THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1940
BRITAIN WILL
WILL GO DOWN TO RUIN BEFORE BOWING TO HITLER
London, To-day.
“ALL MEMBERS OF THE WAR CABINET are working to- gether in complete harmony and agreement,” declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain, broadcasting last night, "and anyone who lends himself to German propaganda by listening to idle tales about disunion among us or who imagines any of us would consent to enter peace nego- tiations with the enemy, is just playing the Nazi game. "We are a solid and united nation which would rather go down to ruin than admit the domination of the Nazis but we intend, under the leadership of the Prime Minis- ter, to attack our enemies and meet their attacks upon us with the resolution and fighting spirit which be- come a great people.
"Though we are left alone to defend] freedom and civilisation, brave men and women will only be braced by the knowledge that we must now rely upon ourselves under providence to win through, as we have won through before.
"I do not for a moment under-rate the military might which over. whelmed the gallant French army and reduced France to her present position. We all know the enemy is now free to fall upon us. "Doubtless the air raids we lately experienced are only a prelude to something more serious, for the Nazis are staking everything upon the chance of winning a short war.
At Any Moment
have
"We know they even now are com→ pleting their preparations for an at- tempt to invade this country. At any moment an invasion may be launch- ed by sea and air but the enemy is
divided from us by a more formidable anti-tank obstacle than any he has yet encountered, namely, the sea.
Us with
SHANGHAI
EXCITED
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Shanghai, To-day.
All the local newspapers carry the news from Hong Kong under banner headlines but as yet there has been no editorial comment.
RUMANIA MOBILISING STEADILY
Bucharest, To-day. The Rumanian Parliament Is to meet on Wednesday.
The Rumanian semi-official news agency statea mobilisation is continuing in a calm atmosphere and the public services are con- tinuing, while the public and press are watching events with confidence in King Carol and the
Government.-Router.
BRITISH BEEF POSITION
Surprisingly enough the Nazi paper "Ostasiatischer Lloyd" is the only pa- per not displaying the news of evacua- tion of women and children, which
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") the task of furnishing
is hidden away in small print among
London, To-day. weapons and food or devoting them-other items in an inside page.
British bee imports at present are selves to the work of civil defence. Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead
Writing in the "Sunday Mercury,"
concludes more than st 'cient to meet the coun- "One and all they are animated by that
istry's demand leclared the Minister of the same
the Anglo-Japanese issue fighting spirit which will never yield.
mainly embodied in the Burma road Agriculture in a broadcast speech. He problem and "will not be pushed to added farmers should keep cattle on a showdown, it is to be hoped "
the hoof through the winter as a re- He says: "That can only, happen if serve meat supply rather than slaught- as is the Japanese prove absolutely intran-er the animals in the autumn, sigent."-Havas.
usually done.-Havas.
He Or We
"If the enemy does try to invade this country we will fight him in the air and on the sea; we will fight him on the beaches with every weapon we have.
"He may manage here and there to make a break through; if he does we will fight him on every road, in every village, in every house, until he or we are utterly destroyed.
'If he is driven to evacuate, as we had to evacuate France, there will be no friendly fleet walting for him. There will be nothing waiting for him off the beaches of England but death and disaster.
"I have given you material reasons
why we should be able to beat off any attack but we have something even stronger on our side.
Mr. Harold Nicolson On
THREE THOUGHTS THAT SHOULD BE UPPERMOST
London, To-day. MR. HAROLD NICOLSON, Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Ministry of Information, in a speech last night, urged three things as thoughts which should be uppermost in the minds of all British people.
"We will be fighting for our own "Our navy, which is still grow- ing, is vastly superior to the German hearths and homes, with the convic- tion that our cause is the cause of and our warships must be eluded or driven off before any sea-borne ex
humanity and peace against cruelty pedition can land on our shores.
and persecution, of right against "Even if the expedition is
landed wrong a cause that surely has the First, avoidance of defeat, second, the achievement safely it must still be supplied, main-blessing of Almighty God.
"It would be a faint heart indeed
ly by sea, with all that a modern army that could doubt our
requires to fight on fierce resistance.
in the face of
the
"Our air force, which is numerically stronger to-day than it has been since the beginning of the war in equip- ment, training and morale to enemy air force, would have to be destroyed or driven off before the enemy could land safely from the sea or air.
Army Strength
"At this moment there are larger armies in this country than there ever have been during the whole of our history-an army of which a large part are seasoned troops who have not only met the enemy already in battle. but have felt their own superiority to him.
Reuter.
success."
RECRUITING FOR FRENCH LEGION (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"
London, To-day. Recruiting for the French Legion is expected to start to-day after minor points have been agreed on with the
British Government.
The Legion will consist of air and land forces and will include motorised units.-Havas.
FLAGS AT HALF-MAST
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The Rumanian Embassy and con- "That army is daily growing sulate are flying their flags at half- stronger in numbers, preparedness mast to mark the cession of Bessarabia and equipment.
and Bukovina to Russia. All Ruman- "Lastly we have the other great ian officials in London are wearing army of men and women who are black ties as a sign of mourning. putting their whole strength Into Havas.
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of victory, third, the construction of a new world bearing little resemblence to the old world and in which opportunity, equality and security should at any sacrifice be secured for all.
Two, special products of German tremendous refutation. Hitler knows Italy cannot propaganda needed combatting by all that he and still less
survive a protracted war. He knows right thinking men and women.
with First, that Germany was irresistible. that as the months pass we, "This is no little war waged in cer- greater resources, shall acquire first Europe, nor equality and then supremacy in the tain areas of Western
He knows for instance that in will it come to a conclusion with the air. narrow land frontiers in which alone the British Dominions no less than Hitler can operate.
twenty thousand pilots are being pro- duced every year. He knows that if he cannot succeed immediately, even- tual failure is bound to come."
This is a war in which the great oceans and the great air spaces of the world will play a decisive part.
Do not let us think of ourselves as a people besleged in a small island within an iron ring of enemies.
The Front Line
Second Element
Second element needing refutation was the theory spread by the Fifth Column that the ordinary man and Let us think of burselves as hold-woman in Britain would be no worse
ing the front line of a vast defensive off if Hitler conquered.
the great position with behind us sources of the Americas and the whole forces of our Empire, the great re-
highways of the world."
These people did not realise that
the working classes in other countries the working classes in Britain, like
Hitler had conquered, would be de- prived of those rights won... in the great battle of the last 150 years.
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Mr. Nicolson continued that to the German people to-day Herr Hitler appeared as some messiah and almost
Our trade would fall into German supernatural leader whose might hands and that like of the humblest could not be resisted by any force. man and woman in the country would
He had until now triumphed by the perfection of his mechanism but was now faced with a new element which broke the power of Spain as It broke the power of Napoleon. He was faced by the unconquerable sup- remacy of the British-Navy.
Hitler Legend
become the like of which he could not dispose freely but which in its every day and hour would be ruled, re- gulated and controlled from Berlin.
Filled With Anger
Mr. Nicolson concluded that he was filled with anger and pride. "Anger against "the evil men who plotted the He added: "Look at large maps. destruction of our gentle civilisation, Do not look at little maps. Remem- and pride that it should be given ber that if we can resist this invasion Britain once again to save Europe and falsify this prophecy the Hitler from the domination of evil mastery. | legand will have received fts: first! —British Wireless,