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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 4, 1941.

MATSUOKA UNDER NAZI GUIDANCE

ENGLISH PRESS ON JAPAN'S FATAL

POLICY

OF

FORCIBLE

LONDON, Feb. 3 (Reuter).-An article in "The Times" entitled

EXPANSION

"Japanese Policy Adrift" sums up the trend of Japanese foreign policy Hitler in recent years. It begins on the night of September 18, 1931, when Japan in Manchuria set out on the long road which so far has shown no

turning though her leaders are acquiring a certain dexterity in persuad. To

ing the Japanese public and to a lesser extent the world, that the effect usually precedes the cause.

all three Powers would be

Creates Party

Withstand Petain

LONDON, Feb. 3 (Reuter). The official announcement by SHIRTS Vichy that Admiral Darlan has left for Paris crowns a day of confileting rumours in connection with his intentions and where- to measure abouts.

German Raids On Britain

small nations and over ran them trying to restore her trade and finan- the W and it was no part of the Admiral Darian hoped to find a mean coast of Britain during this

orators.

Bombs were dropped at several places in London, in East Anglia and In Kent. Some damage was done and a few people were killed in Kent coast town.

An enemy bomber was shot down by RA.E. fighters over the Essex court this afternoon.

Reports from various sources sug-

First they shaped shadows which, events cast before them, and then created the events themselves, and by that process ultimately proved, at any rate to their own satisfaction, the justice of the action they thereupon felt inevitably called to take.

During Monday morning, the Swiss radio stated that he had gone to At the time of the Manchurian¡peace and ordered government und; What Germany sald ́and is saying Paris a statement which was sup- incident, the world was caught growing world trade,

to Japan is that if she will take her ported later by the Budapest radlo The speculative tendency of Japan. courage in both hands, all that the which added that Admiral Darlan had napping, and was not yet alive

ese finance meant that the great slump covets iles to her grasp. What Ger-bern Informed by the Cerman to the new technique which has a 1023 struck Japan, even more many wants is Japan to become em-authorities that further conversa since become commonplace. severely than most other nations, but brolled in war as the service thereby ions would be useless until Vichy One Bomber Destroyed

Even Hitler did not disdain to the fashion was then not so prevalent rendered to Germany would be clearly realised the position created

by the establishment of Rassemble- LONDON, Feb. 3 (Reuter). borrow from the Japanese when of blaming others for one's own ills, obvious.

and until the nutumn of 1931: she

Nezl Raids were made by several But if Japan should not win, Uintment National Populaire-a he began to be threatened by pursued a sane, if arduous, polley of would not matter to Germany, for at inspired party occupied France enemy aircraft flying singly

rivalling

Marshal, Petain. in self-defence,

clal position by normal means,

weakened

Subsequent reports suggested that over the cast and south-east The Munchurian incldent was also

The Chinese Market

Hitlerian plan that Japan should responsible for the formation of the

She did more; she pursued an inevi-occupy an equal place to Germany between the Vichy Government and morning and afternoon,

the new National Party. habit of inventing inilitary stogor. tably right policy of trying to cult-in the new world order. It is as a

The success or otherwise of Dar- In 1031 much was heard of the vale Chinese friendship. This was pawn and not as a partner that she lan's efforts in Paris may conceivably

Thirty million oppressed people of the only way she could hope to secure is destined to play her role.

have an important bearing on the Manchuria." Round Aures readily that large sure of the Chinese market Threats All Round

Immediate European developments. rull off the longues of Japanese which close proximity and chran

Men In New Party manufactures would entitle her. From Mr Matsuoka's speech, Ger- But in due course the feeling of t the long

LONDON, Feb. 3 (Reuter)Len- record of Sino-many may well julge that blandish-ders of the new Nazi-inspired party oppresion was allegedly being re- Japanese animosity, dating particuments have not been in vain. At in Paris, the Rassemblement National moved from tirty taillion Manchu Early from the war of 1004-5 and first sight the speech would appear to Populaire, were attacked to-night by rest that all the crew of the destroyed rians, and one began to bene a good: the 21 demands of 1915, were unt contain a threat against the cecurity the Lyons radio which was emphatte German bomber perished.

eradicated.

not only of Indo-China, Thalland and at the party had no connection with China, who ran to much larger, but

Over

London, raiders Indulged in nevertheim, round figures.

severance which won Japan the of Britain and the U.S.A. It is a tall ton formed under the patronage of generally respect of other countries in bygone orde

appeared to order an

have Marshal Petain, days tended to be obscured during if Japan elects to

particular objective beyond creating attack, there "We are obliged to place on record the rapid rise of a ton of such a thing as vigorous and resolute the qualities of the men who form

à nutsance. bitious materialism. This gave cer-defence with all those wespons

Spitfire's Effective Cannon of this assembly. tain elements in the Army an up-modern

Among them are Goy warthre 10

Mr and Rivalet, who have ceaselessly op- German bomber was shut down in which

(Router),—A portunity in 1931 to attempt a short Matsuoka referred and with which

posed the Marshal's Government. The the Thames estuary off the coast of cut to prosperity.

Japan is yet unfamiliar

presence will also be noted of Delon-

ESICK this afternoon, and Japan was launched upon the path The real threats of Mr Matsuoka ele, head of the Cagoulards (hooded of aggression as opposed to that of were not against the security of the men). Finally the support of a nut badly damaged by the fire of the conciliatus, and the settlement of countries mentioned but against the ber of Freemasons may be noted."

cannon-equipped Spitüre that the disputes by force instead of nepolis-pence, prosperity, happiness and wel.

fying pieces of wreckage completely tion.

blinded the Splifire pilót who had to fare of the Juz

Japanese people. Aftre Stepping Stones

dive clear of debris in order to ensure ten years of conquest, which har

This own safety. When Manchuria had fallen and a brought them neither spiritual nor

The raider was material well-being; after a struggi

a twin-engined He was cordia to the Axis, placa-3 puppet regime established, it became

ffeinkel. It was nighted at 3,000ft by tory to the Soviet Union, formally clear as early as 1935 that China, in which lives have been lost and di

The Intest addition to the prize list the Spitfire pilot who was dying a friendly to the

American proper, or at any rate North China, privations suffered to no purpose, they in the Monster Raffle is a Canteen thousand feet below. The Spitfire States, and varuely

formed the next stepping stone of the are being exhorted to believe tha. Set purchased from Messrs Lane, climbed up and crept to within 50 menacing to Indo-China

and the Japanese.

ngpression is a good investment; and

Crawford, vides remain Netherland East Indies.

donated by yards of the German plane before Lid, and unpaid. Mesars Moller's (Hongkong)

Are. result was amazing" he said. chart, to maks mure capital out- speech was that there emerged the four years, it has caused suffering

& Howson, Shef-

Ideal about the uppressed millions in the virturs of the patient per- the Netherlands East Indies but alrothe organisation of National Revolu- indiscriminate bombing and the raids

It entirely without significance that

now we are beginning to bear of the oppressed people of Indo-China; Malnya,

Cin Found Burma, etc. squares) preag under the yoke of the wote man?

Weighing Matsuoka Words The recent speech of the Japanese Foreign Minister before the fiet was full of slogans, and Mr Matsuoka had not Kone very far before, quite gratuitously, he alleged that accounts of the Hallan reveres (which thre Italians admitted themselves) were malicious propaganda.

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ds burst when pieces of the China and many great cities, but It bonus. to the Occupation of all ports of only dividends but stubstantial George V, consists of G'fish knives bomber flew off like chips from a

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The raider's crash into the sen was It is hardly credible, but anyone plain the prolongation of the conflict which to conjure. Such men

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CHUNGHING, fashion grew of pornor did they seek blindly

(Central bale out and fall into the sea. for im- News).-Central thing. Is the shadow of encircle traying Great Britain as the chief

In the excitement of the combat, friends. perfect inent

thorities expressed deep sympathy the Spitfire pilot left the radio trans- the shadow that precedes villain of the piece.

Though in the course of half events; in the event, in its turn of a

and regret over the death of Mr milter in Britain's Elimination

the "on" position, and century they transformed shape which will call for action, just

Chin thun-ting. Editor of the "Shun listeners at the base plainly heard This was more natural because state into a modern nation, they di

Pao" in Shanghai, who was shot dead much of the shouted exclamations of azd inevitable? It would all be in

country into a accordance with the technique derritate has wider interests and es- not plunge their

Hriumph, such-ve-got-him," highly praised his courage in followed by a pause, and then, "Hell's cribed in the first paragraph of this sociations in China than any other reckless adventure nur ery encircle yesterday afternoon.

Power. Hur elimination, therefore, ment.

voice ai is why Japan rested on Shanghai though blacklisted by the

in bells, he's all gone to pieces." that Japan would resort to SO eventual elimination of all western solid foundations.

Wang Ching-wel regime. influence from China. While the But slumbering volcanoes were

U. S. National Debt Japan And Versailles

sympathy of

people British

has always there and have been r War of 1014-18 offered un-in the main been with the Chinese eruption for ten years. The forces News)The Kwangtung Bureau of WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UP)-The paralleled opportunities for the ex- and while like other countries Britain of restraint had been weakened and Agriculture and Forestry is planning, House Ways and Means Committee pansion of trade.

all try to has renklered certain material assist the molten tide Rows destructively to establish a sericultural experimen-i to-day approved the Bill to increase the Treaty of Versailles (a fact con-

Will it not sooner or int sympathy nor such onwards. nep would

tal station somewhere in the West the national debt limit from $40,000,- itself have

reach an impenetrable barrier against

River valley.

1000,000 to $65,000,000,000. the fruits of victory and secured, the Chinese resistance; for this Japan eruption will then cease and surfact

responsible for among other things, a mandate over can claim the credit.

Wii conl, but underneath will lie the man Marshal and

and Caroline the German

By attempting to dominate China, ruins of a thousand years. Islands, details of whose. administra-

she has aroused in the Chinese nation tions and development she has been

a unily, will to resist and a comba-i curiously reluctant to divulge to the world at large for some time pasi.

tive

spirit which had never previously been seen in a normally peace-loving As a result of enormous sacrifice of people. What Japan has aroused the blood and treasure by the Allies, com- now seeks to pared with which the drain on

quell Japan's own resources was infinitesimal, she enjoyed years of great prosperity und

disastrous and suicidal a course.

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Mass Arrests Follow

RUSSO-JAPANESE Rumania's Bloody Week

TRADE

surprising that she seeks to lay the SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAM"

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LONDON, Feb. 3 (Reuter).—Five thousand arrests have MOSCOW, Feb. 3 (UP).-It is re- been made in Rumania in a comb-out by the police following the Opportunity of This War ported from Japanese quarters that recent Iron Guard revolt, according to the Bucharest radio. The With the apparent impasse. In Lieutenant-General Tatchawn, the

police are still searching for arms in the homes of persons who China, the war in Europe appeared Japanese Ambassador has been in- to present possibilities to

Guard leader, are Japan.

Antonsseu, Iron to resume the conversations took part in the revolt, structed During the preliminary inactivity she toward general Russo-Japanese Over 100 lorry-loads of goods pouring in from penitent Iran Guards was content to remain passive bul

trade agreement.

looted during the revolt huve from all over the country. when at the of June, 1940, Ger-: This followed the diplomatie re-:

recovered by the many could claim to have over-rum ports that a ten-mun mixed Russo-

They say that they were misled by and conquered Poland, Denmark, Jopanese Commission has been op-

thorities.

"dishonest leaders who betrayed the Norway, Holland, Belgium. Luxem-

to negotiate a long tim pointed

The Bucharest radle adds that as-fath of M. Codreanu, founder of the bourg and France there was surely Fisheries Convention.

surances of fidelity to General Iron Guard." proof, if proof was ever needed, that aggression does pay.

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the everthrow of Great Britain promised by. Hitler to the world at large and Japan in porti- cular was unlikely.

U.S.A. Causes Hesitation When this fact became patent and at the same time the U.S.A. displayed the most lively and apparently un- expected reactions to the pact, there was Indeed degree of hésitation In Japan and the world was puzzied to learn one moment that the pact did not mean what it

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Chinese Reports From South Honan Front

LOYANG. Feb. 3 (Central News). The Japanese troops engaged in a northward drive in south Ilonan have suffered

serious losses,

Their central column attacking Siping on the Peiping-Hankow Railway has been subjected to heavy pounding by the Chinese and the casualties number thousands.

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To the east of the Peiping-Hankow (the west and south of the clly were Rallway a Japanese column pushing occupied at dawn.

inflicted on the northward from Shanghai suffered Casualties were surprise

assoults.

Japanese during fighting in the main fighting raged for five days street lending to the north city gate. Severe van and Shangflen. The| Chinese captured more than 160 heavy

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and light machine-guns, 1,200 riftes and 300 army horses.

The Japanese

westward WHAT STOMACH

from Paonny to her are now retreating southeastward. The Chin- ese have reoccupied Fancheng, Pao- anyl, Tushuchen and Chaochukang,

Shangfencho, a town north of Wu- yang, west of the Pelping-Hankow Railway, which was occupied by the Japanese, was recaptured by the Chinese last night. The JapaneSC beat a retreat to Wuyang.

West Chekiang Front WEST CHEKIANG, FRONT, Feb. 3 (Central News) -Chinese troops succeeded in forcing an entry into Changhing on the west bank of the Areas to

Tail Lake on January 31.

Losses And Thefts

Mr S. F. Balfour reports that be- tween February 2 and 3 some unc. entered his bungalow at Aberdeen and stole money, clothing and jewel- | lery to the value of $250.

Badm. Jordan of the Royal Scots has reported to the Police the loss of an obos, valued at $320, between February 1 and 3.

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DEFENDING a boy of 10 who was charged si Chelmsford recently with Intraling Mr Frederick Levy, the bar-

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The boy was placed on probation.

Nazi Planes Bomb Italian Prisoners

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