1941-07-17 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 17, 1941.

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AUSTRALIA REQUISITIONS

SHIPS

The Australian

Government has

re-

quisitioned 63 ships In the inter-state trade, the Commerce Minister, Sir Earle Page, announced yes- terday. The ships will be operated by the Shipping Control Board. Reuter.

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RECEPTION FOR MR. OWEN LATTIMORE

B.B.C. SUNDAY ANTHEM BROADCAST TO CEASE

THE SUNDAY EVENING broadcast by the B.B.C. of the national anthems of Britain and the Allied countries is to be discontinued, announced the Minister of Information, Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, answering a question in the House of Commons yesterday.

Mr. Duff-Cooper said: "The increase in the number of national anthems renders it

impossible to do justice to the whole of them

in the time allotted.

"I have suggested to the B.B.C. Mr. Owen Lattimore, personal that in future the period previous-

Mr. E. Shinwell

(Lab) asked if the Minister had sudden- political udviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who arrived in ly taken up by national anthems! suggestion that another national ty become embarrassed by the Hong Kong on Tuesday, will be should be devoted to the national anthem the guest of honour at a reception music of nations whose

(the Internationale) be played on

Sunday by members of the Institute of Pacific Relations at the Peninsula are now fighting with us. Hotel this afternoon.

Mr. Lattimore has had a busy round of social functions since his arrival. He was the guest of H. E. Governor at luncheon yes- terday.

people should

evenings.

"A different nation

will bo selected each week, and perhaps In some cases it may prove possible to combine two three."

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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6 Fencing

swords

.11 To render.

"mild

13 Ditch

14 Pronoun

15 Act of eating

away

17 Exclamation

18 To immerso

20 Fastens

21 To-hout

22 Ardour

ativd

25. Pluntter

20 Phot

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28-Sea nymph

−30: To forböde

33 Card Buit

35 Winter

vehicle.

37. Grdsped 38 Roman'

brunze

40 Téo crystals

42 Somá

743 Tendency

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46 Preposition

47. Hend of the

English cabinet

49 Pronoun

50 Depended

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onward

34 Unfeeling

55 To assign.

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1 Apart

VERTICAL

10 Gaudy

12 Pertaining

to the dawn

2-Useless

3 Siberian

river

4 Poem

5 To rotate

@ God of love

7 To indite

8 Printer's

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YESTERDAY'S: SOLUTION

AREA

JONSANGUINITY

FIRB

ASHIR

ANLARNYTT UGE

DRY-ARD

SANDA

ROOT

13 Astant

10 Hull in

Jerusalem

18 Complete

equipment

of a warrior

21 Emblem of

Neptuno

23 Wanderer

25 Pares

27 To marry

20 Law: things 31 Approached

33 Bugle call

34.To appear 30 Window in b Agabla

37 Filaments

growing

from -the. skin (

30 Toycut. 41 To brandish

49 Card having

three spots.

44 Egyptian,

measura

47. Ornamental wedovico

40 Argument

53 Colloquial:

father

or

No Sudden Decision

Mr. Duff-Cooper replied that no sudden decision hud been taken in the matter.

Answering another Labour

; member, the Rev. R. W. Sorensen, Mr. Duff-Cooper said the period would certainlý include a national song for Russia.

Following Mr. Duff-Cooper's statement In the House, the B.B.C. later announced that the national anthem period next Sunday evening will be devoted to French national airs. The following Sunday the period will be devoted to Russian airs. --Reuter.

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CHINESE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR STAFFS ARE RE- TURNING HOME IMMEDIATE- LY FROM THE AXIS TRIES ON ORDERS OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

COUN-

an-

withdrawal follows The nouncements of the recognition by Germany, Italy and Rumania of the Japanese-sponsored govern- ment at Nanking.

Thirty-four Chinese envoys are expected in Lisbon in a few days from Berlin, while 18 more are expected from Rome.-Reuter.

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IN ANKARA · Ambassadors, Ministers other diplomatic representatives of Germany, Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia in Moscow arrived in Ankara by train yesterday after- noon, according to Ankara radio quoted by Reuter,

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