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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1940.
HOWT
The engines which give
The M.V. "Hermelin," recently built by the Kowloon Dock on her trials. the vessel a speed of 12 knots loaded, were built and installed at Kowloon Docks..
"LET'S SEE THE LIES," SAYS MR. DUFF COOPER
London, To-day.
AT COMMONS QUESTION time yesterday Mr. E. Thurtle (Labour) asked the Minister of Information why his department "continually issues for publication Ger- man official communiques containing false claims of successes of a most extravagant character, as by giv- ing official approval to the publication of these state- ments the department is assisting in spreading false reports, against which action ordinary people are con- tinually being warned.”
Vice-Admiral E. A. Taylor (Cons) called the attention of the Minister of Information to a German High Com- mand communique passed for publi- cation on May 30 regarding the con- dition and casualties. of the British forces said to be engaged in the pro- cess of evacuation.
Vice-Admiral Taylor suggested the Minister in future prevent the circulation of false News in this way. Replying to both questions simul- taneously, Mr. A. Duff-Cooper said: "It is not the policy of the Ministry of Information to prevent the publi- cation of German official communi- ques, the falsity of which has so often been proved that they should now be universally discredited.
"Any alteration in that policy at the present time might be misinterpreted both in this country and elsewhere."
Let's See The Lies
news-
Mr. A. C. Reed (Cons) suggested
insist that the Government papers and others who publish Ger-
man communiques make it clear in
big letters that it is false information from Germany.
Nawraaks omnit new-panthai
It's upsetting to have it under
Mr. Duff-Cooper: "They always make it perfectly plain and we can- not make it plainer.”
Mr. J. Wilmot (Lab.) asked what public interest was served by giving wide publicity to German falsehoods.
Mr. Duff-Cooper replied the Gov- ernment's view was to allow the Bri- tish public to read German lies and see what lies they tell.-Reuter.
EDISON TO RUN FOR GOVERNORSHIP (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
Washington, To-day.
EIRE TO FIGHT INVADERS
Dublin, To-day.
ANOTHER MIRACLE OF EVACUATION
London, To-day.
While nearly a thousand ships were employed in bring- ing the Allied armies across the sea, 186 trains compris- ing nearly 2,000 vehicles dis- tributed the troops to various parts of England in 620 train journeys.
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Arrangements for this vast trans- portation were made in less than seven hours and the movement of trains was entirely directed by telephone. Most of the work fell upon Mr. H. E. O. Wheeler, Superintendent of the South- ern Railway, who yesterday paid tribute to the work of all concerned.
"Co-operation between every de- partment on our railway was perfect," he said, "and that perfection remained throughout the whole arrangements. Without this co-operation, not only departmental but between all the rail- way companies, nothing could have been done."
Worked To Standstill
An invasion of Ireland will be resisted to the limit, de- clared Mr. Dillon, deputy leader of the Finegal Party, night for eight days, Mr. Wheeler con- in the Dail yesterday.
"Submission by Ireland to invasion by a belligerent power would involve counter-invasion by other powers.
"The country would be turned Into a bloody battlefield and our peo- ple destroyed between the con- tending forces."
Mr. Dillon, who was speaking on the Defence Forces Bill, which was passed unanimously, added the sug- gestion that Ireland should the expedient adopted by Denmark was both ignoble and disgraceful.
pursue
The Defence Minister, Mr. Oscar Traynor, urged the people of Ire land to show they are prepared to defend Ireland to the death.. He concluded: "If Ireland dies, very few of us would want to live." Reuter,
AMERICA CURBING HER
RADIO AMATEURS -
Washington, To-day. The Secretary of Navy, Mr. Charles The Federal Communications. Com-. Edison, has resigned and will run for mission has forbidden radio amateurs the Governorship of New Jersey. Pre- to communicate with amateurs in for- sident Roosevelt has accepted the re-eign countries. A spokesman of the signation, which is effective on June Commission said that the move was 24.---Havas.
due to the European War.-Reuter.
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The movement went on day and
tinued, and there was not a single derailment or engine failure. High praise was paid to the trains staff who
worked themselves to a standstill.”
The feeding of the tired and hungry troops was arranged at specified halts and one man was overheard to say he had never eaten so much in his life before. British Wireless.
LEAVE FOR B.E.F.
London, To-day. The War Office announces, the grant of short term leave to B.E.F. person- nel recently returned from France.- British Wireless.
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