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MR. CHURCHILL'S 'MUNICH' MESSAGE TO CZECHS
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1, 1940.
ITALIAN RATIONING
GANDHI LEAVING
The Italian Minis- WITHOUT
try
of Corporations
yesterday decreed that olive oil, butter, bacon and lard will be: rationed in Italy from October 1, says a
COTTON TO Rome despatch to the
REPLACE POSTERS
Familiar posters printed on cot- ton instead of paper may soon be
British streets.
giving peace-time brightness to
"THE SOUL of freedom is deathless; it cannot and will not perish,” said Mr. Winston Churchill in a special message which was read in a broadcast last night to the Czechoslo-cers has come to the forefront vakian people.
The message recalled that the day was the second anniversary of the Munich Agree- ment, "a date which the world will always re- member for the tragic sacrifice made by the Czechoslovak people in the interest of
· European peace.
PILOT'S UNIQUE FEAT
official German news agency. -Reuter.
CONGO'S ON THE AIR
AGREEMENT
Mr. Gandhi's second in- terview with the Viceroy in Simla yesterday lasted two- and three quarter hours, after which the Mahatma decided to leave in the evening for Ward- ha
AIR Gandhi, stating it. is impossible,
"Although it is not new, the pro-
since the paper shortage became acute," a reporter was told by Mr. THE BELGIAN CONGO GOES Ernest Marks, head of a Man- ON THE AIR TO-DAY WITH A SHORT-WAVE RADIO chester firm which is sponsoring NEW the scheme.
STATION OPERATING FROM "The cloth-made in Lan- LEOPOLDVILLE. cashire—has a special gloss aur.
Programmes will be broadcast face, which takes printing just from 10.55 a.m. to noon G.M.T. as well as paper. We have a (0.55 pm to 8 pm. Hong Kong ready had inquitles from several national advertisers, and we feet Time) and from 6:55 pm to 7.45 cure we can coon fill some of P.m. G.M.T. (02.55 a.m. to 03.45 a.m. H.K.T). The first trans- those empty, hoardings.". The fabric is only slightly dear-mission will be on 14.97 metres,
the second on 29.64 metres; "The hopes which this agree-er than paper, and considerably
more durable. It can be used to The opening programme will be paper for other uses. at 635 p.m., when the Governor- replace Liverpool Cotton Corporation, for instance, have adopted it as note will inaugurate the service.
Reuter. paper.
ment
stirred
in the heart
civilised mankind has been frus
trated.
of
: Within six months the solemn pledges given by the unscrupulous men who control the destiny of Germany were broken and the agreement destroyed with a ruth lessness which unmasked the truc nature of their reckless ambitions
An amazing accident, to the whole world. unique in the annals of air history; occurred· on Sunday in Australia over one of the air training fields.
"The protection which Hitler forced upon you has been a sham and a cloak, for the in- .corporation of your once flourishing country in the so called Greater Reich.
be-
Twe training machines came interlocked one above the other at a height of 1,000 feet.
The pilot and observer in the
"Instead of protection he has brought you nothing but moral and material devastation, and to- day the followers of the great tolerant and humanitarian Presi- dent Masaryk are being persatu- which has few parallels in mo- dern history.
General of the Belgian Congo
DEPARTURE OF
LONDON JAPANESE: THE EXPLANATION
CONTRADICTORY REPORTS were cur- lower plane and the observer of cuted with a deliberate cruelty rent yesterday about the departure of Japan
the other machine baled out and 'landed safely by parachute.
The pilot in the upper ma- chine, however, elected to re- main in his 'plane and in some miraculous. fashion- managed to land both planes, still in
Instinctive Defiance
The Viceroy has written to Mr.
in the interests of India, to ac- quiesce in the interference with war efforts which would result from the freedom of speech asked for by Congress.
Mr. Gandhi has replied that while Congress: 16; anxious to refrain from embarrassing the British Government in inbir, war efforts, it cannot "deny cits crood at the present critical juncture of mankind's destiny."
Mr. Gandhi's Reply In the course of his reply to the Viceroy, Mr. Gandhi stated that
elf Congress has to die, it chould do so in the act of pro- claiming its faith;"
"It is unfortunate that we have been unable to arrive at an agrçe- ment on the single issue of free- dom of speech. But I shall, hug the hope that it will be possible for the Government to work out- their policy in the spirit of the" position of Congress."..
Gandhi's Argument-
Full text of the correspondence shows that the Viceroy, writing to Mr. Gandhi, says: "It has emerg- ed from our conversation that while you would not yourself breach to workers engaged in war work-at actual works, in an en- deavour to dissuade them. from working on war equipment, you should regard it as essential that it should be open to Congress and
non-Congress members alike to
deliver addresses, and in other ways, to call upon people through-
assisting India's war effort in any
an-out the country to refrain from way which would invoke India's
ese residents from Great Britain.
The Japan radio yesterday, morning "In this hour of your martyr-nounced that 750 Japanese had been ordered dom I send you this message. terlocked, tafely on the flying The battle which we in Britain to leave by the Japanese Embassy in London participation in bloodshed...---
are fighting to-day is not only
The machines were only slight-our battle, It is also your battle
ly damaged and both will be in the air again in a day or two! -Reuter.
N.E.I. AND JAPAN'S LEBENSRAUM
The Netherlands East Indies-is- intensely inter- ested in the Axis/Japan
and indeed the battle of all na- tions who prefer liberty to soul- less serfdom..
"It is the struggle of civilis: ed nations for the right to live their own life in the manner of their own choosing. It re- presents man's Instinctive de- fiance, of tyranny and an im- personal universe.
"Throughout history no Euro- pean nation has shown a greater will to survive than yours und to-day again your people
have! given countless proofs of their courage in adversity.
Pride And Gratitude "Here in Britain we have wel-
SPANISH
VIEW OF
AXIS PACT
The Embasay promptly denied this, and it appears that the truth is that the Japanese Cón- -au-General- asked the Tokyn Föreign: Office to send a Japon- cne chip toʻplek up some Japan- ese who wish to return to Japan.
Some of the Japanese firms and banks have decided to reduce their staffs and they asked the Consul-General: to arrange for their return to Japan. Reuter.
Reuter
LIVERPOOL RAID STOPPED
Nine Hurricanes of R.A.F. Fighter Command
Reuter's diplomatic correspon- dent says that the Japanese Con- yesterday saved Liverpool sul-General in London; Mr. from what might have Uchiyama acting on the wish of been a serious bombing Editorial comment in some Japanese residents in the the Lisbon Government British capital, requested the For- attack.
Leign Officer in Tokyo to send a At about 6:30 pm. the Hurri- pact, particularly in what comed, with pride wid, gratitude, organ Diario de Manha" Japanese ship to evacuate them canes, on patrol over the Irish sphere the Axis and Japan your soldiers and airmen who yesterday interprets the
Channel, sighted. a. formation of Since the beginning of the nine Heinkel 111 bombers rough- regard as their "lebens- have come by daring escapes to
Battle of London many/Japan-ly midway between St. David's take purt with ever-increasing Axis-Japan pact as direct- raum."
ose films and banks had de Head, in the south-west corner succces in that battle for: Britain ed primarily against the
cided to redaca-thelf staffe to of Wales, and Rosslare in Ire-- Does this include Indo-China, which is also the battle to United States and second- a skeleton basis owing to the land: The Heinkels were flying China, Chailand Malaya, the Czechoslovakin and no less sin-
danger to life-from- alt ralde fast and high to the north-east. Philippines and the Netherlands cere is our admiration for those ly against Russia in spite Czechs and Slovaks who on the of the clause expressly
and-d: certain chrinkages of which would take them to the busindas. home front pre risking: death or
Liverpool area
The Hurricanes at once attack- worse than death to foster re- stating the contrary." sistance against a cruel and heart-
ed? less oppressor,
En'st Indies?.
Reports from Batavia say, some Japanese have rather wide con- ceptions of "living space" and the leading NEI. newspapers say in effect that the NE.I. will not toler- ate control by any foreign power of their territory or interests.
"
"
The despatch of German troops "It is because we both are to Finland is intrepreted as a fighting for the fundamental menace to the Soviet, decancies of human life that
There is no truth whatsoever
n the Tokyo report that the Jus when they saw us one of panese. Embassy, in. London: orf dered Japanese residents to loave the country
Out of some 700 Japanese only
we are determined that neither "With the collaboration of Ju-about 70 will leave EnglandİL our struggle nor your struggle par secured, Germany prepares and when the Japanese ship shall be in vain; A
to face the problem of the Baltic, arrives..
Soviet advance wastwara.must come to an end."
the pilote, caldy the "Hankels yfered towards the west. We kept charing after thom. One. crashed Into the tha hóar Wexe Keld had wheeled right round Tonda By this time the Hein-
and were heading back to the youth
"We have no doubt that the Netherlands will ultimately, free- itself from German domination,' these papers says, "and the Nether. It is for this reason that we' lands East Indies will remain have refused to recognise any: "Stalin willtiobserve, that-the- Heard Nothing faithful to the policy of the status of the brutal conquests of Ger- quo."
many in Central Europe or else
A leading cificial of the Yoko The N.E.I. do not consider them-where: that we have welcomed a selves involved in the Berlin Czechoslovak Provisional Gov- The Arabit press yesterday hainn Specle Bunk told Reuter Rome/Tokyo agreement and will ernment in this country, and that tended to regard the new pet hs Vesterday: We liave no inten resist any infringement on their we have made the restoration of proof of Hitler's frantic bearch for tion of evacuating and we have bombs after turning backs:
heard nothing even faintly re- right to independent and free exis-Czechoslovak liberties one of our now allies.
combling this report. If there tence with all the means in their principal war aims.
Reallsing the failure of ha hud, boon any such order we power, the papers conclude. Reuter.
BRITISH PILOT
INTERNED IN EIRE
Be Of Good Cheer
Anotller was badly damaged 'and is unlikely to have reached home; When last seen it was lagging well behind the rest. Several mure jettisoned their
British
W Wireless.
attack on Britain he is striving should certainly have heard from JUNKS IN MINEFIELD”
to redread the balance, throug -this "effort" to "tle: America
our head office in Tokyo,
hands in I Europe through: Da po major preoccupation in the Pacific.
With firmness and resolution, two qualities, which our nations share in equal measure, these The Eire Department of De-alms, will be achieved,
: The Afubli onners nec how con fence announces that a British "Bb of good chear, The hour. Hitler and Mussolini help;: -"plano3 matle. n: forced landing of your dollverance. Will come, and some regard the part as near Enniscorthy on Sunday. The soul of freedom is death- dpally designed to bolster up The pilot, who who uninjured, loss, it cannot, and will not German and Italiam propaganda, was interned,
teuter: perish.
Router.
flect" of 12 junks entered the Some Japanese: have cor- North Lantau Channel Minefield. tainly laft London but they yesterday, and, as a result, the have gene of their own. Record | masters were charged before because business has boon bad." Commander, T. Stift this Reuter understands the steamer, morning.
Fushimi Maru: iárdüs in Lisbon Each was fined $30 or 30 days. about October 20 and may arrive. The fleet was found in the mine- at. arf Liglish port early 'In field by a naval patrol at 7:30 November "Reuter.
nim.