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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 8,

THAILAND WILL Tunnel In City Will Roosevelt-Ch

NOT YIELD

FROM PAGE ONE

Shelter 10,000

diplomatic relations between China and Thailand.

FROM PAGE ONE

to take the place of the telephone Harold

Mystery

FROM PAGE

Stark.

Chiz

should that brenk down," he explain-Operations, and Colonel Kiya Evacuation of Saigon.. rd. Several communication centres come there. BAIGON, Auft. 7 (Reuter)-Ahave now been established отна Message From Yad though the British Consulate has not motor-cycles

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 have been purchased. given any orders, a proportion of the Many men have volunteered andAn official dispatch from small British colony in Saigon 1s they are being trained.

sidential yacht Potomac state on Monday to Singapore. evacuating

The final strength of the Motor-President Roosevelt is keepi

with international The

consists chiefly of Cyclist Corps and the Despatch Corps close touch Party

by naval radio. women and children.

will be about 2,000. The

The dispatch added that the movement of Japanese troops"

ther is excellent and Ashing.god through Saigon, in abating somewhat,

There is no mention of the run giving rise to the Aupposition that they are making more use of water-said that the street lighting experi- of a possible meeting between borne trame up the Mekong mouths, /mented with in the fast black-out President and Mr Churchill,

All official French buildings have has proved satisfactory, and it is suddenly started sporting enormous now up to the Government to decide whether it will be adopted. "In any ofs. It is under-c white crosses on roofs.

case

" he added, "that form of light- stood that this is due to a Vichy order to ensure the safety of Frenching can only be used under, veral" Roosevelt and his party continued i

dalis,"

property in

the event of an

armed conflict in the Far East which indicates French non-belligerenty.

Street Lighting Wing-Commander-Steele-Perkins

The Director said that reports res.

siren as a signal to switch off their

Cruise Continues

WASHINGTON, Aug, 7 (UP), naval dispatch states that Preside

cruise

towards

nn

unannoliter

the best

erived show that the general public destination to-day and that the Pres as a whole still regard the air raid dent is kept informed on intern

tional developments by radio. Plane Passage Refused SAIGON, Aug. 7 (Reuter)Thai ghts. It is particularly noticeable on a larry and will stage some sort land in reported to have refused the that when the sirens sound ghts of Chinese musicni shows, so as toļ paffage of a four-motored Japanese autoriatiently go out all over the attract the public and will then ex- passenger seaplane from Salgon to Colony. "The black-out starts ot

of screening a window Bangkok. The plane is due to pick sunset and sirens have nothing to doin and demonstrate

methods up That delegates to the Boundary with putting out lights," he said. during a black-out, shading a lamp, Commission who have not yel Travelling Instructors cl. arrived.

Air Raid Wardens will singe Wing-Confinonder, Steele-Perkins Japanese View

travelling exhibitions in the Colony said that such a unit has just con- TOKYO, AURL 6 (Reuter).In the near future. Four wardena eluded a successful tour in the New "Japan has no designs on Thailand, will tour an allotted area at night Territories, shels on very good terms with that Times." State; declares the

"Japon organ of the Japanese Foreign Ofice to-day. It accuses Britain of "rais- ing the Japanese Lagey to enmoufluge her own aggressive intentions for strengthening

through Singapore the creation of advance uses at the expense of Thailand,

Suzuki, well-known editorial com- mentator of the "Yomiuri Shimbun." writing Inthe August issue journal

Japan

while

admittinat

be

that the general situation forbids us to deny the possibility of tween Japan and the United States"

war

LATE

London Press On

Far East Situation

LONDON, Aug. 6 (Reuter),-The

expresses the view that if America ispress has accused Japan of having to extend "effective aid" to Greatwo faces" and of conducting a Britain she will "And it imperative press campaign similar to that which

avold as far as possible any preceded the antagonism of Japan."

10

7

Indo-China.

Invasion

NEWS

of French Air Defences For

"The Titnes" says that Japan seeing

(Reuter).-^/e/ermined to ignore the warnings!

action

Japanese Cities

SPECIAL TO. THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Auí. 8° (UP)—The Gov.

Part of Axis Strategy LONDON, Aug.

given her bolh frem London and message from Washington amplifies Washington and to follow her oc- the view that the Japanese pressure cupation of Indo-China by on Thailand is part of the Axis plan against Thalinud. Commenting that unent has decided to establish an tu enable Germany to get hold of Japanese naval bases at Sulgon and Air Defence Bureau within the strategie bases in the Atlantic while Camiranh Bay and air bases in sauthome Ministry, replacing the former Japan seizes shnilar bases In the and west Indo-China are a serious

sione Bureau under the Cabinet Planning Paelle.

Board, in order to effect speedy re-

A London comment declares that the Japanese encroachment in lody- China cannot be considered as a

olated net of aggression but as a

for conquest by force.

Germi

grand

menace to the Philippines. Nether-tion and expansion of air defence | land East Indies, Burma and British Malaya-and indeed to the whole squipment in important Industrial British and American position in the cities such as Tokyo. Yokohama, southern Paelle, "The Times" gayak, Kobe and Nagoya, as well as

the northern

industrial that this mennee will become

"

vital element of strategy.

Intolerable if Japan permitted to Kyushu. This report is an cluckiation of Mr establish herself in Thailand. Cordell Hull's stalement that prezent| However anxious the Thai Govern- events in Europe and Asla provided|ment the world with proof of Axls plans may be to preserve their inde- pendence, says "The Times," they will hardly feel able to resist the pressure which to

appearances, Jayan is already putting on them unless they enn count with absolute certainty upon immediate support from Britain and the United States.

Commenting

reports

that people in Hongkont are convinced that Thailand will soon share the FROM PAGE ONE

fate of Indo-China unless Japan told in so many words that any fur- seen to ther move by her will mean war in the attack, one vessel was be down by the stern with moke the Pacife "The Thines" says that in view of the Vital British Interests at 'pouring from L.

Much Havoc On German Cities

Last night, although the weather stake and the difficulty of ejecting - /

the the Japanese once they Juve been was even less favourable than previous night, aircraft of the allowed to march in there sean be Bomber Command attacked objec little doubt about that; and public tives in Frankfurt, Mannheim and opinion in Britain has so interpreted Karlsruhe. More large fires were Mr Eden's language on that point. started -and-a-

a considerable weight of Remarktung-that-Japan-is-also-mov- bombs Was dropped un each elty. ing northward in Manchuria as a Eight aircraft are missing from menace to Russia, "The Times" says The night's operations.

that it may be that "Japan's

partners Aircraft of the Fighter Command in Berlin would prefer her to take attacked a number of aerodromes in action against Russin as

a way of Northern France

during the night.helping the German armies which One aircraft is missing.

are finding unsuspected dificulties in Coastal Cornmond

their march to Moscow. But Russia aircraft pedoed

vessel

the has forces in Eastern Siberia likely Norwegian coast during the night to prove superior, to anything Japan and bombed an aerodrome in Nor can send against them and Russian way. One aircraft is missing.

Dossession

sion of Vladivostok is of such vital importance that a Japanese attack as it would be as much an attack on Britain us upon her Rus Alan ally.

an enemy

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inf

zone

in

The argument that Japan has two tes is made faces

by the Daily Tele- graph" which says that Japan's). officiat reply to warnings against n move in Thailand by Mr Eden and Mr selected ny chief enemy. While Cordell full Is that she has been Japan thus exhiults two faces Prince misunderstood. and her intentions are Konoye has been holding repented peaceful. Simultaneously, conferences with the Emperor. The purely ndds the newspaper, a Japanese peaceful intentions of the militarists broadcaster was instructed to tell the who have dictated Japan's policy Mr E. Southard, American Consul Japanese people that war night comelin exhibited by

"From day to day, 50,000 troops into Indo-China and to Hongkong, will be returning to any moment. the Colony this evening an the press of Japan carries out orders the concentration on the border of American ship from Leave in the to rage against the United States and Thailand round an airfickt

Britain, now one now the other being 1250 miles of Bangkok."

United States.

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