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"Out on patrol on No Man's Lanc. these French soldiers calmly watch the enemy lines behind 'a

barbed-wire fence.

Brenner Pass Parley Was Greatest Diplomatic Squeeze Play Of War

HIS. MAJESTY'S IMPATIENT LOYAL OPPOSITION. IN PARLIA- MENT RECENTLY DEMANDED ACTION, Eloquent Laborite Herbert S. Morrison wanted "more vigor and liveliness" in war and diplo- Chamberlain, who macy than he felt Prime Minis ter turned 1 recently, has been giving,

Neville

Warren

the Treasury, Sir Retired Permanent Secretary to Fisher, was blunter. "We are up against the creed of the" devil," he said. "Your German is, of all foul and dirty fighters, the foulest and "dirtiest, We must give them hell in every sort of way.".

mier George Tatarescu's Gov. released 786 Iron ernment Guard terrorists from jail.

MR WELLES

PRESERVATION OF PEACE Continued from Page 8

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 30th APRIL, 1940, 9.30 3.3.

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

INWARD MAILS

Canton Japan.

Due

FTOM

Shanghai.

30th Apr.

30th Apr.

Shanghai,

30th Apr.

Shanghai.

Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-

vico, San Francisco date, 23rd April,

10th Apr.

30th Apr.

Japan.

Stratts.

30th Apr.

1st

May

shanghai.

Lat

May

Canton

Japan.

1st May

Air Mall by" "Imperial Airways "Direct Service"

London date 24th April

1st May

Air Mail by "Air France Direct Service*

date, 24th April,

Paris

1st May

Shanghai.

lat May

Sandakan.....

2nd May

USA., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai

Francisco date, ilth, April).

(San

2nd May

Shanghai.

2nd May

2nd May

El May

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Shanghai,

Zil Moy

4th May

4th

May

5th May

5th May

6th May

8th May

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9th. May

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11th May

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of the other countries. Nor did any of them take upon itself the responsibility of offering advice to Finland in regard to the nego- tiations with Russia. The de- cision lay entirely with Finland.

Europe via Suez and Strafts (London date. 10th

March

Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"

V London date. 27th Aprij

Shanglia).

U. S A., & Manila (San Francisco date, 13th April Shanghai and Amoy Shanghai.

Haiphong Haiphong

Java and Manila, Straits and Manlia Japan. Manila Shanghai.

Canada, USA, Japan and Shanghai

B, C., date 20th April), Calcutta and Straits

Japan and Shanghai. Straits and Europe via Suez-(London date, 5th

April). Java and Manila,

OUTWARD MAILS

NEUTRAL POLICY It has been natural for Norway to take her stand"upon the Hague Convention of 1907, and this is what the Government has done. This applies to the question of che internment of soldiers from As rebellious criticism mounted,

belligerent countries. It also political dupesters even mentioned

applies to Mr.

the David Lloyd

the question George,

of the voluntary participation of ind:- "Welsh Wizard" who won the last

war and the war for Great Britain, as a pos-

Mr. Sumner Welles, official U.S.vidual citizens in

and War ma- sible last-ditch Cabinet appointee.roving fact-finder, arrived back in export of goods And from France came censored Rome after a

trip to Berlin, terials. dispatches predicting 5000 the London Without delay. he

Our own penal law prohibits formation of a "sacred union. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo recruitment for foreign military "Government of all partles.

Ciano for 70. minutes, King Vit-service and the Hague Conven- torio Emanuele for 45, I Duce for tion contains a provision prohibit- 5+ far, in Austria, Czecho- 75. Mr Welles held his tongue, ing the establishment of recruit- Slovakia. Poland, and now in but postponed his sailing back to ing offices. The offices opened in

this country have undertaken Finland, Adolf Hitler had man- the US. for a day.

abstain from offering help and advice" except to those who have already made up their minds that Shanghal they want to go to Finland., The Dairen. Government has nothing what-Batavia and Sourabaya ever to do with any such activity. Haiphong

The Government has with

DEVILISH CUNNING.

SAW

aged with devilish cunning to US Secretary of State Hull give his western opponents no denied in Washington that Mr. place to lay a hand on him. Their Welles had acted as an inter- chosen strategy for the past six medtary in Europe's quarrels. months had perforce been teña- city-hang on if unable to smoke him out, starve him out

ų

* SQUEEZE PLAY Intermediary or not, Mr. Welles suddenly found himself a specta-

to

Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where maila are advertised to close at or before 9 am. registered and parcel mails are closed at 3 pm. on the previous day. When mails are advertised to close after 5 p.m.. Registered and Parcel mails are closed at 5 pm

a

Straits.

Rad the time now come for tor at what could well be the firm and steady hand pursued a audacity? Such was the question greatest diplomatic squeeze play policy of neutrality and there was ing mood, gloomy yet determined. of the war. From a Rome, plate cause for satisfaction in the fact uneasy though deflant, that was form, I Duce, wearing a dark that the three Northern coun rapidly developing in the Allied civilian sutt and carrying a heavy tries collaborated in this matter countries. And just at that point black coat, jumped into a special as well as in regard to other ques- Adolf Hider, that gifted diplo-train and headed north. At about tions arising out of the present matic poker player with a hand the

The time in Berlin, the situation.

Foreign Minister full of jokers, raised his op Fuehrer caught southbound finally expressed his conviction ponents' hair by producing an-

special express. Nobody but the that the Norwegian people stood other one.

diplomats involved-and Mr. Wel-Arm and united behind the Go7- les--had received the slightest ernmen; and the policy of neu- notice of the rendezvous. ;;"

trality which they pursued. At 9.30 am.. Il Duce's trim

same

· LEARNED INSULT

time "It all started about the that the Nazi Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop. re- train pulled in at the little moun- turned to Germany early last tain village of Brennero, in the week after an apparently cool re-famed Brenner Pass, just over the ception in Romae. Conclusion was reached that the Axis was bend- Ing. Y'ascist Glovanni Ansaldo wrote an editorial for Leghorn's Telegrafo which tained a studied, learned insult.

Even

German" border. in Italy. Forty minutes later the Fuehrer's Forlty arrived in a driving snow storm.

·Steel-helmeted

BOWLING ALLEYS

COMPETITION

In the first round of the Singles Handicap Competition, played at Alpine troups the Hongkong Bowing. Alley's last con-carrying bayoneled rifles stood evening, J. H. Watts (plus 20) de- guard while Benito Mussolini and tested J. K. Potts (plus 50) by 493 Count Clano escorted Herr Hitlerping to 425.

**To Eim '(Ribbentrop) who. while we write, is mounting the

Alps

close which Lamagna above Tiralli, We send our respectful salute," wrote Signor Ansaldo. The quotation is from Dante's Divino Comedy and... educated Italian needs to be told, it is often used to ex- press the Italian command to the Germanic hordes to stay beyond the Alps.

no

GOOD OFFICES. the Italian Chamber of Fascists and Corporations announ- cement was made that a nie new set of forts protected Italy's Alpine border, but scarcely was the Foreign Minister back in Berlin before Nazi officials begau to taunt newsmen with hints of impending "big doinga")

and von Ribbentrop from their Another match played at the train to Il Duce's saloon car. A Alleys last evening resulted in red carpet, flanked by specially u. s. S. Mindanao losing to U. 8. 8. provided potted palms pointed Barker by 102 ping in a 6-game

Ten Pin game.

the way.

one-

The shades of the car were drawn and Europe's two domineering. dictators, time partners in aggression, who swore less than a year ago a rigid "pact of iron" to stand together in war as well as peace, sat down to talk for two hours and twelve minutes. Then, after a cordial good-bye -Mussolini smiling, Hitler pale-they hurrled back to their capitals. **

WHAT WAS DECIDED?

作

TUESDAY

Straits (Parcels only).

For

Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct

due London, 8th May.

Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Australia by "Im

perial Airways Direct Service" das Sydney 6th May.

Date and Time

Tues. 30th

10.30AM 10.30 AM-

..10.30 AM

2.00 FM

2.30 FM

6.00 PM

K.P.O.

Reg.

5.00 2

Ord

8.30

G.P.O.

Service Reg. 3.00

Ord. -7.00 Fi

K.P.O.

Reg. 5.00 PM

Ord. 6.30 PM

G.P.O.

Reg. 5.00 PM Ord.

.7.0' FX

K.P.O.

Keg.. Ord.

.5.00 PM

5.30 PM

Air Mail for¡ Manilla, Gram, Honolulu ^and USA., Q.P.O.

by the "Pan American Airways Direct Service"~.] Beg, 5.00 PM due San Francisco, 7th May,

Ord.

7.00 M

E.P.O.

Reg.

5.00 PM

Ord.

5.30 FM

G.P.O.

Manila, Australia and New Zealand Vla Thursday Reg. 6.00 PM

Island-due Thursday Island, 13th May.

Ord.

Japan.

....

WEDNESDAY

7.00 PK 7.00 PM

Wed. May, 1st

Salgon,

10.00 AM

Straits. Ceylon, India, Mombasa, Baira, Lourenco-

Marques, East and South Africa....

10.30 AM

19.30 P

Amoy. Shanghai, Shanghai.

12.30 PM

9.30 PM

K.P.O.

Bag

8,00 PM

6.30 PM

6.00 PM

Ord.

Thu, 2nd

7:00 PM

Canton Manila

Straits and London vis Long-Sea-Route due

don, 11th June.

7.15 AM 8.30 AM!! O.P.O. & EP.O. Far. 1st 5.00 PM Lon-Reg. 2nd 945 a

acceptable or any that the US. Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Mauritius, Reunion, Ma-

dagascar, Lourenco-Marques and South Africa 'people would be willing to un- derwrite. As Mr. Welles prepared į Manila to all for home, Rome reported Amoy. that he carried a Hitler eleven- point peace proposal.

320 PX

7.00 rx

7,00 PM

FRIDAY

Fri. 3rd G.P,O. & K.P.O

Parcela

Noon 1.45 PM 2.3) PM.

D. 8. 3. Mindanao-J. C. Thomas 728. D. M. Keplinger 722, 8. Golden 666 and E. F. Merrill 653. Total. 2.767.

4| ",

U. 8. S. Barker-P. R. Smith 828, G. Pazik 731, F. F. Bonk 677. and H G. Havens 633. Total. 2,869.

Kowloon Cricket Club beat the Jewish Recreation Club by seven games to two in an inter-club bad- minton match played at the K.C.C

"What did they say or decide?" last night.

was the question all Europe want-

ed answered Tight-lipped " Mr.

Airmail for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris Ord.

and Northern Provinces only) by the "Air France Airways Direct Servicese Paris 9th Reg. May......

THURSDAY

A Rumanian Army mission Welles might be the first to know. peace, with Italy and the US, as mysteriously turned up in Berlin, since he was expected to be re- guarantors-if anyone could con-Shanghal and Parcels only for Tientsin. and reports came out that Adolt ceived by Mussolini before he clive of any terms now mutually Swatow Hitler had offered to lend his sailed.*.

"good offices" in përsuading, Rus- sla and Hungary to be nice-not to invade King Carol II's domain. For these good omices, the Fuehrer "hoped" that Rumania would; (1), demobilize half her Army: (2) give the Nazis a monopoly on ofl and grain exports: (3) admit a pro-Nazi Tron Guard into the Rumanian Cabinet to "safeguard German interest."

A

Ord. 2nd 10.30 AM

12.30 PM 1.00 FM

The Germans were exultant.

short-wave radio

fram Berlin reminded hearers, 'that Italy was not neutral but merely "nonbelligerent." "Yol- unteered that the "subject of" the talk was the problems mament; (2) formation of a small, Manila, Rabaul, Australia, and New Zealand vis Reg.

which concern,

situailon."

the

present

The points: (1) general disar-

Independent Poland:" (3) Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians to be An Italian radio gave a clue allied to the Reich: (4) Austria when it admitted that the "meet forever in the Reich; (5), return of ing is related to Sumner Welles' German colonies within 25 years: a Danubian presence in Rome." But Germany (6)formation of. was pointedly reminded that she Federation bossed by Germany would be deceiving herself if she and Italy: (7) guarantee of the thought "she can influence Italy's Balkan status quo; (B) Germany's policy freedom of action.” -|-

remaining Jews to migrate: (9) ma trade barriers; (10) free passage of the Suez beginning In 1945: (11) Tunisial

"Moreover, before the Ru- manian Senate, Youth Leader General Theophilas Bidoro- viet disclosed that Benito Mussolini, would ⠀⠀ guarantee! Romanian frontiera That` Carof way at any rate listen-

ELEVEN: POINTS ing to Herr Hitler's propós- One guess was that the dieta- tions was evident when" Pre- „ tore talked of an Allied-German

Brisbane-que Brisbane, 20th May.

Ord

KO. Parcel 3.00 PM Reg. 5.00 Ord. 6.30 m GPO.

3:00 PM

8.00 PM 7.00PM

Straita, Ceylon, Ind's East and South Africa, Paroela Egypt and Europe via Suer and London Parcels Reg. -due London, 14th June. .....................................................Ord. Printed and Published by Henry Lloyd Murrow, for the Hongkong Daily Press, Ltd. at Marina House, third noor, 15-19. Queen'a Road Central Hongkong, London Office: 53 Fleet Street E.CA.