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Nations Lining Up Against Japan

>FROM PAGE ONE

ance of a sterner type if she undertakes any new adventures. Many experts were of the opinion that Japan must now expect to encounter concerted force 1 she attempts an attack East Indies or Singapore.

British, U.S. Firms "Occupied"

FROM PAGE ONE

Japanese Financial Commissioner, on the Dutch

July 29, 1941.

Angry Evacuees Meet In Sydney

FROM PAGE ONE

our

Embarales have net renewed their and 400 children in Hongkong," sald Mrs Dewar. "Nineteen returned in advice to evacuate.

the last three boats. We are Jukti- Bonds To Be Paid NEW YORK, July 28 (UP)-The fled in asking to return, it only from

noral apect, otherwise the Mr Tsutoma Nishyama to-day stated homes may be irrevocably broken."

More Letters that despite the freezing of Japanese

More letters from Hongkong eva- Hint to Latin America

assets, interest and sinking fund pay- WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuter).ments of dollar bonds will be met at cuers have also been appearing in It is estimated that these the Sydney "Sun", two of them be- Mr Sumner Welles to-day intimat-cost,

toing here reprinted. to from $103,000,000

"Lancashire Lass" is perhaps not ed that the United States would wel- amount come parallel action by other Ameri- $138,000,000 but some are held by con countries in the economic con- Japanese nationals and agencies, aware of the fact that quite a few trol measures against Japan. Stress Financial circles asserted that the of the escuces are still in love with ing that the Latin American coun-annual cost of debt service on dollar their husbands, A woman who bas way bands probably would not exceed not yet learnt in this world that you cannot run away from danger and tries were free to act in any

$12,000,000. they deemed advianble ho elted sleps

thinks she is safe in Australia needs already taken to ensure access by the United States to Latin American de-

our sympathy. fence materials and to prevent the export of such goods from the United States

about the

Asked

specifically possibility that Venezuela night re- fuse to sell oil to Japan, Mr Welles replied that i was solely a question for Venezuela to decide.

Mr Nishyninn said that he hoped the United States Government would administer the freezing order in such a way us to facilitate paymení,

Shanghai Reaction SHANGHAI, July 28 (neuter) The grave situation in the Far East tuas ousted the Russo-Germun war from the main headlines in all local newspapers to-day

I am from the Old Country, The Old Country wouldn't be "taking it," with its back against the wall, it "Lancashire Lass" were an exumple of its people, sitting snugly back She with her £31 and one child.

have gone to Hong- should never kong. One goes to the East to stand

pens.

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nge.

Views Exchanged

Citizens in Shanghai were dazed at by one's husband, whatever hap Incidentally, we don't ull get £31 "United Press" adds that Mr Welles day long as wild rumours succeeded

two month. I get,£20, with asserted that the United States and one another in rapid succession and

children under three. Quite a num- all other interested Governments the value of the Chinese dollar

ber get less. Ask the longkong had frequently exchanged views and fluctuated violently.

There is, however, not the slightest nnance Unison officer for few sta have been in constant communications

among Britons

artistles; then try finding accommoda- In order to permit parallel action questioning

Pacife Allled nationals ever the parallel tion for two children under school against Japan in the South whenever such action was deemed action by the United States and the Let's

British Empire against Japan despite even if it is a short-lived happiness desirable,

Shanghat's non- lle declined to comment upon the fears that it may end possibility of Japan getting vital sup-Japanese trade for the duration.

The feeling

among Shanghai's have a father. plies of oil from Venezuela and other oil producing Latin American coun-Beltons and Allied nationals is fairly tries, but said that as sovereign na-accurately summed up in an article tries, these would probably proceed by a well-known British Journalist writes: Ife and

whu commentator under their own national policy.

at last been denied that any agreement had been "Retallation having

Dil to instituted, it will be hoped by reached for the United States

the utmost mit.. be pursued to

go back to our homes,

our children will at least know they

MAID OF KENT,

purchase the entire surplus oil out-ritons and Americans that it me Love not the majority" of wo-

Not Against Australia I am not a growler, but like hun- dreds of others, I am most anxious to return to my husband and home In Hongkong. and dispute "Lanca- Lass's statement that "a large men would prefer to remain here. put of Mexicn.

Me Welles talked over the For notwithstanding the probability that we been given choice of eva- of us would have Eastern situation with Lord Halifax it may result in temporary suffering Had

who the British Ambassador who had just and inconvenience in centres where cuation many let those

chosen to stay, returned from a tour of the west the Japanese Army holds swity.

"It is now the eleventh, hour and wanted to and who have the means two homes easily, go. cast. Lord Halifax told newsmen TEL. 14413,

nothing is to be gained by tempering "Lancashire Lass" Is lucky to have

to support that he had no fresh information re- པ་

in order In the with this retaliation in

LA31 garding the developments

susceptibil

per month, and should be avoid offending Japanese Far East. Meanwhile the newly, ar- rived Soviet Military Mission began itles. The sooner its full effects make very comfortable on that amount.

CA20

too, and consultations with the State Depart- itself felt upon Japan, the more like and hundreds of others only have

per month, ment on the problem of co-ordinating hood there is of an earlier apprecl-

| have one child to keep and look ution by the Japanese

after, and American and to Soviet Russia.

and besides that my husband has another sun to support at school In England. We And it very dit- ficult, and there are many others in the same boat. We do find things expensive in Sydney, much more ex- pensive than we expected." says Dens

in wartime England. I was In Eng- think everything is dearer than even and for the first five months of the war, too, and know how well price. were controlled there.

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Effects Already Seen, NEW YORK, July 28 (Beuter).polley." Drew Pearson and Robert Allen, In their joint column in the "New York 20 stated: "The Mirror" on July double barrelled dose of economie warlare the freezing of Axis assets and the black list-have played real havoc with Axis operations in South

America.

"Confidential Government cables report that us the result of these incasures, 25,000 Axis nationals have been uprooted wholesale from their thriving enterprises and have become refugees, getting a dose of the bitter medicine Germany meted. millions of European victims."

out 10

Nomura On Ships WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuter), Before cunfereing to-day with Mr Summer Welles about the freezing of Japanese assets in the United States, Admiral Nomura, the Japanese Ambassador Washington, told that he understood newspapermen that Japanese ships were not subject to the freezing order,

He hoped to clarify this and other questions at the State Department, he added.

Tokyo Seeking New Money Agreement

FROM PAGE ONE

East Indies are commencing pres- sure on Japan."

The "Chugal" said the

Foreign

£20 have of the dis-

astrous consequences of their army's Noteworthy Comment The most noteworthy comment by newspapers supporting the puppet Nanking regime appeared to-day in the "Kuo Min Hsin Wen," which that Japan can only adopt economic reprisals against the British and American action in freezing; Japanese assets and that war is still far off.

The newspaper suggests that Japan may retallate by confiscating Ameri- can and British assets in Occupied China which are estimated at about $500,000,000.

and

Our grouse Is not against Austrn- tia or he people. We are fed up with the way the evacuation was run and the very unfair discrimination. I am sure Australian women will Among many unconfirmable ru sympathise with us. How mours circulating in Shanghai to-day they like five days' notice to pack up and be deported out of their own

would

was ong stating that the Josed country, leaving behind husbands,

controlled Customs liere had restrictions on certain categories of exports from Shanghai. These were listed as metals, machinery, cotton, piecegoods. cotton yarns, chemieuls and provisions.

It this rumour is true, it means that the only future possible buyers of such articles will be the Japanese and the only payment which will be received will be in the Japanese military gen. According

to local banking and

homes, and hundreds and hundreds of women of other nationalities, who can still stay in Hongkong and come and go as they wish.

HONGKONG-BORN.

The Other Side

On the other hand, mother eva- cuce writes to her husband in Hong- kong in the following strain:

number There have been quite of letters in one of the evening pa-

from evacuees, pers,

airing their

non-Japanese foods from bin views and grievances on the cyncun- inevitable.

on non-Japanese-goods from Shang tion-The-same-old-story. It is a hul, if not yet introduced, is almost pity the particular paper bothers to

Axis Embassies

Sealed Up

In

some

publish them, but I suppose it gives the majority of the evacuees sin- tloned in Sydney some consolation, what has to re-read all over again been hammering in their brains since they left. What good does it do CHUNGKING, July 28 (Central anyway? Here we are, and here we remain until so such time New)-The German and Italian have

arrives for us to Embassics

to leave. It is not were Chungkinh

be forever the departure of the lost batch of the be Axis diplomats yesterday morning reasons is, I imagine, they hate hav- ing to work. I imagine they all con- by air for Indo-China,

gregate at Bondi and have never gat out of the rut. They have made no friends amongst the Australians and don't intend even to try,

to Australia to

Office is seriously watching develop fichulty sealed yesterday following very compte, and one of the

ments.

Tokyo To Try Leniency TOKYO, July 29 (Router)-Fol- Towing the Netherlands East Indies' faces freezing netion, Japan now complete isolation economically ex- cept in Japanese dominated areas of the Asiatic continent.

It is expected that this situation. will be borne silently at present but an explosion is imminent as soon ut adverse effects are

noticeable. Meanwhile the present tendency is to be as lenient as possible nccording to the policy followed by others. Agreement Abrogated SHANGHAI, July 29 (Reuter)--A Japanere report from Batavia states. that the government there has an- nounced a unilateral abrogation of the Netherlands-Japanese petroleum

freement signed last year.

Eight Airfields For Japan In Indo-China

LATE NEWS

"IF BURMA IS ATTACKED"

NAZIS BROUGHT TO A STANDSTILL

FROM PAGE ONE

are terribly cold and dump. The days are frightfully hot while mil- Hons of torturing mosquitos swarm round the Inbouring soldiers' heads. Wading Through Swamps "Often the soldiers must wade LONDON, July 20 (Reuter)-Un-knee-deep through black swamps.

"These foresta provide the best

der

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enemy. As pondent in Burma, in which he states soon as the Germana enter a forest,. that Japan has long been studying they meet with a withering fire from

Attack the possibilities of an

on the Russians from trees here, there, FROM PAGE ONE

Burma from bases in southeast Asia everywhere." which she would have little difcul- Another dimeulty, the correspon-

dent

Is Soviet forts con- detailed agreement confirming the

continues

Inndscape. carrying out of an agreement between ty in establishing.

"The most probable objective of structed as part of the Japan and France for the joint de- such an attack would be the Burma They are so well camouflaged that fence of Indo-China was conckxted Road," the correspondent continues, they are casily overlooked. The Just Wednesday, it was announced for which China resists the Japanese ground in front is sown with mines.” by the Japanese Military Mission in

forces are largely tied down. The Indo-China,

attack might come through The According to a "Domel" dispatch

Describing an attack on one such Wheeler Hits Back At Indian Association Of Southern Shan States along the main

leading west

fort, the correspondent west to Kenglung, Radio, negotiations for the conclu slon of this detailed agreement were trust would enable an invader to neighbouring furm building so that started last Wednesday morning and ever vital communications to the the Germans thought that the fort

conclu- an amicable were brought to sion"

couth and by a secondary advance on 8 pm. some day." The agreement was reached be to Hsipaw to control the road to tween Major-Generul Bumita, head Lashlo and Chinn."

Stalwart Defence

says: "The

from Saigon quoted by the Tokyo em lind Taunggyi. A successful! Russlon fire was first opened from a

of the Japanese Military Mission, and Vice-Admiral Decoux, Governor General of Indo-Chlin.

TWO JAPANESE PLANES DOWNED

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" CHUNGKING, July 28 (UP),-It is reliably reported that two Japan- ere, planes were shot down by Chin- eko pursuit planes in a severe air: battle in the vicinity of Chungking.

The wreckage of both machines was found near the city of Pishan, 40 miles west of Chungking.

WAR

abandoned. When they

ap-

Administration

Malaya Defended.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

MADRAS, July 28 (Router)-An WASHINGTON, July 28. (UP)-emphatic denial that the Central proached more closely. n murderous Senator Burton K. Wheeler, speaking Indian Association of Malaya had

fire blast of machine-gun

with subversive opened from the floor of the Senate, to-day anything to do from the fort liself. Only after the charged that Administration's) German

Underground Passages "Even then the dangers were not

the

Artillery,

at shooting Afandimention of his anti-war post-activities as implied in the recent hundred yards range, had opened card mailing campaign was part of statement by Mr G. H. Hall, Colonial breach in the fort's walls were the

a programme to "terrify the Ameri-Omce spokesman in Parliament, was. Germans able to enter:

can people" into submitting to par-made by Mr N. Raghavan, President ticipation in n foreign war.

of the Association, iq-day, Ife accused Secretary of War ended as Russian foris are often Stimson of acting with "cold, col- constructed of.. three floors with culated cunning" to create the Im-was the result of representation by wore interested. persons who did not like numerous underground passages. pression that the postcards

"One Russian posted outside said circuinted In army camps, adding the existence of the association, and that they had nothing to fear as the that only three out of the million he arned that they had never been few surviving Russians were anxious cards malled

to surrender, The Germans, entfèr- soldiers.

ing unsuspectingly, were met with a fierce firo Inside and only, enptured

the fort-after killing-overy Russian. defender."

actually

He added that Mr Hall's statement

reached a party to subversive or any agitation

at all.

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