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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 28, 1941.

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THE R.A.P. BOYS WHO BATTERED BERLIN-For nearly three hours recently, a strong force of R.A.F. bombers battered the centre of Beriin. Photo shows them bombing up. staff attaching fuses before loading 'planes with bombs for Berlin.

Ground

AFTER FASHION OF NAZI OCCUPATION DENMARK BOWL

OF

JAPANESE OCCUPATION of Indo-China, ostensibly effected at the invitation of Vichy for assistance in defending Indo-China against British aggression, and in virtue of an agreement between Vichy and Tokyo which was yesterday the subject of lengthy communiques issued in both centres, is recognised everywhere as an act of aggression which in kind differs but little from German occupation of Denmark.

Vichy's "invitation" was given with the same freedom as that of a traveller who surrenders his purse to a highwayman,

Outside Axis countries and brings all financial and import probably to large extent within and export trade transactions in them, no responsible students of which Japanese interests are

in-

OF RICE

CAMPAIGN

On Friday next, all Chinese restaurants contributing to the China Defence League's "Bowl of Rice Campaign" will be serving "Bowl of Rice Lunches" to those who buy the tickets now on sale in many centres in Hong Kong. The Campaign, which is under the patronage of His Excellency the Governor, is for productive relief

affairs are deceived by the gloss volved under the control of the of Chinese refugees in the Yellow

of

which Japan has attempted to put | Government and imposes criminal River on her aggressive act and in penalties for violation France no less than in Indo-China, order," the French people will doubtless treat with contempt the efforts

of dignity to an act which in fact and for the purpose

constitutes a new humiliation.

norning, in the

region, through the the establishment of Chinese Indus- trial Cooperatives, The Committee The statement adds that China. which Darlan and his associates cluded "at the specific request of making a relief fund of HK$40,000. although a friend of U.S.A., is in hopes to sell 20,000 tickets in all. are making to give a semblance

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of helping

On Saturday the Chinese Government."

of the Gloucester The step is apparently intended Coffee Room to make the freezing order effec- Hotel, a group of Hong Kong tive in the Japanese-occupied ladies met at tea

to discuss "Bowl portions of China.

arrangements for selling It was also announced early of Rice tickets." Hostesses were

the yesterday that

Netherlands Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke, Hon. Secre- Government in London are in tary of the League, Miss Mon-sing consultation with the Dutch East Liao, and Mrs. Chen Han-seng, Indies authorities in Batavia re-representing the Chinese Industrial in view of the Indo-Chinese situa-sent were Mrs. Violet Chan, Mrs. garding the measures to be taken Cooperatives. Among those pre-

tion.-British Wireless.

Some surprise is expressed in London that there should even be an attempt on the part of Japan with the

open concurrence of Vichy to represent this move as a defensive measure against

non- existent threats from Britain and America.

re-

As the Foreign Secretary marked in the Commons on Fri day: "Propaganda of this kind is a customary prelude to fresh acts of violence by the Axis and their associates."

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Parallel Action

The two great Powers, Britain and the United States, whose in- terests are affected in similar ways by Japanese action have moyed swiftly in the face of the potential threat. The action taken

THOMPSON TO TEACH

AT U. OF VIRGINIA

M. P. Wong, Mrs. K. C. Yeo, Mrs. Pearl Sung, Mrs. Wong Man, Miss Doris Chan, Mrs. Julla Wang. Mrs. Elsie Soong, Miss Mimi Lau, Miss Adele Lee, Mrs. M. W. Kwan, Miss Maple 3. Quon, Miss Constance Lum, the Misses Annie, Miss Lo Zaza and Ada Suffiad, Pui Kin, Mrs. J. M. Tan, Mrs. Rose Tan, Mrs. Y. M. Wen, and others. Mrs. Chen exhibited specimens of of the work of the Chinese Industrial is on parallel lines, and the freez- for

samples of ing of Japanese assets by both the Curtis

years Director of the towels, uniforms and shoes they Institute of United States and Britain has Philadelphia,

Music in were making for Chinese soldiers, has been elected already been announced.

Selwyn-Clarke asked Professor of Music and head of The Netherlands. Government the Division have been kept. fully informed School of Fine Arts of the Universtickes in various Hong Kong hotels of Music in the for assistance in helping to scil and announcements on their be,sity of Virginia:

and restaurants. half following consultation the Netherlands East Indies awaited,

Randall Thompson, one

by both, after close consultation, America's foremost composers and Cooperatives with

with

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and Mrs.

Dr. Thompson; who will join During this week, Bowl of Rice' the faculty in September, will All tickets will be on sale at the Washington, reports state that the vacancy caused by the re- following places in Hong Kong freezing mensures which immo-tirement of Arthur Fickenscher, (thanks to the kind permission of diately affect Japanese holdings in head of Music Division for 21 the managers' and proprietors): the United States are, estimated to years.

Hong Kong Hotel, Gloucester involve .some £50,000,000 .in Dr. Thompson is a native of Arcade, St. Francis Hotel, Cafe de Japanese export and import con-New York. He received an AB Chino, Ying King Restaurant; cerns. and marks the first of a degree at Harvard in 1920, and Golden City, Kwong Chow Hotel; Masters Degree in 1922 He was Golden Dragon, Kin. Kwok In London, the freezing is a Fellow of the American Restaurant, Hotel Cecil,, Hotel achieved as the result of measures Academy in Rome from 1922 to Metropole, and other central sites. already reported.

1925. Ho also studied composing The Town Office of the Bowl of under Ernest Bloch in New York Rice Campaign, where tickets and' Washington Statement for several years. The degree Information may be obtained, is of Doctor of Music was conferred at the Compradore's Offico, Belgian A White House statement ex-upon film: in 1938 by the Univer- Bank,

40 Des Voeux Road, plaing that thy "measure" in effectidity of Rochester.

(Phone: 33354).

series of economic moves,

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