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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Servicemen's

Position After War

Roosevelt Closes

June 17, 1941.

Underwater

German Consulates Train Tunnel QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

FROM PAGE ONE

In Japan

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH", TOKYO, June 18 (Domel)-After

came surprise wlien Informed by the LONDON, June 15 (UP)- United Press" regarding Washing There will be no demobilisation ton's request to close the Consulates, after the war for men in the but they flaily declined to cominent, more than four and a half years'

German submarine anying that "competent

excavation work, the services until they have found nonficiuin, will undoubtedly consider Shimonoseki - Moji railway tunnel job. This is one of the recom- the matter immediately." 7t Is through the Kwamman Channel will mendations of a special com- doubtful if any statement will be be bored through sometime June mittee appointed by the Govern-made prior to to-morrow morning. ment to work out a policy of reconstruction.

Plans for the demobilisation of anilors, soldiers, airmen and A.R.P. workers have been made by the committee.

Priority will be given to those who enn return to key posts and those who will be useful in the task of rebuilding property and assisting in the general reconstruction of the country.

The remainder will be urged to stay In the forces till a full trade recovery has taken place and their posts are available.

and June 12,

The Railway Minister, Mr. Gotaro Ogawa, will press a button in his Ministry throwing in the electric circult which will dynamite the last three-metre rock wall separating two sections of the tunnel.

Big Things Brewing WASHINGTON, June 16 (Iteuter)

here which is usually source well-informed, expressed the belief to-day that big things are likely to happen soon, probably, this week. Simultaneously, a ceremony will be | They believe that the expulsion of held at the site of the construction German Consuls and agents is not honouring, the memory of eleven excavation a single unrelated net but the first of workers killed t a succession of steps.

work. The first train is expected to In support of

of this view they point pass through the tunnel in the sum- out that despite his complete re-mer of 1042. covery from a small allment, Pre- sident Roosevelt has cancelled almost all his appointments this week, pre- sumably to give time to matters of high importance.

Diplomatic Breach?

Men will also be retained in the army as working squads for clearing WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuter), up debris and constructing tempor--First reactions here to Me Sumner Bry homes for returning evacuees.

Trade Plans

The Government, which aims at preventing wholesale unemployment, has plans for the development of trade, and experts believe that Bri- tish industry may have to be deve- loped on different lines owing to the increased industrialisation of the Dominions resulting from their war effort.

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A 20-year-old married woman, Li Wolles' announcement about the Kwan-yee, who swindled her fellow closing of German consulates and tenant of $270 by telling at Netillous other organisationa is that it is a big step towards breaking off diplomatie story of smuggling gold bars, was

and sentenced to convicted relations.

months

hard labour by Mr H. C. NEXT CHANGE, It is even being wondered whether Macnamara at Kowloon Magistracy Germany will reply by withdrawing this

An M-G-M her diplomats and asking for the de-

At yesterday's hearing it

Farco parture of all American. officials stated that Defendant and Complain from Germany.

ant, Lau Ying-hung, a woman, lived Past experience has shown, how-nt No. 364 Nathan Road, third floor. ever, that in replying to American On March 10, Defendant confided to actions, for of the Atlanike prothetitution Complainant that she had some gold

patrol, the Germans bars in Macao and wanted to smug

te them into the Colony. Defen- dant promised Complainant some pront if the latter could lend her some money for the transportation. ted, Complainant lent Defen- Tempted. dant $270.

To meet this problem, one of the first steps after the war will be the conclusion of fresh trade pacts with in the Empire, which will be follow-will accept such blows to her prestige ed by trade agreements with the without retaliation.. Allied countries.

Even so, the United States order will be a hard blow to the German

LATE NEWS

Many Nazis Affected By U.S. Order

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, June 10 (UP) According to the State Department 152 Germans with the consulates and 23 German-Americans employed as elerits and translators, will be affect ed by President Roosevelt's order to close down the Nazi consulates and other

ther German offices.

The German Library of Informa- has 42 employees subject la ex-

Lion

pulsion.

will

Officials said that safe conduct be sought for the return of the German consuls home as well as employees, despite their lock of ofelai standing, and the officials of other departments.

was

That Federal agents had been scrutinising all consular agents activities for months and had also closely followed the netivities of those accredited to the German Library of Information and tourist agencies.

Information gathered by the FBI. showed that the Library of Informa- of dis- tion was for the purpose seminating Nazi propaganda in the United States.

chuse here.

Bombshell Announcement

Mr Weiles' announcement foll like a bombshell on the Press conference

Defendant then sent away Com- plainant and a young girl, while she at which the German official news disappeared. agencies reprezentatives were pre-

rent..

Long Search

It was followed by a stampede After three months' search Defen- of Journalists Urough the corridors dant was arrested near the Central of the State Department in search of Market, telephones.

Giving evidence, Kwok Kam-tok,

It is common knowledge that, then room boy of the Tai Tung boord- German Library of Information in ing house, said that Defendant re- New York has been one of the chief March 18. She lived there for two gistered in the,.boarding house on centres of German propaganda, The Ma athninistration also probably knows days and after a visit paid by Com that the general publile suspect that plainant to her, Defendant dleap- German consulates In the United

from the boarding house States are less for strictly consular leaving her belongings behind. She business than for organising and returned to claim them only after 15 paying Germans and Americans of days' absence. German descent who remain closer

to

Defendant denied that she had

their fatherland thun to their tricked Complainant of $270, but nd- adopted country.

mitted that she had borrowed $200 from Complainant,

Det.-Sergeant N. B. Fraser was In charge of the case.

Organisation Crippled

German organisation on the American conthient will be severely affected and it is not expected that the diplomatic staff left behind can hope to carry on the work of the great network of agencies which Germany has in all States in the Union.

Washington observers will not be surprised if Latin-American coun- trics took a similar step to that taken by the United States to-day.

Philippines Included WASHINGTON, June 10. (UP).— State Department sources have con- firmed that Manila is Included in the requests for closure and expulsion of German consulates and agencies. It is understood that Mr Francis Sayre, the High Commissioner, has desired such a move for a long time.

Powerful Forces Outside Damascus

FROM PAGE ONE

Immigration authorities had re-s unknown but it is reported that it cently

refused to accredit 20 Ger- was effective." mans who

who entered the. United States

оп return to

Germany.

Beirut Report visitors' permits and ordered their BEIRUT, June 10 (UP)-At down to-day two French destroyers chal- showed lenged Brush units of the mouth of that the Nazi consulates were a "hot Beirut Bay in full view of the city. bed of Nazi activity." The State A lively exchange of shells continued Department had warned the German for a half hour and the cannonading Embassy that Nazi consuls interfer-awakened the populace. The British ing with the internal affairs of the later withdrew and the French United States would be expelled.

that Princess Ste- turned to the harbour,

Vichy Report

The

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phanie Hohenlohe, very close friend

of Ernest Weldmann, Nazi Consul

VICHY, June 18 (UP),—-—--Ankara,

at San Francisco, may have given and London despatches 16-day stated

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Eleven survivors had previously been Janded nt Fernambuco in Brazil.

Mr. Sumner Welles, U.S. Under Secretary of State, had previously stated that 30 members of the crew for and the news of the

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U.S. To Protest WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP).-

the Government valuable information that the eastern front is quiet after It was indicated here to-day that the about Weldmann and his activities a push by the British beyond Abou United States will protest to Ger- as a price for avoiding deportation Kimal which they occupied after the many regarding the Robin Moor In- is advanced in some quarters, and French had withdrawn the native cident regardless of the fact that all It is declared that the Department partisans.:

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FROM PAGE ONE.

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