"Couldn't keep my eye
on the ball to-day!";
“Never mind, you can tell | this ̋wltisky blindfold”
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25; 1940
BRAGGING MIMICS
OF DEAD
DEAD PAST CANNOT WIN
“VICTORY WILL REST NOT WITH THE BRAGGING MIMICS OF THE DEAD PAST, BUT WITH THE PIONEERS OF THE FUTURE.”
Thus Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Min- ister of Health, in an inspiring speech at a luncheon in London yesterday, when he de- nounced dictatorship and tyranny as one of the oldest and most disastrous systems of Government.
Mr, MacDonald began
his
the
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WHISKY
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INGENOHL'S
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(Still at the old prices) Ingenohl's Standard
2 oz. 4 oz. 8 oz. 1 lb.
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in connection with air raids, and went on:
"I could choose the mo- ment when I would most wish to be alive in the long unending future, 1 would
choose the few days of the weeks hence, whenever the" time comes, that the enemy strikes with his maximum force against this island. "Of course we shall suffer.
ROOSEVELT
ON JAPAN
Writing in her daily newspaper column yester- day, Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, urged the United States to encour-
To Small Pieces "It may be for a short time, it may be for a long time, but the age the growth of eco- result, we shall so sink their nomie security in China. ships, so slay their invaders, so' "I suppose for many people the tear their aeroplanes from the question of closing the Burma sacred sky above our homes, road for three months seems that we shall turn the tide of rather an academic question,"
she says.
"Yet when a nation is cut off "Hitler has claimed that he from its ports, its one source of and his regime represent some- connexion with the outside world thing young and vital but must seem rather important to dictatorship and tyranny are that nation. the oldest and most disastrous forms. of government.
war.
ALL-AMERICAN
LONDON LEGION
(SPECIAL TO. CHINA-MAIL")
The All-American... London Legion of volunteers armed with tommy-guns and hand-grenades and motorised with motor- cars, was officially recognised by the British Government yesterday.
Organised by a mili- tary inventor and commanded by G Brigadier-General who was on General · Per- shing's staff in the last World War,' it was proved so popular that it is expected that additional re- cruiting centres for American volunteers will be set up in Canada. Havas.
BIG ORDER OBTAINED FOR LANCASHIRE
The Board of Trade an- nounced in London yes-
"In a minor way Japan 19.1 doing to China what some day terday that under the a combination of nations might guidance of the Cotton Board established by the
do 'to us.
"It may sound very selfsh
"It is we of the British Com- monwealth who stand as the re- presentative of the new and but from the point of view of Board of Trade, Lanca- liberating political forces of man- our own interest, would it not shire cotton mills have kind. Victory will rest not with be wise to encourage the growth secured orders from a the bragging mimics of the dead of economic security in China? past.-Reuter.
CHINA REJECTS PRO-AXIS RESOLUTION
WELL-INFORMED QUARTERS,
IN CHUNGKING STATED YES-
"I realise the needs of Japan. consortium of buyers in I am all for peaceful trade with the Dutch East Indies for
Japan, but somehow it seems to
me that this spread of war all Cambrics totalling 22,000,- over the world must be stopped, 000 square yards.
and the best way
to do so, in
the Far East would be to build
Delivery will begin shortly and
up economic security."-Reuter. the mills concerned will be en- gaged on this order up to the end of the year.
CORVETTES FROM CANADA
TERDAY THAT THE PROPOS-| Canada's latest contribution to
AL BY LEADERS
CERTAIN CHINESE
THAT
the war effort consists of the CHINA building of vessels to be known: SHOULD ENTER INTO CLOSER as "corvettes," which will be used RELATIONS WITH GERMANY for patrol purposes.
LY REJECTED.
It is believed the total value of the business amounts to more than £500,000, representing one of the largest single transactions put. through by Lancashire firms.
The announcement adds it is folt the Industry's achievement In securing the present order augurs well for the success of the new system of export syn- dicates which the Cotton Board announced recently.
The principle underlying the AND ITALY HAS BEEN FIRM– Corvettes were originally ves-syndicates is that spinners; weav- sels similar to, but smaller than, ers, finishers and merchants con- Majority of the leaders were the frigate.
In the United States, cerned with particular types of present when the proposal was they were known as sloops-of-cloth should jointly make efforts made at a recent meeting and vot- war.
necessary to ensure quality, de
ed for continuance of the Govern- They will be named after towns livery and other conditions essen-. ment's policy of placing hope in in Canada, just as the other Cana-tial to success in export markets. the United States and Russia for dian warships are named after -Reuter. assistance in the war against Ja-Canadian rivers. Reuter. pan while maintaining friendly re-
iations with Britain, France, Ger-) many and Italy.-Reuter.
GERMANS
HUGE FIRE LEAVE AT
CHENGTU
in
RUMANIA
BEER DUTY EXPLANATION
It was revealed this morning that if it is the
Between 75,000 and 80,000 Ger-intention of Government mans from Bessarabia and north-to increase the duties on em Bukovina, districts of Ru- mania seized by the Soviet, are liquors, as was suggested Huge fires are raging
being resettled in Germany, ac- by the Order prohibiting Chengtu as the result of yester- day's Japanese air raid on the cording to the "Dienst Auf Deut-
abnormal withdrawals schland" in Berlin yesterday................... city.
The attack was carried out by descendants of Germans from East taken later.
The newspaper says they are from bond, action will be two flights of bombers. The arst Prussia and southern Germany flight raided the outskirts of the who settled there about a century city while the second bombed Chengtu city itself..-
Reuter.
"TWILIGHT OF THE GODS"
Daventry
logo-Reuter.
BRITISH DIPLOMAT STILL A PRISONER
The resolution to be submitted to Legislative Council to-day is a formal matter connected with law revision, and not with fiscal
The report yesterday that the preference of 10 cents a gallon to locally-manufactured beer was being withdrawn was inaccurate, Listeners all over the world Asked in the Commons yes-the mistake arising from a change, chuckled yesterday. when the terday about the British Am-in" the order of the Government news announcerbassador in Brussels, who was schedule and changes in the off- finished reading...... the news by arrested by the Germans, the cial, descríption of "béera" and
Under-Secretary ́ for saying:
made in the Foreign"all other beers," "Oh, and last night Hitler at-Affairs said: negotiations were in course of law, revision for clari tended a performance of Wagner's progress for the release of Sir Afication purposes, opera The Twilight of the Gods. Lancelot Oliphant but he could For the moment, no plans for "That is the end of the newal" not say how long they might changes in duties have, reached -Reuter.
continue British - Wireless. ["the stage of formal resolution.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1940
Emergencies Cost Colony Four Million Dollars Last Year
THAT NEARLY $4,000,000 WAS SPENT
CONSCRIPTION IN MEETING EMERGENCY CONDITIONS
PROPOSALS IN INDIA
DURING 1939 IS REVEALED IN THE CO- LONY'S FINANCIAL REPORT FOR 1939 LAID ON THE TABLE IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |THIS AFTERNOON.
Nearly $650,000 was spent in combatting The compulsory princi-epidemics, nearly $600,000 in relief of re- ple for the recruitment of fugees, $273,000 on other items due to Sino- European-born British Japanese hostilities, and $2,489,000 on Hong subjects in India for work Kong defence and war expenditure. of national importance is With these extraordinary items,, embodied in an Ordin-total expenditure only exceeded ance being issued in Sim- the estimate by $191,893. Actually la to-day.
supplementary votes for $6,584,000 Domiciled Europeans are not were approved in the year, but affected by the Ordinance which there were very substantial sav- provides for service in the armed
ings as an offset. forces or in a civilian capacity.
Apart from the element of com- pulsion, no radical change is made
The outstanding feature of the
Reu-
was
COLONIAL GIFTS TOTAL
LARGE SUM
Since the
outbreak of war a
in existing procedure as laid down year was a large increase in re- in the National Service Bill pass-{venue.. The Estimates provided ed by the Central Assembly last for a deficit of $1,659,898, revenue April.
Tribunals are to be established being put at $36,097,325 (including]
large number of generous and to hear appeals in regard to avail-$839,704 transferred from the Gov- ability and other questions. Pro-ernment House and City Develop-valuable gifts both in cash and kind vision is also made for conscien-ment Fund) and expenditure at have been made by colonial Gov- tious objectors who will be liable
ernments and private individuals $37,757,223. The actual revenue
to His for civilian service only.
and organisations both $41,478,052, thus exceed-
Majesty's Government för the pro- ter.
ing the estimate by $5,380,727, secution of the war and to var and the actual expenditure wasious war charities, stated Mr. G. $37,949,116, thus exceeding the H. Hall, Under-Secretary for the Colonies in reply to a question in estimate by $191,893. The surplus the House of Commons yesterday. of assets on 31st December, 1939, Cash gifts, including loans free was $17,091,170, which may be of interest but not including gifts compared with a figure of $11,-in kind, amounted, he said, to over 867,025 which was contemplated nine and a quarter millions sterl- as probable at the time when the ing-Reuter. 1939 Estimates were originally
CONVOY
SYSTEM WORKING
Higher Duties
Higher duties were imposed in
Note. The list of these gifts is very long and includes money
gifts from colonial governments and individuals previously men- tioned in Reuter services.
Among items not previously re-
The Baltimore "Sun,"prepared. declared in an editorial] yesterday that the British convoy system for mer- October on liquors of non-Em-corded are over 20,000 bottles of chant ships is working, pire origin and on light oils but rum for His Majesty's forces, from this the increase in the Jamaica Central War Assis- and Baltimore ship opera-apart from
revenue was almost wholly due to tance Committee; and 32 shillings.
tors say that if England is the special conditions arising out from the Swahili community
Eldama Ravine, Kenya.. !
of
sented money and in some in- stances a proportion of each per- son's harvest of coffeć and maize for the use of the King's African Rifles.