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Wedr day,

HONGKONG TELEGRA

SIAM DISTRUSTS JAPANESE

Ex-King Fears Invasion

Ex-King Prajadhlpok of Siam broke his long silence about Far Eastern affairs and talked to me in his Virginia Water home of his country's position and his forebodings for the future,. wrlles a "Daily Telegraph" reporter.

Throughout our conversation the ex-King spoke of Siam, not of Thailand, explaining that he had not become used to the new name. He insisted that the views he gave me were his per- sonal ones.

He denied that Siamese poli- i ties are dictated by the Japan. ese, and said that Siam's claim against Indo-China, which amounted to not more than, a rectification of the frontier, was a.long-standing one and was not made at Japan's instigation.

He thought it possible that, despite the armistice between Slam and Indo-Ching, lighting might break out again. Then the Japanese might suy, "We must have peace there," and occupy Indo-Ching.

Japanese

Found off

Naval Base

E. SAKAMOTO, owner of "a Japanese fishing vessel, was fin- "But I do not think Japan wants ed $100 in a Singapore court "I recently when he was convicted to fight there yet," he continued.

think she would rather wait to see on a charge of entering Admir- what happens In Europe before

ally waters with aliens aboard courting u fight there. But she might count on no one helping Indo-without permission in writing China and the French alone could from the King's Harbour not do much to stop her.

Japanesc "Friendship"

Muster.

Sgt Thomas Moran, of the Naval Water Police, said that on, the. afternoon of April 16. the sounds of the engine of a vessel off the Naval Base attracted his

attention.

There was a heavy downpour of rain at the time, but he went out and saw a vessel, a motor launch circling around in Admiralty

"If the Japanese want to use the land route to Singapore they must occupy French Indo-Clea

then and

Invade Slam. We know that Slam figures in 151 Japanese schemes of expa

expansion. The Japanese try to make out that they are Irlends of Stan.

the They said to the Cbluese, We Jove you very

much. and look what happened there. "Slam does not

not want

to be under the direction of any nation. sure that that is the policy of the present Government. It has been The Traditional policy of all the kings of Slam to be friendly, with Great Britain and the British Empire. That Making

I fun

waters.

He boarded it and found Sakamoto

steering the launch. Sakamoto could not produce a permit for cruising in Admiralty waters.

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UFS

BRITAIN'S MIGHTIEST—General drill takes place beneath the turrot of quadruple 14-inch guns aboard Britain's newest and mightiest baltleship, King George V. It was this ship that took Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, to the United States." The ship has secondary armament of 5-inch guns.

Terms

Raschid Ali Reveals

For Mediation By Turkey

Haji

ANKARA, May 13 (Reuter).—Raschid Ali's terms for Turkish mediation, delivered by Snyid Shawkat, the Iraqi Defence Minister, are reliably reported to be as follows:

(1) British troops landing at Basra should not remain there but proceed to a

destination outside Iraq:

(2) Ruschid Ali, while agreeing to an increase in the number of British troops in Iraq. insists that such increase and the manner it is carried out must be determined and settled by a joint Anglo-Iraq Commission.

Since these two points are contrary to the terms of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty, it is felt in Ankara that there is very little chance of Shawkat's visit being successful to the rebels.

Mission Concluded The Iraqi Legation at Ankara has other tinn refused any statement although he is staying on for a few days, probably to see

Herr von Papen, it is suggested.

Claimed Licence

an unsworn statement, is the keystone of all Siamese Sakamoto said he had a licence for foreign policy and I have no reason the last six or seven years to cruise to

has that polley

been along the Johore const. suppose

That morning the engine of his changed,

To me it would seem that Stam launch had just been repaired and Would be behaving almost suicidally he was trying it out.

He did not know he was commit- she were to make herself Britain's thug an offence, he said, by steering that Shawkat's mission has concluded

the ship to that part of the Straits,

uncny."

Austria Has Artificial Fog Creator

ARTIFICIAL fog creators have been fitted up at

Wiener

Africa Duty For Seized

Internees

Raschld All's attempt to declare a holy war against Britain is ridiculed and makes the rebels doubly guilty against their own people, who owe their independence Britain.

offer

which

Royal Empire Society Building

་

Hit In Blitz

LONDON, May 13 (Reuter).The Royal Empire Society's building in London, which is well-known to visitors all over the world, was scyerely damaged in recent air raids.

Practically the entire Law-

involving between Library,

12,000 and 15,000 books, was LETTER S

destroyed. In addition, he- tween 10,000 and 12,000 books were destroyed in the newspaper room, including the whole of the British Empire section.

Other losses involved

were

The Famous 51st Were at Arras

the The Editor,

Egypt's Offer Rejected CAIRO, May 13 (Reuter)-Ac- knowledging Egypt's offer of media tlon, the Raschid All administration. while thanking Egypt for the offer, state that they are availing the complete section of foreign colonisa- Hongkong Telegraph. One hundred former members selves of the Turkish Neustadt, in Austria, and other of the International Brigade was received first.

Evacuates Reach India precautions against R.A.F. raids which fought, on the Govern-

May 13 (Reuter).-- have been taken in this area, ment's side in the Spanish civil Sixty British evacuices, women and concernings East Africa and the Gl-

em-war were forcibly taken from children from Iraq, where 60,000 people are

have arrived ployed in war industries.

the Argeles internment camp here. One works there is turning and sent to North Africa, ré- out 250 various aeroplanes a ports Associated Press from month, in addition to tanks and Vichy. other weapons, and employs

32,000. hands.

be put to work on the Trans-Saharan

It is presumed that the men will

Railway which the French Govern- Wiener Neustadt is probably Ger- ment has ordered to be built. many's largest production aren. The report said gendarmes, soldlers Pilot schools and dive-bombing and and members of the youth group. Parachute-training-grounds-are-alco Compagnons de France, encircled the in the neighbourhood,

camp and barracks while four gen- A

Eoliceable recent pre- darmes took each man to specially

" truck. caution in Germany is the evacuation

Woman internees threw sand in of children from large centres to

Morrison Rebukes Lady M.P.

MRS TATE, Conservative M.P. for Frome, was rebuked in the guards' eyes, children tried to the House of Commons recently Austria and Italy. A group of such fight the police and some of the men children went to Italy recently. party prophecies that the war will dragged away.

tion as well as irreplaceable foreign periodicals and official Journals of former German and other colonies, The entire Hind collection of books braltar and Malla sections were also lost.

The administrative quarters to gether with its India Room, New Zealand Room and social rooms were gutted.

Sold Torpedo

1

To U.S.

A

Inventor Found Shot Colonel Michael Borissiavsky, formidable-looking White Rus-

These moves seem to belie the Nazi resisted and were knocked down and for blurting out information sian, tok his friends that hel

soon be over.

Gold-Bearing

Fish Found

Reminiscent of some of Rip- ley's "Bellove It or Not" talcs, Japanese restaurant in Hong-

the

Sir.In reply to "51st Division" may stale that I was a member of Division) ea the 4th Gordons, 154 Brigade (Sist December, 1917 and recollect that

I spent clearly Christmas Day at Mount Saint Eloi (about 11 kilometres from Arras) 80 therefore the 51st Highland Division must have been in the Arras Sector

the Line then,

GOOD OLD 51ST.

Hess Popularity Fund Suggested -Sir,-As-a-means-of-nugmenting

the Bomber Fund, may I suggest that you be kind enough to insert the following in your paper,

Rudolf Hess Popularity Fund

The above Fund has as its object

Australian against a German domestic serment. It would mean £100,000 pond in the amount or as

to the American War Depart-given to hear that he was

Cabinet's Dilemma

have

taken

that she should have given had sold a new torpedo that he the valuation of Hess' popularity In privately to the Home Secretary had been working on for months Hongkong. What would, you

She had made allegations |

prisoner, before ho was? Please close as

you you can get, in order that this valuation may be He was so excited about the news gentleman's that he could not sleep. So he went published in Saturday's Telegraph." out for a walk. A doctor, driving The total will be Herr Hess' donation along St Nicholas-terrace, New to our Bomber Fund. York, found him dead, shot through

vant, Sophie Spielman.

These were that:-

The girl was posing as a Czech re- fuges when she arrived in Britain

in 1938;

She was engaged to a Nazi officer: Sho had been sent from Berlin to

to him, he said.

Prague for three mentis only to one eye.

Police could' not find the bullet

qualify as a Czech and

that had passed through the colonel's

While employed in officers' billets head. Their only clue is an anony-

here the had expressed deep

# desire to engage in espionage for mous warning that the colonel re- ceived in his mail three years ngo. the Nazis,

Under Auspices

of

the

BRASS

H.C.

DEATH DUTIES AMELIORATION Persons Killed By Enemy

LONDON, May 13 (Reuter). --Eetates of civilians killed by

ITALIAN she

HATS SEE INDIA enemy action will henceforth not

the

SIMLA, May 13 (Router).—Its officially announced that Italian wor In India Include 20 prisoners

be liable to death duties on the normal scale.

Relief will be granted on the same terms as those applying to members

The Chancellor of the Exchequer

kew, Japanese-occupied section: Mr W. M. Hughes, the Austra- | of Shanghai's International Set-lian Attorney-General and Minis- tlement, is reported to have ter for the Navy, has admitted bought a frozen fish containing that the Government had no 13 ounces of gold in its stomach. power to compel Lady Blamey, Mrs Tale asked the Home Scere-

Japanese gerdarmerie officials, to wife of Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas tary to state where and how girl had been employed since whom the gold was turned over, be- Blamey, Commander-in-Chief of was registered as un enemy allen lleve that the gold was part of the Australian Imperial Forces on reaching her 16th birthday. small fortune smuggled from Chefoo

in the Middle East, to return to into Shanghai by some Chinese.

The gold was discovered while Mr Australia from Egypt.

Mr Herbert Morrison replied that Sato, proprietor of the restaurant, Lady Blamey, after leaving girl named Sophie Spielman, now sot about preparing a succulent dish Sydney to visit her husband in aged 1715, arrived in Britain in June, generals and one admiral while of the armed forces killed on active of raw fshi lovers, Slitting open

1039, under the auspices stomach, Mr Sato encountered a hurd January; was asked by the Aus- British Committee for Refugees, but second admiral is shortly to be ex-service.

pected. substance, and then to his astonish-tralian Cabinet to return to Aug- he knew of no grounds for suggesting Camps are designed to accom told the House of Commons to-day ment drew out three pleces of tralia, on the grounds that they that she had posed as a Czech. modate 3,000 prisoners each. Four that the new arrangement would be Later it was ascertained that the such camps make a group, which is made restrospective to the beginning gold, each neatly labelled with its wished strictly to adhere to their Czech passport and she was guarded by two Infantry battalions of the war.

had decision not to issue passports re-registered 18 beling of Czech Seven such groups of to wives, flancees, women rela-nationality. Since her arrival in

been established tives or friends of the A.I.F. England he had been employed established. abrond.

us a domestic servant.

"Your Duty" There was some question, however,

Dealing with the allegations that DARLAN RETURNS Jack Benny has signed a new radia of Lady Blamey being allowed to

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" contract which will pay him $17,500 proceed if she were selected to assist the girl was engaged to

VICHY, May 13 (UP),~The Vice a week, oficials of the National! in the inanagement of a women's officer, was now working in officers

Premier, Admiral Darinn, arrived Broadcasting Company šaldi

| established in the Middle East. desite to be a Nazi spy, Mr. Morri-here trom Paris at 0.15 p.m. on

canteen service which might be billets here, and had expressed

Members of the War Counell and son sald sternly:

"I think if Mrs. Tale had that special train and immediately Information In her possession sheported the details of his conversations it privately. With Hitler, Ribbentrop and Abetz should have given

to Marshal Petain with whom he was It is the duty of citizen, let

M.P. to alone An M to convey informa closeted alone.

weight.

Jack Benny Gets Salary Raise

IF YOUR BREATH HAS

A SMELL YOU CAN'T FEEL WELL

*Uniem 2 pints of bile juice flow from our liver Into our bowels every day, our inovements get hard and constipated and our food decays un natically in our 28 font, of bowels. This decay pantla polsors all over our body overy is minutes 'It rankes las gloomy, grouchy and no good for anything, Our frienda unicii (his decay coming ĐẠI SỨ GI ORith meat can I had feach. Lan tives and mouth washes only help a Nitle. Take

· Carter's Little Liver Pills. They get those 7 pints

of tile flowing freely and then you feel on the "up Rnd up.” Ank (or Carter'a lättin Liver Pills by mama and twi-what you pak for

the Cabinet are reported to be very concerned lest Lady Blamey Ignores the Cabinet's request to return.

Smaller Newspapers

In Britain

ilen to the Home Office.

Nazi #1

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camps have

or are being

SWEDES FIRE

II

re

ON PLANES It

"I will take note of the allega tlons, but it would be more useful 11 Members having information In order to reduce imports of pulp, against people should convey newspapers have, at the request of whole thing up i publle." the Government, agreed to make a

pulpwood and newsprint, all British privately, instead of

blowing, the

substantial cut in the weekly con- Devaluation Powers

puinption of newsprint,

WHITE HOUSE PICKETS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, May 18 (UP) The American Peace Mobilisation group continued its Afth day of picketing before the White House under a special police guard.

Last night, 20 soldiers, sailors and Marines attacked the marchers and one man was injured.

STOCK EXCHANGE Cheerful Sentiment LONDON, May 13 (Reuter)-The STOCKHOLM, May 13 (Reuter). Stock Exchange to-day was gener -Swedish anti-aircraft gung fired ally firm with sentiment cheerful. improved on on two German planes which were Leading, industrials vince of Skanne, South Sweden, flying towards Limhann, in the pro- country buying.

word met Kaffir dividend payer active this morning, forcing them to turn Cape enquiry. Diamonds were also good. Oils were firm with Moxican Gilt-edged bends and home, ralls Edgies and Anglo-Egyptians higher, were, about unchanged, deleggAMA "Among foreign bonds, Japanese and Chinese improved.

Wall: Stroot was culet

The effect of the cut will be to re- | WASHINGTON, May 13 (U) back. duce the sizes of penny dally newn The House Coinage Committee by n

papers from six U-page issues a week voto of nine 10 sovet to resident

My Roosevelt's

devaluation powers för

Indian Warship Lost to four of six pages and two of four proved n'b}}} to continus, pages a week.

Twopenny weekly and Sunday another two years, with an amend SIMLA, May 13 (neuter)The newspapers will be reduced from 12 ment limiting the price for foreign loss of H.M.1.3. Paravall, by criminy to 10, pages Der Insur

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