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Speed across the Pacific by luxurious Empress Victoria. stop over if you and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen play-.
liners, then wish. ground.
NEXT BAILING FROM HONGKONG SECOND WEEK IN JUNE
(Omitting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Ma- jestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-600 miles of travel through Marvelous, Mountain Scenery. Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
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Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Seaway, and quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Paci- fic's Atlantic ficet,.,
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE
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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1940.
PROMPTITUDE
AND ACCURACY AT WAR
London, To-day. "THE DUTY OF THE Ministry of Information is first and foremost that it should give the maximum information to the people of this country with the minimum delay,” declared Mr. A. Duff- Cooper, the Minister of Information, replying to the debate on the Ministry's Estimates in the House of Commons yesterday. "Unfortunately," he added, "promptitude and ac-
curacy are ever at war with one another. "Rumour is one of our greatest enemies. You can give no greater assistance to rumour than allow- ing it occassionally to be right.
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"It is our duty abroad to encourage continuance of the war and wish for all those forces in neutral countries the earliest possible peace. which are still
all on our side and those silent voices but not deadened brains inside enemy countries who loathe the things for which they have been compelled to fight,
"It is becoming ever more impor- tant that these forces should be stim. ulated. It is equally Important that we should do our best to guide, In- fluence, lead and Inform. opinion at home.
"The sooner the peace the more will be left for them and others to share in Europe.
"I have found little difficulty in obtaining the necessary funds for the necessary activity of the Minis- try, and if we can shorten this war by one day it will represent almost all the money which has been spent on our efforts.
"I belleve it possible that the ac- tivities of a Ministry such as this can shorten the war by weeks, months or even years.
"It is essential at all times to tell the public the truth, because the people of this country, knowing all
"It is our business to see that public the facts, would never react towards
well in- them, however dire and terrible they opinion is well informed,
duty might appear to be, but with confi-structed and harnessed to the
which civilisation demands of it." dence and courage. (Cheers).
(Cheers).-Reuter.
Fighting Rumour "Rumour is the great enemy of true news and it is impossible to suppress
rumour.
"We can fight against rumours and we are fighting them," he declared.
Mr. Duff-Cooper agreed that the Administration should endeavour to centrailse the control of all sources of Information and he was doing his best to effect such centralisation. There were important elements in Germany, he continued, who had no sympathy with the present regime or the crimes committed by Hitler.
"I should certainly do everything in my power to convey to the ever exis- tant and crushed minority within the enemy country the views we hold here and to lead them to hope that when the war is over and a better regime exists throughout this continent, that to these people also should be given an opportunity for sharing in the full in what prosperity remains for any
of us.
"That is the first message we should send them.
In The End
"The second message is certainly that in the end they must be defeated and that it is for them to oppose the
WAR'S TOLL OF SHIPPING
London, To-day. The Admiralty announces that enemy mercantile ship losses due to
18 action in the week ending May
tons, were one British ship of 629 three Allied totalling 29,552 tons and four neutral vessels. totalling 16,120 tons.
The German tanker Kattegat and the steamer Rosario, both of, 6,000 tons, were sunk by the Norwegians.
---Reuter.
BELGIAN SURRENDER AND STOCK MARKET
London, To-day.
- Following the Belgian news, quo- tations on the Stock Exchange yes- terday widened and were made pure- During ly' nominal,
the morning, trading was a matter of negotiation but subsequently dealing in small par- cels of securities became easier. Gilt- edged recovered from the day's low- est levels while Egyptian bonds im- proved.
Wall Street was weak.
Reuter.
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AUSTRALIA
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC.
NEXT SAILING
EARLY IN JUNE, 1940.
For Freight or Passage, apply to :---
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
P. & O. Building.
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Tel. 30332
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