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Thursday, 15 August 1940

  1. The North-China Daily NewsZero Hour Said NearMorning newspapers from London warned that the zero hour of invasion may fast be approaching with increasing severity of mass air raids. War experts believed that if an invasion of Britain was planned for 1940, it would …
  2. From Reuters · North-China Daily NewsTientsin Council Seeks Revenue$850,000. Needed tà: Cover Unforeseen Expenditure Two Resolutions Passed Tientsin, Aug. 14. Faced with the necessity of raising an additional sum of $850,000 to cover unforeseen expenditure for the current year's budget,…
  3. The North-China Daily NewsA Welcome MoveMinor thoroughfares along Avenue Foch and Avenue Edward VII will assume normal appearance as all barbed wire barricades are to be taken away. This move will be greatly welcomed by many Shanghai motorists, and traffic pol…
  4. The North-China Daily NewsRelief Out of the QuestionImmediate relief is out of the ques-lion so long as Nazi occupation is continued, continues the paper. A reaffirmation of the integrity of our blockade might well be softened by the assurance of immediate relief as soon …
  5. The North-China Daily NewsWelcome Lull FollowsNazi Inactivity Greatest In Past Three Days London, Aug. 14. Britain early today enjoyed a welcome lull after three days of the heaviest aerial activity since the start of the war. The lull was not explained, but was ver…
  6. The North-China Daily NewsBritain's Export Trade Favourable270 Groups Are Formed to Represent Industry London, Aug. 14. In a statement on the British Government's new measures for aiding export trade, Mr. Harcourt-Johnstone, Secretary for Overseas Trade, said the Export Council …
  7. From Domei · North-China Daily NewsTroops "legally" Kept HereU.S. to Follow "Good Example of Britain" Nanking, Aug. 14. "Britain's act In withdrawing her troops from the Shanghai area, will leave the American troops, stationed in the Shanghai area in the same illegal way as were t…
  8. From United Press · North-China Daily NewsAim Said Raw Materials"Hitler's chief aim is to search for raw materials," Senator Austin declared. "He can get them more easily in South America than any place in the world. Meanwhile the former German Consul in New York, Dr. Paul Sch-war, l…
  9. Letter to the Editor · North-China Daily NewsMosquito Coils Are They InjuriousTo the Editor of the "Nowra-Cutva' Dany News" Sm—As a resident of a part of the French Concession where luckily there are only few mosquitoes in summer, I never found it necessary to use a net at night, but just lighted …
  10. The North-China Daily NewsBroadway Mansions HotelThe most up-to-dgt® hotel in Shanghat 200 Rooms and Suites and 55 Unfurnished Apartments from the air. Our army would have to defend the coast facing the Pacific and stave off the enemy's landing, while our flotillas of …
  11. The North-China Daily NewsHave a Smile That Men AdoreThere is nothing that can make your smile more attractive and allure ing than clean, sparkling teeth. If you want teeth that are really clean and that glisten when you smile, just try the Kolynos "dry brush" technique. T…
  12. From Reuters · North-China Daily NewsJapanese Air Raids On SzechuenChungking Aug. 14. From April 1 until August 13, 3,324 Japanese aircraft raided Szechuen 39 times and Chungking 26 times, according to an official communique. They are claimed to have lost 64 machines in these bombing at…
  13. The North-China Daily NewsAlleged Assault DescribedAfter defendant had pleaded not guilty to the charge, Mr. McDonald told the court that on August 3 complainant was conversing with one Jagat Singh, in the market when defendant came up to Jagat Singh and asked him whethe…
  14. From Reuters · North-China Daily NewsBerlin And RomeNew York, Aug. 14. The New York "Post" has devoted a full page to reports of their daily lives by their correspondents in London, Berlin and Rome. The report from Mr. Stoneman, the newspaper's London correspondent, is he…
  15. The North-China Daily NewsSenate Discusses Aid for BritainSale of Torpedo-Boats And 50 Destroyers Come Up for Consideration Washington, Aug. 14. Two plans for helping Britain resist Germany—the incorporation of Canada into the Pan-American Union and the sale of torpedo boats an…
  16. The North-China Daily NewsShanghai Reverts To NormalForces Demobilized as Period Ends; Bombing Of Settlement Recalled Apart from the assassination of Mr. Chang Sian-ling, a member of the French Municipal Council in front of his home at 2 pin, and the gruesome discovery of…
  17. The North-China Daily NewsMany More Baseball Games To Be Played Schedule Announced for Postponed Contests HereBaseball in Shanghai is ni over. Teh postponed game: E to be played in the City League and the American Amateur Athletic Association yesterday announced the schedule on which these postponed fixtures will be played. The …
  18. The North-China Daily NewsAlong the HighwaysAug. 14.—We were admiring a clump of catmint yesterday, it was growing next to a mass of sedum and the two appeared to be fighting for what little space there was left on the rockery. The pale blue flowers of the catmint…
  19. From Domei · North-China Daily NewsPatrol Vessels ActiveJapanese patrol vessels in the triangular area in Kiangsu, other reports said, attacked 200 Chungking forces at Peipohu, 25 kilometres north of Soochow. The Chinese left 16 dead behind, it was reported. Tt was revealed t…
  20. From United Press · North-China Daily NewsItalian Troops Shelled By British Navy Near Coast of SomalilandAction Holds Up Attempted Advance on Bulhar, States Admiralty Report; Bitter Attack Made London, Aug. 14. With the situation in British Somaliland serious but not critical, British light naval forces bombarded Italian tr…
  21. The North-China Daily NewsTuesday's Closing QuotationsNew York, Aug. 13. Cotton prices early moderately advanced on shorts covering but later reacted on the absence of important buying and liquidation. The weak-mess of Wall Street and increasing German aerial activity over …
  22. The North-China Daily NewsDomestic Air MailNanking per Shanghai-Nanking Air Line at I p.m. and 10.30 p.m. at Yuhang Road Sub-Office daily at 1230 p.m. Hwaining Kiukiang and Hankow per and 10 pa Shanghai-Hankow Air Line daily at 1030 p.m. Ningsia, Shensi, Szechuen…

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