Germans, including Wilhelm Trendel, manager of the Transocean News Agency, F. Otto, Wolfe re- presentative, and possibly ·the manager of the D.N.B., will leave Chungking for Lung- chow, on the Kwangsi-Indo-China ́ border, to-day by trucks supplied by the China Auto- mobile Company, Sino-German concern.

The second group consisting 135 DOWN

chielly of German merchants will

is

will

IN WEEK

leave on July 17 by 'plane for

accommodation Kunming if available. Otherwise, they go by truck.

25.

will

leave

by

For the fourth succes- The last group of German

enemy air| evacuees, mostly members

or sive week the German Embassy in losses in all theatres of Chungking

Eastern *plane for Kunming on July war, except

Europe, have topped the It is understood that all Ger-century mark,

newsmen and A total of 135 aircraft was man diplomats, merchants, including employées destroyed last week-22 qvor Bri- of the Eurasia Aviation Corpora-tain and 82 over Germany and tion, will withdraw from. Free German-occupied territory, China, while all missionaries will-Axis and Vichy bombers and ing to remain may stay, as dur-nighters in the Middle East and ing the first World War.

one brought down by the Navy,

30

For the evacuation of 50 Ger- The R.A.F. lost 100 planes, man nationals in Yunnan,. mostly | Widespread day and night|| Chiang Kai-missionaries and employees of the raids. over Germany and occupt- shelt yesterday sent a telegram Eurasia Aviation Corporation, Dr. ed territory cost 85, but eight of the pilots are safe, and 11 machines of condolence to the family of Heinrich Northo, head Loh-Fel Pak-oong, founder of Germany Embassy office In falled to return during the Middle the Chung Hwa Book Company, Kunming, has come to Chungking East operations. who passed away recently in to negotiate with the Ministry of Not one plane was lost in the Hong Kong. Central News, · Foreign":"Affairs.-Central News.defence of Great Britain.-Reuter.

ANOTHER HOSPITAL HIT~Another hospital was hit/In

nurses busy salvaging in the wreckage.

a recent London raid.

with

Here is a view of the damaged wards

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