1941-07-29 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 29,

1941.

JAPANESE BUSINESS IN COLONY ALMOST AT A STANDSTILL

THE JAPANESE Foreign Office has not yet communicated with the Japanese Consulate- General in Hong Kong in regard to the Hong Kong Government's freezing of Japanese credits in the Colony, it was officially learned from Mr. S. Kimura, Japanese Consul, this morning.

A visit to Japanese banks and some of the chief and bigger business concerns in the Colony to-day disclosed that business was virtually at a standstill.

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FINLAND

BREAKS OFF

RELATIONS

Finland has requested must first be obtamed from the the severance of diploma- From Japanese shipping circles tic relations with Great it was learned that all Japanese Britain, it is authorita- ships have been diverted from routes leading to British and Am-tively stated in London,

erican territorial waters, and that the vessels will not visit British and American ports unless the Governments give a guarantee that the ships will not be confis- cated or detained.

PERUVIAN FIGHTING

The Finnish Foreign Minister yesterday handed an aide- memoire to the British Minister at Helsinki, informing him that as Finland is a co-belligerent with Germany, normal diplomatic re- lutions between Great Britain and Finland can hardly be maintain- ecl.

IT'S THAT

SONG AGAIN

The old Australian anti-Italian song about the Southern Tyrolean hero, Andrew Hofer, was sung over Deutschlandsender.

When Hitler occupi- ed Austria, the sing- ing of the song was forbidden by the Nazis so as not

to

annoy the Axis part-

ner.

AWARDS TO R.A.F. HEROES

Dominions airmen are

In reply to Mr. Vereker's ques- among the recipients of tion as to whether this statement awards for gallantry dur- ing the severance of diplomatic ing recent heavy raids on the Finnish Foreign cities in Western Ger- relations.

meant that Finland was request-

Fighting continues on the Peruvian - Ecuador! Minister replied that this was so.

frontier, according to an official communique issu-| ed at Lima, Peru, yester- day.

It was reported from Queito on. Sunday that lighting reased on Saturday evening. following an agreement between the two parties sponsored by the Argentine, Unit- ed States and Brazil.

Reuter.

PHILIPPINE C.-IN-C.

many, thrilling stories of which are now told.

Sergeant N. Williams, born at Dunedin. New Zealand, who re- ceives the Distinguished Flying Medal, took part in the daylight bombing of Bremen on July 4. attacking the centre of the town at a height of 50 feel, flying through balloon barrage and ex- tremely heavy A.A. fire. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT The aircraft received direct hits. YESTERDAY FORMALLY NOM-Williams and another member of INATED DOUGLAS MAC-the crew were wounded, but the The communique, quoted in a

ARTHUR TO BE LIEUTENANT-| crew, with Williams navigating. Lima despatch to the Vichy news GENERAL IN COMMAND OF "displayed great courage and de- agency, states that the Peruvians THE UNITED STATES AND termination under extremely on Sunday recaptured the island COMMONWEALTH FORCES IN harrassing circumstances" and suc- of Matapalo, fear Boca de THE PHILIPPINES.

ressfully brought the aircraft back Capones

The nomination was sent to the to a crash landing at the aero-

drome.

Meanwhile. negotiations ending the hostilities continue." Reuter.

for Senate where Senator Claude

LORD RENNELL OF

Pepper told the Press that Presi- dent Roosevelt could make "no better selection" of a command-

ing general of the forces in this troubled Far Eastern area.

RODD PASSES

The Senate in Washington yes- terday confirmed without dissent The death was announced yes- President Roosevelt's nomination terday of Lord Rernet of Rodd, of General MacArthur as Lieu- who was British Ambassador in tenant-General Commanding Rome, during the last war. Lord United States Army in the Rennell, who was 82 years of age, East, thereby giving a vote spent some

forty years in the confidence in the President's Far diplomatic service. British Wire- East policy-Reuter. less.

AXIS EMBASSIES

SEALED

The German and Ita ian Em- bassies jn Chungking were officially sealed yesterday follow- ing the departure of the last batch of Axis diplomats yesterday by air for Indo-China, Central News.

MERCHANT NAVY ORPHANS

The King and Queen yesterday visited the Royal Merchant Navy School, where some two hundred boys and one hundred girls orphans of merchant seamen are being educated; British Wireless.

LONDON'S A.A. DEFENCES

ARCHBISHOP IN

the Far

of

all

Squadron leader R. P. Wid dowson, Winnipeg. receives the Distinguished Flying Cross, for bringing back an aircraft which was attacked by a Messer- schmitt while returning from a raid on Muenster and Was severely damaged and 'set on fire. Tremendous efforts were made to subdue the fire, loose articles being jettisoned. The aircraft was successfully brought back despite reduced speed and loss of height. Sergeant M. H. Ross, Quebec, who received the D.F.M., was a gunner

One in a night fighter.

night last March, an enemy bomber was intercepted but the cannons jam- med repeatedly. Ross cleared the

PALACE BOMBING stoppages four times under diff

cult conditions at a height of 12,000 THE ARCHBISHOP OF CAN- feet, enabling the pilot to destroy TERBURY WAS AT LAMBETH the bomber. He has helped to des- at least two other night PALACE WHEN IT WAS BOMB-troy

bombers. ED AGAIN RECENTLY.

"The experience of crashing Flight Licut. H. Speke, Bloem- bombs and crackling flames was fontein, gets the D.F.C. for con- distinguished successful a trying ordeal," he writes in the tinous "Canterbury Diocesan Gazette." operational service day and night. He states that five large bombs He has destroyed four and dam- fell in the Palace precincts. The aged at least two enemy aircraft library, chapel and the Old Lol- | by night. lards' Tower were badly damaged.

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SAVOIAS SHOT

DOWN OFF MALTA

British Wireless.

SHANGHAI

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SURPRISE ARREST Mr, Wu Tseng-yu, Mannger of the RAF fighter aircraft Inter-Sung Shing Cotton Mill No 9 in cepted two Savoia 79s off Malta Shanghai, and his son Wu Chung- The Yugoslav Prime Minister yesterday and shot both down in, department chief of the mill, out to sea, were arrested by Japanese gen- yesterday visited part of London's flames 50"|| miles" air defences and Inspected gun Heavy bombers again raided Beng- darmes and French Municipal and searchlight stations, General hazi harbour during the night | Police at 1,45 o'clock this morning Simovitch took lunch with the of July 26/27 and obtained hits when the Japanese raided the Wu C-in-C1y A¡A. Command. Brion the moles and Julian Pointhouse on Rue Pershing in the.

British Wireless;

French Concession, Central News, fish Wireless,

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