THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 1, 1940
The Anvil, the Fire and The Hammer
Two Year Plan For Victory; More Ruthlessness
LONDON, TO-DAY.
A “TWO-YEAR PLAN FOR VICTORY” IS GIVEN BY
THE "ECONOMIST,”
WHICH SAYS THAT AN ANVIL, A
THREE THINGS ARE NEEDED FIRE AND A HAMMER.
The anvil is the Allied blockade; the fire, propa- ganda in the cause of truth; the hammer, mili- tary force with which, when the time comes, we can strike.
All three are in existence, and the proposed plan does not involve dras- tle changes of course - but it does require more ruthlessness in the blockade, more energetic mobilisation of our resources, and that the peoples of the world should be told that inactivity does not mean impotence, caution or cowardice.
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GESTAPO
MAN-HUNT GOES ON
It should be stressed that have a plan." Progress should be -made public month by month, 80 that we have an anchor for our hopes and the Nazis may see a steady approach of their end. The paper makes a number of sugis. gestions in connection with democra- tic advances, some of which may have to be held up during wartime, but which should nevertheless be planned' now for peace. Reuter:
Brains Can Win
The War
PRAGUE, TO-DAY. THE "GESTAPO” (NAZI SECRET POLICE) ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE CZECH STUDENT WHO
SAID ΤΟ
HAVE SHOTA GESTAPO AGENT TEN DAYS AGO. AND TO HAVE KILLED TWO NAZI FRONTIER GUARDS TWO LATER.
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DAYS
Late on Saturday night, a special court in Prague passed sentence of death on a man said to have warned the student and helped him to escape, while another man was sent to gaol for 10 years for withholding in- Pformation from the police.
London, To-day. Brains can win the war, says Co- lonel Wedgwood, the Labour M.
He believes, he says, that this will be a long war in which we will sit down and watch each other. It will be won, not entirely by men and machines, but by wits, new ideas and criticism, which has freer play in a free country than in a dictatorship.
This recalls a recent statement by Mr. Lloyd George, that the last war, was won by criticism.-Reuter,
NEW ALLIED TRADE AGREEMENT
Paris, To-day.
An Anglo-French trade protocol has been signed here between Sir Andrew Duncan, President of the Board of Trade, and M. Charles Lamoreux, French Minister of Commerce.
The protocol extends the applica- tions of the economic agreement sign- ed last month, and provides, among other; things, for the trade in oil be- tween Britain and French territories and France and British territories.
It will be submitted to both gov- ernments for ratification, —— Reuter.
CONTROL OF SHIPPING IN SWEDEN.
Stockholm, To-day. new law which comes into, force to-day forbids all Swedish ships over 350 tons to leave port in future with out the permission of the Maritime Commission:-
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Similar - restriction is placed freighters -between 150 tons and 350 tons sailing between Sweden and for- gn countries as well as freighters below 350 tons sailing between foreign porta -Reuter.
Many arrests have been made of people believed to possess in- formation about the student.
So far, Nazi attempts to find the student have not been successful.
Reuter.
BYRD BACK
Santiago, To-day. Admiral Byrd, back from his Antarc- tic Expedition, has arrived at Punta Arenas,
!
He said he was very satisfied with the results of the expedition, A very wide region had been covered by air in order to gather meteorological data,
Admiral Byrd added that they had sailed for 7,000 miles without encoun- tering a ship or land. Reuter.
tion,
TURKISH SHIPPING ORDER
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL")
Ankara, To-day.
An order for the construction of 11 steamers, to the total value of £2,000,000, has been placed. by the Turkish Government with Swan, Hunter, Wigham_ ́and-R}- chardson, of Wallsend-on Tyne.
It is one of the biggest orders. placed with British shipping for a -long time. Havas.
NO WASTE OF TIME
London, To-day. The Soviet Parliament has, unani- mously passed a law incorporating in the Soviet Union territories Eastern Finland, ceded to the U.S.S.R., accord- ing to the Moscow Radio,
The law links the new territory with Sovet Karrelia and constitutes the two areas as a unit under the title, Karelia- Finnish Federal Soviet Republic. Reuter,
EUROPEAN ACCUSED
Accused of having obtained $30 from a fish dealer by pretending that he had been sent to collect the money by Mr. Tayolr of the Imports and Exports Department; Chales Onslow, 40, was arrested yesterday by the Police.
Onslow was charged this morn- ing at the Central Magistracy and remanded for 48 hours...
Complainant is Leung Tak, Ash dealer, of No. 13, Jubilee Street.
Miss E. Kelly, of No. 25, Shouson. Hill Road, reports the theft of a clock and other articles to the value of $120 from her residence between 3 a.m. land 6 a.m. yesterday.
REPLY TO NEAT NAZI PROPAGANDA
London, To-day.
It is officially stated by the Air Ministry that there is no truth whatever in the re- ports which continue to be broadcast from Germany that British pilots have been court-martialled for having made false reports in regard to operations against the enemy.
The names of two officers have been mentioned in connection with these reports..
Both these officers are employed solely on ground duties and at no time since the outbreak of war has either of them taken part in active operations against the enemy!
Official reports of air operations are issued only by the Air Ministry or from the Headquarters of the British Air Force in France and no claim is. included in any such report until the evidence has been fully examined and the claim authenticated. Reuter.
MR. WELLES
AND POLAND
'PARIS, TO-DAY. MR. SUMNER WELLES WROTE LETTERS TO THE POLISH PRIME MINISTER, GENERAL" SIKORSKI AND THE FOREIGN MINISTER, M. ZALESKI, BEFORE HE LEFT ROME, This was announced at the Cabinet meeting of Polish Ministers at Angers. The letters stress the importance of the conversations which took place with the Polish leaders when: Mr. Welles was in Paris and express the friendliest feelings for the "great Po- lish. nation." Reuter.
MME. CHIANG LEAVES
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, accom panied by Madame Sun Yät Sen, Mádame H. H. Hung, and Mr. W. H. Donald, left for Chungking yesterday.
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