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SHANGHAI SPOTLIGHT

AGREEMENT

Restoration Of Normal

Conditions

ON

GERMANY

MIND THE SALT

The Intest addition to the number of things which are verboten in Ger-

of sult on

SHANGHAI, Feb. 29 (Reu- ter). Out of the blue, the miny is the strewing "Domel" news agency announced snowy pavementa to hasten the this evening that the Japancac thuw. The reason for this B that Consul General, Mr. Miura, and the salt is suppored to bave a corro. the Chairman of the Shanghai sive effect on shoe leather, and Municipal Council, Mr. Cornell nothing must be meglected to pre- Franklin, will sign an agreement (vent waste in war-time.

A house-to-house collection ha at 4 p.m. to-morrow,

How been ordered packing. Gerinang can

for bits of old no longer inart jule, and there is a serious shortage of It. Up-holsterers and saddlers are using paper tissue in- sent, as they did in the last War,

This agreement will provide for the restoration of normal conditions in the Settlement areas to the nor of Soochow Creek, namely, Hongkew and Yangtzepon, which have been under Japanese military occupation

ince 1037.

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

SITUATION EASIER

Britain And Norway Ovor Altmark Case

LONDON, Feb. 29 (leuter). --- "Realer":" diplomatic correspon- deni tcorns that in well-informed | quarters in Londen, the, diplomatic issues between Britain and Nor way over the case of the Allmark are considered to have lost their acuteness

Britain is considering its reply to the Inst Norwegion note, bul” there is only one point at issue, namely, in-¦ terpretation of the clause in the Hague Convention providing for the warships through territorial walle "innocent passage of belligerent ¦

Norway regards the Alimork as a warship which was free to trave through territorial waters, while the The announcement took Shanghai

Britisk maintain that the fact that she According to reports received la completely by surprise and groused Copenhagen, a poor German swindler WDS transporting prisoners marin speculation how fur-reaching the who, like Baron Munchausen, told

her

through passage

territorial agreement k-whether it means re-funtastle storles about his heruje wafers an act of war and therefore assamoption of full control by the reds in the war, has been beheaded, inadin'ssible. Further, the Britis Municipal Police and withdrawal of When the German campaign in Po-maintain that the Alimark shoul!! Japanese centries, or only fuller disland ended he was at Danzig, where have been refused admission to ter- triel control.

the excellent Iden came to him to ritoriul waters or the prisoners pose as a German fugitive. He went should have been released. from beerhouse to beerlulise relating This marvellous ventures, HR

audiences

readily have him money, but the authorities herd of it and he was sentenced to death by a special court in Konijsberit as" un enciny of the people.

Italian Marines Rout Strikers

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" * SHANGHAI, Feb. 29 (UP)-For the second successive day Hallun Drivers of buses and traments who Marines have routed the 'bus strikers work in the black-out in Berlin are by using tear gas bombs to disperse to be given two weeks' holiday in several hundreds of the 1,200 bus luces in the Baltic and Mecklenburg company strikers from.the Company's Porest areas, with all expenses paidl grounds.

says the British

Shortage

the

No Reason To Doubt There is no reason to doubt good faith of the Norwegian Govern

ment when it declared that it was; unaware of the presence of prisoners.

The Norwegian FUEEestion of arbliration raises difficulties which scem not easy to warmount.

WORKERS STRIKE IN DUBLIN

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March 1, 1940.

Bushmiller

DEAR JANIE--

WISH YOU

WERE HERE!

MOST OF WORLD IS AT WAR

ATLANTI

INHERY

BEVAN

You will her Tione map how large. a part of the world is engaged in war. AB but two of the Great Powers-the USA, and Italy bring the exceptions-are fighting in one or other of the threr wars which are in progress,

Take our war first. On one side are the mighty Empires of France and Britain. The British Empire covers · quarter of the world's land surface, Its area being about 14 million square miles. Its population num- bers more than 600 million-which is a quarter of the Inlabitants of the world. France's Empire has 107 million people in its 4,330,000 square

On the other side is Greater Germany which occupies a greater con- tinuous land area than any state in Europe except Russia. Including Wes- tern Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Stale, and Austria, the Germany of to-day covers 321,575 square miles and has a population of more than 104 milions. But Poles and Czechs aro anil-Itler and the Slovaks cannot be relied on by the Nazis. Many of these Slavs are fighting to-day on our side.

United Press).

DUBLIN,

Mar. 1 (Reuter) Thirteen strikers have been sent to About 2.400 drivers will come under Municipal services were at a stand-miles. hospital as a result of the tear gas. the plan. They will take their helsti lust night as the result of a

The Italian Marines were employed days in rotation.

strike by municipal workers for in- because the British-owned bus com--

creased wages owing to the increased pany is located in the Italian Defence Sector.

of goods for sale in prices of commodities.

A number of streets are without When the Italians dispersed the Germany is causing anxiety there. General Edison Company strikers, it occording to reports reaching; Zurich light and only one section of the fire has been disclosed they aided several (says Reuter). The Danziger Vor-brigade is on duty. Americans who were locked in the posten, under the heading "Shops in war production has other tasks

Sold

What Next?" says: Out: premises,

the beginning of Christmas week allan In pence. Tradesinen cannot *All their shelves and the constaner stores and shops. in bit German cities were cleared of goods..

In pre-

must artapt himself."- vious

years every tradestnan would have been exceptionally pleased, but this year he can only stand before his empty shelven with tears in his eyes and ask himself anxiously,

Where can

get new stock?

First Canadian "Hurricane"

LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuler).The first Hurricane fighter aircraft to be built in Canada arrived in England 10-day.

"AL

What the higher schools of Ger- many really do accomplish is this: they brutally train a vast crowd of young men, in the smallest possibio. unount of time. to become useful

"In many branchen there is no and exploitable servants of the State. satisfactory answer to this question.

-FRIEDRICH Nietzsche (1888).

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Then there Is Stalin's war against Finland. The U.S.S.E. covers a sixth of the world's land surface and has the advantage of being one con- tous area, unlike any other great Empire. Its peoples number more than 180 millions Finland has 3,800,000 people..

Local Resident Practically Cured of

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Last comes the "forgotten" war between China and Japan, the war that has never been dectured, though the present hostilities have been rag- | 60067-Charlie Kunz War Medley ing since July 7, 1937. The Republic 491 of China claims, to rule over milous of people--though this in- cludes Tibet, Mongolia and other areas which are more or less-inde- pendent, as well as districts overrun by the Japanese. His total area is rather greater than that of the French MARINA HOUSE Empire 4,157,000 square miles.

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LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuler),~The cost of Civil Defence is well £100,000,000 declared Sir John Anderson in a special interview with "Reuter'n" correspondent to-day.

The Civil Deferice Forces nuinber *1,250.000 men of all ages and elassen. Only one in alx, he said, receives any raward for services,

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