THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1940
JAPAN NOT SURE SHE WANTS NAZIS TO WIN
JUST AN ACHING MEMORY
New York, To-day.
If Germany finally domin- ates Europe there can be no French Republic except as an aching memory and a death- less hope, said the "New York Times" yesterday.
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If an independent France can restored through British resistance and Germany's downfall there will be a new start, perhaps a Fourth Repub- lic and possibly an Anglo-French Un- ion like that offerred by Britain last week.
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Another writer in the same paper of says that this is merely the end the first act. It is because the United States foresees the possibility of struggle for long years, reaching even- tually to every corner of the world, that she is arming with unprecedent- ed speed. The struggle will be waged until this issue of world revolution is settled once and for all-Reuter.
JAPAN TO CUT ALL CHINA COMMUNICATIONS
Chungking, To-day. It is believed here that Japan is determined to cut communication be- tween China and the outside world through Burma,
SIEGE
OF BRITISH ISLES
London, To-day. Everything Indicates Britain will be called upon to meet the greatest siege In the history of man, declared the United States Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Ken- nedy, broadcasting to America last night an appeal for funds for the American Red Cross in Britain.
The war has come to Britain. This island now faces all the dan- ger and misery which swept over Poland, Finland, Norway, Hol- land, Belgium and France.' Reuter.
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DOUBTS ABOUT BLESSINGS OF GERMAN VICTORY
Tokyo.
JAPANESE ARE NOT quite as sure to-day, as they were in the immediate past, 'hat a German victory in Europe would constitute an umixed blessing for Japan in the Far East.
At the outbreak of war, Germany had the almost unanimous backing of the Japanese, the government, the army, big business, the general public. The reasons were obvious: France and Britain, not Germany, were Japan's chief commercial and political opponents. An important by-product of their defeat, it was thought, could not but be the reduction, and perhaps the complete end, of this opposition.
But the attitude to-day is no longer crystallized, no longer single-surfaced. Other aspects of the situation have appeared, and with them, other attitudes. Here are some of them:
WORRY ABOUT GASOLINE
The
Germany has lost favour enormous- Meanwhile, military circles talk of FREIGHTER ALEXAN-ly, in the eyes of the man of the nothing but "modern" armies as com- DRA WAS ATTACKED OFF THE street, through her violation of Danish, pared to the "old fashioned" type. ALGERIAN COAST BY ITALIAN Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian neu- Grand plans are being drafted for PLANES BUT NOT DAMAGED IT trality. Your taxi-driver, waiter, or more and more mechanisation, for WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED vegetable vendour, who is blissfully more tanks, trucks, tractors, machines,
innocent that his own country has aeroplanes. During the night the Swedish | been ticketed
is mechanisation corollary as one of the world's freighter Elgo was bombed by enemy worst aggressors, will tell you: "This gasoline. Oil-thirsty Japan, therefore, planes. A lifeboat, with 25 men, is a shameful thing."
has announced "grave, concern" about the ran ashore on the Algerian coast. The
The Netherlands East Indies. fate of the crew is not known.
islands are a major source of oil for situation In Algeria itself the
· Contrarily, the Germans have gain- Japan. The foreign minister sent a absolutely quiet on land and in the ed ground in the eyes of the Japanese circular, emphasising Japan's opposi- air.-Havas.
army which is dazzled by Nazi mili-tion to any change, in their status quo tary triumphs. Officers who remem-to the Jnited States, Britain, France, bered the long and bloody weeks that Holland, Italy and Germany. elapsed before Chinese fortifications at The first four powers assured him, Nanking and Hsuchow could be re-in reply, hat they have no intention duced, are astounded at the apparent of interfering with the existing status An Admiralty communique an-ease with which the Germans, in a of the Indies. Italy has not replied. few days, penetrated better fortifica- The German answer literally thrilled ambitious, southward-looking Tapan- tions in Europe.
Japanese to-day are calling the lese. It told Tokyo that Germany not Maginot Line, the "Makeno Line," Jonly does not plan to interfere with which is a pun on the Japanese verb, the islands, but is "not interested" in to be defeated.
the problem.
ANOTHER ITALIAN SUBMARINE SUNK
London, To-day.
Chinese political circles, while ad- mitting that the loss of this route fol- lowing the French concessions to Japan over traffic in supplies through Indo-nounces that another Italian submar- China would be serious, express con- ine has been sunk by gunfire by our fidence in China's ability to carry on light forces operating under the Com-
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