1939-09-11 — Page 19

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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CHUNGKING, Sept. 10 (UP).-

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Japan Multiplies CONGRESS War Risk Rates

TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Domel)- Chinese reports state that Chinese Japanese marine insurance com- querlilas attacked and

risk completely pontes have raised their war destroyed the Minfeng paper mill at rates for the third time since, the end Kinshing on August 22.

of August.

The mill is and to be valued at i

Goods shipped to Mediterraneati seven million yunn and was owned ports or other ports via the Mediter- Jointly by the Japanese and Nanking (ranean Sea will be charged Y8 per **puppets".

TO MEET Amending The Neutrality Act

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call a special session of Congress late this week, to rovise the Neutrality.

It is predicted that Congress will probably be called to convene on! October 2.

Chinese military authorities are temporarily holding Jack Bel- The reports said only 20 Japanese den, American newspaperman lanes escaped destruction.

forinerly of "United Press," and also W.L. ("Buzz") Farmer, an Aus.

tralian newsman.

Large amounts of Japanese munitions and supplies lost.

were

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The two are being held in custody at Klan, the provisionat capital of Kiangsi province.

It is reported that neither poN= | them to visit the war areas. sessed military passports entitling|

Mr. Farmer, who was in Hongkong recently, was formerly attached to Mexico and the Chungking Government's Pro-

paganda Department,

It was explained that the delay this)

The Consul General for Panama far is due to the fear that the de- hard Isolationists in the Senate with and Mrs. J. Rivera Reyes left Ilong take advantage of the title for Pierce for Japan. They will take the kong yesterday by the President Jimited debate and Alibuster against the repeal of the present mandatory President Collidge in Yokohama for

San Francisco, and thence will pro-j Lembargo rules.

Administration officials are report- ceed to Panama, via have considered all possible) Central America. plaus for preventing a protracted] Bubuster or even nlimited delay. There is a possibility of the invoca- tion of a "tag" which has been invoked only two or three times in the history of Congress.

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German Exile Blames Nazis

"People Do Not Want This War"

NICE, Sept. 10 (Reuter).— Heinrich Mann, the German novelist, whose books were banned some years ago by the Nazis, and who is an exile from Germany, stated in an interview to-day:

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"I am certain the German people. do not want this war. They been dragged into it by Hitler.

"By freeing themselves they will jolu those countries who want prace. Ever since Hitler came into power he has been preparing for war."

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dent on a woman in the house. It's lazines, mostly.

Michael found himself in a niec pickle a month ago when both the maid and I were down with flu, and he hud to get his own meals and see to things a, bit. He was willing enough, he did want to have things nice so that I shouldn't worry, and he looked after me like an angel.

But I didn't care for anything he cooked, I must say. Even the "nice cups of tea" he brought me; half the time he must have made them when the water wasn't boiling.

If the Army teaches him to have sense about these ordinary things, it |will have done his wife a good turn

when she comes along,

I heard my neighbour this morning talking over his Conscripton Bill, und didn't she was all against it. "T bring up my boy to be a soldier, ond be torn to hits by high explosive," she was saying.

Well, neither

did I bring up Michael for that sort of thing. But I didn't bring him up, either, to have scarlet fever, which he got at 14, or for his appendix nearly to kill him, which happened last year,

These are the bits of luck, or fate, call it what you like, that sit in the road and wait for you.

So this business of compulsory service-well, if he'd been 'born 10 years earlier it wouldn't have come, This way. But he happened to

be born in 1920. So there you are,

A GOOD MIXER DON'T know what effect it's all supposed to have on the dictatora. If it keeps them a bit: quieter by showing them we're in earnest about defending our country, all right. That's for the politicians

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