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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 29, 1940.,'
NETHERLANDS TO
1
CARRY ON GERMANS
FIGHT
"THE NETHERLANDS will carry on the
SHOOT
BELGIAN GIRL
war until the morrow of a free and happy fu- A Belgian girl who was ture dawns,” declared Queen Wilhelmina, in-helping wounded British and French soldiers to es- Dutch pro- augurating yesterday the new
cape from Dunkirk paid gramme to be given by the B.B.C.
with her life, for her hu- Speaking in Dutch, Queer Wilhelmina
mane work. declared the war revealed itself more and more clearly as a war between good and evil the Germans who were in --a battle between God and our conscience occupation of the town in on the one hand and the forces of darkness, now in the ascendant, on the other hand.
Her Majesty added: "What is at stake is the liberty of those the world over who wish to work for the good of mankind, to do SO
doers,
JAPANESE
without being frustrated by evil- WHALER
"Just as in earlier days neither force of arms nor the flames of the stake nor impoverishment succeeded in exterminating our love of liberty, our freedom of conscience and religion, so I re-i main convinced we and all who think like us will emerge from the ordeal strengthened, and chartened through our sacred Sufferings."
She was denounced to
which she lived and was shot.
in
The story is told
a letter published in the New York Herald-Tribune. The writer, states that she
Esther Peterson,
has just heard from her sister, a native of the Belgian seaside town of La Panne, who reached Paris after her husband joined the Bel- gian Army.
BACK FROM that Gabrielle Kampen was the
BERING SEA
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
"My sister," she states, "writes
124-year-old daughter of the owner of a small family hotel at La Panne. When the Germans oc- cupied Ostend and approached La Pánne most of the inhabitants fled from the bombardment and most Returning from one of of the houses became ruins. Ga- the first trips ever under-brielle remained. Queen Wilhelmina continued: taken by a Japanese-whal- "When the Germans occupied on the seas, in the Great Ne-ing ship in the Bering Sea the little town the officers forced therlands in the East and West and Arctic Ocean, the Germans recovered from the bat- her to reopen the hotel. While the
"Our beloved flag flies proudly
SECOND EDITH CAVELL
"Side by side with our allies] our gallant men continue the Tonan Maru II arrived in tles and celebrated their victories Gabrielle had to play the hostess. struggle.
Yokohama harbour yes-During the nights. Gabrielle and terday with a load of a few other patriotic women of La whale blubber. The ship was
Unshakeable Unity
"The empire overseas, which
striking had given such
proof
Panne bandaged and clothed Eng- lish soldiers who had escaped
in Los Angeles from Dunkirk and sent them in
of sympathy in the calamity late in June when she received a small boats to England.
from is message which struck the Motherland more closely attached to us thinking and feeling than before.
ever
her
her sister-ship, "Gabrielle Kampen and in Tonan Maru I, asking her to make friends had to work hard all day
towards the for the Germans. all possible speed
At night they east-coast-of-Kamtehatka. Upon walked along-the-bench-looking-
arrival there, the Tonan for English and French soldiers... With unshakeable unity
"At last the Germans found out intend to vindicate our indepen-Maru II took the blubber obtain- dence and that of all our terri-led by her sister-ship and pre-about Gabrielle Kampen through tories."-Reuter.
ceeded to Yokohama.
we her
Sacred Values
"I call on my compatriots
at
home and wherever they
be,"
the Queen concluded, "however
a traitor and she was shot by the The Tonan Maru 1 remains in Germans, without a trial, on June northern waters where the 4." whaling is extremely aging, according to the tain of the returned whaler. If conditions remain as they are
encour. cap-
dark and difficult the times may at present it will be more proft- be, to keep faith in the Anal able for Japanese whalers to go victory of our cause,
cause north instead of a
which is strong not only because Antarctic. Havas. it is served by strength in battle but also because of profound be- lief that our most sacred values are at stake."-British Wireless.
EVACUEES FROM HOME IN SHANGHAI
south into the
GERMAN
SHIPS
CONFUCIUS BOMBED CLOSES A
Further details of the attack on German supply
COAL MINE ships mentioned in the
Air Ministry communique (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") reveal that American- Out of respect of Confucius, the North China Political Council in built Hudson aircraft of Peiping yesterday issued a decree the Coastal Command forbidding the exploitation of a
conifield discovered at the site of severely damaged two sup- Confucius' birthplace near Chefoo, ply ships last night and
bombed others.
in Shantung,
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Many workers had already been APPROXIMATELY 50 CHIL-recruited by the coal mining firm A Messerschmitt which attempt- DREN EVACUATED FROM ENG-which was going ahead with ex-led to interfere was shot down.
First attack was made off the LAND ARE DUE TO ARRIVE ploitation plans.
ficulties, however, and
from Stellarton,
IN SHANGHAI THIS MORN- Negotiations with the competent Norwegian coast by a pilot who Nova ING ON BOARD THE "EM-authorities smoothed out all dif- comes
the de Scotia. The Hudson was patroll- PRESS OF RUSSIA."
ing near Stavanger when the pilot saw in the distance a German sup- ply ship. He dived on
it and dropped his bombs. :
bo
All the children, whose par- cree was issued.-Havas. ents or relatives were Shanghai- landers, were in British schools or homes. Rather than evacuated to Canada or the Unit
remain ed States, to
without parental control,
and parents relatives in Shanghai arranged that their children were assembl- ed in Liverpool where they em- barked for Montreal whence they were brought to Vancouver across Canada-Havas.
KABUL SIGNS
WITH SOVIET
The pilot said: "As we turned away after our dive three Mes- serschmitt 100's came for us and a few of their shots went into Jour tail and damaged the star-
board 'rudder:
:
The signature of a Ru930- I turned to allow my rear Afghan trade agreement was re-
gunner to gatione Mosserschmitt vealed in a Tassagèricy message Info his sights. The Messers, from Kabul.to: Moscow yesterday] 'ohmitt föllaway out of control which gives comment on the and crashed into the sea. agreement by the official Afghan We were into the clouds before newspaper "Islakh."... Houter the other two enemy machines had – SOVIET TRADE-
learns the agreement was actually time to open their attack;" f
An hour later, off the Dutch MISSION IN MOSCOW signed in Kabul three or four
coast, another Hudson saw three Forty German experts have ar- The "Islakh" says. It should armed supply ships. He scored a rlved in Moscow in connection lead to a considerable increase in direct hit on the 'storn of one with . with execution of the Soviet-Gor-trade between the two countries a heavy bomb and the ship op- man trade agreement, says Router and help strengthen their friend-'peared
to be sinking-British {this^ morning.
Wireless,
days ago.
ly relations. ― Reuter.