THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1940..
NORWAY TO
TO FIGHT ON Professor Koht's Broadcast In Paris
Assurances Of Stronger Allied Cooperation
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Paris, To-day.
THERE IS NO EXCUSE for the German attack on Norway which has lived 125 years in perfect peace and neutral- ity, declared Prof: Halvdan Koht, the Norwegian For- eign Minister, in a broadcast speech to the French people last night.
Prof. Koht declared Norway's only fault was to be weak and to be of strategical interest to the Reich which had not hesitated to violate every rule of common law to make use of Scandinavia.
Prof. Koht said that despite the ter- rible sufferings brought about by the war the Norwegians were not dis- couraged and would fight for freedom and Democracy by the side of France and Britain, whose final victory in the struggle for international justice could not be doubted.
Prof. Koht declared that in London and Paris he had had a series of talks with the political and military au- thorities which convinced him the
do their best. to strengthen the co- operation between the Allied forces in Norway and the Norwegian army: Part Of General War
DE VALERA APPEALS FOR UNITY
Dublin, To-day.
An appeal · against fürthor IRA activity was made yester dayby Premier' De Valera in‘a special broadcast.
He asked for national, unity. "If the disorders continue, civil war will be the inevitable conclu- sion, weakening the national strength and making it an easy proy- to any Invader Reuter.
LORD MAYOR'S FUND
London, To-day. A further contribution of £10,000 to the Lord Mayor's Red Cross and St. John Fund from the Sports Com-
mittee raises the total from .that source to £37,000-British. Wireless:
BRITISH PRESS COMMENT
London, To-day.
British and French Governments will THE BRITISH PRESS YESTERDAY was unanimous that two main points had come out of the debate in Commons that the Government must be strengthened and that the country's war effort must be increased.
Norway, he said, was part of the general war. Now that Germany had
was liable to be defeated.
gone outside her own frontiers she The press emphasises that all parties agree on this and the main problem is now best to put that into effect. There is less agreement on the best way of strengthening the Government.
A victory over Germany in Norway would facilitate the general victory.
Prof. Koht said members of the Diplomatic Corps were still with, the Norwegian Government in Norway.
Reforring to supplies, he said the Government had taken all the neces-
sary measures and had stocked
wheat reserves for a year. ' Prof. Koht again said they did not wish Sweden to be submitted to the same fate as Norway through aban- doning her neutrality.-Havas, ·
King And Government To Fight Till End
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Paris, To-day.
M. Koht, interviewed by the press, emphasized that the King and Gov- ernment intended to fight until the very end.
The Labour "Daily Herald" held that morally and politically Mr. Chamberlain
was defeated · beyond hope of recovery.
Most of the other papers were less drastic, although they were unanimous in their demands for an overhaul..
"""The Times" appealed to the Lab- our Party to rise above party matters. and take a share in running the country.
The "Daily Telegraph" saw in Mr. Chamberlain's that he, too, was thinking on the lines speech a possibility that personal or other considerations should not be allowed to prevent the formation of the best government for King Haakon had said to him:"I conducting the war. It only remain- am King of Norway. I shall stay here,ed for him to move promptly from and I shall fight here.”
The sixth Norwegian Division is still intact, he said, and a large number
the thought to the deed. As regards Norway, the Government emerged
JAPANESE ADVANCE ON FANCHENG
Chungking, To-day.
The Japanese vanguards are about 20 miles from Fan- cheng, according to the latest Chinese field despatches from northern Hupeh.
A Japanese column pushing north. from Chungtsiang along the east bank of the. Han River has reached Huanglungkung, a village east of Fancheng, and south of the main high- way between Tsaoyang and Fancheng, The Japanese seem to be trying to cut the highway east of Fancheng near Shuankoucheng and to effect a junc- tion with the Japanese forces pushing west along the Tsaoyang highway.
Another Japanese column from Suthalen has reached a point south- west. of Tsaoyang while a third co- lum advancing 'along the highway is now engaging the Chinese near Tanghslencheng, east of Tsaoyang.
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A Japanese column from the Pei- ping-Hankow Railway which occupied Miyang has now passed Tangho and is pushing north along the highway to- wards Nanyang,
A Japanese' column from Sinyang is near still engaged by the Chinese Tungpeh and is making little head- way in its westward drive.-Reuter.
PRICE OF RICE IN JAPAN
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA "MAIL") Tokyo, To-day. The Government will not raise the official price of rice, the Agriculture Minister, Mr. Toshio Shimada, told the
prefectural governors meeting, here reports the "Yomiuri Shimbun." ment will give subsidies to farmers
paper adds it is probable the Govern-
to offset any losses due to the pegging of the rice price.-Havas.
PACKARD CAR CLUE TO SHANGHAI
KIDNAPPING MYSTERY
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
THE KIDNAPPING OF MR* Yoong Er-zung, manager of
Shanghai, To-day.
the Sung Sing cotton mills, on May 2, developed further yesterday when the Packard car in which Yoong was driving to office when he was seized, was found aban- doned in Ward Road.
of members of the other five divisions very creditably with a straightforward Complete mystery still surrounds Yoong's fate; his family
have managed to survive attacks 50 cisms; if members had not been pre- and complete answer to major, criti-
far,
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that although the result of the debate The. "Manchester Guardian" said
had gone abroad as an apparent vic- tory for the Government, everyone
have not received news from him since his disappear- ance a week ago
Neither Yoong nor his captors has when leaving his Yu Yuen Road home. made any move to communicate with No news has yet been received from the family, and the police are con-him-Our Own Correspondent. tinuing their enquiries.**.
Meanwhile, Vong Chia-chang and JAP. WAGE
Lee Tae-doong, officials of the Nan- yang Brothers Tobacco Company. who were kidnapped a week ago, were released by their captors yes-' terday morning..
They had been detained for a week Shein a small straw hut in the western
district by a group of loafers who de manded money.
vented from giving the full, facts, it In Northern Norway there are reis possible their case might have `serve stocks of wheat and the Nor been stronger.
wegian troops can also use stocks of munitions now on hand and those recently Imported from England. The Norwegian mercantile “marinë is almost intact and is at the disposi-knew that it was nothing of the kind. tion of the Government; the ships are It was a bad story-lack of provisions, now directed by an inter-Allied or lack of preparations, indecision, slow- ganization set up in London.Havas ness, and fear of taking risks.
Britain had had this before, SOVIET TRADE TALKS had never fought a major war with
WITH SWEDEN out this. But it could not be permitted in a war with an enemy like Hitler. (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"); The Yorkshire Fost" said that a Stockholm, To-day.. far bigger question was involved than It is officially announced that a whether this man or that man should special committee has been constituted be Prime Minister. There must be to start negotiations with the Soviet a transformation of ideas;; we must for an increase in trade exchanges, fight, not with easy-going confidence, The committee is under the chair but with desperate devotion. Far manship of M. Albin Johansson, leader from groaning, under our burdens, we of the Swedish Co-operative move were asking for heavier oned-Reu- mont-Havas.
ter.
The victims refused to write to their families for ransom, saying they had no money anyway, whereupon- the kidnappers became fed up and released the men.
INCREASES
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Tokyo, To-day. dustrial workers has been decided to A new increase in salaries för ́in-
offset the rise in the price of com- modities since the last fixing of the wages scale. The increase mainly commodities the supply of which has bears on foodstuffs and imported
almost stopped owing to the European Another Kidnapping war and the lack of cargo accommo- added to the long series of such affairs raises are those in the shipbuilding, Meanwhile another kidnapping was dation First workers to get salary
yesterday when a prominent cotton rolling stock and machine tool manu- hong manager... - was whisked away facturing industries,—Havas) -