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TO BUY EGYPT'S COTTON

British Government Appoints Commission

·LONDON, Aug. 7 (Reuter). The establishment of a commia sion with powers to purchase Egypt's cotton crop was an- nounced by Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in the House of Com- mona to-day.

Mr. Butler declared that anxiety had been growing for some time in Eypt regarding the disposal of the 1940 cotton crop, the picking of which was about to begin.

Avoiding Economic Disaster Owing to the great reduction of conditions the demand due to war and difficulties of export, donger was imuninent that the bulk would be left unsold in the hands of the cultivators, which would be an economic disaster of the first magnitude,

STRENGTHENING SINEWS OF WAR

FROM PAGE ONE

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

865 JAPANESE

IN ENGLAND

LONDON, Aug. ? (Reuter).-The number of Japanese registered with the Police In England is 865, of whom 702 are maler, stated Capt. O. Peake, Under-Secretary of the Home Omce, in a written reply to Lieut. Col. Sir T Moore (Conservative) In the House of Commons to-day.

communication, etc., for A con- Ile will need to siderable time. draw, more and more on his re- serves and the more vigorously he

Lite prosecutes

war the more rapidly his stores will disappear. "He will and it increasingly dimeultordinate our requirements with those and our to replace the losses. Measures have of India, the Dominions been taken to ensure that Hitler allies, who must look lo us for sup

sustenance from plies. shall not draw foreign sources. Not only Germany

The United States, and! but the controlled territories will be unable to carry on trade on ony scule with the outside

Extensive B World..

to

Bclze

ú

"The blockade operates over

which must become a wide aren more and more impoverished as its trude arteries are cut. Hitler will continue

all food and materials he can from the over-run territory, but once he has despolled his victims, his supplies will either cease or become less plentiful.

"Hitler boasts that he parsesses Iron unlimited quantities of Iron.

Absorption Of Alsace

Hitler Appoints An

Administration

August 8, 1940.

Destry Of America

Might Peacefully Inherit British Territories

LONDON, Aug. 7 (Reuter).~~~】n-

Mexico City, Aug. 7. dications of Hitler's plans with re-

M. Leon Trotsky, interviewed to- ! gard to the absorption of Alance- Jay, expressed the opinion that the Lorraine and Luxembourg into the United States might well become the of Canada, Reich are contained in two decrees legitimate inheritor"

the Australia, New Zealand, and part of entire administration

of Alsace-Latß-Amerles without firing a shot, issued by him to-day whereby Canada Lorraine and Luxembourg will, in but warned the United States that have been our two most important future, be no longer independent on the faces an inevitable was later on

be with Germany and Japan, conducted by elvil udministrative He received the Press at the Villa potential providers of war material" the Army authorities, but will

Safeguarding Consumption

chilets acting

Immediately under Coyoacan, which has been transform- Continuing, Mr. Greenwood saidler.

ed into a fortress since the recent Robert Wagner assault Joseph was necessary for efficient conduct of

Bucrekel, the war that the consumption of the and Gistoy Simon are appointed He said the United States would people should be safeguarded and un-Gauleiters for Lorraine, Alsace and emerge the most imperialistic nation. necessary hardship avoided.

In world history as a result of the Luxembourg respectively.

resent war, which was prompting Baldur von Schiracli, Youth lender, becomes, Gouletter of the United States to unprecedented Vienna in place of Buerckel,

"The rise in the cost of living is less than the rise in prices generally. Our object is that prices of neces sitles should be kept down and we spending considerable surns to do that.

he possesses in great quantities and essential commodities wi ba con-1

On representations by the Egyptian to the British Government, the latter Accordingly decided to respond by reting up a commission to purchase Lofton. Un

the commission

this

be

has no need to fear a But ls shortage of aluminium. coal situation

is different and his supplies henceforth will be seriously short. He may alt upon mountains of iron ore but as he has not the coal whereby it can be sinelled, it will not

11 be of first class miltury value,

in lo the

"In a normal year this country Egyptian Government was being ask-exports some 30,000,000 tonn of coal ed to nominate a representative. to the continent of Europe. None of

This commission would be prepared that henceforth will fall before April 30, 1941, to purchase all hands of Germany. lint and cotton derived from the 1940 Egyptian crap or as much as was offered to them and all mercantile cotton seed us distinet from sowing ferd.

Britain To Bear Cost The British Government would hear the whole or any nett loss which

matht arise from the transaction 39 whole, but they would share equally with the Egyptian Governmeri auy nett profits which might aperte, the understanding that such profits as may be returned to the Egyptian Gaverament under this arrangement would be used by that Government for the relief of cultivators in manner to be agreed on between the two government.

Asked if the Egyptian Govern- ment, as an ally, was co-operating to

"As regards oll, of 20,000,000 tons normally consumed throughout It- Jer's territories per annum, he can hope to produce or procure iut more than one hall.

Strain Will Be Great "These are mere pointers to, the situation in which Hitler finds him- self economically. If and when the pinch comes as it will sooner or later in 100 different directions, it is more than doubtful whether the sub- dued people of Germany and other lands will or will not be able to stand the strain. Yet we must not for a zingle moment under-estimate the power arrayed against us.

"The Cerman mind and strength have been devoted

to One single purpose-preparation for the strong- est and most terrible fighting force

the fullest extent in this matter. Mr the world has ever seen, Butler replied amid cheers We take that for granted."

Honour For Indian Poet

"The German economic system

has been for some years on a wor footing. We must remember that we have not yet felt the full brunt of Hitler's blow.

"We have proved that we are cap- ablo of becoming as efficient for war purposes as the dictator, but we are alill in the process of the change-over

war 'from peace to

Te economy.

of Our SANTINIKETAN, Bengal, Aug 7 have got to make the best (Reuter)-Sir Rabindranath Tagore, resources which must be directed to the 80-year-old Indian poet, received the national life and effort nreessary the degree of Doctor of Letters for a victorious conduct of the war (Honoris Causa) of Oxford Univer-aid the maintenance of a national sity at a speelul convocation of Oxford spirit. University held here.

"The policy of anchoring prices of

tinued. We believe by these means that we shall ensure the unimpaired health of the nation.

Not Too Rosy

"We have taken steps to increase exports and we will ig every thing we can properly do in that direction. But in the present cir- cumstances, it is clear that the possibiles of increased exports are not too rosy.

1

the Hitler

ornament. A strong England might no work to the best interests of the United States. The, job of making

United States in the hands of Ger- ranyUnited Press.

Wins Bar To England smaller was left by the

His D.E, M.

LONDON, Aug. 7(Reuter)-

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LEAGUE PARTY CRASH

Hits Pillar

Among B.AF, awards announced to- Officials Injured When Bus day is a bar to the Distinguished Flying. Medal to Flight Sergeant William Henry Franklin, formerly laboratory assistant in Eastern Lon- don.

Grenoble, Aug. 7.

A bus carrying 40 ofcials of the Flight Sergeant Franklin has shot Economic and Financial Section of

aircraft and down ten enemy

has the League of Nations crashed into usslated in destroying a further two. cement pillar and ran into a ditch few miles from here today. "It is important that we should use On one occasion he encountered a foreign exchange as far as we can seven fighters. He engaged five of Baroness Van Itterson and Mrs. Chapman Lodynyals were seriously for the purchases of aeroplanes,them and destroyed one.

injured and 20 others less severely munitions etc., abroad, At the same

hurt. Ume, we need to retain a proportion of skilled labour on the production of commodities for export in order that our supplies for foreign exchange may be maintained.

REPATRIATION

OF BRITONS

I

The party was on its way from Geneva to Lisbon to embark for Amerlea United Press,

VATICAN PACT

LONDON, Aug. 7 (Reuters We must limit imports to things Swedish stetuner Jus arrived at essential to the consumption and pro-Scottish port from Tetsuno, Finland, ductive servlees. At the moment our

The with 125 Britons, who had been in WITH PORTUGAL (Reuter).-AC shipping position is not too bad.

LONDON, Aug. 7 capacity has nut been very seriously terned in Sweden after being cut off

Trondheim between

and Narvik

ogrce- impaired, but we are bound to re-

ment has been signed between cofe that our perks and our ship when the British Anny was evacuntcording to Rome-Radio, an

and ping will be among the main objec- | cd,

Portugal whereby They are mostly troops, with a few Vatican tives of the enemy's uttneks.

Churchies in Portugal will in future airmen and scamen.

"It is

is prudent, therefore, that our country make as much as we can of those foodstuffs and materials as can our up be readily stored to bulld stocks against the day when capacity to Import may not yt« great.

Cannot Be Starved Out

VI

can

the

A further 111 are to be repatriated.be legal without the additional civil ceremony hitherto required by the slate.

FRENCH COLONY LAYS DOWN ARMS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CAIRO, Aug. 7 (UP).—It is offulal- ly reported that simistice terms are under discussion regarding the fate of French Somaliland,

No detalls are given.

Russian Fleet Out, Says B.B.C. Report

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH“ LONDON, Aug. 7 (UP)-The "If the enemy hopes he

B.B.C. Hus broadcast 1 report starve us out he is very greatly mistaken, Starvation of the people

emanating from Radio-Moscow, de- of this country Is impossible.

The report adds: "The effect of claring that the Russion Fleet in the In large-scale more emphatic Nothing could be

the collapse of French Somaliland re-Pacific is engaged than that."

sistance is that the French offensive manoeuvring.

Observers recall that Radio-Mos Concluding, Mr. Greenwood de-

cow has made several announcements clared: "Looking utead it might be from Somaliland into Ethiopia is now

defnitely abandoned.", necessary to reduce the rate of intake

Meanwhile, it is officially announced of this nature recently and no signi- in- of commodities which are not lispensable. W must use our ship in Canberra, the Australian capital,cance is attached to this report.

that the Council of New Caledonia borne trade for the national cause passed a resolution on June 24, re Soviet Adds To Her and public good.

affirming their intention of co-operat The Blouse won't expect me to

Vice-Presidents give exact details of the great in-ng with Great Britain. creases in military production during recent week, but I can assure mem- bers that very great strides have been made in speeding up the produc- tion of aiveruft and army equipment. Great strides have been made and greater strides will be made.

STOCK MARKET

We intend To Win This is believed to be the first time

"We intend to win this war. The that a special convocation was held Government do ant intend to allow outside of Oxford.

Sir Maurice Gwyer, the Chiere limit of its prosecution to be Justice of Indlu, represented Oxford anything else than the whole re-

of sources

manpower, industrial University.

Sanskrit, capelly, finance and foreign assets Shr Rabindranath.

achieve the our disposal, To thanked Oxford University for its precious gift to him and his country maximum effort, we must plan ur economic strategy with the view the LOSSES ABOARD of all the geneles echcerned."

best-co-ordination-and-co-operation. There are sharinges-of-verlain |with the recurring decimal, it was quiet. representing the new Karelo-Finnish TWO TRAWLERS

in

Mr. Greenwood then detailed the for "con- new arrangements

made sideration of a

of a number of economic LONDON, Aug. 7 (Reuter-roblens and co-ordination of their rofilelally announced that casualties cennomie effort, saying that each

in the trawler Marson were

one main group of problems was dealt ten with by a' sub-committee composed omeer killed, one officer und ratings missing, presumed kiled, and of members of the War Cabinet and six rulings wounded.

the ministers in charge of the de-

Casunities in the trawler Capartments concerned, Finistere were one Oficer wounded, one rating killed and eight ratings wounded.

The loss of both vessels has already been announced.

THE BIGGEST LAUGH HIT

OF THIS OR ANY SEASON

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Serious Problem

One of the most important Inefors in the effectiveness of their economic warfare was to deal with the serious problem of surplus overseas com- modities such a way as to make them an advantage to British and a disadvantage to the

greatly in-

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange official sum: mary, issued at 12.30 pm, yesterday says: "The morning's scation was synonymous

Buyer

materials

lals etc., and we must reckon on dim

Comeals $14.30 dimculties arising from the bomb- ing of factories, foundries, and ship- yards, and the mining of ports and

sinking of ships.

the

Electries FOM) 30.23

Sellers

Notra

Lands $32

Cements $15

Providente $3.60

lot) £3.10 Trains $18.50

MINE-SWEEPER

IS SUNK

MOSCOW, Aug. 7 (Reuter)-Otto Kuusinen, who headed the govern ment set up by Moscow In the cap- after the tured Finnish territory Soviet Invasion, has been appointed Vice-President of the Soviet Union Federal Republic."

The number ut vice-presidents has been raised by decree from 11 to 16, including spokesmen of the new re- publies, the other four being Modavia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

THE WAR FUND

reached A total of $1,301,214.55 was yesterday by the War Fund Inaugurated

by the S. C. M. Past. Ltd.

Latest subscription:

"But In spite of all this, there is no real cause for dismay. The mons

swollen Germin Reich is trously swo already largely beleaguered. It has only limited external supplies, while we can stretch across the seas where the treasures of the world lie and : bring them to our shores, and we are

LONDON, Aug. 7 (Reuter).--The assured of the active help of free

NAIROBI, Aug. 7 (teuter).-The peoples, and the supplies of the NewAdmiralty announces that the mine- World to reinforce our own efforts." sweeping trawler River Clyde was second metal casualty list of East sunk by an enemy mine. The next Africa Force contains 17 names, all Member's Queries

of-kin of the casualties have been Africans, except two British ser- informed.

geants dead.

The collapse of

Mr. R. Shinwell (Labour) urged crenged the deuities of production an exhaustive survey of the country's osked, and "we will give complete priority economie possibilities, and

assuming the war lasts two or three to those essential weapons of war which will provide maximum resist-years, has the Government estimated ance to the enemy in the shortest the needs In alreraft, guns, munitions, space of time. There is need to keep labour, raw materials and exports? in our minds the possibility of a long

war.

"Priority has not worked as well as it should, but having hatt to make this great spirit for immediate war Purngres we are. now considering further measures to ensure as far as pessible that materials, plants and labour are effectively used to carry out the producilon programme."

Industrial

Capacity

He reculled his statement on July 11 in the House of Commons regard- ing new organisation to deal with purchases in North America through the Canadina and United States channels following dissolution of the Anglo-French organisation.

Was there a definite allocation as between actual war essentials and exports and the civilian needs, he asked.

Mr. Shinwell declared that accord- ing to a reliable estimate Germany has 780,000 men and women training we had 28,000 for industry, while trainees and we envisaged 40,000 be- ing trained this year.

Mr. Shinwell proceeded to talk about unemployment and

under-

Mrs. A. H. de Roza. Macne....

Hungary And Rumania Start Talks

ADJUSTING RELATIONS

IN THE BALKANS

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LONDON, Aug. 7 (Reuter).—According to a Budapest despatch to the official German news agency, M. Bossy, the Rumanian Ambassador in Rome, has been sent to Hungary as special envoy to begin preliminary talks with the Hungarian Government.

It is noteworthy that the Germans Envoy Arrives

Mr. Greenwood then dealt in detail | employment allowing miners to Bossy has arrived and is expected to revisionist enthusiasm, and are sug- in Britain, and suggested BUDAPEST, Aug. 7 (Reuter).-M. here are busy trying to damp down with the industrial capacity, and ore that instead Canisation and sald that provision had remain unemployed the Government have immediate talks with the gesting, for example, that a part or also been made against the destruc- night finance the building up of huge Hungarion

Prime Minister undjeven the whole of Slovakia will be tion of factories from the air with stocks of cool, or divert the miners Foreign Minister,

offered to Hungary as compensation plans for rebuilding and for moving

into the war industries.

Despite the high hopes entertained for the smaliness of the concession to of reserve plants.

He also suggested that in urder to by Hungary after Hiller's talk with be obtained over Transylvania. meet a German attack on shipping, the Rumans at Berchtesgaden, The possibility of open Hungarian- docks and harbours on the west coast many people here have little faith in Rumanian hostilities is not at present discussed in Budapest should be improved and in order to the result of the negotiations which seriously develop a large export trade, man- nre expected to move slowly to an although mobilisation is now almost ufacturers and export companies inconclusive end.

!complete, should finance 11. Individual effort modified or replaced by a full-blood- ed system of cullective production.

Mr. Shinwell added that we could the United not rely too much on States who might be embroiled in a war with Japon. It was better to assume that we must rely on out- selves and to organise accordingly.

The new organisation had been actively at work for some weeks. The United States Government was now engaged in an feort of national rearmament and mobillsing American industry for that purpose.

While, therefore, but a few months ago Britain. was placing orders with American industry to supplement the defletencies in the combined Allied production, they had now the need to embark on a much more extensive programme which must be relationed to the American national defence preparations.

Therefore the House would readily understand the complexity of the queation Involved in the task of the British Purchasing Commission in New York

"At the same time we need both

Not Very Convincing

Sir George Schuster (Nulfonal:: Liberal) said that Mr. Greenwood's account was not very convincing and he urged that the first step should be to establish a central directing nuthority, and that we should alm with the American countries to build up a satisfactory economic regime, for the war period to give the inhabitants of these countries a satisfactory basis of life and to deny to their enemies

in New York and London to co-what they needed."

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