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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 3, 1939.
LORD SAMUEL URGES THAT SOLUTION FOR INDIA BE SOUGHT DESPITE WAR
London, To-day.
A SUGGESTION THAT while the war was in pro-
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gress a group of statesmen might devote them- DELEGATES selves to considering the problems of India, in-
cluding that of minorities, Federation and Dom IN MOSCOW
inions status, was made by Viscount Samuel when India was discussed in the House of Lords yesterday afternoon.
Moscow, To-day.
The Finnish delegation when they arrived here from Helsinki yesterday morning were met by the Swedish
He did not see why the outbreak of war should make and Danish Ministers and the Nor-
impossible for these matters to be pressed. Viscount Samuel regretted the action of Congress in calling on the Provincial Ministries to resign at a time when the Empire was engaged in a life and death struggle for a purpose in which India was in whole-hearted sympathy.
Lord Zetland, Secretary of State would be obliged to proclaim for India and Burma, replying, re-breakdown of the constitution of the ferred to the Viceroy's invitation to provinces concerned and take the leaders of Congress and of the as-administration into its own hands. lim League to meet and discuss their differences.
Regarding Britain's war alms, he said that sometimes it was still He said that if as a result of these said in India that we were fighting discussions they could find a com- to maintain Imperialism there. mon ground on which the two com- But every step we have taken since munities would work together, then 1919 has emphasised and ratified the the main obstacle in the way of as-determination of the people of this sociating the leaders of the political country to work for self-government parties in the actual executive at the in India. .centre would have been removed.
BREAKDOWN RESULT
INTENTIONS UNCHANGED Our intentions remained what they had been since 1919.
Referring to Congress, he said that We are striving with all sincerity the resignation of four provincial to assist in removing obstacles which governments had already been ten-at present lle in the path of a full dered and a fifth was expected. This fulfillment of the promises which would mean that the Government 'have been made. Reuter.
NAVY'S SLOW SURE PRESSURE ON ENEMY
London, To-day.
THE ROLE OF THE Royal Navy in the war is of fundamental importance, it is stressed here, and the new developments in submarine and aerial warfare are making no difference to the Navy's role of exerting a slow but sure pressure on the enemy.
The Navy's duty is still to win and keep the control of the seas, to destroy or immobilise the enemy fleet, to protect our shipping, to destroy enemy shipping and to ensure the safe transport of our troops.
There is, strictly speaking, no such The Royal Navy can also draw on thing as absolute command of the immense reserves of fishermen and sea, as it is not wholly impossible merchant sailors. for a surface raider or submarine
to slip through our naval patrols.
The term 'command of the sea' is
of best interpreted as control
the main shipping routes.
Before the war started the Royal Navy's construction pro. gramme totalled over 800,000 tone, a figure approached by no other Power,
VOLUNTARY BASIS
For over 100 years the Navy has been manned on a voluntary basis, and there have always been more volunteers than can be taken in..
The standard is high, and even in time of expansion there is no lack of volunteers.
Of 19,000 men who applied to. john the Navy in one batch, of conscripts, only 7,000 could be ...taken in.
STRENGTH CUMULATIVE
to
Two facts emerge from the present war-our naval strength is cumula- and tive and is steadily increasing, enemy submarines, daily stand 巍 slimmer chance of being able return to their home port.
Submarines have not stopped the Navy from carrying out its job.
While there have been some losses, due to bad luck or enemy' daring, our sea power has not in any way been lessened, and the Navy retains control of the seas. Reuter...
A white terrier belonging to Mrs. Scott Harston, of No. 529, The Penk, bit a chair coolle yesterday. The coo- lie was treated at the Queen Mary Hospital.
wegian charge d'affaires.
They brought back with them Fin- land's reply to the latest Soviet pro-
Reuter.
posals.
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Moscow, To-day. By late last evening the Finnish had not met Russian
delegation
leaders.
Instead, they were given seats to attend the session of the Sup- reme Council of the Soviet, and heard the partition of eastern Poland formally approved by that body.
SOVIETO
AND THE LEAGUE
London,. To-day.
The report that the Soviet Un-
jon has decided to leave the League of Nations has not been confirmed at the Soviet Embassy in London where it is pointed out that M. Malsky, the Soviet Am. bassador to London, Is President of the League Council and would have been informed.
The Embassy states that M. Maisky, whose period of presi. dency ends at the League meet- ing on December 4, will be pre- sent at Geneva. Reuter.
QUADRUPLET SONS BORN IN HONAN
Loyang, To-day,
A Chinese woman in Tachang Vil- lage in Sinan, Honan, gave birth to four sons on October 27. The mother and quadruplets are all doing well.- Central News.
(Friday), as yesterday Stalin and Molotov were very occupied with
It is suggested that the Soviet-the meeting of the Supreme Soviet.
-Reuter. Finnish talks may be resumed to-day
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