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MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
JAPAN ASKS HITLER
with
armed themselves thoroughly for de- fence of the Netherlands proper, and grace they sustained with whatever could muster the insults and injuries that small. neutral trading nations
The Tokyo report that a Japanese envoy is seeking a conference Dictator Hitler on Japan's position must expect on world highways in
Americans, and people in other countries, were inclined to read into the Dutch experience in the World War a lesson on how to keep out of all
relative to French, British and Dutch wartime. holdings in Asia may be, taken as an indication of a desire to get a de- finite promise before getting too far to turn back. But this also strongly wars: "Mind your own business, prom- suggests that there is not yet an ise to make some trouble if any- own roost, agreement by which
Japanese one actually attacks your
and don't talk back when outside your could know just where
own backyard." That was the prescrip- going if they started to move in on tion. .But now what? Indo-China or Hong Kong.
the
they
were
And besides, is the desire to keep out of war necessarily synonymous with a desire for genuine peace? The Kaiser has not hitherto been consi- dered much of a pacifist. "Manila
The report that the Japanese am- bassador to Berlin is under instruc- tions to see Foreign Minister von Rib- bentrop if he cannot see Hitler him- Bulletin "
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be expected from the Hitler camp. If this deduction be correct it must be as- sumed that the Japanese moves about Indo-China and Hong Kong so far are in the nature of build-up, with free- dom of choice between active aggres sion, watchful waiting or withdrawal, as developments may require. If the
word choice must depend on
bé Hitler there is likely to watchful waiting.
from more
Ja-
For reasons readily apparent,
in pan does not want Nazi control
any this part of the world
more But she than anybody else does. would like the opportunity to possess the Far Eastern spoils of the Euro- the pean war, would like to have dictators' consent to pick up. whatever is loose or can be loosened at little cost. But what can Japan offer the
dictators?
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THE DRUG TRAFFIC
Anyone who had to choose on bookstall between the forbidding- looking annual report of the Egyptian Bureau and a de- Central Narcotics tective story would hardly take the first for excitement. Yet unless the thriller was quite exceptionally good the choice would be wrong. The re- ports of Sir Thomas Russell Pasha are
their fascinating
glimpses of the dreadful underworld of the interna- instances Two tional drug traffic. from his latest report (for 1939) may be quoted. The reader will see repro- duced a picture of the interior of а camel's stomach. It was a remarkable been able to camel, because it had swallow twenty-five heavy containers or cylinders, each six inches by one and a half and each weighing over and half a pound. Yet it travelled worked without apparently much in- convenience to itself. These tainers, which contained hashish and opium, had been forced down the camel's throat and lodged in the sacks in which the camel stores his water. This was done in Palestine, and the camel (with its fellows treated in the
driven same way) was
across the Sinai desert - a week's journey - to that is several steps ahead of any Egypt, where, if the police had not got thing that yet has taken place.
in first, the animal would have been In the face of increasing confusion killed and the drugs distributed. as to the relationship between surrendered Bordeaux government
colonies, and the French
including Indo-China, it is natural that Japan should like to know whether seizure of Indo-China would be an act for also Germany or against Germany, just how Hitler would look at it. It is understandable that Japan should like that point cleared up before getting too deep in the drive on Indo-China, -"Manila Bulletin."
The navy is the one branch of Ja panese force not nearing exhaustion
of
the China, from the conquest one that is itching for action. But unless the navy cannot offer much the dictators are able to get the up
and per hand in the Mediterranean really make a bid for control of com-
in
the merce and political control
However, direction of the Far East.
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DOVES AT DOORN
the
There are a good many people like He has been Germany's ex-Kaiser, living in a quiet spot in the Nether- Jands. Now that the Nazis are there, one of his grandsons speaks for him: "So far as Grandpa is concerned, all he desires is to be left in peace on his little Dutch estate."
Though this quaint epilogue to the tragedy of 1914-18 is something of an anti-climax, Wilhelm II's present wish to preserve his own peace is more un- derstandable than some of his earlier impulses. But, of course, it should not be confused with peaceful think- ing.
con-
Another strange story concerns the sudden discovery that vast areas of hashish were under cultivation in the Lebanon, where it was supposed to be prohibited. The French Government stepped in and found that many of the governing classes (including Cabinet Minister) had been defying and that the mandatory authorities, when the small cultivators saw the example their betters set them they too joined in. They found eloquent defenders, such as the writer in the Syrian press who said:
I do not believe that the breaking of the regulations of the League of Na- tions constitutes a crime when one considers the numerous infringements by the most civilised European coun tries of the basic laws of the League. So far as harm to humanity goes. I one could charge do not think that with crime a feeble and poor people who, not willing to die of starvation, allow the foreigner to die by the slow of hashish. Wo and Joyful method have been led to this conviction after having witnessed the great evils in- flicted by the civilised races on more feeble races.
The Devil is never at a loss for an argument. Russell Pasha writes with foreboding on the possibility that the war may remove the checks on the drug traffic-"every drug trafficker in the world is gleefully looking to profits on a far vaster forward
· He views with especial scale." anxiety the flow of white drugs from the Far East, which he thinks is likely to grow in volume. It is to be hoped that the League's efforts to keep down the traffic will be strengthened in Much has been written on the tech- spite of all the difficulties that the nique through which Holland kept out war imposes.-"Manchester of the World War. The Dutch simply
The experience of small nations in Europe, whose chief hope seemed to be that they too would be left in peace, is providing an object lesson for the rest of the world. One of the fallacies of recent decades has been the suppo- sition that as long as a country wasn't too ambitious, it was safe; as long as it didn't want anything, it would be able to keep out of trouble.
an.".
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U-Boat Sinks Italo-German Internee Ship ARANDORA STAR PANIC SCRAMBLE
Loss Of Life Believed At Least One Thousand
LONDON, TO-DAY.
ABOUT 1,000 SCANTILY CLAD SURVIVORS OF THE BRITISH LINER ARANDORA STAR, TOR- PEDOED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE WHEN CARRYING 1,500 GERMAN AND ITALIAN IN- TERNEES TO CANADA, WERE LANDED BY A BRITISH SHIP AT A SCOTTISH PORT YESTER- DAY.
British soldiers were on board acting as guards. It is learned the ship went down with many Ger- man and Italian victims. There was a panic
CHINESE EXODUS
The exodus of Chinese from the Colony continues in large numbers, all boats leaving for Macao to-day being crowded.
Accommodation on the 8.B. Fat- shan which will not sali for Can- ton until next week has been fully booked up.
H.C.L. IN JAPAN
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
London, To-day.
A request was made in the House of Commons yesterday for an assurance that no cur. tailment will be made of the full liberty hitherto enjoyed by the press to express a free and unfettered opinion about every aspect of the conduct of the war or to comment on any attempts from any quar- ter to initiate peace discus- sions.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
TOKYO, TO-DAY. LATEST STATISTICS REVEAL
Mr. C. R. Attlee, the Lord Privy ING, WHICH HAS CONSTANTLY Seal, replying for the Prime Minister, INCREASED SINCE THE OUTBREAK said the policy of the Government was OF THE SINO-JAPANESE HOS-to interfere as little as possible with TILITIES, SHOWED SIGNS OF the liberty of the press to express freely their opinions and comments on the conduct of the war and on Living cost index in Japan during any question of peace overtures. May stood at 247.5, based on the
on board and the rush seriously hampered THAT THE RISING COST OF LIV- getting away the lifeboats. Two soldiers said the ship was struck without warn- ing, and they added: "We cursed the U-boat but not so much as did the Germans and Italians who were almost ferocious in their de- nunciation of this type of warfare!
"Such was the scramble that we had difficulty in getting into the life- .boats."
several
The captain and
of the ship's officers were standing on the bridge and decks, and it is feared several went down with the vessel.
Some British soldiers bitterly commented on the conduct of the German prisoners, describing them as big, hulking brutes who tried to sweep away the Italians and had to be forcibly restrained.
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The bitter hostility between Ger- mans and Italians was apparent both on the liner and the rescue ship, and troops were constantly on guard prevent blows being struck.
to
Italians Worst Sufferers No estimate of the total casualties is yet possible but the Italians, most of whom were traders in this country, appear to have been the worst suf- ferers.
rapidly lowered.
"After two hours in the water, swimming and resting on our planks, we saw a plane and knew assistance would soon be on way.
that
its
"Eventually we were hauled aboard an already overcrowded British ship which had 150 people aboard.
"Fortunately the sea was not rough but all around us we could see the
water strewn with wreckage and bodies "Reuter.
Official Statement
London, To-day. An official of Frederick Leyland and Company, owners of the Arandora Star, stated last night the total losses could not yet be estimated. He hop- ed more survivors might yet be landed in addition to those who have already arrived at a Scottish port.
The skipper of the Arandora Star is Captain E. W. Moulton, who has had charge of the vessel since 1927. In pre-War days, when the Arandora Star was a cruising liner, he took her practically all over the world.
The Arandora Star was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland.
Casualties were suffered by mem- bers of the crew and British troops. When a lifeboat capsized, a captur- ed German on board summoned as-Reuter. sistance from those in the water and succeeded in righting the boat,
He then set about rescuing those
in the water:
The owners of the Arandora Star state a fair proportion of the crew were saved.
Carrying About 2,000
The vessel was carrying about 2,000. persons and survivors had terrible storics to tell of the scenes on board before the liner sank.
ITALIANS LOSE PETROL
London, To-day. The Ministry of Economic Warfare announced yesterday afternoon that during the month of June 53,048 tons of products destined for the enemy had been seized by the Contraband Control.
The ship WOB struck without warning in broad daylight at about 6 o'clock in the morning, according to two goldlers, who Bald: "The Most of the tonnage was seized in internees, particularly the Italians, the Mediterranean by British units made a wild scramble for the life and was obviously originally for boats, pushing everyone aalde in their eagerness. "Apparently only one torpedo was fired but it must have ripped the ship open as she began to settle very rapidly.
Everyone was provided with life- balts and lifeboats and rafts were
Italy's use. The figure includes 42,000 tons of petroleum and allied products, 9,000 tons of scrap iron or steel, 700 tons of oil seeds, 62. tons of turpen- tine and one ton of port wine. The figures are above the average for the winter months, October to April. British Wireless.
"WEAKENING" DURING MAY.
figure 100 for July, 1914.
per
tures,
It must be recognised, however, that statements could be put out in the guise of opinion which might give Information to the enemy or which might be calculated to impede our war effort.
It showed an increase of only 4 per cent over. April as compared to one and two average monthly increases of between cent previously. Moreover heating and lighting penses declined during May.
Government was not prepared up 28.5 per cent during the
General cost of living index went give any assurance that publication of June, 1937-May, 1940.—Havas.
period such statements would not be inter- fered with. (Cheers)-Reuter.
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