THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 5, 1940.
Hitler Runs Slap Into His
First Serious
Defeat
PROBING ALIENS'
Names of 15 people-including two women, Miss E. Rathbone, M.P.. and the Marchioness of Rending--who are to make up the new Advisory Council on Allers, have been announced."
One Phase Of War Believed At End LOT Still In Germany Still Region Of Threats
A SUCCESSFUL PHASE IN THE WAR WITH
GERMANY HAS JUST REACHED ITS END. MONEY
GERMANY HAS FOUGHT A CAMPAIGN AND
SHE HAS ANNOUNCED THE DATE WHEN SHE POURING IN
INTENDED TO FINISH IT.
No-one is left in doubt that she has failed
to keep even her revised time tables. She has, that is to say, failed to accomplish what she set out to do; she has suffered a defeat.
Reviewing the four months since the evacuation of Dunkirk, "Strategicus" in this week's "Spectator" declares that whatever the magnificence of that im- mortal episode it was the outcome of a British de- feat.
AIR RAID SHELTER POWERS
But that was four months ago. In less than three weeks, Ger- many broke organised resistance in Poland. In about the. same space of time, she compelled the Belgian army to surrender. In just over five weeks, France was asking for terms.
Yet now, four months after Dunkirk, Germany and Italy are no nearer a decision against the British Empire alone than when four-fifths of the British
-from Army withdrew
under
the full weight of the German
IN FUTURE. ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY MAY DIRECT THAT ANY PREMISES
IN THEIR AREA BE USED AS AN AIR RAID SHELTER AND MAY PRESCRIBE THE NUMBER AND DESCRIPTION : OF PERSONS ALLOWED ACCESS AND TIMES AT WHICH SHELTERS "Strategicus." MAY REMAIN OPEN
THE be
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attack.
If that were all surely it would
worth
continues remark,
Region Of Threats
FOR 'PLANES
LORD BEAVERBROOK HAS
GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDG
ED THE PRINCELY GIFT OF £54,000 FOR THE PURCHASE THE SPITFIRES FROM
OF
NAWAB OF BHOPAL
to
The Chancellor of the Exche- quer has sent his grateful thanks for generous gifts amounting
£660 from the 170 members of the Bombay European Textile As- sociation.
A further gift of £5,000 from the Nigerian "Daily Times" is ac- knowledged by Lord Lloyd, who has cabled the Governor that the "continued generosity of Nigeria is most heartening."
These powers are contained in an Order-in-Council which also authorisés :local authorities "do dne T
Hitleris continually telling the closed shelters by force and re- world how mighty the German- 'Italian alliance really is but quire those having coluvi W
four he has admitted that in shelters to make available existing facilities for ventilating, months their powers are still in lighting and heating shelters. the region of threats and their Reuter,
position even worse than such a description implies.
ABYSSINIA RAIDED
any
Italy, at least, can claim she has now. -80 far delivered the main attack upon the British
JUST TWO OTHER STORIES
Questioned regarding a Japanese report that 'Mr. Cordell Hull is re- signing in the New Year, President Roose- velt yesterday replied that it was "just on- other story."
The President gave a similar reply regard-
Other members, are: Sir H. Em-· erson (vice-chairman), Mr. H. W. Butcher, M. P., Viscount Cram- borne, MP., Mr. E. Edwards, Mr. H. Graham White, M.P., Mr. G. Lathan, M.P., Mr. P. J. Noel- Baker, M.P., Mr. Neil Maclean, M.P., Sir Neill Malcolm, Mr. H. U. Willink, M.P., Earl Winterton, M.P., and Viscount Wolmer, M.P.
The Earl of Lytton is to be chairman.
The Council will keep in close touch with the. Foreign Office over the welfare of internees, and over their morale, the official object of this being to bind them "more closely to our common cause;"
The Council will also make re- commendations about finding jobs for internees, and advise rangements in internment camps.
on -ar-
ing reports that Mr.ARMY PAY:
Joseph Kennedy, the Ambassador in Lon-
don is resigning and is
to be replaced by Mr. William Bullitt.
Reuter.
The Governor of Sierra-Leone WAR PRISONERS ON
has sent £20,000 for the purchase of a bomber to be named "Sierra- Leone." The money was raised by Popular subscription.
The fund for air-raid relief in
totals £16,000, of Malta now which £2,400 was contributed by Maltese residents of Australia, the and Egypt and United States £900 by the officers, and men of the Mediterranean Fleet.-Reuter;
VICHY ON INDO-CHINA
GERMAN FARMS
PROTEST
A protest against the meagre- ness of Army pay is made in the will of Alderman Oswald Ling, an ex-Mayor of Derby, and member of the Derby Town Coun- 64] cil for 29 years.
Prisoners of war from the being Western Powers are still
led Into farm work in 'Ger- German News many, says the
Agency,
·
a
Mr. Ling has left £10 a month to his son so long as he is serving in the Army, "in recognition of the pecuniary sacrifices he made when he left a remunerative prac- tice as solicitor to serve his coun- try as a volunteer.".
He goes on to say that where- as the Government and the Municipality he had served voluntarily for 30 years make up the full-salary of every em ployee, he has to augment "the "miserable payments made to his son.
From the first two months of war in the West there have been 250,000 prisoners from the wes-
Mrs. Eliza Jane Littlewood- tem countries working on GerClarke, of Ramsgate, who left ` man farms. It will now be pos- £16,809, has bequeathed six dozen sible to engage a large number bottles of vintage port from her of them in various trades and cellar to Dr. W. J. Dunlop, of thus free German labour for more
Ramsgate. important tasks.
Units of the Japanese As an "act of grace" the Fue troops authorised to behrer has decided to release all Polish war prisoners, but they stationed in Indo-China will have to remain in Germany farm work as
LORD MAYOR'S
IN THE "GAZETTE"
The following appointments are gazetted:
Mr. C. van Langenberg to be an Assistant Commissioner,
War Taxation Dept.
Mr. H. W. Forsyth to be an Engineer, P.W.D.
have been landing since and carry on
civilians. September 26, it was Empire. Germany cannot sus-
stated in Vichy yesterday. tain a like claim.
has The defeat she
suffered
RELIEF FUNDS. They have been proceeding via was not due to any hastiness in Hanoi to the aerodrome at Jelong, attack or lack of preparation, where a certain number of Japan- The Lord Mayor's Red Cross She realised that having no navy esc 'planes have arrived.. and St. John Fund now stands at the Lord stated in Vichy that £3,227,000 while were an- comparable to that of her enemy It was nounced in an R.A.F. communique she must at least improve her these operations have been carried Mayor's London Air Raid Distress member of the Nurses Board.
yesterday which adds chances of invasion by destroy- out as part of the normal appli- Fund exceeds £950,000-Reuter. the railway junction at Aischa, oning the R.A.F. which, in effect, cation of the Franco-Japanese the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway meant, the fighter squadrons. military convention of September
Successful attacks by R.A.F. bomber formations on railways in Abyssinia and Eritrea
in Cairo
was bombed and the line to Dire dawo blocked.
At Agordat, in Eritrea, direct hits were registered on the rail- way track to Massawa.
-Extensive aerial reconnais-
desert. Reuter.
The luftwaffe, apple of Hit¬| 22. -Reuter. ler's eye, was held to be in-.
vincible but 'In one month she, lost over 1,400 aircraft againet 407 British.
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Miss Maud Ward to be a mem- ber of the Nurses Board:
Dr. Lee Hah Liong to be a Mr. W. Faid to be Censor.
DAKAR FOR THE FIGURES AND Losses in personnel were even N
GERMANY!
THE FACTS
sances were carried out over the more disproportionate. The R.A.F
Jest 217, the luftwaffe must have ...... lost over 3,000.
SIR CYRIL NEWALL TO BE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL
The King has approved the ap pointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall to be Governor-
י.
THEIR HOLD: TO MAINTAIN
THE MEN OF VICHY ARE THE CLAIM MADE by the official German News Attacks On London GOING TO GREAT LENGTHS: Agency that 2,400 British 'planes have been shot This carries the campaign to ON DAKAR FOR GERMANY, down since the second week in August, is refuted by the first. week in September |AND THE LATEST NEWS- when continuous night attacks WHICH, LIKE SO MUCH FROM Official Air Ministry figures, which show, it is point- night VICHY, COMES THROUGH THE ed out in authoritative circles in London, that since offensive was an implied admis- OFFICIAL GERMAN NEWS August 8, 584 British 'planes have been lost while sion of inferiority. By confining AGENCY-IS THAT GENERAL Goering admitted he could himself mainly to night attacks WEYGAND IS GOING TO TAKE 2,211 German 'planes have been shot down.
not Up: HIS RESIDENCE THERE" AS stand up to the British fighters, COMMANDER OF THE DAKAR The German assertion that
'From August 11 to the end of FORCES.
643 British planes were shot
on London began. This
General of New Zealand, in suc- September the Germans lost 2,118 This follows Thursday night's down between August 12 and cession to Viscount Galway, planes while the R.A.F. lost only broadcast by General De Gaulle August 18 is equally wide of the whose term of office expires in 591. February, 1941.
His Majesty has also approved that Sir Cyril Newall be appoint ed
Marshal of the Royal Air Force-Reuter.
JAPANESE RAID IN SZECHUEN
in which he said that Governor-mark.
Locs in perconnel discloses an General Boisson of Dakar has The facts are that 111 British
thousand -against 280,
MUTUAL BACK SCRATCHING
even graver situation for Ger- dismissed the Dakar municipal planes were lost, while 091 Ger- "Sincere Wishes for the pros- many. In the period under ro- government; declared a state of man planes were shot down... view the Germans must have siege, and has taken other violent In what the Germans describe perity and further happiness of fost between, four... and five measures against General De as the best week in September, the German people and the
Gaulle's many supporters there.namely September: 2 to Septem-Fuchrer" are expressed in a tele Reuter.
ber 8, 125 British plunes were ram sent by Senor: Suner to Von Ribbentrop on leaving German, shot down not 441 as claimed by territory, D.N.B. reports, the Germans, and 387 Germun
planes were destroyed.
Awkward Season
This occurred in an awkward season for Germany since it will not be casy to train substitutos
MASONIC JEWELS FOR WAR EFFORT In view of the country's need
"On What are described so the three days of kavarast "fighting, namely, September 7, Septem bor 16 and 8øptember 29, the 'RAF, loat'a total of 81;'planos, not 274 as stated by tho Gor- man Nawa Agonoy, "while tho Gorman, Houses rtotullod 4173)
Ribbentrop replied offering best wishes for the future of the Spanish people and the welfare of General Franco-Reuter.
CHILDREN ARRIVE
*IN NZ.
Japanese aircraft raided the during the winter months, while province of Szechuen, yesterday in Britain, with the Canadian scheme of gold and silver, the United retaliation for the raid over Pei-to draw upon, can more than Grand Lodge of England is Invit- ping when Chinese aircraft drop-måke good her wastage.
ing all Freemasons under its ped no bombs but scattered. 200,-Britain met (and defeated this Jurisdiction to send to the Free- 000 copies of the statement issued formidable campaign without masons' Hall, Masonic Jewels "to
One hundred and thirteen "Bri- by General Chiang Kai-shek. seriously drawing on her strength be melted down and the proceeds
It is authoritatively stated that tish children arrived at a New Though they cruised over Peloing and can now proceed to accelerate presented to the Treasury several times the Chinese planes her developing superiority and Individual donors will be 317 of the pilots of the 684 Bri-Zealand port yesterday. This certificate: tish aircraft lost since August 8 was the second official party of encountered tho opposition may feel; the next chapter can be furnished wling Wa Reuter,
werd "Saved Reuter, British children to arrive. faced with confidenco Router. acknowledging the gift.