THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.
DISEMBARKATION COMPLETED Japanese Control Indo-China French Troops
SOMETHING
HE CANNOT Southern Region
GRASP
Hitler dves not understand democracy, declared Mr. A. C. C. Robertson, a cotton workers' leavier, when he
addressed the
Textle Factory Workers' Asso- ciation at Blackpool.
"He made the first mistake," said Mr. Robertson, "in thinking th:1
our
In
Ordered
North
THE COMPLETION OF THE LANDING NO BOMBS DURING AND ASSIGNMENT TO VARIOUS SECTORS
DAYLIGHT
OF JAPANESE
"REINFORCEMENTS"
TO
FOUGHT IN A BLUE CLOAK
Wearing а blue cloak fastened with a gold clasp embossed with the Lion of Judah, an trishman mounted on a charger led into action amid the Abyssinian lakes
army of
Abys- sionion patriots.
an An Air Ministry and Ministry FRENCH INDO-CHINA, ACCORDING TO THE
OF THE FRANCO-JAPANESE communique PROVISIONS democratic common-of Home Security
"A small number of ene- we: Ith would fall to pieces at the states:
AGREEMENT REGARDING JOINT DEFENCE, An: blast of war.
my aircraft have flown near our "He
could never
and never coast to-day (Monday) and one | WAS ANNOUNCED LAST NIGHT BY THE will understand
Up to 8 pan. there
JAPANESE FORCES, trom the flew inland. men
HEADQUARTERS OF Dominions. India and the Colonles was no report of any bomb hay-
been crossing the world to defend a ing
British IN SAIGON. dropped" Wireless. country they have never seen."
THE FEATURE-FULL
NEW 1941
Japanese disembarkation was still in full swing yesterday morning and a general pic- ture of the movements of the last few days was clearer.
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INJURED INNOCENT
While Japanese troops began disembarking at Nhatrang on July 28. the first mass incursion in the Saigon area did not begin until July 30, though General Sumita jarrived from the North on July 26
with his staff and a few trucks Saigon harbour has been phot a-block with Japanese transports, freighters and warships since.
ever
About 25 transports have ar-
He was Captain Thomas Hetherington Henfrey.
His irregulars are called Henfrey's Scouts.
UNAWARE
HE'S EARL
"This is my daddy's house, but you can't see rived in Salgon, disgorging him. He hasn't been here troops and material and, des since Sunday," said a fair- pite last night's announcement.
haired, frecked little boy. thirty more transports are ro- ported off Cape. St. Jacques. The majority of the occupying
Prejudices abroad have prevented a fair under-forces have landed at Saigon.
| standing of the Far East- ern situation, declares the "Japan Times," which is the organ of the Japanese Foreign Office.
Unseasoned Troops
While all the material appears to be in good condition, the troops of being unseasoned.
are young and give the impression
of
"This engine is a cracker," he volunteered, as he clambered into the driving seat of an old lorry.
"My name's Mike. I'm six, and I can climb right up to the top of this van."
I was talking (writes a cor- respondent) to the twenty-first Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, lord of the 10,000 acres surround- Who esale requisitioning buildings is proceeding in all the ing him, master of the centuries- The paper affirms that the
old house behind him. But he did to areas
be occupied by the policy of Japan is one of "hakko Japanese. In Saigon, half a mile not know he was an earl. ichi aye" which means "an har of docks and godowns, the Cham- monious world under
one ber of Commerce, the Hotel Ma- heaven."
jestic. the East Asiatic Company's The newspaper complains
building. A. B. David and Com- of America's pursuit
policy
on the pany, several buildings consistently imperialistic, and
of says that no volume
moral Bund and many large private re-
sidences have been taken over. Impeachments on her part can America's offset the evidence of Spreading domination.
a
of
Adding that Washington has extended its influence far from the now world into territory of other peoples, the news- paper urges the American peo.
the ple to re-examine
policy which designs and attempted punishment of all foreign coun- tries which do not line up with American power politics, Japan has worked consistently East to keep peace in the Far
and has the right to live in peace and cooperation with the territories around it.-Reuter,
THEY GOT THEIR TEA
During the last blitz on London the Y.M.C.A. Services Centre in
Fought With Brains
Until recently he was Michael James George Robert John Howard Viscount Andover. Then a telegram came telling his mother,
her British concerns and buildings once Miml Crawford, favourite of
playgoers, that
thirty_five- The M.M. liner "Marechal Jof-year-old husband the Earl of Suf- He did not lay it down on the fre" is lying alongside the dockfolk, had been killed. accommodating those Europeans field of battle as did his father who were evicted from the Hotel in the Iraq desert in 1917. Majestic, and elsewhere.
have not been affected.
Saigon outwardly is quiet and the behaviour of the Japanese soldiery has been exemplary.
French Go North
He chose to go into the front a civilian because "he line as thought that he could best help his country with his brains. Ho was a brilliant scientist. But when young Mike is older French troops and materials are
death all moving to the North and all he has not been told of the earl's - he will find that his available rolling stock is being father's name is written among concentrated in the south, causing the bravest of the brave. delays in the normal train ser- vices: Air France services have been cancelled due to lack of landing flelds.
Japanese fighter 'planes and trucks occupy Tourane aero-. drome. The majority of Japan-' esa air strength is believed to be concentrated for the moment.
two
at Nhatrang Estimates vary between 250 'planes and squadrons of 'fightera and one aquadron" of bombers.tk Japanese trucks in convoys are
DOG PAL OF
EMPEROR
ROSA, AN OLD BROWN AND
the Strand sent thrity-five mobile canteens, many operated by moving in a steady stream into WHITE MONGREL DOG, women, into the worst-bombed Cambodia, while convoys
areas in answer. to A.R.P. workers.
calls from trucks, anti-aircraft
and
of
HER BATH HOME. NONDAL
The dog was brought to Eng
STOOD BY THE SIDE OF THE field-HOSTESS AT THE EMPRESS guns have also been seen mov-OF ETHIOPIA'S RECEPTION AT "Again and again we returned ing north from Saigon Reuter. to our base with the van, loaded. up with hot tea and set off," said one of the women: "Many times we drove between the tottering walls of burning buildings to reach firemer,
"Our most exciting experience was when a dozen manholes blew up round the van, without doing any damage.
SEEDS FOR OUR
PRISONERS –
The Royal Horticultural Society is forming a committed to collect vegetable and flower seeds from members of the Society for British prisoners of war. Prisoners have asked for seeds, and they may be sent in Red Cross envelopes,
BEGGAR EARNED MORE THAN M.P.
Finland, by the...
the Emperor Halla
Selassio. She was with); him; all the time he was fighting the Italians, and was blinded In one eye by poison gas, Only once, when the Mayor of Bath, Mr. BEGGING IN THE STREET Buth, Mr. Aubrey
proposed the NOT FAR FROM THE MINIS-Aubrey, Bateman,
who. the health of the Empero TRY OF PENSIONS WAS A MAN CLAIMING TO BE A has regained his kingdom, did NEEDY WAR PENSIONER Rosa rise to her feet and look in- One of the Ministry's doctors, quiringly at the sixty guests as seeing the man shivering in the they clinked their glasses. cold sent him a good overcoat, The man refused it, saying that-It would: “spoll. his business."""* It turned out that he was making of bigger income than a member of Parliament and lived comfortably. Crashing into a Grimsby trawler The Minister of Pensions told in the darkness, sair enemy plane this story. In the Commons, asking was so badly damaged that it is M.Pr.not to accept pensions #hard, believed It could not reach s
base. 'cases" un "genuine without
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