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Ing are the main service:
be
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Members
13 will
enrolled Special Censtables and will report for duty at such police stations in Hong kong and Kowloon and at such other centren as may be directed by the Commissioner of Police. In present
flable conditions they will perform three or four hours instruc- tional or other duty at Intervals of two or three days us directed by the Commissioner of Police. In case of mobilised emergency they will be for full duty.
Applicants must be physically fit. When mobiilsed to perform full tline duty, rates of pay will be-
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July 24, 1941.
Anglo-U.S. Counter Vichy Concedes New To Japanese Move
FROM PAGE ONE
Bases To Japan
FROM. PAGE ONE
be hupracticable here as the railway tum and no pressure brought to bear Inking Indo-China and, Yunnan, from Germany.
Vichy Crawl was torn up on the Chinese frontier
VIDITY, July 23 (Router) --After sene time past and the movement of
through such saying that the agreement of materials and en mountainous country is considered to August, 1940, recognises that Japan has rights due the nation most be impossible.
the maintenance of
The
con-
On the other hand, the Chinese interested in have made military expeditions in order in the Far East, the offlelat
Vichy news Agency adds:. Inpossible terrain before now.
Japanese are of the opinion thint Chiefly Naval Action
the immediate Japanese neilon, if, and and when events reported in
1.of Indo-Ching It begins, is expected to be chiefly neighbourhood
order, of naval, after which troops might be stitute a threat to this
they are
are the defenders. "French" political observers are of landed at Sulgon and in the areas which
these elreun- around Camranh.
Close observers believe that Japan the opinion that in bas chosen this moment in a manner stances the Japanese request to take which suggests Axle Uming, thinking certain measures may be taken into likely to consideration as long as the rights that President Roosevelt
do little while he is trying to get the of France in Indo-Chlon are not en- Bill through croached upon and all guarantees Selectees Extension
concerning her sovereignty are given her."
Congress.
In Own Interests
It is believed here that Japan is
for full time duty) rates of pay will acting in her own interests rather JAPANESE FLEET
be:--
Rank.
Inspector
Sub Inspector
Sergeant
Lance Sergeant
Constable
Rate per day on which duty is performed.
$4.00
3.00
2.00
1.50 1.00
Guarantors 'Necessary
the
than the Nazle who may benefit in- eldentally. It is also suggested that Japan rightly or wrongly feels that action against Indo-Ching Is
can maximum Aggressiveness which
without
rousing br undertaken America and Britain to take up turns
her, and
again bring her
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ON THE MOVE
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it is successful, Japanese invasion of southern Indo- within better China, the spokesman said that China striking distance of Singapore and would take all the necessary mea- the Dutch East Indies should pro-sures for her self-defence. Mobilisation mising opportunity occur to attack those places later.
SHANGHAI, July 21 (Reuters.-
It is learned that recruiting will start immediately, and applications to join will be received at Central Police Station, on the ground floor next
It seems certain, however, that the The Japanese are carrying out mill- Central Magistracy, to the
to United States will take some action. tary mobilisation on a scale never com Alonday Arbuthnot Road, from
before, according to reports Friday between 5 p.. and 7 p.m. A high State Department official Inseen
re-a private conversation is reported to reaching Shanghal. A thousand con- ns unft Applications for enrolment are quired
to be endorsed by a guarantor, have said recently that America was scripts, previously classed Upon enrolment, members of the "prepared" If Japan moved negres for active service, have been mobilin- Indo-Chinn, und cd, it is stated, while many who had
the Special Constabulary will undergo sively against Ind
Welles
scelm: Sumner
been discharged after service In a course of training consisting of
Members of the lectures of police duties and drill Japanese Ambassador to-night and China have again been called up.
Japanese com- parades. Pay will not commence is believed likely to tell him that
Japanese the result of
aggression munity in Shanghai have also been until completion of training.
in Indo-China or elsewhere will be feniled up and are leaving for Japan.
further strain Wil American- Japanese relations,
No Firearms It is understood that the Special Constabulary will not be provided with firearms,
are
Reports received In Chungking say that three classes of reservists Even More Serious
have already been mobilised in
motor vehicles WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuter), Japan, while Selected men were last year invited
is being requisitioned.
According to ouv report, Japun to join a similar body about the same "The International situation
against French Indo- that the raw-defunct Peace even more serious than the general time
China on Friday. Preservation Corps was established. public understands and it is rapidly will move
more serious, stated After brief perind of. train becoming ing. the few
wete Mr Andrew J. Mag, Chairman who joined released from service, and nothing the further had been heard of the scheme in executive session of the committee Military Commission, after leaving
until now.
to-day.
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No British Designs On Indo-China, Thai
of
House of Representatives Smolensk In Hands
"Knox Expects Action WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuter).
is no question" but tisnt the including Japanese censurship, meant
developments in the Far East,
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Of Soviets
Continued From Pago 1
that the German public that not Moscow new military developments in
Knox, but the "destruction of the Soviet aren, said Colonel Frank Secretary of the Navy, at press Army" before Moscow is their im-
mediate objective. conference to-day.
The whole situation in the Lening- "I look for movement out there-
more obscure. The and very soon," said Colonel Knox, rad sector is
the Russians do not believe that the but be declined to
the highly German thrust across
FROM PAGE ONE
acquire available ruliber and tim before the United States and Britain are able to make pre-emptive purpossible direction of the move.
"No one can tell at this point whe-fortified Karellan Isthmus or around it will go north or south," he Lake Ladoga, with its difficult lake and waterway-cut terrain, 'can suc-
chases.
It is stated that from a total of 50.000 tons of the 1941 rubber crop said Japan has already secured {k})= proximately 30,000 tons compared with normal pre-war purchases of under 5,800
5.000 tons.
discuss
In reply to a question, Colonel ceed. Knox said that the United States do Pacifle Fleet was in position to whatever was necessary to carry out Ainterican policy in the Far East.
Leningrad
Danger to Leningrad is only pos- ble from the southwest but the Imain Soviet troops in this sector are Indications of Unrest holding on grily, around Pakov and VICITY, July 23 (Reuter).-There the position of the Germans here is are signs of growing tension in the not unlike Smolensk. Far East reported in a Shanghai dis- In any case the whule region be
and patch to the official
tween Pskov and Leningrad Vichy news
also between Tallinn and Leningrad agency.
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From roughly 18,000 tons of tin ore which is Thal's yearly output, British, Australian and to a lesser extent the United Staten-controlled concerns seem to be assured of about 13.000 tons which is destined for smelting in Malayn, the remainder going to Japan. Petain's Hint VICHY, July 23 (Reuter)-"We shall again perhaps have to defend our colonies," said Marshal Petain, addressing students al Aix-en in Japan were not allowed to go to a Burma's Home Guards Provence Military Academy to-day, certain summer resort on the coast. RANGOON, July 23 (Reuler)-A Japanese shipping companies Governor's Ordinance-has-been All announced We
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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuter). movements of their ships.
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from Tokdo in Dairen naval shore facilities has passed the. travellers recent stated that The $244,000,000 bill for additional of Representatives and could only taire small suitcases with House them. The reason was to save space has been sent to the Senate. and make it possible to cope with a "onsidemble increase in the number of travellers going to Manchukuo."
This says that the suspension of along the coast is largely composed Com. To-morrow: Walt Disney's "PINOCCHIO" viens for Japan was learned of to-of forest and
roads. day. Foreigners who recently ar- rived at Nagasuki to spend a boilday
"If any new adventures should ever be undertaken, I hope that
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"We are obliged to protect our colonies and the whole of
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Colonial Empire on which our neigh- bours have their eyes. We must be able to defend 1. We must be ready for all eventualities."
Japanese Cabinet LONDON, July 23 (Reuter).-The Japanese Privy Council met to-day at the Imperial Palace, and it is an- nounced that an extraordinary session will be held before the end of the week,
The ometul announcement says that the special session will discuss the varlous questions confronting nation.
Berlin Admits Advance Slowed
FROM PAGE ONE
sunk when Sovlet bombers attacked an enemy convoy, states the official Soviet news agency. Five ships were sunk by a Soviet destroyer.
Vichy Talks Continue VICHY, July 23 (Reuter).The Franco-Japanese talks are the sub- jeet of a semi-official announcement minde here to-night, but I contains. no reference to the Japanese Indo- China ultimatum.
It says "conversations begun in
conver two recent visits paid to Admiral Darian by the Japanese Ambassador, Mr Somatsu Kato, are continuing by an intermediary of the Japanese dip- tomatic representation at Vichy.
"At the same tin
time. A
Admiral De- eaux,
Governor-General of Indo- China, has several
times
received General Sumita, head of the Major-General Japanese mission. These Inter- changes of views are taking place within the framework of the agree ments concluded a
year ago between France and Japan."
The Press of unoccupied France)
The convoy was apparently inter-has so far remained silent on the cepted In the Baltic when proceedling question. north, Soviet fighters on patrol flashed back the news of the presence of enemy ships.
Soviet bombers repeatedly attacked the ships while destroyers shelled the transports. The enemy vessels ex- ploded and sank.
Moscow's Good News MOSCOW. July 23 (Reuter).--A Soviet communique Issued to-night by the Soviet Information Bureau announcer:
"During July 23 stubborn battles against the enemy were engaged in the Polotsk-Nevel, Smolensk and Zhitomir directions and on the Bes sarablan sector of the front.
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"At one point of the Bessarabian frent, our forces routed an enemy motorised regiment, capturing cars, 300 molar cycles, 32 armoured cars, 25 guns, eight mine-throwers and other armaments.
"Our air force during July 23 delivered concentrated blows upon enemy mechanised units and alr. erati on nerodromes,
Nazi Reinforcements LONDON, July 24 (Router) —Ger- man occupation troops, Including those of the older classes, are repori- ed to have been withdrawn from Tumento and Bulgoria to reinforce the troops on the eastern front,, ac- cording to a "Reuter!!! correspondent cabling from "somewhere in Europe."
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