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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1940-
Just A Dig In The Ribs But It Meant A Lot MESSAGE J. B. PRIESTLEY ON THE
SPIRIT OF ENGLAND
TO CHANNEL ISLANDERS
It was learned in Lon- don last night that His Majesty the King has sent the following mes- sage to the Bailiffs of Jer- sey and Guernsey on the withdrawal from the Channel Islands:
"For strategic reasons, it has been found necessary to withdraw the armed forces of the
Crown
ONE OF THE MOST cheering things he had CHINESE
seen in the past week was a dig in the
ribs and the grin which accompanied it CIVIL
in the House of Commons, said J. B.
Priestley, the famous author, in a broad- SERVANTS
cast yesterday.
This was on Thursday last, when Mr. Chur-
REGISTER
Government, the Hong Kong
RENCH TO BE TREATED register.
for
for
of
DR. KOHT ON BID TO OUST
KING
The Foreign Minister, Dr. Koht, told Reuter in London yesterday there was no doubt whatever that the whole attempt to unseat King Haakon was dictated by the Nazis.
"On June 14 all the Norwegian newspapers were compelled to print editorials suggesting the King and Government had aban- doned. Norway to its fáté and therefore x new government should
be formed to take over legislative powers and legalise the German occupation.
“Since then the Presidential Board of the Storting, has „mot and it la thig body, which asked the King and Government to stop down.
were
chill made his thrilling statement about Acting on instructions issued by the grave steps we had had to take to see Chinese Civil Servants' Club are
preparing evacuation plans. that the French Navy did not fall into the families of the members
the' Club. Nazi/Fascist hands.
Meetings were held over the Normally this body has, six The Con- Mr. Churchill arrived early in Priestley saw the grin and the lit-week-end by the officials of the members but only four remained
give in occupied territory. Club and it was decided to from the Channel Islands.. the House to answer one or two tle dig in the ribs, he said to him- evacuees the choice of Lan Tau servative party appointed a. Atth
"I deeply regret this necessity questions, and was greeted by self that this is the man to lead
Island, Macao and. "free" terri- member quite illegally and it is thus that five names were found subdued "hear, hears," them to the defeat of the ruthless, tory in China. and will assure my people in the those
Parliamentary
Forms reporters crack-brained herd confronting islands that in taking their deci-which
registration have to ask the King, to abdicate: them: Reuter...
been distributed to all members
No Légality sion my Government has not been describe as "cheers."
His head was sunk on his
of the Club. Yesterday an official "Since the invaders unmindful of their position.
of the Club pointed out that other obliged to drop. Quisling after he "It is in their interests that shoulders, his face was set, un- the step should be taken in pre- smiling, grave. He looked indeed
Chinese, employed in Government had been in power" only three like a man called on to take ter-
service, who are not members of sent circumstances.
days they have been trying to find "The long association of islands rible decisions; who had to wrest'
the Club, will also be allowed to
some other puppet. regime that the hands 01 with the Crown and the loyal ser- the sword from
would give a semblance of legality used against, vice the people have rendered by friends lest it be
to their occupation and rule' the ancestors and myself are guaran-him,
country according to German de- tees that the link between us will Next to the place on the Front
stres. remain unbroken, and I know the Bench to which he slowly made people in the islands will look his way was Mr. Ernest Bevin, forward with the same confidence who had been answering ques- as I do to the day when the reso- tions promptly and concisely anounced in London last lute fortitude with which we face thick-set, determined gure of night that French people Reports that the Hun-ereign may be absent from the
Reuter above the cowardices, treacheries in Britain will be treated garian Foreign Minister,
and corruption of this world like an oak-tree in a swamp.
as non-enemy aliens.
Count Csaky, had left for powers. The King has been ab- sent only one month so far and And so there was Mr. Churchill, At the same time, special con- representing, one might say, one-sideration will be given to those Berlin on Sunday, were there is absolutely no constitu half of the English people, mov-who satisfy the authorities that officially denied in Buda-tional ground for removing him ing slowly to take his place next they are willing actively to sup-:
pest yesterday. to the Yeoman. For a second or port the Allied cause. two, he sat there, no doubt think- French nationals now come The official Hungarian attitude
Un- According to an Amsterdam ing deeply of what he had to say!
under curfew restrictions and towards-Rumania remains
to the German news later, and looking ahead of him.
prohibition against the posses-changed, namely, that the coun-message
yesterday, the
Dutch sion without a police permit of try's military preparedness will agency grave, unsmiling.
The Stuff To Give 'Em
bicycles or motor vehicles be maintained until a guarantee money markets and stock markets They will also be subject to the is given that Hungarian claims are reopening of July 15.-Reu-
Iter. Then he suddenly came out of order prohibiting aliens from en will be satisfied. Reuter.
cur present difficulties will reap man, one of those who stand up the reward of victory."
BLOCKADE OF BRITAIN DISCOUNTED
The belief was
21
AS ALIENS BALKAN
It was officially an-
CAULDRON
"But they will And it éxtremely difficult to depose. the King and Government. The Constitution says that in time of war the Sov-
country, indefinitely if need be,
without losing his constitutional
in these circumstances."--Reuter.
his reverie and, recognising Mrtering or residing in protected pooreırsaq❀*****I❀ot
Bevin sitting next to him, gave areas unless they obtain a police his colleague a little punch of permit.-Reuter.
con-greeting, a little dig in the ribs, while across his face flashed a
fidently expressed in a boyish, mischievous, devil-may- semi-official · statement care grin.
watching Mr. Priestley,
this.
JAPANESE BRITISH BEER
issued in London last said to himself: "These are the WAR LOSS
night that with the group-men for me! That is the stuff to ing of the British dock give them!"
Mr. Churchill is a man in his!
The Chinese Wär
Minister,
system, Germany will not "sixties." He has driven himself General Ho Ying-ching, review- succeed in any attempted as hard as he can go and held high ing in Chungking yesterday the offices for 30 years. Upon his war of the past three years, es- blockade of the British shoulders probably rests, the fate timated the Japanese had lost Isles:
of Europe for centuries to come. 1,600,000 killed and wounded.
Yet, even in this grave hour, he. Up till last May the Chinese Nor is it considered possible could let slip a wonderful little had captured 760, Beld guns, 3,300 that, no matter what methods of grin, the mischievous grin of a machine guns and 69,000 rifles.
the war blitzitrleg are employed, he will man still full of hope and deter- At the beginning of be able to stop the work of pro- mination.
China had 2,000,000 troops but duction:
This is the kind of man the now had 5,000,000, with several Thousands of workpeople are English, Welsh, Scots and Irish millions more under training. now being moved about the coun- want at this hour, and when Mr. Reuter. try and compulsory powers have
been taken for billetting.
The aim of the Ministry of Labour is to give the Munitions Ministry, one hundred thousand trained men per annum.
It is hoped by Mr. Bevin that he will be able in a few days to publish an order for the regula tion of wages and arbitration in
all matters of dispute.
The number of those
engaged
JAPANESE WANT TO DIVIDE THE PACIFIC
for full-time and part-time ser- A PERMANENT SOLUTION of the Japanese-
vice for Civil Defence is now a
million and a half-Reuter.
NO COMPULSORY EVACUATION
OF MEN
Comment regarding the recent amendment to the Registration of Persons
American problem will be attained only if a line is drawn through the middle of the Pacific Ocean dividing it into Japanese and American zónes of influence, in the view of Mr. Yusuke Home Affairs and Tsurumi, Vice-Minister
for
noted writer, expressed i
in an article in the Tokyo “Chugai Shogyo" yesterday.
Japan, he says, is the pioneer nation in the Pacific. She is bound to shoulder the burden of main- taining peace and order in this ocean. wish to omphasise particular- western zone of the Pacifio,
Ordinance has led to somely that we Japanese should be misunderstanding
The principal object
held responsible for upholding or-
No Hesitation-
the der in the western half of the Taking everything into consi- measure is to obtain information ocean. Japari is destined to play deration, there must be no hesi- tation on the part of Japan-fo on which plans for evacuation of women and children can be based; a leading role in the southern por-proceed with the execution of her
sacred mission, but the opportunity has also been tion of the western Pacific,
not Though the aim will not be at- taken to obtain a complete regis This leading position does ter of British subjects including arise from Japan's aspirations fortained in one day, the whole nu-
territorial expansion. but chiefly tion should be made clearly to un men over 56 yetirs of age.”....
There is no suggestion of the from her geographical position derstand this ultimate objective,
Japan should co-operate with compulsory evacuation of men, which man cannot alter. and a certain number of women,] This is in accordance with the the United States in drawing a includir those - registered as Will of Providence which placos straight line down the centre of nurses will be given exemption on Japan the task of dissiminat- the Pacific," the article concludes. either: permanent or temporary, ling her culture and ideals in the --Havas."
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