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A LITTLE

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A

JOE PASTERNAK

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ANNE SHIRLEY in

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A CHINESE DRAMA IN MANDARIN

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1941.

IF SPARKS FLY, THE TINDERBOX IS LIKELY

TO BE FOUND SOUTH

(By Reuter's Correspondent At Hsinking)

It cannot be said that there is any out..... standing change in Russo-Japanese relations, as least as far as they can be seen from the confines of Manchuria.

In Hsinking, official utterances invariably re-echo Tokyo's sentiments, but the tension which followed Mr. Matsuoka's departure from the Cabinet a few weeks ago is now noticeably lessened.

from

Rumours emanating Shanghai that new Russo-Japan- ese negotiations are taking place are emphatically denied by high Foreign Office officials interview- ed here in Hsinking.

Other members of the Govern- ment. similarly interviewed, all emphasised that any precaution- ary activity which may be appar- ent in Manchuria was of a pure- ly defensive nature.

NORWEGIAN

SECOND EAGLE SQUADRON FORMED

The second all- American Eagle squa- dron has been formed in the Royal Air Force, states the Air Minis- try News service, and has already had its first encounter with

re-

the enemy. As a HOSPITAL

HEROINES

Prince Olaf yesterday

The Russo-German fighting is visited a hospital opened

sult of this the squa- dron claims one Junk- ers 88 as "probably destroyed."--Reuter.

arousing the greatest interest and by the Norwegian Govern- PRISONERS

each phase of the battle is closely ment about a year ago.

followed in the Press which

on

splashes the front pages all available details.

Foreign Problems

OF WAR

Staffed by Norwegian doctors | and nurses, the hospital contains forty-ave beds of which 41 are

The Red Cross and St. John occupied.

Most of the patients are from War Organisation announces that

from Jatest the Norwegian merchant

figures at their dis- cularly the English and American, but there are some men who were bosal it would appear that about

The foreign communities, parti-

whose unenviable position cannot be denied are watching events closely. In these circles, how- ever, it is fel in Hainking that if sparks must fly, then it will be in the south rather than the north that the tinderbox will be found.

navy,

wounded in the Lofoten ́raid.

All the nine nurses on the staff Norway since the German occu- have made their escape frim

pation. Two of them had expe- cially exciting adventures as the fishing boat in which they sailed had put back into port for re- pairs.

а close watch was

war

2,000 British prisoners of taken in Greece have been evacu- ated to German prison camps.

At the end of July, there were Salonika over 9,000 prisoners at and about 2,000 wounded officers and men in hospital in Athens.

There were over 3,000 still to Britons in Manchuria, excluding

be evacuated from Crete but it is the Kwantung Leased Territory, While these were being effected, possible that not all the latter

comprising 220 in Nazis but the boat was able to set!

kept for were British.

The International Red he Mukden Consular district and forth again and arrived at the have

Cross despatched upwards of lasting about thirty hours. One of stocks in Genoa to Shetlands, after a rough passage 24,000, food parcels from reserve Greece, it the doctors escaped to England being understood that a restricted dressed as a Asherman about three raft service is in operation.--Bri-

British Wireless. tish Wireless. months ago. —

number 300,

70 in the Harbin district. The

majority of them are missionaries.

There are about a quarter of this number of Americans,

For obvious reasons, Manchu- kuo's precautionary measures can- not be described, but it is per- mitted to state 'hat they include travelling restrictions and also occasional air raid practices an

various cities.

As regards the freezing of the assets of various countries. Man- chukuo has followed Japan step by step. In this connec'ion, the restrictions are said to have been] eased recently and certain Man-j chukuo firms with bart Anglo- American capital. have been allowed to resume operations. Reuter.

BROKERS BUY A BATTLESHIP

CHINA CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

SEES DR. DALTON

DR. HUGH DALTON, Minister of Economic Warfare, yesterday received a deputation from the China Campaign Committee, which urged the im- position of a watertight economic embargo on Japan in view of dangerous holes in the measures recently announced, adoption of a stronger policy and extension of aid to China.

Regarding the economic embar- |ther shipments were contemplat- go against Japan, Dr. Da.ton re-ed. Japan had always depended ferred in his reply to Mr. Eden's principally on the United States, recent statements in Parliament. and ta lesser extent on the Nether- pointing out that the parallel lands East Indies.

"

action taken provided the mechan- Oil production in the Nether- iam whereby a complete economie tands East Indles, Dr. Dalton said, and financial embargo could he was in the hands of two compan- imposed.

ies, namely, the Standard Vacuum

Eight million pounds pitted that in the last few Shell group in which there was u As to oil supplies to Japan, Dr. (American) and the Royal Dutch have been raised to pro-years, oil from territories under substantial British minority inter vide a British battleship British control or from British- est but in which the British Gov- con rolled companies represented ernment held no shares."-"All üvin- by the Stock Exchange only about three per cent of the tion soirit from the Netherlands Savings Group in London, total amount of oll imported by East Indies was earmarked for various countries within the

zitish. Empire - Central News.

An announcement to this effect was made yesterday and added that the whole sum was raised since July 1 th year.

Now the Group aims to raise by the end of September, sufficient money to pay for an aircraft ear- rier, a cruiser, a large destroyer, a submarine, a Corvette, a motor- torpedo boat, an anti-submarine bout,in bomber and "a" medium: tank-Reuter.

NO RAIDS ON BRITAIN

"Nothing to report, was the telse communique Issued. Inst evening in London by the Minis- try of Home Securly

Japen.

Dr. Dalton asserted that no furnit

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