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U. S. Assurance
NEW YORK. Sept 3. (Reuter),--The United States Defence Commission and pur- chasing agencies of the United States Army and Navy have worked out with manufacturers an arrangement whereby Britain will receive an average of 700 United States fighting planes a month over the next 20 months, reports the Washington corres. pondent of the "New York Sun.” This ITA that wanting the planes already
eungti sellest
ander
the British Government could have a fotal of 14,000 planes by Apin, 1982,
if desired.
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Inipertai Airways' Dardanus charge of Captain M. Brunton and First Officer J. F. Raeburn left Ku Tok at 7.15 aun, to-day with two Chinese passengers for Hunai. The plane carried 189 kilos of malt and 121.2 kilos of freight.
Arrivals & Departures The arrival and departure of planes are as follow:
INWARD
From London, Australia and Bri-
tish countries. Imperial Airways
service arrives on Friday, September
0.
From US.A. vlu Honolulu
Monila.--Pan American
Cupper, due to-day.
and
California
From Chungking-C.N.A.C.
Eurasia Aviation Corporation.
OUTWARD
and
For London, Australia und Bang-
kok.-Imperial Airways leaving on
·September 8.
For U.S.A. via Manila and Ilono- Jutu-California Clipper leaving to- morrow.
For
Chungking-CNA.C. Eurasia Aviation Corporation.
and
Big Fires Destroy Warehouses
SPECIAL TO THE
"TELEGRAPH"
BERLIN, Sept. 3 (UF). The Amsterdam correspondent of thei official German news agency reports that two large fires last night der troyed a ship chandler's warehouse at Ymulden and the entire building of the Netherlands rallway's customs warehouse.
SPARE WHEEL STOLEN
A spare wheel was stolen from a motor cycle combination belonging to Mr. M. N. Preobrajensicy, of the Chinese Maritime Customs, when the vehicle was left parked at the ttycle- park near the Kowloon-Canton Rail- way Station between August 31 and September 2.
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"All members of the Training Cadro with the exception of mem- bors of the Essential Servicos group who have passed their Toat of Elementary Training in rifle will parado on the Square at
September 4, 1940.
Exchange Destroyers The Fifth Column Are Ready To Leave
Navy
Greenland Hint WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (Reuter).—The Murray Barracks, Victoria, on Department announced that the first eight of the 50 Thursday, 5th September, 1940, at destroyers for Britain are at Boston and should be ready 5.15 p.m. This order applies to for delivery by next Friday. those who normally parode in Kowloon.
2nd. Lt.
They will he sent to Canada with their prosent crews, there to be taken over by British sea- men.
The Royal Scots, Assistant Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C.when
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The other destroyers will be ready
and requested
will be "operating condition."
It is also announced in Washing- ton that Admirol Harold Stark, Chiet of Naval Operations, has fulfilled legal requirements for disposing of the destroyers by certifying that the release of the vessels and the acquisi- tion of the defence bases would strengthen rather than Impair the sation's defences.
Ships Worth $85,000,000
The Navy Department stated that the destroyers represented a current value of approximately $85,000,000.
The first sointionist comment came from Senator Gerald Nye who, refer- og to the Attorney-General's view that the arrangement did not require Congressional helion, declared:
"This that indicates
BUT lendership alrer ́y using dictatorial practices and ignering laws and icatles in the name of emergency
Senator Burkeley would prove the arrangement,
fully
Further Steps Hinted President Roosevelt dropped what appeared to be a hut that further history-maiting steps might be taken ter provide adcktionsal distant boses to protect the Western Hemisphere
Ashed if the agreement might tead to the postulation that
EMPIRE COUNCIL AT
DELHI Defence of
Pacific
LONDON. Sept. 3 (UP).— Preparations аге now heing
made for the important con- ference which will open October on 27 at Delhi for the purpose of making the entire British Empire cast of the Suez self- sufficient in war supplies,
Under Lord Linlithgow's Chairmanship, the conference will determine what measures, independent of the United Kingdom, will be necessary for providing munitions, provisions and war equipment which will be drawn from the British territories east of the Suez,
It is authoritatively explained that bevare nevessary following
Cred
ende bilistest in Greenland, President | Finly's entry inter The War which Roeselt replind that he thought the grently
the prospect of Beganteas phuld refr from wrding į major military operations in the East
at was a forerunner of anything in male tur communalen tient
Tween Pie Mediterranean and
The President saut the destroyers woodd
Transferred to Engload
Asked whether some of them were; deadly en route, he replied that he would not say that and be th not know where they were at present
Horted that the United States could not
cvitae, deliver des frovers to Hurland real wher Mauken to imply that Best 443 Emaiţiam epesos would mon Then
motherland mere hazardous
Ex-
rofen connentales, however, aber remark that the signifkante of these munten is not likely to escape the attention of
of Japan.
conference will coincide with O fed the arrival in India of by Sir Alexander Roger on bef at the Ministry of Supply Be now enroute to Della from Laufeyi with a stuff of experts.
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Str Alexander wth: astvises India's productive capacity on JOINING DE GAULLE propused expansion of existing in
LONDON,
Sept
3 fleszteri Reports from Shanghai state that mony Feeneltrsten. These THER joining Cleneral de Gaulle
They me, wearing the Croma of Lorinr, which he has adopted us has offeral emblem
Other reports from Martine state that 90 per cent of the popula thom their are anxious to carry The wagonet Germany
dustrial plants in India and Efies crea Hon of factories there Australia. New Zealand, South Africa, Malaya. Burma, Hong Kong, Cylon, South- ren Ihodesia, Uganda and Kenya wit be represented at Delhi
Railway Line Dynamited
Pekin-Tientsin Attacked By Guerillas
America Strengthens Defence Industries WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuter “Thye Best of Representatives" PEIPING, Sept 3 (tele - The Military Committee has approved the Peking Tientsin Ralway anzendment to the Conscription Bill dynamited at two points by guerillas perizing the Government to are last night near Langlang. [quire, on a rental basis, industrial factories for the production of de- fence materinis. Ab-
lig
The amendment was substitute for the Senate provision authorising the Government to condemn and take over and operate such facturies.
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A Japanese military confrins also that one freight trai was damaged but there casualties.
No fighting is reported.
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LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter)-It is stated on behalf of the Netherlands Government that the Netherlands Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Dr. de Geer, has resigned for reasons of health.
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JAPAN INDO- CHINA DECISION
FROM PAGE ONE
received from Saigon disclose Indo-China communique announcing that the Governor General on Sep- tember 1
was advised from Vichy of the conclusion
sion of a
Franco Japanese agreement according to the Japanese "certain military pri- vlieges," under conditions which the
મન વા French Government would specity and which would then become the subject of negotiations between the French and Japanese military am- clals In Indo-China,
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The communique said that with- out hwalting for the negotiations, the Japanese military mission insial- ed that the agreement be signed be. fore mid-night September 3, grunding the right of passage across Indo China without previous discus- son and under conditions that were irreconciliable with the French Government's stipulations.
Hamburg Hankow
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Barking Dustness transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year or shorter periode in Loca) or Other Cur rencies at rates which will be quoted on application.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS alsy opened in Low Currency and Sterilng with interes allowed at raten oblainable on spplication. The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Executor & Trustes busine and claims recovery of British Income certained at any of His Agencice and Tax overpaid, on terms which may be Branches.
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Bangkok Bombay A meeting of the Indo-China Calculta Government was held on September Colombo 2 and decided that Indo-China was Deint unable to accept the terms of the Hongkong ultimatum. Meanwhile, the French flowrali nuthorities in the Shanghul French | Ipoh Concession have placed barbed wire
HONGKONG BRANCH barricades at almost all cross streets Every description of Banking
Kuala Lumpur Singapore Kuala Trengganu
in the Concession and have also Exchange Business transacted, chubled the alze of the poiice patroia.
flats declined
itsclose whether this is part of the antiter- Corism
emmpanga or 15 connected with the Indo-Chin nitration
RUMANIAN UPRISINGS
FROM PAGE ONE
police guards. The handbills distel- buted later said Rumaninha should be freed both externally and internally from the influence of Freemasonry Communism and Jews.
"This is the unly way 10 save Rumania," they declared.
Border Clash
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CLUJ, Sept. 3 (UP)-A_high Rumunian authority to-day
.
TRUSTEE AND EXECUTONSHIP
and
UNDERTAKEN.
Current Accounts opened in Local Cur- rency and Fixed Deposita received in Local Currency and Sterling on terms that may be ascertained on application.
D. BENSON.
Manager.
Strict Watch On Hawkers
Cholera Regulations
The Police are now keeping a strict watch on hawkers who might break the Emergency Cholera Regulations.
At the Kowloon Magistracy
thi morning a number of fishermen and hawkers were charged with breaking these Emergency Regulations,
Three fishermen. Chau Hor, Leung Hol, and Cheng Kwal, were each fined $4 or 10 days imprisonment for at Cheung Sha
statedcdging shell-fish
that 80 Rumanian soldiers and pea- sants and 100 Hungarian soldiers
Wong Pak, 50, hawker, was charged were killed in a terrifle fight between with breaking the Cholera regulations the villages of Negrest and Certeze by hawking cut pineapples at Canton Just night in the Satul Mare district, Rond and Peking Rond. Wong was south of the Rumunian-Soviet border, fined $10 or three weeks.
mutan officials at Chu) regard the fight as an Isolated in cident and have not
not changed their conviction that Rumanian resistance is continuing so obale.
A local resident said, that Hungar- ian troops entered Transylvania in the extreme north above Sighet, but had not yet reached Sighet proper.
Berlin Anxiety
LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter). Great anxiety te being expressed in Berlin over the refusal of the people of that section of Transylvania eeded to Hungary to accept the Axis award. Threats are being circulated from Germany that if there are any more demonstrations against the German minority there, the Reich will send troops to protect them.
GERMANS AGAIN FAIL
FROM PAGE ONE
day by our fighters, making the total
25.
Complete Failure LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter)The German air force falled in any way to weaken British fighter opposition In two attempts to pierce the de- fences in south-east England to-day, says the Air Ministry news service,
The objectives of the two big at- tacks appear to have RAF. sero- dromes.
This morning's attack was carried out by about 250 machines which flew up the Thomes Estuary.
In the second attack 100 to 150 planes participated.
Another hawker was sentenced to a week's imprisonment and ordered to be expelled for selling mussels.
It was mentioned by a prosecuting officer that inspite of the many signs that have been posted warning the public against eating cut fruit, count. less hundreds are still patronising these "frult" hawkers.
Dutch Council
Shake-Up
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter).— Queca Wilhelmina has accepted Dr. do Geer's resignation and Professor P. S. Gerbrandy, Minister of Justice, will now preside over the Council of Ministers.
Dr. Van Bocyen, Minister of Home Affairs, is entrusted ad interim with tae Department of General Affairs; the Colonial Minister, Dr. I. J. M. Weller, ad interim, with the Portfolio of Finance; and Dr. M. F. L.. Steen- berghe, Minister of Trade, Industry and Shipping, has been given a special task to prepare all necessary. measures as necessary for the econom mic recovery of Netherlands territory in Europe.
More Japanese Leave U.K.
- BRÈCIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI LONDON, Sept. 3 (Domel) Farly-five more Japanese residents in. London including Mr. Tatsu Yama- guchi, member of the Japanese During the morning raid, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry newly-formed Czech squadron of the and Mr. Gyoichi Kanno, manager of RAF shot down another seven the London - branch of the Osaka Germans, bringing Its total to 16 Shosen Kaisha, loft for Liverpool with the loss of only one Czech pilot. where they will boord the Suwa
Maru for Japan.
GUERILLAS TEAR sha said that the Suwa Maru will be
UP TRACK
TIENTSIN, Sept. 4: (Reuler) —The first passenger train left at 5.20 p.m.) yesterday and proceeded to the place where the rails were torn up,
It is expected to go on to Pelping
later.
Trafic was also temporarily inter rupted yesterday afternoon cast of Tientsin..!wykonane #la
of
Oficials of the Nippon Yusen Kal-
routed directly to Dublin instead calling at Belfast, GENEROUS GESTURE
LONDON, Sept. 3 (Reuter)The people of South-West Africa have. given £2,000 for, the relief of men of the Royal Navy, Merchant Navy! and their dependents,
Acknowledging the gift, the Senler Oficer at Simonstown Cape
Naval
It is reported, without a confirms- Province, says that it is a matter of
TIGER BEER on, that the stoppage of the service pride to see the extent of the great
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