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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.
GERMAN INTRIGUE
SOUTH AMERICA
IN
EXPOSED
THE CONTINENT of South America has figured largely in the news during the past fortnight, when from the United States bor- der to Tierra del Fuego, have come reports of abortive Nazi intrigues to dictate policy to the high-spirited Latin-American nations.
It began with the circumstantial details of a Nazi putsch which was to have been carried out in Bolivia. This was revealed in a letter by Major Elias Belteont, Bolivian Military Attache in Berlin, and a would-be Quisling, to Ernst Wendler, Ger- man Minister in Lapaz, who wrote "my friends in the Wilhelmstrasse tell me that information received from you shows that the moment is approaching for the liberation of my poor country from its weak Gov- ernment, and its entirely capitalistic tendencies."
This and other documents were published by the Bolivian Presi~ dem to justify the expulsion of the German Mini ter and the arrest of several notorious sympa- thisers
The message ordered all Nazi agents in Peru and Bolivia to follow all Instructions issued by the four Nazi envoys in South America at their last meeting in Santiago, Chile.
The German Government
Deep salis action has been caus- Torted by ordering the Boliviani ed throughout South America by Change d'Affaires. Senor Alfred Argentina's firm reply to the Flores, to leave the Reich within German Minister's protest against the seizure of the shortwave wireless set and other baggage. evidence' and all the leading Argentina
Mexic
72 hours.
Although complete was discovered of Germany's papers congratulate the conspiracy to overthrow the Government on its answer to the exiting Bolivian Government German Note concerning the and the Constitution, Bolivia United States black list. has so far refrained from break- Ing off diplomatic relations,
DIPLOMATIC
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FROM FREEZING
The Tokyo Finance Ministry states that whereas the Japanese Government has been informed that Japan-` ese diplomatic and consular services in Britain and Australia have been exempted from the assets freez- ing regulations, the same consideration will be extended by Japan to British and Australians, effective from to-day.-Reuter.
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German note to Mexico actually insisted that the Mexican Gov- ernment should
protest against
the black-list. Mexico made a
spirited rep y. government in words to mind ness.
telling the almost so their own
Mexican Reply
Reich many busi-
The Mexican reply tartly says "Mexico is capable of taking care of her own sovereignty and free- dom of trade without any prompt- ing from foreign powers."
The German Note intimated that the Mexican attitude on the ques-
IL DUCE
the
ON BATTLE
H. C. Macnamara at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for failing to maintain the Company's Route No. 9 in service in accordance with schedule.
The
schedule provides that every 12 minutes there should be Abus leaving the Vehicular Ferry Wharf in Jordan Road, but, ac- cording to the summons, no bus left be'we 936 a.m. and 10.07 a.m. on July 12.
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks pleaded guilty to a technical offence, stat- And that the bus which should have Jeft the wharf at 936 a.m.. "The struggle between had engine tenhle and, as a ro
OF
GIANTS
Pir't, the muhsequent bris, which
tion of the black-list would de-, Fascism and Bolshevism was scheduled. to leave at 9.46 termine the German attitude to has at last arrived: it is an wards Mexican
trade after the
war. The Mexican Note describ- honour and a privilege for
ed this threat as "pressure in
open contradiction with the spirit you to take part in this of mutual respect governing the battle of the Giants," de- foreign relations of the Mexican clared Benito Mussolini at Republic."
The opportunity was taken to Mantua in a farewell ad- proclaim, without any ambiguity, dress to a Blackshirt
he Mexican "Government's' ad-
herence to the "principle of Legion which is being sent inter-American cooperation." This to help Hitler on the East- affair was followed by a public demand in Mexico for the ex- ern Front. pulsion of the German Minister; and other Nazi agents.
Intolerable Insult
f
Mussolini added, according to the official Italian news agency, that "for 20 years the peoples of the earth have been approaching this. stern trial. Fascism Bolshevism?
which
we
The Mexican Trade Union Con- gress passed a resolution declar- ing the German step as "an infolerablé insult to the country." "The struggle for Feeling against Nazi interference have prepared for years has en with Latin-American sovereignty tered upon the final stage. The is running equally high in Chile drama, is at its fifth.act. Hence and the Argentine.
forth alignment is complete.a
IN ARGENTINA; POLICE
a. was overcrowded.
As the result of the over- crowding the buses did not leave until 10.07 pm until the excess passerere had alighted."
Mr. Brooks arded that his client getting new buses and spare had had considerable difficulties parts from England, owing to the
war,
The Company had only 20 uses on this route. which needed service... Therefore the Company
17 buses to maintain a 12-minute
had only three stare buses to mest an emergency if regular buses were out of order,
Traffic Sub-Inspector J. Scrim stated that he arrived at Jordan Ferry wharf at 10 am that day and saw two buses of Route. No.
were very touch overrfwded. He did not interfere, but kept. watch.
Fnally he saw the excess nag- which eventually started off at sengers alight from one bus,
10,07 a.m1Y
Sub-Inspector Scrim added that,
RAIDS HAVE BEEN- MADE: ON "On the one gide is Rome-Ber-according to a Eurorean gene- THE GERMAN EMBASSY AND lin-Tokyo- and on the other had left the wharf-between 9.32 VARIOUS GERMAN CONTROL-London-Washington-Moscow.
LED INSTITUTIONS, AND A STRONG CONGRESS COMMIT- TEE IS INVESTIGATING NAZI ACTIVITIES.", APRN DA
Argentine authorities found is, secret fw.coda message proving that Nazi, agents forment- ed the recent Peru-Ecuador fron- tier battles.
Code Message:
"Wo-shatt triumph because history teaches that
peoples which represent Ideas of the "past"must give way" before peoples which reprosent. Idema of the futura.:
"On the Russian Front you
man, o buses, of Rou'è -No, -9
am and 10.07 a.m,
ITALY CENSORS CAVATICAN
The Italian military
sorship
will be fighting not only by the now apples to letters and tale side of your German comrades phone calls from Vatican City: but also with the Finns, Magyars, The code message was found Rumanians, Slovaks and volun HE GETS ROOBY
inside a short-wave radio set teers from, other notions,
seized by the investigating come, rom other notions.
PRIZE
comminuid
mittee's chairman, Raul Damonte "I am sure you will fight deter-General Garibaldi, Taborda, on its smuggled return, minedly and strenuously. Rememe the ita ian force
from Peru where it was refused ber that in battle he who hesitates Africa, has been awarded entry.
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