THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1940
JUST COMMON SENSE Allied Action Welcomed By The Press
SPEAKING TO THE NEUTRALS IN PLAIN LANGUAGE
London, To-day.
THE RELEASE OF THE NEWS of the laying of mines.
in Norwegian territorial waters had to be deter- mined by the carrying out of the operation it- self. It came too late for yesterday's morning papers in both London and Scandinavia, and the public learned it at various times during the morning.
action.
KENYA AS WAR LARDER
Nairobi, To-day. Kenya is preparing to produce more wheat,, flax and beans for Britain, on the advice of the East. African trado delegation now visiting. London..
Kenya is also planning a war- time supply of, hay to the Near and Middle East:-Router:
TELLING FIGURES
NEW YORK, TO-DAY. DURING THE FIRST 8IX MONTHS OF THE WAR, THERE WAS A BIG INCREASE IN U.8. EX- PORTS TO BRITAÍN AND FRANCE AND A BIG FALLING OFF IN THOSE TO GERMANY.
Up to the end of February, the total value of exports from the United States rose by one-third to £487,000,- 000. "
Of these, the value of the total: exports to Germany was £175,000, or £18,000,000 less than for the cor- responding figure for 1938.
Exports to Britain totalled £79,-
and to France
over
tions could come from a country that has always waved the right of inde-000,000 worth The London evening papers warmly welcomed the pendence on her standard," writes the £37,000,000; the British figure repre-
"Ekstrabladet,' commenting on the sents an increase of 15 per cent.
Purchases The "Evening Standard" recalled the mining of Norwegian waters.—Reu-
of aeroplanes by the Allies amounted to almost £23,000,- torpedoing on Saturday of the Norwegian ship ter.
000, Reuter. Navarra by a U-boat, which sank her without warning and, although it stood by for some time, offered no help. "Something must be done and done quickly," said the secretary of the Nor- wegian Seamen's Union in a strongly worded statement.
"Something has been done," comments the "Even- ing Standard.” The Allied declaration in con- nection with the measure is the most significant pronouncement of the war. Norway will protest, but the people of Norway can see clearly who is their enemy and who is their friend.
"Plain sense" is the comment of the I
But we are entitled on our side for "Star." The world will agree that an understanding of our position. the action of the Allies is more in ac- cordance with those ideals and prin- ciples which the laws of neutrality were made to defend than anything the Germans have done.-Reuter.
Reaction Of Berlin
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Berlin, To-day.
"An Allied onslaught to force the neutrals into the war," is, the German
Norwegian territorial waters. Another version is that it is tantamount to "an
comment on the Allied minefields in
Allied declaration of war on the neu-
trals."
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TIENTSIN GREAT WAR
ASSOCIATION
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Tientsin, To-day. "The Tientsin United Services Great War Association" has decided to drop the qualification "Great War". from its title.
Membership regulations, providing Berlin circles have "revealed" a Bri- | previously for the automatic: eligi-- tish plan to block the Danube from bility of anyone who had served with
the British forces during the Great » the Black Sea to the Reich.
War, have been altered to include as eligible those who had served or may have served in any war in which Bri- tain participated.
According to the Nazis, this British plan called for the dynamiting of several heavy barges at a point where the Hungarian, Rumanian and Yugo- Slavian borders converge.
The paper recalls that on Saturday the Norwegian Foreign Minister sald that Norway would defend her terri- torial waters against anyone who Nazis. violated them.
In Plain Language
Curb The Gangster London, To-day. If Norway could and would fulfil The decision of the Allies to "show that pledge, comments the "Yorkshire their teeth" was heartily welcomed by Post," we might reasonably be con- yesterday morning's British Press tent.
We do not want to interfere (which was still unaware of the grea- with the neutrality of others; all we ter news to come, the sowing of the ask is that the neutrality should minefields). Most of the press com- genuine. ment was devoted to the Allied de- termination to tighten the blockade net round Germany.
Without exception, the British press emphasizes the desire to respect neu- tral rights within the full limits of reason but, in plain language, the neutrals are asked to consider the al- ternative to an Allied victory.
be
Women war workers will be wel- come. - Havas.
This plot has been "foiled," say the SIR PERCY LORAINE AT
THE PALACE "Germany will accept the Allied challenge," official circles comment,
London, To-day. apropos the new minefields. "At pre- Sir Percy Loraine, British Ambas- sent we are ice-cold. At present we sador at Rome, who is at present in are watching the Allies abolish neutral | London, was received by the King at rights.
We are determined to main-Buckingham Palace last evening. tain our rights of action."-Havas. British Wireless.
To observe the strict letter of the OFF THE RECORD
law while the enemy tears it to tatters to his own advantage is to make the law fulfil the wrong purpose. Laws are made to curb the gangster not to protect and reward him.-Reuter..
Italian Comment
Rome, To-day. The evening papers declare the Al- lied action in minelaying in Norwegian waters is a breach of Norwegian neu-
The answer, the papers suggest, was given on Saturday in the murder of Norwegian officers and seamen of the Navarra, sunk without warning by atrality. Nazi submarine.
Perhaps the most outspoken com- ment is that appearing in the "York- shire Post."
We Are Entitled
We fully understand Norwegian and Swedish fears of German ́aggression, says the paper, and we are determin- ed not to use Nazi methods against them.
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The "Tribuna," commenting briefly, says "The British, who protested against Germany's mine warfare, de- scribing it as ‘barbarous,' have to-day adopted the same arm against a neu- tral country."-Reuter,
What The Danes Think Copenhagen, To-day, "You can hardly believe that such a blow to the independence of small na-
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