THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 13, 1939.
Britain Doesn't Fight With Blood-Curdling Threats
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL BROADCASTS: HUNGRY NAZI LOOK AT NEUTRALS
London, To-day.
and deci-
themselves Instinctively sively on the side of progress.
"Hundreds of millions in India and China would regard with undisguised dread a Nazi triumph, well knowing
“WE TAKE BLOODCURDLING threats as a sign of exclaimed Mr. Winston our foes' weakness,” Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a what their fate would be. broadcast last night.
Mr. Churchill said: "We don't make threats in war- time. If we have ideas of an offensive character we should not talk about them but try them in action.
“We do not under-rate the power and malignity of We are prepared to endure tri- our enemies. bulation, but we were prepared for that ten weeks ago.
"We are far
stronger than
we of ordinary people faced what they were ten weeks ago and far better imagined would be the fearful storm
and their malice about to fall upon them
familles, and they braced themselves anti-for the ordeal." more
prepared to endure the worst of Hitler and his Huns.
"Our Navy is stronger, our
forces U-boat
three times
is much numerous, our air stronger, and our army is growing and improving in training every day.
"Time is on our side.
force
HUNGRY LOOK
important "A long procession of
in our favour events has moved since the beginning of war, affecting German relations with Italy and Ja- pan, and what happened in Turkey and and Russia, so now the boastful bullying Nazis are looking hungrily for some small country in the west to trample down and loot."
a
Mr. Churchill would not pro- phesy whether the frenzy of cornered maniac will drive Hitler into the worst of all his crimes, "but the fate of Holland and Bel.
Poland, like
Czecho- glum,
Be Slovakia and Austria, will
the decided by the victory of British Empire and France.
THE PREMIER
be "If we are conquered all will enslaved, and the, United States will be left single-handed to guard the rights of man.
"If we are not destroyed, all these 'countries will be restored to life."
had Mr. Churchill declared he not always agreed with Mr. Cham- berlain, although they were always personal friends, "but Mr. Chamber- lain is a man of very tough fibre and is going to fight as obstinately victory as he did for peace.
"Either
BOMBRE FACT
all
Britain
for
and
all
"America makes no secret of her sympathies.
"Even
millions In Germany
the seething stand aloof from mass of criminality and corrup- tion of the Nazi machine. "Let them take courage amid their perplexities and perils, for it may be extinction of this the final baleful domination will pave the way
could ever have
that
to a broader solidarity of all men in all lands than we
planned if we had not marched to- gether through the fire."
WISE POLICY
R.A.F. PILOT
OVER BERLIN
London, To-day.
Discussing a recent flight over Germany, an R.A.F. pilot says that it was mostly blind flying, but the navigation was so accur. ate that when his 'plane swooped down, they were right over Ber- Iln.
As the plane dived, search- lights picked it up and the ma- chine was "plastered" by every could Germans that the bring to bear.
gun
The aim was poor or shaken, however, as not one shot want home-Reuter.
MINISTERS
IN FRONT'S SEA OF MUD
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SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Mr. Churchill, listing the important
TO-DAY. moved in our which had events
of the THE FIVE DOMINIONS MINIS- favour since the beginning
FORCES IN FRANCE. To the list of improvements in our war, said Italy had adopted a wise TERS, AT PRESENT VISITING THE
Mr. policy of peace; and no quarrel had BRITISH position in the past ten weeks
WERE YESTERDAY TAKEN RIGHT Churchill said that the attacks of U-developed between us and Japan.
"These two great Powers, which UP TO THE FRONT LINE, WADING boats had been controlled, and they paid a heavy toll.
joined Germany in the Anti-Comin- | THROUGH A SEA OF MUD.
They were shown the preparations difficulty in accom- Nearly
German ocean-going lern Pact, find
tank traps, ships were rusting while our world-modating themselves to the change in consisting of trenches,
towards Bolshevism, which concrete blockhouses and gunpits. wide trade proceeds in 4,000 vessels, front
Under the guidance of the Duke of Mr. accompanied by of which 2,500 were constantly at sea. Hitler and his bad adviser, Ribben-
trop, those marvellous twin contor- Gloucester, The superior quality of our air been
Reuter. Anthony Eden (Dominions Secretary), force over the enemy had
tionists, perpetrated."
they visited General Sir John Dill proved by both pilots and
and General A. F. Brooke, command- chines.
ing the First and Second Corps, res- of pectively, and thereafter paid a cour- tesy visit to the neighbouring French of Poland and command. Reuter.
growing every
ma.
Our aircraft had shot down 15 Ger- man overseas raiders without losing one machine in combat.
HEAVY HANDICAP
Mr. Churchill said the power the Empire and the French Republic "We have a marked advantage in to restore the life the higher range of science applied to Czechoslovakia was war, and this is improving weekly.
PASSING WINTER
a
the winter without "If we pass
shall large and important event we have gained the first campaign in the war, and will be able to set about the task in the Spring far stronger than be fore, and Germany will be falling back in oil and other war essentials,
"If violent and dire events open
we shall meet them resolutely. the
"Nazi Germany, barred from cast, turns a flerce but rather prudent glare upon the ancient, civilised and unoffending Dutch and Belgians.
fron-
day.
The Parliamentary countries, aim- HUPEH LOAN
ing at individual freedom and abun- dance, start with a heavy handicap against a Dictatorship whose sole aim has been a war preparation and crea- in tried tion of a military machine. Britain and France had
for had many ways to prevent war and
let many to the sake of peace things happen which ought not have happened. Now that war was forced on Britain she would persevere in making war until the other side had had enough of it.
FOR FARMERS
Chungking, To-day.
The Hupeh provincial government has obtained from the Farmers Bank of China a loan of $1,000,000 for the rellef of farmers in ten counties in north Hupeh. Farmers'
industrial co-operative im-societies will be granted loans from
CONQUER OR PERISH "No-one can underrate the tain, France and Turkey. portance of the treaty between Bri-
"They have not chosen to molest the British Fleet and they recoil from the steel front along the Maginot Line,
"The Soviet Government, embodied but their conscripts crowd the tiers of Holland and Belgium, to both in the formidable figure of Stalin, of whom they have given solemn guar-has barred off once and antees, but as nobody believes Hitler we must regard the situation there as grave."
EVIL MAN
that France stand for in the modern world
Mr. Churchill said he had lived will go down or the Nazi regime and the recurring German or Prus-through the early months of the last sian menace to Europe will be broken German war in the same position and destroyed, and everybody better make up their minds to that solid, sombre fact:
as
of
for ever all: Nazi dreams of advance in the east.
bars
"The left paw of the bear Germany from the Black Sen, and the right paw disputes with her the control of the Baltic.
the relief fund.
Such relief loans will be payable within three years and will bear in- terest at 5 per cent, a year. ·
Reuter.
R.A.F. CASUALTIES
London, To-day..
the The Air Ministry announces following casualties "on various dateg” in action:-
"Whatever history may record about had now, and was therefore very careful these events the fact which "we have not to say anything of an over-conf- to reckon with is perfectly plain. Nazi dent or unduly sanguine nature, but Germany is barred off from the east
Killed, two; previously reported he had the conviction that "that evil and has to conquer the British Em-
two; man over there and his cluster
or missing, now reported killed, pire and the French Republic
reported' missing, now confederates they
are not sure of them-parish in the attempt."--British Wire-
missing belleved killed, selves, as we are sure of ourselves. less.
Your;: “ previously reported · missing, "They are harassed in their, guilty
now reparted prisoner of war, four: souls by the fear of ever approach-
On active service; killed, nine; ing retribution for their crimes.
five. British died, eight; missing,
"The Nazis..exude through the neutral States Inside Information of the frightful vengeance.... are going to wreak upon us, and also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machina.
"If "words could kill we would be dead already.
"Nobody in the British Island sup- posed this was going to be a short casy war.
BRITISH RESOLUTION
"Nothing has impressed me more than the calm, steady and business- like resolution with which the masses
"As they look from the blatant panopiled gathering of Nazi, der many they cannot find a single' friendly 'eye.
·FLINTY. STÄRK
"Russia returns a flinty stare; Italy. averts her gaze; Japan.is puzzled and thinks herself betrayed; Turkey and the whole of Islam have ran
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