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MATTER OF DAYS NOT WEEKS Russian Battlefront Decision

Factor Of Human STRANGE

Bid To Stabilise Dollar

Mr. Wang Shih chich, Minister in

Publicity

Chungking, in a press conference yesterday,

stated that the Govern- ment was determined to stabilise the Chinese dol- lar in the Shanghai market.

the opinion that

He expressed to stabilise Chinese currency, the Stabilisation Board will be able to carry out the Government's deci- sions, and added that the neces- sary funds for that purpose had already been handed over to the Board.

. Referring to the freezing by Bri- tain and the United States, Mr. Wang revealed that four of the banks had Chinese Government received licences from Britain and the United States to supply for- eign exchange in Chinese form to merchants handling legitimate trade.-Reuter.

Negotiations In Progress Government is negotiating with the British and United States au- thorities, designating the Central Bank of China to handle oversea Chinese remittances and to pre-

falling into vent them from

the hands of the Japanese and Chinese "puppets."

Government has decided to

enlarge

the Foreign Exchango

ed to handle all issues connect- ed with the freezing.

Decisions of the Committee will

the Central

IMPORTANT MOVES IN TOKYO EXPECTED

The British Ambas- sador to Japan, Sir Robert Craigie, called at the Foreign Office in Tokyo yesterday afternoon.

With both Sir Robert Craigie and the American Ambas- sador, Mr. Grew, in Tokyo, important de- velopments are pected very shortly.- Reuter.

ex-

U.S. NEAR

TO BREAK

WITH VICHY

Committee under the Ministry American relations with for Finance which is empower- Vichy are rapidly ap- proaching a climax and a break in the very near future would be hardly surprising, according to well-informed circles in Washington.

be executed through Bank of China.

Thai's Position

After denying the report

that

20,000 Chinese troops have been

NEW

Endurance 'PLANE

THE LATEST RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE SUGGESTS THAT THE GERMANS ARE STILL |PRESSING VERY STRONG ALL ALONG THE | RUSSIAN FRONT, ESPECIALLY AT SOLTSI, | SOUTH-WEST OF LENINGRAD, AND IN SOUTH UKRAINE, SAYS “ANNALIST,” IN A COMMENT ON THE MILITARY SITUATION ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.

German troops, which have encountered almost inflexible resistance at Korosten and Byelaya-Tsherkov, are spreading further south in the hope of finding a weak spot and with a view to threatening Odessa.

They do not seem to be get- ting too much support from the Rumanians who

are

extreme right wing closer to Odessa.

on and

their much

The dents in the Russian line may be part of Marshal Budenny's elastic defence. But the Ger- mans have avoided making any specific claim of territorial con- quest and confine themselves to

claim the usual indefinite

that "pursuit of the retreating foe is making rapid progress every- where."

Hitler's Strategy

'AMBASSADOR'

TO SAIGON

JAPAN IS TO SEND A SPE ̈· CIAL ENVOY WITH THE FULL

·AMBASSADOR RANK OF AN

The famous

aviator,

James Mollison, now em- ployed in the Air Trans- port. Auxiliary, has just returned to England after

a

remarkable "flight to French Equatorial Àfrica.

He had ferried a “Cunliffe Owen

Flying Wing," a new unorthodox type of Civil aircraft to the Free French forces in Chad.

to

This aircraft is designed carry freight and passengers in the centre section of the wings |instead of in the fuselage.

age in the normal sense of the word: the tail controls are con-

The "Flying Wing" has no fuse-.

[nected to the centre wing_by:two

booms.

The great feature of this struc ture is that it enables a greater load be carried' with less engine |power than in other aircraft. It |is fully expected that after the

war this new design of aircraft. will have a revolutionising effect on civil aviation.-British Wire- less."

A.R.P. IN SAIGON

in

The Municipal Authorities TO INDO-CHINA "IN ORDER Saigon are taking steps to repair

THE and extend the present air rald',

TO STRENGTHEN FRIENDLY TIES BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES,"

IT shelter facilities-Reuter, WAS LEARNED IN TOKYO

"Hitler has never concealed | YESTERDAY, ' the fact that the secret of his The Vichy Government has ac- with the spirit of the joint de- strategy is attack and

again cepted this Japanese proposal fence of Indo-China as concluded attack, never leaving the enemy which in the words of a Hanoi between Japan and France.” any respite on time to recover official statement "is in keeping Reuter.

their second wind, but pressing over onward regardless of losa until success is achieved. This policy has been pursued

variation without

iri Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete.

It is a variation of Napoleon's famous "de l'audace et toujours de l'audace.”

It failed, however, in the Battle sent to the Shan States (Burma),・ The relations between the two of Britain which began just one the Minister declared that Thai- governments have been hanging 'year ago and continued without land's attitude appeared. to nave by little more than a thread for let or pause for six weeks when firmed, probably as a result of some time and have probably at last the Luftwaffe, gave up the statements by the British For been maintained by Washington the struggle after trying its utmost eign Secretary and the United chiefly to provide the administra- to breaks down British resistance. States Secretary of State, but he tion with an important European In Russia, it is coming up believed that the situation was listening-post and also in the hope against the same indomitable still uncertain unless Britain and that American influence would to

spirit. the United States give more ade- some extent offset German pres- quate support to Thailand than sure on Vichy. Sa economic measures If they hope to check Japanese aggression and strengthen resistance on the part. of Thailand.

der However, Information Indicat-

1

How Long?

- Ing: Increasing subservience of

After seven; weeks of fighting, Vichy to Berlin continues to continuous relentless German hand the latest report being pressure has forced back the Rus- that the French have agreed to stan defence line along the whole send French troops In Indo- of the 2,000 mile front, but no- China to the borders of the where can the Germans claim a Yunnan and Kwangel provinces major victory and nowhere has to protect the Japanese flank in northern Indo-China àgainst the Chinese.

Strong Feelings

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The French actions scarcely

The Young Marsha! Questioned concerning Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang... popularly known as the "Young Marshal," Mr. Wang Shih-chich, said that though his sentence was commut ed, the court-martial ordered the Marshal to be placed under strict surveillance of the National Mill It is reported in Washington argue Vichy leanings towards the tary Council for five years, adding that this is being done by Vichy Democratio cause. that the Marshal had been already at German insistence. Additional Moreover, the supine way under surveillance for more than indications of an approaching which the French have handed "four years, o

diplomatic break are the strong Indo-China to the Japanese as a Replying to another question, feelings among some high and gift has evoked considerable dis- Mr. Wang stated that no major influential officials in Washington gust in Washington, especially clashes between the Communist that the only realistic atti-after the French insistence that and Central troops had been re- tude in the Nazi threatened honour in Syria could only ported in the past fortnight. Reu-world is that "those who are saved by fighting the British

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